By the early morning of the next day, the Song army had completely controlled Wu City, and Le Yi was able to enter the former capital of Wu State.

Along with Wucheng falling into the hands of the Song army, there were also Jing Huan, the defender of the Chu army in Wucheng, and nearly 10,000 Chu army prisoners. The rest of the Chu army was either killed by the Song army, or seeing that the situation was not good, they took advantage of the night to flee for their lives.

Le Yi took control of Wu Cheng, and first released Wu Cheng, who was respected by Wu Dihaojie, from prison. At this time, Wu Cheng was already dying under the torture of the Chu army, so Le Yi immediately asked the military doctor of the Song army to treat him urgently, which saved Wu Cheng from the line of death.

Song Jun's actions towards Wu Cheng also made the heroes of Wu Di nod secretly. They could see that the Song army's respect for the Wu people was from the heart, and it was not like the Chu people, but a contemptuous attitude adopted by the rulers.

After Wu Cheng sobered up a little, Le Yi even personally sent an assistant to visit, and told him the fact that Wu Cheng had now fallen into the hands of Song Jun, and told him to take care of his body, and Song Jun would definitely be of great use to him in the future!

After handling Wu Cheng's affairs, and personally rewarding the heroes of Wu who took Nanwu City and Wu City, the Song army finally appeased the Wu people. As soon as the Wu people were pacified, Le Yi immediately ordered to summon the military land recruited by Wu Dihaojie.

When the troops were sent near Nanwu City before, the size of the Wu army was still relatively small, but it was only a few thousand people. And now that Wu Cheng has been taken, the size of the Wu army has reached tens of thousands, which is already an army no less than the Song army in terms of numbers, and it must be handled carefully.

Le Yi still follows the promise he made to Wu Ren before, and the low-level officers are all handed over to Wu Ren himself. And these high-ranking officers in the Wu army, Le Yi's appointment is very particular.

Most of these officers were still held by Wu people, but these Wu people were only born in Wu land, they all grew up in the Song state, and all of them served in the Song army. To a certain extent, in addition to the blood of the Wu people in their bodies, these people are no different from a Song person in their internal and external performance.

With Wu Pi and Song Xin's senior officers in charge of management, Le Yi was still not at ease, and he copied the staff system widely practiced in the Song army to the Wu army. In the Song Army, any division-level unit will be equipped with a staff officer who is responsible for the military aircraft, and the same is true for the Wu Army! In addition to the staff system, the priests, who were widely present in the Song army, also took the opportunity to infiltrate the Wu army.

In this way, Le Yi can perfectly control such a Wu army from the source. These Wu armies are familiar with the details of Wu and fight in their hometowns, so their combat effectiveness is naturally guaranteed.

The only trouble is that the Wu army has officially formed its combat effectiveness, and it still needs a period of training, and it is constantly running in with the Song army. And during the time when Le Yi trained these Wu troops and allowed them to officially go to the battlefield, the situation around the entire Wu land also began to change.

Zhaohua, who was in Yunyang, knew that the Song army had taken Wucheng, so he accelerated the speed of recruiting troops from Jinling. At the same time, he began to look for helpers. After he knew that the Wu people had defected to the side of the Song army, he became more and more eager to win over the Yue people. In addition to the envoys sent to Yuedi before, Zhaohua successively sent envoys to Yuedi Huiji with generous gifts, hoping to attract Yue people to fight side by side with the Chu army.

Le Yi took Wu City, and was able to use this city to control the heart of Wu Land, which can be said to have allowed the Song army to directly insert a sharp knife into the heart of the Chu army. However, the Song army took Wucheng and also faced the problem of how to get along with the Yue people.

In terms of Le Yi's original intention, he naturally hoped to treat the Yue people the same as he did with the Wu people. In his opinion, the Song army took Wu Land, which was already the limit of sending troops, and at this time should not establish a strong enemy in the south. During the Song army's southern expedition, Le Yi also obtained from Dai Yan the power to act in the south, and Dai Yan's disposition of Yue Di only had a general tone - it was enough to treat them as foreign vassals.

So Le Yi also sent an envoy to Huiji, telling the nobles of Yue that the Song State had no interest in Yue Di, and as long as the Yue people agreed to be vassals to the Song State, the Song State was willing to coexist peacefully with the Yue people.

Le Yi's handling of Yuedi, from the perspective of the national interests of the Song State, is actually not much of a problem. However, Le Yi underestimated the Wu people's antipathy to the Yue people, and also underestimated the hostility of the Song Dynasty's Donghai nobles to the Yue people, and underestimated the Chu people's attraction to the Yue people!

Needless to say, the Wu people's antipathy to the Yue people is that the Wu State died at the hands of Goujian, the king of Yue, who did not talk about any rules. The Yue State has ruled the Wu State for hundreds of years, and has also oppressed the Wu people for hundreds of years, so the Wu people naturally will not have a good impression of the Yue people, and they do not want the Yue people to return to the land of Wu.

And the hostility of the East China Sea nobles to the Yue people is a long story.

Since the rise of the maritime industry in the Song Kingdom, the nobles of the East China Sea have relied on their geographical advantages to make countless fortunes from overseas. And the navigation industry of the Song Kingdom, in addition to the two expansion routes of whaling at sea and digging gold and silver in the Wa Kingdom, there is another route, because it is out of the sight of the Song State officials, and is not known to most people, but it involves extremely huge interests!

