The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 275
Chapter 280 VII The Royal Family Has No Heirs

"Ah!" Cao Cao heard that the emperor was stabbed to death in the palace, and suddenly screamed with his head in his arms, and fell off his horse.

"My lord! My lord!"

"Master!!"

The people around Cao Cao hurriedly surrounded him and helped Cao Cao up.

"Ah!" Cao Cao still held his head and yelled, looking very painful.

"Hurry up, send the lord to rest, and pass it on to the doctor!" Xun You immediately shouted loudly, and a group of people escorted Cao Cao to rest.

"General Yuan Rang, immediately lead an army to blockade the entire Luoyang City, put the whole city under martial law, and kill anyone who walks around indiscriminately!"

"General Miaocai, immediately lead the army to blockade the palace. No one is allowed to leave the palace. Everyone in the palace is under control. Anyone who disobeys will be killed!"

"General Xu Chu, immediately lead my lord's personal guards to guard my lord's side to guard against assassins."

"General Yu Jin, immediately lead [-] soldiers and horses to set up camp ten miles east of Luoyang."

"General Yue Jin, immediately lead [-] soldiers and horses to set up camp ten miles north of Luoyang."

"General Li Dian, immediately seal off the four gates of Luoyang. No one is allowed to enter without the Lord's military order."

"General Lu Bu, immediately set up camp with your soldiers and horses in Luoyang City and twenty miles west of Luoyang City."

As a military adviser, Xi Zhicai immediately took over the power of Cao Cao and began to mobilize all the troops. Soon, Cao Cao's trusted generals guarded the entire Luoyang City tightly, and directly transferred all the uncontrollable Lu Bu soldiers and horses out of Luoyang City.

"Report, inform the military division that a fire broke out in the palace. The fire was so large that it was difficult to control, and there was a commotion in the sky." Not long after, Xi Zhicai saw the flames bursting into the sky from the direction of the Luoyang City Imperial Palace, dyeing the entire Luoyang City red.

"Order General Miaocai to seal the four gates of the palace. If anyone escapes, shoot them to death with random arrows." Xi Zhicai thought for a while, murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and immediately gave Xia Houyuan the order to seal the palace.

"Run, run."

"Quick, escape, the fire is coming!"

"Ah, help!"

"what!"

"Don't push me, ah!"

"Pull me!"

Xia Houyuan watched the chaotic group of eunuchs and maids rushing out of the gate of the palace, pushing and trampling countless people.

"kill!"

Xia Houyuan rode on the horse and gave orders to the lieutenant beside him coldly.

"Archer, shoot!"

After hearing Xia Houyuan's order, the lieutenant immediately ordered the attackers who had already prepared to shoot arrows.

"Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!"

"what!"

"Help!"

"Don't kill us!"

Countless eunuchs and court ladies fell under the arrows, and soon the corpses piled up at the gate of the palace.

"Don't shoot the arrow, the princess is here!"

"I am the concubine De, save me quickly!"

"The Spirit King is here, don't shoot the arrow!"

The eunuchs and maids didn't dare to rush out again, but they soon found a life-saving grass. The prince, grandson, concubine, and princess were pushed to the front at this time, and wanted to go out together with their identities.

"General, they..." The deputy general hurriedly looked at Xia Houyuan when he saw a large group of eunuchs and court ladies supporting some gorgeously dressed royal family members coming out.

"The order I received is that no one is allowed to leave the palace." Xia Houyuan glanced at the lieutenant coldly, with murderous intent in his eyes, which made the lieutenant tremble, and immediately raised his right hand high and waved forward.

"shoot!"

The cold voice spread throughout the army again, those clans looked at each other, but they didn't dare to shoot the first arrow, but the opposite was full of relatives of the emperor, members of the royal family of the big man.

"Hmph!" Xia Houyuan snorted coldly, picked up the long bow on the horse's back, and shot an arrow at the concubine De who was walking in the front.

The concubine De looked at the feathered arrow on her chest in disbelief, and slowly fell down.

"shoot!"

This time Xia Houyuan personally ordered, all the archers trembled, gritted their teeth, and shot out the feather arrows in their hands, and some shot with their eyes closed. Almost at the same time, there were screams and calls for help from the opposite side.

Seeing that the shields in front of them were useless, many eunuchs and maids turned around and ran away, but most of them died under the feather arrows.

"Pass down the order to seal the palace, the assassin is inside, never let the assassin escape, and shoot all those who escape." Xia Houyuan coldly issued the killing order, which was the military order he had received.

The fire in the palace burned for a whole night. The next day, the palace was full of smoke and flames, making people afraid to approach. Burned, suffocated.

"Reporting to the military division, many ministers gathered outside the door, yelling for my lord to give them an explanation and severely punish the murderer." Cao Cao was still in a coma at this time, and Cheng Yu, Xun You and others had been by Cao Cao's bed. Xi Zhicai was sitting in the front hall, and Xu Chu, who was in charge of guarding the place, came in to report to Xi Zhicai.

"Well, just tell them that my lord was overwhelmed with grief when he heard that the emperor was killed, and he is still unconscious now. The emperor was assassinated by murderers, and then set fire to the palace, and all the royal relatives suffered catastrophe. If we can't rescue, we should tell you The world, please forgive the emperor." Xi Zhicai said to Xu Chu indifferently.

"Promise!" Xu Chu is also dead-headed, now that Xi Zhi is in charge, Xu Chu will do exactly what he says, these perfunctory words are useful to ordinary people, but not so good to these great scholars from aristocratic families.

More and more officials from the DPRK and China came to yell outside the mansion, and their voices became louder and louder. Xi Zhicai frowned when he heard this, got up and walked out.

Xi Zhicai dared to deal unscrupulously with the common people in Luoyang City, but Xi Zhicai had to be careful with these high officials. It was not because of how powerful these officials were, but because their prestige was too high.

Many of them are great Confucianists who are famous all over the world, and even more are the patriarchs of big families. Even if they don't have this official position, the power in their hands is not so small.

The most important thing is that they can influence one party. They are the representatives of the clans in the world. Whatever they say, the clans in the world will support them. This is the most terrifying thing.

Xi Zhicai went out in person to appease many high officials in the court, and at the same time sent people to dispose of the corpses in the palace, especially those at the gate of the palace. These officials must not let these officials see that they were shot to death by random arrows, because Xi Zhi What I just said is that they were burned to death by the assassins.

When Xi Zhicai finished handling all the matters, Cao Cao also slowly woke up and took over the power again. Cao Cao never mentioned the matter of Xi Zhicai's blockade of the palace gate, as if nothing happened.

Cao Cao summoned all the officials of the court to go to the palace to inspect, and at the same time knelt down in front of the attic where Liu Xie was assassinated to plead guilty. Of course, the final result was that Cao Cao, as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, proposed to find the real dragon emperor and inherit the Han Dynasty.

However, the lineage of Emperor Ling was completely burned to ashes by a fire in the palace, not even a single descendant remained, let alone the prince inheriting the grand line.

As for the descendants of the collateral royal family three generations ago, they were not qualified to inherit the grand line at all, and all the ministers in the court were at a loss for a while.

(End of this chapter)