Chapter 288: Recruiting Suizhou

"Boom~"

On the river surface in the east of Dongchan City, the rolling river water flows endlessly along the Qiongjiang River, and on the vast plain outside the city, in a burst of horses' hooves like thunder, the black cavalry cluster began to appear on the ground, dense and endless.

"Lord, I'm afraid there are more than 100,000 cavalry under the city."

At the head of Dongchan City, looking at the cavalry cluster under the city tower, Chen Zhi said with a solemn face.

"Humph! Is this to demonstrate to us? ”

Guan Erye stroked his long beard, a pair of Danfeng eyes squinted slightly, and his whole body exuded a deep cold murderous dao.

"Fuck it, fight with them, just repelled the Qin army, this Huaguo wants to come and pick up the cheap!"

Looking at the originally intimate Huaguo army under the city tower suddenly revealing this act of swords and soldiers, Zhang Fei said with a sense of betrayal.

"Open the gates! We can't let the soldiers under our command and the people in the city die in vain with us, and I believe that the Chinese people will treat them well."

Liu Bei, who had been gloomy in face, was silent for a long time, glanced at the city behind him and the surrounding soldiers, and said in a deep voice, and his face had already been hung with the appearance of a compassionate saint.

"Lord!"

"Big brother!"

"I'm willing to follow the lord to the death!"

。。。。。。

A group of generals and soldiers of the Shu Han Army standing around knelt on one knee and shouted sadly.

The touching scene on the city tower did not affect the gathering of the black-armored cavalry below, and a steady stream of cavalry drove in the direction of Dongchan City, and finally slowly turned into countless square arrays on the ground outside the city.

In the center of the military array, a black general flag followed the general's guards slowly, and the armored Zhengnan general Li Mu, surrounded by dozens of generals and a team of guards, drove his horse forward slowly, and finally stopped less than 500 meters away from Dongchan City.

"General, do you want to order a siege?"

On Li Mu's side, the burly general of the Southern Army, Xiong Kuohai, saluted him respectfully, and glanced in the direction of Dongchan City.

"The Qin army has retreated, there are only less than 20,000 remnants in Dongchan City, there is no need to worry, these grassland children behind him are not good at attacking the city, there is no need to waste troops for it, I believe Liu Bei will make the right choice" Li Mu forgot to glance at the direction of Dongchan City, and slowly shook his head.

In the first battle of Shanghekou, 50,000 soldiers of the North Battalion of the Huaguo Water Division raided the Qin Army's Water Division, and wiped out the 30,000 Qin Army's water army in the first battle, surrendering more than half.

There was no threat on the water, and the 100,000 newly recruited grassland cavalry, who had already gone north with the full assistance of the North and South Battalions of the Navy Division, sailed up by boat under the leadership of Li Mu, the general of Zhengnan, and completed the landing on the west bank of the Qiongjiang River in less than 2 days.

In addition to the 100,000 newly recruited grassland cavalry, there will be 50,000 southern troops and 60,000 infantry troops composed of 30,000 people from the north and south battalions of the water division.

"Report! General, Liu Bei of Dongchan City sent someone to discuss surrender! ”

Sure enough, Li Mu's guess was not wrong, in the face of the Huo Huo soldiers exposed by the 100,000 Huaguo cavalry, although he was unwilling, Liu Bei, the hero, finally chose to surrender.

"Into town!"

Hearing the report from the herald, Li Mu had a smile on his face and waved his hand at the generals behind him.

"General, Liu Bei is a hero, you must guard against it!"

Huo Jun, the general of the Southern Army, who had been silent behind him, spoke out to dissuade him when he heard this.

"Haha, Zhong Miao doesn't have to worry, this battle lord has already been arranged!"

Seeing this, Li Mu said happily with a relieved smile on his face.

He has always been very optimistic about Huo Jun, and after the Battle of Jinzhou, he also took the initiative to ask Sima Yu to ask Huo Jun to join the Southern Army.

However, it is a pity that the young general's heart seems to have completely fallen silent after that battle, and he is indifferent to Li Mu's various solicitations and fierceness, and only obeys military orders like a marionette in the army.

This is the first time he has taken the initiative to make a suggestion to Li Mu.

On August 23 of the second year of the emperor's reign, the 210,000 Huaguo army with Li Mu, the general of Zhengnan, landed outside the Dongchan City, and Liu Bei, the lord of Shu Han who was trapped in the Dongchan City, led 20,000 remnants of the army to surrender to the Huaguo courtiers, and Li Mu led 20,000 cavalry to stay in the Dongchan City.

"Liu Bei sees the general, I don't know what the general is looking for his subordinates?"

On the second day, in the city guard mansion, Liu Bei, who had changed into the official uniform of Huaguo, came to the hall and saluted Li Mu on the main seat.

At this time, there was only Li Mu in the hall, and there was a huge sand table in the center of the hall, Liu Bei swept the topography of the sand table, and saw at a glance that this was the topographic map of Suizhou.

This couldn't help but make his body shake slightly, Hua Guojun had just entered Dongchan City, and he was able to get such a detailed topographic map of Suizhou, and the depth of the penetration of the spies under his command into the entire Suizhou can be imagined.

"Xuande is here, there is indeed something to find you to come to today!"

Seeing Liu Bei coming, Li Mu nodded towards him and said that he walked down the main seat and came to the sand table.

"Xuande, you see, although the Qin army is retreating at the moment, there is only one city in Dongchan City in this Suizhou in my hands, and the two cities of Hengshan and Yufeng are within easy reach of soldiers, but the southern cities are all in the hands of a group of local wealthy families, these are all grass on the wall, and we have a wait-and-see attitude towards the battle between our army and the Qin army. I have the intention to ask His Majesty for his life, Feng Xuande you are the Suizhou Fu envoy, I will give you 5000 fine horses, go to the counties to surrender, if there is a resistance and do not obey, Xuande can decide to crusade on his own, I believe that with the prestige of Xuande in the past Lord of Shu Han, he will be able to quickly surrender the counties of Suizhou, I don't know what Xuande wants? ”

Li Mu pointed to the Suizhou counties marked on the sand table, and said to Liu Bei in a deliberative tone.

"The general has an order, be prepared to obey!"

Hearing this, Liu Bei solemnly saluted Li Mu and said.

"Good! With Xuande's help, Suizhou can be easily decided, and I can rest assured that I can deal with the Qin army! Li Mu was overjoyed when he heard this.

On August 25, the second year of the emperor's reign, Li Mu, the chief general of the 210,000 Chinese army, temporarily named Liu Bei as the envoy of Suizhou in the name of the general of the march, and went to the counties of Suizhou with 5,000 elite cavalry of Huaguo.

Appointed, Liu Bei led the troops south with his henchmen Guan Zhang's second brother and Chen Zhi and others on the second day.

On August 31, under the threat of the powerful front of the Chinese army, coupled with the prestige of Liu Bei's former lord of Shu Han, the southern counties of Dongchancheng in Suizhou surrendered one after another, and the local wealthy clans in each county announced their return to the Chinese state. At the same time, the counties were also integrated to obtain a total of 50,000 troops.

In less than seven days, Huaguo had nominally completed the unification of Suizhou.

On September 3, Li Mu, who received a letter from the counties of Suizhou, decided to lead an army of 150,000 to formally launch a campaign against Anzhou, Dezhou, and Jianzhou, which had fallen into chaos due to the sudden withdrawal of the Qin army, while Dongchancheng and Suizhou were handed over to the 60,000 troops of the northern and southern battalions of the naval division to take over.