After almost bloodlessly capturing Baqiu and completely holding the mouth of Dongting Lake firmly in Liu Beijun's hands, Liu Biao's interference in the Jingnan region was basically blocked.

Because the coastal areas on the south bank of the Yangtze River that followed Zhang Xian's rebellion have all fallen into the hands of Liu Bei.

With this isolation belt, Liu Biao transferred the main force from Wancheng to the south for another 800 miles back to Jiangling, and there was no way to expand the results of the battle, so he could only stabilize his rear.

With Liu Biao's courage, if he wanted to take Wancheng back this time, he had already completely offended Cao Cao, and he didn't dare to risk fighting Liu Bei again.

Even if you are unwilling, you can only solve it through the negotiation of envoys first, and see if you can get some benefits back from the negotiation table.

And it is normal for these literary dramas to be returned, and it is normal to drag on for two or three months, Zhuge Liang who has his own rear to worry about and stabilize, and he does not need the front-line generals to spend energy.

Zhao Yun ambushed and annihilated the troops of Huanjie in the early morning of the ninth day of the fifth month, and then took Baqiu City on the tenth day of the fifth month, and spent another two or three days to restore order in the city, and then hurriedly continued to march to coerce Luo County.

The only regret in the Battle of Baqiu is that he didn't catch or kill Huan Jie-the plan that Zhao Yun set up at the beginning to lure the enemy to break through and then ambush the troops on the road outside the East City Gate, but he also tried to intercept and kill Huan Jie, which Zhao Yun thought of.

It's a pity that the world is unpredictable, and when it comes to the specific implementation on the battlefield, the soldiers are chaotic and the night is dark, and there are always various omissions.

And Zhao Yun didn't expect Huanjie to be so shameless, when he tortured the captured enemy officers after the war, several Changsha Army officers confessed: Huanjie changed the uniform color of ordinary soldiers before leaving the city, and did not carry any seals and ribbons to prove his identity.

Zhao Yun still underestimated Huanjie's will to escape, this guy is quite difficult to kill.

However, Zhao Yun also knew very well how he could make up for it - as long as he took Luo County as soon as possible and advanced to Xiangyin, so that Huanjie could not organize a second line of defense and slow down the pace of his own march, then the harm of Huanjie's escape could be minimized.

Luo County is roughly located between present-day Xiangyin County and Miluo County, and in the late Han Dynasty, it was the mouth of the Xiangjiang River that flowed into Dongting Lake. It is also the place where Qu Yuan, the great poet of the ancient Chu State, threw himself into the Xiangjiang River.

Zhao Yun almost divided his troops to stabilize the order of Baqiu in the rear, and at the same time sent the vanguard to the south to surround Luo County, ensuring that the escaped Huan Jie could not return to Luo County, and could not boost morale and organize people's hearts.

Then wait for the rear to be completely stabilized, and slowly transfer the main forces to prepare for the siege.

Ganning's navy also plundered and incorporated counties along the shores of Dongting Lake, cutting off the waterways between the various water systems that flow into Dongting Lake as a deterrent.

Under the two-pronged approach, the county commander of Luoxian County finally did not have the courage to resist to the end, and surrendered on May 17, two days after the arrival of Zhao Yun's main siege force.

Zhao Yun rested for a while in Luo County, continued south to Linxiang, and finally forced Zhang Xian himself to enter the lair. I don't know if Huanjie made a detour back to Linxiang and rendezvous with Zhang Xian during the time when Zhao Yun broke through Luo County, but this no longer affects the overall situation.

At the same time that Zhao Yun took Luo County, the Ganning Department swept along Dongting Lake and took Yiyang.

In the end, Zhang Fei's people in the northwest also returned to Tang from Xiaoling, continued to recover Lingyang and Hanshou counties, and finally approached Linyuan County, the seat of Wuling County.

Zhang Fei also almost did not break out in Lingyang and Hanshou, it was all about rumors, because the main force of the field troops of Wuling Taishou Jinxuan had been annihilated by Zhang Fei in the Battle of Xiaoling before, and Jinxuan could not draw mobile troops to defend at all, so he could only rely on the defenders of the counties and the brave people of the countryside to support the field.

