According to the historical plot, Huangfu Song had already divided his troops to the north at this time, but he would not exterminate Bu Ji in Dongjun until August.

Zhang Jiao died of illness in October, Zhang Liang came to Guangzong, led the troops to hold on, and then Chengpo was killed, and Zhang Bao was killed in Xiaquyang in November.

It was the end of June, and although the time was already very tight, it was not without opportunities.

More than a month, if you hurry up, it is enough to train a veteran who can fight, at least enough to defend the city.

After Dong Zhuo attacked the city, he cleaned up the corpses these days, and roughly counted the number.

In that battle, the Han army left behind a full 35,000 corpses, and the Yellow Turban Army also lost more than 25,000 deaths.

Generally speaking, the defenders of the city have the advantage, and they should not have suffered such heavy casualties, but they can't bear the siege equipment that Lu Zhi has prepared for more than a month!

A round of stone bombs will cause dozens or hundreds of casualties, and if it is thrown far away, it will fall on the top of the houses in the city, and one house will collapse and crush several to death!

Of the more than 25,000 people, three or four thousand were civilians!

Seeing that the atmosphere was really heavy, Han Nuo asked, "How are the troops in the city now?" ”

Zhang Jiao cleaned up his mood and said slowly: "Now the troops in the city, in addition to the 4,000 Yellow Turban wrestlers under your command and the 10,000 veterans under the command of Niu Jiao, there are only 20,000 recruits who have just been replenished. ”

Han Nuo asked again, "What about Dong Zhuo?" ”

"Four or five thousand cavalry from Xiliang, six or seven thousand elite soldiers from the Northern Army, ten thousand veterans, plus about twenty-five thousand recruits."

Han Nuo thought about it, but still sighed: "Alas, the comparison of forces on the two sides is about the same, but if we really want to fight, we don't have much chance of winning." ”

Zhang Jiao nodded and did not speak.

This is a fact and cannot be denied.

"The current situation is not optimistic!"

Han Nuo sighed: "That day, the family in the city suddenly rebelled, and I realized that I thought too well before. ”

This is another place where Zhang Jiao is worried.

Han Nuo asked: "We seem to have a million people now, but how many can we really count?" ”

That's really a problem!

The current yellow scarf is naturally not like in the reincarnation dream, where only less than 100,000 believers are willing to follow into Taihang Mountain, but even if it is more, it is only five or six hundred thousand believers.

Half of the population seems to be more than a million people, but in fact they are reluctant to stoop to thieves, and if they have the opportunity, half of them are likely to rebel!

"Probably, there are about 300,000, right?" Zhang Jiao said uncertainly.

“……”

This number is lower than Han Nuo thought!

In the reincarnation dream, Zhang Jiao died of illness, and when Zhang Ning took over, he had 200,000 yellow scarves, not counting the yellow scarves under Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang.

After Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao died in battle, Zhang Ning gathered the yellow scarf and retreated to Taihang, there were only less than 100,000 left.

At this time, Zhang Jiao, who was a "great sage and good teacher" and "general of Tiangong", was still there, Han Nuo thought that there should be four or five hundred thousand believers, but the number given by Zhang Jiao was more than 300,000!

I'm not sure yet, but I said it with a questioning tone!

"Alas......" Han Nuo let out a long sigh.

Zhang Ning pursed his lips, put away the dishes, and then took out the map drawn by Han Nuo from his sleeve, spread it out, and asked, "What are we going to do now?" ”

Han Nuo looked at the circle drawn with cinnabar, sighed again, and then said, "Shrink." ”

"Although I have given up my current territory, it will be difficult to fight back! But if you can't even get past the current level, then don't mention the future! ”

Zhang Jiao looked at the map and asked, "Where do you want to shrink?" ”

Han Nuo stretched out his finger and nodded next to Nan Ru (go to the mouth to go to the car to add words, if you can't type that word, you will use the rein instead), and said, "Here, Dazhu Ze here!" With the mainland Ze as the center, the north is Liaotao, the east is Nanlan, the south is Julu and Pingxiang, and the west is Ren County, and these five county towns are used to establish a complete defense circle. ”

"What if it's surrounded?" Zhang Ning first asked the way out.

