In theory, he was supposed to take advantage of the situation after his victory and defeat, and once occupied Jiangling for a while. However, he still gave up his territory and enfeoffed Gao Jichang. He had to plunder the troops of Chu who had left the population and goods. This time, he had not even entered the city gate of Jiangling. After fearing Li Tianqu's strong test, he retreated.

After all, Li Tianqu knew that Cheng Qi was determined to do his own thing and needed to command 100,000 troops under his command to fight against Yang Xingmi. Then he would inevitably encounter Li Shenfu, the number one general in Southern Wu, and he would definitely be defeated, and he would most likely not save his life and flee back to the Jingnan Army.

Li Tianqu said that according to his original plan, he would keep the Chengxian Jingnan Army for a period of time, not only would he let his separatist regime be a buffer zone for the south with Shu, Chu, Wu and other countries; one day, when the time for a full-scale war with Southern Wu was ripe, it would not be too late to use his Jingnan Zhou army.

In the end, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and Cheng Xian really refused to listen to advice... So after Li Tianqu heard about his troops sending troops, he thought that the territory of the Jingnan Army could no longer fall into the hands of others, so he immediately issued an order to order troops from the East of Shannan to the northern border of the Jingnan Army. No matter how fast the King of Chu Ma Yin reacted, he could not catch up with Li Tianqu who had made the early deployment.

At this moment, the head of the Shu army was located at the mouth of Qutang Gorge, in the Kuizhou Prefecture, which is the gateway to Bashu on the upper reaches of Jingchu. The general of the Shu army who had already ordered troops and was about to advance eastward heard that the three states of Jingnan centered on Jiangling were quickly occupied by Li Tianqu, and he sighed.

This person is the governor of Wuxin Army who is now a member of Shu Kingdom. Wang Zongshou, who is adopted son of Shu Emperor Jian, frowned and thought deeply, and murmured:

"The news of Cheng Yi's death in battle reached our territory, and naturally it was not as good as the Emperor Li Tianqu of Wei who occupied the east road of Shannan, and the King of Chu Ma Yin who was in charge of Xiang and Chu, who was in charge of Xiang and Chu, reacted more timely... Moreover, the father's order was issued by the emperor, so that he could go east and take the opportunity to seize the Jiangling Pass.

It took a while to spread the news from Jingnan to Badong, and then from Badong to Chengdu. Since the three prefectures of Jingnan have been taken by the Wei State, it is not appropriate to send troops..."

After Cheng Shi was destroyed, his foundation was immediately divided up by Zhu Wen, Ma Yin, Wang Jian, and Lei Yangong. Now it was Li Tianqu who took the lead and shocked Shu and Chu. As for Cheng Shi's old subordinates who were left behind in the vassal states, they were all willing to accept Li Tianqu's enrollment.

After all, although Cheng Yi is quite popular with the people, he is definitely not a wise ruler for his subordinates. He forced Xu Cun, the original general, to leave due to suspicion, and had also killed Zheng Zhun, a talented aide. He often feels insecure when Cheng Yi works under the army who is sometimes aggressive and inexorable. Moreover, his own descendants were killed by Cheng Yi personally, so where are there any successors to the governor of the Jingnan Army?

Those who stayed behind the Jingnan Army were mainly literati and advisers such as He Yin and Li Qi. People like them usually submitted to one monarch for advice and generally did not intend to set up their own business.

Li Tianqu knew that He Yin was originally the think tank of the Jingnan Army, and he also made great contributions to this barren land that had been harmed by the power of the Qinzong.

As for Li Feng, the chief secretary of the vassal state, he should have been a counselor who strongly advised Cheng Yan not to send troops recklessly. According to the official history line, he once advised when the Jingnan Army took the initiative to attack, "Now, there are thousands of soldiers in the army, and they can carry more rice, and they should not move. The people of Wu are light. If they are struggling, Wuling and Wu'an are all my enemies, and they will have concerns. It is better to send a brave general to station Baling and the army will not fight against each other for a day, and the Wu enemy's food will be cut off and Ezhou will be dismantled." Cheng Feng couldn't listen, and the Wu army's navy was indeed brisk and brisk, just as Li Feng said...

Smart people like He Yin and Li Qi knew very well who they would surrender to now, so that their future would be even greater. Therefore, when the old master died, they naturally followed Li Tianqu and took over the territory, population, money and grain of the Jingnan Army's vassal states... and did not encounter any obstacles during this period.

