Chapter 3223 You know, I know, he knows

"Cao Army is here! Cao Army is here! We're finished! We're finished!"

The panic-like screams swept across the Yuncheng Basin in Hedong.

A lot of refugees, like panic beasts, began to escape instinctively.

These refugees, mixed with the elderly and weak, fled in a hurry, and there was no question of command and constraint. When they heard the wind and rain, some people were frightened or disturbed. Even if some people wanted to maintain order in it, they still could not stop these refugees and calm their minds.

Among the chaotic crowd, some docks were like small stones in the water.

It blocked some water, but was also shaking by the water.

This is a small dock.

The trench in the fort is not wide and deep, and the fort walls are not much higher. In the face of the crowd, it becomes smaller and smaller.

On the wall of the dock, the heads were shaking, and the pale-faced dock owner was as panicked as the servants.

The gate of the dock is closed and guarded strictly.

At the beginning, we tried to send some people to drive away the refugees near the fort, but more and more refugees came later, and people inside the fort dared not come out again.

There has been a long time since Hedong and there has not been so many refugees.

These people in Hedong seem to have forgotten what happened to the last large-scale refugee, and everything in front of them rolled up those painful memories in their minds again.

On the fort wall of the fort, everyone was staring blankly at the crowd in front of them.

In the place where you can see, groups of refugees seemed to gather together without teams, crowded and pushed.

The young, strong, old and weak are mixed, and there are also some women, girls and children, and everyone is worried.

Hunger is like yin fire. A gust of wind comes at any time, and perhaps as long as there is a little spark, it will turn into a mob at any time.

If the population of Hedong was originally not as good as Heluo, nor the area around Yuzhou and Jizhou. However, with the decline of Heluo, many people in other places gradually moved to relatively calm areas. Especially during the rise of Feiqian, the local gentry in Hedong also ate a large number of refugees, which brought the total population of Hedong to a higher level.

When Cao's army entered Hedong, because they were expecting the Hedong gentry to launch a back stab against Fei Qian at the beginning, they did not act very well towards the Hedong gentry, and their attitude was relatively gentle. However, with the increase in the pressure of Cao's army and the sway of Hedong gentry, Cao Cao finally lost his patience and revealed his minions.

It can be said that Cao Cao had experienced a relatively complete Yellow Turban Rebellion, so he knew that once these people were stirred up, it would be overwhelming. Men, women, young and old would become pure beasts of food and drink when the order of production and life was destroyed by war. In order to have a bite of food, these originally seemingly weak people will engulf more and more people into this huge vortex of hunger and thirst!

This became his first move to defeat Fei Qian...

Tactical, Cao Cao was right, but strategically, he had already lost.

The owner of the fort was wearing a piece of armor that was not very fit, his legs were trembling, looking at everything in front of him, and he showed a little despair. After standing for a long time, he finally couldn't help but shout, "Hurry! Send someone to ask for help again! Go to Anyi! Go to Pingyang! Go... Go! If this continues like this, we... can't stop it! This damn Cao army, damn... Why haven't the cavalry come yet? Why haven't the cavalry come yet! This damn world, damn! One is the cavalry and the other is the prime minister, what about us?! What are we? Do they still regard us as the people of the Han Dynasty?!"

The owner of the fort was screaming above the fort, but the voices filled with despair could not cause much storm in the refugee tide.

The Cao army vanguard who kept driving these people to the north was not necessarily so happy after these refugees.

The people responsible for this work were Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi, the generals in Cao's army.

Beside Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi, they were their own private soldiers.

Among the Cao army, for generals of the middle and low grades of different surnames like Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi, they would also have their own guards, but the number and quality of the people were much lower than the other Cao Xiahou troops. Of course, even so, they would be much better than ordinary Cao army soldiers, at least they were well equipped and had relatively good armor.

Among the Cao army, such situations are very common, with one level pressing another.

The advantage is that the soldiers of Cao's army know the benefits of promotion and can have strong goals. The disadvantage is that the area at the upper part of the pyramid is always small, and the transparent ceiling of ordinary foreign surnames always limits the channels for promotion.

Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi's escorts generally act as supervisors, just like these guards have cut down many ordinary soldiers who are unwilling to obey orders, malicious mobs, and piled up these heads together, bloody as a warning to other Cao's soldiers.

Many of the soldiers of Cao's army also joined the army during the war and struggled to survive.

When seeking to survive among the chaotic people, they inevitably experienced various tragic situations. After experiencing these tragic situations, not everyone was numb and became ruthless from then on. Therefore, after the order to expel and rob the people of Hedong was issued, some soldiers of the Cao army were reluctant to do this, or they agreed on it openly, but their hands were loose.

But what Cao Cao needed was "panic". If Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi did not do it, then they would be themselves.

When I got to the back, I became numb.

The evil in human nature gradually emerges.

Kill, robbery.

It is not easy to establish an order, but to destroy it, you only need to push it gently...

Liu Zhu stood on the hill, looking at the black smoke rising in the distance, the various traces left by the fleeing people in the wilderness, dead bodies, scattered items, and then looking at the gray weather, sighed.

