Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 217
徐乡
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"Mr. Zhang, what's wrong with you?"

A child of the Wang family who was in charge of the population trade in Xu Township looked curiously at Zhang Bu who came here in a panic.

"Geng Yan doesn't talk about martial arts, and he came to deceive and attack me, a 49-year-old old state shepherd. I was careless and unprepared." Zhang Bu sighed. people.

After some understanding, this son of the Wang family found out.

It turned out that Geng Yan first used the tactics of attacking east and west, pretending to attack Xi'an County, so that Linzi defenders could relax their vigilance, and launched a surprise attack on Linzi in the early hours of the morning.

The Linzi defenders were originally a group of strong men, and their combat effectiveness was worrying. Facing Geng Yan's sneak attack, they lost their fighting spirit in an instant, and Linzi City was captured by Geng Yan in an instant.

After defeating Linzi, Geng Yan temporarily solved the problem of insufficient food and grass. Although the food road was cut off by soldiers from Liaodong County, Geng Yan relied on the food and grass stored in Linzi City, a large oriental city, to continue fighting for about a month.

Geng Yan was not in a hurry to go back to dredge the grain road, but came up with a "plan to lure the enemy with an empty city".

All the troops in Linzi City were drawn out, and news spread that they were going to attack Xi'an County.

Zhang Bu, who got the news, thought that Linzi was just an empty city, so he rushed to Linzi directly.

In the end, this was just Geng Yan's trick to lure the enemy.

As soon as Zhang Bu's main force entered Linzi City, Geng Yan rushed back to Linzi City with the main force, and tens of thousands of Han troops defeated Zhang Bu's thousands of elite troops.

Zhang Bu led dozens of soldiers to break through the siege in the chaos and returned to Ju County.

But he lost his elite, thinking that Ju County could no longer defend, so he took Dong Xian and Liu Yong to abandon the city and fled to Xuxiang County, intending to take refuge in Liaodong by boat.

At the same time, he also sent scouts to inform Zhang Lan, who was sticking to Xi'an County, to give up Xi'an County, and quickly brought [-] Qingzhou soldiers from Xi'an County to Xu Township, and crossed the sea to Liaodong together.

This is what he thought, if he went to Liaodong alone, he would inevitably live under the fence, and his wealth and life would be in the hands of the Wang family, so he had to have his own military power so that the Liaodong Wang family would not dare to have unreasonable thoughts about him.

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Linzi
"I heard that Zhang Buzheng fled to Liaodong with the remnants of his defeated army across the sea in Xu Township. Shall we not go after him?" the prefect of Shanggu County asked puzzled.

"Linzi's grain and grass are almost exhausted. The most urgent task now is not to pursue Zhang Bu's remnant army, but to go back and dredge the grain roads. Zhang Bu's situation is over, so even if he takes the remnants of his army and flees to Liaodong, it's nothing to worry about." Geng Yan shook his head, he was cut off from food and grass. I am very vigilant about this matter. In the past, the mutiny of the army after the coalition forces of the four counties of Youzhou ran out of food made many generals of Youzhou have lingering fears.

"Besides, I heard that it was a female general who cut off our food supply, hehe... I'm just going to meet her." Geng Yan has always been brooding over the fact that the Liaodong king took him to an overseas desert island to eat fish.

There is a precedent for the Youzhou army to run out of food and mutiny, and Geng Yan dare not risk running out of food to continue chasing the enemy.

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20 days later
Zhu'a County

Heshuijinkou
"Zhang Bu has been defeated, and it is time to return to Liaodong."

Wang Bian and the others stood on the boat, looking in the direction of Linzi and said so.

They Liaodong had tried their best to help Zhang Bu cut off the Han army's supply road, but even so, Zhang Bu was still defeated, so there was no other way.

"Zhang Bu was defeated, but we in Liaodong were not defeated." Zhang Yuliang laughed.

After cutting off the food road of the Han army, the four of them led the soldiers of Liaodong County to plunder the powerful manors of the Zhao, Wei and Han families in Zhu'a County.

It's all here, don't grab something to go back, isn't it plausible?
The three powerful families of Zhao, Wei and Han in Zhu'a County were slaughtered by soldiers from Liaodong County before they could escape to the county seat.

The servants and servant girls of the three powerful families were all captured as slaves, and many ancestral books of the Zhou Dynasty were taken away by the four clans of Liaodong.

These old aristocratic families that have been handed down from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are not on the verge of bankruptcy. They are unwilling to sell their ancestral books for money, and outsiders can't buy their books if they have money.

The reason why the Wang family had so many books at the beginning was because the ancestor Wang Kang wiped out dozens of down-and-out old aristocratic families in the Central Plains, and robbed hundreds of books and brought them back to Liaodong as the cultural heritage of the Wang family.

After the four tribes in Liaodong snatched the ancestral books of Zhu'a's powerful and powerful gentry, they naturally had to make multiple copies, and all four tribes had a share.

"You bastards, when the court heavenly soldiers arrive, you will all be wiped out!"

The Patriarch of the Zhao family in Zhu'a County was very angry. Although their family is just a very weak and ordinary gentry family, they have a long heritage. As early as the Warring States period, they were the collateral branch of the Zhao family. Books pit Confucianism, their collateral branch family secretly took away many books of Zhao State and returned to the mountains and forests. After Liu Bang unified the world, they reappeared and began to develop their own family. Relying on the monopoly of ancestral books and cultural knowledge, Generations of people have been officials in Zhu'a County, and the county magistrates have to listen to their Zhao family.

Unexpectedly, in this troubled world, a group of troops suddenly wiped out his family, forcibly invaded his manor and looted everything from ancestral books to a servant girl. Not one of them will be spared, it's a good one to pluck the feathers.

In troubled times, a stage of reshuffle, some unlucky powerful nobles will be shuffled, and then the positions they occupy will be given up to the newly rising powerful nobles.

In less than a dozen years, Zhu'a County, without the three powerful gentry clans, will naturally rise to new tyrants, and then the new tyrants will slowly transform into gentry families and become Zhu'a County's new Master Huang.

"I don't know if the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court will come, but the three of your families will soon go to meet the two saints of Confucius and Mencius." Wang Bian sneered. nobleman.

If the ancestor Wang Kang had been a self-cultivator in peace, instead of being a bandit and robbing the nobles, then the Wang family would have been a family of self-cultivators all their lives, and they had been poor for generations. As livestock, women are used as toys for others.

If you don't shuffle old nobles like you, how will we new nobles rise?

We too shall gain power under the sun!

Compared with the old aristocratic family like the Zhu Asan family that has been passed down for 500 years, the family like the Wang family that has only been passed down for more than 200 years is indeed a new aristocrat.

After all the supplies were loaded, the Liaodong ships sailed eastward in the river (Yellow River).

Rumble!
On the horizon, tens of thousands of cavalry from the Han army appeared.

Geng Yan returned to Zhu'a County with his main force, and when he learned that Liaodong soldiers were loading stolen goods on board at Jinkou, he hurriedly led his cavalry troops to chase the Liaodong Sijun who was about to return to Liaodong.

however……

When Geng Yan arrived at Jinkou, the Liaodong ships had already packed the looted supplies and were sailing towards the mouth of the river.

"Great Sima Geng, goodbye by fate!" On the boat, Wang Yan taunted Geng Yan who was on the shore wantonly.

"Damn female thief! Don't let me catch you, or I will show you some color!" Geng Yan, who was riding a horse, was furious on the bank, but there was nothing he could do. Swim to chase the Liaodong fleet.

(End of this chapter)