Xuande

Chapter 725
Strictly speaking, Xu He and Sima Ju were not orthodox Yellow Turbans, but they started the incident several years after Zhang Jiao and others died.

Although they also understand some of the Taiping Dao program, but in terms of "academics", they only know what it is and don't know why it is.

They don't know how to elaborate on the program of Taiping Dao, so they can only make up some content that meets the needs of the grassroots, so as to coax them into joining and make them work hard.

For example, in Huangtian Shengshi, everyone does not have to pay exorbitant taxes or pay food to the government. Everyone can have a hundred acres of land, everyone can have two or three wives, everyone can eat well, wear nice clothes, and live in a big comfortable house.

Anyway, everyone has a bright future and a good life to live in. If you believe in Huang Tian, ​​you will have a future.

After a lot of fooling around, there are some people who are willing to believe the truth of Xu He and Sima Ju, but they obviously don't have Zhang Jiao's ability, so they can't fool too many people. Many people think that their lives are good now, and the government can't do anything to them.

As long as you can beat it, nothing else is a problem.

They saw the fighting power of the Yellow Turban Army sweeping across the northern part of Danyang County, and hoped to unite with the Yellow Turban Army and get the military protection of the Yellow Turban Army.

Xu He and Sima Ju also quickly realized the value of the Yellow Turban Army to the Shanyue Group, so they decided to exchange military protection and tactical guidance in exchange for some help from the Shanyue Group.

The cooperation in these two aspects is very pleasant, and the life of the Yangzhou government is very difficult. In this case, they will also try to make the court uncomfortable and allow the court to allocate funds.

But what Gui Bao didn't expect was that the court's response to this was a severe reprimand and the arrival of the army.

According to the latest policy arrangement, Yangzhou is designated as the territory of the Jiangnan Military Region, and the Jiangnan Military Region will be assigned a 3-strong Central Han Army stationed there, led by Zhennan General Guan Yu.

Gui Bao didn't know Guan Yu very well, but he also knew that Guan Yu was the earliest subordinate of General Liu Bei.

It just so happened that the Shanyue Group and the Yellow Turban Army in Yangzhou area were colluding and mixed together at this time, and the Yangzhou government was incompetent and unable to eradicate treacherous evil, so the court had to solve this problem.

Zhennan General Guan Yu will lead his troops to the south in a few days and arrive in Yangzhou, ready to launch a war against the Shanyue Group and the Yellow Turban Army at any time.

All officials in Yangzhou must obey the imperial court's orders during the war and obey the orders of Zhennan General Guan Yu.

If Guan Yu has an order, they must follow it, and there must be no mistakes, otherwise Guan Yu has the right to go to the table to participate in them, and he can dismiss them.

And once Zhennan General Guan Yu took over the war, all the original armed personnel in Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhi areas must obey Guan Yu's orders, and all military resources must be opened to Guan Yu. If not, Guan Yu also has the right to remove relevant officials.

In short, through the Luoyang court, Liu Bei gave Guan Yu the right to control everything. The entire war zone had to obey Guan Yu's orders during the war.

Including Gui Bao, the governor of Yangzhou.

To put it bluntly, the overlord of Jingyang Erzhou and Little Transparent Cochin is here.

This news made Gui Bao's head dizzy. I don't know how Liu Bei had the courage to make such an earth-shattering arrangement, but that's how Liu Bei did it.

Gui Bao is not from Yangzhou, he doesn't have much thought about the interests of the local people in Yangzhou, he comes here more to dawdle and gain qualifications, thinking about whether there is a way to advance to the central government.

So he was full of resentment towards this unexpected disaster.

He resented the people of Xuzhou, the former governor of Xuzhou Dong Zhuo, the prefect of Guangling and other county magistrates, and a little bit of resentment for the general Liu Bei who let him take the blame for being unreasonable.

But to the end of the resentment, he got nothing, and couldn't help but feel extremely frustrated, feeling that the possibility of his going to Luoyang Gaosheng was getting smaller and smaller.

But he also realized that now that Guan Yu is here, it is not all a bad thing for him, because the only possibility for him to advance to Luoyang now lies in Guan Yu.

If you can help Guan Yu deal with logistical affairs well, maybe you can get Liu Bei's appreciation through Guan Yu, and thus leave Yangzhou, a remote village.

