Xu Wei stayed in Yizhou for more than half a year. All the noble families in Yizhou were cleared out by Xu Wei. Most of these people went to Sili Liangzhou and the Western Regions, especially those who were demoted to the Western Regions. It was almost impossible Back to the Central Plains again.
The wealthy nobles who rebelled in Nanzhong did not cause much trouble. After all, a rebellion without the support of the people could not grow stronger. Xu Wei completely captured the hearts of the people of Yizhou in Juntian, while Yang Hong and other wealthy nobles The only thing that can be given to them is war. The people of Yizhou are very clear about the gains and losses of such benefits!
Many times, the enemies on the front line would surrender in groups, not only to survive, but also to get the 100 acres of farmland. These soldiers were worried that they would surrender too late and all the good fields in Yizhou would be taken away. After all, the Yizhou Plain is also Chengdu. The land around is good.
Therefore, under Fuyun's attack, Yang Hong and the others persisted for less than three months before being annihilated by Fuyun. Fuyun even captured many Nanman soldiers. Under the powerful military power of Daqian, soldiers like Meng Huo and others The Nanman leaders can only surrender like floating clouds one by one!
After Nanzhong was pacified, Xu Wei did not let Fuyun come back. Instead, he ordered Fuyun to guard Nanzhong as the governor of Nanzhong. The captured prisoners of war also kept Nanzhong and asked them to open sugar cane plantations in Nanzhong. Xu Wei remembered that it seemed like In later generations, there were a large number of sugar cane plantations here in China, and the situation in Yizhou quickly stabilized.
After Yizhou was stabilized, Xu Wei did not return to Jidu, but went south to Jingzhou to preside over the continued encirclement and suppression of the remaining forces of the Han Dynasty!
After Yizhou was captured, the Han emperors were all captured by Da Gan. This was a fatal blow to the morale of the Han army. After the news reached Jingzhou, the morale of the Han people on the Jingzhou front line completely collapsed. The defense lines of Nanyang County and Jiangxia County were defeated by Da Gan. After the collapse, the front line of the Daqian Army was pushed directly to the front line of Xiangyang and Fancheng.
But before Zhang Fei could take a breath, he rushed in to chase Liu Bei with Da Gan's army. They had already caught up with Yu Fu. Da Gan's army was about to enter Jingzhou. This news made the morale of the defenders in Jingzhou completely gone. Da Gan's army was all After entering Nanjun, what's the use of holding Xiangyang!
With the morale of the army low, Zhang Fei defended Xiangyang City for less than a month. Xiangyang and Fancheng were attacked one after another. Zhang Fei took a few remaining defeated soldiers and fled to Nanjun to meet Liu Bei's remaining troops. The two brothers met for the first time in two years. , but the two hugged each other and cried.
There was no time left for them to grieve. Guan Hai led an army of 50,000 to pursue them, and Yang Feng also led an army of hundreds of thousands to pursue them to Nanjun. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei could only lead their armies to retreat to Changsha. The county! Relying on the dense water network of Changshi, complex terrain and poor road conditions, it could barely resist the pursuit of the Daqian army.
And Guan Yu in Yangzhou could not resist the increasingly powerful Daqian Army. The Yangzhou Army, which had reached its limit, heard that the Emperor was captured and General Liu Bei was defeated, and his morale plummeted. Guan Yu's 50,000 Yangzhou Army was defeated. They were defeated and the Yangzhou defense line collapsed.
Guan Yu relied on the power of the navy to escape to Yuzhang County with his remaining defeated generals. However, Fan Xian and Wang Lei did not intend to let Guan Yu go and continued to pursue him from behind. They were determined not to give up until they caught Guan Yu!
It can be said that the Han's defense line completely collapsed at this time, and the few tens of thousands of troops were hunted down by the hundreds of thousands of elites of the Han army. If Yangzhou and Jingzhou were not highly developed, there were too many wildernesses around them, and the territory was vast, and Liu Bei has not given up resistance yet, which is why the Daqian army has not yet achieved a comprehensive victory after breaking through the Jiangnan defense line!
But Liu Bei and the others were already struggling to their death, and no one in the world believed that the big man could come back to life.
The apes on both sides of the bank can't stop crying, and the boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.
The Yangtze River waterway is the main artery of the entire south. After Yizhou was captured by Daqian, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River was controlled by Daqian.
The rocks that hindered the movement of boats were blown up by Daqian with gunpowder, so that there was no obstacle to traveling down the river from Yizhou. Xu Wei was the Jiangling City in Jingzhou that came all the way down from Jiangzhou!
At this time, Yang Feng greeted Xu Wei at Jiangling Pier early after receiving the news!
Yang Feng saw Xu Wei getting off the boat and said excitedly: "Zhi Zhi, you are finally here!"
