All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 361 The advantage is mine!

"Good."

Chen Ran warmly invited Zhang He to sit down and talk, and chatted about some things related to the Yuan family.

Upon learning that Yuan Xi did not marry Zhen Mi, he gave up his responsibility of city defense and went to marry Gongsun Zan's adopted daughter.

Chen Ran immediately expressed his disdain for this, "It's not like they were ordered to welcome the bride, it's clearly just retreating from the battle and running away."

"exactly."

Zhang He was furious. "If he was still in the city, how could the powerful family rebel under the name of Yuan?"

Hearing this, Chen Ran's heart was slightly moved. "Have all those traitors who plotted rebellion been dealt with?"

"Most of them were attacked and killed." Zhang He was not sure about Chen Ran's specific attitude towards this matter. After all, the source was that these powerful families wanted to surrender to General Chen. "Some of them stayed in their own mansions and were not attacked in time."

“Don’t do things halfway.”

Chen Ran frowned slightly, and then instructed, "Since you've already started, then get rid of them all. Leave those people here and wait for them to recover before you can take revenge?"

Zhang He understood and immediately stood up and saluted, "Yes~~~"

When he went out to gather his men and prepare to deal with the remaining powerful families in the city, Jia Xu followed him out and said, "General, I want to talk to you a little."

Zhang He knew that he was a military advisor, so he stepped forward and saluted, "I'd like to hear more about it."

"I heard that Zhen's daughter was engaged to Yuan Xi?"

"Exactly."

"In that case, you can keep this girl and send her to the general's room to humiliate Yuan."

Zhang He hesitated a little, "Sir, the rest of the Zhen family will wait."

Jia Xu smiled and said nothing, but just made a gesture of wiping his neck with his hand.

Zhang He's heart suddenly sank. "Sir, if that's the case, then won't the Zhen girl bear a grudge against me in the future?"

He is not stupid. He knows that the most terrible wind in the world is not the wind from the east, south, west or north, but the wind from the pillow.
"When doing things for the lord, there is no need to think so much." Jia Xu said with a smile, "Besides, there are countless beauties in the general's room, how could he be tempted by this girl? Just go and do your work."

Zhang He wanted to say something, but he thought that he had just joined the army and was already making excuses, which was not a good performance.

With no other choice, I had to go and do the work.

Looking at his receding back, Jia Xu turned back with a smile on his face. "What do you mean by humiliating the Yuan family? It's just an excuse. The lord once mentioned this girl, and this is the most important thing."

Unlike those upright counselors (Zhuge Liang), Jia Xu only does things that are beneficial to himself.

There is no doubt that satisfying the lord's little wishes is a beneficial thing in his eyes.

After all, my life and future are all entrusted to my lord, so naturally I have to do everything I can to help him.

Chen Ran was busy arranging military affairs, rectifying the city defenses, strictly enforcing curfew, capturing and killing those who took advantage of the situation to rob, etc.

By the time he finished all these and ate something, and returned to the house that originally belonged to the Yuan family, it was almost midnight.

Just as I was about to push the door and go into the room to rest, I keenly noticed that there was someone in the room.

He turned to the guard standing by and asked, "Who's in there?"

The guard responded, "My lord, it was Jia Situ who brought her here and said she was Zhen's daughter."

"Zhen's daughter?"

Chen Ran smiled, pushed the door open and closed it behind him.

I had been planning to have a good rest for the night, but now it seems I have to work overtime. It turns out that I was born to be a hard worker.

Before the sword and the shoes came, Zhen Mi still trembled and said, "As long as you can avenge my Zhen family, I will obey you."

Before she finished her words, Chen Ran had already become a black tiger, shaking all her subsequent words into tremors.

The whole night was silent, with only the sound of umms and hums.

The next morning, when Chen Ran was eating, Zhang Liao, who was stationed outside the city, brought him good news.

"My lord, the cavalry captured Guo Tu during their patrol."

"Oh? What do you say?"

"Guo Tu came to replace Yuan Xi in guarding Ye City. He rode here at full speed and had no idea that Ye City had already fallen into the hands of the lord."

Chen Ran thought for a moment and asked, "Are you willing to surrender?"

Zhang Liao looked a little embarrassed, but he still told the truth: "I kept cursing."

"Chopped."

"Here~~~"

Chen Ran did not rush to continue advancing, but stopped near Yecheng, gathering follow-up troops and preparing for a decisive battle with Yuan Shao who was on the way.

He had seized a huge amount of food and military supplies inside and outside Yecheng, and was well-rested, so he had a great advantage.

As early as the Warring States Period, Yecheng had served as the capital of the State of Wei.

It belonged to Handan County in the Qin Dynasty and was split into Wei County in the Han Dynasty. Yecheng was the county seat of Wei County and also the provincial seat of Jizhou.

This is the most important city north of the Yellow River and a center for politics, economy, culture, and military.

Geographically, it is located south of the Zhang River and the land is very fertile.

Of course, in the late Han Dynasty, these lands belonged to powerful families, and the only thing ordinary people could do was to serve as serfs for these powerful families, with no hope of getting ahead for generations.

Most of the powerful families in Wei County had been destroyed in Yecheng.

These lands nominally belonged to the Han Dynasty, but in reality they all belonged to Chen Ran.

Before Yuan Shao's army arrived, Chen Ran took out a portion of his land and distributed it to the soldiers in the army as a reward for military merit.

In the era of cold weapons, this is unavoidable. If you want the soldiers to maintain their morale and fight for their lives, you must give them enough benefits, otherwise who will fight for you?

