Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 316 Waiting for the enemy to collapse
Among the four counties in southern Jing, Changsha is the most expensive.

Although it cannot compare with Nanyang County and Nan County in northern Jingbei, Changsha County is still outstanding among the four southern counties.

The other Lingling and Guiyang are both barren lands. As for Wuling... By default, it is a place to suppress the barbarians.

Historically, Liu Bei borrowed the four counties of Jingnan, plus the southern part of Nanjun, but failed to return the loan. When the two sides were arguing, Soochow only mentioned the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang and Changsha, and never mentioned Wuling County.

Wuling County is actually connected to the Nanzhong area in the south of Yizhou. Although it belongs to Yizhou and Jingzhou, it is actually the activity range of the Nanzhong Barbarians and Wuling Barbarians, just like the Shanyue and Wuxi people in Zhangling. Same as Guiyang.

Only a few counties in the north are relatively prosperous - the former seat of the Jingzhou governor was in the north of Wuling. These counties were where troops were stationed to deal with the Nanzhong barbarians, or Wuling barbarians.

Liu Pan, the governor of Jingnan, had the same official position as the governor of Changsha, just like Sun Jian during his lifetime.

For Liu Pan, the really important areas are Changsha and northern Wuling.

Since the General's Mansion is bypassed from the south, being able to defend against the enemy in Guiyang is considered a great success.

However... In April of the fifth year of Jian'an, Shamoko initially integrated the Wuxi people and led the Wuxi barbarian army into the Jingnan battlefield, which symbolized the complete end of Liu Pan's defense in Guiyang.

Liu Pan accepted Han Xuan's suggestion, or "step", and retracted the defense line to Changsha.

As a result, the Wuxi people penetrated deeply into Han people's counties and counties. Once there was any conflict between the Wuxi people and the local Han people, it would cause conflicts between the General's Mansion and the Wuxi people!

Liu Pan also inadvertently used this trick before when he quelled the rebellion in the four counties of southern Jing...

At that time, Liu Pan was fighting in Changsha with the Jingnan gentry headed by the Zhang family. The latter, because of their lack of strength, led the Wuxi barbarians to go north to support them. However, because they were unable to restrain the Wuxi barbarians' behavior, not only the people of Guiyang and Changsha were miserable, but even Several noble families suffered greatly, so they stabbed the Zhang family twice.

Moreover, the army of the General Mansion came from the land of Wuling. Even if Guiyang County is given up, the opponent's food road will be very difficult. As long as Guiyang County cannot produce food this year, either the General Mansion's lone army in Jingnan will be dragged away. Die, or... the General Mansion is dragged to death in order to support this lone army!

Jingbei is also at war. Does the General Mansion really have so much food that can be wasted on transporting food from the Five Ridges?
Similarly, once food is cut off, it will further promote the instability of the Wuxi barbarians...

Han Xuan knew this well, so he suggested that Liu Pan return to Changsha directly without fighting for the gains and losses of one county or one place.

Of course, the more important reason is that...it can't be beaten.

Based on the lessons learned from the previous rebellion in Jingnan, Guiyang was doing well without demolishing the city walls, so naturally it would not be reinforced.

Jingnan has always been a frequent place for "falling by the wind".

In history without the "white rabbit effect" (white picture effect), when Cao Cao went south, the four counties of Jingnan surrendered together with Liu Cong. After Cao Cao was defeated, the four counties of Jingnan surrendered to Liu Bei. When Lu Meng attacked Jingzhou , Changsha and Guiyang directly surrendered to Soochow...

I originally thought that the 2-strong army of the General's Mansion would go deep into the army alone. As long as they could withstand a few rounds, the opponent would be unable to follow up sooner or later. Unexpectedly, the Wuxi people actually intervened at this time.

Although the Wuxi people's combat effectiveness on the plains is not as good as that of the Han army, they have filled the void in the general's manpower. To put it in layman's terms... they are at least capable of being cannon fodder!
As a result, Liu Pan also accepted Han Xuan's "step" and returned north to Changsha County, preparing to guard Changsha and several counties in the northern part of Wuling.

Before leaving, I didn’t forget to cut the green seedlings...

