Pan Jun really wasn't bragging. His high prestige within Lingling County was completely beyond Shi Bao's understanding.
Anyway, what happened next, in Shi Bao's opinion, was a bit too fantasy.
After relying on his own prestige to directly persuade Duliang County to surrender, Pan Jun did not even let Shi Bao divide his troops and go south. He only sent people to write a few letters and sent them out, which directly led to Taoyang, Lingling, and Shi'an in the south of Lingling County. The three counties chose to return to the Han Dynasty.
Afterwards, Pan Jun suggested to Shi Bao that he should postpone the attack on Lu Kai who was stationed in Fuyi from the north, and instead go east to attack Quanling County, the county seat of Lingling County.
The geographical location of Quanling County is too important. Capturing Quanling is equivalent to mastering the springboard into Guiyang County and Changsha County.
With such an important place being attacked, Pan Jun did not believe that Lu Kai, who was stationed in Fuyi County, would not take any action. As long as Lu Kai chose to lead his troops to leave Fuyi County, Pan Jun would be confident that he could directly persuade the wealthy families in Fuyi County to surrender and let his husband surrender. The soldiers of Yi County surrendered to the Han without any bloodshed.
As a result, the Lingling County soldiers led by Lu Kai became homeless and their morale was bound to be weakened.
At this time, Shi Bao turned back and attacked the Lingling County soldiers led by Lu Kai, and they would definitely win.
And if Lu Kai was defeated, Quanling would not be able to defend it for long, and the only option was to surrender. At this point, Lingling County was completely pacified.
When Shi Bao heard this, he realized that Pan Jun had already planned it so perfectly. What else was there to say? Just follow the plan.
In this way, Shi Bao stayed in Duliang County for five days to rest, and then left 3,000 people for Pan Jun to garrison in Duliang County just in case. He led a mixed team of 27,000 people towards Quanling County. And go.
Pan Jun, who stayed in Duliang County, received letters from the magistrates of the three southern counties of Lingling County not long after Shi Bao set out. These people were willing to "eat the pot of pulp to welcome the king's master" and return to the army. Submitted to the Han Dynasty.
You really can't blame these county magistrates for being so clumsy, they have their own reasons.
First of all, Pan Jun's prestige in Lingling County is indeed very high.
Pan Jun has stayed in Lingling County for too long. Except for the magistrate of Quanling County, who was directly appointed by Soochow, the magistrates of other counties were all Pan Jun's. A child of a local aristocratic family who was promoted.
The gift of knowing and meeting someone, anyone who cares about it must recognize this thing.
Secondly, the way Soochow governs Lingling County has indeed made the local aristocratic families in Lingling County extremely dissatisfied.
Back then, Pan Jun was reclaiming swamp tidal flats in the northeastern part of Lingling County, and through his personal connections, he opened trade links with the Jiaozhou scholar family in the southern part of Lingling County, allowing all the wealthy families in Lingling County to follow Pan Jun and make a lot of money. The bowl is full.
He could get land and earn money and food. This is how Pan Jun's high prestige in Lingling County came from.
But when the people from Soochow came, all the newly reclaimed swamp lands in the northeast were divided up by the aristocratic families in Soochow. The trade between the aristocratic families in the south and the Jiaozhou scholar family in recent years was wiped out by Lu Dai in one fell swoop. Home, this trade route is also cut off.
Tell me, the Lingling family’s wealthy people have a damn good impression of Soochow.
But unfortunately, Lingling County is located between Wuling County, Guiyang County, and Jiaozhou. Even if the aristocratic family has some private soldiers, it is definitely impossible to be the opponent of the Soochow soldiers from the three counties, and Lu Dai This person was not that easy to offend. As they had no other choice, the wealthy families in Lingling County had to endure it.
Well now, Pan Jun is back, not only bringing the elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty, but also bringing a new profit distribution plan. According to Pan Jun's description, after Lingling County returns to the Han Dynasty, the internal profit distribution of Lingling County will be But it’s up to everyone to decide.
On this point, not only Pan Jun vouched for it, but also the endorsement from Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, the credibility of these two people was much more reliable than those Wu dogs.
In this case, any aristocratic family with a slightly clearer mind would know what to choose.
Very easily, Pan Jun persuaded half of Lingling County to surrender with just a few letters, and the remaining half depended on whether Shi Bao could attract Lu Kai to send troops from Fuyi County.
At this time, Lu Kai finally noticed something strange behind him. He finally received intelligence from the southern part of Lingling County and learned that half of Lingling County behind him had turned against him.
Lu Kai was stunned.
To be honest, regarding this matter, I really can’t blame Lu Kai for reacting too slowly.
Soochow's entire military intelligence system has not been running smoothly in Lingling County.
