On July 23, at the 23rd of July, more than 4,200 soldiers from Lujiang crossed the Yangtze River and entered Wuhukou. At the same time, except for the troops who arrived in advance, who were left behind, the remaining soldiers and horses who were stationed in Wuhu Camp, followed the combat plan agreed by us and Wei Yan and others, and advanced into the hinterland of Danyang County in two directions. The first army was the Langya Camp led by Wei Yan and Liao Hua, disguised as soldiers of the Jiangdong Army, and took the captured Jiangdong Navy warships and went directly to "fiddle" to seize Moling; the second army was commanded by me and rushed to Taiping by land.

On the morning of July 24, the guards of Taiping County still opened the city gate as usual to allow the people to enter and exit. I had been waiting for this opportunity and immediately sent an order to attack. The 3,000 Lujiang troops who had been lurking outside the city for more than one hour shouted and rushed towards the city gate. The guards of Taiping County were originally only hundreds of people, and most of them were recruited urgently, and they had almost never experienced any fighting. Suddenly, countless enemy troops were killed, and all the guards of the city gate were at a loss. The chief who led the troops shouted, but they were completely gone.

It worked. When several veterans of the Jiangdong Army who had some experience would come to their senses. When trying to close the city gate, I, who was riding a black-haired BMW, rushed to the city gate. After easily killing several enemy soldiers who were trying to resist, I immediately shouted with a spear, and the roar like thunder scared several new recruits of the Jiangdong Army to collapse to the ground. The other soldiers immediately lost the idea of ​​resistance in horror, gave up the city gate and fled. The next thing became extremely simple. After 3,000 infantrymen entered the city one after another, they realized that the situation was hopeless and the county magistrate and county magistrate of Taiping, who had realized that the situation was hopeless, wisely chose to lead the crowd to surrender.

Due to the overnight march and lurking, the soldiers were already quite tired. After seizing the peace, I did not rush to lead the army to continue advancing eastward. I just ordered the soldiers to hurry up and rest, while posting notices in the city to calm the people.

By noon, Jinchou, who was staying at Wuhukou, led the second group of soldiers crossing the river to Taiping County. When Wei Yan raided the Wuhu Water Army Camp, he captured 1,400 Jiangdong soldiers and passed through Jinchou's careful screening, and selected more than 600 of them with weak sense of belonging to the Sun family. After disrupting the organization, they were mixed into each qu and each qu. The remaining 700 people were more "loyal" to the Sun family. Whether they compiled them into a song alone or into each qu, the garrison would cause great safety hazards. - It was simply a desperate situation to bring an army that could "explode the camp" at any time or even counterattack.

These more than 700 people cannot be killed, and they cannot be used, and they cannot be released... In such a trivial situation, Jin Chou simply took them to Taiping County and handed them over to me for handling.

The problem of surrendered soldiers and prisoners dealing with this makes me quite difficult. If I kill them directly, it is simple and worry-free from the momentum, but in the long run, it will be very unfavorable for our army's plan to pacify Jiangdong. Because in terms of strength, even when facing the Jiangdong army with severely damaged strength, our army is still at a disadvantage compared to it. The reason why I decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Zhou Yu's army's time to look east is to occupy the three eastern counties of the six counties in Jiangdong as soon as possible, and then use these three counties plus Shouchun and Lujiang's manpower and material resources to fight against Sun Quan's western counties. Only in this way can the situation of the enemy's strength be reversed. To achieve this strategic plan, a very important condition is - the people's hearts! If the people's hearts are for me, with the support of the people, the problems of military sources and food and supplies can be solved!

Most of the soldiers who are still staying in Danyang, Wu and Kuaiji counties are recruiting new recruits from the local area. Due to the urgent recruitment, there will inevitably be forced Latin in the process. In this case, Sun Quan is actually quite a bit like drinking poison to quench thirst. Although the source of troops has been temporarily replenished, it has largely lost the people's expectations. Of course, Sun Quan could have taken some measures to compensate the people and clean up the people's hearts after quelling the war. But when I have entered the hinterland of Jiangdong, his plan is destined to be a fool. What I want to do now is to seize as many cities and counties as possible at the fastest speed, and on the other hand, to compete with Sun Quan for the people's hearts!

