The next morning, Liu Xie was still anxiously waiting for Yuan Huan to send Yuan Shu's reply again, but he received a bad news that the general of the Yiqueguan defender had just discovered.

The side general Wang Fu came to report in panic: "Your Majesty! General of the Carriage! No, a large number of Yuan Shu soldiers suddenly appeared at the entrance of the valley behind the gate. We were blocked in the Yique Longmen Valley! There were a few Yuan army crossbowmen on both sides and climbed up!"

Liu Xie was confused. He didn't understand military affairs at all. Dong Cheng at least understood a little, and asked in surprise: "How is it possible? The eight passes in Luoyang are all dangerous places. If it is so easy to sneak through, what's the use of creating these passes? Emperor Guangwu has been guarding for so many years. This is impossible!"

Wang Fu said sadly and angrily: "We have neglected it! This Yique is not without dangerous places in the mountains, but it cannot pass through cars and horses and transport food. When ordinary troops fight, the enemy will starve to death between Yique Pass and Luoyang City after it sneaks over, and die in the solid walls and clear fields of the defenders.

But now... I guess Yuan Shu doesn't plan to last long. He just wants to cut off our retreat, and then attack Yique at all costs and kill the lord to silence him!"

Dong Chengru fell into the ice cave and hurriedly climbed to the highest point of the city tower and looked north. There were countless people at the north entrance of Longmen Valley.

Perhaps only a small part of Yuan Shu's army of 60,000 to 70,000 have stolen, but this is not something that the 6,000 remaining people in Yiqueguan can win!

How many people are left to guard the wall? How many troops are divided into protecting the emperor from breaking through?

If you stay less, once the wall is broken through, the army will rush in and die even more miserably. If you stay too much, the breakout troops will not be able to defeat the enemy's rear in field battles and will not be able to break out.

There are still 20,000 people in Luoyang City, which is only forty miles away from Yique Pass, and only thirty miles away from Yuan Shu's army's interception point at the north entrance of Longmen Valley. But Dong Cheng and Liu Xie themselves both took the risk of coming to Yique Pass. Will the army in Luoyang make a quick decision to rescue the troops without authorization?

At this time, another chronic consequence of Liu Xie's act was exposed in the past few days: except for Dong Cheng who protected the emperor from Chang'an to Hongnong, avoiding Li Jue's butcher's knife.

The other ministers were cheated by Liu Xie once under the anger of Li Jue. The situation is so dangerous now that if you don’t do it well, you may make mistakes if you do more. Who can save you regardless of your own safety?

Liu Xie's abandonment of his ministers and his lack of morality was not allowed to pass the blame. At this moment, he had already accumulated similarities with Chongzhen in the last year. Because he was killed too much and owed too much loyal ministers, no one was willing to stand up and take responsibility.

Duan Wei is the best example, and based on conscience, Duan Wei's statement at this moment is still loyal to the Han Dynasty and cannot ask for more.

Dong Cheng gritted his teeth and made a decisive decision: "Divid three thousand people to guard the wall, and three thousand people to protect me and break through the siege! All cavalry! Your Majesty, you eunuchs, regular servants and idle people, just let them go to the wall and throw wooden and rocks to help defend the city. If you break through, you can't take them. I can only bring three thousand guards with war horses to break through."

Liu Xie shed tears and grief and indignation: "It's because I'm too naive. I'm too overestimating the deterrent power of the emperor's presence, so that I'm today. Even if I defended Luoyang City to the end, I wouldn't end like this."

After a quick preparation, Dong Cheng hurriedly led three thousand cavalry to the north entrance of Longmen Valley to break through. He also knew that he had to grab the time now. Yuan Shu's army had to take a detour and cross the mountains. The longer it dragged, the more Yuan's army would gather behind the enemy.

Unfortunately, when Dong Chengjun rushed to the entrance of the valley, nearly 10,000 Yuan Shujun had already fought to death. There were still two generals to lead troops, which shows that he was very prepared - after all, Yuan Shujun successfully delayed it with a plan for a whole night, and so many people were able to take a detour and cross the mountain with torches.

The Yuan army crossed the hillside near the Luoshui River in the west last night, and the general led the army was Liang Gang. The other one crossed the mountain between Taigu Pass and Yique Pass in the east, and the general led the army was Leju.

Yuan Jun did not have strong crossbows or long spears, they were all knives, shields, bows and arrows, and they were also for the convenience of climbing mountains. It was a burden to the weapons that were too long.

