Jiangzhou is not only the county of Ba County, but also the water transport hub node city of the entire eastern war zone of Yizhou - this is very understandable, even if you don't understand the pattern of Shu in the Three Kingdoms era, think about the Chengdu-Chongqing one west and one east double core in the later generations.

Therefore, the will of the defenders here to resist is already the strongest in the eastern part of Yizhou, and it is also one of the few places where large-scale Dongzhou soldiers are stationed.

Even the defenders of Jiangzhou, under the morale of Li Su's holy decree and the remarks that "Liu Mao was punished by heaven", only resisted with arms for less than a week before they were disintegrated by internal offerings. Then the persuasion efficiency of other surrounding counties is even more overwhelming.

Only three days after Jiangzhou was taken, several counties and counties around Jiangzhou surrendered as quickly as they stook their ground.

Almost Zhao Yun's cavalry walked there, asked Wu Ban and others to read out the holy decree, and then bewitched Liu Mao's violent death and the fall of Jiangzhou, and the local county order and county lieutenant directly opened the city.

On the first day, Lecheng and Tongxian were recovered; the next day, Hanping and Fuling were recovered; On the third day, Hanjia and Linjiang were recovered, and even the troops were divided to take the Fujie in the direction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River-

The distance between Fujie and Jiangzhou, although it is not as far as Fuling and Linjiang, but in terms of administrative division, it already belongs to Qianwei County. Therefore, it is equivalent to saying that the impact of the fall of Jiangzhou is no longer limited to the counties of Ba County, and even the counties bordering Qianwei County and Ba County have surrendered.

From Fujie to Linjiang, there are a total of seven or eight hundred miles along the Yangtze River.

On the tenth day of the first month of September, the fourth day after the pacification of Jiangzhou, Cai Yong, the official commander of Ba County, appointed by the imperial court, was finally able to officially rush to the county to govern Jiangzhou after a full year and one month after the order was issued (Cai Yong's appointment order was issued before He Jin's death in early August last year)

Li Su hasn't been out of the city for a few days, anyway, he doesn't have to do this kind of staking work himself, and he doesn't have the skills to do it. Just let Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei copy and paste the answers to his persuasion rhetoric. He quietly rectified public order in Jiangzhou City, checked the household registration of the government treasury, made a list of the people, and cleaned up the traces of war.

When Cai Yong came, the ruins damaged by the war in Jiangzhou City were basically cleared, and the discordant soldiers and people were also settled, and they looked very stable. Cai Yong also transported all the Lantai and Dongguan classics that he brought from Beijing and have been temporarily stored in Nanzheng and Dianjiang counties to Jiangzhou, and Li Su also sent troops to protect them.

Moreover, taking advantage of the efforts to clean up the ruins destroyed in the war and liquidate the adverse production of Yang Huai, Li Yi and other stubborn resistance generals, Li Su also found a relatively high and dry place in Jiangzhou City, demolished the ruins, and rebuilt a Lantai with a large number of buildings.

In the future, as long as the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is still unsuccessful, Cai Yong's official position will be placed in the position of Bajun Taishou and will not be moved. Therefore, it will take several years to serve as his governing place, and the supporting facilities must be built well, and they can no longer be made up of temporary houses like when they were in Dianjiang.

This is also the national library of this era, of course, the construction cost will not be saved, Li Su directly asked Liu Bei to apply for tens of millions of dollars in construction and follow-up maintenance funds, and even the wood for building the house must be selected to prevent insects and mosquitoes as much as possible? Are the bookshelves made of camphor wood? The wood used for decoration should also have an insecticidal effect, so as not to damage the book.

Anyway, Liu Bei can still get this money now? Just grab the spectacle of the "Library of Alexandria" while playing the game of "Civilization"? A little better and a little more magnificent is very beneficial to attract those talents who are hiding from the war.

In this way, Li Su and Cai Yong handed over the local livelihood work, and supervised the construction of the project by the way? Are you going to wait for the counties next to you to recover, and then concentrate your forces to advance in the direction of Chengdu? Carry out the next stage of combat duty.

But? What Li Su didn't expect was that he and Cai Yong had just been in Jiangzhou City for two or three days, and there seemed to be a lot of new news coming from the outside world.

