At dusk, the allied soldiers outside the Tiger Prison suddenly found that a black dot floated in the western sky, and then the black dot continued to expand, turning into a black pillar of smoke, and then the black column of smoke continued to expand, and then expanded ......, and finally even covered half of the sky!

When night fell, people finally saw what those pillars of smoke represented, fire, fire, flames, the entire western sky was illuminated into daylight, like a burning sun, but now it is night, there is no sun in the west, there is only the capital of the Han Dynasty - Luoyang City!

The soldiers went crazy, the generals went crazy, and finally the princes went crazy, some were dumbfounded, some knelt on the ground and cried, some looked up to the sky and how......led, no one thought that Dong Zhuo would dare to burn Luoyang City, how could he dare to do this, he was crazy!

That is Luoyang, the Great Han Jingshi, it took more than ten generations of hard work to establish, and it is a holy place in the hearts of tens of millions of Han people......

Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, beat drums and raised the tent overnight, and convened all the generals and generals to discuss the matter, and there was only one order, "The coalition army will go out and attack the Tiger Prison Pass in the starry night, even if it is a pile of dead corpses, it must be piled up......"

The drums of war are like thunder, and the crowds are like a sea!

The princes of the Eighteen Roads were all red-eyed, even weak scholars like Kong Rong were in armor and went into battle, Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, personally beat the drums and cheered, and the rest of the people carried swords to supervise the battle at the front, but anyone who took a step back, killed!

The officers and men of the three armies raised their torches and shouted and launched a fierce attack on the Tiger Prison Pass, like waves crashing against the embankment, wave after wave, wave after wave, no matter how dense the arrows on it were, no matter how many boulders fell, the soldiers of the coalition army fought to the death and did not retreat, the front fell, and the back stepped on the dead corpses and continued to kick the city bravely, bursting out with the greatest courage since the beginning of the war, although these courages came a little late......

On the other hand, after the tiger prison was closed, after Dong Zhuo and others withdrew, it was handed over to the general Zhao Cen, and he left 30,000 horses, Zhao Cen is also a fierce general in the Xiliang army, who has been fighting on the battlefield all the year round, and has rich military experience, but in the face of such a desperate attack by the coalition army, his heart is also timid, especially the fire in the direction of Luoyang, which made him realize that he was abandoned and became an abandoned son after the break!

"Lao Tzu is fighting bloody here, you dig graves in Luoyang City, make a windfall, and don't even notify Lao Tzu when you run in the end, okay, since you don't treat Lao Tzu as a person, then don't blame me for being polite!" After scolding the West, Zhao Cen changed into the clothes of an ordinary soldier, blended into the panicked crowd, and disappeared......

The group of dragons has no leader, tens of thousands of Xiliang troops suddenly became chaotic, Dong Taishi ran away, and the officials also ran away, so who else do we give our lives, my father's dead mother's family, everyone takes care of everyone!

With a shout, tens of thousands of troops dispersed, most of them put down their weapons and surrendered to the coalition army, and some did not want to be soldiers anymore, wrapped up some people, took off their uniforms, and ran directly to the nearby mountains to become the king of the mountain.

At dawn, the coalition army finally completely captured the Tiger Pass, and then the princes from all walks of life did not take off their armor, non-stop, and went straight to Luoyang, hundreds of thousands of horses were like a long-distance race, opened a long distance, the cavalry rushed to the front, the infantry followed, the baggage soldiers followed the rear ......, the army has no formation at all, the soldiers and horses of each family are all mixed together, it is impossible to distinguish who is who, now everyone has only one thought, run, run......

Luoyang City is already in flames, black smoke clouds cover hundreds of miles around, ...... not dispersed, the princes arrived but were surprised to find that things did not seem to be as bad as everyone thought, the palaces in the north and west of Luoyang City, the Taimiao, and the palaces of the princes and ministers were basically burned into ruins, but the south and east of the city did not suffer much loss, such as 'Taixue, White Horse Temple', several more prosperous markets are safe and sound, and even the 'Tianji Tower' is well preserved!

The princes immediately mobilized their manpower to extinguish the fire that was still burning, and then everyone found out the reason, although there were many fire sources in the south and east of the city, but these places were either extremely close to the water source, or they were relatively lonely buildings, and the surrounding area was very empty, so that although the fire would be full of smoke when it was lit, the fire source would not spread to the surroundings, so the loss was very small......

