Two days later, in the Qinling Mountains north of Danshui.

Qiao Rui and his party only brought hundreds of personal guards and family members, and for three or four days of food and some gold, silver and fine soft food, they didn't bring anything else, trying to climb north and escape with light clothes.

The Qinling Mountains in mid-April of the lunar calendar are no longer too cold, but they still have to be frozen overnight. You can't bring tents to cross the mountains, and you can't even carry the bedding. Qiao Rui sent all the remaining satin and brocades in the army to the soldiers. One person and two can be used as property, and temporarily wrapped around to keep warm at night. The soldiers are suffering so much that they rely on rewards to support them.

The Qinling Mountains are in Wuguan, and the remaining vein on the north bank of the Danshui River is also called Funiu Mountain - the Funiu Mountain that forms the defense areas such as Yique Pass and Taigu Pass in the southern part of Luoyang. So as long as you turn over, there is hope.

The boundary between Hongnong County in Sili, Nanyang County in Jingzhou, and Shangyong County was originally bounded by the Danshui Valley of Wuguan Road. The area that can become the natural boundary between the two states is naturally rugged, steep and complex.

Qiao Rui chose to climb the mountain north to escape. Although there was a risk of entering Duan Wei's defense zone, he knew that Duan Wei had surrendered to Liu Bei a month ago and was named the prefect of Yinchuan County. Duan Wei should still be handing over the territory and mobilizing troops to move back to the northwest.

At this time, Liu Bei and Duan Wei's monitoring of the mountainous areas of the Qinling Mountains - Funiu Mountain in the southernmost part of Hongnong County was definitely unprecedentedly weak, so the success rate of penetration should be OK.

After all, Qiao Rui was a pseudo-Jingzhao Yin for two years, in charge of the five counties southeast of Jingzhao, and was familiar with the surrounding geography. He knew that after climbing north from the location he chose, he could reach the bank of the Luo River - the Luo River flowing to the capital Luoyang. After arriving there, it would be much easier to walk along the river valley.

Unfortunately, the soldiers around Qiao Rui can go through the mountains and endure hardships, but civilian staff and family members are not good.

His weak civil servant had been infected with tuberculosis before he was engaged in Bujiao and died in this year of history. When he withdrew from Lantian in this life, his condition worsened and died early on the road, and he didn't even catch up with this opportunity to cross the mountains and walk wildly.

However, Bu Jiao's daughter, who was only nine years old, was relatively strong. Perhaps the children of poor families suffered a lot, and they could climb the mountain by themselves along the way.

Unlike Qiao Rui's own daughter, she is still quite literate when she is fifteen years old. In addition, she heard from her father that she may be humiliated by an ugly person when she falls into an opponent and is willing to climb mountains hard. However, her second daughter Xiao Qiao is only thirteen years old and is not yet old enough to be harmed. She is too tired and hard to be arrogant. She even has to ask Qiao Rui to tie silk to her body and carry her back for a while.

When climbing to the top of the last mountain, Qiao Rui couldn't help but scold her daughter anxiously: "Don't complain, bear it anymore, go downhill for a while and walk by yourself! It's easier to leave when I arrived at the Luoshui River. Before I set off, I asked the soldiers to abandon their spears and only carry knives and axes. When I arrived at the Luoshui River at the foot of the mountain, cut down some trees and rafts down the river."

Oqiao asked his father carefully and worriedly: "Will Uncle Li delay enough time? What if the Han army had sent large troops to search the mountains and fields now?"

Qiao Rui comforted his eldest daughter: "I told Li Feng that he would try his best to delay Zhang Fei with his entire army. In this way, even if Zhang Fei found out that we abandoned the army and fled, he would not be able to catch up. What's more, there are countless steep slopes of Funiu Mountain in the Qinling Mountains, how do they know which one we can turn over?"

He encouraged him so much that he calmed the group down. After a few hours, he really made him climb to the edge of the Luoshui River. Everyone rushed to the riverside and scooped the river water and drank it hard. Then he lay down and rested for a while, and began to cut down trees and do rafts. It took a whole night to make a raft and rest.

Unfortunately, their luck ended here. The next morning, the raft team went down the Luo River and did not release dozens of miles away. They encountered an army downstream blocking the road to fight. The mountains on both sides had already looked at the enemy and found out the situation and ambushed countless crossbowmen.

"Qiaorui rebels, don't be fine. You have the chance to rebel, change your office and search your house, and save your life. But if you insist on resisting, you are seeking death - give you another chance to put down your weapons before we can shoot arrows, you will surrender, and you will go to the left school to serve your sentence. Once you start fighting, you will be captured, and you will be suppressed to the abandoned city of Chang'an, and you will be sentenced to the Ming Zhengdian!"

