All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 214 Zhu Family Manor (Part )

"Oops."

Li Ying was able to accumulate a fortune, so he definitely had a good vision.

When he saw the opposite side lined up with thousands of soldiers in neat rows, he was immediately dumbfounded.

Such a large number of elite soldiers cannot be bought off with just a few hundred or a thousand strings of coins.

When ancient soldiers fought, the first thing they looked at was the formation.

Those who can arrange themselves neatly, horizontally and vertically must be the elite.

In the modern world, this kind of thing can be done easily by students during school exercises, but it was very difficult to accomplish in ancient times when people were generally illiterate, malnourished, most people could not even tell left from right, and the so-called elite troops only trained once every ten days.

Chen Ran also put in a lot of effort, including improving nutrition, opening night schools, differentiating between left and right shoes, exercising every day, etc.

The training time and intensity are not long enough, but I can’t say anything else, but there is definitely no problem with this queue.

Chen Ran led hundreds of mounted infantrymen and rode forward, and when they were several dozen steps away from Li Ying, he shouted, "But is Master Li in person?"

"I am Li Ying~~~"

Li Ying, who was in a panic, responded quickly, "I wonder why you guys came to my Lijia Village? If you are passing by here and need money, Lijia Village will do its best to provide you with some."

"Master Li."

Chen Ran waved his hand and said, "Don't say these useless things. We have brought so many soldiers to your place, and we will not leave until we destroy the village."

Li Ying was suddenly panicked.

He also understood the rules of the underworld. He brought so many brothers out to rob and plunder. If they didn't get enough benefits, they would cause trouble.

In fact, the army is similar. The difference is that the elite soldiers are well-trained and can obey orders when they have enough food and pay.

If the army is short of both food and money, it will only take a few minutes for it to turn into a bandit group.

Li Ying wanted to say something, but Chen Ran waved his hand, and immediately a rider came forward from behind him and lit a stick of incense in his hand.

Chen Ran's words then reached Li Ying's ears.

"Before this incense burns out, Master Li must submit to me. If you still refuse to submit when it burns out."

At this point, Chen Ran looked past Li Ying and the others and looked towards Lijiazhuang in the distance. "I promise the owner that before sunrise tomorrow, only ruins and corpses will be left in Lijiazhuang!"

Things like intimidation need to be calculated in advance, and not just spoken at will at any time and place.

Even the thugs on the street will send separate groups before making threats.

Chen Ran has studied Li Ying.

Knowing that this rich man has a large family and so many family members, he is the kind of person who cares deeply about others.

To put it simply, as a wealthy man with a happy family, it would be difficult for Li Ying to make the decision to die in glory rather than live in disgrace.

Without waiting for the flustered Li Ying to say anything, Chen Ran had already turned his horse around and led a group of mounted infantry back to his own formation, leaving only the soldier holding the burning incense, who stood there holding the incense in his hand.

"Zhuang, Zhuangzhu~~~"

The people from Lijiazhuang who followed Li Ying out were filled with grief, fear, anger, and eager to try.

But it was obvious that those who were able to come up and talk were basically all in a panic, and were hesitant to speak.

Have a home, a career, a wife and children, and a warm bed.

Once a person has concerns, his fighting spirit will quickly weaken.

This is completely different from those bachelors who are not afraid of wearing shoes while barefoot.

Li Ying was also extremely anxious.

If you vote for them, everything will be in their hands.

For a rich man like him, this is absolutely unwilling.

But if you don't vote.
Looking at the elite soldiers in the distance who were arranged neatly, not running around or making noise, he felt a chill again.

In fact, what Li Ying didn’t know was that Chen Ran’s first training session was formation training, after all, this was a required subject in military training.

These soldiers may not be really elite, but they have to stand for an hour during training every day. This has become a habit, and it naturally brings a huge sense of oppression.

Li Ying took a deep breath and turned to ask, "Have anyone from Zhujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang come?"

It's impossible for the other two villages to gather troops to come to the rescue in such a short time, but they should at least send someone to come over as quickly as possible to take a look.

He made up his mind that as long as the messenger came before the incense went out, he would go back and hold the position and wait for help!
After all, he is a powerful country, how could he surrender so easily?

Time passed quickly, and before the incense burned out, no one from Zhujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang came.

Li Ying sighed, told everyone to stay where they were, and not move. He then rode his horse forward and came in front of Chen Ran.

He turned over, got off his horse and bowed, calling him "brother~~~"

"From now on, we are all family. I appoint you as the logistics manager of the Tianxingdao Army." Chen Ran instructed, "A big war will break out in Dulonggang soon. Send your family to Qingfeng Town and come back after the war is over."

There is no doubt that this is the hostage.

Li Ying was knowledgeable and knew that even if he were in the opposite position, he would still demand hostages in hand, otherwise if the rear rebelled during the war, everything would be over.

As for reputation in the underworld, only a rookie idiot would believe in that stuff.

A true boss is always sweet-mouthed but treacherous, and always tells lies.

The response of Zhujiazhuang and Hudiazhuang was really slow. It was not until three days later that someone came to Lijiazhuang.

