Imperial Power Of Han Dynasty - Chapter 918

Chapter 918

What is the most important thing to ask the heroes to fight for dominance in the world? It is neither land nor a general, but population.

In ancient times when productivity was backward, population represented productivity. A large population can provide more food and grass and provide more soldiers.

The Han Dynasty divided the world into thirteen states. Why are the states in the North and Central Plains generally small in area, while Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, and Jiaozhou in the south have large territories? This is because the main basis for the division of prefectures and counties in the Han Dynasty was not land, but population. Because the north is densely populated, the territory is small, and the south is sparsely populated, so the area is naturally large.

The importance of population to the country is self-evident. Zhuge Liang was included in the ten philosophers of Wu Temple in the Tang and Song dynasties. He never made major mistakes in leading the army. However, the Northern Expedition of the Shu Han continued to fail repeatedly and was eventually annexed by the Wei State. It is because the population of Wei is much larger than that of Shu.

No matter how brave your Shu army is in fighting, there are too many people in Cao Wei. If I kill you alone, you have to kill three or even four of me to be considered a tie. If things go on like this, more and more people in Shu will die. They have to transfer Minzhuang to serve as soldiers, which will inevitably affect food production. Naturally, Shu is not an opponent of Wei.

In fact, the main battle among the heroes in the late Han Dynasty was population. For example, after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and got Jizhou, he counted his household registration and found that Jizhou had “300,000”, and he was overjoyed.

As for the famous battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei raised his eyes. Cao Cao who fought in World War I called “chicken ribs” and left. In fact, the population of Hanzhong had been moved away by Cao Jun. Liu Bei had only the land but not the people. It can only be regarded as tactical. Success.

Now, although the Cao army came to help, the Yuzhou army had to retreat, but Liu Bei had made up his mind to move the population of Huainan as well, which was considered a success.

That night, Liu Bei ordered the withdrawal of troops. More than 20,000 Yuzhou troops took advantage of the night and quietly left the barracks without exposure.

Shouchun was once designated as the capital city by Yuan Shu, and Yangzhou is naturally prosperous and prosperous. Although Yuan Shu has built palaces, misbehaving, and wars, the local population is still more than 100,000.

However, Liu Bei moved away more than 30,000 people west of Shouchun City, heading towards Runan County.

the next day.

“Huh? How come there are birds above Liu Bei’s army camp? Is it possible…”

Standing on the head of Shouchun City, Han Hao couldn’t help but wonder at the Yuzhou Military Camp outside the city.

“Come here, go out of the city and have a look!” Han Hao hurriedly waved and ordered dozens of Cao Jun to go out of the city to check. Although these Cao Jun were a little scared, they couldn’t hold back Han Hao’s reward. Therefore, dozens of Cao Jun still gritted their teeth. Out.

Dozens of Cao Jun cautiously fumbled towards the camp of Yuzhou Army, holding the shield quietly to an arrow away, and hurriedly erected the shield for fear that the archers in the camp would suddenly come out and shoot arrows.

But not.

Dozens of Cao Jun breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to touch the past, but there was no resistance in the camp, so they touched it with confidence.

Soon after, dozens of Cao Jun rushed out and shouted at the city head: “Han Hujun! There is no enemy in the camp.”

“The Yuzhou Army has retired?” Han Hao couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, but he couldn’t help but wonder: “Why did Liu Bei retreat during the night? Could something happen to Yuzhou?”

Now that Liu Bei and Cao Jun are at odds with each other in Shouchun, and the two armies are evenly matched, why did Liu Bei suddenly retreat? Han Hao couldn’t figure it out.

But at this moment, Shuqi came from the north, rushed to the bottom of Shouchun City, and shouted at the top of the city: “Can General Xiahou be here? I’m waiting for Captain Cao Zhen to detect the sentry.

“General Xiahou is training, and I am the guardian Han Hao, just tell me if you have anything.” Han Hao yelled down, lying on the head of the city.

“At the order of the prime minister, Du Wei Cao led his troops south to resolve the siege of Shouchun. He is now less than thirty miles north of Shouchun.”

Hearing this, Han Hao couldn’t help being overjoyed: “That’s great, I’ll go and notify General Xiahou.”

After a short while, Cao Zhen led three thousand Cao Jun and ten thousand Minzhuang finally came outside the city. After Cao Zhen ordered Cao Jun and Minzhuang to station outside the city, they brought more than ten relatives into the city casually.

“Cao Zhen met Han Hujun.” Cao Zhen saluted Han Hao.

“It’s okay, Zidan led the troops to rescue. It really relieved the urgent need!” Han Hao held Cao Zhen’s hand and said excitedly: “I don’t know how many reinforcements Zidan has led?”

“Hehe, there are only three thousand people.” Cao Zhen smiled.

“What? But I just saw tens of thousands of people outside the city.” Han Hao was startled.

“Haha, those are just Minzhuang who I temporarily recruited in Quyang and Dangtu to bluff people.” Cao Zhen laughed and said what Cao Cao had told him.

Han Hao couldn’t help but said with emotion: “Cheng is quite an exhaustive plan. Zidan played the banner of the prime minister and led only three thousand soldiers and horses. Liu Xuande’s 30,000 army retreated.”

Cao Zhen modestly said: “You can’t say that. If there were no more than 20,000 troops inside and outside the city, Liu Bei would not retreat.”

“correct.”

Cao Zhen suddenly said, “Why don’t you see Uncle Yuan Rang?”

Cao Cao was originally a member of the Xiahou clan, but was later adopted to the Cao family and inherited the Cao family lintel. This is very common in ancient times. For example, Zhuge’s family, Zhuge Liang had no children in his early years, and adopted a son as his heir from his brother Zhuge Jin.

Later, Zhuge Jin’s son Zhuge Ke led an attack on Hefei New City, but failed for several months. Instead, he lost his troops and returned to Jiangdong in embarrassment. Because Zhuge Ke was arrogant and domineering in the country before, Lord Wu took the opportunity to execute Zhuge Ke’s family.

At this time, Zhuge Liang had already given birth to Zhugezhan with Huang Yueying. After having a son, he heard that his elder brother had been annihilated, so Zhuge Liang sent his adopted nephew back to the country of Wu and inherited Zhuge Jin’s one.

Because of this, the relationship between the Cao family and the Xiahou family is very close, so Cao Zhen has a deep affection for Xiahou Dun.

“Hey…General Xiahou was shot in the eye by the enemy general Guan Ping. In order to boost his morale, he pulled it out and ate it on the spot, and forced it to last until the end of the war. Then he passed out and is still recuperating.” Han Hao sighed.

“Ah…this!”

Cao Zhen was anxious and angry, and couldn’t help clenching his fists.

“That’s it… the patient needs to be nursed, if I go to see Uncle Yuan Rang, I’m afraid he is emotionally unstable.”

Cao Zhen gritted his teeth, clenched his fists and said, “Hateful, I must avenge Yuan Rang’s uncle!”

“When Liu Bei led his army to retreat, he took tens of thousands of people in Jiujiang County. Since Zidan wants to pursue it, our army can take advantage of the situation to recover some of the people!”

Han Hao coincided with Cao Zhen.