Since Gu Quanwu's death, although he is now nominally a subordinate of Yang Wu, he is actually in a state of semi-seclusion, if Yang Wu did not personally invite him, he would not have agreed to teach Yang Longyan and others.

However, it is precisely because he now has nothing to ask for and fearless in his heart that he can observe a person with a more detached mentality.

Therefore, his evaluation of Yang Long's performance of the four is also more fair and accurate.

Among the four, one can become a famous general, one can become an excellent general, and the remaining two can only be regarded as qualified generals, this evaluation has actually satisfied Yang Wu.

Like his younger brother Yang Longyan, although according to Gu Quanwu, he can only be a qualified general in the future, but Yang Wu didn't plan to let him lead the army for a long time, so it's good to be qualified.

As for Cheng Zong, it is the same, as Yang Wu personally cultivated, as long as he is loyal in the future, can lead the Yulin army, and is responsible for protecting the safety of the palace, the real ability to lead the troops is relatively unimportant.

At this time, after listening to Yang Wu's question, Yang Longyan hurriedly replied: "Brother Wang was originally commanding the army to go to the battlefield, and the younger brother just went to see it, at most, he stayed by General Zhu's side, there is no danger!" ”

On the side, Yang Meng also said: "Yes, the junior brother just went to see it, and he will definitely not embarrass General Zhu." ”

"Only stay with General Zhu?" Yang Wu hesitated slightly.

This expedition to Hunan, according to the plan finally formulated by Li Chengsi, only two armies of 40,000 people were dispatched to attack Tanzhou and Hengzhou respectively.

These two armies are the Youzhen National Army with Liu Xin as the governor and the Youtengxiang Army with Zhu Siqing as the governor, and the two of them will have an equal-level relationship, and there is no big governor.

From this arrangement, Yang Wu was obviously appointing those relatively young generals to cultivate their ability to lead troops.

As for Wang Maozhang in Ezhou, he naturally needed to stay and continue to guard Ezhou, in case of interference from Gao Jichang or the Liang army behind him.

"Yes, Brother Wang, we will only stay with General Zhu, there will definitely be no problem!" Yang Longyan and the two saw that Yang Wu seemed to agree, and hurriedly persuaded him.

On the side, Yang Pu, Yang Xun and several other younger brothers also said loudly: "Brother Wang, the younger brother also wants to see the battlefield and share the worries of Brother Wang in the future!" ”

"I'm going to see it too!" At this time, Yang Shu, a little girl who was only more than a year old, also said in a milky voice, but she teased everyone.

However, Yang Jiong, the eldest son of Yang Wu, and now the crown prince of Wu State, seems to have no interest in fighting at all.

"What are you little guys mixing up with?" Mrs. Shi glared at a few people dissatisfiedly, and was so frightened that several people hurriedly lowered their heads to eat.

Among Yang Wu's younger brothers, except for Yang Longyan and Yang Pu, who are now ten years old, the other younger brothers are not even ten years old, so naturally they will not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to see each other.

However, it is actually a good thing to let Yang Longyan and Yang Meng go out to see it, although they don't need to lead the troops to fight, but at least let them know what the real battlefield is like.

And not only the two of them, but also Liu Renzhen and Cheng Zong can also go to see it together.

Although only 40,000 troops were invested in this attack on Hunan, first, Ma Yin had just carried out large-scale emigration, which would definitely weaken his control over Hunan, and second, the southwest land he had conquered had just been pacified, and it was definitely necessary to leave a lot of troops to suppress it.

Therefore, Ma Yin should not invest too many troops in Hunan, at most, there may be a big battle in Tanzhou.

After all, Tanzhou has always been the most important city in Hunan, and Ma Yin should not give up easily.

However, Zhu Siqing's main attack direction is Hengzhou, and Ma Yin should not concentrate too many troops to defend.

In any case, if Yang Longyan and the others only stayed by Zhu Siqing's side, their safety would be no problem.

Thinking of this, Yang Wu nodded and smiled: "Okay, it's okay for you to go and see it, but you must agree to follow Zhu Siqing all the time, and you can only listen, you can only watch, but you can't speak, let alone interfere with General Zhu Siqing's command, if you can agree to these two points, I will agree to let you go to Hunan for my brother!" ”

"Thank you, Brother Wang! The younger brother will definitely stay by General Zhu's side, and promise to only listen and watch, and will never disturb General Zhu's command! Yang Longyan's faces were full of excitement, and he hurriedly promised.

