Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1440 Jiaozhou Rebellion
Chapter 1438: Chaos in Jiaozhou
Seeing Sun Jian retreating without a fight, Liu Xiu was also relieved. After all, Jingnan was also not suitable for a big war.

The four counties in Jingnan have just been filled with barbarian population, which is a good time to concentrate on development. At this moment, if you fight Sun Jian to the death, even if you win, you will only lose both sides.

Therefore, Sun Jian took the initiative to stop the war, which was also in line with Liu Xiu's intentions, but he also knew that Sun Jian would never give up Lujiang County, and there would be a war between the two families in the future.

Jiangdong is much richer than Jingnan. Of course Liu Xiu also wants to occupy Jiangdong, but he also knows that it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to occupy Jiangdong with the strength of the four counties in Jingnan. Lujiang sent troops to attack Jiangdong in two directions, allowing Sun Jian to take care of the head but not the tail, so it would be much easier to occupy Jiangdong.

In order to achieve his strategic goal of fully occupying Jiangnan, Liu Xiu took a defensive position in Lujiang in the east and Nanjun in the north, while cultivating internally to accumulate strength, while collecting information on Jiaozhou and alienating its officials, and using all means to make an effort to capture Jiaozhou. Prepare.

A year later, Jingnan initially digested the Wuling barbarians and the new Lujiang County, and ushered in great rule. Liu Xiu took advantage of this to expand his army to 15.

At the same time, a change occurred in Jiaozhou, and Xie, the prefect of Jiaozhi, rebelled against Hong Xiuquan.

Since Hong Xiuquan led the army into Jiaozhou, relying on Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, and Li Xiucheng, three well-known generals from the Yellow Turban period, although Hong Xiuquan suppressed all the forces that opposed his entry into Jiaozhou with absolute force, he was only Occupied most of Jiaozhou, but not completely occupied Jiaozhou.

Of the 57 counties in the seven counties of Jiaozhou, Hong Xiuquan only occupied the four counties of Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, and Hepu, and more than half of Jiaozhi County. The original Dahan forces headed by Jiaozhi prefect Shixie took over.

Back then, Hong Xiuquan defeated the local Han forces in Jiaozhou and drove them all to the remote and impoverished south. He wanted to annex this remnant force in one fell swoop, but at this time the Baiyue ethnic groups in Jiaozhou launched a rebellion together.

In desperation, Hong Xiuquan could only temporarily bypass Shi Xie and turn his guns to suppress the Baiyue rebellion. On the way to suppress the Baiyue rebellion, the Han forces headed by Shi Xie surrendered voluntarily.

At that time Hong Xiuquan was busy suppressing Baiyue and had no time to talk to Shixie, so he naturally accepted his surrender.

After suppressing Baiyue, Shi Xie's performance has always been very submissive, and he will do what Hong Xiuquan says.

At that time, Hong Xiuquan's ambition had not died out. Seeing that Shi Xie was so obedient, he thought that he had completely surrendered. He wanted Shi Xie who had surrendered to set a good example. In name, he accepted the allegiance of Shi Xie and other big Han officials.

In the subsequent battle of Ming Dynasty, the allied forces of Jingzhou princes invaded Jiaozhou. Although Hong Xiuquan defeated the allied army of Jingzhou princes, he was also defeated by Lu Bu, and even his own sister was snatched away by Lu Bu.

After this battle, Hong Xiuquan's ambitions gradually faded away, he no longer mentioned the matter of going north to the Central Plains, and was addicted to wine and sex all day long, so he naturally ignored Shi Xie even more.

Although Liu Xiu's actions towards Jiaozhou were secretive, it was impossible to completely hide it from Hong Xiuquan.

When he learned that Liu Xiu, his neighbor to the north, was coveting his territory, and that his total force was 15, Hong Xiuquan's sense of crisis was greatly aroused.

Although Hong Xiuquan has no ambition to continue fighting, he still wants to guard his one-acre three-point land and become a tyrant.

