623rd Battle of the Five Counties 5

Then, Zhang Long turned his head again and shouted at the soldiers standing in a neat line behind him: "Soldiers, haven't you noticed it either? After the battle of Xi'e County, Zhang Fa and Li Da, who had taken the lead in this battle, did not follow this time.

Jia San, and the rest of your leaders have listened well, as well as the soldiers who want to make meritorious contributions, all have listened well, after Zhang Fa and Li Da completed the task assigned to them in Xi'e County, they had already immediately set off to Danshui County and Nanxiang County to take up their posts. In Ben Sima's hands, there are still two county orders, and next, it depends on who can perform better when our army attacks Duyang County.

Jia San, in view of the fact that your ability is really a little too weak, therefore, this Sima can only hand over the mountain city of Wudang County to you. If you don't understand something, you can ask me first, and you should also ask some of the county officials with a very good reputation among the people, but you should not be deceived by them as a puppet county commander, if I find out, Ben Sima can take away your identity as a county commander at any time.

By the way, Ben Sima also forgot to tell you one thing about these leaders who have not yet made meritorious contributions, this battle is different from the battle of Xi'e County, Ben Sima has already sent people into the county seat of Duyang County to hide. Perhaps, in this battle, Ben Sima will be able to take this city without blood, just like Zhang An's lucky guy.

Therefore, you can also think that the person who opens the city gate for Ben Sima will take away one place, and the remaining one place depends on which of you can finally capture the county commander of Duyang County and send it to Ben Sima.

Do you all understand? ”

After hearing this, Jia San and the leaders present were first shocked, and then they were all overjoyed, and many people looked at Jia San with envy, jealousy and hatred in their eyes, hating themselves in the first place, why didn't they directly ask Zhang Long for the task of chasing and killing Du Xian like Jia San.

However, it is too late to say anything now, and for the sake of now, we can only hope that any of them will be lucky enough to capture the county magistrate of Duyang County alive.

As for the quota for the other county order, just as Zhang Long said just now, the leaders present all understood that it had been booked in advance by the leader who was now hidden in the city and was ready to do the internal response.

This is because they have all heard that not only the battle of Bai Liuqing to take Lixian County, but even the nearby Bowang County and Pheasant County were easily defeated by the leaders of Ma Han and Zhao Hu in this way.

The county magistrate of Bowang County and the Taishou of Nanyang County were all captured alive by the second Sima Sheng, and even Gong Cao Yingyu, who was loyal to the Lord in history and used his own body to block arrows for the then Taishou Dongli Yan, and now he is only a small official of Nanyang County, was captured alive by Ma Han's personal soldiers in advance. Ying Yu is the person named by Jin Jue, and his name must be preserved.

At this time, the county order of Duyang County happened to be Dongliyan.

"Lord Sima, all the subordinates have heard clearly." As soon as Zhang Long's words fell, the leaders replied in unison as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Fu Tong, Zhang Long and Ma Han all like this way of talking and surprise their subordinates, naturally they all learned from Jin Jue, who has teased his subordinates many times in this way.

And the reason why Zhang Long now has the right to appoint people with meritorious service to serve as county commanders is naturally handed over to him by Fu Tong.

Fu Tong knew very well that after completing the plan for the north of Nanyang County, next, he would have to put all his attention and focus on building a new city and defense system in Xinye County, and he would not have the spare time and energy to perform the duties of the Taishou of Nanyang County. According to the second-step plan that Jin Jue made for him, he only needed to guard Xinye County.

Once Cao's army attacks Nanyang County, it will inevitably use a large army to besiege Xinye County and cut off Xinye County's contact with the outside world, and at that time, it will be up to Ma Han and Zhang Long to choose how to support him on their own.

As for Zhao Hu, Fu Tong will keep him by his side, just let him be a county lieutenant of Xinye County. In fact, Zhao Hu was a warmonger, and he would rather stay in Xinye City and fight with the main force of Cao's army than fight guerrillas on the periphery.

