April 18th, this is the most bloody day before Chang'an City falls into the madness of the doomsday.

Li Jue's anger was mixed with the disintegration of his troops due to the disastrous defeat of the troops, and the bad news that the emperor had secretly escaped to avoid being held hostage were mixed together, causing him to start a massacre of the palace massacres, officials and generals Dong Cheng.

Early that morning, Li Ying's other son, Li Jin, took Xiliang soldiers into the palace despite his brother's death by his uncle for letting the emperor run away.

Empress Fu Shou was humiliated by Li Jue and Li Jin in turn and was killed by Ran Jian. All the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace of Empress Fu and Guiren Dong were killed without leaving any other women whom Liu Xie had been fortunate, except for the daughter of the Li family, and the eunuchs who served them were also killed.

The other ordinary eunuchs basically killed randomly, while the palace maids arrested them and waited for redistribution. However, the palace maids and eunuchs would not sit and wait for death. As the chaos began, many people tried to climb over the palace walls and escape, or directly rushed to the palace gate.

There are many Xiliang soldiers guarding the palace gate. Those who rushed out had to carry a few rounds of butcher knives before they could get out. The palace wall was very high, and even if the ladder was arranged secretly on the inside, they had to make sure that they would jump down from the outside and not get hurt. Those who were timid would not be able to leave.

In addition to these people, the family of the concubines was also cleaned. Dong Cheng's family was not in Chang'an, and Dong Guiren also died. However, the father of the Queen Fu Shou, Fu Wan's family, was still there, so Fu Wan and his wife were implicated, and the eldest princess Liu Hua was killed.

The eldest princess Liu Hua is the daughter of Emperor Huan and the sister of Emperor Ling's sect. When Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, Liu Hua, who had been married in his early thirties, was still humiliated by Dong Thief. Although he is nearly 40 years old and has a weak age, he still has not escaped the insults that Li Jue had before killing her.

After killing the eunuchs in the palace, Li Jue investigated the "Dong Cheng robbed the horse and the party" in court officials, and without telling the evidence, he cleaned it up randomly.

Within two or three days, Sikong Zhang Xi was beheaded and his whole family was wiped out.

Situ Chunyu Jia was beaten to death while being tortured and questioned because he was tortured and questioned. However, because Li Jue was anxious to kill more people, he did not have time to ask about his case. Chunyu Jia had not confessed until he was beaten to death, but his family was spared. After that, Liu Bei's army arrived.

Jingzhao Yin Zhao Wen, originally the former Situ of Chunyu Jia, was demoted to Jingzhao Yin because of his crimes of disasters (on the first month of spring, there was a small earthquake in Guanzhong, so Zhao Wen was demoted to Jingzhao Yin. So in the same month when Li Su forged the Wudu earthquake, there was actually a small earthquake in Guanzhong. Everyone thought it was normal, but earthquakes occurred frequently). Now that he encountered massacre, Zhao Wen, who was demoted to Jingzhao Yin, was more convenient for his life. He used his power to lead a group of subordinates to abandon the city and escaped from Li Jue's pursuit.

There were many young officials who had few families and were convenient to escape with Jingzhao Yin Zhao Wen. They went directly to the east and north of the city. As long as they crossed the Wei River in Xiliu, or arrived in Chiyang and successfully joined Liu Bei's army, they would have saved their lives.

The Grand Marshal Yang Biao was also imprisoned and tortured. He was in a critical condition and was in critical condition. Fortunately, his son Yang Xiu was only twenty years old and had a flexible mind. He dispersed all the property in his family and lobbyed and won over the Xiliang Army generals and schools who handled the case, and asked them to temporarily hold them off. He also said that the Yang family's property of Hongnong is mostly in Hongnong, the station of Duan Wei, and there was no trace of much of the property in Chang'an City. If Yang Xiu was given time to raise money, he could get more contributions from Hongnong's family.

The Xiliang officer who handled the case believed it, and Li Jue could not take care of so much at the moment, so Yang Biao was able to postpone the handling. The original intention of the case handler was to first reap other easy benefits and lives, and then to chew tough problems. Unexpectedly, the Yang family saved their lives.

