Chapter 900 The Situation Is Over

Lao Cao jumped off his horse tiredly, threw his sword aside, and sat down on the ground in a very inconspicuous manner, breathing heavily. Running at high speed on horseback is also quite exhausting. Lao Cao is already fifty-three years old, and his body and bones are no longer so strong.

"I have heard of Ziyan's name for more than 20 years, but I never thought that you and I would meet like this."

Wang Yan also smiled and got off the horse, inserting the horse stick in his hand into the ground. Standing with his sword in hand, he looked at Lao Cao not far away: "I have heard about Meng De's name for more than 20 years. In the past, Meng De falsely ordered the princes of the world to attack Dong Zhuo together. He was a true hero. Today's battle, the commander-in-chief By pretending to be a guard and sneaking up on me, you are also pretending to be a pawn, and you have lost the dignity of a hero."

Regarding Wang Yan's sarcasm, Lao Cao was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he laughed loudly: "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. If Ziyan dies in battle, who will know about my plan? The world only knows that Wang Yan died on the battlefield, but Cao Cao dominates the world!"

There was a bit of domineering in Lao Cao's words, but more of helplessness and relief. It was definitely not him who took the initiative to let go, otherwise this battle would not have started. He was helpless at first, but now that he has become a prisoner, he can only feel relieved. If he doesn't feel relieved, he has no other choice. He can't cry to Wang Yan. As for the so-called domineering, it is better to save face for himself. After all, he has been in power for more than 20 years and defeated many opponents.

Of course, this is the winner's interpretation, Wang Yan's interpretation. No matter what Lao Cao thinks in his heart, Wang Yan's interpretation will be whatever he says. As Lao Cao said, the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy.

Lao Cao laughed wildly, the morning sun reflected his face, but Wang Yan had his back turned. If this kind of scene is expressed in the lens of film and television, it seems that Lao Cao is the righteous party.

Wang Yan ignored him and turned around to look at the scene on the battlefield. After Wang Yan went out and dug through the battle formation, Cao Jun's army collapsed. After the central army's commander's flag was moved or even thrown away, Cao Jun's army collapsed. They could no longer maintain the battle formation and ran for their lives. It was a mess. , this is the so-called defeat.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible to form a fighting formation again. Because the system of the military formation has completely collapsed, it is useless even if the flag is waving and smoking. They can only wait until they are completely out of the pursuit circle, gather the remaining troops again, and then form a battle formation. Just like Cao's army of fifty thousand now, by the time the coach gathers his troops, three thousand will be awesome enough.

Because Cao Jun had given up resistance, many people ran for their lives subconsciously, but after running for a while, they reacted, threw away their weapons, sat down on the ground, and did whatever they liked.

Normally, Lao Cao would be laughing here, and Wang Yan would be laughing along with him. Now only Lao Cao is laughing, which is very boring. Lao Cao smacked his lips, his mood waning.

Looking at Wang Yan's tall and mighty back, the sun shone in front of Wang Yan, which blinded Lao Cao. The lens expression of this kind of scene is much more harmonious. Does Wang Yan have a golden light on his body?

Lao Cao said: "How are you doing?"

"It's up to you how you treat it."

"To be honest, before the war, my civil and military subordinates intended to attack Tianzhu and open up the territory."

"It's very good. In the past, when Han Sui asked for peace, he went to attack Guishuang to survive. If you attack Tianzhu, you can also avoid being massacred. It is a good life to open up the territory for China and make our democratic world of China, which will never be destroyed. achievement."

Lao Cao said curiously: "You have the ability to govern the world and the courage to be invincible, but you will eventually become a mortal. A hundred years from now, your descendants will definitely be inferior. At that time, my descendants worked hard to rule and attacked the Central Plains again. Do you really have nothing to fear?"

"After I die, who will care about the raging floods?" Wang Yan said with a smile, "You don't need to think too much, the number of people who can be taken away from China is only four to five million. Work hard to cure it? How can these four words describe the hardships? "

In fact, what Cao Cao said makes sense, what you don't get is always the best. Even though the land in Tianzhu is actually very good, they must be thinking about returning to the Central Plains.