These second-line troops and miscellaneous personnel, seeing that Zhang Fei was playing the banner of the general of the Che Cavalry to quell the rebellion, where would they work for Jin Xuan to the end, of course, whoever came would vote.

Throughout mid and late May, the three generals of Liu Bei's camp basically spent their time in rapid progress - this is also the proper meaning of the question, and there is nothing to envy. After all, Jin Xuan's Wuling Army Field Troops, and Xing Daorong's Division, the main field force sent by Changsha and Lingling Counties, were all wiped out by Liu Beijun's three generals.

In the case of annihilating the enemy's main force in a field battle, the follow-up advance should have been devastating, and it could have advanced for hundreds of miles at once.

At the end of May, Zhao Yun smoothly began preparations for the siege of Linxiang, and Zhang Fei also began preparations for the siege of Linyuan.

In contrast, Linxiang's attack is much more troublesome, after all, Zhang Xian has served as the Taishou of the three counties in Jingnan, and he has been operating for seven or eight years, which is deep-rooted. With the degree of information occlusion in ancient times, many people in the local area only know that there is Zhang Fujun, but they do not know that there is a Son of Heaven.

What's more, Zhang Xian also pretended to be in the name of the edict of the imperial court of Xu Du this time, and deceived many backbone officers to firmly believe that they were the defenders of the imperial court, and Liu Bei was the traitor who opposed Cao Sikong's auxiliary government. Under Zhang Xian's years of operation and brainwashing, the Changsha defenders were high-spirited.

Zhang Xian and his confidants also knew that if they were caught by Liu Bei, they would definitely die, and there would be nowhere to run, so they jumped over the wall in a hurry, fighting to the death.

Zhao Yun could only build and deploy step by step according to the ladder, Ge bus, and trebuchet, destroying the outer trench fortifications and sheep and horse walls and moats.

It is estimated that it will take half a month to prepare siege equipment before the battle, and it will take another half a month to destroy the fortifications. If you take into account the casualties and losses, it may take two or three months -

Don't be too slow, in the original history, the battle of counterinsurgency Zhang Xian was handed over to Liu Biao to fight, and Liu Biao fought for a whole year. Now, even if Zhao Yun spends two or three months to break through Changsha City, the entire Jingnan Campaign will take five months, which is already sixty percent shorter than Liu Biao's achievements in the same period in history.

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Although Zhang Xian is not brilliant in the history books, his foundation in Jingnan is very solid, and it can even be said that in terms of local control, it is deeper than the Sun family's foundation in Wuhui.

Sun Ce's territory in Wuhui was all fought by force, and he did not go through deep cultivation, and many people below were disrespectful and unconvinced. Zhang Xian has been in business for seven or eight years.

And with the beginning of the siege of Changsha, Zhao Yun's army also encountered another trouble. That is, as the time entered the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the heat of Jingnan made the soldiers in the north of the source of soldiers uncomfortable.

After several tentative attacks, Zhao Yun found that some soldiers were suffering from heat stroke in batches, as well as some other diseases, so he had to reduce the intensity of the attack to avoid too many non-combat attrition.

Then the siege camp should not be too densely populated, so as not to break out of the plague in the camp on a hot day.

After the time entered June, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang in the rear also sent people to the labor army to condole, and at the same time asked about the progress of Zhao Yun's offensive, Zhao Yun also truthfully told the hardships of the front line, hoping not to force urging, so as not to kill and infect too many people.

After the news was transmitted back to Wuchang, Zhuge Liang wrote again, suggesting that Zhao Yun could temporarily encircle the isolated city of Changsha without fighting, avoid the hottest season in summer, and at the same time divide troops to subdue the counties, as well as Lingling, Guiyang and other places.

Zhao Yun originally had this idea, but after getting Liu Bei Zhuge Liang's approval, he decisively let it go. Anyway, as long as Changsha City is surrounded and Zhang Xian can't break through, it won't take many troops.

