"My lord, my subordinates think that the pacification of Jiangxi should be divided into three steps, and try to be as steady and steady as possible, and ensure that it will be completely pacified within two to three years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" In the study, Li Shenfu reported aloud the plan for seizing Jiangxi agreed upon by the Privy Council.

As Diao Yan was able to send back the situation in Jiangxi bit by bit, Yang Wu immediately ordered the people of the Privy Council to formulate a feasible plan.

In addition to Li Shenfu, Yan Keqiu and Zhu Jin, Guo Chongtao was also arranged by Yang Wu into the Privy Council, but he has no credit now, and can only serve as a counselor first, responsible for assisting in the formulation of military plans.

These four people are the best talents in the Huainan Army, among which Li Shenfu and Zhu Jin have rich experience in actual combat, while Guo Chongtao and Yan Keqiu are resourceful and long-term.

The four of them cooperated with each other and brainstormed, which led to the current plan.

"The first step is to take Jiangzhou, Hongzhou and Raozhou with 30,000 to 40,000 troops, and then temporarily stop and recuperate, on the one hand, to consolidate the gains made, and on the other hand, to use Hongzhou as a pedal to further plot the southern states of Jiangxi."

"Considering that Tang Bao, the assassin of Raozhou, and Zhong Yangui, the assassin of Jiangzhou, have secretly surrendered to our Huainan, so this time to enter the army, in fact, as long as our army needs to deal with Zhong Kuang in Hongzhou, the number of troops required is not much, and it is not very difficult, it will only take three months at most to complete." Li Shenfu continued.

Jiangzhou and Hongzhou are the earliest developed areas in Jiangxi, and as early as the Han Dynasty, the degree of development here was relatively high; Today, because of the long-term peace and stability of these two states, their prosperity and wealth are not under Guangling.

As long as these three prefectures are occupied, it can be said that the most important areas of Jiangxi will fall into the hands of Huainan, and the rest will be a standard place of poor mountains and bad waters.

These places are less developed, and the roads are remote, even if they are seized, the growth of Huainan's strength in the short term is not large, and the taxes and military resources provided are not much.

What's more, according to the views of people in this era, these places are places where miasma is rampant, and they are not suitable for outsiders to live in at all, and even some people change color when they talk about miasma.

These people even advocate that for those unruly local forces, as long as they are willing to submit to the table, they can directly give them an official and let them toss themselves.

Of course, Yang Wu would not be stupid enough to listen to the opinions of these people, but he also knew that the complex terrain in southern Jiangxi would be a problem that Huainan had to face.

Later generations were able to develop and grow there like a fish in water, although his policies and abilities were very strong in all aspects, but the complex terrain of the local area also provided him with great convenience.

Although Yang Wu doesn't think that these people can be compared with ***, he also thinks that it is better to be safe.

"After eliminating Zhong Kuang and capturing the three northern states, we can stop and consolidate them, and wait until these three states are completely under the rule of Huainan, and then further use troops against the four states of Jizhou, Yuanzhou, Xinzhou, and Fuzhou. This is the second step, and it is estimated that the number of troops will be about 50,000 and the time will be about a year. Li Shenfu continued.

"Don't you use troops in Qianzhou?" Gao Miao asked with some confusion.

"The situation in Qianzhou is more special, and it is best to do it in the third step. After all, the terrain of Qianzhou is too far away, and Lu Guangchou is deeply supported by the local people, his staff Tan Quanbo is resourceful, and the combat strength of the Qianzhou army is not bad, so the general thinks that dealing with Qianzhou can be put to the end. Li Shenfu explained.

The strength of Qianzhou is indeed relatively strong in the south, especially Tan Quanbo, Lu Guangchou's staff, known as Xiao Zhuge and resourceful, once led the Qianzhou army to seize Shaozhou and other places under Liu Yin in Lingnan, as well as Chaozhou and other places under Wang Chao in Fujian, Wang Chao and Liu Yin's armies are not his opponents.

It's a pity that although Tan Quanbo is resourceful, except for him and Lu Guangchou, who are considered personal figures, the others in the land of Qianzhou are really too wasteful.

The territory that Tan Quanbo worked so hard to seize was finally recaptured by Liu Yin and Wang Chao because a group of "pig teammates" were too incompetent, and now only Qianzhou and Shaozhou are still in the hands of Lu Guangchou.

But even so, Qianzhou's strength should not be underestimated, and the terrain is the most remote, so it is understandable that Li Shenfu put it last to deal with Yang Wu.

So he nodded, and then asked: "Then in the second step, how to attack Fuzhou and other four states, do you have any ideas for the Privy Council?" ”

It's not that Yang Wu doesn't want to use his brains, but the purpose of the establishment of the Privy Council is to formulate military orders.

As Huainan gradually gets on the right track, these institutions should also play their due role, which is the system that a formal country should have.

In fact, Yang Wu already had his own ideas in his heart for the strategy of Jiangxi, but he still wanted to hear the opinions of Li Shenfu and Guo Chongtao.

