After Shi Xie's death, the rebellion of the intersection was basically settled. The most important task in the future was to send an edict to all counties and counties to quickly rebuild the rule of the court.

After completing all this acceptance work, in theory, Lu Su, who was in Nanhai County, should write a memorial to report to the court the merits and other gains and losses of the rebellion, and was signed by Zhao Yun.

Originally, according to the decentralization of the three envoys, because the observer was responsible for monitoring local civil and military officials to check for omissions, Wang Lang should have submitted a memorial alone. He could even make a secret report without letting the other two officials in the border know what he wrote - but now Wang Lang is in vain, and everything he says is useless.

It took Zhao Yun five or six days until the 25th day of the 11th lunar month that he would re-issue all the counties in Jiaozhi County. Then he began to enter Jiuzhen County to the south.

But unfortunately, the prefect of Jiuzhen, who had surrendered to the Linyi Kingdom, led to the expansion of the sphere of influence of the Linyi people from the south to the north from the south to the north.

Zhao Yun was furious and of course he could not accept the situation of the Han territory being occupied by foreign countries, so he organized the newly incorporated Jiaozhou soldiers to fight in the front line. He himself took advantage of the last period of winter when it was still cool and let the Jingzhou soldiers go south to supervise the battle.

However, it is not a matter of a day or a night to take down Jiuzhen County, so the force here blocked Jiuzhen first. On the other hand, Zhao Yun did not forget to send Huo Junshamoke to the return trip and collect Hepu County, which has become an enclave.

After all, Hepu County is closer to the hinterland of Guangdong and Guangxi where the Han people live, and its importance is more than Jiuzhen.

At the same time, Zhao Yun also made a third preparation, allowing Huo Jun to recover Hepu while sending a fast horse or a Clipper Courier to notify Lu Su and ask Lu Su about his opinions on the issue of Jiuzhen and even Linyi Kingdom.

Zhao Yun spent four days assembled troops and rectified the marching, and spent another four days to attack the city and search and occupy it three days. It was not until the sixth day of the first lunar month of the second year of Jian'an (196), that he had recovered Xupu County, the county seat of Jiuzhen County, and the Yifeng on the way, Dupang, and a total of three county towns.

For this war, Zhao Yun's troops spent New Year's Eve in Jiuzhen County.

The troops returning from Jiaozhi to recover Hepu and advanced back along the coastline. Because there was no need to fight, the speed was quite fast. When he arrived in Hepu County on the third day of the first lunar month, he found that Hepu Prefect Yi had packed up Si Ruan and some of the treasury property, and with his confidants, servants and a small number of confidant troops, he abandoned the city and fled.

After Huo Jun entered the city, he arrested some grassroots civil servants for questioning and learned that Shi Yi left the city on the first day of the Lunar New Year two days ago. On New Year's Eve, he received news that Shi Xie was defeated and died and the rebellion had failed. He hurriedly packed up his property for a day, and then ran away on a sea boat.

Because the Han army did not have high-quality sea boats that could sail far away in Jiaozhou, they did not meet them on the road, so they would definitely not be able to catch up. I guess Shi Yi took a relatively far offshore route.

Fortunately, the time left for Shi Yi to plunder was less, and it was also possible that he was afraid of causing greater efforts to hunt down the court. Therefore, Shi Yi did not plunder the people before the city was abandoned, but only plundered the gold, silver, copper and textiles in the government warehouse, as well as peacock feathers, rhinoceros horns and ivory, spices, and Hepu pearls and other specialties, and did not even bring much grain in the government warehouse.

The main reason is that Shi Yi has not many sea boats. All the people who ran with him this time were added together. Including soldiers and sailors, there were less than a thousand people. If you don’t transport too many things, you can only pick valuable ones.

Although Liu Bei's camp lost some money, he took back a county without bleeding.

