Chapter 918

What is the most important thing to ask the heroes to compete for hegemony? It is not land, nor a general in charge of his own affairs, but a population.

In the ancient times when the productive forces were backward, the population represented the productive forces. With a large population, we can provide more food and grass and more soldiers.

The Han Dynasty divided the world into 13 states. Why were the northern and Central Plains States generally small in size, while Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou and Jiaozhou in the South had vast territory? This is because in the Han Dynasty, the main basis for the division of States and counties was not land, but population. Because of the dense population in the north, the territory was small, the population in the South was sparse, and the size was naturally large.

The importance of population to the country is self-evident. Zhuge Liang was included in the ten sages of wumiao in Tang and Song Dynasties, and there was never a big mistake in leading the army. However, the northern expedition of Shu Han still failed repeatedly and was eventually annexed by Wei state. The reason is that the population of Wei state far exceeds that of Shu state.

No matter how brave and skillful your Shu army is, you can't equal the number of Cao Wei people. If I kill you alone, you have to kill three or even four of me to be a tie. In the long run, more and more people died in the state of Shu, so they had to recruit people and Zhuang people to serve as soldiers, which inevitably affected food production. Naturally, Shu was not the rival of Wei.

In fact, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the main battle was population. For example, after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and got Jizhou, he checked his household accounts and found that Jizhou had a population of 300000.

In the famous battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei was elated. Cao Cao, who was defeated in the first World War, was called "chicken ribs". In fact, the population of Hanzhong had been moved away by Cao's army. Liu Bei had only his own place but not his own person, which could only be regarded as a tactical success.

Now, although Cao's troops came to help, and the Yuzhou army had to retreat, Liu Bei was determined to move the population of Huainan, which was a success.

In the evening of that day, Liu Bei ordered the army to withdraw. More than 20000 Yuzhou troops took advantage of the night and quietly left the camp without being exposed.

Shouchun was once designated as the capital city by Yuan Shu, which was naturally prosperous and prosperous in Yangzhou. Although Yuan Shu wantonly built palaces, misdeeds and wars, the local population was still more than 100000.

Liu Bei moved more than 30000 surnames to the west of Shouchun city and headed for Runan County.

The next day.

"Well? How can there be birds on Liu Bei's barracks? Han Hao stood on the head of Shouchun city and looked at the Yuzhou army barracks outside the city. He was puzzled.

"Come on, go out of town and have a look!" Cao Hao, however, did not let Han's troops, but Cao Hao ordered several soldiers to fight.

Suddenly, Cao Mimi's shield came out of the camp and shot out of the camp.

But no.

Dozens of Cao's troops breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to feel the past, but there was no resistance in the camp, so they felt relieved to touch the past.

Soon after, dozens of Cao troops rushed out and yelled at the head of the city: "Han guard! There is no enemy in the camp. "

"Did the Yuzhou army withdraw?" Han Hao couldn't help but feel relieved, but he couldn't help wondering: "why did Liu Bei retreat at night? Is there something wrong with Yuzhou

Now Liu Bei and Cao's army are at a stalemate in Shouchun, and the two armies are on a par. Why did Liu Bei suddenly withdraw? Han Hao couldn't figure it out.

At this time, several riders came from the north, rushed to Shouchun City, and yelled at the head of the city: "can general Xia Hou be here? We are the sentries under the command of the Duwei Cao Zhen. "

"General Xia Hou is cultivating himself. I'm Han Hao, the guard. Please tell me what you want." Han Hao, lying on the top of the city, called down.

"Under the order of the prime minister, Cao Duwei led the troops south to solve the siege of Shouchun. Now he is less than 30 Li north of Shouchun city."

Hearing this, Han Hao couldn't help being overjoyed: "great, I'm going to inform general Xia Hou."

After a while, Cao Zhen led three thousand Cao troops and ten thousand people Zhuang to the outside of the city. After Cao Zhen ordered Cao Jun and min Zhuang to stay outside the city, he took more than ten relatives into the city.

"Cao Zhen has met the Han guard." Cao Zhen saluted Han Hao.

"It's all right. Zidan leads the soldiers to rescue. It's really a relief of the urgent need." Han Hao held Cao Zhen's hand and said excitedly, "I don't know how many reinforcements Zidan has received?"

"Ha ha, only 3000 people." Cao Zhen said with a smile.

"What? But I just saw tens of thousands of people outside the city Han Hao was surprised.

"Ha ha, those are just the people I recruited temporarily in Quyang and Dangtu to bluff people." Cao Zhen laughed and said what Cao Cao told him.

Han Hao could not help sighing: "the prime minister is really at a loss. Zidan played the prime minister's banner and led only 3000 troops, and Liu Xuande's 30000 army retreated."

Cao Zhen said modestly, "you can't say that. If there were no more than 20000 troops inside and outside the city, Liu Bei would not have retreated in the face of difficulties.""Yes."

Cao Zhen suddenly said, "why don't you see uncle yuanrang?"

Cao Cao was originally a member of the Xiahou family. Later, he was adopted by Cao family and inherited the family of Cao. This is very common in ancient times. For example, Zhuge Liang, who had no children in his early years, adopted a son from his elder brother Zhuge Jin as his successor.

Later, zhugeke, the son of zhugejin, led the army to attack Hefei New City, but failed to overcome it for several months. On the contrary, zhugeke returned to Jiangdong in confusion. Because zhugeke was arrogant and domineering in China before, the Lord Wu took the opportunity to put zhugeke's family to death.

At this time, Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying gave birth to Zhuge Zhan. After having a son, he heard that one of his elder brothers had been destroyed. Zhuge Liang asked his nephew, who had been adopted before, to return to the state of Wu and inherit one of Zhuge Jin's.

Because of this, the relationship between the Cao family and the Xiahou family was very close, so Cao Zhen had a deep affection for XiahouDun.

"Alas... General Xiahou was shot in the eye by the enemy general Guan Ping. In order to boost his morale, he pulled out and ate him on the spot. After the war, he was in a coma. Now he is still recuperating." Han Hao sighed.

"Ah... This!"

Cao Zhen was so anxious and angry that he could not help clenching his fist.

"Just... The patient needs to be recuperated. If I go to see uncle yuanrang, I'm afraid he will be unstable."

Cao Zhen bit his teeth, clenched his fist and said, "hateful, I have to avenge my uncle yuan!"

"When Liu Bei led his army to retreat, he captured tens of thousands of people in Jiujiang county. Since Zidan wants to pursue, our army can take advantage of the situation to recover some people! "

Han Hao and Cao Zhen happened to coincide.