Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1219
Because he made preparations for fleeing very early, Du Hong's evacuation of Chang'an this time could not be said to have been hasty or hasty.

The surrounding area of ​​Chang'an has now become a gathering place for exiles from the Sanfu. A large number of refugees not only gather in Bashang, but also a large number of newcomers gather in the ruins of the old city of Chang'an.

After returning to Shiji City, Du Hong first put on a posture of defending the city in a desperate battle, and withdrew all the troops stationed in Baqiao and other important places. The chaos in Peiyuan spread to the vicinity of Chang'an.

Then they organized a group of soldiers to drive the people in the isolated city to the west. This kind of thing happened several times earlier. The city of Mei in the west of Chang'an was Du Hong's prepared escape route. First, there is no shortage of labor forces around Chang'an, so they have invested a lot in construction.

However, as the Jin army's fine cavalry bypassed the Bashang field and rushed into the southern suburbs of Chang'an, they disappeared without a trace. Du Hong had already realized that this retreat was no longer safe.It is not mainly the danger of the Jin army's fine cavalry appearing to intercept him, but more importantly, the township tyrants in Duling, Huxian and other areas have betrayed or abandoned him.

You must know that no matter how strong and swift the cavalry of the Jin army is, there are still thousands of cavalry, and there will always be traces left behind when they pass through the villages and towns.But Du Hong didn't get any news about this, so one can imagine how the villagers in these places are feeling.

If Du Hong left Chang'an again, not only would he not be able to gain the support of these village households, but he might be held back by the township tyrants and even strangled by the crowd.

However, he was not willing to give up the retreat route of Meicheng completely, because this route is so geographically superior. Meicheng is connected to Wuzhangyuan in the south, which itself is one of the gateways to the west of Chang'an. Then you can go down the inclined valley and enter Hanzhong, and cross the Wei River to the north to enter the Qishan hilly area.

For Du Hong, if he could retreat into the city of Mei, it would be the best choice after he escaped from Chang'an. He could hold on to the ground and wait for changes from all parties, and even if he fled to all parties, he would have no shortage of options.

But because this choice was so good and obvious, Du Hong also expected that the Jin army might not let him do what he wanted.The purpose of driving a group of Chang'an students to Meicheng was to confuse the audience and to test whether the road was dangerous or not.

As for the real main force in Du Hong's hands, the formal evacuation began half a day after this group of people left Chang'an.

The first thing to go on the road is the wealth and materials he has accumulated and collected in Chang'an over the past few years. Without Chang'an, a core city in Guanzhong, as a place to gather people's hearts, he needs money and food to maintain people's hearts.

Therefore, this batch of money, food and goods is his lifeblood, and he can't rest assured that he can give it to anyone for escort. Therefore, Du Hong commanded [-] fine soldiers, half and half of infantry, and nearly [-] soldiers of the same amount, to escort these The batch of materials left Chang'an and went westward along the old straight road.

At the same time, his business is also responsible for luring the enemy. If the cavalry of the Jin army is not deceived by the refugees from Xiangmei City and still captures his main force, he can use this batch of goods as bait to temporarily garrison them. After waiting, the [-] cavalry led by his confidant Zhang Shi and responsible for breaking the rear caught up and attacked the Jin army back and forth.

With such an arrangement, in the middle of the night, the turmoil in the Bashang Fields still did not stop, and it had already evolved into a big chaos regardless of whether the enemy was the friend or not.In particular, many of the tributaries of the Xiangzong sect, which were originally restrained, inevitably became more panicked and rioted after realizing that their masters were missing.

Even though the Jin army on the plateau realized that Du Hong was going to give up Chang'an, they did not dare to rush across Bashui to join the chaos at this moment.

It was dark and noisy at night, and the plateau was extremely chaotic. No matter how well-trained elite troops rushed in, it was absolutely impossible to achieve effective command.And once the command system fails to function, the so-called elite soldiers are no different from those mob soldiers.

