Chapter Eighty-Five: Fame

Staying until noon, Zhang Min came out of the wounded barracks, and suddenly felt that he should keep the title of champion marquis, whether he wanted to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, the predecessor of the champion marquis, and the general Huo Qubing who has been passed down through the ages should be a model for men, since the fact of coming here is irrevocable, as a man, a man who has the opportunity to win the Three Kingdoms, should compete with the princes of the world, and after the world is stable, he will raise the whip and achieve the prestige of the Han nation!

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"My lord, noon has arrived, it's time to go." Jia Xu's eyes were red, and he hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights.

"Have a good rest today and leave early tomorrow morning." Zhang Min pointed to his equally red eyes, "Wenhe, look at my eyes, you are purple-red and purple-red more terrifying than me, you are already serious panda eyes, I want to go and sleep well, you also put down what you are doing for the time being, and go to sleep." There is still a lot to be done in the future, and we must not exhaust people to death. ā€

"Okay, then I'll go." Knowing that there was no need to march again today, Jia Xu felt relieved, and suddenly felt sleepy, agreed, turned to leave, dragged his eyelids back to the camp tent and lay down.

Zhang Min is not much better, and he can't wait to sleep until the end of the world. I woke up hungry once in the evening, found something to eat, lay back and pretended to be dead, and did not recover until dawn the next day.

The army marched all the way to Shouchun City.

"Lord, catch a group of Yuan Jun!" Guan Haixing rushed over from the front army, "It's the Yuan army that was broken by us the night before, most of them fled in the direction of Shouchun, and I also heard that Yuan Shu passed here two days earlier." ā€

Without waiting for Zhang Min to answer, Lu Lingqi next to him shouted: "Lord, speed up your pace, catch up with this Yuan Highway sooner or later, capture him alive, and the whole Yangzhou is ours!" ā€

Didn't you hear that Yuan Shu passed by here two days ago! What's more, he sat down and had a horse, and he couldn't catch up if he wanted to! No, we can catch the deserter here, he is in front, he must encounter more, then, he will definitely continue to collect the rout along the way, that will definitely slow down the march, and it is possible to catch up with him. Zhang Min glanced at Jia Xu and wondered what he said.

"Lord, you can't chase anymore, you have already penetrated into Yangzhou now, if you chase hard, the soldiers will definitely be physically exhausted, in case you encounter a large team of Yuan Jun halfway, even if it is only three or five thousand, it is not easy to take." Jia Xu obviously had little interest in chasing and killing Yuan Shu, "If you march at a normal speed, it is naturally good to catch up, and if you can't catch up, you can also absorb some Yuan troops along the way." ā€

"Commander, General Lu, do what the military advisor says, reduce the speed of the march." Seeing that Jia Xu was still unfinished, Zhang Min first commanded Guan Hai and Lu Lingqi, but Lu Lingqi was unwilling, so anxious that she stomped her feet again and again, seeing that she was eager to kick Jia Xu, Zhang Min hurriedly turned around and pulled Jia Xu aside, and shouted Chen Zhi again: "Uncle is here to guard, don't let others approach." ā€

"Wen He, you don't seem to want to hunt down Yuan Shu, why is that?"

"If you really catch up with him or even capture him alive, what are you going to do, lord?" Jia Xu's voice was very calm, "Is it to kill, to be detained, or to be released?" ā€

"Of course, it is to take it into custody, and then take the whole Yangzhou in his name!" Zhang Min rubbed his hands, "There are many people in Yangzhou, there is a lot of money and food, as long as we take it, who are we afraid of in this world!" ā€

"The lord has thought of some benefits, Yangzhou soldiers have enough food, but we can't swallow it." Jia Xu shook his beard, "Even in the name of Yuan Shu, it can't be done, because we have too few people, and there are only 30,000 soldiers who can fight, and you are an outsider, so even if you catch Yuan Shu, it's useless, he still has a son, and various families in Yangzhou will support his eldest son to be the lord of Yangzhou." ā€

"Isn't it, then according to your opinion, we fought for nothing?" Zhang Min frowned, the major families in Yangzhou, this is the point! It seems that the behavior of copying the family on all sides of Xuzhou has offended the world's families, even if Yuan Shu is caught, they will definitely not surrender, and the soldiers and horses of Yangzhou counties are in the hands of these wealthy families, and the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, he only brought thirty or fifty thousand horses, and he is not familiar with the place, he can't get them! …,

"Of course not for nothing!" Jia Xu smiled and said, "Lord, our purpose this time is just to attack Shouchun and take Jiujiang County. As for Yuan Shu, it is best to drive him to Jiangdong. ā€

Koto? Zhang Min was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that Sun Ce came and piled the two together, which was a good idea.

"It's a pity that such a good opportunity can only win Jiujiang." Zhang Min sighed and scratched his head.

