Chapter 826: Young Liao Hua

With a long sword in his left hand and a curved knife in his right, Wang Yan lightly knocked the horse's belly, and the horse moved forward slowly."

In front, a group of people holding knives, guns, swords, and halberds retreated slowly, and were forced out from under the gatehouse. They had no choice but to retreat. They had just fought a mess, and the gatehouse was full of their corpses, all of which were done by Wang Yan alone. Now those 300 Huang Jin drifters who ran over were touching corpses and unloading armor to arm themselves. However, in a moment, they had become a well-equipped military formation."

The eyes of the Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers flashed with scarlet. At this time, their reason didn't have much left. Someone shot arrows on the city tower. On the way to rush over, some people were lost, and they fought in the gatehouse. Where was there so much method? It was just chaotic poking and hacking, and a part of them were killed."

What they didn't expect was that the Army Commander was really so brave. He stood against the chaotic knives alone, and actually killed his way in, and even had the energy to save them."

So for them, the impregnable dock fortress was broken, and they also changed into neat military armor. Then what is next? Only burning, killing, and looting."

The family wealth of a local powerful family is right in front of them, within reach, how can they not be red-eyed..."

Wang Yan waved his hand to suppress the restless Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers, and walked forward a few steps, reined in his horse and stood still, shouting loudly: "This battle is because you started the army first, not what I wanted. I think you have lost hundreds of people, and your minds are clear. Find your fortress owner to talk to me."

There was noise behind, but the people in front had no relaxation, nervously holding weapons, fearing that Wang Yan would suddenly attack. The people behind couldn't see clearly, but the people in front were dead. Only they understood how ferocious this leader of the Huang Jin drifters was."

After a while, the family soldiers of the powerful family blocking Wang Yan separated into two sides. An old man with a flower-and-gray beard was supported by someone, leaning on a sandalwood cane, walked out of the team, bowed and saluted: "The old man is the Chen Family Fortress owner. Today, the misunderstanding of raising an army is also not what the Chen family wanted. It is really because the general is a Huang Jin, so we have to guard against it. I didn't expect the general to have high righteousness and have no intention of looting my Chen family. Because of the Chen family's thought, it caused hundreds of casualties on both sides. Ashamed, ashamed. Not to hide from the general, the ancestors of the Chen family are..."

Wang Yan waved his hand to stop: "What does your Chen family have to do with me? Chen Gong came to see me, but it was just a matter of fish and meat on the chopping board. Can your ancestors' glory save your lives now? I have a word, if Chen Gong listens, then the danger of your Chen family will be solved immediately. Give me fifty good horses, fifty strong bows, five thousand feathered arrows, half a month of grain, meat, salt, silk, and gold, and we will leave immediately and never come to offend again."

"The general didn't report his name just now, I don't know the general's name..."

"I am Wang Yan, courtesy name Ziyan."

The old man of the Chen family bowed his hands: "Today, my Chen family will form this good cause with the general. Wait a moment, I will order someone to take all the grain and materials."

The choices left to the Chen family are few, only agreeing. If they don't agree, they will die, that's all."

Wang Yan had already occupied a gatehouse and killed his way in, scaring the family soldiers of the Chen family. Although there are still strong men who can be armed and go to battle, Wang Yan is too good at fighting, and his Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers are also red-eyed. Even if they have a way to kill Wang Yan and his party, the loss caused to the Chen family is too great, and it may even collapse the good situation of their family in one battle."

Compared with this, spending money to eliminate disasters is the best solution. And Wang Yan's attitude is kind, and he also promised that they can go to Liaodong to do business in a year. Although it seems to be empty talk now, whether they can live to Liaodong is unknown, but Wang Yan can't be considered a strong robbery. It belongs to pulling investment, although he first killed his way into the gate of the Chen family..."

The process is not beautiful, but the result is very good."

After waiting for a long time, the people of the Chen family led many horses. The Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers counted them one by one, and it was exactly fifty. There were also twelve carriages, carrying grain, meat, salt, bows and arrows, silk, gold, and even a lot of five-zhu coins."

The most valuable horses did not count the horses of the front-row cavalry killed by Wang Yan, and the mules and horses pulling the carriages were not counted in it. The grain sent was ordinary five grains, with millet being the most, which is modern millet. This grain can be stored for a long time and is the main ration at this time. And the horse feed is all fine feed, that is, there is no ratio, all raw materials, such as beans, bran, coarse salt, dry grass, etc. If you need to feed the horses, just adjust them according to the ratio, which is for the convenience of long-term storage."