Therefore, the Jin army still cautiously fortified along the Bashui River to prevent the riots from spreading across the east bank of the Bashui River.As for Du Hong's bandit army in the direction of Chang'an, they didn't have such scruples. After confirming that the general had led his troops to leave, the three thousand cavalry in charge of the town directly charged into the plateau with their knives and killed them, driving the people to flee to the east. , which made the situation on the plateau even more erosive, and then retreated quickly, heading west along the Wei River under the cover of night.

The reason why Du Hong withdrew from Chang'an so smoothly is not unrelated to his previous management. The dams were set up from the upper reaches of the Weishui River to block the water flow. In addition, the Guanzhong area has been suffering from drought for many years, so the Jin army's navy was unable to travel back as scheduled to control the Weishui River. mainstream.Otherwise, Du Hong would not have dared to make such a big deal, and would have dared to evacuate step by step.

The army withdrew in the middle of the night, and it could be said that the night was calm for the time being. The Bashang Jin army was trapped by the hundreds of thousands of chaotic people, and was unable to make a breakthrough to catch up for the time being.

But Du Hong also understands that although there are many people in Bashang, even if the riot is just for a moment of blood rush, once the noise is over, once they realize the real situation, they will soon reveal their hypocrisy and let their hands be tied.If there is no accident, the Jin army may break through the obstacles of the rioters and enter Chang'an during the day, so as to find out that he has abandoned the city and fled.

However, the mess around Chang'an was enough to delay the main force of the Jin army for another three to five days, and even if they had to send out pursuers, there would certainly not be too many.

But this does not mean that Du Hong is completely safe. He still overestimated his prestige. cohesion.

Not long after leaving Chang'an in the middle of the night, some of the commanding generals or township tycoons took the opportunity to attack, begging for money, food and materials.When occupying Chang'an before, you can temporarily have a sweet dream, or stick to Chang'an to seek great things, or use this to get the surrender reward from Tianzhong Xingtai.

But now it is clear that they have fled in a hurry, all the old dreams have been shattered, and what the future will look like is still unknown. It is true that it is easier to survive if they gather together to keep warm, but because of this, the goal is bigger, and they will inevitably be pursued by the Jin army chase.Faced with this situation, it is really hard to say whether it is safer to continue to gather together, or whether it is better to escape separately and have a better chance of surviving.

Faced with the attack of these generals, Du Hong was also furious, but it is really not easy to have an attack at the moment, so he can only agree that after arriving in Xianyang, he will share the funds equally and reward all the troops. In Wubi, the war gains were also allowed to be picked by the various armies, and finally the division was barely suppressed.

The morale of the army was already slackened, and they carried a lot of supplies. The marching speed can be imagined. They started to flee Chang'an last night. By the afternoon of the next day, the army had only left Chang'an for more than 30 miles.

Fortunately, in the next few days, no major changes occurred.News came from the back, saying that the Jin army had passed through the Bashang field and settled in Chang'an, and all the Jin and Hu refugees on Piyuan had surrendered.Then the development of the situation was as Du Hong expected. The Jin army did not pursue the west in a large scale, but patiently stabilized the situation in Chang'an.

Another point that surprised Du Hong was that the group of people who set off to Meicheng earlier, because they didn't have too many constraints and materials to slow down their journey, had already gone through martial arts, and Meicheng was vaguely in sight. No interception was encountered, and no large-scale enemy traces were found, so it can be said that the journey was unimpeded.

After knowing this, Du Hong couldn't help feeling a little regretful. Although he still doesn't know where the cavalry of the Jin army is, if he knew this earlier, he should allocate more combat power to the cavalry.

If you can stand firm in Meicheng in advance, the situation can be revived a little bit.Moreover, the Western Qiang Yao Yizhong's troops should arrive at the border almost soon. At that time, they will use the gate of Meicheng to attract their troops. The two troops will work together to kill the cavalry of the Jin army in the Kansai area and rely on this victory. It is possible to succeed even by counterattacking Chang'an!After all, Chang'an was dilapidated, and it had to be defended, and the Jin army's foothold was not stable, so it could still be said that they were the home field of the Guanzhong people.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless to regret, Du Hong can only grit his teeth and order to speed up the march.Although there were no dangerous variables in the past few days, the efficiency of the march was low, and it was really impossible to make full use of the time. There were even a few heroes who led their troops to leave the brigade and went to the countryside to search the dock wall and look for looting targets. Slowed down the trip.

