Zhao Xun also secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he got the news of King Hanzhong's action. If the Han army moves, then the crisis of the Zhao army in Hanzhong will be lifted. As long as the grain from Yongzhou to the south continues to arrive, there will basically be no major problems in Hanzhong.

Because of the actions of the Han army, Situ Liang and others also suggested that in addition to crossing the Qinling Mountains from the north to the south to transport grain and grass materials, they should also start transporting materials from Jingbei to Hanzhong.

The reason why they suggested this was because after the Han army's action, Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, had already been tied to the Zhao army, and the Zhao army had transported supplies through its jurisdiction, and the Han army would never dare to stop it. If the Han army turns against itself, there is no need for Zhao Jun to make a move, but I am afraid that the Luo army around him will take the lead in attacking the Han army and monopolize Jingzhou.

And if the Han army wants to take Wuling Mansion and deal with the counterattack of the Shu army in the future, it must get close to the Zhao army. Otherwise, the current strength of its Han army alone would not be enough to hostile the Shu army that would recover in the future. If there is no containment of the Zhao army in Hanzhong in the future, the Shu army can destroy the Han army several times.

Zhao Xun did not hesitate and immediately agreed to the matter. In addition, in order to let the Han army defeat the Shu army in Wuling Mansion and compete with the Luo army, Zhao Xun gave the Han army thousands of sets of armor equipment. Of course, this is also the capture of the Zhao army in the land of Hanzhong.

The king of Hanzhong can be said to be in high spirits at this time, and the three-way army, although there are not many troops, but only against the Shu army in Wuling Mansion, he still has an advantage. In particular, the Shu army did not expect that the king of Hanzhong, who was still reorganizing his army in Jiangling Mansion, would move his army south and directly attack them.

Therefore, the results of the Han army's operation are still very significant, and half of the twelve counties of Wuling Prefecture were taken by the Han army in just a few days. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Han army sent Neiying and Xizuo in advance. One is a prepared battle, and the other is caught off guard. From the very beginning, the two sides stood on the ground of inequality. In addition, the Shu army garrison in Wuling Mansion is not very large, only less than 10,000 people. The main reason is that in the battle of Hanzhong in the past, the Shu army suffered heavy losses, and in order to continue the war with the Zhao army, the king of Shu transferred a lot of people from the surrounding area, and Wuling Mansion was one of them. The second is that because of the defeat of the Han army and the hands of the Shu army, coupled with its situation in Jingzhou, the Shu army did not put the king of Hanzhong in their eyes.

After the Zhao army formed an ally, after learning that the Shu army and the Zhao army had begun to fight with the Zhao army in the south of Hanzhong in the west, Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, did not hesitate and immediately ordered action. In the case of its advance preparations, the Shu army was naturally invincible. After Situ Fei was defeated by the Shu army, he also began to understand the situation of the Shu army in detail, coupled with the report of the Zhao army, Situ Fei understood that the internal situation of the number of people, like the Zhao army in Hanzhong, was in short supply of grain and grass materials. Therefore, its southward attack on Wuling Mansion should not cause a comprehensive counterattack, defense and support of the Shu army.

On the tenth day of the Han army's operation, the center of Shu issued a military order, so that the remnants of the three county defenders of Wuling Mansion began to withdraw, withdraw from Wuling Mansion, withdraw from the eastern territory of Yizhou, and defend on the spot. Therefore, in less than half a month after the Han army's operation, the Shu army was defeated by the Han army and lost Wuling Mansion. The Han army was shocked by the world, first defeated and then won with the hands of the Shu army.

Just as the Shu State guessed, after the Han army occupied Wuling Mansion, it did not continue to move, but rested on the spot, and did not seem to have any intention of continuing to advance. For the current King Situ Fei of Hanzhong, being able to occupy Wuling Mansion is already a blow to his life. If you continue to act, I am afraid that it will cause a comprehensive backlash from the Shu army. At that time, such a little strength of the Han army was simply not enough to deal with the counterattack of the Shu army.

Therefore, Situ Fei did not order to continue to move south or west, but quickly occupied this place, assigned officials, cleaned up the place, and prepared to clean up this place as if it were under the rule of Zhao Jun. The original great clan was made clear by it in the name of colluding with the Shu army. The reason why Situ Fei did this was also because of his dissatisfaction with the powerful clans in the territory, and he hoped that this newly acquired territory could be completely owned by himself.

