All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 365 The Battle of the Giant Deer
"My lord, we have captured more than 170,000 surrendered soldiers."

"There are more than 60,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians."

"There are also tens of thousands of able-bodied men, over ten thousand war horses, and countless armor, weapons, and military supplies."

Jia Xu reported with a smile on his face, "It can be said to be a great victory."

"very good."

Chen Ran closed the account book with satisfaction and said, "Let the surrendered soldiers know that here they can not only have enough food to eat and win battles, but also get land if they make meritorious deeds!"

"Well, we must make it known~~~"

"My lord." After a pause, Jia Xu asked again, "When will we cross the Zhang River and head north?"

"Not urgent."

Chen Ran waved his hand and said, "First, reorganize the troops and store food and supplies. Most importantly, wait until Yuan Shao gathers the last of his strength."

In a battle on the banks of the Zhang River, Yuan Shao lost his main army.

The loss of more than 200,000 troops is not just a serious injury, it is a heart-wrenching and bone-chopping loss!

If it were someone else, they would either find a way to make peace or develop peacefully for a few decades.

Or just vote and forget it.

But Yuan Shao would not make a choice. He was the leader of the Yuan family, a family of three officials for four generations. He would only choose to concentrate his last strength and make one last desperate effort.

Chen Ran supported him in doing so because it would reduce the trouble of pacifying Hebei later.

It is just during this period of time that he can recuperate and digest the surrendered soldiers and strengthen his own strength.

"My Lord," Jia Xu continued, "We have captured many of Yuan Shao's generals and advisers. How should we deal with them?"

"Is there anyone willing to surrender?"

"Many of the generals are willing to submit to the Lord, but among the counselors, only Xu You is willing to surrender."

Chen Ran thought for a moment and said, "Generals who are willing to surrender will be demoted and assigned to various units."

"If Xu You is right, let him be the governor of Wei County, with an official salary of 2,000 dan."

"As for the others," he said, raising his hand and gesturing, "get rid of them all."

In a battle on the banks of the Zhang River, Yuan Shao's army of advisers was almost wiped out.

First, Guo Tu was captured and killed without knowing why, then Xu You surrendered, and then Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Shen Pei and others who failed to escape were all dealt with because they refused to surrender.

When Yuan Shao gathered troops again, only his family members were left around him.

His three sons all arrived, bringing with them an army of nearly 100,000 men.

Among these troops, many are private soldiers and family members of powerful families from all over Hebei.

They were willing to fully support Yuan Shao, naturally not because of Yuan Shao's status or personal charm.

The only reason is that everyone knows that Chen Zihou's attitude towards powerful families has always been to not even accept their voluntary allegiance and to kill them all directly.

In order to avoid being killed by this killer, they took the initiative to support Yuan Shao with their manpower and efforts.

Looking at the many powerful families sending mountains of wealth and food, Yuan Shao was moved to tears.

"If there were so much food and grass on the banks of the Zhang River, why would it come to this~~~"

Now he no longer lacked food, and even had enough to become wealthy.

In addition to donations from powerful families, what is more important is that there are hundreds of thousands of fewer mouths to feed.

"Father." Yuan Shang, the youngest son who was loved for his handsome appearance, spoke before his elder brother, "We should recruit allies to help us."

"Yes." Yuan Shao nodded. "You are right. I asked your second brother to marry Gongsun Zan's adopted daughter, and I have asked Gongsun Zan to send troops to help."

The eldest son Yuan Tan was very unhappy when he saw that his limelight was being stolen, and he quickly said, "Order Cao Mengde to attack Luoyang and besiege Wei to save Zhao!"

As soon as these words came out, Yuan Shang laughed out loud, and Yuan Shao's face darkened. "Cao Mengde has been betrayed. He is already struggling to deal with the traitor and Lu Bu. How can he have the energy to attack Luoyang?"

"If you don't understand current affairs, don't offer advice!"

Yuan Tan's face turned red and he looked very embarrassed.

Yuan Shang was overjoyed and hurriedly followed up to add insult to injury, "Father, please don't blame my brother. Although he is not smart and does not understand current affairs, he has good intentions after all."

Yuan Tan was almost furious after hearing this!
"Father." Yuan Shang followed up with a suggestion, "We can contact a few of the Sun clan in Jiangdong and order them to harass Jingzhou, which can at least distract Chen the bandit's energy."

"There is also Tao Qian in Xuzhou. You can order him to send some troops and food supplies."

"The tribes outside the Great Wall are greedy for money and profit. We can lure them with gold, silver and women to attract troops to come to our aid. In this way, we will have more troops."

"Hahahaha~~~"

Yuan Shao laughed with satisfaction, and looked at Yuan Shang with a loving look, "Okay, you are really the unicorn of my Yuan family. I feel much more comfortable with you by my side. I'll do as you say."

In fact, Yuan Shang was young and didn't know so many things.

These words were taught to him by the counselors around him so that he could use them to win credit when he was fighting for the throne.

Now it seems that the effect is really good.

The father and son looked at each other and smiled, everything was said without words.

But Yuan Tan, who was standing by, was so angry that he was shaking all over. "I am the eldest son~~~"

Yuan Shao was still very proactive. In just over two months, he had raised a large army again.

He had more than 100,000 troops under his command, and Gongsun Zan brought nearly 100,000 reinforcements, plus tens of thousands of nomadic tribesmen near the Great Wall.

Soon, they gathered an army of more than 200,000 soldiers, claiming to have a million armored men.

Chen Ran was not idle either. The work of digesting the captives went smoothly. After eating and drinking well, he saw Chen Ran distribute the land of Wei County to the meritorious soldiers. These surrendered soldiers were eager to make meritorious contributions to their new lord and get land rewards.

