In September 196 AD, Zhu Wei captured the four counties of Jingnan in one fell swoop, and since then it has become a major force in the south of the Yangtze River, and its reputation has been conveyed to the world.

With the end of the war in the four counties of Jingnan, Han Xuan, the Taishou of Changsha County, did not expect the arrival of Zulang's army in Changsha County, and there was no soldier in the city to resist, so he could only open the city and surrender, but he was unwilling to enter the account of Zhu Wei after that, and was temporarily sent back to Yuzhang under house arrest by Zhu Wei together with Yang Ling, Jin Wei and Huang Zhong, who had surrendered in Youxian County.

And Wuling County Taishou Jin Xuan was in Linyuan County, and he also didn't expect the five thousand archers led by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan to come suddenly, although there were still two thousand soldiers in the city, but they were defenseless.

Mu Lan led 500 soldiers to pretend to be a caravan to deceive the city gate of Linyuan County, and then Teng Yuyan led 4,500 archers and cavalry to break through Linyuan County and directly entered the city.

Wuling Taishou Jin Xuan was unwilling to be defeated, led troops to resist in the city, and was shot by Teng Yuyan with an arrow in front of the Taishou Ya Temple, it seems that he was still destined to escape the disaster of an arrow, after which Wuling engaged in Gong Zhi led the rest of Wuling County's subordinates and soldiers to surrender to the armistice.

After Zhu Wei led the troops to Linyuan County, he named Gong Zhi as the Taishou of Wuling County and controlled the political affairs of Wuling County, so that Zhu Wei except for Changsha County, which was not too defended for the time being, the other three counties were considered to have stabilized the government system.

Of course, Zhu Wei also saw that Gong Zhi's loyalty was not bad, so he promoted him to the position of Taishou of Wuling County, and this Gong Zhi is also a Wenchen recognized by the Three Kingdoms game system.

"Gong Zhi, Wenchen, City Wuling, age 39, loyalty 78, official period 0 years, soldier 0, intelligence 63, politics 58, force 44, charm 50, land finger 40, water finger 19, training 0, morale 0."

Gong Zhi's loyalty can be regarded as the highest loyalty among the people in the four counties of Jingnan this time, and his intelligence and political level are also good, so Zhu Wei directly assigned him to govern Wuling County.

After that, Zhu Wei reorganized the soldiers who surrendered in the four counties of Jingnan this time, and selected 15,000 regular soldiers to form the Jingnan battalion, and then appointed Wei Yan as the chief general of the Jingnan battalion, and also incorporated the 4,000 crossbowmen of the Chinese army battalion into the Jingnan battalion, and at the same time assigned Dong Xi to the Jingnan battalion as a deputy general.

In addition, Zhu Wei eliminated 7,000 auxiliary soldiers from these surrendered soldiers, and asked them to find land and tuntian here in Xiaoling County.

In this way, on the one hand, it can be used as a logistics auxiliary for Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion, providing a part of the military food supply for the Jingnan battalion through Tuntian, reducing the burden of Wuling County to provide grain and grass supplies for the Jingnan battalion, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as a reserve soldier, and it can also be requisitioned and deployed to fight in emergencies.

At the same time, Zhu Wei recruited about 5,000 young soldiers between the ages of 14 and 18 from the four counties of Jingnan to replace the 4,000 crossbowmen who had been divided into Zhu Weizhong's military camp.

In this way, Zhu Wei's attack on the four counties of Jingnan this time also did not lose many soldiers and horses, but after collecting the soldiers of the four counties of Jingnan, he added nearly 20,000 soldiers.

Then Zhu Wei began to look for a suitable riverbank in Xiaoling County to build the Jingnan River Waterproof Lu Dazhai, and across the Yangtze River is the Jiangling of Nanyang County, so this Jingnan River Waterproof Lu Dazhai can be regarded as a confrontation with Jiangling Cai Mao's army across the river.

Zhu Wei's raid on the four counties of Jingnan this time began with the dispatch of troops in July and ended with the capture of Linyuan County in mid-to-late August, which took almost two months.

But Liu Biao in Xiangyang, Jingbei, didn't make any moves, because Liu Biao had no time to take care of the affairs of the four counties in Jingnan.

Some situations were also mentioned above, in the early stage of Zhu Wei's troops in the four counties of Jingnan, Zhang Ji led his troops into Nanyang County to attack Xiangcheng for food, compared to Zhu Wei's threat in the four counties of Jingnan, Zhang Ji's side was closer to Xiangyang City, so Liu Biao's attention was mainly on Zhang Ji's side.

