Overlord!

Chapter 76
Tai Shici was very excited, and personally deployed a large army to line up in front of Dongshao Pavilion. More than [-] soldiers lined up on the bank of the Lushui River was also majestic and magnificent, which immediately attracted the attention of the enemy defenders.

Wang Ke personally led the trilogy to garrison on the Jiangxin Pavilion, and the defense was extremely strict.The two armies confront each other across the river, which can be described as facing each other from afar.

There is abundant rainfall in the south of the Yangtze River, and even this small Dongshao water is tens of feet wide.

Tai Shici strode forward and roared: "Sun Lang helps the poor and helps the people. His kindness lies in the people. It is the general trend to wipe out Jiangdong. You have rebelled against your own selfish desires. Before the great trend, you are like a mantis holding a cart. Why don't you come down sooner? If the army sets foot in the heart of the river, all those who resist will be crushed!"

What is the great trend?

The mighty momentum is the majestic and magnificent army of more than two thousand armed with swords and guns behind Tai Shici!
The rebel tribes on the other side of the river were all afraid when they saw this huge counter-insurgency army.They are a bunch of mud legs, and they don't know what happened at all.Suddenly being dragged into the battlefield, most of the people were at a loss to fight against the elite state army.

Don't say they understand why they are fighting for ordinary trilogy, it is already extreme for them not to doubt.

Wang Ke took a step forward, pointed at Tai Shici and cursed: "Sun Ce's minion, don't get out of Wu County yet! There are heroes waiting for us in Jiangdong..."

Before Wang Ke could finish cursing, Tai Shici shot an arrow, and the arrow pierced through his palm like a pop, and the arrow's castration remained undiminished, and he firmly nailed Wang Ke's palm to the flagpole behind him.

This arrow immediately attracted everyone on our side to raise their arms and cheer, and the enemy's general and flags were all thrown into chaos by this arrow!
Wang Ke screamed and held his bloody palm, his guests and trilogy rushed forward to rescue him in a panic.

At this time, Tai Shici fired two more arrows, one arrow nailed down one person, and then shot and killed two rescuers on the bank.

Bu Qu, who came forward to meet the rescue on the other side, was frightened instantly, fled from the spot with both hands and feet, and retreated in a hurry.Only the two corpses left in place were particularly desolate, and Wang Ke, who fell with the flag, held his palms and wailed extremely desolately.

Sun Ce was stunned to see what kind of miraculous shooting it was. He shouted excitedly: "Cai! The general will set the country with three arrows, and the strong man will break through the enemy's pass with a long song!"

Taishi Ci was overwhelmed, he waved his hand proudly, and shouted at the soldiers of the three armies: "Go ashore by boat."

Standing in front of the boat with bow and arrow in hand, he encouraged the whole army: "If I, Tai Shici, cannot clear the heart of the river and put down the rebels, it will be like a river that never returns! All the soldiers follow me to attack!"

When Chen Wu rode a steed and saw this scene beside Sun Ce, he was also deeply shocked by Tai Shi's kindness and heroism.

"General, Taishi Ziyi's heroism can be described as a mighty army. The enemy army defends in formation, and it destroys it head-on. With strong bows and heavy arrows, the enemy army is all invincible. It can be said that it is a fierce general. There is no such person anymore!"

Sun Ce had to admit that his vision was really shallow.

He even dared to see everything in his body, so he underestimated the heroes of the world, and dared to underestimate the most important archery skill in the entire Central Plains for 5000 years.

There is really someone who can open a three-stone strong bow and shoot an arrow that pierces Yang with a hundred steps!

Tai Shici was standing alone on the boat, with too many bows and arrows, and he shot and killed six or seven powerful men who were going forward to guard the stall.

Especially those powerful guests who opened their mouths to command were shot and killed among the three armies as soon as they shouted the order.

Every time Tai Shici shot, the soldiers behind him cheered and their morale rose like a rainbow.

And a group of enemy units, who have never undergone strict training, can't withstand such a blow. Seeing the guests leading the troops being shot and killed in front of their eyes, no one is supervising them.The cunning fled back immediately, while the cowardly were so frightened that they collapsed.

