If Yang Wu was only a little worried about the battle situation in Jiangling, then Yang Wu was not worried about the battle situation in Qianzhou, but angry.

In the first month of this year, Liu Xin had already led a large army to besiege Qianzhou City, but now three months have passed, and the news from Qianzhou is not a good news of successfully breaking through the city, but Liu Xin's letter of request for help and a document of pleading for defeat!

The army led by Liu Xin not only did not break through the city, but was beaten by a night attack by the defenders!

This naturally made Yang Wu furious.

Judging from the information obtained, after Li Qiu launched a mutiny and killed Lu Yanchang at the end of last year, before the Wu army sent troops to Qianzhou, Na Li Qiu suddenly died in his own home, and no one knew the cause of his death.

After Li Qiu's death, his subordinate Li Yantu succeeded Li Qiu's position.

After Li Yantu succeeded to the throne, he wantonly killed the people of the Lu family.

At the beginning, after Li Qiu launched a mutiny, he had already arrested all the people of the Lu family, but his position was not stable at that time, so he did not rashly kill the people of the Lu family.

When his position was firmly established and he was about to make a move, he suddenly died violently.

After Li Yantu succeeded to the throne, he also realized that the existence of the Lu family would seriously affect his status, so he decided to exterminate the Lu family to get rid of future troubles.

After he had done all this, news came that the Wu army had launched a large-scale crusade.

Li Yantu was completely overwhelmed by the fright, but instead became suspicious of many of his generals, fearing that they would betray him to the people of Wu and use their heads to solicit merit from Wu Guo.

So while Li Yantu tried to send people to contact Wu Jun, he began to attack several generals who made him feel jealous.

As a result, those generals were not easy to mess with, and they preemptively killed Li Yantu.

After such a bloody storm, three assassins were killed in Qianzhou in just over a month.

At this time, especially when the army of Wu was about to arrive, the generals who killed Li Yantu did not dare to come forward one by one, for fear of following in the footsteps of Li Yantu and the others.

As a result, the generals remembered Tan Quanbo, who was sick at home.

When Li Qiu was still there, Tan Quanbo realized that Li Qiu might kill him, so he closed the door of his house and lived in a simple house, and from time to time there was news that he was seriously ill and dying, which reassured Li Qiu and finally did not move him.

When Li Qiu died violently and Li Yantu took the throne, Tan Quanbo also complained of illness at home and did not dare to take the lead.

But now that Li Yantu is also dead, the generals have to force him to come forward to do this Qianzhou assassin history, and under the pressure of knives and swords, he has no choice but to obediently obey orders and come out to lead.

Ben came to this time, if Liu Xin arrived in Qianzhou, he would send someone to talk to Tan Quanbo, and maybe he could persuade him to surrender.

After all, the Wu army was powerful, and there was a powerful Wu state behind it, and no one in the city thought that relying on just one Qianzhou could resist the Wu army; In addition, the Wu army's attack on Qianzhou was under the pretext of crusading against Li Qiu, and now not only Li Qiu himself has died violently, but even his henchman Li Yantu has died, and the "purpose" of the Wu army's crusade against Qianzhou has been achieved.

At this time, if you send someone to persuade you to surrender, the people in the city may surrender obediently.

However, Liu Xin felt that the order given to him by Yang Wu was to let him completely take Qianzhou and arrest all those "traitors" to Jinling; Although Li Qiu is dead, Li Qiu's generals are still there, if those traitors can't be caught, this dispatch of troops will not become a farce.

Therefore, after hurriedly persuading him to surrender, Liu Xin gave up the idea of continuing to persuade him to surrender and began to prepare for the siege.

Of course, Liu Xin did this, but his deeper purpose was for his own merits.

Breaking through a city is, of course, a greater credit for breaking a city than persuading it to surrender.

As for the casualties caused by this, Liu Xin felt that after so much turmoil in a mere pious state, how much combat power could there be? I'm afraid that a random attack can break the city.

However, he underestimated the strength of the defenders in the city and the huge influence of Tan Quanbo.

After all, Tan Quanbo is the one who co-founded the foundation of Qianzhou with Lu Guangchou, and even his prestige is higher than Lu Guangchou.

Under his edict, many people took up swords and guns to prepare to resist the Wu army, and even many people who originally lived outside the city also joined in defending the city.

Coupled with the original defenders in the city, Qianzhou turned into a fortified city in a short period of time.

And those generals originally just wanted Tan Quanbo to block the disaster for them, but under the threat of Wu Jun, these generals had no choice but to gather under Tan Quanbo's name, truly worship him as the lord of Qianzhou, and obey his orders.

