Liu Qi also knew what Xu Dan said beforehand. Although it was not impossible to recruit ordinary Guizhou leaders, Liu Qi still wanted to recruit the strongest soldiers.

In addition, ordinary villagers are recruited in Danyang County. Most of their family members are local. How can they be brought back to Jingzhou?

Unless we recruit those who have no wives, no children, no fathers and no mothers... But such lonely people are in the minority after all.

Therefore, it is more reliable to accept the surrender of those rebels.

Danyang infantry is a strong force in the southern states. Historically, many of Sun Ce's Danyang soldiers were Shanyue people living in the mountains. When Sun Ce was in power, every time he defeated Shanyue in his territory, he would recruit the young and strong among them into his army. This is

There is indeed a precedent for this.

As for the difficulties Xu Danshi just mentioned, Liu Qi already had a strategy in mind to deal with them.

The so-called "know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger". This is a very famous ancient saying in Chinese history. Liu Qi has always kept this sentence in his heart.

The words passed down by our ancestors to future generations are the crystallization of their wisdom based on their experiences over several generations. You cannot ignore them.

If you want to recruit young people from Shanyue, you must first understand what Shanyue is.

In his previous life, Liu Qi thought that all Shanyue people were descendants of the Baiyue remnants of Yangzhou.

But after traveling to this era, and through understanding, Liu Qi realized that he was wrong.

There are indeed descendants of Baiyue among the so-called Shanyue, but even if they are, they have been assimilated by the Han people after centuries of baptism, and they are no different from the Han people.

If you think about it carefully, how can a dispersed armed group spread throughout the south have only a single source of population.

The current Sanyue is actually the collective name for the bandit-style armed separatist forces in the Jiangnan mountainous area.

At present, more than 80% of these mountain bandits are Han Chinese, and only 20% of them have ancestors from the southern Yue people in the pre-Qin period. And these 20% have been severely sinicized because they have lived with Han people for hundreds of years, and they are thrown into the heap of Han people.

Can't tell the difference at all.

The assimilation ability of the Han nation is also second to none in the world.

The assimilation ability of a nation was as powerful as the genocide atomic bomb in ancient times... No matter who your original ancestors were, when you come to the Han people, you will be allowed to recognize your ancestors here.

So how did these armed separatist forces in the mountains form?

The most fundamental reason lies in the chaotic local administration, serious land annexation, and the rise of certain local forces, which deprives the people at the bottom of their living space. This, coupled with the war-related disasters, has led to a large number of Guizhou leaders entering the mountains and gradually forming Shanyue.

Who are the leaders of Shanyue?

The leaders of various tribes in Shanyue were basically powerful men who dominated one area before entering the mountains. These powerful men who had the ability to command Shanyue were generally called Zongshuai after entering the mountains.

Among the Shanyue sect commanders in history, the more famous ones are Yan Baihu, Zulang, Fei Zhan, Pan Lin, Mao Gan, Jin Qi, etc.

The total number of Shanyue people in Yangzhou should be hundreds of thousands, and they usually live in the deep mountains. Once there is a shortage of food, they will organize armed forces to go down to the mountains to rob counties and counties of food and people.

The lack of food was the fundamental reason for the unrest in Shanyue and the attack on the county seat.

Although Shanyue can also grow its own food, it is far from self-sufficient. Therefore, once a food crisis occurs, each sect commander will organize troops to go down the mountain to grab food.

Liu Qi wanted to take advantage of this to lure the mountains of Danyang out.

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At that moment, Liu Qi described the method he thought of to Xu Dan.

First of all, for Liu Qi, he did not want to completely pacify Shanyue in Danyang County.

One thing is that Danyang County does not belong to his jurisdiction, and it will soon become Sun Jian's territory. How to completely quell the Shanyue disaster is a headache for Sun Jian, and it has nothing to do with his surname Liu.

Two historical facts: It took about forty years for Soochow to conquer the Shanyue Rebellion in five counties... Liu Qi did not think that he was a genius. Many heroes in Jiangdong spent less than half of their money and materials over several generations.

What he could barely accomplish in a century could be accomplished in a day or two? That's pure nonsense!

Liu Qi just wanted to lure some Shanyue out of Danyang County, then defeat, surrender, and leave... that would be enough.

But how to lure them out of the mountains?

"Food." Liu Qi decisively concluded to Xu Dan.

"food?"

Liu Qi nodded and said, "Yes, it's autumn now, and the end of the year is coming soon. The most important thing for the Shanyue tribes is to plunder the grain they need for the winter. Otherwise, the grain harvest they cultivate alone will not be enough."