Tai Shici himself jumped onto the bank of Jiangxin River, raised his spear and roared: "The whole army is covered! Defeat the enemy with one blow!"

After speaking, he rushed ahead of the three armies himself, and rushed to the densely packed army formation by himself.

Jiang Qin watched as Tai Shici charged forward alone. Wherever the blade went, he was invincible, and the enemy's formation collapsed.Shocked, he said: "Taishi Ziyi, you are indeed worthy of being a heroic man. Today's battle is magnificent!"

Sun Ce is also strong, this guy is still a tiger as always!
He once dared to attack Sun Ce's most elite Xuanjia iron cavalry alone, but now he dares to attack the enemy's thousands of horses alone.

The difference is that there was no one behind him when he was under Liu Yao.Under Sun Ce's command, he commands a large number of elite soldiers!

He strengthened the three armies, broke the front and turned sharp, and mobilized the morale of both sides with one person. The enemy army was invincible, but his own soldiers took the opportunity to cover up and kill. Ten steps!
The defeat of a phalanx is not a decisive change in a battle.

When the armies of both sides are fighting, even if it is the superior side, it may be because of the bravery of a certain enemy general that it will cause a phalanx of one's own side to be at a disadvantage in the battle and be repelled.

On a vast battlefield, communication is inconvenient, and this wave is not even enough to affect the general situation.

But in the battle of Dongshao Pavilion, the opponent's phalanx was defeated, which directly affected the outcome of the entire battle.

Because the position of this phalanx is really important!It is the key place for the beachhead battle, and if you occupy it, you can occupy the geographical advantage.

They were defeated by Tai Shici, they were directly defeated, and retreated dozens of steps, which was to give the most important location of the stall to Tai Shici's troops, and gave Taishi Ci's army a foothold.

The follow-up army can continue to land ashore, and wave after wave violently attack the enemy's front.

The difference in the bravery of the soldiers on both sides is too great.

One side is the former state army elite, battle-tested.On the other hand, it was just a trilogy hastily pulled out of the mud. Before that, it had been digging the ground to grow food. In its dreams, it had never imagined that there would be such a bloody and tragic scene in the world.

They tried their best to hold on for two rounds, and finally they couldn't resist the third fierce attack from Tai Shici's troops. The morale of the army collapsed and they fled one after another.

Sun Ce, who was watching the battle, shouted: "Cai! Such a dangerous place, Ziyi defeated in one battle, what else can stop me on the plain of Wu County?"

As Sun Ce said, the terrain in Wu County is flat, and there are very few important places that can be used for defense.

The army attacked in five ways, and it took only three days to crush the defenders in Wucheng County one by one. They marched all the way, regained all the villages and pavilions, and surrounded the rebellious tyrants in Zoushiwubao.

Han Yan, the magistrate of Wucheng County, personally followed Sun Ce, and reported cautiously: "General, Zou Ta and Qian Tong who rebelled this time are all old nobles in the county, with more than a thousand guests. Officials. The guests have never been served by corvée before and after, if the county officials come to the door, they must hide, and the staff will refuse."

More than a thousand guests!
This number is enough to make even Sun Ce pay attention.No wonder they dared to rebel.

What kind of concept is this? Liang Xing, one of the generals in Guanzhong, once joined forces with Ma Chao to fight against Cao Cao, and as a vanguard in the Battle of Weinan led more than [-] troops to attack Xu Huang.His influence means that there are more than five thousand families.

With these more than [-] households, Liang Xing's most glorious moment was when he and Zhang Heng, Duan Yan and others defeated Li Jue's stubbornly guarded Huangbai City, chopped off Li Jue's head, and passed it on to the capital.

Li Jue, Sun Ce despises this person.But many people are flattering. For example, Liu Ai, the servant, is the biggest flatterer. He even thinks that Li Jue's military ability surpasses that of Sun Ce's father, Sun Jian.

Thinking of this, Sun Ce glanced at Han Yan, Liang Xing, a strong general in Guanzhong, was completely defeated by a county magistrate Zheng Hun, and he was terrified.

