Chapter 357

Changing his jaw to serve as the commander of the Jiangling camp is not Liu Cong's whim, or drunken nonsense. This is also well thought out in advance. At present, Liu Cong's subordinate generals are becoming more and more substantial, but they have their own strengths.

In Liu Cong's plan, in the next few years or even more than ten years, the Jiangling battalion will be responsible for the transportation of troops for the entire army together with the Chengdu battalion until the world is unified. Now Wei Yan is the governor of Yizhou, commanding the Chengdu battalion, and Zhang Jaw took over the Jiangling battalion from Huang Zu, so that the entire military framework is basically completed.

In terms of martial arts, Wei Yan and Zhang Jaw may be slightly inferior to Guan Yun, Zhao Yun, and Gan Ning, but they are definitely not the opponents of ordinary generals. In terms of commanders, the current two may not be as good as the ban, and they may even lack shortcomings and experience than Wenpin. But what is rare is that the two have both humanities and martial arts.

Another biggest advantage is that both of them are in the prime of life, a little more than 30. In the next five years, ten years or even twenty years, it will be able to cross the territory, and it will be the absolute main force of Liu Cong Group! This point, Guan Yu, Yu Ban and Zhang Ren are incomparable! Guan Yu is fifty-one years old and Yu Ban is fifty-three, although the two have very rich battlefield experience and their ability to command troops is second to none.

But Liu Cong also knew that if he wanted to annex Sun Quan, defeat Cao Cao and then dominate the world, even if everything went well, God would help, and he didn't think about it for ten or twenty years. And in Liu Cong's plan, he wanted to take advantage of the three-year peace period with Cao Cao, seize the opportunity to annex Jiangdong Sun Quan, and then confront Cao Cao across the river and kill Cao Cao! Cao Cao is dead, the north will be chaotic, and Liu Cong will be able to turn the situation around and go straight to the Central Plains. It's just that if you want to wait for Cao Cao to return to the west, it is unrealistic to wait for every ten or eight years.

And seven or eight years later, Wei Yan and Zhang Jaw are in their early forties! It is the pinnacle of life, but Guan Yu, Yu Ban and others are afraid that they are old and old, and they will even go away with Cao Cao first. So Liu Cong wanted to squeeze them dry while they could still move. Guan Yu guards Zhangling, Zhang Ren rejects Zhang Lu, and protects Xiangyang in the ban! And handed over two large battalions to two Mesozoic! It can be said that in order to keep the current territory, Yu Ban, Guan Yu and Zhang Ren have a great responsibility, but if they want to make a breakthrough, they must make efforts from Wei Yan, Zhang Jaw and others. Of course, Gan Ning of the Jiangxia Navy Battalion will also be the main force in the crusade against Sun Quan in Jiangdong.

In the past, Liu Cong had planned to use Gan Ning or Liu Pan as the commander of the Jiangling battalion, but the addition of Zhang Jaw made Liu Cong more abundant in terms of personnel, and also ensured the defense of Jiangxia and Changsha counties. It's a must-have both. This is also the reason why Liu Cong tried his best to rescue Zhangjaw's family before.

Liu Cong's treatment of Zhang Jaw also made others look at Zhang Jaw with admiration. And Zhang Jaw was even more grateful, and asked to see Liu Cong early the next day.

"My lord, General Zhang asked to see him outside, saying that he had a treasure to offer." Liao Hua said mysteriously, before today, he still admired Zhang Jaw very much, although he was a prisoner, he was still so humble and not arrogant. But yesterday the lord just said that he would canonize him as the general of Yingyang, in charge of the Gangneung camp, and he came to give gifts today? It's not a vulgar person! The tall image of Zhang Jaw in Liao Hua's heart collapsed.

"Offering treasures? What is this open jaw for? When Huang An and his family came out of Xuchang City, it was only three carriages, together with the housekeeper, Zhang's mother, Zhang's wife and children, where did this still contain any gold and silver treasures? Liu Cong was also very puzzled, it was said that this was completely inconsistent with Zhang Jaw's character.

But since he came, he came to offer treasures, so Liu Cong was not easy to see. asked Liao Hua to lead Zhang Jaw to the living room.

When Liu Cong came to the living room, Zhang Jaw was already waiting there, and there was a treasure chest next to him, which was worth a lot of money at a glance.

"Lord!" Seeing Liu Cong coming in, he hurriedly saluted.

"You don't need to be polite, why are you here today?" Liu Cong turned a blind eye to the treasure chest beside Zhang Jaw and looked at Zhang Jaw with a smile.

"My lord, I haven't had time to repay the grace of opening my jaw for rescue. The lord has entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and he is really grateful and cannot be reciprocated. After returning to the post house last night, I thought about it and found that my mother had brought this treasure chest to Xiangyang, so I wanted to dedicate this treasure chest to the lord. ”

"That's your fault! The promotion of the Essence is because of your talents. If you have the ability to play on the battlefield and make contributions to the court, your true appearance will naturally not treat you badly. Look at you, what is this now? You disappointed your true appearance so much, hurry up and take the box back, this incident is as if it never happened. ”

"Lord, you take a look at the contents of the box first......" Zhang Jaw knew that Liu Cong's anger must have mistaken him for a man who slapped horses.

"No matter what kind of treasure it is, give it back to me as it is, I am not a greedy person, let alone ...... What's more, when you first arrived in Jingzhou, you also need a lot of money to settle the family business......" Liu Cong saw that his jaw was red, and he thought that he was thin-skinned and knew that he was wrong, so his tone softened a little.

"Lord, look at ......" Zhang Jaw squatted down, opened the lock on the treasure chest, and then took out something from it and handed it to Liu Cong.

