Regarding the overnight withdrawal of more than 10,000 Linjiang defenders, the Chu State also had a "tacit understanding" and did not pursue it further...
With Tongluo Mountain blocking the way, it is not easy to march directly from Badong to Brazil. Generally speaking, one has to go south to Jiangzhou first, and then go north to Brazil from Jiangzhou, the center of Bajun.
However, the Jiangzhou Army marches slower and consumes more physical energy at all costs, and can cross mountains and ridges, while the Chu Army... is really not good at this!
In fact, it is not just the Jiangzhou Army, but the entire Yizhou Army. It can be regarded as the characteristics of the military branch derived from the population of the source area.
This is another reason why Yizhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack!
Unless he "smuggled" directly to Mianzhu like Deng Ai did in history - there is a road that leads directly to the capital and has no mountains.
Otherwise, after entering the interior of Yizhou, Yizhou's geographical advantages will definitely disappear, and even the geographical advantages will become more obvious.
Because they broke through those real "dead roads" and entered Yizhou, there were some hills and mountains where it was difficult for foreign troops to march, but the local troops only had "inconvenience in marching"!
Originally it was only easy to defend but difficult to attack, but after entering, if you choose a bad position and are attacked by the opponent in the mountains and forests, it will be difficult for your own side to attack and defend...
However, with Fazheng, Guo Huai and other staff around, they obviously would not give Yan Yan this chance.
During the previous "attack", Fazheng's tactics made Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and other major generals recognize his abilities.
Fa Zheng's plan in Linjiang was not just "bluffing" or "driving the tiger away from the mountain", but a series of links that took into account all Yan Yan's considerations!
If Yan Yan had pursued the two regiments left behind to escort the baggage out of the camp, the Chu army ambushing in the mountains would have come out to attack from both sides. The reason why the cattle and horses used to frighten the birds in the mountains were later discovered was because they deliberately left clues.
Cue the results of enemy scouts.
Yan Yan's only chance was to remain unmoved and persist for about ten days, and the Chu army could only come out of the mountains - after all... there was really no way!
The reason for this success is that Fazheng is well versed in the art of "difficult to know" and is best at this strategy of falsehood and reality. Secondly... it is also because the Chu State's compressed military rations are strong enough.
The amount of dry food that the Chu army could carry with them was definitely much longer than Yan Yan imagined. According to Yan Yan's common sense, without a baggage train, if it could only be carried by a single soldier, two or three days of military rations would be the limit.
The compressed military rations of the Chu army were made of sugar, oil, salt, and powdered grains, mixed and pressed.
Although it only tastes like calories and has no nutrition, so it cannot support long-term training or cultivation, but it is no problem to be full in a short time, and it is very convenient to carry.
As long as there is water, the Chu army's individual soldiers can carry enough rations to last for half a month...
After Yan Yan retreated and the battle was being consolidated, Guo Huai also performed well. He arrived in Badong not long ago, but quickly relied on sand table simulation to accurately determine the positions suitable for holding on - many of which were when the Chu army went there.
They all discovered the hidden military stronghold temporarily abandoned by the Jiangzhou Army!
It can be seen that Guo Huai's judgment is highly consistent with Bajun's long-term judgment, and... is more suitable for the Chu army.
The quickly deployed defensive line effectively withstood several small-scale tentative counterattacks by the Jiangzhou Army, causing Yan Yan, who had a low desire to attack, to completely switch to the defensive.
Afterwards, the Xinye Division turned around and headed southeast again, capturing Fuling!
In the end, after three months of fierce fighting in Bajun, the Chu army occupied Yufu, Quren, Linjiang, Pingdu, and Fuling in the southeast, which were the five counties in the eastern part of Bajun.
Unfortunately, Quren did not have the military reserves as imagined - Wen Pin was so angry that he even wrote an anonymous letter to Jiangzhou to report.
In addition, although Pingdu and Fuling did not completely clear the country, they also harvested immature rice ears. They cannot be expected to provide military supplies this year, but fortunately, the people of Bajun generally have relatively strong family backgrounds, so they will not be as poor as before.
Huainan, which Yuan Shu had harmed, was equally miserable.
Zhao Yun ordered the issuance of imperial examinations to calm the people, promote Chu learning, clarify the military regulations of the Chu army, and even encouraged the reporting of violations of discipline in the army. At the same time, he also began to organize in the three counties of Yufu, Quren, and Linjiang to provide sugar, salt, and dried meat.
Salted fish, Jiangdong brocade, etc., in exchange for food and grass...
The people of Bajun do have some wealth. Sugar, salt, dried meat, etc. are very popular among ordinary people. After all, the price of meat and salt are quite cost-effective. More importantly... the people originally thought that the Chu army would
Direct plunder, after all, Yizhou Prefecture usually smeared the Chu State.
However, now I see that the Chu army is just a transaction with a clearly marked price, and ordinary clans are also organizing it. When they have enough food in stock, they bite the bullet and eat meat once or twice - this is called "knowing the appearance".
However, ordinary people can’t afford Jiangdong Jin and so on, or in other words... they have no reason to consume!
Yizhou is originally the hometown of brocade. Why do ordinary people pay a lot of food for better-looking brocade?
Zhao Yun and others had already expected this, and they were mainly selling it to the big gentry - ordinary people knew what "knowledge" was, and these gentry were the ancestors of "knowledge".
