The Huainan Army's attack on Hongzhou and the occupation of Tamna Island went extremely smoothly, but on another battlefield, the attack on Yuezhou led by Liu Cun ended in defeat again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When Qin Pei sent troops to Hongzhou, in order to contain the Hunan army and prevent them from reinforcing Hongzhou, in mid-August, Liu Cunming led Leng Ye to lead 5,000 troops to garrison Tangnian County, Li Rao led 5,000 troops to garrison Tunpuqi, and he himself led 8,000 troops as a follow-up.

However, as the so-called impermanence of the army, Liu Cun's arrangement was originally extremely safe, which could not only contain the Hunan army, but also support each other when attacked by the Hunan army.

However, when the time entered September, it suddenly rained heavily on Tang Nian's side, which caused problems in the connection between the three garrisons of the Huainan Army.

Under the leadership of General Qin Yanhui, the Hunan Army launched a fierce attack directly on Tangnian County, where Leng Ye was stationed, Leng Ye could not resist, and hurriedly sent people to ask Liu Cun for help, but the reinforcements were blocked by heavy rain and failed to arrive in time, Tangnian County had been broken by the Hunan army, and even Leng Ye himself was captured by the Hunan army.

After learning the news, Liu Cun had no choice but to slowly withdraw his army, and at the same time sent someone to give an order to Li Rao, who was stationed in Puqi, so that he would also start to withdraw his troops back to Ezhou.

When Li Rao obeyed the order and began to retreat, he was suddenly attacked by another Hunan general, Xu Dexun, Li Rao was caught off guard by the Hunan army, and his subordinates were scattered, and not many of them finally fled back to Ezhou.

Since then, the Huainan army's attack on Yuezhou once again ended in a loss of troops, and the Hunan side defeated a strong enemy again, and the morale was high; After Leng Ye and Li Rao were captured in Tanzhou, they were killed by Ma Yin because they were unwilling to surrender.

After the news reached Guangling, Yang Wu expressed dissatisfaction with Liu Cun's defeat again, and on the other hand, he was surprised by the combat effectiveness of the Hunan army.

"No wonder the Huainan Army launched many attacks on Ma Yin in history, but in the end they all ended in failure, and it was not until Ma Yin died that they took advantage of the civil strife in Chu to eliminate it, but with the counterattack of the remnants of the Chu State, the Huainan Army was driven out of Hunan again."

Although Ma Yin's army recruited a large number of Hunan soldiers after the capture of Hunan, the people of Hunan were brave and brave, and the combat power of its soldiers was relatively strong in the south; Second, the core of today's Hunan army is still the Caizhou army of the year, especially its high-level generals are basically veterans who have fought on the battlefield for many years, have rich experience in actual combat, and have a strong ability to lead troops to fight.

At that time, the Caizhou army led by Sun Ru fought with Yang Xingmi and won many battles, if he was not too brutal, he was really unpopular, but I am afraid that it is difficult to say whether the Yang family can occupy Huainan in the end.

And the high-ranking generals of Ma Yin's army were the remnants of Sun Ru's army. The relatively good generals and the soldiers who can be called fierce make the combat effectiveness of the Hunan army second only to Huainan among the many feudal towns in the south, and it is not at all comparable to the Jiangxi army that has not been tempered by war.

And this time Liu Cun led his troops to attack Yuezhou, because it was an active attack, it did not have an advantage in terms of geography, and it was not even half of the opponent's strength in terms of troops, coupled with the continuous heavy rain, which led to the Huainan army's mutual contact being cut off, so that it is understandable that the Huainan army, which was in a favorable place at the right time and almost no advantage, was defeated by the enemy.

Of course, although the Huainan Army was defeated in this battle, it did not change much for the overall situation in the south, especially Jiangzhou and Hongzhou had fallen into the hands of Huainan before this, and the most prosperous and important places in Jiangxi had been captured, which would not be affected by Liu Cun's defeat.

In addition, after the victory, the Hunan army took the opportunity to launch an attack on Ezhou, but it was repelled by Liu Cun's army, so there was still no need to worry about Ezhou's defense.

Yang Wu immediately ordered Leng Ye and Li Rao to be posthumously crowned as earls and adopted their children; At the same time, it was ordered to replenish the troops in Ezhou in order to restore the strength of the Zuo Wuxiang army and avoid problems in the defense of Ezhou.

After dealing with the affairs in Ezhou, Yang Wu began to think: "It is now the end of the third year of Tianyou, and I remember that in history, Zhu Quanzhong began the final process of usurping the throne in January next year, and officially established Houliang in April; So in terms of time, has he already started planning now? ”

Although Zhu Quanzhong in history at this time because of the fall of Luzhou, his plan to eliminate Liu Rengong in one fell swoop ended in failure, but his overall strength is still the strongest feudal town in the world, whether it is Li Keyong, Liu Rengong, or Yang Wu and Wang Jian in the south, he is not comparable to him, so he has enough confidence to usurp the throne and become emperor.

And Zhu Quanzhong in this life has lost too many elite soldiers because of successive defeats to Huainan, and his strength cannot be compared with him in history.

Today's Zhu Quanzhong, there is Li Keyong in the north, a powerful old enemy, and Huainan, a newly rising enemy in the south, so does he dare to usurp the throne at the beginning of next year as he did in history? Yang Wu was very curious about this.

