Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 265 Procrastination
"My lord, what does this matter of intercepting and killing officials and soldiers have to do with us?" A middle-aged celebrity did not go to pick up the bamboo slips, but looked at Chu Nan and asked loudly.

Chu Nan arrested them for the crime of intercepting and killing the officials sent by the imperial court, but at least it had nothing to do with them on the surface!
"That's right, does your envoy have evidence!?" Another person also said loudly, "You are also a big Han official, how could you frame me for no reason!?"

"Evidence?" Chu Nan smiled, shook his head and looked at him, the smile on his face gradually became stern, like a villain who was going to kill someone: "Do you need it?"

"You..." The two of them were blocked by Chu Nan's rhetorical question, and they were speechless!

As local prominent families, these people and their families are like emperors in Shangcai.

In the past, even if the imperial court sent people to investigate, but the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the local snake, in the past, it was the imperial envoys and officials who came here, as long as they wanted to do something, they had to be polite to them. Playing horizontally is the first one.

As for the reason why everyone is polite to them, it is also simple. In Shangcai and the surrounding cities, most of the means of production, including farmland, business, etc., are in the hands of several families. Occasionally, accidents are also transferred between these families. They seldom go out, and at the same time, in order to maintain these assets and their status in the local area, in addition to raising their family and guarding the courtyard, many trail-shearing bandits around them are also supported by them.

As long as these families join forces, they can almost cover the sky with one hand.

Officials at all levels, no matter what their backgrounds are, they have to rely on them to do things here, whether it is the county magistrate or the postal supervisor who supervises the county magistrate, they are basically their people. It would be best if they could be satisfied. If they were not satisfied, it was not once or twice that they directly killed officials like this time.

From top to bottom, it forms a network so dense that water can't get in. If you follow the rules of the big man, no one can shake this kind of local power.

But now, here is Chu Nan, he didn't follow the previous routine, first directly tore through their protection with superior force, and then ran to arrest people with lightning speed, they didn't even have a chance to resist , They were taken down without even making any preparations, which made it impossible for them to use their methods and rights.

And if Chu Nan talked about reasoning and evidence, they would be fine with it, but now Chu Nan doesn't talk about it at all, and he does whatever he wants. If I say you are guilty, you are guilty.

beat?Now life is in the hands of others, how to fight?
And this time it is Chu Nan, not to mention that Wei Yan, Cao Xing, and Wei Yue under Chu Nan's command who cleared up the rebellion in various places are all battle-tested generals. Even if the armed forces they organize are assembled, they are not opponents at all. , Even if the sword is slanted to play assassination, there are monsters around Chu Nan, protected by Zhou Cang, it is impossible to get close.

Of course, the most important thing is that Chu Nan moved too fast, and they didn't have any chance to prepare.

You can't play with Yin, and Wen's people don't follow the rules with you, what can you do?

For the first time, these Shang Cai Haoqiang tasted the situation of those ants in their eyes in the past, but now they are like ants to Chu Nan.

"Go and write. After today, which one can stay is up to you!" Chu Nan waved his hand, signaling to everyone to take these 'big shots' to different rooms. It doesn't matter how many can be written. .

Anyway, what Chu Nan wanted was just a reason to fight, and this was a helpless move. Zhou Cang, an idiot, was not good at leading troops, and he only picked tough ones. In the end, he had to wipe his ass by himself.

"My lord, please see General Song!" Chu Nan was resting and waiting for the result, but he saw Pei Yuanshao stepping in quickly, bowing to Chu Nan, saying that after Chu Nan's strengthening last time, he is now, like Zhou Cang, serving as Chu Nan's side Zhou Cang's performance was too bad this time, so Chu Nan decided to transfer his former younger brother back to help him, lest he leave again, and Zhou Cang, a fool, would kill his own soldiers.

"Well, please hurry up." Chu Nan nodded, and Song Xian came over, probably because Lu Bu had something to do.

"My lord, didn't you just kill him before? Why is it so unnecessary this time?" Zhou Cang approached Chu Nan and asked.

After he came out with Wei Yan, he gradually understood what Chu Nan's strategy was.

As long as there is a rebellion, killing the local big clan first sounds a bit inexplicable, but the effect is quite significant. Once the big clan is killed, the rebellion will be much less, and even die down.

Along the way, three families were wiped out in Zhou Cang's hands. In an ordinary small town, there is usually only one big family. He has never encountered a situation where several big families are intertwined like Shangcai.

"Why?" Chu Nan glanced at him and said, "How many people are there now when you divide your troops along the way?"

Chu Nan kept 5000 people and horses, and the rest of the troops were distributed. The average number of troops is more than 6000. Wei Yan and the others are veterans, and they are unambiguous in their actions. The strength of the troops is equal to the first bird, and then the place will be governed slowly, so every time you go to a city, you will leave immediately after dealing with the matter, and no soldier will stay, in order to ensure sufficient deterrence and the ability to suppress the rebellion.

