Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

In Changsha Commandery, Zhang Fei led not only five thousand infantry but also two thousand of his own cavalry.

Moreover, the scale of the Man unrest in Changsha Commandery was far greater than that in Lingling Commandery, with initial estimates putting the number of Changsha Man involved in the disturbances at over twenty thousand.

In nearly a month, Zhang Fei had fought several battles with the Changsha Man, with both sides achieving victories and suffering defeats.

In many mountainous areas, the Changsha Man, relying on their geographical advantage and numbers, were clearly not a match for the five thousand Han soldiers.

Only in terrain conducive to cavalry warfare, where the sharpness of the two thousand cavalry could be brought into full play, could Zhang Fei firmly suppress the Changsha Man.

This, in turn, led Zhang Fei and the Changsha Man into a kind of stalemate, with the Changsha Man causing trouble everywhere, and Zhang Fei leading his cavalry to put out fires all over Changsha Commandery.

The Changsha Man dared not venture deep into the plains, and Zhang Fei found it difficult to rush into the mountains to pursue and kill them.

However, this has always been a pain point in the battles between the Han army and the Southern Man.

Zhang Fei was able to firmly contain the Changsha Man with a weaker force, relying entirely on his bravery and the advantage of his cavalry.

The situation in Wuling Commandery was undoubtedly much more severe.

The Changsha Man, Lingling Man, and Guiyang Man were mostly fighting on their own, with each tribe looting and plundering on its own, and had not truly been unified.

Moreover, there was a large population of Han Chinese in the area, and in the face of the Man's looting, many young and strong men organized local militias to fight back.

However, the Man King Shamoke of Wuling had great prestige and coordinated and organized the tribes to launch large-scale attacks and looting of the Han people, in order to strengthen their own tribes.

It was also because of this that after Yuanling City, a major town in Wuling Commandery, was captured, the Wuling Man began to loot all the way north along the Yuan River.

The overall terrain of Wuling Commandery is characterized by an increasing number of mountains from north to south and from east to west, which also led to the Han Chinese in Wuling Commandery mostly gathering in the northeast, which is also the direction in which the Wuling Man looted along the Yuan River.

By the time Huang Zhong led a large army from Chaisang, traveled the Yangtze River, passed Dongting Lake, and entered the Yuan River, arriving at Yuannan City.

The Wuling Man army, with its forces approaching forty thousand, was less than fifty miles away from Yuannan City, which almost startled Li Ji, who received the military report later, into a cold sweat.

Once Huang Zhong had arrived at Yuannan City a little later, Yuannan City, with only a thousand militiamen hastily organized, would not have been able to defend the city at all.

The loss of Yuannan City not only meant that tens of thousands of people in the city would suffer, but also that the northern part of Wuling Commandery would have no defense, and the Wuling Man could easily loot a large area of Han Chinese in the northern part of Wuling Commandery.

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

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 Man outside the city.

In particular, Yuannan City was small, which brought Huang Zhong's bravery to the extreme. It can be said that one man is in charge, and ten thousand men cannot open it.

Seeing that Yuannan City could not be captured for a long time, the Man King Shamoke personally led the brave men of various tribes to attack the city, but Huang Zhong personally killed more than a hundred people, and even Shamoke himself almost died on the spot.

Subsequently, Huang Zhong, who was fighting bloody battles, took advantage of Shamoke's serious injury and the chaos of the Wuling Man, and brazenly led three thousand Mountain Yue soldiers out of the city to charge and kill, defeating the Wuling Man who had no time to react, and even chasing and killing them for twenty miles into the mountains.

The number of Wuling Man killed and wounded in this battle was countless, and it also established Huang Zhong's great reputation.

It's just that Huang Zhong had few soldiers, and after more than a month of continuous bloody battles, half of the eight thousand soldiers were lost.

For a time, Huang Zhong was more than enough to deter the Wuling Man in Yuannan City, but he was unable to continue to counterattack the Wuling Man.

Therefore, Huang Zhong, in addition to defending Yuannan City and protecting a corner of Wuling Commandery, was helpless against the Wuling Man who looted in other directions.

One after another, battle reports about the four commanderies of Jingnan were sent back to Li Ji's desk, and Li Ji was constantly deducing the direction of the four commanderies of Jingnan based on the battle reports and the constantly clearer situation.

