Yan Zhong took care of everything, but he only ignored human nature.
Liu Bei came from Luoyang, always carrying his mission - to rescue Liu Bian and help the Han Dynasty.
Xu Rong took advantage of this and deliberately lured the Kwantung Army into a surprise attack on Chang'an.
Yan Zhong is also taking advantage of this to plan his strategy.
But how can man’s calculation be worth God’s calculation?
Along the way, he saw the hell-like horrors in places around Chang'an, and Liu Bei began to waver in his determination.
For the first time, he began to reflect, was he really right to start this war?
Even though the suffering suffered by millions of people in Luoyang was not caused by him.
But if we really want to investigate, if the eighteen princes had not attacked Dong, Dong Zhuo would not have chosen to move the capital to avoid being exposed, nor would he have moved the people to Guanzhong, causing the current situation.
People are like this, once they think about this issue, it is easy to get into trouble.
In the past few days, every time Liu Bei thought about the mother he saw in Xiagui and the father who exchanged his son with someone else's son for broth, his heart felt as painful and uncomfortable as a knife.
This emotion eventually evolved into a conflict with Cao Cao.
Liu Bei wanted to take advantage of the fact that he had some food and grass in hand, so he would take the people to evacuate to Huayin County first. When he arrived in Huayin County, he would be able to catch up with the food and grass, replenish the military rations, save the people, and then return to attack.
Chang'an.
But Cao Cao didn't want to let go of this golden opportunity. Compared with these useless commoners, the noble emperor of Chang'an and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were the most important people in the Han Dynasty.
Many people say that the historical process of mankind has always been driven by the elite. It has nothing to do with the common people and has nothing to do with the vast number of people who are as humble as grass.
Cao Cao thought so, but Liu Bei disagreed.
This may also be the reason why the two people finally broke up.
War is cruel.
It is also full of twists and turns and unimaginable unpredictability.
Just like the heavy rain in Waterloo and being four hours late, one wrong judgment may ruin the whole situation.
Xu Rong's judgment was far from ruinous, because he suddenly gathered the coalition forces towards the Wei River, mistakenly believing that the coalition forces would begin to bypass Yangling and Baqiao and raid Chang'an directly from the middle.
So the preparations we made were to outflank it from both wings.
However, the coalition's scouts blocked his scouts, resulting in the fact that the coalition's movement was not discovered at the first time. In fact, it was not a cross-river attack, but a crossing of the river to collect food and grass.
In this way, Xu Rong missed an opportunity, an opportunity to surprise and win while Liu Bei was leading the people to evacuate.
Because he brought tens of thousands of people with him, Liu Bei moved very slowly and could only cover thirty or forty miles a day.
The difference from Changbanpo is that at that time Liu Bei brought 100,000 people with him and had so much food and supplies that he could only walk ten miles a day.
But now we only have a few tens of thousands of people with us, and the food and baggage is almost nothing, so we need to go faster.
But in reality it’s not going anywhere fast.
A person with good physical strength can walk 3-5 kilometers per hour even if he is walking. If he walks for ten hours, he can walk 30-50 kilometers per hour without any problem.
However, many people had been hungry for several days and suddenly ate some porridge. They were still weak and moved slowly.
So walking more than ten kilometers a day is already the limit.
On the vast Kanto Plain, the crowds of people moved forward slowly like migrating cattle.
Looking down from a high altitude, on the vast land, some people are walking with difficulty, while others slowly fall down and never get up again.
People are struggling between life and death, but at least this time, they have hope of returning home.
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Cao Cao would not know, and even if Xu Rong was set up to ambush this time, he would not fall for it.
Because Xu Rong did not send anyone to pursue him at all, after discovering that the Kwantung Army was going to the Weihe River, he thought the enemy was going to Chang'an.
Therefore, the plan discussed by Cao Cao and Sun Jian and Bao Xin to use the people brought by Liu Bei as bait to ambush Dong Jun was a completely impossible tactic.
