Li Yanqing immediately divided his troops into two routes, he ordered Wang Gui to lead 10,000 troops with 20,000 new troops to Suzhou Wu County to seize the arsenal, and he himself led 10,000 troops to the north, preparing to meet the southbound army.

This army of more than 6,000 people is the army led by Wu'ancheng, he originally had 10,000 subordinates, but he retreated very hastily, and finally only brought out more than 6,000 people, but it is these more than 6,000 people, Wu'ancheng has no way out, he either detours to Hangzhou, but Jiangnan has been controlled by the three major relatives, he offended Xiang Fa, and it is a dead end to go to Hangzhou.

In fact, Wu Ancheng also knew in his heart that he could only lead his troops to surrender to Li Yanqing to see if the imperial court could alleviate his crime of participating in the rebellion in the end.

Wu'ancheng led the army all the way south, at this time, a group of scout cavalry rushed from the opposite side, stopped and ran a few miles away, observing himself from a distance, Wu'ancheng urgently ordered several subordinates to negotiate, the two sides talked for a while, and more than a dozen scout cavalry turned their horses and ran south.

At this time, the 10,000 army led by Li Yanqing had stopped advancing ten miles north of Wuxi County, and in the distance, a group of scout cavalry rushed to the front, and the scout led by the scout ran to Li Yanqing and hugged his fists and said: "Qiyu Dutong, we have been in contact with the other party, the other party is Liu Yanqing's general Wu'ancheng, because Xiang Fa designed to kill Liu Yanqing, Wu'ancheng led his troops south to surrender to Dutong!" ”

Next to him, Liu Jian exclaimed in a low voice, with a painful look in his eyes, Liu Yanqing is the elder of his family, although Liu Yanqing is loyal to the three major relatives, which makes Liu Jian despised, but the news of his uncle's killing still makes him very sad.

Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Who is this Wu'an City?" ”

Liu Jian restrained the resentment in his heart, and said to Li Yanqing: "This eldest sister of Wu'an City is my uncle's concubine, and he himself is also a general of the Western Army. ”

"How good is his command?"

"And the lowly is in the middle of the match."

Li Yanqing nodded, and said to the scout: "You go and tell Wu'an City, if there is sincerity to surrender, ask him to put down his weapons and armor, and put the armor at least one mile away, so that I can accept their surrender." ”

"Obey!"

The scout turned his horse's head and ran north, and Liu Jian hurriedly said to Li Yanqing: "Let the lowly post go and contact him!" ”

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said, "You can lead 5,000 people to go, and I will lead the army to meet behind." ”

Although he was at least sixty percent sure that the other party was coming to surrender, Li Yanqing still did not dare to be careless, especially Liu Yanqing was famous for his deception in the Western Army, and he must take sufficient measures to prevent accidents.

But things went very smoothly, Wu'ancheng ordered the soldiers to take off their armor, put down their weapons, and the whole army was concentrated a mile away, at this time, Liu Jian led the army to arrive, he ordered his brother Liu Tie to lead two thousand soldiers to collect the armor piled up like a hill, and he himself led three thousand men to slowly approach the army of Wu'an City.

"General Wu is okay?" Liu Qian urged the horse to slowly step forward and shouted.

Wu Ancheng is about forty years old, ten years older than Liu Kuang, and his seniority in the army is slightly older than Liu Kuang, but now Liu Kuang has accumulated merit and has been promoted to the general of Yunlu from the third grade, the loyal and brave marquis, and Wu Ancheng is still the Dingyuan general of the fifth grade, and there is no title, he was also dragged down by the attack on Liao, was dismissed from office, and only barely recovered to the fifth rank of the military general last year.

Wu Ancheng recognized Liu Qian, couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and stepped forward and said, "It turned out to be Liu Xian's nephew, I haven't seen him for many years!" ”

Liu Jian nodded, "General Wu, I heard that my uncle had an accident?" ”

Wu Ancheng sighed, resentful and said: "Your uncle and I were deceived by the Xiang family, led the army to join the army of King Qin, and later heard that the official family was taken away by the Jin people, we supported the establishment of the new prince as the emperor, but two days ago I heard that His Royal Highness King Kang has ascended the throne, we knew that on the Xiang family, Liu Gong repeatedly wanted to withdraw from the battle with the imperial court, but was taboo by the Xiang family, today Liu Gong was deceived by Xiang Fa to go to the rear army and killed, I led part of the army to escape, came to surrender Li Taiwei!" ”

Liu Kuang glanced back at the place where the armor was prevented in the distance, and saw his brother Liu Tie make a gesture to him, indicating that the armor had been stored, so he said in a deep voice: "General Wu is willing to return to the imperial court, we welcome it, but the ugly words are in front, if General Wu has ill intentions, then don't blame me Liu Jian for not remembering the old feelings!" ”

Wu Ancheng even said that he didn't dare, and Liu Jian immediately ordered three gunpowder arrows to be fired, and the gunpowder arrows flew into the air, "Bang! The ground exploded, which was to inform the coach Li Yanqing to come and accept the surrender.