Liu Bei, who had been sitting in the base camp in Nanzheng before, was also a little unable to sit still? Only the rear defense of the governor of Lusu was left. Liu Bei personally brought a small number of personal troops to Jiangzhou? Discuss important matters with Li Su and the second and third brothers.

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"Brother, isn't it worrying that Yun Chang and Yi De will pacify the counties? Or is there something wrong in the north? ”

When Li Su heard that Liu Bei was coming, he hurriedly went out of the city with Cai Yong to greet him, and as soon as they met, he went straight to the point and asked.

He has been besieging Diaoyu City since May, and now at the beginning of September, Diaoyu City, Jiangzhou, and surrounding counties have all been taken? Is it true that a bit isolated, not asking about the progress of the outside world? Hence this doubt.

This can't be blamed on Li Su for not caring about the world's major affairs, but because he knows? The princes in real history begged for Dong, and they were not as vigorous as they were written in the romance? In addition to Cao Cao, Sun Jian and a few other people with lofty ideals are really fighting. Others such as Yuan Shao Yuan Shu? Is it completely to preserve the strength of the whole process and make soy sauce? I haven't even shown my face to the front line as mentioned in the romance.

Therefore, don't look at the news in March and April, the outside world is talking about Dong, in fact, in September, it is normal to hear about the progress, and what is good about this kind of "sit-in war" is always concerned.

And the news brought by Liu Bei is really related to the outside world.

He took Li Su's hand into the city, and said while walking on horseback that before he arrived at the Taishou Mansion, he explained the situation clearly: "After the virtuous brother left, I also received some battle reports in the past few months, all of which came from Chen Cang Road and Shangyong Han Water Road.

In July, I heard that Hanoi was too shou Wang Kuang, and was broken by Dong Zhuojun, who took the initiative to attack, and even the king of the county was lost, and the war happened in May, and the news reached Nanzheng in July. ”

Li Su nodded, Wang Kuang can also be regarded as the prince of the Twelve Roads who fought with Dong Zhuo with real swords and guns, this must be affirmed, not that some people say that only Sun Jian and Cao Cao fought with Dong Zhuo.

It's just that in the official history, Wang Kuang did not take the initiative to attack like in Romance, and the lone army came to the sour jujube first and was broken by Lu Bu. It was because his base was too close to Luoyang, so Dong Zhuo was not worried about his existence and took the initiative to kill him. Wang Kuang had to passively fight a defensive battle, lost his nest and retreated.

The fate of an NPC like Wang Kuang has nothing to care about, Li Su estimated that Liu Bei would mention it casually, and sure enough, the news that Liu Bei said later began to be related to himself.

I only heard Liu Bei continue: "Just a few days ago, at the beginning of September, our army got a few more pieces of military information from the outside world from Shangyong Road, first saying that in August, there were two battles in Luyang and Liang County. In the previous battle, Dong Zhuo took the initiative to send troops to expel Yuan Shu and Sun Jiantun's troops stationed in Luyang County, the front line of Nanyang County, but they were repelled by Sun Jian. Subsequently, Sun Jian pursued Dong Zhuojun to Liang County, where he was subordinate, and was repelled by Dong Zhuojun, Hu Zhen, Li Meng, and Hua Xiong.

The losses of troops on both sides should be quite a lot, but Dong Zhuo has a large number of soldiers and horses and can recover, while Sun Jian has to re-recruit men and horses in Luyang, and it is estimated that he will not be able to fight again until the beginning of spring next year. After this battle, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's attitude towards our army softened, and a few days ago they sent a secret letter, saying that the autumn harvest has been completed now, the grain and grass are abundant, and they are willing to provide military rations for our army, and ask us to send troops along the Han River as soon as possible to help fight against Dong.

In addition, after careful investigation by our army, I heard that since Sun Jian killed Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, when he went north and passed through Nanyang in the first half of the year, Dong Zhuo recently newly sealed Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou. If Dong Zhuo is another person, we would be better to work with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian to refuse to recognize the new assassination history.

