Li Keyong and Yelu Abaoji made an appointment as brothers, and wanted to deal with Liu Rengong together, but he didn't expect Abaoji to turn his head and break the contract, and he also regarded him as a target to attract Liu Rengong's army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a result, after the Khitans looted a lot, they fled directly, leaving Li Keyong to stay and take the cylinder.

Therefore, Li Keyong, who has always been emotional, hated Yelu Abaoji and listed him, Zhu Quanzhong and Liu Rengong as his three major enemies.

However, after cursing in his mouth, Li Keyong had no way at all, and now none of his three major enemies were weak.

Even Liu Rengong, the one of the three, is not so easy to deal with.

What's more, his great enemy in the Central Plains, Zhu Quanzhong, is now even more powerful, and with Hedong's current strength, he is not his opponent at all.

Thinking of this, the little ambition that Li Ke had just been aroused in his heart began to recede.

"Could it be that Lone has no chance to take revenge in this life?" He let out a long sigh.

On the side, Li Cunqiao listened and hurriedly persuaded: "The child heard that things will not develop in the opposite direction until they reach the extreme, and evil will not die out until they reach the extreme. Zhu Quanzhong killed the first emperor and brutalized Zhongliang, which can be described as self-destruction. Our Li family has been loyal to the royal family for three generations, and now although we can't serve the court because of the decline of our power, we have also done it well. ”

"So father, you should bear with it now, accumulate strength, and wait for Zhu Quanzhong's power to begin to weaken before trying to revive. How can you be so easily discouraged? ”

Li Keyong was relieved after hearing this, but he still doubted whether he could take revenge in the future.

At this time, Li Cunmiao said again: "This time Yelu Abaoji is treacherous, after eating this lesson, we will no longer believe in him in the future, and my father doesn't have to be sad because of this." Since the Khitans have never had faith, why didn't my father ask for help from his allies who had faith? ”

"Allies of faith? Do you mean Wu Wang Yang Xingmi? ”

For example, among the many feudal towns today, only Yang Xingmi has a good reputation, and the other feudal towns are all masters who turn their faces when they say they turn their faces.

Of course, Yang Xingmi has not done treacherous things, but compared with others, his reputation is much better, especially after Yang Xingmi's power has been stabilized in the past few years, he rarely does things that turn his face and deny people.

"Exactly, now that King Wu has eliminated King Qian Biao of Yue, his prestige is great, and he has always been an enemy of Zhu Quanzhong, so my father might as well send an envoy to make friends."

Because of Zhu Quanzhong's blocking, the news that Yang Wu has now officially taken charge of Huainan has not yet reached Jinyang, after all, Yang Wu has not gone around to publicize this matter, and Li Keyong has not exchanged envoys with Huainan for a long time.

He nodded, and was about to answer, when Zhang Chengye suddenly came in and said: "King, I just got the news, now Zhu Quanzhong is gathering troops in various places, and it is said that there are nearly 200,000 troops who have been ordered to start mobilizing, and it is not yet known who Zhu Quanzhong is preparing to use troops against!"

Hearing that Zhu Quanzhong had assembled an army of 200,000, Li Keyong's father and son immediately became nervous.

He had just experienced a defeat, and if Zhu Quanzhong took the opportunity to crusade against him at this time, it would be difficult for him to deal with it.

"Pay close attention to this matter, be sure to find out Zhu Quanzhong's movements as soon as possible, and report it quickly!" Li Keyong hurriedly ordered.

Fortunately, a few days later, further news came, and Zhu Quanzhong's army began to move south, and it was clear that this time Zhu Quanzhong had chosen Huainan as the target.

After getting the news, Li Keyong breathed a sigh of relief, Huainan is not so easy to deal with, there is the Huai River blocking it, which is not conducive to the northerners to use troops.

It would be best for Zhu Quanzhong to break his nose and bleed in Huainan.

Li Ke thought in his heart, and at the same time heeded his son's advice and sent an envoy to Huainan.

Guangling.

When he learned the news that Zhu Quanzhong had once again raised troops to the south, Yang Wu was stunned.

After Zhu Quanzhong eliminated Zhao Kuangning last year, he did not temporarily attack Huainan on the way to withdraw his troops as in history, but returned directly to Bianzhou.

This made Yang Wu think that history had changed, and after Huainan eliminated Qian Biao, Zhu Quanzhong should have felt that Huainan's strength had risen sharply and he would not go south easily.

Who knew that it had only been a year, and Zhu Quanzhong had once again raised troops to the south despite the fact that the north had not yet been pacified.

"It seems that the lesson to Zhu Quanzhong is not enough!" Yang Wu muttered to himself.

He originally wanted to continue to rest for a while, but now it is September of the second year of Tianyou, and according to the development of history, Jiangxi Zhongchuan should die of illness in a short time, so he has long been ready to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Who knew that Zhong Chuan had not died of illness now, but Zhu Quanzhong took the lead in going south.

During this time, Yang Wu handed over the recruitment of the new army to Gao Miao, who was in charge of the military department, and now more than half of the 20,000 recruits have arrived, which is the Tianwu Army with the new military number.