In order to make the people surrender as soon as possible, I have taken some measures - first, ask my elder brother to draft a manifesto to attack Sun Quan as the uncle of the Han Dynasty and General Zuo, and announce the six counties in Jiangdong to win the title of righteousness for our army to attack the Sun family and narrow the scope of the attack, so that the gentry and people in Jiangdong knew that our army only wanted to be enemies with the Sun family and their rebellion, and would not hurt the interests of other gentry and people; second, every time one city or one county is to post a list of people to safeguard the people... But from the moment these measures seem to be somewhat polite but not real, and some real actions must be taken to make the people believe and accept the control of our army.

Not killing surrendered soldiers, or even giving these surrendered soldiers a chance to reunite with their families, should be an excellent measure to win the trust of the people!

After some careful consideration, I made up my mind to recruit Jin Chou, Lin Xue, and the newly surrendered Taiping County Magistrate Qin Song (Note: Qin Song, whose courtesy name is Wenbiao, from Guangling) to the lobby of the county government to arrange the surrendered soldiers and the handling of the prisoners.

"Mr. Wen Biao, it is really my brother's blessing to abandon his rebellion against Sun and join our army, and it is also the blessing of the people of the six counties in Jiangdong. I have come here to thank Mr. Wen Biao for my brother!" I was just politely bowing to Qin Song, and said in an extremely sincere tone.

Qin Song, who was temporarily under house arrest after surrender, was still uneasy when he was recruited to the lobby of the county government. He didn't know what kind of farmland he was going to fall into. Seeing that I gave such a respectful and generous gift to him, he was stunned. Then he came over and bowed and returned the ceremony: "General Zhang, how can Song bear the great gift!"

"I heard that Wenbiao is full of knowledge and is very talented in the world. I have been respecting the most talented person. Just now, I really come from my heart!" I said in a deep voice.

"The general is too much, Song is really ashamed!" Although he was polite and humble, Qin Song's face still showed joy.

"Fei was ordered by his brother to cross the river, not to disturb the people of Jiangdong's gentry, but to attack the Sun family, who was disrespectful to the emperor and eliminated the dissidents and slaughtered famous scholars." I said seriously, "Mr. Wen Biao is a famous scholar in the world and is well-versed in the world. Who is more important to the emperor and the people of the world, and who is more important to the emperor of the country, must be much clearer than my martial arts."

After thinking for a while, Qin Song nodded silently.

"It is really aggrieved to be the only county magistrate with Wenbiao. If my brother learned that Mr. Su was surrendered, he would be very happy and asked Mr. Su to take great responsibility. Now, our army will continue to advance eastward and eliminate Sun's power in Danyang County in one fell swoop. Fly here to dare to ask Mr. Su to take the post of Taiping Order, be responsible for appeasement of the people in the county and manage government affairs. I wonder if Mr. Su is willing to agree!"

"…This…” After hesitating for a while, Qin Song long bowed to me and said, "The general trusts and loves me so much. If Song refuses, wouldn't he become a ungrateful person!"

"Great!" I stretched out my hands to help Qin Song up, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wen Biao, there is an important thing to ask you here!"

"The general can just call the name of the official official. I really don't dare to be the official official!" Qin Shui waved his hand and said, "If you have any important matters, please give me instructions. The official must do everything possible to complete it!"

"Since our army crossed the river, we have captured Wuhu and Taiping, and have all obtained some prisoners. Some of the people in the inner army have already been included in our army, but some people are still unwilling to surrender. I am trying to find a proper way to deal with them..."

"Does the general want to...... General, this is absolutely impossible. Since ancient times, there has been saying "killing and captives are not bad." Please consider that they all have parents, wives and children, and spare their lives!" After misunderstanding what I meant by "disposal", Qin Song hurriedly spoke out and recommended.

"Haha... Wenbiao is out of his mind, how could I do such an unkind thing?" I said with a smile, "It is reported that due to the tight military situation, the Sun family has forced the young and strong to join the army several times. Now most of the guards in various counties and counties have forced the young and strong from the local area. Is this true?"

"This is indeed true! Take our Taiping County as an example. Eighty percent of the strokes in the city were the young and strong who had recently been expeditions!" Qin Song did not dare to neglect the lives and deaths of many prisoners at all.

"I want to release this prisoner who is unwilling to surrender so that they can reunite with their families..." Seeing Qin Song's face appearing happy and open his mouth to speak, I waved my hand slightly, indicating that I had not finished speaking. "However, I will only release the prisoners from Taiping County first. Later, I will arrange for the soldiers to select these people. I will write a notice to let the families of these prisoners come to lead the people so that they can reunite their families! But they also need to be warned not to return to the Sun army, otherwise our army will be severely punished!"

