Li Shenfu's death is undoubtedly a great loss for Wu Guo, this victorious general, in the original history did not have much fame, but his record is no worse than those other famous generals. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He is a real victorious general, a veritable number one general in Wu's army.

Yang Wu was very saddened by Li Shenfu's death, and he immediately ordered Li Shenfu to be posthumously named the general, the king of Yongnian County, with the Taizu Temple, and buried in Yang Xingmi's Xingling, nicknamed Wuning.

Li Shenfu's eldest son, Li Chengding, inherited the title of Duke of Wei, and with his father's merits, he was granted the title of commander of the capital, General Anxi.

In addition, Yang Wu also ordered Li Shenfu to strike for five days to mourn.

Shortly after Li Shenfu's death, another meritorious veteran, Zhang Xun, the Duke of Xinguo, also died of illness in Jinling's mansion.

Compared with Li Shenfu, Zhang Xun may not have so many outstanding achievements in his life, but he made great contributions in the two most important battles of the Yang Xingmi era against Sun Ru and the Battle of Qingkou.

Especially in the Battle of Qingkou, Zhang Xun personally led his subordinates to take the lead in attacking the Liang army, breaking through Pang Shigu's camp in one fell swoop, and made the first contribution to the victory of the Battle of Qingkou.

After that, Zhang Xun guarded the northern defense line for many years, successively defeated the invasion of the famous generals of the Liang army, Kang Huaiying, Liu Zhijun and others, and led the troops to seize Haizhou.

Although he is low-key, his achievements are really not small.

After Zhang Xun died of illness, Yang Wu ordered him to be posthumously crowned as a general, the king of Donghai County, also worthy of the Taizu Temple, and accompanied Yang Xingmi's Xingling Mausoleum, nicknamed Wu Yi.

It's a pity that there are no outstanding people among Zhang Xun's descendants, and his sons are mediocre.

So although Zhang Xun's eldest son inherited his title, he did not receive any position.

In the end, Yang Wu recruited him into the Yulin Army as Li Chan's deputy in a special way to show his favor.

The successive deaths of Li Shenfu and Zhang Xun, two meritorious veterans, can be said to be a major blow to the Wu army.

What's more, as time goes by, after these two people, the meritorious veterans who followed Yang Xingmi's army to fight are also dying.

Gao Miao, Liu Wei, Tao Ya, etc., all of them have gray beards, but I am afraid that it will not be long.

After the loss of these meritorious and capable veterans, if the new generation of civil and military talents cannot grow up rapidly, this will inevitably be a major test for Wu Guo.

Fortunately, as early as a few years ago, Yang Wu was deliberately cultivating the younger generation, and he has also found a lot of good seedlings over the years.

Three days after Zhang Xun's resignation, Yang Wu ordered Li Chengsi to be appointed as the new privy envoy, crowned the scholar of Wuyingdian University, and promoted his knighthood to the Duke of England.

This appointment really shocked many people, especially Zhu Jin, who was already a privy deputy before.

After Li Shenfu died of illness this time, it stands to reason that Zhu Jin, who was the deputy envoy, should take the position.

Zhu Jin's qualifications and prestige are actually enough to serve as a privy envoy, but this time Yang Wu ordered Li Chengsi to bypass Zhu Jin and directly become the new privy envoy, which is naturally a surprising thing.

As for the other deputy envoy, Yan Keqiu, because he is a civil official, he has no chance to become a privy envoy.

Of course, it is not without reason to appoint Li Chengsi as a privy envoy, at least Li Chengsi's qualifications and prestige are not below Zhu Jin, plus he has always been fair and never forms gangs, so everyone is also relieved that he has been appointed.

As for Zhu Jin, after learning of this result, he was a little stunned and unwilling at first, but then he also understood that Yang Wu was still a little uneasy about his experience of being a hero!

After feeling this, Zhu Jin became more cautious and cautious, as if he was not dissatisfied at all that he failed to become a privy envoy.

After Zhang Xun died of illness and Li Chengsi was promoted to privy envoy, their original two governorships became vacant.

It's a pity that no one among Yang Wu's cronies is now qualified to be promoted to the governor, so Yang Wu chose two generals who were not very important in Yang Xingmi's era among those veterans, these are Chai Zaiyong and Lu Shi.

Although these two people are not very famous, their merits and qualifications are also a little insufficient, and they all joined the generals of the Huainan side after Sun Ru's defeat.

However, Yang Wu knows that the abilities of these two people are definitely the choice of famous generals who can become the mainstay of the Wu army for a long time in the future.

Among them, Chai Zaiyong was an important general in the Southern Wu period in history, and he had more credits, while Lu Shizhou took refuge in Ma Yin and made great contributions in the war against the barbarians and the attack on Lingnan.

Yang Wu had long wanted to promote these two people, but these two people did not have enough credit and qualifications, and they were not Yang Wu's cronies, so they delayed until now.

