The news that Guan Yu wanted to end the war in winter reached Danyang County, and the subordinates of Zhong Yao, the new governor of Danyang, suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
"Didn't you say we would fight again in the spring?"
"I didn't say that we would fight again in the spring, but we also said that we would give the prince at least a month. Now, the prince has only been able to perform his duties for half a month. Everything is still undecided. How can we start the war lightly?"
"Master Fu, would you like to write back to Guan Zhennan and tell him about the difficulties here?"
Liu Bei could not trust the original local administrative team in Danyang County, and Zhong Yao could not trust him either. So Liu Bei selected a group of people with grassroots administrative experience for Zhong Yao in Luoyang, and assigned Zhong Yao a reliable administrative team of more than 30 people.
To serve as the backbone of the new Danyang County.
All the people who originally held important positions of power in Danyang County were dismissed and replaced by people brought by Zhong Yao.
This kind of lack of martial ethics made the local forces in Danyang County very unhappy. They felt that Liu Bei didn't follow the rules, and these northerners didn't follow the rules either. They wanted to have a real PK with them and let them see the martial ethics of the Danyang locals.
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But when they thought that Guan Yu's tens of thousands of troops were across the Yangtze River and would soon move south, they felt that doing so was tantamount to seeking death, so they did not dare to say anything and could only swallow their anger.
Therefore, Zhong Yao's move to seize power was relatively smooth. He quickly arranged the officials he brought to the corresponding positions. Everyone began to work and began to count the military resources that Danyang County could mobilize, preparing to provide them to Guan Yu.
They have been busy with this matter for the past half month. As soon as they had a clue, Guan Yu was coming, which made Zhong Yao's subordinates very worried.
But Zhong Yao read Guan Yu's notification and shook his head.
"Guan Zhennan means that if the battle can be resolved in winter, it will not affect the spring plowing. Spring plowing is the most important thing of the year. If the spring plowing is not done well next year, Danyang County will have to buy grain from outside. This way
Things are not what I want to see.
Therefore, we should go all out now to raise the supplies needed for the war, and try our best to find out the road from here to Yuqian County, so as not to let General Guan and the army fail. What happened in Xuzhou before can not happen again.
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Although they had some opinions in their hearts, the subordinates still started moving honestly. Even the locals who stayed in the county also started doing things honestly - they didn't want to offend Zhong Yao, who was a general.
He also didn't want to offend Guan Yu, who had a large number of soldiers.
Guan Yu will be stationed here permanently in the future, and the general stationing here with heavy troops will be extremely stressful for anyone. If it is not necessary, it is better not to have any conflicts with Guan Yu.
They will take war as their main goal, abandon all other matters, and comprehensively promote war preparations.
Of course, in this season, they are very good at doing this.
Because in previous years, after the autumn harvest and before spring plowing, it was the time when the court requisitioned migrant workers and the farmers went out to work to earn money for their families. It was a matter of course for the government to order a large number of migrant workers to do corvee labor in these few months, and everyone was used to it.
It's just that we won't be working this year and will be working on army transportation and logistics instead.
On November 23rd of the fourth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu, with his commanding officer Wei Yan as the vanguard, led his army by boat across the Yangtze River and entered the Chungu County area of Danyang County, where he conducted the initial gathering of the army.
On the 25th, the army's crossing of the river was fully completed. Guan Yu continued to take Wei Yan as the vanguard and led his troops to Danyang County to govern Wanling County. On the 27th, most of the army arrived in Wanling County to rest and recuperate. Guan Yu also saw Zhong Yao who was busy.
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Compared to Qin Mi, Guan Yu didn't know Zhong Yao very well and had little contact with him. He only met him a few times at public banquets and knew that he had an extraordinary background. He came from the Yingchuan family and was one of Liu Bei's wooers. That was all.
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But since Liu Bei allowed him to come to the place of right and wrong and assume the responsibility of Danyang Prefect at this critical moment, I think Liu Bei had great trust in his abilities.