As the weather warms up, grain and grass must be paid great attention to. Even considering the problem of drinking water and eating, this group of people also sent water carts, vinegar, sauce, and other seasonings, as well as cooking and eating utensils such as yan, huo, xian, ding, etc., which are about the same meaning as the big pots, small pots, big basins, and small bowls in two thousand years, mostly copper."

The Chen family's attitude of being beaten and standing upright is quite correct. This is absolutely knowing the current affairs. Since there is no way to refuse, it is better to be generous. Anyway, they don't lack that little thing."

Wang Yan expressed great satisfaction, and the Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers were also very satisfied."

Letting the Chen family clear the corpses in the gatehouse where there was nowhere to step, and letting the Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers take their own wounded and dead corpses to leave first to the range of arrows, Wang Yan then bowed his hands to the old man Chen, said 'see you later', and then rode away from the Chen Family Fortress, leaving only full of sadness for the Chen family, but it is just the law of the jungle."

Leaving the Chen Family Fortress, Wang Yan and other Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers did not stay, all of them were hungry and walked forward, turned over another hill, and camped by a small stream."

It is said to be camping, but they have no tents for camping, just using the ground as a bed and the sky as a quilt."

Walking all the way, they counted the casualties. 328 people, after this small battle, 36 died and 70 or 80 were injured. Fortunately, the injured people were not seriously injured and were still considered combat soldiers. Of course, this is for now, and there will be tetanus later, but there is no broken arm or leg. Now Wang Yan has no conditions to treat, so he can only let fate decide."

Distinguishing that the grain and grass were non-toxic, he ordered people to cut wood and trees, bury pots and light fires, and strictly ordered not to drink raw water. There were no conditions before, not to mention Wang Yan's resistance was extraordinary, but now there is a big pot, naturally, he cannot drink raw water anymore. This is the truth that every traveler knows."

He also ordered people to dig deep pits on the hillside, and there was no coffin, just earth burial for the dead Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers. No one cares about the life and death of these people. These many people, although they joined the Yellow Turbans for the sake of survival, they had long been prepared for death. The life expectancy of farmers in this era is not long, with military disasters, epidemics, natural disasters, and man-made disasters. It is not certain that there are beasts coming out of the mountains."

Joining the Yellow Turbans is the spirit of doing a job. If you can mix a few full meals, you won't lose. After all, people in this era, most of them haven't eaten a few full meals in their lives, and their nutrition has never been sufficient. This is also the purpose of Wang Yan coming here. The people of the Great Han live bitterly."

The meal was made very quickly because there was no difficulty. They boiled millet porridge and meat soup. Meat soup poured on millet porridge, a group of hungry people were not afraid of heat, all kinds of utensils were used, and when they reached their mouths, they were slurping, eating so fragrant."

Zhang Wu leaned in front of Wang Yan who was slowly drinking meat porridge and millet porridge, looking at Wang Yan hesitantly."

Glancing at him, Wang Yan said: "If you have something to say, say it, if you have a fart, let it go."

"Wu has one thing unclear, hoping the Army Commander will solve the confusion." Seeing Wang Yan didn't speak, Zhang Wu smiled awkwardly and asked, "Before, our brothers had already killed into the dock fortress, why not occupy the Chen family? At the very least, we should ask for more baggage."

"Of course, but the Chen family still has more than a thousand family soldiers. I can save my life, can you? And if we all live, there are many Yellow Turbans and Han troops here. I don't know when we will be surrounded. At that time, what should we do? With the army in front, we are just trapped beasts, looking for death. I know your question, you must be thinking why the Chen family can be stronger than us? We are trapped beasts, why can the Chen family be spared.

But the Chen family is a local powerful family, deeply rooted. If it weren't for the Chen family's contempt for us today, how could we easily kill into the city gate? In my opinion, if the Chen family closes the door, it cannot be broken without ten thousand troops. And now the two armies are facing each other, the Yellow Turbans have no time to take care of it, and the Han army does not harass the Chen family. Even if they are trapped, it is just giving some grain and grass today. If we forcibly occupy the Chen family, do you think the Chen family will obey us? We command ten thousand people with three hundred, internal strife is endless, how can we talk about guarding the fortress?"

"You said to ask for more baggage, but we are all commoners, family slaves, farmers, and hooligans. Now if I ask for more grain and wealth, who do you think will starve? Only the family slaves and farmers under the Chen family. What is the difference between them and us?

Brothers, listen well, you must remember that the place where we will be in the future is to teach the same commoners, family slaves, farmers, and hooligans as us, to have land to farm, houses to live in, doctors to treat diseases, virtuous wives and filial children at home, and big fish and meat to eat. After fighting in the future, you must not burn, kill, and loot, and harm the people, but those who don't listen to the order will be killed without mercy."