This is the southbound route. Heading south in the East China Sea, there are a large number of islands along the way, and these islands, in addition to being used as a base for the southward development of the Song merchant fleet, contain rich resources in themselves.

These islands are rich in struvite that has been formed over millions of years. Now that the Song Kingdom has known the great role of struvite in promoting agriculture, the nobles of the East China Sea also know the value of these things. Since recent years, the demand for fertilizer in the Song Kingdom has begun to increase, and most of the increase has come from the southern islands.

In addition to struvite on the southern islands, merchants who traveled from the south to pioneer also discovered many valuable territories near the Yue Kingdom and beyond.

In the impression of the Central Plains people at this time, Yue Guo is already a wild land, and if Yue Guo goes south, it will be a place that is not even recorded on a map, and it should be more remote and unbearable. In reality, however, when the pioneer fleet of the East China Sea reached the south, it was immediately able to find out a lot of valuable things from it.

Their fleet arrived at Huiji, the heart of the Yue Kingdom, and entered the Qiantang River, where they saw the vast Qiantang tide. Subsequently, its fleet continued to move south, and successively discovered several river estuaries and alluvial plains that would form near the estuary.

Today's East China Sea is actually a plain near the mouth of the Huai River. Whether it is the nobles who were divided here by the Song Dynasty, or the rangers who came to the land of the East China Sea from other places, they all know how fertile the land is in an impact plain located at the mouth of the sea! It is no exaggeration to say that such a place is definitely a treasure that is rare in a century!

And in the southern part of the Yue Kingdom, the Song people have found several similar estuaries to the sea, and have also found large areas of similar alluvial plains. In the context of today's Song people's mastery of advanced navigation, the alluvial plains at these estuaries can actually become the merchants' own land!

And most of the people living in these lands today are Yue people. If the people of the East China Sea want to open up these lands and take them for themselves, they must fight against the power of the Yue people. Among the Yue people, the most influential is the king of Yue and the former Yue country.

With such a conflict of interest, conflicts between the people of the East China Sea and the Vietnamese people are naturally indispensable. Only at this stage, the expansion of the East China Sea nobles in the south was only a tentative action, and they only established some trading houses in various river mouths in the south as supply points. However, they knew that when the Song Kingdom gradually became stronger, the place where these merchants were located would definitely become a new city in the future!

How much is at stake in controlling the core land around the city? With such a big interest, the nobles of the East China Sea naturally couldn't let it go, and it was not their goal to negotiate with Yue and make Yue Di a foreign vassal of the Song State! In their minds, it would be great if they could directly defeat the Yue people and allow the merchants to freely go to the south to colonize! They are the group of people in the Song Kingdom who do not want to keep peace with the Yue people the most!

Although they could not influence the foreign policy of the Song State from the central level, it was still possible to make some small moves in private.

When they persuaded Le Yi not to appease the Yue people and not to make any promises to the Yue people to no avail, they immediately contacted the local Wu people and used another method, directly bribing the envoy sent by Le Yi to Huiji with money, so that the envoy could change his attitude when announcing the foreign policy of the Song State.

If the envoy is asked to directly change the rhetoric set by the boss, the envoy will naturally not dare. However, it is too easy to change the attitude, the Song State as an ancient country with a long history, the state guest of the Zhou Dynasty, the Song envoy in the face of the now extinct Yue State, naturally has a superior attitude, almost no need to change, can make the Yue people feel the arrogance of the Song State!

And the attitude of Chu towards Yue is very different from that of Song. Now in Yunyang, where Zhaohua is located, there is a fierce Song naval division on the Yangtze River in the north, and the elite of the Song army in the south who have recently landed across the sea, which can be said to be in a state of being sandwiched by the Song army. In such a critical state, the more capital the Chu State is willing to dispatch, the more it will naturally be.

When the conditions of the Song State and the Chu State were all placed in front of the Yue nobles Wang Chao, Wang Chao immediately saw the sincerity of both sides! Instinctively, he tended to join the side of the Chu State, even if the Chu State had just quelled the rebellion set off by the Yue people not long ago, killing countless Yue people, and there was a deep hatred between the Yue people!

And when he convened his generals to discuss which side Yue Di should throw to, except for a very small number of subordinates who were willing to throw themselves on the side of the Song State, most of the subordinates were willing to throw themselves on the side of the Chu State.

The Yue people are willing to do this, in addition to the reason why the Chu State is stronger than the Song State, it is also related to the current situation. In the eyes of the Yue people, now that the Song State has crossed the sea, it has swept the land of Wu in two days, and the Song and Chu Wars have obviously fallen behind.

In such a war, if the Yue people were on the side of the Song people, it would be just the icing on the cake, and the Song people would never really pay much price; And if the Yue people stand on the side of the Chu people, it will be a real charcoal in the snow, and they will definitely be able to achieve greater benefits!

Therefore, only seven days after the Song State captured Wucheng, the Yue nobleman Wang Chao, who was in Huiji, directly drove the Song envoy back to Wucheng, announcing that the Song State was the enemy of the Yue people, and the Yue people would ally with the Chu State to jointly fight against the Song State!