That night, Yuan Shu summoned all the generals under his command as usual to discuss strategies to fight the enemy. At the same time, he told everyone that after his investigation, he had found out that Liu Xun's surrender was just a rumor deliberately spread by Pei Qing. He asked everyone not to believe in rumors or spread rumors at this critical moment. He also emphasized that all those who spread rumors were Pei Qing's detailed works, and as long as they were found, they would be killed.

In order to shock everyone, he also ordered some people to catch some of the rumors spreading the Dharma on the spot to reflect his determination.

"Donalds, we have no choice but to retreat. At this critical moment, we can only work together to overcome difficulties together, and there is no other way to go. I think this is the case with you, so we must grit our teeth. No matter how complicated the situation is or how urgent the situation is, as long as we unite and we will be able to survive. I have already received the exact news that Liu Xun will arrive at Shu County City in three days. At that time, we will be able to attack inside and outside and defeat Pei Qing together."

During the meeting, Yuan Shu said passionately, and actually scared some generals. He made them believe that Liu Xun's surrender was really a rumor, and now Yuan Shu has made up his mind to hold on to the end, which moved these people very much. They believed that as long as Yuan Shu could make up his decision to unite with everyone, he would be able to easily defeat Pei Qing and win the final victory.

"The most powerful person in the world is Pei Qing. Once Pei Qing is defeated, who can stop the lord's footsteps? At that time, the lord competes in the Central Plains and even dominates the world, and we are all ministers of the dragon. What a gratifying thing this is?"

After Yuan Shu's words, many generals regained confidence in Yuan Shu and even had strong expectations.

However, these people didn't know that the reason why Yuan Shu did this was actually just a superficial thing. In fact, Yuan Shu had secretly ordered his personal general and confidant general Zhang Xun to escape overnight.

At midnight that night, Yuan Shu led 500 personal soldiers and general Zhang Xun, with some important gold jewelry, jade seals, as well as his wives, concubines and children, quietly opened the Xicheng Gate under the name of Yuan Shu's instructions to go out for business, and then left overnight. Since he could not see his five fingers that night, Yuan Shu strictly prohibited the fire from raising, so all these actions deceived almost everyone.

Since Yuan Shu's team was light and simple, even the wives and concubines were a little burdened, they were all riding on horse-drawn carriages, so they moved very quickly. They had already run dozens of miles away at dawn. Even so, they did not stop and pretended to be merchants. At noon the next day, they arrived at the riverside, rented a few large ships, and prepared to take the waterway to Guangling directly, and then take a sea boat from Guangling directly to the Pingyuan Kingdom of Qingzhou from the sea.

The soldiers in the city did not notice Yuan Shu's actions. Even the soldiers guarding the city gate knew that someone had left at night, but they didn't know that it was Yuan Shu who left. It was not until some generals "entered into the palace" to pay homage to Yuan Shu, but found that there was no one in the palace. They were so panicked. They searched for Yuan Shu everywhere, and they finally confirmed that it must be Yuan Shu who had escaped overnight. It was not until then that they finally realized that Yuan Shu was passionate last night just to act, and his real purpose was to take the opportunity to escape.

When the soldiers in the city heard about this, they were all shocked. Now that Yuan Shu had escaped, the soldiers in the city had no leader, they had difficulty defending Shu County, so it was naturally even more dangerous now.

The generals and officials under Yuan Shu were also secretly angry because they knew that Zhang Xun had disappeared, which basically meant that Yuan Shu had taken Zhang Xun away and abandoned them at the same time.

So when everyone discussed how to deal with it, some of the generals and officials who were seriously dissatisfied said, "That man abandoned us and fled alone with his wives, concubines, sons and confidant generals. He never cared about us at all. If that's the case, why should we be loyal to him?"

"You are right. We always heard that Mr. Pei is respectful to the wise and wise, and knows people and uses them well. And no matter how dangerous the battlefield is, he will never abandon his soldiers and escape alone. Isn't our loyalty to such a hero a thousand times stronger than being loyal to Yuan Shu?"

"This sentence has come to our hearts. We surrender to Gong Pei. I wonder if the Duke agrees?"

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The next thing went very smoothly. None of the generals and officials gathered here did not agree to surrender to Pei Qing, so they jointly elected a representative but surrendered to Pei Qing.

In fact, even Pei Qing did not expect that Yuan Shu would escape so soon. This was also his mistake in his prediction. After hearing the news, he was really surprised. It turned out that Pei Qing felt that with Yuan Shu's conceit, he would have to lead the army to fight with his side for a few days before he would escape. Therefore, he relaxed his surveillance of Yuan Shu, which led to Yuan Shu's escape.

However, Pei Qing did not feel a pity. Yuan Shu, who had no territory, was a loser and would not have any threats. Pei Qing had already calculated that if Yuan Shu escaped, his only destination would be Yuan Shao. If Yuan Shu wanted to go to Yuan Shao, he had to pass through Guangling, which was guarded by Chen Deng. If Yuan Shu could go directly to Sun Ce in Hailing, it would be difficult for Pei Qing to deal with him. However, if the other party arrived at Guangling and then went to Qingzhou by land, it would be a death sentence, because Pei Qing had already ordered Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling, who had just surrendered, to be strictly guarded against Yuan Shu. Although even if Yuan Shu surrendered Yuan Shao, he would not pose any threat to Pei Qing. As for the imperial seal, he would have to hand over to the court even if he got it, so it would be better not to have it. However, Pei Qing would not let Yuan Shu live so proudly, otherwise wouldn't he be laughed at for being incompetent?

As for the unanimous request of the soldiers and officials in the city to surrender, Pei Qing naturally became disrespectful. So at this point, Pei Qing finally completely seized all the territory of Yuan Shu, occupied the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang, and recruited a total of 70,000 to 80,000 surrendered soldiers, which also indicates that the war against Yuan Shu was finally declared to be victorious.

So Pei Qing appointed Chen Jiao as the prefect of Lujiang and gave him 30,000 Yuan Shu's surrendered troops, asking him to lead his army to garrison Lujiang to prevent Sun Ce's attack.
Chapter completed!