Just like Cuan Gu's thoughts, Huo Yi also had no intention of attacking the enemy.
After leading the army to the outside of Longbian City, he only showed off his power to frighten the Wu army in the city, and then left the Wu Dang tribe and Cuanu to besiege the city together, while he led his own troops to capture other county towns.
Because the Wu army's troops were mainly concentrated in Liling and Longbian counties, and the war situation was already clear at this time, when Huo Yi led the army to arrive, those counties were almost decided by word of mouth, and they surrendered based on the wind.
Within ten days, only Lu Dai was guarding Luling County in Jiaozhi County, and the flag of Wu was still flying alone.
Yes, Longbian County also welcomed the Yi family.
Cuan Gu and Wu Dang, who were trapped in the city, saw that the morale of the defenders in the city was low, so they sent one or two prisoners into the city to recruit them to surrender.
It was claimed that if the Wu army could cover up their flags and disarm and surrender, the Han army would forget everything and would not treat them harshly as prisoners of war. Soldiers who were not from Jiaozhou would be garrisoned in Nanzhong after being recruited; while soldiers from the local county would be guarded.
You can choose to continue serving as a county soldier or to remove your armor and return to the fields.
But if they resist stubbornly and the Han army breaks the city, they will be punished as military slaves!
In addition, county soldiers whose families are in the local area must also be held accountable in the form of joint sittings.
In this regard, the soldiers under Suichun's command were better.
Although Suichun has always claimed that Liu Zuan, who is in the east of Jiaozhou, will definitely send troops to rescue him, and the elite Jiangdong naval forces will cross the sea from Wu County to Jiaozhi, it will not take too long, as long as they hold on for a few more days.
, the Han army can be driven out of Jiaozhi County.
But the soldiers still had no fighting spirit.
Without him, they didn't believe Suichun's words.
First, if Liu Zuan had the strength to come to the rescue, there would be no Han army that could come to Jiaozhi County to attack Ma Zhong from the north and south after they penetrated the three counties!
On the other hand, in the eyes of Wu Lord Sun Quan and Grand Governor Lu Xun, is Jiaozhi County more important than Jingzhou?
The Han army has gone south to attack Jiaozhou, how could they not send out troops from Yong'an and Dongsan County!
How could the State of Wu still have extra troops to rescue Jiaozhi!
The only thing that gave them some peace of mind was that they first followed the Kuaiji bandits who rebelled in Suichun. After being absorbed by Jiangdong, their family members were also resettled in Wu, so they did not have to worry about their children for the time being.
The situation of the county soldiers under Sun Mao was different.
Everyone knows that the change of ownership of Jiaozhi County is inevitable, and the fall of Longbian City is also inevitable.
Why did they have to pay the price of their lives and being held accountable by the Han army to be buried with Sun Mao and others?
Sun Mao never told them to "undress them and push them to eat"!
Furthermore, for them, the Wu government, which had controlled Jiaozhou for less than twenty years, was also an outsider. How could they develop a common hatred and a desire to defend it to the death?
Inevitably, after the Han army conveyed its intention to surrender, an undercurrent surged in the city.
Several county soldiers could not restrain their anxiety, and at the instigation of their subordinates, they sought out Sun Mao, claiming that when something was impossible to do, they should put the preservation of the common people first and not engage in unnecessary disputes that would turn Longbian into a scorched earth.
But they all tried in vain.
Based on his surname, Sun Mao had no intention of surrendering.
Instead, these uncles were all punished with fifty sticks and imprisoned. Anyone who dared to disturb the morale of the army with his words would be killed!
In fact, he originally wanted to behead all these uncles in public, but he was worried that this situation might arouse public anger, so he imprisoned them instead.
However, the advice of Uncle Dub was the opinion of the people, and if he did not listen, he would have offended the people.
