For the Jin State, they have the most powerful cavalry, the most courageous soldiers, the most outstanding generals, and the Jin King Li Cunqiao is brave and good at fighting, so the military strength of the Jin State can surpass the Liang State.

The only problem of the Jin State was that the population in the north was too small, and the economic base had been severely damaged due to the long-term war, coupled with the fact that the Jin State emphasized military force and neglected civil rule, so it was not comparable to the Wu State in terms of overall national strength.

But if the Jin State can annex the Central Plains, then these shortcomings of the Jin State will be made up, and the Jin State will have the strength to unify the world at that time.

The situation of Wu is different, Wu is located in the south, and it was originally affected less by the war than the north, especially in the north in recent years, but Wu has remained stable, which has made many northern people move south, further promoting the development of the south.

Although there is no actual population count, according to Yang Wu's estimates, it is certain that the current population of Wu is more than 10 million; With an abundant population, fertile land, and prosperous trade, the economic base of the Wu State far surpassed that of other countries, and perhaps the Shu State in the middle of Shu could barely compare with it.

However, if it is compared with the military strength, although the military strength of the Wu State is strong, it may not be able to have an advantage compared with the Jin army.

If Wu occupies the Central Plains and blocks the Jin army north of the Yellow River, then Wu will be able to calmly digest the newly acquired land in the Central Plains, and then integrate the forces of the vast territory south of the Yellow River to continue the Northern Expedition, and finally eliminate the Jin State and unify the world.

In short, whether it is the State of Wu or the State of Jin, as long as one of them gets the Central Plains, then this side will have the strength to eventually unify the world.

This is what Li Maozhen is most worried about.

Therefore, after learning that Zhu Youzhen would send someone to negotiate peace, Li Maozhen's attitude was of course to agree, not only that, but he also planned to send an envoy to Liang after reaching a peace agreement with Liang to strengthen the relationship between the two sides.

"If there is a northern expedition of Wu one day in the future, and Liang will live in Luoyang and Guanzhong after losing the Central Plains, maybe at that time, Gu can still use Liang as a barrier to resist the invasion of Wu or Jin forces." Li Maozhen thought to herself.

Under the circumstance that Li Maozhen and Zhu Youzhen are both interested in peace talks, peace talks will naturally be easily reached, and the two sides will take the territory under their respective control as the boundary, agree not to invade each other, and to provide support to each other as far as they can.

These two old enemies who have fought for many years have turned into almost allies as quickly as possible, which many people did not expect; However, what people didn't expect was the news that Wu was about to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

Because the whole state of Wu is united and keeps it secret in various ways, so far no force knows that Wu is about to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

And the time they have to wait for is coming.

On this day, in the city of Weizhou, in the palace of King Jin, Li Cunqiao sat on the main seat, and Li Sizhao and other generals below sat in turn.

"Generals, this is the news that Gu just received, Zhang Wenli sent someone to ask Fu Xi to be called back, replaced by other generals, and Fu Xi's son Fu Meng joined the army as the governor's mansion. Do you think Lone should agree to this request? Li Cunmiao's face was calm, and he didn't see the slightest emotion.

Although Li Cunmiao is already the king of Jin at present, and almost all the armies in the north have to obey his command, but in fact, like the original Zhao Wang Wang Rong and the Beiping Wang Wangzhi, they and Li Cunmiao are actually allies, not superiors and subordinates, let alone monarchs and ministers.

Now that Zhang Wenli has become the envoy of Chengde Festival, the army that originally belonged to Zhao should now be under the command of Zhang Wenli, and Li Cunqiao can't put his beak in it.

So logically speaking, now Zhang Wenli sent someone to propose to replace the general to receive the commander of the army, and this point is that Li Cunqiao cannot interfere.

However, it is clear that the situation is very different from the usual.

After listening to Li Cunqing's inquiry, the general Yan Bao immediately stood up and said, "King, the last general thinks that he can't agree. At the beginning, the king returned Zhang Wenli's letter to Liang Guo for his illicit communication, in order to make him wake up; However, in the past few months, Zhang Wenli not only did not come to ask the king for his guilt, but wantonly killed the old general of King Zhao. Fu Xi has always served the king, how can he be sent back to Zhenzhou and let Zhang Wenli slaughter him? ”

"Yes, Zhang Wenli is just a traitor who betrayed his master, what kind of face does he have to serve as the envoy of Chengde? The king should have sent troops against him a long time ago. As for General Fu Xi, this person led the troops to accompany our army to fight, and he had a lot of merit, and the king should appoint him as the vanguard and let him lead the troops to avenge the king of Zhao. Li Cunjin and others also stood up and said.

Speaking of which, the person who suggested sending the intercepted letter back was Yan Bao, but now his own suggestion has not worked, Zhang Wenli only sent a subordinate to explain a few words in the future, showing loyalty to the ministers, and there is nothing in essence at all, but instead he has intensified his treatment of the old generals of Zhao State, which makes Yan Bao naturally a little annoyed in his heart.

