Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

And not far from those corpses, there were blood-stained potholes one after another.

And as the population dwindles, villages are abandoned.

……

There is no doubt that these are the actions of Yamagoshi.

In the past time, just not far to the east of Lujiang River, such inhuman massacres happened all the time.

It is possible that these victims had no relatives, no acquaintances...

But people's feelings are common.

Seeing one village after another being systematically wiped off the map, whether it was Li Le, Hu Cai, etc. who were in charge of leading the army, or the soldiers at the grassroots level, they all felt a kind of sincere anger brewing in their hearts .

These dead are all of their own race, they are all their clansmen, and they are all Han Chinese.

Perhaps the day before, these people were still living peacefully on this land.

But then, waiting for them was indeed such a massacre...

Perhaps before that, everyone's impression of Shanyue's ravages was still on paper and in imagination.

But now, after witnessing these real atrocities, a common idea appeared in the hearts of these soldiers.

That is to enter as soon as possible.

Meet those damned Yamagoshi thieves ASAP.

Then let them see how terrible the Han people are when they are angry.

……

The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster in a thousand miles.

This is not only Cao Cao's reflection on the harm caused by the wars in the Huaxia region for many years, but also practical and extremely accurate, regarding the harm and influence caused by local forces like Shanyue to the people during the war.

Now, this naked reality is being revealed to everyone in an incomparably intuitive way.

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Chapter 11 The Marching Route and the Little Thoughts of Fa-rectification

According to historical records of the Han Dynasty, during the period of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling at the end of the Han Dynasty, the population of Danyang County was still large. The sixteen counties added up to nearly 43 to 47, while the recorded population of Lujiang in the same period was only [-].

But after the founding of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan dominated Jiangdong, and conducted a census of the population under his opponents, only to find that the total population of Yangzhou, Jiaozhou and most of Jingzhou had dropped to more than two million, less than three million. the point.

Of course, this number is definitely not accurate.

Because of the family and some other reasons, although Lujiang registered a population of 47, after Zhang Yan completed the census of Lujiang, he found that the actual population was 10,000+, or even 70.

Calculated according to the same ratio, the population of Danyang County should be around 60 at this time.

It is this entire population of 60. After decades of experience, less than half, or even half of the half, remains.

What about the population?

Where are you going?

Didn't he die in the troubled times, at the hands of those vicious gangsters!

……

You must know that for the people in troubled times, the most terrible thing is not hunger, because wars will lead to a sudden drop in population, and those who survived, their rations can actually support them to survive.

For ordinary people, the most terrifying thing is people like Shanyue in the southeast, barbarians in the southwest, and Huns and Xianbei in the north who took advantage of the chaos to invade.

Many old players of Romance of the Three Kingdoms must have had this experience, that is, when the time passed in 190 AD and the Han government gradually perished, a wild monster called "Shan Da Wang" would spawn from time to time in the south.

If you don't send someone to clear it immediately, they will attack your city and destroy it, turning it into a "white city" that no one controls.

In the game, such a process is actually not very important-lost cities can be regained, soldiers, horses and food will grow slowly over time, and what you lose is just a number.

So whenever there is a reminder of "The King of Mountains looted XX city, how much food did you lose", the vast majority of people just smiled lightly, and then waited for the "King of Mountains" to disperse on his own with the money and food .

But in the real world, everything is different.

The grain, grass, and common people that the other party looted and killed will no longer be simple numbers, but living lives.

Every time you lose a population, there are several families destroyed behind it.

Your city washed blank...

In fact, what it represents is that the thieves invaded the state and county offices, slaughtered all the state officials, and then left...

Without the protection of enough troops, even the people in the towering city walls are full of uncertainty about the future in the troubled times.

Maybe he took his wife out this morning, ate scones and sang songs, and when he came back in the afternoon, he was intercepted by passing gangsters.

This is not a dramatic performance, but the naked truth experienced by the people in the war-torn period.

And this had to be protected by a city wall.

If those villagers scattered in the countryside and rely on farming for a living...

