Not being able to get Huang Chengyan's help did make Huang Zu a little uncomfortable, but it didn't mean that he would stop resisting.

So he continued to contact other wealthy families in Jiangxia County, and also sent people to Nanjun to contact more big families, hoping to unite the forces of the major families to subvert Jingzhou, so that Liu Bei could see the power of Jingzhou people, so as to compromise with Jingzhou.

But other major wealthy families are actually facing a similar dilemma.

For example, the Pang family, the Ma family, and the Yang family, which are very famous in Jingzhou, have also seen the same situation within their families, with internal disagreements and even splits.

The poor clansmen themselves will benefit from the Dutian Order, and they often have jealousy, resentment, and other emotions towards these wealthy guys in the clan, and they want to see them unlucky in their hearts, and it is impossible to help them.

Although the clansmen whose family property is in the middle will suffer some damage to their interests, it will not make them rise up to resist, and they are full of worries about rebelling against the imperial court, and they look forward to the future.

As a result, they often conceal from the upper echelons of the family to communicate with the government, expressing their personal willingness to accept the Dutian order, but they can't control the family, hoping to get on the white list of the imperial court and avoid the disaster.

In the end, it was the upper echelons of the Jingzhou Hao clan who set off the rebellion against the Dutian Order, not including the Cai family, the Kuai family and a few other Hao clans who had already been politically involved with the imperial court and decided to compromise.

Therefore, on the whole, the resistance force is relatively limited, and it is not as powerful as in the south of Jizhou.

But to say that they didn't cause any disasters would be to underestimate these people.

It's about family property and money, and the Jiangxia County rebel group led by Huang Zu is called a subjective initiative to break through the sky!

Although Zhao Jian, the commander of the county and state soldiers, had issued an early warning before the incident, and sent people to strengthen the defense of Xiling City, and began to restrict personnel from going out and entering, Liu Xiang, who was too guarded, had no precautions at all, and did not think that the matter was very big, so he did not pay attention to Zhao Jian's warning.

In order to appease the people's hearts, he also showed up, personally appeased the people, preached the truth of peace and ease in the world, and constantly sent people to appease several wealthy families, so that they could relax and accept Dutian, and the court would not harm them, but just wanted to collect taxes.

But Huang Zu didn't pay attention to him at all.

The first wave of action he launched was to capture Xiling County and eliminate all the court officials, so many dead soldiers were arranged in Xiling County.

At the time of the incident, Zhao Jian was careless for a while, and did not do a good job of protecting Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang himself was also very arrogant and thought that there was nothing in the world, but he was found by the dead soldiers sent by Huang Zu, and he was assassinated in Xiling County.

Taishou was assassinated, the city was in chaos, and Zhao Jian was caught off guard.

In the face of the turbulent team of fine workers in the city, Zhao Jian led his subordinates to fight desperately, and fought face to face with the fine workers, and fought bloodily again and again, and he was wounded by two swords, so he barely managed to keep Xiling City.

The action of the fine team to open the city gate was ended by Zhao Jian, who organized the defense of the city with injuries and maintained the basic stability of the city.

However, at that time, Huang Zu's team had begun to besiege Xiling County, and Zhao Jian had no choice but to take the county soldiers to start the battle to defend the city, while looking forward to Guan Yu's reinforcements arriving as soon as possible.

The initial station of the Jiangnan Military Region was set in Jiangling by Liu Bei, because Liu Bei felt that the water and land transportation in Jiangling was more convenient, and he could quickly arrive anywhere.

But after Guan Yu took office, considering that the location of Jiangling was far away from Yangzhou, and he thought that the thieves in Yangzhou were more serious, and the thieves in Jingzhou were not so serious, and Jiangling was still in Jiangbei in the end, since it was the Jiangnan Military Region, how could the garrison be in Jiangbei?

So Guan Yu submitted a table to Liu Bei, requesting that the military region be changed to Nanchang County, Yuzhang County, Yangzhou, and Liu Bei supported Guan Yu's proposal after discussing with the Privy Council, so he changed the station of the Jiangnan Military Region and designated Nanchang County as the station.

From a military point of view, there is actually no problem with this transfer, and it is even more appropriate, but in the turmoil caused by Dutian, it brought some trouble to Du Ji and Liu Xiang.

But Guan Yu's actions are actually quite fast.