In addition to recruiting new soldiers, Yang Wu formally established the Guangling Martial Arts School based on the experience of establishing the new army to train generals, and he himself served as the mountain chief, with the original new army chief instructor Ding Zhen as the deputy mountain chief, Gu Quanwu as the chief professor officer, and Shang Gongnai as the chief army training officer.

And this time, Yang Wu decided to expand the number of trainees, from the original twenty to two hundred, and the trainees were no longer recruited from the army, but directly recruited those literate teenagers from ordinary families who were about fifteen years old.

After joining the army, Yang Wu found that the performance of the ten cadets recruited from the army was still unsatisfactory, after all, they were adults, their thinking had begun to solidify, and their learning ability was not as good as those teenagers.

As for Li Chengding and the other nine people, their performance is naturally much better, which has a lot to do with the fact that they have been exposed to it since childhood.

However, the disadvantage of these nine people is that they were born too high, their fathers are all meritorious veterans of Huainan, and several of them have a lot to do with Yang Wu, Yang Wu naturally doesn't really use them as captains and battalion commanders, so after they graduated, they were all awarded at least the position of deputy capital head.

And this batch of 200 cadets, Yang Wu clearly stipulates that after they graduate in the future, they will start as captains in the army and gradually be promoted.

Considering that they only served as captains after they came out, there was naturally no need to learn too many advanced things, just teach some basic knowledge, and focus on military training and cultivating their military temperament.

Considering that there are still many heirs of generals in the army who have not yet held military positions, but they have the heart to take the road of military generals, Yang Wu simply opened an "advanced class", learning more content, and more profound, after coming out, at least he can directly become the position of battalion commander, which can be regarded as a special preferential treatment for the heirs of these meritorious generals.

Of course, those who have excellent performance among the ordinary students can also enter this advanced class, so as not to prevent the generals in the future army from being controlled by the meritorious family, and others will lose their way to advancement.

The military academy was established, and the recruitment of the Tianwu Army was also on the right track, but I didn't expect the news that Zhu Quanzhong was preparing to go south at this time.

In terms of strength, the Huainan Army obviously cannot be compared with Zhu Quanzhong, but the gap is not obvious.

For example, the general framework of the Wu army has been formed today, so the Zhenwu and Zhenguo armies stationed in Guangling can all go out to fight.

And Jiangxi Zhongchuan is now seriously ill, and the state soldier system in the southern states has been established, so there is no need to worry about defense, so the right army of Tengxiang stationed in Xuanzhou can also be mobilized.

Coupled with the left and right Wuxiang troops stationed in the northern defense line, the total mobile strength is 100,000 people, if you add the state soldiers of the northern states, it can be said that the strength of the Huainan army in this war is not much less than that of the Liang army.

The only thing that needs to be considered is whether the operation of more than 100,000 people can afford it in terms of logistics.

You must know that the Huainan Army has never used so many troops at one time, and each time it is often tens of thousands of troops, and the most common one is the siege of Hangzhou, which used 100,000 people and 100,000 troops.

However, that time the battle was in Jiangnan, where water transportation was developed, and it was relatively easy to transport grain, grass and baggage, while the baggage to the Shouzhou front line was mainly transported through the Grand Canal.

However, the Grand Canal has not been dredged for many years, and now that it is a dry season, many places are no longer suitable for large ships, and if you use small boats, its traffic is limited.

Three years ago, Yang Xingmi's expedition to Suzhou was due to the lack of supply of grain and grass, so he could only withdraw his troops in a hurry.

"Your Highness, rest assured, since the Great King returned from the expedition to Suzhou three years ago, most of the logistics baggage transported to the north has now been changed to small boat transportation, and the number of small boats is sufficient to ensure that there is no problem in the battle of an army of more than 100,000 people." After listening to Yang Wu's question, Gao Miao, who was in charge of logistics, patted his chest and assured him.

After getting Gao Miao's assurance, Yang Wu breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to Luo Zhixiang and asked, "Then with Guangling's current granary reserves, how long can it last if it supplies 150,000 troops to fight?"

Luo Zhixiang couldn't help but have a bitter face when he heard this, this year's autumn tax has not been collected, and now there is only the surplus grain of the summer tax in the granary, although it is enough for the army to support the autumn tax, but then it makes the goal of refilling the granary impossible again.

He said directly: "Your Highness, if there is no problem with transportation, Guangling's grain reserves can guarantee at least half a year's supply." However, in that case, the Guangling granary will become empty again. ”

Yang Wu nodded, but directly ignored Luo Zhixiang's words of complaint, now that the enemy is currently in power, where do you have to consider what to store food.

With the guarantee of these two people, Yang Wu was finally relieved, with 100,000 mobile troops, plus the state soldiers from the northern states, the total strength of Huainan had reached about 150,000.

Considering that Huainan is on the defensive side, with 150,000 troops, as long as there are no major mistakes, the Huainan army will not have much problem holding the Huaihe defense line.

Even if the war goes well, it is not impossible to defeat Zhu Quanzhong or even fight another big victory.