Due to the delay in message transmission, Yuan Shao had just heard about the fall of Hulao Pass in Yecheng on October 17th. Other details were unknown. Guan Yu had actually achieved much more actual results on the front battlefield of Henan Yin.

After closing all the gates of the eight gates of Luoyang, although Guan Yu's main force has not yet gathered back to the outside of Luoyang City to siege and deter the city, the Luoyang City has been panic. Everyone knows that the change of ownership of this Han capital is inevitable.

Guan Yu just sent some partial troops, less than 10,000 people, and quickly surrounded the city gates, and put on the posture of assembling a catapult and building a building. Then, the next day, Ju Su, who was misrepresented to have died for more than 20 days, was sent.

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On October 18th, in Luoyang City, Chen Gong, Guo Yuan, and a group of intermediate civil servants and generals from Luoyang, were discussing countermeasures.

Outside the northern gate of Luoyang, the drums and horns suddenly sounded together, and the sound shook for several miles. All the Nangong and Beigong in the city could hear the movement.

Guan Yu's army sent countless scolding players, and took advantage of the slightest expiration of drums and horns, and began to shout in unison, threatening Chen Gong and others in the city to climb up the tower to answer.

Chen Gong's heart had been shaken long ago, but he did not completely unify his thoughts with his military officers, and he was not embarrassed at the moment, so he brought a group of officers above the army, all of whom went to the North Gate Tower.

After arriving at the place, they were shocked.

Guan Yu's scolding players surrounded several civil servants and came forward to convey the answer. One of them showed his identity, which was Ju Su.

"Is Chen Gongtai in front of the city? I am the Minister of State Ju Su, who was captured by Guan Yu when he broke through Qinshui. Both General Qu Yi and I have surrendered to Liu Bei. Why should you be obsessed with it and trap Luoyang in the war?"

Ju Su didn't have a loud voice alone, and he was noble in his status and protected by an iron shield. He still did not get close to the city wall within 150 steps, so Chen Gong and others on the north gate tower could not hear clearly.

The swearing players were also vulgar. Even if they had a loud voice, it was not appropriate to repost these graceful and demeanorous words. Therefore, this kind of occasion is suitable for life and life is worthless. Chen Gong did not bother to snipe the little fish and shrimps to repost it.

Originally, Xin Pi, who had a low position in Yuan Shao's camp and had a young and small power, was just like in history when he surrendered the former Yuan family officials outside Yecheng under the banner of Cao Cao. He took a few scolding players, shield players and archers to a position less than fifty steps under the city wall to help Ju Su retell.

"Don't be suspicious! Although you can't hear Ju Lingjun's voice clearly, you can't see Ju Lingjun's appearance and manners clearly? I am Xinpi in Yingchuan, and my brother is the literary master who was originally a general who was engaged in Xin Zhongzhi.

I know you must have heard that Ju Lingjun died in the chaos. Now, I suddenly heard that he is still alive and surrendered to His Majesty Zhang Wu, and I will be suspicious and unbelievable. But those are actually self-protection strategies discussed with my brother.

When we were accompanying the army to supervise the army and cut off the rear for Yuan Shao, we already thought that Yuan Shao was using rough troops and had a changeable military order. Most of us generals who cut off the rear would not have a good end, so we arranged a plan to survive in advance. If we were really captured, we would beg to claim to be a fraud to death, so as not to be regarded as a surrender and our family.

All this has nothing to do with Ju Lingjun, I did it all. Ju Gong is a loyal and righteous gentleman. He wanted to die and die, but it was my slander that General Guan did not kill Ju Gong, and while my brother retired and rescued his monks, he took Ju Gong's family away to avoid being viciously dealt with Yuan Shao!

So, the situation is clear today. Ju Gong surrendered, General Tuo Yi also surrendered. Chen Fu Yin, you have no more opportunities. You must seize this time and take care of yourself..."

Xinpi is really shameless in persuading surrender. And the key is that he is not as shameless as those moral gentlemen.

After all, Ju Su's identity is there, and he is a loyal minister. It is his limit to stand up and persuade others to surrender and win over others to leave with Yuan Shao, who has no future and is still messing around.

But he couldn't say those words that poured dirty water on Yuan Shao. At best, "good birds choose trees to live in, and wise ministers choose masters to work." "A gentleman will never make bad news when they are together. If they are together, they will stay and leave if they are not."

So those shameless words really need to be spoken by people like Xinpi who are splashing dirty water.

Moreover, after this, he became "what Ju Su didn't want to surrender, but Xin Pi concealed the news after surrendering himself. When he designed to rescue the monks, he also rescued Ju Su's family. As a result, Ju Su surrendered because his family was in Liu Bei's hands."

In this way, Ju Su was like the loyal and righteous generals of the court in the Water Margin. He had no intention of surrendering the thief at all. It was because his family was first robbed to Liangshan by Song Jiang and Wu, who were "shameless" and had to bow their heads.

It can only be said that favoring villains is also useful, and when the water is clear, there will be no fish. Doing dirty work requires a chamber pot-shaped talent.

Xinpi was not ashamed anyway, so he took the dirty water himself and gave both sides a step. After some shameless words, Chen Gong and Guo Yuan had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation, and Luoyang City opened the door to surrender peacefully.

Guan Yu personally led nearly 10,000 troops and strictly enforced military discipline in advance, emphasizing that this time it was a peaceful liberation. When entering Luoyang City, he could not plunder or harass the people. Then he acted as a royal army with strict military discipline and entered the city in an orderly manner and took over the defense affairs of various places.

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The news of Luoyang surrendering to Liu Bei's court spread much faster than the previous fall of Hulao Pass.

