Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2635 The battle of southern Shu ended, and the princess arrived in Qin
Chapter 2631: The Battle of Southern Shu is over, Arriving in Qin with the Princess
Ban Chao was naturally very happy after receiving the news that the imperial court had transferred him to serve as the prefect of Hanzhong. After all, the prefect of Hanzhong had much greater power than the prefect of Fufeng.

However, Ban Chao did not go to the post immediately, but took care of all the work in hand, and waited until the new Fufeng prefect arrived, and then took ten guards to Hanzhong to take the post.

Ban Chao, the new Fufeng prefect, also knew him. It was Yang Hu, No. 4 in the literary examination of the same class as him.

As the No.4 in the first literary examination, Yang Hu's official career was not much worse than Ban Chao's. One of his positions happened to be Fufeng County Cheng, but he was promoted and transferred to Chang'an because of his political achievements.

Yang Hu had already accumulated enough political achievements in Chang'an, and after having survived the two prefects of Liu Yong and Ban Chao, he was finally appointed as Fufeng prefect by the imperial court.

Yang Hu hadn't returned to Fufeng County for more than a year, and when he returned to the starting point of his official career again, he felt a lot of emotion in his heart. In fact, his promotion speed was not too slow among the same class, but he was on the loose. Of course, Ban Chao is incomparable.

When Ban Chao left, Yang Hu personally went out of the city to see him off, while Ban Chao smiled and cupped his hands at Yang Hu and said, "Brother Yang, I will hand over this Fufeng County to you, and I hope that Brother Yang will treat the people of Fufeng kindly."

"Don't worry, Brother Ban, I'm the former Fufeng County Chancellor, and I have no less affection for Fufeng than you do." Yang Hu said seriously.

Hearing this, Ban Chao left in peace.

Looking at the back of Ban Chao leaving, Yang Ku's eyes were full of admiration. After all, Ban Chao was born in a poor family, and started as a county magistrate like him, but he has already separated him and other Jinshi of the same class.

They are all young heroes, and Yang Hu is naturally unwilling to let Ban Chao take the top spot. He wants to catch up with and even surpass Ban Chao, but it is not enough to only consider his political achievements, he must also make military achievements.

Yang Hu thought of getting closer to the military, but at present he must be a good Fufeng prefect, otherwise he would have no chance to gain military power.

Although Ban Chao didn't look back, he felt Yang Ku's fiery gaze.

He does not have any financial background, but he is regarded as an opponent and a goal to be surpassed by all the heroes of the family. To be honest, the pressure is still quite high.

But now he no longer regards the same Jinshi as an opponent.

The geographical location of Hanzhong is special, and the prefect of Hanzhong is grasped by the military power and regime together, so there are naturally more opportunities to make meritorious deeds, while ordinary prefects can only have no access to military power at all.

So unless the same class made some great contributions, the gap with him would only get bigger and bigger.

When Ban Chao arrived in Hanzhong, Li Jing had already left. After all, his position was the governor of Yongliang, and the governor's mansion was set up in Chang'an, so it was impossible to stay in Hanzhong to work.

Although Li Jing left, he left Ban Chao with an army of [-], as well as Wang Jian, Yang Jian, Xuanyuan and other generals.

In addition, regarding the matter of expanding the army by [-] troops, Li Jing had already made arrangements before leaving.

Although the imperial court decided to replenish the lost [-] troops back and forth, they all recruited from the surrendered army and the light and strong Hanzhong. From these two points, it can be seen that the imperial court does not expect this army to be strong. That's enough, and it's not difficult to form such a [-] army.

During the Battle of Hanzhong, 500 prisoners of war from the Shu Han were captured. Excluding those prisoners who were unqualified and disabled and unable to participate in the exhibition, it was possible to recruit an army of [-].

It can also be seen from this that the quality of individual soldiers in the Shu army is actually not low, otherwise it would be impossible

As for the remaining half of the quota, it is natural that those whose families were killed by the Shu army and who hated the Shu Han were recruited from the Hanzhong people.

The total population of Hanzhong before the war was 45, but in the second battle of Hanzhong, 8 people died in the war under the attrition tactics of the Shu Han, and now there are nearly 38 people, from which 5000 were recruited It is not difficult to exile [-] people.

