The current situation near Chang'an can be said to be a mess.
Xu Rong didn't know that only Liu Bei's main force was retreating. He thought that all the Kwantung Army had retreated, so he wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and beat the drowned dog.
The strategic significance of this attack was to completely inflict pain on the Kwantung Army and prevent them from invading Chang'an in a short period of time.
But who knew that Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Bao Xin's troops were one step ahead and hid in the vast reeds on the south bank of the Wei River and headed for Chang'an.
Since Xu Rong's scouts and scouts were tightly focused on Liu Bei's troops, the main force of Xu Rong and Duan Xuan were attracted by Liu Bei's troops and ignored them.
It's not that there's something wrong with Xu Rong's tactical arrangements, it's that Liu Bei's troops are too confusing.
He himself has tens of thousands of troops, plus tens of thousands of civilians, a force of more than 100,000 people, with no end in sight.
Who knew that Cao Cao and his 20,000 troops would break into pieces and leave secretly?
After all, Xu Rong's scouts themselves would be stopped by Liu Beijun's scouts, and there were countless silent confrontations between the two sides.
Including Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Guan Hai and others, Xu Rongjun's scouts shot and chased countless people. Naturally, there was no way for Xu Rong to find out the truth.
But what Cao Cao and the others didn't expect was that at this critical moment when Chang'an was about to be defeated, Lu Bu actually returned to the defense!
For Cao Cao, Sun Jian and the others, this was like a bolt from the blue, and they were hit hard.
For Dong Zhuo, this was nothing short of great good news.
Outside the gate of Zhang City, thousands of horses came rushing towards Chang'an City. Lu Bu took the lead, jumped off his horse and knelt down on one knee.
"Father!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Dong Zhuo looked up to the sky and laughed, and helped Lu Bu up: "I have Fengxian, he is really a hero sent by God. Today, it is the moment for Fengxian to make a name for himself. The rats from Guandong have sneaked into Chang'an and have entered the city. At this time, it is not
Fight, when can we wait for more?”
"Bu understands, please wait for a moment, my adoptive father. When I defeat the rebels, I will welcome my adoptive father back to the city!"
Lu Bu cupped his hands and finished speaking, turned around and mounted his horse. Amid his shouts of approval, groups of Xiliang cavalry rushed into Zhangcheng Gate and entered Chang'an.
Dong Zhuo stroked his beard and looked at this scene with a proud smile. He had finally controlled his destiny.
As long as you survive this test, the world is still in your hands!
The many ministers next to him were both disappointed and happy, with many emotions brewing. They all looked at each other with a mixture of sadness and joy, not knowing what to think.
They were disappointed that the soldiers and horses outside Zhangcheng Gate were not the ambush troops of the Kwantung Army, but the returning Lu Bu.
But more importantly, I am glad that these people are not the Kwantung Army.
Because once it was the Kwantung Army, the emperor would definitely be brutally murdered by Dong Zhuo. Even if Dong Zhuo's body was cut into thousands of pieces, it would not be able to make up for the loss of the emperor's death here.
The chaos in Chang'an City suddenly turned into a one-sided massacre as the Xiliang cavalry entered.
The layout of Chang'an in the Western Han Dynasty was completely different from that of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Most of the city at that time was a wide palace square. The road alone was five or six feet wide. You could drive a horse or a carriage in the city, not to mention riding a horse.
Therefore, when the cavalry rushes into the city, it will not feel particularly narrow. On the contrary, because the terrain is not very wide, once the stirrups are used to launch the cavalry charge, people on the wide streets will almost have no way to escape.
Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Bao Xin's soldiers entered from the Anmen Gate in the south. After Lu Bu entered from the Zhang City Gate, there was the Weiyang Palace.
Except for a few magnificent palaces, most of the palaces are squares paved with marble and white marble. Just like when Liu Guan and Zhang Chen led a thousand mysterious armored cavalry into the Luoyang Palace, they galloped around.
The first to be suppressed was the new uprising army.
These new armies had no combat effectiveness to speak of, and no strong leadership figures. They were almost like a piece of loose sand, creating chaos everywhere in the city. After being charged by the Xiliang cavalry, they all stayed calm and did not dare to continue causing chaos.