In the battle of Hanzhong, the Han army, the Shu army and the Zhao army participated in it, and the war before and after lasted for nearly half a year. Finally, it ended with the occupation of Hanzhong by the Zhao army and the occupation of Wuling Mansion by the Han army. The Shu army, on the other hand, took the lead in triggering a war and turned its back on its allies, but it didn't get anything, and it also lost its troops and lost its territory.

Many princes, the three princes in the west were fighting, and the same was true of the Qi army in the east. The eastern Qi army has completely swept away the chaotic army in the southeast of the Qi country, and next, the chaotic army north of Huijifu. In the area north of Huijifu, in addition to the largest rebel army, there are more than a dozen large and small rebel armies.

Among them, the larger ones only occupy one or two counties, and above the locality, they claim to be kings and hegemons, and they also want to establish official governments and perfect rulers like the Jieyi army. However, they did not have the support of the Zhao army like the Jieyi Army, and when they started, they had a large number of grain, grass, materials and armor equipment. You must know that these rebels were first caused by natural disasters and were caused by refugees. Therefore, there is not enough food, and these rebellious armies have no way to pacify the localities, let alone form a regular army and form a government. In these rebel territories, there is chaos like a bandit's den. The people who could not live became a chaotic army, making it impossible for the local people's livelihood to develop normally, resulting in barren land above the local area and difficulties for the people to survive. However, it is the local powerful clans and squires who bear the brunt of the real misfortune. No way, who let them have the food that these rebels need most now. So, in these places, they have become a complete rebel army.

Others are small rebels, or even more appropriately called bandits. The number of strands together occupy the city and make a fortune. They don't have any ambitions, they just know how to grab food, money, and women.

The last is the uprising of the affected refugees, although they have the intention to contribute to the people, but they are not able to govern the locality, but they gradually come into contact with the Northern Jieyi Army and integrate into the Jieyi Army.

After taking Wu County, the Jieyi army did not continue to fight against the Qi army in the north, and the Qi army in the north returned in vain after several attempts. Even if Wu County is stormed, it will not be possible to break through this place in a short time when the Jieyi army is dispatched and the city is defended. In particular, the 20,000 Righteous Army soldiers were always swimming in the northeast of Wu County, flanking the Qi army approaching from the northwest at any time. The king of Qi originally wanted to let the border army in the north fight, but the Zhao army in Xuzhou also made a move to go south, so that the Qi army in the northeast of Yangzhou had to stay in place to guard against the Zhao army in the north. Especially after the Yongzhou Zhao army supported Xuzhou again, the pressure on the Qi army increased.

And Shen Tuxiong, who lost Wu County, also had to start to change from the land to the waters of Taihu Lake, because the naval army of the Jieyi Army became stronger and stronger, making the Qi army in the western part of the Taihu Lake waters feel threatened.

In the past, after the Jieyi Army lured bandits to attack the Jieyi Army's transport fleet in the eastern waters of Taihu Lake and swallowed it, the Jieyi Army's naval army developed rapidly. Moreover, because the Jieyi Army occupies the eastern coastal area, the Jieyi Army has begun to recruit craftsmen to build naval warships. This made the Qi army feel a great threat, although the Jieyi army's navy had not yet approached the counties along the lake in the waters of Taihu Lake, but the news that the Jieyi army's sailors came and went to the eastern waters of Taihu Lake and subdued many water bandits, the Qi army still knew.

Now the Jieyi army has occupied Dongshan Island, completely controlled the eastern waters of Taihu Lake, and began to approach Xishan Island. The naval army of the Jieyi Army already has more than 150 large and small warships, and more than 10,000 sailors and soldiers. These warships, but real warships, have been modified by craftsmen, and they are not comparable to ordinary armed merchant ships. It was the Lou boat, and the sailors of the Jieyi Army also got as many as six ships from various water bandits and the water division yamen of the neighboring prefectures and counties. It can be said that on the front line of Taihu Lake, in the comparison of individual strengths, the Jieyi Army has no opponents.

