During the Warring States period, Wuling County was formerly known as Qianzhong County, which was named after Qianshan Mountain. However, after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, Qianzhong County was changed to Wuling County.

Where did Wuling come from?

Because the boundary of Chenyang County is connected with Wuxi Man, the Han soldiers broke the raze, Liu Bang looked at the four seas and Changping, and took the meaning of 'stopping the fight for the martial arts, Gaoping said the tomb', so the Qianzhong County was changed to Wuling County, so Qianshan can also be called Wuling Mountain.

The two rivers of Yuan and Li in the four waters of 'Yuanzhi Lilan' flow through Wuling Mountain, and the middle and upper reaches are difficult to sail because of the rugged terrain of Wuling Mountain, there are many mountains, and the river drop is high. Therefore, only Linyuan (now Changde City) and Li County in the lower reaches of the Ershui River are relatively wealthy because they are located in the plain area and are inhabited by many Han people.

Wuxi is mostly a tributary of the Yuan and Li two rivers, distributed between the Wuling mountains. The Wuxi barbarians mostly live in the fragmented mountains and valleys, where they cultivate and plow with fire, and fish and cut forests near the river for a living.

Zhuge Liang stationed troops in Linyuan, and after gaining an in-depth understanding of the terrain of Wuling Mountain, he decided to divide his troops into two routes.

Wuling Taishou Jiang Wan and Zhu Huan led 6,000 troops, went up against the Li River, passed through Chong County, Lingyang into the mountains, that is, Zhangjiajie in later generations, and conquered the barbarians.

Zhuge Liang led Huang Zhong and Tai Shiheng to lead the army, went against the water, entered the pot, and surrendered most of the Wuxi barbarians.

At the end of September, the two armies marched.

Jiang Wan and Zhu Huan marched smoothly, and under the command of Zhu Huan, they broke through the Lishui barbarians, and many of the barbarians surrendered.

In terms of the main road, Zhuge Liang pondered the geography, understood the distribution of Wuxi Man, and decided to recover Yiling County, a county that had been abandoned for hundreds of years.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Wuling County was governed in Yiling, but due to the prosperity of Wuxi Man, he broke through the county, killed officials, and occupied the city. Yiling City was abandoned by the Western Han Dynasty, and the subordinate township pavilions were governed by Chenyang.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wuxi Man rebelled again, and the Wuwei general Liu Shangzhong lured the enemy into the depths of Yuanshui, but the whole army was wiped out due to the lack of food and grass.

Ma Yuan asked for battle, so he led an army of 40,000 to the south, and broke Wuxi Man in Yuanshui, wanting to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and smashed the main stronghold of Wuxi Man. However, it was blocked by the Wuxi barbarians in Hutou Mountain, and it was difficult to enter the base, and finally it became a tug-of-war, and Ma Yuan also died due to the summer epidemic.

After hundreds of years of development, Lipu has become the main entrenchment of Wuxi Man, led by the self-proclaimed barbarian Shamoke.

Zhuge Liang learned from the defeat experience of Liu Shang and Ma Yuan, and in order to prevent Shamoke from uniting with the barbarians of Wuxi and guarding the mountains and rivers, he decided to go against the river and march quickly towards Lipu.

The news that Zhuge Liang crossed Hutou Mountain and marched to Lipu spread to Shamoke.

Shamoke gathered 10,000 barbarians from all departments, went out of Chenxi to fight with Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang sent Huang Zhong and Xi Zhen as the vanguard, broke Shamoke, and captured more than 2,000 people.

Shamoke was defeated, led the army to retreat, and sent people to ask for troops from the barbarians in Wuxi to contain the mouth of the river and prevent Zhuge Liang from taking Lipu.

After Zhuge Liang defeated Shamoke, he released the captured thousand people, saying that he wanted Wuxi Man to live in the mountains, teach the Han people advanced farming techniques, teach advanced textile techniques, and he only needed to pay half of the taxes of the Han people, and would not oppress them.

The barbarians fled back to Dajiangkou and told the tribesmen of the same tribe what had happened, and at first let the tribesmen understand the preferential policies of the Southern Han Dynasty.

After half a month of tossing, Shamoke gathered tens of thousands of old and weak barbarians to force Zhuge Liang back.

Zhuge Liang confronted Shamoke at the mouth of the river for half a month, and because of Zhuge Liang's policy of favor, he was supported by the Sinicized barbarians, and revealed to Zhuge Liang the path to enter Lipu.

