There were also some remaining Han people in Huifeng County and Taifeng County. Zhao Fei asked Zhang Liao and Chen Dao to recruit soldiers on their own.

At present, except for Fengcheng County and Yongfeng County, the other four counties do not have much population and need to be supplemented urgently.

Zhao Fei has already taken over all Linchuan County, and the governor of Linchuan County is worthy of his name.

The next task is to move some refugees from Fengcheng County and Yongfeng County to the other four counties, and to take advantage of the weakest moment of Shanyue, we should start to expand our strength and prepare to implement the division and siege tactic.

Although there are not many middle-aged men in Shanyue in the mountains, there are more than 200,000 people, which can solve the current situation of Linchuan County being vast and sparsely populated.

Lifeng County is located in the center of Linchuan County, close to the mountainous and forest area where Shanyue is located, so Zhao Fei decided to change the county seat from Fengcheng County to here to facilitate control of the entire Linchuan County.

The Military Hospital Science and Technology Park and the Military Institute have been moved here. The newly occupied four counties have not reclaimed much land. Taking advantage of the fact that spring plowing has not yet been over, Zhao Fei quickly ordered Ma Jun and Pu Yuan to make more keel waterwheels, planting tools, etc., and to reclaim more land in these four counties.

As the war is going well, it is just early May, and it is time to plant rice.

At present, Zhao Fei had no time to pay attention to the mountain climbing, but the mountain climbing and hiding in the forest, he did not dare to come out to cause trouble for Zhao Fei.

Planting rice in May, harvesting early rice in early July, and then planting late rice, all of which will be very busy.

Zhao Fei reclaimed a lot of land and lacked manpower. Basically, the soldiers and Shanyue prisoners worked in the fields. Only in this way can we ensure that all the land reclaimed can have normal harvests.

In a few years, the world will have a severe drought all year round, which may be one of the reasons why many people cannot survive and begin to rebel.

In the end, Cao Cao had to use human flesh as military rations. Zhao Fei did not expect that. While the climate had not been abnormal in recent years, he would reserve more food and use grain to recruit more refugees from the Central Plains to come to Jiangdong in the future.

There were more places occupied, and Zhao Fei was enough in terms of generals. He had already distributed all the positions of county lieutenants, but it was a bit difficult to deal with in terms of civil servants.

Lu Su wanted to be by Zhao Fei's side to help manage the affairs of the entire county, and it was impossible to send him out to be the county magistrate.

Lu Qianzu and Shangguan Yunche can also be two county magistrates, but there are still three county towns that do not have suitable counties.

Ye Feng is still too young and has insufficient experience, and he also needs to manage Yishui Organization.

Zhao Fei could only temporarily let the minor officials brought from Zhaowu County become county magistrates for the time being, but these people have limited abilities. It would be fine if they were a leisurely county magistrate in peacetime. But now, they have to immigrate, arrange the people for food, clothing, housing and transportation, arrange the people for spring plowing, and when the rice planting is over, they have to organize the people to build roads. This is too much, and they are definitely not busy.

Zhao Fei and Lu Su could only work harder. They often directly manage the affairs of these three counties, arrange the affairs of what to do, and then send orders to the minor official who temporarily replaced him.

As for the aristocratic families, there is no need to think about it. Even poor scholars are still waiting and watching, and no one will come to surrender to Zhao Fei for the time being.

Zhao Fei had reported the battle situation here to Chen Wen, and expanded his own casualties a lot. He also ordered Yishui to organize a stronghold in Luoyang to give gifts to Zhang Rang and other eunuchs.

Chen Wen was very surprised that Zhao Fei had recovered Linchuan County so quickly. Looking at Zhao Fei's description of the battle situation, although he recovered Linchuan County, he also lost more than 18,000 people. At present, there are only 10,000 intact soldiers in the entire Linchuan County, and he asked for the support of the governor.

Chen Wen thought that Shanyue was so fierce before and Zhao Fei was good at abilities. He came up and repelled Shanyue's 50,000 troops. More than 18,000 people were already very serious, so he believed Zhao Fei's statement and did not check in detail how many troops Zhao Fei still had.

Chen Wen will definitely not send anyone to support him. Zhao Fei has good abilities, and if he expands his strength, he will not be able to control it. At present, ten thousand people are just right, and it has not aroused Chen Wen's fear.

Time slowly passed, and after the rice planting was over, Zhao Fei began to send his soldiers to the mountains and forests.

Zhao Fei all distributed generous pensions for the fallen soldiers, and his family also gave priority to the arrangement of land and houses and tax exemptions.

The wounded soldiers gradually recovered, and the disabled soldiers were all assigned to the village chief by Zhao Fei and arranged to be the village chief among the village chiefs. On the one hand, these disabled soldiers will live a comfortable life in the future, and also make other soldiers no longer afraid of fighting for their lives. On the other hand, these veterans who came down from the battlefield can easily establish their might in the village. In the future, as long as Zhao Fei treats them well, they can rely on them to gather every village to Zhao Fei and increase their support.

Zhang Liao and Chen Dao have recruited some new recruits, and Zhao Fei currently has another 25,000 troops under his command.

However, the current army is no match for the troops a few months ago, and this is also a veteran who has experienced several battles on the battlefield.

Zhao Fei only left one thousand people to defend each county town. For example, Fengcheng County and Yongfeng County, which were not within the attack range of Shanyue, were only five hundred people to guard, which could only be considered as maintaining public order.

