Rectifying the army is actually nothing in itself, but Wang Yanyu took the initiative at this time, and specifically proposed to Yang Wu that he hoped to send some people to assist in the rectification, which meant something different.

Because the remnants of the 3,000 Caizhou Army are all surrendered from Caizhou, they naturally have the possibility of grouping, and Wang Yanyan, as the assassin of Caizhou, can continue to control these 3,000 troops if he is willing.

However, if he asks Yang Wu to send someone to help him rectify the army, then Yang Wu will naturally be able to divide and win over his deployment, mixing with the forces of the Wu State, etc., it can be said that this is completely taking the initiative to provide an opportunity for the Wu army to completely control the remnants of these three thousand Caizhou.

Although Yang Wu didn't care much about the three thousand remnants at this time, Wang Yanyan took the initiative to bring it up, which still surprised Yang Wu a little.

Yang Wu took a closer look at Wang Yanyan's expression, and saw that his eyes were clear and his expression was calm, and then he understood that he was serious.

"Gu originally thought that this Wang Yanyan started with a mutiny, and he should also be a traitor in troubled times, and he would definitely seize the army in his hands and try his best to avoid being completely controlled by others; I don't want this person to be a person who understands! Yang Wu secretly praised in his heart.

Since this person is so knowledgeable, Yang Wu's attitude towards him is naturally more kind.

"The Xiaoyi army now has less than 10,000 troops with you, and I am ready to select some soldiers from the Xuzhou army to join you and form a force of 5,000 people, with you as the commander. What do you think of this arrangement? Yang Wu asked with a smile.

"Everything is up to the king, and the last general will not dare to have the slightest opinion." Wang Yanyan replied without the slightest hesitation.

Yang Wu had a bigger smile on his face, obviously very satisfied with Wang Yanyan's attitude.

He decided in his heart that there would be no special suppression of Wang Yanyan in the future.

Of course, some necessary precautions are still necessary, and it is impossible to let them go because of Wang Yanyan's statement.

After these arrangements were made, Yang Wu continued: "This time, in the surrender army in Xuzhou, Gu intends to select some of the strongest, and then add some soldiers selected from the previous surrender army to form a third guard, with Jiang Yin's nephew Jiang Quan as the commander. In this way, the rebel army has three guards. ”

From the beginning of the Huainan Expedition, Wu State has captured a large number of Liang army soldiers, and was initially used to build Jinling City and other projects, but later with the completion of these projects, the early soldiers were gradually released, and were arranged in Jiangxi, Fujian and other remote areas, and some people were even directly arranged to Yizhou.

As a result, the first group of captives have now basically been converted into civilians and used to develop the south.

However, in the Battle of Jiangling last year, the Wu army captured many prisoners, including both Liang and Shu.

It would be a waste to spend all the prisoners who had been trained in war on building roads.

Therefore, Yang Wu decided to select a number of prisoners from among them, exempt them from servitude, and let them join the army of volunteers.

For those captives, compared to going to Hunan and other remote mountainous areas to build roads every day and night, they will naturally choose to join the righteous army to fight, which will be much easier after all.

Wang Yanyan stood there respectfully and listened, only to hear Yang Wu then ask: "Since the scale of this righteous army has expanded, it naturally needs a commander, do you have any ideas about the choice of commander?" ”

"King Qiqi, the last general doesn't have any ideas, everything is decided by the king." Wang Yanyan's attitude is still the same as before.

Yang Wu frowned and said: "Lone let you say it directly, if you have any ideas, what is the use of just listening to Lone's decision?" ”

Wang Yanyu then said: "Then the last general will be blunt, as far as the current point of view, among the generals of the Liang State who are willing to serve the king, including the last general, the original level is not high, of course, this is because those Liang generals have not fully realized the military prestige of our army, but also because the king's policy has always seemed to be a little ......."

"Something? Isn't the treatment a little low? Yang Wu asked with a smile.

"Exactly!" Wang Yanyan didn't want to say it so directly, but since Yang Wu had already asked, he simply admitted it.

"Great King, so the opinion of the last general is that the Righteous Army will not set up a commander for the time being, so that if the enemy generals with a higher reputation come to surrender in the future, they can wait for the vacant position."

Yang Wu smiled: "What you said is very good, you have a heart." But there is actually a suitable candidate here, and that is Kang Huaizhen! ”

"What? Kang Huaizhen? Wang Yanyan was really surprised, obviously he didn't expect it to be this person.

