As Sun Quan supported the ship and drifted overseas, after several months of difficult conquest, the Jingzhou army finally pacified several counties in Jiangdong on all fronts.

Next, the main general Guan Ping naturally surrendered to the old general of the Sun family.

For this point, Guan Ping has also long considered, since ancient times, the south is invincible to the north, and the geographical advantage of the south ship and the north horse has led to the southern regime if it wants to go north, it is bound to face the impact of the northern iron cavalry on the plain.

Secondly, before the Tang and Song dynasties, the economy and population of the south were far from being so rich and dense, and they could not be compared with the north.

The population cannot compete, and it is naturally incomparable in terms of talent reserves, so it has become necessary to absorb Wu generals.

In addition, there is another important factor is that most of the Jiangdong Jiangbiao Huchen came from the land of Huaisi, and now there are several counties in Jiangdong to achieve the situation of confrontation between the north and the south, and the future Northern Expedition will definitely take Huainan as the main breakthrough.

So, if there is a Huaisi general's raising of arms, can it play a role in the overall situation that can achieve twice the result with half the effort?

Guan Ping thought about this, and also aimed the spearhead at Lu Xun's department, which was stationed in Jing County.

Lu Xun is the helmsman of the Lu family, one of the four major families in Jiangdong, and is also the number one person in the current Wu military.

Jingxian Chengtou.

A letterhead was shot into the city by the crossbowmen of the Han army outside the city, scattered all over the tower, and the garrisoned Wu soldiers unconsciously picked up the letterheads and circulated them to each other......

In just a short period of time, the whole city knew that Sun Quan, the king of Wu, had abandoned the royal city and led the people to flee into the sea and was nowhere to be found.

After the letterhead fermented for two days, Guan Ping expected that everyone in the city should know the specific situation, so he wrote another letter to send an envoy into the city to meet Lu Xun and say that he would surrender.

The envoy of the Han army entered the city first in accordance with the etiquette of the Han Dynasty to visit the main general Lu Xun, and then called the name, saying: "Lu Dudu, the general situation is like this, now Sun Quan has led his henchmen to wander overseas and does not know life and death, Jiangdong counties have been reattached to my Han banner, General Guan also admires and respects your talent very much, so he can send me into the city to visit the general, can he put aside his past prejudices and join my Han, and contribute to the revival of the Han dynasty in the future?" And make meritorious contributions and glorify the ancestors. ”

Paused? The Han envoy groaned for a while, and then chuckled: "General? Thou art a wise man know? Now that the Sun clan has been destroyed, there is no point in being foolish again? But under the banner of the Han Dynasty, you can continue to revitalize the family business, so why not do it for the country? ”

A message from the messenger? It also suddenly made Lu Xun fall into contemplation and choice.

Pondered for a long time? Lu Xun seemed to have made a heavy decision, his face suddenly turned gloomy and he let out a long breath, and then said: "If you need this general to lead the people to join your army, but you need General Guan to be able to agree to Xun's two conditions?" I wonder if your envoy can convey it on your behalf? ”

A slit of words and falls? I heard that Lu Xun also put forward conditions, but he didn't dare to make decisions on his own, so he immediately said: "Okay, General Lu, what conditions do you have to try, and when I return to the camp, I will definitely inform General Yu Guan of his decision?" Thinking about General Guan's attention and reverence for you, this shouldn't be too difficult. ”

Han envoy listen? And gladly agreed!

Immediately, Lu Xun did not delay? Said bluntly: "First, Xun hopes that General Guan will govern Wu and rectify the states and counties in the future? Please also restrain the tough measures taken against the wealthy clans of Jiangdong during the conquest? Don't deal another heavy blow to the families. ”

"Two? When Ruoxun is attached, the generals under his command are free to choose, if they insist on not wanting to defect to the Han, please don't be embarrassed! ”

In just two conditions, Lu Xun quickly and discerningly revealed.

"Good. The general can not only consider the future of the soldiers under his command but also a righteous person, and General Guan is also a man of temperament, and he will definitely be able to fulfill the general, so he will return to the camp to report this matter so that the general and the people can join my Han as soon as possible. ”

"Then there's Mr. Law."