Zhuge Liang ordered Huang Zhong and Xi Zhen to be generals, selected 5,000 people, bypassed the mouth of the river from the creek path, and entered the city of Lipu.

When Shamoke heard that Huang Zhong was running around and attacking his lair, he urgently led his army back to help. Huang Zhong led his army to meet him in formation and encountered Shamoke. 5,000 elite soldiers fought against 20,000 barbarians, and Huang Zhong broke it.

Shamoke retreated to Dajiangkou, but Dajiangkou was attacked and taken by Zhuge Liang, and Shamoke was captured on the spot.

Zhuge Liang tried to persuade Shamoke to surrender, but Shamoke was unconvinced, saying that there was a thief betraying him, so he failed.

In order to completely solve the Wuxi Man, Zhuge Liang ignored the advice of everyone, released Shamoke out of the camp, and allowed him to return to Wuxi Man to call the barbarian soldiers to fight.

Seeing that Lipu was no longer owned by him, Shamoke decided to go upstream to Yuanshui, gathering defeated troops along the way, leading more than 3,000 people to Wuxi, and taking refuge in Wuximan (now Huaihua City).

In the first battle of Dajiangkou, Zhuge Liang surrendered nearly 20,000 barbarian soldiers, conquered the city of Pupu, recovered the old city of Yiling, which had fallen to a foreign land for 400 years, and obtained more than 50,000 barbarians of men and women, and set up troops on the spot.

The old city of Yiling, the Han military camp.

In the big tent, Zhuge Liang and his subordinates discussed with the martial arts.

"Military advisor, after the defeat of Shamoke's army, he took refuge in Wuximan. Today, he and the leader of Wuximan, Shi Zipi, raised nearly 20,000 people, avoiding the steep mountains, why did our army fight? Xi Zhen said.

The two victories made the generals of the Han army quite proud, and they asked Zhuge Liang to fight.

Zhuge Liang pressed down the feather fan, signaled everyone not to worry, and said: "Although Shamoke has defeated our army twice, he is not a scheming person, and he will definitely take it as a warning, and he will not be able to win easily." If you are greedy for merit, you may repeat the defeat of your predecessors. ”

Even the barbarian professional Hu Ma Yuan died because of the conquest of Wuxi Man, which made Zhuge Liang have to be careful.

As he spoke, Zhuge Liang looked at Ma Jian and asked, "Youchang, what do you think?" ”

Ma Jian pondered for a while and said: "Our army has penetrated thousands of miles, and now if we want to fight Wuximan, we need to advance hundreds of miles, it is difficult for boats to enter, and the supply and transportation of grain and grass is long. Looking at Liu Shang's defeat, most of them were due to the lack of food, which led to the defeat of the whole army. Our army should ensure that there is enough food to avoid being defeated by Shamoko. ”

"Good!"

Zhuge Liang showed an approving gaze and said: "The words of childishness are just in line with the words of soldiers. ”

Saying that, Zhuge Liang looked around at everyone and said: "The land of Pupu, with fertile water and soil, has been taken by our army, and the foundation of Shamoke has been lost. Today, although it and Wuximan lift heavy troops, but with a bright view, their grain and grass may not be able to last for a long time. ”

"Therefore, in anticipation of the current situation, Shamoke retreated dangerously, and he wanted to lure our army to go deeper, and then take the opportunity to cut off our grain route, so as to annihilate our army."

Huang Zhong stroked his white beard and asked, "Then in the opinion of the military advisor, how should our army march?" ”

Zhuge Liang stroked the fan and chuckled, and said: "Since Shamoke has this wish, how can our army not march to meet the battle!" ”

"Military advisor, what should we do with the captured Wuxi barbarians in Lipu?" Xi Zhen asked.

After thinking for a while, Zhuge Liang said: "Most of the barbarians in Wuxi are innocent people, and they should not be harmed by grace. Today, 5,000 soldiers can be left, under the control of the king, according to the customs of Wuxi, the household is organized to gather the people, the township pavilion is set up, and the seal ribbon is awarded to show the official position, and the king can not strictly rule the law. ”

"No!" Xi Zhen responded.

Since Liu Bei took charge of Wu Chu, not only the Jiangzuo Shi clan was appointed, but the Jing Chu Shi clan was also promoted. The Xi clan is the Jing Chu clan that has emerged in recent years, and they have gradually appeared in the political arena due to the relationship between the Pang clan and the Ma clan, among which the three Xi represented by Xi Zhen, Xi Zhen, and Xi Hong.

