In the twelfth year of Hongwu, at the beginning of October, Emperor Sima Shu appointed Liu Kun as the governor of the southern capital, and ordered him to lead 60,000 soldiers and horses to cross the river to attack the Jiangdong Wangdun rebels, and at the same time ordered Shuzhong Jiedu to make Zu Yue lead Yi, Liang Liangzhou Xiang Army, and 50,000 government soldiers to go straight to Jiangling, first force Liangxian and then enter Wuling, Changsha, Lingling and other counties.

At the same time, Sima Shu, in the name of the imperial cabinet, demanded that Wen Xian, who was sitting in Jiangling, Wang Han, who was sitting in Wuhu, and Qian Feng, who was sitting in Dantu, immediately stop resisting and hand over troops and territory to the imperial court, so as to win leniency from the imperial court.

Jiang Zuo finally saw the huge war machine in the Northland, confirming the legendary facts. After Qian Feng refused the appeasement of Beidi, the 20,000 Xiang Army on the East Road captured the Dantu line all the way like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and wiped out more than 10,000 Jiangdong Army, and Qian Feng led thousands of remnants of the army to flee to the interior of Wu County.

After dealing with the defenders of Dantu, the Xiang army continued to move south, and the front was directed towards the vicinity of Taihu Lake. Finally, on the north shore of Taihu Lake, the remnants of Qian Feng were surrounded by regiments, and the stubborn Qian Feng troops were finally killed under the lightning strike of 20,000 Xiang troops, and the remaining 5,000 people in his department surrendered.

Jiangdong stationed in Jiangling was Jingzhou Assassin Shi Wenxian, who was surrounded by tens of thousands of imperial army regiments, and surrendered out of the city before waiting for the imperial court's edict, handing over the official seal and the soldiers and horses in his hands. Wang Han, who was stationed in Wuhu, was not so good at talking, as Wang Dun's brother, he knew that he was guilty, so Wang Han chose to defend Wuhu under the siege of the imperial army.

However, on the fifth day, Sima Shu sent a sternly worded edict, requiring all men and horses in Wuhu City to obey the dispatch and command of the imperial court. At the same time, along with this will, there were also letters from Wang Yan and Wang Dao, and after receiving Wang Dao's letter, Wang gave a deep salute to Wu County with tears streaming down his face. Then the army and the city of Wuhu were handed over. In the end, he rushed to Luoyang with his family to deal with the crime.

Liu Kun commanded the army to immediately take the entire Xuancheng County, and then he divided the army into two, and continued south to Xin'an County on the west road, surrounding Wuxing County from the flank and rear; The middle road is eastward and roundabout, surrounding Jiankang from behind. At this time, Jiankang City was already leaderless, chaotic into a pot of porridge, when everyone arrived in Jiankang, it took no effort to take this important town in the south of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, with the help of the naval fleet, 21,000 marines from the Ryukyus crossed the strait to take Kenan-gun, and swept all the way to the southeastern coastal prefectures. Everywhere you pass, Jiangdong is looking forward to the wind.

The powerful offensive in the north suddenly shocked the powerful people in Jiangdong. Wang Dun, who was still arguing in Wu County, and the local family in Jiangdong suddenly gave up the quarrel, and the two joined forces to prepare to resist the southward movement of the northern army with all their might, and then Wang Dun officially commanded the coalition army composed of Gu, Zhang, Zhou, and Lu's private soldiers.

After the imperial army crossed the river, Liu Kun sat in Jiankang and first disarmed 20,000 people in the interior of Jiankang City and reorganized the northeast. Later, he wrote to the imperial court and asked the emperor Sima Shu to quickly appoint local officials. Come and receive all parts of Koto. And at this very time. From the north, the news came that Sima Rui, the former king of the Jin Dynasty, had resigned from all official positions in the imperial court and ordered Yang, Jing, Guang, Hunan, and Zhuzhou soldiers and horses to stand by and not move.

All parts of Jiangdong were shocked when they heard this, except for a small number of officials who obeyed Sima Rui's orders, most of them still chose to resist stubbornly. October 10th. After Liu Kun successively rectified the Jiangdong troops in Jiankang City, he recruited 50,000 soldiers from Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and sent the commander Shi Yong to lead the army directly to Wu County.

Three days later, the Xiang army, under the command of Liu Kun, defeated the rebels led by Wang Dun in Yangxian, beheaded more than 11,000 people, captured more than 30,000 people, and basically wiped out the main force of the rebels. Wang Dun led the remnants of his troops to flee to Wuxing County and Huiji County. At this time, the first detachment of the coastal fleet of the Great Jin Navy gathered 5,000 sailors and 10,000 marines to recover Shangyu, Juzhang, Yuyao and Shanyin in one fell swoop, directly ending the back road of Wang Dun's rebels, and then continued to capture Yongxing and connect with Qiantang, which had long taken over the defense.

Wang Dun saw that the way was cut off, so he had to turn around and flee to Wu County again, and the commander Shi Yong led his troops to chase after him. Wang Dun fled to the border of Wu County only to find that the Donglu Xiang army had already fought from Dantu, and he had no choice but to flee towards the sea in the east, but when he walked to the sea, he was caught by the marines who were waiting for the rabbit.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, Wang Dun looked up to the sky and sighed, he turned to look at the hundreds of remaining soldiers around him, and couldn't help but smile, and pulled out his sword and killed himself. When the soldiers next to him saw Wang Dun commit suicide, they suddenly felt like they had no soul, and they fell to the ground as a weapon.

