As soon as he entered the territory of Runzhou, Wu Yingying and his entourage met the scouts stationed in the state border by Xin Gu, and when they heard that the commander was coming, the soldiers of the left army were all very happy, while Pegasus reported to the chief general of the left army and the training envoy of the Runzhou regiment Xin Gu, while cleaning the post station to entertain Wu Yingying and others. It has been nearly ten days since Wu Yingying escaped from Jinling that he has eaten cooked rice and taken a hot bath for the first time.

Since the Jinling Revolution, Xingu has been sending scouts to the west to inquire about the news, and there is even an elite team that changes into the costumes of the Song army and ventures into Jinling, but has not yet returned. Xiao Jiu, the commander of the right army stationed in Changzhou, has also been reporting news to Xin Gu, asking if there is a commander of the whereabouts of the general, the courage of the army, Xin Gu Xiao Jiu has the strength to take responsibility, but there is no talent to control the overall situation, seeing that after the Song army digested the results of the victory in Jinling, it will soon move eastward and flatten the states and counties that have not yet surrendered. Just when the whole of the Divine Guard Army was worried, suddenly came the news that Wu Yingying and others had escaped safely, Xin Gu was overjoyed, and while informing Changzhou Xiao Jiu of the news, he asked him to come to Runzhou to meet Wu Yingying, while Pegasus rushed to the state border post to meet Wu Yingying.

On this day, Wu Yingying had not rested, and the guards reported that the general Xin Gu came to see, Wu Yingying hurriedly got up to greet him, and both of them were very happy. Wu Yingying informed that the Xingu Cai clan had surrendered, and the Jinling army and civilians had been slaughtered by the Song people, and the Shenwei army must be prepared to deal with the ensuing blow of the Song army.

Xin Gu reported to Wu Yingying about the recent situation of the left army of Shenwei, these days Xin Gu has been training the army, the left army has now expanded to twelve battalions, including four spear battalions, four bow and crossbow battalions, two sword and shield battalions, a baggage battalion and a cavalry battalion, because Xin Gu is a Khitan, for the army without cavalry is incredible, so although Jiangnan has few horses, he still tried his best to find twenty mules, thirteen donkeys, five inferior horses, let five hundred soldiers take turns to practice riding.

In addition, adhering to Wu Yingying's instructions, the Left Army accelerated the development of the Brotherhood, and at present, there are one hundred and seven members, including Xin Gu, all of whom are sincere and brave soldiers, hidden in each battalion, so that even if Xin Gu is careless, he knows all the big and small matters in the Left Army. You must know that the army has appeared in the five dynasties of professionalism, although the soldiers dare to fight, but for the sake of interests often mutiny, the generals often can not control the army, Zhao Song arrived later only by relying on the methods that the generals did not know to suppress the warriors.

Wu Yingying established the Brotherhood as the core organization in the army, which not only attracted the most backbone and ambitious generals in the army, but also mastered the movements of most of the other soldiers through them, and the generals' control over the army was greatly strengthened.

Early the next morning, Xiao Jiu and fifty personal guards also rushed to see Wu Yingying. Because Changzhou, where he was stationed, had been war-torn for a long time, and the population was not as prosperous as Runzhou, the right army currently had only ten battalions, including three spear battalions, five bow and crossbow battalions, one sword and shield battalion, and one baggage battalion. Xiao Jiu was more cautious in recruiting Brotherhood members, and those who were not tested and reliable would not be selected, so there were currently only seventy-three Brotherhood members in the Right Army. Since the Wu Yue army on the East Road was hit hard by Wu Yingying in the Battle of Changzhou, it has not recovered its vitality and never dared to provoke in Changzhou.

Seeing that the left and right armies were well trained, Wu Yingying was relieved, and then took the guards to Changzhou and Runzhou to review the army, and personally summoned the members of the brotherhood of Xingu and Xiao Jiu, from which 28 people were selected to enrich the personal guards, and more than 400 people were selected from the left and right armies, and the number of the guards was expanded to 500.