Such equipment is still relatively disadvantageous to the cavalry, but the terrain at the north entrance of Longmen Valley is relatively narrow, and Yuan Shujun hastily cut down some wood to make a simple temporary horse resistance, delaying the impact of the cavalry, and then blocking the mouth with bows and arrows. In addition, the number of people is three times that of the breaking troops. After surviving a series of bloody rushing, he blocked Dong Cheng's breaking troops.

At the same time, Ji Ling, who was in front, led the remaining 50,000 people to commit a desperate attack without regard to casualties, and the intensity of the attack was the highest in several days.

All the counterweight catapults of Yuan Shujun were also fully fired, and the arrows and stones were pressed down like rain so that the defenders who were only one-twentieth in size could not raise their heads.

For a moment, under the Yique Pass wall, there were corpses hanging out of blood, and several places where the walls were smashed out of the gap by stones. Because the competition was particularly fierce, the corpses of the two armies were even piled up more than half a foot thick.

The catapult cart also stared at these points and continued to smash. By chance, the rammed earth covered the corpse, almost forming Jingguan, burying the corpse directly underneath, allowing the soldiers who subsequently launched the charge to rush up the pile of corpses.

On the north side of the pass, after more than a thousand people died of Dong Cheng's breakout cavalry, he was afraid that the emperor would be shot by a trap among the chaos, so he had to retreat. Then he then drew the reserve team from the passer-down wall to join the breakout army, trying to make a final move.

Unfortunately, the casualty exchange ratio in the breakout battle is obviously much more tragic than defending the pass. When defending the pass, a defender may be able to replace five lives of the siege troops, and it is good to use it to fight an offensive battle to attack the north entrance of Longmen Valley.

A large number of living forces were exhausted during the breakout. At noon, Ji Ling finally completely broke through Yique Pass after paying a total of seven or eight thousand casualties at all costs. Including the attacks in the previous two or three days, Yuan Shujun suffered a total of more than 10,000 casualties in order to seize this Pass.

The last hundreds of uninjured defenders on the wall, and nearly a thousand seriously injured soldiers who were unable to move, collapsed and surrendered and captured. In fact, if the emperor hadn't been here, they would have surrendered earlier, and this casualty ratio was not something that ordinary troops could withstand.

Seeing the wall behind him being broken through, Dong Cheng and Liu Xie, who were still rushing, felt a sense of despair. It was over, everything was over.

"I am the emperor of the Han Dynasty. You are going to kill the monarch!" Liu Xie looked at the barbarian soldier with blood on his face, crying in a trembling voice.

There were less than two thousand people around Dong Cheng at the end, and another thousand people had to be separated to go behind him, trying to block Ji Ling's crazy pursuit and pounce. But because he knew that the wall had been broken, these people were so angry that some soldiers had no intention of fighting to the end.

"Don't be deceived! There is no great emperor here, it's a puppet that Dong Cheng found someone to pretend to be! How could the emperor come to the battlefield in person? Dong Cheng's dog thief, in order to escape the blame, you cheated Wang Yijun and actually found someone to pretend to be the emperor!"

One of the generals in charge of intercepting him was happy. At this moment, when Dong Cheng divided his troops to block Ji Ling, he picked up a bargain and rushed to Liu Xie. He knew the lines, so he would naturally say so.

"Nonsense, I saw Yuan Huan, the other party in Yuzhou yesterday. He has met with him as a saint. He knows me! Let Yuan Huan come out!" Liu Xie was still looking for a life-saving straw in the end without saying anything.

Le couldn't let him speak any more. With a wave of his hand, a group of ferocious soldiers like wolves and tigers shot arrows at the crowd.

Le was very knowledgeable. He knew it would be difficult to let the soldiers cut and kill the emperor in the crown clothes with their own hands, but it wouldn't matter if it was a cover-type arrow, making the soldiers think that they were just shooting the traitor Dong Cheng and his personal guards.

Since ancient times, the longer the enemy is killed, the less likely it is to feel psychological pressure. Therefore, the navy has no psychological burden when shelling each other than the army. The bomber bombers kill thousands of people without any shadows, and they cannot see the victims anyway.

"Leju, this is really Your Majesty! I am Situ Zhao Wen, can I admit my mistake? Do you really want to kill the monarch?"

