Chapter 2634: The Battle of Shunan ends, and the princess of marriage arrives in Qin
Chapter 2631: The Battle of Shunan ends, and the princess of a marriage arrives in Qin
After receiving the news that the court had transferred him to serve as the prefect of Hanzhong, Ban Chao was naturally very happy. After all, the power of the prefect of Hanzhong is much greater than that of the prefect of Fufeng.
However, Ban Chao did not take office immediately, but handled all the work in his hands. After the new Fufeng Prefect took office, he took ten escorts to Hanzhong to take office.
The new Fufeng prefect Ban Chao also knew him, and he was the fourth place in Wenju in the same class as him, Yang Hu.
As the fourth place in the first literary examination, Yang Hu''s career started no less than that of Ban Chao. One of the positions he held was Fufeng County Magistrate, but later he was promoted and transferred to Chang''an for political achievements.
Yang Hu had accumulated enough political achievements in Chang''an, and he was also helping away the two prefects of Liu Yong and Ban Chao, and was finally appointed as the prefect of Fufeng by the court.
Yang Hu hasn''t returned to Fufeng County for nearly a year. When he returned to his career starting point again, he was also very moved. In fact, his promotion speed is no longer slow in his class, but it is naturally incomparable to Ban Chao who has cheated.
When Ban Chao left, Yang Hu went out of the city to see him off. Ban Chao smiled and bowed to Yang Hu, "Brother Yang, I will leave this Fufeng County to you. I hope Brother Yang will treat the people of Fufeng well."
"Don''t worry, brother Ban, I''m the one who is the prefect of Fufeng County. I have no less feelings for Fufeng than you." Yang Hu said seriously.
Hearing this, Ban Chao left with confidence.
Looking at Ban Chao''s departure, Yang Ku''s eyes were full of admiration. After all, Ban Chao was obviously born in a poor family and started as a county magistrate like him, but he had already set aside his and other Jinshis of the same class.
All of them are young heroes, so Yang Hu naturally is unwilling to let Ban Chao take the lead. He wants to catch up or even surpass Ban Chao, but only making achievements in political achievements is not enough, and he must also make military achievements.
Yang Hu had the idea of ??moving closer to the military, but at present he had to be a good prefect of Fufeng, otherwise he would not have the chance to get involved in military power.
Although Ban Chao did not look back, he also felt Yang Ku''s hot gaze.
He has no background in his wealth, but he is regarded as an opponent by a group of heroes of aristocratic families and a goal of surpassing. To be honest, the pressure is quite high.
But now he no longer regards the same Jinshi as his opponent.
Hanzhong has a special geographical location. The Hanzhong prefect is a military power and regime, so there are naturally more opportunities to make contributions, while ordinary prefects can only have no access to military power.
Therefore, unless the same generation makes any particularly great contribution, the gap between him will only grow bigger and bigger.
When Ban Chao arrived in Hanzhong, Li Jing had already left. After all, his position was Governor Yongliang, and the Governor''s Office was set up in Chang''an, so it was impossible for him to stay in Hanzhong for office.
Although Li Jingren left, he left a 50,000 army to Ban Chao, as well as generals such as Wang Jian, Yang Jian, Xuanyuan.
In addition, Li Jing had already arranged the matter of expanding 50,000 troops before leaving.
Although the court decided to supplement the lost 50,000 troops, they were all recruited from the surrendered army and the light and strong Hanzhong. From these two points, it can be seen that the court did not expect this army to be strong. As long as it could defend Hanzhong, it would be enough. Such a 50,000 army was naturally not difficult to form.
During the Battle of Hanzhong, there were 28,500 prisoners of war in Shu Han. If those prisoners who were not qualified and disabled and unable to participate in the exhibition were probably able to recruit a 25,000 army.
From this we can also see that the quality of the individual soldiers of the Shu army is actually not low, otherwise it would be impossible.
As for the remaining half of the quotas, they were naturally recruited from the people of Hanzhong who were killed by the Shu army and were devastated by the Shu army.
The total population of Hanzhong before the war was 450,000. In the second battle of Hanzhong, under the consumption tactics of Shu Han, 70,000 to 80,000 people died in the war, and there are nearly 380,000 people, so it is not difficult to recruit 25,000 people from them to serve as troops.
