Hearing the decision to surrender, the generals' faces were a little unnatural.

The first thing that made them feel uneasy was that Kou Yanqing was pretty good to them before, and they didn't want to betray them directly.

And the second point made it even more difficult for them to make up their minds, that is, the treatment of Wu after surrendering.

Prior to this, the generals who surrendered to Wu were now gradually integrated into the Wu Kingdom, except for Qian Biao's subordinates, and the generals of other forces were generally not reused even if they surrendered to Wu.

And according to the rules of the State of Wu, even if they are reused, the rights they can exercise in the future are far less than those of being generals in the State of Liang.

In contrast, it seems that it is more comfortable to stay in Liang State.

Zhang Yi naturally understood the generals' worries, and he whispered to the generals: "I can't hide it, what kind of treatment we will receive after surrendering, even the generals don't know the bottom in their hearts." But if we stay in Xiangzhou City, do you think we still have a way to live? ”

The general's face changed, and he hurriedly asked, "What does this mean, general?" ”

Zhang Yi sighed: "I heard that Your Majesty is no longer good, and the people in the court have no intention or ability to support us here; In the absence of reinforcements, do you think we can hold Xiangzhou? ”

"Don't forget, even if we don't surrender, those few people will surrender!"

The "those" mentioned by Zhang Yi are actually the other leading generals.

When this person is in fear, even if the crowd will not surrender, who can guarantee that others will not surrender?

As long as one person is determined to surrender, Xiangzhou will be lost.

Even, even if no one takes the initiative to surrender, Xiangzhou will still be lost.

In this case, even though the generals still had some concerns about surrendering to Wu, they finally decided to agree to Zhang Yi's plan.

Immediately, Zhang Yi sent one of his henchmen out of the city to contact Wu's army.

For this kind of good thing sent to the door, Yang Wu and others naturally accepted it gladly, and agreed on things related to entering the city.

That night, Zhang Yi really opened the city gate, and the Wu army, which had been prepared, immediately poured into the city and took over the city gate.

Immediately after that, the following army continued to march into the city.

The defenders were in chaos, either surrendering immediately under the attack of the Wu army, or they were wiped out by the Wu army after failing to resist in a hurry.

It's a pity that Kou Yanqing, Liu Jun, Gao Jichang and others saw that the situation was not good, so they chose to go out of the city and cross the river to Fancheng early.

By the dawn of the second morning, the entire city of Xiangzhou had fallen under the control of the Wu army, and only a small number of enemy troops in the city were still resisting.

At this time, inside the Wu army camp.

"You have made a contribution to the city, so that our army can easily take the big city of Xiangzhou, and Gu will naturally not be disadvantaged."

Yang Wu sat upright in the center of his upper hand, his fingers tapping lightly on the armrest.

And Zhang Yi led his generals to kneel on the ground nervously, waiting for Yang Wu's decision.

"That's it, Zhang Yi, I heard that you originally had 3,000 people in your hands, and yesterday many Liang troops in the defenders of the city surrendered to our army."

"Lone allows you to select two thousand people from these surrendered troops, plus your original three thousand, to form a new Righteous Army, and you will be the commander of the Righteous Army, and obey the command of the Privy Council alone!"

"If you can make a contribution in the future, then Lone will also give you more troops, let you be the commander of the capital, or even the governor! As long as you can be loyal to Lone, it will not be difficult to worship the marquis in the future! ”

"As for your subordinates, they all have their own rewards, you list their lists and credits, and they will be sealed later!" Yang Wu solemnly promised.

After hearing this, Zhang Yi was overjoyed, and said gratefully: "The last general thanks the king for his kindness, and he will swear to repay him!" ”

Although when the envoy he sent last night was discussing the surrender with Yang Wu, Yang Wu said that there would be a heavy reward afterwards, but after all, it was before the war.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, no one is sure whether Yang Wu will cash in on the "heavy reward".

Even if Yang Wu really rewarded them heavily, Zhang Yi also felt that according to Wu Guo's previous practice, it was likely to give himself the position of commander of the van army, and it would be difficult to be reused in the future.

But now it seems that although Yang Wu still only gave him the position of commander, the troops were his original subordinates, and they were not the commanders of the Xiang army, but Du. The new formation, which was established outside the Forbidden Army, was under the sole control of the Privy Council.

This meant that his status was even higher than that of the commanders of the forbidden army.

