No one among the hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou could stand up and seek revenge against Cao Cao.
Because they are all dead.
No relatives are alive, no descendants will remember them, and naturally no one will raise the sword in their hands and roar "revenge" towards their enemies!
Except for the cold sentence "The Surabaya River will not flow" in both "Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", they left nothing behind.
The hundreds of villagers of the second family of Deng and Shen gathered in Huangmenting and Zhuangyang were lucky, because at least many of their relatives had escaped.
Perhaps for these dead people, they did not expect that the remaining relatives of Huangmenting could avenge them. After all, no matter how resentful the dead were, they also hoped that their relatives could survive.
I just hope that there are still people who remember them. During the holidays, it is enough to have a sacrifice.
As for revenge, no one wants their loved ones to ride on mules and charge towards a mountain. That is asking for death, and no one wants that.
Death is not terrible. What is terrible is that all future generations will die, not even a root will be left. If this is the case, even the dead souls will not be able to rest in peace.
But how can the living people forget this hatred?
The biggest hatred in Shen Chen's heart was actually not that Cao Cao killed hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou.
Because those people have nothing to do with him.
Maybe it's selfish to say that, but it's true.
No one would risk their lives for someone they have never met or met.
Just like no one would be generous to himself because of the suffering of others.
There may be a few saints in this world who are full of the highest ideals who would do that and spend all their wealth to save someone.
But at least for more than 99% of people, this will not be the case.
Shen Chen is also an ordinary person. Perhaps he was kind-hearted before time travel, which allowed him to maintain a kind of sympathy for the oppressed people at the bottom.
Sometimes I also watch videos of poor families online.
He obviously lives an ordinary life, but he cannot see the suffering in the world.
Donate money, volunteer, do good deeds, and always live a positive and optimistic life.
But now his heart is full of torment.
Because his opponent is Cao Cao.
That Cao Cao who unified the north, wrote poems across the river, and wielded the whip of Wei Wu.
Thousands of people died at his hands, so why could he stand up and seek justice for those who died?
So from the beginning, Shen Chen just wanted to persuade the clan to flee quickly and stay away from Xuzhou.
It's a pity that people talk lightly, and it wasn't until disaster struck that some results were achieved.
He could not save hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, and could only barely save his own clan. But even then, he lost many relatives and friends.
At the beginning, he was not so bold as to make an enemy of Cao Cao.
He just wants to protect his clan relatives from harm and allow his family to survive, that's all.
It was not until later that he got to know the world and this era more deeply, communicated with many so-called celebrities, and got acquainted with the children of those aristocratic families.
Only then did he understand.
Feudal society itself is synonymous with darkness, corruption, exploitation and oppression.
The children of wealthy families don't treat common people as human beings.
In the war years, the princes and warlords massacred cities, plundered and harmed millions of people.
Famine, man-made disasters, plagues, once the world begins to deteriorate, human life is as worthless as withered leaves in autumn.
And even in peaceful times, it doesn't mean you will be safe.
If you meet a good emperor, you will feel a little more stable.
If you are unlucky enough to encounter a tyrant who imposes excessive taxes and acts wantonly, it will be a disaster for the people of the world.
What's more important is that this is only the top class, and the people at the bottom actually have no contact with the powerful.
What they met were low-level officials such as village pavilion chiefs, village elders, and county officials. If they were not satisfied at all, they might be punished to death by these people.
The magistrate who ruined his family and the prefect who exterminated his family.
There are also powerful people, aristocratic families, and powerful families in the county. It is easy to destroy an ordinary family.
Guan Yu later became a powerful figure in China and was a master of martial arts. Because he killed powerful men in the county when he was young, he was forced to leave his hometown and flee to Youzhou.
General Zang Ba Cao Wei Zhendong offended the eunuch when he was young and fled deep into Mount Tai for more than ten years. He was not able to come out until the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the collapse of the world's legal system.
