"Congratulations to General Lee!"

"Congratulations brother-in-law!"

……

Seeing that the generals present and Yang Longyan and others were thanking him one by one, Li Chengding hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

He didn't expect Yang Wu to really appoint him as the new governor.

He had not been prepared at all, after all, he was too young, he was not yet thirty years old, and his service in the army was not enough to serve as a governor.

And now among the generals in the army who are old enough, although most of the capable ones have already served as governors, there are still some of the remaining people who are only commanders.

So he originally thought that Yang Wu would choose one of those veterans.

After thanking the generals with surprise, Li Chengding's identity and status immediately became different, and at the invitation of Liu Xin and others, he moved his position to a position side by side with Liu Xin and others.

"Governor Li, the king has an order, your official appointment will be held in the Jinling court, so you will have to leave for Jinling in two days, and escort Xu Dexun back by the way!"

"Yes, Admiral, well, I'm going to take care of it." Li Chengding is obviously still a little unaccustomed to the change in identity.

The others didn't care.

I only heard Liu Xin continue: "As for the position of Li Dudu after he left office, his original position ......"

Many generals in the field hurriedly pricked up their ears to listen, even people like Liu Chongjing, who knew that they had no hope of being promoted, were also extremely concerned about the next appointment.

"The new commander of the capital is General Gao Shensi, and this is also an order issued by the king himself!" Liu Xin announced.

Although Liu Chongjing and the others knew that they didn't have much hope, they still felt a little disappointed.

Gao Xiansi is a veteran general, who has been in the Huainan Army for more than ten years, and was the general of the personal army under Yang Xingmi.

However, he is not very old, now he is only in his thirties, he is honest and serious, and he has extremely strict requirements for military discipline.

Before that, he was the deputy commander of the capital under Li Decheng, and he had enough qualifications and merits, so his appointment as the new commander of the capital this time was also expected, and all the generals began to congratulate him.

After announcing the two appointments, Liu Xin stood up and said: "Anyway, today our army successfully broke through Tanzhou and achieved a great victory, which is worth celebrating; In addition, Governor Li also wants to return to Jinling to take office. ”

"So Ben has already set up a feast, just waiting for you to go and have a good drink!" Liu Xin announced loudly.

"Don't get drunk!" The generals shouted.

Although Liu Cun's sudden death made the generals feel a little sad, after all, everyone present was a fighting man, and they were used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, so they looked at these relatively plainly.

Now is the time to celebrate, and people naturally don't think about things that are not pleasant.

Seeing that the atmosphere of the others was warm, and there were smiles on their faces, Liu Chongjing naturally would not show disappointment on such an occasion, and he soon went to the banquet with Tao Jingzhao and others.

"That's it, I'm still too young now, and I'm not the king's henchman, plus the bad impression left by that incident on the king, it's just a luxury to want to be quickly promoted to the commander of the capital."

……

In the city of Shaozhou, Ma Yin, the king of Chu, who rushed here in person, soon got the news of the loss of Tanzhou.

This news was both expected by Ma Yin and somewhat unexpected by him.

He originally felt that it would be difficult for the Chu army to achieve victory when the Chu army could not continue to increase its troops, while the Wu army could increase its forces at any time.

However, he didn't expect the final result to be like this, Qin Yanhui and Yao Yanzhang basically did not achieve any results, but Xu Dexun was captured by the enemy.

Regarding Xu Dexun's capture, he was not worried that he would betray him.

Because he knows his henchman general very well and knows that Xu Dexun is not that kind of person.

However, what he had to worry about was that if Xu Dexun insisted on not surrendering, then Yang Wu, the king of Wu, would be executed in anger.

This is not for fun.

At the beginning of Yang Xingmi's era, even if they did not surrender, they would not be killed, but used to exchange for Huainan generals who were captured by Liangzhejiang.

However, the relationship between Huainan and Ma Yin was much more intense, and all the Huainan generals captured by Ma Yin in the past would be executed as long as they did not surrender immediately.

Of course, this time Yao Yanzhang's captured commander Ma Ye is still locked up in Shaozhou City, and although he did not surrender, Ma Yin did not execute him.

After worrying about Xu Dexun for a moment, Ma Yin quickly put the matter behind him.

After all, Xu Dexun's capture is only a trivial matter, and the continuation and survival of the Chu State is the real major matter, if he makes a wrong step, he may fall into a state of no return.

"It seems that Gao Yu is right, it is indeed impossible to confront the State of Wu, and the Central Plains Liang State is too busy to take care of itself, and he can't count on it at all, and the only way out is to negotiate peace!"

Recalling the changes in the situation in the past few months, Ma Yin sighed in his heart, and at the same time made up his mind to negotiate peace.

After reconvening a few confidants, Ma Yin quickly announced his peace idea.

"Now that we can't fight, we can't fight anymore, but if you want to negotiate peace, how to put forward the conditions, what do you think, you might as well talk about it!"

