In the Ming Dynasty, Daguan Lake and Longgan Lake were connected to each other, and were collectively called Lei Chi, which could communicate the Yangtze River.

Take a boat and cross the thunder pool, and the battle will begin.

Li Zheng and Xiao Zongxian led 5,000 regular troops to attack Huangmei County. There were 1,000 people accompanying him.

Huang Shun and Fei Yinghui led 3,000 regular soldiers and 2,000 peasant soldiers to attack Susong. There were 1,000 people accompanying him.

These two counties are Zhang Xianzhong's territory.

To be precise, it is the territory of his godson Sun Kewang.

Among the several righteous sons, Sun Kewang was the most capable, so he was thrown to Huangzhou Mansion to guard against Zhao Han.

Hearing that the two cities of Huangmei and Susong were besieged, Sun Kewang left his foot soldiers to defend Huanggang, and personally led the cavalry to rush over to help, and sent envoys to settle the dispute peacefully.

When it was time to reach Guangji, the messenger came back to report the news.

"What do they say?" Sun Kewang asked.

The messenger knelt down and replied: "General, Zhao Thief asked us to retreat to Guangji, saying that it is bounded by the mountain (Dabie Mountain). ”

Guangji is the Wuxue City of later generations, but the county is in the mountainous area, not on the Yangtze River.

The conditions given by Zhao Han were to take away the two counties of Huangmei and Susong, and to make Wuxue City suitable for cultivation land, bounded by Luojia Mountain, Henggang Mountain, and Zhutou Mountain.

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Sun Kewang was furious, drew his sword and shouted: "Order all counties, gather troops to kill the enemy with me!" ”

Much of the territory that Zhang Xianzhong gave to Sun Kewang was mountainous. Now Zhao Han wants two and a half counties in one mouth, and all of them are good land that can grow grain, which is equivalent to cutting meat on Sun Kewang's body.

As soon as the order was gathered, the chickens and dogs in the counties of Huangzhou Prefecture jumped.

When the Datong Army detected the news, it immediately mobilized its sailors to cruise in the waters of Huangzhou and Qizhou, and even divided several boats to bombard the capital city of Jingzhou.

"Boom, boom!"

"King, the Jiangxi Sailor is calling!"

Zhang Xianzhong has just conquered Yunyang, and is reorganizing the soldiers and horses, and will attack Nanyang after the autumn harvest.

Inexplicably, he was attacked.

Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly summoned the three military advisors and said in a daze: "There are many rich cities in Jianghuai, Zhao Han doesn't go to fight Jianghuai, why do you come to fight me?" ”

Yangzhou and Anqing are such fortified cities, and Zhao Hanbing can take them without blood.

If Zhang Xianzhong ran to attack, a city could be fought for at least half a year, or even two or three years.

Zhao Han's soldiers are coming to the city, and the rich city will choose to surrender.

Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers are approaching the city, and the rich city will inevitably resist resolutely.

Because if the former does not plunder, the latter will surely plunder the city!

Zhang Xianzhong has indeed started to settle the fields, but at the beginning of the reclamation, the money and grain were not enough, so he still had to rob them, and he didn't kill people indiscriminately.

Knowing that he couldn't gnaw on the Jianghuai city, Zhang Xianzhong simply didn't go to fight and carefully went through the Hubei region. At the same time, it is also to give Jianghuai to Zhao Han to avoid conflicts with Zhao Han in the short term.

Xu Yixian boasted of Zhuge Liang, holding a white feather fan, frowning and fanning, and said, "There must be something strange about this matter." Zhao Han only let the sailors bombard Jiangling, obviously not really to send troops to kill, this is more like a deterrent and warning. ”

"Could it be that which general clashed with Zhao Han's soldiers?" Liao Zhifang guessed.

Pan Duao suggested: "You can send people across the river to contact first, and even if you want to fight, you must find out why you are fighting." Don't be confused and finish the battle, you don't know what it's for. ”

Just when Zhang Xianzhong was about to send a messenger, another guard rushed over: "King, the enemy army shoots books into the city!" ”

"Bring it!" Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly said.