The matter was negotiated, and the Han envoy did not stop at all, so he hurriedly went out of the city and returned to the camp, and immediately explained to Guan Ping the request made by Lu Xun.

"Oh? Lu Xun made these requests? ”

For a while, Guan Ping was a little surprised, he guessed that Lu Xun's defection might have conditions, such as preventing him from continuing to attack the Jiangdong clan with strong means, but the latter was considered by everyone under his command to surprise him.

However, Guan Ping also quickly made a decision to crack down on the Hao family, that is, he could respond to Lu Xun, after all, in the Three Kingdoms era, the strong and the strong should be suppressed, but they could not be killed with a single shot like the Celestial Empire in later generations.

After all, knowledge in this era was monopolized by the nobles.

Without the help of the scholars, it is difficult to win the world.

One of the reasons why the previous conquest of Jiangdong was to attack the Hao clan was to take advantage of the war to weaken the power of the Hao clan, so as to prepare for the full centralization of power in the next governance of the Jiangdong counties, and to prohibit the possibility of the Hao clan continuing to annex land and expand it.

The second is also to prepare for a protracted war, and to fight Haoqiang can quickly gain the popularity of Wu and can support the war with war.

But now that Jiangdong is established, it is natural that the policy cannot remain unchanged.

The first condition is fine, but the second condition is a little difficult.

To tell the truth, Guan Ping's recruitment of Lu Xun not only valued his ability alone, but also hoped to absorb Jiang Biao and Huchen into his command to help the Northern Expedition in the future.

Jiang Biao Huchen's ability is obvious to all!

They were born and died for the Sun regime, before and after the saddle, and fought on the battlefield.

Who doesn't love such a good general?

But from another point of view, Jiang Biao's generals are undoubtedly loyal to the Sun family, and now Lu Xun needs them to choose their own way back, Guan Ping is worried that some generals may swear their allegiance to the Sun family and repay them with death.

That would be a great loss too!

Merely.

Lu Xun insisted on this, and Guan Ping didn't have a good way, so he had to agree after thinking about it again and again.

……

Three days later.

The city gate of Jing County is wide open, the Wu army on both sides of the city gate is lined up, holding Changge standing on both sides, and the top of the city tower is also replaced by the Han banner fluttering in the wind, the main general Lu Xun is holding Yin Sui in his hand and leading the generals to wait for the arrival of Guan Ping's army.

In an instant, a battle flag appeared first, the elite Han soldiers formed a neat and uniform military formation, and the soldiers in the formation held the long ge, carried the quiver, and the head of the waist hanging ring sword followed one after another, and the spirit was extremely arrogant and full.

The total momentum emanating from the Han army immediately made the Wu generals in front of the city excited.

Han has such a strong army, and his own side is not unjustly defeated.

When Guan Ping's crotch arrived in front of the city, Lu Xun hurriedly stepped forward and said loudly: "Lu Xun, the general of the defeated army, sees General Guan, and is now leading the generals to wait for the general." ”

Lu Xun bowed, and the generals behind him also followed suit.

Seeing this, Guan Ping also immediately jumped off the good horse, supported Lu Xun with both hands and encouraged: "Okay." Bo Yan has the talent of the heavens and latitudes, and he can be the commander and the assistant internally, govern the country, and the external can be the party that will be pacified. ”

"The general is filtered!"

After finishing speaking, Guan Ping also slowly took over Yin Sui, indicating that he officially took over the Wu army soldiers who were close to 20,000 people in the future.

Subsequently, Guan Ping met the generals of the Wu army one by one, such as Liuzan, Song Qian, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng and other generals all accepted to belong to the Han Dynasty.

However, there are also die-hard Sun loyalists, such as Zhu Ran, Zhu Huan, Zhu Yi and others, who also expressed their reluctance to join the Han family, but chose to abandon the army, return to the fields and live in seclusion in the countryside.

Lu Xun naturally had no objection to their choice, and readily agreed.

For a while, with the end of the handover ceremony, Lu Xun led the troops to be officially included in the Han family, and Jing County was declared pacified.