It's only April. Even with the climate in Jingnan, the rice is not yet mature. It will have to wait for at least another month or two. However, it is impossible to get it back this year anyway. If people don't feed the horses, and the horses don't eat to make fire, it won't be done. We can't leave it to the army of the General's Mansion!
As for the people?

Naturally, it was handed over to the General's Mansion for relief.

Because the previous rebellion of the gentry in the four counties of Jingnan was severely dealt a blow by Liu Biao, the resistance of the wealthy families against the Jingzhou Prefecture was very small.

The Nanjun gentry cooperated with Liu Biao precisely to harvest the interests of other counties in Jingzhou. However, Nanyang County has always been incompatible with Jingzhou. It was originally Yuan Shu's home base, so the four counties in Jingnan were their main targets.

Liu Pan led the people to leave Guiyang with food and food. Compared with Yuan Shu, Liu Pan did not do anything when he overdrawn his manpower, nor did he enter the city to plunder.

Firstly, it was Liu Pan who wanted to lose face, and secondly, it was the General's Mansion's pursuit of Yuan's remaining members, which had a deterrent effect.

Zhang Liao brought only [-] troops, and there were still [-] wounded and wounded. He did not dare to allow the Wuxi people to garrison the city. He was reluctant to control the more than [-] counties in Guiyang and Lingling, and was unable to enter. Pictured in Changsha.

The White Tiger tribe led by Shamoko and other vassal tribes, totaling [-] barbarians, were always stationed in the same county as Zhang Liao's [-] main force and Gao Shun's [-] trap camp.

Although Shamoko considers himself to be Han Zhennan General and the General's Nanzhong pacifier, but... military discipline cannot be established in a day. It is easy to expect these barbarians not to disturb the people. It is easy to expect them to be there when there is no one While watching, you can still consciously not disturb the people...then the requirements are too high.

Zhang Liao and Chen Gong's goal has been achieved - with Guiyang County and Lingling County as the "terminal" rest stops, the General Mansion can send a steady stream of troops over.

It's just that marching from the land of five mountains, don't think how efficient it is, and the long-distance combat can't eat local food, and the consumption of military rations is also terrible.

Regardless of the distance from Zhangling to Guiyang via the Wuling detour, it is not as far as Zhangling to Jinling. However, because it is all mountains, hills, and forests, the military ration consumption was three to four times as much - more than 3 stones of military rations. It was transported to Guiyang County, and after accounting for the consumption, it could only reach [-] dan!

This is still a mountain cart improved by Huang Yueying, otherwise the consumption will be higher.

The truth here is indeed the same as what Han Xuan and Liu Pan expected and expected.

But what they don't know is...

There is really no shortage of food in the General's Mansion. Not only has Yangzhou's yield per mu increased by nearly [-]% compared to five years ago, but the area of ​​cultivated land has not decreased but increased. In particular, a lot of fields have been opened up in Juntun and Guantun. This part of the yield per mu They are all filled with military resources.

At the same time, there are sharp weapons such as Jiangdong salt and sugar, soft colored glaze, and Jiangdong brocade, which can also siphon grain from other regions into Yangzhou.

Given Yangzhou's grain output, if it were not controlled, grain prices would have already fallen back to the level before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

At that time, the noble grain merchants would naturally not be so imaginative as to buy grain from other places and transport it back. For every stone of grain transported from the Central Plains to Yangzhou, they would lose at least several hundred dollars. What are you trying to do?
After all, food prices are rising in other areas, so food should be diverted from Yangzhou!

However, it cannot be ignored that the white sugar and rock sugar produced by Yanyin and Guanfang, as well as Gan's Jiangdong Jin, etc., are all grain-based, and it is true that the breeding industry in Yangzhou is more developed and requires more feed, which increases the consumption of grain. Forcibly Grain prices have been stabilized, especially for salt, and there are also preferential prices for "imported grains", which has greatly made Yangzhou operate like a grain sucking machine.

With the recovery of the commodity economy, Bai Tu has long wanted to make the currency "hard" again. However, he cannot release grain now, so he has to wait until grain production is completely stable before supporting the five-baht currency... …

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