Chapter 100: Facing Cai Yang
It turned out that Wei Yan had never dared to let Guan Hai be in charge, because he was afraid that this guy's intelligence was too low and he would easily lose his loyalty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Just like in the game, people with too low intelligence are often put outside to fight, and they suddenly mutinied, that is, they were separated by the enemy's high-intelligence civilian officials, and their loyalty plummeted to below 80, and then they were logged in by the other party.
The reality is more cruel than the game, just like Yang Feng, there is only Xu Huang as a general under his hands, and as a result, Cao Cao sent Xu Huang's good friends to be full of favor, and people just said a few words, "The courage of the public is rare in the world, so why succumb to Yang and Han's disciples?" General Cao was a hero in the world, and his good sages and rites were known to the world; Before today's battle, I saw the courage of the public and was very respectful, so I couldn't bear to fight to the death with a strong general, so I was invited by a special pet. Why don't you abandon the dark and turn to the light and achieve a great cause together? Don't you hear that good birds choose trees to perch on, and virtuous ministers choose their masters? When you meet the master of things, and you miss it, it's not your husband. As a result, Xu Huang said, "I am willing to speak from the public." Yang Feng was stunned at that time.
In the previous life, when he played the game (Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3), when he logged in to the opponent's generals, he saw the prompt "Willing to follow the public words", and he was overjoyed, but in reality, if he became Yang Feng's side and was dug up by someone, he would not be happy.
Therefore, Wei Yan would check the loyalty of each subordinate general every once in a while to see who had a slightly lower loyalty, and immediately use various means to add it to him, just like rewarding and adding loyalty from time to time in the game.
Guan Hai's loyalty is no problem at all, his intelligence is normal, and the Qinglong Glaive Knife escorts, Wei Yan pointed out his sword technique again, so that his basic strength increased by another 2 points, plus the Qinglong Glaive Knife's Guan Hai wartime force can reach 99, Guan Yu can't help him without the Qinglong Glaive Knife.
Wei Yan sent Guan Hai and Liao Hua to divide their troops into two routes to attack the various Shijiawu forts in Runan County.
Runan County is very large, it can be said to be the largest county in the world, and there seem to be a lot of forces in it, but in addition to the Yellow Turban Thieves and Li Tong's powerful forces, the rest are the children, protégés, and guests of the Yuan family, because Runan is the hometown of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.
In that life, when Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were contending, the protégés and guests of the Yuan family were distributed in various counties, supporting troops and refusing to defend. Cao Cao was very worried about this, so he appointed Man Zhong as the Taishou of Runan. Manzhong recruited 500 people, conquered more than 20 barriers, designed to booby trap more than 10 leaders, Runan was pacified, Manzhong captured more than 20,000 people, 2,000 soldiers, and ordered them to go home to farm.
It's really not that Manpet is too powerful, it's really that Yuan's disciples and protégés are too incompetent, and their strength is too scattered, and Manpet can be broken with five hundred people.
In this life, it is Wei Yan's turn, and now Yiyang is far away from Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, even if Wei Yan wipes out all the Yuan family forces in Runan, Yuan Shao will at most let Cao Cao come over to intervene, and Yuan Shu will scold people, so Wei Yan asked Liao Hua and Guan Hai soldiers to divide into two ways and sweep through various dock forts in Runan.
The style is the same as before in the three counties of Yiyang, Liao Hua and Guan Hai continued to pretend to be yellow turban thieves, captured those Shijiawu forts, killed all the men in the direct line, and punished all the women as prostitutes, and then Wei Yan ran over to be a good person to clean up the aftermath.
Although anyone with a discerning eye can see that Liao Hua and Guan Hai are Wei Yan's subordinates, Wei Yan can kill many Yellow Turban thieves every time and hang their heads on the head of Wubao City, so that more people believe that Wei Yan and Liao Hua and Guan Hai are really not all the way.
