Outside Guangling City, the Huainan soldiers who were preparing to go on the expedition were already lined up, just waiting for Yang Wu's order to be issued and began to head north. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In addition to gaining fame, the main purpose of this Northern Expedition was more to lure Wei Quanxian to attack and completely eliminate it, but in order to be more realistic, Yang Wu not only mobilized a large number of troops, but he himself once again took command of the expedition.

And now the other armies have gone north first, and only the Zhenwu army led by Yang Wu and Qin Pei is still the last to set off.

Because Yang Xingmi has passed away a long time ago, and the other children of the Yang family have not grown up, after Yang Wu left, the military and political power of Guangling can only be handed over to others.

In order to prevent accidents, and also for the need to establish the country and become the king in the future, before leaving Guangling, Yang Wu specially ordered Gao Miao to be canonized as a scholar of Huagai Palace, Li Shenfu as a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and Zhou Yin as a scholar of Wenhua Palace, and ordered the three of them to coordinate and deal with many things in Guangling.

This system is of course modeled after the cabinet system of the later Ming Dynasty.

Although Yang Wu has not publicly established the country yet, after the Tang Dynasty has been destroyed, the last layer of restraint has gone, and Yang Wu can naturally do more things that were inconvenient before.

Historically, from the Later Liang and Later Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, its main system was still modeled on the system of the Tang Dynasty, and at most it was adjusted in some details.

However, it is precisely because of this continuous revision and inheritance that the official system inevitably appeared cumbersome and chaotic during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Huainan now does not have this drawback.

Although Huainan is now also said to have been transformed from a feudal town, but now that the various systems have not been fully formed, everything can be re-planned and designed, so Yang Wu naturally chose to combine the advantages of various dynasties and generations to formulate the system of this dynasty.

The cabinet system, as a system that was widely spread in later generations, was naturally an important means to prevent the prime minister from exercising too much power.

However, unlike the later Ming Dynasty cabinet, which used all civil officials, Yang Wu planned to make this military general be crowned as a scholar of Wuyingdian University in the future by the Privy Council, so as to join the cabinet and balance the civil officials, so that the civil officials would not completely override the military generals.

As for the candidates for the three scholars this time, Gao Miao and Li Shenfu led the civil officials and military generals respectively, while Zhou Yin, a loyal and upright minister, was in charge of supervision, which could be regarded as a means of checks and balances.

Of course, Yang Wu also knows that there are more loopholes in today's system, for example, the three university scholars today are all honest and loyal people, and they can cooperate with each other for the sake of the overall situation, but it is difficult to say whether there will be a phenomenon of forming parties and running for personal gain in the future.

However, these issues have yet to be solved later, and now is just the time to build the framework.

These appointments were made only one day before Yang Wu left, and the reason why the orders were only made at this time was because Yang Wu wanted to see what problems this system would encounter when it was implemented without him, so that he could improve it in the future.

When he issued this appointment, the entire Guangling suddenly boiled, because from Yang Wu's appointment, everyone could see that Yang Wu was preparing for the establishment of the prime minister in the future.

In terms of candidates, Gao Miao, Zhou Yin and Li Shenfu have enough qualifications and prestige, and no one will be dissatisfied; In terms of the specific system, Yang Wu's arrangement is undoubtedly out of checks and balances in all aspects, which makes everyone look forward to the system that will be implemented in Huainan in the future.

At this time, before leaving, Yang Wu called Zhou Ben, who was going to stay and be responsible for defeating Wei Quanyan, to the side and whispered.

"General Zhou, after Lone leaves Guangling, if the danger in Jiangxi really leads the army to attack according to Lone's expectations, the responsibility of defeating him will all depend on the general! I wonder what the general thinks about the future strategy of using troops? ”

Although the historical Zhou Ben won a complete victory in the battle of Ivory Pond, creating a classic example of winning more with less, and laying the foundation for Huainan to quickly seize the entire Jiangxi, but history has now been messed up by Yang Wu, whether Zhou Ben can still succeed in the first battle like in history, Yang Wu really can't guarantee it, so he couldn't help but ask before leaving at this time.

"The so-called impermanence of soldiers, impermanence of water! Now that Wei Quanyi has not yet sent troops to invade Hongzhou, what is its strength, how it is deployed, what is its morale, what is the route of the march, etc., these have not yet been determined, and it is too early to formulate a specific strategy for using troops! Zhou Ben said with a solemn face.

Yang Wu couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard this, although it was only a flash, but Zhou Ben saw it clearly, and couldn't help but smile a little bitterly.

In fact, it wasn't that he really didn't have any ideas at all, but Yang Wu handed over the important task of defeating Wei Quanxian and pacifying Jiangxi in one fell swoop, which made him feel very pressured.

So he didn't want to say anything more until he knew the specifics of the enemy army.

