Chapter 82 Wei Yan: I am a rebellious person, I will kill my old boss first when I get ashore!
Although Liu Biao did not know about hybrid rice, Qingzhou and Xuzhou had been in Ji Hao's hands for many years, especially Xuzhou, which is known as the "Eight Hundred Mile Plain" and is known as the "granary of the north and a place of contention for military strategists."

Looking at the whole world, it is second only to the land of abundance of Xichuan.

Will Ji Hao run out of food?

There is certainly no shortage!

Because others would have hundreds of thousands of troops consuming food at any time, but Ji Hao only had 20,000 Chengtian troops, 10,000 Haotian troops, and 10,000 Datong troops from beginning to end, and the food consumption was quite small.

There is definitely a surplus.

In this situation, exchanging food and fodder for a "seventh best general in the world" was a huge profit for Ji Hao - that was when Liu Biao didn't know that Ji Hao had hybrid rice. In fact, Ji Hao's output was calculated in "tons" and he had long since stopped using stones.

Because the numbers are often in the billions, it is difficult to calculate!

A million dan of grain and fodder is nothing to Ji Hao today. It is not even the smallest unit of income for a year's autumn harvest. The minimum unit for accounting is one million tons!
As for the total inventory, plus the various canned meats that have already started production, the reserves have reached the "billion tons" level!
There is no shackles of capital and labor costs are low.

The agriculture in Ji Hao's territory is now developing towards the goal of being on par with modern times!

"After these days of gathering and reorganizing, Yuan Shu's subordinates have joined the Haotian Army. Together with the soldiers recruited in Yuzhou, there are a total of 10,000 elite soldiers!" Ji Hao looked at Huang Zhong and said, "I will give you 8,000 soldiers. Take them to defend Qiaojiazhuang and resist the attack of Dongwu. But the requirement is that while defending, the casualties cannot exceed 10%. Can you do it?"

This is an opportunity for Huang Zhong to make a contribution.

But it's just a chance.

With 8,000 men stationed there and the city not yet built and civilians to be protected, it was almost too much to ask for a limit of 800 casualties.

Before this, Huang Zhong had led tens of thousands of soldiers but had never defeated the Eastern Wu.

However, the Ji Camp is well-equipped, well-supplied, and has a lot of black technology. As long as you have a good general, it will not be a problem to hold on. The difficulty lies in the "battle damage" requirement.

Killing one thousand enemies means losing eight hundred of your own. In this era, wars are all about consumption.

But Ji Hao's rule is that generals must love their soldiers like their own sons - we may not be afraid of sacrifice, but we must not make fearless sacrifices, and generals must not treat soldiers as consumables!

"Who is attacking over there? How many troops are there?" Huang Zhong asked.

Hearing this, Ji Hao smiled and said, "Eighty thousand, Sun Jian will lead the team himself!"

Huang Zhong: “…”

He suspected that Ji Hao was deliberately asking him to die?

But soon, after seeing Ji Hao's individual soldier configuration, he understood - the soldiers' armor was made of steel plates, they were equipped with compound bows and powerful crossbows, and their weapons were made of fine steel.

Fighting face to face with the armies of other princes are two completely different concepts.

Fighting one against ten is a conservative approach.

"Okay, I am willing to sign a military order!" Huang Zhong finally said: "Back then, you were able to defeat Liu Bei's 300,000 with your 30,000 troops. I can also defeat 80,000 with my 8,000. I will never disgrace the reputation of our Jiying!"

"What about me?" Wei Yan asked hurriedly.

He thought that he could be a vanguard when Huang Zhong attacked the Eastern Wu, but he had nothing to do until the other side led his troops away.

I couldn't help feeling anxious.

Coming from a low-income family, he really wants to make progress!

"If it's you, lead the remaining 2,000 people to deal with Huang Zu!" Ji Hao said, "Not to defend the city, nor to attack, but to harass - I want you to drive Huang Zu away without causing more than 10% casualties!"

Having said this, Ji Hao showed a solemn expression.

He added, "You also need to sign a military order. If the casualties are less than 50%, I will promote you. If the casualties are less than 10%, you can be converted to a regular employee. In the absence of force majeure, if the casualties exceed 10%, your probation period will end early. If the casualties exceed 20%, I will directly demote you to a small soldier. If the casualties exceed 50%, I will kill you!"

These words seem like harsh accusations.

But when Wei Yan heard this, he did not feel the slightest bit of disgust. Instead, he became very excited: he did not care about the punishment, he only knew that if he could get it done, he could keep his position as the vanguard general.

If you do it well, you can also get a promotion!
Wei Yan was not afraid of difficulties. What he was afraid of was that it would be like before in Jingzhou, where all the credit for his achievements would go to others, and all the defeats would be his own. That would be torture as he would never see the day to get ahead.

"I won't force you. If you are not sure, you can refuse!" Ji Hao said again.

Upon hearing this, Wei Yan immediately knelt down and said, "Within a month, I will make Huang Zu withdraw his troops! If you fail to do so, or if the casualties exceed 10%, I will bring my head to you!"

