Chapter 482: Jingzhou War ends
The banquet ended in the middle of the night, and Xi Lu was completely drunk and unconscious, so he was sent to the living yard for rest.
Liu Feng asked with a little drunkenness, "Do you think what Xi Lu said is true?"
Xi Lu came this time and spread the word that Cao Cao accepted Liu Feng's plan to divide the Han River as the boundary and divide Xiangfan equally, and expressed his willingness to convince Cai Mao to open the city. I just hope that Liu Feng could allow Cai Mao to take the Cai family's furniture, divisions and wealth to Xiangyang and go north to Luozhong.
Liu Feng naturally had no objection to this.
"This matter must be true, and the general has no need to deceive us."
Zhuge Liang is extremely intelligent, so naturally he could see that Liu Feng was not really suspicious of this matter, but he took it too seriously and wanted to get recognition from the people around him.
It should be noted that Liu Feng originally planned to give up Xiangyang, but now he not only got Xiangyang, but also earned all kinds of money, grain and materials in Xiangyang City for nothing. Naturally, he couldn't help but be happy.
"Master."
Taishi Ci on the other side of Liu Feng bowed and said, "The Defeng Army has been raising its energy for a long time. Will it be handed over to our headquarters to handle the matter of taking over Xiangyang?"
Liu Feng glanced at Taishi Ci and laughed.
Xiangyang is already in his pocket, and there is a high probability that no war will happen, and it can be regarded as a military merit sent to the mouth.
However, Taishi Ci, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others are all arrogant people, and they usually look down on such credit and worry about being regarded as people who are welcome to the camp.
Now that Taishi Ci Society has taken the initiative to ask for the fight, it is obviously too ruthless.
Due to its strategic position, the Burning Army has been pressed by Liu Feng and has never moved.
Taishici and others could only watch Zhao Yun's Wanlan Army, Zhou Yu's Yuzhang Army, and Jia Kui's Jiangdong Army made contributions in various battles. Even Gao Shun Army, far away in Huinan, had new good news from time to time.
Taishici and others were naturally jealous and were even more eager to fight.
Although Xiangyang in front of them was a little unfair, they no longer cared about so much. They thought that no matter how good or bad they would win it first.
It’s a pity that although Taishi Ci and other generals of the Destroyed Front Army were eager to try, their hope was destined to fail.
Because Liu Feng did not intend to use the Destroying Army.
As his trumpet elite and his confidant, Liu Feng was naturally confident in the Defeng Army.
It is precisely because of this that he intends to hide his weaknesses.
It is conceivable that Cao Cao would inevitably set up many detailed spy works in Xiangyang, focusing on the research of the army entering the city.
In this case, it is obviously unnecessary to use the Defeat Army.
"No."
Liu Feng shook his head directly, and Taishi Ci and others' originally hot eyes instantly cooled down, and they all seemed a little depressed.
Looking at the generals' depressed mood, Liu Feng laughed and comforted, "Why do you do a child's attitude? The reason why I refuse you to ask for a fight is that I have more important tasks to give you."
After hearing Liu Feng say this, Taishi Ci and others regained their energy and looked at Liu Feng with anticipation.
Liu Feng did not disappoint them anymore and said, "Now, there are more than 60,000 Kuai Yue at the junction of Jingyi. Although they are already at the end of the road, they are still trapped beasts and still fight and never surrender. I mean that the Burning Army will set off south and rush to Jiangling to pacify Kuai Yue's troops with the Yuzhang Army."
The generals such as Taishi Ci were immediately overjoyed. Although it was easy to settle in Xiangyang, in terms of merit, it was still far less than the great achievements of the main force of the Jingzhou Army, let alone this task was more suitable for their appetite.
"Does Wanlan Army and Jia Kui Army need to withdraw?"
Lu Xun spoke at the right time and asked.
Liu Feng shook his head decisively: "No need, let them continue to focus on the two cities of Zhonglu and Liqiu. We must not let the defenders in these two cities flee to Xiangyang."
There were originally only two or three thousand defenders in Zhonglu and Liqiu. Later, in order to disperse the Yangzhou army, Cai Mao reinforced two thousand people to these two places, making their defensive forces reach 5,000.
There are now tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in two small towns.
These troops are now surrounded by the Wanlan Army along with the city. In Liu Feng's view, withdrawing troops at this time will obviously be cheaper for Cai Mao and Cao Cao.
He didn't believe that the other party would honestly give in to more than 20,000 defenders in Xiangyang City.
As long as Cao Cao and Cai Mao could not leave an empty city for themselves, Liu Feng would be able to bear other things.
Lu Xun heard Liu Feng's thoughts and responded, "Then I will draft a military order immediately and issue it immediately after the lord's seal."
"Just..."
After pausing, Lu Xun continued, "The lord in Xiangyang needs to decide on the assignment as soon as possible."
"Yeah."
Liu Feng nodded and immediately gave the answer: "Let Jia Kui and Gan Ning go there, and let Wanlan Army draw a unit to take care of Li Qiu."
