It is easy to understand that Jiangzhou is not only the capital of Ba County, but also the water transport hub node city of the entire Eastern Theater Command of Yizhou. Even if you don’t understand the pattern of Shu in the Three Kingdoms era, think about the Chengdu-Chongqing, one west and one east core in later generations.

Therefore, the will of the defenders here is already the strongest in eastern Yizhou, and it is also one of the few places where large-scale Dongzhou soldiers are stationed.

The defenders of Jiangzhou were all attacked by Li Su's imperial edict and the morale of "Liu Mao was punished by heaven". After only a week of armed resistance, they were disintegrated by internal sects. Then the efficiency of persuading surrender in other surrounding counties was even more powerful.

Just three days after Jiangzhou was taken over, several Bajun and county towns around Jiangzhou surrendered quickly like land grabbing.

Almost Zhao Yun's cavalry came there, asked Wu Ban and others to read the imperial edict, and then bewitched Liu Mao's sudden death and the fall of Jiangzhou, and the local county magistrate and county magistrate opened the city directly.

On the first day, Lecheng and Zhixian were recovered; on the second day, Hanping and Fuling were recovered; on the third day, Hanjia and Linjiang were recovered, and even divided troops to capture the Fujie in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Although Fu Jie is not as far away from Jiangzhou as Fuling and Linjiang, it already belongs to Jianwei County in terms of administrative divisions. So it is equivalent to the impact of the fall of Jiangzhou, which is not limited to all counties in Ba County, but also counties bordering Lianjianwei County and Ba County have surrendered.

From Fujie to Linjiang, there are a total of seven or eight hundred miles along the Yangtze River along the Yangtze River, and it is decided by this edict.

On the tenth day of September, on the fourth day after the pacification of Jiangzhou, Cai Yong, the prefect of Zhengpaiba County appointed by the court, was finally able to officially rush to Jiangzhou, the county governor, after a full year and a month after the order was issued (Cai Yong's appointment was issued before He Jin's death in early August last year)

Li Su has not left the city for a few days. He doesn't have to do this kind of land grabbing work by himself, and he has no choice but to ask Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei to copy and paste the answers of his persuasion to surrender. He quietly rectified public security in Jiangzhou City, checked the household registration of the treasury, and issued a list to safeguard the people, and cleaned up the traces of war.

When Cai Yong came, the ruins damaged by the war in Jiangzhou were basically cleared, and the disharmonious soldiers and civilians were settled, which looked very stable. Cai Yong also brought him from the capital, and has been temporarily in the Lantai and the Dongguan classics in Nanzheng and Dianjiang County, and all were transported to Jiangzhou, and Li Su also sent troops to protect them.

Moreover, while cleaning up the ruins damaged in the war and liquidating Yang Huai, Li Yi and others to resist the rebellion of the generals, Li Su also found a relatively high terrain and dry environment in Jiangzhou City, demolished the ruins and built a large-scale construction to rebuild a Lantai.

In the future, as long as the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains was restored to the old days, Cai Yong's official position would be placed in the position of the prefect of Ba County and not moved. Therefore, as his capital, it would take several years to use it, and the supporting facilities must be well built, and it cannot be used as the temporary houses in Dianjiang.

This is also considered the national library of this era. Of course, the construction cost will not be saved. Li Su directly asked Liu Bei for tens of millions of yuan in construction and follow-up maintenance funds. Even the wood for building a house should be chosen to prevent insect-damage as much as possible. Wood that can repel mosquitoes? Camphor wood is used in bookshelf? Wood used for decoration must also have insecticide effects to avoid the book being damaged.

Anyway, Liu Bei can still make this money now? Just think that it is better to grab the "Alexander Library" wonder when playing the "Civilization" game? It is better to create and be more grand, which is very beneficial to attracting talents from other places to avoid war.