The Privy Council has not yet reached a conclusion, after all, it is not yet known what kind of reaction Ma Yin will take at that time; In addition, the attitude of the Fujian Wang Shenzhi was equally unclear, and it was not of much significance to formulate a specific advance strategy now until their reaction was determined. ”

Ma Yin will interfere with Huainan's strategy against Jiangxi, there is almost no doubt about this, after all, Huainan and Ma Yin have a larger grudge, not to mention the grievances between the two families in the Sun Ru era, that is, the battle when Liu Cunbing defeated Yuezhou three years ago, made it difficult to resolve the grudge between the two families.

However, although it is certain that Ma Yin will send troops to intervene, it is difficult to determine the extent of his intervention.

Generally speaking, it is divided into three stages to capture Jiangxi, which coincides with Yang Wu's idea.

He is still young and does not need to be in a hurry; Moreover, the situation in the north is now in a state of stalemate, and according to the historical situation, it will take more than fifteen years for Li Cunqiao to completely defeat Hou Liang.

Therefore, for Huainan, there is at least ten years left to unify the south, and then use the remaining time to prepare for the large-scale northern expedition to unify the country.

From this point of view, maintaining stability is what Huainan needs most at present; The mobilization of a large army to conquer Jiangxi on a large scale may seem powerful and inspiring, but if something goes wrong, the turmoil caused will also be huge.

In addition, Yang Wu has always had a hidden worry, which is the problem that most of the current Huainan generals are his father's veterans.

Although these generals are all generals trusted by Yang Wu, and he also believes that these people have no ambition to rebel, many times it is not very reliable to trust this kind of thing.

Not to mention anything else, these veterans are all prestigious, what if these people's subordinates try to get rich and give them a yellow robe?

Therefore, it is the most suitable way to cultivate your own cronies as much as possible and avoid the merit and prestige of a certain general from being too high.

So far, among the generals in Huainan, only Qin Pei has become the governor of Yang Wu, and the status of other generals is still too low.

What's more, it is impossible for Yang Wu to personally lead the army every time, and sometimes he also needs to give his generals a chance to make contributions alone.

As the group of veterans who followed Yang Xingmi's family grew old, Yang Wu must also consider cultivating a new batch of generals to replace them.

In the process of conquering Jiangxi, Yang Wu was able to gradually let his henchmen and generals go into battle to make contributions, not only cultivating new generals, but also cultivating his own henchmen.

After these people had enough merit and prestige, Yang Wu could further expand the Huainan army and let his own henchmen serve as governors and other positions.

Otherwise, if the army is expanded now, the elected governors will definitely be those veterans, which is not a good thing for Yang Wu to control the military power.

"You agreed to your plan, but you have different opinions on the candidate for the leader of the army!" Yang Wu vetoed the candidates proposed by Li Shenfu and others, and said directly: "Attack Jiangxi, send a total of 40,000 troops, with Qin Pei, the governor of the Zhenwu Army, as the main general, Zhu Siqing as the deputy general, and then transfer 20,000 people from the rest of the armies, temporarily incorporated into the Zhenwu Army, and attack Hongzhou together!" ”

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Fuzhou.

The climate here is very different from Huainan, when Huainan rains heavily, Fuzhou is scorching sun.

Since the beginning of summer, it has not rained here for a month and a half.

Although the king of Langya knew that although he was the king of the county, he was very thrifty, and the residence he lived in was also very simple.

At this time, after lunch, Wang Shenzhi took a nap on the bamboo mat under the service of his subordinates, after all, he was in his forties, and he always had no energy if he didn't rest for a while at noon every day.

Some time ago, after his eldest son came back from Guangling, he kept telling him that Huainan had a strong army, and Fujian was not able to resist it at all.

In particular, he also carefully described to Wang Zhenzhi the battle when the Huainan army went north to meet Wei Bo's army, and Wang Yanhan was deeply impressed by the swift marching speed, the earth-shattering shouting and killing, and the strict discipline.

The most important thing is that after the war, Wang Yanhan and Cui Ning, the envoy of Taifengguo, inspected the battlefield together, and the battlefield was completely a hell on earth, and the corpses everywhere made Wang Yanhan, who had never experienced the battlefield, vomit for a few days.

So after returning to Fuzhou, Wang Yanhan tried his best to persuade his father to make friends with Huainan.

Wang Zhenzhi originally had this intention in his heart, and after listening to the persuasion of his own family, he became even more moved, and befriending Huainan became his definite policy.

So when Ma Yin sent an envoy to make friends, hoping to join forces with him to fight against Huainan, Wang Zhenzhi refused without hesitation.

After that, Huainan suddenly sent an envoy to inform him of the secret envoy of Yang Xing, the king of Wu, and the news that Yang Wu had officially taken over the throne.

For this envoy sent by Huainan, Wang Shenzhi has always been very warm and polite to receive him.

However, there was one question that always made him uncomfortable: this Huainan envoy was so rude!