Because he was preparing to escape very early, Du Hong's evacuation from Chang'an this time was not too hasty and chaotic.

The surrounding areas of Chang'an have become the gathering place for the Sanfu people. Not only are the large number of refugees gathered in Bashang, but there are also many Shengkou in the ruins of the ancient city of Chang'an.

After retreating to Shiji City, Du Hong first acted as a desperate battle to defend the city, withdrew all the soldiers stationed in Baqiao and other important places. With these soldiers deployed them layer by layer on the east side of Chang'an City, preventing the chaos in the Bashang Pier Plateau from spreading to the near border of Chang'an.

Then he organized some soldiers and generals to drive away the lively people in the lonely city to the west. This kind of thing happened several times earlier. The Meicheng in the western border of Chang'an was one of the alternatives to retreat that Du Hong had prepared before. There was no shortage of service power around Chang'an, so he was very involved in construction.

However, as the Jin army's elite cavalry walked around the Ba Shangyuan and rushed into the southern suburbs of Chang'an, there was no trace. Du Hong had realized that this retreat was no longer safe. It was not mainly the danger of the Jin army's elite cavalry appearing to intercept him. More importantly, the rural wealthy people in Duling, Zhengxian and other areas had betrayed or had given up on him.

You should know that no matter how powerful and powerful the cavalry of the Jin army was, there were thousands of huge cavalrymen. They would always leave traces when passing through towns and towns. Those villagers were all over the countryside and could not have been unaware of it. However, Du Hong had no news about this, so it was possible to imagine how the villagers in these places were thinking.

If Du Hong follows the road ahead, he will not only not be able to obtain the support of these villagers, but may be restricted and delayed by the villagers' wealthy people or even strangled to death.

But he was reluctant to give up the retreat route of Meicheng completely because the geographical advantage of this route is too good. Meicheng is connected to Wuzhangyuan in the south, and is one of the gateways in the west of Chang'an. To the west, you can go straight to Longdao, to the south, you can fall into the silence valley and enter Hanzhong. To the north, you can walk through the Wei River and go straight to the hilly areas of Qishan.

If he could retreat to Meicheng, it would be the best choice for Du Hong after escaping Chang'an. He could hold on to the territory and wait for changes in all parties, and even if he fled to all parties, he would have many choices.

But because this choice was too good and too obvious, Du Hong also expected that the Jin army might not let him do what he wanted. He drove a group of Chang'an Shengkou to the city of Fucheng, on the one hand, to confuse the audio-visual, and on the other hand, to test whether the danger was in danger on the way.

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

The first thing he set out on the road was the wealth, goods and supplies he had accumulated in Chang'an over the years. Without Chang'an, a core city in Guanzhong, as the place where people gathered their hearts, he needed to maintain people's hearts through money and food.

Therefore, this batch of money, grain, goods and goods are his lifeline, and no one can escort him. Therefore, Du Hong led 5,000 elite soldiers, half of the infantry and cavalry, and nearly 10,000 soldiers, escorted this batch of materials to Chang'an and headed west along the straight road.

At the same time, his rank was also responsible for some use to lure the enemy. If the cavalry of the Jin army was not confused by the refugees in Xiangmao and still captured his main force, he could temporarily garrison this batch of goods as bait, waiting for the route to be led by his confidant Zhang Shi, who was responsible for catching up with the three thousand cavalrymen who were in charge of the custody of the Jin army, and attacked the Jin army in front and back.

If this is the case, late at night, the riots and noises in the Bashang Field still did not stop, and had already evolved into a chaotic battle without distinguishing between enemies and us. In particular, many village sects who had originally restrained were even more frightened and riots after they realized that their masters were gone.

Even though the Jin army on the plateau realized that Du Hong was about to give up Chang'an, they did not dare to rashly rush across the Ba River to join the chaotic battle at this moment.

