Three Kingdoms Mythology World.

Chapter 2677 The Discordant Lords
Lin Mu's arrival and attack on Suanzao City actually infringed upon the interests of certain people.

For example, Yuan Shao!

Yuan Shao, who had also arrived in the Suanzao City area, turned green when he heard that Lin Mu had also arrived and led his troops to attack Suanzao City, making the first contribution to the coalition against Dong Zhuo.

You should know that in his plan, it was he who was to attack Suanzao!

He had been planning this for a long time. The closure of some teleportation arrays was actually orchestrated by the Yuan family.

Moreover, he had already planted an inside agent in Suanzao City and had secretly transported 100,000 elite troops into the city to hide them.

Before any of these arrangements could even be made, Lin Mu had already taken the lead…

At this time, the battle on the city wall was nearing its end, while the battle inside the city had begun.

Le Jinshan led his troops down the city wall and charged into the city.

Before Dong Zhuo's army in the city could organize an effective defense, they were overwhelmed by Lin Mu's army and began to collapse, scattering into the streets.

Subsequently, a fierce street battle ensued between the two sides.

Overall, the soldiers of the Great Wilderness Territory were stronger and continued to push the battle lines forward, with the battle situation basically tilting in the favor of the Great Wilderness Territory.

Soon, the Great Wilderness Territory captured the City Lord's Mansion, and Dong Zhuo's army was directly defeated.

Just as the Great Wilderness Territory captured the City Lord's Mansion, the hidden army inside the city suddenly erupted near the eastern city wall, delivering a devastating blow to Dong Zhuo's defeated troops who were heading east. Amidst shouts of battle, Dong Zhuo's army completely collapsed and surrendered on their knees. They easily captured 100,000 garrison soldiers.

Adding to the 100,000 slaughtered on the western city wall by Lin Mu and the 100,000 defeated on the streets, all 300,000 soldiers stationed in Suanzao City were captured.

Lin Mu seemed to have anticipated this situation. Instead of continuing to pursue Dong Zhuo's remaining troops, he captured the western city wall and the city lord's mansion, and began to loot the entire area, plundering all the warehouses' grain, war supplies, and defensive materials.

After cleaning up Suanzao City, he waited for someone at the city lord's mansion with Yue Jin.

After waiting for most of the day, the person I was expecting finally appeared.

A handsome man in fine armor led a large group of men and rushed straight into the council hall of the city lord's mansion.

"Brother Benchu, you've arrived!" Lin Mu's voice rang out slowly, as if welcoming the newcomer.

The person Lin Mu was waiting for was Yuan Shao, Yuan Benchu.

In his previous life, Suanzao was captured by Yuan Shao. With his strategic planning and the foundation of his family's four generations of high-ranking officials, he successfully became the leader of the alliance and ranked second on the list of the feudal lords of the world!
This time, Lin Mu wouldn't let him have it so easy.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Shao snorted coldly, strode into the hall with a swagger, and then sat down unceremoniously in the seat next to Lin Mu.

The unpredictable teleportation methods, which were not only used by individuals but also by entire military units, made him extremely wary.

The failure of the sour jujube strategy this time was not due to a problem with the calculations, but rather due to Lin Mu's unorthodox methods.

He was extremely frustrated because he hadn't managed to get any supplies from Suanzao City.

In an effort to hinder the coalition forces from joining forces, Dong Zhuo deployed 300,000 elite troops in Suanzao City, stockpiling large quantities of grain, war supplies, and defensive materials, hoping to hold off the coalition forces for several dozen days. However, Suanzao City fell on the very day Lin Mu arrived.

The supplies stockpiled in the city became Lin Mu's supplies.

"I also deserve credit for capturing Suanzao City. You should give me half of the supplies stockpiled in the city!" Without giving Lin Mu any face, and without even a greeting, he directly asked Lin Mu for supplies with contempt, extremely arrogant.

Based on his attitude, if Lin Mu had arrived later, he wouldn't have distributed any supplies at all.

“Okay, I’ll send the supplies over later, how about that?” However, Lin Mu was different. Since there was credit, then it was time to share it.

Seeing that Lin Mu was so sensible, Yuan Shao was stunned. He thought he would have to use his words, but he didn't expect Lin Mu to be so cowardly.

"Very well, then I'll have someone wait for me." Having received the answer, Yuan Shao didn't exchange pleasantries with Lin Mu and simply stood up and left.

Come in a hurry, go in a hurry.

Lin Mu watched Yuan Shao's departing figure and the generals and strategists accompanying him, raising an eyebrow slightly.

"Yan Liang and Wen Chou aren't here... Yuan Shao didn't have these two fierce generals by his side in my previous life either. What exactly did Yuan Shao send them to do?" Lin Mu pondered to himself.

He knew everyone else around Yuan Shao, including one who was a member of the Xun clan, but he didn't mind at all. He wouldn't let that person be a spy, as that would ruin the Xun clan's reputation for a thousand years.

"My lord, are we really going to share half with them?" Yue Jin asked, looking at the doorway with a cold expression.

“It’s half, half of a grain warehouse!” Lin Mu said quietly.

Upon hearing this, Yue Jin was slightly taken aback, but then he realized what was happening and burst into laughter. His lord was no coward.

Inside the city, just considering food alone, with 300,000 elite soldiers, each consuming 50 units of food per day, that's 1.5 million units a day. If we were to defend Suanzao City to the death, we would have to stockpile enough food for 70 or 80 days.

Based on this calculation, at least hundreds of millions of units of grain must be stockpiled here.

It is evident that Dong Zhuo's camp truly spared no expense.