Unlike the previous battle to attack Hongzhou, that time it was Huainan who took the initiative to attack, and the initiative was on Huainan's side, so Yang Wu was able to make arrangements in advance; But this time, Huainan needs to be preemptive, and he can only respond according to the situation after the danger is dispatched, so it is normal that Zhou Ben can't give a specific plan now.

Of course, Yang Wu also knew this truth, so after a little muttering, he spoke: "The general's words are also clear. However, whether or not the danger can be defeated in one fell swoop is related to the great cause of pacifying Jiangxi, and this matter is very important, and the general can do it himself! Alone in Huaibei waiting for the general's good news! ”

Zhou Ben said solemnly: "Please rest assured, the king will definitely complete the task!" ”

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After bidding farewell to Zhou Ben and others, Yang Wu, under the escort of the 3,000 Crane Control Army, set off north with the Zhenwu Army, and finally arrived in Suzhou in early June.

This Northern Expedition was different from the last time, the goal of the last Northern Expedition Yang Wu was to capture Suzhou and completely advance the northern defense line to the north of the Huai River, but this time Yang Wu did not determine any goal.

After all, the purpose of going north this time is to gain fame and lure Wei Quansar, attacking the city and pulling out the village is not the point, plus the Liang army on the opposite side is strong and strong, and it is not easy to deal with, so after arriving in Suzhou, Yang Wu stopped temporarily and did not continue to go north.

After Zhu Wen learned that Yang Wu was going north, he also led the main force of the Liang army into Songzhou and confronted the Huainan army.

Although the strength is superior, in the case of the Huainan army's large army, Zhu Wen is not sure of victory, so when the Huainan army lives in Suzhou and has no further action, the Liang army also has no major moves.

For a time, the north and the south were still in a tense atmosphere of imminent war, but now they have suddenly calmed down, and the more than 300,000 troops on both sides have strangely not had any fighting, but the so-called Northern Expedition has become a "war of food consumption."

This kind of war of more than 300,000 people, the amount of money and food that needs to be consumed is very amazing, but whether it is Zhu Wen's side or Yang Wu's side, it can now be regarded as a deep foundation, and the money and food are sufficient, so there is no need to worry about this consumption.

The number of prefectures and counties occupied by Later Liang is relatively much larger than that of Huainan, and the population is even higher than that of Huainan, but some of them are now controlled by Weibo, Chengde, Yiwu and other feudal towns, and cannot be regarded as Zhu Wen's direct territory; In addition, Zhu Wen still has enemies such as Liu Rengong, Li Keyong, and Li Maozhen to deal with in the north, so the strength he can actually use to deal with Huainan is about the same as Huainan.

In the city of Songzhou, the weather is very hot.

This hot climate is actually not a good time to send troops into battle, especially for Zhu Wen, an elderly man.

The scorching hot climate made Zhu Wen, who had some fortune in his later years, covered in sweat, originally he had just ascended the throne not long ago, and now it should be the time to enjoy it with peace of mind, but because of the sudden northern expedition of the Huainan army, he had to lead the army south.

"Isn't there any movement from the Huainan Thief Army now? Is there any news coming from anywhere else? Did Wang Jian and Li Keyong make any moves? Looking at the few generals standing solemnly on the side, Zhu Wen asked with some irritability.

Now it has been more than ten days since the confrontation with the Huainan Army, but there is no movement from the Huainan Army on the other side, which is completely contrary to the previous fanfare posture, coupled with the judgment before the Huainan Army went north, Zhu Wen has long felt that the Huainan Army has some ulterior motives in the Northern Expedition, but it is not clear at all.

"Your Majesty, there is still no movement on the Huainan Bandit Army's side, and there is no new news from other places. I heard that Li Keyong has now sent troops to Jinzhou, which seems to be in response to the Northern Expedition of the Huainan Army! "The person who spoke was Li Si'an, the assassin of Songzhou.

Because of the defeat of the last crusade against Wei Bo's rebels, Li Si'an was once dismissed, but later the war between all parties became tense, and Zhu Wen considered that although Li Si'an was defeated repeatedly, he had no problem in ability, so he was appointed as the assassin of Songzhou.

"Li Keyong sent troops to Jinju?" Zhu Wen frowned.

If the strength of the Huainan army is strong and has now become a big problem for him, then Li Keyong's threat to Zhu Wen is even greater than that of Huainan.

In any case, there has been no example of unifying the world from south to north since ancient times, it is all unified from north to south, plus Huainan lacks horses, so in Zhu Wen's heart, Li Keyong's threat is still above Yang Wu.

Now that the strength of this old enemy is gradually recovering, this makes Zhu Wen feel very worried.

"The king can rest assured that although Li Keyong has sent troops, he does not have many troops, and it seems that he is just trying to contain our army!"

Zhu Wen was relieved at this time, but if the Huainan Army remained unmoved like this, it made him feel uncomfortable; This is especially true before it is not yet possible to determine Yang Wu's purpose.

"Do I want to take the initiative to send troops south to fight Yang Wu in order to test his truth?"