At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

In fact, Wei Jun was not very satisfied with this battle from top to bottom.

The reason is also very simple, because they did not fight a decent battle at all.

From Nanyang to Xiangyang, and then to Jiangling, there was no serious battle at all. It was only Zhu Ling who captured two cities guarded by a few hundred Jingzhou soldiers, and all the other cities surrendered.

This battle has been fought so far, only three unlucky Wei troops under Le Jin and Zhu Ling have died in battle, and more than 60 people have been injured, and two-thirds of them twisted their feet while rushing.

This made Le Jin and Zhu Ling quite depressed.

Especially when they learned that Xu Huang, who was originally just a support, led the army in Jiangxia to repeatedly defeat the army of Huang She, the son of Huang Zu, they were even more envious and jealous.

Real military merit is the only way to be promoted. The number of beheads and the number of cities conquered are what they pursue. Although they are pushing all the way, they are all voluntary surrenders, which will be greatly discounted in terms of merit measures.

Le Jin was not happy, Zhu Ling was not happy either, neither of these two armies was happy.

Especially when Zhu Ling saw that Liu Cong and others went out of the city again and surrendered without even fighting a battle, Zhu Ling felt even more depressed. He didn't completely eliminate the joyful feeling that Chu State had to conquer Jingzhou and achieve its strategic goal.

However, with a heavy responsibility, Zhu Ling still knows how to restrain his emotions.

Under the banner of General Pingnan, he accepted Liu Cong's surrender as the deputy commander of the army.

Zhu Ling held up the Jieyue that Le Jin had granted him temporarily, and rode forward with only a few personal soldiers, as well as two generals, Cao Chun and Li Dian.

Liu Cong walked forward, Kuai Yue and others walked forward with the coffin on their shoulders, and Song Zhong walked forward with the King of Chu Seal and Jingzhou Mu Yinshou.

Walking in front of Zhu Ling, Liu Cong knelt down, and all the surrendered officials knelt together, and Song Zhong read out the form of surrender, expressing the submission of Jingzhou's master and servant to Guo Wei's regime.

Zhu Ling held the Jie ax and accepted Liu Cong's surrender on behalf of the army commander Le Jin and the emperor Guo Peng.

Before officially accepting the surrender, there is still a process to go through.

"Liu Cong, why did you surrender?"

"Wearing the body of sin, I dare not disobey the soldiers of the emperor, but only wish to surrender to the emperor, and be the minister of the emperor, in order to seek peace."

Liu Cong knelt in front of Zhu Ling who held the festival, his body trembling slightly, and he said what he didn't want to say but had to say.

Zhu Ling sat on the horse and condescendingly looked at Liu Cong who was bound by himself and the five Jingzhou surrenders. He took a deep breath, got off the horse, handed the Jieyue to Cao Chun, and then stepped forward to help Liu Cong up.

"Although it is a crime, but when the soldiers of the emperor came to Jingzhou, you surrendered in time. If you didn't resist, it was an act of paying off your merits. You would have accepted your surrender on behalf of the emperor and the commander of the army."

Afterwards, Zhu Ling untied Liu Cong with his own hands, put clothes on Liu Cong with his own hands, and asked Cao Chun and Li Dian to burn the coffin with torches to show that the Wei Empire would never harm Liu Cong.

Then Zhu Ling accepted Liu Cong's seal of the king of Chu and the seal of Jingzhou Mu, officially taking over Jingzhou on behalf of the Wei Empire, and the surrender ceremony ended.

Zhu Ling led his troops into Jiangling City and accepted the Jingzhou household registration form, tax form and storage form presented by Kuaiyue and others, thus officially announcing the occupation of Jingzhou, and the battle of Jingzhou was basically over.

At this time, it was the fourth day of July in the first year of Yande, and it was only more than a month before the war started.

Then Jingzhou surrendered.

Zhu Ling consulted the surrender list provided by Kuai Yue, and found that there were nearly 5 Jingzhou navy and army troops around Jiangling, counting the [-] in Nanyang and the [-] in Xiangyang, the total number of Jingzhou troops was equivalent to the total number of the main force of the Wei army.

