I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 62 Shen Ke is not feeling well

Yuan Shu expressed his thoughts. After Lu Zhi and Lian Da finished reading the letter, they looked at each other and seemed to have some opinions.

"It is not unreasonable to say so."

Lu Zhi said slowly: "Every time the Qiang invaded the Three Prefectures and the Imperial Mausoleum on a large scale, they were all large-scale invasions. They should know that if they invaded the Imperial Mausoleum, the court would send a large army to fight them. Without sufficient preparation, it is impossible to easily invade the Imperial Mausoleum.

Last year, the weather was extremely cold, and even Sili and Yuzhou suffered from famine, not to mention Qiang. I think they are short of food and supplies, so they came here to plunder supplies, not to start a war with the Han Dynasty again. "

Lian Da also nodded.

"I think what Senior Brother Lu said makes sense. The Qiang cavalry is only about 5,000 to 6,000. They only raided Yunyang and went south. There are only 3,000 of them. Do they think they can invade Wuling with just 3,000 people? I'm afraid the Qiang people won't be so arrogant."

Yuan Shu felt more confident when he saw that Lu Zhi and Lian Da both agreed with his opinion.

"That being said, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. It is a place of life and death, a matter of survival and destruction. We must not slack off. Everything must be done according to the rules set before. We must be on guard against any emergency. The content of our conversation should not be leaked, lest anyone become lazy."

Lu Zhi and Lian Da nodded and kept their mouths shut.

It has to be said that Yuan Shu's caution was justified, and it also made sense for him not to say everything in advance.

After all, the Qiang people were not the Han army that followed the rules, and they rode their horses very quickly, coming and going like the wind. Although they did not launch a large-scale attack in the Wuling area, they did launch harassment.

On April 19th, the day before the Yongying soldiers arrived to reinforce, a group of Qiang cavalry appeared outside Maoling County in a very arrogant manner early in the morning.

There were not many people, about thirty to fifty, each riding two horses and carrying a large flag, looking quite impressive.

This group of cavalrymen stared at the tightly closed gates of Maoling County for a while across the pits and chevaux de frise, then dismounted and took a rest even more arrogantly. They ate and drank while they were at it, pointed at Maoling County and laughed loudly, as if they were mocking the Han people in the city for being cowardly and only daring to defend the city instead of attacking.

After hearing the news, Yuan Shu quickly climbed up to the city wall and watched the movements of the Qiang cavalry from the city wall together with Lu Zhi, Lian Da, Han Jin and others.

Seeing them so arrogant, Lu Zhi and Lian Da were so angry that the 20-year-old Lian Da's face flushed and he was about to go out of the city to fight the Qiang people to the death.

Yuan Shu grabbed him.

"We don't have enough horses, let alone skilled knights. The defenders haven't been trained much either. They can still resist by relying on the city walls. Fighting outside the city would be like sending our heads to them. Don't you understand this obvious provocation?"

Lian Da looked back at the arrogant Qiang cavalry outside the city and gnashed his teeth in hatred.

"I know! But! I'm just angry! I can't help being angry! Yuan Jun! How can a man of eight feet tall let those barbarians mock you like this?!"

"If you are not as strong as others, you will be ridiculed, but this is not a reason to give up your life!"

Yuan Shu said angrily, "You are so happy that you opened the city gate and went out to die. Have you ever thought about your family? Have you ever thought about the family of the people who went out with you?"

Lian Da blinked, gradually realizing the correctness of what Yuan Shu said, and his expression gradually became embarrassed.

After a while, he sighed angrily, and simply sat down with his back against the battlement of the city wall, covering his ears with his hands, hoping to ignore it.

Lu Zhi was able to keep his composure. Although he was obviously very angry, he did not do anything out of the ordinary. He just stared at the Qiang people outside the city and put the archers on combat readiness, thinking that if these bastards wanted to die, then they could be sent to die.

But unfortunately, this group of Qiang people obviously did not want to die.

These thirty or fifty people did not look like they could attack the city. Then they saw traps and barricades outside the city, the city gates were closed, and the tops of the cities were full of fluttering battle flags. The city was filled with Han troops defending the city. Even a fool would know that they should not act rashly.

They dismounted and mocked just to save their own reputation. If they just retreated like that, they might even be laughed at by the Han people.

That's why the leading Qiang people put on such a show.

When it comes to strategic strength, Yuan Shu certainly has it, and the Qiang people are no less capable. If they were really so reckless and ready to die, why didn't they ride their horses to ram the city walls?

But Yuan Shu was a young man after all, and he was more or less annoyed with these arrogant bastards. Seeing that they did not seem to have the courage to attack the city, he rolled his eyes and came up with a plan.

He walked to Lu Zhi and whispered a few words to him. After listening, Lu Zhi's eyes lit up and he nodded.

Then Lu Zhi ordered the warriors on the city walls to beat the war drums and let the soldiers shout the war cry together to boost morale and scare the Qiang people.

