Cai Mao is a newcomer, not to mention Liu Ze's resolute tone, it seems that he has no intention of discussing with anyone at all, and resolutely decides, Cai Mao originally wanted to say something more, but finally kept silent. In his opinion, although the Kuai family was not completely killed, but after Kuai Liang died and Kuai Yue fled, the Kuai family was already a tree and scattered, and it must be a collapse, and it would be difficult to compete with his Cai family in the future, and Cai Mao would have nothing to worry about.

On the one hand, Liu Ze posted a notice to the people in Xiangyang, and on the other hand, Xu Rong and Gan Ning, who were attacking Jiangling, were told to suspend the attack on Jiangling, Jingzhou had been surrendered, and according to the agreement, Jiangling would be under the jurisdiction of Cai Mao, the Taishou of Nanjun, and it was inopportune for the Xuzhou army to attack Jiangling again.

When Liu Ze led the main force of the Xuzhou Army to attack Zhangling in the north, Xu Rong and Ganning went up the river from Xiakou by land and water to attack the Jingzhou defenders in Jiangling.

After Gan Ning's naval division incorporated the Jiangxia naval army, with Su Fei as the deputy commander-in-chief, the scale of the naval division has expanded to five or six thousand people and more than two hundred warships, but compared with the Jingzhou naval army stationed in Jiangling, the strength is still far inferior, but Gan Ning commanded the law and arranged well, and in the Baqiu water battle, he destroyed more than ten buildings and ships of the Jingzhou naval army in one fell swoop, and defeated the Jingzhou naval army. Xu Rong led the 1st and 10th Infantry Divisions to take advantage of the defeat of the Jingzhou Naval Division to capture the important town of Baqiu in one fell swoop, and won the first victory in the westward march to Jiangling. Then the land and water marched together, approaching the city of Gangneung.

After the crushing defeat of Baqiu, the defenders of Gangneung no longer dared to fight lightly, relying on the strong city defense of Gangneung City to wait for reinforcements. After Xu Rong led his troops to besiege Jiangling, he also besieged it several times. But nothing has been achieved. It is difficult to break the strong city defense only with crowd tactics and ant attachment offensive, but the Xuzhou army is like the catapult camp bed crossbow battalion such heavy siege equipment will only be configured at the corps level, this time Xu Rong attacked Jiangling, under the jurisdiction of two infantry divisions of 20,000 horses, and did not configure heavy siege weapons, the field can be at ease, but if you want to break the fortified city, it is not an easy task.

Xu Rong also didn't want to pay too much casualties for the siege, so after several failed assault attempts, he also changed his strategy. Siege Gangneung Fortress without fighting. At the same time, he asked Liu Ze for the assistance of catapults, and only if he could transfer a few catapults over, it would be easy to break through the walls of Jiangling.

Soon, Xu Rong received Liu Ze's reply, and the catapult was not sent. unexpectedly received Liu Ze's military order ordering him to withdraw his troops from Baqiu. Xu Rong Ganning is so strange. Gangneung has not yet been conquered. Why did the lord give up attacking Gangneung, you must know that Gangneung is the county of Namsan, as long as Gangneung is taken. It is equivalent to capturing Nanjun.

The messenger of the herald told Xu Rong that the main army besieged Xiangyang, Jingzhou Mu Liu Cong and Jingzhou Soldiers and Horses Governor Cai Mao had surrendered to the state, and Jiangling was also within the scope of surrender, according to the agreement between the lord and Cai Mao, Nanjun would bring the entire son under the jurisdiction of Cai Mao, so Jiangling did not have to fight anymore.

Xu Rong and Gan Ning looked at each other, and both sighed that they had failed, although Jiangling surrendered, but for Xu Gan and the others, the task of attacking Jiangling was a failure. But Liu Ze's order has been given, Jiangling can no longer fight, and they can only retreat to Baqiu.

