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"Ridiculous! Yuanzhou is not without a garrison, and needs him Liu Chongjing to rescue from Jizhou? It's ridiculous to say anything about impromptu response! ”

The Wuying Hall is a special place for discussing major military affairs, and generally only high-level figures who have been authorized by Yang Wu are qualified to enter here.

However, at this time, the hall was filled with Yang Wu's angry voice, and that anger made the guards outside feel frightened, and they didn't know why Yang Wu was so angry.

Although Yang Wu originally stipulated that troops could be dispatched without asking for instructions in case of emergency, the Wu army now has its own garrison and its own tasks.

If Pingxiang is attacked, the defenders of Yuanzhou should be relieved; If there is a problem in Jizhou, it should be solved by Jizhou.

If there is a problem in Yuanzhou, but the garrison of Jizhou sends troops to rescue it privately, isn't this a mess? In the future, everyone will cross the border like Liu Chongjing and send troops to grab credit like this, and in the end, the entire army will be a mess, the so-called military orders, the so-called system, do you still want to abide by them?

What's more, if Liu Chongjing really had the ability to win the battle, defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop, and lift the siege of Pingxiang, Yang Wu would pinch his nose and admit it for the sake of the final result, and at most send someone to warn him, so that he could not behave like this in the future.

But not only did he fail to defeat the Chu army, but also because of his defeat, which led to a series of subsequent defeats, it can be said that Liu Chongjing's behavior can be completely arrested.

What annoyed Yang Wu the most was that Liu Chongjing did not take any care after the defeat, but acted panicked, and directly led the remnants of the army back to Yongxing, without even sending a messenger to report to Li Decheng.

Such a general, although he had a good performance when he attacked Hongzhou at the beginning, but now it seems that he is only a low-eyed master, and he was lucky to achieve a success, and this failure also showed his true ability.

Of course, Yang Wu also knew that Liu Chongjing's father was Liu Wei after all, even if it was just for Liu Wei's sake, Yang Wu would not be able to directly condemn him.

There were rumors in the market that Yang Wu secretly suppressed Liu Wei and Tao Ya, but now these rumors have just subsided, if Yang Wu convicts Liu Chongjing on this, maybe there will be a lot of rumors in the market.

Now that Liu Wei no longer has the power to fight the army, and now the state of Wu is also on the right track, with Yang Wu's prestige, there is no need to worry about Liu Wei's rebellion, so Yang Wu hopes to give Liu Wei and other ministers who follow Yang Xingmi a perfect ending.

In addition, Liu Wei had just been canonized as the Duke of Song, and now was obviously not a good time to condemn his son; In addition, there are also many people in the DPRK who intercede for Liu Chongjing, and Yang Wu is not good at punishing him too severely.

Of course, not punishing severely does not mean that no punishment will be given, and this punishment cannot be lower, and it must be dealt with seriously, otherwise the system will collapse and no one will abide by military discipline.

So after a big tantrum, Yang Wu finally made a verdict.

First of all, Li Decheng, although he was ambushed and defeated, although there was a reason for the sudden surrender of the Pingxiang defenders, but as a leading general, he had no vigilance at all, and did not consider the possibility of the enemy setting up an ambush at all.

Therefore, Yang Wu ordered Li Decheng's position as the commander of the capital to be demoted to the deputy commander of the capital, and continued to command the army of his division, so as to make meritorious service for his crimes.

As for Liu Chongjing, it would not be so polite, Yang Wu directly ordered the removal of Liu Chongjing from the post of commander of the forbidden army and changed it to the commander of the Xiang army.

Don't look at it as just such a small difference, but the commander of the Xiang army basically has no chance of making meritorious contributions, and the highest level of the Xiang army is the commander, and when he reaches his position, it is equivalent to only eating and waiting for death, and the future is bleak.

Since Liu Chongjing sent troops without authorization because he wanted to compete for credit, then let him never have any credit to establish in the future, which can not only warn everyone, but also not make people feel that they are taking the opportunity to suppress Liu Wei, which is a more appropriate disposal.

After calming down his mood for a while, Yang Wu said in a deep voice: "Guo Chongtao, you go and tell Liu Shangshu immediately, just say that Gu is not confused." He is him, and his son is his son! Although his son made a small mistake, it was not his fault, and Lone would not blame him. Now that the military situation is urgent, he can't leave a stall as the secretary of the military department, let him come back quickly to deal with military affairs! ”

Prior to this, Liu Wei had already submitted his resignation to Yang Wu to ask for guilt, and was at home behind closed doors, since he had already made such a gesture, Yang Wu was not good at him again.

"Obey the order!" Guo Chongtao hurriedly replied.

After Guo Chongtao went out, Yang Wu turned to look at Li Shenfu and the others: "Ma Yin has repeatedly embarrassed my country, and even invaded my country's territory many times, if he doesn't give him a heavy lesson, wouldn't he still think that he can run rampant in the world?" ”

"Lone decided to personally lead the army to defeat Ma Yin, what do the generals think?"

