Rebirth of the Three Kingdoms: The New Biography of Guan Ping

Chapter 230: Taking and Taking Jiaozhou

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In June of the ninth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei and Zhou Yu's coalition forces had besieged Jiangling for six months. Both sides suffered heavy losses, but Cao Ren still held on. Taking advantage of this gap, Guan Ping worked hard in the four counties of Jiangnan and Jiangxia. Day and night, recruit sailors and infantry.look
In terms of infantry and cavalry, Cao's army surrendered more than [-] troops in Jingzhou, and they were divided into three divisions. Ding Feng led one division, and Zang Ba and Sun Guan were transferred from Gaoshun's trapped camp to appoint one division each.In addition, more than [-] soldiers and horses were collected in the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, all of which were assigned to Huang Zhong's command, and Lincoln was transferred to Changsha as Huang Zhong's deputy.

As for the navy, based on the warships of the Jingzhou Navy captured by Gan Ning, they recruited warriors from the river and expanded the army to more than [-] people. [

In a short period of time, Guan Ping's army expanded its troops to [-] and secured the five counties of Jiangxia, Changsha, Lingling, Wuling, and Guiyang.

On the Jiangling side, in order to prevent Xiangyang Lejin from linking up with Jiangling's Caoren Department, Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to lead a naval force from Mianshui to the north and occupy the counties east of Hanshui, lying between Xiangyang and Jiangling.

Seeing that Cao Ren was in a hurry, he immediately went out of the city to attack Guan Yu. At the same time, Le Jin went south from Xiangyang to attack Guan Yu's troops with Cao Ren.

Seeing that Guan Yu was in danger, Zhou Yu dispatched Zhang Fei, who was temporarily under his command, to rescue Guan Yu. At the same time, Liu Bei also sent troops from Jingyang to rescue Guan Yu. There was a great battle between the six parties, and no one could get a bargain. They retreated into Xiangyang City, Cao Ren was also unable to support the field battle due to heavy losses, so he retreated into Jiangling City again, unable to defend.

Because Jiangling could not be attacked for a long time, Liu Bei and Zhou Yu also issued letters to Guan Ping many times, asking him to send troops for help, and agreed that the three armies would encircle Jiangling City and divide the territory equally after capturing Jingzhou.

Guan Ping called his counselors to discuss together. Tian Feng, Xu Shu and others believed that the three major counties in Jingzhou Jiangbei, Nanyang, Nanjun, and Xiangyangzhong, Cao Jun still had considerable strength, and it was impossible to easily capture them in a short time, so they should not send troops.

Guan Ping accepted the opinion, only because his troops suffered heavy losses during the Battle of Chibi and were unable to fight any more, so he did not send troops. At the same time, he adopted Yin Yuan's suggestion and planned to take advantage of Sun Quan and Liu Bei's busy capture of Jiangling to capture Jiaozhou in the south.

At this time, the situation in Jiaozhou was very chaotic.There are seven counties in Jiaozhou, the largest of which are Jiaozhi County, Cangwu County, Hepu County, and Nanhai County.

Among these counties, three counties were all owned by Shi Xie. Earlier, in order to win over Shi Xie, Cao Cao passed the imperial edict and appointed Shi Xie as Suinan Zhonglang General to manage the affairs of the seven counties of Jiaozhou. At the same time, Shi Xie also served as the prefect of Jiaozhi. , and his third younger brothers, namely Hepu, Jiuzhen, and Nanhai prefect, more than half of Jiaozhou, all fell into the hands of scholars.

With Cao Cao's remote control of Jiaozhou, Liu Biao relied on geographical proximity to actually control Cangwu County in Jiaozhou.

In the third year of Jian'an, he appointed Zhang Jin as the governor of Jiaozhou. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jin was killed by his general Qu Jing because he was keen on the art of immortality and neglected management. At the beginning of Jian'an seventh year, Liu Biao appointed Lai Gong again. At this time, because of the death of Shi Huang, the prefect of Cangwu County, Liu Biao appointed Wu Ju to act as the prefect of Cangwu County.

Because Liu Biao actually controlled the area of ​​Cangwu County, and because the governor of Jiaozhou appointed by him could only govern Cangwu County, in terms of rights, he would naturally conflict with the prefect of Cangwu.