The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 373 Migration of Sili
Let's talk about Cao Cao first. Yuan Shao thought that Cao Cao had slipped away, so he must run to the base camp, which is Yingchuan County where Xu Du is located. In fact, as early as the last month of the confrontation with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao followed Guo Jia's plan to prepare for the retreat and let him stay in Yingchuan Manchong and Chen Qun of Sichuan sent the population of Yingchuan County, Chenliu County, and Chen State to Sili.

Then let Cao Ren move the population in the west of Runan to Wancheng in Nanyang!
Among them, Yingchuan and Chenliu have been Cao Cao's base camps for many years, and the people's cooperation is relatively high. Those who don't cooperate can only cooperate under Cao Jun's steel sword. However, Chen Guo was very wealthy when Liu Chong was still alive. After Liu Chong died, Cao Cao broke up the Chen State and found that the country was rich and populated, but the people's heart was not with Cao Cao but with Liu Chong.

Cao Cao thought that Chen Guo was like a ticking time bomb in the hinterland. Cao Cao, who had suffered twice from the backyard fire, was unwilling to suffer a third time.

Sima Lang has been in charge of this project since Chen Guocheng was broken, and the population has been relocated, and now it is just speeding up the process!

As for Runan, at the beginning of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Ren’s tribe and Zhang Liao’s tribe were you and me. The two sides tested each other for a long time, and the population in the east should not be considered. Moreover, Runan is too large in terms of geographical area, including Yingchuan, Chen Guo, and Chenliu. It is impossible to relocate the population in such a large area, and it will alarm Lu Heng.

Cao Cao only let Li Tong and other aristocratic families in Runan who were loyal to him move away, and at the same time moved as much as possible the people in the west of Runan.

That's why Yuan Shao was empty everywhere. As for Cao Cao, after taking his own cavalry to attack Wuchao, he detoured Suanzao, under the protection of Zhu Dian, Lei Heng, Xia Houyuan, and Xu Huang, and went around a circle with the Qing cavalry to return directly. After arriving at Yingchuan, he commanded the army to retreat to Hulao Pass.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao headed south, and the general direction was wrong. He didn't even eat the ashes of Cao Cao's army, and he didn't see the shadow.

After Luoyang was destroyed by Dong Zhuo, it was in ruins. After Cao Cao moved his capital to Xudu, he began to rebuild. With the financial situation of Cao Cao's forces, repairing the Xudu Palace had already made Cao Cao poor, and the scale of Luoyang's reconstruction was even smaller.

Nowadays, the population from Chenliu and Yingchuan cannot be resettled at all. This is all resources. Cao Cao is moving all the population to Hongnong and Chang'an.

Cao Cao started to make arrangements a month ago to avoid the dilemma of his own forces being snipe and clam fighting for the fisherman's benefit. Otherwise, even if he defeated a strong enemy, he would be wiped out by the other side waiting for work.

Cao Cao, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Xun You and other counselors discussed, first concealed the news in the army, and sent cronies to move the population, treasury, equipment, grain and grass from Yingchuan, Chen Guo, Chen Liu, and western Runan.

Even a month is a huge project, comparable to Dong Zhuo's move of the capital back then, Cao Cao's approach is almost the same as Dong Zhuo's, but Cao Cao's army is much better than Xiliang's army, and there is no looting of people's finances, massacres, etc. It just uses force to threaten the people to move away from the place where they have lived for generations.

On the other hand, the Luoyang area had a population of nearly one million, while the population of Yingchuan and Yanzhou dropped a lot after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

You must know that the battle of Changshe and other major battles to eradicate the Yellow Turbans took place in Yingchuan, and Yanzhou was also the battlefield where Cao Cao and Lu Bu saw each other back and forth. .

Thanks to the full cooperation of Chen Qun, Man Chong, Mao Jie, Yan Xiang, Ding Fei, Lou Gui, Dong Zhao, Zao Zhi, Han Hao, Sima Lang, etc. to complete the task, Xun Yu still ignored the world, If Chen Qun hadn't stepped forward to replace Xun Yu at the moment of crisis, Yuan Shao's general hadn't moved over yet.

Of course, during this migration process, Cao’s family, Xiahou’s family, Xun’s family in Yingchuan, Chen’s family in Chenliu (Chen Qun’s family is not the Chen family in Xuzhou), Li’s family in Runan, and Xu’s family were finally Cao Cao’s big and small families. Only with the help of Haoqiang can this large-scale migration succeed.

When the final layout was completed, Xu You sent another divine assist, which gave him a chance to retreat from under Yuan Shao's nose. Cao Cao led the army to Sili. Sili, coupled with the restraint of the generals, although there was a certain turmoil in the military's morale, it was still able to pass quietly.

In addition, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to guard Nanyang Jiancheng Wancheng, Xiahou Dun led troops to guard Hanoi, and Li Dian and Le Jin guarded Hulao to cut off the entrance to Sili, so Cao Cao felt a little relieved.

When Cao Cao moved the population of Yingchuan, Chenliu, Chen Guo, and the west of Runan to Sili and Nanyang, a large number of Jinyiwei were touched, and Cao Cao even destroyed many Jinyiwei lurking under Cao Cao's rule. The stronghold made Cao Cao's news channel much weaker, which no one expected.

Under this condition, Xu You came to Cao Cao with full expectation, hoping that Cao Cao could attack Wuchao and burn Yuan Shao's food and grass, completely defeating Yuan Shao to relieve his depression, but he didn't expect that Cao Cao didn't do this at all, but wanted to use Yuan Shao to contain him Lu Heng caused Xu You's superficial obedience and deep dissatisfaction in his heart, but he had already taken refuge in Cao Cao and had no choice but to go all the way to the dark, but it was not as embarrassing as the original time and space.

Two flowers bloomed, one on each branch. While Cao Cao was taking action, Lu Heng was not idle either.

At this time, Lu Heng was in Xiapi to observe the battle reports of Qingzhou and Guandu every day. Lu Heng had not received the news that Cao Cao's old man had moved a large number of people to Yingchuan, Chenliu, and Chen Guo. Yang Yanzhao led the army to attack Sheyang again, but Lu Heng did not. Received news from the direction of Zhang Liao and Yanzhou.

The first is news from Runan to Zhang Liao and Liu Ye. Cao Ren, who was confronting Zhang Liao, suddenly disappeared. After Zhang Liao found out, he stormed Xincai and was defended by Li Tong. Liu Ye suggested that Zhang Liao tentatively send Qiao Rui and Cao Xing, Guo Xincai attacked Pingyu by surprise.

Zhang Liao followed Liu Ye's plan. Qiao Rui and Cao Xing had just arrived at Pingyu and found that Cao Ren's general Chao Gai was moving away the local people. Qiao Rui and Chao Gai fought an encounter with no outcome, and Chao Gai gave up Pingyu and peace. Move the people to retreat to Nanyang!

When Qiao Rui and Cao Xing entered Pingyu, they found that the city had been evacuated. They asked the people who were moved by Chao Gai, and the answer was that the generals under Duke Cao wanted to move them to the west. Yuan Shao was about to retreat.

The second news is Cao Cao's Yanzhou direction. Originally, after Yuan Shao broke the white horse, Cao Cao abandoned this place, and part of Yanzhou fell into Yuan Shao's hands. The local garrison in Yanzhou's Cao Cao's territory split an army led by Ren Jun into Dingtao. It seems to defend Lu Heng from invading Yanzhou.

(End of this chapter)