Seeing that Hua'an intended to let go of Shi Bao, the generals under his command felt a little incredible, but they all knew that since Hua'an wanted to do this, there was naturally a reason to do so, and for this reason, they did not object.

The fire in the city burned very strongly, and when Zhuge Xiong and Li Liang led the army into the city, the people in the city had already begun to extinguish the fire, but the fire was too strong to be extinguished for a while.

The Jin army's 20,000 horses did not hesitate to join the firefighting operation, and used the method of isolation to demolish some of the houses that had not yet caught fire, so that the fire could not spread.

After nearly an hour of fighting, the fire in the streets of the city was basically extinguished, but there were many shops that were burned down, and the losses were relatively large, several granaries in the city were completely burned down, and the tens of thousands of denier military rations in them were all turned to ashes, and not a single grain was left.

Outside the east gate of Chang'an City, the left and right wings of the Zhao army entangled the Jin army, and Shi Bao took the personal guards, carrying a large number of materials, and retreated in the direction of Wuguan, and the Jin army of 10,000 troops pursued the direction of Shi Bao's retreat for a while after repelling the left wing of the Zhao army, and captured part of the materials of the Zhao army, and then withdrew to the east gate, and immediately reported the situation to Hua'an.

Outside the west gate, Hua'an was appeasing the surrendered Zhao army soldiers, and a herald from the east gate rushed over.

Hua An naturally knew that it was about Shi Bao's escape, so without waiting for the herald to speak, he asked first: "How long has Shi Bao been away?" ”

The herald soldier was stunned for a moment, and then hugged his fists and said: "Back to the general, Shi Bao, the chief general of the Zhao army, led more than 10,000 men and horses to the southeast. General Chen pursued for a while, captured Qiandan's military rations and returned. ”

Hua An nodded and ordered: "You go back and tell Chen Poyu, it's good that Shi Bud is gone, so that he doesn't have to pursue." ”

"Yes, General." The herald soldier answered, and turned to leave.

"Big brother, the smoke in the city is decreasing, the fire should have been extinguished, and our army can enter the city." Wang San reminded in a low voice.

Huaan nodded. Let the reserve army and the surrendered Zhao soldiers and horses camp outside the city. Then he led the pro-guard army into Chang'an.

As soon as he entered Chang'an City, Hua'an felt a kind of heritage, a kind of imperial capital, although the city experienced a fire. But the scale of the building. It still left a shocking impression on Huaan.

The burnt wood and various items emit a pungent smell. Hua An raised his arm to lightly block it, and continued to walk down the street.

In this fire, many shops were ruthlessly burned down by the fire. Even many people were buried in the fire, which made Hua'an feel a sense of desolation.

"General, all the grain and grass in Chang'an City have been burned, and tens of thousands of denier military rations are left." Zhuge Xiong reported softly.

"That's right, General, not only the military granary, but even the grain hoarded by the wealthy merchants in the city was burned to the ground, and these grains are more than military food, nearly 100,000 denier." Li Liang said with a look of regret.

Hua'an was shocked when he heard this, according to the report of the two, when Shi Bao evacuated Chang'an, he burned all the grain and grass in Chang'an City, so that hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City had to worry about running out of food, and the people took food as the sky, once the whole city ran out of food, it would inevitably cause social problems in Yanzhòng, and I was afraid that Guanzhong would be in chaos for this.

Seeing the charcoal ash on the faces of the two, Hua An waved his hand and said softly: "The two generals and soldiers have worked hard, let's go down and wash our faces first!" ”

"Yes, General." When Zhuge Xiong and Li Liang heard the order, they clasped their fists and turned to go down.

After the two left, Wang San looked at Hua'an and said softly: "Big brother, all the food in the city has been burned, and the food stored in the people's homes is afraid that it will not be able to support it for a few days, what can I do?" ”

"What else can I do, doesn't our army camp have grain and grass? and use the grain and grass of our army to relieve the people. Hua An said without thinking.

When Wang San heard this, he hurriedly said: "Big brother, the grain and grass that our army brought out of the city is only enough to support one month, and now, more than half a month has passed, and there is not much grain left in our army, how can there be any surplus grain to distribute to the people!" ”

This problem, Hua'an is naturally very clear, before the expedition, Hua'an after some thinking, felt that within a month can gain a firm foothold in Guanzhong, for this reason, only mobilized 100,000 reserve corps to transport enough army to consume a month's worth of grain and grass, in order to reduce the requisition of manpower.

At this moment, after more than half a month of campaigning, the grain and grass of more than 200,000 horses of the Jin army are already insufficient, and if a part of it is allocated to the people of Chang'an City, the grain and grass of the army will be even more insufficient.

"Even if we don't distribute grain and grass to the people, our army's military rations can't last long, at the moment, our army has gained a firm foothold in Guanzhong, and the next top priority is to transport the grain and grass from Nanzheng City to Guanzhong as much as possible, the more the better." Hua An Zhengse said.

