Gao Yu's proposition, many people in the audience agreed, after all, knowing that they couldn't beat Wu Guo, no one was willing to continue to fight hard with Wu Guo.

It would be best if the two families could get along.

However, in order to be safe, it is clear that two prerequisites are required.

First, because the Hunan prefectures have a high degree of development, they are mainly Han people, and their location is also extremely important, so they must be ceded to the Wu state, otherwise it is obviously impossible for the two countries to want peace.

Second, Ma Yin also had to show his strength, otherwise Wu Guo felt that he could easily eliminate him, so naturally he would not agree.

These two points are very accurate about the situation they are facing today and what they should do to deal with it.

Even if Ma Yu was close to Wu Guo in his heart and hoped that the two families could coexist peacefully, he also knew that it would be difficult to make peace without the two points that Gao Yu said.

And although Ma Cun opposed defecting to Wu Guo in his heart and advocated continuing to resist to the end, after listening to Gao Yu's words, he could only snort coldly in his heart, but did not refute it.

As for Ma Yin, he was also quite moved in his heart at this time, and immediately asked everyone: "What do you think of the words of the high judge, the generals?" ”

The state of Chu can be different from the state of Wu, and even different from the states of Liang and Jin.

In the state of Wu, as various systems became formalized, the power of the state of Wu can now be said to be highly concentrated in the hands of the center; And Yang Wu himself has a great right to speak, and can make decisions on many important matters alone.

Although the Liang State and the Jin State had greater power in the hands of the local envoys and the generals, they had been established for a long time and had a deep foundation.

Second, the monarchs of the two countries have great authority, especially Zhu Wen, who has suppressed the world for nearly 30 years, has great power and has extremely strict control over his subordinates.

And Ma Yin has only been the envoy of Hunan Jiedu for more than ten years, and many of the military power are controlled by the generals, and there are not many military powers that he can completely control.

Now, because of the pressure from the outside Wu State, all the generals can only closely surround Ma Yin and strictly obey his orders.

But on the other hand, Ma Yin did not have the time and conditions to engage in the separation of military and political affairs like Wu Guo, let alone the power in the hands of his generals under such conditions as he did now.

If he dared to do that, if he accidentally provoked his subordinates to surrender to Wu, it would be a great loss.

Therefore, as long as it is a relatively important matter, Ma Yin will generally ask for the opinions of his generals one by one, and will not make decisions alone.

"The last general thinks that the plan of the high judge is feasible, and the king can give it a try!"

"The last general seconded it!"

……

The generals nodded.

"Okay, since that's the case, then Gu will concentrate his forces in Tanzhou to fight a good battle with the people of Wu, and let the people of Wu know that our army is not easy to mess with!" Ma Yin said in a deep voice.

"Xu Dexun, you are alone as the general of Tanzhou, rush to Tanzhou now, and you must try to hold Tanzhou for at least two months. When the time comes, Lone will personally lead the troops to the rescue! Ma Yin ordered.

"The last general will obey the order, and the last general will go all out, stick to Tanzhou, and buy time for the king!" Xu Dexun replied loudly.

Xu Dexun was originally Ma Yin's confidant, who was in charge of guarding Yuezhou and facing Wu Jun in Ezhou, but now Ma Yin, who guards Tanzhou, is naturally handed over to him.

Since the Wu army attacked the city two years ago, although Ma Yin turned to the southwest later, the city defense of Tanzhou not only did not fall, but paid more attention to it.

In the past two years, not only have the walls been strengthened many times, but the trees and houses outside the castle have been torn down.

These things are likely to be used by the Wu army to attack the city in the future, those trees can be used for siege equipment such as ladders, and houses can provide cover for the besieging Wu army.

But these things can also be used to defend the city, so the Chu army collected them into the city early to prepare for the future.

In addition, one of the most important preparations made by the Chu army was to build three acropolises outside the city, which were only arranged in the south of the city in a zigzag shape.

The land of Tanzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, and it is difficult to cut off the living water, and the city wall is not far from the river, so it is difficult to deploy a large army outside the city, so if the Wu army wants to attack the city, the best way is to attack from the south of the city.

The last time the Wu army attacked, because of the underestimation of the strength of the Wu army, at first I thought that the Wu army just wanted to occupy Yuezhou, so there was basically little preparation on the Tanzhou side, but it was caught off guard, and it could only rely on the temporarily recruited word tyrant to defend the city.

This time, the Chu army will naturally not be unprepared.