In addition to the above four current former three dukes, the only one who survived intact among the officials of the same level was Sun Rui, the Shangshu Ling who betrayed Wang Yun and took the lead in surrendering to Li Jue. Although Sun Rui was alive, he continued to do evil in order to save his life in this wave of chaos, so he was actually dead. When Liu Bei broke in, he would definitely have to settle him.

The three dukes and monks, the ministers of the court, and five positions, when Liu Bei arrived, except for Yang Biao, who was recuperating, the others would be completely washed away. Despite this, this catastrophe was much better than the tragic situation in history of "Li Jue and Guo Si, who fought for wars and slaughtered all officials".

Huangfu Song, who was already old and retired, was originally a native of Xiliang and the former boss of the generals of the Xiliang army. It is said that Li Jue would not dare to kill him no matter how crazy he was. In history, he died of illness in Chang'an City the following year because of his poor living conditions.

But this time, seeing Li Jue’s actions in this way, and his nephew Huang Fu Li was killed by the Li family before, Huang Fu Song was furious and went to the palace to criticize Li Jue for his crime in person.

Li Jue didn't want to kill him, so he asked someone to tie him up and subdue him. Huangfu Song cursed him even more. In addition, he was old and his qi and blood surged. He probably had an acute cardiovascular disease. He fainted from anger and was carried back by his family and died of illness that night.

Five or six other nine ministers died, including Tian Fen, the Shaofu Tian, ​​the Tingwei Xuanbo, and the Shizhong Zhu Zhan...

Nearly half of them were implicated and killed, and their family property was confiscated. Among them, the old officers of the former Five Factions of the Northern Army of the Capital became the hardest hit area where Li Jue was suspicious of killing and seized military power. Even though many lieutenants were already idle and had no actual military power at all, three of them were still killed by Li Jue.

There are two more, Wei Jie, the captain of the Tunqi cavalry, and Ju Jun, the captain of the Shooting Shousheng. Considering that his original old colleague and boss Wu Kuang had already been mingled with Liu Bei and became a "relative relative" of Liu Bei, he made up his mind and followed Zhao Wen, fought with Li Jue's men for a while, breaking out of the city and running away.

Considering that Liu Bei would attack Chang'an, Wei Jie, and Ju Jun broke through the siege and broke out of the city and destroyed the northern gates of the capital and Weiyang Palace, as well as several other fortifications in the defense areas they could control, I think Li Jue would not repair it so quickly in the future.

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Zhao Yun found out that the emperor had escaped on April 18 that Li Jue began to purge the city in Chang'an, but his cavalry could not attack the city, so he could only report to Liu Bei, who was in the rear army immediately, begging Liu Bei and Guan Yu to step up the march, take Chang'an as soon as possible, and end the disaster in Chang'an.

All Zhao Yun could do was to divide his troops and continue to bypass Chiyang, first seize the periphery and counties, and even level the several counties in Weibei east of Chang'an, and seize Fuping and Wannian two counties, approaching Xinfeng and Zheng County south of the Wei River, along with Weibei. He also intercepted some of Li Ying's east of Chang'an, and sent a pursuit force that had failed to retaliate against the emperor.

These Li family's pursuit troops were frustrated in Huayin on the 16th. However, after the failed robbery, Li Ying himself retreated to Chang'an as soon as possible, and the ordinary soldiers below did not gather them all. Li Ying didn't know whether Li Jie wanted to attack Tongguan at that time, because he was afraid that the troops would withdraw too early and would attack again next time. He had to go for another trip, and his reaction was slow, so he left the troops in Xinfeng and Zheng County.

This time, these thousands of people met Zhao Yun's cavalry, and of course they collapsed and were destroyed by Zhao Yun within one day. Zhao Yun also used this to go east from Xinfeng to send scouts to Dong Cheng and Liang Xing's guards to communicate with Liang Xing, and told Liang Xing the good news that Duan Wei had joined forces with Liu Bei to annihilate Li Jue's main force.

