All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 311: No King Can Be Better Than Xiang, No General Can Be Better Than Li

Li Cunxiao's martial arts skills are extremely amazing.

Facing the rain of arrows, he actually managed to block and dodge them and successfully survived.

Not only did he survive, he also rushed towards Chen Ran with his Bi Yan Lao standing up.

The so-called Bi Yan Lao is a long weapon similar to a horse lance, but the top is not a sharp spear head, but an iron hand similar to a ghost claw.

“It’s a miss.”

Chen Ran complained and turned away.

Don't get me wrong, he didn't run away out of fear, it's just that it's difficult to fight against someone with weapons with bare hands.

If you really fight someone with weapons with bare hands, you would be either stupid or dumb.

His personal guards stepped forward to fight, while Chen Ran himself quickly put on his armor.

It is not the heavy armor used on the battlefield, such as the Ming Guang armor, but a lightweight chain mail.

He dressed neatly, took his spear from the guard, and stepped forward with his spear fully armed, roaring "Get out of the way!"

In just a short while, several of Chen Ran's guards had fallen.

These guards on duty were fully armed even at night, which shows how powerful Li Cunxiao, who was known as "the general who is no match for Li", was.

Chen Ran came up with a sweeping move, and the iron spear came whistling. Li Cunxiao hurriedly used the Bi Yan Lao in his hand to block it.

With a "bang!" sound, Li Cunxiao, whose arms were numb, took two steps back before he could steady himself.

His expression was astonished. “What a great strength!”

Li Cunxiao is very powerful, but he is still a historical figure after all.

Chen Ran's strength comes from historical novels, so the two sides are naturally incomparable.

If Li Cunxiao was a character in "The Romance of the Late Tang and Five Dynasties" who could smash down the gates of Chang'an City with just the weapons in his hands, then Chen Ran would never step forward to fight him in a duel.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh~" The archers finally found an empty crotch and quickly shot arrows from the roof.

As Li Cunxiao quickly retreated, he swung the Bi Yan Lao in his hand quickly, knocking the arrow away.

But he had previously fought with Chen Ran, and his arms were so sore that his movements were inevitably affected.

He was a little slow and was immediately hit by an arrow in the leg.

"Don't shoot!" Chen Ran said belatedly, "Just wait and see me fight him in single combat."

Both of them used battlefield moves, with big and fierce moves aimed at the deadly goal.

The spear and the Bi Yan Lao continued to clash. After seven or eight times, Chen Ran had forced the disabled Li Cunxiao into a corner.

Without the space to maneuver, Li Cunxiao could only grit his teeth and resist Chen Ran's terrifying strength.

There was no battle that lasted for three hundred rounds. There were only a dozen attacks in total. As Chen Ran successfully knocked down Li Cunxiao's weapon with his strength advantage, the outcome was decided.

Bare hands will never be a match for someone with weapons.

Even a boxing champion in the modern world, facing an opponent armed with a big gun, has no choice but to retreat tactically.

Chen Ran exhaled and asked, "What do you want to say?"

This is asking for last words. After all, he is a famous warrior. Chen Ran is willing to be a villain who talks nonsense and give Li Cunxiao a chance to leave a last word.

Li Cunxiao smiled sadly and shook his head, "Godfather, I'm here~~~"

After a single shot killed Li Cunxiao, Chen Ran was also puzzled, "How could they have such a good relationship?"

In history, Li Cunxiao was ostracized and plotted against. In anger, he betrayed Li Keyong, and was eventually defeated by Li Keyong and torn to pieces.

I never thought that the relationship between this foster father and son would be so deep.

Chen Ran's victory was impeccable. It was only natural for him to use his strength advantage to defeat his opponent.

Only a fool would give up his advantage to fight the enemy.

"Find him a coffin." Chen Ran instructed, "Bury him next to Li Keyong's tomb."

This is not a case of Madonna syndrome. The reason why he is so nice to the assassin who came to assassinate him is purely because the system activated by Li Cunxiao gave him a reward.

'Note: Li Keyong's modification has been completed, and rewards are now being issued.'

'Note: The skill "The King is No Better Than Xiang, and the General is No Better Than Li" is released (when fighting against a general who is not the monarch, the winning rate will be increased by 100%!)'

There is no doubt that he has excellent abilities, so arranging a piece of land for him as a thank you and reward is naturally not a big deal.

The assassination of Li Cunxiao was an accident. Although personal heroism is very sensational, it is essentially meaningless in the face of absolute strength.

Chen Ran did not delay and continued to head south according to the planned schedule.

The first checkpoint heading south is Yiwu Military Town.

Yiwu Military Town was derived from Chengde Military Town. A hundred years ago, there was an internal strife in Chengde Military Town, and the imperial court took the opportunity to divide Chengde Military Town and demarcated several states to become Yiwu Military Town. This was also the only directly-administered territory of the imperial court in Hebei.

As we all know, the territories directly under the imperial court have always been a place where the people live in poverty and their combat effectiveness is extremely poor.

Yiwu Military Town is no exception.

Their governor, Wang Chucun, had assets worth tens of millions.

It is said that Wang Chucun was from the Shence Army and was used to amassing wealth.

Correspondingly, the local people were unable to get enough food or clothes.

Even the troops stationed in various places often had their food and wages withheld.

