Chapter 181
Not to mention, there are really not long-sighted ones. Hongming, Hongjin, Yuanyu, Wu Fu, Huadang, and other leaders of the strong clans in Jian'an, Hanxing, and Nanping in the south of Huiji County heard Zhang Xiu's migration and assimilation policy for Shanyue, and gathered troops to oppose it. These Shanyue chieftains colluded, and in just a few days, they relied on tribal forces to take control of their respective prefectures and counties.
Not only that, but these ambitious leaders also distorted and publicized Zhang Xiu's policies. It was claimed that Zhang Xiu's next step after slaughtering the wealthy family of Jiangdong and plundering their huge wealth was to get rid of the unstable factor of Shanyue, and played the banner of the establishment of the Shanyue clan for autonomy and statehood, and tried his best to bewitch and win over.
In a certain respect, Zhang Xiu's return to Jiangdong this time is indeed to lift the time bomb of Shanyue, but although the two words "lift" and "get rid of" are only one word apart, the meanings they represent are very different.
The riot first occurred in his own territory, but Tai Shici, who was the lieutenant of Huiji, reacted not to be angry but happy. In fact, Zhang Xiujun was prepared for this riot that would come sooner or later. As soon as the 800-mile expedited military report arrived at the garrison of the Huiji Commandery's Department, Tai Shici immediately led the army south, without bringing any troops and food.
In just half a month, Hong Ming and Wu Fu gathered tens of thousands of Shanyue tribes, distributed privately hidden armor, and opened arsenals, arming tens of thousands of Shanyue elites. At this time, Tai Shi Ci also led 5,000 Huiji soldiers to Yu Khan, and first persuaded him to surrender, but Hong Ming and others naturally refused to agree. Tai Shi Ci was also happy to fight, and the two sides lined up in battle formations between the mountains and fields, and started a battle with open guns and open fires.
Although the Shanyue rebels have not undergone professional training, have no combat skills and tactics, they have lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, and they have a strong physical quality that is different from that of the plains. If it is just an ordinary army that encounters the armed Shanyue people, coupled with the influence of geographical factors, it may not be able to take advantage. But unfortunately, they encountered the soldiers and horses led by Tai Shici.
At the beginning of Zhang Xiu's occupation of Jiangdong, there were no superfluous county soldiers to guard the place. Then Zhang Xiu appointed the county guards to recruit troops and build camps on the spot, and appointed the county captains to lead the training of the troops. Jiangdong has a rich population, especially in Huiji Wu County, the new Huiji Taishou Shu Shao Enwei and Shi, the scale of the Jiangji County soldiers has expanded to more than 10,000 people, all of which are handed over to Tai Shi Ci for training, and the combat power is the first of the Jiangdong counties.
Not only that, when Tai Shici first took refuge in Zhang Xiu, he had a force of thousands of people, which was mainly composed of Liu Xuan's remnants and the local mountain people in Danyang, and later after the baptism of the battle to pacify Jiangdong, especially in the battle of Wanling to resist Sun Ce, it was sublimated by blood, and its combat effectiveness was not inferior to the main force of Zhang Xiu's army. After the war, with Tai Shi Ci being appointed as the governor of Huiji County, and Zu Lang, the commander of Danyang who temporarily commanded this army and horses, was also reappointed as the governor of Xindu County, this army returned to the hands of Tai Shi Ci, and came to Huiji County with Tai Shi Ci to serve as the first batch of Huiji County soldiers.
The 5,000 Huiji soldiers who pacified Shanyue this time were mainly the direct subordinates under Tai Shici who had experienced a real bloody battle. Compared with the two, Tai Shi Ci's subordinates also have a considerable number of so-called "Shanyue" people, and the physical fitness of individual soldiers is not inferior to the mountain rebels, coupled with well-trained combat skills and tactics that can be executed, as well as Tai Shi Ci's personal bravery, although the number is somewhat disadvantaged, but the overall strength of Tai Shi Ci's troops is still completely crushing the Shanyue rebels in front of them.