As Ying Hao expected, although the people of Hanzhong resented the Qin Dynasty, they hated Shu Han even more. After learning that the Qin Dynasty was going to recruit soldiers in Hanzhong and the treatment of Qin soldiers, Hanzhong Baixin, who hated Shu Han, spontaneously joined the army. Although revenge is one aspect, the main reason is that the Qin army is treated too well.
When Ban Chao arrived in Hanzhong, 25,000 new recruits had been recruited and had been uniformly trained under Wang Jian''s leadership, while the 25,000 surrendered troops were reorganized by Xuanyuan disruption.
50,000 main force, plus 50,000 new army, the total strength of the Qin army in Hanzhong has reached 100,000. In addition, with Yongliang and Jingbei, these three states can provide support at any time. It is almost impossible for Shu Han to retake Hanzhong.
Ban Chao did not need to worry about military affairs. Li Jing had already arranged it for him before leaving. What he really needed to worry about was the governance issues in Hanzhong. After all, he was on duty and had to restore Hanzhong to stability before the war started. The remaining time he had obviously not been rich.
There are many problems such as food shortage, public grievances, and anti-espionage in Hanzhong. The most difficult thing to solve is the problem of public grievances. After all, the pain of losing relatives cannot be eliminated in a short period of time.
Ban Chao was thinking about how to govern Hanzhong on the way. He was originally planning to divide the land for the Hanzhong people after taking office, so as to win over the hearts of the Hanzhong people, but he did not expect that the first thing he solved after taking office was the counter-espionage problem.
Hanzhong was the place where Li Shimin started his career. Even though Li Tang had been destroyed, many Li Tang''s fine works remained, and the bad general Yuan Tiangang defected to Shu Han, so most of the Li Tang''s intelligence network was accepted by Shu Han.
Compared with the Great Qin and Shu Han, the people of Hanzhong were closer to the Li Tang. After all, the Li Tang ruled Hanzhong during the period when the Hanzhong people lived the best life.
The bad people of Li Tang and the Shu Han Dahe joined forces to sow discord between the bereavement of Hanzhong people, making them even more hatred of the Qin Dynasty, and even planned two uprisings.
Although neither of these two uprisings was successful and did not pose any threat to the rule of Qin, if handled improperly, it would obviously make Qin even more unpopular.
Before Ban Chao took office, the Chenggu County Magistrate had already suppressed an uprising, and the way of handling it was naturally to rebel, and he killed all those who dared to resist.
After Ban Chao took office, he saw that there was a rebellion in Hanzhong, and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. It was obviously not just the public grievances, but someone behind him was manipulating the confrontation between officials and citizens in Hanzhong. The Shu Han was so rampant that it was so rampant that if it was not stopped, it would be useless for Ban Chao to deal with other issues in Hanzhong well. After all, the destruction was much simpler than construction, so the decisive solution started with anti-espionage.
Ban Chao changed his handling of the people who were uprising, and changed the focus on encirclement and suppression to persuade and appease the people. He would not kill them all in one size fits all, but instead only killed the bandit leader.
Ban Chao used this method to reduce killings, and followed the clues from the surrendered uprising army and captured a large number of Shu Han''s fine works, which also improved the public security in Hanzhong a lot.
After solving the problem of spies, the Sichuan Han spies were not disturbing, and Ban Chao was starting to solve other problems, so it was naturally much simpler.
Ban Chao remeasures the land in Hanzhong, uses the standards of the Qin Dynasty to distribute land to the people in a more fair way than that of Li Tang.
In addition, Ban Chao also argued with the court for the people and exempted those who died of relatives from taxes for one year.
Nearly 50% of the grain in Hanzhong is now supplied by Yongliang and Jingbei, and a large number of crops were burned under the scorched earth tactics of the Shu army. Therefore, Ban Chao personally led the people to open up land and replant and resume production as soon as possible, at least to ensure that they can be self-sufficient after the harvest is only available.
Under Ban Chao''s series of measures, Hanzhong, which was destroyed by the war, quickly recovered, and the resentment in the hearts of the people was gradually dissolving, and the hearts of Hanzhong began to gradually turn to the Qin side.
Just as Ban Chao was vigorously governing Hanzhong, the war between Jiaozhou and Shunan continued.
Han Shizhong took over the command of the Ruan Yue coalition and retreated to Rinan County. After rest and recuperation, he made a comeback. He thought he could win by relying on his military strength, but he did not expect that Ruan Yue, the two pig teammates, could not lead him at all.
