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On the first day of the fourth month, on the tower of Guangyang Gate in the southwest corner of the Luoyang Palace, Ji Ping looked at the raging fires burning everywhere in the entire Xicheng District of Luoyang, with thick smoke billowing out, and there were also large fireworks in the southern city, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly.

The city of Luoyang, which the Han people spent hundreds of thousands of years to build and exhibit, was gradually destroyed under the ravages of the Qiang and Hu soldiers.

Destruction is always easier than construction, the destructive power of the Qianghu soldiers is undoubtedly powerful, which is also an important reason why it is difficult for the Han people to identify with the nomads, the difference in environment and culture, so that these ethnic groups have poor production capacity, but with a strong predatory nature.

No one can live comfortably with wolves full of predatory wildness.

Dong Zhuo's atrocities in Luoyang undoubtedly pushed the Liangzhou Army to the opposite side of the Central Plains, intensified ethnic hatred, and the years of efforts of his predecessor "Liangzhou Sanming" also came to naught.

At this time, Dong Zhuojun had already begun to pile up a large number of door panels, wood, firewood and grass near the palace, obviously blatantly preparing to burn the palace, looking at the shape, at the latest at night or early tomorrow morning, they were about to carry out the final wave of attacks.

Cao Cao's subordinate Xiahou brothers rushed and killed three or four times with their soldiers, but they could not stop it.

"Dong Zhuo wants to attack with fire." Cao Cao, who was beside Ji Ping, opened his mouth and asked, "Does Your Highness have a good plan?" ”

From everyone's different names for Ji Ping, you can see his attitude, it is difficult for Cao Cao to call out the title of "king", which is very subordinate, Cao Cao has always not allowed Ji Ping's identity, and he always has doubts in his heart when he is suspicious.

At this time, Cao Cao didn't expect that the young man in front of him was the former son of heaven, after all, Liu Bian's ascension to the throne was too short, and he rarely appeared, Cao Cao only saw him at close range in Beibi Mountain, and he never looked at it directly, not to mention that the temperament of Ji Ping and the cowardly Liu Bian at this time was too different.

Even Yuan Shao, who was suspicious, couldn't remember what the former Son of Heaven was like in the dead of night.

This is the Son of Heaven, who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, sat high on the main hall, and took off the imperial crown, except for the concubines, attendants and close courtiers, few people recognize him.

Hearing Cao Cao's inquiry, Ji Ping was silent, looked at the water not far away, and said slowly: "If you want to extinguish the fire, it is naturally water." ”

At the beginning of April, the people of Dongcheng had basically withdrawn to the area of Gongxian County, dozens of miles to the east, and only nearly 30,000 soldiers remained near the palace and the Wenchou Department in Beibi Mountain.

The west city and the south city of Luoyang were in flames, and from time to time there was the laughter of the wanton destruction of the Qiang Hu soldiers, and they were in a bright place, under the contrast of the light, they couldn't see what was going on in the dark east city.

Outside the Pingcheng Gate of the Dongcheng Imperial Palace and in the Imperial Palace, thousands of soldiers shuttled, and the hills formed by the soil in the palace gardens quickly disappeared, and bags of soil were transported to the bank of the water in front of the palace.

Many bags of dirt have sunk into the water, and the water level in the upper reaches of the water is rising silently.

At this time, the fires piled up by Dong Zhuojun of Xicheng outside the west wall of the palace had accumulated into a hill.

In the middle of the night, Dong Zhuojun in Xicheng suddenly beat his drums, and dense torches rushed towards the palace.

There was silence above the palace, and at this time, nearly 30,000 soldiers including Cao Cao, Cui Jun, and Wen Chou had all withdrawn from the northern highlands to the Tiger Prison Pass, leaving only 2,000 men and horses on the bank of the water and the bridge.

To the west of the palace, Dong Zhuojun's dense rockets shot at the piled up flammable objects, and the fire began to burn.

