Hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou were unable to stand up and seek revenge on Cao Cao.

for they are all dead.

No relatives are alive, no descendants will remember them, and naturally no one will raise the big knife in their hands and roar "revenge" at their enemies!

They left nothing except for the cold sentence "Surabaya does not flow" in both the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and the "Book of the Later Han".

And the hundreds of villagers of the Deng Shen Er clan gathered in Huangmen Pavilion and Zhangyang were lucky, because at least many of their relatives escaped.

Perhaps for these dead people, they didn't have the luxury of hoping that the remaining old relatives of Huangmen Pavilion could avenge them, after all, no matter how resentful the dead were, they also hoped that their relatives could live.

I only hope that there will be people who remember them, and every New Year's festival, it is enough to have a sacrifice.

As for revenge, no one wants their relatives to ride a mule and charge against a mountain. That's a self-defeating thing, and no one wants that.

It's not terrible to die, it's terrible that the descendants are dead, and not even a single root will be left, and if that's the case, even the souls of the dead won't rest in peace.

But how can the living forget this hatred?

The biggest hatred in Shen Chen's heart was never Cao Cao who killed hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou.

Because those people have nothing to do with him.

It may be selfish to say that, but it's true.

No one will risk their lives to fight for someone they have never met and have never met.

It's as if no one is willing to give themselves to the suffering of others.

There may be a small number of saints in this world who are full of the highest ideals who will do that, pouring out their wealth to save one party.

But at least not for more than nine out of nine.

Shen Chen is also an ordinary person, perhaps because of his kindness before the crossing, which allowed him to maintain a sympathy for the oppressed people at the bottom.

Sometimes I also watch some videos of poor families on the Internet.

Obviously, he is living an average life, but he can't see the suffering of the world.

Donating money, volunteering, doing good deeds, and living a positive and optimistic life.

But now his heart is full of torment.

Because his opponent is Cao Cao.

The Cao Cao who unified the north, wrote poems across the river, and Wei Wu whipped him.

Thousands of people died at his hands, how can he stand up and seek justice for those who have died?

So from the beginning, Shen Chen just wanted to persuade the clan to flee quickly and stay away from Xuzhou.

It's a pity that people are soft-spoken, and it wasn't until the disaster came that some results were worthwhile.

He couldn't save hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, so he could only barely save his clan. But even then, a lot of relatives and friends were lost.

At the beginning, he was not so bold to be an enemy of Cao Cao.

He just wanted to protect his clan relatives from harm and keep his family alive, nothing more.

It wasn't until later that he got to know the world more deeply, understood this era, communicated with many so-called celebrities, and got acquainted with the children of those families.

He understood.

Feudal society itself is synonymous with darkness and decay, exploitation and oppression.

The children of the gate valve family will not treat the people as human beings.

During the war years, the princes and warlords slaughtered cities and plundered them, killing millions of people.

Famine, man-made disaster, pestilence, once the world begins to go bad, human life is as worthless as the withered leaves of autumn.

And even in times of peace, it doesn't mean you're safe.

When you meet a good emperor, you can be a little stable.

If you are unlucky enough to encounter a tyrant, who is tyrannical and reckless, it is a disaster for the people of the whole world.

What's more, this is only the top class, and the people at the bottom actually have no access to the powerful at all.

What they encountered was a low-level official such as the township pavilion chief, the township elder, and the county officials, and if they were a little unsatisfactory, they might be killed by these people.

The county order of the broken family, the too guard of the door.

There are also heroes, families, and gate valves in the county, and it is easy to destroy a family.

Guan Yu later shocked Huaxia and was highly armed with superb force, because he killed the county's heroes when he was young, he was forced to leave his hometown and flee to Youzhou.

General Zang Ba Cao Wei Zhendong, offended Taishou when he was young, fled into the depths of Mount Tai for more than ten years, and could not come out until the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the collapse of the legal system in the world.

Even those famous families may not be safe, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao killed countless famous families in Yanzhou and Jizhou, as well as Zhang Yang in Hanoi and Sun Jian in Changsha, and also killed a large number of officials and celebrities.

The world sucks.

The Han Dynasty is like a pyramid, and any layer above it can oppress the people at the bottom to breathe.

Except for a very few, most of the princes, warlords, and even the Yellow Turban thieves, as long as they have soldiers and horses in their hands and can exercise violent means, they will definitely oppress and exploit the people at the bottom.

Shen Chen grew up in the township pavilion since he was a child, although because the Deng Shen clan was a local clan, he did not suffer much oppression and exploitation.

But what he saw with his own eyes and felt by himself is innumerable.

However, even so, at the beginning, he didn't want to do anything for the world, he just wanted to live in troubled times.

One cannot choose a dangerous path because of kindness.

Sympathy is sympathy, but Shen Chen at that time was only an eight-year-old child, and it was not easy to protect the clan, so how could he go to avenge others.

Until the slaughtering butcher's knife quietly descended on his head, almost dangerously, and grazed his neck.

He realized that if he did not take power himself, the sword and axe would one day be added to him.

Shen Chen has never forgotten the massacre on the night of the Yang Ju, seeing with his own eyes the scene where the seventh uncle next door was hacked to death, and countless relatives of the Deng Shen Er clan were slaughtered like pigs and sheep.

Even he himself, like a mouse, huddled in the ditch in the fire and shivering, begging the Cao soldiers not to find him.

So from that time on, and then after coming to Jingzhou, Shen Chen knew about his three-year life experience.