The last time Shibao was raging in the northern part of Lingling County, even if Lu Dai personally led the troops to encircle and suppress it, he was always one step behind. The reason is actually very simple. The local aristocratic families are not willing to cooperate with the Soochow Army.
It was just Shi Bao, who was running around fighting under the banner of a big man, and already had such a result. This time, Pan Jun personally led his troops to fight back.
The fact that Lu Kai was able to learn about the huge changes in southern Lingling within half a month was the reason why he was vigilant enough to arrange detailed intelligence gathering in southern Lingling in advance.
It is quite sad to say that in his own territory, Lu Kai actually had to rely on careful placement to learn the secrets of military intelligence.
But no matter what, now Lu Kai has learned about the rebellion in the four southern counties of Lingling County, and also learned that Shi Bao led 30,000 Shu troops to approach Quanling County.
There are two paths before Lu Kai now.
One is to approach Duliang County behind them and wipe out the Shu army stationed there by Pan Jun.
After Lu Kai figured out the reasons for the rebellion in the four southern counties of Lingling, he immediately realized the importance of Pan Jun. As long as Pan Jun was eliminated, the remaining three counties would inevitably be pacified, and there would be no need to send troops. No.
The other is to quickly lead troops to reinforce Quanling. While maintaining the county's governance, it can also prevent Shi Bao from breaking into Guiyang and even Changsha County.
But no matter which choice he made, Lu Kai had to send troops immediately, and he could only choose one route to advance, and could not take care of both.
If you go to encircle and suppress Pan Jun, you can only sit back and watch Quanling be attacked. If you go to rescue Quanling, whether it can be defended or not, the influence of the rebellion in the four southern counties will become greater and greater.
Such a route choice is enough to give Lu Kai a headache, but there is another problem that is even more troublesome for Lu Kai - he simply cannot simply send troops and leave Fuyi County.
Although Lu Kai's military ability is not as good as that of his uncle, he still has a certain strategic vision.
Lu Kai could actually understand the consequences of leaving Fuyi County. Pan Jun could persuade the three southern counties of Lingling to surrender, but couldn't he persuade Fuyi County to surrender? !
Once Fuyi County defected to the Shu army, Lu Kai's 10,000 county soldiers would become rootless soldiers. By then, the army would be demoralized and would not be able to fight a war at all.
The consequences could be disastrous.
However, Lu Kai could not stand still in Fuyi forever.
If he stayed in Fuyi, Pan Jun could contact the four southern counties and gather a private army of aristocratic families to guard the city. If he wanted to quell the rebellion in the four southern counties, the price would be too high. Big.
What's even more terrible is that along the way from Shibao, 30,000 Shu troops attacked Quanling, and Quanling's current defenders were less than 500 people. Lu Kai didn't even have to think about it. When the Quanling County Magistrate learned that he was going to What kind of decision will be made when 500 people fight against 30,000 Shu troops?
Being able to escape Quanling and go to other counties in Soochow is considered a county magistrate loyal to Wu.
Quanling cannot be defended, and once Quanling cannot be defended, Guiyang County, which currently has basically no defensive strength, will be directly exposed to the Shu army.
If the Shu army wants to capture Guiyang County, there is no need to fight at all. They can just march all the way and then send people to take over the county seat.
Of course, this is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that after Shi Bao conquers Quanling, once he chooses to lead his troops northward and directly enter Changsha County, Changsha County soldiers are now concentrated in Luoxian area, leaving the south completely unprepared.
Zhu Ran, who is stationed in Xi County, is very likely to face the Shu army's front and rear attacks.
And if Zhu Ran cannot hold on, it is a foregone conclusion that the four counties in Jingnan will be lost.
Lu Kai's strategic vision is really good. He finally understood all the strategic intentions of the Shu army in attacking Jingnan this time.
But Lu Kai's military ability is really not comparable to that of his clan uncle. Although he can clearly see all the strategic intentions of the Shu army, he can't think of any way to break the situation.
Now Lu Kai is very powerless. He feels that no matter what decision he makes, whether he leaves Fuyi County or not, there seems to be no good result.
Well. Actually, it’s not that there is no third option.
The third option is for Lu Kai to immediately go north to join Lu Dai in Wuling County, and then abandon Wuling County with Lu Dai to fully support Zhu Ran in Changsha County.
In this way, it should be possible to gather 60,000 troops to defend various parts of Changsha County and stop the siege of more than 100,000 Shu troops. To defend Changsha County.
However, this would be tantamount to completely abandoning the three counties. Such a big strategic decision was not something that Lu Kai, a mere prefect, could make.
Moreover, Lu Kai could not thoroughly judge whether this was good or bad.
Even General Zhu Ran would not dare to make this kind of decision easily.
(End of chapter)
