The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 888 The Fall of the Whole Territory ([-])

Following Liu Chan's request that the areas under the original Sun regime that were still captured by the Shu Han army, within a limited period of time, after all the documents to realize the full automatic surrender are issued, the people in charge of those areas Among the officials, as well as the local commanding clans or generals, complete divisions soon appeared.

In fact, under Liu Chan's strong request, together with Zhang Fei who has already commanded the army and started to set off to the south, and Deng Ai's army is about to support the troops from Kuaiji County, it is indeed for those who want to conquer the area. caused great pressure.Therefore, it is impossible to allow neutrals to gain a foothold at this time. They can only choose two positions: surrender or continue to be loyal to the Sun regime.

Since Sun Quan had already died in battle at this time, and Moling had been conquered by the Shu Han army, and there was no major political turmoil in the occupied area, this indeed made many wavering centrists tend to surrender to the Shu Han soon. .

The one who got the fastest response was actually Linhai County, south of Kuaiji County.Because a large-scale battle broke out between Kuaiji County and Deng Ai's army before, this is also the place where the power of the Shuhan army can be sensed.

They are well aware of the strength of the Shu Han army.Coupled with the narrow territory of Linhai County, there are hardly many military forces to fight against.At this time, heavy troops had been placed on the border of Kuaiji County, and Deng Ai, who was about to move, kept threatening Linhai County with war, and finally succeeded in forcing the entire county of Linhai County to surrender.

Deng Ai then led the army directly into Linhai County and took over the defense of the counties in the territory.Then, according to Liu Chan's order, Deng Ai began to accept local powerful private armed forces, or he could forcibly disband them, lest they continue to interfere with local administration and public security in the future.

It should be said that this is the first time that Liu Chan has attacked Jiangdong's powerful army so clearly.Of course, what Deng Ai is targeting now is actually relatively small local tyrants, and the number of private soldiers in their hands is not very large. Under the threat of Deng Ai's tough methods, it is relatively easy to be dealt with.

And this time Liu Chan is indeed using Huairou means, but he also hides a strong hand in it. He wants to take advantage of the army to intervene and partially solve it. The local administrative power has been greatly weakened, and it has to rely on local tyrants to maintain the long-standing problem of rule.

If this kind of matter is not resolved quickly, once the Jingzhou Army and Jiangzhou Army return to their original bases in the future, as the suppression force in the territory weakens, they may make trouble at any time with excuses.

At that time, the situation will be difficult to control, and the Shu Han regime will once again fall into an extremely embarrassing situation.Therefore, Liu Chan feels that it is still necessary to make a quick cut. Even if there will be corresponding resistance when it is implemented, but under the current background, it will attract much less attention than when it is specifically targeted in the future.

The second place where the news came was the southern part of Linchuan County.

Since the northern area of ​​Linchuan County has been swept away by Deng Ai's troops long ago, and there have been many battles with Lu Dai's army in Luling County, even if Liu Chan does not issue a surrender request, there will be no surrender. The three surviving counties of Shuicheng, Anpu and Nanfeng have long wanted to surrender to the Shu Han.

Therefore, before Zhang Fei's large army arrived in Linchuan County, the surrender documents of these three counties had been sent to Moling City as quickly as possible, and taught Liu Chan's hands.

However, as everyone expected, the biggest hardliner in the southeast of Jiangxi soon appeared.That is Lu Dai, who took charge of Luling County and led the army to fight against the Shu Han army many times, made a strong voice against surrender.This indeed gave Sun Wu's hardliners a final sliver of encouragement.

Therefore, even though several counties in Lujiang County wanted to surrender, these voices of surrender were quickly silenced by Lu Dai's tough measures.After all, in the end, none of the county towns in Lujiang County declared their surrender.

Because he had already expected that Lu Dai would not surrender easily, that's why Liu Chan asked Zhang Fei to lead the army to Linchuan County to fight a decisive battle with Lu Dai's men from the front.After all, the army in Lu Dai's hands had suffered heavy losses in several battles with the Shu Han army, and it did not have much strength to defend Lujiang County.

As Zhang Fei's troops entered Linchuan County, Lu Dai could only distribute his troops to the three counties of Yangcheng, Shiyang and Qingyang, the northernmost counties in Lujiang County, to carry out key defensive operations.These three counties are close to each other and can form a triangle for mutual support and deterrence against the enemy.But they are also all in the east of Luling County.

The reason why Lu Dai deployed his troops in this way may be that on the one hand, he took into account the reality of the shortage of troops, and on the other hand, he also considered that the east of Luling County is Jian'an County, which is relatively safe.

Therefore, since Liu Chan issued the order to surrender, the largest battle between the army of Jiangdong survivors and the army of Shu Han broke out in Lujiang County.

Although the troops on Deng Ai's side are the support troops of Zhang Fei's army, they should go to support Zhang Fei at this time.But in fact, Deng Ai has another task of his own.

According to Liu Chan's request, the number of troops on Zhang Fei's side was enough to confront Lu Dai's troops head-on. Deng Ai's side had to send troops from Linhai County and continue south to conquer Jian'an County.

Jian'an County is actually a county separated from Kuaiji County.Its territory probably covers the entire territory of today's Fujian Province, while Linhai County covers most of today's Zhejiang Province.

It should be said that the area covered by Jian'an County is not small.But the problem here is also rather unique.That is, there are many mountains and hills in Jian'an County, and because of the closed terrain, the north and west are surrounded by Wuyi Mountains, which makes it difficult to get in and out, and has not been effectively developed.The territory immediately became a barbarian settlement, which was very difficult to manage.

Moreover, in a county of Nuo Da, the Sun Wu regime actually set up two counties, Jianping and Jian'an.Moreover, the county offices of these two counties are both in the north of Jian'an County, near Linhai County. It can be seen that the administration of Sun Wu in the south of Jian'an County has almost been abandoned.

But it happened that these two counties in Jian'an County insisted on refusing to surrender to Shu Han because they believed that the territory was mountainous and easy to defend but difficult to attack.Even according to intelligence, the barbarians in Jian'an County are ready to rebel and become self-reliant.

The strength of Deng Ai's troops has been tested in previous battles. Even if the territory of Jian'an County is dangerous, Deng Ai has already assured Liu Chan that his army can easily take Jian'an County in a short period of time.

Furthermore, Deng Ai also asked Liu Chan to send part of the Shanyue Army of Youtu or Peng Qi to Jian'an County to help him fight against the barbarians.After all, the Shanyue people are indeed masters in mountain warfare, definitely better than Deng Ai's men.

(End of this chapter)