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Jiangxia Administrative Office, Xiling County.

With the surging attack, the entire north of Jiangxia fell completely to Guan Yu. Most of them surrendered in Kaicheng without any bloodshed.

At this point, Cao Wei lost control of Jiangxia.

The Jiangxia Navy, which was as famous as the "Jiangdong Navy", was all captured by Guan Yu.

The snowflakes floating in the sky finally stopped, as if indicating that the mercury-like battlefield was coming to an end.

In the official office at this moment, Guan Yu was sitting on the main seat, while Zhou Cang, Guan Xing, Guan Yinping, Guan Suo, Liao Hua, and Zhuge Ke were on the left and right.

Zhou Cang is reporting the entire battle report truthfully.

"——In the battle of Jiangxia, a total of more than 9,300 enemy soldiers were captured, seven enemy generals including Zhang Yun were killed, and 21 enemy generals including Liu Ye, Jiang Gan, and Wang Can were captured.

, Ruan Yu took the initiative to open the city and surrender, and captured 122 warships and countless supplies of food, grass and baggage."

When Zhou Cang read "one hundred and twenty-two warships", he paused deliberately, and Guan Yu's red phoenix eyes also looked slightly sideways.

It seems that the capture of these warships is a very happy thing for him.

In fact…

It's not just these warships.

Speaking of which, Wenpin's nine-thousand-strong Jiangxia naval force and Guan Yu's amphibious Guan family army are closely related, and even originate from the same lineage.

This can be traced back to Huang Zu, who was stationed in Jiangxia under the rule of Liu Biao.

It should be noted that the Huang family branch in Jingzhou has quite prosperous branches and leaves.

According to the Huang family genealogy, Huang Gai, Huang Chengyan, Huang Shao, Huang Wan, Huang Zhong, Huang Zu and Huang Chengyan, who were famous during the Three Kingdoms period, are all from the same clan.

This involves a key figure-Huang Xiang!

Huang Gai, Huang Chengyan, Huang Shao and Huang Wan are all Huang Xiang's grandsons;

Huang Kui and Huang Quan are the fourth descendants of Huang Xiang;

Huang Hao is the fifth generation grandson of Huang Xiang;

Huang Zhong is the sixth generation grandson of Huang Xiang;

Huang Zu is the eighth generation grandson of Huang Xiang!

And this Huang Xiang is a famous filial son in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is one of the "Twenty-Four Filial Piety". His official rank is Shangshu Ling. He is known as "Unparalleled in the world, Jiangxia Huang Xiang"...

Their descendants, except Huang Xiang's eldest son Huang Qiong, continue to live in Anlu, Jiangxia and become the main line of the Huang family in Anlu;

The rest moved to different places.

One of them moved to Langzhong, Brazil, on the border of Bashu and Sichuan, and became the ancestor of the Huang family in Langzhong;

Another lineage moved to Lingling and established the Lingling Huang family.

In this way, when it comes to seniority, Huang Zhong is in charge of Huang Gai, and Huang Chengyan is called "great uncle", which is four generations behind;

Huang Zu was in charge of Huang Gai, and Huang Chengyan was called Grand Uncle Zeng. There was a difference of six generations;

As a major clan in Jingzhou, Huang Zu was the main lineage of the Huang clan. He was the one who commanded the Jiangxia Navy.

But in the second year of Chuping, Huang Zu shot Sun Jian to death.

The Huang clan's Jiangxia Zhengmai had a feud with the Sun clan.

Huang Zu led his troops to fight with the Soochow army many times, shooting Ling Tong's father Ling Cao, Sun Quan's good father-in-law Xu Kun and others...

Finally, in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, he was defeated by Zhou Yu's death squads and was defeated and killed.

And it is impossible for the Jiangxia navy under him to surrender to Soochow.

After much tossing and turning, part of it belonged to the eldest son of Jingzhou - Liu Qi.

After Liu Qi became seriously ill and even died, he passed into the hands of Guan Yu.

Under Guan Yu's creation, it became a rare elite amphibious force in the late Han Dynasty - the Guan Family Army.

This is also the reason why Guan Yu, a general who has been fighting land battles for half his life, has such a powerful naval force.

