Ji Han Da Sima

Chapter 436: Jingjiao Incident

The Lijiang River is as clear as a mirror for hundreds of miles, and the reflections of the peaks are half hazy and half clear. It is a rare beauty in the world.

Several flat boats are floating on the river, going down the Lijiang River. The water turns with the mountains, and the boat follows the current, and you can enjoy the landscape paintings of hundreds of miles.

The boat curtain was lifted, and Huo Jun stepped out, breathing in the fresh air, looking at the Li River landscape moving on both sides, and felt refreshed.

"Husband, it's cold, please put on your outer robe!"

As he said this, he saw the young and beautiful concubine following him, with a delicate face and outstanding appearance. The body wrapped in brocade and jade clothes can be seen in the small steps of her attractive figure.

Liu Lanzhi had a brocade robe on her hands and put it on Huo Jun's shoulders, saying softly: "It's so cold in the morning, husband, be careful of catching a cold."

Huo Jun took advantage of the situation and hugged his beautiful concubine's slender waist, looked at the Qingdai mountains in the distance, and said with a smile: "With a beautiful woman in my arms and beautiful scenery in front of me, this is a beautiful thing in life!"

Liu Lanzhi leaned on Huo Jun's chest, her fair and tender face slightly red, smelling the scent of her man, and looking at the scenery of the Lijiang River, which was really intoxicating.

Huo Jun left Wuhan in the name of supervising the Jiaoguang War, but in fact he took his concubine by boat to Shi'an (today's Guilin), where they played in the Li River for several days and enjoyed rare leisure time.

In order to get a bowl of water, Huo Jun specially brought Liu Lanzhi with him when he went out to Zhenjiao Ridge, asking her to serve him and enjoy their time together to enhance the relationship between husband and concubine.

After a while, he heard the footsteps of the attendants walking around. Liu Lanzhi hurriedly broke away from Huo Jun's arms, lifted up the broken hair beside her ears, and said, "I'm preparing breakfast for my husband."

After closing the letter, Huo Jun said with a smile: "We have killed more than 10,000 prisoners and captured all of Jingxiang. When the army enters Xiangfan, we need to observe General Guan's strategy of using troops!"

A few days ago, after Lu and Bu defeated the Nanman reinforcements, they asked for orders to destroy Shi Xie. Huo Jun agreed and adopted Huo Fan's strategy to cooperate with Zhengqi in the battle. Huo Fan was ordered to lead his elite soldiers southward and attack the empty Longbian of Jiaozhi Administration Office. He cooperated with Lu and Bu to sweep Jiaoling.

To be honest, having many wives and concubines seems wonderful, but it is not easy to take care of them all. Huo Jun cherished the beauty and cherished the beauty, and could not bear to have a resentful wife in the back house, so he had to become a master of time management and try his best to comfort his wife and concubines physically and spiritually. Therefore, it is often 'tight at the front and tight at the rear'.

Everyone had their own suggestions for the Xiangfan war. After Huo Jun made the overall plan, he no longer participated in the detailed strategy because he had to go south to Jiaoling. Most of them learned about the progress of the war in Xiangfan through letters from Wuhan.

Liu Bei's letter is about two to three hundred words, mostly describing the battle on the front line, discussing Fa and Ge's staff perspectives on the war, and asking Huo Jun for his opinion.

He stretched out his hand to break open the ink pad, opened the small wooden box, and took out the towel. Huo Jun unfolded the towel and then read the contents of the letter.

Since Lu and Bu were commanding the battle, Huo Jun had no need to rush to the front line, so he stayed behind the Li River, supervising the food and grass for the two while playing.

Huo Xiong went up the boat ladder to the second floor and presented the letter.

Huo Jun smiled slightly and said, "It's expected to be a good news for Xiangfan!"

When I read that Guan Yu captured more than 10,000 rebel soldiers, nearly annihilated Cao Ren's entire army, surrendered Hu Xiu, the governor of Jingzhou, and Fu Fang, the prefect of Nanxiang, and forced Cao Ren to survive with a tree, it really made Huo Jun laugh.

After saying that, he stretched his body, Huo Jun exhaled and said, "I wonder how the war in Xiangfan is going now?"

More than ten thousand people were killed and captured, and the Wei army in Jingxiang was defeated. The results of this battle were not insignificant.

Perhaps due to the influence of historical records in the pre-Qin period, or because historians did not know the relationship between soldiers, later generations were vague about the number of soldiers and horses in battle.

"Captain, a letter from the King has arrived!"

It can be said that today's Southern Han and Northern Wei marshaled all the troops to fight, and they were completely unable to achieve the number of 600,000 troops mobilized by Qin as recorded in historical records in the Battle of Changping.

