Chapter 659: Cao Zhen's concerns

From the perspective of full favor, it is very reasonable for him to ask Cao Zhen for these twenty days.

200,000 people, not 200,000 pigs, it will take a certain amount of time to mobilize so many people to migrate as soon as you drive it away, right?!

Not to mention that among the 200,000 people, there are still a considerable number of clans in Chang'an, what kind of treacherous thoughts these people are now, you don't know at all.

Compared with Tongguan Road, which is only more than 300 miles away, the distance between Wuguan Road and Chang'an is much farther, at least more than 500 miles, such a long road, even if the army marches normally, it will take more than ten days to arrive, not to mention the people who drag their families and mouths.

Now that the snow has not melted, and the enemy army is approaching Chang'an, if there is no armed escort by soldiers, these people will flee to you in minutes, do you believe it or not?!

All of this is a factor that seriously slows down the migration speed of the people, and what Manpet needs most now is time.

Just these twenty days are the limit time obtained after repeated calculations.

Even so, Man Chong did not take into account the possibility that Liu Bei's group might send cavalry to make a detour and rush to Wuguan Road to cut off the migration team.

It's not that the full pet can't think of it, it's really full of pets and can't think about it.

At that time in Changbanpo, Man Chongke was at the scene, and he once sent troops with Xu Huang to attack Hanjinkou and block Liu Bei's retreat.

Although the army was defeated in the end, along the way, Manzhong saw with his own eyes what it was like for the people who were chased by the cavalry and fled in all directions.

Suffice it to say, when it comes to that point, it's not something you can resist with a few soldiers.

But now, his position is the opposite, he is full of favors to "bring the people into the customs", and these "people" are not willing to follow.

Now full of favors, I can only hope that Cao Zhen and Guo Huai can block it for as long as possible, or. I hope that Liu Bei is really a benevolent and righteous king, and I hope that he can see the innocence of the people and not send a cavalry team to surprise him.

Only. It's ironic, I think so I do.

What's even more ironic is that Cao Zhen replied to Man Chong with a letter, telling Man Chong - at most fifteen days, how much can be withdrawn, and if the army suffers heavy losses because of the relocation of Manzhong, Cao Zhen directly asks Man Chong for his guilt with the right of false festivals.

Cao Zhen's letter made it clear that your people don't matter at all, if you are defeated because of your relocation and the loss of the army, then Lao Tzu will cut you directly.

What do you say full of pets can do?!

Blame Cao Zhen?!

Indeed, Man Zhong can think so, and he can reprimand Cao Zhen for being a martial artist who doesn't understand the importance of the people's mouth.

But Cao Zhen also has his own reasons. How can you, a civilian official sitting in the rear, know how bad the situation is now?!

Twenty days?!

If you really want to hold on for 20 days and then retreat, Lao Tzu and the 20,000 army will not be able to go back, okay!!

From the day when Man Pet asked Cao Zhen for time, the snow that had been falling intermittently for almost a month finally stopped, and what was even worse was that the next day, the entire Guanzhong area was clear.

Although the weather is now, even if the weather is clear, but the northwest wind is cold, the snow will not melt for a while. But Cao Zhen thinks about things, and he can't just look at today.

There is no weather forecast this year, no one knows what the weather will be tomorrow, even if he is as knowledgeable as Zhuge Liang, he is also a human being in the end, it is impossible to be like in the romance, pinch your fingers to know what the weather will be tomorrow.

Therefore, Cao Zhen must prepare for the worst - what will he do if Guanzhong is sunny for half a month in a row?!

Combined with the climate records of Guanzhong over the years, once the spring is officially clear, under the climatic conditions of Guanzhong, half a month is enough for the ice and snow to thaw to that time, and the spring flood will really come.

The time of the spring flood in Guanzhong over the years is basically in the middle and late February. If this year's warmer weather is a little earlier, it is not impossible that the spring flood will come in mid to early February.

As soon as the spring flood arrives, the Shu thief will open the gate and release water for you. That's the end of it.

As for going out of the city to attack and harass the Shu thieves who blocked the water and built a dam. Speaking of this, Cao Zhen and Guo Huai were half angry.

Really, if Lao Tzu can have 10,000 more soldiers on hand, he still watches these Shu thieves rebel like this?!

These Shu thieves are really hateful.

Three thousand soldiers!!

The soldiers sent by the Shu thieves to stop the water and build a dam were only 3,000 people.

Among them, there are 1,000 people who put on a posture of local defense, and the Shu army that really blocked the water and built a dam was actually only 2,000 people, and it felt as if relying on these 1,000 people could defend against the Cao Wei forbidden army that was killed from Huaili.

In the face of this kind of Shu thief who quickly engraved "Come and beat me" on his face, Cao Zhen and Guo Huai were half angry, but they really didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, and they didn't even have the idea of harassing these soldiers.

The reason is still that there are not enough troops.

There are more than 50,000 people on the other side, Mao estimates, it can be said that it is close to 60,000, and his own side, full of calculations, is only more than 24,000 people.

