Chapter 396: Siege of Shu
After the fall of Eastern Wu, those civil and military officials were also appointed, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Lu Su, Lu Xun, LĂź Meng and other officials entered the court, and the rest of the civil and military enriched Jingzhou, in order to prevent the local forces that supported Sun Quan from rebelling, Jiang Sheng let Xu Huang serve as the pastor of Yangzhou, and left a standing army of 80,000 people.
After Gan Ning took Zhu Yazhou, he directly waved his army westward and landed in Annam (Vietnam), the local aborigines were a group of rabble, facing the elite marines, fleeing from the wind, and later saw that the attitude of the Ganning Navy towards the natives was not bad, and the chief came forward to express his obedience.
Jiaozhou Shepherd Shixie, who has been sitting in the south for many years, has always been indisputable, and he does not have any attitude towards Jiang Sheng's Jin Dynasty replacing the Eastern Han Dynasty, but after all, the dynasty has changed, and Jiang Sheng's powerful naval fleet has arrived in Jiaozhou, and Shixie still has to greet it.
Gan Ning was originally born as a water bandit, and he had some common language for Shixie, who was accustomed to the rivers and lakes, and he didn't fight anyway, so Gan Ning ordered an impromptu performance.
Shi Xie witnessed the powerful force of the Jin fleet, and fearing that something would be wrong, tremblingly handed over the recital in support of Jiang Sheng, and handed over the archives of Jiaozhou to Gan Ning.
Gan Ning's fleet stopped in Jiaozhou to recuperate, and he sent someone to send the situation in Jiaozhou to the capital along with Shi Xie's recital.
A month later, Jiang Sheng ordered Shixie to be the Marquis of Jieyang County and continue to lead Jiaozhou Mu, but Dian Wei led 60,000 troops to be stationed in Jiaozhou, and was not dispatched by Shixie to carry out combat missions independently.
The Eastern Wu was destroyed, Shixie returned to obedience, and the entire land of China was left with Xishu still jumping.
Liu Bei reused Zhuge Liang to sweep away the opposition forces in Yizhou, and then followed Jiang Sheng's example and implemented a positive and prudent people's livelihood policy, and his strength swelled sharply, and by the time of the fall of Eastern Wu, there were already 300,000 standing troops and sufficient supplies.
Ma Chao attacked Fuguan seven times, but was repelled by Zhuge Liang with a strategy, and the loss was not small, after Liu Bei eased up, he let Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Deng Zhi, Jiang Wei and others take turns to attack, repelled Ma Chao, and took Zitong back.
In order to avoid the trouble of fighting on two fronts, Jiang Sheng only let Ma Chao hold Jiameng Pass when attacking Eastern Wu.
After Ma Chao withdrew from Zitong, he strengthened the defense of Jiameng Pass, and the Shu army failed to attack repeatedly.
Gao Shun took advantage of the pause in the battle against Shu to attack Baishui Pass, beheaded the guard general Zhang Yi, and later sent troops to conquer the Jianmen Pass area, providing support for Ma Chao who defended Jiameng Pass.
Wei Yan's Western Expeditionary Army fought in Jiangzhou for a year but failed to capture Jiangzhou, Yan Yan is indeed a rare and powerful character, Wei Yan had no choice but to take him, so he divided his troops and beat the territory around Jiangzhou, making Jiangzhou a lonely city.
Liu Bei sent Li Yan to wave his army to rescue, but was intercepted by Xiahoudun, and the two armies fought more than 20 times, and Xiahoudun defeated Li Yan after paying the price of 30% of his death.
Without reinforcements, the supply in the city was also cut off, and Yan Yan finally chose to surrender the city.
Considering that Yan Yan and Ling Bao were a bit too cruel to attack Shu with their backhands, Jiang Sheng transferred these two to Liangzhou.
With more than 40,000 troops surrendered in Jiangzhou, Wei Yan did not dare to support it, so he sent a team of soldiers and horses to escort these surrendered troops to Wuling, handed them over to Zhao Yun for training, and then scattered and distributed them to various troops.
By the time of the attack on Qianwei County, the Jin army was basically still the original team, and Xiahoudun's troops had obtained 30,000 native soldiers from Jiaozhou, and they were more experienced in fighting in the mountains.