Liang Xing heard that the former leader Duan Wei was in a good condition and made great contributions. Of course, he was not so dependent on Dong Cheng. After all, Liang Xing was just a martial artist before and did not understand politics. Duan Wei was not allowed to make any decisions, so he could only follow Dong Cheng's lead.

Liu Bei received an urgent report from Zhao Yun in the morning of the 19th, and immediately ordered Guan Yu's main infantry force to speed up the marching. On the afternoon of the 20th, he quickly arrived at the periphery of Chang'an.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao on the Western Front were impatient after hearing that Li Jue was acting in Chang'an City and accelerated their strong attack on Huaili.

With no hesitation to the casualties of soldiers in the attack, Zhang Feijun broke through the wall and smashed a gap slightly, and Zhang Feijun paid the price of more than 2,000 casualties and broke through the attack. Then Zhang Fei personally supervised the army to the city and finally killed the Xiliang general Wang Fang who had been struggling with him for so long.

After the Youfufeng Governor Huaili was broken, Ma Chao attacked and forced the Xiliu Bridge to cross the Wei River and its tributary Fengshui, and also approached Chang'an from the east.

On April 19th, the day before Liu Bei arrived, the former Situ and Jingzhao Yin Zhao Wen brought only three nine ministers who escaped, including Zong Zheng Liu Ai, Guangluxun Deng Quan, Grand Secretary Zhang Yi, and two seven or eight other two thousand stone officials. In addition, the Tunqin Clan Wei Jie, the Shooting Clan Ju Jun, each of them had more than a thousand breakout soldiers, as well as the eunuch leader Da Chang Qiu Miaosi, the eunuch leader who broke through, protected the hundreds of harem palace maids who broke out and came out of the city to surrender.

Because Liu Bei himself was not here, Zhao Wen and others originally planned to defect to Zhang Fei, who was closest to him, so as not to have too many dreams at night, but later they heard that Zhang Fei had a furious temper and felt that it was better to take a detour to join Zhao Yun, who was cautious.

But soon Li Jue sent troops out of the city to chase Zhao Wen and others. They had no choice but to plunge west into Zhang Fei's Xiliu Camp. Li Jue did not take the escape of these officials seriously. The only ones sent to chase him were Li Bie, his nephew who had just recalled from Lantian, and the thousands of cavalry led by his nephew Li Bie, who had just been recalled from Lantian.

To put it bluntly, before April 17, Li Bei was guarding Yuan Shu in Lantian and Yiguan defense line, and fought with Ji Ling and Qiao Rui. But when Li Jie heard that the emperor had run away, Liu Bei was approaching. It was meaningless to defend Lantian and Wuguan Dao, so he recalled Li Bei urgently, and Yiguan almost abandoned him. Li Jie even had the mentality of "You can't get what I can't get intact", and deliberately wanted to let Yuan Shu in and compete with Liu Bei for power and profit.

Unfortunately, Li Bie had just been transferred back and caught up with the task of chasing the escaped ministers and palace ladies. As a result, on the banks of the Weishui River, he was about to catch up with the fugitives and started a massacre, he was suddenly intercepted by Ma Chao cavalry who came out of Xiliu Camp.

Ma Chao's cavalry has now been upgraded, all equipped with the entire forging breastplate used by Liu Bei's army for the cavalry. Just one cavalry charges, Li Bie, who is slightly less than his, is scattered.

Li Bie himself and Zhang Fei and Fa Zheng had been tangled with him for so long, but he didn't expect that he was shot by Ma Chao in the end.

"Thank you for helping me! I dare to ask which general is under the tent of King Hanzhong? I am the Jingzhao Yin Zhao Wen/Da Zongzheng Liu Ai..."

Zhao Wen and the other nine ministers and lieutenants looked at Ma Chao with trembling eyes and shot Li Bei. Then they breathed a sigh of relief, escaped from death and climbed forward to show their identity.

Ma Chao was so excited that he was so energetic that he said in a depressed and modest way: "I dare not, I am just a lieutenant under the Hanzhong King's tent, and I dare not be called a general. The general of the Conquering Guard was stationed in the Xiliu camp in front, so everyone can settle there."
Chapter completed!