Chapter 298

Lord Yuan Shu felt cold sweat on his back.

That's right! Even if he didn't want to give it, with the combat power and number of troops Su Xuan showed now, taking Runan by surprise was indeed not a problem.

By then, he and even the Runan Lord Yuan family would really be completely finished.

Even if he could run away with some people and money, it would benefit Lord Yuan Shao.

This is absolutely not allowed!

Even if he lost everything, he couldn't benefit that bastard Lord Yuan Shao.

Thinking of this, Lord Yuan Shu gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and said to Su Xuan: "Good! 2 million shi of grain it is! I agree!"

"And 1 million gold!"

Su Xuan added.

Lord Yuan Shu heard this, glared at Su Xuan, and said angrily: "I know! I won't be short of yours! I will send someone back to send a message and let them prepare the money and grain, is that okay?"

"Release that Yang Hong to me, without him, Runan might not believe it!"

"Also, prepare some pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for me."

In the past few years, Su Xuan had already sold some paper on a small scale to those great gentry clans.

However, the price was very expensive.

It was to avoid touching the sensitive nerves of the gentry clans too early, and at the same time, to earn money in this regard.

Therefore, Lord Yuan Shu naturally knew about paper and used quite a bit of it on weekdays.

"Done! I'll prepare it for you! Haha!"

Su Xuan smiled knowingly and beckoned to Jia San on the side.

Jia San understood and left. Not long after, he brought pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and also brought Yang Hong.

After Lord Yuan Shao wrote the letter, stamped it, handed it to Yang Hong, and told Yang Hong about the ransom, he finally said: "Yang Hong! Next, the matter of the ransom is up to you! When we can get out of trouble depends entirely on you!"

"I hope you don't let me down, and get things done for me as soon as possible!"

"After it's done, there will be benefits for you!"

"Yes!"

Yang Hong immediately agreed happily: "My Lord, don't worry, I will get this done as soon as possible!"

"Hmm!"

Lord Yuan Shu nodded with satisfaction, and then sent Yang Hong away.

"Brother Gonglu! Wancheng has already been taken by my people, why don't we move to Wancheng to rest for a few days, and wait until the ransom is ready! Then we will go to Ye County to hand over?"

Su Xuan then looked at Lord Yuan Shu and invited him.

"What? You took Wancheng so quickly? Do you have other troops besides these tens of thousands?"

Lord Yuan Shu's face changed, and he was shocked.

"Heh! Naturally!"

Su Xuan smiled and nodded: "I have no less than 120, 00 troops under my command, I know Wancheng very well, and the troops you left there are not many, so it was not difficult to take it!"

In fact, including the captured and reorganized Xiliang troops this time, his troops were almost 200, 00.

But he felt it was better to be conservative, so as not to scare Lord Yuan Shu and make him run to unite with other warlords to deal with him, which would not be good.

But even 120, 00 scared Lord Yuan Shu, his face was ugly: "Are all 120, 00 of them of this combat power?"

"Naturally not!"

Su Xuan shook his head without hesitation: "Only 30, 00 or 40, 00 are true elites, all cultivated in the past few years, the rest are actually new recruits recruited more than half a year ago;"

"Brother Gonglu, you should know this very clearly;"

"At the beginning, I was just the Nanjun Prefect, and I couldn't afford so many troops!"

"These were all expanded after I became the Jingzhou Shepherd."

Yeah! He just hid a little bit!

The old soldiers add up to 50, 00 or 60, 00, and the rest are not all pure new recruits, many are reserve forces trained in the past.

They already have a good foundation. After formal recruitment and half a year of training, they already have good strength.

At least, they are much stronger than these so-called elites of Lord Yuan Shu.

"Is that so? That makes sense!"

Lord Yuan Shu believed it, because it was very reasonable.

At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

If there were only 40, 00 or 50, 00 such elites, it was barely acceptable, and he still had a chance to defeat Su Xuan in the future.

Otherwise, he would really have to give up, or unite directly with other warlords to eliminate Su Xuan first.

Even though he breathed a sigh of relief now, he still regarded Su Xuan as his second greatest enemy in the future.

As for the first greatest enemy?

That was naturally Lord Yuan Shao.

He knew the energy of the Lord Yuan family too well.

Lord Yuan Shao, who took half of the Lord Yuan family's energy, would definitely burst out with terrifying potential and become extremely tricky in the future.