Qianwei County has many mountainous areas, and a large-scale regular army decisive battle is unlikely, and the Jiaozhou natives who are good at mountain warfare come in handy.
Wei Yan found the mountain guerrilla warfare of the native soldiers very interesting, so he asked these native soldiers to be instructors to train the troops for mountain warfare, which later developed into the first mountain division of the Jin army.
Wei Yan is training troops here, but Ma Chao is facing greater pressure, the troops in the east are all in the process of marching, and they can't arrive in a short time, but a considerable amount of iron artillery has been transported and can be put into the battlefield.
And Zhuge Liang also saw that the main force of the Jin army could not reach a point in a short time, so he ordered the troops to storm Jiameng Pass to ensure that before the arrival of the main force of the Jin army, control the various key passes into Chengdu.
The battle of Jiameng Pass lasted for more than four months, and the Shu army launched seven decisive battles, although Ma Chao's army suffered heavy losses, but Jiameng Pass was still firmly in the hands of Ma Chao.
In the last decisive battle, Guan Yu was the main general, Ma Chao was attacking and defending, and the Xiliang cavalry faced off against the elite of Xishu and fought in the south of Jiameng Pass.
Driven by Guan Yu's god-of-war force, the elite firepower of Xishu was fully opened, and Ma Chao was beaten back again and again.
When they were about to reach the Jiameng Pass, Ma Chao's troops did not enter the pass, but hid with the help of the fortifications in front of the pass.
Guan Yujun chased after him, galloping thousands of horses, but saw that there were a lot of black rumbling "iron buckets" on the opposite side, and he was in doubt, only to hear an earth-shattering thunderclap, and countless iron bullets flew down.
Guan Yujun was completely stunned, the bombed people turned on their backs, and the frightened horses scattered and fled, not listening to the commanders of the riders at all, trampling on countless dead and wounded.
After the sound of the cannon, Ma Chao roared loudly, and killed the soldiers and horses, cutting melons and chopping vegetables, and killing Guan Yujun.
Guan Yu is brave, but the battlefield is not alone, and he can't withstand the impact of thousands of cavalry in turn.
Seeing that things were not good, Guan Yu turned his horse and retreated, and the Shu army followed the chaotic retreat, Ma Chao was originally the end of defeat, but suddenly reversed, chasing Guan Yu's army all over the mountains.
After Guan Yu fled back to Zitong, he reported the situation to Zhuge Liang, which Zhuge Liang did not expect, and when he was discussing tactics, the messenger came to report that he had found a large number of Jin troops in Guanghan and Zizhong.
Zhuge Liang secretly shouted that it was not good, the Jin army was advancing so rapidly, it was indeed unparalleled in the world, and he hurriedly returned to Chengdu to plan a strategy to resist the Jin army.
The war was about to break out, but Jiang Sheng didn't care about the battle, his energy was on industrial construction.
The Jin Dynasty was strong, the Grand Canal had been built, and the railway line planned for the first time was also successfully opened to traffic.
Although the steam locomotive had a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour, and had to stop to cool down after running for two hours in a row, because he did not use manpower and carried a large capacity, it attracted the attention of thousands of caravans in the Jin Dynasty.
At the beginning of its construction, Jiang Sheng was only used to transport troops and weapons and materials, and as the technology became more and more mature, the single line was upgraded to a double line, and began to be put into commercial use, both for passengers and goods, and earned a lot of wealth for the Jin Dynasty finance.
Now Jiang Sheng is not satisfied with the use of the north, so he ponders the construction of bridges and dams.
The possibility of building a bridge is not too big, after all, this era has not yet reached such a height, Jiang Sheng is just painting a scoop according to the gourd, he doesn't understand the technical principles, he just thinks about it, but it should be no problem to build a dam, although Zuo Ci died a few years ago, but the team of the Academy of Sciences is getting stronger and stronger, and the reinforced concrete thing depicted by Jiang Sheng was actually developed by this gang.
The construction of the Xiangyang Dam started as scheduled, and like the progress of the Jinshu War, it should still be carried out.