Chapter 93: The princes fight against Dong, and the dragons and snakes rise from the land [Seeking follow-up reading]

A somewhat cloudy afternoon.

Huang Zhong, holding the child in his hands, was welcomed into the prefect's mansion together with Zhang Zhongjing beside him.

And Cao Cao had already come to the front yard in person.

[Huang Zhong, courtesy name Hansheng, from Nanyang. A military strategist, a top general in the supernatural realm]

[He should have joined Liu Biao in the near future, and later became a member of Liu Bei's army, and was named one of the Five Tigers, and became famous all over the world! But you recruited him in advance, and Huang Zhong met Cao Cao. He didn't have to be a late bloomer, and it was a pity that he didn't make the most of his prime.

And when you met him, you met a good general, and it will be a good story for all eternity.]

[Huang Zhong, combat power 92, commanding troops as a general, combat power +2]

[The God of the World, Skill: Split the Army and Open the Land (Huang Zhong's sword is thirsty) Hidden Skill...]

Cao Cao really wanted to laugh out loud. Huang Zhong was only in his early forties. Who had ever seen his bravery?!

Huang Zhong was often the first to charge into battle, and his courage and perseverance were unrivaled among the three armies. This is how the history books evaluated him: the first to charge into battle, and his strength was unrivaled among the three armies!

Cao Cao took the lead in greeting Huang Zhong and said, "Huang Hansheng, I have heard of your name for a long time, but I have just met you today. With you here to help me, my troops will surely win the battle. Now that you are here, I will pay my respects to you as a general!"

It means that Huang Zhong came to surrender and he was invincible from then on.

This is the highest praise for a military general.

But at this time, Huang Zhong was far less famous.

However, Cao Cao treated him as a famous general in the world. The governor of a county personally welcomed him and hailed him as a great general of the ages.

Huang Zhong's expression was moved.

Cao Cao not only traveled thousands of miles to recruit him, but also painstakingly searched for medicine for his child and sent people to wait for him. Now he treated him with the courtesy of a famous general.

Before Huang Zhong came, he had the intention of joining the army, but he was still hesitant.

But at this moment, he has made up his mind. Just the respect Cao Cao holds in him is hard to find another person like him.

Huang Zhong was willing to use what he had learned to help Cao Cao fight for the world.

He let go of his son Huang Xu's hand and returned the gift with a big gesture.

Cao Cao treated him with the courtesy of a meeting, and he responded with the courtesy of an audience!
Cao Cao reached out his hand and helped Huang Zhong up, thinking that his fame had really been around for a long time, spanning a thousand years.

Then he looked at another person.

[Zhang Ji, courtesy name Zhongjing. A great medical expert in the late Han Dynasty, one of the three great doctors in the Jian'an period, and later generations honored him as the "Medical Saint"]

[He is the first saintly doctor you have ever seen. Keep him and your luck will increase.]

[He collected a lot of medical prescriptions and completed the masterpiece "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases". The principle of "differentiation and treatment" he established is the basic principle of clinical Chinese medicine, the soul and foundation of medicine. He is one of the founders of medicine.]

"Zhang Zhongjing, I have heard of your name for a long time. It is a great honor to meet you now."

Cao Cao laughed repeatedly.

Zhang Zhongjing was thin, less than forty years old, and had a gentle temperament, but he was actually very angry.

Because he was half forced and half deceived by Cao Cao's personal army.

"Mr. Cao, your way of inviting people here is really special." Zhang Zhongjing returned the greeting.

Although he was angry, his tone was still smooth and he was neither anxious nor impatient.

Cao Cao half-forced them to come by sending his personal soldiers.

But it is also for medical treatment.

There are only three or five medical saints like Zhang Zhongjing in a thousand years.

There were constant plagues in the world at that time, and he himself also had a headache. When he met Zhang Zhongjing, how could he not see him?

Cao Cao not only wanted to bring Zhang Zhongjing to treat his illness, he also wanted him to stay.

Now that you're here, the next step is to get your whole family here so you can't leave.

However, we have to act according to the circumstances and not force others.

Cao Cao welcomed several people into the study and started chatting with them.

……

In early November, due to the operations of Wu Qiong and He Yong, Cao Cao's old friend Zhang Miao was exiled to Jiyin County as the prefect.

Jiyin County also belongs to Yanzhou, just east of Chenliu.

Zhang Miao's ability to come to Jiyin County was also related to the secret letter and secret instructions left to him by Cao Cao when he left Luoyang.

After Cao Cao left, Zhang Miao sent a message to Wu Qiong and He Yong, seeking an opportunity to be transferred to another post.

Zhang Miao was in charge of Jiyin and allied with Cao Cao's Chenliu.

This was of great help to his subsequent control of Yanzhou.

Cao Cao has been waiting for Zhang Miao.

The combination of Chenliu and Jiyin, together with the help of Bao Xin, who was also from Yanzhou and Jibei, led to great achievements.

At the same time, changes that affected the world were also taking place in Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo used his control over the empress dowager and the emperor to further suppress Zhu Jun, and his power continued to grow.

As night fell that day, Dong Zhuo arrived at Yong'an Palace.

Empress Dowager He looked haggard.

Knowing that her son Liu Bian had disappeared was probably the happiest thing for her after Dong Zhuo's palace coup.

Dong Zhuo waved his hand and asked the attendants around him to leave.

Empress Dowager He looked timid and took several steps back.

Although she was controlled by Dong Zhuo, she was the queen mother after all. She was dressed in gorgeous clothes and was still beautiful even though she was over 40. Li Ru had planned for Dong Zhuo to poison the deposed emperor and the queen mother so that he could better control the government and leave the ministers with no other choice.

