Outside the city of Yangzhou, it is covered with silver makeup. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's the beginning of December, and the first heavy snow of winter has finally fallen on this day, and the snowflakes are scattered and gathered, fluttering and fluttering, gently plumping, covering the ground with a thin layer, and creaking when stepping on it.

Today is the day when Yang Wu led the army back to Guangling. From the dispatch of the troops in August to the successful return of the army, nearly four months before and after is not a long time, but Yang Wu feels like many years have passed.

"I remember that my brother was short and fat at the beginning, has he grown taller now? My sister was practicing calligraphy at that time, has she grown now? and Meng Jie, because she was busy with military affairs some time ago, she forgot to write to her, did she complain in her heart? By the way, and Yiyi, I wonder how she has been doing lately? Yang Wu rode on his horse and thought about his own thoughts.

More than ten days ago, he led the army to defeat Zhu Xing, first rested in Jiaxing for a few days, and waited for Zhang Kezong to conquer Haiyan, and Sheng Shiyou took the defenders of Jiaxing and Haiyan to retreat to Hangzhou by boat before leading the army to Huzhou, at that time Huzhou had already gone down without a fight.

After arriving in Huzhou, he originally planned to go to see Gao Yan, the assassin of Huzhou, but he didn't expect Gao Yan to be angry and angry because of the unfilial piety of his son Gao Li, and he became seriously ill and died on the third day of Huzhou City. As for Gao Li, although he had the merit of dedicating the city, his actions made Wang Maozhang and other Huainan generals extremely disdainful, and finally rewarded some money and sent it away.

After that, because he wanted to stay in Huzhou to put pressure on Tian Yan, Yang Wu did not withdraw his troops immediately, and it happened that the counties below Huzhou had not yet fallen into the hands of Huainan, so Yang Wu ordered Chen Fan, Fan Sicong and others to lead their troops to attack. Fortunately, in order to concentrate his forces to defend Huzhou, Gao Yan transferred all the troops in these counties to Huzhou City, so there were no defenders in the following counties, and as soon as the army arrived, they opened the city and surrendered.

After all the things were completed and the new Huzhou assassin Li Jian also arrived, he led the army back to Guangling with Wang Maozhang.

"This time, I finally had the opportunity to send troops to Huzhou, but I didn't fight a single battle, which was too boring. Son, if the next time there is a war, please say a few kind words for the last general in front of the king, so that the last general can also make meritorious contributions! On the side, Wang Maozhang said with a smile.

When Yang Wu first entered the barracks, Wang Maozhang was polite to him on the surface, but in fact he didn't take him very seriously, at most, he gave him some face for the sake of being the eldest son of King Wu.

Today's Wang Maozhang's attitude towards Yang Wu is very different, although the two of them are both commanders, but when the two ride together, Wang Maozhang is very consciously half a horse's head behind, in order to show the difference between the top and bottom.

"Why should General Wang worry about not fighting? Now that it's a troubled time, and there are endless wars in various places, with my father's importance to you, it shouldn't be long before you lead the army alone, right? Yang Wu said with a smile.

He remembered that the next thing in history was the war in which Wang Shifan raised troops to fight against Zhu Quanzhong, and Wang Maozhang led an army of 7,000 people to the rescue in this war, and jointly defeated Zhu Youning with Wang Shifan, and then fought with the 200,000 army led by Zhu Quanzhong himself, defeated the opponent many times, although finally failed because he was outnumbered, but Wang Maozhang also successfully led the army to withdraw to Huainan.

It was Wang Maozhang's outstanding performance in this war that made him famous all over the world and became the top general in Huainan.

"I wonder if Wang Shifan will still raise troops like in history in this life? Isn't it because of me that history has changed? Yang Wu thought to himself.

In history, the next three years seem to be Huainan's lucky year, the Huainan army has achieved great victories on all fronts, first Li Shenfu went west to crusade against Wuchang Jiedu Du Hong, Jingnan Jiedu Cheng led the 100,000 army to annihilate the whole army, and then Wang Maozhang defeated Zhu Youning when he aided Qingzhou, and passed Zhu Youning to Huainan, and then Tian Yan and An Renyi rebelled one after another and were quickly suppressed, of which Tian Yan was killed at the end of the year, and An Renyi was trapped in the lonely city, and it took another year to break the city and be killed.

In terms of combat results alone, the Huainan Army this year was undoubtedly brilliant, but in terms of results, it did not get much benefit: the war to aid Qingzhou Wang Shifan was ultimately defeated because he was outnumbered; Although Li Shenfu's westward crusade against Du Hong was a complete victory, he withdrew his troops because of the rebellion of Tian Yan and An Renyi before he could break through Wuchang; The only thing that can be counted as a gain may be to defeat the rebels of Tian Yan and An Renyi, get rid of Zhu Yanshou, and remove the three hidden dangers of Huainan.

At this time, Cheng Xun immediately came forward to interrupt Yang Wu's contemplation, "Shizi, we have already arrived at the outskirts of the city, look at the front, it should be the official who greeted Shizi!" ”

Hearing this, Yang Wu hurriedly looked forward, only to see that there were dozens of officials standing along the road outside Guangling City, and the leaders were Li Chengsi, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, and Zhou Yin, the judge of Jiedu.

"Subordinates and others welcome the triumphant return of the Son!" Seeing the arrival of Yang Wu and others, many officials under the leadership of Li Chengsi and Zhou Yin sang in unison.

Yang Wu's heart moved, and he immediately came to his senses. Now his identity is no longer the same as when he set out on the expedition, not to mention that he now has the identity of the prince of the king, it is that he has established a deep prestige among the officials of Guangling after his success on this expedition. Today's Guangling to Li Chengsi and other high-ranking officials, down to the ordinary people, everyone knows that Yang Wu's future inheritance of the Huainan Jiedu envoy position has become a foregone conclusion, in this case Yang Wu's status is naturally higher, so although the welcome to return to the city this time is not as grand as when Yang Xingmi returned from the expedition, but the scale is not small.

Yang Wu didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "How dare the kid let you adults wait here for a long time?" ”

Li Chengsi is a martial artist and is tough, but Zhou Yin is a civil official, and he is not young, he has stood in the cold wind for so long, his face has been frozen red, but at this time he said with a smile: "The first time the prince led the army alone, and he returned with a great victory, I naturally have to welcome him." ”

Yang Wu hurriedly stepped forward and gently patted the snowflakes off Zhou Yin's body, "If it is freezing today, if Lord Zhou suffers from the cold because of this, isn't it the fault of the kid?" ”

He can obviously feel the change in Zhou Yin's attitude towards him now, Zhou Yin in history has always opposed Yang Wu as the queen of the festival, but now Zhou Yin's attitude towards him is much more respectful.

"Shizi is polite, although the old man's body is not as good as you young people, it is not something that can be blown down by this cold wind."

Yang Wu nodded, turned around and smiled at Li Chengsi again: "General Li is a northerner, and he is used to seeing heavy snow, so when he arrives in the south, he also cares about this little snow, right?" ”

"Well, when it was coldest in the north, it was much colder than it is now; Sometimes it snows for more than ten days, and the ground is as deep as one person. After all, Guangling is the south, even in the coldest winter! Li Chengsi said with a smile.

Yang Wu exchanged a few more words with the others, and finally said: "It's cold outside, let's go to the city first!" ”