But when he learned that Liu Xiu's strength was so strong and he was ready to attack him, this naturally made Hong Xiuquan feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

Finally, Hong Xiuquan no longer continued to indulge in decadence. Instead, he tried every means to increase his strength to resist Liu Xiu's invasion in the near future in order to protect himself. The fastest way was naturally to annex Shi Xie completely. After all, Shi Xie's soldiers and horses were ready-made of.

The reason why Shi Xie surrendered to Hong Xiuquan was to be subordinate to him in name only in order to retain the right of autonomy. Now that Hong Xiuquan asked Shi Xie to hand over his military power, it was like directly holding Shi Xie by the throat. How could Shi Xie be willing to do this?
After several fruitless negotiations, Shi Xie chose the most drastic method and directly mobilized troops to fight against the flood.

Shi Xie, who owned an army in Jiaozhou, was naturally one of Liu Xiu's wooing targets.

Shi Xie also knew very well that relying on his own soldiers and horses alone, fighting against Hong Xiuquan was undoubtedly a man's arm. Only when another force intervened to completely confuse the situation in Jiaozhou, could he have another chance of survival.

So Shi Xie agreed to Liu Xiu's wooing, and formed an alliance with him, agreeing to defeat Hong Xiuquan and divide Jiaozhou equally.

Shi Xie was in front to attract the main force of the Taiping Army, and indeed he attracted most of the Taiping Army, while Liu Xiu took advantage of the opportunity to personally lead the army into Jiaozhou.

Although Liu Xiu wanted to capture the entire territory of Jiaozhou as soon as possible, he didn't dare to take away too many soldiers and horses. After all, there were many princes coveting his territory. He didn't want to get Jiaozhou but lose Jingnan.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, Liu Xiu only led [-] troops into Jiaozhou, leaving [-] troops to guard the various places.

Because the main force of the Taiping Army was attracted by Shi Xie, after Liu Xiu led the army into Jiaozhou, he did not receive much resistance and occupied the 6 counties of Yulin County with almost no casualties.

Liu Xiu's [-] troops attacked Jiaozhou and captured half of Yulin County, which naturally made Hong Xiuquan terrified.

Hong Xiuquan ordered Yang Xiuqing and Li Xiucheng to lead the [-] Taiping Army and the [-] Taiping Army composed of hundreds of ethnic groups to quickly return to help resist Liu Xiu's invasion, and at the same time let Shi Dakai continue to lead the army to suppress Shi Xie.

In order to avoid being attacked by Liu Xiu and Shi Xie from both sides, Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Army could only choose to fight on two fronts, which was undoubtedly extremely dangerous, and if there was a slight mistake, both fronts would be wiped out.

It will also take time for Yang Xiuqing's army to return to aid, and it will also take time for Shi Dakai to suppress Shi Xie. The Taiping Army must hurry up to race against time.

At this time, Hong Rengan, Hong Xiuquan's younger brother, took the initiative to persuade Sun Jian to send troops to attack Jingnan in order to force Liu Xiu to withdraw.

After Hong Rengan arrived in Jiangdong, he stated his interests to Sun Jian, but Sun Jian hated Liu Xiu for taking Lujiang from him. Naturally, it was impossible to watch Liu Xiu capture Jiaozhou, so he sent [-] troops to attack Lujiang County.

After convincing Sun Jian, Hong Rengan rushed to Jiangxia County non-stop, and convincing Huang Zu to send troops together, and Huang Zu led his son Huang Xie to lead an army of [-] to attack the Changsha army.

Afterwards, Hong Rengan was going to persuade Yue Fei again, but before the others arrived in Xiangyang, Yue Fei had already voluntarily joined in and led an army of [-] to capture Nanjun.

During the recuperation period, although Qin Hao didn't want to start the war lightly, he also didn't want Liu Xiu to occupy Jiaozhou, so it was inevitable to send troops directly to stop it.

Yue Fei's attack on Nanjun was also the only battle of the Qin army after two years of training, and it was at the end of the two-year training period.

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