In the face of Yang Wu's inquiry, Qin and Pei were reluctant to say it directly at first, and when Yang Wu proposed to send an imperial doctor to examine their bodies, Hou Zan replied: "My lord, the minister was indeed injured a lot in the battlefield back then, and the most serious thing was that when he was riding a horse and charging into battle, he was pierced by the enemy's spear in a big hole in his leg. Nowadays, when the weather is cool, it is often painful! ”

Seeing this, Qin Pei also said bluntly: "General Hou's situation should be a little lighter than mine. The king, the most serious wound suffered by the minister was when he was guarding Kunshan, his whole body was covered with wounds, and he almost died in battle. ”

Yang Wu hurriedly asked, "So how is your situation now?" Won't it be like Wang Maozhang? ”

When Qian Biao took advantage of the Dong Chang Rebellion to rise, the Huainan Army united with Dong Chang to deal with Qian Biao in order to suppress Qian Biao.

However, at that time, it was the most tense period of the relationship between Huainan and Zhu Wen in the north, that is, before the Qingkou War, the main energy of the Huainan army was contained by Zhu Wen, and it was difficult to concentrate on dealing with Qian Biao.

Qian Biao, on the other hand, adopted Gu Quanwu's suggestion to concentrate his forces to eliminate Dong Chang first, and then turned around to attack the Huainan army.

As a result, in those years, Gu Quanwu seemed to be hanging, and many Huainan generals including Tian Yan, An Renyi, Tai Meng, Zhou Ben and others were defeated by Gu Quanwu, and Jiaxing, Suzhou, Songjiang and other places all fell into the hands of the two Zhejiang armies.

It was under that circumstance that Qin Pei led 3,000 elite soldiers to defend the lonely city of Kunshan, facing the siege of tens of thousands of enemy troops, and finally surrendered to the enemy army when he was almost killed and wounded, and the city ran out of food.

In the end of that battle, Qin Pei was seriously injured and almost died.

I only heard Qin Pei continue: "The minister's old injury will not recur for the time being, but the minister has seen a Taoist chief two years ago, and he claimed that the minister will inevitably die of his injury in another five years, and there is no cure!" ”

His tone was a little gloomy, clearly convinced of the long word.

After Yang Wu heard this, while breathing a sigh of relief, he pointed at Qin Pei with a little cry and laughter: "Those weird guys, you can believe it after just talking nonsense?" It's just nonsense, it can't be true! ”

Who knew that not only Qin Pei, but also Hou Zhan, Zhu Jin, and even Guo Chongtao and others on the side said very seriously after listening to Yang Wu's words: "King, this kind of thing, it is better to believe it than to believe it!" ”

Yang Wu reacted at this time, although these people in front of him are all murderous and unblinking, they are convinced of those strange and chaotic things, which is also an important reason why the Buddha and the Taoist can develop greatly in this troubled world.

Yang Wu didn't argue with them about whether these things were credible or not, but he decided, and after settling down in Ezhou City, he sent out the imperial doctors who went with him to check the bodies of many veterans, so that there were still people like Wang Maozhang, who obviously had a recurrence of old injuries, but they didn't say anything.

"No wonder the famous general of the Ming Dynasty, Chang Yuchun, died in the army shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he was only forty years old; He is also a brave general, who is the first to enter the battle in every battle, and his body must be full of injuries. Before getting off the boat, Yang Wu thought in his heart.

Soon, Wang Maozhang sent someone to deliver a message saying that they had finished preparing and asked Yang Wu to go to inspect it, and Yang Wu was naturally happy to go.

The soldiers of the forbidden army are all carefully selected, and they have strict military discipline and strict training, so they naturally look very imposing.

Although the Zuozhen National Army under Wang Maozhang has not experienced any major battles in recent years, the Zuozhen National Army has been guarding Ezhou all the year round, and many of its soldiers are veterans of the Huainan Army era, so after this review, Yang Wu found that these soldiers not only have a neat queue, but also have a killing atmosphere that his Yulin Army soldiers do not have.

"It seems that I have been alone in Jinling for a long time, and even these soldiers of the Yulin Army are a little slack!" Yang Wu was thoughtful.

He didn't tell Wang Maozhang what Zhu Qianyou reported to him just now, after all, Wang Maozhang's purpose of concealing the recurrence of his old injury was originally to be able to participate in the next big war, so he naturally would not send him back to Jinling at this time.

What's more, now that the battle against Gangneung is about to begin, it is not a good choice to change generals at this time.

So he plans to continue pretending that he doesn't know anything for the time being, and wait for the end of this big war to find out.

After entering Ezhou City, as more news came, Yang Wu also began to make final plans for the dispatch of troops.

Through the investigation of the long sword capital, it is now basically determined that the Liang State and the Shu State have been united, although there is no sign of the main force of the two countries, but even if they each send a part of the troops, it is a large number after adding up.

