At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty

Therefore, Lu Bu took over Zuo Fengyi Niu Fu's remnant army smoothly, but Lu Bu did not stop there, but turned his attention to Li Jue who was in Pingling.

Li Jue led his troops out of the city and had a fight with Xu Rong. The result is self-evident. His [-] cavalry lost to the [-] cavalry led by Xu Rong.

And he himself was also injured by the loss, and he fled back to Pingling with the army in a panic, leaving nearly [-] corpses behind.

After Li Jue returned to Pingling, he closed the city gate of Pingling tightly. No matter how harsh Xu Rong scolded him, he, Li Jue, would not fight any more and became a coward.

When Lu Bu came to Pingling, Xu Rong had besieged Li Jue for three days.

These three days have put a lot of pressure on Li Jue, and now there is Lu Bu leading a large team to support Xu Rong, which makes Li Jue feel desperate.

He can't even beat Xu Rong, let alone Lu Bu now?

Now most of the Chang'an region has fallen into Lu Bu's hands, and he is even more in the center of Lu Bu's power, a lonely city with no help on all sides.

Li Jue was in despair, drinking heavily all day long, and getting drunk every time.

This negative emotion spread to the soldiers under his command, making them panic.

The food, grass and water sources of Pingling City have been completely cut off. According to Xu Rong's prediction, Li Jue will only last for half a month at most, and will kill horses to fill his stomach.

Now they have plundered all the food stored in the homes of the people in the city. This food can last them for ten days at most. After ten days, Pingling City will be destroyed without attack.

Li Jue robbed the people of their food and livestock, which undoubtedly pushed the people in the city to hell.

This made the people hate Li Jue very much, and wished they could eat Li Jue's flesh alive!

Lu Bu followed Xu Rong's suggestion again and ordered the soldiers to tie hundreds of written persuading letters to arrows and shoot them into the city.

Xu Rong intends to use this to stimulate the people's desire to survive, and also to put pressure on the soldiers under Li Jue's command and disturb their morale.

Xu Rong's strategy was successful. On the day the persuasion letter was shot into the city, many people gathered together and rushed towards the city gate.

They were so hungry, instead of waiting to die in the city, they might as well fight. If the city gate was opened, wouldn't they have the hope of escape?

Faced with so many fleeing civilians, the soldiers under Li Jue's command were a little bit hesitant.

There are indeed many evil things they have done, but this group of people includes their family members, how can they do it?

The soldiers couldn't make up their minds either, so they sent a man to ask Li Jue.

The answer they got really chilled their hearts, and Li Jue ordered them to kill all the people!

After getting this order, the soldiers really couldn't do anything, and instead of carrying out Li Jue's order to kill the people, they kicked and beat the people and drove them back to their homes.

After Li Jue heard the news, he was furious, and he took all the sulking he had received in the past few days on the soldiers.

Dozens of soldiers and low-level officers were executed one after another, which vented the anger in Li Jue's heart.

As everyone knows, his actions completely chilled the hearts of the soldiers. Facing Lu Bu, the soldiers were almost desperate. Li Jue was still not appeased, and instead used the strength of alcohol to kill the soldiers.

Who is not raised by parents? !So, in the early morning of the second day, the soldiers under Li Jue, together with the common people, opened the gate of Pingling City and put Lv Bu's army into the city.

Then Li Jue was still drinking in the mansion, not knowing at all that he was in a catastrophe.

When Lu Bu kicked open the door of Li Jue's room with a painting halberd in his hand, Li Jue woke up suddenly, and took up the weapon beside him in horror, trying to resist Lu Bu.

As a result, Li Jue was hacked and killed by Lu Bu on the spot, and his head was separated.

So far, in the entire counties near Chang'an, only Guo Si of Shangluo was still struggling to die, and the rest of Dong Zhuo's remnants were all hacked to death by Lu Bu.

After recruiting Li Jue's remnant army, Lu Bu asked Jia Xu for instructions, and then ordered Xu Rong to lead the army to help Zhang Liao and surround Guo Si together.

When Guo Si learned that there was still a large army coming to support him, his face turned pale with shock.

That night, Guo Si led the army and rushed out of Shangluo in the dark, broke through Zhang Liao's siege, and fled towards Hongnong, leaving behind [-] infantry.

