None of the forces can be monolithic, if the family Haoqiang in Tanzhou is really inseparable from Ma Yin, Ma Xun's father and son, the Ma family would not have had civil strife ten years ago and had to belong to Dachu to ask Emperor Tianyou to send troops to quell the rebellion.

At this time, the powerful clan of Tanzhou followed Ma Yin, Ma Xun's father and son rebellion, in addition to the elite soldiers and horses in Tanzhou mainly in the hands of the Ma clan and the descendants of the generals, there are two key factors that cannot be ignored.

On the one hand, Emperor Tianyou's purge of local forces during the Jingxiang War and the unwarranted disasters of Fan Wenlan and Kong Zhou made the clan heroes of Tanzhou worry that after the reduction of the feudal domain, they would also be purged.

On the other hand, they believe that with the intervention of the Shu army and the Liang army, they can survive this battle, and Tanzhou will eventually establish an independent state, and they can all be crowned marquis and prime minister, and enjoy more prominent glory and wealth than before.

Although Han Qian is not interested in such "glory and wealth", it does not mean that everyone in the world can see it as openly as he does.

However, as long as the offensive of the Yuanjiang camp is fierce and sharp enough, the powerful Tanzhou clan, who has no faith and righteousness at all, will consider whether to continue to indulge in the fantasy of the feudal lord or make a new choice to avoid Tanzhou being defeated and destroyed with the Ma clan.

Just like Xiying and other Chenzhou forces made a new choice, as long as there are powerful clans in Tanzhou, it will quickly open up the balance of strength between the two sides, accelerate the demise of Tanzhou, and make the assembly of the Liang army in Caizhou meaningless.

This is also a political offensive attached to direct military action, Shen Yang and Xinchang Hou Li Pu also used various channels and intermediaries at this time to secretly contact the powerful families in Tanyuelang, Shao Heng and other states, so as to weaken the forces that supported Ma Yin's father and son, and end the war of cutting the feudal domain as soon as possible.

In fact, the Tanzhou rebels belonged to Ma Yin's father and son and the direct descendants of the generals, and there were only 40,000 soldiers.

At this time, the other 50,000 horses gathered by the Tanzhou rebels were mainly township soldiers formed by Ma Yin's father and son from more than 30 counties in five states after the separation.

The generals of these township soldiers are mainly the sons and daughters of the local clans.

At present, the descendants of the Tanzhou rebels are stationed in several major cities to prevent the military pressure exerted by the main force of the Chu army from the three directions of Yuedong, Yuanzhou and Jingzhou.

In addition to the Tanzhou naval army, those who could be drawn out at this time to reinforce Wuling City by land were mainly township soldiers drawn from the counties in the northwest of Tanzhou and the hinterland of Langzhou.

Although these reinforcements from the outer counties had reached about 10,000 by the end of April, they were mainly gathered in Qingyun Mountain and Caoyanling on the periphery of Wuling City, but they did not dare to attack the two elites of Zhou Yi and Zhou Shu, who were stationed at the northern and eastern feet of Huanglongling, and entered Wuling City to join Ma Rong's troops.

The really fierce battle, one is that under Wuling City, Li Zhihe led his troops and Fan Battalion to launch a strong attack on Wuling City from mid-April, and the other is that in the middle of the Yuan River, Fan Xiang led the Lou Boat Army and the generals of the Xuzhou Water Battalion led by Yang Qin to intercept the main force of the Tanzhou Water Battalion reinforced from Dongting Lake.

Due to the fact that the rebels' forces in the north and central part of Langzhou were exhausted, Zhang Feng sent his son Zhang Feng to lead an elite army of 3,000 horses to cross the river in early May.

Although there was no official news from Yang En's envoy to Shu, the Shu army in Yiling remained silent in the face of Jingzhou's division of troops to the south.

Zhang Feng bypassed the Jiang'an City held by Ma Yuanheng of the Kailangzhou Festival system, led his troops to pass through the west of Jiang'an, and passed through the hills and several large streams at the northeast foot of Wuling Mountain in only ten days, and arrived at Caoyan Ridge, where he and Zhou Yi's troops attacked the 5,000 rebels stationed on the western slope of Caoyan Ridge, and they were defeated in only one day.

At this time, Zheng Hui personally led 3,000 soldiers, and after returning to Qingyun Mountain, he formed a siege of 5,000 rebels stationed at the southern foot of Qingyun Mountain.