After fighting out of Dongque, they arrived at Anmen and resumed the road, leading directly to Changle Palace in the east. The Xiliang cavalry headed towards Changle Palace like a rolling torrent, and soon they were fighting with the Kwantung Army who had just entered the city.
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The brutal fighting broke out at the first touch. In front of the heavily armored cavalry, human strength was as fragile as a piece of paper. Even a fierce general like Sun Jian had to avoid its sharp edge and retreat temporarily.
More than an hour later, the Kwantung Army retreated like a tide. What it brought to Chang'an was the flames of war and countless chaos. The screams and wails resounded throughout the city.
After escaping from Chang'an with a trace of embarrassment, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Bao Xin had to decide to withdraw their troops and evacuated from Baqiao east of Chang'an toward Huayin.
Unexpectedly, they met Xu Rong who returned to the defense on the second day. There was another battle between the two sides. The three of them were defeated by Xu Rong and fled in confusion.
In early December, it was obviously a big failure for the Kwantung Army, and the surprise attack on Chang'an was completely turned into a dream.
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Chen Mu hasn't arrived in Huayin at this time, but it's not far away either.
He had been thinking about a problem along the way.
That is how to move the population of Chang'an back to Guanzhong and then send these people to Qingzhou.
Historical books only record that Dong Zhuo moved millions of people from Luoyang to Guanzhong, and no one cared about their final lives.
But history is something that needs to be studied and scrutinized. Many times, we can see some clues from it.
Chang'an originally had a population of 700,000 to 800,000, plus another million in Luoyang.
Where have the population of perhaps two to three million at most gone?
There are only two places to go.
One, death.
This is definitely something that cannot be avoided. Even after Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the population of the Guanzhong area declined rapidly, and most of the reasons why the area around Chang'an almost turned into a ghost land are due to this.
Hunger, war, disease, and military calamities are enough to make any miserable people wither like weeds.
Two, they moved away.
Later, when Cao Cao occupied Luoyang, Luoyang had become a ruin, and these people obviously did not go back to build their homes.
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Yizhou and Jingzhou.
In fact, there was a melee in Guanzhong, and the happiest people were not Yuan Shao and other former Kwantung Army princes who ran back to their own territory to farm with peace of mind, nor were they Han Sui, Ma Teng and other Xiliang rebels who took advantage of the resurgence of chaos.
It was Liu Yan, the pastor of Yizhou at this time.
The straight-line distance from Hanzhong to Chang'an is only more than 200 kilometers. Even in ancient times, it was only five or six hundred miles.
There are several ancient roads that are passable, namely the famous Qin-Shu ancient roads, including Chencang Road, Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, Ziwu Road, Lianyun Plank Road, etc.
Including the later Wei-Shu wars during the Three Kingdoms period, countless things happened on these ancient roads.
At that time, both sides naturally guarded the area with force and did not allow anyone to pass.
But at this time, although Liu Yan also sent troops to garrison, he did not restrict the people's access.
Because as a clan prince with dissident intentions, Liu Yan also knew the importance of population.
Bashu, the land of abundance, is a small kingdom capable of self-sufficiency, with fertile fields thousands of miles away.
However, the scarcity of the population meant that it was destined to be unable to grow.
Liu Yan is not a fool and naturally understands this.
However, the level of medical care in ancient times was not high and antibiotics did not appear, which meant that the fertility rate and premature death rate would be very high, and the population could not grow rapidly by nature.
This is something that human power cannot change in a short period of time.
So is there any other way?
Naturally, it robs the population of other places.
Now is an opportunity to absorb the population, how could Liu Yan miss it?
Therefore, Liu Yan established checkpoints on all major transportation routes to strictly guard against Dong Jun and the Kwantung Army, and at the same time moved a large number of people to Shu.
The current Hanzhong prefect has been replaced by another person. He was previously called Su Gu, and he has never listened to Liu Yan's changes.
Liu Yan became interested in killing this man and sent Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu to attack him.
