The battle situation is as expected, Yuan Jun has successively completed the set goal, after successively breaking the outer mountain cities of Tongbai Mountain, now even the wall at the foot of Taiping Peak Mountain has been lost, and now as long as the Taiping Peak is attacked, everything will be done.

But unexpectedly, Yuan Shao took the initiative to let people go up the mountain to negotiate with the Yellow Turban Army.

In fact, the reason why this is so is all because the Yellow Turban Army played a value in the previous battle, which made Yuan Shao see the bloodiness and resilience of the Yellow Turban Army.

He understood that if he continued to fight like this, Yuan Jun would defeat Taiping Peak, and he would inevitably suffer heavy losses. He will not forget what his real strategy is in this battle, that is, to sneak through the three passes of Yiyang.

And once you pass the three passes of Yiyang and enter the hinterland of the Jingxiang Plain, it will inevitably be the same as stabbing a hornet's nest, and Liu Biao will inevitably attack Yuan's army at all costs.

If the losses in the process of conquering and suppressing the Yellow Turban Army are too large, Yuan Shao's plan to cross into Jingzhou may be broken.

Therefore, Yuan Shao asked a confidant in the army to enter the mountain with his letters.

In the letter, Yuan Shao put forward three conditions to Liu Pi.

First, the Yellow Turban Army abandoned Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and fully entered Runan. Second, the Yellow Turbans will be organized into cantonment households and be responsible for farming. Third, the Yellow Turban Army fully accepted the management of Yuzhou, and Yuzhou appointed local guards.

It can be said that after these three articles, what Yuan Shao gave Liu Pi was not the so-called peace treaty, but let him surrender completely.

But Liu Bi agreed, and despite the dissuasion of the core of the sect, he surrendered in the end.

There are many reasons why Liu Pi is willing to surrender, what is not willing to increase casualties, what is the general trend has gone, and what Qingzhou sectarians in the east are doing well after surrendering.

There are all kinds of reasons, but there is only one real reason, that is, the confessor privately promised Liu Pi that his lord Yuan Shao was willing to guarantee Liu Pi's wealth and would be a Zhonglang general for him.

So, for the sake of power and wealth, Liu Pi betrayed those colleagues who died at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, the deaths of Gong Du and Wu Ba are simply a joke.

And when Liu Pi agreed to surrender, chaos ensued in Taipingshan.

A large number of remnants of the Yellow Turbans who had a blood feud with the Yuan clan could not accept this result at all, so they burned Taiping Mountain, took advantage of the chaos, and retreated in the direction of Nanyang in the west.

And Liu Pi, who was no longer able to restrain the disciples, hurriedly let the Yuan army under the mountain enter the mountain and let it be suppressed. But when the fire burned down the Lushe and Fang City on the mountain, I didn't see a single soldier of Yuan's army coming up.

Obviously, Yuan Jun was not willing to take this risk.

In this way, in the sky-high black smoke, Liu Bi took the remaining party members down the mountain and formally surrendered to the Yuan army camp.

The career that took off because of fate finally fell to the ground because it was transported. In the final analysis, Liu Pi is just a Chinese talent.

In this battle, Yuan Shao included 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and more than 100,000 people in Shanliao, and his power was greatly shaken.

And when all parties thought that Yuan Shao was going to quit the army and recuperate, his people had already pointed to the three levels.

……

Kyoto, outside Hakuba-ji Temple.

Liu Bei, who had just come out of the White Horse Temple, was at a loss at the moment, just because he had just met someone in the temple.

Kyoto's Hakuba Temple naturally needs no introduction, it can be described as the first temple in the Han Dynasty. This temple was built by Emperor Ming at the beginning, because of the placement of two Tianzhu masters, and the scriptures of the white horse, it is called "White Horse Temple".

One of the special things about Hakuba-ji is the pomegranates and grapes that are cultivated in front of the Hakuba-ji pagoda by the monks of the temple. These two rarities were brought from the Western Regions along with the scriptures.

And these fruit trees planted in the White Horse Temple are even more luxuriant and luscious. A grape is bigger than a date, and a pomegranate is as big as a melon.

It can be said that these two things are not only unique to Hakuba Temple, but also rare in Kyoto. I don't know how many Lang officials from all over the world have been attracted to come to Beijing to work as Lang.

It is precisely because of its rarity and rarity that it has always been a great gift for the Han family to reward their subordinates since the successful cultivation, and the recipients all regard it as a treasure and will not eat it easily.

And Liu Bei, who had just come out of the White Horse Temple, was naturally well entertained.

But no amount of sweet pomegranate could alleviate the bitterness in his heart at the moment.

And all of this starts from ten days ago, that is, the Chongyang feast.

The Han family has always attached great importance to the Double Ninth Day on September 9, because nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon correspond together, so it has the auspicious meaning of longevity.

Believe it or not, who doesn't want to have a good fortune, so the emperor of the Han family has always valued this day, and he will enjoy a banquet with all the courtiers on the high platform.

Moreover, this year's Chung Yeung feast is not the same, because this time there are new guests in Kyoto.

They were envoys from Khotan, a great power in the Western Regions.

The little emperor Liu Wei attached great importance to the arrival of the Khotanese envoys. One of the reasons is that Khotan was the core vassal of the Han family in the Western Regions, and since Banding Yuan settled the Western Regions, although Khotan rebelled several times, it generally maintained the attitude of contributing to the Han family.

But the more important reason was that the Khotanese mission did not go to Chang'an, Xijing, to meet his younger brother, but continued to come to Kyoto as was customary.

