After Yuan Bai evacuated Shouchun, the soldiers and civilians who remained in Shouchun immediately fell into a huge panic, and almost did not make any resistance, and were easily broken by the coalition forces of various princes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yuan Qi was the first to lead the army into Shouchun, after entering the city, Yuan Qi immediately in the name of the hussar general, issued a military order, strictly ordered the army officers and soldiers not to disturb the people, not to burn down the buildings in the city, not to kill innocent people. Yuan Qi issued such a military order, not because he was afraid that the soldiers under his command would be higher than such a thing, but he was afraid that after the other princes entered the city, they would burn, kill and loot.

Therefore, strict military orders were issued in advance to restrain other soldiers from all walks of life. Nominally, Yuan Qi is the champion Hou and the hussar general, ranking above the three dukes, and he is the person with the highest official position outside of today's Ziyuan Association, which can be said to be above 10,000 people under one person. Even Unomiya Terulie, who is ranked as the third duke, is on the same level as Yuan Qi in terms of rank, but in terms of status, he is slightly inferior to Yuan Qi. Among the princes of all walks of life, from Unomiya Terumi onwards, all of them were controlled by Yuanqi, so they still had to abide by Yuanqi's military orders, because Yuanqi had a fist as big as a casserole.

Subsequently, the princes from all walks of life drove into Shouchun, after seeing the military order of Yuan Qi, except for Ugong Zhaolie and Taishan, the other people were very dissatisfied, but they were afraid of Yuan Qi's prestige, and they had to temporarily endure this breath, and each restrained his subordinates and soldiers to abide by Yuan Qi's military orders. The nine prohibitions and eighteen slashes of the Youhe Group Army are now well-known all over the world. No one wants to try the taste of the eighteen chops for themselves.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to rest in the city for a day, Yuan Qi invited all the princes to come and discuss the pursuit of Yuan Bai. In fact, after the Battle of Dong and the Battle of Shaxian, Yuan Qi was already disheartened by these so-called heroes of the world, and he really didn't expect them to play any role, Yuan Qi's purpose this time was just to not want them to drag their feet. And Yuan Qi can't snub these princes or the generals sent by the princes in terms of face, otherwise, it will be easy to let people with ulterior motives. said that Yuan Qi was arrogant. Look down on the heroes of the world.

As a result, this parliament naturally broke up unhappily. Except for Sun Ce, who has always respected Yuan Qi, only Ugong Terulie agreed to merge with Yuan Qi. Jointly crusading against Yuan Bai. Others. For various reasons, they all refused to listen to Yuan Qi's arrangement.

Huang Zu had a holiday with Yuan Qi before, so he naturally refused to obey Yuan Qi's orders. He prevaricated that he was just a general sent by Yuan Biao, and he couldn't be the master of his family, so he had to send someone back to Xiangyang to report to Yuan Biao before he could decide the next step; and Taishan was selfish, for fear of being sent out by Yuan Qi as cannon fodder, it was not easy for him to save this bit of belongings, so he naturally didn't want to make a wedding dress for Yuan Qi again; as for Yuan Ding's judge, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, they didn't come to the meeting at all, and asked the sergeant who went to deliver the letter to report: Yuan Ding is a general of Jizhou Mu and Che Cai, and he is equal to Yuan Qi in terms of rank, so there is no need to obey Yuan Qi's orders!

Speaking of which, this crusade against Yuan Bai is indeed different from the original crusade against Dong Meng. At the beginning, Ugong Zhaolie issued an edict, calling on all the princes in the world to King Qin in the name of the Son of Heaven, and as soon as the word King Qin was mentioned, the princes from all walks of life had to pay attention to it, and finally elected Yuan Qi as the leader of the alliance. But now, Yuan Xie did not mention the matter of the coalition army in the edict, but only let the princes of all walks of life spontaneously send people to conquer Yuan Bai, Yuan Xie's edict has two meanings, first, he is to prevent someone from dragging Yuan Qi's hind legs like the battle against Dong, so he deliberately did not let the princes of all walks of life form a coalition army; second, Yuan Xie has been the emperor for a long time, and there have been some changes in his body, and he is also afraid that the princes of all walks of life will find a common interest support point and form an alliance in the process of jointly crusading against Yuan Bai, which is not what he wants to see。

