The vanguard of Yuan's army was frustrated, and Yuan Shu's concubines immediately strongly urged Yuan Shu to take them and retreat to the safety of the rear. And the retreat of the concubines triggered the retreat of Yuan Shu's main banner. The retreat of the flag means that the military spirit of Yuan Shu's entire army is restless.

All this that happened in Yuan Shujun would obviously be seen by Xie Xun. How could Xie Xun, who commanded the troops and horses of the headquarters in the rear, let go of such a good opportunity?

So, Xie Xun decisively dispatched the main force and launched a ferocious blow to Yuan's army. Yuan Shujun's military heart was shaken, and he was rushed by the Xuzhou army so unsparingly, and the formation suddenly collapsed. Next, the defeated troops of Yuan Shu, driven by the Xuzhou army, became the biggest contributor to the destruction of Yuan Shu's formation.

As soon as the Chinese army was in disarray, the situation became out of control. Finding that the Xuzhou army was actually killing him, Yuan Shu, who was frightened, hurriedly fled with a few beloved concubines.

As soon as the lord Yuan Shu fled, the morale of the whole army immediately fell to the bottom. Under the blow of Xie Xun's 4,000 men, the 10,000 army under Yuan Shu only lasted for an hour before the whole army collapsed!

As soon as Yuan Shuzhong's army collapsed, Ji Ling's right flank collapsed without a fight. Seeing that the development of the battle situation was so favorable, Xie Xun decisively waved his army to chase after him, and chased Yuan Shu all the way to the foot of Shouchun City. When Yuan Shu fled into Shouchun City in embarrassment, the 20,000 troops he used for the expedition this time were only about 2,000 who successfully escaped back to Shouchun with him. Half of the remaining nearly 20,000 horses were captured and killed by the Xuzhou army, and half fled to the surrounding countryside, which was completely incapable of fighting again.

Yuan Shu was defeated and fled, and the news that Xie Xun's soldiers were under Shouchun City was like a huge stone thrown into a small pond. The waves set off by this immediately stirred up the entire Yuan Shu rule.

Remember that hapless Lei Bo?

That's right, it's the one who only brought five thousand old and weak. was sent out by Yuan Shu and was asked to pacify the rebellion of Liu Pi and Gong Du in Runan.

The number of Lei Bo's troops is far lower than that of Liu Bi and Gong Du, and his training and equipment level is only slightly stronger. As for the morale situation in the army, due to the low treatment of the soldiers, the entire Yuan Shu army was not much better.

In such a situation, Lei Bo is not a famous general with outstanding ability. Of course, he suffered defeats under Gong Du one after another. Fortunately, the strength of his subordinates was not much stronger, and most of them were hungry people who had not been entangled for a long time, which allowed Lei Bo to keep 3,000 men and horses in his hands despite repeated defeats.

After losing the battle and failing to complete the task assigned by Yuan Shu, Lei Bo had to start thinking about how to avoid punishment from Yuan Shu. Fortunately, his luck is not bad, and Yuan Shu has not punished him yet. was beaten by Xie Xun and the whole army collapsed, and fled in embarrassment.

When the news came that Yuan Shu fled back to Shouchun after the defeat, Lei Bo, who was still a little afraid of Yuan Shu, finally let go of what little loyalty he had left to Yuan Shu. When Yuan Shu urgently sent an envoy and ordered him to quickly lead his troops to King Shouchun Qin, Lei Bo slapped the case in front of the envoy and yelled:

"I'm gone!"

With a roar, Lei Bo simply fled back to the Lujiang area with three thousand remnants. Diving into Lishan Mountain [also called Qianshan, also called Tianzhu Mountain] stood on its own. Not only that, but in the process of evacuating to the east. He also recruited his friend Chen Jian and took thousands of soldiers and horses from his headquarters into the mountain together. Even if Yuan Shu successfully broke out of the siege in the future, with the dangerous terrain around Lishan Mountain, Lei Bo was confident that he would persevere under the nose of Yuan Shu, who had no way to govern the army.

Lei Bo and Chen Jian's decisive renunciation of Yuan Shu was like a signal that opened the process of Yuan Shu's collapse as a force.

Yuan Shu trapped in a lonely city. But there is no calmness when he took his favorite concubine to the expedition a few days ago. He was frightened in Shouchun City, and frantically sent messengers to ask his subordinate counties to hurry up and raise troops to serve the king.

Yuan Shu is arrogant and extravagant, and he needs a lot of demands, and there are many people in various counties and countries who suffer for him. Therefore. After receiving the order from Yuan Shu's envoy, the officials from all over the country were not very enthusiastic about going to Shouchun for rescue.

At this time, Lei Bo openly led people into the mountains to stand on their own, and immediately gave an example to the county officials. They may not dare to openly betray Yuan Shu like Lei Bo, but they still have the intention of defending themselves. In this way, among the rewards Yuan Shu received, there were all kinds of shirk words, either there were bandits here, or they were threatened by Liu Beijun there, and there was even a saying that they were burned by the fire and could not send troops. Yuan Shu was trapped in Shouchun for a month, and he didn't even wait for a guy who actively raised troops to help.

Such a tragic result made Yuan Shu directly angry and half dead. Originally, Yuan Shu's age was not too young, and he had been singing every night before, and he was extravagant, and his body and bones were already empty. The news of the disastrous defeat of the army made Yuan Shu sick and tired of being in bed, and then a large number of territories came to stand on their own or refused to come to help, which directly defeated Yuan Shu.

