Shu Chen

Chapter 559

Just like Cuan Gu's thoughts, Huo Yi didn't have any thoughts of overcoming difficulties.

After leading the army to the outside of Longbian City, they only flaunted their power to frighten the Wu army in the city, leaving Wu Dang's tribe and Cuangu to besiege the city together, and led the headquarters to beat down other counties.

Because the Wu army's forces were mainly concentrated in Moling and Longbian counties, and the battle situation was already clear at this time, so when Huo Yi led the army to arrive, those counties were almost determined by rumors, and they surrendered in anticipation.

However, for more than ten days, within the territory of Jujiaozhi County, only Moling County, which was guarded by Lu Dai, was still flying the flag of Wu Kingdom alone.

Yes, Longbian County also ushered in a change of ownership.

Cuan Gu and Wu Dang in the besieged city saw that the morale of the defenders in the city was low, so they sent one or two prisoners into the city to surrender.

It is claimed that if the Wu army can hide the flag and surrender, the Han army will forget all the past and will not treat them harshly as prisoners of war.Soldiers with non-Jiaozhou native place will be garrisoned in Nanzhong after being incorporated; while county soldiers with local native place can choose to continue to serve as county soldiers or disarm and return to the field.

But if they resist stubbornly, they will be punished as military slaves when the Han army breaks through the city!

In addition, the county soldiers whose family members are in the local area must be held accountable in a continuous manner.

In this regard, the soldiers under Suichun's command are better.

Although Suichun has always claimed that Liu Zuan in the eastern part of Jiaozhou will definitely send troops to rescue, and the elite Jiangdong navy will cross the sea from Wujun to Jiaozhi, and it will not take too long, as long as they hold on for a while , the Han army can be expelled from Jiaozhi County.

But the soldiers still had no will to fight.

Without him, they didn't believe Sui Chun's words.

First, if Liu Zuan has the strength to come to the rescue, there will be no Han army who can come to Jiaozhi County and attack Ma Zhongbu from north to south after piercing through the three counties!

On the other hand, in the eyes of Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, and Lu Xun, the great governor, is Jiaozhi County more important than Jingzhou?

The Han army has all gone south to attack Jiaozhou, how could it be possible not to send troops out of Yong'an and Dongsan counties!
How could the State of Wu still have extra troops to come to rescue Jiaozhi!
The only thing that can make them feel a little bit at ease is that they were originally the Kuaiji bandits who followed the Suichun rebellion. After being incorporated by Jiangdong, their families were also resettled in Wudi, so there is no anxiety about their families for the time being.

The county soldiers under Sun Mao's command are different.

Everyone knows that the change of ownership of Jiaozhi County is inevitable, and the fall of Longbian City is also inevitable.

Why did they have to pay the price of their lives and being pursued by the Han army to be buried with Sun Mao and others?

Sun Mao never "undressed and pushed food" to them!

Furthermore, for them, the government of the State of Wu, which has controlled Jiaozhou for less than 20 years, is also an outsider. Why do they have the same hatred and the heart of defending to the death?

Inevitably, after the Han army communicated their intention to surrender, there was a raging undercurrent in the city.

Unable to hold back their anxiety, several county soldiers, Dubo, sought out Sun Mao under the instigation of his subordinates, claiming that when things cannot be done, the priority should be to protect the soldiers and the common people, and not to cause unnecessary disputes to turn the dragon into scorched earth.

But they were all in vain.

Based on his surname, Sun Mao had no intention of surrendering.

Instead, these Dubos were punished with fifty sticks and imprisoned, and those who claimed to dare to disturb the morale of the army with their words would be beheaded!
In fact, he originally wanted to behead all these princes to show the public, but he was worried that this situation might arouse public anger, so he changed to imprisonment.

However, those Du Bo's remonstrances are the will of the people, and he has committed the anger of the people if he doesn't obey.