Dozens of Qiang people were still drinking water and eating meat and mocking the Han people in the city. Suddenly, the Han people on the city wall beat the war drums, and the defenders shouted the battle cry together under unified command.

Waves of shouts rang out, and the Han soldiers on the city walls collectively beat their weapons. As the war drums rumbled, they made a gesture of preparation for war, which immediately frightened the dozens of Qiang people outside the city. They thought that this group of Han people were really going to kill them.

So they hurriedly mounted their horses and rode away, leaving food and water all over the ground without time to pick them up.

Seeing this, Yuan Shu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"I thought the Qiang people were so brave that only dozens of people dared to break into Longtan. It turns out they were just bluffing. They are not even as brave as a bean!" When everyone around Yuan Shu heard this, they all laughed.

The angrier Lu Zhi and Lian Da were just now, the more happily they laughed now.

The worst situation did not happen, and the battle to defend the city did not break out.

Just as Yuan Shu analyzed, the Qiang people had no intention of launching a full-scale invasion of the Sanfu area. They came here probably to plunder daily necessities.

Last year's severe winter was not only difficult for the Han people, but also for the Qiang people. The land and climate where they live are far inferior to those where the Han people live, so it is normal for them to have food shortages.

There is nothing to eat, so in order to survive, they can only rush over to rob.

No matter how poor the Han people are, they are not as poor as them.

This time, everyone was lucky. The Qiang people really just came to rob and had no strategic goals.

The next day after those thirty or fifty people ran away, Youfufeng Shen Ke and Fufeng Duwei Dong Xuan brought two thousand soldiers from Yongying to Maoling and took over the city defense, alleviating the greatest worries of Yuan Shu and others.

Now, it's safe.

Relying on the solidity of the city, the two thousand defenders were able to resist a siege force six times their size, not to mention that the Qiang people did not have that many invading troops.

This was the first time that Yuan Shu met Youfufeng Shen Ke, and it was also the first time that Shen Ke met Yuan Shu, the legendary child prodigy, the academic successor of Ma Rong, and the youngest Confucian scholar in the Han Dynasty.

But this is nothing. When Shen Ke learned that the reason why Maoling County was able to defend so well and implement the strategy of clearing the fields so thoroughly was all due to Yuan Shu's operation, he was even more shocked.

It’s fine if you’re good at academics, but can you also handle real-life affairs?

Can you still lead a county to complete the defense and preparations?
Look at the pit, look at the chevaux de frise, look at the defensive supplies and weapons on the top of the city, and the more than 400 well-organized defenders and a reserve force of 1,000 men!

Shen Ke felt unwell.

In terms of academic prowess alone, Yuan Shu is nothing more than the next Ma Rong or Fa Zhen. He is famous and renowned, a master of his generation, and has a certain influence on future Han academic studies.

However, when it comes to actual government affairs, and even military defense, the fact that Yuan Shu was able to do this proves that he has the ability to serve as a local military and political chief.

If he can hone his abilities a little more and mature a little, given his family background, he will probably be able to become a general or a prime minister without any scruples in the future. Sooner or later, he will become a powerful figure who controls the fate of the empire!

Shen Ke really had to pay attention to Yuan Shu this time, and even thought about whether he should curry favor with Yuan Shu himself instead of his cheap father.

In the subsequent conversation, Shen Ke learned that Yuan Shu and the Yi Xin Society he founded were the main contributors to the extremely successful defense of Maoling City.

Yuan Shu gave orders, handled the central system, and became the core of everyone.

The more than 2,000 members of his Yi Xin Hui became the main executors.

More than two thousand years ago, Ma's disciples and students demonstrated extremely strong practical abilities under Yuan Shu's organization, and took over the entire county, clearing the countryside to the point where no one was left outside the city.

Even the government of Maoling County became Yuan Shu's subordinates, and the incompetent county magistrate Han Jin was simply a rubber stamp.

All orders were issued in his name, but were actually issued by Yuan Shu. What Han Jin and his insects did most was to do whatever Yuan Shu said.

He is quite obedient.

Thanks to Han Jin's calm and inaction, Yuan Shu was able to concentrate power and sort out the defense affairs of the entire Maoling County in a very short period of time. No one was killed in this crisis, everyone's lives were saved, and a large amount of food was preserved.

If such an achievement is credited to a county magistrate, it will certainly be highlighted in the next evaluation of officials' performance, and it is a foregone conclusion that he will be promoted to the position of prefect or prime minister in the future based on this achievement.

But Yuan Shu is so young, where does he get the practical skills?

It is understandable that he is good at studying and a child prodigy, but he was the only one who made the decision regarding the dispatch of so many people, the distribution of so much material and the military deployment. This... Would the Yuan family have taught him such a skill since he was a child?
If you know so many things at such a young age, what will happen when you grow up?

Is the Yuan family training their children in the same way they train prime ministers and generals?
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