Originally, the Wanlan Army was in charge of Zhonglu, the Jia Kui Army was in charge of Liqiu, and Ganning continued to control the Han River and curb the Jingzhou Army's maneuver through the waterway.
Now there is no need to attack cities and capture villages. The strength of the Wanlan Army is enough to take care of the two cities, not to mention the assistance of the navy from Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and other troops.
In this way, Jia Kui's troops can free up their hands.
After all, the Wanlan Army was imitated by the establishment of the Feifeng Army, so there was no need to expose it in a hurry. Jia Kui's troops came all the way, and it was several battles of all sizes. At this time, it was just the right thing to take it out for Cao Cao to see.
After the arrangement was completed, Lu Xun immediately drafted a military order, and Liu Feng immediately used a seal, and was then sent to various military camps by cavalry.
Two days later, the Chaofeng Army led the camp to the south, and the Wanlan Army divided part of it to take over the Liu Feng army camp under the city of Liqiu, while Jia Kui's troops concentrated on the Han River to set up camp. Just waiting for news from Cao Cao and Cai Mao, they entered Xiangyang by water.
Cai Mao's progress was also quite smooth. All the military power was in the hands of Cai Mao, and Liu Biao's direct descendants were completely lost, and the rest were sent by Cai Mao to the two cities of Zhonglu and Liqiu. In addition, Han Song and other Nanyang sects were almost all surrendered, and the gentry and powerful people from other factions also had their own ideas. Liu Biao's loyal faction in Xiangyang City was not without, but because of the lack of a leader, the power was dispersed and he could not form a joint force.
Although Liu Biao's health was getting better every day, his control over Xiangyang was declining rapidly.
Cai Mao first secretly sent his confidants to take over the defense of Fancheng, then took Cao's army into Fancheng, and then sent a message to Jia Kui's camp fifty miles south of Xiangyang City according to the alliance.
Jia Kui immediately advanced along the water and entered Xiangyang City that night, while Liu Biao had not yet reacted until now.
A week later, after Kuai Yue and Chanling received the news that Xiangyang had surrendered, they voluntarily opened the city to surrender.
Immediately, Liu Biao was carried away by Cai Mao and left Xiangyang and went to Luoyang to serve as the Nine Ministers. At the same time, the entire Nanyang County transformed into Cao Cao's territory, and all generals were stationed to take over the city defense.
At this point, the battle in Jingzhou ended here.
This battle lasted five months. Liu Feng set out from Liyang, went up the river, chased Liu Xun, entered Qichun, broke into Xisai, lowered Echeng, took over Shaxian, fought fiercely in Dajiang, and won a great victory in Zhouling, and Baqiu pursued the enemy.
In just one month, the 140,000 troops of Liu Biao in Jingzhou were almost wiped out, and the speed was a myth.
Although Cao Cao took advantage of the situation and took away a piece of cake, Liu Fengjun's gains were also extremely rich and rich.
There were 100,000 prisoners alone. Among them, more than 40,000 prisoners were captured alive in the Battle of Zhouling. These people were all elite soldiers and the old foundation of the two Jingzhou ace navy troops, Xiangyang and Jiangxia.
In Zhang Yun's Battle of Hanchuan, he also sent 30,000 heads in one go, of which not many were killed, only three or four thousand people, and most of the remaining became prisoners.
Compared with the prisoners in the Battle of Zhouling, the quality of these prisoners is not a small part of the bad, and half of them are temporarily recruited and reorganized.
Subsequently, Zhongxiang, Shanghong, Zhengguo, Qiguo, Yicheng, Jingling and other places also captured 20,000 prisoners, but these prisoners were recruited privately by the local government, and their combat power could not be compared with the old soldiers. Even compared with the troops under Zhang Yun, they were more than inferior.
Finally, when Cai Mao took Liu Biao to run away, there were more than 10,000 prisoners in Zhonglu and Liqiu.
Finally, when Kuai Yue's army surrendered, there were still 60,000, of which 30,000 were field troops, including even Jingzhou Ace Army under Liu Hu, with extremely elite combat power.
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By this calculation, the total number of prisoners has exceeded 180,000, of which about 90,000 are strong in combat. These people are all veterans in Jingzhou, which is worth Liu Fengjun's energy to conduct selection and assessment, and then replenish the elites in his own army.
The remaining 30,000 to 40,000 are newly recruited soldiers. After basic training, they now have a lot of war and combat experience. But these war experiences are not very good, after all, they are all parties to fail.
These people are also good soldiers. The specific arrangement depends on whether Liu Feng plans to continue to expand his army.
The last part is the remaining 50,000 people, recruited soldiers with poor combat effectiveness. The young and strong were temporarily mobilized, without any training, and no experience in combat formation.
These people are not completely useless. They just need to disband them again and return to each township to effectively calm people's hearts.
The Jingzhou army originally had a total of 140,000, but Liu Feng's army captured 180,000 prisoners. It seemed that the numbers could not be matched, but in fact it was because Liu Biao had expanded his army while fighting.