Compared with Han Yan, the county magistrate, he is undoubtedly far behind!

In the face of Zou and Qian's rebellion, he was even beaten to no avail and could only stick to the city.It was Sun Ce's powerful army that defeated the besieging army, and he was saved.

However, Sun Ce did not reprimand him.After all, we can't force every county magistrate to be comparable to Zheng Hun, a capable official with a long history.

If he can stick to the city and turn his heart to the county, instead of collaborating with the powerful, he is already worthy of being recruited into his command.

Before entering Wucheng County, Sun Ce thought that the whole Wucheng County was turned against him.Unexpectedly, in the hinterland of the rebellion, there is such a county monarch who is devoted to him.

Sun Ce looked at the powerful Wubao standing in the distance with his hands behind his back, and asked, "How many households are there in Wucheng County? How come there are more than [-] rebels captured by our army alone."

This is the scale of soldiers captured on the battlefield alone!
Including the soldiers who were beheaded and killed in battle, and fled and scattered, the scale would have to be doubled, and the number would have exceeded [-].

Earlier, the military intelligence report said that Zou Ta, Qian Tong and others had thousands or tens of thousands of people each, gathering everywhere, but Sun Ce still didn't quite believe it.

But at this moment, looking at the size of the rebel army gathered in Wubao, Sun Ce really believed it.

And once this is believed, another problem looms.

How many households are there in Wucheng County?
There are more than [-] young and strong rebels alone, plus Han Yan's subordinates who defend the city and those who are not involved in the war, there are more than [-] households!
But Han Yan, the county magistrate of Wucheng County, only served as a county magistrate!
Moreover, when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty granted Sun Ce's father Wucheng Marquis a few years ago, it was definitely not the Marquis of Wanhu.

So Sun Ce had to look at Han Yan seriously, how many families are there in Wucheng County?

Why did two powerful families launch a rebellion, and the population size significantly exceeded the registered size.

If more than a dozen powerful families started a rebellion, would Wucheng County have to pull out an army of [-] to [-]?
A layer of cold sweat flowed from Han Yan's forehead. Sun Lang's army attacking Wubao in front was violent and aggressive, shouting and fighting fiercely. Even if the mighty trio were guarding Wubao, they were like a lone boat in a stormy sea, which might capsize at any time.

This made Han Yan have to think seriously. Facing Sun Lang's butcher knife, and in the future he will fight against Sun Lang, can the tyrants really gain the upper hand?

After thinking quickly for a moment, he made a decision. The concealment of the population has been exposed to Sun Lang's own eyes, and there is no way to hide it.

He lowered his head and confessed frankly: "General, there are indeed a large number of hidden households among the powerful clans. There are thousands of registered households in a county, but there are tens of thousands of people in the mountains and mountains within the county."

Sun Ce couldn't help but look sideways, it was too ironic.

The population of the vast plain below the mountain is not as large as the population of Shanyue in a camp on the mountain.

Every time the army goes into the mountains to suppress Ping Shanyue, tens of thousands of men and women can be collected.

The only explanation is that when the army counts the prisoners, it can avoid concealment.

Therefore, according to this logic, the fastest way for Sun Ce to increase the population is... to regularly force a group of tyrants back? !

Although it is extremely magical, the reality is right in front of our eyes. Wucheng County has abruptly changed from a lower county with thousands of household registrations to an upper county with over ten thousand household registrations!

Unbreakable alternative interpretation.

Soon Sun Ce dispelled this bizarre idea. Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population of Yangzhou was more than 460 million, but in just a few years, the population of Jiangdong fell to less than one million.

Even if the miserable counties with ten houses and nine empty houses are removed, these counties in the south must have hidden a large number of people, so they have the confidence to fight against the county government.

After all, even if the land system is not established, it is still inferior to them occupying the county as king and bringing the entire county's land under their command.

Princes like Lu Bu who were born in border counties once lamented that in the Central Plains, the county is called the emperor, and the county is the king.