It was dim and noisy at night, and the plateau was extremely chaotic. No matter how well-trained elite troops rushed in, they would never be able to achieve effective command. Once the command system could not play a role, the so-called elite soldiers were no different from those chaotic soldiers.

Therefore, the Jin army was still cautious in setting up defenses along the Ba River to prevent the riots from spreading across the east bank of the Ba River. As for the Du Hong bandit army in Chang'an, they did not have such concerns. After confirming that the main general had led his troops to leave, the three thousand cavalrymen in charge directly raised their swords and rushed into the plateau and killed them, driving the people to flee to the east, making the situation on the plateau even more deteriorating. Then they retreated and walked straight to the west under the cover of night.

The reason why Du Hong's evacuation from Chang'an was so smooth is also related to his previous operations. He set up a weir and dam upstream of the Wei River to block the water flow. In addition, the land in Guanzhong had been drought for a long time, which made the Jin navy unable to go up and control the main stream of the Wei River as scheduled. Otherwise, Du Hong would not dare to be so arrogant and dare to evacuate step by step.

The army evacuated at night, and the night was temporarily calm. The Jin army on the Bashang was trapped by hundreds of thousands of chaotic people and failed to make a breakthrough to catch up.

But Du Hong also understood that although there were many people in Bashang, even if the riots only took advantage of the moment of blood and energy, once they realized the real situation after the noise, they would soon reveal their false status and wait for them to be tied up. If nothing unexpected happens, the Jin army may break through the obstacles of the chaotic people during the day and enter Chang'an, thus discovering that he had abandoned the city and fled.

However, the mess around Chang'an is enough to delay the main force of the Jin army for three or five days, and even if we have to send a pursuit, there will definitely not be too many people.

But this does not mean that Du Hong is completely safe. He still overestimated his prestige. Although these soldiers under his command have been repeatedly selected and screened, they are just patchwork troops in a brigade and do not have a long-term stable cohesion.

Not long after leaving Chang'an at night, some of the commanders and the nobles who led the army took the opportunity to attack and demand money, grain and materials. They owned their own troops and had no strict subordinate relationship with Du Hong. When they occupied Chang'an, they could have a temporary dream, either to defend Chang'an and seek major events, or to obtain a surrender reward from Tianzhong Xingtai.

But it is clear that they have fled in a hurry, and their old dreams have all failed. I don’t know what they will look like in the future. It is easier to survive by joining together to keep warm, but because of this, they have a bigger goal and will inevitably be pursued by the Jin army. Faced with this situation, it is really hard to say whether it is safer to continue to gather together, or whether it is better to survive if they escape separately.

Faced with the attacks of these generals, Du Hong was so angry that he was both burned, but it was really difficult to attack at the moment. He could only agree that after arriving in Xianyang, he would definitely use the funds equally and reward the army. At the same time, if he could break some walls on the way, he would let the army pick up the battle, and finally he could barely suppress the division.

The morale of the army was already disintegrating and carrying a lot of supplies. The speed of the march was imagined. He started to flee Chang'an last night. By the afternoon of the next day, the army had only been more than thirty miles away from Chang'an.

Fortunately, no major changes occurred in the next few days. News came from the back, saying that the Jin army had passed through the Ba Shangyuan and entered Chang'an. All the Jin and Hu refugees on the plateau surrendered. Then the development of the situation was as Du Hong expected. The Jin army did not pursue the westward magnitude, but patiently stabilized the situation in Chang'an.

Another thing that surprised Du Hong was that the people who had set out to Meicheng had already passed the martial arts skills because there was no too much restraint and supplies to slow down the journey. Meicheng was still vaguely looking at Meicheng, and there were neither intercepts nor large-scale enemy tracks were found on the way. It was a smooth journey.

After learning this, Du Hong couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Although he still doesn't know where the cavalry of the Jin army is, if he had known this, he should have allocated more combat power to the troops.

