In the third year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, in the summer of 620 AD.

It is almost August, the hottest time of the year, and the rain this year is particularly low. It has not fallen a drop of rain in the sky for nearly a month.

Outside Luoyang City, the leaves on both sides of the road were hanging on the branches at this time, looking listless. The sun shone in the sky, and dust rose up on the ground. As long as the wind blew by, the dust was everywhere, as if it wanted to cover people's sight.

Just under the hot sun, a group of ragged people were walking hard on the road outside the city. They all brought their families with their families, with the things they could carry from home, the broken bowls, the pot without foundation, all kinds of worn-out things passed down from ancestors, and the wooden sticks made of branches on the trees in front of the door, carrying a rag bag of all their belongings.

They supported each other and supported each other, and everyone looked hungry. They were weak and walked extremely slowly. Some people's eyes were already sluggish. The only thing that supported them was the belief to survive. They were in groups in groups, covering the road to Luoyang.

The soldiers guarding the Luoyang city tower saw a scene that surprised them. Around Luoyang, as if they had made an appointment, groups of ragged refugees covered their sights. They headed towards Luoyang City. On the road, people fell down from time to time, and people kept getting up. The old man with ravines on his face, the child crying loudly in his mother's arms, and the child with bright and big eyes opened.

They flocked to the gate of Luoyang City, and the officers guarding the city had already ordered soldiers to close the gate. These people who had driven many roads were slapped at the closed gate. The weak people could not walk anymore, and these hungry refugees were lying everywhere in front of the gate of Luoyang City.

The front line was fighting. At this time, the refugee tide caused by wars rushed to the rear. Thousands of refugees rushed to Luoyang in the rear, and at the end of July of the summer of the year, they faintly surrounded the city of Luoyang. King Zheng ordered the city gates to be closed everywhere and prohibited refugees from entering the city.

At dusk that day, King Zheng ordered people to drive away the refugees. Groups of refugees were driven away from Luoyang City by soldiers holding weapons. Those who could not walk were directly carried by the soldiers and threw them far away from the road. They were like weeds in the wilderness, fending for themselves.

Among the refugees, there were also people who resisted to rush into Luoyang City. All they wanted to greet were cold spears and sabers. When the blood flowed out and the smell of blood in the air scattered, the refugees couldn't believe it. Their army put the butcher knife on their necks. On that day, almost all the city gates in Luoyang were painted red by the blood of the refugees. The blood flowed down from the city gate, and the blood overflowed into pools of blood in the city gate. The soldiers' feet stepped on it, as if they were stepping on the sun-dried asphalt. The strong smell of blood scattered everywhere, and the residents around the city gate did not dare to open the window.

With the order of King Zheng, the defenders in Luoyang were dispatched to drive away refugees. Near the city gate, the number of defenders doubled. Whenever they saw refugees coming, they would go to drive them away. On the way to Luoyang, soldiers had been sent and refugees were not allowed to flock to Luoyang.

The refugees rushed in front of Luoyang City and were smashed to pieces. Then, refugees who had nowhere to stay quickly rushed to the surrounding areas of Luoyang. The prefectures and counties here also followed Luoyang, and almost every town did not let refugees enter. The garrison troops in some towns had already sharpened their knives and were ready to slaughter these refugees.

Even in Xuanyang area, as soon as the refugees arrived, the garrison officers in the city ordered the army to go out of the city to suppress and drive them away.

Outside Xuanyang City, refugees were chopped and killed by willfully, and these unarmed people were killed in large numbers in broad daylight. Whether it was the elderly, children, or women. On the road in Xuanyang, a layer of blood was accumulated, and blood filled the gullies beside the road. In the blood, human corpses could be seen everywhere, messy and scattered everywhere. Women, children, and elderly people. The undead people made the final struggle among the dead, and blood filled their bodies, and their last moan of despair was heard in their throats.

Outside Xin'an City, the rebels also found refugees coming like a tide. When Liu Shan and his friends received the news, they had already rushed to the Dongcheng City Tower, which had the largest number of refugees.

Liu Shan ordered the city gate to open without thinking. Refugees rushed into Xin'an City like flowing water. They occupied the streets and flowed into the market. Xin'an City was crowded with people for a while, and there were many people like a tide. People were constantly coming to this place outside the city. Xin'an suddenly seemed like a hole at the bottom of the lake, and the water around them surged here.

"Liu Shan, you are crazy. You let these refugees enter the city, what can we give them food and accommodation. I can guarantee that Luoyang and several surrounding towns are driving refugees away. Once the city gates of Xin'an are opened for refugees, refugees will soon come here." Meng Zhang, who rushed to the city after hearing the news, saw the wave of refugees pouring into the city gate and shouted at Liu Shan.

"Do you want us to watch these refugees die outside the city?" Liu Shan thought of the people who died tragically in Mengjiagou that day, and he suddenly felt angry and shouted back to Meng Zhang.

"You, you are so that the people of Xin'an will die with us. What did they come and bring, bring a mouth, and they will eat it. There is no such a lot of food in Xin'an's granary." Meng Zhang was furious. At this time, the rebel army had just captured Xin'an City. The city was indeed short of food, which was only enough for the residents and the army to consume for a month. At this time, as soon as the gate of Xin'an opened for refugees, the huge food consumption was a terrible number. Moreover, as the war progressed, the number of refugees would only increase, and the waves of refugees would rise higher and higher. At that time, I am afraid that the uprising in Xin'an would be crushed by refugees.

Liu Shan did not expect that he had just won Xin'an, and the first challenge he had to face was not the army suppressed by Luoyang, but the refugees coming. To be fair, Liu Shan also knew that Xin'an had insufficient food reserves and was not enough to consume refugees at all. However, Liu Shan was alone, and everyone had feelings. Seeing that most of the refugees under the city were elderly, children and women, and there were few middle-aged men, Liu Shan really couldn't bear to be blocked by him outside Xin'an.

Liu Shan is not a cold-blooded person. If he was asked to raise his sword and gun and face those children with shiny eyes, it would be even more uncomfortable than killing him.

"I will find a way to let the refugees enter the city first. If the city really can't settle down, I will set up a temporary tent outside the city for the refugees to live in." Liu Shan threw a word and the man had already gone down the city tower.

Yi'er followed Liu Shan closely. As soon as Liu Shan got off the city tower, someone rushed over from the refugees and knelt on the ground. Liu Shan knew what they were going to do, so he quickly helped the kneeling person up. Liu Shan let the refugees in, thinking that this was what he should do. If he did what he should do, he would have to kneel down and thank him. This was not Liu Shan.

Yi'er picked up a crying child in the crowd. The little girl was picked up by Yi'er. Tears fell on Yi'er's hands in her shiny big eyes.

In the third year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, in 620 AD, as the Qin King's army marched into the Central Plains, the Zheng King's army and the Qin King's army fought fiercely in the Central Plains. During the war, a large number of refugees flocked to the rear of the battlefield. Zheng King ordered the Luoyang city gate to be closed and the refugees were driven out at dusk. Outside the Luoyang city, countless refugees were killed and injured, and the dying refugees were abandoned in the wilderness and allowed to fend for themselves. Most of the towns around Luoyang did not accept refugees, and the refugees looked forward to their hopes, and the future was hopeless.
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