He asked in surprise: "But the general Kang who was defeated in the first battle of Haozhou back then?" Isn't he already dead? ”

"That's the man!" On the side, Guo Chongtao introduced the situation.

"If this person is the commander of the Righteous Army, I believe the others must have no opinion!" Wang Yanyan was shocked.

He really didn't expect that Kang Huaizhen, who had died a long time ago, was still alive and well, but what surprised him even more was that Yang Wu, the king of Wu, would actually think about Kang Huaizhen's family, keep it secret for so many years, and couldn't bear to leave it idle.

You must know that if Yang Wu is willing, he can secretly reveal the news of Kang Huaizhen's surrender to Liang Guo, and with Zhu Wen's tyrannical character, he will definitely kill all Kang Huaizhen's family members after learning the news.

In this way, even if Kang Huaizhen guessed in his heart that Wu Guo might have made a secret move, firstly, he had no actual evidence, and secondly, the blood feud between him and Liang Guo had been formed, and if he wanted to take revenge, he could only rely on the strength of Wu Guo, so that Yang Wu could easily get the effectiveness of a famous general, which was much easier than leaving Kang Huaizhen idle for so many years and keeping it a secret.

"It seems that the king is indeed a virtuous and benevolent lord, I was originally worried that it would be difficult for me to protect myself in the future if I voluntarily gave up military power, but now it seems that this step is indeed the right choice!" Wang Yanyan was excited.

He is not a fool, at the beginning when he rebelled in Caizhou, he was unscrupulous and killed all the lords he was loyal to and the same party that colluded with him, but after the rebellion was really successful, he realized that there was no room for these small forces to rise in the world today.

Especially after the defeat and surrender of Wu, he did not have any rebellious intentions, but became modest and calm.

Now it seems that his decision is right, as long as he is loyal to serve the state of Wu, he will definitely not treat him lightly if he wants to come.

Seeing his expression, Yang Wu suddenly understood the change in the other party's mind, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

After summoning several important generals, Yang Wu began to discuss the military situation.

Now the Liang army was stationed in the two areas of Xiao County and Xiangshan in the north of Suzhou City, and neither withdrew nor took the initiative to attack, which showed that the Liang army still did not give up the plan to capture Xuzhou, which made Yang Wu very surprised.

"It seems that Zhu Jin is really right, it must be Zhu Youzhen who is still thinking about capturing Xuzhou, otherwise if it is Niu Cunjie and Liu Jun, they know that there is no chance, and they will definitely choose to withdraw temporarily."

"But even if Zhu Youzhen doesn't understand military affairs, he must understand that the current strength of the Liang army is not comparable to our army at all, and it is difficult not to be defeated by our army, counting on them to defeat and our army to capture Xuzhou? It's almost impossible. ”

"So, where did Zhu Youzhen get the confidence to make this decision?"

Yang Wu asked Guo Chongtao, Zhu Jin and others about his questions, and soon everyone came to the same conclusion, that is, the Liang army should have reinforcements coming, or the Liang army felt that Wu had just experienced a major drought and serious food consumption, and at this time he must not be able to fight a protracted war of attrition, so he wanted to use a long-term confrontation to consume the Wu army to death.

"Fight a war of attrition? This is not to be feared! Yang Wu's face was relaxed, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all.

Although a major drought did deplete a large amount of grain reserves in Wu, the drought has long passed, and the round of rice planted in July and August is now about to enter the harvest period.

Although the crops were still affected by the drought, the overall harvest was quite good, which greatly reduced the consumption of grain.

Another point is that Wu's merchant fleet is still constantly transporting grain from the southern overseas grain-producing areas to Wu to enrich the treasury of Jinling and other places.

It can be said that in terms of grain reserves, the current State of Wu must be the best in the world, and even the State of Liang cannot be compared.

"It's the Liang army's reinforcements that are worth noting, what do you think about this?" Yang Wu turned his head to look at everyone.

After Guo Chongtao pondered for a while, he replied in a deep voice: "Don't worry, the king, even if Zhu Youzhen wants to send reinforcements, he won't send too many reinforcements. Because at present, the army of Liang is somewhat insufficient. ”

He then analyzed: "Although the Liang State has a large population and abundant troops, after so many years of attrition, especially the continuous defeats in recent years, the soldiers of the Liang army are gradually depleted. For now, even with the addition of state soldiers from all over the country, it would be good for the Liang State to be able to maintain an army of 300,000. ”

Among them, the Hebei army led by Yang Shihou is as many as more than 100,000; There are also about 50,000 troops confronting the Jin army in the river, plus the 70,000 people who are now going south to Xuzhou, and the forbidden army that stayed in Kaifeng, this is about 220,000 people. ”

"If you add the necessary garrisons in Guanzhong, Luoyang, Central Plains and other places, then the Liang army doesn't have much extra troops."

