Regarding the overnight withdrawal of more than 10,000 defenders in Linjiang, Chu also had a "tacit understanding" and did not pursue deeply......

It is not easy to march directly from Padang to Brazil because of the barrier of the Causeway Mountain, usually you have to go south to Jiangzhou first, and then go north from Jiangzhou, the center of Ba County, to Brazil.

However, the Jiangzhou army was slower to march and more physically demanding, and could cross mountains and mountains, while the Chu army ...... It's really not good at that!

In fact, not only the Jiangzhou Army, but also the entire Yizhou Army, which can be regarded as a troop characteristic derived from the population of the source area.

It is also another reason why Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack!

Unless it is like Deng Ai in history, he directly "smuggled" to Mianzhu - there is a road leading directly to the city capital and there are no mountains.

Otherwise, it will not be after entering the interior of Yizhou, Yizhou's geographical advantage will disappear, and even the geographical advantage will be more obvious.

Because of the breakthrough of those real "dead ends", after entering Yizhou, some small mountains and small veins, it is difficult for foreign troops to march, while the local army is only "inconvenient to march"!

Originally, it was just easy to defend and difficult to attack, but after coming in, if the position chosen is not good, and the opponent is interspersed with sneak attacks in the mountains and forests, it is difficult for your own side to attack and defend......

However, with Fa Zheng, Guo Huai and other staff officers here, it is obvious that Yan Yan will not be given this opportunity.

During the previous "attack", Fa Zheng's tactics made Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and other major generals recognize his ability.

Fa Zheng's plan in Linjiang is not just a "bluff" or "turning the tiger away from the mountain", but a ring after a ring, and all Yan Yan's considerations have been thought of!

If Yan Yan pursued the two regiments that stayed behind in the camp and escorted the baggage to leave, the Chu army in ambush in the mountains would have directly killed and attacked from both sides, and the reason why the cattle and horses used by the frightened birds in the mountains were found afterwards was also deliberately left clues, suggesting the result of the enemy's scouts.

Yan Yan's only chance was to remain unmoved, and for about ten days, the Chu army could only come out of the mountains - after all...... There really is no road!

The reason why it can succeed is that Fazheng is well versed in the way of "difficult to know is like yin", and is best at this virtual and real strategy, and secondly, it is ...... It is also because the compressed military rations of the Chu State are strong enough.

The dry food that the Chu army can carry with him is definitely much longer than Yan Yan imagined, in Yan Yan's common sense, there is no baggage team, if you only rely on individual soldiers to carry it, there is a two or three days of military rations is already the limit, and the compressed military rations of the Chu army are made of sugar, oil, salt, and floured grains, mixed and pressed.

Although it only has calories and no nutrients, it cannot support long-term training or cultivation, but it is no problem to be full in a short period of time, and it is very convenient to carry.

As long as there is a water source, the amount of individual military rations carried by the Chu army is enough to support half a month......

And after Yan Yan retreated, at the stage of stabilizing the results, Guo Huai also played well, obviously not long after arriving in Badong, but quickly relied on the sand table simulation to accurately judge the position suitable for holding - several of them, when the Chu army went, they all found the hidden military village temporarily abandoned by the Jiangzhou army!

It can be seen that Guo Huai's judgment coincides with Ba Jun's long-term judgment very highly, and it is ...... More suitable for the Chu army.

The defensive line that was quickly laid out effectively resisted several small-scale tentative counterattacks by the Jiangzhou army, and made Yan Yan, who was already sluggish in desire to attack, completely turn to the defensive.

After that, the first division of Xinye turned around and went to the southeast again, and laid down Fuling!

Finally, after three months of fierce fighting in Ba County, the Chu army occupied Yufu, Quren, Linjiang, Pingdu, and Fuling in the southeast, that is, the five counties in the east of Ba County.

It's a pity that Qu Ren doesn't have the imaginary military reserves - Wen Ren is angry, so he also wrote an anonymous letter and sent it to Jiangzhou to report.

And Pingdu and Fuling, although there is no complete wall clearing, but also robbed the unripe ears of rice, this year they can not be expected to provide military supplies, but fortunately, the people of Ba County, the family background is generally thicker, not as miserable as Huainan that Yuan Shu had scourged.

Zhao Yun ordered the publication of an order to secure the people, publicize Chu learning, clarify the military regulations of the Chu army, and even encourage the reporting of violations of discipline in the army, and at the same time, he also began to organize the exchange of grain and grass in the three counties of Yufu, Quren, and Linjiang, with sugar, salt, jerky, salted fish, Jiangdong brocade, etc......

The people of Ba County do have some family backgrounds, sugar, salt, jerky, etc., which are very "popular" among ordinary people, after all, the price of meat and salt is quite cost-effective, and more importantly, it is ...... Originally, the people thought that the Chu army would plunder directly, after all, the Yizhou Mansion usually had a lot of smears against the Chu State.

However, now that I see that the Chu army is just a transaction with a clear price, ordinary clans are also organized, and when the grain is sufficient, they grit their teeth and open meat once or twice - this is called "acquaintance".

But Jiangdong brocade or something, ordinary people can't afford to consume it, or ...... There is no reason to spend!

Yizhou was originally the hometown of brocade, why did ordinary people pay a lot of food for a better looking brocade?

Zhao Yun and others also expected this, these are mainly to sell to those Dashi clans - ordinary people know what "acquaintance" is, and these Dashi clans are the ancestors of "acquaintance".

