In the fifth year of Jian'an, just after the New Year of the first year of AD, Zhuang Shaoyou ordered to go to Jingzhou!

Tai Shi Ci, as the governor of the Western Regions, needs to sit in Wuwei, and there is a lot of water in the south of the Yangtze River, which is not suitable for cavalry deployment, so Zhuang Shaoyou only brought 20,000 cavalry, and he still mainly used infantry and water divisions.

The Bao Xin Legion was stationed in Han, and after the elite of Cao Cao and Zhang Lu's troops were reorganized, the Bao Xin Legion had reached 80,000 people! Threaten Yizhou Liu Zhang at all times.

Before going to winter, after a short stay in the hinterland of Jingzhou, the army withdrew to Jiangxia to rest and prepare for another battle in the coming year.

In this expedition to Jiangdong, Zhuang Shaoyou used 80,000 people from the Lejin Legion, 70,000 from the Hiring Legion, 10,000 from the Zangba Legion, 20,000 cavalry, and 70,000 from the Sailor Legion, with a total strength of 300,000!

On 10 February, Zhuang Shaoyou entered the Yangtze River basin with the sailors.

On February 22, Zhuang Shaoyou arrived in Jiangxia, and the sailors left behind the big ship, only taking the five-masted warship and the four-masted warship to the north of the Han River, preparing to cooperate with the Zang Ba army to attack Xiangyang.

On 20 February, Zhuang Shaoyou, Lejin and Bingjun crossed the river into Jingling in the eastern part of the hinterland of Jingzhou, and attacked Jiangling City, Nanjun, an important town in Jingzhou.

On February 28, the first division of the Navy cut off the connection between Xiangyang and Fancheng, and then Zang Ba led the army to storm Fancheng, and the 30,000 defenders in the city rose up to resist, and the battle was very fierce.

Jiangling City has high walls and wide walls, the city has 50,000 soldiers and horses in Jingzhou, and the guard will be Liu Qi, the commander of Liu Biao, and the combat effectiveness is acceptable.

On the first day of the first month of March, Zhuang Shaoyou was like a bamboo, captured Dangyang, cut off the connection between Xiangyang and Jiangling, and Jiangling City was already in danger.

On the third day of the first month of March, Zhuang Shaoyou led Lejin and hired a total of 150,000 troops to besiege Jiangling, and Mo Yu personally led the sailors to besiege it from the waterway. Gangneung Fortress is flooded.

At the beginning of March, Zhuang Shaoyou received a summons from Jinyiwei Southwest that Liu Zhang in Yizhou had an abnormality, and the details were unknown. Zhuang Shaoyou immediately ordered Mo Yu to send a boat along the river to investigate.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, the scouting ship returned from injury and found that the soldiers and horses of Yizhou were traveling day and night, heading towards Jiangling, and the number was unknown. Zhuang Shaoyou immediately made a decision, left the army to continue the siege, and personally led 50,000 elites up the river to meet the Yizhou reinforcements.

On the tenth day of the first month of March, Zhuang Shaoyou and Yizhou Liu Zhang's general Zhang Ren's department of 80,000 elites encountered in Yidu, the two armies fought fiercely for a day and night, and finally Zhuang Shaoyou's cavalry played a key role, the detour outflanked Zhang Ren's rear wing successfully, Zhang Ren's army was in chaos, Huang Zhong led his troops to launch a fierce attack, Zhang Ren Huang Zhong was seriously injured and defeated with an iron bow, Zhuang Shaoyou took advantage of the situation to lead the army to cover up to Xinling, beheaded 50,000, lost 20,000, completely defeated the Yizhou reinforcements, and soon, Zhang Ren was seriously injured and died.

The news that the Yizhou reinforcements were broken made the hearts of the people in Jingzhou fluctuate, and many officials and generals in Jingzhou privately surrendered to Zhuang Shaoyou and expressed their willingness to respond internally.

Zhuang Shaoyou laughed and sent a letter of persuasion to Liu Biao, who was lying in Xiangyang.

On March 18, Liu Biao received a letter of persuasion from Zhuang Shaoyou, and after urgent consultations, the wealthy family of Jingzhou could not make up their minds, but decided to hand it over to Liu Biao for handling.

Liu Biao, who was sick in bed, saw the letter of persuasion and immediately vomited three liters of blood and died.

The wealthy clan of Jingzhou decided to surrender to Zhuang Shaoyou, but demanded the safety of their persons and property, and made a series of demands.

Zhuang Shaoyou replied: "You can not blame the past, but from now on, you must act according to the law!" ”

The Jingzhou Hao clan was suddenly divided internally, four families opposed surrender, two were in favor, and the undercurrent of Xiangyang City was surging.