Han Nuo dragged his finger to Taihang Mountain: "Enter Taihang Mountain from Diaotao, Gaoyi, Luancheng, and Yuanshi." The great virtuous and good master can let the general of Digong evacuate Xiaquyang and move to the area of Luancheng Gaoyi, looking for an opportunity to seize the county seat of the Yuan clan! ”

"As long as this road is passed, there will be a continent in front of it, and there will be Taihang Mountain in the back, and you can advance and retreat!"

Continental Ze, located in the Hebei Plain, the western Taihang Mountain River alluvial fan and the Yellow River old road of the junction depression, for the confluence of Zhangbei and Lunan waters, the water surface is vast, across six counties.

According to the "Historical Records", it is recorded that Yu "Dao River is waterlogged, as for Longmen...... Precipitation in the north (i.e., the Zhanghe River) as far as the mainland ......"

The mainland is the place where Xia Yu guided the Yellow River through, until the middle of the spring and autumn, the Yellow River still passes through the mainland according to the Yu guide river, and then enters the sea to the north.

In the fifth year of King Zhou Ding (602 B.C.), the Yellow River went to the east and did not return, and the water such as dipping, dipping, and knotweed, which originated from the foothills of Taihang Mountain, was injected into Zenei.

After the Northern Wei Dynasty, the waters of the Taihang Mountains were diverted to flow through the Zhangshui of Jersey and went north, and the mainland Ze was short of water since then, and the lake area was reduced, leaving only 20 miles from east to west and 30 miles from north to south in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River burst its banks, bringing a large amount of sediment alluvium, raising the bottom of the lake, and by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the middle of the mainland was dry out of the land, divided into two halves.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the water conservancy was not prosperous, the river was blocked, and it was a long-term problem, and the two boths gradually became swamps, and then gradually dried up until they disappeared.

But at this time, the continent is still "vast continent", "the ocean is vast, and it is actually a lake".

You must know that before the pre-Qin period, Continental Ze was among the nine famous large lakes in the country.

Zhang Jiao was born in Julu, and he was naturally no stranger to Dalu Ze, and after listening to Han Nuo's words, he nodded and said, "This strategy is feasible." ”

However, compared to the circles drawn with cinnabar before, the current range can be said to have been directly reduced by more than half, and only one-third remains!

Zhang Jiao sighed secretly and asked again: "Then according to Yi Zicheng, what should I do next?" ”

"If you want to stick to it, you first need a favorable location, and Taihang Mountain is suitable. But if you want to take into account development, you can't choose Taihang Mountain, it can only be relied on as a backing, as a back road! ”

"And there is water on the mainland, and if there is water, you can open fields and grow grain, and you can fish for a living even if you are poor. If there is water and food, you can feed people, and if you have people, you can have soldiers, and if you have soldiers, you can defend them. ”

"But it takes time to farm, and it takes time to make paper and print, so for now, we can only grab it!"

"First of all, we have to collect all the food and materials near this Guangzong City, and then prepare to move to Julu."

"I also ask the great virtuous and good teacher to send someone to inform the general of the earth and the general of the people, and prepare more money, food and materials as well."

"As for the population, those who are willing to follow us will be reaped, and those who are unwilling will be left to fend for themselves, and they would rather have fewer people than plant a bane!"

Hearing Han Nuo say this, Zhang Ning was a little unbearable and asked, "Isn't it too cruel to let them fend for themselves?" ”

Han Nuo looked at Zhang Jiao, sighed and said, "Ren Ci to the enemy is cruel to himself!" Are you trying to be cruel to them? Or do you want to be cruel to your own people? Take your pick. ”