"Father, rest assured, everything has been arranged, tonight the fire will be raised, and the gates of the east city and the north city will be opened at the same time, and the Wu army will be allowed to enter the city. General Mi had already assured that after the Wu army entered the city, Jiangqiu would not commit any crimes, and their military discipline was extremely strict, and they would never hurt the innocent. Han Xizai said with a hint of excitement on his face.

"Nothing could go wrong, could it?" Han Guangsi was still a little worried: "If there is anything wrong, our family will be ......."

He has been mediocre all his life, only knows how to act according to the orders of the above, and has never done anything transgressive; Acting as Wu Jun's internal response this time, if it weren't for his eldest son Han Xizai's strong advocacy, he would not have been able to do so.

Of course, in addition to Han Xizai's strong assertions, Wu's army was strong, the morale of the defenders was low, and he could not see the slightest chance of victory, and the prince's position was not right, which were also important reasons for him to act as an internal response.

"Father, if something really went wrong, how could it be so calm now that the prince had already broken into the palace with soldiers? Moreover, General Xue of Dongcheng and General Wang of Beicheng are not unaware of their fathers, as long as they agree to something, there is no reason to regret it. Han Xizai reassured.

General Xue, who guarded Dongcheng, and General Wang, who controlled Beicheng, were not originally Wang Gongyan's cronies, but after Wang Gongyan raised his army, in view of their certain prestige in the army, they had to rely on them to defend the city.

And these two people have extremely good temperaments, they are usually people who attach great importance to faith and righteousness, and they have a certain friendship with Han Guangsi.

Recalling the usual behavior of these two people, Han Guangsi was a little relieved, but he still lowered his head and pondered, silent.

Seeing this situation, Han Xizai couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "I originally thought that with the credit of today's dedication to the city, my father must have a future in the Wu Kingdom, but my father is too conservative and has never had any long-term plans, but I am afraid that it will not be possible to make the Han family prosperous in the future." ”

"Fortunately, Wu attaches great importance to cultural governance, King Wu is good at employing people, and Wu Guo has produced many talents in the dynasty, and now is the time of prosperity. Han Hee-jae is confident in his talents.

……

Just when the father and son were thinking about their own thoughts, there was a faint sound of shouting and killing outside the house, and the sound was obviously far away, probably from the city gate.

"It's coming!" Han Xizai's expression perked up, he looked at his father, and saw a look of acquaintance on his face, so he hurriedly said, "Father, let's go up to the roof to take a look." The two hurriedly ordered the servants to fetch ladders, climbed to the roof and looked out of the city, only to see that the north gate was full of torches, and the besieging soldiers rushed into the city, and soon completely occupied the city gate.

The progress on the side of Dongcheng was relatively not so smooth, and some defenders were still resisting, but in general, the Wu army's invasion of the city was already the general trend and was irretrievable.

"Good!" Han Xizai waved his fist excitedly, and Han Guangsi's face on the side also became excited.

……

As the two of them saw, with the help of Neiying, the Wu army attacked the city from the north and the east, and the defenders in the city were defeated and retreated, and a large number of Liang troops surrendered.

However, some of Wang Gongyan's cronies and generals still led the army to resist and had street battles with the Wu army; It was not until dawn the next day that the battle in the city was basically over, and the remnants of the enemy were either wiped out or surrendered to the Wu army in despair.

As for the prince, this person retreated to his house with a few henchmen in a panic, and finally saw that the general trend was gone, so he killed all the old and young of the family, and committed suicide himself.

At this point, Qingzhou City fell into the hands of Wu State.

When the good news of Qingzhou came to Yuncheng, there was also good news from Qizhou, and Liu Zunzhi, the assassin of Qizhou, finally chose to surrender to Wu according to the original agreement, he did not choose to go to the south to serve as the assassin, but chose to lead his soldiers to continue to serve in the Wu army.

Therefore, according to Yang Wu's order, Liu Xin incorporated him into the commander of the Yiyi Army, and at the same time selected some soldiers from the Yunzhou Army, merged with Liu Zunzhi's command, and gathered 5,000 people under the command of Liu Zunzhi.

At this point, all parts of Shandong were completely pacified, and the Liang army was completely wiped out.

And before that, Dong Zhang, who was besieged in Yuncheng by the army led by Yang Wu himself, also made a final choice: surrender to the Wu army.

A big defeat outside the city of Yuncheng, and finally fled back to the city of the defenders of only more than 1,000 people, and many soldiers in order to flee for their lives, have abandoned their weapons, coupled with the lack of money and food in the city, it is difficult to hold on for a long time, it can be said that if Yang Wu is not willing to lose the soldiers, if he really wants to attack the city, he can also take the city in one day.

