Faced with his friend's proposal, Feng Dao did not hesitate for long before making up his mind.

Yan Guo obviously can't stay any longer, and continues to stay in prison, maybe Liu Shouguang may release himself after he returns; But it is more likely that he will kill himself directly in anger and shame.

Fools with both outcomes know how to choose.

Soon, Wang Ting falsely passed on Liu Shouguang's will as a servant of the Criminal Department and ordered Feng Dao to be released.

After all, Yan Guo was not long in the grass, and Liu Shouguang was not good at management, and all systems were very simple, and there were many loopholes, so Wang Ting's action was successful without encountering any resistance.

Of course, the more important reason is that Feng Dao is usually kind to people and has not offended anyone, so even if some people feel that there is a problem in this, everyone turns a blind eye and does not ask carefully.

After getting out of prison in this way, Feng Dao immediately said goodbye to Wang Ting and the others, and began to go all the way south, preparing to leave for Jinling.

His friend Wang Ting also resigned and retired soon after, leaving the Yan Kingdom.

……

In mid-November, in the city of Jinling.

"Congratulations to the king, Na Liqiu really launched a mutiny. In this way, our army will be famous for sending troops to Qianzhou! ”

"Then Lu Yanchang is so stupid, the king just played a simple provocation, and he was obediently fooled; How can such a foolish person be qualified to rule the state of piety? It seems that Lu Guangchou's vision is nothing more than that! ”

……

In the canopy hall, all the ministers congratulated Yang Wu one after another.

Just now, news came from Qianzhou that the long-awaited civil strife in Qianzhou by Yang Wu and others had finally happened.

As Yan Keqiu said, Lu Yanchang and Li Qiu had a discordant relationship, and the envoys of Wu State provoked it, which soon made the contradictions between them begin to intensify.

Lu Yanchang made up his mind to replace Li Qiu, but after all, Li Qiu had served as the commander of the Ya Army for many years, and his roots in the army were extremely deep, and Lu Yanchang did not dare to act rashly, so he had to attack Li Qiu's cronies first.

It's a pity that Lu Yanchang is only a low-eyed person after all, and the means he used to deal with Li Qiu's cronies were too obvious, and he acted too eagerly, even a fool could perceive his purpose, let alone Li Qiu.

At this time, Li Qiu had not yet received written assurances from the state of Wu, and only the envoy of the state of Wu had verbally told him that if he launched a mutiny, he would be appointed as the new assassin of Qianzhou.

There was no formal document, and only a verbal guarantee from the envoy naturally could not reassure Li Qiu.

However, now that Lu Yanchang is about to attack him, he has no other way than to believe in the guarantee of the envoy of Wu State, and he has no other way to go than to strike first.

And although the old Tan Quanbo knew that Lu Yanchang's approach was easy to cause trouble, he was old after all, and what he said didn't work very well, Lu Yanchang didn't listen to him at all, so he couldn't do anything in vain.

So just a few days ago, Li Qiu took advantage of Lu Yanchang's opportunity to go out of the city to hunt, launched a mutiny, closed the gate of Qianzhou, and quickly controlled the situation in Qianzhou.

As for Lu Yanchang, he originally planned to flee to Shaozhou in a panic, but he was caught up by Li Qiu's people on the way, and he was killed on the spot.

After Lu Yanchang's death, the last worry of Wu sending troops was gone.

All that remains is to send troops to capture Qianzhou.

As for the previous promise of the envoy of Wu State to Li Qiu, it was just a verbal promise, and there was no order issued by Yang Wu, and at the same time, no one else heard it, even if Wu Guo turned his face and did not admit it, Li Qiu was helpless.

"Haha, don't be too happy, after all, Qianzhou hasn't been defeated yet!" Although Yang Wu told everyone not to be too happy, he himself was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

From Tianyou's fourth year of agreeing to Lu Guangchou's request to surrender, to the current fourth year of Wuyi, a full four years have passed.

Originally, Qianzhou was just a small force, with no more than 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, and there were no famous generals, except for Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo, who needed to pay attention, everyone else was a mediocre talent.

is such a force, but Wu Guo has been carefully laid out for four years, of course, because there are other forces in the south that have not been pacified at that time, but also to act carefully.

For Yang Wu, any force that can be in charge of a party for decades must be taken seriously and must not be careless.

What's more, if you can use some means to reduce resistance as much as possible and seize territory more easily, why not?

At this time, after four years of planning, it was finally time to harvest, and the monarchs and ministers of Wu were naturally happy.

After Dao Xi, Chen Yanqian's expression was solemn, and he stood up and said: "King, now Li Qiu dares to launch a mutiny in Qianzhou and kill the assassin of Qianzhou personally appointed by the king. The minister asked the king to give an order to send troops to crusade against the traitor! ”

"What Scholar Chen said is very true, Li Qiu is openly rebelling, and he should raid his family and exterminate his family, and he asks the king to give an order to send troops to fight against the traitor Li Qiu!" The privy envoy Li Chengji also stood up and pleaded.

"The ministers seconded the proposal, please order the crusade against the rebel thief!" The ministers stood up one after another.

Almost without any controversy, the decision to crusade against Lebanon was passed.

