It was indeed a bit uncomfortable for Huang Zu not to be able to get help from Huang Chengyan, but this did not mean that he would stop his resistance.
So he continued to contact other wealthy families in Jiangxia County, and also sent people to Nan County to contact more big families, hoping to unite the power of the big families to subvert Jingzhou and let Liu Bei see the power of Jingzhou people and compromise with Jingzhou.
But other major wealthy families are actually facing similar difficulties.
For example, the famous Pang family, Ma family, and Yang family in Jingzhou also experienced the same situation, with internal disagreements and even splits.
The poor tribesmen themselves will benefit from the land transfer order, and they often harbor feelings of jealousy, resentment, etc. towards the wealthy members of the tribe. Deep down, they want to see them suffer misfortune, and it is impossible to help them.
Although the tribesmen with a middle-level wealth will suffer some damage to their interests, it is not enough for them to rise up to resist. Moreover, they are full of worries about resisting the imperial court and are hesitant to look forward and backward.
Therefore, they often communicate with the government without telling the upper class of the family, expressing their personal willingness to accept the land transfer order, but the family cannot control it, hoping to get on the court's white list and avoid disaster.
In the end, it was the upper class of Jingzhou's wealthy families who launched the rebellion against the land transfer order. In fact, it did not include the Cai family, Kuai family and other few wealthy families who had already been politically involved with the imperial court and decided to compromise.
Therefore, overall, the resistance force is relatively limited and not as powerful as that in southern Jizhou.
But to say that they did not cause any disaster would be to underestimate these people.
When it comes to family property and money, the Jiangxia County rebel group headed by Huang Zu has such a subjective initiative that it breaks through the sky!
Although Zhao Jian, the commander of the county army, had issued an early warning before the incident, and sent people to strengthen the defense of Xiling City, and began to restrict people from going out and entering, the prefect Liu Xiang was not prepared at all, and did not think that the matter was serious. He warned Zhao Jian
Don't pay much attention to it.
In order to appease people's hearts, he also showed up to appease the people in person, preaching the principles of peace and tranquility in the world. He also continuously sent people to appease several wealthy families, so that they could relax and accept the land transfer. The court would not harm them, but only wanted to collect taxes.
But Huang Zu ignored him at all.
The first wave of operations he launched was to capture Xiling County and eliminate all court officials. To this end, many dead soldiers were arranged in Xiling County.
When the incident happened, Zhao Jian accidentally failed to protect Liu Xiang. Liu Xiang himself was too careless and thought everything was fine. As a result, the soldiers sent by Huang Zu found the opportunity and killed Liu Xiang with a single blow.
Xiang, the prefect of Jiangxia, was actually assassinated in Xiling County.
The prefect was assassinated, causing chaos in the city, and Zhao Jian was caught off guard.
Facing the turbulent and chaotic team of craftsmen in the city, Zhao Jian led his men to fight desperately. They faced off against the craftsmen face to face, and fought bloody battles. He suffered two stab wounds, and barely managed to save Xiling City.
The team's attempt to open the city gate was ended by Zhao Jian, who organized the city's defense despite his injuries and maintained the basic stability of the city.
However, at that time, Huang Zu's troops had already begun to besiege Xiling County. Zhao Jian had no choice but to lead the county soldiers to defend the city, and at the same time looked forward to Guan Yu's reinforcements arriving as soon as possible.
The initial location of the Jiangnan Military Region was decided by Liu Bei in Jiangling, because Liu Bei felt that land and water transportation in Jiangling was more convenient, and he could reach anywhere quickly.
However, after Guan Yu took office, he considered that Jiangling's location was relatively far from Yangzhou, and he believed that the thief problem in Yangzhou was more serious, while the thief problem in Jingzhou was not that serious, and Jiangling was still in Jiangbei after all. Since it was the Jiangnan Military Region, how could the station be in Jiangbei?
Woolen cloth?
So Guan Yu petitioned Liu Bei to change the location of the military region to Nanchang County, Yuzhang County, Yangzhou. After discussing with the Privy Council, Liu Bei supported Guan Yu's suggestion, so he changed the location of the Jiangnan Military Region and designated Nanchang County as the location.
From a military point of view, this transfer is actually no problem and is even more appropriate. However, in the turmoil caused by this trip to the fields, it did bring some trouble to Du Ji and Liu Xiang.
But Guan Yu's actions were actually quite fast.
Liu Bei informed Guan Yu in advance to make preparations, so although Guan Yu was paying attention to the rebellion in the Yangzhou Mountains, he still mobilized the 19th Army and two battalions, a total of 16,000 troops, as a mobile force to rush to the area of rebellion at any time.
