Chapter 265

"Haha! Excellent!"

"This Yuan Benchu suffered such a big loss, and actually held back."

In the General's Mansion of the Donghai Ling, Su Fan looked at the news passed by the Dark Owls, his face full of smiles.

Although he had become the master of Xuzhou, Su Fan did not move to Xiapi, but instead lived in this Donghai Ling.

After all, this General's Mansion of his had spent a lot of effort to build. Although the exterior of the entire mansion was antique, the interior was similar to the Earth of later generations.

Flush toilets, bathtubs, showers, even the lighting, all were converted using runes.

The Yuan energy condensed by runes could also be converted into heat energy, light energy, etc. The energy principle of lighting was still very simple: electrical energy converted into heat energy, and the filament was heated to emit light.

There was no difficulty at all for those Mohist craftsmen regarding light bulbs and filaments. Perhaps they did not understand any conservation of energy, but as long as you said it.

Those people could soon replicate it. This was the ability of the Mohist craftsmen.

Of course, in this world, besides oil lamps, for lighting, wealthy and powerful families also had a kind of fluorescent stone, a natural luminous body.

It was just that Su Fan felt uncomfortable. Of course, these fluorescent stones were not the things with radiation mentioned in later generations.

However, Su Fan did not like it, so he still let the Mohist craftsmen build this electrical energy system.

And this also became something that major families competed to pursue. At least in East Sea Commandery, in every major family, it was quite popular, and they were all proud of being able to build this set.

It could be said that Su Fan was also leading a new fashion.

Traveling through several lifetimes, it had been two hundred years, but Su Fan still did not dare or did not want to forget the first lifetime.

Bright and spacious meeting hall, bear skin and tiger skin sofas, the white jade porcelain on the tea table beside the sofa, slowly overflowing with points of heat.

A group of strategists and generals sat on this sofa, looking not like ancient times at all, but like a modern meeting.

"My Lord, these two Zhang Bao brothers are indeed decisive. It seems that after experiencing Zhang Jiao's life and death, they have also been tempered."

"After snatching a few cities, Zhang Bao and their strength will increase by a few points. By then, we can continue to lure them out of the mountains to harass Ji Province."

Guo Jia and the others were all full of smiles, because Zhang Bao and the others suddenly attacked, making Yuan Shao's army that was pursuing Gongsun Zan have to return.

Now if they wanted to pursue again, it was already very difficult. The manpower and material resources consumed by going back and forth were extremely large.

If one was not careful, if they folded into it, it would be finished.

Marching and fighting, this journey was also a huge test. After all, this was not modern times, and the roads were smooth.

Although Shenhan inherited the Immortal Qin, the main roads were indeed not small, and they were very long, but after all, they were not accessible in all directions, and some had to climb mountains and ridges, which was also extremely tempering for the army.

As for whether Zhang Bao and their strength would become stronger and threaten them, no one cared.

It was not that they looked down on the Yellow Turbans.

But the Yellow Turban army was different from those warlords. Those warlords, no matter what, still had people who recognized them, and had families who recognized them.

And the Yellow Turban army, let alone the recognition of the literati, even many common people in the local area did not recognize them.

The common people at the bottom, although they had not read books, also understood the disaster of the Yellow Turbans.

In reality, the Taiping Dao was considered not bad at the beginning, but the Yellow Turban army was different. Every time they went to a place, they almost harmed the people and livestock there to a mess.

And more importantly, Zhang Bao and the others had no foundation. Taihang Mountains as a foundation was indeed difficult to be attacked, but wanting to develop was impossible.

Without a foundation, unable to develop, only relying on plunder, it was impossible to last long.

So everyone did not care about the increase in Zhang Bao and their strength. The stronger they were, the better it was. In that case, Yuan Shao would be even more troubled.

"However, Zhang Bao and the others can only be considered a side force. If it weren't for this surprise attack, Yuan Benchu would probably not have come to rescue at all."

"The key is still to look at Gongsun Zan."

Several strategists still valued Gongsun Zan more. After all, Zhang Bao and their strength were just like that, and there was no powerful combat power.

Although there was an army of millions, they had all seen the Yellow Turban army before. Except for a few troops, other Yellow Turban armies were no different from refugees fleeing.

What kind of combat power could there be?

Gongsun Zan was different. Although he was defeated this time, and even the strongest White Horse Righteous Followers lost half.

However, their foundation was still there. As long as there was money and grain, they could soon recover some, even if they could not recover to their peak.

Yuan Shao wanted to attack Youzhou. If the other party fought to the death, he would definitely bite off a piece of the other party's meat.

"Not bad, My Lord, next, you can continue to support the other party with a batch of resources, and at the same time, you can exchange for a batch of warhorses and cattle and sheep."

Was the Donghai Ling short of warhorses? Naturally, they were short. After all, cavalry was always the king of land warfare.

In the era before thermal weapons appeared, cavalry was the king of the era. Even if you had various means to restrain them.

But it was only restraint.

The Donghai Ling had abundant supplies. How many warhorses they had, they could raise how many cavalry. Unlike Gongsun Zan and the others, although it was simple to obtain warhorses.

But cavalry, they could at most not exceed two hundred thousand. If they exceeded this number, they really could not afford to raise them.

Raising a cavalry was even five or ten times the cost of infantry, especially the raising of warhorses, which was even more expensive.

Warhorses were not pack horses. You could just throw them on the grassland.

Others, even Yuan Shao, did not dare to raise too many cavalry. However, these were not problems for the Donghai Ling.

How rich were the supplies of the Donghai Ling? Just the output of the Donghai Ling for one year was richer than a province.

Productivity far exceeded other regions, so the Donghai Ling was the most prosperous place in Shenhan, and there was no problem.

And as Xuzhou fell into Su Fan's hands, Su Fan constantly radiated to the surrounding area with the Donghai Ling, and the output under his rule was getting stronger and stronger.

Raising hundreds of thousands of cavalry was not a problem at all.

Youzhou produced horses, especially the tall horses of Youzhou. Su Fan previously let Mi Zhu buy warhorses, which were also mostly from Youzhou.

Because most of the Bingzhou fell into the hands of the grassland barbarians, wanting to trade warhorses from that side also became much more difficult.

Because these grassland barbarians, their brains were simple, but they would not do business, but they were very good at being bandits.

Over time, no merchants would go to Bingzhou.

Only Youzhou had Gongsun Zan, and his White Horse Righteous Followers were the ones who shook the barbarians in the north.

That was relying on bloody slaughter to deter those barbarians, and then they had peaceful days.

Liu Yu's appeasement was quite ridiculous. If it weren't for the border army, if it weren't for Gongsun Zan constantly slaughtering, making the barbarians afraid, could he appease them?

Grassland barbarians would always fear power and not cherish virtue.