Once they encountered organized looting, they had little hope of surviving.

……

Revolt?

Ha ha, why.

With pitchforks in the hands of these people?

……

As individual people, in the face of this danger, there is almost nothing they can do.And in troubled times, the government that protects individuals on behalf of the "collective" is often unable to protect itself because of its low execution power, and it is simply incapable of suppressing bandits, so it can only watch them run rampant in the world.

All of this has led to the fact that when wars break out, banditry will inevitably occur simultaneously.

Even if there are no new bandits, those guys who behave like good children in the prosperous age will take the initiative to change their positions and "take on" the responsibility of becoming bandits.

And this is also the main reason why in the early Han Dynasty, Shanyue was Shanyue, and at the end of Han Dynasty, Shanyue was the bandit.

When banditry is rampant, it is a real disaster for the common people.

……

On the way to Danyang, Li Le thought he knew enough about what these guys were doing.

But no matter what he saw or what he heard from the mouths of the few remaining common people, his lower limit of cognition was refreshed all the time.

If it is said that most of the Shanyue in Lujiang are still Han people, who label themselves as a minority group and come to be villains and do evil things, then these Shanyue in Danyang, the real Yue people, for the Han people, It is really like a scourge.

In the way they do some things, they're not even human.

One must know that there are three roads from Lujiang to Danyang, and what Li Le took was only one of them.

Looking at it this way, the crimes he has seen are at most only one-third of the mountain. Whether it is the north or the south, the frequency of those things that cannot be seen is not better than his road. where to go.

"Oh, that's all. This battle is definitely going to be a winner with that thief. I just don't know how to go up and down. What's the situation at this time, and have you seen these things like me?"

Looking at the river in the distance and close at hand, Li Le sighed subconsciously.

In any case, he still has his own tasks on his shoulders.

Even if the mood is not very good, there is still one thing that should be done.

But now, everyone has also entered the Danyang realm.

Then...then prepare to cross the river.

……

Li Le thought silently.

……

As he said, as we all know, there are three directions that can support a team of tens of thousands of people from Lujiang to Danyang.

At the northernmost point, you can choose to go north along the Wanshui River, then turn into the Hangbu River and enter the territory of Chaohu Lake.

After Chaohu Lake, it is Jiujiang County.

Whether it is Quanjiao or Chuxian, there is only one river away from Jiangning, an important town in the north of Danyang.

This road is the farthest, but there are the most important towns in Danyang along the way, and it is the direction chosen by the second soldier Ma Si led by Yang Feng.

……

And the southernmost point, along Wancheng to the east, is not far from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

After crossing the Yangtze River, head east all the way to Lingyang County, and soon head north to Jing County, the headquarters of Shanyue, where Zongshuai "Zulang" is located.

This road is the shortest, but the road is full of mountains and rivers, and it is very easy to be ambushed by mountains and rivers.

Fortunately, it was the first soldier Masi led by Pei Yuanshao who chose this road. Their leaders Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua and others were originally from the Yellow Turban rebels, and the two generals were bandits. It's hard to beat them.

Taking advantage of the short distance, their mission is to stab Jing County, the heart of the Shanyue forces, and strive to kill the little emperor as soon as possible...

Well, it was the little prince Liu Xie who rescued him.

Save the royal family from the thieves...

I am afraid there is no greater credit than this.

Therefore, this is also the route chosen by Zhang Yan and the prefects and governors.

……

As for the middle road...that is the road that Li Le is walking on now...

In fact, Zhang Yan didn't intend to send anyone here.

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Avoiding the real and attacking the false, this is the foundation of the art of war.

Compared with the other two roads, this road passes through Juchao, Linhu and other places, and has no advantage in terms of foot distance compared with the southern line.

In terms of safety, this road needs to cross the Yangtze River in Wuhu County, which is not far from the core area of ​​Shanyue.

In other words, this direction is the "truth" of Sangoe, and it is the most difficult direction to make progress, and it is also the direction that requires the greatest price to obtain the results.

Both Zhang Yan and Lu Su were the least optimistic about this place at the beginning.