On the one hand, the three villages have different positions. Lijia Village is responsible for paying money in the Dulonggang Black Society Alliance, and the other two powerful families don't think highly of them. Another reason is that Hu Sanniang from Hujia Village and Zhu Biao from Zhujia Village are busy with the engagement process.

They also didn't expect that Chen Ran didn't play by the rules at all and forced Lijiazhuang to surrender right away.

If they come to force them to surrender, they will definitely spit at them with disdain and then start fighting.

Only after the messenger brought back the news did they hurriedly begin to make preparations.

Chen Ran rejected Yang Zhi's plan to let Li Ying lure Zhujiazhuang and Hudiazhuang into the trap.

What he said was, 'How can we let Master Li fall into an unjust situation!'

Li Ying was deeply moved by these words.

The real reason was that Chen Ran knew that Li Ying would not agree, and even if he agreed, he would find ways to shirk it. So it was better not to do it at all and try to gain his favor.

After two days of rest, Chen Ran once again took out more than 10,000 roast ducks to increase the food supply. The morale of the team that captured a village without any casualties immediately rose again.

This is different from other bandits who would always eat and drink lavishly when going out to fight.

Chen Ran led his troops according to the military system. Once they went into battle, drinking was not allowed unless it was a crucial and life-and-death assault.

Even the drunkard Lu Zhishen was not allowed to drink, let alone other people.

After resting, Chen Ran sent out troops again, but this time he brought Li Ying with him.

His words were very direct, "We have to convince Master Li."

What does it mean to be convinced wholeheartedly?

Witness your side’s powerful victory with your own eyes!
The terrain of Dulonggang is a protruding hill in the vast plain.

There are no other hills or slopes around, so this place is called Dulonggang.

The three villages are distributed on three sides of Dulonggang, and their positions are similar to equilateral triangles, surrounding the entire Dulonggang.

Taking over Lijiazhuang meant defeating one corner. Next, Chen Ran chose to go straight to Zhujiazhuang.

In the original novel, Song Heizi brought more than 6,000 followers to attack Zhujiazhuang, but he fought three times in a row and finally defeated the enemy by capturing Hu Sanniang alive.

As for the so-called three attacks on Zhujiazhuang, in Chen Ran's opinion, it was just a fight among gangs, only on a larger scale.

He came to fight with regular troops, not gangsters fighting with knives.

A few miles away from Zhujiazhuang, the troops marching along the foot of Dulonggang Mountain gradually stopped one after another.

Not long after, a scout from the front came on horseback to report, "There are ambushes in the forest two miles away."

"They are planning to attack us from behind when we reach the gate of Zhujiazhuang." The experienced Yang Zhi laughed immediately, "This Zhujiazhuang is quite interesting."

Marching and fighting are different from fighting in gangs. The scouts sent forward are composed of the most elite soldiers in the entire army. They will carefully search any area where danger may occur.

It is also because of this that the possibility of regular troops being ambushed has always been very low.

Chen Ran smiled and said nothing more.

He turned around and asked Li Ying who was standing beside him, "Master Li, how far is it to Zhujiazhuang?"

"About five or six miles."

"Okay." Chen Ran nodded. "Put on armor!"

When soldiers and horses are on the march, they do not wear armor all the way, and even cavalrymen rarely run on horses.

Only before the battle did he put on his armor and mount his horse.

The soldiers went to different ox-horse-mule carts according to their respective organizations to get their weapons and armor and put them on.

Chen Ran's soldiers did not have much armor. Although he had summoned blacksmiths to Qingfeng Town to smelt iron and make armor, only two-thirds of the army was wearing armor at this time, and most of them were leather armor.

After all, they are not the regular troops of the imperial court, so the armor rate is already very good.

Most of the armor was purchased by Chen Ran from Governor Murong. Basically, all the armor in Qingzhou's inventory fell into his hands.

The soldiers put on their armor, took up their weapons and began to line up.

The cavalrymen. The ones who lacked training were probably the mounted infantrymen, who began to feed their horses with bean cakes and salt water.

Auxiliary troops and civilian laborers built a large camp in an open area nearby, and military supplies and oxen, horses, mules and carts were delivered to the camp.

This is all pretty standard military procedure.

After finishing all this, it was already afternoon.

After eating their dry rations and drinking all the water in their canteens, thousands of soldiers marched towards Zhujiazhuang in a mighty procession.

"Those government troops are very skilled."

Hu Cheng, who had gone to Dulonggang to set up an ambush, retreated in embarrassment. "They discovered the ambush."

"It doesn't matter."

Zhu Biao’s attitude towards this future brother-in-law was okay. “Let’s just fight head-on. Let them see what our Zhu Family Village is capable of!”

The three Zhu brothers, as well as the village teacher, Luan Tingyu, the Double Flower Red Stick, all expressed their confidence that they would be able to defeat their opponents with their bravery.

But soon, when they formed a battle formation and rows of government troops trampled on the young crops in the fields appeared before their eyes and kept pressing towards them, their expressions gradually became solemn.

The oppressive feeling brought by thousands of soldiers gathered in battle array is a terrifying scene that is hard to imagine for the Double Flowered Red Sticks who rely on their martial arts to conquer the world!
Personal bravery is almost useless in the face of such a large formation.

(End of this chapter)