The team set up camp in Yongxi. There are three rivers in Yongxi. Due to the war, the water conservancy facilities have long been in ruins. The more than one million acres of cultivated land originally developed by the Chu State here can still be used, maybe not even ten percent of it.
None.
The culprit who caused all this was Wu Wei Wang Gouchen.
When the old monster was fighting for his life against the Chu people, he pulled out all the Wu Jia who could maneuver and fight. He successfully fought in Baiju, and then set out from Baiju to conquer Yingdu in nine days.
During this period, a bunch of younger brothers were also recruited to share the stolen goods. The main area where the stolen goods were divided was the Yongxi area in eastern Han Dynasty.
They looted this place, not even a single seed was left behind, and when they left, they dug up three slugs, making a total of two groups.
One group is called Cai people, and the other group is called Tang people.
This is why Li Jie attacked Cai, and so many Huaishang countries were trembling. Only Tang State was in the most complicated mood, and had a close relationship with Sui Tang. Zeng Shan, the official of Sui State, personally sent the princess to President Li to warm his bed, but Tang State was still hesitant.
Yu Niannian, the problem lies here.
They and Cai Guo still had a pretty good revolutionary friendship back then.
At this time, the evil spirits from the southeast came to the Han River again. Before Yongxi, someone Li took the opportunity to commemorate the great achievements of the late king, so he set up a formation here and held a sacrifice.
The ceremony was very grand, and many people came. In addition to those who wanted to eat and drink, there were also a large number of natives from Handong who had a hard time surviving the winter.
Unlike the aristocrats of the Chu State who would loot everything at every turn, the Han army had very strict discipline. When the quartermaster went to the countryside to purchase, he would either barter or pay for it. In short, he did not forcibly plunder in the name of "expropriation"
One thing.
This approach had no effect at first, and some powerful people from Chu even led a crowd to ambush them.
It's a pity that even a small group of crocodile men, ten crocodile men, faced hundreds of natives and massacred them unilaterally.
These indigenous people basically do not have weapons and equipment that can defeat the crocodile people.
After several rounds of extermination of die-hard elements, the entire Yongxi area finally had a clear, intuitive, and clear understanding of the power of the Han army.
A large number of powerful people were eliminated, and the local Tu people who had heard of the move in the surrounding areas were probably hurting others. They were afraid that their small actions would cause Li Jie to misunderstand, so they sent their direct blood relatives to ask for surrender.
This created a situation. When Li Jie opened his battle array and offered sacrifices to Wu Wei King Gouchen on the banks of the Han River, the mood of the three generations of Chu people, old, middle and young, was extremely complicated.
However, after hearing that "forced service" could reduce the Hanzi Kingdom's taxes for the coming year, these Tu people were obviously unhappy, but they still chose to send their children to "serve" and contribute to Li Jie's sacrificial activities.
Winter is quite cold. Organizing a large-scale event is a test in itself, which requires great attention to the organizer's strength and background.
Many Tu people had a good idea. Since the Han army provided food and accommodation, it was a good idea to go to work.
It not only saves the young people's rations in winter, but also exempts them from taxes in the coming year. It kills two birds with one stone, which is not a bad thing.
So knowing that Li Jie was offering sacrifices to King Wu Wei, he just pinched his nose and let it go.
The news that Li Jie was stationed in Yongxi soon spread to Yingdu, Shangbo, Shenlu, Pusao, Saqqi and other places. Zeng Shan, the senior official of Sui State, was determined to surrender and ceded the green forest to Hanzi State.
It shared the traditional communication systems of Wu and Hanzi.
A large number of riding biographies and boat biographies can also be borrowed by Sui Guo.
This allowed Sui Guo to quickly learn the news from the south. Li Jie planned to sacrifice King Wu Wei in Yongxi. In the opinion of Sui Guo's senior official Zeng Shan, this might be a clear attitude. Li Jie's status and power were
From Wu Wei Wang Gouchen.
The breakup between Han and Wu may be in the spring.
However, the possibility of Han and Wu attacking each other suddenly became very low.
Because Li Jie used his own power to dismember the Chu State and beat it into a cripple.
It perfectly reproduced the glorious achievements of Wu Wei King Gou Chen and did it better, completely making Chu State lose the opportunity to return to its roots.
The Wu people who were operating within Li Jie's sphere of influence had quite complicated emotions at this time. They wanted to criticize Li Jie as a rebellious minister, but they had to admit that Li Jie was out the whole time and the territory was conquered by violent means.
No piece of land is obtained out of thin air without paying any price.
If we insist on saying so, we can only say that the fiefdom of Li Jie's son Li Lei was a reward from Wu Wei King Gouchen.
