Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 179
In three days, Bai Tu rushed from Hefei to Shouchun with a total of [-] elite troops gathered from counties along the way.

From the perspective of rapid marching, it has been very successful and can even serve as a model.

However, when Bai Tu came to Shouchun, what he saw was still a dilapidated city...

In terms of strong and thick walls and sub-city watchtowers, Shouchun is not as good as Hefei, the military city at the core of Huainan, but in terms of prosperity, the previous Shouchun surpassed Hefei.

After all, it was the old capital of the Chu State in the pre-Qin Dynasty. Although it was a spare tire that was moved here after being threatened by the Qin State, at least in the Han Dynasty, Shouchun was also the seat of Yangzhou. As for Jiangdong... it can be regarded as "buying" Huainan at most. gift.

When Yuan Shu ruled Huainan, this was also his base camp. The county's registered population in Chengji was nearly 20, and Shouchun City had a population of more than 10 - many of which did not refer to outsiders in Huainan. There is a large floating population.

It cannot compare with Luoyang, as well as old big cities such as Linzi and Jiangling, but at least it is not weaker than Xiangyang...

Especially when Luoyang was burned to the ground by Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu was widely favored before, Shouchun was even ranked among the top five big cities in the Han Dynasty.

However, when Bai Tu arrived, what he saw were ruins!

The outer city wall disappeared when Shouchunji left. After entering from the inner city wall, you can see the ruins of houses, and even scorch marks in many places.

Fortunately, Lu Bu's vanguard army had arrived two days ago, and the disaster relief order in the city was basically restored.

According to Lu Bu, when they arrived, as expected, a large number of rebels were causing trouble in the city.

However, there were also a small number of generals from Huainan, or simply from Shouchun County. After Yuan Shu's main force left, they began to help Shouchun residents hide, and even organized street fighting to stop them.

Moreover, the aristocratic families settled in the city also played some role...

When Yuan Shu's main force came to "collect taxes", they chose to meet Yuan Shu's requirements as much as possible. When Yuan Shu's main force left and only the rebel army was left, hundreds of servants in the mansion played their role and temporarily formed a new army. city ​​guard.

Although their base camp is in the countryside of Wubao, in Shouchun, a family of several hundred or as few as dozens of servants can still gather together.

Even if it was mainly for self-protection, it did objectively limit the range of activities of the rebels. At least the north of the city did not suffer too much damage.

However, for ordinary people living in other urban areas, it is better to escape in time to the north of the city where the wealthy families are located, otherwise...

Judging from the current statistics, more than [-] people in Huainan were directly killed or injured, the economic losses cannot be calculated, and countless women suffered misfortune.

These rebels did not even think about defending the city. After Lu Bu's vanguard army arrived, hundreds of Bingzhou generals broke into the inner city, easily drove and killed a large number of rebels, and beheaded thousands of people - all real "warfare" "General", that is, the real person.

When fighting against the Qiang and Southern Xiongnu in Bingzhou, there were often battles that required entering the inner city to rescue the people. Therefore, for these grassroots generals, inner city street fighting without Chengji soldiers was no stranger.

And the handling method is also familiar to them, "no mercy will be tolerated"...

Of course, for those generals who defected to protect the people, they were not "surrendered" and were only temporarily placed under guard.

After Bai Tu's main force arrived, they immediately began to launch a full-scale campaign to clear out the rebels who had escaped from Shouchun and were in trouble in the countryside.

"It's a pity that I didn't have time to chase that bastard!" Bai Tu said regretfully.

After all, when Lu Bu arrived, he had to rescue Shouchun first. By the time Bai Tu arrived in Shouchun, Yuan Shu was estimated to have crossed the Huaihe River and entered Runan County.

That was the base camp of the Yuan clan in Runan, and most of the troops Yuan Shu took away were recruited in Nanyang and Runan.

Seeing that Bai Tu's expression was not very good, Lu Xun explained from the side: "My lord, there is no need to blame yourself. No one thought before that Yuan Shu would be so heartbroken."

"I'm afraid that guy is trying to escape." Bai Tu speculated.

Historically, Yuan Shu wanted to go to Qingzhou to join Yuan Shao in the next year in order to leave the dry area and avoid Cao Cao's military front. He even offered to give up his imperial title and jade seal to Yuan Shao.

However, due to the obstruction of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, they were unable to make the trip, and later died on the march.

Now that Yuan Shu has decided to leave Shouchun, he will probably run away, so he will finally "make a fortune".

Moreover, under Yuan Shu's rule at this time, they were entirely dependent on Runan for support - under Yuan Shu's rule, only Runan still produced grain.

Moving to Runan at this time, although it required a lot of troops and troops, it also shortened the food route.

"Hard disk, you just gave the order to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. Do you want Runan to use troops?" Lu Bu asked.

"Yes, Yuan Shu is gone. I'm afraid he won't stay in Runan for long. He will definitely go north to join Yuan Shao. By then, Runan may be in the same danger as Shouchun." Bai Tu said.

"My lord, Runan is where Yuan Shu's clan is..." Although Lu Xun didn't say it was impossible, he still reminded him in a low voice.

"So he won't mess around? Well, that's assuming he's not crazy yet." Bai Tu said.

"Military rations, if the rations are enough, no one else is needed. Shouchun's army is enough now," Lu Bu said.

Lu Bu wanted to say that it was easy to defeat Runan, but he reminded Bai Tu that there was no food.

There are still 10,000+ mouths in Shouchun, and most of them have just been looted. At most, they left rations for the last few days in order to make the resistance less violent.

After Bai Tu arrived in Shouchun, he had to continuously deliver military rations...

Even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "If you want to be rich, build roads first" is definitely a wise saying!

Even if it is a small-scale peasant economy and self-sufficiency, roads are still very important, otherwise... aside from other things, the consumption of transporting military supplies is a desperate thing.

When Bai Tu first arrived in Jiangdong, Hua Xin sent him a batch of grain from Yuzhang. Yuzhang brought out [-] shi. When Bai Tu received it in Qu'a, he only had [-] shi left...

Almost half of the food produced is consumed during transportation.

Of course, Yuzhang is a land with many mountains and forests, but transporting grain from Jinling and Dantu, which are on the south bank of the Yangtze River with Qu Ate, to Hefei costs almost one of the three. Especially now that Huainan is in drought, many routes even require Carrying a large amount of water requires more manpower and consumes more money.

In other words, when transporting grain from the rear area of ​​​​Jiangdong, two stones can only cost eight buckets. When transporting grain from Wujun, that is, Zhenze area, two stones can only cost about one stone and two buckets at most.

Before Huainan resumes production, it is definitely a matter of "burning food" to go to Runan to fight.

"I understand, I just let my second brother go to Hefei first and take Shucheng back." Bai Tu said.

Shucheng was the administrative seat of Lujiang County. For this reason, Bai Tu specially invited Lu Kang to Huainan.

After Yuan Shu left Huainan, only Liu Xun of Lujiang was still resisting.

Whether they can continue to attack Runan depends on how far the salt farm and fishing team can achieve it. This directly determines whether Baitu has sufficient food and grass. However, Liu Xun of Lujiang can basically play GG with laughter...

　Dongdong: My lovely Dongdong has caught a cold. I will update twice today. If the cold is not good, I may continue to update tomorrow.

　　
　
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