In this way, Li Su and Cai Yong handed over the local people's livelihood work, and supervised the construction of large-scale construction. After the county next to him was recovered, he would concentrate his troops to move closer to Chengdu and carry out the next stage of combat missions.

However, what Li Su didn't expect was that he and Cai Yonggang had been rectifying in Jiangzhou City for two or three days, and there seemed to be a lot of new news coming from the outside world.

Liu Bei, who had been in Nanzheng before, couldn't sit still, leaving only Governor Lu Su's rear defense. Liu Bei personally brought a small number of personal troops to Jiangzhou to discuss major events with Li Su and his second and third brothers.

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"Brother, are you worried that Yun Chang and I will pacify the counties? Or is there any change in the north?"

When Li Su heard that Liu Bei was coming, he hurriedly went out of the city to greet Cai Yong, and asked straight to the point as soon as he met.

He came to besiege Diaoyu City in May, and now in early September, all Diaoyu City, Jiangzhou and surrounding counties have been taken down. It is indeed a bit isolated from the world and does not care about the progress of the outside world. Therefore, he has this doubt.

This cannot be blamed on Li Su not caring about the major affairs of the world, but because he knew that the princes in real history were not as vigorous as written in Romance. Except for Cao Cao and Sun Jian, a few aspiring people, who really fought. Others such as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, were completely preserved throughout the process of preserving their strength? They even had never done anything about the Romance saying that they were on the front line.

So, although you get news in March and April, the outside world is asking for advice. In fact, it is normal to hear that progress is going on in September. What is the best thing to care about in this kind of "sitting war" at all times?

The news brought by Liu Bei is indeed related to the external world.

He took Li Su's hand into the city, rode on the horse and said while walking, and before he could reach the prefect's mansion, he explained the situation clearly: "After I left, I have received some war reports in the past few months, all of which were transmitted from Chen Cang Road and Shangyong Han Waterway.

In July, I heard that the Hanoi prefect Wang Kuang was defeated by Dong Zhuo's army who took the initiative to attack, and even the county monarch was lost. The war occurred in May, and the news came to Nanzheng in July."

Li Su nodded. Wang Kuang was also a twelve princes who had been shot with Dong Zhuo in real life. This must be confirmed. Not only did some people say that Sun Jian, Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo fought hard.

However, in the official history, Wang Kuang did not take the initiative to attack like the Romance of the Romance, and was defeated by Lu Bu. Instead, because his base was too close to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo was worried about his existence and took the initiative to kill him. Wang Kuang had to passively fight a defensive battle, and lost his nest and retreated.

There is nothing to care about about the fate of an NPC like Wang Kuang. Li Su guessed that Liu Bei would just mention it casually. As expected, the news that Liu Bei said later began to be related to his own side.

Liu Bei continued to say: "Just a few days ago, in early September, our army received several external military information from Shangyongdao. First, in August, two battles occurred in Liang County in Luyang. In the previous battle, Dong Zhuo took the initiative to send troops to expel Yuan Shu. Sun Jian stationed in the front line of Nanyang County, and was repelled by Sun Jian. Then Sun Jian pursued Dong Zhuo's army to Liang County in Sili, and was defended by Dong Zhuo's army, and was repelled by Dong Zhuo's army Hu Zhen, Li Meng, and Hua Xiong.

Both sides should have suffered a lot of losses, but Dong Zhuo had many troops and could recover, while Sun Jian had to recruit troops in Luyang again. It is estimated that the battle will not be fought again until the beginning of next spring. After this battle, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's attitude towards our army softened. A few days ago, he sent a secret letter saying that the autumn harvest has been completed and the food and grass is abundant. He is willing to provide military rations for our army. He asked us to send troops along the Han River as soon as possible to help fight Dong.

In addition, our army conducted a detailed investigation and heard that since Sun Jian went north in the first half of the year and killed the governor of Jingzhou Wang Rui when he passed by Nanyang, Dong Zhuo has recently been named Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou. If Dong Zhuo was named another person, we would rather be together with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian and refuse to recognize the new governor.