This made Liu Wei very happy, and the arrival of the Khotanese mission allowed him to taste the supreme majesty of the Han Emperor's former dynasty.

And this kind of majesty is something Liu Wei has never tasted.

Therefore, Liu Wei decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the Khotanese envoys to hold this Chongyang feast.

After all, it was an eventful year in Kyoto.

Originally, with the eradication of the Yuan family, the power of the Kwantung court reached its peak, at least in the court.

The foreign relatives group headed by He Jin fully controlled the court, and then with Liu Yu Shangluo, the representative of the Qingzhou clan line, and Liu Chong, the king of Chen, Liu Mi, the king of Liang, and Liu Yao, the king of Pei, who were surnamed Liu in Yuzhou, successively went to Luo, and the power of the Han clan also developed.

Coupled with Liu Bei, who held the power of the army, the clan became the two carriages of power in the Kwantung court, just like his relatives.

But the good times did not last long, and with the uprising of Yuan Shao in Runan, the situation in the Kwantung court took a sharp turn for the worse. Up to now, the court that originally occupied the entire Kanto region, and now the only ones who still support him are Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Tao Qian in Xuzhou, and Liu Miao in Yangzhou.

But among the three major princes, only Liu Biao could supply the needs of the Kwantung court, and the latter two could not be counted.

Yuan Shao, who had already occupied Yuzhou, cut off the connection between Xu, Yang, and Kyoto from the two aspects of Huaisi. It can be said that once Yuzhou was lost, the Kwantung court had already lost control of the East.

And once this is the case, it will be directly manifested in the battle of the two capitals.

Previously, the Kwantung court had an unparalleled advantage over the Kansai region, and it can be said that the initiative in the war has always been on the Kanto side.

But this time, in the recent Battle of Liangjing, the Kwantung Army suffered a big defeat, not only losing the narrow victories won in previous battles, but also allowing the Kwantung Army to advance to the easternmost part of the Kuhan Road, Tanijo.

And this time the Kansai Army is obviously different from the past.

Previously, the Kwantan Army could be said to have ordered many doors, but with Dong Zhuo's entry into Xijing and the full control of military power with the support of the little emperor Liu Xie, the Kwantong Army was a bit reborn.

On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, Liu Bei had just come down from the front line, and he was originally going to ask for reinforcements with He Jin.

But he was directly pulled by He Jin to this Chongyang feast.

On that day, Liu Bei met the Khotanese for the first time.

Their appearance is not at all Han Chinese, with deep sunken eye sockets under thick eyebrows, blue eyes with a strange beauty, a narrow and curved nose like an eagle, and a chestnut beard under the nose, all wearing mountain-shaped white felt hats, except for the dark black brim.

And on that day, Liu Bei also saw a monk whose skin and hair color were very similar to their Han people, it is said that he was from Daxia, and there was a small novice next to him, but he was swarthy and swarthy, like black charcoal.

Then he learned that the big one was called Lou Jialuo, and the small one was called Tan Ke Jialuo, both of which were very strange names.

In fact, of course, the Khotanese delegation came this time for its own purpose, otherwise they would not have traveled thousands of miles to Kyoto.

They came here to obtain the approval of the emperor of the Han family, saying that the king of Kumi, who was supported by the Han family seven years ago, was illegal.

There's a grudge in it. Kumi is a small country in the Western Regions, and its main reason is that it has a grudge against Khotan, falsely claiming that Zhao Ping, the governor of the Western Regions who died of illness in the past, was killed by the king of Khotan.

Later, the new Han family history killed the king of Khotan, and then his son was supported by the countrymen, and revenge was destroyed by Kumi. Then Liu Wei's father, Liu Hong, also sent back the prince of Kumi, who was held hostage in Kyoto, to help him build the country.

And this time, the Khotanese people came to solve this historical burden.

In fact, the Khotanese people are quite clear about the current situation of the Han family. Now there is a Son of Heaven in Kyoto and a Son of Heaven in Xijing, it stands to reason that Liu Hong did it back then, and then Liu Hong went to Xijing, and these Khotanese people should go to Liu Xie.

Let alone. Xijing is closer to Khotan, and the people of Nakumi are also supported by the long history of the Western Regions, and now the Western Regions are at the disposal of Kansai.

Therefore, it is reasonable for them to go to Liu Xie to negotiate this matter.

But these Khotanese people were not, and they even went to great lengths to disguise themselves as caravans and sneak to Kyoto. Are these Khotanese people stupid? No, it's just that they're cunning enough.

At the beginning of the war, they did not expect the Han family to rely on any administrative order to get rid of the country, they knew very well that Liangzhou, which was closest to them, could now be said to be full of wars, and various forces were emerging one after another.

In this situation, the Han people were simply beyond the reach of the Western Regions. This gave rise to the ambitions of the Khotanese people, who intended to annex the entire Western Regions directly.

This lord of the Western Regions, the Huns did it, the Han people did it, and I can't do it in Khotan?

Therefore, they imitated the wisdom of the Han people, made friends from afar and attacked closely, first obtained the righteousness of sending troops from Kyoto, and then directly annexed Kumi. And in their minds, the Son of Heaven in Kyoto certainly wouldn't mind finding fault with his younger brother.

And the final result was not what they expected, in the audience before the feast, Liu Wei didn't care about a country that he had never heard of, he just said lightly:

"I am reasonable, since you have been wronged in this matter, then do as you say."

These Khotanese people were overjoyed, and they praised Liu Wei as the true king of kings and able to preside over justice in the world.

But to his surprise, the little emperor did not care about these praises, but expressed his curiosity about the swarthy monk in the crowd, so he asked:

"Who is this?"