Xu Wei looked at Yang Feng and said with a smile: "You fought well. I thought you would stay under Xiangyang City for a year and a half!"
This is Xu Wei's real thought. Xiangyang was originally a strong city, and then it became the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty. It was reinforced by Liu Bei. According to Xu Wei's estimation, Xiangyang City should be as strong as Chengdu in later generations when it resisted the Mongol army. After years of city defense, even if Yang Feng now has naval artillery in his hands, it will only take 1-2 years to break through Xiangyang City. But he did not expect that such a strong Xiangyang City would be broken after resisting for a month!
Yang Feng said with a smile: "This is thanks to the merits of being in power. Originally, the defenses of Xiangyang and Fancheng were extremely strong, but after the Han army heard that the Han Emperor was captured, the morale of the Han army became worse day by day. This is the case in Fancheng. I seized the opportunity to break through. Although Xiangyang City resisted for a while longer, the Han army also knew that after the defeat of Yizhou, Jingzhou could not hold on for long. There were not many people who wanted to continue to hold on like Zhang Fei. Xiangyang The city was breached by me when the Han soldiers who wanted to surrender opened the city gates, otherwise Nanjun would not have been so easily breached!"
Xu Wei continued to ask: "Is there any fighting on the front line? Is Liu Bei still continuing to resist?"
Yang Feng also said helplessly: "Liu Bei is too stubborn. The big man has no way to save himself. He still refuses to give up resistance. He and Zhang Fei fled to Changsha County and continued to resist."
"As for Changsha County, there are dense water networks, numerous swamps, and poor roads. It is not suitable for large armies to advance at all. Even if our army has hundreds of thousands of troops in Jingzhou, it is difficult to enter Changsha County. Now Guan Hai leads 2 Ten thousand troops are attacking Changsha County, but the effect is not very good."
"There are too many hills and mountains in Changsha County. Liu Bei's prestige among the barbarians in Jingzhou is too high. After he came to Changsha County, he relied on three thousand remaining soldiers to defeat the generals. He actually recruited tens of thousands more barbarian soldiers and restored some combat effectiveness. Guan Hai Although the soldiers in his hands can suppress Liu Bei, it is difficult to destroy Liu Bei. Now Guan Hai is also worried that Liu Bei will flee to Wuling County and Jiaozhou. These places are surrounded by mountains. Wuling County is said to have 100,000 mountains. Plus Liu Bei If Liu Bei's reputation among the barbarians is allowed to wander to these places, it will be even more difficult to catch him!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yang Feng said with an annoyed look on his face. He has never seen a more stubborn person than Liu Bei. After all, Liu Bei is also the overlord of the party. He has been defeated like this. You draw your sword.
You can be considered a hero if you kill yourself, and you can be considered a hero if you admit defeat.
But now Liu Bei is as if he cannot afford to lose. He only has more than 10,000 remnant troops and he still has to struggle with the defeated generals. This is not like the third-rate ranger in the north who cannot afford to lose. It has simply lowered his status. Now Yang Feng looks down on him very much.
Liu Bei is here!
Xu Wei did not find it strange that Liu Bei was so stubborn. In the Battle of Dangyang in history, Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao again and his entire army was wiped out. However, he had no intention of surrendering to Cao Cao. Instead, he went to Jiangxia County to recover his strength and continued to fight against Cao Cao.
But now Liu Bei still has more than 10,000 people in his hands and several counties in the south. It is much better than what he had in history!
Yan Liang behind Yang Feng said helplessly: "It's March now, and the rainy season in the south is coming soon. I'm afraid Guan Hai's army will retreat soon. If Liu Bei is given a few months to breathe, Liu Bei will definitely recover."
Now, it will be very difficult to catch Liu Bei this year!"
Wen Chou said helplessly: "We are not stable in Jingzhou either. Jingzhou is dotted with hundreds of thousands of forts. These people were originally the noble families of the Central Plains, and we drove them to Jingzhou. Now it has taken them more than ten years to
Time has rebuilt the Wubao and the manor in Jingzhou, but now we are in Jingzhou again. They hate us extremely. If we don't uproot them, our rear will not be stable!"
Even if Liu Bei is defeated as he is now, the noble families in Jingzhou still support Liu Bei. As long as Liu Bei is given a few months, relying on the support of these noble families, Liu Bei will quickly recover and produce tens of thousands of troops.
Because all the noble families in Jingzhou knew that as long as Liu Bei was not caught, the army would not have the energy to deal with them. Therefore, Liu Bei had supporters everywhere in Jingzhou. Although they did not dare to support Liu Bei openly, they secretly supported the soldiers.
However, the matter of horse money and food has never been stopped. Yang Feng and others obviously knew this, so they wanted to catch Liu Bei in one go.
