It doesn't matter whether Huang Silang's body dies. When Huang Silang's substitute is regarded as beheading in public, he is already dead in the hearts of the minions.

Whether Zhang Xian's body died or not was also not important. When he was shot and fell by Gan Ning, in the hearts of the soldiers of the Jingnan Alliance Army, Liu Jingsheng and Liu Envoy had the final say.

Of course, it also includes Guan Yu, who is nominally appearing in a posture of "drawing a sword to help Liu Jingzhou when he sees injustice."

This is why Liu Bei and Guan Yu had to make friends with Liu Biao when they left the gorge. The great title appointed by the court is now easy to use. With this title and a small amount of troops, they can use conscientiousness to punish rebels and double the effect of enlarging the military value.

At most, in another year, there will be no good thing in this world that "the imperial edict of the court can allow a person who has no foundation in the local area to ride alone into the state to gain power." This window period will be completely closed soon.

(Note: I know someone will give Liu Yao an example. Liu Yao was indeed able to enter the state by Li Jue’s appointment three years later, but he was quickly killed by Sun Ce who disobeyed Yuan Shu. Therefore, the attempted case cannot be included. The final window period for completion is Liu Biao, Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Du.)

With Zhang Xian's fall, ordinary soldiers of the Jingnan Alliance fled like headless flies, or directly knelt down and surrendered. The resistance of the foreign camp collapsed and exploded.

The soldiers in the inner camp protected by the chariots and a small group of sect leaders were clearly seen nearby. They knew that Zhang Xian was just falling off the stage and wanted to resist it.

But this is nothing more than just the idea of ​​Guan Yu. There are 25,000 people in the Qishan camp, including the wounded soldiers. There are about 20,000 people in the outer camp, and the wounded soldiers are also in the outer camp. There are only 5,000 people in the inner camp, with Zhang Xian’s most direct line.

Guan Yu wished those thieves to be strong to the end, so that they could kill them all. He fought with the rabbit and killed the powerful men in Lingling Guiyang and others, so as to avoid traveling thousands of miles to the south of Hunan and even the five ridges to chase him.

The 20,000 people from the outer camp either fled or surrendered. The soldiers who surrendered from the fire immediately drove them to the inner camp. Guan Yu didn't even have to pay much casualties from his own direct troops, so he let the New Affiliated Army and the Dead Sect thieves flee internally.

The bloody battle lasted until the beginning of Chen Shi. The sky was completely bright and the inner camp was killed so blood was flowing. Zhang Xian and a group of sect leaders were all killed in the chaos. At least five or six thousand people were killed in the battle overnight, and most of them were killed in the chaos.

Guan Yu's Danyang soldiers suffered less than a thousand casualties, and there were only more than 200 people who died in battle, and more than 100 were seriously injured. It is estimated that they cannot be cured. The rest are all minor injuries that can be saved. After all, these Danyang soldiers are all wearing leather armor, and their survivability is much stronger than those of the unarmed enemy.

In addition to the casualties and injuries, a small half of the more than 20,000 people from the Jingnan Alliance fled, and nearly 10,000 were surrendered and captured.

Guan Yu was also afraid that there would be too many people to control it? He confiscated the weapons first? Then he divided them into several batches and treated them.

He first picked out the Wulingman under Jin Xuan's tent, and there were about two thousand people in this part.

Because according to the conditions agreed with Liu Biao before? Wuling County was originally to be ceded to Liu Bei's camp? The surrendered troops could naturally be incorporated. Jin Xuan also died in the chaos, so it would not be difficult for Guan Yu to control Wuling County again.

Guan Yu was picky and choose? He captured a barbarian chief officer from the captives, with his surname Sha? He couldn't pronounce the name Guan Yu clearly. So he asked him to lead these Wuling barbarians for the time being.

The remaining seven or eight thousand prisoners were mostly soldiers and powerful forces in Lingling and Guiyang County, and a few were under the Huarong thief Bei Yu who escaped to join friendly forces when Xiling City was broken.