In this way, the whole of Qianzhou was united, and Tan Quanbo, a person who was more "orthodox" than Lu Guangchou, came out to serve as the assassin, but it was the arrival of Wu Jun that became a "evil invader" in the eyes of everyone in the city.

Although the Wu army has 20,000 troops and is an elite soldier of the forbidden army, the Qianzhou army defending the city plus the people who spontaneously stood up to defend the city are as high as more than 30,000 people.

Attacking a city with 30,000 men with 20,000 men, if the defenders have no fighting spirit, they will naturally succeed; But now the defenders are determined to resist the invasion, and their morale is high and their fighting spirit is strong.

As a result, Liu Xin's army was hit under the not-so-tall city wall of Qianzhou and bled to pieces.

After more than two months of siege, there has been no progress at all, which makes Liu Xin anxious.

At this time, he was already difficult to ride a tiger, and even if he had the heart to make peace, he didn't dare to bring it up easily.

After all, things have become the way they are now, if he can't break through the city, not only will he lose face, but it may also encourage the arrogance of the Qianzhou people and make them make some excessive demands in the negotiation process.

What's more, Qianzhou is not far from Lingnan.

If Wu Jun couldn't even take a single Qianzhou quickly, but was forced to use negotiation to solve the problem, then what would Liu Yan think? Is he going to resist to the end as resolutely as the people of Qianzhou?

So under these considerations, Liu Xin had no choice but to continue to attack the city.

However, just a few days ago, after Liu Xin personally led his troops to attack the city and failed to make a breakthrough, the soldiers were a little tired and slack that night, and the defenders in the city, who had not taken the initiative to attack the city in the past few months, suddenly launched a night attack.

As a result, the unprepared Wu army was thrown into chaos.

Fortunately, after several months of fierce fighting, the defenders also reached the end of the crossbow, and after the night attack was successful, they hurriedly retreated to the city after only half an hour of rage in the Wu army's camp.

But even so, the Wu army lost more than a thousand people, in addition to many soldiers were wounded; If we add the losses in the siege of the city in the previous three months, the Wu army lost 2,000 soldiers, and many more soldiers were wounded.

And Qianzhou City, but there is still no sign of breaching.

At this time, Liu Xin also knew that he had to temporarily retire from the army to recuperate.

So on the one hand, he pleaded guilty to Yang Wu, and on the other hand, he led the army back to Taihe County to rest, and at the same time asked Yang Wu for reinforcements.

After receiving such a battle report, Yang Wu's mood can be imagined.

"Rubbish, what rubbish! Lone asked him to lead an army of 20,000 to attack a small Qianzhou, thinking that it was a matter of being captured, but it took him three months, and in the end it was such a result. He Liu Xin still has the face to ask for reinforcements from Lone? Inside the big tent of the Chinese army, Yang Wu's angry voice was filled.

Qin Pei and other generals who had just been withdrawn from the frontline battlefield did not dare to speak out one by one, for fear of attracting Yang Wu's anger.

Qin Pei even sighed in his heart: "The power of the king is indeed getting heavier and heavier, and I can't usually see it, but now this anger is indeed a little scary." ”

In the past, when these veterans talked to Yang Wu, although they were also very respectful, they were still a little casual in their respect; And Yang Wu is also very easy-going with these veterans, usually even if he is dissatisfied with them, he will only mention it lightly, and generally when there is no one else, he can save face for them as much as possible.

But this time it was the first time that he was so angry.

Of course, Qin Pei and they can also understand, after all, Liu Xin has 20,000 forbidden troops in his hands, and their enemies are just a group of rabble, most of them are the people who temporarily help defend the city, and their generals have nothing to praise.

Although the strength of the Wu army was only 20,000, which seemed to be a little small, in fact, during the Qingkou War, the army used by Yang Xingmi was only 30,000 elite soldiers, plus the 5,000 people under the command of Zhang Xun, a total of 35,000 troops.

When Li Shenfu attacked Ezhou, his troops were only 10,000; In the battle of Wang Maozhang to rescue Wang Shifan in Qingzhou, the army in the hands of the bronze was only 7,000 people.

This is the rapid increase in the strength of the Wu army in recent years, which makes the 20,000 army seem a little less, in fact, 20,000 is already a lot, if it is used properly, not to mention a Qianzhou, it is enough to attack Lingnan.

And Tan Quanbo, the only one worthy of attention in Qianzhou City, although he has the title of "Little Zhuge ", which is famous, but he is just a person, and he is almost eighty years old.

Such a person who may enter the grave at any time, leading a group of rabble, can still make Liu Xin break his head, and now he even has to retreat to rest and ask Yang Wu for reinforcements, no wonder Yang Wu is so angry.

The generals did not dare to speak casually, let alone plead for Liu Xin, so they had to bow their heads and listen to Yang Wu vent his anger.