However, an army of this size failed to effectively resist the Wei army, and even surrendered without even fighting a regular battle.

Nanyang County and Nan County, as the most elite, most populous and most economically prosperous counties in Jingzhou, surrendered to Wei State intact.

The Wei government didn't even need to spend too much manpower and material resources to restore the normal operation of these two counties.

With further understanding, Zhu Ling discovered that the Jingzhou Army actually had its own reasons for not resisting.

Because although they did not lack food, they lacked weapons, whether it was knives, armor, or crossbows, they were all lacking, and they were not enough to meet the needs of many battles.

Putting down Zhang Xian's rebellion consumed a considerable amount of Liu Biao's military reserves, which made the Jiangling treasury run out of arms for a while.

Not only that, more than 4 of the 2 troops were urgently expanded before and after Liu Biao's death. The combat effectiveness and combat quality are very ugly, and even uniform uniforms are not prepared. Some people even issued a sharpened bamboo A gun is a soldier.

Such soldiers are defeated when they go to the battlefield.

Excellent generals in Jingzhou, such as Huang Zhong and Wenpin, were rejected by Liu Biao before the war and seized the military power, which caused Jingzhou soldiers to be unstable, morale low, and organization chaotic, making them unbearable for a battle.

Not to mention that just a month ago, they fought a battle with Liu Zhang's army, and put the few remaining elite troops and ordnance in Yiling to guard Liu Zhang, not the Wei army.

Under such a premise, even if Jiangling City chooses to resist and unite as one, it is estimated that the whole army will be wiped out after World War I.

To deal with such an army, Zhu Ling felt that his 2 people could definitely defeat the 4 people head-on.

From this point of view, their surrender is actually wise.

But what Zhu Ling knew better was that their surrender was absolute, not accidental.

Everything was not by accident, including Huang Zu's persistent resistance, and the failed mutiny of Han Song and the other three, all were actually within the deduction range of the pre-war staff table imperial meeting.

Today's battle situation in Jingzhou is very clear. The three counties in Jingbei have already surrendered two counties. The main force of the Jingzhou army has surrendered in an organized system.

Not long ago, there was a rebellion in the four counties of Jingnan, which was put down by Liu Biao. Many local powerful families were killed by Liu Biao. Jiang, they must look forward to surrender.

The pacification of Jingzhou is actually very easy.

So in Jingzhou, only Huang Zu is still resisting and willing to resist.

His downfall was also doomed.

On the eighth day of the seventh lunar month, Le Jin and Guo Jia arrived in Jiangling, and brought along Zhang Yun, Cai Mao, Huang Zhong, Wen Pin and others. Everyone "gathered happily" and the atmosphere was "very harmonious."

Liu Cong lowered his posture, personally poured wine for several big brothers of Wei Jun, and even called his concubine out to dance for fun. Guo Jia was about to commit an old problem, but was stopped by Le Jin.

"Feng Xiao! Have you forgotten His Majesty's order?"

Guo Jia was stunned for a moment with drunken eyes, and suddenly remembered the important military regulations that Guo Peng had repeatedly ordered before the whole army set off.

Even if they send women away, they must find out their identities and origins. Women from wealthy families of officials in Jingzhou are absolutely not allowed to touch them.

Especially for Guo Jia, if Guo Peng knew whose woman he had messed with, he would have to break his third leg when he returned.

The fear of Guo Peng rooted deep in his soul made Guo Jia suddenly sober. He immediately corrected his posture, retracted his wolf claws, and dared not even drink wine. He looked like a saint, called Cao Pure laughed secretly.

So the officials in Jingzhou secretly praised Wei Jun's military discipline and the moral integrity of Wei Jun's high-level officials. The anxiety in their hearts gradually disappeared, and they began to gradually accept the current situation.

They gradually accepted Wei State's rule over Jingzhou from the bottom of their hearts, and were ready to serve as officials in Wei State at any time, and completed the transition from Han to Wei together from physiology to psychology.

Although Le Jin, Zhu Ling and others were unhappy, it has to be said that this war is actually over.

The only Jingzhou army that is still fighting against the Wei army is Huang Zu's.

