Three months ago, the Shenghan White Tiger Army captured Ading County, an important pass of the puppet Wu State in the south of the Yangtze River, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, with 8,000 corpses carried down from the battlefield alone, and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers died of wound infections after the battle. This battle could almost decide the entire battle situation, and the puppet Wu rebels were forced to retreat to Jiangzhou City, the capital of Jiangzhou.

In order to prevent being washed away by the flood, Jiangzhou City was specially built as a tall city, and it was strong in terms of danger, which was almost comparable to the Two Wolf Pass and the Longmen Pass. The White Tiger Army looked at the city and sighed, so they could only temporarily retreat to recuperate and adopt siege tactics. However, Jiangzhou City is extremely difficult to be trapped, the north of the city is the Dragon River, the south of the city is Panlong Lake, and the imperial court navy can't defeat the pseudo-Wu water army, resulting in this siege becoming an embarrassing siege but not trapping.

However, for the state of Wu, the White Tiger Army is in the west, the Vermilion Bird Army is in the east side of Tongshan, although the Wu State Navy is powerful, but the Wu State Navy is superior in the light and flexible ships, and the soldiers have extremely high water combat skills, but the warships are much smaller than the Han army warships. What's more, the ships of the Wu State Navy were one less than one, after all, the copper mountain, which was rich in timber, was occupied by the Suzaku Army of the Holy Han.

Wu had a difficult period, but it was unusual that in the month into winter, the White Tiger Army had hardly launched a single siege battle, not even a single attack of more than three hundred men. Wu Jun breathed a sigh of relief, but then the question was how to gather the people's hearts and treat the wounded.

Fortunately, because the "fairy" is here, and has been working hard to treat the wounded, and is worshiped as a god by the people and the soldiers, since God blesses the Great Wu Kingdom, the belief of the people and soldiers still exists, and they firmly maintain the last city of the Wu Kingdom, and even a steady stream of Tianhuo Sect disciples secretly came to Jiangzhou by boat to participate in the Wu army.

But even if the morale of Wu did not die, the Wu army could not fight, and the Han army could not fight, and the two sides held out for three months, and the people in Wu were also panicked. In the court, many ministers and generals argued non-stop, but in fact, there was only one topic for discussion, whether to abandon Jiangzhou City.

Seeing that the counterattack was hopeless and the breakthrough could not be achieved, when the White Tiger Army besieged Wu for more than two years, there was no need for the White Tiger Army to fight, and the people who established it starved to death. As a result, some people who were born in the patriarchs of the Heavenly Fire Sect thought that instead of waiting for death like this, it was better to break the whole into pieces and fight around again, so that the Holy Han would be exhausted. Back then, the Tianhuo Sect was to turn the whole into pieces and hide them in the people to develop and grow, and then re-establish the state of Wu when the time was ripe, so there were many people who supported the transformation of the whole into parts.

"We are originally from the rivers and lakes, why not return to the rivers and lakes?" General Zuo Deng Fang said with a grin, "If you want me to say, let's divide into ten teams and give him a 10,000-point flower." ”

"Where are you ten thousand points, ten points at most bloom." The right general Hong Pingjiu teased, "I don't know if I can beat it." ”

"If you don't fight a dozen, how do you know if you can't beat it?" Deng Fang said.

Hong Pingjiu said: "The major affairs of the country, how can you be tempted at will." ”

"If you want to talk about fighting, none of our Wu army is blowing, one can resist two or three of them, but our training is not as good as the other party, people use battle formations to fight, we just fight in a mess, it's okay to fight with the wind, once the situation is deadlocked, it will be over, and once defeated, it will be scattered and flying like wild ducks." Said another lieutenant.

Wang Deyue, the emperor of Wu State, coughed, meaning that everyone's conversation was off topic, and Gu Wei, the prime minister of Zuo, immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister does not agree to give up Jiangzhou." "He is a resolute main battle faction, and unlike others, he is the most educated person in Wu State, he used to be a lifter, and he also served as a local county commander. But because Gu Wei didn't like the rules of officialdom and disdained to be in the same stream with others, he resigned and went home.

Wang Deyue visited the door many times, and promised his position as the left minister, only to invite Gu Huan, and Gu Wei immediately established the government system and the order of respect and inferiority after serving as the left minister, and the Wu regime had a pure sectarian armed force gradually took a big step towards a serious court, and finally had its own eight ministries and six courts, and even the emperor added five concubines to the harem.

It is precisely because of the addition of concubines that Wu Guo has been defeated in successive battles, and the reason is because Wang Deyue's wife, that is, the empress of Wu Guo, has another identity, the daughter of the old sect leader. In the eyes of everyone, even if Wang Deyue accepts a concubine, he will have to wait until the daughter of the old sect leader dies in the future before enjoying it. However, at the suggestion of Gu Wei, Wang Deyue accepted five concubines at one time, and the queen was so angry that she left Jiangzhou Mansion and returned to Yuezhou with the four holy envoys.

After the Tianhuo Sect established the state of Wu, although many people accepted the canonization of official positions, there were still some people who did not accept official positions, such as the Four Holy Envoys and the Eighteen Dharma Protectors, who rebelled because of the oppression of the imperial court, not for the sake of being officials. The most capable of fighting among the four holy envoys was the black-clothed holy envoy Xie Pengfei, who was the first to lead the sect to rise up and fight against the imperial court, but after the establishment of the state of Wu, he refused Wang Deyue's canonization of generalissimo of soldiers and horses, and instead put down his military power and returned to the Tianhuo Sect to continue to be a holy envoy.

At first, Wang Deyue didn't think about accepting concubines, after all, he was not a lustful person, but Gu Wei said that as an emperor, if there are fewer than 20 concubines and beauties, he is not worthy of being an emperor at all, and the royal family has two tasks, one is to consolidate power, and the other is to expand the family. So under the half-push and half-push, Wang Deyue's harem in addition to the queen, there were also more imperial concubines, Zheng Guifei, Liang concubines, Zhuang concubines, Xian concubines, and Jing concubines. If it weren't for the war, Gu Wei would even suggest that he expand the number of concubines to twenty, and now what is unexpected is that except for the queen, all five concubines are pregnant.

Gu Wei won Wang Deyue's heart, and Wang Deyue also entrusted him with important tasks, but he was despised by many generals, thinking that he would only send beautiful women to the emperor, and relying on women to be promoted, he was really not allowed by the Tianhuo Sect. But since the emperor is willing to believe him, everyone has nothing to say, and this Gu Wei has a very good set of logistics, although everyone doesn't like it, but it can't hide the fact that Gu Wei has always been in good order with military logistics.

"Lord Zuo, why don't you agree to withdraw your troops?" Generalissimo Ma Yu asked, Ma Yu was originally the first protector of the eighteen protectors, and followed Xie Pengfei to fight in Yuezhou, after Xie Pengfei resigned, Ma Yu took over the post of generalissimo of soldiers and horses and became the commander of the Wu army. He was cautious, kind to others, and took care of his subordinates, not only loved by his subordinates, but also deeply trusted by Wang Deyue.

Zuo Xiang Gu Wei said: "Because we have no way to retreat, once the Wu State is destroyed this time, all the Wu soldiers will have the most basic insistence in the hearts of the people, and under the shaking of confidence, we will become a pool of loose sand from a solid tower, and we can no longer gather." He looked at Deng Fang and said, "General Deng, the army is divided into ten routes, do you think that these ten routes army will return to His Majesty's wing?" ”