The three newly built acropolises not far south of the city can not only support each other, but also receive rapid reinforcements from the defenders of the city.

In this way, if the Wu army wants to attack Tanzhou, it must first take three acropolis, which will naturally greatly delay the speed of the Wu army's siege.

After Xu Dexun received the order, Ma Yin ordered Yao Yanzhang to be the northern reinforcement envoy, responsible for rescuing Tanzhou from the direction of Yiyang; With Qin Yanhui as the southern support envoy, he was responsible for rescuing Tanzhou from the direction of Shaozhou.

The reason why it did not concentrate its forces to defend Tanzhou at the beginning was mainly to prevent the Wu army from trapping the main force of the Chu army in the city of Tanzhou as it did when dealing with Qian Biao, and then sending a large army to bypass Tanzhou and sweep through other states.

Spreading out the forces is at risk of being broken by the enemy, but at the same time, it can flexibly deploy forces and respond to the enemy's situation.

Of course, Ma Yin was not completely dizzy, although he decided to invest the main force in Tanzhou to fight the Wu army again, but he did not put all his troops into it, but left 20,000 troops in Lizhou to prevent the worst from happening.

Now the total strength of the Chu army is less than 70,000 people, in addition to the troops left in various places, the real use of the army to defend Tanzhou is only 20,000, and the strength of Yao Yanzhang and Qin Yanhui is only 10,000 each.

Ma Yin finally planned to invest 40,000 troops in the entire Tanzhou War, and whether he won or was finally defeated, he would not add another soldier.

……

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this month, Xu Dexun led the defenders of Tanzhou to frantically strengthen the city defense in response to another attack by the Wu army.

On the Wu army's side, as the Right Tengxiang Army led by Zhu Siqing set off from Jinling and headed for the Jiangxi front, another big battle between Wu and Chu was about to begin.

In the city of Qianzhou.

"Mao, you and I saw that the world was in chaos and the people lost their place, so they raised troops in Qianzhou, and twenty-five years have passed in a blink of an eye. You and I are old, you are a few years younger than me, and now even you can't hold on, it seems that I don't have a few years to live! ”

In a bright and simple house, Tan Quanbo, who was full of white hair, looked at his best friend Lu Guangchou, who was lying on the hospital bed with a withered face, and not only sighed.

Mao sigh is Lu Guangchou's word.

With Lu Guangchou becoming the assassin of Qianzhou, and conquering Shaozhou and other places, his status has also improved rapidly, although it is not as good as those world-famous feudal towns, but in Qianzhou, he is an out-and-out soil emperor.

Therefore, when ordinary people see Lu Guangchou's face, they only dare to call him Lu Envoy Jun or Envoy Jun, etc., and only Tan Quanbo will call him a word.

At this time, Lu Guangchou was indeed very sick, although his mind was still very clear, but he had a hard time speaking, usually Tan Quanbo was talking, he was listening.

"Looking back now, I still took it for granted when the incident started, and I thought that as long as we were dedicated to the people, we would definitely be able to win the support of the people. And with the support of the people, we can quickly expand our strength, even sweeping the south. It's a pity that we still underestimate the heroes of the world......"

Tan Quanbo sighed in a low voice in his old voice, although Lu Guangchou on the hospital bed listened to what he said about some small things, but he was not impatient at all, but listened attentively, as if Tan Quanbo was telling beautiful stories.

Just as Tan Quanbo was talking about how he led his troops to defeat Liu Yin's 30,000 army in Lingnan outside Shaozhou City, the door was suddenly opened.

"Father, father!" With a shout of joy, a middle-aged man in his forties barged in.

This man is tall and handsome, but his face is full of joy, it is Lu Guangchou's son, Lu Yanchang, who is now the assassin of Shaozhou.

A few years ago, after the First World War in Ivory Pond, Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo judged the situation and surrendered to Wu in exchange for Wu's recognition of the Lu family's rule in Qianzhou.

At that time, Lu Guangchou not only controlled Qianzhou, but Shaozhou was also under his control, and Lu Yanchang, as Lu Guangchou's eldest son, was appointed as the assassin of Shaozhou.

All this did not change after Lu Guangchou took refuge in Wu Guo.

However, although Lu Yanchang is Lu Guangchou's eldest son, today's Qianzhou is not even a festival envoy, and it is not so easy to want father and son successively.

So after hearing that Lu Guangchou was seriously ill, he naturally rushed to Qianzhou non-stop.

"You're here? What is so happy? On the hospital bed, Lu Guangchou coughed a few times and asked with difficulty.

