At this moment, Zhong Xuan had already crossed the Yangtze River with his administrative team to Danyang County to take up his post.

According to common sense, he needs to sort out the government affairs of Danyang County within one to two months, straighten out Danyang County, and create a good environment for Guan Yu to fight.

On the other hand, Peng Qinmi, the former general who served as the commander of Lujiang County, had already prepared a lot of military supplies for Guan Yu's army, and the king of Jiujiang County had also prepared a lot of military supplies for Guan Yu's army, all of which were transported to Lujiang County to wait for the army to take them.

Qin Mi and Wang Shang were both Liu Bei's old subordinates, and they were arranged to serve as county guards in Lujiang County and Jiujiang County a few years ago.

At that time, Liu Bei gave them the task not to develop Lujiang County and Jiujiang County well, but to ask them to make every effort to develop agricultural production, build Lujiang County and Jiujiang County into the advance base of the army, and prepare as much grain as possible.

In the future, when the army goes south, it will not be able to transfer grain from the vicinity of Luoyang, and the closer it is, the better.

So after they went south, they complied with Liu Bei's orders in Jiujiang County and Lujiang County to implement the slave restriction order, let go of a large amount of land, released a large number of slaves to organize into farms, and then persuaded farmers to cultivate, personally led the team to follow up agricultural production, and regarded agricultural production as more important than anything else.

In the past few years, there have been several bumper harvests of grain, and the two counties have a lot of grain reserves, which can barely be regarded as a qualified forward base.

So when Guan Yu went south, although the time was a little tight, they were still able to provide the army with a year's worth of food for the war, so that Guan Yu's army did not need to transport food from farther away for the war.

This is a fortunate thing for both logistics and front-line troops.

Of course. Guan Yu also didn't think that this battle would last a year.

His task is not to completely exterminate the Shanyue Group, but to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, if the Shanyue Group is completely wiped out, Guan Yu will feel that it is difficult and weak, and he may need support.

But if it's just against the Yellow Turbans, it's relatively simple.

When he went south, Guan Yu also had some systematic understanding of the enemy based on the self-cultivation of a general, and asked many locals to inquire about the specific situation of the enemy.

He learned that the Shanyue group was intricately organized, and there were many small groups that were not unified within them, and they were similar to the mountain bandits in Bingzhou, so he only needed to deal with those small groups that had too close contacts with the Yellow Turban Army and cooperated with each other.

If the entire Shanyue gang wants to be exterminated, there are only two ways, either to encircle and suppress and all-out confrontation, or to adopt Liu Bei's method of solving the mountain bandits in the state, first mastering Yangzhou, and then using policies to disintegrate the existence of the Shanyue group, so as to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle.

However, for the time being, it may be realistic to forcibly encircle and suppress, because the Luoyang court does not have a deep political foundation in Yangzhou, and if it wants to promote policy, the biggest enemy is not Shanyue's distrust, but the obstruction of local insects.

With the obstruction of these insects, it was almost impossible to give them policy benefits so that they could solve the problem by peaceful means, and it was only through decades of encirclement and suppression that the Sun and Wu regimes were able to solve the Shanyue problem at the end of the regime.

Since Sun Ce, they have confronted the Shanyue group, encircled and suppressed for decades, and obtained no less than 100,000 strong men from the Shanyue group itself to enter the army, becoming an important part of Sun Wu's army.

This is enough to prove that the population of the Shanyue gang is actually quite large in the development of the Shanyue gang for decades.

It is likely that it will not be less than the number of mountain bandits in the state.

This is also a huge human resource, and if it can be used well, it will be of great benefit to the development of Jiangnan.

At present, the land south of the Yangtze River is full of undeveloped areas, primeval jungles everywhere, swamps with wide areas, and mosquito swarms that can form black gas all over the mountains, and these places are not suitable for large-scale and long-term human survival.

If human beings want to escape from here alive, they all have to see whether the wormwood is enough.

Although Lujiang County and Jiujiang County belong to Yangzhou, they do not belong to Jiangnan, and the degree of development is more than that of the real Jiangnan, such as Danyang County.

So when Guan Yu was garrisoning Lujiang County, Qin Mi, the county guard, told him a lot about what he knew about Danyang County.