The strength of the tyrants has rapidly expanded, so they naturally want to occupy the land and become kings, and they are not willing to submit to others easily.

Previously, Sun Ce thought that once the decree came, the tyrants would disarm and surrender. He really underestimated the ambition of human nature.

It's not just the traversers who like to crack the soil and seal the borders to strengthen their power.In Zhu Xia's bones, there is a heroic spirit of painting the land as the king.

From this point of view, in order to appease Jiangdong, the key to the next step is to solve the problem of the powerful and hidden household registration.

While Sun Ce was thinking, the army attacking the city ahead burst into cheers.

The army encircled a Wubao with five routes, and the fierce generals were extremely brave. Ling Cao had already led his troops to attack the Wubao barrier.

Such a fierce general is wearing heavy armor and fighting bloody battles on the barrier, and the powerful trilogy can't resist it at all.

Fighting until noon, Ling Cao bowed in front of Sun Ce with a head in his hand: "General, the traitor Zou Ta has already given the head. Qian Tong please lead your troops to surrender."

Sun Ce waved his hand and directly ordered: "Surround and then surrender, no pardon! Order the three armies to attack and take their heads."

At dusk, Zhang Hong and Han Yan arrived at the county government office together with the papers, and reported the capture in detail to Sun Ce, who was looking through the previous materials.

"General, in the past few days, the army has attacked from five directions, and has conquered the entire territory of Wucheng, capturing more than [-] men and women."

After taking Wucheng County, Sun Ce has eight counties in his hands!

The population of these eight counties will directly determine the upper limit of Sun Ce's strength.

Sun Ce handed the household registration list in his hand to Han Yan: "Mr. Han County, I just checked the household registration of Wucheng County. There are more than [-] households in Wucheng County, and my army only captured more than [-] men and women. According to the calculation of five people in one household, Mr. Han, you don’t mean to tell me that the entire Wucheng County is against you, Mr. Han, right?”

What a hell joke this is!
Han Yan's whole body trembled immediately, and he said hastily, "General, it's all due to the fact that Zou, Qian and other powerful families hide their household registrations. They have more than a thousand guests in one family, and the total number of two families is nearly [-]. That's why... that's why, There are so many traitors."

He was very sure that Sun Lang was going to use the prestige of his victory this time to start trying to register powerful and powerful households, so he took the initiative to throw out all the powerful and powerful.

Zhang Hong also frowned, and said: "General, we must arrange the tyrants properly, otherwise it will be difficult to distinguish loyalty from traitors. Once we go south, the tyrants in the rear will rebel, and disaster may happen."

And at the same time there is a very difficult problem.More than 8000 people were captured, how to arrange them?Sun Ce couldn't even bring out more than 2 shi of grain, and he absolutely had no spare energy to resettle nearly [-] prisoners.It is impossible to release so many prisoners directly on the spot.

The easiest way to solve this problem is naturally to slaughter!
Cao Cao was a loyal practitioner in this regard. After conquering a city, it is difficult to tell whether the forces in the city really surrendered or whether they would launch another rebellion and harass the grain road after the army left.

So simply and neatly slaughtered everyone, saving all troubles.After the massacre in Xuzhou, he was massacred in Guandu, and after the massacre in Guandu, he went to Nanyang to continue the massacre.

Sun Ce still had a bit of ideal pursuit in his heart, so he said, "I have a people-oriented plan for the placement of these parts."

This people-oriented approach is not the people-oriented approach of later generations.It is more similar to what Liu Bei said, that is, people are the foundation of power.

Therefore, if there is an opportunity for Sun Ce to comment, the heroes in this world are also "the only envoy and Ce'er".After all, the entire Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty had good military discipline, and they were the only ones who didn't engage in massacres.

The most important content of Sun Ce's people-oriented approach is that the northern counties of Wu County urgently need a lot of manpower!Due to the absence of the field system, the productivity was liberated, and agriculture in the northern part of Wu County took off, and there was no open land in the wild.All forces need a lot of manpower to turn land into wealth!

　Thanks to book friend Jin Taizhen for the 500 starting coins rewarded by Guoda

　　
　
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