After Lei Bo gave his head and Hulao Pass was taken down with the situation, Guan Yu's army had basically formed a closed door and beat dogs against the Yin area in Henan.

Whether Luoyang City will be taken down quickly will become less and less important. Instead, the only loopholes left in the encirclement have been completely blocked and priority has been increased.

For example, Guan Yu had only won five of the "Eight Passes of Luoyang" in interspersed, and now he took advantage of the situation to win the Hulao Pass, which is only the sixth.

The Yuan army officials and soldiers in the Yin area of ​​Henan Province actually have some small paths to escape, such as the Luyuan Pass connecting Yingchuan County, and Yangcheng County, which is also the connection between the Songshan Mountains and the Funiu Mountains.

Since Guan Yu had freed up his hands, he would clean up the pieces of the pieces.

The total number of Lei Bo and Hulao Pass guards was nearly 20,000, but they were unable to resist Guan Yu. Of course, those little chickens and dogs were not worthy of detailing the battle situation. Almost not many Yuan army soldiers could raise the courage to resist, and most of them were waiting for the wind to return.

On the fifteenth day, after breaking Hulao Pass, Guan Yu took the city of Xingyang County in only half a day.

The next day, he went southwest and searched along the northern foot of Songshan Mountain. Within two days, he won the Zhuyuan Pass and Yangcheng County on the 16th and 17th respectively.

At this point, the eight passes of Luoyang were completely captured, and the entire area west of Hulao Pass became a turtle in a jar.

Only then did Guan Yu be leisurely prepared to release Ju Su, who had been misrepresented by the outside world for more than 20 days and said that he had died in the chaos during the retreat in Hanoi, and asked him to force his surrender to Luoyang City.

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Also on October 17, while Guan Yu took down Huayuan and Yangcheng, the news of Tianhulao Pass falling and Lei Bo's destruction finally came back to Yecheng.

The straight distance from Hulao Pass to Yecheng is more than 500 miles. If you want to go around a little, you have to cross the Yellow River. It is not too much to walk for two days.

Early in the morning of the 17th, after the emergency messenger entered Yecheng, he immediately sent the bad news to the third station of the court, and was dealt with by the relevant officials on duty.

After the minister in charge that day found out the bad news, his heart suddenly skipped a beat. He knew that this was too big and must report to Yuan Shao himself immediately.

But the problem is that Yuan Shao's condition has just improved not long ago. Although Shen Pei has a low emotional intelligence (only slightly higher than Tian Feng), he knows that if he gets angry at Yuan Shao at this time, something bad might happen.

After thinking twice, for the sake of the overall situation, Shen Pei still had to cooperate with Guo Tu, whom he hated, and asked Guo Tu to think of a way to tell Yuan Shao tactfully.

Historically, after Yuan Shao's death, Shen Pei followed Yuan Shang, while Guo Tu followed Yuan Tan.

In addition, Shen Pei is a native of Wei County, a Jizhou faction of Ju Su, and Guo Tu is a native of Yingchuan, following Xu You's exotic faction. Therefore, the disagreement between Shen Pei and Guo Tu has long been caused.

Now Ju Su is said to have died in the army, and Xu You also lost favor because of his previous advice to Yuan Shao to advance. It can be said that the bosses of the Jizhou faction and the other faction have collapsed.

Now Shen Pei is going to play the role of the new leader of the Jizhou faction with Tian Feng. Unfortunately, Tian Feng is a tough guy with a bad temper and low emotional intelligence, so the two have not established any effective cooperation.

Guo Tu and Feng Ji became the new backbone of the foreign faction after Xu You lost his trust.

In addition, both factions had wanted to win over Xin Ping, who had some friendship with the foreign faction and the Jizhou faction. Although this person was not very capable, he had worked with Jizhou governor Jizhou, after all, and his seniority was still very old.