Guan Yu himself planned to stay in Nanchang and not go anywhere because he was worried that the rebellion in Jingzhou would cause a chain reaction in Yangzhou.
At present, although the Dutian Order has not affected the Jiangnan area, so Yangzhou is not within the scope of the Dutian Order except for Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, but the rebellion of some Shanyue bandits does not matter what your policies are.
They focus on finding every opportunity to exploit.
As long as there is a need, or simply because they see you unhappy, they will launch a sneak attack when you are in a state of distress, making you extremely uncomfortable. It would be very uncomfortable if Yamakoshi makes another sneak attack while dealing with the Tutian rebellion.
And this is definitely not impossible. After Guan Yu defeated the Yellow Turban Army, although he established a better cooperative relationship with Fei Zhan, the Shanyue bandit commander in Yuzhang County, and Fei Zhan also had a court official position, and he admired Guan Yu, but Shanyue
There is not just one person who is handsome.
According to Fei Zhan's own account, there are three Shanyue bandit commanders at the same level as him in Yuzhang County. There are also relatively powerful Shanyue bandit commanders in several other counties. Lin Lin finally figured out that there are Shanyue bandit commanders of his level in the entire Shanyue Group.
There must be about ten of them.
Moreover, the relationship between the Shanyue thieves is that of a big brother working under a younger brother, and a younger brother working under a younger brother. There is quite a feeling of "the vassals that I vassal are not my vassals."
They rely on the steel knife and the so-called "loyalty" as a link between them. There is no complete regulation between superiors and subordinates. There will often be some situations where the subordinates overcome the superiors or the gangsters take advantage of the gangsters. The main boss will take turns to do it. Next year, he will come to my house.
For such a group, if they don't leave an army and an awesome general in charge, I really can't say that they won't cause trouble.
After the Yellow Turban War, the Shanyue Group in various counties had not caused trouble for a while. Firstly, they were busy with spring plowing and summer, so they did not have much free time. Secondly, Guan Yu led tens of thousands of Han troops to sit in the town and hit anyone who made trouble, and even some
prestige.
But after the autumn harvest, in order to reserve food for the winter, there may be some actions in the mountains and rivers in various places, so Guan Yu is on guard and is also planning to solve the Dutian rebellion before the autumn harvest, otherwise the two-front battle will be very troublesome.
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Therefore, Guan Yu did not choose the mature and prudent Huang Zhong as the chief general of the expedition, but promoted the enterprising young general Wei Yan as the chief general of the expedition, and gave Wei Yan the command of an army and two independent battalions.
Although Wei Yan was young, he had military exploits and prestige. He had also served as a general for several months. He was also considered a close confidant of Liu Bei, so he played a more or less role in the army.
This time he was the commander-in-chief of the expedition to Jiangxia and Nanjun. Although some senior officers had some opinions, no one raised any direct objections.
Wei Yan was very happy anyway. He was courageous and indeed had the ability to lead troops in combat. He was deeply influenced and guided by Guan Yu, and he was very confident in himself. For this battle, he proposed the strategy of advancing quickly, pursuing fiercely, and eradicating the roots.
Battle planning ideas.
He believed that the Jingzhou clan thieves who launched the Dutian Rebellion were basically locals. Although they were relatively large in number, according to what he knew, most of them were a mob, and there was an absolute gap in combat effectiveness with the Han army.
The only thing that will pose a threat to the Han army is that there may be rebellions in too many places, which will make the Han army exhausted and expose its flaws. Therefore, if you want to solve this problem, you need to attack quickly, accurately and with the strongest force.
An offensive to eliminate the most ferocious enemy.
Then the enemy's head was used to declare the military strength of the Han army, in order to scare Xiao Xiao and make those who were ready to rebel also give up the idea.
Therefore, this battle can just use the river maneuvering tactics that Guan Yu led the army to practice for a long time.
Because the water system in the south of the Yangtze River is developed and there are many rivers, unlike the north where there are large and complete plains connected together, there are considerable limitations for the Han army who is accustomed to marching and fighting in the north.
Therefore, after Guan Yu inspected the terrain of many places on the spot, he very responsibly proposed to Liu Bei the overall idea of "using boats instead of cavalry" for Jiangnan operations. He wrote his overall idea into a memorial and handed it to Luoyang, and proposed it to Liu Bei.
He made his own suggestions for building an army.