Although I don't know why the Xiliang army that set the fire was so stupid, but it is already thankful to be able to keep half of Luoyang City, who is willing to think about this, after extinguishing the fire, the princes each found a place to camp in the village, because the houses were not enough, many military camps were directly planted on the ruins, the alliance leader Yuan Shao was born in a family, and the most important thing was a pomp, so he took the lead. Tianjilou' as their base camp, now in Luoyang City, this is already the most luxurious place, and most of the rest of the princes are like this, find some mansions that have not been burned down to settle down, only Cao Cao, after entering the city, he doesn't care about anything, and goes straight to 'Taixue'......

"Haha! Great, blessed by the ancestors, it's okay here, these books are all right! "Cao Cao was happily rolling in the pile of bamboo slips in the 'Taixue' library at this time, Luoyang was in flames, but it was safe and sound, not only was it not burned, but the Xiliang army carefully closed the door before withdrawing, and all the gates were on the iron cable to prevent those rebels from destroying.

Cao Cao is not one of those brainless princes, after a little thought, he understood, this must have been someone secretly spent a lot of effort to preserve these, otherwise how could it be so coincidental to leave half of Luoyang City, the collection of 'Taixue' books is also safe and sound, the value of these books Cao Cao is clear, absolutely valuable, "No matter who this person is, the merit is in the present generation, and the benefit is in the future!" ”

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Shangfang is in the Luoshui River thirty miles southwest of Luoyang City, densely packed with all kinds of workshops, although it is only the most primitive manual production, but here is already the entire Han Empire, or the world's most advanced industrial center at that time, is the production of all kinds of utensils here, a steady stream of supply to the capital Luoyang, this is the heart of the blood for the Han Empire!

There are thousands of craftsmen living in Shangfang, these people have to spend their lives here, no holidays, no rest, some just work day and night, only until one day can no longer do it, and then the son or grandson takes over the tools in their hands, continue to work, many people's ancestors even from the Qin Dynasty are the masters of Shangfang, they have served the empire for generations, and have accumulated exquisite craftsmanship!

It's a pity that no matter how much they tremble and serve this empire, in the eyes of the magnates, they are just tools that can make exquisite utensils, the Han Emperor doesn't value them, Dong Zhuo doesn't value them, and the princes of Kwantung don't value them either......

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ...... "With the sound of horses' hooves trampling the earth, a black torrent suddenly appeared around Shangfang, and then they rushed here at a very fast speed, only to see this army, people like dragons, horses like tigers, its momentum is like Mount Tai, it is really like a mountain pressed over, the craftsmen who stayed in Shangfang were scared to the soul, many people have knelt on the ground, desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy, such a cavalry brigade, only need a charge to step on the ground here!

Fortunately, when the black torrent rushed to the front, it suddenly split up and surrounded both sides of Shangfang, and then occupied various strongholds, and planted black military flags, it turned out that they were here to protect here, surging against the torrent, a black Daxu appeared in front of the formation, and there were four big characters on it - Xuanjia Iron Cavalry!

Under the big flag, Xiao Yi immediately looked at the situation in Shangfang, "Zhang Ji is doing a good job, there is no damage to any grass and trees here, he really has a heart......"

After coming to Luoyang, Xiao Yi didn't even enter the city, and immediately led the Xuanjia army to rush here, for fear that someone would take the first step to pick the peaches.

"Which of you is the official here, come out to see me!" Xiao Yi urged the war horse forward, and came directly to those craftsmen, these are all living treasures, from now on, the ordnance of the Xuanjia Army will not have to worry!

At this time of the war, a fight for bravery, two fight for grain and grass, the third fight is ordnance, because of the smelting technology, the ordnance of this era is very easy to damage, a war knife, often after cutting a few people will become a sawtooth, a battle often has to change the blade several times, so every time after the battle, in addition to the dead corpses everywhere, it is a mountain of destruction blades, at this time if there is no good logistics department to provide you with sufficient weapons, then you can only fight with wooden sticks!

"See the general, the little old man is cheap, and he is the chief official here!" An old man with a white beard walked out tremblingly, kneeling in front of Xiao Yi's horse, with a frightened look on his face.

