Huainan must solve the problem of the source of cavalry horses as soon as possible, which is a consensus that Huainan has long reached, but how to solve this problem, everyone has different opinions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In general, Huainan still tended to buy through various channels, or send envoys to the north to contact the Khitans, and exchange horses with them with various items unique to Huainan.

As for raising their own horses, these officials did not think about it.

In their opinion, the whole world is suitable for raising horses in the north, and if you want to raise horses in the south, you must occupy a lot of farmland, which is obviously impossible; Or they could force the people to keep them and have them subsidized by the government, but this would not only be a burden on the people, but also undesirable because the horses they raised would often not be well cared for.

However, when it comes to buying horses, they are often subject to various constraints, not only are they expensive, they can be purchased in small quantities, but they are also only a palliative solution.

So after several discussions, everyone still couldn't come up with a good solution.

From that moment on, Yang Wu thought of Jeju Island.

Unfortunately, he didn't know anything about the current situation on Jeju Island, but he had only roughly heard that the Korean Peninsula was also in war now, but he didn't know the specific situation. In addition, there has been no time for the interior, so Yang Wu has not taken practical measures.

However, this time the envoy of the Thai Sealing Kingdom took the initiative to come, and if Yang Wu didn't want to find out about the situation, it would be stupid.

A few days later, Cui Ning and Wang Yanhan arrived by boat, and Yang Wu ordered Diao Yan to go to meet them, and at the same time held a banquet in the camp tent to entertain them.

After a few glasses of wine were poured, Cui Ning, who didn't drink much, became "knowing everything, saying everything", and then Diao Yanneng and others said a few good words, and suddenly Yang Wu knew all the information he wanted to know.

It turned out that Jeju Island, which he had always thought was part of North Korea, was still an independent island in this era. The country of Li, which is called Tamna, has been canonized by the king of Silla for generations, and its lord is called the star lord, and the son of the star lord is also called the crown prince and the prince, and it is a small country attached to Silla.

In recent years, after the decline of Silla and the emergence of two new kingdoms, Baekje and Taebong, Tamna's affiliation with Silla has also wavered, and there are currently no direct subordination with the three countries on the Korean Peninsula.

After hearing this result, the smile on Yang Wu's face became even stronger.

Since Jeju Island is still an independent island. The kingdom is established, then things are even simpler, as long as you directly send troops to occupy it; Now that the three kingdoms of Taebong, Baekje, and Silla are now in the midst of internal fighting, they do not dare to use troops because of this matter.

As for the unification of the Korean Peninsula, Yang Wu remembers that the final unification of the Korean Peninsula seems to have been a man named Wang Jian, who had the same name and surname as the current King of Shu, but who established the second unified dynasty on the Korean Peninsula since Silla. Moreover, he remembered that this Wang Jian seemed to be the general of the post-Goguryeo period.

After some inquiry, Yang Wu understood that there was really a general named Wang Jian in the Taifeng Kingdom at this time, who was named the lord of Songyue City by the Gong descendant.

Continuing to ask, Yang Wu found that this Wang Jian is still young, and he does not have much prestige in Taifeng, it seems that it will be a long time before he establishes the Goryeo Dynasty and reunifies the Korean Peninsula, maybe Yang Wu will already unify China at that time, and even if Wang Jian has any thoughts about Huainan occupying Jeju Island, he must not have the courage to jump out.

Thinking of this, the last concern about the annexation of Jeju Island is gone, and all that remains is when to send troops to take it.

Of course, before that, Yang Wu felt that it was necessary to send someone to investigate the situation first, at least to understand the specific situation on the island, so as to decide how many people should be sent to occupy it.

Halfway through the banquet, he had to stop, because the Liang army began to attack again, although they were all small-scale attacks, and they generally only needed Zhang Xun and Zhou Ben to deal with them, but Yang Wu was still more cautious and ordered all departments to raise their vigilance.

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More than half a month has passed, and now it is the first month of the third year of God's blessing, the atmosphere of the New Year is indifferent and boring because of the continuous war, from Suzhou to Songzhou, Xuzhou, Bozhou and other places, everywhere is like a great enemy, and the New Year's celebration is pasted with a lot of solemn atmosphere.

Yu County, in the camp of the Liang army.

After more than a month of confrontation, the Huainan Army certainly felt uncomfortable, but Zhu Quanzhong also did not take any advantage.

Although there was an advantage in strength and cavalry, which made it a little more convenient for the Liang army to fight with the Huainan army, as the confrontation lasted for a long time, the disadvantages of the Liang army became increasingly prominent.

The first point is that since October last year, the Liang army has been fighting one after another, and now the soldiers are very tired. Although the soldiers of the Huainan Army were also very tired, because of the successive victories, the high morale of the Huainan Army reduced the fatigue a lot.

The Liang army, on the other hand, was defeated one after another, and the soldiers had no confidence in defeating the Huainan army, so they naturally felt tired and tired of war.

