The Battle of Xuchang came to an end with Yuan Tan's escape. This time Chu Nan did not persuade him to stay. His role had ended the moment he arrived in Xuchang. Chu Nan's purpose was to use the Yuan family's name
The first was to put pressure on Cao Jun, giving Cao Jun the illusion that Yuan Shao was also on Lu Bu's side.
In fact, as long as you think about it, you will know that Yuan Shao cannot side with Lu Bu no matter what his considerations are. Strategically, the confrontation between the north and the south of the Central Plains has become a situation. If Yuan Shao wants to develop, he will definitely cross the Yellow River to expand his power.
, there must be a battle with Lu Bu. At this time, the remnants of Cao Cao's army are here in Dongjun to act as a thorn to contain the main force of Lu Bu's army. This is a dream for Yuan Shao. How can he help Lu Bu defeat the remnants of Cao Cao's army.
In private, Lu Bu came from a poor family and had some bad relations with Yuan Shao, but Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's younger brother. In terms of friendship and identity, Yuan Shao had no reason to side with Lu Bu.
In terms of position, not to mention, Yuan Shao has begun to restrict the expansion of some noble clans in the past two years, but he still relies on the noble clans to help him conquer the world, and Lu Bu is completely on the opposite side of the noble clans, from his governing philosophy to
The actual actions have already completely offended the entire class of the gentry.
As long as he is not stupid, it is impossible to stand on Lu Bu's side and arouse the disgust and hostility of the world's scholars. Chu Nan's attempt to bring Yuan Tan here this time is not just Yuan Tan's military strength and his self-esteem.
Yuan Shao would probably have to do a lot of things in order to wipe this butt.
Although he knew that gloating about misfortune was against the way of a gentleman, Chu Nan still couldn't help but want to laugh. After Xia Houyuan entered the city, he took Zhou Cang and two hundred soldiers and rushed to Shouzhang. However, Chu Nan noticed it before he had gone far.
No, a large number of troops are coming this way.
"There's movement!" Chu Nan signaled the troops to stop, and cast the Hidden Word Secret to hide them in darkness and look into the distance.
But first they saw several scout teams passing by them. They seemed to have noticed the footprints they left and began to patrol around.
"Lord, it seems he is one of ours!" Zhou Cang looked at the attire of these soldiers. They were clearly from the Jianghuai Army.
Chu Nan nodded, and he naturally noticed it. When he saw these scouts noticing that their footprints had disappeared, they prepared to give a warning and immediately withdrew their battle formation.
"Don't run, it's me!" Chu Nan changed the Hidden Word Secret to the Wind Word Secret and shouted at the scouts.
Immediately, Zhou Cang was seen running out, his legs flung open, his speed was actually faster than a Pegasus, and he quickly stopped the two scouts.
"Damn it, why are you running?" He grabbed the person off the horse and cursed.
"Commander Zhou?" the scout asked with some surprise after seeing Zhou Cang's appearance clearly.
They are from the Jianghuai Army. As Chu Nan's personal bodyguards, they are naturally no strangers to Zhou Cang. When Chu Nan was training, he ate and lived with the soldiers. As Chu Nan's personal bodyguards, they naturally recognize Zhou Cang.
Commander... Chu Nan really couldn't find a place for Zhou Cang to stay. If he directly called the guards, Zhou Cang had followed him for a long time and had made a lot of achievements. However, he could only bring two hundred troops and horses, and even the school captain
It didn't count, so Chu Nan gave him the position of guard commander alone, and his salary was probably equivalent to that of a general.
"Who do you belong to? Why are you here?" Zhou Cang brought him to Chu Nan, and Chu Nan asked.
"Back to the envoy, we are under General Wei Yan's tent. We are here to support the envoy and help him capture Xuchang." Faced with Chu Nan's inquiry, the guard did not hide anything and immediately told the matter.
Douzi generally said it once.
"The article is long, it's a pity." Chu Nan nodded, feeling a little regretful. If Wei Yan could have come earlier, maybe he could have stopped Xia Houyuan.
But thinking about Yuan Tan pissing himself off, Chu Nan felt... this is not bad.
"Bring him to see me!" Chu Nan asked the scouts to report and let Wei Yan come to see him.
"Here!" the scout agreed, turned around, brought back his horse, and rode forward to report the news.
Over there, Wei Yan received a report from a scout, saying that there was an ambush ahead. He was still wondering, who would set up an ambush in a place like this? Even the secret code is not used in this way. At this moment, the scout sent back by Chu Nan came
Come on, tell Wei Yan what Chu Nan is here.
Hearing that Chu Nan was here, Wei Yan was overjoyed and hurriedly led his men and horses towards Chu Nan. When he saw Chu Nan, Wei Yan happily got off his horse, clasped his fists towards Chu Nan and said, "My lord, my lord was in Taishan County before.
At that time, the general wanted to see the lord, but Cao's army was retreating in a hurry, so the general could not escape, so he could only send someone to send something to the lord. Did the lord receive it?"
"Don't use these frivolous things in the future. Fighting a good war is the best gift!" Chu Nan said with a smile. Wei Yan and Huang Zhong did send him a lot of things they collected during this period. For Chu Nan,
To Nan Lai, it was not a rare item, but he was quite satisfied with it.
"My lord taught me a lesson." Wei Yan said cheerfully.
"This battle was fought well. I heard that we fought against all the generals of Cao's army." Chu Nan looked at Wei Yan and could clearly feel that Wei Yan's aura was much stronger than before, and there was a bit more Wei Yan.