There was no suspense, and the Shanyue rebels, who had high morale and superior numbers of soldiers and horses, gave up their geographical advantage and chose the plains and wilderness, and the decisive battle would only result in a crushing defeat. At that time, Hong Ming, the first person to stand on his own in Shanyue, was the first to be killed by Tai Shi Ci, and Tai Shi Ci won the first battle.
In the next few days, Tai Shi Ci took advantage of the victory and attacked the Shanyue rebels one after another, beheading a total of 2,000 people, and taking countless prisoners, forcing Hong Ming's brother Hong Jin to retreat dozens of miles in ten days, giving up the geographical advantage of the mountains to Tai Shi Ci.
The counterattack of the Shanyue rebels came quickly, and the nearby Shanyue chieftains Wu Fu, Yuan Yu, and Hua Dang led their troops to help the Hongjin Division. These four Shanyue tribes surrounded Tai Shi Ci in a narrow terrain with four times the total number of troops.
The scout horse sent by Tai Shi Ci actually reported the military situation in the vicinity to Tai Shi Ci early on, but Tai Shi Ci did not have the slightest intention of temporarily retreating the troops, and only suspended the attack on Hong Jin. After being encircled, he did not say anything about breaking through, but just stuck to the camp.
Tai Shi Ci did not bring much grain and grass to fight against the rebellion, but after the first battle against Hong Ming, he captured a lot, enough to hold on for more than two months, and the Shanyue rebels were too numerous to consume, so after a short confrontation of half a month, Hong Jin launched an attack with Wu Fu, Yuan Yu and Hua Dang.
The reversal of the tide of the battle happened at this time, when more than 20,000 Shanyue rebels were besieging Tai Shici, and a Biao army of tens of thousands suddenly appeared. The Shanyue rebels, who were caught in a bitter offensive battle, had no time to return to the defense or draw out the main force, and as a result, they were attacked by this army and Tai Shici, and the whole army was defeated!
It was said to be a rout, but in fact only two or three thousand people were beheaded. As soon as most of the Shanyue soldiers saw that they were being flanked in the back, they immediately panicked and ran away, but before anyone could kill them, this rabble first dispersed a small part of themselves.
None of the four people who were squeezed by the rout, Hong Jin, Wu Fu, Yuan Yu and Hua Dang, succeeded in escaping for their lives, and all of them were captured.
With tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to enter the battlefield at the right time, it was the Huiji County Taishou Shu Shao Shu Zhongying, these 10,000 soldiers and horses are also ordinary Huiji County soldiers, originally the Shanyue rebels could completely resist a few thousand people to avoid being flanked, but Hong Jin and Wu Wu, these Shanyue chieftains, their respective experience and coordination and scheduling deficiencies and = and the fragility of the Shanyue soldiers' psychology completely buried all hope.
The Han law has an order that a county is too guarded to appear in non-public places at will, let alone leave the county without permission. But there is a reason why Shu Shao personally led his troops to help. First, Bo Buqi, the master of the auditor, can temporarily sit in Shanyin to manage the auditor on behalf of Shu Shao. Second, in Shu Shao's own words, that is: when the first rebellion is removed, the town is small! Thirdly, the Han law has long been outdated by now, including Cao Cao's territory at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and all parts of the world are now practicing their own laws, and the Han law has been reduced to a general reference.
Don't you see Zhang Xiu holding the position of Jiujiang Taishou before, but he personally led a large army to conquer Jiangdong? Don't you see Liu Da'er in Xudu as the assassin of Yuzhou, but he went to Xuzhou to stand on his own?
In the Zhang Xiu Group, Shu Shao's talent may not be top-notch, but his iron-blooded wrist is comparable to few people. No, the soldiers under his command captured Hong Jin, Wu Fu, Yuan Yu and Huadang, the Shanyue chieftains, and Shu Shao didn't have the slightest intention of waiting to be dealt with and sent to Zhang Xiu, so he directly waved his hand to behead the knife and axeman.