In addition, after the war against Dong, for several years, the various princes annexed each other, and the powerful princes swallowed up the weak princes, and the general environment was not quite the same as at the beginning. At the beginning, a county Taishou could be called a prince all the way, but now, if there is no state in his hands, he is embarrassed to call himself a prince, except for people like Taishan who are more realistic. It is not surprising that everyone has at least one state in their hands, and no one is subordinate to each other.

In any case, if you don't let others make trouble for you, Yuanqi's goal will be achieved. Yuan Qi simply made a favor, let the three of Xianpei, Huang Zu and Taishan be stationed in the city, and he united Sun Ce and Yugong Zhaolie's men and horses to go to Jiangting and Yuan Bai to fight to the death.

Jiangting, located in the northeast corner of Shouchun, has a natural hazard nearby, named Yanhui Valley. Yuan Bai hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in the valley, and it can be said that this is the granary of Shouchun. Since Yuan Qi set fire to Yuan Ding's granary in Yecheng, Yuan Bai had an extra mind, and he finally found the dangerous place of Yanhui Valley, and immediately moved the granary over. And inside and outside the valley, according to the dangerous mountain terrain, build a lot of fortifications, Yuan Bai dared to guarantee that as long as there are 10,000 troops guarding here, there is no more than 50,000 troops, there is no need to think about breaking through at all!

However, Yuan Bai ignored a very important point, no matter how strong the defense line was on the outside, it couldn't resist the impact on the inside. Yuan Bai has been complaining about the people in the territory on weekdays, and since he became the emperor, he has been arrogant and domineering, and he has become extremely suspicious, and he will send guards to investigate the behavior of the people under his command at every turn.

Yan Xiang is a good example, when Dong Meng's rebellion, Yuan Bai fled the capital alone, came to Nanyang to take office, on the way to office, when passing through Yuzhou, Yuan Bai met Yan Xiang, at that time Yuan Bai was not as domineering as now, at that time he thought that Yan Xiang was very talented, and he respected Yan Xiang very much, Yan Xiang felt that Yuan Bai attached importance to himself, and he also served under Yuan Bai, who was poor and white at that time, in the past ten years, he was willing to let Yuan Bai drive, it was precisely because of Yan Xiang's assistance that Yuan Bai became a hegemon step by step, occupying the entire Huainan region。

But today's Yuan Bai, because Yan Xiang sent his wife and children away from Shouchun, suspected him of betraying him, and even disregarded Yan Xiang's past merits, and immediately wanted to kill Yan Xiang. For Yan Xiang, a veteran who can be called the minister of the dragon, Yuan Bai can do it, let alone other subordinates.

Yuan Bai's tyranny, after a series of defeats. It has been upgraded to the point of no return. The fear in his heart made Yuan Bai almost lose all his mind, and in the past few days, the number of officials who were killed by Yuan Bai's cane has reached more than 20 people! Let the subordinates who followed Yuan Bai to Jiangting begin to separate from him.

This night. Yuan Bai's subordinate Lei Bo brought wine and food to visit his good friend - Chen Lan, who had just been scolded by Yuan Bai's cane and was almost beaten to death. The reason why Chen Lan was scolded by Yuan Bai was ridiculous, just because Chen Lan was in front of Yuan Bai. I didn't pay attention to a fart that wasn't much louder than a mosquito cry! But Yuan Bai just thought that Chen Lan thought that he Yuan Bai had sunset, and began to disrespect him and didn't take him seriously.