Although he managed to escape in the end, more than [-] of the [-] infantry he left behind were killed in battle, and the rest of the infantry surrendered.

Guo Si's [-] cavalry also lost more than [-] casualties, and some of them were dispersed.

When he fled to Kuzong Mountain in Hongnong County, there were only less than [-] soldiers and horses around him.

At this time, Guo Bang had no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the earth. To the north, it was Dongjun County, blocked by Taihang Mountain, and had to pass through several cities. It would be strange to let Guo Bang enter the city.

To the south is the border of Jingzhou. He just fled here from the south, how could he fall into the tiger's mouth again?

To the west is Chang'an, not to mention, and to the east is Luoyang. There is Yang Ji here, and it is estimated that he will not be kept.

Now, he can only be the king of the mountain in Kuzong Mountain, and when he has a chance in the future, he, Guo Si, is probably defecting to other princes.

However, Jia Xu might keep him, Guo Si?

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Chapter 348 The Son of Heaven Returns

After receiving the news that Guo Bang was hiding in Kuzong Mountain, Zhang Liao and Xu Rong, who had just joined him, led the army to Kuzong Mountain and surrounded Guo Si in the mountain.

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Jia Xu dispatched all of Chang'an's army to Youfufeng, Zuofengyi, Dongjun, Jingzhaoyin and other counties.

On the one hand, he wanted to eliminate Dong Zhuo's remnant party, and on the other hand, he wanted to hold the city in his own hands.

As for Chang'an City, only [-] defenders were left to deal with some emergencies.

This is the first time since Dong Zhuo moved westward to Chang'an that Chang'an's military strength was so small.

This is also the only chance for the Son of Heaven who is about to flee. If he misses this opportunity, when Lu Bu's army returns, the Son of Heaven will never even think about escaping from Chang'an in his life.

So, with the help of some low-level military officers bought by the ministers of the court, the emperor secretly escaped from the palace and hid in the mansion of a minister.

At this moment, the minister's mansion is full of refugees' clothes, exuding an unpleasant smell.

Hearing that the minister wanted to change into the refugee's clothes by himself, Liu Xie couldn't help but wrinkled his face into a ball, showing reluctance.

The minister had no choice but to explain the crisis of the matter emphatically, which made Liu Xie reluctantly take off his dragon robe.

Finding a fairly clean refugee clothes, Liu Xie suppressed his nausea, pinched his nose, and let the little eunuch change himself into refugee clothes.

After Liu Xie finished changing his clothes, all the ministers changed into refugee clothes one after another with a look of disgust.

The sky is bright now, if they choose to sneak out of the city at this time, the goal is too obvious, and they can only wait until it is just dark to sneak out of Chang'an City.

However, the emperor escaped from the palace and was surprisingly not found. It has to be said that Liu Xie was really lucky.

After it got dark, the frightened ministers surrounded Liu Xie and walked slowly towards the gate of Chang'an City.

When a group of dozens of people came to the gate of the city, they found that there were hundreds of soldiers checking the passers-by at the gate of the city, which made the hearts of the ministers sink to the bottom of the valley.

But now, can they back down? !I can only bite the bullet and move forward.

It may be the blessing of the god of luck. Just when everyone arrived at the gate of the city and was about to resign themselves to their fate and be questioned by the soldiers, there was a sudden burst of shouting in the distance.

"The guard is changing, you wait to have some food first, the next team will arrive in a moment!"

The soldiers at the gate of the city immediately cheered when they heard the words, put down all the affairs in their hands, let go of their girls and ran to the barracks.

After standing for a whole day, they were already exhausted. Now that their general had let go, they naturally would not hesitate.

When Liu Xiehe and other ministers saw this, they were immediately excited, and some even shed tears of excitement.

It's really a road that never ends!The emperor is so lucky to be added, and he will shine in the future, clean up the mountains and rivers, and recast the Han Ding!

The ministers didn't hesitate anymore, and quickly walked out of Chang'an City without looking back.

After walking for more than ten miles, they encountered a wide river, so they followed the river all the way to the east.

Now the sky has completely darkened, but they managed to escape, how dare they stop?

At the same time, because of the fear in their hearts, they did not dare to light the torches, so they could only drive in the dark.

The effect of traveling like this is undoubtedly as slow as a snail, and the river is overgrown with weeds and silt. If one is not careful, he will fall into the silt and it will be difficult to escape.

