Just when Zhang Liao was looking forward to the good news of his eldest brother Guan Yu from the direction of Nanyang, the news of Nanyang's victory spread all over the Quartet together with the rumors that the Yuan Shu clan was wiped out.

Although the two main cavalry forces of the Northwest Route Army were transferred to the Yanzhou area by Zhao Xing, this did not affect Guan Yu's command of the remaining vanguard army, Pingxi Army and Kunlun Army to break through Wuguan and enter the Nanyang area to uproot the Yuan clan.

Among the "Five Tigers of the Shangdang" in the past, if there is anyone who has the deepest hatred with the Yuan family, it may be Guan Yu. At the beginning, Zhao Xing was still serving as a Taishou in Julu, and Guan Yu suddenly received a secret report, saying that the imperial court had designated Zhao Xing as a thief who colluded with the Yellow Turban "moth thief", and sent people to Zhaojiazhuang in Huangxian County to prepare to dig up Zhao Xing's ancestral grave and whip the corpse. Behind this is Yuan Kui who is fueling the troubles, and the people who do it are also the people of the Yuan family, namely Han Fu, the Taishou of Wei County, and Liang Gang, the county governor.

After learning of this incident, Guan Yu didn't say a word, led five hundred cavalry to run hundreds of miles, slaughtered Han Fu and Liang Gang before the county soldiers moved, and endured arrow wounds to protect the bones of Zhao's ancestors and left Anyang safely, but he fell ill on the road because of an arrow wound.

Guan Yu's arrow wound was suffered for Zhao Xing, but it was because of the Yuan family. Later, although the bones were scraped and healed, although they were passed down as a beautiful talk by the soldiers of the Jin State, but this kind of heart-wrenching feeling, if you can not suffer it, who the hell is willing to be abused? Brother Guan is a vicious person, since he has always looked down on the Yuan family's form, after the Northwest Route Army entered Nanyang, Yuan Shu, Yuan Kui and others naturally did not have a good end.

In fact, after the three infantry corps of the Northwest Route Army entered the Nanyang area, the resistance encountered was very limited, and the main resistance was concentrated in the Wancheng area where the Yuan clan gathered.

The Yuan family has really produced the "Four Worlds and Three Princes", and the family has risen in Nanyang for hundreds of years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that most of Wancheng is the industry of the Yuan family. Before the Northwest Route Army broke through Wuguan, Yuan Shu spread rumors in the Nanyang area, slandering the Northwest Route Army as jackals and beasts, and once they attacked Nanyang, they would kill all the Yuan clansmen. Zhang Wen, the former Sikong who lived in Nanyang, also helped the Yuan family wave the flag and shouted, and told everyone about Zhao Xing's "heinous crime" of exterminating the Zhang family in the Shangdang.

This method of spreading rumors, while cheesy, works. Soon, because of the need for survival, all the people of the Yuan clan closely united under the banner of the former Taifu Yuan Kui, and vowed to protect the safety of Wancheng and the Yuan clan to the death.

The vanguard army and the Kunlun army, which had already learned the method of "kidnapping" ordinary people played by the Sima family in Yizhou, were obviously more experienced than the Pingxi army in dealing with the collective resistance of the Yuan clan.

In dealing with ordinary people who blindly listen and believe, we must not believe in the saying that "rumors stop at the wise", just like dealing with treacherous people, we must not pursue the practice of "convincing people with virtue". The best way to deal with rumors is to "cut through the mess with a quick knife" and directly block the source of the rumors, or to adopt a larger-scale propaganda offensive to occupy the upper hand in the direction of public opinion.

After Zhang He commanded the 40,000 infantry of the vanguard army to pass through the Wuguan, he asked the soldiers to sing the military song of "three disciplines and eight points of attention", and posted along the road the rules that the Jin troops only attacked the first evil, did not disturb the civilians, did not arrest the soldiers, and did not loot and set fires.