As a result, some of the deployments that had been made before would need to be adjusted.

First of all, Gangneung is a fortified city.

After the Battle of Chibi that year, Zhou Yu took advantage of the victory to attack Jiangling, but the defenders under Cao Ren's command held out here for up to a year before being breached, which bought Cao Cao enough time to regain momentum.

Now if Wu wants to conquer Jiangling City, it will inevitably face the problem of how to attack the fortified city.

Although Wu Jun carried a large amount of gunpowder with the army this time, if there was a chance, Yang Wu would not be stingy with gunpowder for blasting.

However, in order to carry out the blasting, there was a problem of how to safely transport the gunpowder under the city walls and ignite it.

The terrain of Gangneung is relatively low compared to the surrounding areas, and the nearby rivers crisscross the area, so there is more moisture in the soil.

If you dig tunnels, you need to solve the problem of water underneath.

Of course, these are only technical issues, and there is no need to discuss them now.

However, in addition to this problem, there are two other problems to pay attention to, the first is naturally the Acropolis built by Gao Jichang outside Gangneung City, even if it is blasted, it can only conquer one of the Acropolis, and the Gangneung defenders may also launch a counterattack, which ultimately makes the two sides have to invest a lot of troops in order to fight for the Acropolis.

The second problem is the problem of the moat, when attacking the city of Hangzhou, Huainan mobilized a large number of people and state soldiers from various states, so that the moat was filled in within a month.

Not to mention that Wu did not have as many people and labor to use back then, even according to the situation back then, it would take at least a month to fill in the moat.

And a month later, I am afraid that the reinforcements of Liang and Shu have already hit Jiangling City.

In addition, there is another extremely serious problem, and that is climate change.

It's already February, and it won't be long before the rainy season begins, when the rain will continue to fall, and the difficulty of attacking the castle in the heavy rain will only increase exponentially.

In short, it was almost impossible to take down Gangneung before the enemy reinforcements arrived.

After all, Wu's forces were limited, and it was impossible to divide his troops to resist the enemy's reinforcements, which might be as many as 100,000, and still have the spare strength to break through Gangneung City in a short time.

So after everyone discussed it for a long time, everyone had a headache and couldn't think of any good plan to quickly attack Gangneung.

At this time, Guo Chongtao stood up and proposed: "Great King, since it is difficult to break through the city before the enemy reinforcements arrive in Jiangling, why not simply target the enemy's reinforcements and surround Jiangling City first, but not rush to attack." After defeating the enemy reinforcements, there will naturally be enough time to storm the city! ”

"Reinforcements?" Yang Wu's eyes lit up and blurted out.

He also thought of this method just now, but he hadn't thought through many details yet, so he didn't rush to bring it up.

At this time, after listening to Guo Chongtao's suggestion, he asked expectantly: "Since Guo Senjun wants to deal with reinforcements first and then attack Jiangling, which support army should our army deal with first?" ”

To deal with the enemy's reinforcements first, it is natural to take advantage of the enemy's convergence before the enemy's army converges.

Liang reinforcements were stationed in Xiangzhou, north of Jiangling; The Shu reinforcements are currently stationed in Guizhou, west of Jiangling.

The two support armies not only went in different directions, but also pulled a little far apart.

If the Wu army took advantage of the fact that the Liang army and the Shu army did not converge and concentrated their forces against one of the enemy forces, then there would still be a chance to break the enemy army individually.

It's just that on the question of which enemy army to choose first, Yang Wu was a little hesitant.

If one of the two enemy armies is defeated by the Wu army, I am afraid that the other will quickly withdraw after learning the news.

In this way, it is necessary for the Wu army to choose which enemy army to attack first.

Judging from the information obtained, the strength of the Liang army is relatively small.

And now the situation in the north is not very peaceful, as the Yan lord Liu Shouguang took the initiative to send troops to attack the king of Beiping, the Jin army will inevitably not continue to sit idly by; And once the Jin army is dispatched, Zhu Wen will inevitably lead the Liang army to attack to help Yan resist the Jin attack.

In this way, the strength of the Xiangzhou Liang army led by Kou Yanqing is relatively insufficient, and it is pieced together from all over the country, and the combat power will also be affected.

It can be said that the difficulty of attacking the Liang army first is bound to be lower than that of attacking the Shu army.

But on the other hand, if you attack the Shu army first, there are also enough reasons.

After all, Wu and Shu have always had no grievances, and now the Wu army is also attacking Jiangling, not Shuzhong.

In this case, if Wu Jun can't teach Wang Jian a profound lesson and chop off his somewhat long hand, how can it achieve the purpose of deterring the Quartet?

So from this point of view, the Wu army should instead concentrate its forces to deal with the Shu army first.

Yang Wu was a little hesitant between these two points, so he did not rashly put forward his own opinions.

Now that Guo Chongtao also put forward the idea of dealing with the enemy's reinforcements first, he naturally wanted to hear his opinion.