The main force of the Shanyue rebels was over, Tai Shici continued to lead the soldiers and horses to attack the Shanyue rebels in other places in the south of Huiji, and in just two months, he leveled the two Shanyue rebels of Wu Wu and Zou Lin, and captured Jian'an, the political center of the Dongzhi region. The Shanyue Rebellion in Huiji has thus ended, although there are still small groups of Shanyue tribes relying on the rugged and dense mountains and forests to deal with Zhang Xiujun, but it has not hindered the overall situation.
In fact, the rebellion in the southern part of Huiji Mountain was only a part of the rebellion of the Shanyue tribe in the entire Jiangdong, not only Huiji County, but also Danyang and Xindu, two counties inhabited by Shanyue, also broke out in different degrees of rebellion, and even Wu County, the center of gravity in Jiangdong, also had small-scale civil unrest.
For these riots, Zhang Xiu, who was in charge of the overall situation in Wu County, chose a rare and tolerant policy this time, and all the soldiers who treated Shanyue followed the principle of only punishing the evil and pardoning the crowd.
This is not to say that Zhang Xiu does not dare to kill again, but Zhang Xiu understands that the root cause of these civil unrest is actually the long-term distrust of the Shanyue people accumulated by the government. At the beginning, the government played the people as monkeys, and later tried to change it, but at this time, everything the government did was first labeled as a "scourge toss" in the eyes of the people.
However, compared with the rebellion in the southern part of Huiji, which totaled more than 100,000 people, most of the civil rebellions in Danyang, Xindu, and Wu County were only 1,000 people, and rarely exceeded the scale of 10,000 people. In particular, although the population of the Shanyue tribe accounted for the majority of the entire Xindu County, the largest rebellion that broke out was only a rebellion of no more than 3,000 people from two tribes.
The reason for this is that, on the one hand, Xindu County has been ruled by Zhang Xiu for a long time, whether it is the previous county guard Yuan Yin or this one He Kui, they are all generous people, and the people have little grievance. In addition, there is the reason for Zulang, the governor of Xindu County, as we all know, Zulang himself is a native of Shanyue, and has a very high prestige among the Shanyue tribes in Danyang and Xindu, and is the only person in the Zhang Xiu group who thoroughly represents the interests of the Shanyue tribe.
The situation in Danyang County was only a little worse than that of Xindu County, and Xu Sheng, a young general who defected to Zhang Xiu in the Battle of Wu County, finally got a chance to show himself.
There is also Kure County. In fact, the civil unrest in Wu County was not a pure Shanyue riot, but a small group of wealthy families who slipped through the net and took advantage of the Shanyue riots in various parts of Jiangdong to encourage a small number of mountain people who were ignorant of the world to rebel.
Zhang Xiu accepted the recommendation of Gu Yong, the Taishou of Wu County, and ordered Guangling Lu Dai to lead troops to quell the rebellion. This rebellion later evolved into a water battle, and the rebels relied on the wide reeds and depth of the waters of Zhenze (Taihu Lake) to deal with Zhang Xiu's army, and Lu Meng, the brother-in-law of Deng Dang, the governor of Wu County, shined in this battle, which was deeply appreciated by Zhang Xiu. even made Zhang Xiu have the idea of building a water division in his heart.
In the end, there will be a question of rebellion in the southern Yamagoe. The southern part of Huiji is very remote from Wu County, the political center of Jiangdong, and most of the area is mountainous, all parts of the country are blocked, and the proportion of Shanyue people is very large, and the influence and control of the government here has always been very weak, which is why the scale of the Huiji Shanyue riot is so large.
In response to these problems, Zhang Xiu redivided the entire southern part of Huiji into a county, which was named Jian'an County because its political center was in Jian'an County. and directly let Shu Shao, who was still in the south of Huiji, reap the post of Jian'an Taishou, on the one hand, to strengthen governance, and on the other hand, to preside over the local policy of assimilating Shanyue. Huiji County is here to correct the steps. Lu Dai was also sent to take over Tai Shi Ci's position, and Tai Shi Ci was reassigned to Zhang Xiu's side.
Zhang Xiu returned to Huainan without waiting for greater progress in Shanyue reform, naturally because the north was about to surge.