As for Li Sizhao, Li Cunjin and others, they originally advocated attacking Zhang Wenli, but at that time, all preparations had not yet been made, coupled with Yan Bao's suggestion, so they did not start immediately.

Now that a few months have passed, Yan Bao's suggestion has obviously not worked, and the preparations for sending troops to attack Zhang Wenli have been completed, and the generals are naturally more in favor of sending troops.

Li Cunmiao was originally ready to send troops, but now he is just asking everyone's opinions; At this time, seeing that everyone meant the same as him, Li Cunmiao immediately ordered Fu Xi to be recruited.

Soon, Fu Xi took more than 30 officers at all levels to the palace to salute Li Cunmiao.

"General Fu, Gu and King Zhao once made an alliance to fight the enemy together, and their feelings are like flesh and blood; Gu really didn't expect such a disaster to suddenly happen to King Zhao, which made Gu deeply sad. General Fu, if you haven't forgotten the kindness of King Zhao to you in the past, then can you avenge him? Lone will provide you with soldiers and food support. Li Cunmiao asked sincerely.

He was indeed saddened by the death of Wang Rong, the king of Zhao, not only because Wang Rong had always supported his great cause, but also because he also had a deep personal relationship with Wang Rong, so he planned to avenge Wang Rong for a long time.

When Fu Xi was originally recruited to the palace, he was worried that Li Cunmiao would send him back to Zhao in order to win over Zhang Wenli to continue the alliance with the Jin State.

He barely calmed down, and knelt on the ground with more than thirty generals behind him while crying and said, "King Zhao handed over the sword to Fu Xi and the others, and let me help the king destroy the enemy. However, since the turmoil in Zhenzhou, although the last general has a deep hatred in his heart, he has nowhere to sue; I wanted to kill myself with a sword, but I thought that it would not do the dead any good. ”

"Now the king misses the kindness of King Zhao to you, and promised to avenge King Zhao, the last general Fu Xi and others dare not bother the king's soldiers, we are willing to lead my subordinates to kill the traitors, to repay the Wang family's kindness to our generations, although there is no hatred!"

"Good! Well said! Li Cunmiao immediately stood up and said loudly: "King Zhao must repay your kindness, and Zhang Wenli's traitor must also be killed, so that the spirit of King Zhao's family in heaven can rest in peace." However, there are still too few soldiers under your command, and it will be difficult to defeat Zhang Wenli and avenge King Zhao. ”

"So Lone decided to ......," Li Cunqiao solemnly announced, and the generals below hurriedly stood up and bowed down to obey orders.

"Lone decided to appoint General Fu Xi as the queen of Chengde Festival, and led the soldiers of his department to be the vanguard to crusade against Zhang Wenli; Ordered the balance to make Yan Bao and Xiangzhou Thorn Shi Jianjiao lead troops to help! ”

"The last general will obey the king's edict!" The generals answered loudly.

Yan Bao was even more happy in his heart, he was originally Zhu Jin's general, Zhu Jin surrendered to Zhu Wen after the defeat, and later took charge of guarding Xingzhou.

A few years ago, Yang Shihou died of illness, Wei Bojun defected to the Jin State, and the Jin army marched south and besieged Xingzhou, but was never able to break through the city; It was not until a few months later, after the annihilation of Liu Yan's entire army in the Battle of Weizhou, that Yan Bao saw that the general trend had gone, so he went out of the city and surrendered.

As a general, it is very good that Yan Bao can be reused by Li Cunmiao, and now he still has the opportunity to be on his own and be responsible for the war against Zhang Wenli as the main general, which is obviously something he did not expect.

It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that the war against Zhang Wenli this time was not as easy as he thought. The fact that the generals who died in this battle alone was enough to shock him.

On the seventh day of the eighth month, the Jin king Li Cunqiao ordered a part of the Jin army along the Yellow River to march north from Xingzhou with the Zhao army under Fu Xi's command to attack the town of Chengde.

On the 11th, the Jin army captured Zhaozhou, and the king of Zhaozhou surrendered to the Jin army, and the king of Jin still appointed him as the assassin of Zhaozhou.

After getting the news, Zhang Wenli, who had already had a recurrence of his old injury, was shocked to burst his wound and died.

This should have been good news for the Jin army, but Zhang Wenli's son Zhang Chujin did not mourn secretly, but continued to plot with his fellow party Han Zhengshi and others to resist the Jin army with all his might.

In September, the Jin army crossed the Hutuo River and began to encircle Zhenzhou.

Yan Bao ordered the Cao Canal to be dug up, irrigated Zhenzhou with water, and captured Zhang Youshun, the assassin of Shenzhou, which can be described as good news.

However, just when Yan Baozhi was complacent, on the tenth day of the ninth month, Xiao general Shi Jianjiao was hit by a stray arrow and died.