For thousands of years, Chinese has always had a habit that before a military war, there must be a 'war of words', all kinds of crusades are flying all over the sky, and it is necessary to discredit the opponent from ** to the soul, it seems that if this is not the case, it is not enough to reflect their own justice, what 'for the heavens, hang the people, and eliminate violence and peace and ......', anyway, there are various slogans, it depends on the size of your voice!

Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Sun Ce, the three-party 'war of words' lasted for more than two months, from summer and June to August, the saliva converged into a river, and the eighteenth generation of the other party's ancestors were 'scrubbed' again, and then the air sounded the sound of 'quack' knife sharpening, the three sides of the soldiers and horses were frequently mobilized, and the atmosphere of the war became stronger day by day!

In the middle of summer and August, Yuan Shao's 300,000 army took the lead in advancing into Liyang, seriously threatening Xuchang, Cao Cao also did not show weakness, and the pro-unification army of 200,000 went north to Baima, and his old friends and old opponents confronted him across the river!

At the same time, Xiaobawang-Sun Ce commanded tens of thousands of troops stationed on the Xiakou River, and gathered thousands of warships, ready to wave his army to the north at any time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the battle between the two heroes, fishing in troubled waters, if you can take the opportunity to sneak attack Xuchang and snatch the little emperor out, it would be better!

When the military report came, Xiao Yi, the governor of Xuzhou, did not hesitate at all, and immediately led the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to set off at night and stationed in Shouchun, the 'first important town in Huainan', to closely monitor the every move of Jiangdong's soldiers and horses, and at the same time allocate a large amount of grain, grass and equipment, preparing to fight a protracted war!

For a time, the situation suddenly changed, the world was terrified, the three major princes, two fronts, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses fought against the battlefield, sharpening their knives, and the war was about to break out!

The three parties are waiting, waiting for the autumn wind to come together, the crops in the fields are ripe, and the military rations are sufficient, and this big war that determines the belonging of the world will begin, and it will not stop!

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In the face of this situation, the emperor was helpless, the ministers tied their hands, and the people near the war zone were even more frightened three times a day, and fled with their families, for fear of being caught up in this ruthless war, the same way, the princes of the world also began to panic, once the war spread, no one could get out, the problem is, the three strongest lions are about to fight, who can separate them?

Manpower must not be able to do it, but God can, just when the three princes have drawn their swords out of the sheath and are about to splash blood on the battlefield, God intervened, and the solution is very simple, God sent a messenger, just moved his mouth slightly, and easily persuaded the three princes, let them obediently put away their swords and return their sheaths, each go back to their own homes, and find their own mothers!

However, the appearance of this messenger is not good-looking, it has six legs, two wings, a large head, a small body, a short tail, usually blue-brown, can fly, the ability is sometimes big and sometimes small, country children can be caught at will, play with it between the fingers to death, but the princes of the world are afraid of it like a tiger, and they can't wait to never see each other, the name of this messenger is ~~~ locust!

This kind of small insect, born in summer and dead in winter, born between plants and trees, no more than a few inches in length, no more than a finger in size, although it has feet and wings, but it does not jump more than a few feet, flies only more than ten zhang, feeds on the young leaves of grass, basically there is nothing powerful, anyone can trample it to death with one foot!

However, there are some species that will change, just like the golden scales in the pool, you can turn into a dragon when you encounter a storm, and the same is true for locusts, they like temperature and drought tolerance, once they encounter drought, they will multiply in large numbers, and the original blue insects will become gray-brown 'demons', and their skills will be greatly increased, and they can fly thousands of miles long distances, and everywhere they go, they will cover the sky and the sun, and the plants and trees will be wiped out, and there will be no trace of people and animals!

Han, the first year of Xingping, summer and August, the southern part of Yuzhou drought, locusts took advantage of the rise, just more than ten days, all over the surrounding dozens of counties, and then rushed all the way into the eight counties of Yanzhou, everywhere they went, the crops that had been tasseled in the field were eaten up, even the branches were not left, the lush field was walked by these locusts again, immediately turned yellow-brown, except for the bare earth, there was nothing left!

The people are crying, the officials are panicking, there are no crops, what will everyone eat?