But it's a pity, not to mention what happened to Xianyang before, not long ago, it was searched by the Pu family from Di, and it was almost impossible to squeeze out more oil and water.Therefore, these Chang'an deserters also gritted their teeth with hatred for Pu.

Soon, the scouts in charge of exploring the road sent back news that the Pu family, who had fled northward, had returned to Xianyang City.This inevitably aroused the anger of those army leaders even more, and more than two thousand people rushed towards Xianyang without the military order.

After Du Hong learned this, he gritted his teeth with hatred, and his endurance was about to reach its limit.These desperadoes were driven by money and short-term profit. If the Jin army did not come to pursue them, they thought that the situation had turned the corner, and they even wanted to provoke a powerful enemy with side effects.

Before that, he took Xianyang as his next foothold. It was discovered that Dihu had left the country and headed north, and the direction of Meicheng was unpredictable.Now that the situation has changed, it would be superfluous to attack Xianyang or stay here again, and it is not appropriate to cause trouble. As long as Dihu does not come to harass them, Du Hong originally planned to go around the border and go straight to Huaili.

But once his intention leaked out, the generals suspected that he was unwilling to share the property, and everyone showed great dissatisfaction.So Du Hong could only grit his teeth and ordered the whole army to go straight to Xianyang.

After taking it quickly, he really intends to spend money to avoid disaster, and put some of the most eccentric soldiers and horses here for a short period of time, and the supplies will also stay here to strengthen their defense. He will lead a light cavalry to meet Donglai The Qianghu and Qianghu will meet each other and then look for fighter opportunities.

However, Du Hong did not expect that it was this mistake that made him completely lose the chance of escape.Because the Fenwu army of the Jin army was far more aggressive than he had imagined, they did not stay near Chang'an, but went west to Longdao to meet the Qianghu tribe who were coming from Lueyang to the east.

In other words, there is currently no organized Jin army in the west of Chang'an threatening the safety of its retreat.Only the Puhong tribe, who pretended to join the Hongwu army of the Jin army all the way, had already evacuated Xianyang to settle in Niyang arranged by Xiao Yuandong, but halfway through the journey, Puhong learned that the Jin army was attacking Chang'an.

After weighing things up in his mind, Pu Hong felt that there were more opportunities to fish in troubled waters around Chang'an than in the desolate north, so he hurriedly mobilized the elite tribesmen to return to Xianyang, preparing to attack Chang'an from the rear.

But Pu Hong did not expect that Du Hong, sitting on the elite territories and people of the three auxiliary forces, would be too timid to fight the Jin army in Chang'an. Hong Tuijun was trapped in Xianyang City, and then he was attacked violently!

From this point of view, both sides in the fierce battle can be said to be unlucky. If Pu Hong hadn't understood the timing too accurately, he would not have been caught off guard a moment earlier, and he would have already passed through the border in a hurry when he returned to Duhong a moment later.And Du Hong had already lost his sense of normality, but if he had a little patience and shouted a few words in front of the battle, Pu's naturally did not have the consciousness to fight for the Jin army to intercept the defeated army, and the two sides could avoid this battle by communicating with each other.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely in Xianyang, a battle in the upper reaches of the Weishui River had also come to an end.

　I really want to apologize to everyone for the update in the past two days. . .This wave of flu is quite fierce. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but it turned into inflammation, and I had to hang up the water for a few days. This episode in Guanzhong should be over before the Spring Festival as much as possible.In fact, there is no suspense in the military. Although Guanzhong is more powerful, it is facing a complete and powerful Jin army. It is a bit flattering to say that it is broken separately.The real difficulty lies in the fact that it is impossible for Xingtai to operate in Guanzhong as its base. Mergers are easy but solidification is difficult.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)