However, the waters of Taihu Lake are vast, with dense water islands and reeds, and even so, the Jieyi Army does not dare to claim to dominate the entire Taihu Lake waters. Hu Le, the former captain of the water division, has now also been appointed by King Zhao and has become the general of the town army of the water division of the Jieyi Army. Of course, at this moment, he is still active in the central waters of Taihu Lake and various places along the coast, persuading and recovering the water bandits in various places, no matter how big or small, only need them to surrender to the Jieyi army.

Like the Jieyi Army, in the western waters of Taihu Lake, the envoys of the Qi army are also persuading the water bandits from all over the country to surrender and recruit An, wanting to defeat the sailors of the Jieyi Army with the strength of the water army on the front line of Taihu Lake. If the Jieyi Army is allowed to dominate the waters of Taihu Lake, I am afraid that the Jieyi Army will become the henchmen of the Qi Army. You must know that the Qi army is on the front line of Taihu Lake, but there is no formed sailor. If the righteous army is invincible on land and crisscrossing the waters, then the Qi army will be blind.

Southern Taihu Lake, northwest of Yuhang Province, Zhao military jurisdiction, Wuxing County. After the autumn rain, the lake water is clear, and the sun shines through the bottom and looks far away, as if a crystal clear jade is inlaid between heaven and earth. Hu Le and dozens of others under his command took a light boat from Taihu Lake into Tiaoxi, preparing to land here, and although this is the jurisdiction of the Qi army, it is now also Hu Le's goal.

Hu Le's purpose in entering the land along the lake under the jurisdiction of the Qi army this time was to persuade the water bandits who were covering all places. Don't think that the bandits are all in the water, and don't think that the bandits are always in the water. In the coastal areas of Taihu Lake, many water bandits are not composed of fishermen and local neighbors in the coastal areas, or those brave people who have committed crimes and do not want to fall into the hands of the government, and the rest are mostly local powerful clans covering the area. Of course, they are not the kind of people who study heirlooms by farming. Because they are located on the shores of Taihu Lake, they organized manpower, gathered outlaws, formed a team of water bandits, and plundered passing ships. Of course, they also used bandit ships to carry out some shady trade.

Hu Le has been roaming the waters of Taihu Lake for more than a month, and has collected as many as 15 or 6 bandits for the Jieyi Army. This time, it aimed at the cover area within the territory of the Qi army.

"It's finally clear!" Hu Le couldn't help but sigh. Maybe it's because autumn has arrived, and it should be a period of continuous autumn rains. Therefore, along the way, wind and rain, there is rarely good weather, and the weather is so bright today, Hu Le also feels comfortable standing at the bow of the boat. After all, the continuous autumn rain, except for those coquettish and elegant people who like to chant poetry against it, people who need to do things do not want the rain to fall all day.

Donglou is a market town in the northwest of Wuxing County, the largest in Donglou Town is not the old townsman, but the Li family, the Li family is the richest Haoqiang in Donglou Town, and it is also a well-known family in the north of Wuxing County. The Li family in the east building is not a family of Shixun, and there are no children in the family who are famous, and it is difficult to say that the root is innocent after accumulating such a large family property purely by land and water trading. According to Hu Le's knowledge from Feiyingwei, this Li family is the nest of water bandits in this water area of more than 100 miles.

On the bank of the river in the north of Donglou Town, more than a dozen young people and several middle-aged people were waiting there. If it hadn't rained in the past few days, there would have been many pedestrians here, and they would have found that this middle-aged man was Li Mingjie, the head of the Li family in the East Building, and his brother, and the young people behind him were also the younger generation of the Li family.

"Big brother, do we really want to join the Jieyi Army? In any case, our Li family is also the overlord of this Wuxing County, how good it is to be free, why should we take refuge in them? ”

"Ming Fan, do you think I'm willing to do this? But we don't have a choice. Now the waters of Taihu Lake are different from the past, and the two dragons are fighting, and we must choose one of them. Otherwise, our Li family would be the first to be destroyed. Li Mingjie frowned and said in a deep voice.

