But it was an ambush after all. Although Cao Jun saw through it and suffered a certain amount of losses, the subsequent spying and infiltration were not as arrogant as before...

Similar conflicts are common these days, conflicts of various sizes are like prophecies before the war, and it is in the process of such conflicts that the two sides determine each other's positions at one time and prepare for the next.

Be prepared for a violent impact.

Zhou Tai, who was under the Prime Minister, was ultimately defeated miserably. Without timely assistance, Zhou Tai was unable to survive alone, so he had to set fire to the Prime Minister one night, and then withdrew his remaining soldiers, less than a hundred men, to Guangling to join Zhu Zhi.

The immortal ghost Zhou Tai was injured again but did not die.

On the one hand, Zhu Zhi pretended to comfort Zhou Tai, and on the other hand, he sent a message to Sun Quan. Then he stayed at the same place openly, and only sent Xie Zan as a front-line army to prevent Cao's army from advancing, while the rest of the army did not continue.

forward.

For Zhu Zhi, what he preferred was not to fight Cao Jun, but to ensure his previous interests. The previous march was just due to pressure from Sun Quan. Now that Zhou Tai was used as a cover, he naturally stopped.

As for Man Chong, not all of Cao's troops were elite. Although capturing and recovering Xiang Xiang was considered a good result, it did not mean that they could send their troops south to fight Sun Quan in a decisive battle.

The reason why Man Chong chose to attack Xia Xiang was, on the one hand, to obtain information from Zhang Yu, and felt that Zhou Tai's army was running out of supplies and the opportunity was not to be missed. On the other hand, it was also to make up for his previous guilt of losing Guangling, and to achieve some meritorious service before Cao Cao arrived.

Apply it on your face and it will give you some glow.

Therefore, at the border of Guangling, the troops from both sides chose to stand in a stalemate.

This is not the only tacit understanding between the two parties.

In the gap between this confrontation, the dangerous situation suffered by the refugees in Guangling has not been alleviated in any way. On the contrary, because both sides are unwilling to take risks to believe in the "innocence" of these refugees, and of course they are not willing to bear more food and grass for the refugees.

Therefore, large-scale plundering and massacre when seeing refugees became an inevitable choice.

Whether in the woods, in the wilderness, or in the mountain streams, the original people of Guangling, men and women, old people and children, no matter whether these refugees resist or not, the outcome is the same, and no one is spared.

No matter whether you are willing to accept this tragic fate or not, and whether there is any truth to what happened, at this stage of the stalemate between Cao Jun and Jiangdong Army, the flesh and blood of the people of Guangling were crushed and ground bit by bit in the huge war millstone.

It was turned into powder, and the resulting flesh, flesh and fat were eaten by two giant war beasts.

Guangling has already appeared on the stage of history in the pre-Qin period. In the Han Dynasty, Guangling was a county king and a hereditary fiefdom for the princes for nearly four hundred years. It can be said that it accompanied the changes in the royal family of the entire Han Dynasty.

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In other words, Guangling was like a man cursed repeatedly in the territory of the Han Dynasty, repeating disasters.

At the beginning, Liu Bang made his eldest nephew Liu Bi the king of Wu, and Guangling was the capital of Wu. King Liu Bi of Wu "made money from copper and boiled the sea into salt", which made Guangling's economy develop rapidly and also made Wu

The king's ambitions expanded. Later, in the name of killing Chao Cuo, Liu Bi invited Chu King Liu Wu and other princes and kings to rebel, which was known as the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" in history. But within three months, Liu Bi was defeated and fled to East Vietnam.

Killed by the East Vietnamese.

Later, Liu Fei was also granted the title here and was called the King of Jiangdu. As a result, Liu Jian, who later succeeded the King of Jiangdu, was sentenced to death for plotting rebellion. Jiangdu was abolished and Guangling County was established.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, King Guangling appeared. Under the suppression of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the previous kings of Guangling were quite honest. At most, they could only make a fuss after the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty...

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu named his son Liu Jing the King of Guangling. After the death of Emperor Guangwu, Liu Jing tried to rebel four times in his life, but all ended in failure...

Although it is said that careerists will bring disasters to the surrounding people no matter where they are, Guangling County has indeed endured too much suffering caused by careerists. After a little recovery, it has become a battlefield again.

, even the simplest rebellion and counterinsurgency cannot avoid the pain of separation of flesh and blood, life and death.

At present, the turmoil and humiliation that have lasted for several months are still spreading, and war disasters are continuing. Both households and gentry have fallen in such a catastrophe. All the gold and silver money in their homes has been robbed, and towns and villages have been destroyed.

It was moved away.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the Guangling tragedy.

Within a few months, the old and the weak were killed first, and the men became the cheapest labor force, disposable cattle and horses. They were commanded to perform various kinds of work. If they disobeyed, they would be whipped and beaten with sticks, or even beaten.

Even those who could survive the hard work often became cannon fodder in various battles. Especially in several siege battles, there were countless casualties and corpses everywhere.

The fate of women is equally tragic.

Thousands of women were sent in and plundered. Some of these women were put into the army, and some were sent to the rear. They were used and selected like goods, and they were constantly selected along the way.

A large number of female corpses were thrown into the wilderness...

And the corpses of these men and women, as well as the old and the weak who died earlier, may have just become some members of the gentry, with their hands behind their backs, looking at the sky at an angle of 45 degrees, lamenting the suffering of the people in the world and the suffering of the people in the world.

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