Dong Zhang even found it difficult to hold on to Yuncheng, so he tried to break through the siege on the night of escaping back to the city, but he was attacked by the Wu army shortly after he and his men left the city, and they returned defeated, and they never dared to leave the city easily.

After another five or six days, the city ran out of food and grass, and the soldiers climbed over the city walls to surrender to the Wu army, and the Liang army still remained in the city with less than 500 men.

Seeing this situation, Dong Zhang also knew that his general trend was gone, so he led the remnants of the army out of the city to surrender.

Yang Wu has no good impression of this hero who has seized Dongchuan in history and competed with Meng Zhixiang for the land of Shu.

In terms of loyalty, in history, if you can do things to divide Dongchuan, such a general is obviously not a loyal general; In terms of ability, this person's ability to command troops is also average, there are many generals in the Wu army who are stronger than him, and there are also many generals who are comparable to him, and there is no shortage of him at all; In terms of courage and good fighting, if it was Dong Zhang back then, it might still be commendable, but now Dong Zhang has long lost the courage of the year.

Such a mediocre general, Yang Wu naturally does not value it.

However, considering that Dong Zhang was the first high-level general of the Liang army to surrender since the Northern Expedition, Yang Wu still gave him certain preferential treatment in the end, ordered him to assassinate the history of Caozhou, and returned the Liang soldiers who were captured in the war to him, so that he could lead his troops to serve under his command temporarily.

After completely conquering Shandong and subduing Dong Zhang, Yang Wu's next target was naturally Duan Ning in the west.

According to the latest information, at present, Duan Ning personally commanded the troops to attack Bozhou, and on the other hand, he divided 30,000 troops to go south to rescue Xuzhou.

It has been three months since Xuzhou was besieged, and after Zhou Benqin led Jingxiang's army into the siege of Xuzhou, the Zuozhen army led by Li Jian rushed to converge from the direction of Shouzhou.

After the merger of the two armies, the total strength of the Wu army reached more than 90,000, so Zhou Ben ordered Li Jian to be the main general to attack Xuzhou, and he himself led the army to bypass Xuzhou and attack Ruzhou in the north.

Ruzhou is the southern gateway of Luoyang, and its importance is not under Kaifeng; If Ruzhou is lost, the Wu army will be able to attack Luoyang directly from Yique.

In the face of the attack of the Wu army, Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to order all the troops originally stationed in Guanzhong, Shaanzhou and other places to deal with Zhu Youqian, the king of Ji, to Luoyang and garrison Ruzhou with heavy troops; At the same time, he sent people to urge Duan Ning to attack quickly, take Bozhou as soon as possible, and turn the tide of the battle.

It can be said that at this time, Zhu Youzhen had completely given up the plan to retreat to Guanzhong and began to prepare to defend Luoyang.

Faced with such a situation, Yang Wu seemed unhurried.

The battle situation on all sides was completely expected, and now that the war in the east has ended, the 60,000 troops of the two armies under the command of Liu Xin and Mi Zhicheng have temporarily moved to rest.

Gao Jichang on the Xuzhou side held on to the city, although Duan Ning divided his troops to the south to rescue, but after all, the city has been besieged for a long time, and the morale in the city is low, even if the city cannot be taken for the time being, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

The situation in Ruzhou to the west was obviously very favorable to the Wu army, and the 60,000 troops led by Zhou Ben had an absolute advantage, and although the city was heavily defended by the Liang army, it was only more than enough to defend the city and not enough to counterattack.

As for the main force of the Liang army led by Duan Ning personally, it is currently besieging Bozhou, and in the face of the army led by Li Chengding, it cannot take any advantage at all, but has been counterattacked one after another, losing many soldiers.

Yang Wu believed that as long as the soldiers of Mi Zhicheng and Liu Xin finished resting, and then launched a counterattack against Duan Ning with heavy troops and Li Chengding, they would definitely be able to achieve a great victory.

In addition, Zhou originally proposed a plan to contain Ruzhou with part of the army and attack Luoyang directly with the main force across Yique.

Although this plan is a bit risky, it is not impossible to succeed, but Yang Wu finally refused.

The main reason why Li Cunmiao in history wanted to adopt risky tactics was because the battle situation at that time was not conducive to the Jin army, but was somewhat beneficial to the Liang army.

But now that the general trend of the war is on the side of the Wu army, Yang Wu only needs to attack steadily according to the original battle plan, and there is no need to take risks at all.

At this time, in the camp of the Wu army outside Yuncheng City, Yang Wu was discussing the military situation with Guo Chongtao and Liu Xin and other generals who had just felt Yuncheng.

