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For the Jin State, Li Cunmiao not only successfully lifted the siege of Luzhou in this battle, but also caused great casualties to the Liang army, which greatly increased Li Cunmiao's personal prestige, and since then he has completely grasped the authority of the Jin State.

The generals who had expressed doubts about Li Cunmiao began to become convinced at this time.

In addition, the momentum of the entire Jin Kingdom has also been greatly improved after this war, because of the negative impact of the two sieges of Jinyang, which has been completely eliminated since then, and the situation of the Jin and Liang hegemony has been rapidly changed.

For Liang Guo, the defeat of Luzhou not only lost so many soldiers, but also greatly frustrated the prestige of the Liang army.

This was another major defeat for the Liang army after the defeat of the Wu army.

At this time, not only the people of other forces, but even the Liang army gradually felt the decline of the Liang army, and it was impossible to run rampant in the world like back then.

In Daliang City, when Zhu Wen learned the news of the defeat of Luzhou, he was stunned.

After a long time, Zhu Wen came to his senses and couldn't help sighing: "Giving birth to a son should be like Li Yazi, Li Keyong has no regrets even though he dies!" My sons are like a bunch of stupid pigs compared to me! ”

At this moment, Zhu Wen was full of sadness and worry, a few years ago, when he was still the most powerful feudal town in the world, at that time, there were only a few feudal towns in the whole world that could compete with him head-on, and among the many feudal towns, only Li Keyong of Hedong and Yang Xingmi of Huainan had really defeated him on the battlefield.

Needless to say, if it weren't for the fact that he had made too many mistakes, Zhu Wen would not even have the slightest possibility of rising, let alone forcing the Jin Kingdom to the point of near destruction.

As for Yang Xingmi, the victory in the Qingkou War directly destroyed Zhu Wen's hope of annexing Huainan, and it can be said that to a certain extent, it completely ruined the possibility of Zhu Wen unifying the world.

Since then, the situation of confrontation between the north and the south has emerged, and Zhu Wen has not been able to get the rich land of Jianghuai, but the strength has to be greatly restrained by Huainan, and in the following so many years, it has been able to fall into the quagmire of multi-faceted warfare, no matter how strong the Liang army is, how much can it do?

And now that so many years have passed, Li Keyong and Yang Xingmi, the two great enemies in life, have died of illness one after another, leaving him alone in the world, which should have been a good thing, but what makes Zhu Wen feel sad and angry is that although Li Keyong and Yang Xingmi are gone, none of the sons they left behind are weak.

Yang Wu, a person who has long inherited the foundation of Huainan, naturally does not need to say much, how much loss the two Northern Expeditions caused to the Liang army, and even Suzhou, where he was born, is now occupied by the Wu army; In addition, in order to prevent the Wu army from going on another northern expedition, a large number of Liang troops had to be stationed in the area of Songzhou and Yingzhou, which greatly restrained the strength of the Liang army.

As for Li Cunqing, the just-concluded Battle of Luzhou also showed this person's outstanding ability to lead troops, and over time, when Li Cunqiao completely matured, wouldn't there be another Yang Wu?

Thinking that he is already old, and whether it is Yang Wu or Li Cunqiao, they are still so young now, if he is here, he may still be able to block the attacks of these two families, but when he is no longer there in the future, Zhu Wen can already imagine that the Liang State he established single-handedly is afraid that it will be destroyed in the hands of these two families.

At this time, Zhu Wen not only hated why his sons couldn't produce a character like Yang Wu and Li Cunxuan, but also secretly regretted in his heart why he didn't exterminate the Jin State in one fell swoop when it was at its weakest, so that now the Jin State has made a comeback and has become the enemy of the Liang State again.

Of course, these feelings have no effect at all now, and what we need to do now is to appease the soldiers as soon as possible, stabilize people's hearts, and at the same time prepare for the Jin army's attack by taking advantage of the victory and the actions that various forces may launch to take advantage of the fire and rob.

In mid-May, Zhou Dewei and Li Cunzhang took advantage of the victory to lead the army to Zezhou.

Zezhou Assassin Wang Ban has always been unpopular, the generals in the city are not used by him, and in the face of the attack of the Jin army, people are panicked, and many people have the idea of surrendering.

At this critical juncture, Niu Cunjie, the general of the Liang army, led troops from the western capital of Luoyang to meet the fleeing army of Jiazhai, and when he arrived at Tianjing Pass, he learned the news that the Jin army was attacking Zezhou.

Niu Cunjie said to his subordinates: "Zezhou is a vital place, and it must not be lost; Even if there is no edict from His Majesty, we should come to the rescue. ”

Everyone was afraid in their hearts, and they didn't want to go to save Zezhou, so they shirked it for various reasons.

Niu Cunjie immediately said angrily: "It is unjust to see that the friendly army is in danger and does not save it; To flee for fear of the enemy's strength is to be uncourageous. So he forcibly gave the order and led the soldiers to Zezhou.

By the time he arrived in Zezhou, the people in the city had already set fire to the city, wanting to respond to the Jin army entering the city, but the assassin Shi Wang Ban was even more helpless, and only knew to close the inner city and hold on.