If you don't do something about it, sooner or later, you will be wiped out.

Just like in the famous American drama "House of Cards", the insignificant protester was tied up at the gate of Capitol Hill, no matter how loud and miserable he screamed, others would only treat him as a transparent person.

The only way to really make others value you is to make yourself stronger.

If Shen Chen had 200,000 elite soldiers under his command, would Cao Cao still dare to slaughter his clan and kill his relatives?

Therefore, since then, Shen Chen has understood a truth - if you want to protect the people you value and fulfill the ideals in your heart, then let yourself grow!

So he worked hard in Jingzhou to strengthen the family, help his uncle and ancestor ascend to the throne, win over Gan Ning, who was not reused, hoard grain and grass, and build weapons and equipment, just for today.

On the left bank of the turbulent water, it is the middle of spring in February, the breeze blows the willows on the shore, and the wild grass basil that has grown to the ankle is swaying in the wind.

Shen Chen stood on a small hillside with a vertical height of about thirty meters above the ground.

This position was actually about the height of the twelfth floor in later generations, and it was not very far from Cao Cao, and both sides could hear each other's voices.

He rode on horseback and looked at Cao Cao coldly.

For the three views of the ancients of the Han Dynasty, he already has a certain understanding.

Now I also understand what these so-called famous families think.

Therefore, he did not intend to persuade Cao Cao not to carry out massacres in the future.

Since everyone doesn't have a good outlook, there is naturally nothing to talk about, just fight.

After that "revenge", more than a thousand Huangmen Pavilion soldiers behind Shen Chen suddenly erupted into a violent roar.

In an instant, countless arrows came overwhelmingly, as if to tear through the void and cover Cao Cao's position.

"Jingle Bell!"

The guards on the left and right immediately stepped forward and raised their shields to cover Cao Cao and Cao Hong's retreat.

"Kill!"

Cao Cao stared at Shen Chen, and his long sword pointed at Shen Chen and said, "Whoever can kill or capture this person alive, seal the Pavilion Marquis, and reward a thousand gold!" ”

"Hmph."

Shen Chen smiled coldly.

Feng Tinghou, a thousand gold; Cao Cao is so generous.

It stands to reason that he is just a commonplace, and he is not qualified to give others a title at all.

But now that Liu Xie is in his hands, he really wants to seal whoever he wants.

For example, Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, Le Jin, Yu Ban and others were basically entitled during this period.

Therefore, this promise is still very attractive to the low-level soldiers.

In an instant, Cao Jun began to rush forward as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, but Zhang Xiu's Xiliang Army was faintly panicked.

After all, they were defeated only the day before yesterday, and when they faced Cao Jun today, they would inevitably feel demoralized.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the sound of the horn sounded.

In the wilderness to the north, an army suddenly appeared.

Gan Ning successfully completed the mission of sniping Yu Ban and came back to support.

It turned out that when Shen Chen looked at this terrain, he immediately guessed that Cao Cao would definitely choose to send a detour.

So he asked Zhang Xiu to block Cao Cao by the river to delay time, and led the soldiers of Huangmenting to help, so that the total number of Zhang Xiu's army was close to 8,000 people.

Although it is still not comparable to Cao Cao, the number of people is basically the same, not to mention that it is still in the case of occupying favorable terrain to fight a blocking battle.

Gan Ning, on the other hand, first went north to intercept Yu Ban, so the trick was repeated, and when the forbidden division crossed the river, he sent ships to break the bridge, divide the battlefield, and then eat part of Cao's army.

After repelling this detachment of Cao's army, he immediately came back to support and rushed to the battlefield, which immediately became a situation of fighting more with less.

You must know that at this moment, Cao Cao originally had 15,000 men and horses, but let Yu Ban lead 3,000 people to make a detour, so that there were only 12,000 people around him, and there was still a part of the rear army that did not cross the river, and the number of people on the left bank was only seven or eight thousand.

On the other hand, after Gan Ning arrived at the battlefield, the total strength of his 5,000 troops plus Zhang Xiu and Shen Chen's 8,000 troops reached 13,000, which was actually more than Cao Cao's in a short period of time.

If this set of tactics is familiar with the history of our army in later generations, they will find that this TM is not a copy of the fighting style of several founding marshals and generals?

When your own strength is less than the enemy's, first send a small force to contain the enemy's main force, and then the main force cannibalizes the enemy's partial division, slowly weakening the enemy's strength, and finally waiting for the enemy's strength to be seriously damaged, and then annihilating the opponent in one fell swoop.

In later generations, many founding marshals and generals liked to use this set of tactics. For example, Xu Shuai's bold division of troops, striking the east and attacking the west, and Peng Shuai's "mushroom tactics" are all such plays.

Now Shen Chen can be regarded as having learned the same, and he has directly used this set, and he has learned and applied it to the war in the era of cold weapons.

At this time, he was very grateful to his father, Lao Shen.

Lao Shen liked these very much, and his family bought a lot of books about how the great men and founding marshals of the year overcame obstacles to create a new era.

Shen Chen watched a lot of idle time during his time in high school and college, and learned a lot of useful things.

At this moment, when Gan Ning arrived at the battlefield, the situation suddenly changed drastically.

Zhang Xiu saw the arrival of reinforcements, and said with great joy: "The reinforcements are coming, Cao's army is weak, don't rush to kill them at this time, but when to kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The morale of the Xiliang army was greatly boosted, and they let out an earth-shattering roar.