Originally, according to Yang Wu's plan, after annexing Jiangxi in one fell swoop, he should rest for a while, and then send troops to attack Wang Shenzhi in Fujian, flatten the battle line, and at the same time eliminate the threat of the flank, so as to prepare for the next concentration of troops to deal with Ma Yin.

But now the Chu army has repeatedly attacked, and even the Wu army has been defeated twice on the Yuezhou side, and the troops have been sent twice on the Jiangxi side, although the last battle of Ivory Pond ended with the victory of the Wu army, but it did not deal enough damage to the strength of the Chu state.

Therefore, Yang Wu felt that it was necessary to launch a large-scale attack on Ma Yin before attacking Wang Shenzhi, and at least he had to teach him a big lesson, otherwise he might be constrained in attacking Wang Shenzhi in the future.

More importantly, the state of Wu has just been established, and it has encountered such a fiasco, if it cannot retaliate back, it will inevitably have a major impact on the morale of the Wu army, which is the fundamental reason why Yang Wu decided to send troops.

However, although Li Shenfu and the others understood Yang Wu's idea of sending troops, and also agreed to send troops to teach Ma Yin a lesson, they were unanimously opposed to Yang Wu's personal conquest.

"Great King, although Ma Yin was canonized as the King of Chu by the Zhu Wen Puppet Dynasty, he was simply the envoy of the Tang Dynasty Wu'an Festival, and the identity of the king was too far away. There is no need for the king to go out in person, he only needs to send a general to the battle! Li Shenfu immediately persuaded.

"The old minister agrees with Wei Guogong's opinion, with Ma Yin's identity, there is no need for the prince to levy it himself! What's more, Chu is remote, the roads are rugged, and the miasma is rampant, with the body of the king Wanjin, it cannot be moved lightly. The old minister is willing to lead the army on behalf of the king! The veteran Zhang Xun immediately stood up and asked for his life.

Seeing this, Zhou Ben and Li Chengsi also stood up and asked Yang Wu for his life: "The minister is also willing to lead the troops on behalf of the king!" ”

You must know that Yang Wu's current identity is not as good as before, although he was also the king of Wu before, but after all, he has not yet founded the country, but now after the official founding of the country, his status is equivalent to the Son of Heaven, how can the Son of Heaven personally lead the troops to the expedition at every turn?

This is like Tang Taizong, before he launched the Xuanwumen Revolution and ascended the throne as emperor, he often led troops to go out and made the first contribution to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty; But after ascending the throne, he has been sitting in Chang'an, and rarely personally leads troops to the battle.

This is of course because the world was basically peaceful at that time, but it is also because Li Shimin's identity is different.

Yang Wu's current situation is similar, maybe a major military operation like the Northern Expedition or the last battle to destroy Ma Yin in the future still requires Yang Wu to go out in person, but now it is just a small-scale operation to teach Ma Yin a lesson, so there is no need to let Yang Wu go out in person.

What's more, if Yang Wu personally leads the troops every time, how many opportunities do these generals have for meritorious service?

Li Chengsi and Zhou Ben are now both thinking about upgrading their county princes to national dukes, so they naturally have to make as many meritorious contributions as possible.

Of course, Yang Wu also understood their thoughts, and under their unanimous opposition, he finally dismissed the plan to pro-conscript.

"Wei Guogong, you are a privy envoy, draw up a plan to send troops as soon as possible! This time, if you send troops to teach Ma Yin a lesson, you must at least seize one or two states, and you are allowed to use the strength of three or four armies, and you must fight this battle well! Yang Wu finally decided.

As for the generals who led the troops, Yang Wu did not say anything for the time being.

Since this was a large-scale operation of three or four armies, and Yang Wu did not personally lead the troops, it was inevitable that a metropolitan governor would need to be appointed.

According to the regulations made with Yang Wu, only Zhang Xun, Zhou Ben, Wang Maozhang and Li Chengsi are qualified to serve as the governor of the capital of Wu now.

However, Zhang Xun is now old and sick, and he is obviously not suitable for the battlefield; Among the remaining Wang Maozhang, Zhou Ben and Li Chengsi, Yang Wu has not yet figured out who will lead the troops to the battle.

"By the way, this war against Ma Yin, don't forget Lu Guangchou in Qianzhou. Someone must be sent to give Lu Guangchou an order to send troops to the expedition as well! Since he surrendered to Lone, how can he not have any strength at all? ”

At the beginning, Lu Guangchou was attached to Wu Guo, and Yang Wu finally agreed under Yan Keqiu's suggestion, but asked Lu Guangchou or Tan Quanbo to go to Guangling in person to meet him.

Later, Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo only sent Lu Guangchou's son to the court on the grounds that they were old and sick and it was difficult to travel long distances.

His reason was sufficient, so that Yang Wu had nothing to say, and finally could only agree to the request of his eldest son to come to the audience instead.

Since Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo did not come to Guangling, Yang Wu naturally did not need to detain Lu Guangchou's eldest son.

First, it is not of much use, and secondly, Yang Wu also hopes that there will be civil strife among Lu Guangchou's sons in the future, and if his eldest son is detained, there may be no civil strife in Qianzhou in the future.

However, this time, Yang Wu once again issued an order to ask Qianzhou to send troops, and I don't know how the two will respond.