Because he had made preparations for escape very early, Du Hong's evacuation of Chang'an this time was not too hasty and hectic.

The surrounding area of Chang'an has now become a gathering place for the Sanfu people, and a large number of refugees are not only gathered in Bashang, but also many people are gathered in the ruins of the ancient city of Chang'an.

After retreating to Shiji City, Du Hong first put on a posture of fighting to defend the city, withdrawing the garrisons of Baqiao and other important places, relying on these soldiers to be deployed layer by layer in the east of Chang'an City, so as not to let the chaos of Ba Shangpi spread to the near edge of Chang'an.

Then he organized a part of the soldiers to drive the people in the lonely city to the west, this kind of thing, has happened several times earlier, the west of Chang'an, Yicheng, is Du Hong prepared one of the retreat options, Chang'an is not lacking in the surrounding forces, is very invested in construction.

However, as the Jin army's elite cavalry bypassed the Bashang field and rushed into the southern suburbs of Chang'an, there was no trace, and Du Hong had realized that this retreat was no longer safe. It is not mainly the danger that the elite cavalry of the Jin army will appear to intercept him, but more importantly, the township tyrants in Duling, Juxian and other regions have betrayed or given up on him.

You must know that no matter how fierce and fast the cavalry of the Jin army is, it is also a huge cavalry army of thousands of people, and there will always be traces when passing through the countryside, and those townsmen are all over the countryside, and it is impossible not to notice it. However, Du Hong did not get any news about this, so it is conceivable what the villagers in these places are doing.

If Du Hong leaves Chang'an by the same path, not only will it be impossible to gain the support of these villagers, but he may be hindered and delayed by the villagers, and even strangled.

However, he was reluctant to completely give up the retreat of Yicheng, because the geographical superiority of this route is too good, the south of Yicheng is connected to Wuzhangyuan, itself is one of the western gateways of Chang'an, to the west can go straight to Longdao, to the south can collapse the sloping valley into Hanzhong, to the north wading through the Weishui can go straight into the Qishan hilly area.

If he can retreat to Yicheng, it can be said that it is the best choice for Du Hong after escaping Chang'an, not only can he hold on to the place, wait for all variables, and even if he escapes to all sides, there is no shortage of choices.

But because this choice is too good and obvious, Du Hong also expected that Jin Jun might not let him get his wish. drove a group of Chang'an Shengkou to Yicheng, on the one hand, to confuse the public, and on the other hand, to test whether the danger was on the way.

As for the real main force in Du Hong's hands, it was only half a day after this group of people left Chang'an that they began to officially evacuate.

The first thing to go on the road was the goods and materials he had accumulated and collected in Chang'an over the years, and without Chang'an, the core city of Guanzhong, as a place to unite people's hearts, he needed to maintain people's hearts through money and food.

Therefore, Du Hongtong led 5,000 elite soldiers, half of each foot rider and an equal amount of soldiers, escorted this batch of materials out of Chang'an and went west along the old straight road.

At the same time, his line is also burdened with a certain amount of luring the enemy, if the cavalry of the Jin army is not confused by Xiang Yicheng and his party, and still captures his main force, he can use this batch of goods as bait for temporary garrison, and wait for the 3,000 cavalry under the command of his henchman Zhang Shi and responsible for the break, and flank the Jin army before and after.

In the middle of the night, the tumult and noise in the Bashang Wilderness still did not stop, and it had already turned into a great brawl that did not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. In particular, many of the township tribes who were originally restrained couldn't help but panic and riot even more after realizing that their masters were gone.

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

The night was dark and noisy, and the mountains were extremely chaotic, and no matter how well-trained and elite troops rushed in, it was impossible to achieve effective command. And once the chain of command is not functional, the so-called elite soldiers are not much different from those rabble of rebels.

Therefore, the Jin army was still cautious to fortify along Bashui to prevent the riots from spreading across the east bank of Bashui. As for the Du Hong thief army in the direction of Chang'an, there was no such scruples, after confirming that the main general had led his troops to leave, the 3,000 cavalry in charge of the town directly raised their swords and rushed into the hill to kill, driving the people to flee to the east, making the situation on the hill even more erosive, and then retreated sharply, under the cover of night, along the Weishui straight to the west.

The reason why Du Hong's evacuation from Chang'an was so smooth was also related to the previous operation, which was to set up a weir to block the flow of water from the upper reaches of Weishui, and the land in Guanzhong had been dry for many years, so that the Jin army could not swim up to control the main stream of Weishui as scheduled. Otherwise, Du Hong would not dare to be so big, and he would dare to evacuate step by step.

The army evacuated at night, and this night can be said to be calm for the time being, and the Bashang Jin army was trapped by the hundreds of thousands of chaotic people, and there was no 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 only a momentary surge of blood, once the real situation is recognized after the uproar, it will soon be revealed and restrained. If nothing else, it is possible that the Jin army will break through the obstacles of those chaotic people to enter Chang'an during this day, and thus find out that he has abandoned the city and fled.

However, the mess around Chang'an is enough to delay the main force of the Jin army for another three or five days, and even if you want to send chasing people, it will definitely not be too much.

But this does not mean that Du Hong is completely safe, he still overestimates his prestige, although these soldiers under his command have been repeatedly screened, but after all, it is only a patchwork army of a brigade, and there is no long-term stable cohesion.

Not long after leaving Chang'an at night, some of the commanders or villagers who unified the army took the opportunity to make trouble and begged for money, food, and materials. When occupying Chang'an before, you could also temporarily have a sweet dream, or seek great things according to Chang'an, or use this to obtain the surrender reward of Tianzhong Xingtai.