After entering Chen Lan's tent, Lei Bo first looked at Chen Lan's injuries, and he saw that Chen Lan's entire back, up to his shoulders and down to his calves, there was no longer a complete piece of skin, and every place was blurred by the beating. Putting down the wine and food, Lei Bo sighed and said, "I don't know when I will be a leader on such a day." ”

Chen Lan rebuked the guards in the tent, took Lei Bo's hand, and said angrily: "Yuan Bai is capricious and tyrannical, if it goes on like this, we will all be unable to escape death, not to mention that there is that little overlord Yuan Qi watching from the side, and we will definitely lead the troops to come soon, and we will all be Yuan Bai's funeral." ”

Hearing Chen Lan's name to Yuan Bai, he was already calling him by his name, as a friend, Lei Bo still didn't understand Chen Lan's thoughts, and said hesitantly: "You mean, it's the other way around?"

Chen Lan nodded heavily, and continued: "You and I have a total of 20,000 military horses in our hands, relying on these 20,000 military horses, the world can go to it! Why don't we rob Yuan Bai's grain and grass, and then go to Mount Tai to fall into the grass, wouldn't it be happier than being angry with Yuan Bai's birds here?"

After Chen Lan's persuasion, Lei Bo finally agreed to Chen Lan's suggestion. An hour later, Chen Lan endured the pain, reluctantly put on the battle armor, and Lei Bo gathered their respective subordinates, stole a large amount of grain and grass that Yuan Bai had hoarded in the valley, and then destroyed the defense of the valley mouth and walked away. The sergeants under the two subordinates were not willing to continue to work for Yuan Bai anymore, and they were also dead left and right, so why not get away with it before they died? Therefore, none of the 20,000 troops objected, and they all obeyed the orders of Lei Bo and Chen Lan.

Early the next morning, when Yuan Bai knew that Lei Bo and Chen Lan had turned out of the valley, green smoke rose from the top of his angry head, and he executed all the soldiers on duty last night to correct military law. However, Yuan Bai's violent behavior, instead of playing the role of a military law, made more soldiers have the heart to defect, following Lei Bo and Chen Lan, the next night, three groups of soldiers fled in a row, not only taking away a large amount of grain and grass from Yuan Bai, but also destroying the fortifications that Yuan Bai painstakingly built outside the valley. let Yuan Bai spend the hardest and saddest night in his life.

Under Yuan Bai's rule, because he was tyrannical on weekdays, many people were forced into desperation, so they spontaneously fell into the grass, so in Yuan Bai's territory, there were countless bandits and bandits. In the past, Yuan Bai's power was strong, and these people did not dare to openly oppose Yuan Bai, but now with the flight of a large number of sergeants, the news that Yuan Bai has declined to the extreme immediately aroused the great interest of these people, and more than a dozen bandits have come to Yanhui Valley to plunder, even if they can't grab any benefits from Yuan Bai, it is good to be able to kill a few Yuan Bai's sergeants and get out of their chests.

In just a few days, Yan Hui Valley no longer had the scene of the crowd a few days ago, it became very deserted, and the 100,000 army gathered by Yuan Bai was now only a few thousand old and weak, not to mention Yuan Qi, that is, Taishan, who was the weakest, could easily defeat him.

On that day, Yuan Bai held the rice bowl in his hand, looked at the coarse grains in the bowl, and felt that it was really difficult to swallow, and said to Ku Ding, who delivered the rice: "I am really hard to swallow, you go and get a bowl of honey water." Ku Ding stood still and said loudly: "There is only blood and water!

After hearing Ku Ding's answer, a burst of sadness and despair came to his heart, and he couldn't help screaming, spit out a mouthful of blood, and fainted on the bed.

When Yuan Qi, Ugong Zhaolie, and Sun Ce led the army to Yanhui Valley in Jiangting, what they saw was unexpectedly deserted. It wasn't until the three of them led their soldiers into the valley and inquired in detail about the surrendered sergeants that they knew that Yuan Bai had already gone to the general trend, just now, Yuan Bai vomited blood and fainted because of Ku Ding's sentence "There is only blood", and he has not woken up yet.