In his opinion, it is very difficult for the existing Han army system to fully adapt to the geographical environment of Jiangnan and future combat needs. The existing Han army's overall system is fully adapted to northern plains operations and grassland cavalry operations.
, so the overall composition is large cavalry and heavy infantry.
In his opinion, such a composition is no problem for northern operations, and can even be adapted to mountain operations in the north in some cases. However, when it comes to Jiangnan, there should be two completely different combat systems, and the Han army must make certain arrangements.
of reform.
Therefore, Guan Yu proposed to launch reforms in the Jiangnan Military Region and establish a combat and logistics system that relied on rivers and boats to achieve rapid maneuverability and precise strikes.
Guan Yu believed that the land south of the Yangtze River was full of rivers, swamps, wetlands, broken terrain, soft land, and humid climate. If the Han army's logistics system in the north of the Yangtze River was to be fully adopted, the requirements for manpower, vehicles, and animal power would be too great, and the requirements for land transportation would be too great.
The requirements are too great.
Therefore, the geographical environment of Jiangnan is not suitable for adopting the northern logistics system.
If the Han army wants to move, it must rely on the unique and rich river water system of Jiangnan to create a new combat and logistics system to adapt to the operational needs of Jiangnan.
The land north of the Yangtze River can use animal power, but the south of the Yangtze River should use the power of boats, give full play to the power of the water system, and establish a joint force of large boats. As long as there are good plans and plans, the number and speed of the boats can reach the north of the Yangtze River.
The effect even exceeds the effect in Jiangbei.
In Guan Yu's idea, he would travel through the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, draw a complete map of the water system in the south of the Yangtze River, and then formulate a precise and detailed waterway reconstruction plan based on the flow direction and water volume of the water system in the south of the Yangtze River.
Jiangbei can set up military supply stations along important marching roads, and Jiangnan can also set up marching supply stations around waterways.
The Jiangnan Military Region should concentrate its construction engineering efforts on building a large number of military ports. Except for a few important ports, the scale does not need to be large, but the number should be sufficient. Many military ports should be used as garrison points along the water system roads, and a certain amount of troops should be stationed for patrol and guarding.
Guan Yu believed that this would cost more military expenditures, but the effect would be better.
The current struggle environment faced by the Jiangnan Military Region is quite complex. If you are not careful, you will fight on multiple fronts. Rebellions in counties in Yangzhou, southern Jingzhou and even some areas in Jiaozhou will occur from time to time. This is an indisputable fact.
If we want to repair the marching road according to the northern practice, not to mention the greater cost and longer time, the effect may not be enough. A heavy rain or a landslide is enough to destroy a road.
How will we march when the time comes?
As time went by, the rebellion became more violent, and it was like hell for the counter-rebellion army.
The roads in the Jiangnan area are difficult to navigate and the terrain is rugged. In the previous battle to quell the Yellow Turbans, Guan Yu had already initially realized that if the fierce fire oil tanks were not really powerful, Guan Yu himself would not dare to imagine how much it would cost to win that battle.
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Relatively speaking, using the existing water system to build a new military logistics system network and ensuring that this water network can cover the entire Jiangnan military transportation artery will be enough to implement relatively strict military control over Jiangnan.
After all, boats travel relatively fast. Even if rebellion breaks out in multiple places, as long as the water network is fully utilized, more convenient division of troops can be achieved, and logistics can also be transported through the water network. The transportation volume is large and the transportation speed is high.
It is fast and consumes less, which is a very ideal state.
At the end of the fifth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu put forward this idea. At the beginning of the first year of Zhenguan, when Guan Yu returned to Luoyang to reunite with Liu Bei, he took some time to discuss the matter with Liu Bei.
At that time, Liu Bei attached great importance to this matter. He took Guan Yu to the Privy Council and discussed the matter with the staff of the Privy Council. Guan Yu also brought the materials he prepared and expressed his opinions at the meeting, which convinced many people.
people.
In the end, the Privy Council believed that this was a good way to control Jiangnan in a short period of time. It could use the water network throughout Jiangnan to quickly deploy the power of the Jiangnan Military Region to multiple areas, and achieve rapid and precise strikes against rebellious forces.
But the prerequisite for achieving this goal is a large number of ships, familiar ports and water systems, and a large number of skilled sailors.
Compared with building roads, this cost is indeed less, but to establish and improve this system, I am afraid it will take three to five years and require a large amount of military investment.
In other words, within the current proportion of military investment, if there is no additional increase, some resources will need to be allocated to the Jiangnan Military Region. This may be a more difficult thing to accept for several other military regions at present.