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The remaining two to three days of exemption from battle quickly passed. After Yang Rui's token lost its effect, he snatched it immediately. Furthermore, he did not use his flying pet to attack with fire. In fact, no battle even broke out. Yang Rui's eyes narrowed. [Love ↑ Go △ Little ↑ Say △ w]
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When the truce token was about to expire, most of Cao Cao's troops had already retreated from Hulao Pass. The Cao army's actions fell into the eyes of the sentries on the flying pets.
After Yang Rui gained a grasp of the true situation in Hulao Pass, he learned that Cao Cao did not have many soldiers left in the pass. Yang Rui only used a dozen battering rams to quickly break down the three city gates to the east of Hulao Pass. He led his army into the pass, and by then, Cao Cao's defenders in the pass had long since disappeared.
The remaining Cao army only managed to last until the truce token's time limit expired. Then, they hastily fled Hulao Pass and retreated into the mountains and rivers, cities, and passes behind them. The order they received was to defend until the truce token's time limit expired.
The Cao army had experienced the power of the flying pets' fire attacks. They knew that if they did not retreat in time, they might fall into the sea of fire again and suffer heavy losses. In the end, they had no hope of defending Hulao Pass.
Since that was the case, it was better to give up Hulao Pass from the start and preserve their strength to defend the mountains and rivers, cities, and passes. That way, they could stop Yang Rui's troops from entering Sili Province from the east.
However, Cao Cao did not give up Hulao Pass just like that. Instead, before retreating, he forcefully demolished Hulao Pass to a high-level pass. Almost the entire western wall of Hulao Pass was completely demolished by Cao Cao's troops.
After Yang Rui's troops charged into Hulao Pass, they discovered that the buildings between the eastern and western walls had all been demolished. The originally impregnable Hulao Pass was now a wasteland. Only the eastern wall facing Yang Rui's troops was still intact.
Cao Cao's actions did not escape the eyes of the sentries on the flying pets. However, Yang Rui's troops could only let them do as they pleased. Due to the truce token's effect, Cao Cao's troops had no other means to stop the Cao army from destroying the pass.
Fortunately, even though Hulao Pass was severely damaged, its foundation still existed. They did not need blueprints to rebuild it. They only needed to slowly level up to restore it to its original appearance.
However, it would not take as much time as it would take to demolish it. With sufficient manpower and resources, it would take at least half a game year to rebuild it. During this time, Yang Rui would need to constantly pay attention to the counterattacks of Cao Cao's troops.
After all, after the game's system had been adjusted, all kinds of production such as farming were gradually synchronized with reality. The same was true for the construction of facilities. The previous scene of building a large-scale project in one go was gone forever.
If it were any other faction, Cao Cao's abilities would be difficult to deal with. If they were not careful, they might be counterattacked by the Cao army in Mountain River City and Mountain River Pass.
Only Yang Rui had a large number of flying pets as his eyes and ears. At the same time, Yang Rui firmly controlled the nearby Yellow River. As long as he used these two methods and arranged for people to investigate, it would not be difficult to find out about the Cao army's movements.
Moreover, Cao Cao's newly built Mountain River Pass was over fifty kilometers away from Hulao Pass. Even if it was considered a very close distance in the game's map, the area between the two was narrow and long. Large-scale troop movements could not be carried out. The process of dispatching troops would not be short.
Apart from that, Yang Rui also placed many Mohist Crossbows on the remaining eastern wall. At the same time, he stationed 200,000 elite soldiers to the east of Hulao Pass. He also placed the Qianji Black Armored Battalion close to the eastern wall of Hulao Pass. Unless the situation was very special, the front line of Hulao Pass would not be attacked by Cao Cao.
Cao Cao had just lost, so there would not be much of a problem in terms of defense. However, Yan Province's Chen Liu County and the surrounding areas were newly obtained by Yang Rui. As his territory expanded, Yang Rui's manpower was once again stretched thin.
Ever since the system adjustments were completed, Yang Rui had been racking his brains over how to defend and govern Chen Liu County. Even when Hulao Pass was finally taken down, Yang Rui still had not decided on the manpower for Chen Liu County.
"System notification: Respected player Blazing Sun, you have unified all of Yan Province within one game year. You have also completed the quest to subdue the historical figure, Xun You. Xun You has already set off to Hulao Pass to submit to you. Right now, he is outside the western gate of Chen Liu County."
Just when Yang Rui took down Hulao Pass and was still fretting over the manpower for Chen Liu County, a system notification that sounded like the sound of nature reached his ears. It instantly caused Yang Rui to cast aside all of his worries, and he became enlightened.
If it were not for the fact that they were currently in a state of war, the teleportation matrices in Yan Province could not be used. Due to the system adjustments, Yang Rui was temporarily unable to use his flying pets. After hearing the news, Yang Rui would have gone to look for Xun You long ago.
Even though Chen Liu County was not very far from Hulao Pass, and it would only take half a day on a fast horse. Usually, a horse carriage would not take more than one game day, Yang Rui was still in a very anxious state until Xun You arrived on the morning of the second day.
Of course, during this process, Yang Rui did not stop deploying his troops. After all, Chen Liu County was a new piece of land. Yang Rui's troops had only been like a flood, spreading the land all over the county.
However, after taking over most of the places from Cao Cao, Yang Rui did not station any capable generals or personnel to manage and defend them. At this moment, other than the seven or eight generals by Yang Rui's side, as well as the five Wuhuan and Xianbei generals, Yang Rui did not bring any more generals to Chen Liu County.
Now that he had taken over Hulao Pass, Yang Rui only kept General Gao Shun by his side. The remaining generals and over 300,000 elite soldiers were sent to various places in Chen Liu County by Yang Rui. They were given priority to be stationed in a few important node cities in the county.
"Your Excellency King of Donghai is benevolent, brave, peaceful, and prosperous. Xun You is willing to follow you everywhere and serve you from now on …"
Under Yang Rui's expectant gaze, Xun You arrived early the next morning. He saw Yang Rui, who had already received the news and was waiting outside the Qianji Black Armored Battalion.
At this moment, Xun You followed the mission's conditions. As soon as he saw Yang Rui, he dismounted from his horse and bowed to Yang Rui.
"System Notification: Respected player Blazing Sun, Xun You wants to recognize you as his master. Do you accept? Please choose! "
At the same time, a system notification came, prompting Yang Rui to choose.
Yang Rui had no reason to refuse. He immediately made his choice and led Xun You into the Qianji Black Armored Battalion.
During this process, Yang Rui quietly opened Xun You's character attributes in the interface.
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