Yongxing County, the garrison of the forbidden army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After a few days of relaxation, the panic caused by the defeat has gradually calmed down, and Liu Chongjing has regained his former calmness.

However, those who are familiar with him know that the calmness on his face is only pretended, and the fear in his heart has not diminished in the slightest.

His father, Liu Weinai, was an old minister who followed Taizu Yang Xingmi, and played a key role in the war against Sun Ru and made great contributions; Coupled with Liu Wei's deep prestige in the Wu court, Liu Chongjing knew that although he had made a big mistake this time, his life should not be in danger.

But as a young general who is bent on making great achievements, making a difference, and wanting to raise his father's title to another level, he will not be satisfied with the fact that his life is not in danger.

How Yang Wu will deal with him, and whether he will be dismissed from office, this is what he is most concerned about.

At this time, Liu Chongjing frowned and walked anxiously around his tent.

He has already sent people to Jinling many times to inquire about the news, and it stands to reason that the person who inquired about the news should also come back now.

Just as he was about to lose patience and prepare to go out for a walk, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

"Childe, there's a reply from Jinling!"

The person who came was a domestic servant who followed him, a faithful and trustworthy person arranged for him by his father Liu Wei.

"What is the result? Come on! Liu Chongjing was shocked, he took a sharp breath, calmed down his mood, and then asked in a deep voice.

"The king has an order, and the prince will be transferred to the box army to serve as the commander! The official decree should arrive in the next few days! ”

"What? That's impossible! Liu Chongjing was hit hard, his body shook, and then he barely stood still.

He didn't expect Yang Wu's punishment to be so severe, and he was directly transferred to the Xiang Army as a commander.

What is the Xiang Army? Those who held military positions there were either third-rate generals in the army who were not highly used, or those generals who surrendered to the state of Wu, and there was no future at all.

Many people even refer to the Xiang Army as a military general's retirement home, because when the military and government were separated, many veteran generals who came up by their seniority were assigned to state soldiers.

And he is known as one of the most promising generals in the younger generation, not to mention that he is already a commander at a young age, as well as the deep connections left by his father, coupled with his great achievements in the last battle against Hongzhou, it can be said that he has a bright future.

But now because of such a defeat, he was transferred to the Xiang army, which made him suffer a heavy blow.

"Childe, this is news sent by the Guogong on a fast horse, it will never be wrong! There is also a letter from the prince to the son, please take a look at the son. ”

Liu Chongjing calmed down and hurriedly took Liu Wei's letter and opened it.

Just finished reading it, but Liu Chongjing was even more stunned.

It turned out that Liu Wei not only scolded him in the letter, but also told him that there was nothing wrong with Xiangjun, which was easy and not much dangerous. Let him do things well in the Xiang army and don't do anything wrong.

"This is a letter from my father? Doesn't he know where the Xiang Army is? After I went to the Xiangjun, not only did I have no future, but I would be laughed at to death! Liu Chongjing was completely stunned, and couldn't believe that his father would persuade him like this.

But this is the case, Yang Wu's order has been issued, no one can change it, and now that the young generals of Wu State are constantly emerging, it is conceivable that it is almost impossible for him to come out in the future.

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Not to mention Liu Chongjing's side, Yuanzhou's side, although Li Decheng was ambushed by the Chu army and was defeated, but after he led the remnants of the army to retreat to Yuanzhou, he guarded the city very tightly and did not give the Chu army any chance.

A few days later, when Liu Xin led a large army from Hongzhou to help, but before he arrived at Yuanzhou, Wang Huan, who had found out the news in advance, led the army to retreat back to Hunan.

From this point of view, Wang Huan was still very cautious and did not give the Wu army a chance to counterattack.

For this result, Yang Wu was naturally very dissatisfied.

On the Qianzhou side, Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo, after some discussion, felt that if too many troops were dispatched to help Wu attack Chu, it would be completely committed to the side of Wu and break with Ma Yin and even Zhu Wen behind Ma Yin, which was naturally unacceptable.

But if a soldier does not come out, it will provide Yang Wu with a handle, and Yang Wu will have enough excuses to crusade against him in the future.

Therefore, the two finally decided to let only Lu Guangchou's eldest son lead 3,000 troops to assist the Wu army, and at the same time, under the pretext of guarding against Liu Yin, the king of Dapeng, politely refused Wu's request for him to further increase his troops.

Yang Wu and others were also very dissatisfied with this result.

However, the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and the enemies must be eliminated one by one, so it is not a good thing to make too many enemies.

Therefore, Yang Wu could only approve of Lu Guangchou's "sabotage" behavior in the end, but he made a hard note in his heart and prepared to clean it up in the future.

By the end of August, the impact on the armed forces caused by the major change of guard had basically been eliminated, and all kinds of integration had been basically completed, and the rest needed to be run in the war.

At this time, the battle plan for sending troops to Hunan was also finally drawn up by the Privy Council, and a total of 80,000 forbidden troops from four armies were dispatched to attack Hunan in two ways.