"Danyang County is not a very barren county, and it can be regarded as one of the top few prosperous counties in Yangzhou, with a population of more than a few counties further south, but despite this, it is also the county with the most mountains, and the situation is relatively chaotic.

In the former Qin period, the people of Danyang County were famous for their courage and ruthlessness, and then became one of the best recruiting places in all dynasties, and the Danyang elite soldiers were famous all over the world, and there are even legends that many of the Jiangdong soldiers led by Xiang Yu were born in the Danyang area, so they are particularly able to fight. ”

After hearing this, Guan Yu raised his eyebrows.

"In this way, doesn't it mean that those Shanyue people can also be regarded as a kind of Danyang soldiers?"

"It's not without a saying that I say that."

Qin Mi said slowly: "The people of Shanyue, there are bankrupt farmers in the local Danyang County, and there are also local natives who originally lived, it is rumored that they are still the descendants of the remnants of the Wu Guoyue Kingdom, and there are many refugees who fled from other counties, they are all called Shanyue, but if you really want to talk about it, in fact, most of them are still Han people. ”

"I see, no wonder it is so good at war, and the government of all dynasties and dynasties cannot be exterminated."

Guan Yu thought about it and sighed again.

"But then again, how similar are these Shanyue people to the mountain bandits in Bingzhou before? They can't live anymore, and they are forced to choose to be thieves, but in order to eat and fill their stomachs, they can live, but as long as the local officials practice benevolent governance, don't push them too hard, and they will not be allowed to come to this point. ”

"This kind of matter is inevitably too big, and it is not something you and I can decide, so let the general make the decision."

Qin Mi said with a smile: "This time to fight south, the logistics materials have been prepared, when does Guan Zhennan plan to go south?" Or wait for the beginning of spring and then head south? With the current climate in the south of the Yangtze River, it is appropriate to go south after the beginning of spring, otherwise it will be a little too cold and prone to epidemics. ”

Guan Yu looked up at the sky and looked at the snowflakes falling slowly.

"This year's winter seems to be colder than usual, and I heard that the southern country is humid and muggy, and it usually doesn't snow?"

Qin Mi shook his head.

"Not necessarily, it also snowed here last winter, I heard that it also snowed in Danyang, and people who came back from doing business in Danyang said that they thought that Jiangnan would not snow, it would not be cold, and they wanted to hide from the cold, and they all said that Danyang was colder than Lujiang."

"That's quite suitable for the northerners to fight."

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "If it is humid and stuffy, it is not suitable for the northerners to attack, if the weather is cold, it seems that there is no difference between the north and the south, Qin Fujun, have you prepared enough winter warm clothes for the army?" ”

Qin Mi nodded.

"According to the requirements sent by the General's Palace, all of them have been prepared, and there are still thirty percent of the reserve supplies left in case of emergency."

Guan Yu was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Good!"

After saying that, he reached out and caught a few mischievous snowflakes.

"At the beginning, the general of the Northern Expedition to Youzhou, when it came to the Northern Expedition to the grassland, someone suggested that the general should carry out the Northern Expedition after the beginning of spring, and the general said that after the beginning of spring, it will affect spring ploughing and affect the agricultural production of Youzhou throughout the year, which is not conducive to the livelihood of the people in Youzhou, I deeply believe so.

If spring ploughing cannot be carried out smoothly, there will be more farmers who will be unable to sustain themselves, and they will have to sell their children and daughters to survive.

Also, Qin Fujun, when the people are recruited to transport grain for the army, you must also provide the people with enough warm clothes, don't let them get frostbitten, they are the pillars of a family, if they are injured and die, a family will be destroyed, such a thing, the general does not want to see, and I don't want to see it. ”

Qin Mi heard this, and immediately looked at Guan Yu with admiration.

A military general who should regard his military exploits as more important than anything else actually has such sympathy and care for ordinary people?

"Guan Zhennan, please rest assured, this is my duty, the General's Mansion also has relevant orders, I will personally be responsible for the affairs of the people, if there is any mistake, I will explain it to the General's Mansion."

"Good."

Guan Yu nodded and took a deep breath, and said, "Seven days later, go south to Danyang!" ”

(End of chapter)