Therefore, Huo Jun is always glad that he has plenty of energy due to time travel, otherwise he would not be able to be a time management master.

"Letter from the King?"

Huo Jun looked at the indigo mountains in the distance, let go and let his beautiful concubine leave, and said with emotion: "The mountains are like eyebrows, and the water is like rouge. The mountains and waters of the Lijiang River are the best in the world, and few in the world can match it!"

The battle at Jiaoling was said to be in a tense state among the officials, and Shi Xie faced off with Lu Dai and Bu Zhi. In fact, when Huo Jun went south, Lu and Bu combined their forces to suppress Shi Xie and fight with overwhelming force.

In the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei gathered more than 50,000 soldiers and horses from Yizhou. After being beaten by Lu Xun and barely escaping with his life, the Shu Han Dynasty immediately withered and the country almost collapsed. It wasn't until Zhuge Liang moved more than 10,000 barbarian households southward to Shu and spent four or five years cultivating himself that the Shu Han gradually recovered.

In the Battle of Shiting, Lu Xun and Zhu Huan jointly attacked Cao Xiu and captured more than 10,000 Wei soldiers. At the end of Cao Rui's life, Cao Wei was unable to launch a southern expedition in Jianghuai. It wasn't until Sima Yi adopted Deng Ai's strategy to deeply control Jianghuai that Jianghuai recovered.

Therefore, since Huo Jun led the army, when he re-read the war history recorded in historical records, he felt that the number of soldiers and horses in the pre-Qin period was seriously lied. Maybe 20,000 to 30,000 people would be recorded as more than 100,000 people, and the 70,000 to 80,000 people would be more than 400,000 people through rendering. The water content is so large that it is difficult to discuss.

Among the historians, because Chen Shou was at the end of the Three Kingdoms period, he had access to first-hand war information or detailed knowledge of the army when he wrote "Three Kingdoms". Therefore, the number of soldiers and horses recorded in "Three Kingdoms" is mostly combatable soldiers.

For example, when Liu Bei rescued Xuzhou, he only had more than a thousand soldiers and black horsemen and horsemen, and thousands of hungry people. During the period from Liu Bei to Runan, there were thousands of people.

Nowadays, Cao Cao only holds Nanyang County and Xiangfan County in Jingzhou. Through administrative splitting, he got four counties and the registered population is not large. More than ten thousand people were beheaded and captured, and Jing and Xiang were not spared. This is a lie.

If Jingxiang is empty, Cao Cao will definitely send troops south for reinforcements. Guan Yu wanted to capture Xiangfan, so facing the reinforcements was the highlight. If they are repulsed by reinforcements, all previous plans will be in vain.

Back in the cabin, Huo Jun sat on the couch, read through the contents of the letter, thought for a long time, and wrote a letter to Liu Bei.

In the letter, Huo Jun stated that reinforcements could be sent to Xiangfan, but the situation in Xiangfan was currently unclear, and it was not appropriate for Liu Bei to conquer Xiangfan himself.

If Liu Bei wanted to lead his troops in the Northern Expedition, Huo Jun suggested that Liu Bei use his troops in summer when there was abundant rain. There was abundant rain in summer, and the water level in Jianghan rose sharply, which was conducive to the army's northern expedition and Guan Yu's blockade of Xiangyang.

Finally, Huo Jun reported on the battle at Xiajiao Ling and then stopped writing.

After the writing on the scarf dried, Huo Jun ordered someone to send the letter to Liu Bei.

After the messenger left the cabin, Huo Jun ordered: "Order the fleet to rush to Panyu as quickly as possible!" "No!"

Lifting the boat curtain, Huo Jun looked at the landscape of the Li River with a look of reluctance, and said with emotion: "We will wait until the world is unified before we can look at the landscape of the Li River again."

As time goes by, people age, but only the mountains and rivers remain unchanged!
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Not to mention Huo Jun's march south to Panyu, now Guan Yu and Lu Meng have led their sergeants. Taking advantage of the empty situation in Xiangfan, the two armies on the water route have joined together, and the troops have reached Fancheng and stationed the troops on the water route at Yuliangzhou.

Yuliangzhou is a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides and mountains to the north.

When the water rises, the low-lying land connected to the mountains in the north will be submerged by the rising Han and Yue rivers; during the dry season, a passable road will be formed.

After the Battle of Jinkou in the past, Huo Jun led his army northward, occupied Yuliangzhou and threatened the two cities of Xiangfan, beheaded Li Tong, and moved the people of Hanshui southward.

