After several days of rest, Dong Zhuojun's Li Ji troops, who were smuggled to the rear of Yizhou, finally recovered their strength, and the time had reached the first day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, although it was the time of the Spring Festival, Li Ji did not let the soldiers celebrate the New Year in Fucheng, only let the soldiers have a good meal on Chinese New Year's Eve, and put forward a new slogan - fight to Chengdu for the New Year! And Li Dao conveyed Kang Peng's promise to the soldiers, as long as Chengdu was captured, in addition to half of the gold and silver treasures in the Chengdu official treasury to be handed over to the military treasury, the other half would be rewarded to the soldiers of Li Daojun, as well as all the female dependents of Liu Yan's family, which would also be enjoyed by the soldiers of Li Daojun!

With the temptation of money and beautiful women, this group of Li Dao's troops, with Dong Zhuojun's veteran Youzi as the main body, came to the spirit, and no one complained that the officers didn't even give them time to rest for the New Year, but sorted out their clothes and armor, wiped their weapons, and prepared to go to the land of abundance to make a fortune. On the first day of the first month of the fourth year of Chuping, this group of soldiers who crawled out of the pile of dead people marched towards Mianzhu with high morale, and where they passed along the way, they stole chickens and dogs, raped and plundered, and even the new Yizhou army prisoners who took refuge in Dong Zhuojun were not polite, and followed the big brother everywhere to harm the people, and the people of Yizhou complained bitterly, but as long as it didn't make a big murder, Li Dao ignored it - anyway, Kang Peng did not bind military discipline in wartime. I really encountered this group of ruffians who robbed the people of Yizhou too much, such as robbing the seeds and grain of the people of Yizhou or the coffin book or the like, and the people sued the barracks, Li Dao took the idea given to him by the witch of Long Yan - to give the people of Yizhou a white note, saying that the robbery was requisitioned, and promised that after the main force of Dong Zhuo's army arrived in the future, it would be repaid twice by Dong Taishi, and it was also a compensation for thousands of catties of divine rice and divine fruit seeds per mu, which appeased the resistance of the people of Yizhou, but also made Kang Peng break a small fortune.

On the third day of the first month of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, Li Dao's troops arrived at the periphery of Mianzhu, because there was already intelligence that the Mianzhu garrison was less than 2,000 people, Li Dao's army was not too nervous, but very relaxed and laughed and advanced, Li Dao also only cared about laughing and playing with the Longyan witch, without the slightest tension of the approaching war. As soon as he turned a hill, Li Daojun found that the Mianzhu City in front of him was covered with smoke and flames, and Li Dao was taken aback and hurriedly sent scouts to investigate.

The scout quickly rushed back, and at the same time brought a member of the Dark Moon Group who was holding the Dark Moon Group's waist card, and the Dark Moon Group member shouted as soon as he saw Li Dao, "General, go and save the Mianzhu granary!" Liu Yan's dog thief is burning the official warehouse, and he hasn't even let go of the people's warehouse, and he doesn't want to leave us a single grain! ”

Li Dao was shocked, hurriedly drove the army to hurry, all the way to the city of Mianzhu, but it was too late, at this moment the fire in the city of Mianzhu was soaring, the smoke spread the ground, the official houses and houses were all on fire, most of the people in the city were forced to flee out of the city for refuge, the crying outside the city was everywhere, the people helped the old and the young to run away, the scene was more chaotic and chaotic, and the defenders of Yizhou in the city had already fled from the south gate to Guanghan.

"Scorched Earth Tactics!" Li Dao gritted his teeth and said fiercely. This trick was a common trick used by Dong Zhuojun to deal with the Qiang people in the past, and Li Dao, who was originally an old man of the Xiliang Army, was the most familiar with it, turning the area that was ready to be abandoned into scorched earth, so that the enemy could not get food and supplies on the spot. Now the Yizhou army is more ruthless, and it also throws the burden of tens of thousands of Mianzhu people to Dong Zhuojun, as the occupation army, if Dong Zhuojun does not bear the burden of relieving these people, then how can it be occupied? How can we win the hearts and minds of the people?

"General, Guanghan is dangerous!" Li Wei's lieutenant Wang Fang suddenly came to his senses and shouted: "The thief army must also come here in Guanghan, there are hundreds of thousands of people there!" After Wang Fang's reminder, Li Dao shivered, and the terrifying scene of millions of victims pouring into Luoyang four years ago appeared again in Li Dao's mind, and the total population of Yizhou can be far more than one million.

"Quick, leave 500 people to organize the people to fight the fire, and the others will follow me!" Li Wei roared with red eyes: "I'll fuck Liu Yan!" If you want to throw millions of disaster victims to us, Lao Tzu must break your body into ten thousand pieces! At that moment, Li Dao didn't dare to put it aside anymore, and while sending someone to inform Kang Peng, he left a few soldiers to organize firefighting, and left some food for the people of Mianzhu, and quickly whipped up and went straight to Guanghan to kill.