Ma Yin's voice seemed a little hurried, and it was obvious that the news of the defeat made him feel very anxious.

The people present, except for a few people such as Gao Yu, Zhang Ji, Ma Ji, Ma Cun, Yao Yanzhang, Qin Yanhui, Wang Huan, etc., there was no one else, so Ma Yin didn't go around in circles and asked them directly.

Zhang Ji first stood up and said: "King, if you want to negotiate peace with Wu State, the minister thinks that the first thing is to find out what other means our army can threaten Wu State, if we have no means at all, I am afraid that Wu State will not easily negotiate peace with the King!" ”

"Hmm!" Ma Yin nodded in agreement.

Of course, he knew that the so-called peace negotiation could only occur between two forces of equal strength, or not too much apart.

If the difference in strength between the two sides is too far, then it is not a negotiation of peace, but a negotiation of surrender.

However, there is another situation between the negotiation and the negotiation and surrender, that is, although the strength of the two parties is very different, the weaker side is not without the power to fight back.

If the stronger side insists on destroying the other side, and the price he will pay is somewhat more than worth the loss, then the stronger side may accept the other party's surrender while allowing the other side to remain relatively independent. Stand.

In other words, the weaker side surrenders nominally in exchange for reconciliation between the two parties.

And this is the result that Ma Yin wants to achieve now.

It's a pity that after thinking about it carefully, Ma Yin was a little flustered and found that his side didn't have many means to threaten Wu Guo.

It was clear that the Wu army could achieve victory even with the same forces as the Chu army; Once they put in more troops, they are afraid that the Chu army will be defeated faster.

In addition, after the loss of Tanzhou, the Wu army will definitely continue to send troops to attack the Hunan prefectures.

After the Chu army lost the 20,000 defenders in the hands of Xu Dexun, all the combined forces are now less than 50,000, and they no longer have enough strength to resist the attack of the Wu army, let alone the strength to hold the Hunan states.

The fall of Hunan is only a matter of time.

Just when all the generals were silent, Wang Huan, who was sitting at the end of the crowd, stood up and said: "My lord, the minister thinks that this time in the battle of Tanzhou, although our army was defeated in the end, the Wu army also paid a certain price. ”

"In particular, General Yao and General Qin used a variety of methods to sneak attack the Wu army and achieved great results."

"At the beginning, the reason why Chenzhou barbarian Song Ye and others gave the king a headache was nothing more than relying on the geographical advantage to attack our army in various ways; Now our army can also use this method to deal with the Wu army and make them pay enough price! ”

Wang Huan was able to participate in the proceedings this time because he successfully attacked the Wu army and his previous record.

"Okay, this plan is wonderful, as long as our army is like those barbarians at the beginning, attacking and harassing the Wu army everywhere, they will definitely not be able to bear the casualties and agree to negotiate peace!"

"Yes, Hunan is mountainous, that is, there are fewer mountain roads near Tanzhou. If the Wu army were to act in other areas, our army would definitely be able to constantly harass them by virtue of its familiarity with the terrain! ”

After listening to Wang Huan's proposal, the generals couldn't help but have their eyes lit up, and they praised again and again, as if they had found a clever plan to defeat the Wu army.

It's a pity that they also know that raid tactics are always just raids, and when they can't compete with the enemy head-on, they can't do big things by relying on raid tactics alone.

After all, the monks who ran away couldn't run the temple, and even the Chu army was able to conquer Chenzhou and Jizhou and other places successively despite the attacks of those barbarians, and if the Wu army was serious, it would naturally be able to deal with them in the same way.

Therefore, this self-attack tactic is just to give yourself courage.

After Wang Huan spoke, Qin Yanhui also said: "Anyway, my country still has an army of 50,000 now, if the king abandons the Hunan states, concentrates his forces in Jizhou, Chenzhou and other places, and then uses attack tactics to attack the logistics of the Wu army, the Wu army may not be able to break through Chen, Ji and other states." ”

"Yes, even if the Wu army can break through our army's city, they will have to pay a sufficient price."

"General Qin is right, compared to Hunan, Jizhou and Chenzhou are just sparsely populated and barbaric places, and they are not of much use. As long as the king is willing to negotiate peace, King Wu Yang Wu may not fight to the end with the king for these two places! Yao Yanzhang said loudly.

"If Yang Wu, the king of Wu, really doesn't give us any way to live, then we will fight to the death with the Wu army in the city of Jizhou! Let's see how much the Wu army will have to pay to wipe out our country! ”

……

The atmosphere of the generals finally became warm, and the dullness at the beginning no longer existed.

After all, everyone present is a person who is used to seeing life and death, although they are worried about the future prospects of Chu State, but if they are in a hurry, everyone can also be willing to fight to the death with Wu State.

Seeing this situation, Ma Yin's face finally looked a lot better.