Once there is a contradiction and conflict between the two sides, under the impetus of impulse and desire to conquer, it is generally resolved by force, and war breaks out between the two countries or between the two regimes. This is true in both ancient and modern times, but modern times tend to use conversation to break down contradictions, and ancient times are more prone to war.
The depiction of war has existed since there were words on the mainland. Even the giant panda, which is now a national treasure, once became a war beast in ancient times and had its significance in existence for the sake of fighting. However, since it is a war, there must be a win or a loss, the victor will gain various rich benefits, and even a new dynasty will rise and promote the development of the times, while the losing side can only flee into the wilderness, or even completely perish.
Examples of defeat abound in ancient times, and even some celebrities have actually had the experience of failure and escape. For example, Liu Bei in the early Three Kingdoms period had fled all the way because of Cao Cao's pursuit, but he made a puzzling move in the process of escaping, because he not only withdrew with his own army, he even took the people with him to escape. His own interpretation of this move was that he "could not bear to see innocent people being destroyed."
But in fact, this sentence cannot be convincing. It can only be said that Liu Bei is very clever, he knows very well that those who win the hearts and minds of the people in the chaotic world will win the world, and with these people who can sincerely follow him, how can they be afraid of not having the opportunity to make a comeback?
Cao Cao was also a man who knew this well, so he could not have committed such a stupid act of slaughtering the people, and throughout the history of the Three Kingdoms, even the general Cao Cao would hardly kill. At such a critical moment, Liu Bei brought unarmed civilians with him, which not only seriously slowed his pace of progress, but even made him a huge target, which seemed really a foolish act.
But the truth is diametrically opposed, among those who compete for the glory, Liu Bei is the most sleek one. The reason why he brought these "burdens" had two main purposes.
First, he wanted to use this incident to show his "benevolent heart" to the outside world, his bones were flowing with the orthodox blood of the Han Dynasty, which was originally relatively easy to gain the trust of the people, coupled with the seemingly benevolent thing he did, it showed his "benevolent heart" even more, thus also highlighting Cao Cao's "fierce appearance" from the side.
The second is to use the people to slow down the pace of Cao Jun. Although Liu Bei's own speed with these people will also decline, but the physical strength of the people and the physical strength of the soldiers are completely incomparable, so slowly the people will fall behind, and Cao Jun will naturally have no way to face such old and weak people in front, which will drag down the pace of Cao Jun's advance.
And in history, the operation of the army escaping and taking the people with it was not the only time. Feng Hong of Northern Yan also did such a thing, and he brought more people than Liu Bei, Liu Bei only took the people of a city, but he took the people of a country.
So why did he do this?
As we all know, the Southern and Northern Dynasties were also notoriously chaotic in history, with constant regime changes, and many regimes were destroyed by other regimes before they even survived for long. Northern Yan belonged to the former, and this regime existed for more than twenty years. It has always been struggling to survive in the cracks, because on both sides of it are very powerful beings, namely northern Wei and Rouran.
The reason why Northern Yan was able to exist was because his founding monarch was a brave and resourceful man. It was also in his efforts that Northern Yan had survived in such a difficult environment, but the founding monarch later fell ill, so Northern Yan fell into a struggle for the throne.
Originally, the Prince of Northern Yan was Feng Yi, but there was a favored concubine who wanted to make her son Feng Yi the emperor, and the final result was that the general Feng Hong broke into the palace and scared the emperor who was already in a sick period to death, so Feng Hong took the opportunity to become the emperor.
But the emperor actually said that he could be when he was, and Feng Hong did not have the talent to govern the country as his brother, not only that, but his luck was not very good. When he became emperor, it was also during the reign of Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, and after northern Wei conquered Rouran, the whole country was enriched as never before. So Emperor Taiwu looked at the fat flesh of Northern Yan.
The military strength of Northern Yan and Northern Wei is completely at one level, and it is targeted by Northern Wei, can Northern Yan still have a good life? Before long, the whole country became a mess, and Feng Hong thought of taking the initiative to surrender to Emperor Taiwu, so he offered to take his son as a hostage in exchange for peace, but Emperor Taiwu simply ignored Feng Hong, and his ultimate goal was to completely eat this place. In the end, there was no suspense, and Of course, Northern Yan failed. Enraged, Feng Hong burned down the palace and led the people of the whole country to Goguryeo.
When he first arrived in Goguryeo, the king of Goguryeo was still very kind to him, and even if the Northern Wei asked him for people, he did not hand them over. However, Feng Hong did not recognize the current situation at all, and after arriving in Goguryeo, he even acted like an emperor, pointing fingers at everything in Goguryeo and showing no self-awareness.
How could the King of Goguryeo endure such an act? In the end, the king of Goguryeo could not bear him any longer, so he ordered that his entire family be beheaded, even for future generations. However, Feng Hong's two sons escaped.
Later, one group submitted to Northern Wei and later even became a famous gate of Northern Wei; another group, with a total of three hundred people, boarded a ship under the leadership of Feng Ye and fled, and finally defected to Northern Wei's sworn enemy, the Liu Song Dynasty. However, the records of Feng Ye in the historical materials are very few and almost difficult to find.