However, he has been the governor of Yangzhou for a long time, and he naturally knows that Yangzhou people, especially those in Jiangnan, have a xenophobic sentiment, which is actually more obvious against people in Jiangbei.

It's not their turn to do good things, but they are the ones who are responsible for them. After experiencing many such things, anyone will feel extremely dissatisfied with the Luoyang court.

Moreover, when Guan Yu came, it was obvious that he was going to take over the resources of the war and mobilize armed forces and military resources from various places to fight on the battlefield. At that time, there would inevitably be some conflicts with the locals. It is hard to say that the two sides can resolve the problem amicably.

At that time, wouldn't it be a dilemma for me, the governor of Yangzhou, to be caught in the middle, and not a person inside and outside?

Gui Bao suddenly fell into a dilemma of apprehension.

But time waits for no one, and the Luoyang court will not care about the thoughts of some insects. Faced with these insects who have no feelings for family and country and only have themselves, Liu Bei will never be soft-hearted.

So Guan Yu, the person in charge of the Jiangnan Military Region and the general of Zhennan, led the army south in November of the fourth year of Jian'an without waiting for the New Year.

In this marching battle, in addition to Guan Yu himself, Liu Bei also sent Guo Jia to Guan Yu, and asked Guo Jia to serve as the marching staff officer, and he was a military counselor with Guan Yu.

Liu Bei believes that Guo Jia has relatively good thinking ability at the level of military staff. Although he lacks experience, as long as he has more experience, sooner or later he can become an excellent strategic and tactical planner like Jia Xu and Xunyou.

So this time he let Guo Jia go south with the army to receive training, and at the same time he used his clever mind to solve some side problems for Guan Yu.

In addition, in order to ensure that Guan Yu was not at a disadvantage politically and was entrapped by the local insects, Liu Bei assigned Cheng Yu, who was the commander-in-chief of the great general, to Guan Yu as the commander-in-chief of this march, specializing in matters other than the battlefield, and escorting Guan Yu.

After a long time of working with Liu Bei, Cheng Yu has become more mature politically. In addition, Cheng Yu is used to the warmth and coldness of people, and knows how the insects at the local grassroots level play tricks, so Cheng Yu is quite capable of dealing with these people.

For Guan Yu, who was not very experienced in politics, Cheng Yu's participation was a major reinforcement.

Then, Liu Bei directly ordered that the former prefect of Danyang County be dismissed on the grounds of "fearing, delaying the battle, and losing troops and generals", and dispatched the general Zhongyou as the prefect of Danyang County to rectify the county affairs and assist Guan Yu in fighting.

It can be said that Liu Bei made all kinds of preparations to prevent Guan Yu from going south to fight and overturning.

To put it bluntly, this time going south to fight, Guan Yu is fighting away. If he wants to do his best, it will be very difficult. If he is alone, he may not be able to do it.

So not only Cheng Yu and Guo Jia, but also the three independent battalions Gan Ning, Shi Huan, and Yan Xing who had gone south earlier were also under Guan Yu's command. Guan Yu could mobilize these three independent battalions to assist in the battle.

And these three independent battalions are not simple existences.

In addition to the headquarters army of the earliest battalion, these three independent battalions also recruited a battalion of local soldiers to train them and raise water troops according to Liu Bei's request.

Although the current training time is relatively short and the navy has not yet been trained, the number is still sufficient. If there is a real fight, Guan Yu can also be mobilized.

Guan Yu's headquarters consisted of the Tianwei Army, No.19 Army, and No.20 Army. Counting the three independent battalions, Guan Yu could directly mobilize nearly 5 military forces. If Guan Yu still needed manpower, the county and state miscellaneous soldiers in Jingzhou and Yangzhou also needed to obey Guan Yu's dispatch.

However, Guan Yu himself did not plan to dispatch these military conscripts from the counties and states. He learned from the problems Cheng Yu had encountered before and decided not to use the conscripts as a reliable force to participate in the war, and at most let them take on the task of transporting logistics supplies.

Frontline operations, of course, still depend on the headquarters.

In mid-November of the fourth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu prepared his headquarters to go south, and the marching speed was quite fast. In early December of the fourth year of Jian'an, all the troops arrived and stationed in Lujiang County.

(End of this chapter)