On March 22, there was an internal strife in Xiangyang City, the four Hao clans of Jingzhou headed by the Cai family killed the two clans headed by the Kuai family, Kuai Liang was killed, his brother Kuai Yue ran out, surrendered to Zangba's army, and offered a plan to take the stubborn Fancheng, the important town of Fancheng in the north of Xiangyang fell, most of the 30,000 defenders were annihilated, and the rest were captured. Zang Ba led his troops to cross the Han River and besieged Xiangyang, at this time, there were still 10,000 defenders in Xiangyang City.

The battle in Jingzhou was at a stalemate.

Zhuang Shaoyou's army of 300,000 besieged Xiangyang and Jiangling, from the beginning of spring in March to the month. During this period, Zhuang Shaoyou divided his troops to sweep all parts of Jingzhou, and the four counties of Jingnan all surrendered, leaving only Jingbei still resisting.

Seeing that midsummer is coming, Zhuang Shaoyou's command is full of northerners, once the plague occurs, the consequences are unimaginable! So Zhuang Shaoyou made up his mind and made a quick decision!

Zhuang Shaoyou mobilized 8,000 fire oil bombs, built 500 catapults, gathered strength, and threw all fire oil bombs into the city within a quarter of an hour, focusing on the city gate area, and then threw fire bombs and ignited them.

Of the four city gates, except for the south gate, which was spared by the water gate, the remaining three gates were all blown up or burned, and the defenders in the city suffered more than 20,000 casualties and tens of thousands of people were implicated.

After the fire, the Iron Cavalry took the lead in the city, but the defenders of the city had completely given up resistance.

On July 10, Zhuang Shaoyou conquered Jiangling, and after seeing the tragic situation of the generals, Zhuang Shaoyou was furious and ordered Liu Qi Lingchi to be executed, and all the main generals were executed.

On July 18, Zhuang Shaoyou led his army north and besieged Xiangyang.

Xiangyang City learned that Jiangling had fallen, and hurriedly sent envoys out of the city to surrender, but Zhuang Shaoyou refused to surrender!

Two thousand fire oil bombs opened the way, the city was in a panic, the four wealthy families immediately began to look for a way out, Zhuang Shaoyou secretly ordered the east gate to release water, so that the wealthy families in the city thought that there was a chance, overnight, the heads of the four wealthy families all fled, the dragons in the city were leaderless, Zhuang Shaoyou after a round of fierce attack, Xiangyang was defeated.

Zhuang Shaoyou immediately issued a wanted warrant! Wanted for the leaders of the four wealthy clans! and sent people to confiscate all the four major clans, and the clansmen interrogated them according to the law. Zhuang Shaoyou also ordered the innocent people affected by the fire and oil bombs to be compensated and the cities of Jiangling and Xiangyang to be cleaned up.

Two days later, the leaders of the four wealthy clans in Jingzhou were arrested, and Zhuang Shaoyou immediately ordered them to be beheaded for public display after a brief interrogation.

Liu Biao's time, Liu Cong was demoted to a concubine because of his young age.

Jingzhou is pacified, there are only two forces left in the world that are still resisting, one is Sun Ce in Jiangdong, and the other is Liu Zhang in Yizhou, both of which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Then he led the army back north.

Time is like water.

In the year of Jian'an, in the spring of 200 A.D., Jiangdong Sun Ce was ambushed by the enemy while hunting, and died after the arrow.

Zhuang Shaoyou immediately sent 300,000 troops to attack Jiangdong.

The Moyu Naval Division once again showed its skills, and the troops were divided into four routes, all the way to the south with the Xu Shengshui Division's Marine Corps, landing in Jian'an, and began to sweep the rear of Jiangdong. One route was led by Mo 13 to carry the army into Qiantang, conquer Yuhang, and sweep Wu County. One route was led by Hu Sanniang to carry the Zang Ba Army, landed from Danyang, and attacked from the north and south, planning to take the richest three counties in Jiangdong in one fell swoop.

Zhuang Shaoyou personally led the main force, including the Lejin Army and 20,000 cavalry, carried by Mo Yu, from the Yangtze River into Poyang, crossed the river, and attacked Sun Quan's base camp Yuzhang.

Previously, Sun Ce's place was set in Chaisang, but since the fall of Zhou Yu's sailors, Sun Ce moved his office to Yuzhang.

An army of 300,000 besieged Jiangdong from all directions, and Sun Zheng, who had just inherited the foundation, was not able to effectively mobilize Jiangdong men and horses to resist, and Jiangdong people and horses also had different intentions.

After Pinghe Zang Ba led the army to land, Zhou Tian and Ronghua, the squires of the Ministry of Commerce, went to Jiangdong in person to prepare to persuade them to surrender. Jiangdong Danyang, Wu, Huiji three counties geographical superiority, rich in products, businessmen gathered, business is very developed, ten years ago or the Han world's first, this year was surpassed by southern Liaoning, but its foundation, the depth of the heritage, but not Liaoning can be compared!