With the addition of these captives, and adding in auxiliary soldiers and civilian laborers, Chen Ran's actual number of people was much greater than Yuan Shao's.

He didn't claim to have a million soldiers in armor. After all, although this claim can boost the morale of the army and put psychological pressure on the enemy, it is obviously too conservative. He directly claimed to have two million soldiers~~~
Honestly speaking, if there really is a claimed number, then we have to count everyone from breastfeeding babies to old men who are about to enter the coffin.

The two sides sent out troops at the same time and finally gathered in the Julu area.

Speaking of Julu, the most famous story is of course the Battle of Julu where the Overlord of Western Chu burned his boats and defeated the main force of the Qin army in Julu.

"This time it's my turn to make Chen Zihou cross the river and fight a desperate battle!"

Yuan Shao occupied Julu City and blocked the north bank of Zhang River, vowing to make Chen Ran taste the pain of a battle with his back to the river and the difficulty in transporting food and fodder.

"Beginning."

Gongsun Zan, who came to help, advised, "The King of Western Chu won a great victory in the battle of the river. It is better not to say such words."

Yuan Shao despised Gongsun Zan for being a coward, but after all, he was a relative and a reinforcement, so he forced a smile and said, "Bogui is right."

That's what he said, but when Chen Ran's envoy crossed the river and asked Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops ten miles so that the main force could cross the river to fight, Yuan Shao still did his own thing and accepted it without hesitation.

In his mind, this was a replica of the previous battle, except that this time it was his turn to have the advantage.

If his advisers were still around at this time, they would definitely point out, "No two wars in the world are exactly the same. This is a trick."

Unfortunately, all his advisers were wiped out, and the sons around him could only flatter and fawn on him and do his bidding.

I don't have the courage or the ability to see through the essence of things.

Now Yuan Shao can finally make the decision with just one word!

But the result was that Chen Ran crossed the river in large numbers and even built a large number of rafts to transport troops.

In just one morning, tens of thousands of troops were sent over.

It was Gongsun Zan who noticed something was wrong and took the initiative to come and express that there was a problem. He asked to take the initiative to lead the cavalry to charge and drive all of Chen Ran's troops into the river.

While Yuan Shao was still hesitating, the troops that had crossed the river had already reorganized themselves and began to charge into battle.

"How could this happen?" Yuan Shao on the top of Julu City was incredulous. "Why don't you set up camp? Why is your strategy different from mine?!"

Chen Ran is not stupid, so how could he learn from Yuan Shao's previous failed battle example?

If he wanted to learn, he would naturally learn from the victorious King of Western Chu.

The tens of thousands of troops that crossed the river in the morning were mainly the surrendered soldiers who had been accommodated previously.

Before setting off, Chen Ran treated all of them to a big meat meal, allowing them to eat as much as they could!
Afterwards, he promised everyone that anyone who made military achievements would be rewarded with land after the war.

The standard is a soldier's head and fifty acres of land!

Of course, this is the standard for soldiers. Ordinary soldiers only have a pitiful five acres of land.

As for the able-bodied civilians, they simply did not receive any reward.

Chen Ran knew very well what fields meant to people in the farming era.

This is the real reward.

As the saying goes, a great reward will always bring about brave men. After crossing the river, these former surrendered soldiers broke out with an unprecedented strong desire to fight. Their morale was high, and they fought one against ten. They became more courageous as the battle went on, and successively defeated Yuan Shao's troops who came to fight them.

More than ten formations were broken in a row, which made Yuan Shao's army terrified and their morale low.

Such a brave performance made Yuan Shao dumbfounded. "These traitors were not so fierce when they were under my command before!"

There was not enough time, so the surrendered soldiers were still wearing their previous clothes and armor, only their flags were changed.

Everyone knew that those who crossed the river were surrendered soldiers. They had previously thought that they were cannon fodder sent to die, but they never expected that they would be defeated by the cannon fodder.

This is actually very normal. These soldiers who surrendered to Chen Ran fought hard for their future better life and for their land.

But the soldiers under Yuan Shao were only fighting for food.

The difference in fighting will also determines the outcome of the war.

More and more troops crossed the river. When Chen Ran crossed the river to the north, he met Gongsun Zan and his White Horse Volunteers, who forced their way into the battle.

Gongsun Zan was willing to help his former enemy Yuan Shao because he knew that Chen Ran was a man who only cared about himself and would not give others a chance to survive.

If Yuan Shao is destroyed, I will be the next one to suffer, so I am willing to do my best to help.

In order to reverse the situation, he even led the White Horse Volunteers to charge into the battle personally.

Faced with the powerful Baima Yicong, the surrendered soldiers suffered heavy losses, but they did not turn around and run away. Instead, they held on tightly to slow down the impact of the cavalry.

Chen Ran immediately ordered, "Bowmen, move forward and shoot the horses first!"

There is no doubt that the White Horse Volunteers are very strong.

But if the horse is shot to death, its combat effectiveness will drop sharply immediately.

Arrows rained down like rain, and a large number of White Horse Volunteers were lost along with their horses.

Gongsun Zan, heartbroken, had to choose to withdraw his troops and call back the nomadic tribes who were invited with gold and silver women as a price.

Chen Ran was furious and immediately ordered, "Pass the order down, each head of a barbarian will be rewarded with 50 acres of land!"

Faced with the huge reward, his men went crazy and killed like crazy.

The Hu Lu cavalry were beaten so badly that they either fled or surrendered.

"We don't want the barbarian surrendered soldiers." Chen Ran waved his hands fiercely, "We'll kill them all!"

(End of this chapter)