Continuous rapid march, in just one day, Li Dao's army was killed under Guangyuan City, but it was too late, Guangyuan City had been reduced to ruins, there was almost no complete house in the city, only countless thinly clothed Guangyuan people cried and searched in the black fire, trying to find a little food to wear, and more people who had lost their homes beat their chests in the ice and snow, crying and grabbing the ground.

It turned out that after Dong He, Zheng Du and Wang Lei finalized the scorched earth tactics that day, they immediately sent people to notify all parts of the country to burn down the granaries and people's warehouses, so that the huge population of Yizhou could drag down Dong Zhuojun, but after Liu Yan woke up, not only did he not send people to stop this vicious method of hurting the enemy and himself, but also issued an additional order to burn all the city dwellings, and did not leave even a little food for the people of Yizhou - anyway, he Liu Yan was a person who helped the wind, and only left Dong Zhuojun with a broken wall, completely dragging down Dong Zhuojun's logistics, and not giving Dong Zhuojun a chance to buy the hearts of the people. At this moment, the large and small cities of Yizhou, which are still under Liu Yan's control, except for Nanzhong and Yong'an, are all thick smoke, fire demons are raging, and even the larger villages have not escaped the doom of being burned, and they have all turned into ruins. In a few days, the once prosperous and wealthy country of abundance will become a hell on earth full of hunger.

Seeing the tragic scene of Guanghan after this fire, Li Daojun all gasped, and Li Dao did not dare to move forward anymore, so he ordered to be stationed on the spot and wait for Kang Peng's instructions. After Li Dao gave the order, the partial general Li Meng asked Li Dao: "General, it is only more than 100 miles away from Chengdu, why don't we leave?" Chengdu's jewelry and beauties are still waiting for us. ”

Li Dao was angry, and when he saw that Li Meng was still asking such a stupid question, he slapped him with his backhand, which made Li Meng inexplicable, covering his face and hair. Li Wei yelled, "You still beautiful women and jewelry? Chengdu must also be in ruins now, there are 350,000 Yizhou people, and the food they eat is bought by your kid? Even if you take ten lifetimes of money, there is nowhere to buy food! ”

"General, what now?" Wang Fang pointed to the people of Yizhou who had dragged their children and daughters to beg next to the army, and quietly asked Li Wei: "You see that there are so many of them, and our food is not enough." ”

Li Dao looked around and saw that the people of Yizhou, whose clothes were tattered and blackened, had gathered more and more, many mothers with children were already crying and begging Dong Zhuojun's soldiers to give their children some food, and the white-haired old man with rickets was stretching out his dry and black hands to ask for food. Li Wei sighed, shook his head and said, "Let the master know that we will not be saved when we die, and if we don't die, we will have to shed our skin, and give them some of our food, first to the old man and children." Tell them not to wander around, the Taishi should be able to dispatch emergency food. ”

"General, in my opinion, by the way, the lifelong affairs of the brothers have been solved." Li Mengse, the bad seed, looked at the young women among the victims in a daze, and said with a lewd smile: "Let the brothers exchange food." ”

"Do you know if you want to do it?" Li Dao, who was not much better than the bad seed Li Meng, glared at Li Meng and added, "Prepare a few good ones for Taishi and me." ”

The news that Yizhou had turned into a scorched earth was quickly sent to Kang Peng, who was preparing to take down Yizhou in the Sword Pavilion in one go, and like the gang of veteran ruffians under his command who did all kinds of evil, Kang Peng, a bad student, also gasped and immediately summoned all the strategists to discuss.

"According to the secret statistics before the detailed work, there were 2.54 million people in the area where Liu Yan burned the city." Kang Peng introduced to the strategists with a heavy expression: "Except for the two cities of Jiangyou and Fucheng, which Li Dao snatched out of his luck, that is to say, after we enter Yizhou, we must afford the food, clothing, housing and transportation of more than two million homeless victims. Otherwise, let's not say that we will continue to chase and kill Liu Yan, who fled to Nanzhong, that is, the civil uprisings in Yizhou will be enough for us. ”

Kang Peng finally said: "Let's discuss and see what charter we can come up with to solve these troubles." ”

After Kang Peng finished speaking, there was silence in the conference hall, and Dong Zhuojun's strategists were all sad and at a loss. After a long time, Lu Sucai smiled bitterly: "Taishi, don't abandon the Yizhou disaster victims, although this is the compassionate heart of the Taishi, it is also impossible, although the continuous bumper harvest, and the auspicious god seed, we have more food in the rear, but the transportation capacity of the Qinling plank road is placed there, and it is already very difficult to maintain our army of less than 300,000, not to mention the more than 2 million people of Yizhou?" ”