I got the letter from this product, and although I didn't know much, I roughly understood it.

Zhang Xianzhong sighed: "Zhao Han asked for Huangmei and Susong counties, and he also wanted to cut off all the good land in Guangji County. ”

Xu Yixian immediately understood Zhao Han's intentions, and sighed and said: "This is to rely on the mountains and the Yangtze River to block us in Hubei!" ”

Liao Zhifang said: "Susong can be given, but Huangmei County must not let it." Once Huangmei County is ceded, if you want to send troops to Jianghuai in the future, you have to go north of Dashan (Dabie Mountain) and fight from Henan. ”

The administrative divisions of all dynasties were deliberately divided into areas to prevent local divisions, but wars depended on the mountainous terrain.

For example, Zhao Han took all the Hubei territory south of the Yangtze River in his hands.

After Zhang Xianzhong occupied Hubei, he would continue to fight Xinye and Nanyang. Although these places belong to Henan, the terrain is closely related to Hubei, Zhang Xianzhong has to fight until the surrounding mountains are stopped, with Miyang, Yuzhou (Fangcheng) as the key points of attack and defense.

Similarly, although Huangmei County belongs to Huguang, it is a piece of land that flies out of the remaining veins of Dabie Mountain.

Only by taking Huangmei County did Zhao Han be willing to keep peace with Zhang Xianzhong temporarily.

To fight or not to fight?

Pan Duao asked, "The king's soldiers, can you be sure of defeating Zhao Han?" ”

"I don't know." Zhang Xianzhong frowned.

The two sides have never fought each other, and Zhao Han defeated the governor one after another and occupied several southern provinces, which made Zhang Xianzhong a little frightened.

However, Zhang Xianzhong despised Zhao Han for not having cavalry, and felt that he could try a battle.

Xu Yixian was entangled: "If you don't have the certainty of victory, it's best to be patient." To give Huangmei County is to first knock down Xinye, Nanyang, Miyang, Dengzhou, and Tang County. When the time comes, the north can attack Shanxi, the east can go out of the Central Plains, and the west can go to Sichuan. If you spend time with Zhao Han in Huangmei County, you will be cheaper than Li Zicheng! ”

Liao Zhifang said: "If you don't fight a battle, you will give up two and a half counties." Where is the morale of the army? Moreover, that is the territory given by the eldest prince (Sun Kewang) by the eldest marshal, what will the eldest prince think in his heart? ”

Xu Yixian said: "Conquering the surrounding areas of Nanyang, our army's territory can grow again. The eldest prince lost two and a half counties, and then gave him half of De'an Mansion! Zhao Han sat on several southern provinces, but he was defeated again and again, with 10,000 soldiers killed and wounded, and 20,000 soldiers recruited. When will this fight be over? The top priority of our army is to expand its territory, develop its internal affairs, hoard money and food, and increase its population! ”

"Indeed," Liao Zhifang was persuaded by Xu Yixian, "Zhao Han has a large population and plenty of money and food. He can be defeated ten times, and he can still keep his territory alive. Our army can be defeated only once or twice, and it may be crushed for a thousand miles. ”

Zhang Xianzhong was a little puzzled and asked: "Why is Zhao Han defeated ten times, but he can still ensure that the territory is not lost?" ”

Xu Yixian asked rhetorically: "What does the king think is the war?" ”

"There is plenty of money and food, and the soldiers are strong." Zhang Xianzhong replied.

Xu Yixian said: "Zhao Han is rich in money and food, and he has a wide range of soldiers, these are just one of them. King, Zhao Han still has the hearts of the people, the people are willing to fight for him! ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "I know the people's heart, which is the same as the army's heart. I divided the fields among the soldiers and paid them, and I had the heart of a soldier. The method of the three military advisors is very good, after I divided the fields to the soldiers, I married them to their mothers-in-law, and they were more willing to die in battle. ”

"Zhao Han gave the land to all the people, and all the people thought of it." Xu Yixian said.

