It was a good time for Tang Zi to surrender the city.
At that time, the Chengdu temple had just finished checking the achievements of the Jiaozhou Southern Line and recorded merit awards for Ma Zhong, Huo Yi and others.
Therefore, in line with the custom of treating the surrendered generals kindly to show the benevolence of the Han Dynasty and to serve as "market horse bones" for subsequent wars, the prime minister also rewarded Tang Zi along with the meritorious soldiers on the southern front.
He asked Tang Zi whether he wanted to continue to lead the army or serve in the temple. After that, he would use his "preservation" achievements to be granted a title of marquis, his position would be changed to a captain of the Qiang Guard, and he would lead more than a thousand troops to Jincheng County.
Garrisoned in the county.
The remaining four thousand captives will be dispersed and reorganized by the Han army and used to guard various counties in Hexi.
It is not surprising that using prisoners of Wei to fight against Jiangdong and using prisoners of Wu to defend the northwest was a routine operation of the Han Dynasty to alleviate the shortage of people and insufficient troops.
It was this performance recording that made Zheng Pu think of how to let Jiang Dong continue to fight.
Without him, it would be enough to make Sun Quan feel that "the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop".
Didn't Jiangdong send an envoy to write a letter of credence to sue for peace?
Just piss him off!
For example, among the conditions that allowed them to sue for peace, a clause was added to allow Jiangdong to return the Jingnan territory that belonged to the Han before the Battle of Xiangfan.
It is impossible for Jiangdong to accept this.
And Zheng Pu didn't expect them to accept it.
Just use this as an excuse for the Han army to continue attacking, just to make a name for themselves!
It just happened that the war on the southern front in Jiaozhou was going on at this time. Let the soldiers on the southern front prepare to attack Jingnan! The reason why the Han Dynasty sent troops this time was because he would not avenge the hatred of the Battle of Xiangfan and the Battle of Yiling, so he vowed not to give up.
What a force!
Yes, marching into Jingnan is not the four eastern counties of Jiaozhou.
Although from a strategic point of view, it would be more beneficial to the imperial court to seize the complete Jiaozhou, the current Han Dynasty committee is really powerless.
First, the establishment and training of naval forces takes time.
Moreover, the naval forces east of the Yangtze River were extremely elite. With the three western counties of Jiaozhou already lost, it was impossible not to make up for the loss with another cross-sea march by the Han army.
On the other hand, don’t rush for quick success.
The battle to capture Jiaozhi County was due to Jiangdong's treachery in Jiaozhi County, which made the people in the county unpopular, and his tactical surprise.
Things can never happen again.
It is impossible to succeed in capturing the four eastern counties of Jiaozhou using the same tactics.
Moreover, the available troops are insufficient.
In the Battle of Jiaozhou, the number of private soldiers from the eight surnames of the South who volunteered to join the army accounted for three-fourths of the entire army. However, after they got their desired benefits in Jiaozhi County, they would no longer fully support the Han army's march.
Newly gained benefits will take time to consolidate and be realized~
How could there be so little support at this time?
Therefore, in the Chengdu temple, Huo Yi was appointed as the garrison in Jiaozhou to practice naval exercises and build boats in preparation for the future march to Nanhai County; Cuangu was appointed as the prefect of Jiaozhi, as a reward for the hard work of the southerners; Shen You was
He became the governor of Xinggu County, and sent troops to Yulin County to harass him, and privately lured barbarian tribes or powerful families to join him.
As for Ma Zhong, he took some of his soldiers to escort the prisoners from Jiangdong and returned to Nanzhong to rest and garrison.
There is no other way. Jiaozhi County, which has just changed hands, is in dire straits waiting to be revitalized.
It is impossible to raise so many soldiers and horses, nor to leave too many soldiers and horses to make the common people in the county fear them.
Zheng Pu's idea was to let Ma Zhong take these troops to Yong'an City to garrison; and he frequently sent scouts out of Kuimen to spy on the Wu army's defense status in the Xiling Gorge area.