"Well, let's eat, the rice is going to be cold!" Yang Wu nodded.

On the side, Mrs. Shi saw that Yang Wu agreed to let the two go to Hunan, she was still a little dissatisfied in her heart, but after Yang Wu repeatedly assured their safety, she finally nodded helplessly and agreed.

In the final analysis, Mrs. Shi is just a woman who has not seen much, and now she can enjoy wealth and honor, which has made her satisfied.

So on weekdays, except for chatting with a few other concubines and a few of Yang Wu's concubines, or reading dramas to pass the time, she is not interested in national affairs at all, and she basically doesn't ask about government affairs.

After eating, Yang Wu was about to go back to his dormitory to rest, when Fan Yu came forward and bowed down and said, "King, this is the news that the Long Sword Capital has just come from Kaifeng, and it is some information about the recent mobilization of the Liang army!" ”

As he spoke, he handed a sealed document in his hand to Yang Wu.

As the time of the Battle of Baixiang in history gradually approached, Yang Wu was naturally extremely concerned about the development of this battle, so he ordered Changjian to collect information in this regard more than two months ago.

Yang Wu opened the document and looked at it carefully, only to see that what was written on it was that Zhu Wen ordered Wang Yanzhang, the envoy of the Right Longxiang Army, to be the envoy of the northern camp, Han Qing, the deputy envoy of Luzhou, as his deputy, and Li Si'an as the vanguard general, Tun Xiangzhou, claiming that he was going to attack Luzhou again.

At the same time, Zhu Wen ordered the worship officials Du Yanyin and Ding Yanhui to lead Wei Bo's army in the name of helping Wang Rong, the king of Zhao, resist Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan, and stationed in the two states of Shen and Hebei under Wang Rong.

After seeing this information, Yang Wu couldn't help laughing.

"I didn't expect that after there was no Wang Maozhang, Zhu Wen was ready to replace it with a Wang Yanzhang, which was unexpected!"

Yes, judging from Zhu Wen's arrangement, he is obviously plotting against the territory of King Zhao and Wang Rong.

A few months ago, Luo Shaowei, the envoy of Wei Bo and the king of Ye, died suddenly at the age of thirty-four, and his position was finally inherited by his second son, Luo Zhouhan.

When Luo Shaowei was alive, he could only barely control Wei Bo, and now that Luo Shaowei has died of illness, his heir Luo Zhouhan is still an adult, and he is even more powerless to control the situation.

Today's Wei Bo, from top to bottom, the power can be said to be completely controlled by Zhu Wen, and Luo Zhouhan only has the name of Wei Bo's envoy.

After taking control of Wei Bo, Zhu Wen naturally thought of further plotting to make the land of the five states under Wang Rong.

And Wang Rong has been in charge of Chengde for nearly twenty years anyway, so he is naturally not so easy to deal with.

Since Zhu Wen wants to fight him, this will definitely lead him to join the side of Li Cunqing, the king of Jin, which will inevitably make the Jin army and the Liang army fight again!

And this is the root cause of the Battle of Baixiang in history!

"Although Zhu Wen chose to use Wang Yanzhang to lead the troops this time, although Wang Yanzhang is very famous in history, it is more about his loyalty, and it is difficult to say how well he can lead the troops!"

"What's more, if the Liang army wants to plot against King Zhao's territory, then it must go deep into it.

In the years before that, the areas contested by the Liang army and the Jin army were all in Luzhou, Jinzhou and other places, which were located in the relatively rugged Taihang Mountains, which was not conducive to the performance of the Jin cavalry.

However, Wang Rong's territory is located in the Hebei Plain, which will be the most suitable place for cavalry. I don't know if Wang Yanzhang has a way to curb the powerful cavalry of the Jin army? ”

Thinking of this, Yang Wu couldn't help laughing.

In the next battle, whether it was the Liang army suffered a crushing defeat as in history, or Wang Yanzhang's outstanding performance and defeated the Jin army in one fell swoop, or the two armies held each other, no one could help anyone, and Yang Wu could accept these three results.

In any case, the strength and status quo between the two countries determine that the confrontation between them will not end in a short period of time.

As long as it can leave enough time for Yang Wu to unify the south.

"The war affairs in the north must be kept an eye on, as soon as there is new news, it will come immediately, don't delay!" After handing the paperwork back to Fan Yu, Yang Wu commanded.

"Yes, the minister will definitely keep an eye on this matter." Fan Yu hurriedly said.

