At this time, the crown prince Yang Jiong had already married, and the princess he married was the daughter of Li Chengding.

Li Chengding was bent on maintaining neutrality and did not want to get involved in the battle for the prince, but as the eldest son of Li Shenfu, the number one hero of the Wu State, and now he is the commander of the Wu State, he can avoid it if he wants to.

And Yang Wu is also more satisfied with the current crown prince Yang Jiong, maybe he can't be a pioneer king, but it is more than enough to be a king of success.

For today's Wu State, the important task of unifying the world is likely to be completed in the Yang Wu era, and the next Wu State does not need a monarch with great talents, but needs a monarch who can pass on the foundation of Wu State.

Many dynasties in history have prospered, but in the end they died, and what was missing was a monarch who could keep it.

As long as the regime can be successfully passed on for two or three generations, then the Wu dynasty can basically be stabilized.

Yang Jiong's personality is relatively gentle, and he attaches great importance to Wenzhi, if such a person inherits the throne, he may not be able to further expand the territory of Wu, but at least he will not toss blindly in the future, and there will be no excessive use of people's power like Yang Guang, which will lead to chaos in the world.

In addition, Yang Jiong is the eldest son, so of course Yang Wu hopes that he can succeed to the throne in the future.

This crusade against Shu was undoubtedly a good time for Yang Jiong to exercise his ability and enhance his prestige, so Yang Wu immediately decided that he would lead the troops.

However, Yang Jiong is too young after all, and he has no experience in leading troops before, so in addition to Yang Jiong, he must also be assigned a deputy commander.

The candidate for this deputy commander, Yang Wu quickly thought of the veteran Zhou Ben.

In terms of ability and prestige, it is definitely enough for Zhou Ben to serve as the commander of the army, and in addition, he is also Yang Jiong's grandfather, and he takes care of him, so there is no need to worry about conflicts between the two.

The only thing worth worrying about is that now that Zhou Ben is in his sixties, can he still lead the army on an expedition?

Yang Wudang even put forward his ideas to everyone and asked Zhou Ben's own opinion.

Zhou Bendang said loudly: "Your Majesty is too worried, the old minister can still open the three-stone bow effortlessly, how can he not lead the army?" If His Majesty is not at ease, the old minister is willing to make a military order, and in less than half a year, at most three months, Shu can be taken; If not, the old minister is willing to be punished! ”

Yang Wu couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, can these old guys all like it so much? And is such a thing as a military order child's play, how can it be set up casually?

And in history, people who generally refuse to accept old age like this often end up not very well, so at this time, Yang Wu regretted it a little.

However, firstly, the words have been spoken, and Zhou Ben himself also insists on leading the troops, and secondly, in addition to Zhou Ben, the most suitable candidate for leading the troops is Li Chengding, but Li Chengding is now still responsible for the defense of Huaizhou, Weizhou, Zezhou, and Mengzhou, and he can't leave easily, and there is no more suitable candidate for leading the troops than Zhou Ben.

So after hesitating for a moment, Yang Wu finally decided to let Zhou Bing take the army.

However, considering that the actual leader of the troops in the post-Tang Dynasty was Guo Chongtao, Yang Wu also decided to let Guo Chongtao serve as the military advisor of the army this time; If you add the firewood stationed in the pass and use it, you can't think of it.

In addition to the commander of the army on the North Road, the commander of the army on the South Road was soon determined to be served by Liu Xin.

In this way, the south route led 30,000 troops led by Liu Xin from Guizhou to Shu, and the north route was led by Yang Jiong, Zhou Ben, Guo Chongtao, and Chai Zai with a total of 50,000 troops to attack from Fengxiang, and the north and south were attacked, and Shu would be able to take Shu in one fell swoop.

After the plan was decided, Wu's war machine was soon in operation, and various armies began to move.

On the side of the Southern Route Army, the Wu Army has always had 30,000 forbidden troops stationed on the line from Jiangling Mansion to Xiazhou, which can be used at any time, and it is the Northern Route Army that really needs to mobilize troops.

At present, Wu Guo's garrison in Guanzhong is not much, only 30,000 people, and the Northern Route Army will have 50,000 troops according to the plan, in addition, Guanzhong must also leave enough troops to defend, so in addition to the original garrison, at least 30,000 people need to be mobilized.

With so many troop movements, it is naturally impossible to hide from Shu; In addition, Zhang Yanhan was sent as an envoy to Shu last year, although it was to find out the situation in Shu, but at the same time, it also made Shu vigilant and strengthened the defense of Lizhou, Zizhou and other places.

In order to confuse Shu as much as possible and let Shu relax its vigilance, while mobilizing troops, Yang Wu released rumors to the outside world, claiming that he was about to send troops to attack Tang State; At the same time, Yang Wu sent Zhang Yanhan to envoy Shu again, and wrote a letter to Wang Yan as an enemy gift.

At the beginning of the letter, Yang Wu used the title "Emperor Wu sent a letter to Emperor Dashu", and the content of the letter was mostly to convey the friendship between the two families.

Yang Wu even specially asked Zhang Yanhan to bring some treasures unique to Wu Kingdom to Wang Yan as gifts to show his friendship.

If Wang Jian was still there, he would definitely not be able to hide it, but although Wang Yan inherited the foundation of Shu, he obviously did not inherit Wang Jian's cunning.

