Chapter 541: Yuan Shao's Death
By this time, Yuan Shao Group had already lost its fighting spirit in his heart. In the whole Jizhou, only the lonely city of Ye County remains. How can this battle be fought?
The Yuan family is famous, but the vast majority of people are unwilling to accompany the Yuan family to the funeral. When the dynasty changed, there were still so many ministers, not to mention such a small force as the Yuan family.
Zhang Fei and Tai Shici besieged Yecheng, and before they began to attack, every day there were officials who secretly came down to the city at night and surrendered to the Han army. When Tian Feng and Yuan Tan patrolled the city, they caught countless people. After beheading several people in a row, I still couldn't stop. Tian Feng sighed and didn't care anymore. Yuan Tan was also disheartened. When he saw the city patrol at night, he only waved his sleeves, but he didn't see it.
Yuan Tan and Tian Feng acted like this, but they committed a big taboo. Everything in the world has never been uneven. You don't care about the escape, let them go. Then why do you have to wait here to defend the city, waiting for the Han army to attack and die? This is the true portrayal of the hearts of many soldiers in the city.
If you escape one by one, the situation can still be controlled. This series of escapes, if you don't see it. Everyone's mentality is unbalanced.
So, slowly, the soldiers also began to surrender. During the night patrol, he threw away his sword and took off his armor while people were not paying attention, and then he could sneak down to the city.
Zhang Fei and Tai Shici were also happy. A few days later, Zhang Fei made an appointment with Tai Shici to attack the city together. led the troops to the city, and shouted a few words of persuasion to surrender according to the custom. He wanted to set up a ladder to attack. Suddenly, a white flag was displayed over the city, and the people surrendered with a letter. Then he saw the gates of the city opened, and hundreds of people flocked out.
Zhang Fei's eyes flashed, and he said: "After the people, there will be soldiers." Sure enough, after Yuan Tan and Tian Feng were among the people, they led troops to attack. Its original intention was to drive the people into chaos with the Han army, and then take advantage of the opportunity.
However, Zhang Fei expected the enemy plane first, first made the archers lie on both sides, and when the people were exhausted and the soldiers and horses appeared, he fired arrows at them. The defenders of Jizhou were in chaos, and when they went out of the city gate, they had to retreat.
The soldiers fled and could not be controlled, so Yuan Tan and Tian Feng told Yuan Zhao and asked how to deal with it. The people's hearts are scattered, and Yecheng is difficult to defend, please go west. Yuan Shao did not allow it, but hid in the deep palace and entrusted everything to Yuan Tan and Tian Feng.
Zhang Fei and Tai Shici attacked back and forth, Yuan Tan and Tian Feng supported left and right, and after three days of hard work, the city was broken. Yuan Tan and Tian Feng were both executed.
Zhang Fei and Tai Shici advanced all the way to the city, and the Jizhou governors Wei Yuanjin and Han Juzi all died in the chaos. Traveling to Xun Chen's house, because Xun Chen is Xun Yu's mother's compatriot, Zhang Fei saw him, was very courteous, and asked Xun Chen to return to Qingzhou with him.
Xun Chennai said: "I have received the kindness of the Yuan family, and now its destruction is imminent, my wisdom cannot be saved, and courage cannot die." Yu Yique also. If you are a minister of Qingzhou again, you can't do anything. ”
Zhang Fei respected his high festival and said: "Then what will you go if you go." ”
Xun Chen said with a smile: "Wen Ruo and Gongda have already served in Qingzhou, so I will return to my family and be a field house." Then he said goodbye to Zhang Fei and left.
Yecheng was broken, and the remnants of the soldiers retreated to the palace where Yuan Shao lived. When Geng Bao heard the letter, he hurried to the palace and went to see Yuan Shao: "Your Majesty, the city is broken, why don't you go?" ”
Geng Bao was the person who spoke for Yuan Shao to test the minister when Yuan Shao wanted to ascend the throne before. Although he doesn't have much ability, he is quite valued by Yuan Shao because he can figure out people's hearts.