At the same time, the Guanxing troops who had returned to garrison in Fangling County were busy guarding the various Jingman tribes migrating into the three eastern counties. They also sent many scouts to inquire about the conditions of the counties in northern Jingzhou.
He also asked Xizuo to secretly send letters to the former emperor's former officials and wealthy families when he was in Jingnan, claiming that if they betrayed Wu and returned to Han, all their past affairs would be ignored and they would receive rewards, etc.
In other words, Zheng Pu wanted to send a message to Sun Quan.
If Sun Quan is unwilling to accept the additional conditions for peace and returns the counties in Jingnan~
Then, the big Han will raise troops to take it from himself!
Let Jiangdong have to fight for his own safety!
After all, Sun Quan himself knew very well that Jiangdong, which had lost too many soldiers in recent years, could no longer maintain the old friendship of those Jingnan heroes who yearned for Emperor Zhaolie.
And he could no longer endure a rebellion like Liao Shi's self-reliance in the county!
At this point, even if the Jiangdong monarchs and ministers realized that the Han army was just showing off, they still had to gather their troops and come back to fight.
Whether it is to demonstrate force and deter those who are ready to take action; or to give Jiangdong government and opposition parties firm confidence and use practical actions to declare that Jiangdong still has the power to fight a war and still has the ability to protect Jingzhou.
Furthermore, at least at this time, it was Wei who came to join forces to attack Shu, and Jiangdong could still rely on Wei's strength to resist the invasion of Bashu. If the opportunity was missed, and Jiangdong faced Bashu alone, I fear that Jingbei would no longer be owned by Wu.
Time flies by, day and night.
Soon, it was already the end of spring plowing and the beginning of April.
Dongsan County, which had been peaceful for more than a month, once again faced the continuous war of drums and horns.
The focus of the war is still concentrated on the Dushui River Valley on the south side of the Qinling Mountains and the northern end of Jingshan Mountain on the north side of the Bashan Mountains. It is still an offensive and defensive battle; the only difference is that Wei and Wu announced a common alliance to advance and retreat together, and work together
Come to fight the Han army.
In other words, Jiangdong, which had suffered successive defeats, was in decline, and the reason why it was willing to join forces with Wei this time was because the Han army was going to attack Jingnan. Wei, which had been resting for more than a year, had no need to form an alliance with it.
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But if we consider the overall situation, we find that this move is inevitable.
For the Wei State, the top priority is to expel the Han army from Guanzhong and regain Longdong as soon as possible; and the next strategy is to recapture Longyou and Liangzhou and restore the previous territory when Wei Wen and Cao Pi were in power.
Under such circumstances, Wei needed to act as an ally in Jiangdong for a long period of time to contain the Han army and coordinate the war.
Besides, covenants are made with the intention of being torn apart.
In the three-party game over the years, it was not the first time that the state of Wu faced Qin, Mu, and Chu!
Is it not allowed to tear up the alliance once in the future when Wei has absolute strength?
As for Cao Rui himself, he wanted to leave the opportunity for his successors to be "one in the world".
More than ten years of domestic and foreign troubles, frequent losses of soldiers and land, and other worries have made him mentally and physically haggard. He is obviously in the prime of life, but his physical condition is as weak as that of the age of Ai.
He didn't want to be given a shameful posthumous title when the final decision was made.
Therefore, in order to usher in the dawn of restoring the old territory, he did not hesitate to condescend to be on the same level as Sun Quan, who was in a corner of peace.
As for the Wei State's alliance with Wu State based on the use of psychology, Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers all knew it, but no one refused or rejected it.
After all, Wu State also had this idea.
He also hopes to rely on Wei's control to tide over the difficulties and win time for Jiangdong to recuperate.
They're just using each other, there's no need to worry.
Moreover, Jiangdong’s dispatch of troops can focus on participation!