"Big brother, we are our water bandits, and the Jieyi Army and the Qi Army fight their battles, what does this have to do with us? If we join the Righteous Army, not only will we lose our current free and high position, but in addition, the team we have worked so hard to build will also be annexed by the Righteous Army. In this way, I am really not reconciled. Big brother, we continue to be our water bandits, even if we can't be water bandits, we can enjoy the happiness freely in the north of Wuxing County, which is better than joining the rebel army. ”

Li Mingjie said coldly: "I don't want to hear any words about the chaotic army, the chaotic army in your mouth has the support of the northern overlord Zhao Jun behind it." Even the Qi army had to deal with the chaotic army in the south before daring to fight with the Jieyi army; The chaotic army in your mouth has occupied two and a half Qi army territory; The chaotic army in your mouth already has no less than four or five soldiers of the Qi army, and has defeated the Qi army several times. What's more, they have already destroyed three water bandits that are larger than us, and collected more than a dozen water bandit teams. In the waters of Taihu Lake, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the naval army of the Jieyi Army, and there are more than one laughing warship. Remember, it's warships, not the kind of thing we have that can only rob passing merchant ships. The warships in their hands are ships that can engage regular sailors head-on. ”

"In our eastern waters, all the bandits have either surrendered to the rebels or have fled, or abandoned their ships and fled to land. Those who don't want to surrender and don't want to escape, that is, like you, have been sent into Taihu Lake by the sailors of the Jieyi Army to feed the fish. ”

"Third child, it looks like we're very majestic now. That's because we didn't fight against the Qi army, and we also fed the government officials in Wuxing County. If the Qi army wants to face us, do you think those officials behind us will speak for us? Do you think that the hundreds of people in our hands can be compared to the army of Qi? ”

"We have boats, we have a fleet that crisscrosses the waters of Lake Tai. These righteous armies knew, and the Qi army also knew. Now that the Qi army wants to fight against the Jieyi army above the waters, you say, what does it mean for our fleet to have a Qi army without a naval division in the waters of Taihu Lake? It means that if we are taken, the Qi army will have dozens of more ships, of which seven or eight are large armed merchant ships. Therefore, if we do not return to the righteous army, we will take refuge in the Qi army. Do you think I don't know that it's better to live freely than to take refuge in them? Do you think I don't know if it's good to be the king and hegemon in Wuxing County and the waters of Taihu Lake in the north? It's not that I want to, it's that we don't have a choice. ”

Another middle-aged man said in a deep voice: "Big brother, since we want to choose one side, why don't we choose the Qi Army, but choose the Jieyi Army?" Although the Jieyi Army has the support of Zhao Jun, after all, it is too far away, and it is difficult for Zhao Jun to take care of Jieyi Army. In addition, in the Yangzhou area, the strength of the Qi army is much stronger than that of the Jieyi army, and it also occupies an absolute advantage. ”

Li Mingjie said in a condensed voice: "Because it is better for us to take refuge in the Jieyi Army than to take refuge in the Qi Army, both the Jieyi Army and the Qi Army are now persuading them to surrender and recover the water bandits and form a water division." However, according to what we have explored, it is more formal for the Jieyi Army to form a water division, and moreover, it is to gather all the water bandit teams, select the elite among them, and form a unified water division team. ”

"But the Qi army did gather in a swarm, without perfect management, and left them to each of their subordinates. It stands to reason that it would be better for us to defect to the Qi army, after all, we have guaranteed the strength in our hands. However, in this way, the sailors of the Qi army are not as good as the Jieyi army. If the Qi army and the Jieyi army water division fought in Taihu Lake, then the final defeat would definitely be the Qi army water division. At that point, what will happen to the losing side? ”

"Secondly, the reputation of the Jieyi Army is better than that of the Qi Army. We have a lot of money, and if we are coveted, the consequences will be ...... And the bandits from all walks of life who have taken refuge in the Jieyi Army, those who are willing to join the army continue to participate as officials, and those who are unwilling can also stay in the jurisdiction of the Jieyi Army and become a big family, and their family wealth has not been confiscated by the Jieyi Army. ”

"In addition, Ming Hai, we also have to think about it for our descendants, and I also hope that these young people behind us can stand out among the Jieyi Army, and finally be valued by Zhao Jun. Don't forget, the upcoming general of the Jie Yi Army's water division is a water bandit. And in the Qi army, it is basically impossible to achieve this step. ”