According to the tradition of warriors in the late Tang Dynasty, they should have drawn their swords to kill the Jiedushi. But Wang Chucun did not kill him, and instead paid a high salary to support a group of 4,000 to 5,000 guards to protect him.

Every rebellion in Yiwu Military Town was defeated by these powerful guards.

One sentence to describe it is "Yiwu Army suppresses the people, and the King of Suffering has existed for a long time~~~"

It is just like in the late Qing Dynasty, when the ability to suppress the internal affairs had reached the peak level of the agricultural era, but was completely shattered by the powerful foreign ships and cannons.

When Chen Ran led his large army into the Yiwu Military Town, Wang Chucun, who was domineering in the local area, his first reaction was to escape.

He filled the cart with the millions of wealth he had amassed, took thousands of soldiers with him to guard his entire family, and without hesitation abandoned the Yiwu Army stationed in several states that the court had entrusted to him to guard, and headed straight for Chang'an City.

It doesn't matter if he loses the territory. After all, this is the territory of the imperial court, not his Wang family.

Once you arrive in Chang'an City, you can still live a good life as a rich man by spending money to bribe people.

The idea was good, but he underestimated the greed of human nature.

When Wang Chucun's soldiers saw so much wealth, they became greedy and when they reached Yizhou, they rebelled and killed Wang Chucun's entire family and took away his wealth.

Just because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, these thousands of soldiers even started fighting among themselves.

When Wang Yanzhang caught up with thousands of cavalrymen, he saw corpses everywhere.

The surviving soldiers were still fighting each other with red eyes.

"They're all crazy." Looking at the guards who were determined to throw themselves on the money box even if they died, Wang Yanzhang frowned and ordered, "Kill them all."

Chen Ran captured Yiwu Military Town in just a few days without encountering any resistance.

The local garrison and the people lined the streets to welcome his arrival.

In their opinion, no matter how Chen Ran arranged for them, it would not be worse than the Wang Tiangaosanchichucun sent by the court.

Chen Ran did not disappoint them.

The first thing was to announce the confiscation of all government land, land of aristocratic families, land of Buddhist temples, and land of wealthy landlords who owned more than 100 acres of land.

Among them, the aristocratic families and Buddhist temples directly sent troops over.

The landlords and wealthy families gave them a chance to choose.

The choice is either to voluntarily hand over more than a hundred acres of land, or for Chen Ran to send troops to help them.

The land was redistributed, with part of it given to the people in various places, part of it used as military settlements, and the rest stored as rewards for future use.

In addition to the territory, Chen Ran also seized Wang Chucun's property and various military supplies allocated by the court to Yiwu Military Town.

One characteristic of the Tang Dynasty’s military supplies was that they were of very good quality.

Whether it is armor or weapons, the workmanship and quality are excellent.

The main reason is that military men had a very high status in the Tang Dynasty, and they strictly controlled the quality of vital military supplies, after all, it was related to their own lives and property.

In comparison, the quality of military products in the weak Song Dynasty, which was ruled by scholar-officials, was very poor.

This is also an important reason why the Song army’s combat effectiveness was not strong.

As for why the quality is not good, one reason is that the literati don’t care about this. After all, they are not the ones who use these things to risk their lives on the battlefield.

Secondly, by focusing on quality, one can make profits and line one's own pockets.

The scholars always said, "It belongs to the court and the emperor, not to me. So why work so hard? Of course, it's to make money for yourself."

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the literati were too lazy to even hide their true colors.

Forget about the quality. There are many cases where muskets exploded the first time they were used.

The most shameless thing is that they are playing the game of floating and losing directly!
Chen Ran, who had witnessed all this with his own eyes, would rather use soldiers as local officials than accept scholars to serve him.

Not only did he not accept any literati, he even disposed of all the aristocratic families where the literati were most concentrated.

Not only were the people disposed of, but even the collection of books was burned.

These words of saints, profound meanings, and annotations to ancient books are useless.

Except for books on agriculture, mathematics, engineering, astronomy, etc., nothing else was kept!

After easily taking over Yiwu Military Town, Chen Ran continued to move south, this time heading straight for Chengde Military Town.

Compared with the turbulent Weizhou Town and Youzhou Town, Chengde Town, one of the three towns in Hebei, enjoyed a rare stability in the turbulent era of the late Tang Dynasty.

In more than a hundred years of inheritance, there have only been two large-scale changes of Jiedushi in Chengde Town.

After Shi Chaoyi committed suicide and the Anshi Rebellion ended, Li Baocheng was the governor of Chengde Town.

According to legend, the Li family father and son then joined forces with Li Xilie and others to rebel, but in the end of the rebellion, the Jiedushi turned out to be a Khitan.

Later, the Uighurs captured Chengde Town, and the throne was passed down from father to son until today, when Wang Rong, who was only ten years old, succeeded to the throne as the Jiedushi of Chengde.

It was not a big deal for the people of the Tang Dynasty for foreigners to hold high positions.

But Chen Ran couldn't tolerate it.

Although Wang Rong is not very old, he has inherited the Uighur tradition of being murderous.

Throughout history, he often killed entire families in Chengde Town, and wiped out dozens or even hundreds of families. The number of people who died at his hands exceeded tens of thousands.

"Another An Lushan."

Under the city of Zhenzhou, Chen Ran did not see the envoy sent by Wang Rong to seek peace, and ordered his men to "kill all the Huihe people after the city is conquered!"

(End of this chapter)