Although there are two states in Qianzhou, what Li Qiu can control is only Qianzhou, and Shaozhou is now in the hands of Liao Shuang, Lu Yanchang's henchman.

So after passing the resolution to crusade against Li Qiu, Yan Keqiu stood up and said: "King, that Liao Shuang is just a tree without roots without Lu Yanchang's support." The minister thought that he could send an envoy to recruit him! ”

Liao Shuang is different from Lu Yanchang, Lu Yanchang has his father's prestige for decades as a backing, so he has enough standing to rule Qianzhou, but even so, he was still killed by Li Qiu.

And Liao Shuang is just Lu Yanchang's henchman, if it weren't for Lu Yanchang's support, he would not have been able to sit in the position of Shaozhou's assassin, let alone sit firmly in his own position.

And now that Lu Yanchang is dead, he may not even be able to control Shaozhou smoothly, how can he confront Wu State?

Therefore, if he knew the current affairs, he would inevitably ask Wu to surrender, and it would be a complete surrender, not a nominal surrender.

And Wu Guo can also promise him that as long as he surrenders completely, Wu Guo can appoint him as the assassin of a certain state in Hunan, which can also be regarded as a certain benefit for him.

In this way, as long as Liao Shuang is not too stupid, he should know how to choose.

Regarding Yan Keqiu's suggestion, Yang Wu naturally readily agreed.

However, when it comes to who will lead the troops to capture Qianzhou, the ministers have some different opinions.

Now there are ten forbidden armies of Wu State, of which Li Jian is the governor's Zuozhen Wu Army and Wang Juan is the governor's right town Wu army, which is responsible for garrisoning the Huai River defense line in the north to guard against Liang State; Wang Maozhang was responsible for guarding Ezhou for the governor's left-town national army, Liu Xin was responsible for garrisoning Jiangxi and Hunan, and Li Chengding was responsible for guarding Liangzhejiang and Fujian for the governor's right-hand army.

The remaining left and right Wuxiang armies with Chai Zaiyong and Lu Shi and Zhou as the governors, Zhu Siqing and Qin Pei as the left and right Tengxiang armies as the governors, and the Zuo Tianwu army with Zhou Ben as the governor, were responsible for guarding Jinling.

Of course, some time ago, in order to accept a large amount of territory ceded by Ma Yin, Yang Wu had already transferred Chai Reuse and Lu Shizhou's left and right Wuxiang troops to Hunan, and now the various matters of receiving the territory are almost over, except for the Jingjiang Army's six states and some local forces that need to be cleaned up, other things have been completed.

According to the opinions of Zhu Jin and others, attacking Qianzhou should be taken as quickly as possible, so as to achieve the goal of deterring Liu Yan in Lingnan.

Therefore, the 60,000 people of Lu Shizhou, Liu Xin and Chai Zaiyong's three armies should all be thrown into Qianzhou, and they should be quickly taken down with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.

However, Yan Keqiu, Guo Chongtao and others have other views.

"King, Qianzhou is just a lonely city, there are no reinforcements outside, no savings inside, it is difficult to resist for a long time, why bother to work 60,000 troops to go to the expedition? Chen heard that the Shu army has recently won victories one after another, and even Liu Zhijun has been defeated by the Shu army one after another, and it seems that this time the battle between Shu and Qi will end with the victory of Shu in a short time. Therefore, the minister thinks that our army should capture Gangneung as soon as possible! ”

What Yan Keqiu sees is the situation in the whole world.

After all, the national strength of Shu is far above that of Qi, although Liu Zhijun led the Qi army to defeat the Shu army in Qingniling some time ago, killing tens of thousands of Shu troops, but he can't defy the sky after all.

After Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, personally rushed to Lizhou to supervise the battle, the Shu army assembled again and launched a counterattack against the Qi army; At the same time, Liu Zhijun was only a subordinate general after all, and he was widely constrained in the Qi army, and it was difficult to gain Li Maozhen's true trust.

Therefore, this counterattack of the Shu army was a great success, it can almost be said that it was a small victory in three days, a big victory in five days, and in just one month, the advantages that the Qi army had accumulated before because of the victory of Qingniling were gone.

At this time, anyone can see that the victory of Shu is just around the corner, as long as three months, as short as one month, and the two countries of Qi and Shu will inevitably meet and make peace.

Of course, since the war started in March, nine months have passed now, and the officers and men of the two armies have long been exhausted, even if the peace negotiation is successful, it is impossible for Shu to attack again in the short term.

However, for Wu, in order to prevent Shu from interfering with Wu's attack on Jiangling on a large scale, the best way is to take advantage of the next few months to send troops to attack.

In these months, even if Shu had the heart to send troops to Jiangling, it could not send too many troops.

Guo Chongtao obviously agrees with this point of view, and he also feels that to attack a Qianzhou, it is enough to let Liu Xin lead 20,000 forbidden troops; As for the 40,000 people used by Lu Shizhou and Chai, they can rest in Hunan, and then send another army from Jinling, plus Wang Maozhang of Ezhou, a total of 80,000 forbidden troops, and if necessary, they can also mobilize part of the Xiang army.

With such strength, it is enough to conquer Gangneung.

However, whether it was Guo Chongtao, Yan Keqiu, or Yang Wu and others, they did not expect that Shu State and Liang State had joined forces at this time.