However, Xin Ping has been discouraged and abandoned his official position and retired. The Sang Pian and the Feng Ji Guotu School no longer insisted, and allowed Xin Ping to fend for herself and return to her hometown to farm and study and pass on her family.

In such a struggle environment for the strategist faction, Shen Pei went to Guo Tu to discuss it, which was completely considered "tolerating humiliation and burdens", for the sake of the overall situation and for Yuan Shao's health.

...

Shen Pei knew that this matter could not be delayed. When he received the news, it was before noon, so he took the matter at hand for a little while and barely delayed it until afternoon. After a short time, he thought that Guo Tu would not have any visitors at this time, so he took the military newspaper to find Guo Tu.

Unfortunately, when Shen Pei arrived at Guo Tu, she accidentally found that Yuan Shao was also at Guo Tu, which caught Shen Pei off guard - because he always felt that as the lord, Yuan Shao had to discuss with Guo Tu and summon him directly. How could he go to Guo Tu's office to discuss it in person?

Yuan Shao was not like Zhao Kuangyin's style. He would not think of discussing something and would stroll to Zhao Pu's mansion to discuss it. This kind of thing was often done by Liu Bei on the opposite side. Liu Bei was born in a poor family and did not pay attention to etiquette and law. He always stroll to the minister's mansion to discuss politics.

Especially Liu Bei liked to visit Li Su's Marquis' Mansion to launch a surprise attack, and used the name of discussing politics to have a free meal. This bad style has been spread and fermented for several years and is now known to everyone in the world.

It even became a joke similar to later generations of "XX Private Visits" or "Emperor Qianlong's Going to the South of the Yangtze River". Any new and ingenious musical instruments appeared in the world, or delicious food and food that were unprecedented in ancient times. They all said that "this was discovered by His Majesty Zhang Wu when he went to Pihou Mansion to have a free meal."

Later, it was obvious that the people invented new food and beverages themselves, and they all took advantage of the traffic of celebrities, saying that it was uploaded by Li Suhou's mansion. Just like an unscrupulous publisher invented "Quotes of Li Gong" to attract traffic and sell books to himself.

Shen Pei was helpless, but he could no longer avoid it. He greeted Yuan Shao in embarrassment. After learning a little, he learned that Yuan Shao was recently trapped in some mysterious spiritual sustenance, so he couldn't help but often run to Guo Tu to seek excretion and comfort.

This mentality is a bit similar to the head of state in his later years. It always relies on some signs of mysticism, making him feel that "I can still win." Even when he heard that Luo had died of a cerebral hemorrhage, he also asked a wizard and genius to explain it. This is a truth.

Yuan Shao is now trying hard to find historical basis and spiritual sustenance, making him feel that the East will win against the Eastern Army.

Yuan Shao seemed to have been so happy that Guo Tu had just been coaxed, and asked Shen Pei very generously what it meant.

Shen Pei looked at Guo Tu and first showed Guo Tu the military newspaper in her sleeve, but this lack of consideration caused Yuan Shao's dissatisfaction.

Shen Pei quickly accused him of the crime: "Lord, I heard that your illness has not been completely cured. I am afraid that small things will cause you to worry, so I asked my husband to help you see."

Yuan Shao slapped the table and said angrily: "Rareless! I have already been very proud and have worked hard to govern. Since I have encountered it, I should hear about all the details of the political affairs! Guo Tu, what exactly did I write about!"

Guo Tu just saw what was written in the battle report clearly, but his face changed, but he could no longer hide it. He had to bite the bullet and slightly modify the words and try to say tactfully:

"Lord, you must hold on. Is it... that Hulao Pass was lost. Lei Bo originally ordered to lead more than 10,000 Luoyang defenders to retreat and guard Hulao Pass. However, he was chased by Guan Yu and took advantage of the situation to seize the pass. Lei Bo was destroyed, and the thousands of defenders in Hulao Pass were destroyed."

When Yuan Shao heard it, his pupils had already shrunk violently for a few moments, his face turned from white to red, from red to green, and from blue to purple to black, and his blood pressure was evidently rising and falling with the naked eye.