Even those famous families may not be safe. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao killed countless famous families in Yanzhou and Jizhou. Zhang Yang, the governor of Hanoi, and Sun Jian, the governor of Changsha, also killed a large number of officials and celebrities.
This world sucks.
The Han Dynasty is like a pyramid. Any layer on top can oppress the people at the bottom and make them breathless.
Except for a very few, most princes, warlords and even Yellow Turban bandits will definitely oppress and exploit the people at the bottom as long as they have soldiers and horses and the means of violence they can use.
Shen Chen grew up in a rural pavilion. Although the Deng and Shen families were members of a local wealthy family, he did not suffer much oppression and exploitation.
But there are countless things he has seen with his own eyes and felt.
However, even so, at the beginning, he didn't want to do anything for the world, he just wanted to survive in troubled times.
People cannot choose dangerous paths just because they are kind.
Sympathy is sympathy, but Shen Chen was only an eight-year-old child at that time. It was already very difficult to save the clan, so why talk about avenging others?
Until that murderous butcher's knife quietly landed on his head, almost grazing his neck.
Only then did he understand that if he did not take control of himself, the sword and ax would one day befall him.
Shen Chen has never forgotten the massacre that night in Zhuanyang Ju. He saw with his own eyes the seventh uncle next door being hacked to death, and countless relatives of the second family of Deng and Shen being slaughtered like pigs and sheep.
Even he himself, like a mouse, huddled in the ditch and shivered in the fire, praying that Cao's soldiers would not find him.
So from that time to after coming to Jingzhou, Shen Chen knew the three years of life experience.
If you don't do something, sooner or later your race will be destroyed.
Just like in the later famous American TV series "House of Cards", the insignificant protestor was tied up at the gate of the Capitol. No matter how loud and miserable he screamed, others would only treat him as a transparent person.
If you really want others to value you, you can only make yourself stronger.
If Shen Chen had 200,000 elite soldiers under his command, would Cao Cao still dare to massacre his clan and kill his relatives?
So from then on, Shen Chen understood a truth - if you want to protect the people you value and fulfill your ideals, then make yourself stronger!
So he worked hard in Jingzhou to strengthen his family, help his uncle ascend to power, win over Gan Ning who was not reused, hoard food and grass, and build weapons and equipment, just for today.
On the left bank of the turbulent water, it was mid-spring in February. The breeze was blowing the willows on the bank, and the wild grass basil that had grown to the ankles was swaying in the wind.
Shen Chen stood on a hillside with a vertical height of about thirty meters above the ground.
In later generations, this location was actually around the twelfth floor. It was not very far away from Cao Cao, and both sides could hear each other's voices.
He rode on horseback and stared at Cao Cao coldly.
He already had a certain understanding of the three views of the ancients of the Han Dynasty.
Now I understand what these so-called famous families think.
Therefore, he did not intend to persuade Cao Cao not to engage in massacres in the future.
Since everyone has different views on things, there is naturally nothing to talk about and we can just fight.
After that "revenge" sound, more than a thousand Huangmenting soldiers behind Shen Chen suddenly burst into violent roars.
In an instant, countless arrows came overwhelmingly, as if to tear the void apart and cover Cao Cao's position.
“Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!”
The guards on the left and right immediately stepped forward and raised their shields to cover Cao Cao and Cao Hong's retreat.
"kill!"
Cao Cao stared at Shen Chen, pointed his sword at Shen Chen and said: "Whoever can kill or capture this man alive will be granted the title of Marquis of Pavilion and will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins!"
"snort."
Shen Chen smiled coldly.
He was granted the title of Marquis of Tingting and was rewarded with thousands of gold coins; Cao Cao was quite generous.
Logically speaking, he is just a Sikong and has no qualifications to confer a title on others.
But now that Liu Xie is in his hands, he can really seal it to whomever he wants.
For example, Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong, Yue Jin, Yu Jin and others were basically granted titles during this period.
