Chapter 343: The Solution to the Third Difficult Spot
As for the "Tianhuo" plan, the second division has a good solution to the first two difficulties, but the third difficulty is really not easy to solve, and it has gone beyond the scope of ordinary military operations.
In the fusiform region, although the cities of Daijun, Shanggu, Mayi, Baideng, and Sangqian were inhabited by the Han people, they were not yet the territory of the Han Dynasty and were nominally subordinate to the Wei State. Therefore, the first thing Guan Xing had to do was to surrender these cities first.
Fortunately, the 2nd Division came all the way to do this kind of work, and now it can be said that it is very proficient. The army cannot be sent for the time being, otherwise once the Han army enters this area, it will definitely provoke a fierce reaction from the Xianbei people, but the envoys who surrender can still be sent, and let the envoys disguise themselves as caravans and follow the local caravans to these cities It is not a big problem in terms of security.
In the past, the recruitment and surrender work of the Second Division was often done first and then the soldiers: first sent a surrender envoy, or called the Qin Cha, to enter the city with the yellow cloth holy decree, to the county guard or the county order to know the reason and emotion, with the three-inch tongue to encourage them to surrender to Shu Han. And the army marched slowly behind, pressing over with the force of thunder.
With this strong army to overwhelm it, the general county guards and county commanders are all handsome men who know the times, and they will surrender obediently. But occasionally there will be those who are not open-eyed, and intend to resist stubbornly, at this time, the second division has work to do, and it is simply effortless for the second division to capture a city with only a few hundred old, weak, sick and disabled left.
In such a siege battle, if there are no casualties, commanders at all levels can go to the wall. Now the matter is more urgent, the situation is also more special, can only send a surrender envoy, the army is unable to enter this area to overwhelm people, without the cooperation of the army, the previous invincible and unfavorable "first salute" surrender method is still effective?
Whether it works or not, Guan Xing decided to send an envoy to give it a try first. The smoothest is Daijun, because the county guard here was originally Tian Yu, after Tian Yu was successfully recruited, he himself went to Xuchang with Liu Yan to meet Liu Hou, and all the government affairs of Daijun were handed over to his son Tian Pengzu for the time being. Tian Yu's son naturally knew what his son was doing in Xuchang, so as soon as Guan Xing's envoy arrived, he opened the city gate and welcomed him into the city, and everything was easy to say after that.
At first, there were two places that were not willing to surrender, and of course, they did not completely refuse, but showed an ambiguous attitude towards the envoys who persuaded them to surrender.
This kind of person probably still has illusions, thinking that the Cao Wei court may counterattack the Central Plains, and if he surrenders to Shu, if Cao Pi, the "Hu Hansan", comes back, he will be in an embarrassing situation. If you have the intention to ignore the envoy of Shu Han, that won't work, other people's army is not far from their home, in case they anger others, they will wave the army to kill them regardless of it, and then they will not be able to eat and go around.
Therefore, these people used ambiguous language to perfunctory the envoys sent by the Second Division to persuade them to surrender, and they were neither willing to surrender readily, nor did they talk to death. In the end, Guan Xing still invited Tian Pengzu from Daijun to come out to deal with these wavering attitudes of the wall-riding faction.
Tian Yu has a very high reputation in this area, whether it is Han or Xianbei, he is very face-saving. He, the "Xianbei Captain", was not obtained for nothing, he could have secured this position with a letter of edict from Cao Pi, and he was able to get this title by fighting back with a knife and a gun.
Over the years, he has fought countless battles with Xianbei people~ guns, and has traveled again and again among the Xianbei and Karasuma tribes to mediate and win over and divide, which slowly established his prestige in northern Xinjiang. It can be said that the title of "Xianbei Lieutenant" is well-deserved for him, and it can even be said that he first had this reputation among the people, and then Cao Pi justified his name.
His name has a great deterrent effect on the Xianbei people, and the Han people in several nearby counties also respect and support him very much.
Now that Tian Yu's son has gone out in person, of course they have to take it seriously. After learning that Tian Yu was sincerely obedient to Shu Han, their attitude was shaken, they all knew that Tian Yu was a capable and visionary person, since he chose Shu Han, it shows that Shu Han is indeed a worthy object. In the end, after thinking twice, they gave up the style of riding the wall, responded to Tian Yu's call, and promised to return to Shu Han.
With the help of these magistrates, the third difficulty was much easier to solve. The relocation and transfer of the people is a matter of civil affairs, and in order to accomplish this, it is necessary to have the cooperation of these magistrates. For the resettlement of these people outside the city, Guan Xing gave them two ways.
The first was for the magistrates to gather them into the city. This was the simplest method, and of course it was a temporary measure, and when the battle was over, they would go out of the city and return to their land outside the city, where they would continue to cultivate and continue to produce food to feed the people in the city.
In the sense that they provide for the city, the people of the city have the obligation to shelter and rescue them. However, this road cannot completely solve the problem, because there are too many people outside the city, and the city cannot accommodate so many people, and the food in the city is not enough for so many people to consume.
Once there is a shortage of food, it will be a very dangerous thing. So, Guan Xing arranged a second way for the people, that is, immigration. Guan Xing found a lot of abandoned farmland and villages on the south side of the Great Wall to settle these migrants.
In the era of war and chaos, the most important thing is the abandoned cultivated land, and in some places, people in some places even the whole village fled in order to avoid the military disaster, and the first division has seen many such places along the way. Now that these places have become borderlands, they are best suited to house these immigrants.
Guan Xing gave great preferential treatment to those immigrants, such as replacing acres of land with several times the area, such as promising them to provide seeds, farm tools, ploughing cattle, and so on. After the great benefits of Guan Xingxu, there are still many people who are willing to take the road of immigration, especially some people who have no land in the first place, if they emigrate, they can get some land for nothing, and such a good thing naturally attracts a large number of proletarians.
Of course, not everyone is willing to take these two paths, and the homeland is one of the traditional ideas of the Chinese, especially some elderly people, this concept is more serious. There are also some people who do not want to leave, but because they are physically unable to do so, they are too old or too weak to travel long distances.
For these people, those grassroots cadres who went to the countryside to do persuasion work, oh, or rather, government officials, township chiefs, security chiefs, etc., will try their best to persuade them, telling them that if they do not leave in time, after the Hanhu war, this place is likely to be affected by the war, and it is very likely that they will lose their lives.
If they still don't listen, then they can only be resigned to their fate. The road was chosen by themselves, since they did not choose the two life paths given by Guan Xing, they preferred to choose the third dead road, if they were really killed by the Xianbei people in the future, or burned to death by the fire, then they could not complain about others.