And Gu Rong, Zhang Shang, Diao Xie and other Jiangdong scholars saw that the Xiang army was attacking sharply, so they had to turn around and flee south. When everyone led the remnants of the army to flee into Linhai County, they were suddenly blocked by the sea. Seeing that there was no way out, there was a chasing soldier after the Jiangdong family suddenly broke out in civil strife, and the Gu family wanted to take the Zhang family's head to atone for their lives.

Who knew that Zhang Shang was not easy to mess with, he pretended not to know on the surface, but secretly mobilized the Zhang family's private soldiers to start a counterattack. As a result, the two families fought to the death on the edge of the sea, and by the time the marines arrived from Jian'an County, there were not many private soldiers left in the Zhang and Gu families, and even the direct descendants of the two families had died in battle.

The remaining descendants of the Gu and Zhang families were all captured by the Xiang army and taken to Luoyang, and the Gu family and the Zhang family, which had been inherited for hundreds of years after Luoyang, were immediately ordered by Sima Shu to punish the clan, and the remaining more than 500 families were all killed. Of course, no one interceded for them from time to time during this period, but they were all sternly rejected by Sima Shu, so that the court once again felt the fierce murderous aura exuded by the emperor.

Wang Dun committed suicide, and the destruction of the Gu and Zhang families did not mean that Jiangdong would settle down, Sima Shu did not stop there, he once again announced to the world through the cabinet: declared more than a dozen families in Jiangdong to be rebellious, and asked them to surrender to the imperial court quickly! He also once again demanded that the rest of the troops and horses in Jiangdong immediately stop the confrontation, surrender to the nearest units of the Xiang Army, and accept the command and reorganization of the imperial court.

At the same time, Emperor Sima Shu ordered Pei Wei and other officials to Yangzhou to assassinate the history and county guards, after this war there were many shortages of officials in Yangzhou, and many county orders and county guards were killed in the war. This time, the imperial court sent hundreds of officials to Yangzhou to fill the vacancies, and with the support of the administrative officials, the recovered prefectures and counties were quickly on the right track.

In this war, the most miserable are the powerful families in Jiangdong. Some of the families were exterminated during the rectification of Wang Dun, and the rest were either destroyed in the war or liquidated by the imperial court for participating in the rebellion. All the families who participated in the rebellion could not escape the end of annihilation, their people were killed, their property was confiscated, and all the clansmen were assigned to the border states.

In this way, the entire family system in Jiangdong really suffered heavy losses, and even the top families such as Zhang, Gu, Lu, and Zhou also collapsed in this battle. However, in this way, it is not without benefits, as most of the families are ruined, resulting in a lot of borderless lands in Jiangdong.

Therefore, when Pei Wei and others arrived in Yangzhou, they saw a Jiangdong full of devastation and a power vacuum, which also greatly reduced the difficulty of Pei Wei and others in governing Jiangdong. As soon as Pei Wei and others arrived, they began to measure land, compile household population, and rectify public order, and soon stabilized all parts of Yangzhou.

When Pei Wei and others were rectifying the place in the rear, the Xiang army and the government soldiers of the two prefectures of Yi and Liang on the west road set out from Jiangling to capture the four counties of Jingnan all the way, and the troops were divided into four routes to Ning, Jiao, and Guangzhou. All the way south from Guiyang County to Shixing and Linghe Counties, and then east to Nanhai County to join the Marines; All the way from Yizhou Ke County to the west to Ningzhou. swept all the way through the four counties of Jianning, Yunnan, Xinggu and Yongchang; All the way from Yizhou to the south to take Yulin and Guilin counties, after sweeping the two places, the army went straight to Jiaozhou Hepu County; The last road goes straight to the two counties of Shi'an and Cangwu, and then goes all the way south to Gaoliang County, a seaside county.

With the suppression of the rebellion by the imperial army, the generals in Jiangdong immediately became panicked, and many generals had already fallen out of trouble, Sima Rui and the generals of Wang Dao's faction had already learned that their benefactor had taken refuge in the north, so they were bent on submitting to the imperial court.

However, in order to maintain their own power, there are still many remnants of the family who still insist on fighting against the imperial court in Jiaozhou and other places, and this part of the force still has the support of many Jiaozhou families.

Just when the remnants of the family were plotting, the imperial army suddenly thundered and struck the four soldiers and horses to divide Jiaozhou into several pieces, and the Jiangdong family, which had been entangled in internal strife, had to fight separately when they lost the first hand. The united Jiangdong is not the opponent of the imperial court, not to mention the current chaos in Jiaozhou, as a result, the soldiers and horses from all over the country have raised their hands and surrendered before they have been handed over, and the army organized by the family collapsed in an instant.

After the defeat of the Jiaozhou army, the county guards and county commanders handed over their troops and seals to wait for the acceptance of the imperial court, and on October 15, when the last army of Jiangdong surrendered to the Xiang army, the entire Jiangdong was completely under the rule of the imperial court, and China was once again unified!

When the news of Jiangdong's pacification reached the north, Emperor Sima Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and thus he had completed the goal of the revival of the Great Jin Dynasty. The entire court suddenly became jubilant, and everyone had a triumphant smile on their faces. With the fall of Jiangdong, many people in the north breathed a sigh of relief. Although Sima Shu did not take Jiangdong seriously, there were still many officials and scholars who regarded Jiangdong as the biggest threat to the imperial court!

And Sima Rui, Wang Dao and others, who had already arrived in Luoyang, secretly sighed after hearing the good news. Especially when Director Wang learned the news of Wang Dun's suicide, the whole person suddenly burst into tears, even Sima Rui, who was not dealing with the other party, was also related.

The once prominent separatist power in Jiangdong has finally disappeared, and Jiangdong, which has been separated from the Great Jin Dynasty for decades, has finally truly returned to the embrace of the imperial court. Is the real prosperity of the Great Jin Dynasty coming? (To be continued......)