Chapter 233: Warning

"Take all the craftsmen in the city, and give the grain and fodder to the common people. We should also withdraw." Su Fan stood in the County Government Office, looking into the distance. He knew that Dong Zhuo probably already knew the news of the fall of Ping Yin County.

This was a warning Su Fan gave the other party before leaving.

A few days ago, the two sides had already negotiated that he wanted the official position of Prefect of Yangzhou and General Zhendong, but the coalition had infighting, and more than half left. Dong Zhuo felt he could do it again, so he played tug-of-war with him.

Su Fan was not used to Dong Zhuo. In terms of strength, he was not inferior to Dong Zhuo.

At most, he did not have as much cavalry as the other party, and they were not as elite.

However, he was not without means to deal with cavalry, and besides, in a few years, he would not lack cavalry either.

In the Donghai territory, he had established a horse farm very early, a horse farm that could accommodate 800,000 warhorses.

These years, relying on the business of the Mi clan, he had transported more than 100,000 warhorses from the north. Now the horse farm had also achieved results, and as time passed, there would be more and more warhorses in the horse farm.

Naturally, he would not lack cavalry.

Su Fan was also planning ahead. The south has vast waters and needs a navy, but in the north, if you want to dominate, you must have a cavalry. Otherwise, when facing the warlords of the north, if there is a great battle and you have no cavalry, you will still suffer a loss.

Even if Su Fan has means to restrain cavalry, if it is a light cavalry like the White Horse Righteous Followers, it is very troublesome to keep harassing you.

In reality, there truly wasn't any heavy cavalry at present. Even the Xiliang Iron Cavalry only wore leather armor. After all, Dong Zhuo did not come from a top-tier noble family; where would he get the foundation to provide heavy iron armor for all his subordinates?

Only Su Fan has this ability.

In fact, there is a heavy cavalry in the Donghai territory, but it is an experimental force because Su Fan is preparing to build this heavy cavalry into an invincible existence.

Even their iron armor is to be equipped with rune secret armor.

This kind of rune secret armor is also a kind of rune artifact built by the Mohist craftsmen according to Su Fan's suggestions.

Of course, the cost of this kind of rune secret armor is also quite large. One piece of rune secret armor costs as much as a hundred pieces of iron armor.

And it must be a Mohist craftsman who practices the Dao of runes to build it.

Therefore, the number of people in this experimental unit is not large.

Although he has earned a lot of wealth through business these years, he has to spend money and grain everywhere, especially in the military, and the wealth consumed every year is also astonishingly large.

But the money and grain Su Fan has spent in the military these years have now been displayed.

Just like now, Ping Yin County has 50,000 troops, but Su Fan only used 30,000 to break through the county city.

It can be said that it was a complete crush. Without other warlords, Su Fan completely released the combat power of the army.

Although Ping Yin City had rune arrays to strengthen it, it still could not block Su Fan's army of 30,000.

Of course, there were also fierce generals like Xu Chu and Chen Dao who played a great role. In Ping Yin City, although there were also Gang-Refining generals, compared to Xu Chu and Chen Dao, the gap was not just a little bit.

Martial artists between the True Gang realm might not have much difference, but like the Origin Spirit realm and Divine Treasury realm, the gap of one level is very large.

Not to mention the gap of several levels.

After Xu Chu rushed to the top of the city wall, those two Gang-Refining martial generals could not block his single blade.

So Ping Yin City simply did not block Su Fan's army for long.

Taking this city, Su Fan was also giving Dong Zhuo a reminder, telling him that even if others left, he could still threaten Luoyang.

A few days ago, the news from Hulao Pass came, and after Tao Qian and Kong Zhou knew about it, they led their armies to Hulao Pass.

Dong Zhuo went back on his word a bit, so Su Fan planned this, and finally the counterattack before leaving.

When he came, there was an army of 50,000, and when he returned, there were 100,000 people. This included the talents he scoured and some refugees.

Sure enough, a few days later, Su Fan had not yet walked out of Henei, and that Li Su arrived again, and also brought an appointment edict, but the other party played a small trick. He gave him the General Zhendong, but the Prefect of Yangzhou became the Prefect of Yuzhou.

Su Fan knew what the other party meant, nothing more than wanting to see him and Yuan Shu fight.

In fact, not only him, but the warlords who left were all given official titles and noble ranks by Dong Zhuo. Only Yuan Shao and a few other warlords who were still at Hulao Pass were not moved by Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and the others did not move, obviously these people were not reconciled.

But their army of a million, wanting to attack Luoyang City, is not easy. Lv Bu is not dead, and with this fierce general Lv Bu sitting in town, these warlords are also afraid.

After all, if they really continue, Lv Bu comes out, who will block him? Without Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, the warlords then discovered that the martial generals under their command, facing Lv Bu, were like paper.

Of course, Yan Liang and Wen Chou under Yuan Shao are actually not bad, and their cultivation has also reached the sixth level of Gang-Refining.

Their strength is also at the top level among the generals under the warlords, and they are only slightly worse than Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. The two joining forces to fight against the seventh level of Gang-Refining is not afraid.

The two are from the same school and share the same mind. Joining forces to fight, their combat power will be raised by a level.

But relying on the two of them alone, they are not Lv Bu's opponents. Under Dong Zhuo's command, there are also fierce generals like Hua Xiong and Zhang Liao.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Su Fan. Whether Yuan Shao and these warlords are willing to continue to fight Dong Zhuo to the death has nothing to do with Su Fan.

Both sides fighting to the death is the best. They fight until their heads are broken and blood flows, while he develops rapidly in the rear.

This time he came to participate in the coalition to clear the monarch's side, just to make a name for himself, and also to plan for an official position.

Now all this has been achieved. Although Dong Zhuo played a small trick and changed the Prefect of Yangzhou, the Prefect of Yuzhou is actually even more wonderful for Su Fan.

Because he can openly recruit those talents in Yingchuan, especially the Xun clan of Yingchuan.

What Su Fan desires most now is Xun Yu.

This person, who is called the talent of the king in later generations, and whose administrative ability is not under Xiao He and Zhuge Liang, is actually the talent Su Fan lacks most now.

As the territory gets larger and larger, the government affairs he needs to handle are getting more and more, and Su Fan is naturally not very willing to do this.

He still likes to be that kind of hands-off shopkeeper, but it is very difficult to have such a person who can command all officials under his command.

Xi Zhicai is a strategist; he has strategy and can plan, but if he is asked to handle comprehensive government affairs, he is a few points lacking. Cheng Yu is actually the same; they are more about planning.

And Xun Yu is different. Xun Yu is a true talent for a Prime Minister, just like Zhuge Liang.

Of course, Zhuge Liang is a peerless all-rounder. Whether it is government affairs or military affairs, or even a staff strategist, he is at the top level.

Such a person is rare in the ages.

However, now Zhuge Liang is still a little brat, and Su Fan cannot find him, so Xun Yu, as the talent of the king, is his best candidate. ===== CHAPTER 234 =====