As Ying Hao expected, although the people of Hanzhong resented Da Qin, they hated Shu Han even more. After learning that Da Qin was going to recruit troops in Hanzhong and how the soldiers of the Qin army were treated, Hanzhong Baixin who hated Shu Han spontaneously joined the army. Although revenge is one aspect, The main reason is that Qin Jun was treated too well.

When Ban Chao arrived in Hanzhong, [-] recruits had been recruited and trained under Wang Jian's command, while the [-] surrendered troops were reorganized by Xuanyuan.

With a main force of [-] and a new army of [-], the total strength of the Qin army in Hanzhong has reached [-]. In addition, with Yongliang and Jingbei as their backs, these three states can provide support at any time. The Shu Han wants to retake Hanzhong Almost impossible.

Ban Chao doesn't need to worry about the military affairs. Li Jing has already arranged for him before leaving. What he really needs to worry about is the governance of Hanzhong. Safe and secure, and the time he has left is obviously not rich.

There are many problems in Hanzhong, such as food shortage, public grievances, anti-spies, etc. The most difficult to solve is the problem of public grievances. After all, the pain of losing a loved one cannot be eliminated in a short period of time.

On the road, Ban Chao was thinking about how to govern Hanzhong. He planned to divide the land for the people of Hanzhong first after taking office, so as to win the hearts of the people in Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is the birthplace of Li Shimin. Even though Li Tang has been destroyed, there are still many Li Tang masterpieces left, and the bad handsome Yuan Tiangang has defected to the Shu Han, so most of Li Tang's intelligence network is received by the Shu Han up.

Compared with the Great Qin and Shu Han, the people of Hanzhong are still closer to Li Tang. After all, the period when Li Tang ruled Hanzhong was the best time for the people of Hanzhong to live.

The bad guys from Li and Tang joined forces with the great masters of Shu Han to sow discord among the bereaved Hanzhong people, making them hate Da Qin even more, and even planned two uprisings.

Although the two uprisings were unsuccessful and did not pose any threat to Daqin's rule, if they were not handled properly, it would obviously make Daqin even more unpopular.

Before Ban Chao took office, Chenggu County Magistrate had already suppressed an uprising, and the way of handling it was naturally to punish those who dared to resist.

After Ban Chao took office, he saw that there were still people uprising in Hanzhong, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. Obviously, this was not just a simple public complaint, but someone behind the scenes was manipulating the confrontation between the officials and the people in Hanzhong.

Shu Han's meticulous work was rampant to such an extent that if it was not stopped, it would be useless for Ban Chao to deal with other problems in Hanzhong well. After all, destruction is much easier than construction, so the decisive solution starts with the anti-interference.

Ban Chao changed the way he dealt with the uprising civilians, from focusing on encirclement and suppression to persuasion, and he would not kill all of them across the board, but instead only punish the bandit leaders.

Ban Chao used this method to reduce killings, and followed the vines from the surrendered insurgents, arresting a large number of secret agents of the Shu Han, which also improved the law and order in Hanzhong a lot.

Solved the problem of spies, no Shuhan spies made trouble, Ban Chao was working on other problems, so naturally it was much simpler.

Ban Chao re-measured the land in Hanzhong, in a more just way than Li Tang, and used the Daqin standard to distribute the land to the people.

In addition, Ban Chao also argued for the people with the court, exempting those people who died of relatives from taxes for one year.

Nearly [-]% of Hanzhong's grain is now supplied by Yongliang and Jingbei, and a large number of crops have been burned under the scorched earth tactics of the Shu army, so Ban Chao personally led the people to open up wasteland, replant and resume production as soon as possible. After the harvest, they are self-sufficient.

Under Ban Chao's series of measures, Hanzhong, which was devastated by the war, quickly recovered, and the grievances in the hearts of the people were gradually resolved, and the hearts of the people in Hanzhong began to gradually fall to the side of Daqin.

While Ban Chao was vigorously governing Hanzhong, the war between Jiaozhou and Shunan was still going on.

Han Shizhong took over the command of the Ruan Yue coalition army and returned to Rinan County. After a rest, he made a comeback again. He thought he could win by relying on the superiority of troops, but he didn't expect that the two pig teammates Ruan Yue could not move at all.

With the help of Great Qin, the gap between the Ruan and Yue countries and Chu State in terms of army is not as big as before, but the gap in terms of generals has not been shortened much, and Han Shizhong obviously cannot make up for this gap.