What also surprised Zhao Yun a little was that in addition to brocade and gold and silver, Chu coins were unexpectedly very popular. Some nobles even accepted Zhao Yun's IOU in the name of Wancheng First Division.
Of course, Zhao Yun has no intention of not repaying the debt, but... to transport the Chu coins, it also requires transportation capacity and time!
"The reason why they accept Chu coins is because these families believe that Chu State can establish itself in Badong, even in Bajun, and Yizhou. In this way, once the trade routes are opened in the future, Chu coins will naturally be of great use... Use them now
When trading Chu coins, we give them a premium." Fazheng reminded.
"How come the nobles of Bajun have so much confidence in our great Chu? If all the great clans in Yizhou are like this, why worry about the injustice in Yizhou!" Zhao Yun said happily, with a beaming look that showed his sincerity.
After all, I have seen a lot of the prudence of the noble clans, and after hearing this good news, I can't help but feel that the Chu Kingdom has been "destined to return."
However, Fazheng looked at Zhao Yun and poured cold water on it: "What I just said is a normal idea. The reason why they accepted Chu coins is indeed their confidence in the Chu country, but the other five points... are also hope.
'We know they have confidence in Chu State'!"
What Fazheng said was a bit hard to pronounce, but after Zhao Yun thought about it for a while, he understood what Fazheng meant - it was just a disguised form of surrender.
Accepting Chu coins means accepting Chu State and having confidence in Chu State. This confidence is real, but it is more to show that one has confidence in Chu State and even has a sense of belonging - after all, Badong is now in Chu State.
under the control of.
What's more, Chu coins are very valuable.
Even if Yizhou prohibits trading with the Chu State, which one of these great noble families doesn't have their own way? If they really can't go to the Chu State, they can't go to Guanxi, and they can't go to the Central Plains? Then the Chu coins will naturally be spent!
Even if Yizhou expels the Chu army in the future, they will not lose money, and the Yizhou government will not be able to pursue their transactions during the Chu army's occupation...
If the people of Badong are said to have "little wealth", then these local gentry can really be called "fat"!
Well, if you think about it carefully, the treasury of Quren did not "disappear"... but was transferred to the homes of these nobles!
On the one hand, these grains were used for military purposes, and on the other hand, the Chu army also "lent" part of the grain to Pingdu and Fuling, which had suffered man-made disasters.
As for the collateral, it is naturally the next year’s grain tax.
Zhao Yun also used the "Jieyue" given to him by Bai Tu before the expedition, which was the symbol of the "Governor-General's military and administrative privileges", to announce the division of Yufu, Quren, Linjiang, Pingdu, and Fuling counties into five counties: Chu.
·Badong County”!
Obviously, he does not intend to grab a sum and leave, but he really wants to incorporate this place into the Chu State and has no intention of leaving...
In theory, the treatment of the people of Badong County is the same as that of other people in Chu State, but... Badong County has been temporarily divided into a war preparation area, and the grain tax has been raised to three taxes per ten, instead of the common tax of fifteen in Chu State.
one.
However, the overcharged part is also promised to be returned in the form of reduction or exemption in fractions of years after the division of combat readiness zones is lifted.
Similarly, the "expropriation" of corvee manpower was twice as heavy...
In addition, other aspects of control are also stricter, and the distribution of corvee manpower does not follow Chu State's "minimum infrastructure ratio" - Chu State has certain requirements for the proportion of manpower that must be used for local project construction after it is collected.
Yes, but in the combat readiness area, the focus will definitely be on auxiliary military supplies, and there will be no rush for construction with slow results.
In addition, Badong must still be unstable. The Chu army did not immediately clarify the land area and conduct a thorough population survey. The most they meant was to allocate some wasteland to the people who had too little land.
Although they were treated differently, they did not cause any backlash.
After all, the original grain tax in Yizhou was one ten tax, but because Bajun wanted to maintain the number of troops, it had to collect another ten tax one, as well as various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The Chu army recorded an increase in the grain tax on its books.
It’s not much, but considering the actual collection, because those messy taxes have been cancelled, for ordinary people, there is actually no increase at all!
It is equivalent to not raising taxes and promising to reduce them sharply in the future. Even if the people don't believe in what will happen in the future, there will certainly not be too much dissatisfaction.
If I must say I am unhappy, it is out of envy, jealousy and hatred after knowing the true food tax of the people of Chu State...
And although there is definitely no spare time to carry out other large-scale local projects, the "Shennong Essence" is also being transported to Badong!
Transporting Shennong's essence is more cost-effective than transporting grain - after all, Shennong's essence can increase Badong's yield per acre, and Bashu's already fertile land can be "exchanged" for much more grain than Shennong's essence.
In this way, there is basically no need to transport staple food into Badong, which greatly saves transportation capacity. Although it cannot support more troops, it is more than enough to maintain the size of two divisions.
Especially after the Shennong Essence takes effect in the coming year, the Chu Army will also completely turn Badong into its home field in terms of popular support!
However, the defense line with Jiangzhou as the core did resist the Chu army's further offensive. If the 20,000 Chu army wanted to break through Jiangzhou, it would definitely not be possible to rely on a force attack. What's more, if there is a force attack, military supplies will not be sufficient. They must either increase troops or...
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