But now that the deposed emperor has disappeared, is there still a need to kill Empress Dowager He?
Dong Zhuo looked at the queen mother, then suddenly strode forward and tore off her clothes.

The next morning, the palace maid entered Yong'an Palace in fear.

The scene she saw almost made the palace maid faint.

The Queen Mother was naked and her body was covered with bruises.

The Queen Mother's hands were covered in blood, and one of her fingers had been broken off and taken away by Dong Zhuo!

More than ten days later, Huangfu Song, who was far away at the border, received a box and a new secret letter.

When the box was opened, the Queen Mother's severed finger was found.

For the next three days, Huangfu Song received a severed finger from the empress dowager every day.

On the fourth day, it was a palm with three fingers missing.

The secret letter asked Huangfu Song to give up his military power and go to Luoyang alone.

Otherwise, the Queen Mother would be killed first, and Huangfu Song would receive her head.

In late November, Huangfu Song went to Luoyang alone.

All the ministers knelt down and begged to spare his life.

The next day, Dong Zhuo officially killed the Queen Mother.

When Cao Cao received the news, he sighed sadly.

In some ways, Huangfu Song is the hardest-hearted person.

He went to Luoyang alone, with the courage to die, but this made Dong Zhuo lose his last scruples, and Luoyang fell completely into his hands.

According to news from the palace, Dong Zhuo gathered people to celebrate, laughing wildly and claiming that he had control of the world.

In his eyes, Cao Cao was at best a minor nuisance.

The person he feared the most had always been Huangfu Song.

At the end of November, Dong Zhuo was promoted from Sikong to Taiwei, and concurrently took charge of the General of the Front. He was given additional military authority, and was granted an axe, tiger guards, and was further granted the title of Marquis of Mei.

At this time, Dong Zhuo had already ruled the country dictatorially.

He had many cronies in the court and the country, and he wore clothes and carriages similar to those of the emperor, and he was appointed as the Grand Tutor and the Prime Minister, the highest position among the officials.

Dong Zhuo appointed Zhou Bi, Wu Qiong, He Yong and Zheng Tai as his aides.

He once again recruited famous scholars (such as Xun Shuang, Han Rong, and Chen Ji) to serve as officials in the court.

Among them, Cai Yong became Dong Zhuo's most trusted person.

From then on, Dong Zhuo's power in the court was at its peak.

When the Imperial Censor paid a visit to him, he forgot to take off his sword, so Dong Zhuo immediately ordered him to be beaten to death. He actually did it for fun, to watch others scream in fear before death, and to use it to intimidate others.

He also ordered people to kill Empress Dowager He's mother, Lady Wuyang, and to dig out He Miao's body from the tomb, dismember it and throw it away.

Upon hearing about the unrest in Luoyang, Zhou Hui, the son of Grand Minister of Agriculture Zhou Zhong, rushed to Luoyang to persuade Dong Zhuo to remonstrate with him.

Dong Zhuo became disgusted by his name and had him beaten to death with sticks.

Zhou Hui's cousin was Zhou Yu, the later commander-in-chief of Eastern Wu.

All these things will anger God and make people resentful.

Various princes began to build up their forces in local areas in an attempt to fight against Dong Zhuo.

Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to issue a manifesto to punish Dong Zhuo, added the imperial seal and imperial edict, and distributed it to various provinces and counties, stating Dong Zhuo's evil deeds and calling for an army to restore imperial power.

The whole world was shaken and public sentiment was surging!

Ten days passed in a flash, and it was the first month of the first year of Chuping.

Dong Zhuo sent people to inform various places that he threatened the safety of the emperor and the Han Dynasty in an attempt to suppress the anti-Dong sentiment in various places.

Zang Hong of Guangling County, Cao Cao, Zhang Chao, Zhang Miao and others openly raised their troops.

Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, was the first to join, and several groups of people gathered in Suanzao.

From then on, the anti-Dong trend spread like wildfire.

Officials from all states and counties elected Yuan Shao, who had the greatest reputation, as their leader to lead the army to fight against Dong.

Yuan Shao was the culprit who suggested He Jin to summon Dong Zhuo to Luoyang. He and Yuan Wei were largely responsible for Dong Zhuo's chaos, but he suddenly became the leader of the alliance to uphold justice.

The anti-Dong forces were divided into three groups: the coalition forces gathered by Suanzao were troops from Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

The Hanoi coalition forces were the troops from Jizhou;
The Luyang coalition forces were composed of troops from Jingzhou.

The coalition forces that participated in the campaign against Dong included Cao Cao, General Yuan Shu, and Jizhou Governor Han Fu.

Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, Zhang Miao, the prefect of Jiyin, Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling, Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, Yuan Yi, the prefect of Shanyang, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, Kong Rong, the governor of Yuzhou, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, Wang Kuang, the prefect of Henei, and Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha.

Although not all of these princes gathered in Suanzao, they all agreed to hold a meeting here to fight against Dong Zhuo.

Liu Bei, the straw sandal overlord in the late Han Dynasty, also raised his own army and became one of the princes.

The three brothers also rushed over, ready to join in the discussion of Dong Zhuo.

At this time, Cao Cao had a strong army, including Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, and Dian Wei in the military, and Xun Yu, Jia Xu, and Xi Zhicai in the literary field.

The horse has yellow claws and lightning, but because of its wide back, it is not usually ridden.

Two months later, his army had grown to 15,000 soldiers, all of them brave, and a great battle was about to begin!

Ps: Let me talk about the plot principle. History is an important guide. The wonderful plots of the novel will be quoted occasionally, after all, they are well known. For example, the one who killed Hua Xiong with warm wine was Sun Jian in history, and Guan Yu in the novel~
In history, when two armies faced off, it was rare for generals to fight in single combat, but if it wasn’t written this way it would lose a lot of excitement… That’s all.

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