The county soldiers who did not want to be buried with Sun,
Soon, they secretly linked up with the powerful people in the city to save themselves. Even though Suichun had assigned all the responsibilities of guarding the city to his own soldiers, they still could not contain the commotion in the city. Only three nights later, some private soldiers from the powerful people and the county
The soldiers united to seize the city gate from the inside, and the Han army cooperated with the inside and outside to form a dragon and make the city easy to control.
Prefect Sun Mao died in the rebellion, but Suichun was captured.
To be precise, it was the soldiers under his command who saw that the outcome of the city's fall was irreversible, so they gathered in groups and abandoned their weapons in Suichun, no longer resisting.
In any case, they were all thieves before.
Sui Chun was just their publicly elected leader, a talker who stayed together to keep warm, but could not control the soldiers as strictly as a real general.
However, when Cuagu and Wu Dang ordered them to surrender, he seemed to show no resistance.
With the change of ownership of Longbian County, the deployment of the Han army was adjusted again.
Huo Yi left Wu Dang to guard Longbian County and wanted to pacify the other counties.
For example, some powerful rightists who welcomed the Han army into the city and the barbarian tribes who were willing to vassal the Han were comforted to ensure their interests, while the die-hard loyalists who had been supported by Jiangdong were uprooted. No matter whether they were in this battle or not,
Use private troops to help Wu County resist the Han army.
There is one emperor and one courtier.
For the sake of long-term peace and stability based on the general trend, sometimes it is not necessary to ask what is right or wrong.
Moreover, if we don't wipe out these people, how can we show the thunder and rain of the Han Dynasty? How can we distribute the benefits to the eight southerners who actively participated in this war?
However, Shen You and the Cuanu tribe returned to Ma Zhong's command and besieged the Lu Dai tribe, which was huddled in Linling County.
In fact, when Ma Zhong sent Cua Gu to attack Longbian County, Lu Dai also had the intention of sending troops out of the city to rescue Longbian, but was intercepted by Ma Zhong and Chen Bing on the way.
And just at that time, the Shibao tribe who had returned from Yulin County to Xinggu County finally came to join forces with Ma Zhong, so Lu Dai had no choice but to give up his intention of dividing his troops for rescue.
Because if he insists on going his own way, it is unknown whether he can rescue Longbian County, but Liling County will definitely fall!
With reinforcements from the Shibao tribe, Ma Zhong had an absolute advantage in military strength, so he was able to defeat the enemy without fighting in terms of dispatch.
He personally led four thousand soldiers out of the city to block the road and set up camp, forming a horns with Fengxi County.
If the Wu army divided its troops and sent out, he would be flanked by the defenders of Fengxi County. Lu Dai, who was in Linling County, was under the supervision of the Shibao tribe and could not leave the city to rescue him.
If they come out, the Shibao tribe will take the opportunity to seize the city.
But if they don't come out, the soldiers who go to rescue Longbian County will be surrounded and killed by Ma Zhong's troops.
The choice is a dead end, so why should he divide his troops and leave the city?
When the situation was over, he could only continue to hold on to the city and see if he could receive Sun Quan's rescue.
Although this hope is very slim
Huo Yi's tribe was gradually divided into troops, with only more than 3,000 men left, who were heading south to guard the port and prepare to go and recover Jiuzhen and Rinan counties.
The three counties in the west of Jiaozhou, Jiuzhen and Rinan counties combined are not as wealthy as Jiaozhi alone.
It can be said that once Jiaozhi County changes its ownership, these two counties will also usher in a change of flag.
For example, after Lu Dai occupied Jiaozhi before, he was invincible when he attacked the rebellion in Jiuzhen County; the biggest reason why Shi Hui rebelled against Jiangdong was because Sun Quan did not grant him the title of prefect of Jiaozhi, but sent him to a barbaric place like Jiuzhen County.
He was appointed as the prefect.
As for Ninan County, it is mostly uncivilized land.
As the only place in the territory of the Han Dynasty where "the shadow of the sun is in the south", the local indigenous people are the Cham people, not the survivors of South Vietnam.