The battle that was obviously superior and could be won was lost due to the command of the general, and when the loss was heavy, it also made Han Shizhong realize that he was not Ma Yuan, Zeng Guofan, Ma Wu, Ma Cheng, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Zeng Tianyang Waiting for a group of opponents from the famous generals of Chu.

There are not many generals available in the Ruan and Yue countries, especially the lack of strong generals, so Han Shizhong can only ask for help from the country, hoping that the court can send some generals to support him.

After Daqin received the news, in addition to sending Li Shunchen, Lu Junyi, and Huang Xie, who also had a feud with Chu State to kill his father, to Jiaozhou to support Han Shizhong, he also sent Dashan Jinjian and Lihuadao from Yingzhou Snow and five thousand Japanese soldiers.

With the support of the imperial court and Yingzhou, the combat power of the four-nation coalition in Jiaozhou has greatly increased. Under the command of Han Shizhong, it has not fallen into a disadvantage again.

In this way, the Jiaozhou war situation fell into a stalemate, but the Shunan war situation ended early.

After learning of Zhang Ren's death in battle and the fall of Hanzhong, all the high-ranking officials in Shu Han, including Liu Yu, exploded.

As long as the Shu Kingdom has the land of Hanzhong in hand, as long as Hanzhong is defended, the entire Shu Kingdom can be preserved.

But once Hanzhong is lost, in order to protect itself, the Kingdom of Shu must deploy heavy troops in the north, and divide the troops to guard several other important roads. After all, the passage from north to south to Shu is not only the Jiange, and this will undoubtedly aggravate the situation of Shu. national defense pressure.

After Liu Yu heard the news, he decisively ordered Shen Shiqi and Li Siyuan to lead all the troops back to Jiange to ensure the safety of Shuzhong.

Although Shen Shiqi returned to the Jiange safely, Li Siyuan fled westward into Haizhou on the grounds that the retreat route was cut off by the Qin army and he could not return to the Jiange.

Liu Yuzheng was overwhelmed by the fall of Hanzhong and Chi You's counterattack. He didn't have the heart to care about Li Siyuan's fate. As long as Li Siyuan didn't change the flag clearly, he could only let it go.

The fall of Hanzhong made Liu Yu more eager to regain Shunan, but Chiyou was too difficult to deal with. Even though he was unable to participate in the battle due to injury, his outstanding command ability could still cause trouble for the Shu army.

In addition, the Chu army was firmly blocked by Zhu Rong from Shengjing Pass, and it was difficult to pose a threat to the southern kingdom in the short term.

At this moment, there was news that Daqin had expanded its army on the spot in Hanzhong, with a total force of [-], and this news made Liu Yu completely anxious.

At this time, the northern part of Shu State was empty of troops. Liu Yu was worried that the Qin army would attack Shu on a large scale because of this. After thinking about it again and again, he had to choose to temporarily stop the war with the South Kingdom.

Liu Yu left Su Qin, Xing Tian and others to lead an army of 15 to guard the south of Shu, while he himself led the rest of the army back to Chengdu to sit in the center to prevent the Qin army from suddenly attacking Shu.

Seeing that Liu Xiu had left, Chi You saw that the Shu army was not continuing to attack, so he naturally decided to accept it as soon as it was good. After all, if he really kept fighting, the Southern Kingdom would definitely not be able to fight against the Shu Kingdom.

Chi You also decided to cease fighting, to cultivate and digest the results of the battle. After all, although many cities were taken away by the Shu army, most of the results of the Northern Expedition were still preserved. If these territories are not completely digested, they will never become Help from the South.

In addition to self-cultivation, Chi You's most important thing is probably to marry Ying Nongyu who is still in Jiaozhou, and to marry the princess of the Southern Kingdom to Daqin as soon as possible.

Regarding the matter of marrying Ying Nongyu, although Chi You cared about it, he was not in a hurry. First, he would definitely not be able to escape if everyone came, and second, his injuries had not recovered.

The third is that Ying Nongyu is now the leader of the Allied Forces of the Four Nations, and she will not be able to come to Kunming until the end of the Jiaozhou War.

Chi You couldn't marry Ying Nongyu yet, so he planned to send the princess from the southern kingdom to Daqin first.

(End of this chapter)