"Brother Zijing is reasonable." Fa Zheng, who joined the army, also agreed: "The plank road is narrow and tortuous, and it is difficult for people to transport cattle and horses, even if they keep rushing to transport grain day and night, it is impossible to keep up with the consumption of the people of Yizhou." What's more, Liu Yan fled to Nanzhong, he must have wanted to use the southern barbarians to make a comeback and leave the victims to us, but also to consume our combat power, and the Taishi could not be fooled. ”

Chen Gong is the most important among Dong Zhuojun's strategists who wants to relieve the refugees in Yizhou, but he is also very aware of the transportation capacity of the plank road, and he is more aware of the consequences of the military supplies being occupied by the victims, so he hopes that Kang Peng's words to help the victims have come to his lips several times and swallowed it alive. Seeing that Jia Xu didn't say a word, Chen Gong asked, "Mr. Wenhe, the enemy's treacherous plan is so vicious, what does Mr. think?" ”

Jia Xu smiled bitterly, waved his hand at Kang Peng, who was writing and painting something at the desk, and said, "How else can you see it?" You don't know the temper of the Taishi, even if it is a trap, for the sake of the people, the Taishi will jump down without hesitation. ”

Kang Peng was finishing the work at hand, and when he heard Jia Xu comment on him, he couldn't help but smile and said: "It's still Mr. Wenhe who understands the true appearance, and Liu Yan's trap has to jump." Kang Peng held up the drawings he had just drawn, "Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is a mountain cart designed with reference to the terrain after entering Sichuan, called Wooden Ox Liuma, using it to carry grain will definitely greatly improve our army's transportation capacity in the mountains." ”

Dong Zhuojun's strategists looked intently, only to see that the picture was depicted in the shape of a cow-shaped wooden cart, with all four limbs, head and tongue, six feet long, four feet seven inches high, but only one round. Kang Peng explained: "This is the design of the famous craftsman Lu Ban in the Spring and Autumn Period, although there is only one wheel, the speed is no less than that of a two-wheeled cart, labor-saving and convenient, and it is most suitable for mountain road plank road transportation. In fact, Kang Peng has long wanted to learn from the little pig to invent the wheelbarrow, but he couldn't use it at all in the Central Plains, and Kang Peng didn't bother to use his brain, and now the situation has come to this point, Kang Peng was forced to play the idea of a wheelbarrow. However, the so-called wooden ox flowing horse painted by Kang Peng is just a light wheelbarrow, not a real wooden ox flowing horse, in fact, the real wooden ox flowing horse is much more complicated, and some people have copied it in modern times, but the bad students don't know it - they can't do it if they know.

Rao is like this, Dong Zhuojun's strategists still admired Kang Peng so much that they bowed down and said: "Taishi is really a god and a man!" ”

Kang Peng handed over the drawings to Chen Gong, instructed him to organize the skilled craftsmen among the sergeants to make all their efforts, and then got up and said loudly: "Gentlemen, we must not abandon the victims of Yizhou, this is a big trouble, but also an opportunity, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, solve it, we can win the hearts of the people of Yizhou, and truly conquer Yizhou." Therefore, no matter how difficult and difficult, we must resist this burden. ”

"Obey the orders of the Grand Master." Dong Zhuojun's strategists replied.

"Orders from the Minister." Kang Peng said that he had been brewing for a long time, "First, let Li Ru concentrate the manpower that can still be mobilized, and quickly mobilize food and materials to the Meridian Valley and Chencang to prepare for the need; Second, inform the big businessmen of Yong, Bing, and Liang Prefectures, encourage them to do business in Yizhou, and exempt the scorched land area of Yizhou for three years, and tell them that there are countless cheap workers in Yizhou now, and see if they can catch them and reduce the burden on our army's logistics; Third, the army immediately entered Sichuan in batches, organized the Yizhou disaster victims to rebuild urban houses, and let the surplus people flee to Yonghe Liangzhou, which could also reduce part of the burden. ”

After Kang Peng's order was completed, Jia Xu suggested again: "Taishi, our army can use Liu Yan's tactics of ignoring the lives and deaths of the people to create public opinion, make him a public enemy of the world, and also make the recalcitrant Yizhou army in Yuzhong feel cold. ”

"Very good, just do what the military advisor says." Kang Peng nodded and said: "You guys go and do it, if you take it for one more day, many more people in Yizhou will starve to death." ”

After everyone went out to carry out the order, Kang Peng stared at the Yizhou population basin on the sand table and pondered for a long time, and suddenly struck a palm on the sand table, shaking the small flag on the sand table to fly wildly, Kang Peng hated and scolded: "Liu Yan Lao'er, Lao Tzu was bitter by you!" This time, all manpower and material resources will be trapped in Sichuan, and the time for Lao Tzu to dominate the world will be delayed for at least two years! Kang Peng knew very well in his heart that his plan to relieve the refugees in Yizhou was easy, and it would definitely be difficult to implement it, and the manpower and material resources of the three prefectures of Yongji and Liang would also be consumed in the reconstruction of Sichuan. At least for two years, there will be no strength to launch another major war of aggression.