"Well, by the way, last time you tried to develop a spy in the Jin Kingdom, and now there is progress in this matter?" Yang Wu remembered something, and then asked.

"Back to the king, at this time, I am still making full arrangements, and there has been some progress, but if I want to achieve great achievements, I am afraid that it will take some time!" Fan Yu said.

If the major forces in the south are the current targets of Wu, then Zhu Wen and Li Cunqiao in the north are Wu's long-term enemies.

Moreover, compared with these forces in the south, the overall strength of the two forces in the north is no worse than that of Wu, and they will inevitably be the life-and-death enemies of Wu in the future.

Therefore, the intelligence investigation of the Liang State and the Jin State is the key task of the Long Sword Capital.

Even if it is relatively peaceful with Liang now, it will be difficult to achieve results in such a thing as intelligence, if you don't lay out chess pieces many years in advance and wait until you need to prepare for it.

After all kinds of bribery or discord and other means over the years, especially now that the strength of Liang State is not as good as before, and there are some people floating from top to bottom, Long Sword has made a lot of breakthroughs in Liang State, and the ability to find out news has been greatly improved.

However, although the secret agent arrangement of the Liang State has now reached a certain scale, the investigation of the news of the Jin State has not progressed for a long time.

No way, in this era of fluctuating people's hearts, it is not so easy to build a reliable spy network.

Among other things, it is difficult to fully guarantee the reliable trust of the secret agent.

Although the families of these spies can be kept in Jinling as hostages, not everyone cares about their families that much.

In this era, many people can even betray their children and parents for the sake of wealth, and who can guarantee that these secret agents will not betray the Wu State for their own wealth?

What's more, in the case of a long distance and being isolated from different forces, even the spread of news takes a long time, and even if there are secret agents betrayed outside, it is difficult to verify it.

And if you want to develop secret agents in the Jin Kingdom, it will be even more difficult, the distance between the two sides is so far away, it is difficult for Jinling to interfere with anything that happens over there.

In addition, the Jin State is now flourishing day by day, and the successive victories on the battlefield not only greatly invigorate the hearts of the Jin State, but also greatly improve its internal cohesion, and it is more difficult to buy and divide than in the Liang State.

Yang Wu naturally knew the difficulty of this, so he didn't expect to achieve results now, and he would be satisfied if he could establish the secret agent network within ten years and play a role.

"You know the importance of this matter to us, there is no need to say more, in short, after ten years at most, you must see results!"

"Yes, the minister will work hard to get this done!" Fan Yu hurriedly replied.

Yang Wu nodded, and then asked, "Is there any other news besides the news from the north?" I remember that you haven't reported news in a while! ”

Generally, Fan Yu will not report the news in time when it is relatively not urgent, but will wait until a certain time to report to Yang Wu, so that the news can be verified more accurately.

"There is no other important news, but there are two pieces of news that have not been fully verified yet, one is that Lu Guangchou, the assassin of Qianzhou, seems to be sick recently, and his condition is more serious!"

Yang Wu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "How sick is it?" ”

Fan Yu said in a deep voice: "The minister is not sure, but there is a certain possibility that he will die!" ”

Yang Wu nodded, he also knew that people with Lu Guangchou's identity, if they were sick, it would definitely be very important news, and they would generally keep it secret and try not to let outsiders know.

This was the case when Yang Xingmi was seriously ill, and even if it weren't for Yang Wu's absolute confidence and grasp to control the situation, I was afraid that after Yang Xingmi's death, Huainan would choose not to mourn, and wait until the overall situation was decided before revealing the news.

Therefore, it is difficult for Fan Yu to determine that Lu Guangchou's condition is normal.

At the beginning, Zhou Ben defeated the Jiangxi coalition army led by Wei Quanyi in one fell swoop in the battle of Ivory Pond, and took the opportunity to capture the four states of Xinzhou, Yuanzhou, Jizhou and Fuzhou, but Qianzhou under the command of Lu Guangchou did not send troops to participate in the Wei Quanyan side at that time, so he escaped a catastrophe in the Battle of Ivory Pond.

Later, Lu Guangchou saw that Wu's army was strong and knew that it would be difficult to resist, so he sent an envoy to Yang Wu to ask for surrender.

Although this surrender was only a nominal surrender, at that time, considering that Lu Guangchou was already sixty-seven years old at the time and might die of illness at any time, Yang Wu agreed to Lu Guangchou's surrender, wanting to wait until he died before plotting against Qianzhou.

Now that a few years have passed, it seems that Lu Guangchou's limit should be approaching.