But Brother Jingsheng was also an official in the same dynasty as me for several months. When I was appointed as the General of the Western Expedition, he took over the position of Zong Zheng. He is one of the most famous and honorable Han relatives today. Brother Jingsheng seemed to have escaped from Yuan Shu's control and secretly crossed the territory of Nanyang County, and is currently missing.

Our army has just captured Jiangzhou and is facing a decisive battle with Liu Yan. In this situation, Brother Yu didn't know how to deal with his relationship with Brother Jing Sheng, so how could he politely reject Yuan Shuxin's request for troops to send troops, and asked his brother to teach me."

Li Su heard Liu Bei talk about so much about the general trend of the world outside, and he was also thinking about the deviation from the original history in his heart.

Sun Jian's two battles should have been affected by the butterfly effect. Because Sun Jian was defeated in the Battle of Liangdong and Xu Rong should have been among the generals of Dong Zhuo's army who changed his helmets with Zu Mao. Now Xu Rong has been transferred to serve as the Liaodong Commander two years in advance because of his hometown of Liaodong, so the enemy Sun Jian faces will be weaker.

But if Hu Zhen was replaced, Hua Xiong was not much different. The key is that the Xiliang army has good quality and huge troops. If it does not make low-level mistakes, it may be possible to delay the general. Moreover, in history, Sun Jian was defeated when he attacked Liang County, but now he has become "failed to capture Liang County and retreat", which means that he did not fight so badly, but he just cannot defeat Dong Zhuo's army's city, which is normal.

However, Liu Biao was sent by Dong Zhuo to restrain Sun Jian. He was a serious celebrity in the world, a model of the Han Dynasty, and his name was Bajun. You can't just say "because he was appointed by Dong Zhuo" and it is obvious that you don't recognize him directly.

Li Su said to himself in embarrassment: "We had already had a battle with Yuan Shu at the beginning, and it was too much for Yuan Shu to refuse to send troops along the Han River to the point where Yuan Shu refused to give out grain. Now people are willing to give food first, but then they don't go. It is not easy to argue with the gentleman agreement with Huangfu Song, and other southern princes.

Let’s tell Yuan Shu that our army’s main force is in Jiangzhou, and then we will go north through the mountains and rivers thousands of miles away. It is not easy to march. It will not arrive in less than two months, so hold him back for a while. Then let Chief Yun lead thousands of troops and go east along the river, and first capture Baidi, Wuxian and other places that are still in Liu Yan’s hands.

I told Yuan Shu that our army would march along the Yangtze River and transport faster, so that we could eat less food from Yuan Shu army and let them wait. We would join forces to attack Liang County in the spring of next year. In addition, our army would send troops along the Yangtze River, at least from Baidi to the downstream, through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, occupying a foothold on the Jingzhou side as a port for transport.

I can try to write a letter to Chief Yun, and then I will transfer it to Liu Biao. For the sake of the dispute over Dong Daye, Liu Biao will allow Chief Yun to occupy the counties in the Three Gorges section of the Yangtze River, set up Yidu County, and place it under our army. In addition, Wuling County, which may affect our army's waterway, is also under our jurisdiction."

When Li Sugang said this, Liu Bei couldn't help but interrupt him: "Brother Jingsheng is the governor of Jingzhou ordered by Dong Zhuo. How could he divide the Nanjun and set up Yidu? It's even more impossible for him to hand over the entire Wuling county, right?"

Li Suzhizhu promised: "I think it's a try. Liu Bingdan rode into the state. How much power can he have? If he wants to be in charge of the nine counties of Jingxiang, it is impossible to completely integrate without several years or even ten years of hard work. The powerful clans of Jingzhou are no weaker than those of Yizhou.

