Chapter 13 Stabilizing Jiangnan
Zhao Yunchong was at the forefront of the soldiers, and as he passed through the pedestrians, he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Don't hurt the people!" Then he rushed to the city gate, and a Wuling soldier bumped into him, and it was the captain of the soldiers sent by Jin Xuan to report the situation to Liu Biao.
Zhao Yun didn't think much about it, pushed down the captain of the soldiers, and then swung his spear and slapped it with the hilt, and pointed the soldiers forward with the tip of the gun, and the victims fell to the ground one after another. Zhao Yun turned to the soldiers and shouted: "Leave a hundred people to guard the city gate, divide three hundred people to seize the other three city gates, and then three hundred people rush to the barracks, don't fight hard, just capture the generals alive, and the remaining three hundred people will follow me to capture the city lord's mansion." Walk. ”
After the soldiers guarding the city lord's mansion found that a team of troops had broken through the city gate and the city lord's mansion was coming, they immediately reported that Jin Xuan and Gong Zhi, who were secretly happy in the mansion, Jin Xuan and Gong Zhi were shocked into a cold sweat, and lay on the railing softly to look at a team of military horses that were rushing towards the city lord's mansion.
"Come on, go to me and General Gong's armor and weapons. We met the enemy in the open space in front of the city lord's palace. Jin Xuan turned back and shouted to his soldiers.
It is said that Zhao Yun led the team to rush to the City Lord's Mansion, but there were many pedestrians and vendors on the street, Zhao Yunjun could not charge with all his strength, so he had to run while avoiding it, and when he arrived in front of the City Lord's Mansion, Jin Xuan and Gong Zhi had already finished their formation and were ready to go.
"The thief will be a child, I am Wuling Taishou Jinxuan, who are you? Dare to march into Wuling. "Jin Xuan was dressed in armor and armed with a spear, and he also looked like a martial arts general.
"I am Changshan Zhao Zilong. Lead the Guiyang army to seize your Wuling City, whether it is a battle or a surrender, don't say much. ”
"Good. The boy has courage, and the lord of this city is here to fight you. ”
Jin Xuan held a golden spear, the tip of the spear dragged the ground, rushed towards Zhao Yun, a spear stabbed out, and the air around the spear also followed the spear, under the illumination of the dazzling sun, forming a golden cone-shaped edge, which was the dragon clan's low-level stunt, stabbing.
Zhao Yun slapped the red tasseled pear spear with his eyebrows without moving, and the tips of the spears struck, Zhao Yun was unscathed, but Jin Xuan's palm was shaken numb,
But Jin Xuan thought that the young general in front of him had done his best, and waved the spear to slash Zhao Yun sideways, Zhao Yun swept the handle of Jin Xuan's gun with a shot, and the golden spear broke free from Jin Xuan's control and stuck it backwards in the dirt. Zhao Yun stabbed Jin Xuan's head and neck lightly with another gun, and Jin Xuan drew his gun to parry while dodging.
Gong Zhi saw that Jin Xuan was invincible, and thought that he would not be the opponent of the enemy when Jin Xuan was defeated, so he shouted behind him: "Archer, release the arrows." "General Gong, this is not good, the city lord is still in front of the battle, and besides, the main general has never shot random arrows when he is fighting." The soldier behind him was stunned for a moment and replied. "The city lord is dead, and we can still let the young lord be the city lord; Needless to say, the city lord will pursue it, and I will bear everything. "Yes." The person next to Gong Zhi was Gong Zhi's personal soldier, and he ordered the archers to release arrows.
Zhao Yun was thinking about how to capture Jin Xuan alive, and suddenly noticed that nearly a hundred arrow feathers in front of him and Jin Xuan were shooting at him, he slammed Jin Xuan with the blade of the gun, and beat Jin Xuan to lie down next to Zhao Yun's legs, looking at Jin Xuan's gaze, full of disdain, and then danced the arrow feathers scattered by the red tasseled pear spear, after the arrow rain, Zhao Yun and Jin Xuan on the ground were unscathed, and only from the feather arrows inserted in the surrounding mud can we see the danger of the situation just now.
"Rush!" Zhao Yun shouted, led Gong Zhi and the soldiers in the direction of the city lord's mansion to rush, the momentum was like a bamboo, seeing Zhao Yun unscathed in the rain of arrows, the Wuling soldiers surrendered on their knees, Zhao Yun knocked down Gong Zhi in two moves, and then took over the Wuling County City.