Immediately afterwards, Guan Ping wrote a letter to He Qi and Lu Dai, who were holding on to Shanyin, in the name of Lu Xun to persuade them to surrender, and finally the two discussed under Lu Xun's persuasion and were willing to surrender.

At this point, the Jingzhou army began with Guan Ping's direct eastward expedition along the river, which lasted nearly four months in total, and all of them were pacified.

After the Sun clan perished, the territory of the Han Dynasty suddenly doubled, and it also faced defensive pressure.

In the past, there was still the containment of the Sun family, which could make the Cao Wei side jealous, but now with the confrontation between the north and the south, it also borders the Wei army on the whole line.

There are pros and cons to this!

On the positive side, the Sun clan is destroyed, and the worries of the side will be gone, and there will be no embarrassment of the Wu army in the future, and the troops can also be deployed wholeheartedly to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

The disadvantage is that the difficulty of defending has increased exponentially.

Since Huainan, Guangling and other places are already the prefectures and counties under the rule of Cao Wei, the so-called "guarding the river must defend the Huai", if there is no defense line of the tributaries of the Huai River, then the Yangtze River is barely in the northern army, it is no longer a natural danger, but has become a breakthrough.

Maybe many people don't know, but in fact, the Yangtze River is easy for the Northern Army to break through, and how can the thousands of miles of the river be defended?

On the other hand, because the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River began to turn from the quarry rock, the flow of water was relatively slow, and it was much easier for the northern army to cross the river.

In this case, it is also easier for the Northern Army to concentrate on a breakthrough.

The northern army can concentrate its forces to attack a little, while the southern army needs to divide its troops to garrison all parts of the Yangtze River.

This is also the key reason why the southern dynasties are often destroyed by the northern dynasties.

What's more, strategic ports such as Wankou, Weixuwu, and Weixukou are all located in the Jiangbei region, and if they are captured, they can be used as the main route for the southern army to attack Jianghuai, and no matter how bad it is, it can also become a key area to defend the Yangtze River.

If it is lost, the south is in danger!

Throughout the many years that the Sun clan had been based in Jiangdong, Sun Quan had almost always fought fierce battles with the Wei army in these strategic ports of Chen Bing, the purpose of which was to prevent the Wei army from having a chance to enter and occupy.

Because once Cao Wei has it, then Jiangdong will never have peace.

Now that Guan Ping has recovered the Jiangdong Prefectures, he naturally first considered the issue of defense.

According to the analysis, the current situation is too unfavorable for their own side, because the Wei army took advantage of the fire to rob, although the strategy to seize Jiangdong failed, but it was the column troops who firmly occupied the Wuwu and the Wuwukou, if it were not for Guan Ping leading the troops to break the civil appointment and cause it to lose the Anhui Pass, then the current situation would be even worse.

Not only that, Cao Wei now also occupies Guangling, Hefei and other important places, these important places are on the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River now has no military buffer of the Huai River defense line, once Cao Wei's army comes to attack, then Guan Ping may work hard to recover Wu land, I am afraid that it will face a collapse situation.

However, if the battle line can be advanced to the Huai River Valley, then the Yangtze River can be used as a transportation channel, and the importance and advantages of the naval army will be obvious, and even all the plains in the territory can be connected so that the army can fight together.

Not only that, the Huaihe River basin in the Three Kingdoms era was rich in water and area, and the key was that the tributaries were dense, which was very suitable for the southern army with the advantage of the water division.

Guan Ping also thought carefully: "If our army can advance to the Huai River Valley, we can also use the tributaries to slow down the Wei army's attack, and at the same time send guerrillas to harass, and give full play to the characteristics of the water division. ”

"What's more, if the Wei army fights for the land of Jianghuai, it will inevitably come from afar, and it will already be the end of the strong crossbow at that time, and on the other hand, the supply line of our army is also extremely short, so it is easier to counterattack."

"If Cao Wei continues to occupy Huainan, Guangling and other places north of the Jiangbei, they can use Yingshui, Bianshui and other tributaries as supply lines to directly enter the Huaihe River Valley, then for the Jianghuai War, our army will also fall into a disadvantageous situation."

Thinking of this series of problems, Guan Ping naturally thought of Lu Xun, who had lived in Wu for a long time, and immediately summoned him to discuss countermeasures.