Not long ago, a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman smuggled across the Yellow River from Huaxian County at night, but just after climbing the embankment, he was discovered by Wu Jun who was patrolling nearby, and after some inquiry, he found that he was a messenger from Zhenzhou asking for help, so he was sent to Yuncheng.

Zhenzhou sent an envoy to ask Wu for help, which was not a trivial matter.

Although Zhang Wenli of Zhenzhou rebelled, killed Wang Rong, the king of Zhao, and established himself as the envoy of the festival, what do these have to do with the state of Wu? Wang Rong, the king of Zhao, was a staunch ally of Li Cunxuan, and Zhang Wenli's killing of him would be beneficial to the state of Wu rather than harmless.

It just so happens that the Jin army is attacking Zhenzhou now, so many generals think that they should take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to attack Yangliu Ferry, which can contain the Jin army and support Zhenzhou; Second, you can take advantage of the absence of the main force of the Jin army to pull out the nail of Yangliu Ferry first.

The general who most admired this opinion was the old general Liu Xin.

His hair was completely white, his face was wrinkled, but his voice was still loud, his eyes were not dazzling, his ears were not deaf, and his body was very strong.

He loudly agitated: "King, since Zhenzhou has sent people to ask for help, and is willing to respect the king, the king directly agrees." We don't need to send troops to cross the river to rescue Zhenzhou, we just need to send troops to attack Yangliu Ferry. As long as Yang Liudu is captured and the Yellow River is blocked with an elite naval army, the Jin army can be easily blocked north of the Yellow River, so as to achieve the goal of annexing the Central Plains alone. ”

Yang Wu was silent, but Guo Chongtao objected: "Our army has not even eliminated the Liang State at present, so there is really no need to take care of the affairs of Zhenzhou; At present, although the Jin State has a disagreement with us, it is a foregone conclusion that the future military confrontation will be met, but from the current point of view, the Jin State and our country have their own troubles. ”

"The Jin State needs to eliminate the Zhenzhou rebellion and repel the Khitans from entering the Kou, and we need to eliminate the Liang State as soon as possible, so there is no conflict between us and the Jin State for the time being. If the Jin Kingdom is rashly dragged into the war now, it is really difficult to predict the changes in the war in the future. Therefore, the minister thought that it was inappropriate to discuss this. ”

"What's wrong? The king, the Jin army of Yang Liu Ferry is only a few thousand people, even the Jin army led by Li Siyuan in Yang Liu Beicheng on the opposite side is less than 10,000 people, this point of strength does not need to use too many troops at all, just the Zuo Tianwu army of the last general plus the cooperation of the naval army soldiers, at most one month, to ensure that Yang Liu Ferry is taken and Li Siyuan is captured alive! ”

Hearing these impassioned words, Yang Wu suddenly laughed: "General Liu is brave and brave, why bother with this useless ability?" It's better to keep it to deal with Liang Jun. ”

To be honest, Yang Wu was also a little moved by Liu Xin's suggestion at first, after all, there were indeed not many Jin troops at Yang Liu Ferry, but now the Wu army concentrated near Yunzhou had an army of fifty or sixty thousand, and if Mi Zhicheng's 30,000 people were gathered, the strength could reach seventy or eighty thousand.

On the Jin side, I heard that now the Jin king Li Cunqiao is at war with the Khitans, and his main force is also staying in Zhenzhou, if he takes this opportunity to attack Yang Liu, even if Yang Liu cannot be taken, it can also force the Jin army in Zhenzhou to divide his troops to go south to rescue, thereby reducing the pressure on Zhenzhou and creating more trouble for the Jin State.

However, after hearing Liu Xin's words, Yang Wu realized that Liu Xin was a little underestimated.

Is Yang Liu really that easy to capture? I'm afraid it may not be.

In history, Wang Yanzhang personally led an army of 100,000 to attack Yang Liu, and he didn't know how many fierce attacks he launched before and after, but he was never able to take it.

Since Wang Yanzhang can't do something with an army of 100,000, why does Liu Xin dare to say that he will definitely be able to take Yang Liu with an army of 30,000? It can be seen that he must have underestimated the enemy, and was a little carried away by the successive victories of the Wu army after the Northern Expedition.

Since Liu Xin is a little underestimated enemy, Yang Wu, as the commander-in-chief, naturally has to consider whether he also has signs of underestimating the enemy.

As Guo Chongtao said, rashly attacking the Jin state without the Liang state being wiped out would drag the Jin state into a war with an unpredictable future, so that the Jin army would engage the Wu army with reluctance.

But the situation is the same for the state of Wu, once the rash war is not successful, and the state of Liang is not eliminated, it will be really troublesome.

It is better to wipe out the Liang State according to the original plan and turn the chaos of the three-way melee into a two-party showdown, at least it is safer than rashly attacking Yang Liu.