Therefore, after the completion of the Nanyang County North Raid Plan, Fu Tong would recommend the three of them to Liu Biao, and try to ask Liu Biao for officials, appointing Ma Han and Zhang Long as the western and eastern governors of Nanyang County.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, gave up the official position of county lieutenant and served within the authority of Taishou. However, in the two Han Dynasty, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, no one stipulated that there could be no county lieutenant in a county, or only one county lieutenant, like the original Hanzhong County, there were originally two county lieutenants in the western part of Hanzhong County and the eastern lieutenant in the east.

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Jia San happily led the remaining more than 400 people who followed him to pursue Du Xian, and went to Wudang County to take up his post together.

Wudang County has the famous Wudang Mountain in later generations, like Luoyang County, it is a mountainous county, there are many mountains and less flat land in the jurisdiction, compared to Danshui County and Nanxiang County where Zhang Fa and Li Da went to work, it is definitely a heaven and an underground, however, Wudang County has a much stronger advantage than Luoyang County, that is, the water resources here are very rich, although there is little land, but as long as you cultivate well, the people in the county still have food to eat.

Moreover, in Fu Tong's plan, Zhang Long will not relocate the people in the western part of Nanyang County under his jurisdiction in the future.

On the one hand, it is a mountainous and watery place, and it is not easy for Cao's army to capture it.

When the time comes, Zhang Long will explain, and every county order will be ready at any time, if he feels that his side will not be able to defeat the attacking Cao army troops even if he relies on the city wall, then he will simply abandon the county seat and hide in the mountains.

For the new county magistrates appointed by Zhang Long, this is what they are really good at. Originally, they were rebels or bandits from the Luyang Mountains, and entering the mountains was like a dragon returning to the sea for them.

On the other hand, Shunyang County and the surrounding counties were a little too far away from Xinye County after all, and they were not on the only way for Cao Cao to attack Jingzhou, so they would not attract the attention of Cao's army.

And the reason why Fu Tong arranged Zhang Long here, instead of Ma Han, was precisely because he took a fancy to Zhang Long's appearance.

Zhang Long and Ma Han, whether it is training, leading troops, and other abilities, are between the best, and the only thing that Zhang Long is stronger than Ma Han is his appearance.

In Jin Jue's words, looking good is a natural advantage. Relying on this advantage, compared with Ma Han, Zhang Long is more sure to attract the people around Shunyang County who have been hiding in the mountains because of the war to escape the war one by one and settle in the county seat.

In the eastern part of Nanyang County, Ma Han will marshal the main force stationed in Biyang County, and the area under his jurisdiction is much less than that of Zhang Long, except for Biyang County, he only has the right to appoint two county magistrates, these two counties are Wuyin County and Pingshi County.

Among them, because of the prominent location of Wuyin County, no matter who is the county commander, it is a little dangerous. This county is almost parallel to Wan County, and Cao's army attacked Nanyang County twice, both of which were captured by sending troops.

After the Second Battle of Nanyang, because Wuyin County was too close to Wan County and far away from Xu County, Cao Cao took the initiative to give up control of the county.

As for Fuyang County, which is closer to Pingshi County, in the southeast, and Huyang County in the southwest, Liu Biao did not give Fu Tong the right to appoint the chief officials of the counties south of Xinye County, so Ma Han could not rule the entire eastern part of Nanyang County.

In the same way, Zhang Long could not rule over the counties south of Yu County in the western part of Nanyang County.

A few days later, Fu Tong received good news, Ma Han and Zhang Long almost at the same time, relying on the internal response hidden in the county seat, successively took Duyang County and Ye County without blood. The two of them then stayed on the ground and began to digest the defenders and recruit new recruits on the spot, as well as implement the immigration plan themselves.

This news was quickly written by Fu Tong and Zhang An respectively, and the two of them made an appointment in advance, and the envoys of each faction used fast horses to deliver their respective messages to Cai Mao and Zhang Yun in Xiangyang City in an urgent manner.

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