Xuanjia's heavy cavalry, traveling lightly and lightly, arrived at Chang'an City in only a day and a half.
To be precise, it should be the Baqiao area.
From Baqiao next to Baxian County, we pass through Bashui one after another. On the distant horizon, we can see densely packed people migrating eastward.
The Chang'an City of the Western Han Dynasty was actually far less grand than the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty. The interior of the city was mainly dominated by the imperial palace, while the people lived scattered outside the city without the protection of the city wall.
So when the war between Li Jue and Guo Si once again reached Chang'an City, countless people living outside the city once again had to pack up their bags and leave their hometowns.
In the wilderness, when the spring wheat is about to mature, the fields are full of wheat that turns from green to yellow. Countless people stand on the fields, looking at them in confusion with a hint of fear.
Some of them are Chang'an people who migrated eastward along the official road, and some are local villagers living in Xiangting County near Baqiao. No one knows what this new army will do to them. In the war, they will always be
Only the common people are the most innocent.
"I ordered you to go down and let the army in the rear meet these fleeing people. The wheat is approaching and the soldiers are not allowed to trample the wheat fields. Anyone who violates this will be severely punished and compensated three times the value of the wheat field."
Seeing the people on the official road and in the fields, Chen Mu realized that this was an opportunity to impress the people in Guanzhong, and immediately said to Hu Ping.
Hu Ping then sent a messenger back to the rear to report the news.
After more than 200 miles, the cavalry could reach Baqiao in one and a half days. However, the infantry of Guan Yu and Sun Jian needed two to three days, so they had to turn around and go back to deliver orders to them.
This is learning from Cao Cao.
However, Chen Mu was not too strict when he issued the military order. Cao Cao cut off his hair instead of decapitating him, which was directly beheading him. He just gave him a heavy punishment and compensation.
After all, no one's life in the wheat field is worth anything. Secondly, Lao Cao has tricked himself on this matter. If Ziying accidentally stepped on it and ended up in a situation like Lao Cao's, he didn't have a smart idea.
The book helps smooth things over.
The army slowly continued to move forward. Wherever it passed, all the people dispersed and retreated to both sides, looking at them with fearful eyes.
Chen Mu noticed that there was a carriage not far away. It was usually a carriage ridden by mid-level officials or famous people. In addition to the driver, there was an old man in the carriage. There were hundreds of people behind him. He couldn't help but get off the horse out of curiosity.
He went over and asked, "How is the old man in the car?"
"General, be well!"
When the old man saw the cavalry coming to greet him, he quickly wanted to get off the carriage, but was helped down by the tribesmen behind him.
"Excuse me, who is the old man?"
Chen Mu asked politely with his hands raised.
"I have ordered Li You for great pleasure, but I don't know what to do?"
The old man responded.
"Chen Mu, Prime Minister of Jinan."
"It turns out to be the world-famous Shijun Chen. He is old and polite."
"Elders are respected and don't need to be polite."
When the old man wanted to salute, Chen Mu quickly stopped him.
The old man sighed with emotion: "In these troubled times, there are fewer and fewer people who respect the elderly like Shijun."
Chen Mu smiled modestly and asked: "I heard that Li Jue and Guo Si rebelled again, and received the imperial edict from Chang'an to rush to the aid of the court. The great Yu Leling is here, could it be Chang'an?"
"good."
The old man sighed and said: "The Xiliang people have surrounded Kyoto. I was afraid that the clans outside the city would be slaughtered, so I resigned from the city overnight and led the Xiangting people to flee east."
"I wonder how the battle is going?"
"We don't know yet, but we know that Xiliang has a large force and gathered more than 100,000 people to defeat Xu Rong. The imperial court ordered Lu Bu to go to war. I don't know whether he won or not."
"I see."
Chen Mu nodded, looked at the continuous stream of people fleeing in the distance, and said to Li You: "There are countless people fleeing now. They have left their homes and may become bones on the road. My eldest brother Liu Xuande has always been benevolent and righteous, and he begs for hypocrisy in the East.
Before the emperor, he ordered me to take more care of the people. Da Yule ordered me to have prestige in the countryside. Why not organize the people and place them in the Baqiao area, wait for my army to arrive, distribute food and grass to support it, in order to follow up in Chang'an, and not let the people's families be destroyed.
"
Li You was surprised and happy. In such a war-torn era, there were still warlords who would take care of the fleeing people. It was simply a saint's virtue. He immediately said happily: "I have long heard of Liu Qingzhou's reputation for benevolence and righteousness, so I brought the villagers with me."
Fleeing to the east. I am so grateful that you can accommodate me, and now you still provide food and grass, which really makes me..."
"Eh."
Chen Mu waved his hands and said: "As a court official, I am loyal to the emperor and benevolent to the people. It is my duty, why should I care about it? I also ask the old man to let the villagers disperse and spread the word among the people. I have ordered the rear
When the army comes to support you, don't run away blindly to avoid disaster."
"Thank you so much, envoy!"
Li You bowed his hands seriously.
In this day and age, there are very few people like this.
However, just when Li You ordered his tribe to organize the people and take refuge in Liu Bei's army, Chen Mu looked at them and smiled.
These people will be the people under their own rule in the future. They will produce food and provide troops for themselves. How can they die on the way to escape?
After leaving a hundred people behind to protect the people and retreat, Chen Mu led nine hundred people and continued to the west.