Xie Xun, who led the troops to kill all the way to Shouchun City, had no intention of attacking the city. His strength is limited, and he has to maintain the smooth back road, and there are only more than 1,000 available soldiers, so that the number of defenders in Shouchun City is actually above the Xuzhou army. However, just when Xie Xun took advantage of the majesty of the great victory, boldly stationed troops under Shouchun City, collected the prisoners and baggage captured in the previous battle, and planned to return to Xuzhou, the news of Yuan Shu's violent illness actually came out of Shouchun City......

Yuan Shu was seriously ill, and the entire Shouchun lost his backbone. Some of the Shouchun defenders who were not firm in their position, for the sake of their own retreat, simply contacted Xie Xun outside the city, quietly opened the city gate, and sacrificed Shouchun City.

After Yuan Shu learned that someone had sacrificed the city and the Xuzhou army had entered Shouchun City, he was frightened and ashamed, screamed, fell to the ground, vomited blood and died.

In this way, the Runan Yuan clan, which had stirred up the ups and downs of the entire Han Dynasty, completely withdrew from the stage of history with the death of Yuan Shu. With the prestige of forcing Yuan Shu to death, Xie Xun seized the opportunity and decisively sent troops south and west, and promptly took Jiujiang and Lujiang counties into his arms. Without Yuan Shu's resistance, Gongdu, who originally stayed in Runan and failed to go north as agreed, suddenly rose in power and defeated most of Runan.

When Guo Jia urged Li Dao to go south, news came from the east that Yuan Shu had died. This made Guo Jia's plan to defeat Chen Guo and give him a few more chances of winning.

Although Li Dao led the troops south according to Guo Jia's request, he always had some doubts in his heart. Chen Guo is not a soft persimmon, known as "a strong soldier". Their group of cavalry, at this time, rashly attacked the city defense of Chen Guo, it was inevitably a little inappropriate.

After all, motorized cavalry is only cavalry, and siege is not good. Against Chen Wang Liu Chong, who is good at using a strong crossbow, Li Dao does not think that he can win the other party. However, when Li Dao entered the territory of Chen with a large group of cavalry, the news that rushed in front of him made him dumbfounded.

The news is:

Chen Wang Liu Pet and Chen Guoguo Prime Minister Luo Jun actually died all at once!

How did these two men die?

At that time, due to the chaos of the situation, after the sudden death of the king and the kingdom at the same time, the state of Chen was invaded by the army of Zhao in the north and fell into great turmoil. And the close people of Chen Wang Liu Chong and Minister of State Luo Jun also died in this rebellion. Therefore, the cause of death of the two has become a mystery that is not big or small.

It wasn't until 20 years later that Luo Jun's son Luo Tong openly killed people in the streets of Kaifeng City for revenge, and the world learned the real cause of death of Liu Chong and Luo Jun from Luo Tong, who was interrogated by the government.

Liu Zhong and Luo Jun were poisoned by Zhang Kaiyang, who was a secret spy of Taiping Dao and was named a baron for his merits!

Zhang Kaiyang is a native of Rencheng, but he joined Taiping Dao very early. In the second year of Chuping [191], Zhang Kaiyang came to Chen as an exile and accepted relief from Luo Jun, the minister of state. Zhang Kaiyang took this opportunity to pretend to repay the favor and successfully joined Luo Jun's subordinates and became a small official.

For nine years, Zhang Kaiyang worked diligently for Chen Guoguo's prime minister's mansion and worked for Luo Jun. During this time, although he did not make much contribution, he gradually won the trust of Luo Jun and Liu Pet with his honest and hard-working nature.

Just when Guo Jia asked Li Dao to lead his troops south, Zhang Kaiyang also got the first order after many years of lurking. So, Zhang Kaiyang, who was loyal to Taiping Dao, put the poison sent by Zhao Guo's secret spy in the wine at a banquet in the county and presented it to Liu Chong and Luo Jun. Liu Pet and Luo Jun, who had no doubts about Zhang Kaiyang, gladly accepted Zhang Kaiyang's offer of wine, drank all the poisonous wine in public, and then, on that night, both of them died of poison.

At the same time, Chen Guokong lost two leaders, Chen Guokong had more than 20,000 elite soldiers and thousands of crossbows, but there was no main general who could command them in battle. In the midst of panic and chaos, Chen Guo's resistance forces went their own way, and in the face of tens of thousands of enemy frenzy, they fully demonstrated what it means to be scattered......

In retrospect, Li Dao still felt that the capture of the powerful Chen State was simply the easiest result in his life. In addition to the more than 20,000 elite soldiers, the abundant grain and grass in the treasury of Chen Guo's mansion also allowed the mobile cavalry heading south to completely let go of the concern of insufficient supplies, and could more actively decide the direction of their next attack.

The fall of Chen Guo made the entire battle situation suddenly change dramatically.

Yuan Shu was dead, and most of Jiujiang, Lujiang, and Runan fell into the hands of the Zhao army. With the addition of a Chen State, the territory occupied by the Zhao State [] army was successfully connected into a line, surrounding the entire Yanzhou and the small half of Yuzhou.

In other words, Cao Cao at this time will have to face the severe test of being attacked by the enemy on his belly and back. The only reinforcement Cao Cao could count on at this time was that Liu Biao's army from Jingzhou could go north as soon as possible.

However, Cao Cao, who is known as a generation of traitors, will pin all his hopes on Liu Biao, who is thousands of miles away?

Better do it than wish it done. Cao Cao will not fail to understand this truth. (To be continued......)