"Cast it." On top of the flat city gate, Ji Ping gave an order.

A torch lit up on the city, shook three times, and the 2,000 soldiers below moved quickly, and finally thousands of bags of dirt were thrown into the water, and from then on, the water was completely blocked by the stone bridge outside the gate of Pingcheng.

Upstream of the water, the water began to rise wildly.

Ji Ping quickly evacuated from the palace with two thousand soldiers.

The foundation of the palace is a rammed earth platform that is more than ten miles long, which can just block the water potential and discharge all the water to the west and south of the city.

At this time, it was only early spring, and it was naturally impossible to drown Dong Zhuobing on the Ruoyang Plain with the water potential of the water, but Ji Ping had another purpose in addition to extinguishing the fire and blocking the enemy.

Historically, Dong Zhuo burned a hundred miles of Luoyang to ashes, garrisoned it, and the iron cavalry wantonly crisscrossed and attacked the surrounding states and counties of Luoyang, raging and slaughtering.

Now, Ji Ping wants to turn the western and southern cities of Luoyang into a quagmire, so that Dong Zhuo's cavalry can't run in a short time, leaving more time for the counties to prepare, anyway, there is no one in this Luoyang now.

As for the east of the city, Ji Ping had already asked the soldiers to dig a trench to communicate with the river, and as long as the water overflowed into the east city, it would return to the river along the trench.

During the retreat, Ji Ping saw that the fire outside the palace had just been extinguished, and soon Dong Zhuojun's chaotic call came.

At noon on the second day of the fourth month, Ji Ping arrived in Chenggao, and at this time the people had retreated to less than 20,000 left.

Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao and Zhang after retreating a few days ago.

In the Chenggaocheng County Mansion, Ji Ping sat on it, and below were Zhang Liao, Qiao Mao, Cao Cao, Cui Jun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Tang Fang, Geng Zhong, Dian Wei and other county guards and generals, as well as the injured Bao Xin and Zang Hong, these two people were treated by Ji Ping and the medical team, and they picked up a life, and the injuries healed quickly, and they were all grateful to Ji Ping.

As for Wen Chou, he resisted for a day and a night in Beibi Mountain, and saw that Ji Ping was flooded in Luoyang, and there was no war, so he didn't stay, and went directly to find Yuan Shao.

The generals of the county guards looked at Ji Ping, and their eyes did not hide their respect, they thought that there would be a tragic battle in the end, and their lives and deaths were unpredictable, but they did not expect to be solved by Ji Ping's simple plan of flooding.

Ji Ping looked at Cao Cao first: "Now that the war in Luoyang is temporarily suspended, I don't know what Meng De's plans are?" ”

Cao Cao sighed: "The Kwantung princes and soldiers are divided into three routes, and they will ally Luoyang, originally to crusade against Dong Zhuo and support the Han family, but although the army is united, the strength is uneven, hesitant and snobbish, there is such a big defeat, if it is not for His Royal Highness the King of Shenwu, Luoyang is probably ruined." ”

Ji Ping did not have a trace of smug on his face, and sighed slightly tiredly: "100,000 soldiers raised troops, and recruited tens of thousands of new soldiers in Luoyang, a big battle was fought for less than two months, only 70,000 survived and fled, nearly 60,000 soldiers died, and more than 800,000 people were saved. ”

The generals below listened to Ji Ping's words, but they were all silent.

In this battle, there were heavy casualties, on the one hand, there were too many new soldiers, and even most of the princes' elite soldiers were just county soldiers, who lacked training on weekdays and had not experienced any battles, which was much worse than the battalion soldiers, not to mention Dong Zhuo's Qianghu soldiers.

There is a more important reason that the county guards and generals who led the troops were incompetent, and they also fought secretly, causing the army to break up several times, in addition to those who were killed, there were also those who trampled on each other and fell into the water, and many soldiers did not die on the battlefield of the charge, but died on the way to escape.