Hu Zhi was on the side, no longer had the excitement and pleasure of being the first to be the governor. He looked around with some anxiety, and then asked his guard in a low voice, "Did the one behind... follow?"

The guard shook his head silently.

Hu Zhi found it difficult to understand why Cao Cao issued such an order, and he did not know what Cao Cao's purpose was, but he was not qualified to question Cao Cao, so he could only act obediently. For him, he also understood the dangers of his current position.

They are bait.

But they didn't know whether it would be a small fish, shrimp or a deep-sea shark.

Hu Zhi also sighed.

As generals, Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi couldn't say anything, but the guards behind them knew more or less some of the situation. Now they were just whispering in groups of three or three, muttering.

"Where are the Central Guards of the Central Leadership? What about the Xiahou of the Cao family? We were killed in front of us, why didn't they come up? Now we have to open our eyes when we sleep, otherwise we wouldn't know if anyone would stab to death in the middle of the night! This matter is short of life!"

"Shut up your beak! We just obey our orders! Don't come to us if you have any grudges!"

"If you don't look for us, who else can you find? Those Hedong barbarians are just north..."

"It's really annoying to shut up when you say it!"

There is nothing to do when struggling in troubled times, but now it is clear that it is time to cause chaos again, and not everyone is willing to accept it.

"We are just Yiqiu Ba! We can't care so much! You and I just act according to our fate, there is no need to think too much, nor do we have to think too much!"

There are people who doubt and think, and of course there are people who are unwilling to doubt and think.

"If you attract the troops of the cavalry team, what will you do?! Could it be that you and I will fight to the death here without any support or risk? What's the use of the chariot formation? They have the Five Elements Thunder!"

"What, are you afraid of death?"

"Haha, are afraid of death? Look at it yourself. How many people have died along the way? We are not afraid of death, but we are afraid of death in vain!"

"Prime Minister... The Prime Minister will not ignore us..."

"Ha, who knows?"

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The voice of the soldiers and guards' discussion also reached Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi's ears.

If it were before, Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi would have been able to make a sound to stop these messy sounds, but for some reason, the actions that neither of them had stopped were as if they had not heard.

『I remember... The Prime Minister had a song before, "The armor was full of lice, and thousands of people died. The bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles." Liu Zhu sighed quietly, "Now it seems that this is true..."

Upon hearing this, Hu Zhi suddenly turned his head and stared at Liu Zhu, staring at him with wide eyes, his lips slightly moved, but he didn't say anything.

Liu Zhu seemed to have not noticed Hu Zhi's expression at all, and he still said slowly: "In the past, when Dong thief was in trouble, the world was in chaos, and the heroes rose up. Yuan Shao looked at the four states and was invincible. The prime minister planned and fought in the north and south, supported the Han Dynasty, and welcomed the emperor to Xu. He admired him very much, so he dispersed all his family's wealth and recruited bravery to join him."

Hu Zhi took a breath and squirmed his lips, "You...

Liu Zhu smiled and looked up at the gray sky, "The world is... the world is... haha, haha..."

Hu Zhi had no choice but to respond, he just looked back and looked back.

The originally bright red-black and black-texted Han flag seemed to have dimmed.

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To the north of the Yuncheng Basin, above Emei Ridge, a team of strong men were watching the changes in the Yuncheng Basin in the wind.

This team of strong horses were all dressed in elite cavalry outfits, with red robes and dark armor, like the fusion of iron and blood, and the collision of fire and thunder.

The flags are waving, and the three-color battle flags are flying high in the wind.

The war horses were neatly arranged on the earthen plateau, as if they could rush down at any time, trampling everything that stood in front of them under the horse's hooves.

A general was the first to look at the south on the horse's back.

This person has a tall figure, long hands and feet, holding a long spear, the cold light shines in the tip of the spear, and the red tassels sway in the wind, like the blooming flower on the other side.

This general is Zhang Xiu.

Behind Zhang Xiu, there is Xun Chen.

Zhang Xiu's current elite cavalry under his command is now the main defense location, which is on this Emei Ridge, which is isolated from the Pingyang Linfen Basin and Yuncheng Basin.

If there are unaware of Cao's scouts who want to cross Emei Ridge, they will often be discovered by condescending scouts from Zhang Xiu's side. Therefore, over time, there are gradually no Cao's scouts who dare to peek near this area.

But the situation has changed a little now.

Now the people who are gradually approaching Emei Ridge are not the scouts of Cao's army, but the increasing number of refugees in Yuncheng, Hedong.

As Cao's army was doing something wrong in the Yuncheng Basin, a large number of refugees gradually surged towards the Emei Ridge area...

Zhang Xiu did not expect his temporary "woman's kindness", which made Cao Cao even more and more aggressive.

In fact, the key reason is that it is really difficult to fight Cao Cao's land under Zhang Xiu's feet.

This is Emei Ridge, a huge narrow and long earth plateau.

Located in the east of the Great River Valley, west of Taiyue Mountain, south of the Linfen Valley, and north of the Yuncheng Basin. It is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, just like a giant loess brick that nature accidentally fell from Hedong.
To be continued...