Huo Jun summarized the situation in Hepu and Jiuzhen, and sent it to Lusu, who was in the rear three days later. The letter also conveyed Zhao Yun's request for advice, about how to solve the problems of Jiuzhen and Linyi, whether to fight or not, and how big it is.

After Lu Su finished reading it, he thought about it all night and looked at the map repeatedly. The next morning, he urgently replied to Zhao Yun, asking the messenger to send it quickly, and asked Zhao Yun to bring the Jingzhou soldiers from the south to come back quickly and make a long-term plan.

There are three reasons for Lu Su, and the letter is written like this:

First of all, the key to the recovery of Jiaozhi, Hepu and other places before was to take advantage of the water transportation advantages of the Han army and solve the logistics support for the 1,500-mile raid.

If Zhao Yun's troops had not been able to walk the Pearl River 1,200 miles ahead, and only the last 300 miles had to go to the Liangshan Mountains, Zhao Yun's troops would not have been able to reach the Dragon Array at all. If it weren't for Gu Yong's raising grain and Gao Shunyun's grain went straight to the Honghe River to go directly to the Dragon Array, and for the final decisive battle, victory would be also out of reach.

Now that the Battle of Jiaozhi is over, if you continue to pursue the south, you will encounter an embarrassing problem: all the rivers in the Han army controlled the area cannot flow through the entire Jiuzhen County. Because the jurisdictions of Jiuzhen and Rinan are very narrow and long, just like the territory of central Vietnam in later generations.

The reason why the border lines between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were distributed in this way in later generations was because there was a mountain watershed on the border of the Three Kingdoms on the Indochina Peninsula, called the Changshan Mountains.

I also saw this terrain on the Lusu map. Most of the rivers were directly poured into the sea after breaking through the Changshan Mountains, and would not flow far north and south in Vietnam. This made it impossible to transport the inland boats that the Han army could rely on before. You had to drive the boat into the sea from the Honghekou, and then head south along the coastline to replenish supplies.

In this way, we return to the problem of "the ship shape is not the same, and the navy's strength is not as good as that of Linyi Kingdom".

Many people may wonder: How could the Vietnamese monkey navy be stronger than the big man at that time? Will their shipbuilding skills be awesome?

This question is not what I think about, but the civilization of southern Vietnam at that time. Because of their growing environment for thousands of years, they did not have inland shipping, and all their ships were built to serve coastal navigation and professional counterparts.

Such narrow and long coastal lands mean that the locals have certain maritime civilization thinking, which is different from the Han people's ideas.

Take a step back and say that even if you admit that the navy is not as good as the southern Vietnamese people for a while, it is no big deal. Just be brave after knowing shame—

After the later counterattack against Vietnam, the frictions in the Xisha in the 1980s were caused by Chinese people in small boats or even small inland gunboats fighting large warships in southern Vietnam. After they were taken seriously and invested in the navy, they immediately turned around and killed the friction in seconds.

Lu Su was very clear. With Liu Bei's camp's current sea ship construction level in the South China Sea, "leaving the river and entering the sea" to ensure logistics is too high. If you are not careful, the army's food route may be cut off.

Jiuzhen County, Rinan County is so poor anyway, as long as you have a firm attitude, you will definitely take it back. It is no big deal to endure it after the ship is built before going there.

At the same time, there is another last very important reason why Zhao Yun was unable to continue the attack - it is the beginning of the first lunar month, the cold winter has passed, and spring is about to begin! Zhao Yun's troops are moving to Vietnam, and blood infectious diseases caused by fever and virgin insect bites in the army must have a surge.

In this case, soldiers from Jingnan should never be allowed to continue the southern expedition. These northerners must be allowed to come back to cultivate. Even if they want to fight south again in the future, they must train soldiers from Jiaozhou local prefectures to take on all the main attack tasks. At most, soldiers from Jingzhou should be navigated on ships, and should not go to the mountains and rainforests.

Lu Su's letter Clippers took about ten days to send them to Zhao Yun quickly. It was already the Lantern Festival in 196.

