Chapter 0418: Seeking refuge (Part 2)

The next morning, the army set out from camp, with a continuous stream of vehicles and horses, and clear flags.

My lord, Colonel Chen Deng of Diannong School seeks an audience

Ye Qing looked back and saw the dusty young scholar, laughing.

A few nights ago, Guo was interested in having a conversation. At this moment, Guo was hooked by himself and raised his hand to greet him, saying, "I heard the magpies chirping this morning. Guo is happy. Yuan Long, you worked hard to come all the way here. What job do you want

Not for official positions, "Chen Deng denied outright.

Although it was a joke, seeing Chen Deng's serious expression, Ye Qing was slightly surprised and restrained her smile. She asked with composure, "May I ask why you came

Chen Deng bowed and made no secret of it, loudly saying, "Duke Xuande was able to assist the Han dynasty and wield great power over the four seas. I am here this time to make a name for myself and leave a lasting impression on history

After hearing this, everyone turned their attention for a moment. It was the first time someone had said this in public.

After hearing this, Ye Qing just smiled and continued to move forward without hesitation, nodding and saying, "Follow me

Yes! My lord! "Chen Deng pressed his joy and rode into the team.

Ye Qing traveled at an extremely fast speed, heading west. By this time, he had already passed through Xuzhou and reached the border between Yan and Yu provinces. The boundary between Yan and Yu provinces was from northeast to southwest. Since Ye Qing recaptured eastern Henan in the spring, the junction between Jiyin County in Yanzhou and Pei County in Yuzhou had become a place of plunder for the Cao army.

But Liu Jun continued westward along the intersection line, without any offense along the way, even occasionally crossing Yanzhou on the way, considering the "enemy territory" as Han people.

Some small towns and villages on the border of Jiyin County have no officials, but many people spontaneously gathered together under the leadership of the three elders in the countryside, bringing cattle, horses, grain, and wine to "welcome Master Wang".

That's enough. Along the way, there were several, dozens, or even hundreds of riders joining in, but many didn't have the same identity as Chen Deng. However, Ye Qing instructed that whenever there was such a thing, they would personally meet with him.

After only half a day of joining the team, there were already more than ten incidents. When I saw several or dozens of riders coming to seek refuge, I approached and asked, and all of them answered in a hoarse voice, "Xuande Gong was able to revive the Han dynasty three times, and he was a shining warrior in the current era. We all came to seek refuge

It's even more blatant than Chen Deng's words, but these people are okay due to their low status.

And the lord personally received them one by one, holding hands with these people and giving them water and wine, saying, "With brave men joining, the Han dynasty has hope

In just a few minutes of receiving and comforting, these people were filled with gratitude and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, how dare you not die for such a favor

Seeing this, Chen Deng's gaze became more respectful and relieved.

This is my lord Chen Yuanlong

"If you look at your officials as brothers, they will look at you as your heart; if you look at your officials as dogs and horses, they will look at you as countrymen of your country; if you look at your officials as dirt, they will look at you as enemies..." Chen Deng sighed with admiration: "The words of Mencius are also true, and Xuande Gong's trip is magnificent!"

Chen evolved from male slaves in the slave era. During the Spring and Autumn Period, he referred to both officials and the common people. Here, following the style of Mencius, it is said that the treatment between the king and the common people is relative.

But when Chen Deng said this sentence, it implied that Cao Cao in Xuzhou regarded the people as dirt and weeds, and the people regarded Cao Cao as a thief and enemy. He also praised his lord for treating the people as his own hands and feet, and the people regarded him as their confidant to protect him.

This is the principle of governance studies, "Ye Qing smiled upon hearing it.

Sometimes when encountering villages and towns, it is common for Ye Qing to invite local elders to chat about the harvest and inquire about difficulties during the night when setting up camp.

The village leader is the core of the grassroots and doesn't understand much. He sighed at the natural disasters and man-made calamities, only saying, "Xuande Duke is a wise ruler. Since Wang Shi entered eastern Henan, there have been fewer bandits and plunderers

Ye Qing was overjoyed upon hearing this. At this point, the people's morale had not yet been enslaved, and he only knew by daring to hold the hand of a high-ranking official like himself and speak.

