Because of Zhong Xiuning's persuasion and the defeat of more than 30,000 troops led by Liu Chu overnight, Zhong Kuangshi finally chose to surrender to Huainan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although it surrendered after some fighting, this battle was very easy for the Huainan army, and when Liu Chongjing and 300 soldiers mixed into the enemy camp to create chaos, the Huainan army won without suffering any losses.

On the other side, although the Hongzhou army was the defeated side, but because of the low morale of the soldiers and the fact that they were defeated too quickly, the actual casualties were not many, and more were taken prisoners and fled by taking advantage of the chaos.

In this way, the offensive against Hongzhou can be regarded as ending in a relatively satisfactory way, and there is no grudge.

When the Huainan army entered the city, the money and grain of the various treasury in the city had been properly sealed, just waiting for the Huainan army to receive it; And those errand soldiers also patrolled the streets as usual, to prevent anyone from burning, killing, looting and abusing when the Huainan army entered the city......

In short, the whole process of entering the city seemed to be extremely orderly, which made Qin Pei secretly wonder who arranged all this so thoughtfully.

After entering the city, Qin Pei first went to visit Zhong Xiuning, and then began to appease the officials in Jiangxi.

These people are similar to Zhong Kuangshi, although they are nominally Jiangxi officials, but in fact, they can only manage Hongzhou City.

The strength of the Huainan army had completely frightened these people, so they did not encounter any trouble in the process of entering the city.

After everything was arranged, Qin Pei had time to ask Zhong Kuangshi about his doubts.

"General Qin, these are not the credit of my Jiangxi officials, all of this is arranged by General Diao Yanneng!"

What Qin Pei didn't expect was that it was Diao Yanneng, a sixteen-year-old young man, who arranged all the things properly when the Huainan Army entered the city.

is so talented, and he is Yang Wu's confidant, coupled with his youth, with these three advantages, it is conceivable that Diao Yan can definitely be reused in the future, and it is also possible to become a high-level general in the future.

Of course, although Diao Yanneng has a great future, Qin Pei didn't bother with the idea of currying favor with him, after all, Diao Yanneng also has the advantage now, and he is now the highest-level general in Huainan.

However, although Qin Pei had a calm attitude towards Diao Yanneng, Zhong Kuangshi on the side admired him very much, and there was even a kind of flattery in his words.

After all, he had put Diao Yanneng and others under house arrest before, and now if he didn't untie this festival, with Diao Yanneng's great future, it would not be fun to wait until he was in a high position and turned his head to suppress himself.

In addition, although the period after the surrender was still short, there was one person who made him feel uncomfortable, and this person was his younger brother Zhong Yangui.

Unlike him, his younger brother had taken refuge in Huainan at the beginning, and had heard that King Wu had promised to make him hereditary earl in the future.

And what about himself? Although Yang Wu's excuse did not say that he was crusading against him, everyone knew what the actual situation was, and he Zhong Kuangshi was the target of Huainan's crusade.

And although he later took the initiative to surrender, he did not surrender until Liu Chu's army was wiped out by the Huainan army, so what kind of treatment he would receive after coming to Guangling in the future made him feel uneasy in his heart.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Yang Wu's will to reach Hongzhou, and Yang Wu was still very tolerant in his arrangement, not only crowning him as the hereditary new Amber, but also appointing him as the assassin of Tanzhou.

Of course, Tanzhou is still in the hands of Ma Yin, and there is no hope of capturing Tanzhou in a short time, so Zhong Kuangshi's position as the assassin is still only a fictitious title.

As for his Zhennan Jiedu envoy, it was naturally given by Yang Wu himself.

At present, except for Yang Wu himself, Huainan has not canonized other people as festival envoys, at most it is to canonize some deputy envoys of festival degrees who only have false names and no real power.

In general, for Zhong Kuangshi, the "Lord of Jiangxi" who surrendered after a battle, Yang Wu still saved face for him, and the treatment he gave him was no lower than that given to his younger brother Zhong Yangui.

After all, Zhong Kuangshi is a genuine envoy of Zhennan Festival, and Zhong Chuan even helped Yang Xingmi in the most difficult time, plus his sister is Yang Wu's wife, so he gave him this preferential treatment.

Although Zhong Yangui surrendered on his own initiative, he was only a Jiangzhou assassin before, and his reputation was a little worse than Zhong Kuangshi, so even if he took the initiative to surrender, he finally got the same treatment as Zhong Kuangshi.

As for the other Jiangxi officials who surrendered, Yang Wu also added them according to their abilities, combined with Diao Yanneng's previous promises to appease these newly surrendered people.

And those who did not take the initiative to take refuge in Huainan during Diao Yanneng's stay in Hongzhou were treated much worse.

Except for a small number of people with good ability who were reused, the rest either went to Liangzhejiang to serve as lower-level officials, or went to a certain department of the Jiedu Embassy to take up idle posts, or were simply dismissed.