At this time, Cao Cao sighed: "I want to go back to Chenliu, recruit soldiers, unite people with lofty ideals, and wait for the opportunity to fight Dong again." ”

Ji Ping nodded, but Cao Cao looked at Ji Ping, his eyes flashing: "I don't know what great ambitions His Royal Highness King Shenwu has?" ”

Ji Ping said slowly: "Pacify the hundreds of thousands of people who moved out of Luoyang...... Mengde, the people are the foundation of the Han Dynasty. ”

At the beginning, Dong Zhuo moved nearly 100,000 people in Xicheng and Xin'an into Guanzhong, and the remaining 900,000 people, who died under the war and fled to various places in the mountains and the two passes in the south, are expected to have about 100,000, and the remaining 800,000 people.

For 800,000 people, even if they are diverted and migrated to other places, survival is a big problem.

Ji Ping rescued them, so he couldn't let them starve to death or become homeless, otherwise he would have no meaning in this battle of Luoyang.

He will never forget his original intention of giving up a leisurely life, planning hard, and devoting himself to the war, isn't it for the vitality of the Han nationality and the survival of the people, otherwise even if he becomes the Son of Heaven in the future, it will be just a joke in the face of a world with ten rooms and nine emptiness.

The world needs order and the help of scholars, but the people with the largest base are the fundamental, and they support the world, otherwise what is the meaning of a court ruling the land of an empty shell.

Although Ji Ping mentioned Cao Cao, Cao Cao may not have realized this at this time, and he still wanted to crusade against Dong Zhuo and support the Han family, and when he heard Ji Ping's words, his face showed disappointment.

Ji Ping didn't say anything more, he saw that Cao Cao had a lot of ambitions and his own opinions, and it was useless for him to solicit at this time.

Looking at Qiao Mao at the moment, Qiao Mao is a son of the old Taiwei Qiao Xuan clan, and he is also from a famous family, but he is not a big family, but he can be wooed, and he doesn't have to worry too much.

Qiao Mao arched his hand and said: "I will go back to Dongjun first, in case Liu Dai secretly makes trouble, but if His Royal Highness the Shenwu King is sent, I should go all out!" ”

Ji Ping nodded and said in a deep voice: "This time, nearly 300,000 people have moved eastward, most of them are into the land of Yan and Henan, and Dongjun is the closest to Luoyang, I am afraid that the most people have moved in. ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured, you will definitely go all out in this matter." Qiao Mao's voice was sonorous.

Ji Ping looked at Zang Hong, and Zang Hong hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, after Hong returns to Chenliu, he will advise Zhang Taishou, Zhang Mengzhuo is benevolent, and he will be able to appease the people, if not, I will do it myself!" ”

Ji Ping showed a hint of a smile, this Zang Hong is indeed a veritable celebrity, which can be seen from the previous Hangu Pass persuasion of the princes and the battle of Luoyang.

However, there is one more thing, Ji Ping said to Zang Hong again: "I am in Hanoi, I will meet Dong Zhuo Bingfeng, I must borrow a fierce general, and ask Ziyuan to say to Zhang Taishou." ”

Zang Hong was stunned: "But I don't know who His Highness wants to borrow?" ”

Ji Ping glanced at Dian Wei in the last seat, and said slowly: "This person's name is Dian Wei, and he is a military marquis in Tai Zhang's army. ”

Dian Wei, who was in the last seat, didn't expect Ji Ping to attach so much importance to him as a military marquis, and he solemnly proposed it on such an occasion, and he couldn't help but be shocked and fell to the ground.

Ji Ping hurriedly ordered him to get up, and Zang Hong glanced at Dian Wei on the side, and said in amazement: "Dian Wei is just a military marquis, if His Royal Highness values it, he will be summoned, and I am afraid that Zhang Mengzhuo may not know Dian Wei and his people." ”

Ji Ping smiled: "That's it, thank you Ziyuan and Zhang Taishou." ”r1152

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