Second, whether it was Huang Zhong leading his troops into Changsha County, or Zhang Long leading his troops through Changsha County and entering Wuling County, all these actions naturally couldn't be concealed from Zhang Xian, who was a Taishou. However, it was precisely because of Sun Ce's aggressive posture that Zhang Xian could only or was very happy to see the second general make such a move.

The assassination of Huan Jie and his family greatly deteriorated the relationship between Liu Biao and Zhang Xian, but Sun Ce's sudden and large-scale attack on the three counties of Jingnan made Zhang Xian have to put aside his antipathy towards Liu Biao and concentrate all his attention on the defense of Changsha County.

In the past few years, Sun Ce's ability and ambition have been very great. He is called the little overlord by the Jiangdong people, which is not unreasonable. How can Zhang Xian not be afraid?

In case Sun Ce succeeds, after taking the three counties of Jingnan, the next one must be his Changsha County. Zhang Xian knew very well in his heart that the reason why Sun Ce hadn't moved him now was because of two considerations.

As a son of man, if Sun Ce can kill Huang Zu at the same time while seizing the three counties of Jingnan, the people of the world will inevitably look up to Sun Ce. Especially with Jin Jue, who is now besieging Chengdu City, and Cao Cao, who is sitting on Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, the two forces are in very sharp contrast.

If Sun Ce directly attacked Changsha County and took it in a very short time, it would inevitably greatly deter Huang Zu, making it very likely that he would immediately abandon Wuling County and flee to Nanjun and even Xiangyang City at the same time that Changsha County was lost.

In the second aspect, from the extermination of Huanjie and his family, Sun Ce had already discovered Zhang Xian's attitude towards Liu Biao in advance.

Therefore, Zhang Xian and Sun Ce actually knew very well in their hearts that even if Sun Ce captured the three counties of Jingnan, as long as the two of them did not take the initiative to provoke each other, Zhang Xian would not send troops to fight Sun Ce.

Third, from Youxian County to Rongcheng County, Zhang Long walked all by water, so he walked this way extremely quickly and easily.

Among them, Zhang Xian even secretly provided Zhang Long with some convenience.

For example, Zhang Xian sent several wealthy merchants in Changsha County who had a very close relationship with him in private to give Zhang Longjin a lot of sturdy ships and zishi.

After Zhang Long arrived in Rongcheng County, after the county commander in the city learned his identity and personally confirmed his identity on the city, he immediately opened the city and welcomed Zhang Long and his 3,000 soldiers and horses into the city.

Huang, the magistrate of Chenyang County, surrendered to Sun Ce in Kaicheng, and the whole family was killed by the angry Sun Ce, and now it has spread throughout the counties under the jurisdiction of Wuling County.

Rongcheng County, which is far away in the southernmost part of Wuling County, is no exception, and the county commander of this county is also a nephew of Huang Zu, in this case, he has already retreated in his heart, if it weren't for Sun Ce, he has never sent troops to attack Rongcheng County, he would have fled with his family and mouth.

Fortunately, Zhang Long came to take over the pot for him, which was the truest feeling in the heart of the county magistrate Huang after seeing Zhang Long.

As soon as he entered the city, the county magistrate Huang and Zhang Long exchanged a few words, after Zhang Long explained the intention, the county magistrate Huang happily handed over all the county magistrate's seals to Zhang Long, on the same day, the county magistrate Huang left Rongcheng County with his family and entourage, and entered Changsha County according to the road that Zhang Long pointed him out, and rushed from Changsha County to Jiangxia's hometown.

This county magistrate Huang is not a fool, at this time, rushing to Linyuan County is no different from sending him to death, even if his uncle Huang Zu treats him well, it is not as important as his own and his family's lives.

Because he was in a hurry, when the county magistrate Huang left, he only took away the gold, silver and fine soft that he had scavenged from Rongcheng County, and as for other belongings, because they were relatively heavy, he left them all to Zhang Long, of course, what he left for Zhang Long, as well as the 7,000 recruits he recruited in Rongcheng County.

After County Magistrate Huang left, Zhang Long followed Jin Jue's example and quickly dispatched the guards around him to the lower level of the army.

During Zhang Long's stay in Youxian, there were only 100 guards he recruited around him, and all of them were veterans from Nanyang.

These 100 guards divided up 5,000 of the 7,000 recruits in Rongcheng County, that is, each guard would be assigned 500 recruits as his subordinates.

At the same time, Zhang Long also assigned the officials in the county government to quickly re-recruit the veterans of Rongcheng County who had been eliminated by Huang County and Changsha back into the barracks.

In order to attract these veterans to come back as soon as possible, Zhang Long took out all the property that the county magistrate Huang could not take away, and under the temptation of heavy profits, within a few days, the officials brought back more than 3,000 soldiers for Zhang Long.

Among them, 2,800 are veterans and more than 200 are selected recruits.

People are born, old, sick and die, and the veterans who were eliminated by Changsha in Huang County last year, once almost all veterans leave the army, it is equivalent to being cut off from the source of their livelihood. Among them, some of them soon died of illness in poverty, and some of them were unwilling to be abandoned like garbage by the Huang County Magistrate, so more than 100 veterans gathered privately and became bandits in the mountains at the junction of Rongcheng County and Lingling County.

The four counties of Jingnan are mountainous, watery, and barbarian, and the most famous barbarian in the four counties of Jingnan is Wuxi Man, and Sha Moke, who later helped Liu Bei fight against Sun Quan, is the leader of one of the tribes of Wuxi Man.

As for this group of bandits composed of veterans, after Zhang Long learned the details from the officials, he sent some of the re-recruited veterans who were familiar with the said leader of the bandits to the cottage to try to persuade the other party to surrender.

But in the end, the messenger sent by Zhang Long came back alive, but the other party obviously couldn't trust the officials under Liu Biao's rule, and they would rather continue to be thieves than continue to serve Liu Biao.

In this regard, Zhang Long had no choice but to give up.

However, the bandits of a few hundred people do not have much impact on the overall situation, so since the current enemy, excluding the 5,000 recruits who were divided by the guards, Zhang Long also has more than 8,000 soldiers in his hands.

With one more soldier, Zhang Long will have a better chance of winning in the next military operations.

However, it is precisely because Rongcheng County is in the southernmost part of Wuling County, and Fu Tong's current location is still separated by Chenyang County and Yuanling County, so Zhang Long can neither gather all the people in the townships of Rongcheng County like Fu Tong and gather them in the county seat, because Rongcheng County is not an important grain producing area, and there is not much grain in the city.

At the same time, Zhang Long could not make up for the lack of food by wantonly slaughtering or seizing the families and wealthy merchants in the townships of Rongcheng County like Jin Jue.

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