Cao Ren learned his lesson, adopted Zhu Zhi's advice, and built a fortress on Yuliang Continent to prevent the Southern Han Navy from following Huo Jun's example and occupying Yuliang Continent. However, when Guan Yu and Lu Meng arrived, the Yuliangzhou fortress was already deserted and was directly occupied by the soldiers and horses of the Southern Han Dynasty, becoming the base camp for the Northern Expedition.

Obviously, in order to gain control of the three eastern counties, and because Guan Yu claimed to be ill and recuperating, Cao Ren took less precautions and transferred the troops stationed outside Xiangfan, leaving only the troops guarding the second city of Xiangfan.

Guan Yu and Lu Meng took their generals on a boat to observe the geography and water conditions of Xiangfan.

On the boat, Guan Yu stood with one hand holding his sword. His tall and burly figure was very eye-catching on the deck.

Guan Yu looked at his sword and said: "The waterway between the two cities of Xiangfan is narrow, only seven or eight hundred paces. When the water is dry, the bandits build a pontoon bridge to communicate with Xiangyang. Now we can camp south of Fancheng to prevent the bandits' reinforcements from crossing the river. .”

After saying that, Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled lightly, and said: "Setting up camp in the south of the city will not only block the communication between the two cities, but also enhance the might of our army and intimidate Cao Ren in Fancheng."

"Where are Zhao Lei and Shi Ren?"

"The end is here!"

Zhao Lei and Shi Ren stepped out of the queue and responded with their hands raised.

"Shiren is the chief general and Zhao Lei is the deputy general. I order you two to lead the army with seven thousand troops and camp in the south of Fancheng."

"No!" The two of them took the order and retreated.

"Ziming, how many troops, horses and supplies are there in Xiangyang City today? Who is guarding it?" Guan Yu asked.

"I would like to inform you that Xiangyang is the prefect of Zhangling, and General Pingdi Lu Chang is in charge. He is from Boyang, Nanyang. There are about five thousand soldiers in the city. It is difficult to know how much food and supplies are there. However, Xiangyang is one of the important towns. Cao Ren and Zhu Zhi used to live here, and it is roughly estimated that it may last for a year."

Under Liu Biao's rule, Xiangyang's population was far more prosperous than other cities in Jingzhou, and even inferior to Jiangling and Hanshou. However, as Xiangyang was reduced to a military location and became a point of contention between the Southern Han and Northern Wei, Xiangyang had long lost its former wealth and prosperity.

Lu Meng pointed to Xiangyang City and said: "In the past, there were many people in Xiangyang City, but due to the war, they were all moved to the north of Han Dynasty by Cao Cao. Today, except for the soldiers, there are few people in the city, and the city is in ruins!"

"The princes wanted to blockade Xiangyang City, so they thought they could camp in the Xian Mountains southwest of the city. At that time, the Han River was to the east of Xiangyang, the south camp of Fancheng was to the north of the city, and the Xian Mountain camp was to the west. Although it may be difficult to cut off the communication of messengers, it can be There is no food and supplies are coming into the city."

"good!"

Guan Yu nodded slightly and ordered: "Ziming will lead ten thousand troops to station on Xian Mountain in order to block Xiangyang. Any bandits who want to cross the river must be attacked."

"promise!"

Lu Meng responded with his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Fu Fang is the governor of the old Nanxiang. Meng thought that he could use his letter to lure the Nanxiang officials to surrender."

"allow!"

Through years of cooperation, Guan Yu has become convinced of Lü Meng's talents and is confident in his work and use of troops.

Guan Yu thought for a while and asked, "Is there any change in Yan Xing's department?"

"To inform you, your Majesty, Yan Xing is afraid of our army and has set up camp more than ten miles away from Fancheng. He should be waiting for reinforcements from the bandits, and then the combined army will move south," Fei Yi said.

"Is there anyone who can help the general?" Guan Yu asked.

"The leader of the thieves' reinforcements is former general Yu Jin!" Fei Yi replied.

"Yu Wenze!"

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered a few words.

Suddenly, Guan Yu smiled while stroking his beard, and warned: "Although Yu Jin is majestic and resolute, and holds the army in a strict order, he is a general that Cao Cao relies on. The troops under his tent are elite thieves, so you should be careful with them."

"promise!"

Yu Jin led the troops in a strict manner and gained Cao Cao's trust. How could Guan Yu not know this? Knowing the level of the imperial army, Guan Yu gave many instructions to his generals to avoid underestimating the enemy and leading to defeat.

The attendant boarded the ship in a small boat and reported: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Ma Ji often serves the army under the orders of the King!"

Guan Yu raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "I ordered you to treat me well and return to camp later a certain night."

"promise!"

(End of this chapter)