Baqiu at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake, is the throat of the Jingjiang River, north of Hancha, south to Xiaoxiang, east of Jiangxia, west to Jiangling, whether it is west to Jiangling or south to Changsha, Baqiu is a place of contention. Liu Ze attaches great importance to Baqiu, after Xu Rong Ganning withdrew from the army, Liu Ze did not let them retreat to Xiakou but settled in Baqiu, his intention is very clear, in the future, Cai Mao of Nanjun can directly be used to clamp down on Zuò, and the second point is to lay the foundation for the four counties of Jingnan in the future. Of course, there is a more important point, Dongwu has always been eyeing Baqiu, and Liu Ze sent heavy troops to garrison Baqiu, which can be regarded as the absolute idea of Jiangdong.

After the situation in Jingzhou was settled, Liu Ze first appeased the former ministers of Jingzhou. Liu Cong's Jingzhou Mu must not be able to sit down, but the seal of the Zhennan General and the title of the Marquis of Chengwu have been retained, because the title of the Zhennan General and the position of the Marquis are all from the court, although Liu Ze is the King of Jing, but he cannot be abolished without permission, so Liu Ze submitted to Xu Du and asked Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to approve Liu Cong to inherit Liu Biao's title of General Zhennan and the title of Marquis of Chengwu. The table was handed to Xu Du, as for whether Emperor Han Xian can look at it and approve it, those are two different things, anyway, as soon as Liu Ze's recital is handed over, it is equivalent to gaining the approval of the court, which has probably become the practice of the major princes.

As for the arrangement of Cai Mao, Liu Ze did not lose his trust, and in accordance with the agreement, he named Cai Mao as the Taishou of Nanjun, and at the same time supervised the water and land armies of Jingzhou. Cai Mao was satisfied with this arrangement, resigned Liu Ze, and led more than 100,000 people of Jingzhou's land and water army to Jiangling to start the dream of building a country within a country.

For a cadre of officials in Jingzhou, Liu Ze was probably retained, Deng Yi was still engaged in governance, Liu Xian was still engaged in other driving, Wang Cang was the Taishou of Xiangyang County, Han Song was the Taishou of Zhangling County, Chen Zhen was the Taishou of Jiangxia County, and the rest of the officials were promoted together.

Most of the other officials were hired in their original positions, but only two were deliberately raised by Liu Ze, one was Wang Wei, a former naval captain, because of the failure to protect his son Liu Qi in the Battle of Hanshui, resulting in Liu Qi's disappearance and whereabouts unknown, and was punished by Cai Mao and demoted to a military Sima, and the other is an Iraqi nationality, who was only a guest of Liu Biao in Jingzhou before, and did not have a real position, and later was ordered by Liu Biao to be a teacher for his son Liu Qi, and after Liu Qi's death, he lived in Xiangyang. This time, Liu Ze appointed Wang Wei as the deputy commander-in-chief of the water division, with the rank of general, went to Baqiu to assist Gan Ning in commanding the water division, and appointed Yi as the governor of the state pastor.

After Liu Ze entered Jingzhou, he did not immediately implement the system of three provinces and six ministries in Xuzhou, but followed the old rules of the Han system, the main reason is that Jingzhou was initially decided, and the rash implementation of the new system will inevitably cause chaos, but this is only a temporary expedient measure, Jingzhou and Xuzhou are fully integrated, it is only a matter of time, and a gradual process is needed.

The old army in Jingzhou was assigned to Cai Mao's command, and it was only the army that Cai Mao could still control when he surrendered, as for the army in Jiangxia, in Anlu, including the Wenpin army that surrendered in Xinye, Liu Ze did not mean to return it to Cai Mao, especially the cavalry captured in the Anlu War I and the Wenpin army in Xinye, which was the elite of the Jingzhou army, and Cai Mao did not dare to ask Liu Ze to return these surrendered troops, Liu Ze had already planned that these armies would be comprehensively reorganized and enriched into the establishment of the Xuzhou army. (To be continued......)