The soldiers of the Huarong thief Bei Yu, and the soldiers of the Baqiu thief Su Dai in Yiling City that have not been captured yet? The two parts may have three or five thousand people in total - the total number is not known yet? Because it depends on how many people will stand to the end in the subsequent process of breaking the city of Yiling City, and how many people will directly surrender. If the soldiers do not kill Yiling, then the total number of prisoners of these two sect thieves can be 5,000.

These people are from Nanjun, so there is no doubt that they will be handed over to Liu Biao's general Wen Pin and Wang Wei. Guan Yu did not care about this surrendered soldiers? For the sake of Liu Bei's camp's external image and diplomatic reputation, they would not be detained.

And the remaining soldiers of Lingling County and Guiyang County can be discussed. Guan Yu can claim that the military rations are insufficient, and after being caught, he confiscated his weapons and dismissed him on the spot, and Liu Biao could not investigate.

If Liu Biao wants it? Then you can also exchange it for more conditions, everything can be discussed.

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After breaking through the Yishan camp, Guan Yu was not in a hurry to negotiate with Liu Biao? How many more days is he going to take to capture Yiling first.

After Guan Yu's army arrived at Yiling City, they did not intend to attack for force. They just surrounded the west of the city first, and then let the troops gradually extend the camp to the north and south sides of the city.

Then Su Dai in the city knew that Zhang Xian was dead, and he also carried Zhang Xian's head in public with a pole to let the soldiers in the city look around, disintegrating the morale of the defenders.

Su Dai knew that there were no reinforcements outside, and he was no longer in a fight. He quickly took advantage of the situation where Guan Yu's army had just completed the "three sieges and one siege" and was about to join the last side, and grabbed a time difference to lead one or two thousand direct troops and more than a hundred cavalry officers, and broke through with his confidant.

Su Dai's troops did not escape much. Most of the people who broke through the siege were chased and intercepted, and only the horsemen escaped. Su Dai ran to Chanling area, snatched some civilian ships and went straight back to Baqiu. Guan Yu did not chase him. It is estimated that the total number of people who followed Su Dai would not exceed 500.

The abandoned troops in Yiling City were not willing to fight. Guan Yu commanded the flying ladder to attack the city and charged for only two battles before climbing the city. The soldiers surrendered one after another.

After rectifying all the prisoners, Guan Yu called Liu Biao's other disciple Yi Ji.

Guan Yu: "Mr. Jibo, there are 4,000 prisoners of war here, all of whom are subordinates of Huarong thief Bei Yu and Baqiu thief Su Dai. Since they are from Nanjun, they should return the jade to Zhao. Our army will send a ship to the river today. If you can reply to Liu Jingzhou, please ask the two generals Wang to accept it."

Yiji bowed and thanked: "General of the Western Expedition and General Guan are really righteous men in the world. They are trustworthy. The prisoners of war captured by the army during the pacification of the clan are returned in full. Liu Jingzhou is definitely satisfied and is willing to maintain a long-term alliance with the army."

Guan Yu: "Since that's the case, I will go to Jiangling with my husband, so that I can meet Liu Jingzhou in person to make a clear payment. It will also facilitate our army to pass through Jiangling in the future and go north to Xiangyang to challenge Dong."

Yiji said there was no problem.

Liu showed that he had no direct armed forces, and because of the ally Liu Bei and Guan Yu, he was willing to help him kill the sect thieves and clear the situation, Liu Biao did not even do the marriage with the Cai family, and has not been controlled by Cai Mao to this day.

Maybe he felt that there was no need to marry Cai Mao's sister again, nor did he have to indulge the Cai Mao clan. Only Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue were still valued by Liu Biao and officially won over. Anyway, these two people would not rebel without military power.

Wang Wei is Liu Biao's fellow villager, like Yi Ji, and he is an outsider. He takes office with Liu Biao, so his loyalty is fine. Although Wen Pin is from Nanyang County and is considered a local Jingzhou, he is willing to be loyal to Liu Biao. Giving these two people 4,000 direct troops and coordinating with the title of the governor of Jingzhou can completely support the scene.

