That night, Yuan Shu summoned all the generals under his command as usual to discuss the strategy of resisting the enemy, and at the same time told everyone that after his own investigation, it had been clarified that Liu Xun's surrender was just a rumor deliberately spread by Pei Qing, and he asked everyone not to believe or spread rumors at this critical moment, and especially emphasized that all those who spread rumors were Pei Qing's meticulous work, and as long as they were found, they would all be killed.

In order to be able to deter everyone, he also specially ordered people to correct the Fa on the spot by some of the people he caught spreading rumors, so as to show his determination.

"Zhugong, we have no way to retreat now, at this critical moment, we can only work together to overcome the difficulties, there is no other way to go, I think the same is true for Zhugong, so we must grit our teeth, no matter how complicated the situation is, how urgent the situation is, as long as we unite as one, we will be able to survive, I have already received the exact news, Liu Xun will arrive at the city of Shuxian in three days, and then we will be able to attack inside and outside, and break Pei Qing together."

At the meeting, Yuan Shu said impassionedly, and he really frightened some generals. Let them believe that Liu Xun's surrender is really a rumor, and now that Yuan Shu has made up his mind to defend to the end, this makes these people moved, and they believe that as long as Yuan Shu can make up his mind to unite with everyone, he will be able to easily defeat Pei Qing and win the final victory.

"The most powerful thing in the world is only Pei Qing, once Pei Qing is defeated, who else can stop the footsteps of the lord? At that time, the lord will compete in the Central Plains and even dominate the world, and we will all be ministers of the dragon, what a gratifying thing it should be? ”

After Yuan Shu's words, many generals were full of confidence in Yuan Shu again, and even had strong expectations.

However, these people didn't know that the reason why Yuan Shu did this was actually just a superficial thing, and in fact, Yuan Shu had secretly ordered his personal generals and henchmen Zhang Xun to prepare to flee overnight.

In the evening of the same day, Yuan Shu led 500 soldiers and soldiers and Zhang Xun, a general, with some important gold jewelry and jade seals, as well as his wives and concubines, and quietly shouted to open the West City Gate in the name of going out on business as indicated by Yuan Shu, and then left overnight.

Because Yuan Shu's team was lightly armed and simple, even if those wives and concubines were a little cumbersome, they were all in a carriage, so they acted very quickly, and they had already stolen away dozens of miles at dawn, even so they did not stop, pretending to be merchants, and came to the river at noon the next day, rented a few big boats, and prepared to go directly to Guangling by water, and then take a sea boat from Guangling to the plain country of Qingzhou directly from the sea.

For these actions of Yuan Shu, the soldiers in the city did not find out, even the soldiers guarding the city gate, although they knew that someone left at night, but they did not know that it was Yuan Shu who left, until some generals "entered the palace" to meet Yuan Shu, but found that there was no one in the "palace", then panicked, they looked for Yuan Shu's traces everywhere, until they got the news from the city gate guards that someone left overnight This was finally confirmed, it must have been Yuan Shu who fled overnight, and it was only then that they finally understood, Yuan Shu's impassioned last night was just a show, and his real purpose was to take advantage of the opportunity to escape.

These soldiers in the city heard about this until they were all shocked in their hearts, now that Yuan Shu has fled, the soldiers in the city have no leader, it is difficult for them to hold Shu County, and now it is naturally more dangerous.

And the generals and officials under Yuan Shu's command were also secretly angry in their hearts, because they knew that Zhang Xun had also disappeared, which basically meant that Yuan Shu had taken Zhang Xun away and abandoned them at the same time.

Therefore, when everyone was discussing how to deal with it, some seriously dissatisfied generals and officials said: "That man abandoned us and fled alone with his wife, concubine, son, and confidant, and he didn't care about us at all, so why should we be loyal to him?" ”

"That's right, we have heard of Corporal Pei Gonglixian, know how to make good use of people, and no matter how dangerous the battlefield is, we will never abandon the soldiers and flee alone, our allegiance to such a British lord is not a thousand times stronger than loyalty to Yuan Shu?"

"This sentence has gone to our hearts, and we will surrender to Pei Gong, I don't know if you agree?"

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The next thing went very smoothly, and none of the generals and officials gathered here did not agree to surrender to Pei Qing, so they jointly elected a representative but surrendered to Pei Qing.

In fact, even Pei Qing didn't expect Yuan Shu to escape so quickly, this was also a mistake in his prediction, and he was really surprised after hearing the news, it turned out that Pei Qing felt that with Yuan Shu's conceit, how could he lead the army to fight with him for a few days before he escaped, so he also relaxed his surveillance of Yuan Shu, which led to Yuan Shu's escape.

However, Pei Qing didn't feel a pity, Yuan Shu without territory was a lost dog at all, and there would be no threat at all, and Pei Qing had already calculated that if Yuan Shu escaped, the only destination would be Yuan Shao, and if Yuan Shu wanted to go to Yuan Shao, he had to pass through Guangling, which Chen Deng guarded, if Yuan Shu could go directly to Sun Ce by sea boat in Hailing, Pei Qing would really not be able to deal with him, but if the other party arrived in Guangling and then went to Qingzhou by land, it would be a dead end. Because Pei Qing has already ordered Guangling, who has just surrendered, to guard Chen Deng too much, he must strictly guard against Yuan Shu, although even if Yuan Shu surrenders Yuan Shao, it will not pose any threat to Pei Qing, as for the jade seal of the country, even if he gets it, he will hand it over to the imperial court, so it is better to have nothing, but Pei Qing will not let Yuan Shu live so proudly, otherwise he will not be laughed at for being incompetent?

As for the unanimous request of the soldiers and officials in the city to surrender, Pei Qing was naturally disrespectful, so at this point, Pei Qing finally completely seized all the territory of Yuan Shu, occupied the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang, and recruited a total of 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, which also indicates that this war against Yuan Shu was finally declared victorious.

So Pei Qing appointed Chen Jiao as the Taishou of Lujiang, and gave him 30,000 Yuan Shu's surrendered troops, so that he could lead the army to garrison Lujiang to prevent Sun Ce's attack.

And Yuan Shu's problem is not an unsolved case, because only four or five days later, Pei Qing got the news from Chen Deng, and Yuan Shu has been stopped by Chen Deng's army.

(三七 Chinese 37zw)