Chapter 276: The Final Tranquility

"My Lord!"

"Why have you all come?"

"It is because of the assassination attempt on me a few days ago."

Su Fan looked at Xun You, Guo Jia, Gao Lan, Xu Chu, and the others, a smile appearing on his face. He didn't need to guess to know that these people had likely come because of the assassin who had tried to kill him a few days ago.

"My Lord, was it someone sent by Yuan Shao? I should return to your side."

Xu Chu said with a serious face.

As the commander of Su Fan's personal guards, he felt very guilty that he was not by his Lord's side.

"Haha! Zhongkang, have you forgotten E Lai? With E Lai by my side, let alone a mere assassin, even if Lv Bu were to arrive, he would not be able to harm me in the slightest."

"Wei Jun still needs you."

Su Fan shook his head with a smile.

Xu Chu, hearing this, fell silent. He also knew that his Lord was right; E Lai's strength was not the least bit weaker than his own, having already reached the peak of the eighth level of Gang Refining.

Even if Lv Bu were to arrive in person, with E Lai there, it would be very difficult for Lv Bu to harm his Lord, and his Lord's own strength was not to be underestimated either.

"You don't need to worry. Back then, Yuan Gonglu sent people to assassinate me, and they didn't succeed, let alone Yuan Shao."

Su Fan didn't care at all. If one were to speak of danger, the time Yuan Shu sent people to assassinate him was much more dangerous, with six assassins and a group of clan elders.

The other party was now thinking of beheading Su Fan to leave the Xu Province forces without a leader, but unfortunately, he underestimated the generals under Su Fan's command.

So that great battle was also quite intense, nearly earth-shattering, and those who participated all had combat power at the Divine Treasury level.

Yuan Shao's assassination attempt looked more like a game of house.

Of course, it was indeed not a game of house. Although the assassin was easily captured by Su Fan and his men, it did not mean that this person's ability and assassination methods were not strong.

If it were someone else, they would likely have been in a life-or-death situation encountering this person's assassination; if they were really assassinated, Yuan Shao might truly be able to turn the tables.

Unfortunately, he encountered Su Fan, an existence with an extremely powerful spirit.

"Now that you have all returned, how is Wei Jun?"

Su Fan's current military camp was set up in PY City of Dong Commandery, using this place as a logistical transit base.

It provided grain, soldiers, armor, and so on for Huang Zhong's army in Chenliu and Zang Ba's forces in Wei Jun.

Su Fan did not need to personally go to the battlefield to command; he only needed to ensure that the logistics for the two armies in the two locations had sufficient guarantees.

In Su Fan's eyes, as long as logistics were sufficient, the army would be very difficult to defeat.

On Huang Zhong's side, the priority was defense. At the beginning, the Imperial Court's offensive was quite fierce, with Lv Bu and Cao Cao joining forces.

Although the current Cao Cao could not compare to the peak Old Cao, and his military ability could not be fully unleashed,

he was still not to be underestimated. Lv Bu went without saying; perhaps Lv Bu's strategy was trash, but in terms of tactics, looking across the end of the Han and the Three Kingdoms, who dared to guarantee they could surpass him?

Fortunately, Huang Zhong was steady, especially emphasizing the word "steady."

With hundreds of thousands of troops in Chenliu defending the border line, relying on the advantage of defending the city, no matter how Lv Bu and the others attacked, Huang Zhong held his ground in an orderly manner.

Su Fan's army had a very strong attack, but as for defense, that went without saying, especially Huang Zhong's archer battalion, which was truly terrifying.

Relying on the advantage of the high city walls, looking down from a height, and having sufficient, endless supplies, if Lv Bu dared to come, they would use bows and crossbows to make Lv Bu suffer heavy losses.

So Su Fan did not give Huang Zhong too many generals there, only bringing Wei Yan and some other generals from Jing Province.

They also did not disappoint Su Fan at all.

The other side was the same. Now Zang Ba and his group, leading a million-strong army and joining the remaining Yellow Turban army, had even reached Wei Jun.

Yuan Shao was relatively more difficult to deal with. After all, if one were to talk about Yuan Shao at the beginning, perhaps he didn't have a peerless fierce general like Lv Bu, but in other aspects, he should have been stronger.

So Su Fan specifically let Xu Chu, a fierce general second only to Huang Zhong, go to the front line as well.

In the two years of great battles with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao might not have had many peerless fierce generals under his command, only Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Han De, and a few others.

But as for mid-level officers, Yuan Shao had more than Yuan Shu, especially the generals at the Gang Refining stage. Perhaps there weren't many top-tier fierce generals at the Gang Refining stage, but there were very many of those at the initial stage of Gang Refining.

This was also the Yuan clan's foundation.

Although Su Fan had been cultivating them, compared to the Yuan clan's existence for ten thousand years, he was still far behind.

So he had no choice but to win with quality over quantity.

After all, under Su Fan's command, there were more fierce generals who had left their names in history.

Overall, Su Fan still held the upper hand.

Now that Xu Chu and the others had time to return, it was clear that the fighting there had calmed down somewhat; otherwise, if it were truly a critical moment, Xu Chu and the others could not have easily left.

Sure enough, hearing Su Fan's inquiry,

Xu Chu did not speak but looked at Xun You.

Xun You smiled and explained: "Now the army has reached Ye Cheng, but General Xuangao and the others felt that the soldiers had been fighting for too long, and their spirit and physical strength were somewhat exhausted."

"So they ordered a few days of rest to recover their spirit before taking Ye Cheng in one fell swoop."

"Hmm! That's not bad."

Reaching Ye Cheng—Su Fan, hearing this, nodded with satisfaction. Zang Ba and the others' speed was fast enough.

A few days ago, they were still at Wei Jun, and in these few days, they had taken two more cities.

It seemed Yuan Shao was truly at the end of his rope; of course, it was also possible that Yuan Shao was contracting his forces.

But regardless of which one it was, it showed that Yuan Shao's strength was diminishing.

"Xuangao handled it well. Fighting Yuan Benchu, we can fight slowly, not letting him have any chance to turn the tables."

Yuan Shao's foundation could not be crushed instantly, so they would grind away his strength step by step.

As for Zang Ba and the others, Su Fan was not worried at all. Over these years, Zang Ba had been fighting south and north, and his ability to command troops was definitely among the best of the generals.

Historically, his fame was a bit inferior to famous generals like Cao Ren, and the reason for this was his status.

Even after later defecting to Cao Cao, he did not enter Cao Cao's core.

In reality, the core of Cao Cao's generals in history was always the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan; generals like the Five Elite Generals were also rarely able to become commanders-in-chief, only acting as deputies.

Let alone Zang Ba.

But in this world, Zang Ba was among the first batch to follow Su Fan, constantly gaining experience, and his military strategy was very formidable, plus his talent was not bad.

So for this great battle, Su Fan handed the army to him. Although his personal martial strength was not the strongest among the generals, and even under Su Fan's command, his personal bravery could not be ranked in the top ten, or even the top twenty.

But as a commander-in-chief, no one was unconvinced.

All of this was fought out by him.

His battle record was quite fierce; Su Fan's men, Zang Ba, fighting south and north, had conquered quite a large territory. ===== CHAPTER 277 =====