Liu Bei told Guan Yu in advance to let him prepare, so although Guan Yu was concerned about the problem of banditry and chaos in Yangzhou Mountain, he still mobilized the 19th Army and two battalions of soldiers with a total of 16,000 people as mobile troops to rush to the aid of the chaotic area at any time.

Guan Yu himself planned to sit in Nanchang and not go anywhere, because he was worried that the Jingzhou thief rebellion would cause a chain reaction in Yangzhou.

At present, although the Dutian Order has not affected the Jiangnan region, so Yangzhou is not within the scope of the Dutian Order except for Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, but the rebellion of some Shanyue thieves is regardless of your policy or not.

They focus on a seam needle.

As long as there is a need, or simply look at you unhappy, it will launch a sneak attack when you are anxious, making it extremely difficult for you to suffer, and if you are dealing with the Dutian rebellion, Shanyue will have another sneak attack, it will be very uncomfortable.

And this is definitely not impossible, after Guan Yu finished fighting the Yellow Turban Army, although he established a good cooperative relationship with Fei Zhan, the Shanyue thief handsome in Yuzhang County, and Fei Zhan also has an official position in the imperial court, and he also admires Guan Yu more, but Shanyue is not the only one.

According to Fei Zhan's own confession, there are three Shanyue thieves in Yuzhang County who can be at the same level as him, and there are also relatively powerful Shanyue thieves in other counties.

And the relationship between the Shanyue thieves is the kind of model where the eldest brother takes the younger brother under the hand, and the younger brother has the little brother under the hand, and there is a feeling of "my vassal's vassal is not my vassal".

Between them is relying on steel knives and the so-called "righteousness" as a link, there is no complete regulation of superiors and subordinates, and there will often be some cases of going down or eating black, and the main boss will take turns to do it, and he will come to my house next year.

For such a group, if they don't leave an army and the awesome general himself in charge, I really dare not say that they will not make trouble.

After the Battle of the Yellow Turbans, the Shanyue Group in the counties has not made trouble for a while, firstly, they are busy in spring and summer, and they have little to spare, and secondly, Guan Yu is sitting in town with tens of thousands of Han troops, and whoever makes trouble will fight whomever they want, and they have also played some prestige.

But after the autumn harvest, in order to reserve food for the winter, the mountains and Yue in various places are afraid that there will be some actions, so Guan Yu is on guard, and at the same time, he is also planning to solve the Dutian rebellion before the autumn harvest, otherwise it will be very troublesome to fight on two fronts at that time.

Therefore, Guan Yu did not choose Huang Zhong, who was old and respectful, as the main general of the expedition, but promoted Wei Yan, a young general with an enterprising spirit, as the main general of the expedition, and handed over one army and two independent battalions to Wei Yan to command.

Although Wei Yan is young, he has military exploits and prestige, and he has been a general for a few months, and he can be regarded as Liu Bei's cronies, so he is somewhat of a role in the army.

This time, as the chief general of Jiangxia County and Nan County, although some senior officers had some opinions, no one raised any objections.

Wei Yan was very happy anyway, he was bold, and he did have the ability to lead the army, he was deeply influenced and guided by Guan Yu, and he was very confident in himself.

He believed that the Jingzhou thieves who launched the Dutian Rebellion were basically locals, although there were relatively many of them, but according to what he knew, most of them were rabble, and there was an absolute gap with the Han army in terms of combat effectiveness.

The only thing that would pose a threat to the Han army was that there might be rebellions in too many places, leaving the Han army exhausted and thus revealing flaws, so if this problem is to be solved, it is necessary to move troops quickly and accurately to destroy the most ferocious enemies with the most fierce offensive.

Then use the enemy's head to swear the force of the Han army, so as to deter Xiaoxiao, so that those who are ready to rebel will also dispel this idea.

Therefore, this battle can just use the river maneuver tactics that Guan Yu led the army to practice for a long time.

Because the water system in the south of the Yangtze River is developed and there are many rivers, there are not large and large areas of complete plains connected together like in the north, which has considerable limitations for the Han army, which is accustomed to marching and fighting in the north.

Therefore, after inspecting the terrain of many places on the spot, Guan Yu put forward to Liu Bei the overall idea of the Jiangnan operation of [using boats instead of horses] with a sense of responsibility, and he wrote his overall thoughts into a sheet and handed it over to Luoyang, and put forward his own suggestions for building an army to Liu Bei.

In his view, it is very difficult for the existing Han army system to fully adapt to the geographical environment of the south of the Yangtze River and the future operational needs, and the overall system of the existing Han army is completely adapted to the northern plain operations and the grassland cavalry operations, so the overall composition is large cavalry and heavy infantry.