"Yes!" The 300 people answered neatly, and after eating some hot meals, they were even a bit sonorous."

"Everyone eat, after eating, take a bath, eat and sleep early today, and get up early tomorrow to rush on the road."

Waving his hand, Wang Yan drank the meat porridge and millet porridge by himself. For these Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers, this porridge is salty and fragrant, but for him, it is quite ordinary. However, the conditions are simple, and there is no other way, so he can only deal with it."

He thought, when he arrives in Liaodong, he will first open a furnace to refine steel and make iron pots. To divide one side and develop, it is only clothing, food, housing, and transportation. If these are settled, naturally materials will be abundant. With these materials, naturally, there will be many soldiers and generals. As long as he governs in the direction of letting everyone eat more and eat better, even if he deviates, he will not deviate too far."

After eating a few bowls of millet porridge to fill his stomach, Wang Yan took off the armor on his body, washed the blood stains on his body with the stream water, washed his long hair, and washed the leather armor. Armor must be maintained. It is certainly not good to wash with water, and it must be waxed or oiled to ensure the corrosion resistance of the armor surface. It's just that the conditions are simple now, not to mention that the armor doesn't fit, so it's just like that. If there are conditions in the future, he will definitely customize a proper iron armor."

Casually throwing the washed armor into the carriage, in the cold early spring night, Wang Yan was naked, with disheveled hair, not caring about the eyes of his subordinates, and pulled a piece of silk from the carriage to wrap around his waist as a bath towel."

Silk is a general term for silk fabrics, which is the famous brocade. Due to low productivity, silk was used as money in the Han and Tang dynasties, and it was still a big ticket."

Under the painful gaze of a group of subordinates, Wang Yan pulled two more pieces and spread them on the ground. Finally, he got two pieces of cloth in his hands, sat by the fire and borrowed the light, using a dagger to cut the cloth. There are still things like needles and threads, which don't take up space, and are directly stuffed into the belt around the waist."

He had been engaged in clothing design for a period of time. Although he mainly designed wedding dresses, all roads lead to the same goal, and the basic problem of tailoring clothes is not big."

He first sewed two loose big underpants. The silk fabric is soft and very soft, which is not bad. At this time, there is no such thing as underwear. Although it is rumored that Huo Qubing studied the crotch cloth, it is obvious that it did not spread on a large scale. In addition, he sewed a set of inner single clothes and an outer green shirt. The stitches are certainly not very good, but it is fine as long as it looks like there is no problem. Wearing this real silk brocade robe, the Army Commander Wang also became the Old Master Wang. The only regret is that the feet are still stepping on straw sandals, not boots."

In addition, he also got a section of peach wood and carved out a hairpin. Before, it was tied with a yellow turban, but he didn't like it very much, so he got a hairpin to insert into his head."

At this moment, his appearance is not like a farmer of today, and there is no appearance of a refugee or a robber. Although the dress is not like a dress, he looks like a free and easy romantic teenager. After all, he is only eighteen this year. Why did that stinky mouth call him a boy? It's just that there is no beard. It can be seen that people cannot be judged by their appearance is a truth. He just looks kind, no one knows how dirty his heart is?"

The next day, around Mao time, which is about five o'clock, the sky brightened, Wang Yan and other Huang Jin miscellaneous soldiers ate another meal of meat porridge and millet porridge, drank horses and fed them, all of them pulled and pulled, and after packing up, they set off on the road."

Now they have fifteen carriages and 126 warhorses. The speed of the team depends on the speed of the carriages. This time, they didn't walk on the mountain ditch again. Of course, they didn't walk on the main road, just exploring some village roads. After

The next day, around the hour of Mao—roughly five o'clock—the sky began to brighten. Wang Yan and the miscellaneous Huang Jin soldiers ate another meal of meat porridge and millet, watered and fed their horses, relieved themselves, and once everything was packed up, they set off on the road.

Now they had fifteen horse-drawn carts and one hundred and twenty-six warhorses; the speed of the team depended on the speed of the carts. This time, when they set off again, they didn't take the mountain gullies, and of course, they didn't take the main roads either; they only explored small village paths. After all, they were now fat sheep. Before, they took the main roads because they were being coerced into fighting; now, it meant not only having their things stolen but also being dragged off to fight.

But taking the small paths was not without its difficulties. It was unclear how yesterday's battle had been fought, but along the way, they encountered scattered routed soldiers. Wang Yan didn't use heavy-handed tactics; he just killed the leaders and that was that. Those willing to follow him could follow, and those who weren't willing... had to follow anyway. Thus, along the way, they gathered quite a few men, and the team actually grew to over four hundred people.