On May 11, with a stone head

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After the commander of the commander Zhang Han chose to surrender, the rebel army, which was mainly composed of township soldiers and gathered in Caoyan Ridge, turned around and participated in the assault on Wuling City under the supervision of more than 10,000 elites of the Chu army.

On May 14, the Chu army attacked Wuling City in three ways, and the main general Ma Rong was surrounded in the back street of the county capital, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, he committed suicide with his sword, and then the remaining less than 1,500 remnants of the Wuling defenders chose to abandon their weapons and surrender.

At this time, it was just over a month since Li Zhihe led his troops to attack Wuling City.

Zheng Hui then led more than 4,000 soldiers and horses from Zhou Shu, Zhou Yi, and Xiying to surrender more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, and Fan Xiang's troops and generals from the Lou Ship Army and Naval Division, a total of more than 15,000 soldiers and horses went down the river, and rushed to Langzhou Prefecture to govern Hanshou downstream.

Hanshou is the most important city in the western plain of Dongting Lake, as long as Hanshou is successfully captured, it can be regarded as completely controlling the lower reaches of Yuanshui and the western plain of Dongting Lake.

At the same time, Li Zhihe and Zhang Feng, the son of Zhang Jiao, led 6,000 elites to the north and to Jiang'an County on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

At this time, in Langzhou, in addition to the 2,000 rebels in Hanshou County, only Ma Yuanheng led 8,000 Shuibu soldiers and horses to garrison Jiang'an County, and confronted Zhang Pan's troops who were guarding Jingzhou on the north bank.

In addition, the walled cities of Langzhou such as Shishou either chose to submit to the imperial court because of the surrender of Zhang Han and other generals, or because the defenders were evacuated and there were no soldiers to defend the city, the Chu army chose to plant a white flag at the head of the city and chose to surrender before it arrived.

Han Qian, Zhang Ping, Li Chong and others were temporarily responsible for staying in Wuling City, using Wuling City as a new logistics base to treat wounded soldiers and prisoners of war, and transport grain.

Just captured the city, the city was still in chaos, Han Qian, Zhang Ping, Li Chong and others climbed the city wall to the south of Wuling City, which was still intact, to preside over the search of the city.

Looking around, the wreckage of the generals on both sides of the city has just begun to send people to clean up and collect the burials, everywhere are mud pellets and stone bullets smashed by both sides with whirlwind cannons, except for the southern city is slightly intact, the other three sides of the city wall have collapsed out of a gap, and the attack and defense battle has been destroyed beyond recognition in a month's offensive and defensive battle.

Some of the houses in the city were destroyed by the tornado cannons, but many more were destroyed by the fire deliberately ignited by both the enemy and the enemy.

Blackened corpses, thousands of refugees whose homes had been burned down and who had no place to live, wandered in the streets and alleys numb or distressed, waiting to be examined by the guards who entered the city to prevent rebels from hiding among them.

A few miles away on the Yuan River, a number of destroyed warships sank into the river, and occasionally the masts of the ships could be seen sticking out of the river, allowing the river to hit.

In the frontal assault on Wuling City, Li Zhihe, Fanying, and the subordinate general Zhang Han suffered 2,4500 casualties, so the casualties can be said to be heavy, but the casualties in the interception battle on the Yuan River were even more tragic.

Ma Yin's father and son also knew that Wuling City could not afford to lose, and saw that tens of thousands of township soldiers gathered in Qingyun Mountain and Caoyan Ridge hesitated and did not dare to attack, on the one hand, they sent envoys to the past to destroy, and more importantly, they called the elite of the Tanzhou Water Battalion of their descendants, trying to forcibly open up the waterway of the Yuan River and send reinforcements and materials to Wuling City.

Although Yang Jian led the main force of the Lou Boat Army to frequently enter Dongting Lake to fight in order to contain the main force of the Tanzhou Water Battalion, Fan Xiang's headquarters and the Xuzhou Water Battalion were on the Yuan River, and they also bore extremely heavy interception tasks, and large and small surface battles broke out on the Yuan River almost every day.

Nearly two-thirds of the 12 large sail warships and other small and medium-sized row-row warships of the Xuzhou Water Battalion were killed in a month-long battle, and nearly half of the 1,800 sailing officers and crew members were killed or wounded, which was more tragic than the battle losses in several directions on land.

Han Qian watched everything silently, even though he knew very well in his heart that this was a necessary sacrifice to calm the chaos, but compared to the previous hard-heartedness, at this time, he could hardly suppress a trace of compassion in his heart, and secretly felt that this might be the disadvantage of shifting the responsibility of the Lord to Zheng Hui and Li Zhihe, right?