After walking in the dark for more than an hour, Liu Xie, who was being carried by the ministers in turn, fell asleep.

The ministers also lost their physical strength, so they could only find a dry place to rest in the dark.

Sleeping on the ground in the wilderness, they have never felt it.

Cold and hungry, they had to put their own clothes on the emperor's body to prevent the emperor from catching cold, and they themselves were shivering from the cold wind at night.

Barely surviving until dawn, all the ministers carried the dazed Liu Xie on their backs and started heading east again.

By noon, they had already arrived at the border of Weinan, and now their stomachs were empty, and they were so hungry that they swallowed their saliva.

Not to mention Luoyang, even Hangu Pass is more than 100 miles away from them.

They did not dare to go to the city, for fear that they would be arrested by Lu Bu's army, who would drive them back to Chang'an.

As a result, a group of ministers began to search for wild vegetables and wild fruits all over the mountains and plains.

As for hunting some game, these pampered ministers really can't do it.If you encounter wild wolves, it is not certain who will hit who.

After finally finding some food that can satisfy the hunger, most of them were given to the emperor, and each of them only got a little food.

He swallowed it in one gulp of saliva, and then the ministers swallowed a mouthful of saliva.After resting for a while, they went on their way again.

In this way, they walked all the way along the river towards Luoyang, and on the second day, they finally arrived at Hangu Pass.

At this time, they were all unkempt, and the refugee clothes fit them so well.

If they pass through Hangu Pass smoothly, they will reach Hongnong territory, but is Hangu Pass so easy to pass?

But Chang'an is such a dangerous place, they all escaped, there is no reason to stop in front of Hangu Pass and shrink back.

So a group of ministers led the exhausted Liu Xie into Hangu Pass with a look of generosity to die.

What they didn't expect was that everything went so smoothly, as if they were transparent people, and the officers and soldiers who interrogated the refugees ignored them.

Let their group pass through, and after they get out of this dangerous pass, they all feel as if they are in a dream.

I can't believe that I walked out of this dangerous Hangu Pass so easily.

Therefore, this group of ministers continued to stage survival in the wilderness at the end of the Han Dynasty.

When it was dark, all the ministers, including Liu Xie, had reached their limit.

There was nothing in their stomachs, their bodies were sore, and they had no strength left.

At this moment, a minister with sharp eyes saw a flash of fire not far away.

So the minister greeted everyone, and walked cautiously towards the place where the fire was flickering.

It turned out to be a small village. There seemed to be no one living in this village, but there was a bonfire burning in the middle of the village.

Seeing this, all the ministers endured the excitement in their hearts, and then walked into the village cautiously.

Searching around, no living people were found, but some sheep were tied to several wooden stakes.

The people in the village seemed to have encountered some emergency, and they didn't even have time to bring their livestock, so they fled with their families.

After figuring it out, all the ministers couldn't help weeping with joy, thanking the heavens for their pity.

The already hungry people with their chests stuck to their backs hurriedly killed the sheep, cleaned them up, and hurriedly roasted them on the fire.

After a while, the meat was fragrant, and after giving a leg of lamb to the emperor, all the ministers suppressed their hunger, and only after the emperor finished eating, they began to gobble up the mutton.

After they were full, they tidied up the cottage, squeezed each other, and slept together.

Finally, they don't have to sleep in the wilderness. This sleep is the most sound sleep they have ever had since they were sensible!

What the sleeping ministers didn't know was that the God they were thankful for was staring at them in the dark.

After they all fell asleep, the God in their mouths extinguished the fire for them, and then they jumped into the darkness and disappeared.

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Chapter 349 Dingdu Changyi

Early the next morning, after the ministers woke up, they lit the fire again, ate some mutton left over from last night, and set off on the road again.

In this way, when they were hungry, they would always meet a village or a lost sheep to feed them. Two days later, they finally arrived in Luoyang.

Looking at this former imperial city, all the ministers couldn't help wiping away their tears.

Back then, they stayed in Luoyang City, enjoying the glory and wealth while busy fighting for power and profit.

They fought for the rights, but ruined the great man's country, and now they are beginning to regret it.

If I and others did not fight for power and profit back then, but did their best to assist the emperor, presumably they would still be in the court of Luoyang now.

But the matter has come to this point, even if they regret it in their hearts, it is useless.