It turned out that Li Sujun, who was following and chasing Zhang Xun, took Zhao Yun and Zhou Tai, and had already returned to the army with Zhang Fei two days ago. Li Feng finally did not delay enough time for Qiao Rui, so he was asked by Li Su to "strike hard and not lose", and he was forced to surrender.

After all, Li Su and Li Feng were very clear: I immediately surrendered to the uprising, and delaying time to negotiate conditions would be just surrender.

The so-called plan cannot keep up with changes. Li Feng heard that delaying time can help soldiers get better treatment. How can he care whether the old boss has enough time to travel far?

However, if it only took a day off, it would be no big deal. If Zhang Fei got this information, he could not stop Qiao Rui and didn't know how to intercept him.

But Li Su's IQ was too easy. Once he and Zhuge Liang planned to know that no matter which road Qiao Rui took, the mountain road would definitely be useless, but the point that never leaves his sect is that he could block along the Luoshui-

Qiao Rui couldn't keep crossing mountains and rivers, and he still took women with him, but he didn't have the ability. The purpose of climbing mountains was to reach the nearest parallel valley, and the ultimate goal was to escape along the river.

Moreover, Shangyong in the south was a territory where Liu Bei's army had been running for many years. Qiao Rui would definitely not go south to seek death, so he could only go north to Funiu Mountain and enter Sili.

So Li Su left enough money and took Zhou Tai to swim in the Luo River to find a point to stop it. He was on guard posts above the mountains on both sides and caught it with ease.

In this state, the crossbows on both sides of the mountains are attacked. In the Romance, it is like a wooden door and feather fan swing like rain. What else can I resist?

Even if you still want to negotiate terms, there is no need to hold a stalemate at this time. After you vote, you should beg slowly.

Qiao Rui and his party were all tied up with weapons.

Qiao Rui was tied to Li Su. Taking advantage of this time, he was stunned and was too confused. He had already thought about some alternatives to beg for mercy and meritorious service to reduce his sentence, and begged in a low voice:

"Right General, can you think that in the past few years, I will be quite polite to you? Give me a chance to persuade the defenders of Shiguan to save the King of Hanzhong from casualties. The order I gave them was to give up the surrender of Shiguan ten days after our army retreated eastward. If we dared to be more anxious, maybe we could restore Shiguan a few days earlier and let the King of Hanzhong enter Nanyang."

Li Su crossed her legs and shook the folding fan, occupying Dian Wei Zhoutai next to her, feeling very safe: "It seems that you are not like a very stubborn person. Since you expected this day, what would you run away? Why don't you surrender with Li Feng?"

Qiao Rui sighed in embarrassment: "Even if I make a meritorious service, I will be punished for raiding my family. The little girl is afraid of falling into the hands of Pang Tong, the newly recruited aide of the right general. She originally wanted to commit suicide the day before yesterday, so that I no longer worry about being able to rebel.

But I stopped her and told her: If she committed suicide, her sister would still live in the world. I can't let all my daughters end up committing suicide. It's already miserable enough to be searched and not become a slave. It would be better to die for the whole family if they were distributed to Pang Tong."

Li Su felt more and more relaxed and laughed: "Ha, you respect your daughter so much. Pang Tong has never seen them before. This is just my statement that Aliang taught Pang Tong to win the trust of Yu Er and others. It is really sad to be trapped to this extent."

Qiao Rui breathed a sigh of relief and felt humiliated, but the ninja said sadly and angryly: "I will hurry to Yuguan, traveling 200 miles a day, and strive to make the Yuguan defenders surrender to the King of Hanzhong in two days. The right general can send soldiers to escort us. The general dare not pray for escaping the punishment."

Li Su nodded: "Sustaining sentences well, at least you have to work in the Zuo School until Yuan Shu dies, so that you can wait for pardon."

Generally speaking, when the general leader of the war criminals dies, there will be a wave of amnesty for the war criminals below.

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The next day, Qiao Rui and his party were escorted to Shiguan by Li Su.

Li Su marched slowly by himself, and with Zhang Fei and thousands of elite soldiers, he followed and prepared to meet Liu Bei. However, the main force did not need to follow him. After all, the troops would have to return to the Nanyang Basin and try to seize the territory as much as possible. Wuguan Road is five or six hundred miles long, and it would be too painful to march back and forth on the mountain road.