In such a complicated situation, Zeng Shan, the senior official of the country, made a bold judgment that the complicated struggle in the Wangji area of Wu State might cause Hanzi State to quickly annex Wu State and then digest it internally.
However, it is not known whether this digestion process will be gentle.
Because now in Huaizhong City, the talent selection examination has ended. Along with the Chu-Han peace talks, it seems that there will be a new spring exam. The specific time has not been announced, but the exam syllabus has been circulated from Huaizhong City.
Jianghuai Yingcai, who were still hesitant last time, is now working hard and plans to go to Huaizhong City to study first, take a crash course for three months, and then catch up with the spring enrollment expansion, and maybe catch up with this batch of job placements
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Master Zeng made two preparations. On the one hand, he sent a large number of young people to Huaizhong City, and on the other hand, he personally organized a group to go south with great fanfare, intending to personally participate in Li Jie's sacrifice to King Gou Chen of Wu Wei.
Starting from Xishui, we went straight down the river and arrived at Pusao with the envoy of the state official Zeng Shan. We then took a small boat and followed the crocodile man guide to the west to Yongxi.
The camp in Yongxi at this time was already quite well-organized and quite large in scale. When the people from the country arrived, they almost thought there was a small town here.
The old master looked from a distance and found that these camps were built based on the mountains and rivers. The most important one was that some water camps had been built at the river bends.
Although it is only temporary in nature, the attitude is very clear that it is likely to be converted into a permanent fortification.
Just looking at this move, Master Zeng concluded that sooner or later the Han Dynasty would have to fight the Chu Kingdom again, and the next attack on the Chu Kingdom might be a battle to destroy the country.
"Old Master, this man led the troops to attack, why are you making such a fuss here?"
This time, the person holding the halberd to protect Old Master Zeng was his grandson.
Seeing that his grandson was very puzzled, Zeng Shan thought for a moment and asked instead of answering: "Is it strange that since the Han army refused to submit to the expedition, why did it alarm the heroes in the grassland, lest they would not know the movements of the Han army?"
"Exactly, please ask the ancestor to clarify my doubts."
"When the Han army arrived at Yongxi, although the Han army ignored it, I heard that of the twenty-six tribes in Yongxi, eleven have gone and fifteen are left. It can be seen that the power of the Han army cannot be competed by the local grass. This is the case.
, Every time the Han army came to a place, they would sit and lie down at home, but they did not see the bandits, so they knew that the rest of the army was frightened and did not dare to act arrogantly."
Old Master Zeng, with a serious face, brushed his beard and said, "I left the people who followed the country and went south, but no bandits plundered us. The reason... I am afraid it is because we led the people to worship King Wu Wei."
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Zeng Shan's grandson, holding the halberd in his hand, suddenly thought deeply and slightly understood that the man Li Jie might have deliberately exposed his whereabouts and allowed the powerful Chu people to come to assassinate and besiege him.
The previous incident of the Yongxi Tu tribe attacking the crocodile people may be what the man Li Jie wants to see.
As for now, the Tu tribe around Yongxi do not dare to try to attack Li Jie's team at all. Even the lone crocodile people must be careful when seeing them, lest this is "fishing for law enforcement."
There are actually some things that you wouldn’t believe if you didn’t experience them yourself.
Even a team of five crocodiles could easily defeat more than 200 young men from ten villages who thought they were armed.
Those who have experienced this kind of physical and mental beatings will only have an infinite improvement in the combat effectiveness of the Han army.
Li Jie himself did not count how many unlucky people there were, but there are still records of the Han army. Coupled with the legends of the Chu people in the Yongxi area, he followed the state official Zeng Shan and learned through many channels that he still knew what happened.
He said that there were twenty-six tribes in Yongxi, 11 of them were killed, and there were still 15 tribes left. In fact, he was a bit conservative.
The real situation is that the local indigenous people in the Yongxi area no longer have enough young people to arm themselves. There are only a small number of young people in every settlement, village, and Uburg, and the rest are old, weak, women and children.
A large number of young and strong people, because of the order of the man Li Jie, went to the bank of the Han River west of Yongxi to serve in the army. Of course, it was for the sake of tax relief in the coming year, but in essence they were afraid.
At this time, as long as Li Jie is willing to kill all these young men, the entire social structure of Yongxi will completely collapse, and there will be no possibility of reconstruction.
It can be said that the Tu people in the Yongxi area were quite scared at this time. Li Jie did whatever he said. Not to mention sacrificing the nightmare monster Gouchen from their fathers and ancestors, they had no objection to sacrificing a dog.
"Ancestor, all the way here, the villages on both sides of the Lishui River are very weak. Most of the people collecting firewood outside are women and children. Where have all these young and strong men gone?"