Well? Although Liu Cong didn't reach out to pick it up, he was stunned for a moment and then asked, "What kind of treasure is it?" ”

"The prime minister may not know that Jaw has a hobby, that is, he likes to collect maps. Every time he marched and fought and broke through the city, Cao Gong had to reward his subordinates, and the others were gold, silver, and silk, but as long as the local map was used as a commemoration, over time, he accumulated so much. Zhang Jaw opened the box and explained to Liu Cong.

"I usually cherish these maps very much, and my mother, wife and children know about them, so when they fled from Xuchang this time, they only brought this box except for some personal clothes. My lord, and see if these maps are useful......"

"Maps?" Liu Cong was very surprised, he didn't expect that the treasure chest of Zhang Jaw was full of maps. And Zhang Jaw asked to see him early in the morning to contribute the map.

Zhang Jaw Zhong replied as he opened the treasure chest, "Exactly." This wooden box contains dozens of maps and household registration atlases of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty

Liu Cong was shocked again, the map of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty? No way? He stepped forward and pulled out a scarf.

This scarf is nearly two steps in both horizontal and vertical directions. Titled: Yingchuan County Tun Soldier Map

Unlike later maps, this two-step horizontal and vertical silk map has the direction of south marked above. The left direction is east, and the lower direction is north, that is, the method of making maps in the Han Dynasty is completely opposite to the rules of later maps!

What particularly attracted Liu Du's attention was that the map was actually composed of three colors: blue, red, and black. Hanshi may be the first in the world to use multi-color maps! Liu Cong really didn't expect that there would be a color map in this era?

This silk scarf, which is nearly two steps horizontal and vertical, uses three colors. Outline mountains, rivers, roads, towns, villages, etc.

The river drawing method is similar to that of later maps, and adopts the drawing method from the top to the downstream, from fine to thick. Moreover, this map records in detail the large and small rivers near the meander, among which there are more than ten rivers, and the names of the rivers are accurately marked.

The method of drawing mountains, unlike later maps, adopts a closed curve to outline the shape of the mountain. Indicates the direction of the mountain range and the extent of the contour. Moreover, in the closed curve, there are parallel lines, which makes the image of the mountain range clearer and can give people an intuitive impression!

The whole map contains more than 300 counties and townships. Among them, the important county seats, such as Xu County, Changshe, Yangcheng County and other 14 county seats, are represented by rectangular symbols of different sizes, and the remaining nearly 300 townships are represented by circles of different sizes, each township is marked with a name, and the roads between the county seat and the important townships are connected, with solid lines and dotted lines, respectively, indicating avenues and paths.

Full-width map. The most important ones are more than a dozen garrisons and the base camp of Yingchuan County. The area of the garrison, which is marked with red and black lines on the map, is particularly eye-catching. As for other key patrol areas of passes, checkpoints, and scouts, they are all indicated by red lines!

The whole map, with clear levels, depicts the geography, population distribution, and important military geography of Yingchuan County one by one. It's far more convenient to have this map in hand than to use Google Earth to search for terrain!

It can be said that Liu Cong has this map, and Yingchuan County is basically undefended! Moreover, because of the high mathematical technology of the Han people, the scale accuracy of the map is quite high, and the military geography road regulations "can almost completely refer to these refined maps."

These maps are skillfully made, and they are military maps that have been used in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, but later generations will be surprised when they see the real thing, and they will not think that the map production level of the Han Dynasty has been so high.

Liu Cong, as a time-traveler of the harmonious future generations, was also completely stunned. This is more detailed than Zhang Song's Yizhou topographic map, what a good baby! It's hard to buy! Liu Cong stared at the map for a long time before muttering, "How did you get this map?"

Zhang Jaw introduced to Liu Cong on the side: "During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Yingchuan was too guarded to pacify the local thieves. This map of Yingchuan County is the military layout map that came with his performance! There are also complete sets of maps of Runan County, Liang State, Pei Country and other counties

Liu Cong hurriedly put aside the map of Yingchuan in his hand, reached out and took out several maps, and checked them one by one, and sure enough, as Zhang Jaw said, it was a map of Runan and other counties.

After picking out the maps of Yuzhou and Yanzhou, Liu Cong took out a map that was one step or so horizontally and vertically, and this map was a military map of the Han army outside Guangzong. Liu Gao took a closer look, and felt that the annotations on the map were arranged by Dong Zhuo's troops when they besieged Guangzong County.

Later history books rarely recorded this war in detail, and Liu Cong couldn't help but look at this map twice. And voila. Liu Dao's face couldn't help but change slightly: the map actually marked the distribution of Zhang Jiao's generals. Liu Cong forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, pretended to calmly throw away the map of Guangzong County, and took the next map casually.

Zhang Jaw continued to introduce Liu Cong: "Prime Minister, part of the map I have in my possession was obtained by Duke Cao from the Luoyang Palace, because the princes were fighting and had lost the meaning of the map, so Jaw asked Duke Cao for it. Some of them were purchased from large families in Xuchang, and some were reported by local states and counties.

Cao Gong knew that I liked to collect, so he gave me some useless maps. It is different from what is hidden in the treasury. These maps are more detailed, especially the flow of local residents, road changes, etc., which can reflect the real appearance in time, and have a very high reference value for operations! Hopefully, these maps will be helpful to the lord in his grand plan for revenge. ”

"So helpful! Ha ha...... These maps are truly priceless! Of course, Liu Cong understands the value of these maps. At that time, Cao Cao was proud, swept the Central Plains, and defeated Yuan Shao at Guandu, and then occupied Hebei, he thought that the world was about to be unified. So it didn't matter if a young general was collecting these maps with his jaw open. But now, the situation is completely different......