System Blessing: The Young Master of the Dong Family and Diao Chan's Fate

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were several people who could travel over a hundred miles a day.

The most famous one is Sima Xuanwang who loved to fart, and the other is Xiahou Miaocai who loved to trim deer antlers.

The infantry's marching speed of a hundred miles a day was quite fast in an era when marching was almost universally thirty or forty miles a day.

It can be considered a kind of blitzkrieg.

Of course, to achieve this speed, you have to make the soldiers willing to work with you.

Then you have to give the soldiers enough rewards, money, food, silk and women.

Only generous rewards can make cattle and horses willingly serve as cattle and horses.

You can't expect people to work themselves to death and only give them the most basic salary.

It hurts, it hurts too much!

After all, I am also an ox and a horse.

While Dong Yu was rushing on his way, Yingchuan Yangdi was being surrounded by tens of thousands of troops.

"Guo Fan, your retreat is complete!"

"My master said that if you are willing to hand over the remaining money and food, he will let you go for the sake of our past friendship."

Outside the city, a large man in silver armor shouted loudly towards the people inside the city.

"Bah! Qiao Rui, you bastard!"

"Yuan, the traitor, has betrayed me. How can you even mention our past friendship?"

"Yuan Shu is a scoundrel with a ruthless heart. For the sake of Yuzhou, he plotted to murder the former Yuzhou Governor Kong Zhu."

Guo Fan leaned his hands on the wall and cursed loudly.

As Guo Fan spoke, there was a great commotion among the Yuzhou army outside the city.

Many of them were once Kong Jun’s subordinates.

Although many of them were disbanded and reorganized, and then incorporated into various armies.

But at this moment, he was still shocked and uneasy by this shocking statement.

You know, although Kong Jun's military talent was not very good, he was still quite famous when he was in charge of Yuzhou.

It would be strange if the army was not in disarray after what Guo Fan did.

"It's full of nonsense!"

"Who doesn't know that Governor Kong was murdered by you and the traitor Li Jue?"

"Someone, shoot me an arrow!"

Qiao Rui's face changed, and he immediately ordered his men to shoot arrows after realizing that something was wrong.

"Hahahaha!"

"Are you furious?"

"Qiao Rui, you bastard! I'm a bitch!"

Guo Fan, who was laughing wildly, suddenly saw a rain of arrows coming from the sky. He immediately cursed and quickly hid under a pier.

Most of the rain of arrows fell outside the city wall, and only a small number of arrows hit the city wall. However, as the Xiliang army dodged in time, the rain of arrows did not cause any casualties to the Xiliang army.

Anyway, Qiao Rui didn't intend to achieve success with just a bow and arrow, he just wanted to turn the page so as not to significantly affect the morale of the army.

"General, why don't you keep shooting?"

Wu Xi looked at Guo Fan and asked.

"Shoot the hell!"

"How many arrows do we have? If we use them now, will we just sit there and wait for them to defend the city?"

"Go, send the troops to take out 50,000 stones of grain and fodder from the city and distribute them to the people."

Guo Fan gave the order while cursing.

"what?"

"Why?"

Wu Xi looked at Guo Fan in confusion.

It has always been the Xiliang Army that robbed the people of their food and supplies. When did they fall to the point of distributing food to the people?

Wouldn't it be a joke if it got out?

"You know nothing!"

"There are 60,000 troops outside the city, and we only have 10,000 or so inside. We don't have any defense equipment. How can this be easy?"

"Only after winning the hearts of the people can we proceed to the next step."

"Besides, who says that things given away can't be taken back?"

Guo Fan glared at Wu Xi unhappily, then spoke.

As a person who doesn't care much about the lives of the people, and even often bullied the people in the past, how could he suddenly have a change of heart and want to provide welfare to the people?

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation!

As someone who came from an ordinary family, Guo Fan understood the simplicity of the common people too well.

As long as you are nice to him, when you are cruel to him next time, he will also remember your kindness.

"Zhang Bao!"

"Go, lead the troops to visit the various noble families in the city and detain all the retainers and servants in their mansions."

"Also, seal the gates of all the noble families. Anyone who dares to move will die!"

Guo Fan gave orders to Li Jue's generals.

(Note: This Zhang Bao is not the same Zhang Bao, but the general under Li Jue as recorded in official history.)

"The last general takes command!"

Zhang Bao clasped his hands together and said loudly.

"Zhang Long!"

"On the third day after all the people in the city have received their food, send people to gather them together and empty as many houses as possible."

"Then he led his troops to tear down the houses, leaving behind stones and wood to carry up to the city walls."

Guo Fan looked at another general and continued to give orders.

"The last general takes command!"

Zhang Long bowed in response.

"It will take at least fifteen days, we must hold on!"

Guo Fan's face was gloomy as he looked at the dense enemy troops outside the city.

After Li Jue breaks through the siege, he will rush to Wancheng as quickly as possible.

Although they are cavalry, the speed of armored cavalry is limited, and it would be difficult to reach Wancheng in seven days.

After arriving in Wancheng, Dong Yu would have to lead the infantry to rush over, and the speed would be even slower.

Fifteen days is the shortest number of days. Guo Fan said fifteen days, but in fact he was already pushing it towards twenty days in his mind.

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to go back this year.”

"It's so damn cold."

Guo Fan rubbed his hands and subconsciously looked towards Chang'an.

After a busy year, who doesn’t want to go home to celebrate the New Year?

He also has a wife and children, so naturally he misses them.

"Yuan Gou, sooner or later, I will chop you off with my own hands!"

Guo Fan couldn't help but curse.

They had been careful enough along the way, but still suffered a great loss.

After all, we are on someone else's territory, and the other party has an absolute advantage in terms of information and deployment.

In marching and fighting, seizing the initiative means being ahead at every step, and those who lag behind will be led by the nose.