The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 617
Liu Chan soon got two good news from Xiong Ping and Gai Meng.

Being able to annihilate the Xie Fan Army commanded by Hu Zong and Xu Xiang, and capture more than half of its troops, is indeed something worthy of celebration.

Originally, Liu Chan still maintained a very cautious attitude towards Jie Fanjun.After all, this is a unit that has always been known as the elite of the Jiangdong Army, and it is not comparable to ordinary county soldiers.

However, after this battle, Liu Chan has a relatively full understanding of the strength among the Jingzhou Army, Jiangzhou Army, and Jiangdong Army.He felt that the strength of the Jiangzhou Army and the Jingzhou Army should not be weaker than the other elite troops of the Jiangdong Army that had not yet been dispatched.

After Liu Chan calmed down a bit, after discussing with Yu Jin, he immediately issued a new combat order to Gai Meng's cavalry: let Gai Meng hand over all the captured soldiers to Zhang Bao. After repairing the ground for two days, he immediately set off to return to attack Liling.

There are only a few hundred county soldiers in Liling City. Not only are they pitifully small in number, but they are also weak among the weak in combat effectiveness.After Liling was taken down, Gai Meng's cavalry would go straight to Yichun without stopping, and reach the back of Liuyang City in a detour.When the time comes, Xu Sheng's team will really become the turtle in the urn.

Moreover, according to Yu Jin's suggestion, Gai Meng's troops can take Yichun City by the way.In this way, once the enemy troops from Yangzhou came to support them, Yichun would be the bridgehead to block the enemy troops.

Moreover, as long as Gai Meng's army takes Yichun, Liu Chan will immediately send an infantry team to help defend the city, and there is no pressure on Gai Meng's troops.

In fact, because the distance between Yichun and Xiangtan is relatively far, and Yichun is already the mainland of Yangzhou in Jiangdong, it is still difficult for Liu Chan to obtain accurate information.Therefore, Liu Chan doesn't even know yet that Lu Xun has arranged another lurking team in Yichun.

Otherwise, Liu Chan will definitely consider carefully again whether he should send Gai Meng's cavalry to take Yichun City "by the way".Instead, according to the original plan, the tiger roared directly from Yichun's avenue, and directly blocked the rear of Xu Sheng's Liu Yangcheng.

On the other hand, Liu Chan also issued an order to Zhang Bao.After Gai Meng was asked to hand over the prisoners of the Jiefan Army to Zhang Baojun, Zhang Baojun would send a team and Jia Qing's troops to escort the Jiefan Army back to Xiangtan to accept the new reorganization.

The reason why Liu Chan asked Zhang Bao to also send troops was mainly because Jia Qing's men had just surrendered, and they really didn't have much sense of trust.Therefore, Zhang Bao's men were of course used to monitor Jia Qing's men, lest they make any mistakes along the way.

Zhang Fei also quickly got the good news sent by Zhang Bao.He knew in his heart that after the annihilation of the troubled army, Lu Xun would be able to judge that his original combat arrangements and the newly improved combat arrangements had all been seen through by the Shu Han army.His desire to defeat the coalition forces of Jingzhou Army and Jiangzhou Army is almost impossible to realize.

Therefore, Zhang Fei himself judged that after Lu Xun had no hope of advancing in the southern part of Jingzhou, the next thing to do was to stick to the Jiangdong mainland of Yangzhou.

In addition, Zhang Fei knew that according to the original combat arrangement, Gai Meng's cavalry should have already started to detour to Yichun.So, that is to say, the retreat of the enemy troops within the two cities of Wuchang and Liuyang will soon be cut off.

Therefore, the current situation is simply too good for Zhang Fei.

In addition to Zhang Fei's hand, and the reinforcements sent by Huang Quan and Liu Chan one after another, the number of troops has exceeded [-].If he hadn't been thinking about the overall situation, he would have led his army to attack Juan City long ago.

Now that the time has come, Zhang Fei unceremoniously wants to command the army to attack Juncheng.However, the combat effectiveness of the Jiangdong Army in the city was really tenacious. With 2000 men, they managed to firmly defend Xiajun for ten days.

After Zhang Fei broke the city, he was actually not in a good mood, because he also lost a lot of troops under Xiajun City, so he felt very resentful towards the enemy soldiers in the city.

Therefore, Zhang Fei did not soften his hands any more, or in other words, he did not intend to soften his hands at all.Zhang Fei raised his butcher knife, and all the 600 prisoners captured after Xiajun City was broken were all killed by Zhang Fei.

Of course, the grievances in this can also be traced back to the incident when Lu Xun successfully retreated from Xiajun by tricking Zhang Fei that day.

At that time, the news reached Liu Chan's ears, and Liu Chan's reaction was naturally recognizable.However, Liu Chan has nothing to do with Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei is not only an official, but also has inextricable connections with him. It is absolutely impossible for Liu Chan to do anything to him.Therefore, once the incident is revealed, it will be of no benefit to anyone.The next thing Liu Chan has to do is to help Zhang Fei cover up the matter.