Wang San nodded and said, "What the eldest brother said is that in order to gain a firm foothold in Guanzhong, our army must do its best to transport grain." ”

Hua'an took out the map in his arms, and began to think about how to quickly and effectively transport a large amount of grain and grass from Nanzheng City to Guanzhong, at present, there are five roads from Nanzheng to Guanzhong, Qishan Avenue is the flattest, the most conducive to the transportation of grain and grass, but this road is the farthest road, and it is a waste of time to carry grain and grass back and forth.

Although the other small roads are relatively close, the roads are rugged and difficult to travel, and it is quite inconvenient to transport grain and grass, and it is difficult to transport large quantities of grain in a short time.

If the method of transporting grain and grass in large quantities at the same time by five roads is followed, a large number of people need to be requisitioned to be responsible for transporting grain and grass, and in this way, it will greatly deplete the economy and agriculture of Liangzhou, which Hua'an does not want to see.

After thinking about it, Hua'an felt that there must be a simple and efficient method of transporting grain to meet the needs of Hanzhong for transporting large quantities of military grain to Guanzhong.

Hua An took the map in his hand, looked back and forth, and suddenly had a bold idea to use the river to transport supplies by water.

This river is naturally close to the Baoshui Road, which is close to Nanzheng City, and a large amount of military food in the city can be transported by ships from the downstream to the upstream of Baoshui.

But there is a problem that in the lower reaches of Baoshui, the river is wide and deep, which can pass large ships, but in the upstream position, the river is very narrow and the water depth is also very shallow, and small boats cannot pass, that is, Baoshui cannot directly lead to Guanzhong, but can only lead to more than 200 li.

But this is already very good, you must know that from Nanzhengcheng, along the Bao slope road to Yicheng, there is at least three or four hundred miles away, if you use Baoshui to transport two hundred miles, the remaining more than one hundred miles, the pressure of transportation is much smaller, besides, in the south of Yicheng, there is a small river, is a tributary of Weishui, the distance that can be navigated is enough to have more than 50 forces, as long as these two rivers are fully utilized, it can greatly reduce the pressure of land transportation.

That is to say, from Nanzhengcheng to transport grain to Yicheng, there is a distance of nearly 300 miles is water transportation, and the distance that needs to be transported by land in the middle is less than 100 miles, so that in addition to crossing the Qinling Mountains of less than 100 miles need to strengthen manpower, water transportation at both ends, the manpower required is very small, you know, the efficiency of water transportation is incomparable with land transportation.

In order to further increase the efficiency of transportation, Hua'an also plans to divide water transportation into two sections, when sending grain from Nanzhengcheng, use large ships to transport it, in order to improve efficiency, in the upstream area, large ships can not pass, switch to small boat transportation, in the source area where small boats cannot pass, in the military grain transport by baggage trucks.

After Hua'an thought about it, he told the generals beside him his idea, and after listening to Hua'an's transportation plan, the generals were all amazed and thought it was feasible.

After analyzing the steps of every detail, Hua'an finally made up his mind to use Baoshui and Baochuan to transport a large amount of grain and grass, and set up a large military grain warehouse in Yicheng to store the grain and grass transported from the direction of Nanzhengcheng, and at the same time, in Chang'an City, build a larger granary, after all, Chang'an is the core of Guanzhong, and controlling Chang'an can better control Guanzhong.

It is a very simple thing to transport grain from Yicheng to Chang'an, just follow Weishui all the way to the east, you can easily reach Chang'an, if you want to transport it to Tongguan, then continue to go east, enter Tongguan.

In Guanzhong, almost all the important cities are on the edge of Weishui and its tributaries, and it is very easy to transport grain and grass.

After Hua'an officially issued the order, in the direction of Guanzhong, the soldiers of the baggage battalion began to build ships in large quantities to facilitate the transportation of grain and grass, while in the direction of Hanzhong, the prepared military rations were loaded onto ships and transported along the Baoshui Road to the north.

Hua'an sent 10,000 soldiers of the reserve army to push mountain wagons to the Baochuan Road, preparing to transport the military rations from Baoshui, and then transport the military rations to the Weishui tributary near Yicheng, carry them on ships, and carry them down the river through guò boats to transport the military rations to Yicheng.

This way of transporting grain has greatly saved manpower, and the efficiency of transporting grain has been greatly improved, and in just half a month, 100,000 denier of military rations have been transported to Yicheng and then transferred to Chang'an.

In the days of food shortage, Hua'an sent the grain to the people of Chang'an City free of charge, so as to avoid large-scale starvation in Chang'an City, which not only avoided the turmoil in Chang'an City, but also made the people of Chang'an City grateful to Hua'an.

The loss of some military rations is nothing to Hua'an, but it is a great thing for Hua'an to get the hearts of the people.

Nanzhengcheng's military rations are constantly being transported to Chang'an, looking at the more and more military rations piled up in Chang'an City, Hua'an's hanging heart has finally let go, as long as there is enough grain and grass, Hua'an is confident that he can completely control Guanzhong in the shortest possible time, so as to use Guanzhong as a base to kill Tongguan and recover the Central Plains. (To be continued......)