And the bandits, oh, Cao Cao is famous for raising thieves well

Chen Deng had just arrived and was now following Guo Jia around, discussing his experience with this "wine expert" on how to pair raw fish with wine. At the same time, he observed the soldiers' behavior and secretly marveled - how much money would it take for the military to buy vegetables and meat locally instead of collecting them at market prices?

The more one is proficient in both military and political affairs, the clearer one becomes about this difficulty. The true demeanor of a royal army is based on strong economic, political, and military strength, in order to avoid plundering places. These three aspects have no shortcomings and are unique among the current feudal lords, making Chen Deng once again believe that his choice is correct.

Along the way, as news spread, more and more scholars requested to join the army, often carrying private weapons of dozens or even hundreds of people. More and more people had hope for themselves as Liu Bei's Sanxing Han family, forming a sharp contrast with the various feudal lords with different surnames such as Cao, Yuan, and Gongsun who had defected during this period in history.

The response to the proclamation was extremely popular

The Empress Dowager arrived at the southern capital of Wancheng and settled in Jingbei

Meteors have entered the camp, and their fate has been revealed. If they don't join, won't they even be able to drink soup

Tsk, Cao Cao's 300000 strong army has been defeated by Liu Yaojun... "Many scholars whispered, not knowing that they could escape the eavesdropping of the real girl.

And as a married couple, Qianqian naturally revealed it to her husband.

It's good news, "Ye Qing thought, with a smile on her lips.

Some stock market makers see retail investors entering the market with joy and a happy mood, which is not ironic. Ye Qing is well aware that there has never been any inexplicable support, so what's wrong with being regarded as a top performing stock?

The more people gather along the way, the more abundant the luck will be, and it will be easier to achieve the goal of saving Luoyang.

These sporadic troops joining may not seem like there are many, but based on the situation these days, it seems that if they reach Hulao, they will have to add 50000 troops out of thin air!

What's even more terrifying is that although these armies haven't been organized yet and can't be considered strong, each one is supported by a family - the power they gather is very terrifying.

Pass on the order, the speed of the army is slowing down by 30%, leaving time to pacify these armies, granting official positions, providing food and supplies, and before reaching the Tiger Prison, they must be basically organized

Military intelligence closely monitors movements, and those who are suspicious will be executed decisively. Don't be afraid to kill the wrong person. They have fled from various places and have never had any contact or emotions, so there will be no consequences. If they collude with thieves, they will become wary

To increase the intelligence bounty in various regions, I need to have a clear understanding of the list of responding to the attack on the lords of Dong, background information, as well as the route and approximate military strength to go to Luo

With each command issued, the upcoming battle in Luoyang has many objectives worth paying attention to.

All roads lead to Luoyang - the transportation network that starts from the capital, converges in circles, and is flat and dense is a characteristic of all classical empires.

The closer we get to Hulao Pass in the west, the more we encounter on our way to the allied forces. Unlike in history, when Cao Cao forged military edicts and only had eighteen factions fighting against Dong, this time the alliance against Dong has the great righteousness of the Empress Dowager and the strength of Liu Shijun as its endorsement, which has received widespread response from the world.

But I haven't encountered a big fish like Yuan Shao yet... Oh, great lords.

Most of the small lords only had armies of one or two thousand, or even thousands of people. When they saw these tens of thousands of troops coming on the official road, they were all a little nervous, until they saw Liu Ziqi and breathed a sigh of relief.

The atmosphere in the Liu family army was relatively calm, with 300000 Cao soldiers defeated. The lord had the mandate of shooting stars to enter the camp, so what else could be difficult to attack?

Ye Qing humbly met with various small lords and sponsored some military equipment, food, and supplies - once again expressing gratitude to the governor for his selfless contributions.

However, in her heart, Ye Qing did not believe that the battle in Luoyang would be easy. As Diao Chan reported back in Luoyang, the participation of Taiping Dao in Dong Zhuo's army became increasingly close, which meant that the advantage of humanitarian techniques on the ground would be largely offset.

Especially Dong Zhuojun, who also has human level participation, this battle... may be a tough one.