"Father, it was Wu who sent a messenger to come, saying that he heard that his father was seriously ill, so King Wu specially sent an imperial doctor to treat his father! Father, I heard that the envoy came from Jinling non-stop after hearing that his father was sick, and now he is about to enter the city! Lu Yanchang hurriedly replied.

"King Wu sent an envoy? Physician? Tan Quanbo frowned again and again after listening to it.

"Yes, Uncle Tan, we don't have any good doctors in Qianzhou, but there must be a famous doctor in King Wu's palace, maybe he can cure my father's illness!" Lu Yanchang said happily.

"That's what you're happy about?" Tan Quanbo frowned even more when he heard this.

Although he is old now, his thinking is still very clear, he thinks about problems very quickly, and quickly understands the key points when he talks about business.

"Then King Wu sent an envoy to come, but he may not have any good intentions! He wants to take a look at the situation in my Qianzhou, and his covetousness for Qianzhou has not changed at all! ”

Of course, this is also normal, Wu Guo's ambition can be said to have been known to passers-by for a long time, and now that Lu Guangchou is seriously ill, if Yang Wu doesn't move at all, it will be a strange thing.

"Uncle Tan, this? Haven't we Qianzhou already surrendered to the state of Wu? How could King Wu still covet my Qianzhou? And I heard that the Wu army is gathering recently, and it seems that they are going to fight with the Chu army again, so they shouldn't come to attack us again, right? Lu Yanchang was shocked when he heard this.

On the "cough cough ......" hospital bed, Lu Guangchou was almost so angry that he vomited blood.

He had long known that his son was stupid by nature and was not a material to be made, but he also did not expect that his son would be so stupid as to believe in Wu Guo.

The relationship between Wu and Qianzhou will be understood by anyone with a little knowledge.

"It seems that the best way is to let Yongqing take charge of Qianzhou! But Yongqing is older than me, even if he is willing to come out and take charge, how long can he be in charge? Lu Guangchou thought in his heart.

In addition to Lu Yanchang, Lu Guangchou has two other sons, but those two sons are even more unbearable than Lu Yanchang, relatively speaking, Lu Yanchang is quite good, at least in the past few years, he has not made any trouble during his tenure as the assassin of Shaozhou, and he has governed it well.

I heard that the local people also supported him, but unfortunately he couldn't even see the intentions of Wu Guo, and he was afraid that the foundation of Qianzhou would be buried in his hands in the future.

Tan Quanbo was naturally not good at reprimanding, and he patiently explained to Lu Yanchang: "The people of Wu are never credible!" Although they agreed to the surrender of Qianzhou, and even agreed to hand over Qianzhou to the Lu family, it was only temporary. ”

"With the system of the State of Wu and the ambition of King Wu, it is impossible for him to see the land of Qianzhou in the hands of the Lu family. You see the Zhong family in Jiangxi at the beginning, Zhong Kuangshi was still the in-law of King Wu, but King Wu was not soft at all when he attacked Jiangxi. ”

"There is also Fujian, when Wang Zhenzhi had five states in his hands, in order to persuade him to take the initiative to surrender, the conditions offered by King Wu were the dukedom of a country and the wealth of the world, but he insisted on complete control of the five states of Fujian."

"So if you believe in the people of Wu and believe that they won't covet Qianzhou, you would be too naïve!" Tan Quanbo said slowly.

Lu Yanchang couldn't help but blush after hearing this, and said in a low voice: "Anyway, King Wu sent a messenger to visit the patient, and also sent an imperial doctor, my father always wants to see him, right?" ”

"Of course we want to see, after all, nominally we still belong to the Wu State." Tan Quanbo nodded.

"Yanchang, when you go to greet the envoy of King Wu, you must receive it well and make the other party satisfied. Even if King Wu's envoy makes any requests, as long as it is not too excessive, then you will agree! Ahem! At this time, Lu Guangchou said a few words in a rare series.

"Yes, father, the child will surely satisfy the envoy of King Wu!" Lu Yanchang hurriedly replied, but there was a trace of doubt on his face.

Tan Quanbo immediately understood what he was thinking, and explained in a low voice: "Then King Wu's envoy represents King Wu, after all, the strength of our Qianzhou is far from being comparable to that of Wu State, even if you know that King Wu is uneasy and kind, but you can't easily offend, let alone give him excuses." ”

"No matter what King Wu says, he is a person who has the world in mind, and since I, Qianzhou, am already his vassal, then he can't come to crusade without a sufficient reason."