The county soldiers who didn't want to be buried with Sun,
Soon, he privately teamed up with Haoyou in the city to save himself. Even though Suichun assigned all the responsibilities of defending the city to the soldiers of the headquarters, he still couldn't contain the commotion in the city.Only three days later at night, the Haoyou private soldiers and the county soldiers jointly seized the city gate from the inside, and cooperated with the Han army inside and outside to change the city of Longbian.

The prefect Sun Mao died in the chaos, but Sui Chun was captured.

To be precise, it was the soldiers under his command who saw that the outcome of the city's fall could not be changed, so they gathered together and abandoned their weapons in Suichun, and stopped resisting.

Anyway, they were thieves before.

Suichun is just the leader they publicly put out, and they hold a group to keep warm, and they can't have strict and forbidden control over the soldiers like a real general.

However, when Cuan Gu and Wu Dang ordered to accept the surrender, he didn't seem to have any resistance.

With the change of ownership in Longbian County, the deployment of the Han army was adjusted again.

Huo Yi left Wu Dang to guard Longbian County, and wanted to appease the rest of the counties.

For example, some Haoyou who welcomed the Han army into the city and the barbarian tribes who were willing to vassalize the Han were kindly comforted and ensured their interests, while the loyalists who were previously supported by Jiangdong were uprooted.It doesn't matter whether they used private soldiers to help Wu County resist the Han army or not in this battle.

One emperor and one courtier.

For the long-term peace and stability above the general trend, sometimes it is not right or wrong.

Besides, if they are not wiped out, how can we show the thunder and rain of the Han court?How come the benefits are distributed to the eight surnames of the southerners who actively participated in this war?
As for Shen You and the Cuangu tribe, they returned to Ma Zhong's command and besieged the Lv Dai tribe that was huddled in Moling County.

In fact, when Ma Zhong sent Cuan Gu to attack Longbian County, Lu Dai also had the intention of sending troops out of the city to rescue Longbian, but was stopped by Ma Zhong and Chen Bing on the way.

And just at that time, the Shibao tribe who returned from Yulin County and returned to Xinggu County finally came to join forces with Ma Zhong, which made Lu Dai give up his intention of dividing troops to rescue.

Gein, if he insists on going his own way, it is unknown whether he can rescue Longbian County, but Moling County will definitely fall!

Ma Zhong, who had the reinforcements from the Shibao Department, had an absolute advantage in military strength, so he was able to defeat others without fighting in dispatching.

He personally led [-] soldiers out of the city and settled down in the camp, forming a corner with Fengxi County.

If the Wu army splits up, he will attack from both sides with the defenders of Fengxi County; and Lu Dai, who is in Moling County, cannot go out of the city to rescue him under the supervision of the Shibao Department.

If it comes out, the Shibao Ministry will take the opportunity to seize the city.

But if they don't come out, they will go to rescue the soldiers of Longbian County, who will be surrounded and killed by Ma Zhong's troops.

The choice is a dead end, why should he divide his troops out of the city?
With the general situation gone, he could only continue to hold on to the city and see if he could welcome Sun Quan's rescue.

Although this hope is very slim.
The Huo Yi tribe, which has been divided one after another, only has more than [-] people left. They are going south to guard the port and make preparations to recover Jiuzhen and Rinan counties.

The three counties in the west of Jiaozhou, Jiuzhen and Rinan counties combined are not as rich as Jiaozhi County.

It can be said that once Jiaozhi County changes owners, the two counties will also usher in a change of flag.

For example, after Lu Dai occupied Jiaozhi, he was invincible when he crusaded against the rebellion in Jiuzhen County; the biggest reason why Shi Hui rebelled against Jiangdong was that Sun Quan did not grant him the post of Jiaozhi prefect, but sent him to a barbaric place like Jiuzhen County. He served as prefect.

As for Rinan County, most of them are uncivilized.

As the only place where "the shadow of the sun is in the south" in the territory of the Han Dynasty, the local natives are the Cham people, not the South Vietnamese adherents.