"If he doesn't dare to usurp the throne and become emperor, then won't the Tang Dynasty continue?"

However, the fact is that Zhu Quanzhong not only dared to usurp the throne and become emperor, but even more eager than he did in history!

When Zhaoyi Jiedu made Ding Hui surrender to Li Keyong and led to the loss of Luzhou, Zhu Quanzhong quickly mobilized troops to launch a siege of Luzhou, trying to recapture the city of Luzhou when the Jin army was not firmly established.

However, he forgot that there was still a Ding Hui in Luzhou City that he hated to the core.

Ding Hui guarded Luzhou for many years and was extremely familiar with the local area, and immediately after his surrender, he was courteous and favored by Li Keyong, the king of Jin. With him, the Jin army's garrison of Luzhou was tight, so the Liang army's attempt to recapture Luzhou quickly failed.

In October, Zhu Quanzhong knew that it was impossible to break through Luzhou in a short period of time, so he was ready to temporarily withdraw his troops and go back to rest and recuperate, so as to make a long-term plan.

However, after the army arrived in Xiangzhou, Zhu Quanzhong suddenly fell ill, so the army could only temporarily stop in Xiangzhou.

Xiangzhou was originally one of the six states of Weibo, but Zhu Quanzhong's long stay in Xiangzhou frightened Luo Shaowei, the envoy of Weibo.

If it is said that who is the person who suffered the most because of the bloody night of the Weizhou Incident, then this person must be none other than Luo Shaowei himself.

As an old feudal town, Wei Bojiedu once had quite a strong strength, otherwise it would not have lasted until now after more than a hundred years of confrontation with the Tang Dynasty.

In the past, before the world was completely chaotic, Wei Bo's army clashed with the imperial army many times, but they relied on their great strength to force the imperial court to recognize their status.

Even in today's era, with the successive rise of Hedong, Xuanwu, Huainan and other feudal towns, today's Wei Bo can no longer be regarded as the strongest feudal town in the world, but with the strength of Wei Bo's army, there is no problem in self-preservation.

Therefore, although Luo Shaowei followed Zhu Quanzhong and sent troops to accompany him to fight in the east and west, Zhu Quanzhong must also be polite to him, and he dare not offend too much.

But as Luo Shaowei took the initiative to collude with Zhu Quanzhong and kill his 8,000 tooth soldiers, this certainly ended the situation of Wei Bo's unruly soldiers for more than a hundred years, but it also greatly consumed the strength of Wei Bo's army.

Wei Bojiedu made the six states under his command except for Weizhou, the other five states all rebelled overnight, and Luo Shaowei was unable to conquer at all, so he could only continue to rely on Zhu Quanzhong's strength.

Although Zhu Quanzhong considered his own safety and agreed to send troops to help Luo Shaowei quell the rebellion, he asked Luo Shaowei to provide money and food for his counterinsurgency army.

This request is obviously very reasonable, and it is a request for others, so Luo Shaowei agreed to it.

Who knew that in the next few months of counterinsurgency, in order to supply more than 100,000 Liang troops with grain and grass, Luo Shaowei's consumption was very huge; After the fall of Luzhou, the Liang army once again gathered heavy troops in Xiangzhou in order to recapture Luzhou, and its grain and grass supply also fell on Luo Shaowei's head again.

By the time the Liang army withdrew now, Wei Bojun had consumed nearly one million guan of money in order to supply the grain and grass of the Liang army, killed cattle, sheep and pigs worth more than 700,000 guan, and the supply of grain was even more innumerable, plus the bribes sent to some Liang army generals were also hundreds of thousands of guan, and these heavy burdens made the money, grain and materials that Wei Bojun had stored for many years be consumed cleanly.

You must know that although Weibo Liuzhou is located in the most prosperous place in Hebei, after all, it only has the territory of Liuzhou, but it has to supply more than 100,000 Liang troops for nearly ten months of logistics, how can its consumption be afforded.

Such a heavy loss made Luo Shaowei feel painful, but now his strength has been greatly damaged, and he is even more powerless to resist Zhu Quanzhong's request, so he can only sigh to his cronies in the end: "Even if you add up all the iron in the forty-three counties of Weibo's six prefectures, I am afraid that it will not be such a big mistake!" ”

However, now that the big mistake has been made, Luo Shaowei's strength has been greatly damaged, and now he can only live by completely relying on Zhu Quanzhong.

And this time, Zhu Quanzhong suddenly stayed in Xiangzhou on the grounds that he was sick, which made Luo Shaowei even more worried.

Who is Zhu Quanzhong? That's notoriously cunning.

If he had no intentions against Webb, Robert would never have believed him.

Before this, although Luo Shaowei was attached to Zhu Quanzhong, he still had strong strength after all, and he had gained a greater independence. Standing nature, even Zhu Quanzhong did not dare to covet his territory at will; But now that his strength has been greatly damaged, if Zhu Quanzhong starts his idea again, it will be a big disaster for him.

What's more, this time Zhu Quanzhong suddenly stayed in Xiangzhou on the grounds that he was seriously ill, who knows if he was secretly planning something?

"Today's plan, the only way to persuade King Liang to be the emperor, with the great merit of taking the lead in persuasion, and then be more submissive to him in the future, presumably King Liang will let me go of Wei Bo Liuzhou, right?" Luo Shaowei thought to himself.