After these two generals were promoted, the positions of commanders and envoys left behind by them were taken over by Li Chengding and Li Chan respectively.

"After winning today's battle, we will be able to seize Chenzhou and completely cut off the foundation of the barbarians in Chenzhou. Therefore, you must fight with all your might, and if you are afraid of the battle, you will not be forgiven! ”

Outside Chenxi County, Ma Yin, whose face was full of tiredness, gave orders to his subordinates loudly.

Since making the strategy of developing to the southwest, Ma Yin did not delay time and was soon ready to go west.

For him, the Wu army had just retreated, and he could make a comeback at any time, so he had to lay enough ground as soon as possible.

This expedition is very likely to be an important action for Ma Yin that is related to their future outlet, so Ma Yin insisted on leading the troops in person despite his age of more than fifty, leaving Xu Dexun in Tanzhou, Qin Yanhui in Shaozhou, and Yao Yanzhang leading the troops with him.

In the southwest, the main barbarian forces were concentrated in Chenzhou and Jizhou.

Among them, the leader of Chenzhou is named Song Ye, who took advantage of the chaos in the world to occupy Chenzhou during the reign of Tang Xizong, and has been separating one side since then, which is the trouble of Hunan.

After Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin seized Hunan, Song Ye also did not stop invading Hunan.

In terms of the ability to engage head-on, these untrained and poorly equipped brutes were naturally no match for the Chu army.

However, although the barbarians were just a group of rabble, they would not generally engage the Chu army head-on, but relied on the geographical advantage of the difficult road to constantly harass the Chu army, causing huge casualties to the Chu army.

Faced with this situation, Ma Yin was naturally unwilling to be beaten passively, and sent a large army to attack Chenzhou, the foundation of Chenzhou barbarians, a few years ago, preparing to completely pull out their lair.

It's a pity that at that time, Ma Yin's focus was still on fighting with Huainan, and he didn't pay enough attention to Chenzhouman.

So that time, the Chu army only dispatched more than 7,000 people, and after being constantly harassed by barbarians along the way, the Chu army was already exhausted before they arrived at the city of Chenzhou.

In order to prevent further defeat, the western expedition had to return in vain.

But this time, since Ma Yin had already decided to develop to the west, he naturally had to vigorously clear out a barbarian chief like Song Ye, and the army dispatched was far from being comparable to last time.

After the trek along the way, the barbarians saw that all kinds of attacks could not stop the advance of the Chu army, so they could only change their strategy and concentrate their troops to garrison Chenxi, wanting to block the Chu army's offensive pace here.

Ma Yin was overjoyed when he saw that the barbarians were finally willing to fight them head-on.

Even if the other party relied on the city to hold on, at least the enemy army had a clear goal for them to attack, rather than being elusive as before, which gave the Chu army room to play as much as possible.

Chenxi is said to be a county seat, but in fact, the height of the city wall is much lower than that of the county seat in the Central Plains, and the length of the city is also much shorter.

On the one hand, this made the barbarian army defend the city more dense, but on the other hand, the lower city walls also made it easier for the Chu army to attack the city.

The city wall, which is less than one zhang high, does not need to build any large siege equipment at all, and can be launched directly by erecting ladders.

After being inspired by Ma Yin, coupled with the resentment accumulated by various passive beatings during this time, the soldiers of the Chu army rushed towards the city wall one by one as if they had taken medicine after the battle.

Only half an hour later, the barbarians could not resist the fierce attack of the Chu army and began to retreat one after another.

Seeing this, the morale of the soldiers of the Chu army was further increased, and the impact on the city was even greater.

Finally, after another quarter of an hour, the brute was finally unable to resist, so he had to open the unsurrounded gates of the northern city and prepare to break through.

However, since Ma Yin let Beicheng go, it was naturally to encircle the three missing one and lure the enemy army to break through.

When the barbarians who broke out thought they could escape, the Chu army, which had been ambushed in advance, suddenly came out and completely surrounded them.

"Kill all these captured barbarians, leave a few more, let them go back and tell Song Ye, immediately surrender to Lone, Lone can spare his life, otherwise, if you break through the city, the old and the young will not be left!"

After the final victory, Ma Yin gave the order murderously.

A few days later, Ma Yin led the victorious Chu army to continue the march, eventually besieging Chenzhou.

Song Ye, the leader of the Chenzhou barbarians, was forced by the situation and finally asked Ma Yin to surrender.

At this point, Chenzhouman, who had plagued Ma Yin for many years, finally calmed down temporarily, and at the same time, Ma Yin also successfully took the first step to expand to the southwest.

And next, what Ma Yin will face is how to further seize the land of Jizhou.

Compared with the situation in Chenzhou, where Song Ye was the only one, the situation on the side of Chenzhou was more complicated, and the forces of the barbarians from all walks of life were also stronger.

Although Ma Yin has already captured Chenzhou, if he wants to further capture Chenzhou, he will have to spend a lot of effort.