There is Yuan Shu in the north, and there are thieves in the clan. If we promise to borrow troops to help him pacify the clan, what if we only collect one and a half counties of his land as interest? And we are not asking for his land, just to ensure that our military food routes will challenge the Dong, and just take the counties at several key nodes of the Yangtze River shipping, but there is not much land and a lot of people."

As Li Su said, he took out the map very casually and pointed at the map and opened the border with the same groceries. He gestured along the Yangtze River: "Let's ask Liu Biao to take the four counties along the Yangtze River, including Zigui, Xinling, Xiling and Yidu, plus the few worthless counties on the tributaries of the two sides of the strait. The two armies are bounded by Yiling on the Yangtze River. Anyway, we don't help Liu Biao, and Liu Biao will not get it within three or five years. We are trying to ask Dong Daye for help."

Liu Bei thought for a while: "After Yun Chang divided his troops, Zilong and Yide went up the river on the western front to take Jianwei and take a little bit of Jianwei. Will the counties in Guanghan be restrained? At that time, our army will still divide its troops to guard all places, with only 20,000 main force left to fight on the mobile operations.

I heard that the Dongzhou soldiers under Liu Yan were originally worth more than 40,000. After several battles in Diaoyucheng, Jiangzhou and others, the Dongzhou soldiers were damaged and were captured in total, with a total of 10,000 people, and there should be 30,000 left. However, Liu Yan had been in Shu for more than two years and had many internal rectifications. The population of the three counties in the Chengdu Plain was less than 3 million, and there were no less than 500,000 families who could draw troops. This year he stepped up his expansion, and five households and one principal could have 100,000 combat soldiers.

If Liu Yan had to defend all the troops, if he knew that our army was empty and Chang Chang was transferred, he could still gather 110,000 tumultuous people to fight us at a decisive battle. I am afraid that Zilong Yide's decisive battle could stop Liu Yan's desperate attempt."

Liu Bei's words also showed that he was very wise. He knew that the reason why Liu Yan had to rely on the strong city and defend the dangerous city was because there was no breakthrough in the two key nodes of Jianmen Pass and Diaoyu City, and defending it could consume Liu Bei's military rations and morale.

However, once Jiangzhou is fully broken and Liu Bei's army enters the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, and Liu Yan's army will be looking for death. Liu Bei has the imperial edict to persuade many Liu Yan's army cities that are not loyal and loyal. In addition, the Chengdu Plain is rich, and Liu Bei can "because of the enemy" and eat local grain from the grain-producing area and siege the city of Liu Yan.

Therefore, except for the end of Chengdu and Mianzhu, Liu Yan will defend the city from the city to the death, and other places must concentrate their troops and fight Liu Bei in a field, otherwise they will die in vain.

Li Su could only give Liu Bei confidence: "If you miss the opportunity this year, you will not know when you can get it. It is cost-effective to let Yun Chang divide his troops. Otherwise, if you get into the dangers of Liu Biao in the future, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River will be shared by us. How can you compare to the "Thousand Miles of Jiangling in a Day"? Both ends are in the hands of our army.

Liu Yan is already a turtle in the jar, so it doesn't matter if he eats a little slower. The field soldiers are no longer in the spirit. The determination to recruit new Yizhou soldiers is still unknown. Yide Zilong has 20,000 troops. Even if Zhen Yao faces Liu Yan's army with 110,000, of which 30,000 Dongzhou soldiers can exhaust the enemy. Liu Yan cannot easily capture the city that was persuaded to surrender again. Zilong has 10,000 cavalrymen in Youzhou, so can't he avoid the war? "

Liu Bei thought about it again and again, gritted his teeth: I decided! The two fronts were fighting in a vain! Before the decisive battle with Liu Yan, he sent Guan Yu to the eastern front to capture Baidi City, and then went to Jingzhou to steal the territory!

Although Baidi City and Wu County are cities in Yizhou and belong to Liu Yan, they probably won’t be as easy as other Ba County counties to persuade surrender.
Chapter completed!