Chapter 004 동탁의 천하 08

9.歌罷，相抱而哭。李儒叱曰：「相國立等回報，汝等俄延，望誰救耶？」太后大罵：「董賊逼我母子，皇天不佑！汝等助惡，必當滅族！」儒大怒，雙手扯住太后，直攛下樓，叱武士絞死唐妃，以鴆酒灌殺少帝，還報董卓。卓命葬於城外。自此每夜入宮，姦淫宮女，夜宿龍床。嘗引軍出城，行到陽城地方，時當二月，村民社賽。男女皆集，卓命軍士圍住，盡皆殺之，掠婦女財物，裝載車上，懸頭千餘顆於車下，連軫還都，揚言殺賊大勝而回；於城門下焚燒人頭，以婦女財物分散眾軍。

When they had sung these lines, they fell weeping into each others' arms.

"The Prime Minister is awaiting my report," said Li Ru, "and you delay too long. Think you that there is any hope of succor?"

The Empress broke into another fit of railing, "The rebel forces us to death, mother and son, and Heaven has abandoned us. But you, the tool of his crime, will assuredly perish!"

Thereupon Li Ru grew more angry, laid hands on the Empress and threw her out of the window. Then he bade the soldiers strangle Lady Tang and forced the lad to swallow the wine of death.

Li Ru reported the achievement to his master who bade them bury the victims without the city. After this Dong Zhuo's behavior was more atrocious than before. He spent his nights in the Palace, defiled the imperial concubines there, and even slept on the Dragon Couch.

Once he led his soldiers out of the city to Yangcheng when the villagers, men and women, were assembled from all sides for the annual spring festival. His troops surrounded the place and plundered it. They took away booty by the cart loads, and women prisoners and more than one thousand severed heads. The procession returned to Capital Luoyang and published a story that they had obtained a great victory over some rebels. They burned the heads beneath the walls, and the women and jewelry were shared out among the soldiers.