In particular, Lao Cao took those wealthy families with him. The wealthy families at this time were serious nobles. Going back even further, we can trace them back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and even further back to the ancient mythological period, and they are truly direct descendants passed down in an orderly manner. Seriously speaking, there are quite a few thousand-year-old families.

And they were humiliated and expelled from China by Wang Yan, thus allowing a group of common people to step onto the political and historical stage. How could they be willing to do so? Therefore, they will definitely call themselves Huaxia Zhengshuo, and they will remember to return to their ancestral land from generation to generation. And in this process, the direct inheritance system will be strictly implemented, and children born from intermarriage with Tianzhu barbarians will never be allowed to hold power to ensure the purity of blood and legal principles.

In this regard, Li Shimin has the most say, but I can't stop scolding him.

But even if they fight back, it doesn't matter. Because Wang Yan's transformation of the people has been completed, no matter how weak he is, it will not be so easy to fight. Even if the Qing Dynasty fought hard from beginning to end, the people would have long since awakened, and there would always be people who were dissatisfied and stood up. After beating back and forth, the meat was rotten in the pot, and it didn't matter if it wasn't the Wang Empire.

Even those who have not experienced thousands of years like Wang Yan, but have only come from two thousand years later, have taken history and politics classes, and have a relatively normal mind should understand the basic principle of following objective laws. There is no dynasty that lasts forever, only one thousand years. All generations of people...

As for what Wang Yan said about letting Cao Cao take away four to five million people, this is naturally necessary. After all, how much can be done by relying on Lao Cao and other wealthy families. We still need to let Lao Cao take away a group of men and women, so that we can have the capital to expand our territory.

And even after the war, the people were still inevitably ruled by the powerful families. But when they got there, the Han people were their own people. No matter what, even if the powerful families were greedy, they would always treat their own people better, and instead exploit the barbarians of Tianzhu and subsidize the Han people. They were not stupid, and of course they knew where their base was.

The most important thing was that when expanding outward, no one could not last long, and it was even easy to be assimilated by others. It was necessary to ensure the number of Han people, occupy the magpie's nest, and change the cage to replace the bird, so as to actually occupy Tianzhu...

These two sentences expressed a general idea. Wang Yan ignored Cao Cao and asked the guards who followed him to form a circle, hold Lao Cao on the horse, and move forward with his team.

Catching Lao Cao was not the end of the war, but just a turning point in the war. The fact that Lao Cao was able to be caught this time was a risk taken by Lao Cao himself, and it was just a coincidence under the addition of various reasons. Winning the war is inevitable, but catching Lao Cao does not mean the end of the war.

After all, Cao still has a son, other civil officials and generals, and hundreds of thousands of troops, who are still guarding various passes. In other words, they still have a basis for bargaining, which is of course not acceptable.

What we need to do now is to take all kinds of passes, disintegrate most of their troops, and leave them with no other way to go, let alone let them think that they can still talk, and can't let them think of good things.

So this battle was won, the militia behind advanced forward, and the militia on the other side began to cross the river, transport supplies, and at the same time reorganize the surrendered army, approach Nanchang, capture Nanchang, and collect food and grass. Cooperate with Lu Bu and others to end the battle in other places.

The front-line troops did not stop advancing, but marched quickly that day and drove to Qiupu (Chizhou City) to garrison. Dian Wei, who came first, had already controlled the situation.

The main strategy is still what I said before, that is, to go all the way along the river, completely control the riverside area, let the militia on the other side come over, control the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and then continue to advance to the territory. Completely destroy the hope of Cao Cao's camp, and then they will just send that group of people away.

Wang Yan did not rush to march, but followed slowly behind, taking Lao Cao with him, giving orders and so on, and eating and drinking well. It was not just Lao Cao, Xu Chu was captured alive before, and Wen Chou was unlucky and killed.

Even if Lu Bu was trapped in the army, and there were no soldiers following him to charge, it would be a waste. What's more, Wang Yan's soldiers were very elite, proficient in the art of battle, and had responses for the generals, so they would not let the generals really mow the grass without any competition.

In addition, Lao Cao did not come alone, and there were civil officials under his command who followed him. Except for those who were really unlucky, they were all captured alive. So Lao Cao was not alone, he had someone to keep him company.

