Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 344
This time Zhu Wei attacked the four counties in Jingnan to use the four counties as his inner territory. Zhu Wei naturally wanted to maintain a good reputation in the four counties in Jingnan.

In this way, even if he encountered an empty village on the road where the people had fled, Zhu Wei strictly ordered his soldiers not to enter at will, and not to damage the unattended fields at will.

Therefore, after Zhu Wei's army passed by, the people who returned home found that their homes were not looted or damaged, and even the ripe wheat in their fields had not been harvested.

Afterwards they found out that this army belonged to Zhu Wei, Marquis of Qian Tang from Yuzhang, and the people couldn't help feeling admiration for Zhu Wei, thinking that Zhu Wei who can control such an army must be a good official.

There are no more evaluation standards in the eyes of the people, so officials can only be described as good or bad.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army marched through Guiyang County and Lingling County, but it also left a good reputation in Guiyang County and Lingling County, and gained the loyal support of many ordinary people. In the future, Zhu Wei After the four counties of Jingzhou were pacified, the people's loyalty also had a certain foundation.

Even Zhao Fan, who followed Zhu Wei's army, had a good impression of Zhu Wei after seeing the performance of Zhu Wei's army, and his loyalty actually increased to more than 60, but this was only discovered by Zhu Wei later.

Well, let’s not mention these things for the time being, let’s just say that after Liu Du, the prefect of Lingling in Quanling County, found out about the whereabouts of Zhu Wei’s army, Liu Du was also very surprised by this.

Just like Chen County in Guiyang County, Quanling County in Lingling County also did not have many regular soldiers left to guard them. Although they could gather some young and strong soldiers, how could they fight against Zhu Wei's tens of thousands of troops?
From the direction where Zhu Wei's army came, Liu Du could naturally tell that Zhu Wei had taken Guiyang County, and then he also heard the news that Guiyang prefect Zhao Fan had surrendered to Zhu Wei.

This inevitably made Liu Du worry about his son Liu Xian. After all, Liu Xian is still in Yu County of Changsha County with five thousand soldiers and horses in Guiyang County. Once the soldiers and horses of Guiyang County repeat, Liu Xian will be in danger.

It's a pity that Liu Du is too late to deliver the letter even to Yu County, so after thinking about it, Liu Du took the initiative to send someone to contact Zhu Wei, saying that Lingling County is willing to surrender, and Quanling County will be waiting for you. Zhu Wei's army.

In this way, Zhu Wei took down Lingling County without bloodshed, which really made Zhu Wei very happy.

After that, Zhu Wei did not let all his troops go to Quanling County for a tour, but asked Liu Du to mobilize a large number of ships in Lingling County. The river in Lingling County first goes to Yu County in Changsha County.

Holding the handwriting written by Zhao Fan and Liu Du in the hands of Zu Lang, it should be easy to recruit and surrender about [-] troops in Lingling County, Guizhou, and Liu Xian, Xing Daorong, Chen Ying, and Bao Long in Yuxian County, Changsha County. Yang County coalition forces.

However, Zhu Wei took the [-] crossbowmen of the Chinese army under the command of Pang Tong and Dong Xi, and the [-] barbarians in Bunu Liya, Chishui Cave in Lajiakamai, and Heimuzhai, and went to Quanling County for a tour.

In Quanling County, Zhu Wei also collected money, food and weapons from the treasury, and then took Liu Du with him after Lingling County promulgated decrees such as exempting the current season's autumn tax and abolishing various exorbitant taxes, etc. , Zhao Fan also took a boat to Changsha County to join the main force commanded by Wang Yuyan.

Of course, before that, Zhu Wei had sent someone to contact Wang Yuyan, who had secretly transferred the army from You County back to Liling County, and was setting up a trap to deal with Han Xuan in Changsha, and informed her of the situation in Guiyang County and Lingling County, so that Wang Yuyan can respond accordingly.

At this point, the overall situation for the four counties in Jingnan has actually been decided. Guiyang County and Lingling County surrendered without a fight. Liu Xian, Xing Daorong, Chen Ying, and Bao Long, who were originally gathered in Yu County, Changsha County, commanded about [-] soldiers. , and after receiving the handwritten letters from Liu Du and Zhao Fan, he successfully surrendered to Zulang.

Liu Pan, who had the largest number of troops in Changsha County, had been wiped out, which meant that the four counties in Jingnan were left with more than 4000 troops under Han Xuan in Changsha County and more than 6000 troops under Jin Wei sent from Wuling County.

But now the combined strength of Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan's two armies has really reached [-] people, but Wei Yan is on Han Xuan's side as Zhu Wei's internal support, so there is no room for turning around in such a battle.

That is to say, Han Xuan didn't know the situation, and thought that he could sneak attack and burn down the rear camp of Zhu Wei's army in Liling County, destroy Zhu Wei's army's grain reserves and troop transport ships, defeat Zhu Wei's army in one fell swoop, and even counterattack What about Zhu Wei's land of Yuzhang?

After that, almost when Zhu Wei's troops also arrived in Yu County, the messenger sent by Han Xuan to contact the coalition forces of Guiyang County and Lingling County arrived again.

So under Zhu Wei's instruction, Liu Xian pretended to represent the coalition forces of Guiyang County and Lingling County and agreed to cooperate with Han Xuan, saying that he would lead the troops to rescue the so-called Liu Pan in You County, and then defeated Zhu Wei in Liling County under Han Xuan. After the army's rear camp, the two sides attacked Zhu Wei's army together.

So on August 196, [-] AD, Changsha prefect Han Xuan sent general Yang Ling and Jin Weishuai of Wuling County, a coalition of [-] Changsha soldiers and [-] Wuling soldiers, finally set off from Changsha County to attack Zhu Wei's army. In the rear army camp in Liling County.

In order to avoid being noticed by Zhu Wei's army, Yang Ling and Jin Wei deliberately took a detour. They probably arrived at the border of Liuyang County in Changsha County on August [-]th, and then wanted to detour from Liuyang County to Yuzhang In the territory, from the direction of Yuzhang, they pretended to be the logistics of Zhu Wei's army to transport food and grass troops, and attacked the camp of Zhu Wei's rear army in Liling County.

But they didn't know that their sneak attack tactics were also sent by Wang Yuyan to inform Wei Yanhou, and asked Wei Yan to suggest to Han Xuan, but Han Xuan completely adopted it.

There is really no way to say what the outcome of such a sneak attack will be.

Therefore, near noon on this day, more than 1 coalition soldiers from Changsha and Wuling counties marched to a mountain road in the Lianyun Mountain area of ​​Liuyang County in the hot summer of August.

On one side of this mountain road is the Liuyang River, on the other side is the rolling hills of Lianyun Mountain, and further forward is a certain hill in Lianyun Mountain.

Because the summer weather was too hot, the more than 1 Changsha and Wuling soldiers scattered into a long line on the mountain road. Many people walked in disheveled clothes and loose armor. It seemed that there were not many regular soldiers. His posture is completely like a group of rabble.

Some of the commanders and military officers who led the team also looked relaxed, and they didn't have any defense at all. They just wanted to find a cool place to rest quickly.

Occasionally, a gust of cool wind blows from the Liuyang River, which makes these soldiers and generals feel a bit cool, and they shout a few times in their mouths indiscriminately, but they are startled by many birds and beasts flying around in the surrounding mountains...

(End of this chapter)