However, this is already a matter of the future.

In fact, there are quite a lot of things that Liu Chan has to be busy with recently.

In terms of fighting, the affairs on the front line were assigned to Zhang Fei for unified command.Liu Chan only pays attention to the situation on Gai Meng's side, which is more or less the same; Huang Quan is in overall management of the logistics; as for the military counselor, Liu Chan has General Yu Jin to help; intelligence collection is convenient, and Liu Chan has Zhuge Qiao to coordinate , report daily.

Logically speaking, with the help of these people, Liu Chan should be very relaxed.But that's not the case.

There are people who are helping in the war, but Jingzhou's internal affairs still require a lot of attention.Nanjun and Xiangyang are managed by two gentlemen, Ma Liang and Wang Fu respectively.

Especially in Nanjun, when Liu Chan left, although the reconstruction work had gone smoothly, it has now entered the most difficult period.After all, it's the end of summer, and the food shortage is getting worse.Moreover, the funds for the reconstruction of Nanjun are also being consumed day by day, and the appropriation from Yizhou is actually not so timely...

These are matters that Liu Chan needs to continue to follow up.Although, these should actually be the duties of the prefect Mi Fang, but now Liu Chan is desperate for Mi Fang, and secretly let Ma Liang and Pan Jun more and more take away all his powers.Therefore, Ma Liang, Pan Jun, and Liu Chan are actually the three people who count in Nanjun, and Mi Fang is actually a puppet.

The second thing Liu Chan needs to pay attention to and follow up is that after the war in southern Jingzhou has progressed here, the result is almost out.The war in southern Jingzhou has just subsided, and some places need to be rebuilt.

They need to recruit the fleeing residents back to their original places, and they also need to form a small number of county soldiers to station in various cities.And if Wuling County was looted by the Wuxi Man, it must be rebuilt just like Nan County.

Fortunately, there are relatively few residents in Wuling County, and the funds and materials needed for reconstruction are not too much.Otherwise, under normal circumstances, Wuling County would probably be abandoned.

Judging from Liu Chan's temperament, it is absolutely impossible for him to let the residents of Wuling County ignore him.Therefore, Liu Chan will not hesitate to invest money in Wuling County in the end.Therefore, the reconstruction of Nanjun and Wuling counties alone may be enough to drag down Jingzhou's finances and cause the government to go bankrupt.

Therefore, the sparse population of Wuling County seems to be really a kind of luck for Jingzhou.

Moreover, Wang Fu is now in Xiangyang City, and Mr. Ma Liang is in Nanjun. Both of them have important responsibilities.For the time being, Liu Chan couldn't find anyone who could help him with the affairs in southern Jingzhou, so he had to do it himself first.However, his administrative experience is seriously insufficient, and of course he will encounter many difficulties in actual operation.

Fortunately, there is still Huang Quan in Xiangtan.He is engaged in the governance of Yizhou. He is at the same level as Pan Jun, and he is also an expert in handling internal affairs.Therefore, even if Huang Quan is not in his position, he must help Liu Chan all the time and participate in the government affairs in southern Jingzhou.

Therefore, Liu Chan will not go crazy because of so many affairs to be dealt with at this time.

The third major matter that Liu Chan needs to deal with is a peace treaty that needs to be concluded in advance after the war between Jingzhou and Jiangdong is over.

The most important part of this is of course the various compensations that Jingzhou needs to demand from Jiangdong.

In Liu Chan's view, the Jiangdong army beat the Jiangzhou army and killed the commander-in-chief Guan Yu, and then as long as an envoy is sent, after the two sides drink, drink and quarrel, nothing will happen, right?He needs Jiangdong people to pay a corresponding price for this peace.

What's more, Liu Chan's original strategic plan, except for Jiangxia County and Lukou Port, has not been realized, and other places such as Changsha, Xiangtan, Ancheng, Youxian County and Leiyang to the east of Changsha have almost all been reorganized. Back in the hands of the Shu Han, the time to re-build defense lines in these places is almost ripe.All of these need to be clearly recognized by Jiangdong, otherwise there will be constant conflicts in the future.

And these things involve diplomatic matters, which is not the field that Liu Chan is good at.

In fact, Liu Chan has almost no experience in this area.Otherwise, although Liu Chan's performance when he met Jia Xu in Xiangyang City did not give Jia Xu any advantage, in the eyes of Ma Liang and others, his performance was actually quite bad.

Therefore, with Liu Chan's fixed thinking, he immediately thought of the need for a diplomatic talent to assist him in completing this plan.

As a result, one person began to rise to the top.

Liu Chan immediately issued a call-up order to Gong'an City, and transferred Zong Yu, who had been placed in Gong'an City to receive cold treatment because of Wuximan's treachery, to Xiangtan to assist Liu Chan.

Moreover, Zong Yu is indeed a talent in this area, and his eloquence is naturally needless to say, so it is very good to explain and report many things to Liu Chan.

Zong Yu's talent was quickly appreciated by Liu Chan.

(End of this chapter)