No matter what you say to them about national justice and belief, they just ignore you.

Chen Ran understood all this, so he just gave the hard goods directly.

The remaining fields were converted into military settlements.

It is to restore the old system of the Western Han Dynasty, distributing land to farmers in the name of military land, and let them arm themselves with the output of the land.

When everyone is a soldier, farmers are soldiers and soldiers are farmers.

Farming when busy, training when free.

If in the future there are barbarians who want to spread cholera in Middle-earth again, there will be tens of millions of soldiers waiting for them!

After more than half a month of busy work, Yuan Shao's army finally returned.

Yuan Shao boasted that he had a million soldiers in Hebei Province, but this is just talk for your reference.

Even in the novels, no one could provide a million soldiers.

It is true that he had a million male men. Even if the auxiliary soldiers and able-bodied men were counted, the number was only about 200,000 to 300,000. It was considered good if he had 50,000 to 70,000 armored men. This was in the novel.

However, the vast army of two or three hundred thousand people marched to the other side of the Zhang River, and the end was as far as the eye could see.

"My lord." Zhang Liao, who was patrolling the river, reported, "Tian Feng, an envoy from Yuan Shao, has crossed the river."

Chen Ran received Tian Feng and said simply, "How does Yuan Benchu ​​want to fight?"

Tian Feng was a little stunned. He didn't expect Chen Ran to be so straightforward.

He collected his thoughts and bowed respectfully, "General, please retreat and wait until our army crosses the river before fighting again."

"Three hu? Ninety li?" Chen Ran sneered, "Why don't you let me just retreat and cross the Yellow River to the south bank?"

"Stop talking nonsense. I know he is anxious to retake Yecheng. How about this? Give Yuan Benchu ​​ten miles of land. It will be enough for him to deploy his troops."

After saying that, Chen Ran simply waved his hand and asked Tian Feng to leave. There was no room for negotiation on the matter.

"Lord."

After Tian Feng left, Jia Xu stepped forward and offered a suggestion, "There was a lot of fighting in the city a while ago, and many corpses have been piled up outside the city without being cleaned up in time. There are already signs of disease. Why not bury them in the shallow soil layer near the shore and wait for Yuan's army to cross the river to attack them with corpse plague?"

As expected of Jia Xu, he wanted to use biological weapons right from the start.

If this spreads on a large scale, not to mention 200,000 or 300,000 people, even 2 million people would be doomed.

"What should we do if it infects our troops?"

"All troops should enter the city and close the gates tightly."

After thinking carefully for a while, Chen Ran shook his head and said, "Not appropriate."

He is not a saint. It's just that the biological weapons of this era bring too many uncontrollable risks. Even if he hides in the city, his safety will be greatly increased. But what if Yuan Shao uses catapults to throw corpses into the city?

And if it spreads on a large scale, the people of Wei County will definitely be the first to suffer.

"Just start fighting openly!"

On the other side of the river is Yuan Shao’s camp.

"My lord." Ju Su stepped out and saluted. "Chen Zihou has ulterior motives. He only left ten miles of river bank. It is obvious that he wants to drive our army into the Zhang River after winning. How vicious!"

Shen Pei, Xu You, Tian Feng and others echoed this, saying that the ten-li area was too narrow and difficult to move around.

If we were defeated, there would be nowhere to escape and we would have to jump into the Zhang River, and then we would all be doomed.

This was an open conspiracy, and the advisers under Yuan Shao were very smart, so they naturally saw through it at a glance.

But who made Chen Ran take the initiative on the battlefield, and Yuan Shao had to recapture Yecheng?

They have no choice.

Everyone was talking at once, but no one noticed that Yuan Shao's expression was becoming increasingly ugly!
"enough!"

He shouted loudly, silencing everyone, "From what you guys are saying, it seems that as long as I cross the river, I will definitely fail and be driven into the Zhang River!"

"I don't understand. Our army obviously has the advantage in manpower. Why do you always say that ten miles of land is not enough?"

"No matter what, it's 300,000 versus 200,000. The advantage is on me!"

Yuan Shao took a deep breath and made his decision to "cross the river!"

Yan Liang was the vanguard. He was the first to cross the Zhang River, set up troops and set up camp on the opposite bank.

Fortunately, Chen Ran wanted to destroy Yuan Shao's main force in one fell swoop, and did not send troops to destroy Yan Liang's troops.

After that, Yuan's army went back and forth for a long time before they finally sent more than 200,000 troops to the other side of the river.

At the same time, news from Bingzhou, far away, was also sent over at full speed.

"General Xu Huang has defeated Gao Gan, the pseudo-Bingzhou governor appointed by Yuan Shao, and seized most of Bingzhou." Jia Xu said with a smile, "Bingzhou has been taken. General Xu Huang's troops can march east to Taihang to cut off Yuan Shao's retreat at any time."

"Don't be in a hurry." Chen Ran instructed, "Let him take over the entire Bingzhou first. As for cutting off Yuan Shao's retreat, I remember that the Black Mountain bandits have several large groups?"

"Exactly."

"Then let's do this. Send someone to deliver a message to them. Whoever sends troops to cut off Yuan Shao's retreat, I will recommend him to the emperor as governor of Jizhou!"

Jia Xu was a little surprised. Is this true, lord?

Chen Ran understood what he meant and explained with a smile, "There are many Black Mountain bandits, but there is only one Jizhou Mu."

"When they have finished fighting and there is only one left, you can just say that the person recommended by the court is not you."

"My lord, your strategy is profound, I am not as good as you~~~"

(End of this chapter)