Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

In Changsha County, Zhang Fei led not only 5,000 infantry but also 2,000 cavalry from his own army.

Moreover, the scale of the rebellion in Changsha County was much larger than that in Lingling County. According to preliminary statistics, the number of Changsha barbarians causing riots in various places was over 20,000.

In the past month, Zhang Fei led his troops to fight several battles with the Changsha barbarians, and the two sides won and lost.

In many mountainous and forested areas, the Changsha barbarians relied on their geographical advantages and numbers. It was obvious that the 5,000 Han troops alone would not be a match for them.

Only by using terrain that is conducive to cavalry combat and bringing the power of two thousand cavalry into full play can Zhang Fei firmly suppress the Changsha barbarians.

This instead led to a stalemate between Zhang Fei and the Changsha barbarians. The Changsha barbarians were causing chaos everywhere, while Zhang Fei led the cavalry to put out fires everywhere in Changsha County.

The Changsha barbarians did not dare to go deep into the plains, and Zhang Fei found it difficult to rush into the mountains and forests to hunt down the Changsha barbarians.

However, this has always been the pain point of the Han army's battles with the Southern Barbarians.

Zhang Fei was able to firmly control the Changsha barbarians with his weak military force, all thanks to his bravery and the advantage of his cavalry.

The situation in Wuling County is undoubtedly much more serious.

Most of the Changsha barbarians, Lingling barbarians, and Guiyang barbarians were still fighting each other, and each tribe was plundering everywhere on its own, and they were not truly unified.

There are also a large Han Chinese population in the local area. When faced with the barbarians' looting, there are many young and strong people who organize militia to fight back.

However, the prestige of the Wuling Barbarian King Shamoke was quite high. He coordinated and organized various tribes to attack and plunder the Han people on a large scale in order to strengthen his own tribe.

It was for this reason that after the capture of Yuanling City, an important town in Wuling County, the Wuling barbarians began to plunder northward along the Yuan River.

The overall terrain of Wuling County is that the mountains increase from north to south and from east to west. This also led to most of the Han people in Wuling County gathering on the northeast side, which is also the direction in which the Wuling barbarians plundered along the Yuan River.

When Huang Zhong led the army from Chaisang along the Yangtze River, passed Dongting Lake and entered the Yuan River, and arrived at Yuannan City.

The Wuling Barbarian army, whose strength had approached 40,000, was less than 50 miles away from Yuannan City. This made Li Ji, who received the military report later, almost break out in a cold sweat.

If Huang Zhong arrived at Yuannan City a little later, it would be impossible for Yuannan City to defend the city with only thousands of militiamen hastily organized.

The fall of Yuannan City not only meant disaster for tens of thousands of people in the city, but also left the northern part of Wuling County undefended, allowing the Wuling barbarians to easily plunder large areas of Han people in the northern part of Wuling County.

Yuannan City is surrounded by mountains on three sides and controls the Yuan River. Although the city is small, it is very strategic. In addition, the navy in the rear can continuously replenish food and supplies by water.

Therefore, after Huang Zhong led his army to Yuannan City, he almost adopted a posture of defending Yuannan City to the death, firmly blocking tens of thousands of Wuling barbarians outside the city.

Especially since Yuannan City is small, Huang Zhong's bravery was brought to the extreme, and he could be said to be a one-man army guarding the pass against ten thousand.

Seeing that Yuannan City could not be captured after a long siege, the Barbarian King Shamoke personally led the brave men from various tribes to attack the city. However, he was killed by Huang Zhong himself, over a hundred of his men, and even Shamoke nearly died on the spot.

Afterwards, Huang Zhong, who had fought bloody battles, took advantage of the fact that Shamoke was seriously injured and the Wuling barbarians were in chaos and brazenly led 3,000 Shanyue soldiers out of the city to charge and kill. The Wuling barbarians were defeated before they had time to react, and Huang Zhong even chased them all the way into the mountains and forests for 20 miles.

Countless Wuling barbarians were killed or wounded in this battle, which also made Huang Zhong famous.

However, Huang Zhong had few soldiers, and after more than a month of bloody fighting, more than half of his 8,000 troops were lost.

For a while, Huang Zhong was more than capable of intimidating the Wuling barbarians in Yuannan City, but he was powerless to continue his counterattack against them.

Therefore, apart from defending Yuannan City and protecting the peace of Wuling County, Huang Zhong was completely helpless against the Wuling barbarians who were plundering in other directions.