After Zhao Yun took over Xupu County, the capital of Jiuzhen County, he did find the difficulty of continuing to move south. The reason why Xupu County can still fight is that this place is not far from the Red River Delta, and the Han army can still get a short-distance water supply.

This place is only about 80 miles south of the sea estuary of a tributary on the southernmost side of the Red River, which is equivalent to the Qinghua of Vietnam in later generations.

If you go further south, Zhao Yun really has no food supply.

At the same time, the disease situation in Zhao Yun's army rose, as Lu Su expected.

In this case, seeing that Lu Su had similar views, he even put himself in his shoes and thought about it for a few steps, and then he followed suit.

"Zi Jing is still considerate and has temporarily withdrawn his troops, and will not lose the court's dignity."

Zhao Yun closed Lu Su's letter and immediately announced several military orders:

First, let all the remaining Jingzhou soldiers, about 4,000 people packed their luggage and returned north, and strive to rush back to Panyu, South China Sea before February. (There were 6,000 soldiers in Jingzhou before the Dragon Bian Battle, and more than 1,000 were killed and injured in wars. The subsequent disease epidemic worsened and hundreds of casualties were killed and killed)

The court's face is important, and the lives and health of soldiers are also important.

Secondly, the enlisted local soldiers of Jiaozhou will take over the defense from Longmen to Xupu County, and rely on the guards of the Honghe Basin to ensure that the Linyi Kingdom cannot counterattack.

Again, Zhao Yun treated a letter of war written by Lu Su as a simple version of the letter of state and sent an envoy to King Linyi, which was a declaration of war, indicating that both sides would be in a state of war for a long time.

This attitude is very important because it means that the Han Dynasty did not recognize the advantage that Linyi Kingdom had taken before. Not taking it back for the time being does not mean that I don’t want it. Currently, the two sides are only military control lines, not border lines, and even ceasefire lines are not counted, because there is no ceasefire at all.

Finally, it is also a supplement to confirming the state of war. Lu Su's war letter stated that local officials in Jiaozhou in the Han Dynasty would cut off trade with Linyi State - in this regard, the Han Dynasty did not suffer any loss, because the specialties in Southeast Asia were basically produced in Jiaozhi County and the northern part of Jiuzhen County, and as for pearls, these are even better quality in Hepu, Guangxi.

Therefore, not importing Linyi goods will not lead to the lack of some kind of material in the Han Dynasty. Even the Linyi rice seeds found before are now enough to plant all the rice-producing areas and counties in the Liu Bei camp. The Linyi people have no capacity to threaten the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty only needs to encourage trade and exchange between the counties within the state, so that people can improve people's livelihood, create wealth and taxes.

In contrast, the Linyi people were very in need of goods from the Han Dynasty. Once coastal trade was banned, many things would be short of, and even the iron materials used to build weapons would not be enough.

After all these arrangements, Zhao Yun brought Jingzhou troops back north first, and Gao Shun also took Kunming Yi to the Honghe route back to the Dianchi Basin, and sent troops to prepare for spring plowing, so as not to delay the farming season.

After the Yuan Dynasty, Lu Su wrote the final report on the pacification of the Jiaozhou war and sent it to Luoyang. At the same time, he wrote a similar private message to Chang'an to report to the king.

The letter to Liu Bei was more informed than the memorial to the emperor, mainly involving some of Lu Su's personal outlooks, believing that if the Jiuzhen, Rinan, or even Linyi were to be completely recaptured in the future, it would be necessary to invest in the development of the South China Sea shipbuilding industry in Jiaozhou.

But Lu Su can only suggest a rhythm, and it is impossible to make a decision in person, because developing the shipbuilding industry will definitely require a lot of manpower and material resources. First, build merchant ships to ensure capital and recover their blood and accumulate experience, or directly build warships for the purpose of war. These are all subject to Liu Bei's decision-making.
Chapter completed!