Therefore, when Yiji arrived in Jiangling with the prisoners of war returned by Guan Yu as promised, Liu Biao received them personally with great demeanor, and mentioned his friendship with Liu Bei at all times, acknowledging all the existing exchange conditions, and leaving Guan Yu to have a banquet together.

However, Liu Biao was also a good man, so he naturally had other information channels, knowing that Guan Yu had also captured more direct prisoners of Zhang Xian's subordinates.

While drinking, Liu Biao blew indirectly: "General Guan, I heard that Zhang Xian's troops have many soldiers captured him, so I wonder how to deal with it?"

Guan Yu put down his cup and stroked his beard: "I see that most of the soldiers were from Lingling, and many of them were just villagers. They were forced to be enlisted as soldiers by Zhang Xian's levies and were not very worthy of fighting. Some of them were self-inflicted, so they were left to return to Lingling village. After all, our army came from Wu County and came thousands of miles away. There was insufficient food and grass, so we could not raise so many prisoners who had idle food for a long time."

Liu Biao felt a secret regret, but he was very cunning, and there was no expression on the surface, nor was he blamed: "It's a pity. After the army left the gorge, most of the counties occupied by the counties were mountainous, and the grain was insufficient, so it was unable to supply the army.

But the Jingxiang area is actually fertile and abundant. Now it is time to use troops again, so how can I not afford it? Let’s do this. When our army divided the boundary between Yidu County and Nanjun, I really didn’t think about it with Yiling County as the boundary.

I would like to assign Chanling and Lexiang counties, which were originally located in Nanjun, south of the Yangtze River, to Yidu County, and under the jurisdiction of the Gui Army. These two counties are located between Yidu and Wuling, on both sides of the Youjiang River, which are a plain formed by the silt Yunmeng Lake. The land is fertile and sufficient to provide food and support soldiers.

The prisoners of Zhang Xian's army that the army cannot afford can be handed over to Wang Wei's jurisdiction. Maybe our army will follow him to challenge Dong in the spring of next year."

The two counties mentioned by Liu Biao are located on both sides of the Youjiang River, and the Yangtze River across the Yangtze River was the later Gong'an County. Because the ancient Yunmengze was many times larger than the later Dongting Lake, these two counties are also considered alluvial plains left by the ancient Yunmengze after the deterioration, and the land is very fertile.

Liu Biao's suggestion was obviously to directly abandon the two counties of Nanjun on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the area of ​​the mouth of the Youjiang River, and to divide the river with Liu Bei here to manage it.

Of course, Lingling and Guiyang, the southernmost part of Jingnan, were nominally obtained by Liu Biao. After all, they were two counties, so it was too reluctant to give up. His psychological price could only be used at most one or two counties to exchange for vitality.

However, after ceding the surrounding area of ​​Chanling to Yidu County, Liu Biao temporarily lost the passage to Lingling and Guiyang. Because the land on the south bank of the Yangtze River west of Dongting Lake basically belonged to Liu Bei, and the land on the Yangtze River east of Dongting Lake was from Changsha Prefect Sun Jian. In the future, Liu Biao had to tear a hole by Dongting Lake in the edge of Dongting Lake to control Lingling and Guiyang along Dongting Lake-Xiangjiang.

Guan Yu did not expect that Liu Biao was quite generous and even cut two counties at once - counties are different. The counties on the Dongting Lake plain are much fertile than the mountainous counties in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

Guan Yu: "Since that's the case, our army still has six or seven thousand prisoners under Zhang Xian's subordinates before they can release them, so they will leave them to the envoy for disposal. In addition, please send a letter to Yuan Highway, which can be regarded as a testimony. Just say that our army has cleared the obstacles along the way to fight Dong in the Northern Expedition, and the envoy will support us in transit to fight Dong, so that Yuan Highway can rest assured."

Liu Biao: "These are all small things, come and drink."
Chapter completed!