Therefore, as long as he chooses to pretend to withdraw his troops and stage an ambush, no matter how Liu Bei makes his choice, the final result will be the same.
The only difference is that if he leads the people, the retreat will be slower.
Without the people, the retreat will be faster.
That's all.
So maybe Cao Cao would scold Liu Bei for being a womanizer.
But from a consequentialist perspective, even if he chooses his strategy, it will still not have any impact on the outcome.
Puban County.
Although it didn't snow in Chang'an, it snowed heavily in Hedong County, which is close to Bingzhou.
In the depth of winter in December, Zhu Jun's troops and the Baibo Army were also moving forward with difficulty.
Although Zhu Jun had already set out immediately after receiving the news that the Kwantung Army was attacking Chang'an, he was also prepared for the worst.
Not only did he prepare all the food and supplies originally prepared for the winter, but he also recruited all the packhorses he could and found the best guides. However, the actual situation was still ten times more difficult than he expected.
Two days and one night of snow had drifted by, and there was thick and fluffy snow everywhere. It could easily reach the ankles if one stepped on it, and people could only drag their feet in the snow and stagger; after a day's march, the team often
He couldn't even walk forty miles.
This is still a plain area near Hedong. If it is a mountainous area in the Qinling Mountains, the roads are narrow and cramped, and the road conditions are extremely bad. This shows how difficult it is to march in winter.
Zhu Jun walked on the road with difficulty. The Bingzhou Army actually had thousands of cavalry, but in such heavy snowy weather, the cavalry was useless.
Looking at Puban County in the distance, Yang Feng whispered: "General Wei, this place is still five hundred miles away from Chang'an. Judging from the itinerary in the past few days, it may take more than ten days to get there. Our army only has enough food and grass."
In January, countless brothers died of frostbite and the price was too high."
Zhu Jun frowned and shook his head with a wry smile: "Time has not waited for me, the Kwantung Army has already invaded Chang'an. The strength of Dong's thieves has been greatly expanded. If they cannot join up with the Kwantung Army and allow Dong's thieves to defeat them individually, I'm afraid it will be difficult to capture them again.
Chang'an."
Hu Cai on the side was not as pessimistic as Yang Feng, and said rather excitedly: "General Wei, tell me, if we can capture Chang'an, rescue the Emperor, and make such great contributions, how will the Emperor reward us?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhu Jun smiled slightly and said: "Although you are rebels, the emperor has always been kind and lenient towards others. If you can establish this worldly To achieve great success, a Zhonglang general is bound to be indispensable."
After hearing his words, Hu Cai became even more excited and ran towards the front line, shouting vigorously to the soldiers to go faster.
December of the first year of Chuping was destined to be an extraordinary month.
Guanzhong Chang'an is turbulent.
Cao Cao proposed a plan and pretended to withdraw his troops, then set up an ambush.
However, Liu Bei took Zuo Fengyi's people and wanted to withdraw to Huayin.
Zhu Jun was still marching hard towards Chang'an, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Chen Mu has already entered the Qinling Mountains and has been trekking through mountains and rivers. It will take about seven or eight days to reach Huayin.
Basically, when Liu Bei withdrew to Huayin, the first batch of food and grass and Chen Mu should have arrived at about the same time.
This is because Chen Mu travels lightly and lightly. Although the road is narrow, it will not trap the infantry, so the infantry will definitely move faster than the food transport convoy.
After all, the total distance from Hongnong to Huayin is less than 200 miles.
In Yong County, Lu Bu looked at the Xiliang rebels who were retreating like a tide, the cold and stern light in his eyes was as sharp as a knife.
Like Bingzhou, Liangzhou is also experiencing heavy snow this year.
The heavy snow froze countless livestock to death, making it impossible for many Qiang people to survive. They eventually joined Han Sui and Ma Teng's rebellion and began to march toward the Sanfu Land in Guanzhong.
