Chapter 192: Back to square one
"Father, faith is important, but Huainan and Qingzhou are like two different countries, each with its own interests. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info originally signed an alliance with Wang Shifan, but it was just to calm his heart, so that he could rest assured and boldly raise troops to attack Zhu Quanzhong, thinking that I Huainan would buy time to pacify the civil strife. Now that Wang Shifan is retreating, he sent my Huainan soldiers to a war that was doomed to defeat in the end for the sake of the original covenant, which is not worth it at all! Yang Wu was a little anxious.
Xinyi, in this era, except for Yang Xingmi and Li Keyong, who may also pay attention to it, other feudal towns are basically ignored, especially Zhu Quanzhong and Wang Jian, these two people tear up the covenant and turn their faces faster than turning the book, and there is no faith at all.
Even in later generations, there were often cases of rebellion between those countries with alliances.
"Okay, no matter what the purpose was at the beginning, but my father always made a covenant with Wang Shifan, and now that I Huainan can spare my spare strength, how can I abandon the covenant? You don't need to say much about this, just say what advice you have for the leading generals? Yang Xingmi waved his hand and stopped Yang Wu's words.
When Yang Wu heard this, he immediately knew that Yang Xingmi had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything more.
He also knew that his father attached great importance to the word Xinyi, not to mention that he knew that transporting troops from the sea would definitely not be able to transport many troops, and with Huainan's troops, even if he sent troops to Qingzhou, the remaining military strength would be enough to launch an attack on Qian Biao.
"In that case, the boy thinks he can send General Wang Maozhang to lead the troops." Yang Wu said.
In history, Wang Maozhang became famous in the war to aid Wang Shifan, and was praised by Zhu Quanzhong after seeing it, "If I can get this person, the world will not be enough for me to pacify."
Therefore, if Yang Wu recommended the generals to lead the troops, he would naturally think of Wang Maozhang.
"Wang Maozhang?"
"Yes, the child thinks that General Wang is brave and good at fighting, and he is enough to take on this important responsibility!"
Yang Xingmi nodded and said, "That's this person, and my father is also very optimistic about him." ”
"Father, what about Qian Biao? The child heard that this person was recruiting new recruits in Yuezhou and Mingzhou, and there was a possibility of recovering his strength. The child thinks that he should send troops to eliminate Qian Biao before he has even trained his new army! Yang Wu suggested again.
"Qian Biao has a deep foundation, and it is stronger than Tian Yan, so it is not so easy to completely eliminate it." Yang Xingmi shook his head and said.
"Then at least we must seize Hangzhou and Muzhou first, and let Qian Biao's Zhenhai Festival envoy become a false position."
Without Hangzhou and Muzhou, Qian Biao was left with only a few prefectures under the Zhendong Jiedu Envoy, and only Yuezhou, Mingzhou, Taizhou and Wuzhou could actually be controlled by Qian Biao. Among these four states, except for Yuezhou, which was more developed in Shaoxing in later generations, the remaining three states were still barren land in this era, and they could not support much army at all.
Therefore, Yang Wu felt that as long as Hangzhou was captured, Qian Di's strength would drop by nearly half.
Who knew that Yang Xingmi shook his head again and said: "Now there is no Wu Yong to drag him back, and Hangzhou is the foundation of Qian Biao, if we want to seize Hangzhou, Qian Biao will definitely fight with me Huainan." In this way, it is possible for me to dispatch at least 50,000 troops in Huainan. In the past few years, Huainan has used troops on a large scale, and the money and food have been somewhat exhausted, and it is still a little difficult to support such a large-scale mobilization of troops, so let's slow it down first. ”
"Didn't the attack on Xuanzhou seize a large amount of money and grain? Isn't it enough for me to use in Huainan? Yang Wu wondered.
Xuanzhou's wealth is not boasting, Yang Wu broke through Xuanzhou alone seized 800,000 stones, more than 400,000 yuan, it stands to reason that these money and grain are enough to launch a large-scale military operation, plus it is now June, and after the autumn harvest, a batch of taxes can be collected, and it should be no problem to attack Qian Biao.
"It's not as easy as you think, if it weren't for the money and grain seized in Xuanzhou, Guangling's granary would have been empty long ago. Even if there will be new taxes after the autumn harvest, but at that time, Zhu Quanzhong was afraid that he would completely defeat Wang Shifan, so will he use troops against Huainan next? Moreover, even if he, Zhu Quanzhong, does not plan to go south, if I Huainan attacks Qian Biao on a large scale, will Zhu Quanzhong sit idly by? Therefore, before Zhu Quanzhong's main force was not contained, it was not advisable to attack Qian Biao. ”
Yang Wu couldn't help but be disappointed when he heard this, only to hear Yang Xingmi continue: "By the way, Qian Biao has sent Gu Quanwu as a messenger to bring his sixth son Qian Chuanhui to ask me for marriage, that child has already been seen by his father, it is very good, and his father has decided to marry your sister Yang Wen to him." So from now on he will be your brother-in-law, and you can see him when you have time. ”
Yang Wu was shocked when he heard this, when he learned that his sister Yang Jing had died at the hands of An Renyi, he was sad in his heart, and it took many days to come out of his grief.
And he thought that with his stirring, the marriage between Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi, which should have happened during the Wuyong Capital Rebellion in history, was in vain, but he didn't expect that history would have returned to the original point after a turn, Qian Biao still sent his son Qian Chuanhui to propose, and Yang Xingmi also agreed as in history.
However, according to the current situation, Qian Biao sent his own son to come, and there should be a meaning of letting Qian Chuanhui be a proton in it, so as to help Qian Biao buy time and avoid being attacked by Huainan immediately.
And Yang Xingmi took into account the actual situation in Huainan, so he agreed to push the boat down. In this marriage, both parties knew that it would not last long, and when the time was ripe, the two sides would definitely fight again.
"Okay, when I have time, the boy will go back and see him." Yang Wu nodded in agreement.
He muttered in his heart: "The marriage between Qian Biao and his father still happened, and although the civil strife in Huainan was advanced by more than half a year because of me, Wang Maozhang's dispatch to Qingzhou has not changed, so will Li Shenfu propose to lead the army to the west again as in history?" ”
Sure enough, as soon as Yang Wu had an idea, Yang Xingmi said: "Attacking Qian Biao requires a large-scale use of troops, but attacking Du Hong doesn't require many troops. Now General Li Shenfu offered to lead his troops to continue the attack on Du Hong, and his father had agreed. In addition, Zhu Siqing under your command is a good general, and his father plans to train him well, this time in the west, let him take 5,000 people to serve in front of Li Shenfu's army. ”
Yang Wu was overjoyed, although he has now been unanimously convinced by the Huainan army, but the old generals must be wooed, and the cronies and generals must also be vigorously cultivated. Among the many generals in Huainan today, the ones who can really be regarded as his cronies are still Zhu Siqing, Chen Fan, Fan Sicong, and Qin Pei.
Among the four, Qin Pei is already a commander, the other three are all commanders, and the most promising one to be promoted to the commander in a short period of time is only Zhu Siqing. Now that Yang Xingmi plans to cultivate well, he is naturally happy.
"The first generation of General Zhu is grateful to my father." Yang Wu said with a happy face.
ps: I saw that someone was discussing the issue of the country name in the comments, and the protagonist will definitely be the emperor in the future, but the author Jun hasn't figured out what country name to use, so you might as well help think of one.