These troops, stationed in Huaili City, relying on the advantages of city defense to fight defensive battles, then Cao Zhen is really not afraid, after all, the siege means are limited in these years, and the Shu thieves came from the snow, and it is already a miracle to be able to reach the city of Huaili, and it is definitely impossible to carry heavy siege equipment to fight a defensive battle, which is really beneficial to Cao Zhen.

But what Cao Zhen didn't expect was that the Shu thieves were so immoral that they actually blocked the water and built a dam to flood Huaili City.

If you send troops out of the city to attack the dam-building troops and interfere with the Shu thieves to block the water and build the dam, you just happened to fall into the Shu thieves' plan to divide the troops and fight the troops of 3,000 people, if you want to say whether it is a bait or not, it is unless Cao Zhen and Xiahou Nan have exchanged identities.

Giving up the strong city defense, taking the initiative to attack, and fighting in the snow, under such extreme conditions, the gap between the combat power of the two sides is easy to be narrowed, although the combat power of the forbidden army is excellent, but the combat effectiveness of the Shu thieves is not much worse.

Not to mention, there are still a lot of Qianghu cavalry cruising around the periphery, and they may launch a cavalry attack at any time, so isn't it how many people go out and how many people die?!

The army of 60,000 thieves in Shu is consumed, and there are 5,000 casualties on their side, and this battle will not be easy to fight, if there are 10,000 casualties, the whole army will collapse.

Therefore, Cao Zhen and Guo Huai really had no choice but to watch the dam building team of 3,000 people dangling in front of them, blatantly blocking the water and building a dam, and Leng did not dare to attack easily.

Fools can see that the Shu thieves must be cheating, just waiting for you to attack, so that they can surround it.

But if you don't go to war, see the Shu thieves build the embankment, and wait until the spring flood time comes. This Huaili City can't be defended.

Therefore, for the suggestion that full favor asked Cao Zhen to stick to it for twenty days, Cao Zhen rejected it directly without thinking about it.

Up to fifteen days.

It is already late January, fifteen days is the limit, and the troops must be withdrawn before mid-February, otherwise once the spring flood comes ahead of schedule, none of the more than 20,000 elite soldiers of the Wei army under Cao Zhen's command will be able to escape.

At that time, it will not be a problem of losing the people's mouth, it will be a problem that Chang'an cannot hold, Wuguan cannot hold, and even Nanyang cannot be held.

Once that time comes, the door of the Central Plains is wide open, and the strategy set by the Son of Heaven of "abandoning the three assistants and retreating and waiting for change" will be completely bankrupt.

In Cao Zhen's view, although the people are important, the implementation of the strategy is more important, if you have to choose between the people and the strategy, Cao Zhen will definitely choose the strategy.

This is his last duty as the governor of Yongliang.

Fifteen days is already Cao Zhen's last chance to take a lot of risks and stay with Manzhong.

And full of favors, after receiving such a military order, naturally knew that there was no room for bargaining.

What can I do?!

Be ruthless and compress time.

For the people, Manzhong did not persecute too much, after all, Manzhong also knew that the people did not need to be persecuted at all, and they could give up a lot of things in order to survive.

But for those loose-minded families, full of favors is not so easy to speak.

Anyway, it's destined to be notorious, so it's better to do things absolutely and not be famous.

Zhang Tang, Zhidu, Du Zhou, although they are all cool officials, they can be regarded as famous in the annals of history. It's not wrong.

Therefore, Man Pet was ruthless and ordered in Chang'an City - within three days, all the people would move out of the city, and if anyone was implicated and did not leave, he would be immediately beheaded.

At this moment, in the entire Chang'an City, all chickens and dogs jumped up.

For the people, three days is indeed enough to pack up their belongings, but for the family, how can such a big family business and so many family properties be processed in three days? !

There are always some people who can sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths for money, especially some so-called celebrities who always feel that they are not very sober after being a famous family, and they feel that no matter how arrogant and domineering they are, they dare not do anything to themselves.

For these people, there is no politeness at all.

Or, you act confidentially, and you don't let the full pet catch the handle, as long as you let the full pet catch the handle, proving that you do have two hearts, then the full pet will not be polite to you.

In the past, full of pets would also play some tricks to kill chickens and set an example of monkeys, kill some small families, and knock on the big families, but now, as long as they are in the hands of full pets, regardless of the size of the family, they will all be killed all over the house, and no one will be left.

In less than three days, Man Chong had already killed more than 2,000 people in Chang'an City, all of whom were members of the big family, and they did not show any mercy.

The ruthlessness of the full favor fiercely shocked some families in Chang'an City, and at the same time made the entire migration work more efficient.

Three days later, Manzhong gathered 200,000 people, escorted by 7,000 soldiers, and officially set off to Wuguan.

Originally, Man Chong also hesitated, whether to set fire to completely burn Chang'an City, leaving Liu Bei with a tattered Chang'an, but Man Chong still didn't do that after all.

After all, even if the full pet is forced to be helpless, he just wants to be a soup and a capital. He didn't want to be Dong Zhuo.

The person who kills the family has a reason to disobey the law or have two hearts afterwards to justify himself, but burn Chang'an, the old capital of the Han Dynasty. Full of pets hasn't gone crazy to this point.

(End of chapter)