The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

Sili Xiaowei Department, the most northeast county in Henan County, Chenggao County, which usually has only tens of thousands of people, is gathering an army of more than 200,000 people at this time.

At this time, Han Kai, the general who conquered the East, was slowly approaching the revolving door pass in Chenggao County with his army. This pass is the only gateway to the east of Luoyang. The Hulao Pass in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was created based on this pass.

As one of the eight passes around Luoyang City, Xuanmen Pass is responsible for defending the east of Luoyang and the attacks of the princes in the Central Plains.

Usually he is stationed as a captain and leads a battalion, with two or three thousand people stationed here. Now, the big Han is fighting everywhere, and the rebel army in the south has attacked the surrounding area of ​​Luoyang City.

He even deployed the army he had just returned from suppressing the rebellion in Xiliang, led by General Lu Zhi of Dong Zhonglang who had been recommended by the court princes and revived again, with a total of 40,000 of him stationed here.

Now the entire Revolving Door Pass is heavily guarded, full of intent to kill Xiao Leng everywhere, and the defenders in the pass are even more nervous.

Those outside are not those Xiliang rebels, they are poorly equipped, and they can’t even eat enough. Although they have a strong will to fight, it’s hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Not too much of a problem.

And those of the Great Imperial Army on the opposite side, everyone is wearing leather armor, which is better equipped than the defenders in the pass. And looking at the number of times they light their cooking smoke every day, it is not the usual two meals of the Han army, but three meals.

And the faint scent blown by the wind from a distance showed that they still had a meal of meat every day. How could this not make the defenders in Guanzhong envious, and at the same time they should feel a burst of fear in their hearts.

The equipment is excellent, and it can be said that it was prepared before the army was born. This can only prove that Yuguo is richer after the plundering of the southern conquest!

But three meals a day and constant meat, this is not something that an ordinary army can do. In the army, it is often the case that only those generals who manage thousands of people can enjoy such treatment.

During the expedition, a normal army can only eat hard and cold dry food, and it is often hungry without a meal, and there is often a shortage of food and pay.

And the army on the opposite side not only has a lot of food and grass every day, but also provides three meals a day, and also adds a meal of meat every day.

It can be said to be extremely careful and thoughtful, and it is only those generals who are in a high position can enjoy it.

This proves that the opponent's army has enough food and grass, and there will be no shortage for a long time, unlike the army in the pass.

Because the imperial court had been fighting for two years, there was already a shortage of food, so the army food shortage had been a long time ago.

Except for those who are on duty on the city wall, they can eat two full meals for him, and the rest of them can only eat one meal for them, or is it rare? It can only barely guarantee their survival.

The guard Lu Zhi watched from a distance above the checkpoint, observed carefully for several days, and found that the troops in the opponent's camp were transporting food and grass every time.

It didn't come from the same direction, but from all directions, according to the directions of the surrounding counties and counties. This discovery made him faintly chill, and he couldn't help but have a guess in his heart.

That is, the surrounding counties and gentry have already taken refuge in the group of rebels in front of them, and have tried their best to take out the savings of their families and the government in the past to supply the food and grass for the army in front of them.

That's why the army in front of them was able to waste food without any worries, and didn't worry about the pressure of logistics at all, because the local government and aristocratic clans that controlled millions of farmers provided them with food and grass.

To feed on the enemy was originally a very cruel word, often representing very bloody killing and looting.

Now he retorts ironically, anyone's definition of it in the past, those loyal ministers and righteous men of the Han Dynasty in front of him.

At this moment, they are crying and shouting, saying that the imperial court wanted to charge them a penny more. Crying for food and money that the poor refused to give, they desperately sent them to the big camp in front of them.

And on my side, the regular army of the Han court representing the righteousness of the world. But at this moment, he had to come hungry to resist the attacks of these rebellious officials and thieves.

This is not the most terrifying, low morale, crude equipment, is not the most terrible for an army, because such an army can still obey orders.

The most frightening thing is that some people in the army have already made up their minds and want to make trouble and cause internal strife. At that time, a battalion scream is inevitable.

Most of the members of his own army are the private troops of those gentry, and the former masters of those troops are now in front of the checkpoint, loyal to the group of rebels.

What should the group of low-level soldiers under him think? Most of their parents and relatives are in the hands of those gentry, do they dare to disregard their own family members, but swear to the death to resist their master's new master?

This thought arose in my heart, I saw the faces of the soldiers on the left and right, and found that the faces of some clever soldiers who had already figured this out had a strange change in their faces at this moment.

With a very strange and malicious look, he looked at the chief officials around them. It seems to be looking at some lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and is thinking about where to cut them better.

It was discovered that this kind of gunpowder keg was like a threat that could explode with just one incentive, and send all the loyal officials of the Han Dynasty to heaven in the entire level.

Lu Zhi, the leader of this checkpoint, didn't dare to stay longer, and quickly brought his personal guards down the city wall. And send people to recruit those who he thinks are reliable and who are still loyal to the Han Dynasty, come to his mansion to discuss how to eliminate this disaster.

That night, more than ten horse-drawn carriages stopped in front of the residence of General Lu Zhi in Guanzhong. In the entire checkpoint, there are probably nearly a hundred of him in the official position of a thousand generals.

But only a few dozen people can be trusted by him and invited to this place. It can be seen how bad the situation in the pass is now?

At this moment, guard Lu Zhi was anxiously discussing with his subordinates the emergency situation in the pass, and quarrels rang out from time to time.

Some people think that thunder should be used to gather all the other generals who cannot be trusted, and then kill them in one fell swoop, so that those soldiers will not be able to turn the tide without a leader.

Some people even think that such a method is too cruel, and it may arouse the resistance of those soldiers, but it will make the soldiers in the entire checkpoint even more confused without a leader, so that they will not fight.

Others think...

All in all, it was chaos, and the generals spent most of the night arguing.

...

However, this quarrel did not last until dawn, at midnight, on the street outside the gate of the City Lord's Mansion.

A group of soldiers with green cloths on their heads and armor holding sharp blades slowly moved towards the Lord's Mansion.

People continued to join along the way, so that the originally only a few million troops gradually expanded to tens of thousands, and surrounded the lord's mansion.

This group of people, those generals of the gentry, brought their soldiers together to rebel anyway. He intends to take the head of the guard and use it to exchange credit in front of Zhong Yu, maybe he can seal the country just like that!

And the group of loyal guards didn't notice the situation outside, and the danger was beyond his expectation, and it was even more unacceptable.

Instead, in the mansion, they quarreled because of the different opinions, and their eyes were red.