Guan Yu may not believe anything else, but he never doubts Liu Bei's arrangements.
So he safely handed over the army's logistics affairs to Zhong Yao, and handed over the responsibility of commanding the army to Huang Zhong, the lieutenant general of the 19th Army. He led Wei Yan to explore the way forward in light disguise.
At the same time, because they learned the news of the arrival of Guan Yu's army, the Yellow Turban Army also took targeted countermeasures.
Xu He and Sima Ju were quite nervous about Liu Bei sending figures like Guan Yu to attack them, so they nervously contacted the Shanyue gang who had a good relationship with them, and joined forces with them to start destroying roads, bridges, wells and the like.
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They wanted to cause as much trouble as possible to the Han army to save them from advancing all the way.
They don't care about other opponents, but they cannot underestimate the enemy sent by Liu Bei himself.
It is worth mentioning that although Liu Bei's generals are not as well-known as Liu Bei in terms of fame, they are not without their own fame.
After all, he had carried out some important military missions alone and made a lot of contributions alone. So starting from about the end of Zhongping, news began to spread that Liu Bei had many powerful generals under his command.
It was first spread in Kansai, and after the Jian'an Year, the news about Liu Bei's many fierce generals gradually spread in Kanto.
Among them, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xu Huang, Xia Houyuan and others are more famous. They either followed Liu Bei earlier or made more military exploits.
Guan Yu is one of the most famous generals under Liu Bei.
Because he independently carried out many missions in the Northern Expedition to the grasslands and achieved success, and also guarded Liangzhou alone, and then fought in the Battle of Bingzhou and eliminated many enemies, he gained a great reputation.
Especially in the battle to regain Bingzhou, Guan Yu fought brilliantly and carried out various military operations well. Therefore, Liu Bei spread the reputation of Guan Yu and Qianzhao respectively and built momentum for them.
This was a momentum created by a professional team. From Kansai to Kanto, from Hebei to the Central Plains, and all the way to the edge of the Yangtze River, people spread the word about the illustrious military exploits of Guan Yu and others.
On the one hand, Liu Bei didn't want them to be in the dust, and on the other hand, he didn't want others to think that only Liu could fight when his military group was mentioned, and the others were just followers.
They were indeed just followers at the beginning, but they grew up very quickly, and many of them were able to stand on their own, and Guan Yu was the leader among them.
Xu He and Sima Ju had heard of Guan Yu's reputation when they were in Xuzhou. They knew that Guan Yu had shown great success in the Battle of Bingzhou and was a relatively powerful general. Liu Bei sent him here with tens of thousands of troops, which was very difficult for the Yellow Turban Army.
The threat is huge.
But seeing the nervous look on the Yellow Turban Army's side, Commander Fei Zhan, the most famous and powerful Shanyue bandit in Danyang, didn't take it seriously and thought that the Yellow Turban Army was unfounded.
"This is a mountainous area, our territory. Even if the Han army can fight on the plains, they still don't know how to fight when they enter the mountainous area. Our people are everywhere here, and our informants can't escape every move of the Han army.
With our attention, what else do you have to fear?"
Xu He disagreed with Fei Zhan's idea of underestimating the enemy.
"Guan Yu was the first general to follow Liu Bei. He was trusted by Liu Bei. He was very brave and methodical in fighting. At first, the Bingzhou Mountain bandits shocked the world. They even reached the edge of the Yellow River and threatened Luoyang, and finally defeated the Bingzhou Mountains.
The bandits were Guan Yu and another of Liu Bei's subordinates, Lian Zhao.
The bandits in Bingzhou also live in the mountains like you. The mountains over there are higher, the mountain roads are more rugged, and the people there are better at fighting. Despite this, they were still put down. You have to say that they have no idea how to survive in the mountains.
When fighting in mountainous areas, I feel that you underestimate the enemy."