"Therefore, the minister dared to assert that even if the Liang army had reinforcements coming, it would not exceed 20,000 people." Guo Chongtao said in a deep voice.

Yang Wu nodded, extremely agreeing with his judgment.

20,000 reinforcements, this is still within the tolerance range of the Wu army, and the Wu army will still have some advantages at that time.

Of course, even if the Liang army has the upper hand, Yang Wu is not worried, because they are originally on the defensive side, and they will stick to the city in a big deal and wait for the future to change, anyway, the Wu State will drag on.

Of course, since he knew that there would be reinforcements coming from the Liang State, Yang Wu naturally would not sit back and wait, he immediately ordered the army to rest for a day, and sent troops north early the next morning to prepare for an attack on the Liang army.

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When the Liang State and the Wu State fought for the strategic place of Xuzhou, the Yan State in the north also reached the end of the mountain.

Originally, because the Yan State in this life was not hit hard by the Liang State, its strength was stronger than the Yan State in history, but on the other hand, it was also because of Yang Wu that the Jin State obtained the Suzhou Cannon, which was a siege weapon, which greatly enhanced the ability to attack the fortifications.

Under the fierce bombardment of hundreds of Suzhou guns, even the fortified Youzhou City soon could not hold on; In addition to Youzhou City, all the other cities in the Yan Kingdom have fallen into the hands of the Jin Kingdom.

The mountains and rivers are exhausted, this is the real mountains and rivers!

Liu Shouguang no longer had any strength to rely on, his own forces had been exhausted, and the generals were either captured by the enemy or voluntarily surrendered to the enemy; The rest of the generals did not have the slightest morale, and everyone had no intention of holding on.

"Even the Khitans are not willing to send troops to help? Is this the heavens going to kill me? Liu Shouguang felt desperate, and he completely lost the spirit when he was the emperor.

Of course, he sent people to ask the Khitans to send troops, but unfortunately he didn't know what bad things Liu Shouguang had done on weekdays, so that his reputation was so bad that even the Khitans knew that he didn't have any credit, so even if he promised to cede Pingzhou, Yingzhou, Yingzhou and other places to the Khitan after the siege of Youzhou was lifted, he still couldn't let Yelu Abao move his mind.

As for Liang Guo, another big country, he gave up his plan to rescue Yan Guo early.

Now Liu Shouguang is really at a dead end, and what makes him even more sad and angry is that he wanted to surrender to the Jin Kingdom before, but Zhou Dewei was worried that he was surrendering by fraud, so he refused his surrender.

He was not even allowed to surrender to the enemy, which made Liu Shouguang deeply sad and indignant.

Fortunately, perhaps it was his continuous surrender that finally made Zhou Dewei see some of his "sincerity", and although Youzhou was difficult to hold, it would take a lot of time and pay more to break it, so in the end Zhou Dewei decided to accept his surrender, and sent someone to invite Li Cunqing, the king of Jin, to come and let him personally accept Liu Shouguang's surrender.

On this day, Li Cunqiao, the king of Jin, finally arrived in Youzhou City under the escort of the guards.

From Liu Rengong's betrayal of Li Keyong and his own establishment in Youzhou, to the defeat of Liu Shouguang's army to the present, this is fifteen years in the blink of an eye.

Now Li Cunmiao sees that one of the three hateful things that his father has never forgotten is about to be satisfactorily resolved, and his heart can't help but feel extremely happy.

"After working hard for so long and paying so much price, I am finally about to eliminate Liu Shouguang. With the territory of Youzhou, the national strength of our Jin country is weak, and the disadvantage of not being able to fight for a long time will be greatly reduced, which is the foundation of the lonely future to dominate the world! ”

Li Cunmiao was a little excited in his heart, he decided that if Liu Shouguang surrendered honestly and became a rich man in the future, then he would not mind sparing Liu Shouguang's life for the sake of his hegemony.

However, what he didn't expect was that just when Li Cunqiao was excitedly waiting for Liu Shouguang to surrender, something else happened in Youzhou City.

(It's a bit busy these days, so there are few updates; Back to normal tomorrow. A total of six chapters are owed in the past few days, and three chapters are made up every day until the end of the month. ）