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and said, "Where did the south get so many fields to share?" If only a few acres of land are given to the generals, and they are not allowed to loot at will, those generals under Zhao Han will not make trouble? ”

The ass decides the head.

The gentry who are not familiar with Zhao Han have always felt that the south is unstable, and it is too terrible to forcibly divide the fields, and the big clans must be thinking about making trouble.

And Zhang Xianzhong is just the opposite, in his eyes, the gentry and wealthy families are useless, and they are killed if they are not convinced. He thinks that Zhao Han's generals will not get more benefits, and there must be many people who are dissatisfied.

For more than a year, Zhang Xianzhong has not only killed officials and soldiers, but also killed the thieves who were attached to him.

In Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, there were many thieves who fought with Zhang Xianzhong. These people belong to a semi-independent state, and they can barely work together when they are wandering, and they are all kinds of disputes and infighting when they fight for territory.

Zhang Xianzhong almost killed all the thieves, and Luo Rucai ran fast, otherwise he would definitely be dead.

After killing all the thieves, Zhang Xianzhong was a little suspicious of his generals and godsons. Therefore, under the advice of the three military advisors, they tried their best to recruit scholars as officials and sent them to various places to control internal affairs, and all the Mintun was in the hands of civilian officials.

Those generals in the south did not have a few acres of land, and they could not rob everywhere, and they only received some military salaries every month. Why didn't anyone rebel?

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't figure it out.

Liao Zhifang sighed and said: "If the southern army general dares to plot chaos, I am afraid that he will be killed by his soldiers as soon as he starts his army." Datong soldiers, only Zhao Han. ”

"Datong soldiers, only recognize Zhao Han......"

Zhang Xianzhong listened to it with great admiration, if it was his own soldiers, he would only recognize how good he would be.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Liao Zhifang, Liao Zhifang shook his head: "Impossible, don't think about it, the king." ”

"Zhao Han divides the fields for the soldiers, and I also divide the fields for the soldiers, why can't it be the same?" Zhang Xianzhong was very unhappy.

Liao Zhifang took out a copy of "Datong Collection", and it is the latest edition: "Zhao Han uses this book to fight the world, and the king ......"

The rest of the words were not spoken.

Xu Yixian also read the latest version and said: "Zhao Han said in this book that if he conquers the country and his descendants become emperors, if any emperor is not good to the people, the people can follow his example and rebel and kill his descendants." ”

"Is that really the case?" Zhang Xianzhong exclaimed.

"Yes," Liao Zhifang opened the "Datong Collection", "the latest addition of the three original chapters, he said that the world belongs to the people, and the emperor and the officials are all managing the world for the people." ”

Zhang Xianzhong slapped his thigh: "This damn thing, what a Zhao Han." Go back ten years, replace him Zhao Han as the emperor, and Lao Tzu will make a bird? If Lao Tzu were a common man, he would definitely regard him as a bodhisattva. This is right, Lao Tzu wants to lead troops to join him! ”

This is purely a joke, Zhang Xianzhong is willing to surrender, and neither are the civil and military generals under his command.

Not to mention the generals and godsons, the three military divisions in front of them have each divided tens of thousands of acres of land, are they really willing to hand over all the land?

In Zhang Xianzhong's territory, the army reclamation supplies the army, and the people supply the government. From Zhang Xianzhong to generals at all levels, they also recruited displaced people to cultivate the fields they occupied as tenants. The soldiers also divided their fields, and almost all the good land was occupied.

Homesteaders have almost all disappeared, leaving only remote areas where landlords can keep their land or keep their midfield and lower fields in rich areas.

Thinking about it carefully, Zhang Xianzhong sighed and said, "Forget it, give Huangmei County to Zhao Han." Free up time and troops, first take down the surrounding areas of Nanyang, and then go to attack Sichuan. ”

As for Sun Kewang, who has already sent troops, let Zhao Han clean it up, anyway, this godson has been a little disobedient recently.

Knock knock on the beat.