Way of Overlord-Chapter 287: The Chaos in the World

He Jin subordinate, Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang along with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others vowed to avenge the general death.

In an appointed time, they led their troops to storm the palace. The gods trembles and the ghost howls, the clouds turns red and blood drenched the palace steps

The eunuchs was killed in vengeance and their heads rolls around the sacred path.

Screams and shouts echoes loudly inside the walls of the imperial palace.

They indiscriminately slaughtered anyone who looked like a eunuch.

Even some young men who had no facial hair was beheaded or split into two by these mobs.

In desperation these people who are not eunuch have no choice but to dropped their pants in front of the soldiers to prove that they were not eunuch.

It is during this attack, the eunuchs took Empress Dowager He, Emperor Shao and the Prince of Chenliu, Jiang Xie hostage and tries to flee the palace

It was then Lu Zhi that intercepted the eunuch Duan Gui and saved the Empress Dowager from the eunuch

Lu Zhi, courtesy name Zigan is also the mentor of Gongsun Zan and Jiang Bei. With a tall stature he was imposing and he himself is a good fighter

it is for this reason why he so easily wrested the emperor and the empress dowager from the eunuch forces that tries to flee the palace.

In the aftermath, He Miao who was sympathetic toward the eunuch, was killed by He Jin subordinate Wu Kuang and Zhuo Bufan younger brother Zhuo Min. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

In that day, over four thousand people died in the attack. Heads rolls across the steps of the palace, blood runs like rivers

Many of them were eunuchs but many of them were also innocent people

Emperor Shao and the Prince of Chenliu, who were taken out of the palace by the eunuchs during the chaos, were eventually found near the riverbank and saved by Lu Zhi and Min Gong who brought them back safely.

In the aftermath all of this, it is not the Yuan family or the He family that reap all of the benefits.

Instead, a different figure rise to the forefront.

The warlord Zhuo Bufan ultimately led his forces into Luoyang, the imperial capital.

The power vacuum left by the eunuchs and the officers was taken control by him.

Zhuo Bufan lead the army, seize control of the Yan government and in one fell swoop become the most influential man in Yan empire.

This is the Zhuo Bufan Chaos as it would later be written by historian.

But who is Zhuo Bufan?

Zhuo Bufan is born in Longxi and in his youth is a chivalrous youth just like Jiang Bei and his brothers.

He is physically strong and he learns and excelled in horseback archery so much so that people think he has the blood of the people of the Great Steppe in him.

He travelled around the Songnu and Sirong tribes in the northwest and befriended many people of these tribes.

One day while farming, he found a sword in a field with an inscription on it, saying "cut down the kings like lumber"

He eventually had the chance to bring the blade to the scholar Cai Yong, father of Cai Wenji, who told him that the sword was the blade of Xiang Yu, the famous foe of Yan founder Jiang Shu.

Since then, Zhuo Bufan always thinks of himself as possessing great destiny

In his youth he served under Zhang Huan northern campaign to suppress an uprising of the Qiang. And he then became a county magistrate in the Yanmen commandery

During the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he was sent to take over command from Lu Zhi to attack Zhang Jue in Julu.

His effort is mediocre at best but with the arrival of Huangfu Song, victory was achieved in the winter against the peasant.

During the Liang Province rebellion, the barbarians rebelled with the local gentries Han Sui and Bian Zhang. Zhuo Bufan was reinstated into power and was sent to suppress the rebels.

It is during this rebellion that there is bad blood formed between Zhuo Bufan and Huangfu Song.

Zhuo Bufan was given the title general of the Vanguard and he was even promoted to be the governor of Bing province but he refused to take up his new post as he was unwilling to leave his men.

It is during this turbulent situation the power of the Yan dynasty is waning. Zhuo Bufan then settled in Liang province and built up his power.

He was waiting for a chance. All over the empire, all ambitious men schemes and waited for the opportune moment to rise.

And the opportune moment first come to Zhuo Bufan in the form of a message.

Zhuo Bufan is one of the people that He Jin had instructed to come into Luoyang to aid him. Zhuo Bufan also got some news from the capital and the full picture is known to him.

He Jin wanted to kill the Ten Attendants, and force the Empress to side with He Jing.

At that time of course Zhuo Bufan could not have expected that things would turns so chaotic.

But he does see the chance to return to capital, to gain some merit with He Jin and he even got the permission of the Yuan family.

There is nothing stopping him from bringing his Xiliang army to the capital.

However, before Zhuo Bufan could even arrive in Luoyang, He Jin was assassinated by the eunuch.

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu responded with violence, leading a purge of the eunuchs at court, chaos reigns, the imperial city fell into a state of turmoil.

the eunuch leader Zhang Rang fled with the child Emperor Shao and his family in tow.

Zhang Rang was caught by Lu Zhi’s forces by the river and drowned himself, with Lu Zhi rescuing the Emperor and his family.

As they returned to the capital, Zhuo Bufan came upon the Emperor’s party outside Luoyang, though it was the Emperor’s younger half-brother, Liu Xie, who was brave enough to speak to him.

Zhuo Bufan guided the Imperial party back into the capital along with his army. The Imperial Seal was lost at this time.

But Zhuo Bufan after that take control of the central government.

Zhuo Bufan has army of two hundred thousand soldier at his command and with that kind of numbers, nobody at that time could oppose him

Even the Yuan family could not do anything about him and Zhuo Bufan quickly took control of affairs of state

There is actually a trick to this. Zhuo Bufan actually only have five thousand men, a paltry amount of men compared to the rest at the capital

But Zhuo Bufan himself is a person with many schemes in his belly. So, he schemed to make himself look more powerful than he was

During the day, he had his soldiers march into the city through the gates amid great pomp and circumstance, and then at night he quietly snuck his army back outside through the same gate, to have it re-enter the next day.

By doing so he fooled everyone in the capital into thinking his army was much larger than it actually was, and he was able to bend the Imperial soldiers to his will and subsume them into his own army, establishing his position firmly.

Zhuo Bufan further strengthened his force by bribing Ding Yuan’s subordinate, Dugu Yi, to turn to his side.

Dugu Yi killed Ding Yuan and took control of his army, bringing it to join Zhuo Bufan.

There is many more events that happens between then. Thee is many more people involved in this matter. Each one us more shocking than the rest, each one is worthy to be made into a story.

But one things is certain for other people that are watching and keeping up with the situations of the world

There is only one word to describe the Yan dynasty right now

Chaos!

It is too messy.

The Yellow Turban rebellion was the start, the spark of fire that burns the entire prairie.

Followed by the Luoyang Palace Incident and the Zhuo Bufan chaos and finally the whole empire shakes and trembles, the cracks has widen, and this is the beginning of the end for the Yan dynasty

Now, all over the world, there is a call, to summon all heroes to fight against Zhuo Bufan!

The rise and fall of empires happens at the turning point of history.

Yindu and Great Steppe is in the trend of unification, Yan is in disintegration but what is happening in the North?

In the far north, further than the north known by the people of Yan, there is another great empire.

For many in that large region of the world, there is only one empire.

Roma.

And its city, Roma.

No other city has given its name to an empire and a civilization so much as this one city

Snaking across the Anglais moors, there is the Hadrian Wall that shows the might of this empire and the skill of the Roma soldiers that built it

This empire is large and have a lot of land and people and to them, they are the most civilized portion of mankind

It is an empire of force and law.

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