One of them, with Wang Maozhang as the governor, together with Zhu Siqing, sent troops from Ezhou to attack Yuezhou; On the other hand, Li Chengsi was the governor of the capital, and together with Liu Xin, he sent troops from Yuanzhou, aiming directly at Ma Yin's old nest Tanzhou.

This campaign plan was very conservative, and it did not even determine the specific main target, or rather, Tanzhou and Yuezhou were both the main targets.

For this reason, the distribution of forces was also evenly distributed, with 40,000 forbidden troops in each direction.

When the battle began, the Ezhou side would first send troops to attack Yuezhou, and half a month after the Ezhou side sent troops, the Jiangxi side would send troops.

The reason for this arrangement was to start a war in Yuezhou first, while the Jiangxi side tried to hide its troops as much as possible to avoid the detection of enemy scouts.

In this way, the enemy army thought that the main attack direction of Wu was in the direction of Yuezhou, and when the time came, the main force would be transferred to Yuezhou; After Yuan Zhou's side launched an attack on Tanzhou, because the importance of Tanzhou was far above Yuezhou, Ma Yin would have to call back the army that reinforced Yuezhou, which would give Wang Maozhang the opportunity to attack.

Even if the enemy army was cautious and did not give Wang Maozhang a chance to take advantage of it, Ma Yin's transfer of the army back and forth could in itself make the enemy army tired and more conducive to the subsequent battle.

In general, this large-scale attack on Hunan, except for some planning in the deployment of troops, in other aspects, Yang Wu did not intend to use any strategy, but planned to attack head-on, defeat Ma Yin with absolute strength, and seize his territory.

In his opinion, the strength of the Wu State is naturally far above Ma Yin, and the reason why the Chu army was able to defeat the Wu army one after another was only because the strategic center of the Wu State was not on his side.

The main direction of attack of Wu was Qian Biao at the beginning, followed by Jiangxi, and there were several Northern Expeditions in the middle, but the main army was never used against Hunan, and the number of troops who really fought with Ma Yin was even much smaller than that of the enemy, which was the reason why Ma Yin was able to win one after another.

But now Yang Wu is ready to invest 80,000 forbidden troops, and although the total strength of Ma Yin's side is far more than 80,000, his troops need to be constrained many times, especially Liu Yin in the south and barbarians all over Hunan, containing a large number of Chu troops.

Therefore, the army that Ma Yin could really use to resist Wu should be at most seventy or eighty thousand people.

In addition, in order to ensure the smooth flow of logistics and the safety of the rear, Yang Wu mobilized 60,000 troops from all over the country, which were responsible for staying in Ezhou, guarding against Gao Jichang's attack, and ensuring logistics and transportation from Yuanzhou to Tanzhou.

If these troops in charge of logistics are added, the troops sent by Wu this time will be even more, far more than the troops used in the previous attacks on Hunan.

At the beginning of September, Zhu Siqing led the Zuo Wuxiang army to leave Jinling, and marched towards Ezhou with flags all the way.

In addition, there were 20,000 Xiang troops gathered from all over the country who were also marching towards Ezhou.

Such a large-scale transfer naturally quickly attracted the attention of Ma Yin and Gao Jichang, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu.

The Wu army greatly increased its troops in Ezhou, and its target was either Ma Yin's Yuezhou or Gao Jichang's Jiangling, so these two forces immediately became vigilant and also began to dispatch troops.

Among them, Ma Yin transferred the 20,000 troops stationed in Tanzhou to Yuezhou, while Gao Jichang quickly concentrated his forces in Jiangling, and at the same time sent people to Daliang to ask Zhu Wen for help.

Compared with Zhu Siqing's high-profile march, the Zuo Tengxiang army led by Li Chengsi was much more low-key, and the army didn't even beat the flag along the way, and the marching speed was also very slow, not at all like the elite of the forbidden army.

One side is so high-profile, and the other side is so low-key, which is naturally to confuse the enemy as much as possible, so as to attract the attention of the enemy army to Yuezhou.

But it looks like their plan has worked.

When Zhu Siqing arrived in Ezhou and began to send troops to Yuezhou to test it, Ma Yin's attention was completely attracted to Yuezhou, so much so that he ignored the enemy situation on the Jiangxi side.

At the beginning of October, Wang Maozhang left 20,000 Xiang troops to defend Ezhou, and he led 40,000 forbidden troops and more than 10,000 Xiang troops to attack Yuezhou.

Ma Yin immediately made a decision, increased his troops from Tanzhou by 20,000 again, and rushed to Yuezhou to prepare for a decisive battle with the Wu army in Yuezhou; At the same time, they began to draw troops from other states to the north to replenish the emptiness of Tanzhou's troops.

However, what he didn't expect was that after the Wu army arrived in Yuezhou, it did not immediately engage the Chu army, but built a camp and made a posture of protracted war.

On the other hand, when a large number of troops from Tanzhou were transferred to Yuezhou, Li Chengsi on the Hongzhou side showed his sharp teeth and sent troops from Yuanzhou to Tanzhou.

A big war is about to begin.