With the help of the Qin Dynasty, the gap between Ruan and Yue and Chu in terms of military affairs is no longer as big as before, but the gap in terms of generals has not been shortened much, and Han Shizhong obviously cannot make up for the gap in this regard.
It turned out that the battle that was obviously superior and could win was defeated by the general''s command and suffered heavy losses, and Han Shizhong realized that he was no match for a group of famous Chu generals such as Ma Yuan, Zeng Guofan, Ma Wu, Ma Cheng, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, and Zeng Tianyang.
Ruan and Yue really don’t have many generals to use, especially the lack of powerful generals, so Han Shizhong could only ask for help from the country, hoping that the court could send several members to support him in the future.
After receiving the news from the Qin Dynasty, in addition to sending Li Shunchen, Lu Junyi, and Huang Xie, who also had a grudge against Chu to kill his father, went south to Jiaozhou to support Han Shizhong, he also transferred Dashan Tsumi Kazumi Karashira and 5,000 Japanese soldiers from Yingzhou.
With the support of the imperial court and Yingzhou, the combat effectiveness of the four-national coalition forces in Jiaozhou increased greatly. Under the command of Han Shizhong, they did not fall into a disadvantage again.
In this way, the battle situation in Jiaozhou was in a stalemate, but the battle situation in Shunan ended early.
After learning that Zhang Ren died in battle and the fall of Hanzhong, all the senior officials of Shu Han, including Liu Yu, were in trouble.
As long as the Shu Kingdom is in hand, as long as the land of Hanzhong is in hand, you can protect the entire Shu Kingdom.
But once Hanzhong is lost, in order to protect itself, Shu must deploy heavy troops in the north and divide its troops to guard several other important roads. After all, there is not only Jiange to enter Shu from north to south, which will undoubtedly increase the national defense pressure of Shu.
After Liu Yu learned the news, he decisively ordered Shen Shiqi and Li Siyuan to lead all his troops back to Jiange to ensure the safety of Shu.
Although Shen Shiqi retreated safely to Jiange, Li Siyuan fled west into Haizhou on the grounds that his retreat was cut off by the Qin army and he could not retreat to Jiange.
Liu Yu was in trouble by the fall of Hanzhong and Chi You''s counterattack. He had no intention of caring about Li Siyuan''s stay or stay. As long as Li Siyuan did not clearly change the flag, he could only let it go.
The fall of Hanzhong made Liu Yu even more eager to recover southern Shu, but Chi You was too difficult. Even though he was unable to participate in the war due to injuries, his outstanding command ability could still cause trouble to the Shu army.
In addition, the Chu army was blocked by Zhurong from Shengjing Pass, and it is difficult to pose a threat to the southern country in the short term.
At this moment, news came that the Qin Dynasty expanded its troops on the spot in Hanzhong and its total strength reached 100,000, which made Liu Yu completely anxious.
At this time, the northern part of Shu Kingdom was empty, and Liu Yu was worried that the Qin army would attack Shu because of this. After much thought, he had to choose to temporarily stop the army and truce with the southern country.
Liu Yu left Su Qin, Xing Tian and others to lead an army of 150,000 to guard the southern part of Shu, while he led the remaining troops back to Chengdu to take charge of the center to prevent the Qin army from suddenly attacking Shu.
When Chi You saw Liu Xiu leaving, the Shu army did not continue to launch an attack, so he naturally stopped when he saw it. After all, if he really fought, the Southern Kingdom would definitely not be able to fight against Shu.
Chiyou also decided to cease the war, cultivate and rehabilitate and digest the results of the war. After all, although many cities were taken away by the Shu army, most of the results of this Northern Expedition were still preserved. If these territories were not completely digested, they would never become the help of the South.
In addition to cultivating and resting, Chiyou''s most concerned thing is probably to marry Ying Nongyu, who is still in Jiaozhou, and to marry the princess of the Southern Kingdom to the Qin Dynasty as soon as possible.
Although Chi You was concerned about marrying Ying Nongyu, he was not anxious. One reason was that everyone would definitely not be able to escape, and the other was that his injuries had not recovered.
The third is that Ying Nongyu is now the leader of the Four-Nation Alliance, and she cannot come to Kunming before the end of the Jiaozhou war.
Chi You can''t marry Ying Nongyu for the time being, so he is preparing to send the princess from the southern country to the Qin Dynasty first.
(This chapter ends)