But Brother Jingsheng was also an official in the same dynasty as me for a few months, and when I was appointed as the general of Zhengxi, he took over the position of Zongzheng, and he was regarded as one of the most famous and prestigious Han clan relatives today, Brother Jingsheng seems to have escaped the control of Yuan Shu, and secretly crossed the boundary of Nanyang County, and is currently missing.

Our army has just captured Jiangzhou and is facing a decisive battle with Liu Yan. In such a situation, the foolish brother didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Brother Jingsheng, and how to politely refuse Yuan Shuxin's request to send troops, and asked the virtuous brother to teach me [Youyou Reading]. ”

Li Su listened to Liu Bei talk about so much about the general trend of the world outside, and he was also pondering the deviation from the original history in his heart.

Sun Jian's two battles should have been affected by the butterfly effect. Because among the generals of Dong Zhuojun, who originally defeated Sun Jian in the Battle of Liangdong and exchanged helmets with Zu Mao, there should be Xu Rong. Now that Xu Rong was from Liaodong and was transferred to be the lieutenant of Liaodong two years ahead of schedule, the enemy Sun Jian faced would be weaker.

But the replacement of Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong is not too bad, the key is that the quality of the troops of the Xiliang Army is good and the strength is huge, and it is possible to be flattened if they do not make low-level mistakes and change generals. Moreover, in history, Sun Jian was defeated when he attacked Liang County, and now it has become "failed to capture Liang County and retreated", which shows that he did not fight so badly, but he couldn't break through Dong Zhuojun's city, which is normal.

And Liu Biao has been sent by Dong Zhuo to contain Sun Jian, he is a famous man in the world, a model of the Han family, and a member of the name Bajun, you can't use "because he was appointed by Dong Zhuo" to directly deny it.

Li Su said to himself in embarrassment: "We have already done a game with Yuan Shu at the beginning, and we put the fault of not being able to send troops along the Han River to Yuan Shu's refusal to give food. Now people are willing to give food first, and it is indeed a bit unreasonable to go again. Let's make an agreement with the gentlemen of Huangfu Song, and it is not good to be more serious with Yuan Shu, the southern princes.

In this way, let's tell Yuan Shu that the main force of our army is in Jiangzhou, and it is not easy to march thousands of miles over the mountains and against the current, and it will not be possible to arrive in two months, so hold him for a while. Then let Yun Chang lead thousands of troops, go east along the river, and first capture the White Emperor, Wuxian and other places that are still in Liu Yan's hands.

Tell Yuan Shu that our army will flow along the Yangtze River, and the transfer will be faster, so it is better to eat less food from Yuan Shujun, and let them wait. In the spring of next year, we will join forces to attack Liang County. In addition, our army should send troops along the Yangtze River, at least further downstream from Baidi, through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and occupy a foothold on the Jingzhou side as a transshipment port.

Brother Ke can try to write a letter and hand it to Yun Chang, and when the time comes, he will hand it over to Liu Biao, and ask Liu Biao to allow Yun Chang to occupy those counties in Nanjun located in the Three Gorges section of the Yangtze River, and set up another Yidu County, which will be assigned to our army, and Wuling County, which is on the south bank of the Yangtze River and may affect the waterway of our army, will also be placed under our jurisdiction. ”

As soon as Li Su said this, Liu Bei couldn't help but interrupt him: "Brother Jingsheng is the assassin of Jingzhou ordered by Dong Zhuo, how can he divide the several counties of Nanjun and set up Yidu, let alone give up the entire county of Wuling?" ”

Li Su Zhizhu was holding the ground and packing the ticket: "I think I can give it a try, Liu Form rode into the state, how much power can he have?" If you want to sit in the nine counties of Jingxiang, it is impossible to completely integrate without years or even ten years of work. The powerful family of Jingzhou is not weaker than that of Yizhou.

