Ye Chen ordered Guan Yu and the others to return, they had already reached the southern end of Nanyang.

Nanyang and Xiangyang also have the border of Jiangxia, if the two counties start from the border, it is easy to be sneak attacked, so it makes sense for Ye Chen not to let them continue to the south.

Yuan Shu's reinforcements are already on the way, and a big war may break out between the two sides at any time, so it's time to shrink the force.

At this time, Nanyang is no longer the Nanyang of the past, and the entire family of Nanyang has been violently dismembered.

They also resisted, but in the face of a strong military force, they could only be slaughtered.

"My lord."

"Second brother."

A few days later, Guan Yu and Tai Shici came back, and the entire Nanyang was almost swept by them, only the southernmost counties had not moved them.

"Good work, sit."

A few people sat down, and several other important people also arrived in the living room of the county guard's mansion.

"Yun Chang, tell me, how is the harvest?"

Guan Yu stood up, first saluted Ye Chen, and then saluted a few other people.

"This time, we broke through 21 county towns, disarmed all their armed forces, and then left a little army to start scraping according to the steps, and a total of more than 1.8 billion yuan was collected."

"Hiss~"

Everyone exhaled, this 1.8 billion can support a big war of about 100,000 people, and can equip an army of 20,000.

Ye Chen was also very excited in his heart, now he is also short of money, and when he returns to Liaodong, he will vigorously equip the army, and he will definitely be short of money when the time comes.

The 21 county seats, all of which are rich counties, are less than 1.8 billion, mainly because they don't have much time, a county almost only occupies half a day, and then leaves 500 people there to scrape, and after two days of scraping, they have to run to the next county, and the time is limited.

In addition, a lot of money was spent to support some new families.

"Very good, it can be said that we have destroyed and reorganized the entire Nanyang, the family has suffered a major blow, and our revenge with Yuan Shu has also been avenged, and now Liaodong is developing rapidly, and several of us are not here, there is no problem in the short term, but after a long time, the development speed of the entire Liaodong will not be able to keep up, so I plan to go back as soon as possible." Ye Chen said.

"Ah, the lord is not fighting, this Yuan Shu has already gathered a large army to kill him." Xu Huang was stunned for a moment and shouted loudly.

Xu Huang has built the entire Wancheng very strongly, and he wants to test their power.

Ye Chen didn't want to fight, because there was no benefit to fighting here, except for consumption or consumption.

"Report, lord." A soldier shouted outside the door.

"Come in." Ye Chen knew that when he came to report at this time, there must be important information.

A soldier stepped in, saluted Ye Chen and the others, and then bent down and said, "Report, Jiangxia Huangzu has made a change and led an army of 20,000 to the north. ”

"Got it, keep watching, go down."

The soldier saluted again and quickly retreated.

"I can't fight this time." Ye Chen's face was a little gloomy and he said.

"Lord, what are you afraid of, now we have 17,000 troops, although 7,000 are recruits, but our recruits are not much better than Yuan Shu's recruits." Xu Huang was not worried at all when he heard that he was going to fight, and said loudly.

Fighting, of course Ye Chen is not afraid, but he wants to go back as soon as possible and develop the base, but now he is about to be dragged back again.

"Huang Zu went north, under our preparations, there is nothing to worry about, but if Liu Biao also sends troops from other directions, we are afraid that it will take a lot of effort." Guo Jia said with his beard on his hands.

Ye Chen thought for a while and said: "I don't think this Yuan Shu has so much energy, so that Liu Biao can make a big fight for him, this Huang Zu will go north, and he may not be able to fight us to the death for Yuan Shu." ”

It was still unclear what Huang Zu was for, but Ye Chen didn't quite believe that Huang Zu would fight him to the death for Yuan Shu.

"But no matter what, we must break the danger of this north-south attack." Ye Chen said.

"Lord, as long as we hit Yuan Shu hard, so that he does not dare to pursue, and we go south or east along the way, no one dares to stop us, Rao is a blocker, kill out." Guan Yu said as he shook his long beard.

Guan Yu's words were murderous, and he didn't take the enemy army in his eyes, as if Yuan Shu, Huang Zu and the like could be broken in an instant.

Ye Chen is not worried, what he is most worried about is Liu Biao's attitude, if Liu Biao pours the power of Jingzhou into his own trouble, then things are still a little difficult to do, otherwise the armies of the north and south are not very threatening to Ye Chen, but if they really fight, the damage will not be light.

"Okay, then let's fight Yuan Shu first." Ye Chen knew that this battle was inevitable, and he had to make Yuan Shu stop his footsteps, and he didn't dare to pursue Ye Chen and them behind, otherwise he had recruited seven thousand infantry this time, and the speed was not fast, and he couldn't attack as quickly as before.

After deciding to fight, Ye Chen and the others began to prepare, in fact, there was no need to prepare much, Xu Huang had already prepared enough before.

Within two days, Yuan Shu led an army of 60,000 to surround Wancheng.

"Ye Chen, surrender quickly, and I can spare your life." Yuan Shu personally came to the city wall and shouted.

In fact, I also know that Ye Chen will not surrender, it is just psychological warfare, telling the other party that you are surrounded, we are strong, if you can't resist, you can surrender, you don't have to resist so desperately.

Therefore, in ancient wars, all siege battles or other battles, as long as it is not an encounter, they usually talk first and suppress the other side as much as possible.

After Yuan Shu finished speaking, he retreated slightly, he just came to brush up on his sense of existence, and suppressed the morale of the other party, and let him come out to scold and fight, it was impossible.

"Haha, Yuan Shu, your speed is too slow, like a turtle crawling, but I want to thank you, I have a good harvest in Nanyang, and it is as low as you owe me." Ye Chen didn't understand Yuan Shu's psychological warfare, so he deliberately provoked him.

Yuan Shu didn't know how much Ye Chen had scraped, but he also knew that it would not be less, just the previous Hongyang County and Duyang County each county was tens of millions, and that was still why he didn't scrape too much, and then the strategy changed, and the property of some families was almost confiscated.

"Kill me, break through Wancheng, and capture Ye Chen alive." Yuan Shu lost interest in continuing to fight, and wanted to quickly break through the city, and then take back the property that Ye Chen had collected.

"Attack." Ji Ling became the new general and took full command of the battle, while Yuan Shu retreated to the rear.

"Insect carving skills." Yuan Shu began to attack, and several big guys were launched in the formation, and the ladders and rushing vehicles were complete, Xu Huang glanced at him with disdain, and then began to prepare.

Ye Chen stood at the head of the city, and saw that the sword and shield soldiers came out of the Yuan Shu array first, rushing over with shields, and then the archers, leaving a lot of roads in the middle, which should have allowed the soldiers to storm the city wall.