This is the first round of direct confrontation between the Heavenly Court Sealing Earth System and the Underworld Heavenly Dao Yin Face. Ye Qing believes that it is better to consciously establish a united front rather than trying to deal with the entire Underworld Heavenly Dao Yin Face alone. That is not bravery, but rather foolishness.

Ye Qing formed a clear alliance with the small lords with a clear purpose. The gathering of hundreds of thousands of allied troops was difficult to sustain for a long time, nor could it sustain for a long time. Ye Qing did not want his Yuzhou to become a food and forage supply area for a long time. He only hoped to maintain the strength of the alliance as much as possible before capturing Hulao, so that it would be possible to quickly enter the pass and go to Luoyang.

Some people on the ground may think that Luoyang is just a city, and burning it doesn't matter, but Ye Qing, from the experience of a traveler, doesn't think so.

Ye Qing's background familiarized him with some of the mysteries of this land and made him aware of the changing strategic situation of China with the times. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the sparse population in Jiangnan, the strategy was carried out along the Yellow River from east to west in the Central Plains region, and Luoyang was just in the middle.

From Ye Qing's current perspective, the history of China is very interesting, with many important nodes related to Luoyang.

According to ancient legends, a dragon horse emerged from the Yellow River in Luoyang with a map of the river on its back. Fu Xi performed the congenital eight trigrams, and together with his sister Nvwa, two tribes were born. One Tai Hao family, who lived in the west of Heluo, took the dragon as its totem, and divided the Shao Hao family to the downstream of the east. When they moved to Taishan, from the Xihe tribe to Gaotao and Boyi, the Dongyi tribal alliance was surrounded by phoenix (black bird).

It is believed that the myths and legends are not accurately reflected, and the search for strategic nodes with obvious historical context related to Luoyang starts from Yanhuang's separation from the 'ancient Qiang system' mother race by farming - the Yellow Emperor started in the Jingwei Plain, went out of Luoyang along the Yellow River to the lower reaches, while Chiyou of the Dongyi system started in the coastal hills, went out of Mount Taishan and went up along the Yellow River. When the two major forces fought in the Central Plains, the Yellow Emperor achieved a comprehensive victory and obtained the ownership of large plains in the Central Plains, which ruled out the path of the fishing and hunting marine civilization of the Dongyi system, and laid the foundation of the agricultural civilization of the Han and Qiang system mainland.

Chiyou didn't get the strategic node of Luoyang, the enemy, but also lost the strategic node of Mount Taishan, his own side. Since the Yellow Emperor granted Mount Taishan, the holy mountain of Dongyi, all the emperors in the past dynasties have followed this practice, and granted Mount Taishan a memorial ceremony, in order to eliminate the remnants of Dongyi and integrate the Chinese gas transportation.

In the cultural tradition, the dragon male is the emperor and the phoenix female is the queen, implying this victory. It should be noted that in the word phoenix, the phoenix is originally a male bird, and at this time, only the female can be subdued.

In the early mythological and legendary era, due to the low level of war skills, the victory was determined by the population trend. The victory of the Yellow Emperor was not without reason - it has to be said that the Loess Plain formed by the impact of the Yellow River was a fertile and easy to cultivate land for primary agriculture. It could surpass the technological limitations of the times and reproduce sufficient population, so that the Yellow Emperor could fail many times or rise up, while Chiyou only failed once and was finished.

For a long period of time thereafter, the majority of the agricultural population in China was concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin, while the mountains and rivers along the Hangu Pass in Luoyang gradually formed two different great plains, the Kanto and Kansai, elevating Luoyang from a strategic node in the Jingwei Plain to a core midpoint in controlling the Eastern Great Plain.

Taking Hangu Pass in Luoyang as the boundary, it is known as Guanxi and Kanto, and has developed two major populations, cultures, and economic circles of different sexes, including the exchange of qi between people. From a general perspective, different dragon qi gradually forms.

Kansai is a region of the Three fold Qin dynasty, located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Although the total area of this vast plain is relatively small, it is surrounded by the Loess Plateau, Qinling Mountains, Taihang Mountains, and other surrounding areas. In addition to the threat from highland ethnic groups (the Qiang ethnic group, which shares the same origin as the Han ethnic group), it has a safe environment similar to that of Shu and a smooth export channel along the Yellow River through the Han Valley. It is livable, suitable for cultivation, and has convenient transportation. With a large population and excellent quality, it is a rapidly rising place with a small and cohesive dragon like atmosphere.