As for the defeated remnants of Jingnan Army who fled back from the defeat of Jian Yu, in the imperial study of Bianjing Imperial City, Jie Qing was reporting to Li Tianqu:

"Back of luck, the naval army of the Zhoushi who escaped from Pengze, and together with the commander Ding Jie, the commander of the E Yue army, the commander of the Yawei Army, were able to return to Jingnan, and a total of 23,000 people were still around 20,000 giant ships and more than 200 small and medium-sized boats. The remaining warships were either burned down in the battle of Pengze or captured by the Wu army.

The morale of the defeated army in Jingnan was depressed, Cheng Wen died, and our army was taken over and settled. Therefore, no one resisted the reorganization of our dynasty... "

Jie Qingbao said, suddenly paused, and then said:

"Then Cheng Wei insisted on his own actions and did not listen to His Majesty's advice, and it was his own fault. However, the nearly 100,000 army had only more than 20,000 people fled back. Cheng Wei was defeated and died, which made him laugh. It seems that he is just like that."

Li Tianqu shook his head and said:

"To this day, those who can conquer a territory and control themselves but have not been annexed and destroyed by the surrounding vassals must have extraordinary power. Chengxian was not only able to be kind to govern and love the people, but he made a comeback in the grassland, attacked Guizhou, seized Jiangling, and was appointed as the governor of the Jingnan Army to fight against Wang Jian in the west, occupied Ma Yin in the south, and Lei Man, Lei Yangong and his son repeatedly led the Dongxi Man and Wuling Man to attack the enemy territory.

But Cheng Yi was able to manage the people's livelihood and prosperity of the Jingnan prefectures, but also formed a hundred thousand tribes to deal with various vassals. It also shows that he was indeed a powerful lord. However, Cheng Yi was dissatisfied with the status quo, stubborn and caused his own misfortune. This time he sent troops rashly but ended up in a miserable defeat. His foundation was also the result of our dynasty... It was not because he was useless, but because the Wu Kingdom not only gave up the talent... That Li Shenfu was indeed difficult to deal with."

After breaking with Wu, Li Tianqu said that I need to be most cautious, even Yang Xingmi could be ranked behind. After all, the record given by Li Shenfu according to historical records was too terrifying. He designed to easily defeat 5,000 enemy troops, and also took advantage of the opportunity to capture Gu Quanwu, the chief general of Wu Yue, and destroyed a hundred thousand naval forces in one fell swoop, which was equivalent to directly destroying a separatist force; he could completely suppress Tian Pei, the rebel general who was originally Yang Xingmi relied on the most, and beat him to defeat and flee, until he was defeated and killed...

Li Tianquxin said that unless he sacrificed top-level coaches such as Ge Congzhou and Fu Cunshen, he should be able to compete with Li Shenfu. But what is even more troublesome is that he is still a biathlon in command of water and land. If he fights a water battle, Li Tianqu really can't think of any other general who will compete with Li Shenfu at the same time.

Li Tianqu also knew that even if his country is far stronger than Wu... he had separatist regimes relying on natural dangers in the Yangtze River, such as Zhou Yu of the Eastern Wu; Liu Renzhan and Lin Renzhao of the Southern Tang Dynasty... They could rely on their command capabilities to face the invasion of Cao Cao, Later Zhou and Song dynasties by the more powerful forces in the north, and could turn the tide and forcefully extend their lives for the regimes they served. With Li Shenfu's ability to command troops and control generals, he undoubtedly had that ability.

Previously, Li Shenfu was ordered to go north and intends to quickly defeat Tian Feng, but he immediately withdrew his troops due to an obstacle from An Renyi's army halfway. This shows that he has a chance of winning, and his vision of predicting the direction of the battle is also very vicious. The situation is very unfavorable to his side, so he chooses to stop decisively to avoid unnecessary casualties. If Li Shenfu takes the initiative to fight, it almost means that he is already sure to defeat the enemy.

Therefore, Cheng Yan died according to his original fate. Li Tianqu knew that this was not a lesson from his predecessor. If he was eager to launch a full-scale attack on Wu, he would definitely pay a huge price, and it would be very likely that he would not be worth the loss. After all, the way of fighting in the water is completely different from that in the land battle. If the number of troops and the scale of power alone can defeat the opponent, then Cao Cao should have destroyed Liu Bei and Sun Quan in 208 AD...

Some things should be prepared early, whether just in case or for the purpose of developing military strength... Li Tianqu hesitated and pondered, and suddenly ordered Jie Qing:

"Xuan Zhengfan entered the palace to meet him. I will make some plans with him about the progress of improving the firearms prepared by the Navy."
Chapter completed!