Dong Zhuo had an equally difficult time this winter, that is to say, Liu Yan of Yizhou did not have the courage to come to Qinwang. Otherwise, it was doubtful whether he could survive this winter.
With enemies on all sides, Dong Zhuo could only send Lu Bu with the most elite Xiliang cavalry to fight against the Liangzhou rebels, Niu Fu to fight Zhu Jun, and Xu Rong to fight the Kwantung Army. Except for tens of thousands of new soldiers, almost all the troops in the city were They were all sent out by him.
Lu Bu fought the final decisive battle with Han Sui and Ma Teng in Yong County.
It is said that there are fierce generals in Xiliang, but except for the man named Yan Xing and the man named Pang De, the others are not to be feared. A few or two moves are enough to kill a pile of corpses.
Even Yan Xingpang was defeated by him.
Xiliang people are just like that!
"Hoo ho ho!"
Countless soldiers waved their weapons and shouted victory with the unique attitude of Xiliang people.
Only Lu Bu wiped the blood on the moon blade of Fang Tian's painted halberd on an enemy's corpse, raised his halberd and raised his arms and shouted: "Let's go!"
Twenty thousand Xiliang cavalry turned around and galloped like thunder, rolling dust on the horizon, heading towards Chang'an.
The big shots don't know how hard the poor people living near Chang'an live.
Dong Zhuo used force to force the people of Luoyang to move the capital. Those with a little wealth could still survive in Chang'an.
But most of them are ordinary people who are already poor. When they were in Luoyang, they relied on a few acres of land owned by their parents to survive. Although the court relaxed the tax policy in the past few years, the lives of ordinary people were better.
But that's all. Even in modern society, a disease or a disaster may destroy an ordinary well-off family in an instant, let alone ancient times?
There were as many as 40,000 to 50,000 people who came to Xiagui County when they were forced to move away from their homeland. However, the land capacity of a county is limited, so how can outsiders like them get land?
In the end, they were ostracized by the locals, and no one from the government would care about them. They were left to fend for themselves. The crime rate and death rate soared, and the entire Chang'an area was in chaos.
Killings, thefts, and robberies were all happening in the streets, and even Dong Zhuo couldn't control the endless crimes.
At present, chaos dominates the world near Chang'an and Gyeonggi.
The same is true in Xiagui County.
The alleys are very smelly, with thick, dark green, always smelly sewage flowing everywhere.
In the vast pool of sewage, the original color of rags, hair floating on the water, and body parts that vaguely resemble human body fragments are scattered everywhere, and all kinds of dirt are floating or floating.
Shen.
As the war spread, the rich people left long ago, and those who stayed here were the people who had no tomorrow. The streets were filled with killings, and the smell of meat filled the entire city.
People are killing each other, and the dead will eventually become food for others. In the end, there will be fewer and fewer people alive and more and more bones.
This may be the darkest and most desperate moment in human history.
The woman who was sitting on the ground with her legs bent was dying. She survived because a man fed her a mouthful of human flesh after venting his anger on her, hoping to keep her and vent his anger a few more times.
The dead child is already rotten and stinky. No one would want to eat it.
But two days later, that man's head was smashed into pieces, and he also became a meal in the pot.
A man not far away had scarlet eyes and had not found food for two days in a row. He had no choice but to try his luck in such a dead alley.
The woman in the corner who had almost merged with the black mud caught his attention.
After looking carefully for a while, I was sure that it was a living person.
He walked towards her with a grin.
Human flesh is a good thing.
Although I'm a little short on firewood, I'm still full.
The woman still held the dead child in her arms. She seemed to hear the sound of footsteps walking in the sewage. Her eyelids moved slightly. In her blurred vision, she could already see a man slowly walking towards her with a sharp knife.
She closed her eyes again.
There is nothing to miss in this hellish world. Perhaps the underworld is more beautiful than here.
boom!
A faint groan was heard.
Then there was the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and sewage and mud splashing.
The woman was motionless, as if dead.
But in her ear, she heard a mellow voice speaking softly.