It is precisely because of this that the combat power behind the Jingzhou Army became worse and worse, and the strength gap was huge, and it was even used by Liu Feng Army to train troops.
As soon as he came to war, Liu Feng disbanded more than 80,000 people in one breath, mainly newly recruited and forced men. In this army of nearly 90,000 people, except for a very few very outstanding soldiers and officers who were selected, all the others were dismissed and travel expenses were paid to let them return home.
The remaining more than 90,000 people were selected, among which the most elite officers and soldiers were selected, and the war losses of the navy and land units were first supplemented.
After the battle along the way, the total number of casualties of the Yangzhou army reached 30,000, most of which were minor and serious injuries, and the proportion of treatment was quite high. The actual loss of personnel and loss of irrecoverable personnel was only 6,000.
Therefore, even if the situation of the minor injured returning to the team is not considered, and all the supplements are completed, at least more than 50,000 people need to be resettled.
After discussing with Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Lu Xun, Zhao Yun, Jia Kui and others, Liu Feng made a temporary decision, and all the wounded soldiers of the former Yangzhou army were sent to the east and temporarily returned to the garrison to prepare for the training of the new army. The 30,000 vacancies for each army were all supplemented by the elite Jingzhou army.
This is actually the idea of splitting and using it, but it is obviously softer to do it.
**
Su Fei never expected that the turning point of fate would come so suddenly.
At that time, he was walking melancholy on the riverside, looking at the surging river, full of the ups and downs of the past, and his uneasiness about his future destiny.
Once upon a time, as a confidant general under Huang Zu's command, he was very different from honor and favor. Although his lord Huang Zu had surrendered, Su Fei was deeply grateful to the Lord, but he failed to repay his death and felt quite ashamed.
However, his good brother who made many military achievements but was not valued and was excluded, and eventually ended up fleeing east, has now become his life-saving benefactor, which also made Su Fei feel mixed and complicated.
Now that I have achieved some military achievements with Gan Ning, coupled with Gan Ning’s protection, I should be safe in protecting myself. But Su Fei had no confidence in the future. He woke up in the middle of the night, but could only come to the riverside to relieve himself.
These days, Su Fei no longer knows how many times he has sighed on the riverside.
On this day, he thought it was just like yesterday.
But just as Su Fei was thinking about it, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.
"Boyun, are you watching the water here again?"
Su Fei looked back and saw that the visitor was indeed his sworn brother Gan Ning Gan Xingba.
Fortunately, Gan Ning rescued this time, and he was regained freedom. Su Fei was full of gratitude to Gan Ning. But the other party doesn't like his words, so he can only hide this gratitude in his heart.
Su Fei hurriedly met him and replied, "I'm free, I'm just having a walk."
Gan Ning was wearing bright armor and his steps were steady. He held a scroll of silk book in his hand and laughed: "I know my brother is always worried, and today I will come to relieve your worries."
Su Fei's heart tightened and couldn't help but have a guess. Could it be that Gan Ning recommended me to General Zuo, and General Zuo agreed?
This thought will immediately grow like a weed.
It’s no wonder that Su Fei was so tormented. He was only forty years old, and it was the golden years of a general. How could he be willing to be idle?
Gan Ning walked to Su Fei, and the gilded armor on his body made Su Fei feel dizzy.
This set of golden gilded armor was given to Gan Ning by Liu Feng himself.
When Gan Ning saw it, he really liked it very much. He was reluctant to wear it, and only took it out and showed it out when he was happy.
Gan Ning walked to Su Fei, raised the silk book in his hand and said, "Brother, I have submitted all your contributions to the lord. Now the lord's kindness has been rewarded, can you guess what kind of reward is it?"
Su Fei said tremblingly, "Brother's mind is drowsy at this time, I really can't guess it. I hope my brother will tell you the truth."
Gan Ning was obviously a little unhappy when the mood was swept away by Su Fei, but soon regained his smile and laughed with white teeth: "The general appointed his brother as the captain of the Jiangxia Shui Army, with two battalions of 4,000 people under his command. He also specially ordered that the brother could choose to call his confidant."
Gan Ning's words were like a light that cut through the haze, which made Su Fei extremely surprised.
Su Fei took the silk book from Gan Ning's hand tremblingly. The four words "Water Army Captain" came into view when they unfolded. His eyes widened instantly, full of disbelief, and repeatedly confirmed the words on it.
"This...this is serious?"
Su Fei murmured to himself, his voice trembling slightly from excitement.
Before Gan Ning could respond, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes turned red, and he stepped forward a few steps to hold Gan Ning's hand tightly, as if he wanted to convey his gratitude: "Thank you for General Zuo's kindness and the kindness of your recommendation from your brother, Su Fei will definitely be heartbroken!"
Gan Ning laughed loudly, held Su Fei's hand in his back and said, "I wish to share with you and repay the lord's kindness."
(This chapter ends)