Chen Qun left quietly, just as Chen Qun came gently, waving his sleeves and taking away a lot of indignation...
On the tenth day after Chen Qun left, Cao's army began to fully mobilize, and countless soldiers rushed towards the border of Han and Wei.
It is not an exaggeration to say that there are countless people. It has been at least half a month. Wang Xuan has not counted how many people Boss Cao mobilized this time.
From the Jingyu line, to the Yellow River, and then to Xuzhou, at every important node, you can see Cao's army pouring in like a blanket. Because there are so many people, it is impossible to think about the clothing issue. It is also difficult to distinguish which ones.
Are they soldiers, and which are civilians? Anyway, there are people everywhere.
It must be admitted that the aristocratic family's accumulation over hundreds of years is really strong. After Chen Qun passed on the information about the return from the north, everyone knew about the irreconcilability between the two sides. This full-scale mobilization really made Wang Xuan feel...
of shock.
"Boss Cao is crazy." Wang Xuan put down the information in his hand and looked at the people in the conference room with disbelief, "Are you sure your statistics are correct? There are more than three million people in the statistics alone, right?
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"How many people will there be under Boss Cao's rule? He can't survive!"
Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Xi Zhicai looked at each other and smiled bitterly. In order to cope with Boss Cao's comprehensive counterattack, these guys put down their respective tasks and put all their energy here.
"There are still more than 20 million people, but I don't know whether Cao Cao is crazy or not. Those aristocratic families are indeed crazy." Xi Zhicai glared at Wang Xuan fiercely, and then said bitterly: "You said you would go up
Why did you go crazy the first time and insist on saying something so deadly? It’s okay now. According to intelligence, these three million people are not all there. Those aristocratic families are still continuing to mobilize the people to rule. Who knows how many people will be mobilized in the end?
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"No..." Wang Xuan didn't know how to refute. I was just bragging. How could I cause such a big trouble?
"Mobilizing so many people, no more farming? No harvest today? Will we be so hungry next year?" Wang Xuan still couldn't believe it.
In the past, what everyone called a million-strong army was just a bluff. The two to three million people who could really be mobilized would be called a million-strong army. But now the data actually shows that there are more than three million. Damn it, I have a total population of 100,000 people.
How many there are!
"I don't know what you are talking about." Xi Zhicai frowned and said solemnly: "However, according to intelligence, these three million people are not just men, but also many women and old people. It can be seen that,
This time those top aristocratic families are really in a hurry and are preparing to use the human sea tactic to drown us!"
"Do they have so much military rations?" Wang Xuan continued to ask without giving up.
Xi Zhi shook the information in his hand and began to describe it in detail.
This time is different from the past. Large aristocratic families took the lead in various places, and small and medium-sized aristocratic families participated. It was really a comprehensive mobilization. In order to balance the interests, the aristocratic families in the border areas went bankrupt to support this counterattack plan. The result of the discussion was the replacement of population, land, and resources.
The wealthy families in the central area use their own control of population, land and other resources to compensate the border families for their losses. This means that the border families have not suffered too much loss, they are just replacing resources. In this way, the family will be ruined.
It doesn't matter if you support the counterattack.
This is also the reason why men, women, old and young join the battle. The common people have no autonomy at all. The wealthy families who control the land can go as they please, and they can go or not. Whoever dares not to go will be deprived of the right to lease land for farming.
You, the tenants, are not entitled to anything and can only wait to starve to death!
In this case, why not go?
As for food, there is still food. It is directly the rations of the people and the savings of the family. It is easy to hold on for a few months. If we can hold on until this season's harvest, we can still hold on for another half a year.
The current situation is that these people are swarming in with no organization or discipline, and they don't even set up camp. They are just like locusts coming in overwhelming numbers.
If there was a city that was blocking the main roads and was impassable, the people would stay in front of the city and dig holes and pile up soil, as if they wanted to fill the city with soil until the whole city was leveled.
If they encounter a passable place, they will rush directly into the territory of the Han army, mixed with a small group of cavalry from Cao's army and soldiers pretending to be refugees. Along the way, they will burn farmland, destroy water conservancy facilities, roads... and destroy everything that can be destroyed.
thing.
The losses caused are countless!
"What do the border guards do? Just let them destroy it while they do it?" Wang Xuan's expression became serious now, and he looked at Xi Zhicai with an unkind tone and asked.
"Otherwise? What else can we do?" Xi Zhicai looked a little discouraged, "That's not 12,000 or 20,000 people, even if it's 30,000 or 50,000, we won't be lenient if Cao Jun forces them to attack the city. After all, we have to deal with our own family.
Be safe and responsible, but these are three million people!"
"There are too many people. Do we want to kill all three million people? That is simply impossible. We are teachers of benevolence and righteousness. We have done nothing wrong to the common people. We also promote and educate the military in the same way. Now we can start.
Kill these people who are obviously common people!"
"Then the army will collapse first, not to mention the benevolence of the lord, it is impossible for him to order the massacre of these three million people."
As he spoke, Xi Zhicai waved his arms excitedly, "I know what you want to say. After killing some of them, it will naturally scare the people and run away. But the problem is, according to the intelligence behind them, the real people behind these people are
The mobilized soldiers of Cao Cao and the private soldiers of the family, accompanied by large iron-clad four-wheeled carriages, completely blocked the way back."
"Obviously, Cao Jun's calculation is that even if these three million people die, they will die on our soil!"
"Even if corpses are used to cause a plague, we will fight to the death together!"
"They're--crazy!"
Xi Zhi just finished shouting, and there was a dead silence in the conference room. The atmosphere was extremely depressed. No one thought that those wealthy families who were full of benevolence, justice and morality would be so vicious. At this moment, the last trace of disguise was really revealed. They were cold-blooded and cruel. They were more cruel than those who were afraid of them.
The tyrant who verbally criticizes is even more cruel and completely inhumane.
Of course, this is in the eyes of Wang Xuan and others, but it is another story in the eyes of those aristocratic families. The aristocratic families just push people out, but they do not tell you to kill them. You can ignore it, and you are not from the aristocratic family.
Anyone who kills people or blocks the road behind them is Cao Cao's people, so they are still clean, with not a single stain on their bodies.
What's more, in the eyes of the scholars, it was they who protected the people and gave them the opportunity to cultivate the land to support themselves. Now that they are the leaders and protectors of the people, they are in trouble. Shouldn't the people contribute in return?