Xi Zhen, as an official of Jingchu who took refuge in Liu Bei in the early days, is now an official who worships Yuzhang Taishou. And Xi Zhen has also paid official homage to the general of Fuman, and followed Zhuge Liang to conquer Wuximan.

Now Zhuge Liang reused Xi Zhen and ordered him to stay in Pupu, and after the war is over, there should be a new reuse.

Two days later, after Zhuge Liang told Xi Zhen the details of the governance of Wuxi Man, he led his army against the Yuanshui River, marching about 400 miles between the river valleys, and met the Shamoke sergeant who controlled the mouth of the Hongjiang River.

Shamoke and Wuxi Man faced Zhuge Liang's invitation to fight, but according to the battle, they seemed to have the intention of holding on for a long time. However, the actual situation, as Zhuge Liang said, the grain and grass of the Shamoke and Wuxi Barbarian coalition army are difficult to hold for a long time, and now lure Zhuge Liang to go deeper, and there is more meaning to cut off Zhuge Liang's grain road.

After about ten days of confrontation, Shamoke learned that a batch of grain and grass was transported to Zhuge Liang's camp, and he was overjoyed, and led the coalition army of 5,000 elites to try to intercept the grain, but this was Zhuge Liang's plan.

When Shamoko intercepted the grain, the ambush soldiers arranged by Zhuge Liang came out and defeated Shamoke. Taking advantage of the geographical advantage, Shamoke tried to escape back to the camp at the mouth of the Hongjiang River.

However, when the Hongjiangkou camp was led by Shamoke to intercept grain, it was attacked by the Han army on the mountain, and with the advantage of the bow and crossbow, it conquered the Hongjiangkou and surrendered Shi Zipi, the leader of the Wuxi barbarians. Shamoke was desperate and asked Zhuge Liang to surrender.

However, Zhuge Liang did not seem to be very satisfied with Shamoke's surrender, so he found a way to let Shamoke live, drove him to the Xiongxi Barbarian Boundary (now Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County), and asked him to find the Xiongxi Barbarians to fight again.

Shamoke really didn't want to fight, but seeing Zhuge Liang's attitude, he had no choice but to trek through mountains and rivers to find the Xiongxi barbarians.

When Shamoke was looking for Xiongximan, Zhuge Liang subdued more than 30,000 people from Wuximan, and set up Huaihua and Hanwei counties on the banks of Wuxi.

Huaihua is a county, Wuxi is a barbarian household, and a township pavilion is set up to govern it; Hanwei is the way, and the chief of Wuxi Man, Shi Zipi, is the king, and he is the official of the seal, and he is hereditary.

Zhuge Liang stayed in Huaihua for more than a month, comforted the Wuxi barbarians, and taught advanced Han production techniques such as smelting, tea planting, and breeding. For the Zhuyi tribes in the deep valley, Zhuge Liang gave them a seal and made an oath with them.

With the twenty-first year of Jian'an, Zhuge Liang set out to Xiongxi Man, striving to solve the last barbarian in the Wuxi Barbarian Tribe.

In the depths of the Wuling Mountains in the depths of Xiongximan, it is in the middle of the poor mountains and bad waters, and the widows have contact with the Han people, and the wind is fierce. Zhuge Liang turned into four hundred miles and reached the boundary of Xiongxi Barbarian Land, but saw Shamoke leading his troops to surrender, which made Zhuge Liang and the Han army cry and laugh.

It turned out that Shamoke led more than 1,000 of his cronies into Xiongximan, pondered before and after, and sensed that something was wrong with his IQ. gradually guessed that Zhuge Liang should want to borrow his hand to sweep away the barbarians.

After figuring out this matter, Shamoke lured the leader of Xiongximan to come, took the opportunity to kill him, and then controlled Xiongximan with personal force and more than 1,000 men, waiting for Zhuge Liang's arrival.

Seeing that Shamoke was so upright, Zhuge Liang did not treat him harshly. Thinking of Xiongxi's unhappiness, it is in a poor mountain and bad water, and the Han people are difficult to govern. He appointed Shamo Ke to govern Xiongxi Man, gave him the general of Fuyi Zhonglang, and sent troops to follow Shamo Ke to conquer the leaderless Xiongxi Zhuyi.

(End of chapter)