By the afternoon, in the glow of the setting sun, an accident occurred suddenly. Wang Yan and his party of miscellaneous Huang Jin soldiers were surrounded by other miscellaneous Huang Jin soldiers.

This was still within the territory of Anci. They had to travel several dozen more miles before leaving Anci and reaching Yongnu County—the area of the WQ district of Tianjin two thousand years later. Their team was marching in silence when they reached the foot of these hills and bumped into a group of a thousand or so Yellow Turbans.

Wang Yan had long anticipated this situation. Because he had sent Zhao Yu and the other scouts to reconnoiter and find a place to stay for the night, and they hadn't reported back for quite some time, it must have meant an accident had occurred—they were either dead or captured by the enemy. Otherwise, these little Yellow Turbans, who had only eaten two full meals, would have absolutely obeyed his orders.

"Where is Wang Yan?" A burly man with a square face and a bushy beard rode out from the opposite formation, wearing iron armor and boots stamped with patterns.

Examining the figure opposite him, estimating that he was about the same size as himself, perhaps even a bit stronger, Wang Yan rode forward with a cheerful smile. Before the man could say much, he drew his saber and slashed. The man scrambled to respond, but unfortunately, he didn't even manage to draw his own sword before he was beheaded with a single stroke.

Wang Yan had no intention of listening to his blathering. With the enemy being many and them being few, this man certainly had no intention of defecting; what he was thinking of was more likely wanting to swallow up their group. So, a fight was inevitable, and he certainly couldn't spare this man's life.

After all, he only had so many men under his command right now, no territory, and no opportunity to use political maneuvers to marginalize anyone. And since this kid could lead these thousand men, he must have had prestige. Taking him in would just be finding trouble for himself; it was better to kill him directly—it was simpler, and it would also serve to intimidate the remaining thousand or so men.

Slapping the spurting corpse off the horse with his saber to avoid staining the new clothes he had made just last night, Wang Yan rode forward, straight to the front of the Huang Jin soldiers in the rear, stopping only when he was two meters away.

He shouted: "Where are my brothers?"

After a moment of silence, several small leaders looked at one another, and finally, a young voice from the back, whose figure could not be seen, said: "Reporting to the General, the four of them are tied up in the back; they've been beaten quite miserably."

Without waiting for the enemy to attack, the laughing Wang Yan suddenly drew his curved knife and Han sword, clamped the horse's belly, and launched a fierce charge towards the Chen Family Army opposite."

As the saying goes, art is high and bold. In this kind of battle in the gatehouse, if they can break a layer of his skin, he will lose."

The miscellaneous soldiers behind who were still discussing whether the Army Commander could borrow grain calmed down. Although the distance was far and their vision was not good, they could see that the Army Commander's figure was getting farther and farther. Before long, shouts of killing had already come from afar."

Everyone was stunned, looking at each other."

"Did the Army Commander kill his way in?"

"Right?"

Everyone accepted this fact, and calmed down for a while. Zhao Yu, the scout, got on his horse, drew his knife out of the sheath with a clang: "The Army Commander borrowed grain for our brothers, and now he is trapped in the enemy formation. How can we sit and watch? Those with weapons, follow me to charge. Whether we live or die, it is all up to fate."

After saying that, he galloped and followed the Army Commander's footsteps to kill towards the dock fortress."

After Zhao Yu, everyone gritted their teeth, tightened the cloth strips around their waists, and looked at this time to eat and drink. One by one, they picked up their weapons and charged over. Even those without weapons were infected by this atmosphere, burying their heads and charging together."

Wang Yan knew about the movement behind him. Difficult brothers, didn't watch him, the boss, find death alone, and still ran over to save him. Not bad, not bad."

In fact, he really didn't need anyone to save him. After all, he is in the gatehouse now, and he has blocked the people of Chen Family Fortress inside. Although there might be many troops behind, the people in front only faced four or five people at the same time. After a while, the cavalry in the front row were almost killed by him."

He just wanted to borrow some grain, why bother..." ===== CHAPTER 826 =====

One of them had been pierced through the lung by an arrow and had also been slashed several times, rupturing an artery; it looked like he wouldn't survive. Zhao Yu and the other two were doing better, though they had been beaten quite miserably and might have some bone fractures; they would need to rest for a good while.

"Do not worry. It was all for the sake of survival; I understand, and I do not blame you all. You three have no major injuries; you will be fine after resting for a few months."

After offering a word of comfort, Wang Yan had his own men carry the three of them onto the carts to settle them in, then looked with a smile at the nervous youth in front of him: "State your name."