Anyway, the world is not in chaos yet, and it is impossible for Yuzhang County and Kuaiji County to attack Fengcheng County and Yongfeng County, so there is no need to be prepared for anything.

As for the Shanyue prisoners of 35,000 people, Zhao Fei was afraid that the number of people was too small to suppress them, so he had already picked out all the Shanyue prisoners of which were relatively high in force through the system.

Most of the people in the army who are highly prestigious are those with high force. Although it is not completely correct, they are still indifferent. As long as Zhao Fei picks out these thorns that may cause trouble, the rest are all Shanyue soldiers with ordinary force. Even if they want to cause trouble, there is no leader.

And these people with relatively high force, as long as they are over 60, Zhao Fei will arrange people to let them disappear from the prisoner camp quietly, and then he will kill them with his own hands.

Zhao Fei has never forgotten the task of killing Thousand People. He had good archery practice on the battlefield before and shot and killed many enemies with more than 60 martial arts.

With these high-powered prisoners, Zhao Fei killed nearly 400 people, plus the original 300 people, and now killing more than 200 people can complete the task of killing a thousand people.

Zhao Fei allocated the other 20,000 troops transferred to Zhang Liao, Chen Dao, Huang Zhong and Hao Zhao. He began to set up checkpoints between mountains in the mountainous areas where Shanyue was active, and began to compress the range of Shanyue's activities.

The harvest season in July is coming soon, and Zhao Fei has already discovered where the mountains and fields in Shanyue that have been cultivated and planted with grain are.

Zhang Liao and his team mainly surrounded and divided, mobilized their forces to capture these Shanyue fields, preparing to harvest food for them.

Naturally, Shanyue didn't want to watch the food he had worked hard to cultivate was harvested by the government army, but they went down the mountain several times to try to repel the government army, but they were hit head-on by the government army and suffered heavy losses.

In the forest, Zhang Liao and the others dared not go in, but if Shan Yue ran down the mountain by himself, he would be looking for death.

July is coming and the weather is getting hotter. Shanyue has never thought of a good way to repel the official army and is very irritable.

The government army did not go up the mountain, and the traps they laid in the forest were of no use at all. There were not many water sources on the mountain, and there were few suitable mountains to grow grain. Most of the grain was still planted at the foot of the mountain, but these fields had been taken over by the government army, and the grain was about to mature.

The closer we get to this time, the more careful we have to be. Zhao Fei has basically emptied the treasury. As long as Ma Jun and Pu Yuan and others built it, Zhao Fei would immediately send all of his bows, arrows, armor, and even the wells.

Zhao Fei's order to harvest these grains as much as possible. If it really doesn't work, even if it is burned, it cannot be left behind for Shanyue. It is necessary to force these Shanyue to go down the mountain and surrender after they have no food.

In Puyuan's Military Academy, a large number of sickles have been continuously created, and the number of people here has expanded from 500 to 2,000.

Under Zhao Fei's suggestion, Ma Jun even invented a threshing machine driven by keel water wheel hydraulic power. All of this was to increase the efficiency of harvesting food.

In the main fields of Shanyue, the well railings were erected, and the ground was filled with lights at night, and they were guarded tightly, so that Shanyue could not find any opportunity.

They seized Shanyue's grain until mid-July, and all the grain was harvested. Shanyue attacked three times in total, but was defeated by Zhang Liao and others, and several thousand people were damaged. Of course, Zhao Fei also lost more than two thousand people.

Zhao Fei's goal has basically been achieved. Shanyue can only obtain some grain harvest on some mountains close to water sources. It may not be seen yet. By autumn and winter, there will definitely be famine in the Shanyue tribe.

Outside the mountainous area, Zhang Liao and his troops did not retreat to prevent Shanyue from going down the mountain to grab the food from surrounding villages after being anxious. Zhao Fei provided a large number of convenient tools, and this year it was a bumper harvest, and every household had a lot of food.

After snatching the grain, Zhao Fei no longer paid attention to the matter in the mountainous area. He began to transform his ideologically on the Shanyue prisoners under his command.

Among these Shanyue prisoners, Zhao Fei would let them go out after taking a few thought classes. Even those who wanted to break away from the Shanyue barbarians could help them change to Han people.

The 35,000 Shanyue is always a little moved when Zhao Fei constantly guarantees to treat the Han people equally.

After the prisoners who were willing to surrender came out, Zhao Fei distributed land and houses, joined the army and went to business, without any discrimination, and even had no capital to do small business, Zhao Fei would borrow a little first.

This undoubtedly greatly enhanced Zhao Fei's attraction to these Shanyue prisoners. As I said before, in the eyes of the Han people, this is the Shanyue tribe, a group, but in the eyes of Shanyue, they are tribes one by one.

Without good cultural heritage, it cannot be said to be a group of ethnic groups.

When these Shanyue prisoners were on the mountain, they were also exploited by tribal leaders. Now that Zhao Fei is treated so well, why do he still have to be loyal to the leader? Moreover, the old leader is dead, and I don’t know who is the new leader at present.

There were also many Shanyue prisoners who said they were willing to surrender, but they were not worried about their families on the mountain. Zhao Fei did not tell the truth about their words. He casually picked out more than a hundred people from them and let them go to the mountain.
Chapter completed!