In order to cope with the upcoming attack of the Song army, Wu Yingying ordered the main force of the right army to concentrate on Runzhou, and the left and right armies began to practice coordinated operations.

After the Song army captured Jinling, it did not rush to launch an offensive against the Southern Tang Dynasty, which had not yet surrendered, but first safely sent Cai Yu and Empress Zhou, including important Southern Tang Dynasty ministers, to Kaifeng Bianliang through the canal, and then spread the news to various prefectures and counties, limiting the original civil and military generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty to surrender within one month. Because of the strength of the troops in Changrun Erzhou, in the past ten days, the Song envoys who came to persuade them to surrender came two or three times, but the words were quite rude, and they directly asked the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Shenwei Army to disarm and surrender, and Wu Yingying and other important generals needed to personally go to the west of Shengzhou stationed in Jinling to confess their guilt and wait for the fall. Otherwise, as soon as the army arrives, it will crush the recalcitrant ones into powder.

For the Song envoy's actions, Wu Yingying, Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu and other divine guards were quite surprised, since it was to persuade them to surrender, how could they be so arrogant, even if they had the idea of soothing first and then killing, they couldn't make such an appearance from the beginning. Since he couldn't figure out the true attitude of the Song State, Wu Yingying simply concentrated on training the army and collecting military rations.

On this day, he was practicing the spear battalion's counter-cavalry technique in the field, and Chase came to report that a Song envoy was coming, Wu Yingying's face sank, and he said: "If you are not ashamed to speak and blindly threaten the generation, you will dry him for two days before speaking." ”

Chase had a difficult face, and said in his ear: "It's the general's old acquaintance." ”

"Which one?" Wu Yingying asked loudly because of the sound of killing on the battlefield.

"Wang Yu, who used to live in the general's mansion. Chase hurriedly explained, because Wang Yu had been imprisoned in Wu Yingying's mansion for many days, Wu Yingying was very polite to him, and the relationship between the two became both enemies and friends, and then Wang Yu actually said that Huangfu Jixun rebelled, but indirectly contributed to Wu Yingying's mastery of the Divine Guard, because the old Jinfan Army that had followed Wu Yingying's side for a long time had no ill feelings towards Wang Yu.

"This person," Wu Yingying groaned slightly, after his official position was promoted, he also did some research on the Great Song Dynasty, and felt more and more that Wang Yu was not a simple person, and he could not be taken lightly, so he explained to Xin Gu on the school ground, and took Chase to the flower hall where he was entertaining.

I saw Wang Yu holding a fine cup in his hand, patiently blowing away the tea foam floating on the surface, looked up and saw Wu Yingying coming in, and said with a smile: "Brother Wu, don't come unharmed?"

Wu Yingying sat on the chair with a big grin, he rushed over directly from the school field, covered in armor, and sat down to press the bamboo chair with a gurgling sound, hearing Wang Yuzhi frowned, Wu Yingying smiled with satisfaction: "Wang Yu is here, isn't he a lobbyist for others?"

Wang Yu smiled lightly, took a sip of tea and said, "Someone asked me to see how good the Divine Guard Army is, but I'm here to persuade you to hurry up and fly away." ”

"Oh?" Wu Yingying was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Brother Wang is joking, in your opinion, our army has more than 10,000 tigers, and it is difficult to have a foothold in Jiangnan?"

"Exactly!" Wang Yu nodded immediately, his face was serious, and said: "Brother Wu thinks that he has a heavy army, and according to the land of the two states, he can sell it at a price?"

Wu Yingying didn't answer, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, the two of them were very familiar, and he knew that Wang Yu had something to say, and he was not in a hurry.

"But you killed Cao Zumeng by mistake, this person is Cao Bin's nephew, who lost Cao Bin's face, and he was too sharp, which attracted people's jealousy. Wang Yu looked at the expressionless Wu Yingying, and said slowly: "Cao Bin wants to get rid of you now, but because His Majesty and the King of Jin have heard about you and paid attention to you, they have to pretend to surrender, whether you surrender or not, he will find a reason to remove you, your subordinates, if you can use it, you will stay, and if you can't use it, you will go." ”