It's just that this result made Li Ji frown greatly.

Even if the situation in the four commanderies of Jingnan is currently locally advantageous to the Han army, and the most severe Changsha Commandery and Wuling Commandery have gradually become stalemated, initially containing the Man rebellion.

However, the barbarians in the four commanderies of Jingnan would not understand what the general trend of the world is. In their eyes, there is only this area of the four commanderies of Jingnan.

When the Man people in the four commanderies of Jingnan gradually react, they will realize that the Han army has only sent more than 20,000 soldiers to quell the rebellion. This number is not even as large as the garrison commandery soldiers in the four commanderies of Jingnan before.

Or think that the Han Dynasty is weak.

Or get a taste of the sweetness from looting the Han people before.

Even if the Han army maintains the situation in the four commanderies of Jingnan with a weak force, when the winter comes, the four commanderies of Jingnan will once again break out in a Man rebellion, and the scale will be even greater.

In the final analysis, it is that this counterattack did not really hurt the Man people in the four commanderies of Jingnan who had developed ambitions, allowing them to digest the gains from this looting and continue to launch the next round of Man rebellion.

After Li Ji pondered over the map for a moment, he issued a military order: Transfer Guan Yu and three thousand Dao Fu Yi soldiers to Jingnan, and recruit five thousand Mountain Yue soldiers in Yangzhou to go to Wuling Commandery.

Compared to the Han Chinese, the Mountain Yue people and the three thousand Dao Fu Yi soldiers under Guan Yu are better at marching and fighting in the mountains.

After Liu Bei moved the capital to Shouchun, the military focus of Yangzhou also began to shift fully to Shouchun.

In this way, Guan Yu no longer needed to stay in Ruyin City to defend against Yuan Shu, and naturally he could free up some troops to invest in the Jingnan battlefield.

Transferring Guan Yu and three thousand Dao Fu Yi soldiers to Jingnan, plus the seven thousand Mountain Yue soldiers pieced together in various ways, is enough to form an army of ten thousand to directly sweep through Wuling Commandery.

This time, Li Ji decided to rectify the Man people in the four commanderies of Jingnan and teach them what rules are.

After Guan Yu was transferred to lead troops to Jingnan, there was only one purpose…

That is "kill"!

Kill the Man people in the four commanderies of Jingnan so that they are terrified, kill the Man people in the four commanderies of Jingnan so that they are afraid, and kill the Man people in the four commanderies of Jingnan so that they lie prostrate on the ground and patiently listen to the rules and principles Li Ji mentioned.

It is not easy to achieve a change in offense and defense.

Even if the Dao Fu Yi soldiers and the Mountain Yue soldiers are good at jungle warfare, they still have no geographical advantage compared to the Man people who were born and raised here.

However, under the circumstances that Li Ji remotely commanded the remaining infantry to lead the Han army to guard the dangerous places and constantly block the Man people from other areas from coming to support.

Guan Yu only needs to constantly lead his troops into the mountains or go by water, and then use tactics such as division and encirclement or siege and aid to constantly sweep away one Man tribe after another.

It took half a year and cost countless money and grain…

It was early March again, and the peach blossoms outside Xiangyang City were in full bloom.

Li Ji put one hand behind his back, and the other hand broke off a peach blossom branch and placed it on the tray held by his book boy Gu Wei next to him.

After sitting in Jingzhou for more than half a year, as Jingzhou gradually stabilized, Li Ji was preparing to set off to return to Yangzhou to report to Liu Bei that day.

It happened that the peach blossoms outside Xiangyang City were in full bloom, and Li Ji passed by on the way, so he thought of breaking off a peach blossom branch and taking it back to Zhaoji as a gift.

"The peach blossoms in Xiangyang are very beautiful this year. I think the peach blossoms in Jingnan are even more beautiful…"

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

"You say yes, don't you? Man King Shamoke."

Shamoke's upper body was almost naked, with only a few pieces of animal skin wrapped around his body. His hands were tied with ropes, and he was pressed to the ground and unable to move. His face was like a wild beast, staring fiercely at Li Ji, and he did not answer.

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

"The Marquis is asking you a question. How dare you, a barbarian, not answer?"