After Su Gu was killed by the two men, Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu and now serves as the governor of Hanzhong on behalf of the Governor.
This cutting off of the passages was what Zhang Lu did under the instruction of Liu Yan.
But externally, he claimed that Zhang Lu had rebelled.
Liu Yan's routine is actually very simple.
Nowadays, all the princes in the imperial court and even the whole world are very critical of Liu Yan, who is a member of the imperial clan and does not even think about rescuing the emperor and crusading against Dong Zhuo.
In addition, there had been signs of him being disobedient to propaganda before, and many people suspected that he had ulterior motives.
But Liu Yan also had a reason.
Did you see that Hanzhong is now occupied by Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu kidnapped and killed the imperial envoys. These things were all done by Zhang Lu. I, Liu Yan, didn’t know anything about it. I don’t know anything. It’s none of my business.
However, everyone in Chengdu knew that Liu Yan assigned Zhang Lu to do all this, and Zhang Lu was just a scapegoat pushed out by Liu Yan.
Therefore, it is estimated that Zhang Lu himself knew his position very well and that he was being used as a spearman by Liu Yan. Therefore, after Liu Yan's death and Liu Zhang took office, he immediately became independent.
certainly.
All this is something for later.
At least for now, Zhang Lu is still very obedient.
The people around Chang'an were constantly moved to Bashu.
Including the later Three Kingdoms period, why were Yizhou and Jingzhou more populous and relatively prosperous?
It was during this period that millions of people from Luoyang arrived in Chang'an and then gradually moved to Yizhou and Jingzhou.
There are also roads from Guanzhong to Jingzhou, and from Chang'an you can go to Nanyang through Wuguan and Kugu.
As a latecomer in history, Chen Mu knew this very well.
So the question he has been thinking about is how to take advantage of this opportunity to save more people.
Let the people who would have died or moved to Hanzhong and Nanyang follow him to Qingzhou.
It's not that Chen Mu has a heart attack.
But the population in the late Han Dynasty was a huge decisive factor.
Soldier resources, productivity, and labor force all require a large population to supplement.
Now there is no shortage of land in Qingzhou. The three plains of Lubei Plain, Luxi Plain and Jiaolai Plain can support tens of millions of people without any problem.
So when the era of separatist rule by the heroes of the late Han Dynasty was about to come, how could Chen Mu not prepare in advance to deal with it?
Therefore, in fact, most of his purpose in coming to Chang'an this time was to covet the millions of people in Guanzhong.
"Taking advantage of the current chaos of war, we have to kidnap some people."
Beside the mighty and surging Tong River, with mountains on both sides rising into the clouds, Chen Mu sat on Ziying's back, looking up at the endless mountains.
The cold wind blew, but it did not extinguish his passion.
This attack on Guanzhong will be the most profitable business as long as it achieves the strategic significance of competing for the population.
As for Liu Bian.
There will be ways to make Liu Bian "disappear" in the future.
Logically speaking, the best way to get rid of Liu Bian is for the Kwantung Army to invade Chang'an, force Dong Zhuo to threaten Liu Bian, and then both of them die together.
Chen Mu believed that since Dong Zhuo had the ruthlessness to depose and then kill emperors in history, he could definitely do this.
Just thinking about it, after all, the late emperor treated him well, Chen Mu still hoped that Liu Bian would live.
Therefore, Chen Mucai planned that the Kwantung Army's failure would end in failure.
This way, Dong Zhuo would not be pushed too hard and Liu Bian would be able to survive.
In the future, Lu Bu will be designed to be a "filial son" again, and Yan Zhong will find a way to keep Liu Bian.
Just like Liu Xie at the beginning, he was sent away by the people from the Military Intelligence Department.
It would not be a bad thing to send him to accompany his little brother Liu Zhe, as long as he keeps a close eye on them and prevents them from causing trouble.
To know.
The current Korean Peninsula and the island nation of Japan to the east are both barbaric lands.
The people in these two places are almost indistinguishable from savages.
Sending his two brothers there to be kings so that they could have more children would be worthy of the late emperor's care for them.
Thinking of this, Chen Mu still felt very satisfied with his arrangement.