Therefore, this promise is still very attractive to low-level soldiers.
In an instant, Cao's army began to rush forward as if it had been injected with blood. On the contrary, Zhang Xiu's Xiliang army was slightly panicked.
After all, they were defeated the day before yesterday. Facing Cao's army today, they would inevitably feel demoralized.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the horn sounded "woo woo woo".
In the wilderness to the north, an army suddenly appeared.
Gan Ning successfully completed the mission of sniping Yu Jin and came back to support.
It turned out that when Shen Chen saw the terrain, he immediately guessed that Cao Cao would definitely choose to send a side force to take a detour.
So he asked Zhang Xiu to stop Cao Cao at the river to delay, and also led Huangmenting soldiers to help, so that the total number of Zhang Xiu's troops was close to 8,000.
Although they are still not as good as Cao Cao, their numbers are basically the same, not to mention that they are still occupying favorable terrain to fight the blocking battle.
Gan Ning first went north to intercept Yu Jin, and repeated his old trick. When Yu Jin's partial army was crossing the river, he sent ships to break the bridge, divide the battlefield, and then eat part of Cao's army.
After repelling this partial division of Cao's army, they immediately came back to support and rushed to the battlefield. It immediately became a situation of using less to fight more.
You must know that Cao Cao originally had 15,000 men at this moment, but he asked Yu Jin to lead 3,000 men around, so he only had 12,000 men around him. Moreover, some of the rear troops did not cross the river, and the number on the left bank was only seven or eight thousand.
On the other hand, after Gan Ning arrived at the battlefield, he had 5,000 men plus Zhang Xiu and Chen Chen's 8,000 men. The total force reached 13,000 men. In a short period of time, he actually had more troops than Cao Cao.
If future generations are familiar with this tactic and are familiar with the history of our army, they will find that this tactic is just copying the tactics of several founding marshals and generals.
When one's own forces are smaller than the enemy's, first send a small force to contain the enemy's main force, and then the main force cannibalize the enemy's partial divisions, slowly weakening the enemy's strength. Finally, when the enemy's strength is seriously damaged, the enemy can be annihilated in one fell swoop.
Many founding marshals and generals in later generations liked to use this tactic. For example, Xu Shuai's bold division of troops, attacking in the east and attacking in the west, and Peng Shuai's "mushroom tactics" are all such tactics.
Now Shen Chen has imitated this, and has directly copied it, and applied it to the wars in the Cold Weapon Age.
At this time, he was very grateful to his father, Lao Shen.
Lao Shen liked these very much, and his family bought many books about how the great men and founding marshals of the past overcame all obstacles to create a new era.
Shen Chen read a lot during his free time in high school and college, and learned a lot of useful things.
At this moment, when Gan Ning arrived at the battlefield, the situation suddenly changed drastically.
When Zhang Xiu saw the reinforcements arriving, he was overjoyed and said: "The reinforcements are coming. Cao's army is weak. If we don't rush to kill them now, then we will kill them later!"
"kill!"
The morale of the Xiliang army was greatly boosted, and they roared loudly.
I forgot to save my life in the last chapter. Let me tell you in this chapter. It’s not me who said that Cao Cao was selfish. It was said by the great man. He said that Cao Cao was too selfish for being lenient to himself and strict to others. However, the great man also praised Cao Cao very much. Liu Bei, he thinks that Cao Cao has merits and demerits, and thinks that Liu Bei has shortcomings but also advantages. Everything has two sides, so in addition to writing about Cao Cao and Liu Bei's personal personalities and problems, I will also write about their advantages and disadvantages, and try to give everyone Create a flesh-and-blood image. Just like Cao Cao massacred the city, but he would also cry bitterly for Dian Wei, Cao Ang and others. People have complexities. We cannot say that Cao Cao massacred the city, he must be ruthless, and we cannot say that Liu Bei loves the people. He You must not make mistakes, so I will try my best to present this complexity.
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