The Kunlun Army led by Xu Rong had a different approach from the Vanguard Army. He asked the troops to gather all the poor people who had been bullied by the Yuan clan along the way, and then took these people to find the culprits, and arrested all the Yuan bullies who were unkind to the rich and harmed the township to show them in public, and then distributed the land and wealth occupied by these bullies to the poor people, even the poor people surnamed Yuan.

There is no doubt that these tactics played by the vanguard army and the Kunlun army have greatly thwarted the Yuan clan's plot to kidnap the people in the Nanyang area to be their substitutes. The Pingxi Army, which followed behind the Vanguard Army and the Kunlun Army, honestly did nothing, just watched the Pioneer Army and the Kunlun Army work hard, and it could be regarded as following and learning.

The three-way army broke through to the heart of Nanyang, surrounded Wancheng from the three directions of Nieyang, Jianyang and Xi'e, and then quietly waited for the final decision of the Luoyang direction for the Yuan clan.

Luoyang was only a few hundred miles away from Wancheng, and it was only three days away, so Zhao Xing's order was quickly sent to Guan Yu, the marshal of the Northwest Route Army.

Zhao Xing wrote in the letter: "Only the first evil will be punished, and the rest will not be blamed." The Nanyang Yuan clan is too large, and it needs to be completely dispersed and then migrated to the Northeast, Yanzhou, Western Regions, Yizhou and other places, so that it will be difficult for them to gather from now on and completely cut off the scourge of the gate valve!"

Guan Yu took Zhao Xing's warrant and pondered for a long time, but there were still some places that he couldn't eat, so he asked Jia Xu to come over and refer to it together.

After Jia Xu read Zhao Xing's handwritten letter, he said to Guan Yu with a relaxed face: "Yun Chang, why is this matter difficult? Let the three armies copy tens of thousands of copies of this warrant from Guochang, and let the three armies throw them into the city tomorrow, and let the Yuan clan people in the city finalize a list of the first evils themselves!"

After listening to Jia Xu's words, Guan Yu immediately understood the scheming of the "old poison", so he laughed loudly and said, "Mr. Wenhe's plan is very wonderful!"

At noon on the second day, white leaflets fell like snowflakes over Wancheng, directly knocking Yuan Kui, Yuan Shu, Zhang Wen and others who had fallen into hysteria into the ice cave.

The choice between migration and extinction is quite simple. It is better to die than to live, since King Pingxi said in front of the three armies, "Only the first evil will be punished, and the rest will not be blamed", then he will not break his word and gain weight, because there is no need for this at all. If Zhao Xing really wanted to do something to everyone in Wancheng, he only needed to order the army to carry out the Shenwu General Cannon and bombard it indiscriminately, so why pretend to act such a play?

The people of the Yuan clan, who were originally agitated by Yuan Kui and Yuan Shu, had already woken up from their fanatical emotions at this time, and they stood at the head of Wancheng City and looked at the black and oppressive Jin army in the distance, and finally realized that they were already standing on the line of life and death at this time. If you continue to fight against the Jin army to the end, it will not be the remnants, but the first evil. Once you become the first evil, you have to be ready to lose your brain, and the Kunlun army has cut off hundreds of good heads along the way!

When the people and defenders of the city all looked at the mansions of Yuan Shu, Yuan Kui, and Zhang Wen with strange eyes, the three of them knew that their time had come. If they don't take the initiative to hand over the head on their necks at this time, then when the soldiers and civilians in the city do it together, they are afraid that the Yuan family will be killed in the mansion. Under the domination of the desire to survive, the angry soldiers and civilians can't distinguish between the "first evil" and the "remnant"!

That night, Yuan Shu, Yuan Kui and Zhang Wen cried loudly in the mansion of Wancheng, it turned out that these three people committed suicide by taking poison one after another, and their families were crying for them.

The next day, Yuan Shujia led Ji Ling to open the gate of Wancheng and went out of the city to ask Guan Yu to surrender, and then the entire territory of Nanyang was taken by the Northwest Route Army......