"Oh? Hurry up, old man! Xiao Yi jumped off the horse, supported the old man with both hands, and looked at the other party's hands full of calluses and hot scars, and knew that this was an old blacksmith.

"Don't dare, don't dare, if the general has any orders, please say it directly, the little old man will obey it!" Gao Lian has been fighting iron all his life, and he has also worked in Shangfang all his life, when have I seen a general so polite to him, in the past, those powerful people came, all of them were beaten and scolded, Xiao Yi was so polite to him, but he jumped down, took a few steps back, and bowed even more!

"Huh! I don't know how many craftsmen in this Shangfang are there now, what utensils can be made, and how do you live? Xiao Yi touched his nose, this time he didn't want to kill, but embarrassed, did he look very vicious? I finally wanted to get close to the people, and I almost scared the old man in front of me to death, it seems that it is impossible to get along with the working people!

"Back to the general's words, there are a total of 3,328 craftsmen in Shangfang, including Xiao Lao'er, and more than 2,000 family members, who also live nearby, and the types of work are also all-inclusive, including masons, carpenters, porcelain generals, lacquer generals, ......, among which blacksmiths are the most, accounting for more than half of the total number of craftsmen!" Gao Lian has lived here all his life, and he naturally knows the situation of Shangfang well, "As for the production, bows and arrows, blades, and all kinds of siege equipment can be built here, and as for other daily necessities, such as wood, porcelain, bronze, lacquerware, ......, there is no shortage of them!" ”

"Okay, very good, General Ben will take over here in the future, don't worry, General Ben will protect you and live a good life!" Xiao Yi's face was about to burst into laughter, these are all treasures, he was even thinking that if he took these people to an isolated place, he would be completely self-sufficient, and it would not be impossible for him to be the king of the land at that time......

"Thank you general, the little old man will do the work of dogs and horses!" Gao Lian knelt on the ground again, kowtowing desperately, no matter whether what the other party said was true or not, he kowtowed a few more times, and he could always be less abused in the future, those who were in charge, how could there be a good person......

"Is there a shortage here?" Xiao Yi looked at the old man in front of him, and then looked at the craftsmen gathered in the distance, most of these people were in ragged clothes and had vegetables on their faces, it seems that their lives were not very good before, so it's okay, as long as they are kind to them, I think these people will be grateful to Dade.

"Back to the general's words, this ...... This ......"

"What is missing, to put it bluntly, General Ben will never blame!" Seeing Gao Lian's appearance, Xiao Yi knew that he must be in trouble, and this was a good opportunity for him to win people's hearts!

"Back to the general's words, the people in Shangfang will only build equipment, not farming, all the rations rely on Luoyang City, Luoyang has been in chaos recently, no one cares about us, the food in the workshop has been exhausted, and the big guy hasn't eaten for several days......"

What Gao Lian said is the truth, Dong Zhuo and the others have been busy moving recently, and the only little energy they have is to collect gold, silver and jewelry, who cares about the life or death of these craftsmen, if Xiao Yi comes a few days late, these people will either starve to death, or go out to escape the famine and ask for food.

"Fat Liu, boil water, boil porridge, and then take out the dry food and butcher shop in the camp!" Xiao Yi gave an order, the Huotou army immediately moved when they heard the wind, under the leadership of Fat Liu, dozens of big black pots lined up, and began to boil porridge for cooking, and the others also took out the cakes and butcher shops they carried with them, and handed them to those craftsmen, to be honest, the food of the Xuanjia Army is the best in the entire Kwantung Coalition Army, who told them to have a commander who is even more treacherous than profiteers!

"Thank you, General, for your mercy...... We will be ...... to death", the craftsmen knelt down and kowtowed desperately, their life wishes are very simple, they can eat and dress warmly, now Xiao Yi not only gives them food, but also the butcher shop that they may not even see during the New Year, everyone suddenly feels happy and dies...... is naturally grateful to Xiao Yat......

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In Luoyang City, Cao Cao is checking all kinds of precious books in 'Taixue', and he can't put down some lonely books, and he can't even take care of eating at lunch.

"Back to General Cao, we are a step late, Shangfang has been occupied by the Xuanjia Army first!" A personal soldier finally pulled Cao Cao out of the sea of books.

Ha ha! Good boy, it's really fast, it doesn't matter, sooner or later it's your own family!