"Yes." Wei Yan nodded and said, "The generals of Cao's army are indeed quite capable."
He has fought against Xia Houyuan, Cao Hong, Le Jin, Cao Chun, Cao Xiu and others. Most of the time, it is difficult to tell the winner. He either has an advantage or is at a disadvantage. However, when the strength of the troops is similar, he wants to win completely.
But it's not easy.
For no reason, Chu Nan thought of Yuan Tan's 10,000-strong army being beaten to pieces by Xia Houyuan, with the loss of troops and generals, and suddenly he wanted to laugh.
This person must be kept, otherwise Yuan Tan will leave and a powerful person will come here. If an all-out war breaks out in the future, Qingzhou will be difficult to capture.
And with him here, he might be able to get some information through Yuan Tan when fighting Yuan Shao in the future.
"This is natural. Although Cao's army has lost power now, those who remain are elites." Chu Nan walked over.
In fact, most generals in the world are at the level of Cen Bi and Zong Wang. Even people like Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Cheng Lian are actually above the average level of military generals in terms of their commanding ability. It’s just that Chu Nan usually
The people I came into contact with were all generals like Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Huang Zhong, and Wei Yan, and the opponents were mostly fierce generals from Jiangdong and Cao Ying generals, or Guan Zhang, so I suddenly saw Yuan Tan and his civil servants.
That will make you feel useless.
"Lord, why are you here?" Wei Yan asked curiously: "Is Xuchang City occupied by that Yuan Tan?"
"That's not true. I was beaten away. Seeing that there was nothing to do, I came back." Chu Nan told the story of Yuan Tan being brutally tortured by Xia Houyuan and said, "But Yuan Tan's visit here is enough to shake Cao Jun's morale.
, just ran away.”
"That's right, I let Xia Houyuan build up his reputation for nothing." Wei Yanshen felt the same way. He had fought with Xia Houyuan before, but he had never beaten him before, but he wouldn't have been beaten to death by three thousand against ten thousand or beaten to death when the other party was ambushed.
Wei Yan didn't dare to think about such a record, but when he thought about what happened in Hefei, Wei Yan suddenly felt that it was not unacceptable.
Yuan Shao's son and Sun Jian's son seemed to have the same virtues, but it was even more exaggerated over there. An army of 100,000 was beaten to death by 10,000 until they fled for their lives.
"My Lord, do you know about Madam?" Wei Yan looked at Chu Nan and asked.
"Yeah." Chu Nan nodded, looking a little strange.
Hefei's eight hundred exceeded one hundred thousand. Although there was still an army at the rear, he mainly relied on his wife. But historically, this was Zhang Liao's achievement.
Could it be that Sun Quan has some special talent? He will definitely be defeated when the enemy's strength is vastly different from our own.
Chu Nan suddenly wanted to see Sun Quan, if for no other reason than to take a seat and admire his talent.
"Although I knew that Madam was powerful in the past, I still felt...somewhat inadequate about Madam as a general. However, after this battle, I am afraid that no one in the world would dare to say that Madam is inappropriate as a general." Wei Yan said with some admiration.
In the past, Lu Lingqi showed more personal bravery. Although she was very strong, Wei Yan was not sure whether she could beat her, but she always felt a little awkward as a female general. However, the lord was so conniving, and it was hard for him as a subordinate to say anything.
.
But after this battle, the awkwardness in his heart disappeared. Not only him, but all the generals in the army would probably shut up about Lu Lingqi, a woman leading the army.
If you have any idea, go and bring 10,000 to 100,000.
"Madam is different from ordinary women." Chu Nan chuckled. In terms of other talents, my wife is indeed weak, but when it comes to leading troops and fighting, she is definitely the most powerful among the women in the world. Even among the generals in the world, Chu
Nan estimated that after this battle, his own women would be at the top of any ranking list of generals.
【My wife is not bad either!】
Wei Yan said in his heart, his wife is now in good health. Although she is not as good at fighting as her mistress, but as a woman, fighting and killing... is not the only way out. My lord, it is because he does not have this ability.
Between this couple, one yin and one yang are the best.
It's the other way around on my side, and it's the other way around if I'm not a master. It's normal for a woman like me to be the domestic leader and the man to be the external leader.
Speaking of which, how can the master, with his small body, be able to control his wife? It's not the other way around at home, right?
"Cough~"
Chu Nan coughed slightly, bringing Wei Yan's divergent thinking back to reality.
"Cough~" Wei Yan coughed along with Chu Nan with a guilty conscience, and said to Chu Nan: "My lord, since Xuchang can't be captured, why don't I wait and go back? There is an urgent attack on the city over there. I'll wait and kill him from now on.
If we attack at the north gate, we might be able to break the city first!"
Zhang and Liao were each attacking a city wall. When they passed by, they were surrounded on all sides.
"Surrounding the enemy on all sides will only make the enemy feel like a trapped beast, forcing them to have a desire to fight to the death. This is a taboo for military strategists. How could Wen, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, have such thoughts?" Chu Nan shook his head and frowned.
Look at Wei Yandao.
"This..." Wei Yan said awkwardly: "Seeing my lord again, I feel very excited."
It is clear that he is eager to achieve success.
"Send scouts to guard the north gate. I don't think Cao's army can hold out for much longer." After thinking about it, Chu Nan decided to stay here to see if he could catch a big fish.