It wasn't until the Ox Saving Festival arrived that the people's hearts settled down; And the Jin soldiers immediately arrived, and along the city digging tunnels to attack the city, Niu Cunjie struggled to resist, before and after a total of 13 days, and finally Liu Zhijun from Jinzhou led the army to the rescue, Zhou Dewei then burned the siege equipment, retired to Gaoping.

In early June, Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, sent troops to attack Yongzhou with the 50,000 troops of Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, and Zhang Chengye, the overseer under the command of the king of Jin, also led his troops south to respond to them.

In the face of Wang Jian and Li Maozhen's actions of taking advantage of the fire to loot, Zhu Wen appointed Liu Zhijun as the envoy of the camp on the west road to lead the troops to resist.

Liu Zhijun, who has made many great achievements, has become the "fire extinguisher" of the Liang army at this time, and where the situation is urgent, Zhu Wen will send him to wherever

And this time, Liu Zhijun once again lived up to expectations, and together with Wang Chongshi, the envoy of Youguo Jiedu, defeated the army of Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, in the Battle of Makuya, and the Jin and Shu armies had to quickly withdraw their troops after learning the news.

When a big war broke out between the Jin and Liang sides for Luzhou, the newly established state of Wu did not take advantage of the defeat of the Liang army and took advantage of the fire to loot.

At the beginning, Li Chengsi led 10,000 people to attack Yingzhou, and finally failed, and many people shouted that it was a pity, thinking that Li Chengsi should bring more troops to go, or should increase troops from the rear after attacking the outer city, so as to completely defeat Yingzhou.

In this regard, Yang Wu was a little unimpressed.

Now Li Cunmiao has succeeded to the throne as in history, and the next thing is that the Jin State is getting stronger and stronger, and the Liang State is getting weaker and weaker, until it is finally destroyed by the Jin State.

In this case, Yang Wu did not turn against Li Cunqiao, but sent troops to Yingzhou in accordance with the covenant, which was already benevolent and righteous.

As for the occupation of Yingzhou, it is not of great significance, except for increasing the territory and population of a state, there is no more benefit, but it may attract the attention of the Liang army to the south again, which is not only not conducive to the confrontation between Liang and Jin, but also not conducive to Wu's action to unify the south.

Therefore, except for a strategically important city like Xuzhou, Yang Wu did not plan to collide with the Liang army again in a short period of time.

What's more, now that Zhu Wen is still there, the hearts of the people of Liang are still stable, and there has been no major turmoil.

In this case, if Wu wants to seize the land of Liang State, it will definitely take a lot of energy and suffer great losses to do so.

But if you wait until the hearts of the people of the Liang State collapse before fighting with it, maybe you only need to send someone into the city to persuade you to surrender, and you can easily obtain one city after another, so why do thankless things at such a time?

Of course, the reason why Yang Wu refused to take advantage of the fire to rob later, in addition to the above reasons, another point is that Wu Jun is making a major adjustment.

Since the separation of military and government was implemented in Huainan under the auspices of Yang Wu in the third year of Tianfu, six armies with a total of 120,000 mobile troops were formed at that time, and a rule was formulated that a rotation should be carried out every five years.

And this year is exactly the fifth year, that is, this year it is time to carry out the transfer and rotation of the various armies.

Therefore, in May, after Li Chengsi returned from attacking Yingzhou without success, Yang Wu issued an order ordering that the seven armies established before should be transferred in accordance with the rotation regulations formulated by the Ministry of War.

Unlike the generals of the Northern Song Dynasty, who did not mobilize and only rotated the army, Wu currently implements the transfer of both generals and troops, or at the same time as the army undergoes a large-scale change of defense, the generals of each army also make certain adjustments.

Specifically, the left and right Tengxiang armies, which had been stationed in the north, and the left and right Wuxiang armies, which had been stationed in the south, will be transferred to Jinling.

The left and right Zhenwu armies originally stationed in Jinling will be transferred to the northern defense line, the left and right Zhenguo armies will be transferred to Ezhou and Jiangxi, and the Zuo Tianwu army will be transferred to Zhejiang.

As for the governors of the various armies, certain adjustments have also been made, first of all, the left and right Zhenwu armies stationed in the northern defense line are respectively served as governors by Li Jian and Wang Juan, the Zuozhen National Army stationed in Ezhou is led by the general Wang Maozhang, the Youzhen National Army in Jiangxi is led by Liu Xin, and the Zuotianwu Army in Zhejiang is led by Liu Cun.

As for the remaining Zhang Xun, Zhou Ben, Li Chengsi, Qin Pei, and Zhu Siqing, they stayed in Jinling.

Among the five governors stationed in Jinling, Zhou Ben and Li Chengsi were Yang Wu's fathers-in-law, Zhu Siqing and Qin Pei were Yang Wu's cronies, and Zhang Xun was old and in poor health recently, so Yang Wu specially transferred him back to Jinling to recuperate.

Judging from this distribution, Yang Wu is obviously deliberately strengthening his control over the Jinling garrison, and at the same time gradually gathering the elite troops who have been tempered by war in the frontier to Jinling, and further strengthening the direct force of Jinling.

By the end of June, the change of guard and the transfer of various localities had been basically completed, and the handover of various stations had been put in place.

However, this large-scale mobilization still has a great impact on the combat strength of the army, and it will take time to integrate.

As a result, some forces thought they saw an opportunity and were ready to send troops to attack.