Guandong is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, consisting of Hebei and Henan provinces, with a relatively large total area. During the Han Dynasty, the development was not yet complete, and there were even large areas of primitive forests, making it a comprehensive expansion area with a large and scattered dragon energy.

There are righteous people in the Kanto region who raise troops to fight against the enemy. In the early days, they formed alliances with Tianjin, but their hearts were in Xianyang

——Mengjin is the Yellow River crossing to the north of Luoyang city. It was named Mengjin because King Wu of Zhou allied with the feudal lords to conquer the land of Zhou. After the arrival of the warlords in Luoyang, they formed an alliance here to attack Dong, which had a symbolic meaning.

And Xianyang is the nickname of Chang'an, where Dong Zhuo avoided moving the capital.

Cao Cao's "Hao Li Xing" clearly portrays the opposing situation between the Kanto and Kansai regions, but also displays strategic details - in the East West confrontation, the core military stronghold is Luoyang, where Duke Zhou first established the Eastern Capital Cheng Zhou (Luoyi) to monitor the feudal lords in the Kanto region and deter the strange dragon energy.

If facing the cohesive Kansai army, all Kanto armies would end up in failure - the downfall of the Shang Dynasty itself was due to being ambushed by the rapidly rising Zhou state from the west during the campaign to suppress the rebellion of the Dongyi people.

The Zhou Dynasty lost its support in the Kansai region, and Luoyang lost its power to control the Kanto region. The Eastern Zhou was conquered by the rapidly rising Qin state from the west.

Liu Bang obtained the former territories of Hanzhong and Qin Sanfu, which enabled him to repeatedly defeat and fight against Xiang Yu in the war. However, Xiang Yu was completely destroyed after one failure.

Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu took control of Chang'an in Luoyang, which resulted in a shortage of food for the Red Eyebrow Army due to pressure. Liu Bang advanced to Xianyang before Xiang Yu and had almost no resistance, all of which were exceptional cases with historical background.

Due to these precedents, in order for the Kwantung Alliance to welcome the emperor back from Chang'an, they had to completely eliminate Dong Zhuo. However, later on, the Hulao Pass suffered at the hands of Lu Bu. Later, Cao Cao and Sun Jian's sudden advances were defeated by Xu Rong, and even Li Ke, the last famous general to defeat the Han Dynasty, Zhu Yan, made the feudal lords deeply afraid of Dong Zhuo's Western Liang army.

These are all estimates of the strategic value of Luoyang by Ye Qing based on his special background. If it were an analogy game, he would definitely be confident that it has opened up a hidden mode, which is enough to form an information asymmetry advantage over most of the above ground people.

But since Ye Qing's rebirth, he has never dared to treat any substantial world as a game. This stable mentality allows him to judge a lot of real information from the trends collected by various intelligence sources... For example, the governor and Yu Fan must have gained an understanding of the Luoyang incident.

Whether it is due to the instinct of dragon qi, political perspective, or historical analysis... Regardless of the reason, the result is the same. These two enemies will never strive to rescue Luoyang like Cao Cao and Sun Jian did in history, but will spare no effort to drag him down.

Then let's see who is more prepared, "Ye Qing squinted her eyes and looked back. Smoke and dust were rising up the official road, and the sound of scout horses' hooves was approaching. The Cao character banner was faintly visible.

Ye Qing laughed out loud and said, "Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived

Qianqian nodded knowingly and blinked again, "Is this sentence very famous? I heard my husband say it last time

Did I make it up? Let me teach you to be good and come whatever you don't want, "Ye Qing said casually, ordering Zhang Fangbiao to lead a cavalry army for defense, while others marched as usual. Everything was arranged in an orderly manner until they passed a fork in the road. Qianqian pulled his sleeve and said," Look

Ye Qing followed his gaze to another path, where the same scouts opened the way. A large flag with the Sun character suddenly shone in his eyes, and a faint white dragon aura condensed and persisted.

Ye Qing was stunned and then laughed. Another big fish came and said, "They're chasing after each other very fast. Are you afraid I'll just throw thunder and blow up the Tiger Prison