However, Suanzao City had few top-tier generals. Xu Rong, Zhang Ji, and others weren't even in the city. There was only one divine-level general, who had been defeated by Yuan Shao and whose whereabouts were unknown. The next morning, Le Jin led his troops to escort thirty carts of grain, totaling nearly six million units, to Yuan Shao's camp.

Six million? Not at all, not even enough for half a meal for Yuan Shao's army!
For this campaign against Dong Zhuo, he gathered six million soldiers. If each soldier consumed thirty units of food per day (much more expensive than Dong Zhuo's camp), that would amount to 180 million units of food per day, which shows how terrifying it was.

Six million units of grain is just a drop in the ocean!

Upon hearing this data, Yuan Shao, who had just woken up, immediately ate his entire breakfast in a fit of rage.

He knew this was Lin Mu's way of putting him in a tough spot!
Ever since Lin Mu rose to prominence, the Yuan family has been at odds with him, and they don't know if it's because their birth charts clash or something else.

"This is outrageous!!!" Enraged, Yuan Shao immediately mustered his troops, furiously intending to rush to the city lord's mansion to attack Lin Mu.

However, he was stopped by a group of strategists who had also just gotten up, thus averting a conflict.

After much persuasion, Yuan Shao's anger subsided somewhat, but the grudge only deepened.

Good heavens, the two warlords almost came to blows as soon as they arrived, which shows how unfortunate the fate of this alliance is.

This scene was witnessed by spies secretly hidden in the city, who quickly relayed it to the capital, Luoyang.

Li Ru, who was anxiously awaiting Dong Zhuo's return, smiled sinisterly upon seeing this intelligence.

With the two most powerful figures at odds, the fate of the allied forces is not necessarily smooth sailing.

In fact, it wasn't just Lin Mu who was at odds with Yuan Shao.

Sun Jian, who was traveling north from Jingzhou, had exhausted his provisions along the way. He relied on the cities along the route for some supplies, but it was not enough to sustain him until he reached Suanzao.

Helpless, he could only borrow grain from other feudal lords, but the amount of grain he borrowed was too large, and it was mostly borrowed but never returned; it was not something that could be borrowed casually.

Even the wealthiest Yuan Shu refused to lend grain casually.

In the cities along the later sections of the road, there were basically no generous donors. Those powerful families who verbally offered support only provided a symbolic amount of a few hundred thousand units, which was a drop in the ocean.

How can we survive without food? We have to resort to other means.

That night, a group of bandits attacked Yuan Shu's supply convoy...

Yuan Shu's army was strong and well-equipped; ordinary mountain bandits couldn't possibly take it. It must be Sun Jian...

Thus, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian also became enemies...

This situation is also occurring among other feudal lords... The seeds of hatred have been silently sown, waiting only for them to take root and sprout...

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Meanwhile, deep in the grasslands outside the border of Yanmen County in Bingzhou, dozens of tribal leaders were sitting together drinking wine from large bowls and eating meat in large chunks.

In the middle, Han Chinese singers were dancing with great passion...

"I heard that Lin Mu, the General of the Han Dynasty, is willing to open the market to trade grain with us. Is this their conspiracy?" a burly leader said in a gruff voice.

"Tch... The people of the Great Han Dynasty have been secretly trading grain with us for a long time. What's the point of announcing this information now?"

“Whether it’s a conspiracy or not, we are short of food right now. Getting food is the key. We can play along for now,” a dark-faced leader replied.

“We can’t just trust them so easily. But we need to be prepared for both possibilities: trade with them on one hand, and continue preparing for the raids on the other,” said the white-haired elder at the head of the group. The other leaders nodded in agreement.

"General Lin Mu, how dare he openly expand his territory on our great grasslands as if we don't exist? He has broken the balance of many years and is a sinner of the great grasslands. We cannot easily trust him."

"Lin Mu is destined to die. Our gods will surely join forces to punish him, so there's no need for anyone to care about him anymore. What we should be discussing now is the matter of Yanmen County. After we break through Yanmen County, should we head south directly into Bingzhou and raid the core of Sili, or should we head east into the rich lands of Jizhou to raid?" A man with a broadsword and a wide gait, sitting at the head of the table, asked quietly.

This person is none other than Yufuluo, the current Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu.

Yufuluo was the son of Qiangqu Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu during the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the elder brother of Huchuquan, the father of Liu Bao, and the grandfather of Liu Yuan, the Emperor of Zhao of Han.

"Yufuluo Chanyu, let's attack Sili directly from the west. After all, you are nominally under Yuan Shao's control, and our southward march to Sili is to punish the traitor Dong Zhuo. It's perfectly legitimate!"

"Yes... With a legitimate reason, the local militia along the way won't dare to attack us casually. We can then take advantage of their unpreparedness and easily capture many cities. Even if they are on guard, we can still attack them on the grounds that they are Dong Zhuo's henchmen, which will also be perfectly legitimate."

The group began to brainstorm ideas.

The strategies proposed by everyone were all very reasonable. After a heated discussion, they finally decided to head south to Sili to join forces with Yuan Shao.

Yanmen Commandery in Bingzhou is in the far north. Going south, the next commandery is Taiyuan Commandery, then Shangdang Commandery. After passing through Shangdang Commandery, you enter Sili Henei Commandery, and after passing through Henei Commandery, you can reach Luoyang, the capital.

This time, they're going to Sili, the richest place, to plunder indiscriminately!

If we can really wreak havoc for dozens of days and then retreat back to the grasslands before the heavy snow closes the mountains, that would be awesome. Maybe we won't have to risk going south for the next few years.

They were anxious for millions of tribal warriors to invade the border from the south. In addition to plundering winter food, they also wanted to consume the young and strong men, since they were the biggest consumers of food. Don't call it cruel, it's just natural selection!
(End of this chapter)