"The noble families of the Central Plains? I never thought that I would be able to meet these old friends ten years later!" Xu Wei also sighed. The initial capital for the development of the Daqian Army was provided by these noble families. Without them, Xu Wei would not be able to survive in Mayi.
It can’t develop that fast!
Xu Wei said calmly: "Have these aristocrats developed in Jingzhou? Have they restored their original strength?"
Yang Fengwei said: "The strength cannot be said to be completely restored, but it is not bad. In terms of military strength alone, they are even ten times stronger than before. Of course, this alone will not make the subordinates worry about them. After all, we have a large military competition.
Even when they were dozens of times stronger, my subordinates could still suppress them easily, but the situation in Jingzhou is complicated and it is difficult for us to use the Central Plains methods to deal with them!"
Then Yang Feng told Xu Wei the problems he faced in Jingzhou!
Jingzhou is completely different from the Central Plains. Excluding Nanyang County and Nanjun, the population of the other seven counties is only about one million. This population density is the same as that of Xiliang. It can be said that the area south of Nanjun is larger than the grassland.
To be honest, these places are completely the territory of barbarians.
This situation had to wait for Liu Bei to improve, and after Da Qian drove all the noble families from the Central Plains to Jingzhou, these noble families from the Central Plains, in order to restore their original strength, opened up the areas south of Jingzhou one by one with arms, and then Coupled with Liu Bei's Sinicization of the Southern Barbarians, Jingzhou experienced a golden decade of development. Both the population and food in Jingzhou skyrocketed. That is to say, relying on Jingzhou, Liu Bei was able to recover quickly despite repeated defeats in the Central Plains. strength!
These aristocratic clans just wanted to develop with arms, and there were more barbarians than Han people around them. In this way, they could not wait to maintain a strong military force. Even their forts were built extremely solidly, and the base was covered within one foot. Built with rocks weighing hundreds of kilograms, it is difficult for ordinary artillery to blow up such a fort, and crowbars are powerless against such a fort.
Yang Feng observed several forts in Jingzhou and found that even if a battalion of soldiers surrounded these forts, it would be difficult to break them without fighting for a year and a half, and to break such a fort would require huge casualties. , and there are thousands of such forts throughout Jingzhou. Even if all the hundreds of thousands of troops in Yang Feng's hands are used up, they may not be able to capture these forts! So now Yang Feng also feels very embarrassed!
After Xu Wei understood this, he immediately thought of the castles of knights in the Middle Ages. The wealthy nobles in Jingzhou were still enlarged versions of the castles, and they were also castles that were resistant to crowbars and artillery. It didn't mean that these castles couldn't be captured, it was just not cost-effective!
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "What is the attitude of these noble families in Jingzhou towards us occupying Jingzhou? Have they approached you?"
Yang Feng smiled bitterly and said: "I am very worried. Since our army occupied Nanjun, all the fortresses of the noble families in Jingzhou have closed their city gates and are waiting for our arrival. Of course, it is not difficult to eliminate these noble families. We can kill them." Just lock it up."
"But my subordinates have seen the household registration book of Jingzhou. Liu Bei has naturalized 3 million Nanman in Jingzhou alone in the past ten years. This does not include the Nanman who were already naturalized. The entire Jingzhou has more Nanman and fewer Han people. Liu Bei relies on it. It was Wubao, which was spread throughout Jingzhou's noble families, that suppressed the rebellion of the Southern Barbarians and allowed them to stay in peace and become Han people."
"Now that we, the Dagan, have occupied Jingzhou, if we remove all the forts of these noble families, it will be equivalent to releasing the chains that have trapped the Southern Barbarians and driving away millions of people from the noble families. I am afraid that Jingzhou will become a Nanman’s territory!”
"What's even more frightening is that these Southern Barbarians have been Sinicized by Liu Bei, and their ideas are almost the same as those of our Dagan people. If they think they are powerful and establish a Southern Barbarian country in the south of the Yangtze River, then our Dagan people in the south will have to A strong enemy has appeared."
"It is because of the current environment in Jingzhou that even if we, the Dagan, occupy this place, we still have to rely on these powerful nobles to suppress the Southern Barbarians. Therefore, my subordinates have resorted to rat-proof tactics, fearing that the strength of our Dagan people will be weakened and the Southern Barbarians will benefit. This is why It’s hard to deal with these powerful noble families!”
Under the guidance of Xu Wei for many years, Yang Feng and others had a large political structure. It can be naturally seen that Jingzhou can be said to be a newly developed land at this time. The power to attack the powerful gentry is the power to attack their large cadres.
But retaining these powerful nobles is not in line with the policy of Daqian. If they are retained, their strength will definitely cross the Yangtze River in a few decades. When they come to the Central Plains again, maybe a hundred years later, Daqian will have another fight. The Civil War!