In his opinion, such a composition is no problem for northern operations, and even sometimes mountain operations in the north can be adapted, but when it comes to Jiangnan, it should be two completely different combat systems, and the Han army must make certain reforms.

Therefore, Guan Yu proposed to launch a reform in the Jiangnan Military Region and establish a set of combat and logistics systems that rely on rivers and boats to achieve rapid mobility and precision strikes.

Guan Yu believes that the land south of the Yangtze River is full of rivers, swamps, and wetlands, the terrain is broken, the land is wet and soft, and the climate is humid, and if we want to fully adopt the logistics system of the Han army in Jiangbei, the requirements for manpower, vehicles, and animal power are too great, and the requirements for land transportation are also too great.

Therefore, the geographical environment of Jiangnan is not very suitable for the logistics system of the north.

If the Han army wants to act, it must rely on the rich river system unique to the south of the Yangtze River to build a new combat and logistics system to meet the operational needs of the south of the Yangtze River.

The land north of the river can use animal power, but the south of the Yangtze River should use the power of boats and boats, give full play to the power of the water system, and establish a joint force of large boats and boats; as long as there is a good plan and plan for the number of boats and boats to carry and the speed of travel, the effect of Jiangbei can be completely achieved, or even surpass the effect of Jiangbei.

In Guan Yu's concept, he would travel all over the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, draw a complete map of the water system in the south of the Yangtze River, and then formulate a detailed waterway transformation plan according to the flow direction and volume of the water system in the south of the Yangtze River.

Jiangbei can set up military supply stations along important marching avenues, and Jiangnan can also set up military supply stations around waterways.

The Jiangnan Military Region should concentrate its construction forces on building a large number of military ports, except for a few important ports, the scale does not have to be large, but the number should be sufficient, and along the roads of the water system, many military ports should be used as garrison points, and a certain number of troops should be stationed to patrol and guard.

Guan Yu believes that this will cost a lot of military spending, but the effect is relatively good.

It is an indisputable fact that the Jiangnan Military Region is facing a rather complicated environment of struggle at the moment, and if it is not careful, it will be a multi-front operation, and it is an indisputable fact that rebellions occur from time to time in various counties of Yangzhou, southern Jingzhou, and even some areas of Jiaozhou.

If you want to repair the marching road according to the custom of the north, not to mention the cost and time, the effect may not be enough, a heavy rain, a landslide, enough to destroy a road.

When the time comes, how should we march?

As time passed, the rebellion became more turbulent, and it was a hellish difficulty for the counterinsurgency army.

The roads in the Jiangnan area are difficult and the terrain is rugged, and in the previous pacification of the Yellow Turban Operation, Guan Yu has initially realized that if it weren't for the fierce fire oil tank, Guan Yu himself would not dare to imagine how much he would have to pay to win that battle.

Relatively speaking, it is enough to use the existing water system to build a network of logistics systems for the new military army and ensure that this water network can network the entire military transportation arteries in the south of the Yangtze River, then it is enough to exercise relatively strict military control over the south of the Yangtze River.

Even if there are rebellions in many places, as long as the water network is fully utilized, it is possible to achieve a more convenient division of troops, and the logistics can also be transported through the water network, which is a very ideal state with large transportation volume, fast transportation speed and low consumption.

At the end of the fifth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu put forward this idea, and at the beginning of the first year of Zhenguan, when Guan Yu returned to Luoyang to reunite with Liu Bei, he took a moment to discuss this matter with Liu Bei.

At that time, Liu Bei attached great importance to this matter, and took Guan Yu to the Privy Council to discuss this matter with the staff of the Privy Council.

In the end, the Privy Council believed that this was a good way to control Jiangnan in a short period of time, and that the Jiangnan Military Region could be quickly deployed to multiple areas by using the water network all over Jiangnan, so as to achieve rapid and precise strikes against the rebel forces.

But this is achieved on the premise of a large number of boats, familiar ports and water systems, and a large number of skilled sailors.

Compared with the construction of roads, this is indeed less costly, but if we want to establish and improve this system, I am afraid that it will take three to five years of work and a large amount of military investment.

That is to say, in the current proportion of military spending, if there is no additional increase, it is necessary to give the Jiangnan Military Region a part of the resources, which may be a relatively unacceptable thing for several other military regions at present.

(End of chapter)