Spreading out the force and reducing the density is also good for reducing the spread of disease and improving hygiene.

Zhao Yun only left 10,000 people in Changsha, and then the other troops went against Xiao and Hunan, and those who could be forced to land were forced to land, and throughout June and July, most of the land of Jingnan was run.

After Zhao Fan, the Taishou of Guiyang, learned that Xing Daorong was killed in battle, Huan Jie's whereabouts were missing, and Zhang Xian was surrounded in Changsha City, he was terrified and finally chose to surrender directly.

Except for some small-scale contact battles at the beginning and friction and pursuit with bandits, there was basically no war in the rest of the county, and the entire county directly surrendered.

The Jingnan defenders of Lingling County still wanted to fight a few battles, and some of the generals were Zhang Xian's henchmen, but most of them still had no heart to fight, especially when they learned that Zhang Xian was surrounded in Changsha City, and those officials who felt that Zhang Xian's general situation had gone chose to surrender one after another.

By the end of July, more than half of Lingling County had also been subdued by Zhao Yun, and there were still seven or eight small scattered counties, which were really because of the remote geography, deep into the Wuling Mountains bordering Jiaozhou, and the subtropical jungle climate, and there were many snakes and insects in summer, and the army really couldn't get by.

You can only wait for the weather to cool down and then collect it slowly, which is harmless.

In the end, Zhang Fei's men and horses besieged Linyuan County in Wuling County, which was much faster than Zhao Yun's attack on Changsha. Zhang Fei even counted all the siege equipment to build the siege belt, and it only took a month, and by the end of June, he had broken through Linyuan in the scorching heat.

The main reason is that the morale of the Wuling defenders is far less high than that of the Changsha defenders, and the will to fight is not strong. Taishou Jin Xuan was betrayed by his subordinates, and his subordinates agreed with Zhang Fei to offer a door to welcome Zhang Fei's army into the city.

When Jin Xuan found that the situation was not good and wanted to break out, he was finally killed in the chaos, and the Han part of Wuling County was flattened. There are also some areas controlled by the Wuling Barbarian Force, which can only be slowly subdued when they are free in the future.

After Zhang Fei pacified Wuling, he did not divide his troops to the south to help encroach on the small mountainous counties in Lingling County that had not yet been controlled, because he soon had a new errand - between Liu Biaojun and Liu Bei on the northern front, he had begun to negotiate and mediate on the ownership of the responsibility and the distribution of rights and interests in Jingnan's rebellion.

Therefore, Zhang Fei, who sings black face, needs to go to the defense line along the river in Wuling County and Baqiu County in Changsha County to completely firmly establish the fence on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and put on a tough posture of "no one can speak until he gets a clear order from his eldest brother" to prevent Liu Biao's military infiltration.

It is roughly equivalent to the role played by Guan Yu in Jingzhou during the negotiations between Sun Liu and Xiangshui later in history, and the time difference can be played in some things.

The time soon came to August of the fifth year of Jian'an.

As the hottest and scorching season of the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar passed, Zhang Xian in Changsha City was also a little tired by Zhao Yun. Zhao Yunjun regrouped the troops behind Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang to prepare to deal a fatal blow to Zhang Xian's last lonely city.

The entire four counties of Jingnan, except for a lonely city in Changsha, have basically been pacified, or have not yet had time to occupy and receive them.

The focus of the entire Jingzhou is focused on three things:

How did Zhao Yun break through Zhang Xian's last fortress,

How did Zhang Fei mess around on the south bank of the Yangtze River to prevent Liu Biao's people from taking office,

and how Zhuge Liang dealt with the envoy sent by Liu Biao again to negotiate the distribution of benefits.

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ps: This chapter is a bit of a running account, but it's also necessary to push the progress of the map, and the Jingnan copy will end tomorrow. These troops can be transferred back to Jiangdong to start the final battle against the Sun family.

I also don't want to be too much water in the big land of hydrology and Jingnan. I think it's quite appropriate to be so detailed now, after annihilating Jin Xuan and Xing Daorong, the rest of the staking work would have been almost done in one chapter.

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