The Ministry of Commerce has been doing business here for more than ten years, Zhou Tian and Ronghua are very familiar with the local heroes and giants, such as the general trend has been set today, Jiangdong Sun Ce is dead, Sun Quan has not dried up, Jiangdong is the moment of new floating. Previously, he did not dare to surrender because he was afraid of Zhuang Shaoyou's harsh laws, but the appearance of Zhou Tian and Ronghua, who had disappeared for a long time, brought hope to everyone.

After some bargaining, a set of compromise carefully prepared by Zhou Tian and Ronghua was accepted by the Jiangdong wealthy family, who was willing to spend a huge amount of money to redeem their past sins, and promised to do business with peace of mind in the future and no longer do evil, while Zhuang Shaoyou guaranteed the safety of their person, family and property! And give them the same business treatment as the merchants of southern Liaoning, and open up the open sea trade.

As a result, with the active cooperation of the local wealthy clans, the three eastern counties were quickly pacified, and the stubborn forces were completely eradicated. The fall of the three eastern counties is equivalent to strangling the economic lifeline of Jiangdong, and seventy percent of Jiangdong's fiscal revenue comes from the three eastern counties. Therefore, the surrender of the three eastern counties became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Following the surrender of the three eastern counties, Linhai, Jian'an, and Luling in the southeast of Jiangdong surrendered one after another, and then, Shixin announced the surrender under the front of Zang Ba's troops.

Jiangdong County has gone to the third, leaving only Yuzhang, Poyang, and Linchuan counties that have not been surrendered.

At the beginning of April, Sun Quan was appointed as the governor of Zhou Yu and led 50,000 elites to meet the enemy. Zhuang Shaoyou led the main army of 100,000 horses to meet Zhou Yu, and the two armies engaged eighty miles north of Nanchang, the place of Yuzhangzhi.

Zhou Yu resisted desperately, but whether it was quantity or quality, or armament was inferior to Zhuang Shaoyou's army, and Zhuang Shaoyou also brought 20,000 iron cavalry, Zhou Yu was defeated and retreated, Zhuang Shaoyou led the army to pursue, Zhou Yu fought again with the whole army, and Zhuang Shaoyou was defeated again.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, Zhou Yu led the remnants to take the initiative to attack Zhuang Shaoyou, and the two armies fought fiercely for eight hours, Zhou Yu was killed, the whole army was annihilated, and a small number were captured.

On the tenth day of the fourth month, Sun Quan tied his hands and led the crowd out of the city to surrender.

Zhuang Shaoyou took a month to take over Jiangdong County, and then led the boat westward, preparing to eliminate the last opponent, Liu Zhang!

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the Bao Xin army stationed in Han took the lead in launching an attack, moving south from Han and began to attack the Sword Pavilion.

On 18 May, Zhuang Shaoyou led an army of 200,000 to attack Yiling, and with the cooperation of the sailors, Yiling was quickly conquered.

On May 21, Zhuang Shaoyou led his army to surround the White Emperor City, and Yan Yan, a veteran general of Yizhou, led 40,000 elites to hold the city.

In the face of a strong city like White Emperor City, Zhuang Shaoyou also sighed with admiration, but it doesn't matter, if you can't attack it, you can't attack it! Zhuang Shaoyou left Lejin to continue the siege, while he and Huang Zhongqin led 20,000 elite and sailors in small boats (four- and five-masted warships) upstream, preparing to directly attack the hinterland of Yizhou.

The lone army is deep, the troops are not many, and the road is not familiar, so there are many dangers, but Zhuang Shaoyou personally commands it, and Huang Zhong selected the old department that followed him first, and his loyalty, combat effectiveness, and morale are impeccable.

All the way to the west, the river along the way is very treacherous, Zhuang Shaoyou spent a lot of money to hire a local experienced boatman to guide the way, but even so, still suffered heavy losses, hundreds of miles of waterway down, the warship hit the reef and sank, stranded more than forty percent, and the river was turbulent, only a small part of the soldiers who fell into the water were saved!

At the beginning of the month, after half a month of careful marching, Zhuang Shaoyou led his troops to Ba County in the east of Yizhou, and after a short rest, he raided the unsuspecting Jiangzhou City late that night, and the 20,000 defenders in the city were defeated, beheaded 10,000 people, the rest were captured, and Jiangzhou fell!

The disappearance of the fall of Jiangzhou soon spread to Chengdu, and Liu Zhang, who had always been indecisive, finally rose up, made a decision, and surrendered!

On the twelfth day of the month, Yizhou surrendered.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the last separatist force perished.