"Awesome! What a powerful move! Using this method, you can use your family affection to capture the hearts of those released prisoners. It can not only prevent the prisoners from returning to the army, but also greatly win the hearts of the people! It can be said that they kill two birds with one stone! I don't expect this person to come up with such a wonderful method!" After hearing the other party's words, a strange look appeared in Qin Song's eyes, and he thought secretly - Qin Song agreed to surrender before, which was a helpless move to protect himself. Originally, Qin Song had already made up his mind and was ready to serve the "new master" with a negative attitude.

Time, be prepared for both hands: If Liu Bei's army can occupy Taiping for a long time, and even lead the entire Jiangdong, they will truly take it as the mainstay in the future; and if Sun Quan succeeds in counterattacking Taiping in the future, he can also use the excuse that he is forced to do nothing, not sincerely from the "enemy", so that he can return smoothly. Qin Song expected that the General Zhang Fei, who knew that he was "rude" at first sight, could not see it. But now it seems... the other party's ability is far beyond expectations, and Qin Song immediately made him doubt whether his "negative effect" method could work...

"Wenbian, are you willing to take charge of this matter on my behalf?" I kept paying attention to Qin Song's expression, a trace of light appeared in my eyes, and I said with a faint smile.

"Don't worry, General, this matter will be handed over to the officials!" Qin Song did not dare to be careless any more, and hurriedly bowed and said.

"Okay! The other prisoners who are not from Taiping will be detained for the time being. I will be able to attack other counties in the future and then release him and others with this method! I will leave a soldier to guard Taiping, one to guard these prisoners, and the other to guard the city and guard against the Sun's offensive!" I said with a smile, "After the matter is arranged here, I can also continue the east expedition with peace of mind!"

"General, then the official will prepare for this matter first!" I saw that I seemed to be preparing to discuss military affairs with Lin Xue and Jin Chou, and Qin Song said with confidence.

"I'm sorry to write a letter!" I nodded and said earnestly.

"General, this person doesn't seem to be so reliable..." Jin Chou said in a deep voice when he saw Qin Song leaving the lobby.

"Hehe..." I smiled and said lightly: "You can't expect someone to really submit as soon as they meet, and then take a look..."

After a pause, I said to Jinchou in a deep voice: "Wen'an, during the Eastern Expedition, you will lead the Bear Gun Battalion and the other 1,000 soldiers will be responsible for guarding the peace!"

"Yes, General!" Jin Chou responded in a deep voice.

"In addition, we will arrange some fine staff to pay attention to Qin Song! If he has any bad behavior, once it is verified, he will be detained immediately and left to me for disposal!"

"Don't worry, General!"

"Zifeng, go and sanction the army and horses quickly. In an hour, our troops will be sent to Moling!" I turned to Lin Xue and said.

"General, we will take our leave first!" Lin Xue and Jinchou bowed to me together, turned around and left the lobby.

With my head down, I opened the battle map placed on the table and started to study it carefully...

Speed! What I want to compete with the Jiangdong army now is speed! I must hurry up before Zhou Yu on the Western Front to recover and gain a foothold in Jiangdong; I must hurry up before the defenders react, sweep and occupy Xia Danyang County, and then march towards Wu and even Kuaiji...

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Outside the City of Chaisang, the fierce fighting between the Jingzhou army and the Jiangdong army showed a very delicate situation. The Jingzhou army led by Kuai Yue, with the advantage of its number, separated the Chaisang City from the Zhou Yu army who returned to the rescue. Kuai Yue himself personally led most of the military forces to block Zhou Yu, and on the other hand, he ordered Liu Pan to lead the elite "Changsha soldiers" to attack Chaisang, intending to capture and kill Sun Quan and pacify the overall situation in Jiangdong in one fell swoop.

On the Jiangdong Army, although Zhou Yu knew that the defense force of Chaisang City was weak, he did not fight hard with Kuai Yue's army. On the one hand, he used warships to bypass Kuai Yue's army's obstruction and transported a group of soldiers to Chaisang City to strengthen the defense. On the other hand, he personally led the army and horses to entangle Kuai Yue. Zhou Yu's purpose was only one - to consume! Exhaust the food and grass of Kuai Yue's army!

Although the Kuai Yue army was strong in combat, it was unable to carry enough food and grass because of its sudden attack on Chaisang. It was precisely because of this that in order to preserve his greatly damaged military power, Zhou Yu tried his best to avoid a bloody battle with Kuai Yue army, intending to defeat him after his food and grass was exhausted.

15 miles west of Chaisang City, Jiangdong Army Camp, Zhou Yu's tent
Chapter completed!