Not long after, Li Yanqing led the army to come slowly, Wu Ancheng turned over and dismounted, quickly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "The lowly Wu Ancheng is unwilling to serve the rebels, so he has come to serve the Tai Lieutenant and beg the Tai Lieutenant to be included!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Knowing the way back, turning back, on behalf of the imperial court, I welcome General Wu to join the army of quelling the rebellion, make new contributions early, and add a wife to the shade!" ”

"The lowly post will never disappoint the captain!"

Li Yanqing temporarily ordered Liu Jian to command Wu'ancheng's army to march behind, and he took Wu'ancheng to Suzhou first.

Generally speaking, surrendering generals can no longer command their old troops, at least not until the end of the war, this is mainly to prevent fraudulent surrender, and Wu'ancheng also knows this, so he has no doubts and honestly follows Li Yanqing south.

At noon the next day, Li Yanqing led the army to arrive in Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, in the war to pacify the rebellion of Fangla, Suzhou became an important logistics place for officers and soldiers, Tong Guan built more than a dozen huge grain and grass warehouses and weapons warehouses outside the southern city, although the officers and troops took away most of the grain and grass and armor when they retreated north, but later a large number of loot was piled up in the warehouse again, some of these trophies were transported back to the capital, some were used to equip the state army, and some of the armor of slightly worse quality was piled up in the warehouse, and no one cared about it.

Li Yanqing walked into the temporary barracks, this barracks once stationed 80,000 troops, covering a very vast area, only to see that in the huge school grounds, 20,000 new troops were training marksmanship, constantly making bursts of shouts, and there were more than 100 cavalrymen holding leather whips around to supervise the training of soldiers.

"Why is it all leather armor?" Li Yanqing found that the soldiers were all wearing leather armor, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

Wang Gui explained on the side: "The best mountain pattern armor and black hammer armor are gone, only 3,000 pairs of iron armor are left, and there are tens of thousands of pairs of leather armor. ”

"What about weapons? Is it enough? Li Yanqing asked again.

"The weapons are enough, there are 60,000 spears, 500,000 arrows, 10,000 bows, 30,000 knives and 5,000 tents in the warehouse, but unfortunately there are no crossbows, ordinary military crossbows and god arm crossbows."

Speaking of this, Wang Gui said in a low voice: "I heard that there are only 3,000 garrisons left in Qiantang County, Hangzhou, and I suggested that a surprise army should be sent to seize Qiantang County and capture the three major relatives, and their army will naturally collapse. ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "The impact of attacking Hangzhou is too great, most of the powerful people are concentrated in Hangzhou, and attacking Hangzhou will have some unexpected consequences." ”

Wang Gui nodded silently, he knew that although Li Yanqing's father, Li Daqi, was in Ezhou, more than 100 members of the Cao family were in Hangzhou, so Li Yanqing should try to avoid fighting in Hangzhou.

Wang Gui suddenly remembered something, and asked with a smile: "I don't know if Cao Meng's army has crossed the Yangtze River?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "In terms of time, it should be about the same, let's wait for two more days, and we can compete with each other!" ”

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The ships on the Yangtze River are dense, hundreds of naval warships from Ezhou are cruising on the river, 3,000 tugboats are carrying 6,000 cavalry across the river, most of the tugboats are 100 stone boats, one can transport more than 10 soldiers across the river, but the cavalry occupies a large area, a boat can only transport two cavalry and two war horses, but because of the large number, basically one trip can send the cavalry ashore.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River in Runzhou, ferries are slowly approaching, and when the planks are on land, the cavalry on the ferryboat will lead the war horses to the south bank and quickly assemble on the shore.

These 6,000 cavalry is also the Jingzhao Army, led by the generals Cao Meng and Gao Chong, soon, all the 6,000 cavalry arrived on the south bank, quickly assembled to complete, Cao Meng shouted, 6,000 cavalry like a torrent, along the official road to the south galloping.

At this time, the 70,000 Jiangnan army had already entered the boundary of Suzhou, and Xiang Fa learned that Li Yanqing's army was waiting in the garrison of Wu County, and no longer continued to go south, he was no longer anxious to catch up, and ordered to slow down and try to keep the soldiers full of physical strength.