He wanted to become strong enough before that, so that he could compete with Lord Yuan Shao in the future.

Originally, Lord Yuan Shu thought that the future struggle for the world would be a civil war between him and Lord Yuan Shao.

Other warlords were just dogs and chickens in his eyes.

At most, they would be fierce for a while, and they would be on his side in the future.

But this failure made him understand that Su Xuan was also a strong enemy of his.

As for Dong Zhuo?

He had never put him in his eyes.

In his view, Dong Zhuo, who retreated to Guanzhong, was not far from death, and there was no premise.

What, you say Cao Cao, Sun Sun Jian?

Heh! In Lord Yuan Shu's eyes, one was just a descendant of a eunuch, and the other was just the son of a melon farmer who achieved a little success by relying on their Lord Yuan family.

Both were ignored by Lord Yuan Shu.

Even before this time, Lord Yuan Shu didn't look up to Su Xuan, even though Su Xuan had already become the Jingzhou Shepherd, General of the Front, and Marquis of Jiangling.

"Then let's go to Wancheng first!"

Lord Yuan Shu said to Su Xuan.

He didn't have many choices.

Su Xuan seemed to be asking, but he also had to be sensible. If he wasn't sensible, he felt that Su Xuan wouldn't give him a good look.

"Wait! After I get out of trouble this time, I will develop well. When I expand to hundreds of thousands or millions of troops, I will be able to crush you just by relying on numbers! Hmph!"

"By then, the shame you gave me today, and what you swallowed of mine, will all be returned to me double."

Lord Yuan Shu secretly swore in his heart.

This is the foundation of his Lord Yuan family.

It is not something that a county magistrate's son like Su Xuan can compare to.

In the following days, Su Xuan's troops attacked everywhere, easily taking Nanyang.

And concentrated Lord Yuan Shu's officials and troops in Ye County, waiting for the transaction.

At the same time, the news of Su Xuan ambushing Lord Yuan Shu and capturing Lord Yuan Shu alive in one battle spread throughout the Great Han at a very fast speed.

Bohai, Jizhou,

"Bang!"

When Lord Yuan Shao received this news, he had just returned to Bohai and was preparing to plot against Han Fu and Gongsun Zan to seize Jizhou.

As a result, he learned of such a shameful news, and he was furious.

"Lord Yuan Shu, this piece of trash, why doesn't he just die?"

"He lost face to the point of losing it to the grandmother's house!"

"Not only was he captured alive, but tens of thousands of troops under his command were all captured, and he went to persuade them to surrender himself. Is there anything more outrageous than this?"

"2 million shi of grain, 1 million gold! How much money and grain is this?"

"Does he know how many troops this money and grain can allow Su Xuan to recruit?"

"Does he know how many years it would take for our Lord Yuan family to accumulate this?"

"Trash! Prodigal son! Trash!! Bastard!!"

Lord Yuan Shao was so angry that he overturned the table, his eyes red, showing the anger in his heart.

Xu You on the side waited for Lord Yuan Shao to vent his anger before stroking his beard and saying: "My Lord! Su Xuan not only got Nanyang this time, but also got such a large amount of money and grain. His strength will probably soar again in a short period of time. We have to guard against it!"

"It's best to make targeted strategies to limit his development!"

"Otherwise, by the time we take Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and other places, who knows how much his strength will expand!"

"Indeed!"

Guo Tu on the side also nodded: "This person will definitely be our great enemy in the future!"

"However, it is a bit strange that he is willing to let Lord Yuan Shu go this time?"

"To maximize benefits, he could have completely killed Lord Yuan Shu and then occupied Runan and even the entire Yuzhou."

Guo Tu expressed that he couldn't understand.

Lord Yuan Shao nodded slightly, and had the same doubt...

"Heh! Shallow!"

Xu You looked at Guo Tu with irony: "Lord Yuan Gonglu is indeed incompetent, but he is a legitimate son of the Lord Yuan family after all, and inherited at least half of the Lord Yuan family's foundation. If he were rashly killed, even if Su Xuan occupied Runan and even Yuzhou, he would definitely provoke the counterattack and targeting of the Lord Yuan family's forces in Yuzhou;"

"By then, he would definitely not have a good time!"

"In addition, if he showed such strong aggressiveness and strength from the beginning, he would definitely be regarded as the greatest enemy by all the warlords in the world;"