At this point, Zhang Quan had already controlled the county towns of the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, and Zhao Fan, Han Xuan, Liu Du, Jin Xuan and others also surrendered one after another after learning the news. Zhang Quan asked Zhao Yun to control the military affairs of Wuling, subdue the surrounding counties, prevent the attack of Jiangling, and Jinxuan rectified government affairs, specializing in firearms manufacturing; Zhou Cang controlled the military affairs of Lingling, and Liu Du rectified government affairs and manufactured siege equipment; Liao Hua controlled the military affairs of Guiyang, and Zhao Fan rectified government affairs, specializing in the manufacture of bows and crossbows, and encouraged people to go to Jiaozhou, southeast of Guiyang, to reclaim wasteland. The others were called to Changsha by Zhang Quan and gave them a task to raise horses, buy horses, and train cavalry.
It was already February 200 AD, which was the Chinese New Year's Eve, Changsha City was full of lanterns, there were no pedestrians on the road, and the sound of firecrackers and lights all over the city from time to time showed the hustle and bustle. Zhang Quan and the military generals and civil officials who stayed in Changsha were staggered in the city lord's mansion, and Fan, who was still dressed in plain clothes, stood quietly beside Zhang Quan and looked at Zhang Quan, with the virtue of his wife and concubine and the love of his mother for her children in his eyes. At this time, two middle-aged people walked in at the door, Hu Che'er turned around and saw it by chance, threw away the wine glass, and ran to a middle-aged man and knelt down: "See the lord." There were tears and joy in the hoarse voice.
All the generals stopped drinking, and Zhang Quan turned his head to see that it was Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, although their faces were majestic, but the messy and torn clothes showed that they were defeated and fled. Zhang Quan put down the wine glass, walked to Zhang Xiujia Xu and bowed: "See father, see sir." Zhang Xiu's face was bitter, he didn't say anything, he looked at Zhang Quan with relief in his eyebrows, but Jia Xu bowed to Zhang Quan, and bent very low: "Don't dare, don't dare." Participate in the Young Lord. ”
Zhang Quan pulled Zhang Xiu to sit on the main seat and introduced them to each other, Zhang Xiu Jia Xu is handsome himself, Zhang Xiu is a bold person, Jia Xu revealed that he was full of poetry and books, and quickly integrated into the wine game.
After Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Quan let Zhang Xiu sit in Changsha, mainly attack the preparation of cavalry, and announced to the public that the four counties in Jiangnan were all Zhang Xiu's. Zhang Quan and Jia Xu inspected the four counties and instructed them to guard the government affairs of each county, during which they asked Hu Che'er and Xing Daorong to go to Guiyang to replace Liao Hua and told them to pay attention to the development of Jiaozhou. Then Zhang Quan called Liao Hua to Lingling in the southwest of Jingzhou, allocated him 3,000 infantry and sufficient grain, grass and gold, and said to him earnestly:
"Now I have a very difficult task to hand over to Brother Liao."
"Young master, but it doesn't hurt to say it."
"You lead 3,000 infantry and sufficient money and food from Lingling to the south of Yizhou and occupy Jianning County."
"Isn't Yizhou under Liu Zhang's control? We're going to march far away, and it's probably not easy to take another city. "Liao Hua no longer doubts my intelligence, but he doesn't think he can do it.
"Liu Zhang is weak, and he has not yet controlled Jianning in southern Shunan, Jianning is just an empty city, although the city is prosperous, but there are not many people guarding it." Zhang Quan said disdainfully.
"In this case, the subordinates will go to rectify the military horses and set off immediately." Liao Hua didn't understand why Zhang Quan knew so much about the situation in the distant Jianning County, but he didn't dare to think about it and replied.
"No hurry, there are still some things. After you take charge of the county seat of Jianning, you can easily find a great Confucian named Li Hui. Be sure to use him. With the help of him and his family, it would be easy to rule Jianning. Zhang Quan said slowly.
"Yes."
"Also, after you occupied Jianning County, you concentrated on development, sending soldiers to settle fields, build houses and markets. Liu Zhang is weak, Zhang Lu is in the north, he is afraid that he will not go to subdue Jianning. When you feel that the development is good, you will go to Yunnan and occupy southern Xinjiang. Remember, the Nanban should be treated like Han Chinese, and intermarriage between the two ethnic groups should be encouraged, and the Nanban should be encouraged to settle in Jianning, and the Jianning people should be encouraged to settle in Yunnan, and at the same time the Nanban should be encouraged to join the army. ”
"Do as you are told." Liao Hua replied.