Xu Huang launched a fierce offensive against the Sichuan soldiers, and the bravery of his subordinates was no less than that of Ma Chao's subordinates, and Xu Huang's subordinates also had a typical characteristic, that is, the weapons were sharp, the armor defense was very good, and they rushed violently, like a hungry wolf, opening their bloody mouths and tearing the Sichuan soldiers mercilessly.

After a while, Xu Huang ended the battle and cleared the enemy forces in this area. But Xu Huang did not stop, and continued to rush forward with his subordinates, using the same style of play, and soon captured the next enemy's defense. Under his command, the soldiers were also as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Ma Chao, who was in the distance, couldn't help frowning when he saw such a scene, and thought to himself: "It seems that I underestimated him......"

The war on the front line was in full swing, from morning to noon, the two elite soldiers led by Ma Chao and Xu Huang attacked alternately, and they were stunned to kill a bloody road that was seven miles long.

At the same time, Pang De was not idle, he was directing hundreds of able-bodied Qiang people to clear the boulder obstacles in the mountain road, as well as the corpses of the Sichuan soldiers.

When these Qiang people saw the corpses of countless Sichuan soldiers lying in front of them, they finally got a little comfort in their hearts that had been suppressed for a long time, and even worked harder.

Pang Tong sat in Jiameng Pass, commanding the whole army, although Jiameng Pass was burned beyond recognition by a fire, but the hard city wall was not affected by the fire, the general outline of its gate city still stands on this land, the only difference is that almost all the city walls were blackened by the fire, and all the combustible objects in the city were turned into ashes.

Pang Tong asked his subordinates to start cleaning and rectifying Jiameng Pass, and re-made the bluestone wall tiles of Jiameng Pass glow with new light. And that's not all. They also sent people to renovate the city gates. Custom-made daily necessities needed in the city, although it is dilapidated, it is also a closed city, which can accommodate thousands of soldiers and horses, and can also be used as a military stronghold after the Han army entered Shu.

Pang Tong even sent a part of his troops to occupy Baishui County and spread the benefits of the Han army. And walking around the rumors, seriously injuring Zhang Fei is a rebel thief, the most important thing is that the army must maintain strict military discipline, and must not take a stitch from the people without permission, only in this way can we take every step of the camp, fight steadily, and capture the hearts of the Sichuan people.

In addition, Pang Tong sent people to Hanzhong quickly. Let Niu Jin, who was stationed in Hanzhong, begin to deliver grain to Jiameng Pass.

When Ma Chao captured Hanzhong, he transported a large number of gold, silver and jewelry. But the grain of Hanzhong County was not transported away, Zhang Lu has been operating in Hanzhong for many years, rich and rivaling the country, and the grain is even more amazing, located on the Tiandang Mountain at the north end of Nanzheng City.

The terrain of Tiandang Mountain is dangerous, and Dingjun Mountain, Guyang Pingguan into a horn of the trend, for the western gateway of the Hanzhong Basin, the west control of Sichuan and Shaanxi key paths, the north choke the south entrance of the Chencang Ancient Road, is the ancient control of Qin, Shu and the south entrance of the Chencang Road and ensure the safety of the Hanzhong Basin important military barrier, so it is a military pass that the soldiers must fight for in history, and the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight for the land.

It is precisely because of its dangerous terrain that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, that Zhang Lu chose this place as a place to store grain.

Originally, with Zhang Lu's strength, there was no problem at all to hold Hanzhong, but because of his carelessness, Ma Chao took advantage of the loophole, making the three important passes in Hanzhong, such as Tiandang Mountain, Dingjun Mountain, and Yangping Pass, useless.

After Ma Chao killed Zhang Lu, Zhang Lu's forces quickly collapsed, and Yang Bai, Yang Ang, Yang Ren, Yang Song and others stationed in Zhang Lu were taken by Ma Chao's bravery and surrendered without a fight.

Later, after Pang Tong and Xu Huang arrived in Hanzhong, Ma Chao led the people westward, Pang Tong took over Hanzhong, he did not trust Zhang Lu's old department, so he let Niu Jin, who came with them, guard Hanzhong, all the garrisons were changed, and several large granaries located in Tiandang Mountain also took over naturally.

When Pang Tong personally went to inspect the granary of Tiandang Mountain, he knew that Zhang Lu's grain had reached an astonishing level, several large granaries were full of grain, roughly estimated to be about five million stones, and many grains did not know how long they had been placed, and they had begun to rot, and even the animals around the granary were much fatter than other places.

If Zhang Lu is a little smarter, relying on these stored grains and sticking to the pass, he can hold on for ten years.

And at this time, Zhang Lu's Gong Cao Yan Pu heard that Zhang Lu was dead, and turned back from the way to Pengcheng, and after worshipping Zhang Lu, he surrendered to Pang Tong, Pang Tong saw that Yan Pu was sincerely surrendering, so he simply continued to let him serve as the Gong Cao of the county and assisted Niu Jin in handling the government affairs of Hanzhong.

On the other hand, Pang Tong went to the imperial court and asked for a capable person to be sent to serve as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and played the harvest of the battle of Hanzhong together.