They didn't know that those Yellow Turban thieves were actually soldiers from the previous dock fort, or those in the army who violated military discipline and should have been beheaded.
In that life, 500 people can conquer more than 20 dock fort barriers, Liaohua and Guan Hai now have more than 5,000 people, training, equipment, and logistics are far better than those of Manzhong, Liao Hua and Guan Hai are the fierce generals of the three armies, which can be described as overwhelming, and it took a month to break through more than 20 dock forts in the south and west of Runan County.
Wei Yan chose ten dock forts near Yiyang County to expand and repair, so that all the people in other places gathered in those dock forts and began to settle fields.
Conquering those dock forts, breaking through all the surrounding mountain stockades, and gathering the people, Wei Yan found that he seemed to have underestimated the population of this period, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion did make Runan lose a lot of population, but it was definitely not as terrifying as one out of ten, at most half of the loss was lost, and it was very likely that only one-third of the population was lost.
This situation is not only in Runan, but also in the entire Han Dynasty.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the war, famine, and plague did cause heavy losses to the Han nation, and the original population of more than 50 million was later lost by most of them, but it is absolutely impossible for only a few million people to remain, and it is even absolutely impossible to be like a certain book of "History Can't bear to Look Closely" said that only 1.4 million people were left after the Battle of Chibi.
In ancient times, the error in the registration of the population was very large, and the vast number of tenants attached to the family were not counted, that is, there were more than yeoman farmers, and a considerable number of people were hidden in the mountains, and soldiers, officials and their families were not counted in the register, so it can be said that the number of unregistered people is much more than the registered population.
Just like now, the population of those Shijiawu Fort has not been registered by the local government at all, and those who are hiding in the mountains have not been registered, and those who have been registered are those self-cultivated farmers who are still enduring famines, wars, and harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the land.
Just when Wei Yanwei followed Liao Hua and Guan Hai's troops to attack those dock forts and reorganize the population, Chen Zhi reported that Cai Yang led 5,000 men and horses to kill them from Pingyu City, the administrative office of Runan County.
Cai Yang originally scrupulously abided by Cao Cao's military orders, held the peace, and only sought defense, as long as Wei Yan did not break through the Rushui line, he would not attack Wei Yan, but he did not expect that his nephew Qin Qi was young and vigorous, and he couldn't stand Wei Yan pulling the population from his uncle's territory, and in a fit of anger, he killed many people who defected to Wei Yan, provoked Wei Yan's revenge, beheaded Qin Qi, and occupied Langling County.
Cai Yang is over half a hundred years old, has no children under his knees, treats Qin Qi's nephew as his own, and gives Qin Qi what he has learned all his life.
Hearing that Qin Qi was beheaded by Wei Yan, Cai Yang was extremely angry, and regardless of Cao Cao's military orders, he led 5,000 men and horses to cross Rushui, cross Yang'an County, and approach Langling.
Wei Yan was attacking the dock fort in North Yichun County near Langling in Liaohua and Guan Hai, and heard that Caiyang's men and horses had been killed, so he asked Liao Hua and Guan Hai to change their outfits, Guan Hai was a yellow turban thief, Liao Hua was an official army, the bandits broke the dock fort, and the officers and soldiers cleaned up, and Wei Yan led two thousand cavalry back to Langling.
The two armies faced each other, Wei Yan looked at Cai Yang carefully, this is a veteran who is nearly fifty years old, his beard is a little gray, his expression is proud, he looks like no one cares about him, relying on the old and selling the old, and his face is hateful.
After looking at it and identifying it, Wei Yan smiled, no wonder Cai Yang was killed by Guan Yu in the romance, no wonder Cai Yang was killed by the Yellow Turban Yu like Gong Du in the official history (Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms): Shao Zhi is not broken, so that Liu Bei is slightly Runan, and Runan thief Gong Du should be waited. Sending Cai Yang to attack the capital, it is unfavorable, and it is broken by the capital).