But now it is clear that he has fled in a hurry, all the old dreams have been disappointed, and I don't know what the future will look like, it is true that it is easier to survive when we get together to keep warm, but because of this, the goal is greater, and it will inevitably be pursued by the Jin army. In the face of 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 survival.

In the face of the difficulties of these generals, Du Hong was also angry, but it was really difficult to attack at the moment, so he could only agree that after arriving in Xianyang, he would divide the resources and reward the armies, and at the same time, if he could break some dock walls on the way, the battle gains would be picked up by the various armies, so he finally barely suppressed the split.

The army's heart was already sluggish, and they carried a lot of supplies, the speed of the march can be imagined, and they began to flee from Chang'an last night, and by the afternoon of the next day, the army left Chang'an for only more than 30 miles.

Fortunately, nothing major changed in the next few days. There was news from the back road, saying that the Jin army had passed through the Bashang Plain and settled in Chang'an, and the Jin and Hu Liumin on the plateau had all surrendered. Then the development of events was as Du Hong expected, the Jin army did not pursue to the west in a big way, but patiently stabilized the situation in Chang'an.

Another thing that surprised Du Hong was that the people who set off to Yicheng first, because there were not too many constraints and materials slowed down the journey, had already gone through martial arts, and Yicheng was vaguely in sight, and there was neither interception nor large-scale enemy traces found on the way, so it can be said that the road was unimpeded.

After learning this, Du Hong couldn't help but faintly regret it, although until now he still didn't know where the cavalry of the Jin army was, but if he had known this, he should have allocated more combat power to that road.

If we can stabilize Yicheng in advance, the situation can be revitalized a little. Moreover, the Xiqiang Yao Yizhong Department should be about to arrive at the border at the calculated time, and at that time it will attract its army with the gateway to Yicheng, and the two departments will work together to kill the cavalry of the Jin army in this area of Guanxi, and it is possible to succeed in the counterattack against Chang'an with this victory! After all, Chang'an is broken, it must be defended, and the Jin army has not yet gained a stable foothold, so it can still be said to be the home of these Guanzhong people.

At this point, regret was useless, Du Hong could only grit his teeth and ordered to speed up the march. Although there were no dangerous variables in the past few days, the marching efficiency was low, and it was really impossible to make full use of the time, and even a few heroic commanders led their troops to break away from the brigade and go to the suburbs to search the dock wall and look for plundering targets, which further slowed down the journey.

But it's a pity, not to mention how Xianyang was before, not long ago, this place was looted by the Pu family, and it was almost impossible to squeeze more oil and water. Therefore, these Chang'an deserters also gritted their teeth with hatred for the Pu family.

Soon, the scout in charge of the way exploration came back with the news that the Pu clan, who had been flowing north, had actually returned to Xianyang City. This inevitably aroused the anger of those military leaders even more, and more than 2,000 people rushed straight to Xianyang without receiving military orders.

When Du Hong learned this, he gritted his teeth even more, and his endurance was about to reach its limit. These outlaws were driven by wealth and short-term profits one by one, and if the Jin army did not come to pursue, they thought that the situation had turned from dangerous to safe, and they even wanted to provoke a strong enemy.

Previously, he took Xianyang as his next foothold, which was to find out that Dihu had left the country and went north, and the direction of Yicheng was unpredictable. Now that the situation has changed, it is already redundant to attack Xianyang or stay here, and it is not appropriate to make trouble, as long as Di Hu does not come to harass them, Du Hong originally planned to go around the border and go straight to Huaili.

However, once his intention flowed out, he was suspected by the generals of being reluctant to share goods and materials, and they all showed great dissatisfaction. So Du Hong could only bite his teeth and ordered the whole army to go straight to Xianyang.

After taking it quickly, he really planned to break the fortune and avoid disasters, and placed a part of the soldiers and horses that were very heavy on this short station, and the materials were also stationed here to strengthen their defensive heart, and he would lead the light cavalry to meet the Qianghu coming from the east, and then look for fighters after meeting each other.

However, Du Hong didn't expect that it was this difference in thought that made him completely lose the opportunity to escape. Because the Jin army was far more aggressive than he imagined, he did not stay in Chang'an, but went directly west to Longdao and met the Qianghu tribes who were coming from the east of Luoyang.

In other words, there is no formed Jin army in the western border of Chang'an at present to threaten the safety of its retreat. Only the Puhong tribe, who had pretended to join the Hongwu army of the Jin army all the way, had already evacuated Xianyang and prepared to settle in Niyang, which was arranged by Xiao Yuandong, but after halfway through, Puhong learned that the Jin army was attacking Chang'an.

After weighing it in his heart, Pu Hong felt that there were many more opportunities for fishing in troubled waters around Chang'an than in the desolate northland, so he was busy dispatching the elite of the tribe to return to Xianyang, preparing to attack Chang'an from behind.

However, Pu Hong didn't expect that Du Hong, who was sitting on the essence of the three auxiliary territories and the people, was actually afraid to fight with the Jin army in Chang'an, and immediately withdrew after the army forced the border, so Pu Hong, who had just returned to this realm, was directly covered in Xianyang City by Du Hong's retreating army, and then was attacked fiercely!

From this point of view, both sides of the fierce battle can be said to have a bad year, and if Pu Hong had not had the insight of the timing too accurately, he would not have been caught off guard a moment earlier, and he would have hurried across the border when he returned to Du Hong a moment later. And Du Hong has long lost his normal heart, but as long as he shouts a few words in front of the battle with a little patience, Pu naturally does not have the consciousness to fight for the Jin army to intercept the defeated army, and the communication between the two sides can avoid this battle.

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

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