Guo Tu hurriedly went up to rub his chest and patted his back. Yuan Shao couldn't help but scream, and then he was so angry that he vomited blood: "Lei Bo is incompetent! Kill the three armies!

If this kind of traitor was not for Gu's traitor's shame that his brother's family had to ask him to defend Luoyang, would Gu use this kind of scumbag? After he surrendered Gu, he reluctantly kept his original position in order to avoid the desire to return home, but he did not expect to harm the three armies in the end!

How come there is such a useless general in the world who doesn’t know how to understand the military. When he withdraws his troops, he doesn’t know how to observe Guan Yu’s dynamics. He doesn’t look at the opportunity of Guan Yu’s troops being transferred back to Hanoi to support Zhang Fei? Just as Guan Yu blocks Luoyang City, breaking through?

What did the retreat order that Gu gave them? Isn’t there any details on the precautions before retreating?”

Not to mention, Yuan Shao’s previous retreat orders to Lei Bo and Chen Gong and others really considered the issue of how to deal with it when he was chased by Guan Yu.

After all, Yuan Shao also likes the troops under the long-range Weicao team. Of course, he took care of his subordinates. "Zhang Fei is attacking Huguanxing urgently, so once Zhang Fei is frustrated, Guan Yu's troops in Henan will be drawn. Support Zhang Fei, who is the main attack on the battlefield, you need to retreat and wait for a gap before retreating."

Otherwise, if you just ignore the withdrawal and do not consider being surrounded and blocked, wouldn’t you be a waste of ignoring the army? Yuan Shao is aware of the army in theory.

Fortunately, the follow-up news from Lei Bo had not yet come, so after Yuan Shao vomited a mouthful of blood and scolded him, he felt a little more happy. Finally, he felt that he had blamed his subordinates for his incompetence. It was his subordinates' incompetence or his big strategic decision-making mistake, so he felt a little relieved.

After hearing Yuan Shao's scolding, Guo Tushenbe found a vent to shirk responsibility, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they felt that Lei Bo was indeed a mentally retarded, there was Chen Gong in Luoyang. Chen Gong's IQ would not ignore such an obvious military taboo, and most of them had noticed Yuan Shao's care.

Under such circumstances, Lei Bo is still destroyed and Hulao Pass is still falling. Maybe it will be attributed to Yuan Shao's initial strategic judgment and intelligence errors - that is, there is nothing "Guan Yu's main attack direction has been changed to Huguan. After Zhang Fei was frustrated, Guan Yu will gradually draw the main force over and leave a gap in Henan."

Maybe there was no gap at the beginning! Guan Yu was playing us! Zhuge Liang, who gave Guan Yu's advice, was playing us!

Guo Tu's thoughts in this aspect are not very obvious, mainly because he has always flattered Yuan Shao's judgment, so Yuan Shao's judgment was made by Guo Tu and him. Guo Tu subconsciously would not think that he was bad, so he avoided thinking more deeply in this direction.

But Shen Pei was a bystander who was clear and thought to himself: This misjudgment was made by Guo Tu and his lord! At least it was Guo Tu's instigation after the lord made it!

Unfortunately, Yuan Shao now needs this kind of mentality of shirking responsibility to protect his health. Even if Shen Pei sees through the truth, how dare he expose it?

If Yuan Shao was so angry that he vomited blood several times after the exposure, can he bear this responsibility review?

He had no choice but to shut up.

Unfortunately, no matter how tolerate Shen Pei or how to let Yuan Shao go to the ostrich mentality, Zhuge Liang on the opposite side would not let him go.

Shen Pei Guo Tu said that the emperor did not point out the cause and effect relationship, but Zhuge Liang would spread rumors and conduct public opinion offensives, and publicize Yuan Shao's problems in this wrong decision to be well known to everyone in the world, at least everyone in Yecheng.
Chapter completed!