They have deep eyes, high noses, and black hair (black skin). They are common men and women who are naked and not ashamed. Xue Zong, an important minister of the state of Wu, called them "insects with shy faces, eyes and ears." And Xianglin County in the southernmost part of Rinan County
The local Cham people rebelled many years ago and established the Linyi Kingdom (Champa Kingdom), which was no longer owned by the Central Plains Dynasty.
In this way, it is easy to understand why Huo Yi, who was awarded the rank of General Annan, went south to guard the port.
The reasons stated on the surface are to repair the water fortress to prevent possible cross-sea attacks from the east of the Yangtze River, to control the port to ensure maritime trade, and to support the garrison with trade taxes.
The long-term consideration is to establish a navy and build warships.
When the time is right, they will go south to recover Jiuzhen County and Rinan County, and may also cross the sea to take back all the four eastern counties of Jiaozhou from Jiangdong.
He knew that since the war between Han and Wu resumed, there would no longer be any possibility of peace.
However, the soldiers, horses, grain, fodder and baggage from Bashu, Longyou, Hexi and other places must be returned to the old capital after entering the pass. The future war against Wu will definitely be the responsibility of their Jiaozhou branch!
Naturally, it is too early to talk about these matters at this time.
But it’s always good to plan ahead.
Coincidentally, Ma Zhong also had this thought.
He always kept in mind the Prime Minister's words to "contain the Wu army as much as possible and create opportunities for the other two troops to attack Wu." Therefore, he did not immediately attack Lu Dai's tribe in Linling County.
Instead, he wanted to use Lu Dai's tribe as bait to see if Sun Quan could send more troops to fight in Jiaozhi County.
If Sun Quan had the courage to cut off the strength of a strong man and abandon the three western counties of Jiaozhou, then he would go to the Chengdu Temple and ask for orders to cross the sea to attack the eastern part of Jiaozhou. Calculating the time, after the Lu Dai tribe, which was already in danger, was defeated, Huo Yi trained the navy
The division and construction of the warship should be roughly completed.
Yes, Ma Zhong felt that it would not be difficult to destroy Lu Dai's tribe.
Although Lu Dai still had more than 5,000 soldiers under his command, many of these soldiers were recruited from Jiaozhou.
Just as the Han Dynasty recruited troops and relocated to Nanzhong after quelling the rebellion in Nanzhong, Jiangdong also used Jiaozhou as a recruiting ground after occupying Jiaozhou.
For example, when Bu Zhao entered Jiaozhou in the past, he only brought more than a thousand people to take office.
But when he left office, he took more than ten thousand Jiaozhou righteous soldiers to Jingnan to participate in the Battle of Yiling.
The same goes for Lu Dai.
Since succeeding Bu Zhi as the governor of Jiaozhou, his subordinates have been formed by quelling the rebellion and recruiting prisoners from the local area. For example, when he entered Jiaozhi to suppress the rebellion of the scholars, he only supervised no more than 3,000 soldiers.
In other words, Ma Zhong only needs to besiege Lu Dai's tribe for a few days, wait for Wu Dang to pacify Jiaozhi County, and then find some prisoners to write a letter to the local magnates and send it to the city, claiming that the Han army will treat the surrenderers and inform their families.
Xiao Wuyan, they must have no fighting spirit, and it will not be difficult to break the city!
As for regaining Jiuzhen County and Ninan County~~
After occupying the Jiaozhi Army, these two counties are in the possession of the Han Army, and it doesn't matter when they take them.
But, will Sun Quan send troops to rescue Jiaozhi?
After receiving the message from Liu Zuan, he rushed to Jiangling City anxiously, planning to discuss with Lu Xun the dispatch of some naval forces there.
Not only was he dissatisfied with the fall of Jiaozhi County, but also because since Zhuge Jin died of illness, Lu Dai was the only remaining Huaisi veteran in the Jiangdong Army!
However, it was already the ninth month of late autumn, and the Han army also sent troops from Dongsanjun and Yong'an.
As soon as the troops were sent out, Sun Quan felt that the battle situation was besieged on all sides.