What made him even more excited was that Yang Wu also promised him that as long as he could make more contributions in the future, then his position could continue to be promoted.

"That's right! This time it's really the right bet! Zhang Yi was grateful, and secretly felt glad for his decision last night.

He didn't know that the reason why he was able to get this treatment was the decision made by Yang Wu and others yesterday after temporary deliberation.

After Zhang Yi's envoy returned, Yang Wu convened a small meeting of the generals, in which Guo Chongtao specially raised the issue of the treatment of the generals.

In the past, Wu Guo completely absorbed and fused those generals, and did not give them any chance to sit big.

For this reason, those demoted generals will basically not be treated too highly.

However, Guo Chongtao proposed that with the successful capture of Jingxiang by the Wu army, the south has been basically unified except for Lingnan.

Next, the main goal of Wu was to put the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

What is certain is that when the Wu army carries out the Northern Expedition in the future, there will definitely be many people in the Liang State who will hesitate between "surrender" and "hold".

Especially considering that when the Wu army went on a northern expedition, the Jin army would definitely not let go of the opportunity to march south.

In this way, under the northern and southern attacks of the Wu army and the Jin army, the Liang state is likely to collapse in a short time.

At that time, many local forces of the Liang State will make a choice, whether to surrender to the Wu State or the Jin State.

If Wu's national policy remains unchanged, he will still be careful to guard against those surrendered foreign forces, and try his best to suppress them, but I am afraid that in the process of competing with Jin for these local forces, Wu will lag far behind Jin.

In other words, those local forces could surrender to the Jin state and thus become a hostile force of the Wu state.

At that time, with the Jin State behind him, I am afraid that the Wu State may not be able to easily defeat these local forces; Even if you can defeat it, you don't know how much it will cost you to completely subdue those places.

And if Wu can also change its strategy and properly give those generals a good future, many people from those local forces will naturally choose to surrender.

In the final analysis, after surrendering, it is only a few people who betray again, and more only want to keep their original interests.

Moreover, the current state of Wu has the entire south as its rear, and there is no need to worry about some local forces even if they rebel.

When the situation is settled in the future, Wu will naturally have a way to deal with those disobedient local forces.

After listening to Guo Chongtao's suggestion, the generals of Wu Guozhong did not say anything, after all, they were only responsible for fighting the war and generally did not care much about these things.

But Yang Wu is different, and he naturally has to think about such an important suggestion.

Over the ages, there have not been many people who have been as careful as Wu had been before the surrender forces, and more forces will use those surrendering forces in the process of unifying the world.

The most famous is the Qing Dynasty.

With the original strength of the Qing army, it was almost impossible to unify China, and the main reason for its success was that it was good at using the army to surrender.

At the beginning of the Qing army's entry into the customs, they gave all kinds of favors to those who surrendered to the army, such as Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi and others were knighted, in order to attract those Ming generals in the north who had not yet decided to act.

On the Nanming side, those ministers of the DPRK and China are too pedantic and do not understand any flexibility in policy.

For those forces in the north that have almost turned into warlords, they still hold the old vision of the past, and give those generals a count at most.

In addition, those civilian bureaucratic cliques are still high above the sky, do not look at those warlords, and the conditions they give are mostly flashy.

Compared with these two, those local forces that were still hesitant naturally joined the side of the Qing army.

As a result, not long after the Qing army entered the customs, it swept through the entire Central Plains and completely brought the north under its rule.

In addition, the anti-Qing forces in the south continued to kill each other, seriously depleting their own strength, which made it easy for the Qing army to seize the whole of China.

Now the strength of Wu is far from being able to ignore those local forces, so Yang Wu feels that it is necessary to fight for it in the future.

And giving Zhang Yi this preferential treatment is an obvious signal, telling those who are still hesitant in the northern Liang State that the policy of Wu State has begun to change, so that they can rest assured to vote.

Of course, Yang Wu will not be stupid enough to indulge these forces too much, at most, he will loosen the ties on the original basis, giving those people a hope, so that they will not all surrender to the Jin Kingdom.

Zhang Yi didn't know the reason for this, but his excitement was beyond words.

He immediately proposed to Yang Wu that he was willing to personally lead the troops to attack Fancheng and open the way for the Wu army.

In response to this suggestion, Yang Wu asked him to select 5,000 soldiers first and form a righteous army on the grounds that his subordinates had not yet been selected.

