As Zhu Wei treated Tai Shi Ci a little bit of sympathy, Tai Shi Ci naturally had a desire to repay Zhu Wei with a peach.

Now Zhu Wei is so relieved to entrust the land of Jiangxia County to Tai Shi Ci to take care of, Tai Shi Ci is really touched in his heart, thinking that in the past, on Liu Xuan's side, he could only be a guest with the identity of a personal guard and a guard.

But since following Zhu Wei, Tai Shici has always had the real power to lead the troops, and now he can become an expatriate officer in charge of a county, which is by no means something that Liu Miao can easily give him.

Although Tai Shi Ci was forced to be in name only, he could not immediately switch to Zhu Wei's name, but in Tai Shi Ci's heart, he really looked forward to Zhu Wei's horse.

In fact, when Liu Miao sent Tai Shici to Zhu Wei's side as an assistant lieutenant, he was also a little like Su Fei, in fact, he could already be regarded as Zhu Wei's direct subordinates, but both of them were affiliated with Liu Wei's name.

However, Su Fei came to Huang Zu's side, and he was completely excluded, but Zhu Wei used Tai Shi Ci completely as his own person, these two different circumstances can be seen two different attitudes towards others, Tai Shi Ci was really moved by Zhu Wei's gesture.

Since Tai Shi Ci was sent by Liu Miao to Yuzhang to assist Zhu Wei, then he directly obeyed Zhu Wei's orders, which was originally reasonable and compliant, but Liu Miao could have directly commanded Tai Shi Ci in secret.

But now, even if Liu Miao gives Tai Shi Ci an order to let Tai Shi Ci behave in Jiangxia, as long as Zhu Wei's interests are involved, Tai Shi Ci will definitely not agree.

In this way, under Zhu Wei's arrangement, Tai Shici soon took his deputy general Ma Zhong, led more than 6,000 crossbowmen and more than 2,000 civilian auxiliaries of the sharpshooter battalion of the headquarters, and went north first, preparing to conquer Xiyang County, Yuguo County, Ju County, and Pingchun County, which were located on the northern edge of Jiangxia.

The location of these four counties is very close to Nanyang County and Runan County of Yuzhou, so now after Jiangxia was defeated by Zhu Wei, the county commanders of these four counties are still interested in Liu Biao and refuse to convince the new owner of Jiangxia.

In fact, the most important thing is that the county orders of these four counties are also from the Jiangxia Huang clan, and they are naturally unwilling to surrender to the name of Zhu Wei, who robbed their family's territory, and Zhu Wei has to go to Xiling City to meet them in person, and they dare not come to see them as members of the Huang clan.

Therefore, relying on the location of the county seat they controlled closer to Nanyang County, they would rather throw themselves to Liu Biao of Nanyang County than belong to Zhu Wei, the new lord of Jiangxia.

Therefore, Zhu Wei asked Tai Shi Ci to crusade against these four county towns in the first battle, but in fact, even if Tai Shi Ci defeated these four county towns now, he was afraid that he might not be able to completely control them in the future, after all, these four county towns were really far away from Xiling City.

But Tai Shi Ci had to go around to show the strength of the new master of Jiangxia, and at the same time, Tai Shi Ci also had to take advantage of the opportunity to conquer the four counties according to Zhu Wei's instructions to forcibly transfer the young and strong people in the county, just like Zhu Wei had moved the people of the county on the edge of Yuzhang before, weakening the population base of these four counties.

In this way, even if the population of the four counties cannot be moved to the vicinity of Xiling City in Jiangxia County, it is necessary to extract fifty or sixty percent of the young and strong men in the four counties, so that even if there is any shaking in these four counties in the future, it will not be too much of a threat.

Of course, these four counties are indeed too close to Nanyang County, with their geographical location, Liu Biao can send troops from Nanyang County to occupy the four counties at any time, and even if Tai Shici knows that the four counties are lost, it is difficult for the whip to recover them.

If Tai Shi Ci easily sent troops, maybe he would fall for Liu Biao's advisers' plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and when Tai Shi Ci's main force sent troops to the four counties, Liu Biao could go down the river from Jiangling City to take Xiling City, so as to regain control of Jiangxia County.

At that time, Tai Shici's main city will be taken, and the return route to Yuzhang may also be cut off, which is really like losing Guan Yu in Jingzhou, I am afraid that the soldiers will be scattered and the Maicheng will be defeated.

Therefore, Tai Shici is now transferring the young and strong people from the four counties, and it is dispensable to lose these four counties in the future, but there is no need to rush to recover it, it is a big deal to give it to Liu Biao.

As for these four counties and Runan County in Yuzhou, they seem to be very close in terms of geographical location, but in fact, Jiangxia County and Runan County are also separated by the mountains to which Dabie Mountain and Wushan belong, so Jiangxia County and Runan County also have a kind of natural partition, which can only be passed by bypassing Jingzhou or Jiangdong.

In this way, these four counties are at most harassed by some bandits hidden in the mountain range to which Dabie Mountain and Wushan belong, and these bandits in the mountains can be completely exterminated by the county soldiers equipped with the four counties, but it will not have any impact on the ownership of the four county seats.

According to Zhu Wei's strategy for Tai Shi Ci to clean up the entire territory of Jiangxia, after Tai Shi Ci conquered these four county seats, he could go around the northwest border of Jiangxia to the south for a military parade, and then conquer the next Nanxin County located in the central and western part of Jiangxia County, and finally go to conquer Jingling County, which is close to Jiangling in Nan County.

In such a circle around the northwest of Jiangxia, as long as Liu Biao in Xiangyang and Cai Mao in Jiangling did not send troops to support these county towns, it would not be a problem for Tai Shici's troops to defeat these small county towns with the height of Tucheng at most.

It can be said that after conquering these six county seats, Tai Shici can almost return to Xiling City and take over the control of Jiangxia from Zhu Wei's side, because the other counties in Jiangxia already have the intention of surrendering, so there is no need to go to the requisition.

The military parade of Tai Shi Ci in such a circle can not only show the deterrence of the place by force, but also actually familiarize himself with the geomorphological environment of Jiangxia, which will help Tai Shi Ci to sit in Jiangxia in the future and have some geographical psychological preparation for the possible invasion of Liu Biao in Nanjun and Nanyang County.

It can be said that this time Zhu Wei sent Tai Shici to sweep Jiangxia, a small local county that refused to surrender, more to meet the military strategic intentions, rather than to really control these territories.

For Zhu Wei, Jiangxia County, which he had just conquered, could only be regarded as a military buffer zone, and could not be regarded as a rear territory that had really been conquered and could bring money and grain taxes to Zhu Wei, so Zhu Wei didn't care too much about how much grain income Jiangxia County could bring him now.

As long as Tai Shici can use Jiangxia to contain Liu Biao's forces in Jingzhou, so that Zhu Wei can reduce the trouble when he attacks the four counties of Jingnan in the future, then it will be fine.

In this way, after Zhu Wei sent Tai Shi Ci out, he met Cai He, the commander of the naval army sent by Jiangling Cai Mao to support Jiangxia, who had been captured by Pang Yan and Tai Shi Ci in Xiling City.

Cai He is Cai Mao's younger brother, and now he is thirty-six or seven years old, and he came to Jiangxia to support Huang Zu with more than 7,000 sailors on a warship and more than 20 light ships on a warship and more than 20 warships.

As a result, Pang Yan and Tai Shici used a pocket array at the mouth of the Yangtze River and Xiashui to wrap a dumpling with the Jiangling Navy army that Cai He commanded in accordance with the tactics planned by Wang Yuyan......