The Jin army crusaded against the Zhao State, and even if history changed, Yang Wu believed that it would take at least half a year for Li Cunqiao to conquer.

During this period, even if Li Cunmiao did not want to see the Wu army capture the Central Plains alone and wanted to send troops south to take advantage of the fire and rob, but under the containment of the Zhao State and the Khitans, the Jin army would definitely not have many troops that could really be used in the south, and it was definitely not the opponent of the Wu army.

"Therefore, you are worried that the strength of the Zhao State is too weak to contain the Jin army, this worry is actually superfluous." Yang Wu finally laughed.

Li Chengding pondered for a moment and said, "King, maybe the Zhao State can indeed hold out for more than half a year, but how can the King be sure that our army will definitely be able to defeat the main force of the Liang Army within half a year?" What if Liang Jun is bent on holding on? ”

Yang Wu nodded and said: "You are right to worry, no matter how well prepared our army is, it can't be said that there is no surprise, with the strength of the Liang army, if they stick to a few important places, it will indeed be difficult for our army to take them in a short time." But what if someone is responsible for our army's internal response? ”

"Guilty? Does the king mean ......"?

"Haha, just look at this." As he spoke, Yang Wu took out a letter from the secret compartment of his desk and handed it to Li Chengding.

"What is this?" Li Chengding was a little surprised and hurriedly took it.

"What? This person actually secretly took refuge in the king? As soon as he read the first few sentences of the letter, Li Chengding was shocked, and then he was overjoyed, and his face showed unbelievable joy.

After reading the letter, Li Chengding pondered for a long time, and still asked in disbelief: "King, isn't this person Zhu Wen's nephew?" He is now named King Hui, the official worships the history of Chenzhou, and he is extremely rich, how can he be willing to take refuge in the king and act as an internal response for the king? ”

No wonder Li Chengding didn't believe it, after all, the identity of this Neiying prepared by Yang Wu was too unimaginable, it turned out to be Zhu Wen's nephew Huiwang Zhu Youneng.

Although it is not Zhu Wen's own son, Zhu Youneng is also a minister of the clan of the Liang State after all, and there is no shortage of such cases of important ministers colluding with foreign enemies to act as internal responses, but there are not many cases of important ministers colluding with foreign enemies, and even if there are, they are also thinking of borrowing the power of foreign enemies to compete for the throne.

However, with the current situation, can Zhu Youneng not be able to see clearly, even if Wu State promises to help him fight for the position of Emperor of Liang State, how can he guarantee that Yang Wu will not regret it when the time comes? If Wu took the opportunity to send troops to destroy Liang at that time, then he would be a sinner of Liang State.

Such an unwise move, at least Li Chengding couldn't figure out why Zhu Youneng would agree.

Yang Wu said with a smile: "What's strange about this, in fact, when Zhu Youneng secretly sent a messenger here, Gu Ye was very surprised, but after a careful understanding, he understood why this person had the idea of rebellion." ”

It turned out that after Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the battle for the throne of Liang did not end there, and several of his younger brothers still had their own ambitions.

In the second year of Wu's unification of the south, that is, at the beginning of the eighth year of Wuyi, Zhu Youzhen's younger brother Zhu Youzi, the king of Kang, sent assassins into the palace to assassinate him, but he failed and was killed; After that, Zhu Youzhen became more and more close to his two henchmen, Zhang Hanjie and Zhao Yan, who were more and more distant from the old ministers of the Zhu Wen era, and even more jealous of other clans.

Zhu Youzhen's younger brothers were subjected to the strictest supervision in the following years, and Zhu Youneng, the king of Hui, was no exception.

And a few years ago, after Zhu Youneng was named the assassin of Chenzhou, the customs of Chenzhou were corrupted, and there were some local gangsters, headed by Dong Yi and Tian Yi, who usually claimed to be studying Buddhism, and even called themselves "Son of Heaven", and set up a Buddhism on their own, called "superior", mixed men and women, gathered day and night, and robbed houses all day long, doing all kinds of evil.

Zhu Youneng, as the assassin of Chenzhou, not only did not send troops to clear and rectify, but instead joined the same stream and fished the people together.

Two years ago, this incident finally alarmed Zhu Youzhen, so Zhu Youzhen personally sent troops from Luoyang to kill all the gangsters.

This incident made Zhu Youneng deeply frightened, worried that Zhu Youzhen would deal with him, coupled with the encouragement of some people around him, so he secretly took refuge in Wu Guo.

Zhu Youneng hoped to get help from Wu to ascend to the throne, and when the time came, he was willing to cede all the places south of Xuzhou and east of Yanzhou to Wu and claim to Wu as vassals.

Profit and wisdom are faint! This is a typical example of Li Lingzhi's stupidity, and he would actually lure a wolf into the house for an unrealistic idea, which made Li Chengding shake his head.

"The situation in the Liang Kingdom has been declining to this point, and Zhu Youneng is still thinking about competing for the throne, and the Liang Kingdom will not be destroyed?"

"Yes, Liang Guo'an is immortal?" Yang Wu nodded, and he felt more emotion in his heart than Li Chengding.

Are there still fewer examples of this kind of luring wolves into the house in history? Obviously, the national disaster is at the head, even if everyone is not in the same boat, unites as one, and goes to the national disaster together, then at least they can't tear each other down, right? But some people are like this, they don't see the crisis of losing the country at all, they only think about how to fight for power and profit, and finally the foreign enemy will kill in, and everyone will be finished together.

