Chapter 964 The Situation Is Clear

No one expected that Shen Pei would be so strong-willed that he would rather die than surrender. He simply set a fire, covering the entire inner city in a sea of ​​fire, and no one dared to enter.

The fire burned all night, making the entire city of Beiping "brightly lit." When the fire became smaller, Xu Huang ordered his soldiers to carry water to put out the fire.

"General, there are no living people in the city. There are burnt mummies everywhere." The soldiers who entered and came out reported to Xu Huang.

".Take out Shen Pei's body from the top of the city and hand it over to Shen Rong."

In fact, Xu Huang was a little confused. Shen Pei set fire to the city. Could it be that Yuan Shao was also burned to death? In other words, Yuan Shao was actually already dead after being hit by Lu Bu's arrow, so Shen Pei dared to set fire to the city unscrupulously.

Thinking of this, Xu Huang suddenly became enlightened and ordered at the same time: "Go and search carefully inside and outside the governor's house. Maybe you can find Yuan Shao's body."

As the saying goes, if you want to see a person alive, you want to see a corpse if you are dead, because if you can't see the body, you can't accurately judge whether a person is dead, especially the princes who are fighting for hegemony in the world. If they are not dead, there will be great consequences. As the saying goes, if you hit the snake, you will not die, but it will hurt yourself.

Di Qing, a famous general in the Northern Song Dynasty, was ordered to conquer Nong Zhigao in the south during the reign of Renzong. At that time, Nong Zhigao was the most powerful in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas, but he was finally defeated by Di Qing's fierce attack. Di Qing led his army in hot pursuit and finally besieged him in the isolated city. As a result, Nong Zhigao also set a fire to burn the city. When the fire was extinguished, the Song army found a charred corpse wearing a dragon robe. Of course you can't see clearly.

And Di Qing reported the matter to the court, not saying that he had captured Nong Zhigao, but only the charred corpse wearing a dragon robe. This incident naturally made the Song army very dissatisfied, because if he caught Nong Zhigao, he could He asked the court for a reward, but Di Qingfei did this.

However, it can also be seen that it is indeed very troublesome if the enemy leader cannot be accurately captured.

Xu Huang sent sergeants to search around, but Yuan Shao could not be found. Naturally, he was anxious. At this time, a soldier came to report that someone outside the door knew where Yuan Shao's body was.

"Do you know where Yuan Shao's body is?" Xu Huang stared at the young man in front of him and asked with a hint of confusion.

"Yes, the villain knows, but if the villain tells General Xu, I wonder if General Xu can give the villain a hundred gold to support his mother?" The young man said expressionlessly.

Xu Huang had a hint of admiration on his face. After all, everyone likes filial people, not to mention that the Han Dynasty was the dynasty that valued filial piety the most.

"Okay! As long as you tell me where Yuan Shao's body is, and the news is true, I will give you five hundred gold, and you can also serve in our army, so that you and your mother will have no worries about food and clothing." Xu Huang agreed.

"Yuan Shao's body is in Yuan Mansion, but it was buried deep underground, so there was no damage to the inner city when it was burned last night."

"Oh? Who are you and how do you know this matter so clearly?" Xu Huang asked curiously, because this is obviously a big secret that ordinary people cannot know.

"My name is Yuan Fang, and Yuan Shao is my father." The young man was silent for a while and said with hatred.

"What?" Xu Huang was shocked. There were many heroes vying for hegemony. There are many sellers seeking glory these days, but it would be inappropriate to reveal the body of his father like this, right?

The young man said angrily: "In his eyes, only Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang are his sons. The rest are no different from slaves. My mother is a concubine in Yuan's mansion. He gave birth to me when he was drunk!"

"After my mother was favored by him once, she never saw him again. Others said I was a bastard."

After listening to his words, Xu Huang finally understood and couldn't help but sigh.

Everyone thinks that in ancient times, there were three wives and four concubines, but they don’t know that in ancient times, there was also one husband and one wife, but one husband and one wife had multiple concubines. Only the wife of the wife was the wife, and the other concubines had no human rights at all and could be treated as slaves. Treat, upset and even kill him.

But the main wife is different. She cannot be divorced casually. If she is divorced casually, she will be condemned. Therefore, men in ancient times respected their first wives very much. Except for the emperor, changing queens was like changing clothes.

Xu Huang immediately took hundreds of soldiers and Yuan Fang to rush to the county governor's mansion. The county governor's mansion was also located in the inner city. Naturally, it was also burned to ruins by a fire caused by the judge, and many charred remains could be seen. The limbs of the corpse were spread out, and it was obvious that it had been touched by flames before death. The pain was unimaginable.

"Is it in here?" Xu Huang turned to Yuan Fang and asked.

"Well, it's definitely inside." Yuan Fang confirmed.

Xu Huang waved his hand: "dig for me!"

Hundreds of soldiers picked up shovels and dug, sweating profusely, and finally dug out a coffin at noon.

"Dig it out!"

The soldier who dug out the coffin shouted excitedly, and Xu Huang hurriedly rushed to meet him: "Open the coffin and take a look, hurry up!"

Although it is unethical to open someone's coffin, it must be confirmed that it is Yuan Shao.

The surrounding soldiers banged with shovels and opened the coffin lid. Xu Huang stretched his neck and took a look. He was overjoyed. Who was inside if it wasn't Yuan Shao?

Shenpei originally planned to put Yuan Shao's body in a coffin and put it temporarily in the city so that it could be buried in the soil in the future, but he didn't expect Shenrong to surrender to the city. Naturally, Shenpei had no time to move Yuan Shao's body. .

"Great, it's really Thief Yuan!"

Xu Huang shouted: "Cover the coffin and send the body to Luoyang!"

In the Battle of Peiping, Shenrong surrendered the city. Xiliang Army and Bingzhou Army attacked the city like a tide. Shenpei set fire to the city, and Beiping City fell into the hands of Xiliang Army.

Xu Huang dug up Yuan Shao's body, and then arranged for a large cart to be sent to Luoyang quickly, changing horses but not people at various stations along the way.

At the same time, just as Xu Huang and Lu Bu teamed up to capture Peiping and gain half of Youzhou, Cao Cao also planned a long-planned military operation against Hebei.

Xia Houshang, Lu Qian and others led their troops from Qingzhou, crossed the sea and attacked Ping'an Port. They then passed through Xiangping and Liaoxi counties, and then set up troops to ambush Gongsun Du on the road he must pass through, defeating Gongsun Du's main force.

Several strong cities in Liaodong were occupied by Cao Cao's army. Gongsun Du was desperate, and the nobles who had been killed by him in the past also defected to Cao Cao. Gongsun Du wiped out the large and small nobles in Liaodong, so naturally there were fish that slipped through the net. These people hated Gongsun Du so much that they naturally used all their resources to help Cao's army, so that large flags with the word Cao were planted all over Liaodong.