Volume VI Respective Calculations] Chapter 302 Urgent Withdrawal of Dragoons -

For the reaction of the common people, although Zhao Xing was a little depressed, it did not make him anxious, Zhao Xing was anxious about the lonely dragoon.

In the city of Yaotao in Julu County, Jizhou, there are 20,000 jīng rebuke cavalry built by his heart, and when he fights for hegemony in the future, the role of this mobile force will be related to the success or failure of the state, and it cannot be infected with the plague in any case, which will damage the soldiers and reduce the combat power.

Zhao Xing did not believe that Yuan Shao of Jizhou had the ability to stop the outbreak of the plague, and according to the speed of the spread of the plague, it would only take half a month to reach the Julu Pottery from Youzhou to Jizhou at the earliest, and it would be possible to reach it after a month at the slower. Fortunately, the direction from Xiaotao City to Shangdang is the direction of the south, and there will be no head-on collision with the plague, if the troops are withdrawn urgently, although the time is rushed, it can still be rushed back to Bingzhou before the plague arrives.

So, the next moment after issuing the "Six Prohibitions on Epidemic Prevention", Zhao Xing immediately wrote a letter to Zhang Liao, asking the Shadow Team members to send it to Liao Tao as quickly as possible.

It only took five days for the Shadow Team to send Zhao Xing's secret letter to the Pottery. At this time, the plague brought by the Xianbei people to the south had spread to Dai County in Youzhou County, and there was only one day left before it spread to Zhongshan Country in Jizhou. If you count the four days that the information was transmitted back to Crouching Tiger City from Woye, then when Zhang Liao received the information, there were still six days left before the plague estimated by Zhao Xing would be able to reach Xiatao after fifteen days at the earliest!

For Zhao Xing's order, several sworn brothers were very resolute and thorough, and Zhang Liao was the same. He never questioned Zhao Xing's orders, but when it came to execution, he liked to play a little huā, trying in every possible way to maximize the benefits of each action. For example, in the last battle of Qingniwa, he personally led 2,000 men to defend Manbo City, and he once played an ingenious tunnel battle and achieved brilliant results.

If he left others alone, after receiving the commander's order to withdraw the army, knowing that the plague was approaching quickly, he would definitely leave everything behind, and only flee to the base camp with his men and horses, but Zhang Liao didn't do it!

Zhang Liao didn't want to leave Yuan Shao with ready-made things, he wanted to move the pottery city back to Bingzhou. Except for the city walls and houses that could not be taken away, the rest of the people and things were all in his calculations.

First of all, Zhang Liao publicly announced that there was an emergency and completely closed the city. He then sent the Shadow Crew out of the city, spreading rumors all the way to the counties south of the city, claiming that a large number of people infected with the plague had appeared in the northern part of Jizhou and were fleeing south. If the common people want to live, then they should hurry south and cross the Yellow River to be safe.

As soon as the common people heard that the plague had broken out from the north, they immediately fled with their families to the south. H-N's shadow team members inside continued to spread rumors south, so the fleeing people rushed to Wei County in Jizhou like a snowball.

The day after the Shadow Crew was released, Zhang Liao announced to the people in the city that the Great Plague had broken out in Youzhou, which had now spread to Zhongshan Kingdom, and that the Dragoons would retreat to Merge Prefecture, and those who were willing to follow him could go to Fengping L-Ng Jing Merge Prefecture together. As soon as these words came out, the whole city was in an uproar. So everyone packed up their things one after another, and with the idea of opening the city m-n, they hurriedly fled south.

Zhang Liao's wife, Zhen Mi, persuaded the two brothers and several elder sisters: "Today, Jizhou can not stay for a long time, brothers and sisters, don't stay and give your life in vain for the little money that can't be moved away in front of you! I have asked Wen Yuan, this matter is true, it is an order personally issued by General Zhenbei. If you don't retreat with the army and merge with the state, I'm afraid that you won't be able to enter Huguan even if you want to go in the future!"

After some discussion, Zhen Mi's second brother Zhen Yan and eldest sister Zhen Jiang decided to continue to stay in Xiatao to take care of the house, and the rest moved to Bingzhou with Zhen Mi.

On the fourth day, when Zhang Liao opened the city M-N, he spread another piece of news: the people south of Xiatao had received the news that they had fled south two days ago, and now they had fled far away.

So the people were in an uproar again, although they scolded Zhang Liao for not being a good thing, and deliberately dragged everyone down for four days, but they had no idea, and most of the people had no choice but to follow Zhang Liao to merge the state. As a result, Zhang Liao successfully coerced 50,000 people in the city, and evacuated the city two days before the outbreak of the plague.

Sima Zhi insisted on staying to appease the people and organize the fleeing people from the north to fight the plague. As for how to do it, Sima Zhi, as the longest-serving Taishou under Zhao Xing, has long been very familiar with the content of the "National Health Campaign", and he can definitely do a good job of painting a scoop according to the gourd.

Zhang Liao, who originally wanted to kidnap Sima Zhi, was later persuaded by Sima Zhi, so he let it go, and he didn't dare to stay longer, so he quickly went south with 20,000 dragoons and 50,000 ordinary people, and after passing through Guangping, he turned west, preparing to enter Bingzhou through Huguan.

Since the people in the south of the city had run out, the speed of the procession along the way was very fast, and there were no homeless people blocking the road.

At the same time, after the people of Jizhou in the north of Xiatao discovered the plague, they went south, and when they arrived at Xiatao, they found that it was an empty city, so they went into the city to live, planning to wait and see for a while, depending on the spread of the plague and then decide whether to flee to the south.

In this way, a quarantine zone was inadvertently formed between Xiaotao City and Wei County, and Zhang Liao did not have to worry about the people infected with the plague behind him, and Yuan Shao also escaped by luck.

Zhang Liao led the men and the people through Huguan without danger, and then Huguan City M-N fell, which was reopened after many years.

Hearing that Zhang Liao took 50,000 people, dragged his family and his mouth, and returned to Bingzhou with horses and cattle, Zhao Xing could only shake his head and smile bitterly, he really didn't know what to say to this bold fifth brother. Zhang Liao, this guy, is really a good hand at pulling out m-o and scraping the ground, and he didn't forget to toss Yuan Shao before leaving, and ran back to Bingzhou after getting enough benefits.

Yuan Shao, who was in Yecheng, got the news of the outbreak of the plague and was one day later than Zhang Liao. The Yuan family also has secret agents buried in various places, and it is not difficult to transmit the information of the outbreak of the plague in Youzhou to Yecheng in time.

So Yuan Shao urgently convened his staff to discuss countermeasures. At this moment, there was news that the people had fled to Yecheng, so Yuan Shao was shocked and hurriedly asked people to appease the people. It didn't take long for the family who was sent out to inquire about the news to send back the news, saying that the dragoon army of Xiatao had withdrawn, and now it had arrived in Guangping and was heading west, and there was no longer a population between Jizhou and Yecheng to Diantao.

Therefore, his adviser Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao send troops to block the way of the people coming south, ensure the peace of Wei County, and prevent the plague from continuing to move south. Yuan Shao adopted Xu You's opinion, and artificially built one isolation belt after another at a distance of nearly 300 miles between Yecheng and Xiaotaocheng, which greatly reduced the pressure on the southern states and saved enough strength and capital for himself.