Zhao and Gao's mother naturally refused, after all, this was already their only son, how could they be willing to kill him? So in the next few days, they continued to persuade him, hoping to bypass Gao Li, and secretly sent someone to open the death row and let Gao Li out, preparing to let him escape from the city first to hide for a few days. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Wang Maozhang's army had just arrived in the city at this time, and the connection between inside and outside Huzhou had not been completely cut off, Gao Yan successfully escaped from the city from the south gate, and disguised himself as an ordinary person to mix in the refugees.

At this time, the news that Zhu Xingxian's army was defeated by Yang Wu and that the whole army was wiped out also came, and the entire Huzhou was miserable, and everyone in the defenders had no heart to fight.

After hearing the news of the change in Hangzhou and the fall of Suzhou during this time, Gao Li was not optimistic about Qian Di's side, and now that Zhu Xingxian's army has been wiped out, Huzhou is besieged, but there are only 3,000 defenders in the city, Gao Li suddenly felt that Huzhou must be finished this time, and he thought of taking refuge in Huainan.

He used to live a life of fine clothes and food since he was a child, but now he has fled and hid among the refugees, and he has suffered enough. He always felt that it was his unkind father who caused all this, so he felt that it was better to open the city gate directly and let the Huainan army in, and when the time came, with this credit, not only could he be spared, but he could continue to live a life of fine clothes and food in the future. Why didn't he do the best of both worlds? So he immediately fled into the Huainan Army camp and took refuge with Wang Maozhang.

That night, under Gao Li's initiative to persuade him to surrender, the guard, who had no fighting spirit, betrayed Gao Yan and opened the city gate. In this way, Wang Maozhang, who came to Huzhou for only a few days, took Huzhou, and Gao Yan, who was caught off guard, was also captured alive by the Huainan army.

Listening to the whole process, Yang Wu couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"This is really no death, only more death! I think that Gao Yan and Gao Wei's father and son can be regarded as loyal and righteous people, and now they are afraid that their reputations will be ruined by their own sons! ”

Immediately, Yang Wu remembered that four years later, Gao Yan died of illness, because of his and Gao Wei's contributions, Gao Li successfully inherited Gao Yan's position and became the new Huzhou Thorn History.

After losing Gao Yan's supervision and grasping the power of Huzhou, Gao Li intensified his cruelty to the people.

History records that he likes to kill people and drink his blood, and every day at dusk, he will kidnap a passerby on the street and kill and drink blood. The little officials in the Huzhou Thorn Mansion had to cry and say goodbye to their wives every morning before entering the mansion, for fear that they would never be able to come out again as soon as they entered the mansion.

And every time he climbed the tall building and looked at the railing, the streets of the city would be full of pedestrians, and they were so frightened that they hid in their homes and did not dare to come out.

On one occasion he issued a proclamation throughout the city that the people should tattoo a word on their foreheads within three days, and that if they did not do so within three days, they should all be killed. And he personally took the lead in tattooing, and when three days later, when the people had already tattooed on their foreheads, he erased the tattoos on his foreheads.

On another occasion, he summoned all the hundreds of soldiers under his command who were dissatisfied with him to Kaiyuan Temple, and lied to them that he would pay them military salaries and let them go in one by one to receive them, but after these people entered, they were killed by Gao Li one after another. It wasn't until half of the hundreds of people were killed that everyone found out, so they scattered.

Gao Li's brutality naturally caused Qian Biao's dissatisfaction, Gao Li was afraid of being punished, so he surrendered to Huainan in Juzhou, and secretly summoned Li Jian, the assassin of Changzhou at that time, to lead his troops to come, but the matter was not successful, and the generals Sheng Shiyou and Shen Xingsi closed the city gate to prevent the Huainan army from entering the city. Gao Li had no choice but to flee to Huainan with his family and 5,000 soldiers, and was later killed by Xu Wen.

Recalling the things Gao Li did in history, Yang Wu suddenly felt that it was not so unbelievable that Wang Maozhang could easily obtain Huzhou.

In any case, Wang Maozhang's success in taking Huzhou can be regarded as saving himself a lot of effort.

When Yang Xingmi was persuaded to send troops in Guangling, Yang Wu's goal was to take Suzhou and Huzhou, in fact, although Yang Xingmi agreed to send troops at that time, he also had doubts about whether he could take two states at the same time, and now the success of the two states is also considered to have completed the goal that Yang Wu promised at the beginning.

Next, whether it is to continue to attack Hangzhou in the south or to stop and send people to recall Tianyan, the initiative is in the hands of Huainan.

"Maybe someone should be sent to recall Tian Yan?" Yang Wu muttered to himself.

The benefits of recalling Tian Yan are obvious, first, Huainan has already received enough benefits at this time, and continuing to attack Qian Biao may make Tian Yan profitable, which is not worth it; Second, it can be regarded as fulfilling the promise made to Sun Yan at the beginning! In order to make Sun Yan promise to be loyal to him, Yang Wu promised to recall Tian Yan at the right time, and now is undoubtedly the most suitable time; After more than three months of hard fighting, the Huainan army was also a little tired at this time and needed to rest and recuperate.

As for whether Qian Biao will get a chance to breathe because of this, Yang Wu is not too worried about this. Suzhou and Huzhou are both big states, Suzhou provides a large amount of money and grain for Qian Biao, and Huzhou provides a large number of elite soldiers. Second, the impact of the rebellion of the Wuyong Capital on Qian Biao is more serious than in history, in the next few years in history, the states under Qian Biao's command have rebelled one after another, and now Qian Biao's strength is more weakened than in history, Yang Wu believes that the rebellion in the states under Qian Biao's command will only be more violent. Therefore, it will definitely take a few years for Qian Biao to integrate himself, and by that time, he will definitely have swept away Tian Yan and other forces, and he will have enough effort to continue to attack Qian Biao in the south.

"Congratulations to the prince for successfully capturing Huzhou!" At this time, the joyful voices of everyone around him interrupted Yang Wu's train of thought.

Although it was Wang Maozhang who took Huzhou, everyone present knew that if they had not defeated Zhu Xingxian's army, Huzhou would not have surrendered so quickly. What's more, Yang Wu is the commander of this southern expedition, and Wang Maozhang is only his deputy general, so this capture of Huzhou is naturally his greatest credit.

"It's thanks to the lives of the generals that we can make today's contributions!" Yang Wu said with a smile.

He's in a particularly good mood right now. After coming to this era at the end of March, he first won a little reputation by chanting poetry at the banquet, and then initially established his own majesty after the battle of Renjiazhuang, and then was recognized by the generals after the battle of Suzhou, and finally this time the southern expedition to capture Jiaxing and defeated Zhu Xingxian, his prestige was enough to convince the generals.

He believed that if Yang Xingmi appointed him as the queen of Jiedu at this time, there would definitely not be many people who opposed it. And Zhang Hao and Xu Wen, who launched a mutiny and killed him in history, were also driven out of the pro-army, and the other was driven to the local area; Next, as long as he finds a way to quell the rebellion of Tian Yan, An Renyi, and Zhu Yanshou, there will be no problem in taking over Huainan in the future.

On November 15 of the second year of Tianfu, Yang Wu, the prince of Wu, led his army to defeat the main force of the Huzhou army, and Wang Maozhang, the general of Huainan, also conquered Huzhou without blood. Since then, all the goals of Huainan's southern expedition have been completed.