After resting for a few days in Xiangzhou City, Wu's naval army also arrived by water.

On 11 May, Wu's army crossed the Han River and launched an attack on Fancheng.

Three days later, the Wu army broke through the city, and Kou Yanqing and other generals fled again.

Next, Yang Wu ordered Qin Pei, Chai Zaiyong and other generals to lead their troops to attack from all sides, and successively seized the four states of Ying, Sui, Shen, and An, and completely pulled the battle line with Gwangju and Shouzhou in the east.

However, at this time, the Wu army was also exhausted and was already at the end of its strong crossbow.

As for the Liang army, at the suggestion of Jing Xiang, Zhu Wen, who was bedridden, ordered the general Yang Shihou to lead 50,000 troops south to help stabilize the southern defense line and avoid the collapse of the entire south.

Under these circumstances, Yang Wu decided to temporarily withdraw his troops and wait for the next opportunity.

However, there are still many things that need to be arranged before the troops are collected and returned.

The first point is the defense of Jingxiang.

The regimes based in Jiangnan all regard Jingxiang as the primary and important place.

But precisely because Jing Xiang is too important, Jing Xiang's garrison is a little difficult to handle.

If the number of troops left behind in Jingxiang is too small, it may not be able to stop the attack of foreign enemies; And if there are too many troops left, then there may be a situation of local secession.

Not to mention Gao Jichang during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the land of Jingxiang during the Northern and Southern Dynasties was also repeatedly betrayed, although it was suppressed many times by the southern court, but it still could not guarantee that Jingxiang was completely subordinate.

Yang Wu didn't think that with the current situation in Wu, there would be no local separation.

You must know that during the most powerful period of the Tang Dynasty, there would be a major rebellion such as the Anshi Rebellion, not to mention that it was already turbulent today.

Moreover, after more than 100 years of warlord warfare since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the concept of local secession has long been "deeply rooted in the hearts of the people", and Yang Wu does not feel that there are no ambitious people among his generals.

And even if Yang Wu's subordinates are not ambitious, he can't guarantee that there are no ambitious people among his subordinates.

If someone follows Gao Jichang's example and engages in secession in Jingxiang, Yang Wu will have a headache at that time.

So in the end, Yang Wu decided to garrison three armies with a total of 60,000 troops in Jingxiang, stationed in Jingzhou, Ezhou and Xiangzhou respectively, so that they could not only support each other, but also check and balance each other, so as to avoid the strength of one family from being too strong.

Among them, Chai Zaiyong was responsible for staying in Xiangzhou, Liu Xin was responsible for staying in Jingzhou, and Ezhou was garrisoned by the Youzhen National Army who temporarily acted as the governor of Zhu Qianyou.

The newly surrendered Zhang Yi led 5,000 troops to garrison Fancheng, and Sima Fu also led a naval army to garrison Ezhou to support Xiangzhou or Jingzhou at any time.

As for Wang Maozhang, he was lucky, he woke up after a few days in a coma, although his body was still very weak, but he finally picked up a life, and now he stays in Jiangling to recuperate.

On May 23, Yang Wu ordered the class to return to the court.

At this point, the battle for Jingxiang, which lasted for more than four months, finally ended with a complete victory for the Wu State.

And the victory of the Wu army also quickly spread all over the country.

……

Outside the city of Youzhou, in the camp of the Jin army.

When Li Cunmiao received the defeat of the Wu army in Jiangling, the three coalition forces of Shu, Liang and Jingnan, even he was stunned by the victory of the Wu army.

It's so easy!

That battle was won by the Wu army a little too easily.

In addition to the normal battle between the two armies at the beginning, after the Shu army took the initiative to attack, the battle became one-sided.

In the end, the Wu army defeated the 100,000 allied army at a very slight cost.

This result shocked Li Cunqiao and the others, could it be said that the combat power of the Wu army was really so strong?

If this is the case, will the Jin army and the Wu army be able to gain the upper hand after they meet in the future?

In addition to being worried about the strong combat power of the Wu army, he was not very interested in Yang Wu's command Li Cunqiao in this battle.

After all, compared to using resourcefulness, the young and vigorous Li Cunmiao naturally prefers to defeat his opponent by hard-nosed means.

The feeling of charging into battle and galloping across the field is what he likes the most.