"I am the Grand servant Zhang Yi. I personally prepared the imperial chariot and the escort carriage that I accompanied you, this is really Your Majesty!"

The last few loyal ministers around Liu Xie who followed Dong Cheng to monitor Dong Cheng desperately expressed their support for the emperor, but unfortunately they were shot down by arrows.

Leji's soldiers rushed forward and were dismembered. Dong Cheng, Zhao Wen and Zhang Yi were all killed in the country and their heads were cut off. Only Emperor Liu Xie was unable to behead him, so Le used the excuse to send the audience to secretly kill the entire body, and then issued a military order requiring all the Han soldiers who followed Liu Xie to break through.

At first, some Han soldiers saw that the emperor was dead, and they didn't know why they continued to fight, so they wanted to put down their weapons and surrender. In a hurry, they killed prisoners without having time to disarm. As a result, after killing three or four hundred people, the remaining surrendered soldiers chasing their weapons to regain their weapons.

This time, they knew that the enemy wanted to kill people and silence them and lost to death. The combat effectiveness was extremely amazing. Each emperor's personal guard cavalry took at least one or two lives before they were shot dead. They could only blame the fact that they were too hasty and could not operate slowly, and nearly a thousand people died in order to silence them.

As for the surrendered soldiers at Yique Pass, Ji Ling had enough time to slowly lure and confiscate the weapons, and then tied up all of them in line to behead them. Then he also pretended to find an excuse to loot the soldiers and kill them all, so as not to keep anyone from seeing the details of today's battle and leaking the secrets to damage Yuan Shujun's righteous image of serving the king.

After this battle, the original defenders of Yiqueguan, 4,000 people brought by Liu Xie, and 8,000 people from the villages and towns near Longmen Valley, all of which were beheaded by Yuan Shu's army, and no one was left to live.

Yuan Shujun then declared to the public that Dong Cheng took the emperor hostage to deceive Wang Jun. After being besieged, Dong Cheng used his sword to siege the emperor's neck and threatened to kill the monarch if he did not let him break through. Finally, when the rescue troops tried to seize the opportunity to retake the emperor, Dong Cheng was really heartbroken and killed the monarch.

General Wei had to avenge the emperor and killed the tyrant Dong Cheng, the tyrant who killed the lord.

In this way, at least the plot claimed to the public is that Dong Cheng broke up votes, Yuan Shu failed to rescue the hostages, and after the failure, he also avenged the emperor. Although it was a sin to trap the emperor in danger, it was not that severe.

Yang Hong, the adviser who was beside Yuan Shu, immediately wrote a short edict, draped it a little, and described this incident in the tone of "God of Han avenged Emperor Yi" - Yuan Shu was Emperor Gaozu, Liu Xie was Emperor Yi, and Dong Cheng was Xiang Yu.

Such words and views are of course full of loopholes, but there is no way to do it. Other princes are willing to believe in it, but they can only depend on the will of God. Yuan Shu was forced to pull a fig leaf that could barely get over the past under his current state.

Fortunately, although he was more passive in politics, he gained unexpected surprises in military affairs.

Dong Cheng and Liu Xie both died in Yique Pass. The subsequent Luoyang City would not have to attack hard, and then piled up tens of thousands of lives to enter.

"Your Majesty! I will definitely avenge you and kill the remnants of Dong Cheng!" After Yuan Shu cleaned up the battlefield, he hurried to the first scene where Liu Xie was killed, hugged his body and cried to the soldiers of the rear army. Then Yuan Shu wiped his tears and ordered:

"The entire army is moving urgently. The light cavalry of the front army must arrive in Luoyang within an hour and open the door with the order of Dong Cheng's head!"

Ji Ling divided the 5,000 elite cavalry from his headquarters to go first and rushed straight to Luoyang City. The result was not bad. Because he learned that Dong Cheng was dead, Yuan Shu came to serve the king and avenge the emperor, the army in the city had long lost its backbone. In the chaos, the officers who sympathized with the former officials of the Yuan family opened the city gate. Yuan Shu's army successfully entered the city, and a considerable number of Luoyang guards were annexed by Yuan Shu.

Some of the officials in the court were waiting for Yuan Shu to be incorporated, some were afraid of birds and beasts scattered, sneaking out of the city to seek refuge with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and some were preparing to vote for Liu Bei. No one expected that Luoyang would be so quickly brought to the city by Yuan Shu's troops, and they were not mentally prepared at all.
Chapter completed!