After passing Baqiao, there is a vast plain, probably located in the Zhangjiabao area of Xi'an in later generations, about ten kilometers away from the former site of Han Chang'an City.
The cavalry galloped all the way, and finally a majestic and tall city appeared on the distant horizon.
This is not Chen Mu’s first visit to Han Chang’an.
I had been here once when I was on a business trip to Xi'an before traveling back in time.
But what I saw at that time was nothing more than some ruins of the ancient city.
After experiencing the vicissitudes of history and the wash of time, nothing remains.
But what appeared in front of him now was a towering and huge city, several kilometers wide and twelve meters high.
Although compared to Luoyang, Chang'an City is similar to it.
But in any case, this is already one of the two most magnificent cities in the world and deserves attention.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Long pointed into the distance and said: "Four generals, look!"
Chen Mu rode on Ziying's back and stopped two miles away from Xuanping Gate in Chang'an City, looking at it from a distance.
At this moment, I saw that the city of Chang'an was densely packed with soldiers and horses from Xiliang on three floors inside and three outside.
Originally, there were a large number of buildings around Chang'an, such as the east and west cities of Luoyang, where many lanes and streets were built for the people living around Chang'an City.
But after the last time Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Bao Xin allied forces invaded Chang'an City, and Dong Zhuo strengthened the walls and cleared the country, a large number of buildings were destroyed. Two years have passed, and new houses have been slowly renovated.
But now all these houses are occupied by the Xiliang Army. Because they are too far away, they can't see the specific situation. They can only see densely packed soldiers walking through the streets of Gelifang.
There are no more people.
Smart people like Li You would have left long ago.
The stupid ones were unwilling to abandon their property and fields, and now they have become the victims of Xiliang people.
Xu Rong tried his best.
Under that situation, it was the best he could do.
Hu Zhen, Yang Ding, and Fan Chou betrayed him on the spot. Even though he fought hard, he failed in the end and became lost among the rebellious army.
After defeating Xu Rong, Li Jue, Guo Si, Wang Fang, Hu Zhen, Yang Ding, Fan Chou and others immediately gathered together, gathered nearly 200,000 Xiliang people, and continued to attack Chang'an.
Along the way, they captured cities and territories, and they were all defeated by the wind. In just three days, they reached the gates of Chang'an City.
Wang Yun heard that something was wrong and quickly sent Lu Bu to fight.
At that time, Lu Bu opened the door to the north of the city and fought his way out. He met Guo Si's army, which was the first to arrive. He led his cavalry straight into Guo Si's army. The thousands of cavalry were in a deserted place among tens of thousands of enemy troops, and even encountered
Guo Si, almost killed Guo Si with a halberd.
In the end, if the follow-up army had not arrived, Guo Si's vanguard might have been repulsed by Lu Bu.
At this moment, Chen Mu had not sent any troops, so when Chen Mu arrived at Chang'an City, the Xiliang Army had already arrived for two days, and more than 100,000 troops surrounded Chang'an City.
The nearby countryside is also occupied by the Xiliang people. On the entire plain west of Baqiao, the Xiliang army is spreading everywhere like a plague.
"Four Generals!"
Zhang Long pulled Chen Mu's sleeve and pointed him in the direction.
Chen Mu looked over.
Not far away, a group of Xiliang people's scouts saw them, but there were only a dozen of them. They were afraid of the large number of cavalry and did not dare to come over rashly. They only watched from a distance.
"Leave them alone."
Chen Mu said calmly: "They don't dare to come over."
On the plain, the cavalry came and went like the wind. How could we dare to fight with their cavalry team with only a dozen cavalry scouts on the opposite side?
It's approaching evening and the sun is setting in the west.
A new round of siege began again. A large number of ladders were hung on the city wall, and countless soldiers began to climb up like ants.
At this time, Lu Bu was like a firefighter, running around the city, going to rescue any city gates that had problems.
This is the disadvantage of the city being too big and having few soldiers in the city, so it cannot stop too many enemy attacks.
Outside the gate of Ba City, a huge fire was burning.
In order to open the city gate, the Xiliang army began to pour fish paste on the city gate, piled up a large amount of firewood, and prepared to burn the city gate.
On the city wall near Qingming Gate, the Xiliang army finally reached the city wall and started fighting hand-to-hand with the defenders.
Although the Xuanping Gate has not been opened yet, it is already crumbling.
If you look down from above, you will see the sunset glow reflecting on the earth.
Countless ant-like crowds of people were rushing towards the city over and over again. Compared to this, the lone defender on the city wall was like a small boat in the sea, as if it would be blown into the sea by the waves at any time.
The whole city was shaken.
Chen Mu looked into the distance in silence. After this battle, what kind of situation will the people in Chang'an City suffer?
Bandits passed by like a comb, soldiers passed by like a grate. Hundreds of thousands of people were burned, killed and looted, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.
He could have organized all this.
If he did not withdraw his troops, perhaps Li Jue and Guo Si would not have the courage to attack Chang'an.
but now.
However, he allowed evil to wreak havoc in the world, and the people suffered from misery.
But what can be done?
In order to achieve his strategic goals, he could only resort to such despicable means.
There was a lot of darkness, and Chen Mu's expression became cloudy and uncertain as night fell and a raging fire broke out outside Chang'an City.
In this world, there are winners and losers.
There are only a few strokes in ancient history, and what will always be recorded is the sins of Li Jue and Guo Si, rather than their appearance as a savior.
I bloom in the midst of killing, just like flowers in the dawn. Perhaps this is the path a king should take.