If we can stand firm in the city of Muk in advance, the situation can be revitalized. Moreover, the troops of the Western Qiang Yao Yizhong should have arrived soon. At that time, the troops will be attracted by the gateway of Muk in the city. The two units will work together to kill the cavalry of the Jin army in Guanxi. It is possible to succeed in using this victory or even counterattacking Chang'an! After all, Chang'an is broken and must be defended, and the Jin army has not yet established a stable foothold, so it can still be said to be the home court of the Guanzhong people.

It was so far that regret was useless, Du Hong could only grit his teeth and ordered the marching to speed up. Although there were no dangerous changes in the past few days, the marching efficiency was inefficient and it was impossible to make full use of the time. Several heroes even led their troops to leave the brigade and search for dock walls in the countryside to find targets of plunder, which slowed down the journey even further.

But it's a pity that, not to mention Xianyang before, it was plundered by the Di people Pu family, and it was almost impossible to squeeze out more oil and water. Therefore, these Chang'an fugitives were so angry that they gritted their teeth for Pu family.

Soon, the scout in charge of the road search sent back the news, saying that the Pu family, who had already flown north, had returned to Xianyang City. This inevitably made the army even more angry. More than 2,000 people rushed straight towards Xianyang without receiving the military order.

After Du Hong learned this, he was so angry that he bit his teeth wrongly, and his patience was about to reach the limit. These desperadoes were driven by short-term profits, and the Jin army did not come to pursue them. They thought the situation had turned into danger and even had to provoke powerful enemies in a row.

Previously, he used Xianyang as his next stop, which was to find out that Dihu had left the territory and headed north, and the direction of Jicheng was unpredictable. Now the situation has changed, and it is a waste of time to attack Xianyang or stay here. It is not advisable to have trouble. As long as Dihu did not come to harass them, Du Hong originally planned to go around the territory and go straight to Huaili.

However, once his intention leaked out, the generals suspected that he was reluctant to share the goods and supplies, and they all showed great dissatisfaction. So Du Hong could only bite his teeth and ordered the entire army to attack Xianyang.

After taking it off quickly, he really planned to lose money and avoid disasters. He placed some of the heavily centrifuged soldiers here for a short time and stayed here with supplies to strengthen their defensive spirit. He would lead a light cavalry to speed up to meet the Qiang and Hu from the east, meet with each other before looking for opportunities for fighters.

However, Du Hong did not expect that this difference in thought made him completely lose the opportunity to escape. Because the Jin army's Fenwu Army was much more radical than he imagined, and did not stay near Chang'an, but went directly to Longdao to meet the Qiang and Hu tribes who were coming from the east of Lueyang.

In other words, there is no established Jin army in the western border of Chang'an that threatens its retreat. Only the Pu Hong tribe who has been accused of joining the Jin army Hongwu army. Originally, his troops had evacuated Xianyang and were preparing to settle in Niyang arranged by Xiao Yuandong. However, halfway through, Pu Hong learned that the Jin army was attacking Chang'an in large numbers.

After making some serious considerations in his heart, Pu Hong felt that there were much more opportunities for fishing in troubled waters around Chang'an than in the desolate northern region, so he hurriedly drew elite tribes back to Xianyang and prepared to attack Chang'an from the back.

But Pu Hong did not expect that Du Hong had the elite territory of the Three Auxiliary, and the people were afraid to fight with the Jin army in Chang'an. After the army rushed to the territory, they immediately withdrew. So Pu Hong, who had just returned to this territory, was directly covered in Xianyang City by Du Hong's retreat, and then was attacked fiercely!

From this point of view, both sides of the fierce battle can be said to be unfavorable. If Pu Hong had not learned the timing too accurately, he would not have been caught off guard sooner or later. Du Hong had already passed by in a hurry. Du Hong had long lost his normal mind. If he had a little patience in front of the formation, the Pu family naturally did not have the awareness of fighting for the Jin army to intercept the defeated army. Both sides could avoid this battle by communicating slightly.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely in Xianyang's offensive and defense, a war located in the upper reaches of the Wei River had come to an end...
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