There are too many examples of this kind, so Yang Wu was a little unconvinced at first, but immediately believed it after learning about the specific situation.

In fact, from another aspect, the truth of this matter can also be determined.

Zhu Youneng took the initiative to send someone to express his submission, there are only two possibilities, the first is that Zhu Youneng is dizzy and really wants to use the hand of Wu to ascend to the throne; The second possibility is that there is a conspiracy against the state of Wu.

However, if there is a conspiracy against Wu Guo, it cannot be arranged by Zhu Youneng, but must be arranged by Zhu Youzhen, after all, relying on Zhu Youneng's strength alone, he is not qualified to arrange a conspiracy against Wu Guo at all, only Zhu Youzhen is barely qualified.

But if Zhu Youzhen deliberately let Zhu Youneng arrange a conspiracy against Wu Guo, it is even more impossible.

After all, the situation of Liang State is there now, and under the blow of the Jin State, the oil is about to run out, and relying on the Yellow River to barely block the attack of the Jin State, in this case, Zhu Youzhen is only afraid that he is dreaming about how to continue to maintain peace with the Wu State, and how dare he take the initiative to provoke?

I think that as long as Zhu Youzhen is not stupid, then he will not arrange a conspiracy to trap Wu Guo.

So there is only one possibility in the end, that is, Zhu Youneng himself is dizzy and wants to use the power of Wu to fight for the throne.

"I didn't expect the king to have such an internal decision, no wonder the king was full of confidence in defeating the Liang army, and even sure that he would win in a short period of time. The king is far-sighted, and the minister is deeply admired! Li Chengding sighed.

Yang Wu smiled and said disapprerovitically: "What you said is wrong, no matter how far-sighted Gu is, it is impossible for Zhu You to surrender obediently, in the final analysis, it is because of the strength of our dynasty." And isn't it the credit of the ministers that our country can have today? ”

He said modestly, then with a solemn face, and said solemnly: "General Li, the main purpose of calling you back this time is that you are responsible for cooperating with Zhu Youneng's actions and eliminating the main force of the Liang army in the south in one fell swoop. ”

Li Chengding hurriedly replied solemnly: "I don't know how the king plans to let his ministers act, and how to arrange the time, troops, etc.?" ”

Yang Wu took out another document from the secret compartment of the desk and handed it to Li Chengding: "This is the specific plan drawn up by the Privy Council, you can take a look at it first." As for the time, it should be chosen after the Jin King Li Cunqiao made a move against the Zhao State. ”

Li Chengding took the document and read it here.

The content of the plan is not much, it is still relatively sketchy, and it seems that the specific action plan has not yet been fully decided, and at least he needs to participate in the formulation of the specific implementer.

According to the plan, after the Jin army made a move against Zhao, Wu would also start the Northern Expedition.

However, in order to confuse the Jin and Liang states as much as possible before the Northern Expedition, the Wu side would not use too many troops at first, and would only use the troops of the two armies stationed in the Xuzhou area.

In the past few years after the unification of the south, the forbidden army of Wu has been rotated several times, and although it is still the establishment of ten armies, the garrison has undergone great changes.

First of all, on the side of Jingxiang, the Wu army was stationed in two armies with a total of 60,000 people, namely the Zuozhen Wu Army stationed in Xiangzhou and the Youzhen Wu Army stationed in Jiangling, and their governors were Zhou Ben and Chai Zaiyong.

In addition, there were 2,000 cavalry and 5,000 Xiaoyi troops stationed near Xiangzhou, which were controlled by Zhou Ben.

The second is the Huaibei defense line, the Wu army stationed a total of three armies and 90,000 forbidden troops here, of which Li Jian's Zuozhen National Army is still stationed in Shouzhou, Zhu Qianyou is the governor of the right town of the national army stationed in Suzhou, Liu Xin's Zuo Tianwu army is guarding Xuzhou.

In addition, there were 10,000 Xiaoyi troops under the command of Wang Yanyan (Kang Huaizhen had died of illness), and 3,000 cavalry garrisoned near Xuzhou, controlled by Liu Xin.

In addition to these five corps stationed, there are also five corps of forbidden troops stationed in the south in peacetime.

Among them, the Right Tianwu Army of Lü Shizhou as the governor was stationed in Jiangxi.

This can be regarded as the general reserve army of Wu, and it is responsible for guarding Jiangxi, Hunan, Lingnan, Fujian and other places, and once there is turmoil in these areas, it is necessary to use this army to suppress it.

As for the remaining four armies, they were all stationed in nearby areas such as Jinling and Guangling, and controlled the entire Wu State in the center.

These four armies were the left and right Tengxiang army with Li Chengding and Li Decheng as the governors, and the left and right Wuxiang armies with Mi Zhicheng and Zhu Siqing as the governors.

In addition, there are 5,000 cavalry and Yang Wu's Yulin Army is also stationed near Jinling, and it can be said that Jinling has the largest number of troops.

Of course, the division of this station is only approximate, and it will be relocated according to the actual situation.

For example, this time Wu sent troops to the Wa State, and the 5,000 troops used were Li Chengding's subordinates.

In general, the distribution of Wu's army is still based on the principle of half guarding the vicinity of Jinling and half garrisoning all parts of the frontier.