Following Wang Yan, eating and drinking every day, Lao Cao adapted quickly. In particular, he found that Wang Yan ate really well, and the chefs around him were better, much better than him, Lao Cao, and several chips better.

Of course, Lao Cao didn't really eat dry rice all day. He still observed Wang Yan's army operation closely. Overall, it was smoother than his army. The army's movement speed was quite fast and its behavior was measured. Not only did Wang Yan eat well, but the army's food was also much better than his army. It was all dry rice, with minced meat every meal.

The soldiers laughed and scolded each other, and they were also somewhat literary. Unlike uneducated people, they had difficulty expressing themselves and didn't have a sense of order in their words. The most outrageous thing was that he saw a soldier writing a letter home with a charcoal pencil. He even asked about it on purpose, and he was just a soldier, not even a team leader.

At this time, Lao Cao understood how awesome Wang Yan was, and also knew where he lost, that is, Wang Yan's awesome internal affairs ability. Just in terms of food, if Wang Yan's army ate the same as his army, according to the current situation, they might be able to fight him until the end of time.

Otherwise, Wang Yan had saved up so many years to fight. Lao Cao was even a little relieved, otherwise he would have died long ago...

Lao Cao personally led an army of 50,000, and there were capable generals like Xu Chu and Wen Chou, but they were defeated in one battle. This news could not be concealed. More than 50,000 people were not so easy to capture, and there were always people who tipped off the rear.

Although a messenger was sent to ask Wang Yan's opinion, they did not surrender at the same time and were still resisting. Of course, they knew Wang Yan's policy very well, and they didn't want to give up so easily.

Wang Yan detained the messenger and did not respond, and still marched in a big way. Although Lao Cao's men were still resisting, how could the fact that the boss was captured alive have no impact? The wealthy families were once again packing up their belongings with very skilled professional methods and preparing to run away. Although the big soldiers on the front line did not know the news, the upper class was panicked, and the lower class was in a state of panic. It was really naive to expect them to have combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the overall advancement speed was quite fast. It took only ten days to end the war in Yangzhou, and killed and captured many of Cao Cao's generals, such as several surnamed Cao and several surnamed Xiahou. Because Shu did not attack, but only defended, all Cao Cao's capable soldiers were here.

He also captured Nanchang, surrounded Linxiang (Changsha City), and captured Pengze at the same time, approaching Jiujiang. The troops in Jiujiang were all defeated soldiers chased by Wang Yan all the way. Counting the troops originally stationed on the river bank to protect the grain route, there were about 100,000 soldiers.

However, fighting a war is not just about having a lot of people, and the defeated soldiers have no fighting power. Moreover, many of the defeated soldiers brought the news that Lao Cao was captured, which made the soldiers who were originally kept in the dark very uneasy. Such a situation made the already weak fighting power drop several chips. The reason why they were not pushed flat was just because they adopted a shrinking tactic.

This is because the senior officials under Lao Cao did not want to completely lose their voice, and they were still trying their best to resist.

But at present, Cao Cao's 500,000 troops in Jiangnan are basically useless. There must be less than 500,000 left in Shu, and the number of dead is only 200,000 or 300,000. Among them, the elite soldiers can basically reach 100,000.

It can be said that it is only a matter of time, and it has only been more than two months since Lao Cao's surprise attack to achieve this point. A protracted war of unification ended hastily because of Lao Cao's risk.

On this day, Wang Yan acted as military and political affairs in the military tent. The front was victorious, and the governance in the rear had begun. As spring plowing was approaching, all work should be steadily promoted. The work of counting population, clearing land, distributing land, dispatching materials, and sending surrendered soldiers back to their hometowns has been carried out.

Not only that, because Cao Cao swept the population across the river, especially taking away a large number of able-bodied men, many people's families are still in Henan, and perhaps their wives and children were sent to others as concubines by General Wang. The work of going home to find relatives must also be carried out, and there are a lot of messes in the process.