"look."
Zeng Shan stood at the bow of the boat, wrapped up tightly. What he was wearing at the moment was a bear's cloak, a specialty of Huaizhong City. Only those who have meritorious service are not allowed to wear the bear's cloak.
After being wrapped in a black bear-band cloak, Zeng Shan did not feel cold on the bow of the boat. He also had a fox fur hood on his head, and his mouth and nose were wrapped with a silk scarf. Even though he was old, he was not afraid of the cold winter.
At this time, he was able to point out the country, which was naturally due to his good equipment to keep out the cold.
Looking along Zeng Shan's finger, Zeng Shan's grandson was slightly startled: "There are fireworks rising from those military camps. Could it be that they are not Han army camps?"
"Think about it again, this kind of thing exists in Xincai, and it also exists in Huaizhong City."
After saying that, Zeng Shan said again, "The same is true when Luo Ru is in the Dou clan camp."
After recalling it, Zeng Shan's grandson suddenly realized: "This is the residence of a commoner, with a specially built heating stove?"
"Only men can afford to burn it."
Zeng Shan sighed with emotion, if other countries played like this, charcoal would be able to overwhelm manpower and material resources, but what Li Jie used here was not charcoal, but pebbles.
Although he didn't know how Li Jie managed to find coal here, Zeng Shan guessed that Yun Zhenlu might have organized the manpower to transport it by ship from Huainan to Chu.
The old master's information was relatively well-informed. He knew that the Hanzi Kingdom had initially explored a suitable route along the Yangtze River and could pass through Penglize relatively safely.
The possibility of this news is extremely high, and Master Zeng even inferred that the man Li Jie might have conducted the investigation earlier.
The surprise attack on Nagisa Palace was just the result of this preliminary investigation.
"Ancestor, could it be that a man... has gathered all the young people from the three rivers of Yongxi to this place?"
"I don't know, but if you go and take a look, you will definitely find out."
The envoys accompanying the country took small boats and continued to move forward slowly. Although they were not close to the Han River yet, they were not far away from the Han River.
The punting man said nothing, and Zeng Shan observed the mountains, hills, tidal flats, and swamps on both sides of the river. Such a ghost place is not suitable for building a city, but it is very suitable for building a military bridgehead that can threaten the core area of Chu State at any time.
At this time, in the Han army camp, the watchman on the watchtower put down his telescope, and then said: "Go to Tongtong to report to Li Shou, saying that the people with the country have arrived."
"yes!"
The deputy immediately went down from the observation tower, arrived at the camp, and reported the situation to Li Jie.
"Oh? You came so quickly?"
Li Jie was a little surprised, then stood up and said, "Take care of yourself and come with me to meet Dr. Sui Guo."
"yes!"
In addition to Li Jie, the accompanying captain-level warriors, in addition to Shah, also included Shanan who returned from Zhouguo, and Shaheng who came south from Sanguan.
The three of them were all wrapped up tightly and dressed very neatly and followed Li Jie out.
The local hills are rolling and the roads are not very good. Many indigenous people took advantage of their local advantages to engage in guerrilla attacks and raids. They were completely crushed by the Han army and then stopped.
However, this also made the Han army attach great importance to the risk of small-scale harassment, and went out fully armed and armored. This was a demonstration led by Li Jie himself.
This also allows the soldiers, even if they don't feel nervous, to avoid being tricked when they occasionally lower their vigilance.
"It's a man!"
"It's a man..."
When I went out, in the huge Datongpu, the young and strong Tu people from the nearby Yongxi area gathered in front of the door and windows and watched from a distance.
When they saw Li Jie fully armed, wearing a bear and tiger cloak, and then leading the crowd out with his head held high, there was a young man from Yongxi at the door. He couldn't help but lie down on the ground and salute.
One person did this, and then everyone did this. There were at least two to three hundred people in Datongpu, kneeling and lying in a dark place. Such movement shocked the guards outside Datongpu.
Li Jie didn't take it seriously and laughed. This was the effect he wanted.
The local Chu people in Yongxi were obviously frightened.
After going out, Li Jie went directly to the bank of Lishui River to greet Zeng Shan.
When Master Zeng saw this, he shouted from a distance: "How dare you treat me like a man with such courtesy? How dare you treat me like a man with such courtesy..."
"That's right, that's right. I'm having trouble with something. Who would have thought that Zengzi would be here right away? Do you think it's a coincidence or not?"
"Oh? What's wrong with a man?"
"I am going to honor the late king as the 'Emperor of Heaven'. I wonder if Zengzi would be the one to preside over it?"
Hearing these words, Master Zeng staggered and felt that the bear's cloak on his body was indeed not easy to hold.