These words hit the point. Although Shanyue also cultivates its own crops, the main crop in the south is rice... and Shanyue is surrounded by thousands of miles of mountains.

With the farming technology of this era, it is really difficult to cultivate rice fields in the mountains and forests... Even if it can be cultivated, the quantity will never be too large.

It would be strange if there is no shortage of food in the mountains.

In the recent period, Shanyue in Danyang has been extremely stable. Not to mention that there are no large-scale raids for food, even small groups of people have not appeared.

This is not consistent with common sense. After all, it is already autumn. For Shanyue, time is running out now, so why is he still holding back?

Liu Qi estimated that it was because his side and the Xuzhou Army had been fighting in Danyang recently, and the Shanyue Sect Commanders were afraid that rushing down the mountain to grab food would offend him and Tao Qian. After all, they were two regular county and national armies that had been well-trained and fully equipped.

Those Shanyue with different identities and no unified command dare not easily provoke these two forces.

"Liu Mou said that our troops and Tao Shijun's soldiers and horses each packed their bags and pretended to return to their territory, while Wanling County asked Wu Xiaowei to command the soldiers in the county and quickly collect grain and fodder in each county.

Rushing to harvest the ripe rice and transport it to Cang'ao near Wanling, and store it together, may lead Shanyue to attack in a hurry."

After Xu Dan listened to Liu Qi's thoughts, he thought carefully about it for a while and roughly understood Liu Qi's intention.

What a cool operation...

Xu Dan sighed secretly in his heart, Jingzhou Liu Lang was really thoughtful, no wonder he could compete with Yuan Shu for supremacy at such a young age.

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Xu Dan brought Liu Qi's plan back to Tao Qian.

Tao Qian thought carefully about Liu Qi's plan...

At present, Wu Jing has turned against Yuan and is preparing to separatist power in Danyang County in response to his sister-in-law Sun Jian's independence. Therefore, Danyang County belongs to Wu Jing's own territory.

In this way, there is no doubt that Shanyue in Danyang is a danger to his family, and he must attack it severely.

Since Wu Jing has regarded Danyang County as his own place, he is no longer the person who looks after Yuan Shu's home and cares for the courtyard. Danyang County has become his family's private property. Naturally, Tao Qian is not convenient for being under Wu Jing's nose.

Recruiting troops.

Thinking about it this way, considering Tao Qian's current position, it is indeed the only way to respond to Liu Qi and seek the population of Shanyue in Danyang.

Since it is in the interest of everyone to seize the mountains and rivers within the territory, Liu Qi's strategy was naturally followed by Tao Qian and Wu Jing.

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The Jingzhou Army and the Xuzhou Army began to pack up their gear in unison. One of the two armies headed west, the other to the northeast, and each returned to its own territory.

Wu Jing, who was stationed in Wanling City, immediately sent out his troops to collect grain and fodder in various counties when the Jingzhou Army and Xuzhou Army withdrew, and ordered the county magistrates to quickly harvest rice and coordinate it to the warehouse north of Wanling.

It was just the autumn harvest, and the grain and fodder taxes had not yet been counted, but the newly arrived acting county magistrate was so eager to collect grain. The magistrates of each county did not understand what this was, but because they were afraid of Wu Jing's troops, they decided to

All we can do is follow the orders carefully and step up our efforts.

For a time, the harvesting and deployment of grain and grass in the entire Danyang County made officials of all sizes very busy.

The various Shanyue tribes hiding in the mountains breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that Liu Qi and Tao Qian had evacuated respectively.

The two plague gods in the east and west have withdrawn from Danyang. If they continue to fight fiercely, the commanders of the various departments really don't know what to do.

After all, there is really not much leftover food in the mountains, and there is an urgent need to go down the mountain to grab food.

However, the situation seems to be worse than they thought.

The sect commanders of each family were originally preparing to go down the mountain to grab food, but when the spies reported the actions of the county guard Wu Jing, they only made the sect commanders' teeth chattered and they slapped the table and cursed their mothers.

As soon as Wu Jing took office, he started to seize military rations. What does this mean?

This is a clear plan to cut off the livelihood of the people in the mountains!

Thief Wu, you are too cruel!

At present, more than half of the sect commanders in Danyang County gathered their troops in their respective territories and made an appointment in parallel, intending to join forces to attack Wanling to seize grain and grass. Firstly, they wanted to make a living, and secondly, they wanted to give Wu Jing some food.
Chapter completed!