In addition to the arrangements for these demotion and demotion, Yang Wu also deliberately ordered the Zhong family to be moved to Guangling.

Although I am not worried about the possibility of the Zhong family rebelling, after all, the Zhong family has been in Jiangxi for nearly thirty years, even if the Zhong family does not rebel, it cannot guarantee that someone will rebel in the name of the Zhong family, so moving them to Guangling is the best choice.

In addition, Yang Wu ordered Chen Xiang and Liu Chu to be escorted to Guangling, and beheaded them in the city on the charge of kidnapping Zhong Kuangshi in a vain attempt to confront the Huainan army.

Huainan's original excuse for sending troops was to crusade against the disobedience of these two people, so regardless of whether they had done anything to kidnap Zhong Kuang, they had to be killed at this time.

What's more, these two people don't have much ability, even if they kill them, it won't be a pity.

Now that Hongzhou has been decided, the nominal owner of Jiangxi has also become Yang Wu, and the two most prosperous areas of Hongzhou and Jiangzhou have also completely fallen into the hands of Huainan, which is a major event worth celebrating for Huainan.

However, Jiangxi fell into the hands of Huainan so easily, which also made some Huainan generals a little fluttering, feeling that the previous assessment of the Jiangxi army was still too high.

These generals proposed that when Zhong Chuan was there, Hongzhou, as the seat of the Zhennan Jiedu envoy, was able to actually control most of Jiangxi; Even those who are relatively independent. Places where they were established, such as Fuzhou Wei Quanshu and Qianzhou Lu Guangchou, they also surrendered to Zhong Chuan at least nominally.

From this point, it can be seen that Hongzhou's army is not much worse, if not the strongest in the whole of Jiangxi.

Since even the strongest army behaved so poorly in front of the Huainan army, almost crushed in a battle, then the other Jiangxi armies should be even weaker.

Therefore, this part of the generals proposed that since the attack on Hongzhou did not pay much price, it was better to take advantage of the current great victory to continue to attack south, and completely capture the entire Jiangxi in the shortest possible time.

As soon as this suggestion came out, it was supported by many people, but veterans like Li Shenfu scoffed at this suggestion.

After all, the rapid rout of the Hongzhou army, as long as you think about it a little, you will know that the Huainan army is far stronger than the Hongzhou army, although it is one reason, but the more important reason is the chaos and division within Hongzhou.

After Zhong Chuan's death, Zhong Kuangshi did not have the ability to unify the power of the entire Jiangxi at all, and even his control over Hongzhou was relatively weak.

When Diao Yanneng came to Hongzhou, the Jiangxi officials who surrendered in large numbers fully demonstrated the confusion in Hongzhou.

In this case, the Huainan army could easily defeat Liu Chu and achieve a big victory.

However, Wei Quanyi and Lu Guangchou, as well as Shi Pengxuan, the Jizhou Thorn with Ma Yin's support, these forces were relatively stable internally, plus they formed an alliance, and they were located in the south of Jiangxi with complex terrain conditions, so it was not so easy to defeat them, especially if they took the initiative.

"Take your time! Since the Privy Council had already set a relatively complete plan to capture Jiangxi, then follow the previous plan, and don't change the plan easily for a small accident. Let's consolidate Hongzhou first! In addition, send a messenger to Raozhou and tell Tang Bao that if he surrenders, let him continue to serve as the assassin of Raozhou! In King Wu's mansion, Yang Wu made his own decision.

As for how to deal with the three forces of Fuzhou Wei Quanxi, Qianzhou Lu Guangchou and Jizhou Peng Xuan, Yang Wu actually has a preliminary idea in his heart, if his plan can be successful, not only can he eliminate these three forces in one fell swoop at a relatively small cost, but it will not take much time.

Of course, although this plan is good, it is still only an assumption, and how to achieve it still needs to be determined according to the specific situation in the future.

Fuzhou.

When the news of the Huainan Army's easy capture of Hongzhou reached here, Wei Quanyan was silent for a long time, and finally said one word: waste!

Yes, in his opinion, not only Zhong Kuangshi, but also so many officials and generals in Hongzhou City, these people are all waste.

How can it be said that there are also 40,000 troops in Hongzhou City, even if their combat effectiveness is not as good as the Huainan army, but the strength of the two sides is about the same, in this case, it was completely defeated by the Huainan army in less than a day, this is not a waste and what is it?

"Since you can't beat others, you should at least know that you should defend the city, then Liu Chu is good, but he ran out of the city to fight; If you stick to the city, no matter how powerful the Huainan army is, it won't break through Hongzhou so quickly, right? It seems that after Zhong Chuan's death, I am indeed the only one who is qualified to become the lord of Jiangxi in the whole of Jiangxi! ”

Wei Quanyan was not frightened by Huainan's achievements, but was more eager to seize the whole of Jiangxi.