But Huang Zu is indeed not Wei Jun's opponent.

Chapter 806. 810 five is over

Although Huang Zu has a loud voice, screams loudly, looks very ferocious, and was lucky enough to kill Sun Jian and Xu Kun and other outstanding generals, but in fact, he is just a weak chicken.

The most powerful army under Huang Zu's command is still the navy. Without the navy, Huang Zu is of course nothing. In terms of the combat effectiveness of the army, the Jingzhou army is the same as the Sun Wu army. The difference between water warfare and land warfare is very obvious .

Water battles are strong, but land battles are weak.

After Xu Huang received the order to send troops, he led the army to advance by land and water.

He led the army along the Yangtze River, starting from Xunyang, and entered Qichun County, where he encountered Jiangxia's army near Qichun County, and fought a battle with Huang She, Huang Zu's son.

Huang Zu had always been on guard against the Wei army's movement on the Lujiang River. When he got the news of Xu Huang's strange move, he immediately sent his son Huang She to lead the troops in Qichun County to prevent Xu Huang from advancing along the river.

Huang She thought that Xu Huang was not well-known and easy to deal with, so he led 1 soldiers from Qichun County and took the initiative to find Xu Huang for a decisive battle.

The two armies met near Qichun County. Xu Huang took advantage of the Wei army's advantage in catapults and smashed Huang She, who was trying to rely on large ships to form an formation, to death.

Huang She's command level is very mediocre, and his backwardness in war intelligence is even more terrible.

Facing the flying boulder, he had no choice but to convey the order to retreat, so he could only escape in embarrassment under the protection of his own soldiers.

After World War I, Huang She's [-] troops were defeated.

Chen, the commander of the water army, was shot and killed by the Wei army. The water army collapsed and the whole army was wiped out. Only more than 1 of the army of more than 3000 people fled back to Qichun County with him. Catch and become a prisoner.

Taking advantage of the victory, Xu Huang pursued and pursued to Qichun County in one breath, besieged three and lacked one, and stormed Qichun County.

In the end, Huang She was really unable to resist Xu Huang's sharp attack, so he had to flee to Xiling County, the capital of Jiangxia, and went to his father Huang Zu for help.

Huang Zu was shocked when he learned that Huang She had suffered a disastrous defeat and his army was completely lost.

He thought it would be easy to resist Xu Huang, but he never expected Xu Huang to be so capable.

Seeing that Jiangxia's capital was about to suffer, Huang Zu hurriedly sent someone to Jiangling for help, and then arranged for a new army to go to Zhu County to resist Xu Huang.

Huang Zu sent general Zhang Shuo to lead his troops to resist Xu Huang on the way forward.

Zhang Shuo also worked very hard, but he lost to the elite of the Wei army. He resisted and was defeated. However, he persisted for seven or eight days, buying Huang Zu some time for emergency mobilization.

Having said that, Zhang Shuo was pushed all the way to the city of Zhu County by Xu Huang, fled into the city in embarrassment, and defended the city to the death.

He and the county magistrate of Zhu County are also members of Lao Huang's family, so they are more or less willing to use their lives instead of simply running away.

In the entire Jiangxia County, the Huang family is the largest.

Jiangxia County can basically be said to be the base camp of the Huang family, private land, and it has been like this since Huang Xiang left from the Huang family.

Huang Zu inherited his ancestral business and has occupied Jiangxia for many years, and he also has a lot of diehard loyalists.

Zhang Shuo resisted desperately and caused a certain degree of damage to the Wei army. Unfortunately, facing the Wei army's catapults was as futile as the brave siege.

After holding on for two days, the city was breached by Xu Huang.

The Wei army ants attached themselves to the city, captured the tower, opened the city gate, Xu Huang swung his troops in, and captured Zhu County in one fell swoop.

After entering the city, after fierce street fighting, Xu Huang's troops successfully killed the county magistrate and guard Zhang Shuo of Zhu County, and exterminated their families and [-] families in the city that helped Huang Zu defend the city. After the war, more than eight people were killed. Hundreds, the rich families in the city were almost slaughtered.