In addition to the fatigue of the soldiers, the second disadvantage of the Liang army was that they were on the attacking side.

Because of the fall of Suzhou, the Huainan army, which had no worries, could rely on Suzhou for defense, and when they fought unfavorably with the Liang army, they could hold their positions as long as they retreated slightly, and they did not have to worry about being taken advantage of by the Liang army.

And once the Liang army is unfavorable in the war, there will be no such benefit. Therefore, when the two armies were fighting, Huainan had a favorable geographical advantage.

With the passage of time, Suzhou's city defense also continued to recover, and by this time, both Zhu Quanzhong and his generals already knew that it was impossible to defeat the Huainan army and recapture Suzhou this time.

More than 100,000 troops were sent to the south, but they fought hard for more than a month, but in the end they did not get any benefits, and Zhu Quanzhong naturally felt unwilling.

But there is no way to be unwilling, after so many wars, he has long developed the strength of the Huainan Army beyond his imagination, especially their strict military discipline, Zhu Quanzhong is the first time to see it.

Among his former opponents, whether it was the earliest Qin Zongquan, Zhu Jin, Zhu Xuan, or the later Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Wang Shifan, etc., their armies were far inferior to the Huainan Army in terms of military discipline.

For example, Li Ke's army, because it is located in the bitter cold land of the north, most of Li Ke's soldiers are very brave and brave, plus strong cavalry, and excellent generals, it stands to reason that this army should be very strong; However, Li Keyong, as a member of the Shatuo tribe, also inherited many characteristics of the Hu army: corrupt military discipline.

An army that kills and plunders to boost morale is often very brave in battle, but it will lack resilience, and when the war is unfavorable, they will be easily taken advantage of by the enemy.

Therefore, Li Keyong was often controlled by Liang Jun in the process of competing with Zhu Quanzhong.

In the course of the war with Huainan, Zhu Quanzhong found that Huainan's strict military discipline made them very resilient, and it was often very difficult for the Liang army to defeat them.

Of course, the Liang army has not achieved victory, the biggest victory is that once in a battle, there was a sudden strong wind, flying sand and stones blocked the view of the Huainan army, the Liang army took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack with cavalry, defeated the Huainan army, and killed more than 3,000 people.

It was in that battle that the Liang army successfully captured more than a dozen Suzhou cannons that the Huainan army had time to withdraw in the future, as well as 100 rounds of flowering shells.

However, there are victories and defeats, and the Liang army has also suffered a lot of defeats, so by now, Zhu Quanzhong has no hope of recovering Suzhou in a short time.

"King, just now King Ye Luo Shaowei sent someone to urge again, hoping that the king will fulfill his promise as soon as possible, I don't know how to reply to him?" At this time, Jing Xiang took an official document and reported to Zhu Quanzhong.

Luo Shaowei was named King Ye by the imperial court last year because he provided a large amount of money and food to help build the palace in Luoyang. However, the promotion of the knighthood could not stop him from worrying about the chaos of the tooth soldiers.

More than a month ago, Zhu Quanzhong sent people to levy 40,000 troops from Luo Shaowei to conquer Huainan. At that time, Zhu Quanzhong secretly sent someone to tell Luo Shaowei that he planned to transfer Wei Bo's army out of the jurisdiction first, group it with the Liang army, and then send people into Weizhou to get rid of Wei Bo's soldiers with Luo Shaowei.

In this way, because the Liang army was on the side, there was no need to worry that the other Wei Bo troops would take the opportunity to cause chaos after getting rid of the tooth soldiers; Then Luo Shaowei sent someone to appease him, and presumably Wei Bo's more than 100 years of confidants could be safely eliminated.

Luo Shaowei readily agreed to this plan, and even agreed to Zhu Quanzhong's request to transfer troops, and prepared to send 40,000 troops south in accordance with Zhu Quanzhong's military order.

However, because of the opposition of the generals of the Yabing Army, and the fact that Liu Shouwei (Liu Rengong's eldest son) and Li Keyong of Hedong were a little ready to move at that time, Luo Shaowei only sent 20,000 troops south with the Liang army.

The collective opposition of the tooth soldiers and generals made Luo Shaowei feel that they were difficult to control again, so his determination to get rid of them became stronger. During this time, people have been sent one after another to urge Zhu Quanzhong to take action.

Thinking of Luo Shaowei's constant urging, Zhu Quanzhong had a headache even more, he had promised to help him in order to borrow troops to go south, but now the war against Huainan is not going well, but the promise to Luo Shaowei cannot but be fulfilled.

Today's Zhu Quanzhong is no longer the same as he was back then, he was just a feudal town back then, so he can be untrustworthy and capricious, but now he is on the eve of usurping the throne and becoming emperor, if he can't make promises to his close allies, then what else is he an emperor? Even if he became an emperor, which feudal town would obey him?

So after discussing with Jing Xiang and others, Zhu Quanzhong finally decided to make a truce with Huainan, first fulfill his promise to Luo Shaowei, and let the army recuperate for a while.