Chapter 819: People’s hearts see people’s hearts (1)
Just when Fei Qian was boosting the morale of his soldiers and preparing to march towards Yinshan, the Jingzhao Sanfu area far to the south was already in complete chaos.
When Li Jue and Guo Bang came to Chang'an with their troops and horses, there was still a commotion in the city of Chang'an, and there was no tension at all about the impending war.
After Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses sacked Hongnong County, many forts along the river had been defeated. Many Hongnong nobles gradually migrated to the mountainous areas in the south, and even crossed Wuguan to Yuzhou and Jingbei.
, even those who still stayed in Hongnong were cautious and would not show their faces in the direction of the river, for fear of encountering fire.
When the Chang'an court received news of the joint attack of Li Jue and Guo Si, Li Guo's troops had already passed Hangu Pass, but no one in the court had any intention of Li Jue and Guo Si's attack.
The coalition forces paid great attention to it, and there were still endless debates about the topic of moving the capital every day.
Chang'an is located in Guanzhong. It was originally a small place, but now a large number of people have poured in. After Dong Zhuo's death, no one was able to provide livelihood for these people who had no fixed place to live and no food and clothing. This immediately caused many problems. In addition, prices
It was boiling, and every day in Chang'an Fangkou, people who could not survive were selling their heads, sons and daughters, and there were countless people who froze to death and starved to death.
The court officials, who were mainly Shandong nobles, did not want to stay in Chang'an at all, so they opened their eyes and chose to turn a blind eye and not hear. There was a little unknown secret joy in their hearts. Let's make chaos, make it more chaotic, and wait until the chaos turns into decay.
When the situation comes to an end, he will definitely leave Chang'an...
Wang Yun doesn't want to stay in Chang'an, but he doesn't want to move the capital east either. The reason is very simple. The two Yuan Dynasties are now powerful and have military power. If they go to Luoyang or somewhere further east, wouldn't it become another problem?
With Dong Zhuo not coming to Beijing, can Wang Yun hand over the power he had worked so hard to obtain?
As for these officials, big and small, who were originally in Chang'an, they wanted to control but did not dare to, or had no way to control them. They were originally under Dong Zhuo's control, and they must have had some contact with Dong Zhuo. Now that Dong Zhuo has fallen, these
People are afraid of being implicated and want to stay at home like a tortoise every day. How can they be willing to take risks and take responsibility? Besides, these people from Henan Yi and the Shandong gentry don't care, but these local officials in Chang'an dare to take care of them? In extraordinary times
What if the hat of buying people with ulterior motives is taken off, and the whole family goes to the street for a walk? So it is better to do less than to do more.
As a result, people at the grassroots level saw it but did not dare to take care of it, while people at the top did not want to take care of it and pretended they could not see it. These migrating people were miserable, and some of them froze to death and starved to death. But those who survived were really helpless.
, then migrate to the more deserted west, or migrate again to the north...
Li Jue and Guo Si moved cautiously and slowly towards Chang'an at first. You must know that there were thirty to forty thousand troops stationed in Chang'an alone. Plus some surrendered troops around Dong Zhuo's death, it was almost theirs.
Two or three times more. If such a force were to go head-to-head, it would not be as fruitful as Li Jue and Guo Si. But looking at Chang'an's reaction, it seems to be getting weaker and weaker. Except for the fact that he sent an envoy in the beginning.
Apart from scolding and ordering the two to disband on the spot, there was not much movement. This made Li Jue and Guo Si, who had been worried for a while and even sent double scouts to inquire about the movements of Chang'an's troops and horses, finally gasped.
Take a breath of air.
Even Guo Si, who has always been more cautious, expressed a hint of optimism with the intelligence on Chang'an's movements compiled by his scouts every day, and began to imagine how to attack Chang'an City, instead of just thinking about it as before
What if Chang'an soldiers and horses attack and they can no longer resist, how to retreat...
Compared to Li Jue, who was more optimistic, he already felt that the decision in the court was undecided. The people in Chang'an City were panicked and there was not much fighting power left. As long as the troops came to the city of Chang'an, they might be able to defeat it with one blow, and the situation would be glorious.
Entered Chang'an City.
For Li Jue and Guo Si, this news is good news, and it also confirms what Jia Xu said originally. However, now that there is not much food and grass, it gives Li and Guo a headache. Without food and grass, there is nothing they can do.
March into Chang'an.
Along the way to Hongnong, the farmland along the way is basically abandoned. Now it is impossible for Li Jue and Guo Si to conjure grain and grass out of thin air. Before, they did not dare to search too hard in the Yuzhou area for fear of
They were encircled and annihilated by the two Yuan Dynasties from the north and the south, so they don't have much food and grass now. Although Li Jue and Guo Si led mainly infantry and only a few horses, a large army cannot be allowed to march and fight no matter how economical it is.
The big soldiers have no dry food for combat, no arrows and other consumables for battle, and the morale of the army is not very stable now. To make these big soldiers obedient, if nothing else, at least they must have food. If they really want to go into battle, how much will it cost?
Before going out into battle, you need to work hard, and these pots and pans of food are also necessary.
If Chang'an City can be defeated in one battle, it will save some troubles. Otherwise, this is under Chang'an City, and there is still a need to set up a camp as a support for defense. But now there is a lack of tents, not to mention those special-sized timbers.
, tools for processing wood, even iron chains to connect the Luzhai, large iron nails to fasten the wood, etc., all kinds of things are in short supply.
These things, that is, Guo Si's worries, are also the reasons for not attacking Chang'an immediately. As for Li Jue, of course he understands, but he has no good solution.
Now along the way, the county town has been abandoned, let alone the farmland in the wild. It's okay to need wood, iron nails and the like. At worst, some people will be sent to the surrounding abandoned villages and cities to dismantle some, but this food and grass,
It's true that it really can't be changed.
"How about..." Li Jue suddenly thought of something and turned to Guo Bang and said, "...ask Wen He? If I can't tell, what should I pay attention to?"
"Wenhe?" Guo Bang rolled his eyes and did not agree immediately. Guo Bang had always been relatively repulsive to Jia Xu because he could not see clearly this person, although Jia Xu said he only wanted to get through Chang'an.
After that, he could return to his hometown with peace of mind, but Guo Bang felt that this was probably just an excuse. He was not sure what Jia Xu was really thinking.
Li Jue also saw Guo Si's hesitation, and heard Guo Si say more than once that he should be wary of the opaque Jia Xu, so he really hasn't been too close to Jia Xu along the way, but now he is almost running out of food and salary.
, how could he care about anything else, not to mention that Jia Xu had some good ideas before, so it wouldn’t hurt to ask him for any countermeasures now, so he said: "...How about asking Wen He for some advice?"
"..." Guo Bang was silent for a while, "...it's better to call him..."
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius said that rituals and music collapsed... I hope everyone can understand what he really meant... But in the Han Dynasty, another kind of "collapse of rituals and music" began...