More importantly, for the development of Jiangnan. Although it has been developed to a certain extent, it is still far from enough. After all, Jiangnan has a developed water system and a suitable climate. Although there are more mountains, the land is well used under the application of various terraces. Now Wang Yan has not yet left the farming era. Even if the grain output in Jiangnan is not as good as that in the Northeast, it is definitely not bad, so it must be developed well.

For a long time in the future, the main work is to develop the south and adjust the population distribution.

At this time, the guard came in to deliver a letter: "General, Zhuge Liang sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that Jiangguan has been breached and Cao's food supply route has been blocked." As he spoke, he respectfully handed over the bamboo tube containing the letter with both hands.

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, a little surprised.

He knew that Zhuge Liang had to cross mountains and ridges to attack Yu Fu's Jiangguan, but he didn't expect it to be so fast. It has only been more than 20 days, not even a month.

For a strategic place like Jiangguan, Cao's army is heavily guarded, and it is still quite difficult to attack it, so Wang Yan was surprised.

He took the bamboo tube, took out Zhuge Liang's handwritten letter from it, and read it slowly.

After reading the letter, Wang Yan understood the process. It's not hard to say, but the generals guarding the pass are not very serious. After all, there are still large armies outside, and Shu is their territory. What's more, the generals here also know the news that Lao Cao was defeated and captured. Even if the senior civil and military officials try their best to block it, it's useless. You can't share wealth and adversity with the nobles.

Because they are rich, they will kill others to avoid sharing their wealth. When they are in trouble, they often leave first.

So after such a long time, the news spread, and only a large number of soldiers and middle and lower-level officers were still in the dark. All senior civil and military officials knew the news that Lao Cao was captured.

In such a situation, how could the generals not panic. When they panic, they lose their fighting spirit and become lax.

So Zhuge Liang captured the team escorting food and grass, and pretended to open the city gate at night. Although the plan was not very successful, the defenders in the city neglected their duties and were drunk, and failed to effectively prevent resistance. Those pretending to be elite guarded the city gate and soon waited for the army to come and easily took Jiangguan.

Zhuge Liang was also confused. After all, it was quite hard for him to lead the army over the mountains, but the opponent was like this. How could he not be confused.

Wang Yan shook his head. After taking Jiangguan, the steepness of Shu was broken for them. With this breakthrough, the army went straight inward. In front of the elite soldiers, everything was in vain. Moreover, if the grain route was blocked, the 100,000 troops in Jiujiang could not hold out for long, and casualties in the war were avoided, which was undoubtedly a good thing.

After dealing with various affairs, in the evening, Wang Yan set up a wine table and invited the captured Lao Cao and his men to have dinner together.

Wang Yan sat at the top, Cao Cao sat at the bottom, and the rest were Cheng Yu, Jiang Ji, and Lao Cao's generals. The atmosphere in the military tent was not very good, after all, they were all Lao Cao's men.

They exchanged glances back and forth, probably to seize the opportunity to catch Wang Yan and turn the tables in an instant. Fortunately, there were two rows of guards standing behind to wake them up.

"Meng De, you look at this letter."

While serving the dishes, Wang Yan smiled and drank a bottle of wine with Lao Cao, and asked the guards to deliver Zhuge Liang's letter to Lao Cao.

Lao Cao took the letter with a smile, and the smile disappeared on his face after reading it.

He read it very slowly, word by word.

The military tent suddenly became quiet. No one under Lao Cao spoke, no one picked up their chopsticks, and no one drank. They all looked at Lao Cao, trying to figure out what the letter was.

Only Wang Yan, who was at the head, was content. He ate the food and drank the wine first. It was clearly audible in the quiet military tent. This attitude was already very unpleasant, and the voice made people want to kill Wang Yan.

After a long time, Lao Cao laughed and put down the letter.

"The situation is over. Good, good, hahahaha. Brother Zi Yan, such a good thing, I should congratulate you and me, come, drink more..."

Wang Yan also laughed, this time finally fit Lao Cao's script...

A fifty-three-year-old man and a forty-two-year-old man, each a leader, laughing and drinking strong liquor.

Lao Cao's subordinates don't understand why, and Wang Yan's guards are not interested in knowing why.

At this moment, Lao Cao's loneliness can only be understood by Lao Wang...

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