Pang Tong as a prison army, has a certain amount of power, can coordinate the surrounding states and counties to assist, this time after the occupation of Jiameng Pass, Pang Tong began to want to take root near Jiameng Pass, on the one hand, let people buy people's hearts, on the other hand, let people go to Hanzhong to urge Niu Jin to transport grain to Jiameng Pass.

In fact, there is no shortage of food in the army now. You must know that the terrain of Shu is difficult to walk, and it is extremely inconvenient to transport grain, so Pang Tong can only prepare first, and when the time comes, when the time comes, the grain will not be delivered.

Just when Pang Tong, Ma Chao, Xu Huang and others were blocked near Jiameng Pass, Zhang Yan, who was far away in Pengcheng, was not idle.

After Jiangnan was pacified, the first thing to bear the brunt was the restoration of the people's livelihood, and the remnants of the Sun clan in Jiangdong had basically been cleaned up, but Jiangnan was devastated after the war.

In recent years, Zhang Yan has imposed economic sanctions on Jiangdong, Jiangdong's economy has not been able to rise, and the population loss is also very strict, after the pacification of Jiangnan, statistics have come out one after another, and the number of households in Jiangdong is less than 300,000, and the population is less than 800,000. Jiaozhou and Guangzhou have always been remote areas, and although they have not been affected by too many wars, their populations are already small, with only about 260,000 households and a population of only 560,000.

Three years ago, the statistics of the Dasi Nong Yamen were 3.6 million households, and the population was 7.79 million, but according to Sima Yi's number of households and population statistics in Jingzhou this time, Jingzhou had only 930,000 and 7 households, and the population was only more than 1.6 million.

In this way, the total population of the entire area south of the Han River and the Yangtze River is less than 5 million.

And the northern region occupied by Zhang Yan has also made some statistics, and the total population is only more than 8 million. Although it does not include the area of Bashu in the southwest that is currently being crusaded, Zhang Yan can also make a reference based on the statistics of Emperor Guang and the first year of the Han Ling in the imperial court, and the total population of the area around Yizhou in the southwest Bashu will not exceed three million.

In this way, the population of the whole country is less than 1,500, compared with the national population of more than 57 million according to the statistics of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the three years of Yongshou, the population has really decreased rapidly.

In the final analysis, one of the main reasons for such a sharp decline in population is war. From the beginning of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Eastern Han Dynasty began to enter a situation of existence in name only, with the division of the heroes, the melee of warlords, coupled with natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the population loss was very strict.

In history, Cao Cao once wrote a poem called "Artemisia Lixing", the last few lines of the poem read: "The armor gives birth to lice, and the surname of ten thousand people dies." The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. ”

The general meaning of these poems is: due to the continuous war, the soldiers could not take off their battle clothes for a long time, the armor was full of lice, and many people also died in large numbers due to years of war. The bones were exposed in the field and no one was buried, there were no people for thousands of miles, and no roosters could be heard. Only one of the hundred ordinary people is still alive, and it is extremely sad to think of this.

Due to the long-term warlord melee in the late Han Dynasty, a large number of people died and the social economy was greatly damaged. Cao Cao's poem is a true reflection of this historical period.

Now that Zhang Yantong fought and annexed one warlord after another, he gradually had today's status, and seeing that the southwest region was about to return to the arms of the imperial court and realize the unification of the whole country again, as the leader who held the power of life and death in the world, Zhang Yan's consideration had reached the problem after the unification of the country.

These days, Zhang Yan has been receiving recitals from all over the world, and asked Chen Qun, the head of the household department, to make a statistic to get the world's population.

Nowadays, there are still wars in the southwest, there will be people who will die in the wars, and there will be people who will continue to lose their lives, and the population will continue to decline sharply.

Win the world immediately, but you can't rule the world immediately.

What Zhang Yan had to do was to carry out a series of post-war recovery and recuperation, and at least he needed to formulate a long-term goal and make efforts to revitalize the Han Dynasty.

In addition to this incident, there is another thing that makes Zhang Yan also very troubled, that is, moving the capital.

The matter of moving the capital is already a sure thing, but the matter of moving the capital cannot be rushed, and it needs to be done step by step. Moreover, among the officials of the imperial court, many of them had extremely large industries in Pengcheng, and because of this, many courtiers would oppose the relocation of the capital, and once the capital was moved, their efforts would be in vain, and a large amount of financial resources would be lost.

For this reason, Zhang Yan obeyed Zhuge Liang's construction and set up a relocation office for this matter, and let Zhuge Liang serve as the director of the office, and he was fully responsible for the relocation of the capital.

At this moment, Zhang Yan was holding a copy of the fold in his hand, and carefully read the contents of the fold, and in front of him, Zhuge Liang stood there respectfully, waiting for Zhang Yan's instructions.

This recital was written by Zhuge Liang himself, and it was about the relocation of the capital, and the specific methods were clearly written in the recital.

After Zhang Yan read it carefully, he put down the fold in his hand, lifted a brush on the table, dipped it in cinnabar, and wrote the word "edict" at the end of the fold, which is equivalent to approving Zhuge Liang's fold.

Zhuge Liang caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye, and the heart that was in his throat finally fell back to its original place, with some inexplicable joy.

"Your Highness, Hanzhong urgently!" At this time, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Xu Sheng, walked in briskly from outside, handed a letter to Zhang Yan, bowed, and said loudly. (To be continued......)