He has Yuan Shu in the north, and there are thieves in it, if we promise to borrow troops to help him pacify the thieves, and only charge him a half of the land as interest? And we don't want his land, just to ensure that our army's grain is to fight for Dong, just take the counties of several key nodes of the Yangtze River shipping, and we don't have much land and population. ”

Li Su said, and took out the map very familiarly, pointed to the map to open up the territory like buying vegetables, and compared it along the Yangtze River: "Let's ask Liu Biao to take the four counties of Zigui, Xinling, Xiling, and Yidu along the Yangtze River, plus the few worthless small counties on the extended tributaries on both sides of the river." The two armies were bounded by Yiling on the Yangtze River. Anyway, we don't help Liu Biao, and Liu Biao won't be able to get it in three or five years, so we are here to ask Dong Daye to send charcoal in the snow. ”

Liu Bei thought for a while: "After Yunchang divides his troops, will Zilong and Yide of the Western Line go up the river, take Qianwei and Guanghan counties, do they want to be more restrained?" At that time, our army will still have to divide troops to guard everywhere, and at most there will be only 20,000 main forces left to fight in a mobile manner.

I heard that the Dongzhou soldiers under Liu Yan originally numbered more than 40,000. After several battles in Diaoyu City and Jiangzhou, the Dongzhou soldiers were lost and captured, and there should be 30,000 left. It has been more than two years since Liu Yan entered Shu, and there has been a lot of internal rectification, and the population of the three counties of the Chengdu Plain is no less than 3 million, and there are no less than 500,000 families that can draw troops. This year, he stepped up the expansion of the army, and there were 100,000 soldiers in five households and one ding.

Except for Liu Yan's soldiers and horses to be held everywhere, if he knew that our army was empty and Yun Chang had been transferred, he could still temporarily assemble 1120,000 rabble to fight a decisive battle with us. I'm afraid that Zilongyide's decisive battle in the field can stop Liu Yan's desperate fight. ”

Liu Bei's words can also be seen that he is very knowledgeable. He knew that the reason why Liu Yan had to rely on Jiancheng and dangerous passes to defend it before was because the two key nodes of Jianmen Pass and Diaoyu City had not broken through, and sticking to it could consume Liu Bei's military food and morale.

However, once Jiangzhou was fully broken through, Liu Beijun entered the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, and Liu Yanjun defended one city after another, that is, he was looking for death. Liu Bei has a holy purpose, and he can persuade many Liu Yanjun cities that are not guarded by loyal henchmen, plus the Chengdu Plain is rich, and Liu Bei can "fight the enemy because of the grain" by persuading a few cities to eat the local grain in the grain-producing area and besiege Liu Yan.

Therefore, except for the two places of Chengdu and Mianzhu in the end, Liu Yan will cage the city to defend it, and other places must concentrate their troops to fight Liu Bei in a field battle, otherwise it will be a slow death in vain.

Li Su also could only give Liu Bei confidence: "Yidu, Wuling and other places, if you miss this year's opportunity, you don't know when you will be able to get it, and it is cost-effective to let Yun Chang divide his troops." Otherwise, if he has a bad relationship with Liu Biao in the future, the danger of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River will be shared by the enemy and us, and both ends of the 'Thousand Miles of Jiangling in One Day' will be in the hands of our army.

Liu Yan is already a turtle in an urn, so it doesn't matter if you eat slowly. There are no longer many field soldiers. The determination of the newly recruited Yizhou soldiers is not yet known, and Yi Dezilong leads 20,000 horses, even if Zhen Yao faces 110,000 Liu Yan's army, including 30,000 Dongzhou soldiers, he can exhaust the enemy. It is impossible for Liu Yan to easily recapture the fortified city that was persuaded by our army to surrender, Zilong has 10,000 cavalry in Youzhou, can't he avoid the war? ”

Liu Beizhi thought about it again and again, gritted his teeth: It's decided! Fight on two fronts, greedy! Before the decisive battle with Liu Yan, send Guan Yu to the eastern front to capture the White Emperor City, and then go to Jingzhou to steal some territory!

Although Baidi City and Wuxian are the cities of Yizhou and belong to Liu Yan, it is estimated that they will not be as easy to persuade as other counties in Ba County.

Because it was a defensive fortress for Liu Yan to prevent the Jingzhou people from entering Shu, it was also defended by heavy henchmen. Just like in the later Shu Han period, the governor of Yong'an had heavy troops in his hands, and Guan Yu had to fight a tough battle when he arrived in the White Emperor City.