Chapter 974

Just as Cao Cao was pursuing Dong Zhuo.

Su Li also took his army and, along with Liu, Guan, and Zhang, set out on the road to Rongyang.

Not knowing how much further they had run, several Crimson Blood Dragon Cavalry scouts sent by Su Li rode back to report.

"Report...!"

Su Li suddenly reined in his horse, stopped, and looked at the Crimson Blood Dragon Cavalry with bright eyes: "Speak!"

The knowledgeable Crimson Blood Dragon Cavalry reported: "Report! A group of Luoyang commoners has come ahead, about a hundred thousand people and over ten thousand Xiliang soldiers! The vanguard has already started fighting with the enemy!"

Su Li thought for a moment and immediately issued an order: "Order the vanguard to keep scouting, no need to get too entangled with the enemy; the ten thousand Xiliang soldiers are not worth mentioning!"

"Understood!"

Hearing the Crimson Blood Dragon Cavalry's voice, he turned back and accelerated forward again.

At this time, Liu Bei looked at the disappearing scout, his expression extremely solemn, and said: "General Su, it seems we have caught up with the main force of Dong Zhuo's migration. Leaving the commoners to cover the rear, this is something only Dong Zhuo could do!"

Su Li nodded, agreeing with Liu Bei's suggestion, and immediately urged his troops to hurry on.

Soon, they saw a long dragon walking slowly against the morning sun.

That was about hundreds of thousands of people, supporting the old and carrying the young, under the scolding and whipping of a group of Xiliang soldiers holding knives and guns, carrying bundles, walking step by step, and moving slowly toward the northwest with great difficulty.

Clearly.

A group of people had been abducted before Dong Zhuo left.

A group of common people.

Well, Chang'an is located in the west and north, a dangerous place; although it is easy to defend and hard to attack, the population is insufficient, less than one-fifth of Luoyang's.

To make up for this deficiency, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru naturally sought ways to migrate the population.

And it was precisely because of the migrating population that Dong Zhuo and others fled much slower, leading to them being pursued.

Millions of commoner NPCs were forcibly migrated by Dong Zhuo through the teleportation array in Luoyang city...

But because of time constraints, Dong Zhuo did not give them a chance to organize their property, simply ordering them to leave immediately; who would have thought that if they were late, it would be one sentence—kill without mercy.

Many people were empty-handed, and under the forced traction of the Xiliang army, they entered the teleportation array from their residences and were forced to be teleported to the outskirts.

They could only look at the burning Luoyang from afar, watching their former homes being burned by evil ghosts; helpless, they could only wipe their tears and follow the army to run west.

Although this is a game world.

But the scene before them was truly miserable.

According to historical records, Luoyang was the capital of the Han Dynasty, and the people in the city and its jurisdiction should have been in the millions, accounting for nearly 30% of the entire Sili region.

And in this world, to satisfy the number of players, there was no plan to inflate the population by several or a dozen times.

Thus.

The number of people Dong Zhuo forcibly migrated, even in a hurry, reached millions.

Such a large-scale forced migration, the length of the team was longer than a hundred miles.

And being divided into multiple army groups, due to hunger, fatigue, and fast movement speed along the way, it caused fierce clashes between these common people and the Xiliang army!

But the Xiliang soldiers completely followed Dong Zhuo's decree; anyone who dared to resist was killed!

Coupled with the fact that some Xiliang soldiers were cruel and fond of fighting, and were indulged by Dong Zhuo to slaughter without supervision.

This resulted in the migration not even lasting a day, and the road was already littered with corpses, bloody slaughter, and the rape of women, which was simply a matter of every second.

When Su Li led his army and Liu, Guan, and Zhang's group pursued the tail of the migrating army, this scene appeared before them.

It was like a living hell.