Because when Hulao Pass was lost, the defeated army was almost wiped out, and Guan Yu's side did not rush to deliberately promote it, so the Yuan Shao army guard stationed east of Hulao Pass, Chenliu and Shizuo, was urgently reported to Yecheng after discovering that the friendly troops in front were destroyed.

After Luoyang changed its lord, Guan Yu, at the suggestion of Zhuge Liang, immediately chose to proactively promote it and sent a courier to cross the river and Hanoi north of the Yellow River.

He even brought several officials in Luoyang City who were swept up by Chen Gong and Guo Yuan and others. He actually didn't want to join Liu Bei's camp. He took the initiative to release the prisoners and let them go back to show up and tell them how Luoyang was lost, how Chen Gong and others chose to surrender, and so on. All the stories were truly and in detail to the civil and military officials of the Yuanying.

These are all direct witnesses, which is very useful for making Yuan Shao embarrassed. How could Zhuge Liang be reluctant to let these humiliating prisoners be returned?

So, Luoyang was lost on the 18th, and the news spread to Wei County on the 19th.

At the same time, some details of "Why did Lei Bo collapse" were reviewed before, and they had just arrived in Weijun and Yecheng. A lot of bad news about slapping Yuan Shao in the face came in line.

Yuan Shao was still thinking yesterday that "It was Lei Bo, a scheming man who did not perform my micro-fucking, so he died and implicated the three armies." He finally suppressed his inner frustration and IQ due to humiliation, but today the reversal came.

In this wave of Yuan Shao, he would not be angry to death, at least he would have to lose his skin.

It is estimated that after he was angry, his mentality explosion would not be as good as before his death after the end of the Battle of Cangting in history. But at least it would be much worse than the Battle of Guandu and before the start of the Battle of Cangting.

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Because I was angry when I heard the bad news at Guo Tu's mansion a while ago, on October 20th, Yuan Shao did not leave his house and continued to recuperate in his general's mansion, and could not hear any discussions from the outside world for a while.

In fact, all the people from Yecheng well outside had spread a day ago.

For rumors such as "I heard that Lei Bo and Chen Gong did not fail to implement the general's military orders, which led to the complete annihilation of Guan Yu. On the contrary, they were deceived by Zhuge Liang by using tricks and were wiped out by Zhuge Liang, and even lost an additional Hulao Pass for nothing." Most of the good people in the city knew about it because they strictly followed the general's instructions.

The civil servants and security officials of Yuan Shao's camp were not just for a good meal. When they encountered this situation, they would certainly notice that it might be the intentional dissemination of the enemy's detailed actions, so the investigation was very strict.

Relevant officials in Yecheng temporarily issued a ban, and anyone who dares to spread these words must be arrested and tried strictly. If other problems are found and the circumstances are serious, they will be executed directly according to the military laws during the war!

For this reason, more than 20 criminals who spread rumors were killed in Yecheng in one day, and more were imprisoned and punished, and the momentum was stopped a little.

Four or five of them were detailed works sent by Zhuge Liang to carry out propaganda wars, and they died heroically.

But the other nearly twenty people were indeed only the people and scholars under the rule of Yuan Shao, who were local to Yecheng. Because they were more gossipy and liked to spread gossip, they were the kind of people who liked to go to the second floor of the teahouse to talk about the international situation. As a result, they were beaten up in troubled times as if they were used as a detailed act.

Under such strict defense, Yuan Shao lived in the General's Mansion, and did not leave the gate without leaving the two gates. People around him picked what he loved to hear, and he should have been inseparable from these bad news for a few days.

Unfortunately, the final result was that Yuan Shao was only hiding for two days more than ordinary people in Yecheng.

There is no airtight wall in the world. Over time, there will always be negligence in blocking and negligence. Moreover, the people around Yuan Shao did not deliberately block the news. They were just doing this with the mentality of cracking down on rumors.

On the evening of October 20th, Yuan Shao's beloved youngest son Yuan Shang greeted him in the morning and evening as usual, and accompanied Yuan Shao to have a meal to greet him, and learned about his father's condition.

After dinner, Yuan Shang's mother, Yuan Shao's wife, Liu, left her son to say something private and asked about the overall military and political situation outside, whether there were any hidden worries or major concerns.

This Liu family is the poisonous woman who disfigured Yuan Shao's other five younger concubines out of jealousy after Yuan Shao's death.

Liu's wife, of course, did not understand politics. She asked her son that she simply wanted her son to come up with a conclusion so that she could feel at ease and believe that the situation of the war would not spread to even Yecheng.

After all, the news that Zhang Fei had attacked Huguan before and was said to have to attack Yecheng after passing Huguan Pass was spreading all over the world. How could a woman without knowledge not be afraid?

Yuan Shang patiently explained to his mother the allusion that "the Qin State once won the Battle of Changping in history, but the Battle of Handan was defeated in the Battle of Handan". He encouraged his mother to say that the Yuan army now has a common hatred for the enemy, and it is absolutely no problem to fight an inside defense war, and Zhang Fei cannot leave Huguan Xing.

As he talked, Liu inevitably asked about the various strange stories and strange things that are circulating in Yecheng today, and the people were unstable, and mentioned:

"Yesterday, the government went out to do business. When I came back, I heard that the commander of Yecheng was killing people with words and ruthless people, which showed that the situation was difficult and dangerous. Isn't this because Zhang Fei quickly ran out of Huguan Road and killed him in Yecheng?"

Yuan Shang defended disdainfully: "Mother, don't think about it if you don't understand military and political affairs. Those people were killed because..."
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