As a result, after Zhang Ji was killed by an arrow, Zhang Xiu replaced Zhang Ji to lead the rest of the army, but the garrison still stayed on the side of Nanyang County and did not leave, so Liu Biao had to send someone to recruit Zhang Xiu and let Zhang Xiu stay in Wancheng to garrison and raise troops, which could be regarded as stabilizing the war in Nanyang County.

But after that, the plague broke out in Nanyang County because of the war, and the plague also spread to Nanjun, and as a result, Jingbei was plagued by plague everywhere, and the people fled to their homes in order to avoid the plague, so the plague spread everywhere with the displacement of the people.

Liu Biao had to send troops to strictly prevent the movement of the people, so Liu Biao was really a little out of reach of the four counties of Jingnan.

In addition, Zhu Wei deliberately ordered Tai Shici to use troops in Jiangxia to pretend to respond, and made a gesture to attack Nanjun and Nanyang County, so that Liu Biao also had to use troops to guard against Jiangxia, as for Jiangling Cai Mao After losing 7,000 troops in Jiangxia before, although he received the order from Liu Biao to support Jingnan's army, he was not very willing to send troops, but he just delayed it under the pretext.

Therefore, after Zhu Wei took the four counties of Jingnan and built a defensive naval army village on the side of Xiaoling County, Liu Biao of Jingbei could only admit the fact of losing the four counties of Jingnan.

However, afterwards, Zhu Wei also felt that the timing of his attack on the four counties of Jingnan this time was indeed very coincidental, at first Zhu Wei really didn't think much about it, and then thought about it, this should be Wang Yuyan's deliberately chosen time to fight according to the situation in Jingbeinan County and Nanyang County.

At the same time, Zhu Wei later couldn't help but realize the horror of the plague, and after Zhu Wei returned to Yuzhang, he explored the intelligence of Jingbei, only to know that the plague in Nanyang County and Nanjun had killed at least more than 200,000 people on Liu Biao's side, but more people died than in a war, almost one-tenth of the population of prosperous Jingzhou under Liu Biao's rule.

Even Liu Biao's army had the spread of plague, and in fact, Liu Biao's army could not withstand a major battle at all during this time.

However, even if Zhu Wei knew the news, he probably didn't dare to really take advantage of the situation to fight Jingbei at this time, except that he couldn't find an excuse in his name, he was scared by this plague.

In these years, there is really no suitable doctor to treat this plague, after all, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing is in Nanyang County, and even the people of his own family can't cure it at this moment, let alone other people.

Zhu Wei felt fortunate that the Yangtze River natural danger also prevented the spread of the plague to the four counties of Yuzhang and Jingnan, otherwise he would probably have to engage in a national disease prevention campaign.

As for Jiangxia, there are some plagues that have spread, but Tai Shici has shrunk his manpower on the side of Xiling City and Gui Snake Gorge in Yixian County, so there is a plague outbreak in the marginal counties, and most of the counties in Jiangxia are still stable.

At the same time, the official handling of the plague was also very cruel in those years, and all the sick and suspected people were confined to fend for themselves, and the movement of the people was strictly forbidden, which slowly allowed the plague to subside before the arrival of the winter of 196.

In fact, the local people are also afraid of the spread of the plague, and will take the initiative to cooperate with the government to do such a cruel thing, so there is no need for much official effort.

In many places, the scholars and powerful families came forward to preside over such a thing, which can be regarded as the government and the people fighting the plague together.

Forced by the plague in Jingbei, Zhu Wei's side also took the initiative to collect and bury the corpse after every battle in the four counties of Jingnan, and sprinkled it with lime powder, after all, Zhu Wei's battle in the four counties of Jingnan was basically in the summer, if the corpse was not disposed of, it was easy to rot and produce germs to spread diseases.

However, this time Zhu Wei's conquest of the four counties of Jingnan did not appear too cruel flesh-and-blood fighting, so there were not many casualties, so there were no problems after the corpse was disposed of.

Of course, Zhu Wei's army is also because of the existence of Zhu Wei, the soul of later generations, so the army strictly ordered to drink boiled water and not eat raw food at will, which has a certain degree of prevention against diseases such as plague.

In this way, in November 196 AD, Zhu Wei finally returned to Yuzhang......