"Reporting to the General, this one's surname is Liao, given name Hua, courtesy name Yuanjian."

"How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

"Good, you shall follow me as a personal guard." Patting Liao Hua on the shoulder, Wang Yan nodded with a smile.

The so-called "times make the hero"—the famous figures of the Three Kingdoms aren't necessarily that much stronger than anyone else. It still comes back to the same point: how much ability a person has depends on the platform. Some people find a platform to perform, others don't. The talents he picks out from the bottom tier for his own separatist regime aren't necessarily any worse than the famous figures of the Three Kingdoms.

Of course, having famous figures under his command is naturally better; otherwise, why would it be called the Three Kingdoms? This is why he didn't kill Zhang Fei—there might be a possibility of incorporating Liu Bei's group in the future. Otherwise, I'm afraid this world would have a hard time having a Shu Han, as he would have just killed Liu, Guan, and Zhang directly.

Liao Hua is naturally a famous figure, belonging to Guan Yu's team. By the later stages of the Three Kingdoms, there was even the saying, "There are no great generals in Shu, Liao Hua serves as the vanguard." Liao Hua might not be very capable, and his strength in single combat is likely not strong, without many glorious achievements. But his seniority is deep, his experience in battle is rich, and he is not bad at leading troops in war.

This statement is not meant to look down on Liao Hua, but merely to say that Shu Han's talent pool was broken, with no one to shoulder the burden; after all, Liao Hua was already sixty or seventy years old by then. Viewed in this light, it is actually a compliment to Liao Hua.

Of course, this is the world of the *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*. In the true world of the Three Kingdoms, Liao Hua was from a powerful clan, not a small Huang Jin soldier, and naturally, he wouldn't have been wandering the world, happening to meet Guan Yu on his thousand-mile journey and throwing his lot in with him.

The current Liao Hua is just wandering, and he, Wang Mou, happened to pick him up.

Looking at the sea of people staring at him, Wang Yan jumped onto his horse's back and stood firm so that everyone could see him clearly. He shouted loudly: "I am Wang Yan, and like you all, I am a member of the Huang Jin Army. And what makes me even more like you is that I come from..."

A great leader must be good at painting a picture of the future. Without a doubt, in this regard, Wang Yan is a professional.

The gist of it was that they were all brothers suffering together. Zhang Jiao had no future and didn't care about them; even if Zhang Jiao became emperor, it would have nothing to do with people like them who shed blood—they would remain poor and go hungry. Moreover, the situation of the Yellow Turbans was bad, and they could be wiped out at any time; following them would only lead to death. He deconstructed the significance of the Huang Jin Uprising. As for the Han court, it went without saying—if they had any ability, why would everyone have to follow Zhang Jiao in rebellion?

If you want a good life, you have to create it yourself. He wanted to take everyone to Liaodong, away from the eyes of the Han court, so they could develop in secret, establish a foundation in Liaodong, and guarantee that everyone would have fine food and drink, and find wives to carry on their family lines. He, Wang Mou, was the same as everyone else; he did this so that everyone could live a good life, and so that no one would dare to bully them.

In a word: talk about class, talk about suffering, talk about the present, talk about the future. Appeal to their emotions, move them with reason, and threaten them with blades.

Yes, during the speech, Wang Yan killed a few more who were looking for death. They were making noise and causing trouble—how could that be allowed?

In short, after the speech, he reorganized the team on the spot. He scattered the original three hundred soldiers who already identified with Wang Yan and the cause he was leading them to do among the more than one thousand newly received men, and basically everyone was promoted. At the same time, he retained some of the officers from the original team, but those they directly led were Wang Yan's original men. By checking and balancing each other and dividing power in this way, he briefly stabilized the team, which had now reached fifteen hundred people.

This is the reason why Cao Cao and the others developed so rapidly. After the defeat of the Yellow Turbans, many routed soldiers became bandits, occupying mountains and declaring themselves kings, and they took over many of the Huang Jin armies.

Now, at the beginning of the war, Wang Yan had only spent two days to reach a force of fifteen hundred; no wonder they say the Huang Jin Army is a source of experience points.

Of course, these people were still very poor right now, both in terms of combat effectiveness and cohesion. But it wasn't a big problem; as long as Wang Yan spent a few days with them and fought a couple of battles, these people would turn into the way Wang Yan wanted them to be.

The thousand-mile journey to Liaodong would surely have many twists and turns, but upon reaching Liaodong, he would surely be able to obtain a formidable force.

This thousand-mile journey would consist of only three things: training, training, and more fucking training...