If you are the main general who is responsible for the overall situation on the battlefield, any compassion is also extravagant and superfluous.

At this moment, Han Qian can better understand the old incident that his father said on the eve of his departure from Jinling to Xuzhou to assassinate him, and his impact on him is

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How could it be so profound, but unfortunately, in the next ten years, Han Qian still can't see the possibility of eliminating the war in the Central Plains.

Faced with the chaos in the world, Han Qian really didn't know what his father's feelings were deep down.

"The city has been preliminarily cleaned up, and what to do with the many prisoners and officials, please show me." Tian Cheng walked towards the southern city wall surrounded by more than a dozen guards and told Han Qian.

Zheng Hui and Li Zhihe wanted to continue to use troops in other directions non-stop, and Han Qian was the leader in Wuling City to deal with all matters.

"Wen Rui was in Wuling City before the battle, did he search him out?" Han Qian asked.

"There were orders when searching the city, but I haven't found it yet, but the officials of Wuling County are all concentrated in the county government's back house, Wen Ruilin may be mixed with those people, do you want to take a look?" Tian Cheng said.

As for the main generals of the rebels in Wuling City, Tiancheng and them all used telescopes to confirm when they attacked the city, but the prisoners who surrendered in the city and the officials of Wuling County, totaling 17,800 people, have been driven to the temporary prisoner of war camp and imprisoned, and there is no time to further sort out.

At present, only a preliminary search has been carried out in the city, and there may still be some rebels who disguise their officials and hide them in the homes of ordinary people.

Han Qian asked Zhang Ping with a smile: "Do you want to go to the county government together?" ”

Zhang Ping also wants to move into the city to act as an official business, and when the time comes, he will choose a complete house near the county government to live temporarily, so he will naturally follow Han Qian to the direction of the county government at this time.

As soon as he walked into the county office, he heard a commotion from the back house, Han Qian walked over and saw a group of generals about to rush into the back house, but they were stopped by the angry Zhao Ting'er and Yao Xishui with people.

"What's going on?" Han Qian walked over with a dark face, staring at the thirty or forty soldiers who were blocked outside the door of the back house, drunk, and had the word "Wuling" embroidered on their chests in their uniforms.

The Dragon Bird Army, the Lou Boat Army and the Fan Battalion, under the leadership of Zheng Hui and Li Zhihe, went to Jiang'an County and Hanshou County respectively, mainly in addition to the wounded and sick generals, mainly the generals of the Wuling Army stayed in Wuling City.

"I'm going to come over and pick up some suitable men, and I'm rushing in to snatch the ladies who are being held here!" Zhao Ting'er's heart was pounding, and she stood behind Han Qian and whispered.

"Drag them all out, each of them will be whipped ten whips to sober up," Han Qian said to Tian Cheng behind him, "Then the whole city will announce my order, from this moment on, those who leave their duties without permission and those who drink alcohol illegally will be severely punished, and those who dare to rob the people's women and women will not be forgiven!" Those who dare to storm the prisoner of war camps, county prisons and other government officials will be killed! ”

In order to cope with the expanding war, the Wuling Army continued to recruit new soldiers from Xuzhou and from the middle and upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River.

In a short period of time, they focused on the training of the battle formation, and because in the continuous reorganization, the Wuling Army had not exposed much of a problem in terms of military discipline.

Zheng Hui had not focused on the purge before, and Han Qian handed over the command, so it was impossible to meddle in the purge of military discipline before.

On the other hand, after the siege of the city, the captive soldiers are the spoils of war, and the dependents of the captives and the soldiers in the city are also the spoils of war shared by the meritorious generals.

Usually speaking, some young and beautiful female dependents will be distributed to the generals in the army.

Those mediocre but passable female dependents were assigned to the brothel camp for the pleasure of ordinary generals and to raise military funds.

Those who were really old and lustful were sent to work in hard labor camps with other prisoners of war.

The capture of Wuling City is a great victory, some generals have experienced many cruel and bloody battles, at this time, some of them can't bear to vent urgently, so they ran over and wanted to choose the female dependents to go out to enjoy, but they didn't expect to be bumped into by Han Qian.

More than a dozen guards behind Tian Cheng rushed out, blocked the troublesome soldiers, and ordered them to take off their armor to be tortured, but no one dared to resist.

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