However, every time Zhoucang’s rammed goods go to the ground, they have to reserve some troops to defend. As a result, when they hit Shangcai, they were almost killed due to lack of manpower. As a large county, Shangcai has a population of 180,000, and there are many places in Xiliang. There may not be so many people in a county. These families have a lot of people. The bandits and guards add up to five times the number of Zhou Cang's current people.

If Chu Nan hadn't come back in time to command the army to break the alliance of the gentry first, and then put down the bandit rebellion, even if Zhou Cang could win this time, it would definitely be a miserable victory. It's the level of beginners, leading troops to fight depends on him to cut generals and kill enemies and then rush forward.

Under this style of play, the wear and tear along the way is naturally a bit serious. Now Chu Nan is afraid that another rebellion will be stirred up and the soldiers will be damaged for no reason, so he came up with this method. It can't be wiped out all at once, lest they join forces to resist again.

Although many members of these big clans have been arrested, there are still some of them who control the armed forces of the clan outside. This is why they dare to fight against Chu Nan, and Chu Nan didn't want to fight these people recklessly, so he came up with this idea. Come on, it doesn't matter what they wrote, don't they want evidence, first use the evidence as an excuse to destroy two companies, and after the payment is completed, use the remaining evidence to destroy the other companies.

"Including those who stayed in the three cities before, there are more than 5000 people!" Zhou Cang said.

"There are four groups of people, only you think of dividing troops, and you are the only one who lost nearly a thousand people!" Chu Nan kicked him and said: "There are less than 4000 people around now. If you really fight hard, you can win if you win, but you can almost defeat my soldiers! With this little wealth, if I don’t use some tricks, do I still have to wait for you to defeat all my troops!?”

Speaking of this, Chu Nan became more and more resentful. What was Zhou Cang thinking this week?Originally there were not many soldiers and horses, and I still wanted to divide the troops. What is there to defend in those small towns? When the Runan gentry are almost cleaned up by them, even if some people in these small towns take the opportunity to make trouble, you will see what will happen when you see it.

Although he has become a general, he still has a small family spirit. The small peasant thought in the past made him feel at ease only if he had to keep everything he killed in his hands. However, he didn't know that it had no meaning except to disperse his strength and make his territory look larger.

But having said that, the gentry in Ruyang and Shangcai are really powerful. Fortunately, most of the Yuan family moved to Jizhou with Yuan Shu's demise. Probably bigger.

Zhou Cang was kicked twice by Chu Nan, knowing that he was wrong, he smiled and did not dare to argue with Chu Nan as before, and obediently stood by Chu Nan's side without speaking, waiting for the savior to arrive.

After a while, his savior arrived, Pei Yuanshao came in with Song Xian.

"General Song, there are a lot of miscellaneous things here, I can't come out to meet you, and I hope the general will forgive me!" Seeing Song Xian, Chu Nan got up and smiled.

"It's okay." Song Xian shook his head hastily. He didn't dare to underestimate Chu Nan now. He looked around and looked at Chu Nan with some doubts: "Ziyan, this is..."

"Something went wrong with my subordinates, I'll take care of it myself." Chu Nan sighed and said, "The general is here, but what orders does father-in-law have?"

"Cao Cao sent Zhong Yao as an envoy to talk about the alliance. My lord felt that something was wrong, so I stabilized Zhong Yao first, and let the general come to ask Ziyan." Song Xian explained the matter briefly.

"Zhong Yao? Form an alliance?" Chu Nan looked at Song Xian, a little dazed. Wasn't Zhong Yao trapped in the Heilu River?And what do you think about the alliance at this time?

"Then Zhong Yao fled back secretly for some reason, but this time Cao Cao did not send reinforcements over, but let Zhong Yao come back, wanting to form an alliance with our army." Song Xian looked at Chu Nan and said: "This incident seems to be quite similar to the story that Ziyan told the lord at the beginning. Cao Cao obviously wanted to use this plan to numb the lord and divide our army."

Chu Nan breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that if Lu Bu agreed, it would be difficult to turn around.

"Although my lord has seen through the strategy, I don't know what to do next, so Pai Mo will ask Ziyan, if nothing happens, how about going back with me?" Song Xian looked at Chu Nan and asked.

"It will take a few days to deal with it here, but this matter is not urgent. Do you want to talk about peace? First talk to them about delaying time, tell your father-in-law, and negotiate terms with that Zhong Yao. Others are easy to talk about. The emperor must wait for me to return to Xuzhou. Use this to procrastinate for a while, and after I have captured all of Runan, we can gather our troops and take Xuchang directly!" Chu Nan laughed.

"If Cao Cao agrees, will it be possible for me to go back?" Song Xian frowned.

"Don't worry, he won't agree!" Chu Nan shook his head, if Cao Cao even called out this, then he really wasn't a threat.

(End of this chapter)