So Zhang Fei and Li Sudu sent deputy generals to marches the large army eastward again and approach Rangcheng and Wancheng. At the same time, the reorganized prisoners of war, including more than 20,000 people, were also taken away by the reorganized prisoners of more than 20,000 people, and after arriving in Rangcheng, they slowly identified and adapted them.

Those who are suitable for continuing to serve in the army and have no bad record will be recruited into the Han army. Those who have poor quality and weak peasants, or who have identified the military personnel, will all persuade them to return to the farmer or to serve corvee service.

In addition, the reason why Li Su went to meet with Liu Bei in person was because he was traveling abroad and had been in charge of the governor for so long. Since the Wuguan Dao was opened up, it was also a way to return military power to Liu Bei in a symbolic way, and appropriately reduce the possibility of others attacking him as a domineering person.

Anyway, in the subsequent attack on Wan, Luo He and the intimidation of Liu Biao, there was no more room for Li Su to operate. More than 100,000 large troops rushed to the Nanyang Basin, and there were head-on battles behind them.

At the same time, when I went south late autumn last year, Cai Yan was unable to follow her because she had just given birth and had a short time. Li Su and his wife had been separated for so long, so it was time to pick her up from Chang'an. There was no need to separate from her in the future.

Liu Miao, who followed Li Suyunyou, was afraid that she would stay in Huashan last year and would suffer from chaos in the Tongguan mutiny. Now that Qiao Rui has been completely removed, the surrounding areas of Chang'an are already very safe, and Li Su did not have the reason to take Liu Miao to travel all the time, so he took advantage of this time to send her back to Huashan to continue practicing.

After three or four days of traveling west, when Li Su and his party arrived at Yiguan Pass, they saw that Qiao Rui had persuaded the defenders on Yiguan Pass to surrender, which was equivalent to the entire Wuguan Road being completely opened. All the troops left by Yuan Shu in Jingzhao area surrendered almost without bloodshed.

The panic and fear of rebellion caused by Yuan Shu's proclaiming himself to the emperor can be seen.

Liu Bei personally came to Lantian to greet Li Su and Zhang Fei. Ma Chao and other generals led the Han army in Guanzhong, which was originally built up north of Zhiguan, to advance eastward and speed up the expansion of the results of the battle.

"Boya, Yide, thank you for your hard work. After opening up the Wuguan Road, the Guanzhong army finally allowed all the troops to go east. It would be of no value for Yuan Shu to guard Hangu Pass and cut off Hanhan Road. Maybe it won't take long to stay Hangu Pass will be completely abandoned by Yuan Shu. This time I will welcome you for a few days."

Zhang Fei was impatient. He actually didn't do much, and he was eager to expand the results with Ma Chao: "Brother, you and Boya have a few more days to drink. I will return to the east tomorrow with Boqi. There are so many wars waiting for us to fight."

Li Su smiled and persuaded: "Then you may have to miss discussing major issues. Maybe you can only wait for the king to reward you with the reward."

At this moment, Li Su was not afraid of speaking. The late emperor had been dead for a month and a half and there was no master in the world. After driving Yuan Shu out of Wanluo area, it was possible to discuss the ascension of the throne at any time.

Liu Bei himself has been stranded in Chang'an and did not go east to personally expedition, but has only sent generals from all walks of life. In fact, he also has this consideration. He hopes to hold the throne ceremony in Chang'an.

Although Luoyang may be recaptured by Liu Bei, judging by Yuan Shu's previous attitude of defending Hangu Pass so vigorously, Liu Bei's army must be wary of Yuan Shu's in despair and having a deal with Yuan Shao.

For example, they deliberately left no defense on Yuan Shao's side and let Yuan Shao occupy Luoyang in exchange for Yuan Shao's tacit understanding to make a way out in Xu County, Yingchuan, and let Yuan Shu escape to the eastern part of the Lianghuai area. After all, they are brothers, and as long as there is no obvious evidence of guilt, Yuan Shao may do such a thing.

It’s like at the end of World War II in history, the German army had a deeper hatred with Lucie, so at the end of the day, the Eastern Front was desperately resisting, but the Western Front was almost like letting the Mid-Army army come in and occupying more places.

Yuan Shu really came to the point where he wanted to give up Luoyang. It was normal to deliberately let Yuan Shao go to waste. Liu Bei could not have insisted on ascending the throne in Luoyang from the beginning, and he had to keep a spare tire.

Fortunately, Chang'an is not considered a loss of money. You can also hold a throne ceremony in Chang'an, and then go east to compete for the world.

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Chapter completed!