"My lord, that's what fame does." Jia Xu touched his beard again, "There are three kinds of reputation, one is the imperial family, like Liu Jingsheng, in the name of the Han family, marrying with a local family, and riding alone can win a huge Jingzhou, even Liu Yan in Yizhou, Liu Yu in Youzhou; The two famous families, like Yuan Shao, were born in the family of the third prince of the fourth generation, and they could get the land of the three northern states in three or two years, and Yuan Shu was even more in charge of Huainan and Jiangdong; The three are virtuous, like Cao Cao, because Dong Weiwen came from him, people with lofty ideals in the world have similar interests, which can be described as the peak of talents. ā€

When Jia Xu said this, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Compared with Sun Ce, who came to borrow troops a few days ago, he only had 3,000 soldiers and dared to think of sweeping Jiangdong, in addition to his confidence in his own force, he was not using his father's prestige during his lifetime. As long as he lays down a place, there will not be much resistance from the local area, and even support him, just like a stream that gathers into a river, which becomes more and more urgent, and in the end it can flood the entire Jiangdong. ā€

"And I have a bad reputation, and everywhere I go, I encounter resistance, so I can't take Yangzhou, right?" Zhang Min's eggs hurt when he heard it, according to this statement, this 'reputation' refers more to 'origin'!

"That's not it, the lord can also take Yangzhou, but it's not as smooth as them, Yuan Highway has lost his spirit, and he can only be slaughtered by others, this time we will occupy Jiujiang first, and then Lujiang will be when the situation is stable, piece by piece until the entire Yangzhou land is taken, and then it will be a matter of course."

"I see." Zhang Min let out a sigh of relief, the truth is indeed as Jia Xu said, just now back and forth in and out of the county, no so-called decent people came to speak, all of them were sincerely afraid to hide far away, not to mention ordinary people, it feels like a tiger has entered the mountain, and the monkeys are hiding in the trees to watch, if there is a bold one who smashes it with a stone first, the other monkeys will follow suit, vowing to drive the tiger out and defend their territory.

It seems that you can only take one step at a time, and slowly grow stronger, "If you don't chase, you won't chase, then collect some grain and grass along the road first, and collect some prisoners by the way." ā€

"General Lu, take your people and go to empty all the money and grain in the treasury of this county town." Zhang Min touched his head, since he had been here, he always had to leave some souvenirs, and ordered Lu Lingqi to prepare for departure again.

The news of Yuan Shu's defeat spread quickly, and all the counties along the road were watching the wind, but they didn't dare to stop the footsteps of the army, Zhang Min didn't stop much, took the grain and grass in stock, and left, stopping and walking for several days, and actually noticed Yuan Shu's traces again.

"Lord, I just heard the news, yesterday Yuan Shu fled from here in a hurry with some of his men, I'm afraid he thought we would chase after him." Guan Hai found out the news and was a little unhappy, "Judging from the stove left, there are no less than 50,000 people around him. It's a pity that we can't go fast now, or we really catch up and capture him alive! ā€

Zhang Min stretched his waist, and he really couldn't go fast now, because he had caught a lot of prisoners along the way.

When the night broke through the camp of the Yuan army, the night was difficult to distinguish, and did not capture the prisoners, just disperse and then chase and kill, these days all the way to the rapid march, but to catch up with a lot of Yuan army rout, so now has captured no less than 30,000 people, it is almost more than their own people, and it is easy to have an accident if this continues.

"Lord, there are too many captives, I'm afraid I can't accommodate them anymore." Xu Huang walked over, also with a sad face, he was responsible for managing the rout of the captured Yuan army. …,

Happiness is tiring! Zhang Min scratched his head, he couldn't think of any good solution to solve it, so he could only ask Jia Xu, "Wenhe, there are no less than 30,000 soldiers of the Yuan Army who have been captured, there are too many people, I'm afraid something will happen, do you have a solution?" ā€

"Now in Yangzhou, it is difficult to supply grain and grass, and if these people mutiny, I am afraid it will be difficult to suppress." Jia Xu replied half-jokingly: "If you can be ruthless, it's best to kill them all!" ā€

"It's tight, you know that I can't do it, so why bother to say it." Zhang Min smacked his lips, this is a full 30,000 strong men, not to mention that he is reluctant to kill them, just mentioning it makes people's hearts blocked, this is not a sexual mouth, it is a living human life! Seeing Jia Xu hesitate, he sighed and said, "Do you think you should let everyone go and go home?" ā€

"That's a way to do it." Jia Xu pinched his beard lightly, "I'm afraid that because I don't have enough money on my body, I have become robbers along the road, why don't you do it to the end, my lord, and distribute all the money and food you get from various county towns." ā€

Zhang Minhu glanced at Jia Xu suspiciously, this person's nickname is obviously 'poisoner', when did he speak so well?

"We abandoned these foreign objects, so we could speed up and rush to Shouchun." Jia Xu was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Min's behavior of collecting and scraping the county government along the road, and a lot of property would inevitably affect morale and marching speed, I am afraid that if it is not Shouchun, the soldiers will have no heart to fight, "If it drags on any longer, let Yuan Shu rush back to Shouchun City in a few days to stabilize his position, I am afraid that even if there is an inner city gate to open, it will be a hard battle, and it is even possible to be trapped in the city and return defeated, and we will be hunted down and killed at that time." ā€

"What you're saying is, let's do it." made a decision, Zhang Min's heart lightened, "I'll do this, you restrain the people and don't let them disturb the people." ā€

"Okay, the lord will bring more people over, just in case." Jia Xu reminded him and left.

Zhang Min greeted Chen, and the two of them walked around casually outside, this is a small county town in Yangzhou, and the name of the city is hung on the city gate, but unfortunately it is too complicated to know.

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