One after another, battle reports about the four counties in southern Jing were sent back to Li Ji's desk. Li Ji was constantly deducing the direction of the four counties in southern Jing based on the battle reports and the increasingly clear situation.

But this result made Li Ji frown.

Even though the situation in the four counties of southern Jing was that the Han army had a partial advantage, the worst-hit Changsha and Wuling counties had gradually reached a stalemate, and the chaos had been initially curbed. However, the barbarians in the four counties of southern Jing did not understand the general situation of the world, and they only had eyes for the four counties of southern Jing.

When the barbarians in the four southern counties of Jing gradually reacted, they realized that the Han army had only sent more than 20,000 troops to quell the rebellion, and this number was not even as many as the garrison troops in the four southern counties of Jing before.

Or maybe they think that the Han people are weak.

Or maybe he reaped the benefits of looting the Han people before.

Even if the Han army maintains the situation in the four southern counties of Jing with its weak force, when winter comes, chaos will break out again in the four southern counties of Jing, and the scale will be even greater.

In the final analysis, this counterattack did not really hurt the ambitious barbarians in the four counties of southern Jing, allowing them to digest the spoils of this looting and continue to stir up the next round of chaos.

After pondering over the map for a moment, Li Ji issued a military order: to transfer Guan Yu and three thousand sword-and-axe soldiers to southern Jing, and to recruit five thousand Shanyue soldiers in Yangzhou to go to Wuling County.

Compared with the Han people, the Shanyue people and the 3,000 sword-and-axe barbarian soldiers under Guan Yu's command were better at marching and fighting in the mountains.

After Liu Bei moved his capital to Shouchun, the focus of Yangzhou's military forces began to shift towards Shouchun.

In this way, there was no need for Guan Yu to continue staying in Ruyin City to guard against Yuan Shu, and he could naturally free up some troops to be deployed to the battlefield in southern Jing.

Guan Yu and his 3,000 sword-and-axe barbarian troops were transferred to southern Jing. Together with the 7,000 Shanyue soldiers gathered from various sources, it was enough to form an army of 10,000 people to directly penetrate into Wuling County and carry out a sweep.

This time, Li Ji decided to reorganize the barbarians in the four counties of southern Jing and teach them what the rules are.

After Guan Yu led his army into Jingnan, his purpose was just one word...

That is "kill"!
The barbarians in the four counties of southern Jing were frightened and afraid, and they crawled on the ground and listened patiently to Li Jiti's rules and principles.

It is not easy to achieve the switch between offense and defense.

Even though the Sword and Axe Barbarian Army and the Shanyue Soldiers were both good at jungle warfare, they still had no geographical advantage compared to the barbarians who were born and raised here.

However, Li Ji remotely commanded the rest of the infantry to lead the Han army to guard the strategic locations and constantly block the barbarians from other areas from coming to support.

Guan Yu only needed to lead his troops into the mountains or take the waterways, and use strategies such as dividing and encircling or besieging a point and attacking reinforcements to continuously sweep away one barbarian tribe after another.

It took half a year and cost a lot of money and food...

By the beginning of March, peach blossoms were in full bloom outside Xiangyang City.

Li Ji put one hand behind his back and with the other hand he picked a peach blossom and placed it on the tray held by Gu Wei, the servant beside him.

After being in charge of Jingzhou for more than half a year, as Jingzhou gradually became stable, Li Ji prepared to return to Yangzhou to report to Liu Bei.

It happened that the peach blossoms outside Xiangyang City were in full bloom. Li Ji passed by and thought of picking a peach blossom to bring back to Zhao Ji as a gift.

"The peach blossoms in Xiangyang are in full bloom this year. I'm sure the peach blossoms in Jingnan are even more beautiful..."

After a pause, Li Ji turned around and looked at a barbarian man with disheveled hair kneeling on the ground behind him, and asked in a gentle voice.

"You said so, didn't you? Barbarian King Shamoke."

Shamoke's upper body was almost naked, with only a few pieces of animal skins wrapped around his body. His hands were tied with ropes. He was forced to kneel on the ground, unable to move. He stared at Li Ji ferociously like a wild beast, without saying a word.

The next moment, Wei Yan rushed out, slapped Shamoke hard and shouted.

"The Marquis is asking you a question, how dare you, a barbarian, not answer it?" (End of this chapter)