In addition, to Zhao Yun's slight surprise, in addition to brocade and gold and silver, Chu coins were also unexpectedly popular, and even some Dashi clans accepted an IOU from Zhao Yun in the name of the first division of Wancheng.

Of course, Zhao Yun didn't mean to pay his debts, he just ...... If Chu coins want to be transported, they also need capacity and time!

"The reason why Chu coins are accepted is also because these families believe that Chu can gain a firm foothold in Badong, and even in Bajun and Yizhou, so that in the future, when the trade routes are opened, Chu coins will naturally be of great use...... Now they trade with Chu coins, but they are all given a premium. Fa Zheng reminded.

"Bajun Shi clan, you actually have so much confidence in my Great Chu? If the Yizhou clan is like this, why worry about Yizhou's injustice! Zhao Yun said happily, his eyebrows fluttering, and he was indeed sincere.

After all, after seeing too much of the caution of the Dashi clan, when he heard this good news, he inevitably felt that the Chu State had "returned to the destiny of heaven".

However, after Fa Zheng looked at Zhao Yun, he poured cold water a little: "What I just said is a normal way of thinking, the reason why they accept Chu coins, five points is indeed confidence in the Chu State, but the other five points are ...... It is also hoped that 'we know that they have faith in the state of Chu'! ”

What Fa Zheng said was a little awkward, but Zhao Yun turned around a little and understood what Fa Zheng meant—it was just a disguised surrender.

Accepting Chu coins means accepting Chu and having confidence in Chu State, which is true, but it is more to show that you have confidence in Chu and even have a sense of belonging - after all, Badong is now under the control of Chu State.

What's more, Chu coins are still very valuable.

Even if Yizhou is forbidden to trade with the Chu State, which of these Dashi clans does not have some way of their own? I really can't go to Chu State, can't I go to Kansai, can't I go to the Central Plains? At that time, Chu coins will naturally be able to be spent!

Even if Yizhou expels the Chu army in the future, they will not lose, and it is impossible for the Yizhou government to investigate their trading behavior during the occupation of the Chu army......

If the people of Padang are "small families", then these local scholars can really be called a "fat" word!

Well, if you think about it, the treasury of the ninja has not "disappeared...... Instead, they were transferred to the homes of these nobles!

On the one hand, the grain was stuffed for the military, and on the other hand, the Chu army also "lent" part of the grain to Pingdu and Fuling, which were suffering from man-made disasters.

As for the collateral, it is, of course, the grain tax for the coming year.

Zhao Yun also used the symbol of the privilege of "Jieyue" given to him by Bai Tu before the expedition, that is, the "military and political privilege of the governor after entering the Yiyi", and announced the division of Yufu, Quren, Linjiang, Pingdu, and Fuling counties, and the establishment of "Chu Badong County"!

Obviously, there is no intention of grabbing a sum and leaving, but to really annex this place to the Chu State, and he does not plan to leave......

All the treatment of the people of Badong County is naturally the same as the other people of Chu State in theory, but it is ...... Badong County was temporarily divided into a war preparation area, and the grain tax was raised to ten taxes and three, instead of the fifteen taxes and one in the Chu State.

However, the overcharged part is also promised to be returned in years after the division of combat readiness zones is lifted.

Similarly, the "levy" on conscripts is doubled......

In addition, in other aspects of control, it is also more stringent, and in the distribution of conscripted manpower, it does not follow the "minimum infrastructure ratio" of Chu - Chu has requirements for the proportion of manpower to be used for local engineering construction after the levy, but in the combat readiness area, it must be mainly auxiliary military supplies, and will not be in a hurry to achieve slow results.

In addition, Badong must still be unstable, and the Chu army did not immediately clarify the meaning of the acres and thoroughly investigate the population here, at most they divided some wasteland to the people who had too few fields.

Although there was a difference, it did not cause any backlash.

After all, the grain tax in Yizhou was originally one of ten taxes, but because Ba County wanted to maintain the number of troops, it had to collect another ten taxes and one more, as well as various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the Chu army did not raise the grain tax much on the books, and from the actual collection considerations, because of the cancellation of those messy taxes, for ordinary people, in fact, it did not rise at all!

It is equivalent to not raising taxes, and promising that it will plummet in the future, even if the people do not believe so much in the future, there will definitely not be too much dissatisfaction.

If you have to say that you are unhappy, it is also because of envy, jealousy and hatred after knowing the real grain tax of the people of Chu State......

And other large-scale local projects, although there is certainly no spare energy to do it, but the "essence of Shennong" is also being transported to Badong!

Transporting the essence of Shennong is more cost-effective than transporting grain - after all, the essence of Shennong can increase the yield per mu of Badong, and the already fertile land of Bashu can be "exchanged" for much more grain than the essence of Shennong.

In this way, there is basically no need to transport staple grain into Padang, which greatly saves transportation capacity, and although more troops cannot afford to support it, it is more than enough to maintain the size of two divisions.

Especially after the essence of Shennong takes effect in the coming year, in the hearts of the people, the Chu army will also completely turn Padang into its home field!

However, the defense line with Jiangzhou as the core did resist the further offensive of the Chu army, and the 20,000 Chu troops wanted to break through Jiangzhou, and it would definitely not work by force, not to mention that if it was really strong, the military supplies were not abundant, either to increase the troops or ...... We need to find the right time, place, and people.