After Zhu County fell, Xiling County no longer had any barriers. Huang Zu lost his last line of defense and had to face Xu Huang's attack directly.

What annoyed and frightened Huang Zu was that none of the people he sent to Jiangling for help came back, but a businessman returned to Jiangxia from Xiangyang, bringing news of Cai Mao's surrender and Xiangyang's fall.

Huang Zu was terrified, and immediately sent people to inquire about the news, and finally confirmed that Xiangyang and Nanyang had fallen, Zhang Yun and Cai Mao surrendered, but there was no news from Jiangling.

None of the people he sent came back, and it felt like Jiangling didn't exist.

Here Xiangyang was captured, Wei Jun entered Jingzhou, and Xu Huang invaded like a fire, directly attacking Xiling, Huang Zu suddenly had a feeling that he was being attacked by two sides.

And what's even more frightening is that he doesn't have any helpers. The entire Jiangxia County seems to have been deliberately forgotten. He is fighting alone.

Since the war, he has lost nearly [-] soldiers, seven out of ten naval warships, and almost half of his military strength. He is no match for Xu Huang at all.

If this continues, Xiling County will change hands sooner or later.

Huang Zu had a deep understanding of this.

After deeply understanding the situation, Huang Zu decided to save himself and not stick to Xiling, otherwise he would be taken down by Xu Huang sooner or later.

On the one hand, he dispatched troops to stop Xu Huang, and on the other hand, he actively arranged for the defense of Xiling City. On the other hand, he concentrated a few warships, loaded a large number of his own guys, and was ready to run away at any time.

He's not a fool either, if he really can't beat him, he has no choice but to leave, and in this case, if he doesn't leave, he will die.

Trees are moved to death, and people are moved to live. Even though Huang Zuan relocated again, it must be on the premise of being able to survive.

If you really can't fight, you can really only sail along the river to Jiangling to see what's going on.

If Jiangling was already in danger, he could only flee to Jingnan.

All in all, he must not sit still. He knew that he, who had always been famous for his resistance to Guo Wei, would not be forgiven. Once defeated, his Huang family would be slaughtered bloodily by Guo Peng, and it would be difficult for his clan to survive.

Although Huang Zu tried very hard to keep his family business and his ancestral property in Jiangxia, it was a pity that the land warfare skills of Jingzhou soldiers were really low.

Xu Huang often only needs to order the armored cavalry to charge, and he can destroy and tear up the amateur formation of the Jingzhou soldiers, and then the infantry will follow closely and crush the Jiangxia soldiers.

It's not that Huang Zu didn't have cavalry, he also had one, and he also sent cavalry to fight Xu Huang, but his cavalry was no match for the Wei army's cavalry, and was wiped out by the Wei army after three strikes.

Without the cavalry and the strongest mobility, the infantry sent by Huang Zu could only end in defeat.

Deng Long, the general he sent to stop Xu Huang, was repeatedly defeated under Xu Huang's attack. He lost no matter what he fought. Facing the neat and aggressive army formation of the Wei army, the Jingzhou army's army formation was like paper. You can't beat each other at all.

After his cavalry was destroyed, the infantry also lost their retreat, and Xu Huang directly cut off the retreat, surrounded the field and wiped it out in one fell swoop.

Deng Long resisted to the end and died in battle. Three thousand Jingzhou soldiers killed more than 600 people, and all the others were captured.

After losing three generals and more than 1 troops one after another, the morale of Huang Zu's army collapsed completely, and everyone was in danger. They did not dare to continue fighting with Wei Jun at all, and even the defense of Xiling City was shaken.

In desperation, Huang Zu asked Huang She to make preparations, planning to sneak out of Xiling County at night and escape by boat in order to survive.

But he never expected that several large ships that Huang Zu used to load his family's most precious and valuable things caught fire.

I don't know why, these big ships full of family property just docked at the secret pier, and finally caught fire, and it burned very violently. Huang She tried his best to lead people to put out the fire, but the fire could not be extinguished at all. Huang She could only He watched helplessly as his ancestral business was destroyed.

After Huang Zu learned about it, he stayed for a long time and muttered two words to himself.