In addition to Guan Yu's super learning ability, the Guan family's origins in the "Jiangxia Navy" also played an important role.

The other part of the Jiangxia Navy was in the hands of Wenpin, who was stationed north of Jiangxia under Liu Biao's command and had served as deputy general in the Jiangxia Navy.

Going back to the roots...

Guan Yu led a Jiangxia navy and captured another Jiangxia navy. Both sides were from the same source...

All of them had fought against Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan back then.

Break the bones and connect the tendons...

This is also the reason why Guan Yu looked at him with suspicion when Zhou Cang mentioned it.

In his opinion, it was only a matter of course that the more than 9,300 captured Jiangxia navy troops surrendered and joined the Guan family army seamlessly.

Let’s wait for Zhou Cang’s battle report.

The official office was filled with joy. Guan Yu stroked his beard and asked lightly.

"I don't think these Jiangxia naval forces are willing to join the Guan family army, right?"

It seems that this is destined to be a positive and joyful answer.

But he never thought that Zhou Cang's words would surprise Guan Yu.

"Reporting to the Second General, these more than 9,300 prisoners of Jiangxia Navy are still unable to surrender..."

Well…

Guan Yu quickly asked: "Why is this?"

In his opinion, these Jiangxia naval forces came from "Huang Zu" and should not have a sense of belonging to Cao Cao like the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Qingzhou Soldiers and Yanzhou Soldiers.

Zhou Cang said "Oh" and opened his mouth, but was unable to do so due to great frustration.

When Guan Yu saw Zhou Cang's appearance, he became even more suspicious.

When Zhuge Ke heard this, he seemed to have thought of something.

My heart froze.

——"Is it because of...this?"

Guan Suo had already said first: "General Zhou, is this because of their family members?"

Guan Suo's words successfully attracted the attention of everyone in the official office.

Zhou Cang nodded repeatedly, confirming the fifth young master's answer.

"Family?" Guan Yu murmured.

Guan Suo continued to explain, "When Cao Wei and Soochow fought in the Battle of Hefei, I mentioned that the generals were at odds with each other and that it would be difficult for Cao Wei to win. However, the fourth brother immediately denied me. He mentioned that there would never be discord between generals in Cao Wei's army.

, because Cao Cao has calculated this and what he did to the families of these soldiers!"

"What means?" Guan Yu asked next.

"That is, all the families of the sergeants who fought on the front line moved to the rear. For example... Li Dian, who was stationed in Hefei, had thousands of troops and tens of thousands of family members. They were all placed by Cao Cao in Yecheng as hostages.

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Guan Suo recalled...

Fourth brother Guan Lin told him back then.

At that time, Cao Cao recruited the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans and selected strong men to form the Qingzhou Army. The Qingzhou Army fought on the front lines, and Cao Cao placed all his family members in the rear for production and farming.

This model had a huge positive impact on Cao Cao's hegemony.

For this reason, Cao Cao always followed this approach whenever he accepted surrendered generals.

For another example, Cao Cao also trusted Ma Chao and Han Sui very much. This was because Ma Chao's father and brother, Han Sui's son, were hostages in Xudu City.

But he couldn't help Ma Chao and said the famous sentence:

——"Now that Chao has abandoned his father and regards the general as his father, the general should also abandon his son and regard Chao as his son."

Then he started fighting with Cao Cao!

Of course, among the great Han people who rule the world with "filial piety", there are only a few people who can completely ignore their family members like Ma Chao.

And Cao Cao was suspicious by nature. If the family members of the surrendered sergeants were not in the rear,

He would never entrust these sergeants and their generals with important responsibilities.

At this moment, Guan Suo narrated the twists and turns to his father Guan Yu... and everyone in the official office.

Zhuge Ke frowned slightly.

——"As expected, but... this is difficult to handle. We can't let more than 9,000 people eat dry food, right?"

yes.

This kind of thing, if it were Cao Cao, he would not be able to protect the prisoners in order to prevent the captives who could not surrender from eating dry food.

He slaughtered it directly. While slaughtering, he sighed:

——"Alas, white bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no roosters crowing for thousands of miles... What a ghost of the world!"

But... Guan Yu, or Liu Bei's side.
To be continued...