Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2316: Millions of corpses, thousands of miles of blood, and rivers dried up

There is no crowing of roosters for thousands of miles, and the wild is filled with bones.

This!
It is the most true portrayal of the Jianghuai area today.

Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of mobilizing all citizens in the Jianghuai region eventually caused a fierce backlash from Li Xiang.

Li Xiang may not be a cruel person, but when necessary, he definitely doesn't mind using some cruel means.

After all, he might not necessarily be a cruel person, but he was never a kind person.

Unfortunately, the Jianghuai region won the prize.

In the Jianghuai region, Li Xiang issued an order to kill without mercy.

Guo Ziyi massacred ten counties in a row, and hundreds of thousands of people from Jianghuai fell under the blade of the Jin army. Millions of corpses were left, blood flowed for thousands of miles, and rivers were cut off.

It was also because of this incident that Emperor Gaozu of Jin was often labeled as a tyrant in future history books.

However, Li Xiang doesn't care about these at all.

Which emperor is without stains?

If they really cared about these things, they wouldn't do those things!

Every citizen is a soldier. Li Xiang has always looked down upon Zhu Yuanzhang's inability to accept defeat.

As long as he dares to mobilize all the people to become soldiers, then these people will be soldiers and no longer civilians. From the moment they become soldiers, they are doomed to die.

If they don't kill him so that they are terrified, or kill him with blood, Zhu Yuanzhang will use the same trick in Yangzhou in the future, or other princes will also use the same method, then won't they be annoyed to death?
Only when they are killed to the point of being afraid, and the people all over the world are terrified, will they no longer dare to fight against them even if they are forcibly reorganized into soldiers.

Therefore, in the Jianghuai area, whenever they captured a city, if anyone did not surrender within three days, they would massacre the entire city after they captured the city.

After Guo Ziyi massacred the first city, Zhu Di was very happy at that time, thinking that the Jin army had finally made a stupid move. He publicized this incident throughout the Jianghuai region and tried his best to mobilize the resistance of the Jianghuai people.

Of course, Zhu Di's methods were effective. In the grief of the Jin army, the Jianghuai soldiers resisted stubbornly, fearing that after the city was broken, their entire families would fall under the butcher knife of the Jin army.

But as one city was taken, two cities were taken, and even three cities were taken, the people in the Jianghuai region's will to resist became increasingly firm.

But when they massacred the sixth city, the seventh city, and even the tenth city, apart from the will to resist, what was left was fear.

Until the county magistrate of the first city, who was the first to take the risk, opened the city gate and decided to surrender, this time, Guo Ziyi not only spared the people in this city, but also rewarded the officials at this level and distributed a certain amount of food and fodder to the local people.

You know, all the food and grass in the Jianghuai region have been concentrated by officials and supplied to the military. Each person can only receive a certain amount of food per day based on the number of people.

Therefore, the people now do not have any food.

When the first official to take the plunge appeared, along with the news, the spread of this information by interested people finally gave officials and people in the Jianghuai region a different way of thinking. After this, many counties, including Juchao, Wanxian, and Longshu, opened their cities and surrendered.

Wang Jian took over the counties of Songzi and Xunyang, while Guo Ziyi took over the counties of Juchao, Wanxian, Longshu and others.

Today, in the entire Jianghuai region, there are only two big cities left, Shouchun and Hefei, and Xie Ai's troops entrenched in the Dabie Mountains.

After Wang Jian lost the first battle in Dabie Mountains, he tried to attack Dabie Mountains again. However, Xie Ai had the advantage of geographical location, and if he forced an attack, the casualties would be too heavy.

Therefore, Wang Jian finally decided to change his strategy. He led a part of the troops to continue fighting against Xie Ai in Dabie Mountains, while the general Fei Peng, with 20,000 troops, gave up advancing eastward to Dabie Mountains and instead turned directly south to attack the southern part of Lujiang County.

They also cooperated in attacking Guo Ziyi south of Jiujiang and took control of all other county towns in the Jianghuai region.

In this way, Guo Ziyi achieved his goal of isolating Hefei and Shouchun, while Wang Jian could let Fei Peng's troops take a detour to Dabie Mountains, cut off the connection between Dabie Mountains and Hefei, and attack Dabie Mountains from two directions at the same time.

Without taking the two key locations of Shouchun and Hefei, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked other counties in the Jianghuai region in advance. Undoubtedly, this approach would be extremely dangerous if Zhu Yuanzhang had sufficient military forces.

However, given that Zhu Yuanzhang's military strength is currently stretched to the limit, this is somewhat unimportant, as at least the danger level has been reduced to a minimum.

However, although this method completely isolated Shouchun and Hefei and cut off all their connections with the outside world, even Xie Ai's troops in Dabie Mountain were surrounded.

However, this also tied up a large number of Guo Ziyi's troops, forcing him to garrison a large number of troops in various counties.

After all, at that time, there were Liu Bei's 30,000 naval troops and Zhu Tianpeng's 10,000 Yangzhou naval troops in the Jianghuai region. The Jianghuai region also had countless rivers with large and small tributaries crisscrossing, which was a very friendly environment for the navy.

Now, Guo Ziyi is on the Jianghuai battlefield, and what he will use next is the strategy of winning over people's hearts and minds.

Using the deterrence he had previously shown, he pressed on to his next target, the important city of Hefei, forcing this important fortress to be breached from the inside.

No matter how strong a fortress is, it may be indestructible if attacked from the outside, but if there is a problem inside, it will become fragile, just like a shoddy construction.

Just like Tian Rangju of Runan before, how much harm did he cause to Cao Ren and Zhang Liao all along?
However, in the end, he was tied up by his own brothers and handed over to the Jin army.

The county town mentioned above has set an example for the people in Hefei. Whether it is a good example or a bad example, both examples have been set.

Guo Ziyi didn't believe that all the people in Hefei were so stubborn and were the kind of people who didn't care about their lives.

The previous killings, whether it was Li Xiang or Guo Ziyi, were never done to vent their anger or simply for the sake of killing. The purpose was always to attack the hearts of the enemies in such a cruel way and to create an absolute deterrent to the rest of the enemies.

Wherever he passed, all the counties including Juchao, Wanxian and Longshu surrendered. This was the most direct effect.

As long as Hefei can be taken, the Dabie Mountains and Shouqin areas will be completely isolated.

At that time, Guo Ziyi could have led his troops westward first and cooperated with Wang Jian to capture Xie Ai in Dabie Mountains. Later, he could combine all the troops and capture the last tough bone, Shouchun. Moreover, he could have made complete defenses with his absolutely superior force, no longer giving Zhu Di any chance to escape, and completely ending the Battle of Jianghuai.