He has deep eyes, high nose, and black hair (black skin). He is a vulgar man and woman who is not ashamed.In addition, the local Zhan people in Xianglin County, the southernmost part of Rinan County, had rebelled many years ago and established the Linyi Kingdom (Champa Kingdom), which is no longer owned by the Central Plains Dynasty.

In this way, it is easy to understand that Huo Yi, who was awarded the post of General Annan, went south to guard the port.

The obvious reasons are to restore the water village to prevent the possibility of cross-sea attacks from Jiangdong, control the port to ensure maritime trade, and support the garrison with commerce and taxes.

The long-term consideration is to build a navy and build warships.

When the time is right, they will go south to recover Jiuzhen County and Rinan County, and they will also cross the sea to take back all the four eastern counties of Jiaozhou from Jiangdong.

He knew that since Han and Wu fought again, there would be no possibility of harmony.

The soldiers, horses, food, fodder, supplies, etc. in Bashu, Longyou, Hexi and other places will all be returned to the old capital when they enter the pass. In the future, the war against Wu will be the responsibility of their Jiaozhou partial division!

Naturally, it is premature to speak of these matters at this point.

But it's always good to plan ahead.

Coincidentally, Ma Zhong also had this thought.

He always kept in mind the prime minister's words of "restraining Wu's troops as much as possible and creating opportunities for the other two forces to attack Wu", so he did not immediately attack Lu Dai's tribe in Moling County.

Instead, he wanted to use Lu Dai's department as a bait to see if Sun Quan could send more troops to fight in Jiaozhi County.

If Sun Quan had the courage of a strong man to cut his wrists and gave up the three counties in the west of Jiaozhou, then he would go to the temple in Chengdu and ask for orders to cross the sea to attack the east of Jiaozhou.Calculating the time, after attacking and destroying Lu Dai's tribe, which has already become a disaster in the urn, Huo Yi's training of sailors and building of warships should be roughly completed.

Yes, Ma Zhong felt that it would not be difficult to defeat Lu Dai's tribe.

Although Lu Dai still has more than [-] soldiers under his command, many of these soldiers were recruited by Jiaozhou.

Just as the great Han recruited soldiers to move to Nanzhong after the Nanzhong rebellion, Jiangdong also used Jiaozhou as a place to recruit troops after occupying Jiaozhou.

Just like when Bu Zhi entered Jiaozhou in the past, he only brought more than a thousand people to the post.

But when he resigned, he took more than ten thousand righteous men from Jiaozhou to Jingnan to participate in the battle of Yiling.

The same is true for Lu Dai.

Since succeeding Bu Zhi as governor of Jiaozhou, his subordinates have been formed by quelling the captives taken in by the rebellion and recruiting from the local area.For example, when he entered Jiaozhi to fight against the rebellion of Shijia, he only supervised and led no more than [-] soldiers.

That is to say, Ma Zhong only needs to besiege Lu Dai's tribe for a while, wait for Wu Dang to appease Jiaozhi County, and then find some prisoners and local Haoyou to write a letter to the city, claiming that the Han army treated the descendants and informed their families Xiao Wuhai, they must have no fighting spirit, and it will not be difficult to break the city!

As for recovering Jiuzhen County and Rinan County~~
After occupying the Jiaozhi Army, these two counties are in the pocket of the Han Army, and it doesn't matter when they take them.

But, will Sun Quan send troops to rescue Jiaozhi?
After receiving the letter from Liu Zuan, he rushed to Jiangling City very anxiously, intending to discuss with Lu Xun to send some sailors there.

Not only the dissatisfaction with the fall of Jiaozhi County, but also because since Zhuge Jin died of illness, Lu Dai is the only remaining Huaisi veteran in the Jiangdong Army!
However, it was late autumn and September at this time, and the Han army also sent troops from Dongsanjun and Yong'an.

As soon as the troops were sent out, Sun Quan felt that the battle was besieged on all sides.

(End of this chapter)