Yuan Shao heard that the city was broken, got up in his clothes, walked to the inner wall, and looked at it. I saw the sound of shouting and killing in front of me, and the sound was getting closer and closer, but in the distance around, at the city gate, there was smoke everywhere. Yuan Shao took a few deep breaths, only to feel that the air was also full of the smell of blood. Yuan Shao muttered: "A good head, who will take it?" ”
Geng Bao was so anxious that he jumped to his feet and shouted beside him: "Your Majesty, if you don't leave, it's too late." He also knew that Yuan Shao was reluctant to go, but a dead horse was treated as a live horse disease, and he still had to persuade him again. What if Yuan Shao is willing again.
Yuan Shao waved his sleeves and said, "I won't retreat, you can go by yourself." "Finally I don't call myself anymore. Yuan Shao also knew that what he was doing as an emperor was very boring, but he didn't talk about that anymore.
When Geng Bao heard this, he didn't say anything more, bowed to Yuan Shao, and then ran away. He has fulfilled his responsibility, the fate of the monarch and the minister is over, and the catastrophe is coming, and he can only slip away first.
Yuan Shao was at the head of the city, leaning against the wall, watching the scenery of the city. After a while, he beckoned to the guard: "Where are Xiansi and Yuan Hao?" ”
Without waiting for anyone to answer, Yuan Shao waved his hand again. Since there is no one in sight, I am afraid that I have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Yuan Shao wasn't too worried, as long as they weren't so stupid that they had to die on the battlefield, their lives would basically be fine. Liu Xuande is not a person who kills indiscriminately, at most he only wants his own life.
After a while, another person came in a hurry, and Yuan Shao looked at it, but it was from his brother Yuan. Yuan Yi escorted his cheap brother Yuan Shu's family to take refuge here, but he didn't expect that a few years later, he would be defeated again. The two brothers were continuously folded in the hands of Liu Xuande, and Liu Xuande can be regarded as an out-and-out nemesis of the Yuan family.
Seeing Yuan Yi, Yuan Shao was surprised: "Why is my brother still here?" "I haven't seen Yuan Yi for many days, and he thought that Yuan Yi had withdrawn to Yuan Shang in Hanoi.
Yuan Yi sighed and said, "Originally, I was old and tired. I don't want to run anymore. The Yuan family has suffered a lot of misfortune, and today I will be accompanied by my brother. ”
Yuan Shao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and then laughed. In the end, tears came out of his eyes, he patted his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, on Huangquan Road, with my brother as a companion, I'm not lonely." ”
When Yuan Yi heard this, he said: "There is another thing, it is strange at the beginning, I have already ordered the children of the Yuan family to surrender." You and I can die, but the Yuan family can't break the inheritance. ”
But it turned out that Yuan Yu saw that Yuan Shao refused to retreat, so he knew that Yuan Shao had a will to die, and after the Han army attacked Yecheng, Yuan Yu knew that the general trend had gone. He summoned his and Yuan Shu's children and ordered them to lead the soldiers to surrender together. According to military law, those who surrender will not be killed, even if they have to be convicted of obedience, they will be convicted of rebellion, and they will be told in Qingzhou. According to Liu Bei's temperament, as long as Yuan Shao dies, it is estimated that he will not behead all the juniors of the Yuan family again. As long as you can stay alive, whether it is exile or punishment, there is always hope. As for themselves, their brothers Yuan Ji and Yuan Shu are dead, and Yuan Shao is about to die. So what's the point of being left alone in this world? It's better to go with Yuan Shao, and it is good to be a companion on Huangquan Road.
Yuan Shao listened to it and muttered for a long time, and then sighed faintly. The two brothers did not say anything for a while, only the wind blew through the city. Bring the smell of flowers, earthiness and gore from afar.
Zhang Fei and Taishi Ci soldiers arrived, and Yuan's children led the crowd to surrender. Yuan Shao and Yuan Yi saw it at the head of the city, looked at each other and smiled. After drinking two cups of poisonous wine, Yuan Shao laughed and said: "My husband is not born with five tripods, and if he dies, he will be five tripods!" The words of the Lord Father are very much in line with my wishes! "Die with a word.
When Zhang Fei and Tai Shici led the troops into the palace, they only saw two corpses and soldiers and concubines kneeling on the ground above the city.