The battle situation is as expected. The Yuan army has successively achieved its set goals. After successively destroying the outer mountain fortresses of Tongbai Mountain, now even the wall at the foot of Taiping Peak has been lost. Now as long as they attack Taiping Peak, everything will be fine.
But unexpectedly, Yuan Shao took the initiative to send people up the mountain to negotiate with the Yellow Turban Army.
In fact, the reason for this is that the Yellow Turban Army showed its value in the previous battle, which allowed Yuan Shao to see the bloody spirit and toughness of the Yellow Turban Army.
He understood that if the battle continued like this, even if Yuan Jun captured Taiping Peak, he would inevitably suffer heavy losses. He would not forget what his real strategy for this battle was, which was to sneak through the three passes of Yiyang.
Once they pass through the three passes of Yiyang and enter the hinterland of Jingxiang Plain, it will be like poking a hornet's nest. Liu Biao will definitely attack Yuan Jun at all costs.
If the losses during the campaign to suppress the Yellow Turban Army were too great, Yuan Shao's plan to invade Jingzhou might be ruined.
Therefore, Yuan Shao asked a visitor from the army to go into the mountain with his letter.
In the letter, Yuan Shao put forward three conditions to Liu Pi.
First, the Yellow Turban Army abandoned Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and fully entered the Runan household. Second, the Yellow Turban Army will be organized into rural households and be responsible for farming. Third, the Yellow Turban Army fully accepted the management of Yuzhou, and Yuzhou appointed religious guards in various places. .
It can be said that after these three articles, what Yuan Shao gave Liu Pi was not a so-called peace treaty, but a total surrender.
But Liu Pi agreed, and despite the dissuasion of the core members of the sect, he finally surrendered.
There were many reasons why Liu Pi was willing to surrender, including the fact that he did not want to cause more casualties, that the situation was over, and that the Qingzhou believers in the east were living well after the surrender.
There are all kinds of reasons, but there is only one real reason, and that is that the visitor privately promised Liu Pi that his master, Yuan Shao, was willing to guarantee Liu Pi's wealth and would serve as his official title.
So, for the sake of power and wealth, Liu Pi betrayed his comrades who died at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, the deaths of Gongdu and Wu Ba were simply a joke.
When Liu Pi agreed to surrender, chaos ensued in Taiping Mountain.
The remnants of the Yellow Turbans, who had a large number of blood enemies with the Yuan family, could not accept this result at all, so they burned Taiping Mountain and took advantage of the chaos to retreat towards Nanyang in the west.
Liu Pi, who was no longer able to restrain the believers, quickly asked Yuan's army at the foot of the mountain to enter the mountain and suppress it. However, when the fire burned all the houses and shops on the mountain, not a single soldier of Yuan's army came up.
Obviously, Yuan Jun was not willing to take this risk.
Just like that, amid the black smoke rising into the sky, Liu Pi took the remaining party members down the mountain and formally surrendered to Yuan Jun's camp.
The career that soared due to chance encounters finally fell to the ground because of fate. In the final analysis, Liu Pi was just a middle-class talent.
In this battle, Yuan Shao led 30,000 yellow turban soldiers and more than 100,000 Shanliao soldiers, and his power was greatly shaken.
But when all parties thought that Yuan Shao was going to stop his troops and rest, he was already pointing his sword at three levels.
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Kyoto, outside Hakuba Temple.
Liu Bei, who had just come out of the White Horse Temple, was feeling miserable because he had just met a person in the temple.
The White Horse Temple in Kyoto certainly needs no introduction. It can be said to be the largest temple in the Han Dynasty. This temple was first built by Emperor Ming. It was named "White Horse Temple" because it housed two Tianzhu masters and the scriptures carried by White Horse.
There is a special thing in White Horse Temple, that is, the pomegranates and grapes cultivated by the monks in the temple in front of the White Horse Temple Pagoda. These two rare things were transported from the Western Regions along with the scriptures of the year.
The fruit trees planted in Baima Temple are even more lush and have sweet fruits. A grape is bigger than a date, and a pomegranate is as big as a small melon.
It can be said that these two things are not only unique to White Horse Temple, but also rare in Kyoto. I don’t know how many ministers from all over the world have come to Beijing to serve as ministers.
It is precisely because of its preciousness and rarity that it has been a heavy gift given by the Han family to their subjects since its cultivation. Those who were given it regarded it as a treasure and would not eat it easily.
And Liu Bei, who had just come out of White Horse Temple, was naturally treated well.
But no matter how sweet the pomegranate is, it can't relieve the bitterness in his heart at this moment.
And all of this started ten days ago, on the Double Ninth Festival.
The Han family has always attached great importance to the Double Ninth Festival, which falls on September 9th. Because nine is the number of Yang and the sun and moon correspond to each other, it has an auspicious meaning of long and eternal life.
Believe it or not, who doesn't want good luck, so the emperor of the Han Dynasty has always attached great importance to this day, and will have a high banquet with all the officials on the high platform.
Moreover, this year's Double Ninth Festival feast is different, because this time there are new guests in Kyoto.
They were envoys from Khotan, a great country in the Western Regions.
The young emperor Liu Bian attached great importance to the arrival of the Khotan envoys. One of the reasons was that Khotan was the core vassal of the Han family in the Western Regions. After Banding conquered the Western Regions, although Khotan rebelled several times, they generally
He maintained his attitude of contributing to the Han family.
But the more important reason is that this Khotan delegation did not go to the closer Xijing Chang'an to meet his brother, but continued to come to Kyoto according to previous practice.
This made Liu Bian very happy. The arrival of the Khotan delegation allowed him to taste the supreme majesty of the Han emperor in the past when all nations came to court.