Chapter 1036: Chiyou Sanfa Yizhou (I)

Among the thirteen states of Dahan, Yizhou's economy is not the highest, but its area is definitely the largest.

Yizhou has a total of 98 counties with eight counties, three subordinate states and three provinces, and was divided into 21 counties during the Shu Han Dynasty, and the number of county seats has also expanded to 146 counties.

However, although the territory of Yizhou is large, most of the area is vast and sparsely populated.

More than eighty percent of the population of Yizhou is concentrated in the four counties of Shu County, Hanzhong, Ba County, and Guanghan, while the Nanzhong region of southern Sichuan is sparsely populated and has a large number of barbarians.

Today's Yizhou is occupied by four forces, namely: Yizhou Mu Liu Yan, Hanzhong Taishou Li Shimin, Bajun Taishou Liu Ji, and Nanban King Chiyou.

Since Liu Yan became the pastor of Yizhou, in order to completely control the strength of his subordinates, he has carried out a total of two relocations.

Just as Jingzhou's original seat of governance was in Jiangling instead of Xiangyang, Yizhou's original seat of governance was not Chengdu in Shu County, but in Luo County of Guanghan County.

In 191, Liu Yan moved the administrative office from Luo County to Mianzhu County, Guanghan.

In 194, Liu Yancai moved the state to Chengdu, Shu County.

After more than 2,000 years, Chengdu's status has not changed, and it has always been the political and economic center of Yizhou.

Although Liu Yan is the pastor of Yizhou, there are only three counties directly under his jurisdiction, including Shu County, Guanghan and Qianwei, and the counties in southern Sichuan are constantly in war all year round because of the mixed living of Han and barbarians, so Liu Yan's control over it is relatively low.

Speaking of the Nanban rebellion, Liu Yan could still deal with it at first, but since the Nanban Zhurong family changed its new leader, the situation in southern Sichuan has deteriorated more and more seriously, and even Liu Yan can't help but feel a little powerless.

Zhurong was originally one of the five major tribes of the Southern Barbarians, and after Chi You became the leader of the Zhurong tribe, he quickly integrated the power of the whole clan with the power of thunder, and then began to expand abroad ambitiously.

Although Chi You was born in Nanban, he also went to the Han Dynasty and wandered through the rivers and lakes when he was a teenager, so he still knows the Han world very well.

Chi You knew that the equipment gap between the Han and the barbarians was too big, so he did not aim at the Han at first, but chose to annex the surrounding small tribes first, and then counterattack the Han people after unifying the Nanban.

The process of Chiyou's unification of the Nanban was not smooth, and the other tribes of the Nanban were not soft persimmons, especially the sworn enemies of the Zhurong tribe, the Gonggong tribe.

The two tribes of Zhurong and Gonggong, one believes in Zhurong, the god of fire, and the other believes in the god of water, and because of the different beliefs, the relationship between the two tribes is naturally incompatible.

The difference between the Gonggong tribe and the Zhurong tribe is that the new leader of each generation will inherit the name of Gongshui Shengong, and the contemporary leader of the Gonggong tribe, Gonggong, is the most difficult opponent encountered in the process of Chiyou's unification of the Southern Barbarians.

The Zhurong tribe under the leadership of Chi You, after annexing more than ten small tribes, finally aroused the jealousy of the Gonggong tribe, and the two clans then had several major wars.

Although Chiyou won the war, his own losses were also not small.

Although the Gonggong lost, it was supported by other tribes in the Nanban.

Seeing this, Chi You finally realized that if he wanted to forcibly unify Nanban, even if he finally did it, it would lose a lot of Nanban's vitality, so he decided to transfer the contradiction to the outside world, and this object was naturally the Great Han.

Chi You described to the leaders of the major tribes of the Southern Barbarians how beautiful the world of flowers and flowers was, and the life of the Nanban people was a lot of poverty and backwardness.

At this time, Chi You suddenly said how strong the Han was, such as: the champion Hou Qinhao destroyed 200,000 Huns in one battle, and Dong Zhuo killed the Qiang people so much that they did not dare to set up the Qiang king......

If you don't want to be exterminated, if you want to live a good life, then you have to join forces.

Unity is the only way out for Nanban.

Although nine out of nine people in Nanban can't read a single word, it doesn't mean that they don't have knowledge.

Under Chiyou's sincere persuasion, the leaders of the various tribes basically agreed with Chiyou's theory that 'union is the only way out for Nanban', but it still can't unite the entire Nanban.

Chiyou knew that interests were the key to driving people's hearts, so he took the initiative to give up some interests in exchange for the trust of several tribes with bad relations, and formed a coalition to launch the first invasion of Yizhou, and this alliance leader could only be Chiyou.

Chi You's first invasion of Yizhou did not have many troops, only 20,000, but he fought successively, almost crushing Liu Yan's army of 50,000, and finally completely defeated it, and took away the key of the three major subject states of Yizhou.

The key is the subject country is the Zhuti County after that, and there are only three counties in total, but this is a great encouragement to the Nanban tribes, after all, they have launched countless rebellions, but they have really succeeded in setting foot on the Han land, which is one of the few times.

Of course, the losses of the Southern Barbarian Army itself were not low, and almost half of the 20,000 troops who invaded suffered casualties, and this was mainly caused by the gap in equipment between the two sides.

Chiyou invaded Yizhou for the first time, and although the territory he conquered was not large, it was better than capturing a large number of weapons and armor, and it also allowed the Southern Barbarian tribes to see the benefits of unity.

After the first victory, Chiyou's second invasion will naturally be more natural.

This time, almost all the tribes of the Southern Barbarians, even Chiyou's sworn enemy Zhu Rong, participated, and a total of 50,000 troops were dispatched.

After Liu Yan suffered a big loss at the hands of Chi You, he was naturally full of vigilance against him, and this time he naturally used all his strength to resist, but it was still difficult to resist Chi You's invasion.

The physical fitness of the barbarians is already stronger than that of the Han people, and now they have access to the weapons and equipment of the Han army, and Chiyou is more than one step stronger than the generals of the Yizhou army in terms of strategy and command, so how could Liu Yan resist Chiyou?

Liu Yan has been defeated again and again, and gradually the entire Nanzhong will be lost, and if it continues to be defeated like this, Chi You may really have to break southern Sichuan and attack Chengdu.

This strong invasion of the Southern Barbarian Chiyou aroused the common hatred of the Yizhou family, but although the message was fully supported by the local state family, it still couldn't defeat Chiyou on the frontal battlefield, and could only join forces with Bajun Taishou Liu Ji to resist the Nanban invasion.

Even if Liu Ji and Liu Yan joined forces, they would pay a great price to defeat Chi You.

Liu Ji's general Yongya was killed by the Gonggong battle, and the generals Fu Kuan and Zhang Ao were successively beheaded by Chiyou, Peng Yue, Cao Shen, Lu Xuan, Xiahou Ying, and Guan Ying were also seriously injured by Chiyou.

As for Liu Yan, it was even worse, according to statistics, more than 30 generals were killed in the battle, and this made the Yizhou army almost reach the dilemma of having no generals available.