He also witnessed the excellence of Ji Hao's army.

Two thousand men could actually be used as twenty thousand men, but the so-called eighty thousand men on Huang Zu's side were poorly equipped and were paid without work, so their combat effectiveness was at least halved. In addition, Huang Zu himself was mediocre and incompetent, with poor martial arts and average military tactics.

Wei Yan felt that the advantage was mine!
"Okay, I'm ready to celebrate for you anytime!" Ji Hao said.

He was also very curious about what Wei Yan would do if he couldn't fight head-on - whether it was Huang Zhong or Wei Yan, it was actually a test of their ability to use troops.

The requirement of war damage is to make them change their attitude.

Ji Hao didn't care about the princes, and he couldn't care. He only cared about the generals under his command. He couldn't treat the soldiers as consumables, and couldn't use human lives to fill the gap when it was not necessary.

"You will definitely live up to your destiny!"

After receiving the order, Wei Yan led his troops out and headed straight for Huang Zu's camp opposite.

However, he did not go forward to challenge, but secretly stationed his troops and let them sleep for the whole afternoon. It was not until midnight that he led his troops to attack.

Flying the banner of Zhao Yun.

When they reached the camp gate, they just shouted but did not attack.

Huang Zu did not dare to sleep all night, and was so nervous that he was cautious in defense and did not dare to send out troops. Because Zhang Xiu was an existence that he could not defeat, and he had no confidence in fighting the main force of the Datong Army under the banner of Zhao Yun.

This was exactly what Wei Yan wanted. At dawn, he suddenly rushed towards Liu Biao.

While killing, he also shouted: "Cowardly Huang Zu, 80,000 people dare not fight against my 2,000!"

This made the generals in the rear confused.

But before they could react, Wei Yan ran away again, made a big circle in the wild and returned to Huang Zu's camp to challenge him head-on. After Huang Zu led his troops to pursue him, he retreated straight back.

There's not the slightest intention of fighting.

Huang Zu sneered at the poor technique of "luring the enemy", and then he held his ground and ignored it.

So, the next night, Wei Yan went to Huang Zu's camp again, shouting for war and killing, and setting off firecrackers.

Huang Zu did not come out.

On the third day, Wei Yan had his men throw manure into Huang Zu's camp to humiliate him, successfully luring Huang Zu out, but he himself fled in the opposite direction towards Liu Biao.

On the fourth day, he ordered people to shoot a round of arrows.

Shoot and run.

On the fifth day, Huang Zu became furious and led his troops to ambush opposite the camp, hoping to catch Wei Yan off guard, but he was defeated and set fire to the mountain.

The sixth day, the seventh day, the eighth day...

Wei Yan was originally one of the most capable generals of this era. After joining Ji Hao, he entered the Datong Army for further training, learned the "Sixteen-Character Mantra", and used the mobility of Ji Hao's troops to make great use of guerrilla tactics.

The day-to-day harassment made Huang Zu's army exhausted.

Finally, on the seventeenth day, Wei Yan felt that the time was ripe, and he stopped harassing and chose to attack directly - this wave was an adventure.

Two thousand against eighty thousand, and there is also a battle damage requirement.

If he falls into an ambush, he won’t even have the chance to go back and be beheaded!

But Wei Yan still took the gamble and rushed into the general's tent alone, taking the lead to attack Huang Zu. Huang Zu, who was always paying attention to the movements of the Datong army and thought that Wei Yan would never attack without Zhao Yun, was thrown into disarray on the spot.

He rushed to meet the enemy, but found that he was no match for Wei Yan and was shocked.

"Your martial arts skills are actually not inferior to Zhang Xiu's?"

"Nonsense, I am one of the 'Twenty-Four Generals'. You don't think the 'Wei' in 'Gan Zhou Wei' refers to Wei Xu, who was under Lu Bu's command? It's me, Wei Yan!"

After saying that, he chopped off Huang Zu's head with one knife.

Carrying it out of the camp.

He shouted, "Huang Zu is dead. Stop resisting. Surrender and you won't be killed!"

……

In the end, what Ji Hao did not expect was that Wei Yan, who had learned the "guerrilla tactics", was so fierce that he killed Huang Zu directly.

Although the battle casualties amounted to more than a hundred, they were far less than 10%.

Completed Ji Hao's test within the regulations.

At the celebration banquet, we ate delicious food and drank spicy drinks.

But comparatively speaking, Liu Biao was not happy. When he learned that Huang Zu had been beheaded and all the people intercepted at the border had flocked to Yuzhou, he was so angry that he smashed the cup.

He said angrily: “How can he defeat Huang Zu with just a gift and two thousand men?”

On the other side, Lu Bu was also shocked after receiving the news.

"Huang Zu has 80,000 men, and Wei Yan only has 2,000 men. Even if they were 80,000 pigs, it would take him half a month to capture them. How could they collapse so suddenly?"

(End of this chapter)