After seeing Yang Wu's letter and receiving the gift from Yang Wu, Wang Yan was really overjoyed, and said to his cronies: "It seems that Wu is currently in a hurry to destroy Tang and has no intention of our Shu State; The officials of the DPRK and China wanted me to strengthen their precautions before, but now it seems that they have thought too much. ”

Wang Yan's cronies around him are all flatterers, where do they know about military affairs? After listening to Wang Yan's words, not only did he not dissuade him, but said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, my country has mountains and rivers and dangers, and there are hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers, where does Wu dare to attack?" The reason why those ministers asked His Majesty to strengthen his guard was just to take the opportunity to expand the power in his hands. ”

Wang Yan is greedy for pleasure, but there is one thing he is not completely confused about, that is, the military power must be firmly grasped in his own hands, and cannot be delegated at will, so as not to grow local forces.

At this time, after listening to the words of his cronies, he immediately felt extremely reasonable, and even if he ordered to transfer all the troops that had been transferred to the border back to Chengdu, he also ordered to send Ouyang Bin as an envoy to Wu State, and also used the gift of the enemy country to write to Yang Wu, saying that "the Emperor of Dashu wrote to the Emperor of Great Wu", and conveyed the meaning of friendship.

In March, Zhang Yanhan and Ouyang Bin arrived in Luoyang together, and after learning of Wang Yan's actions, Yang Wu suddenly laughed: "Wang Jian I is a hero, I didn't expect that the son he gave birth to is really so useless, it is really a shame for him!" ”

At this time, the Wu army had completed the assembly, and at the same time, the grain and grass savings had been prepared.

Therefore, when Yang Wu received the envoy Ouyang Bin in Luoyang, the army of Wu had already launched an attack on Shu from Fengxiang and Xiazhou at the same time.

At this time, outside Fengxiang City, Yang Jiong, Zhou Ben, Chai Zaiyong, Guo Chongtao, Li Congyi and others all gathered here.

Looking at the steady stream of Wu Guo's army marching forward, Yang Jiong was overwhelmed with emotion in his heart.

"In the past, my father led the army to fight at the age of sixteen, and at the age of eighteen, he led the army to quell the rebellion of Tian Yan, Zhu Yanshou, and An Renyi, and soon after that, he led the army to destroy the Yue Kingdom, and led the army to the Northern Expedition, which shocked China; And I'm twenty years old now, and I'm just leading an army to the battlefield for the first time, which is really far behind! ”

However, when Yang Wuchu led the troops, there were only thousands of people under his command; And now Yang Jiong has 50,000 troops under his command for the first time, which shows that the strength of Wu State has increased many times compared with the beginning.

This time to crusade against Shu, needless to say, the Southern Route Army took the road from Guizhou along the Yangtze River; On the side of the Northern Route Army, it went out of Dasanguan from Fengxiang, first captured Fengzhou and Xingzhou, and then sent troops to seize Sanquan County and attack Xingyuan Mansion.

After occupying Xingyuan Mansion, he will further south to launch an attack.

In fact, there is nothing surprising about this strategy of using troops, if the enemy army holds the city along the way, the Wu army will have to launch a strong attack; But Shu originally had mountains and rivers as a basis, so attacking the enemy city was originally planned.

"As the vanguard, Huo Yanwei has already led 10,000 troops to set off towards Weiwu City, according to the time, there should be news at this time." Yang Jiong thought in his heart.

Weiwu City is the fortress established by the Shu State in the north of Fengzhou, and it is the forefront of the Shu army against the Qi army; If the Wu army wants to attack Fengzhou, it must first attack Weiwu City.

At this time, Li Congyi, who was following alongside, opened his mouth and asked, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is worried about the next war?" ”

In this war, although Wu also prepared a large amount of grain and grass for military use, it was still a troublesome matter to transport it to Fengxiang; Therefore, in order to reduce the logistics burden as much as possible, Yang Wu ordered Li Congyi to serve as a transfer envoy and be responsible for logistics supply, which can be regarded as indirectly consuming Feng Xiang's strength, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, in the face of Yang Wu's edict, Li Congyi did not complain at all, but did his best to supply the army with food and grass, not only that, this time to attack the Shu Kingdom, Li Congyi also sent 5,000 troops to accompany the Wu army.

It seems that Li Congyi seems to be extremely loyal to the imperial court, and this attitude makes Yang Wu extremely satisfied.

"I don't worry about the war, with the strength of our army, how can there be a reason to be invincible? What Lone fears is that if the enemy holds the city, our army will have to storm it, and I don't know how many soldiers will die on the battlefield at that time! After listening to Li Congyi's question, Yang Jiong sighed on horseback.

On the side, Zhou Ben immediately disagreed after hearing this: "Your Royal Highness is merciful, but as the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, as long as you can pacify the Shu Kingdom, even if you pay some casualties, what can you do?" ”

At this moment, a messenger rode his horse in front of him, and he shouted loudly all the way: "Good news ahead, the enemy army has surrendered without a fight, and our army has captured the mighty city!" ”

"What? Have you already captured the city of might? Yang Jiong and the others were overjoyed when they heard this.

Mighty City is the first battle of this expedition, and it must be a good sign that it can be taken without bloodshed.

(There is another chapter in the afternoon)