The messengers who reported the disaster rushed into Xudu in droves, and the court couldn't sit still, the little emperor Liu Xiesheng sat on the dragon chair, and the prime minister Cao Cao personally presided over it, bringing together the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and discussed it for three whole days, and finally came to a conclusion~~~ No way!

Chinese are no strangers to locust plagues, especially in the Qin and Han dynasties, on average there will be a locust plague every ten years or so, the location is very arbitrary, as long as there is a drought in the place, it is possible, the scale can be large or small, if it is small, it will plague more than a dozen counties, hundreds of thousands of people will suffer, if it is large, it can spread to seven or eight states, and the people of the world will be unlucky together, because of limited cognition, no one knows how the locust plague appeared, nor how it disappeared, naturally they don't know how to deal with these flying insects!

However, the Chinese are very self-disciplined, advocating 'celestial induction', and regard the locust plague as a punishment from God, every time this situation occurs, up to the Son of Heaven and down to the people, all will bathe and change clothes, worship God devoutly, and hope that God can take back the locusts!

Of course, God also gives face, every time the frost comes out, those locusts flying in the sky will disappear immediately, but the crops in the fields and the grass and trees in the fields are also eaten up!

When the locusts are full, the people will not eat, and the famine will inevitably occur, at this time the people often have only three ways to go, the first one, starve to death, there are no grass roots and tree bark in the field, unless your appetite is strong enough to digest stones, otherwise starvation is inevitable!

The second one, cannibalism, hungry red-eyed people are not people, but ferocious beasts, and the people around them are not people, but fat sheep walking on two legs, even if they don't look like sheep, but the burning hunger will automatically make your brain hallucinate, thinking that it is a sheep that can be eaten, because if you don't eat him, he should eat you!

If you don't want to starve to death, or to be eaten, then there is only one last way to go, go home and find ancestral armor, swords, or other blades, if you really don't have them, hoes, flat poles, dung forks, ......, as long as you can use it, then pick a bamboo pole and hang a door curtain~~ Let's rebel!

The Chinese are smart, they know that the three choices are the correct answer, they are also brave, not brave and not good, because hunger is more terrible than death, many people are not afraid of death, but no one can bear hunger, so there will be a strange circle in history, drought causes locust plague, locust plague causes civil disaster, and finally starvation people are everywhere, the world is in chaos, and the regime collapses!

Now there is a locust plague under Cao Cao's rule, the people's hearts are in turmoil, and the people may occur at any time, but Yuan Shao, who is sitting in Hebei, is happy, this is simply God is helping him, the princes are fighting for hegemony, and the fight is the supply of grain and grass, no food, no soldiers, no soldiers, it will be over, Yuan Shao, who was extremely happy, even held a ceremony to worship the heavens, thanking the heavens, raining down locusts, so that he defeated a strong enemy without blood!

However, Yuan Shao was obviously a little early in his joy, those locust armies, after eating up the crops of Yu and Yanzhou, divided into two routes, all the way to the five counties of Xuzhou, and went there to open up a new battlefield!

Another way to the north, across the Yellow River, directly rushed into the territory of Jizhou, this is like a fish in water, in September the crops in the north have just begun to be full, Jizhou is fertile for thousands of miles, and it is a famous grain production area, to here, what to wait for if you don't eat, eat less can not be!

So, in just ten days, the army of locusts rolled forward, growing stronger and stronger, sweeping the entire territory of Hebei and Qingdao, and the southern part of Youzhou, and the eastern part of the state...... everywhere they went, the crops were eaten up, and not even a leaf was left!

In short, the anointed land of Hebei, they did not let go, they were full, now Yuan Shao began to cry, Cao Cao was comforted a lot, when one person is unlucky, if you see another person more unlucky than yourself, it is undoubtedly a happy thing!

If there is no food, there will be no soldiers, how can you fight without soldiers, the two princes have to return the sword to the sheath, shake hands and make peace, and then turn back to deal with the imminent famine and civil uprising, as for the great cause of unifying the Central Plains, wait until you are fed!

People of insight judged that with the damage caused by this locust plague, within three years, the two princes would not have the ability to launch a large-scale war, so those frightened little princes were at peace, and the stalemate between the two powers was the most beneficial to them!

In just one month, the ...... of Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou are all over, and there is only one Xuzhou left in the Central Plains!