Thief Emperor

Chapter 511 A piece of waste paper!
The Wuchang Military Jiedushi had jurisdiction over six states, namely E, Yue, Qi, An, Huang, and Anzhou.

Among them, only two states were within the scope of Jiangnan West Road, namely Ezhou and Yuezhou. The rest of the territories were in Huainan Road and Shannan East Road.

However, the Jiedushi of Wuchang Army was originally called the Inspector of Eyue. It is conceivable that his core territory was in the two states of Eyue. Therefore, when Li Yunlai asked to station troops there, Lu Yunzhang naturally refused.

The two sides fought each other because of this incident, but now Li Yun has almost taken over the entire Ezhou, and General Lu Yunzhang has retreated all the way west from Ezhou to Yuezhou.

Originally, Lu Yunzhang actually didn't think much of Li Yun, thinking that Li Yun was just a "nouveau riche" who emerged during the civil strife in the court. However, after a period of close contact, this Marshal Lu was frightened by the beating.

In this era, as long as you can organize an army and make it obey orders, it can be considered a pretty good army.

If they can establish a complete logistical support system to guarantee the logistical supplies for these soldiers, and ensure that these soldiers have sufficient pensions after their death so that they don't have to worry, then they can be called a superior army.

There is no way, this is the way the world is, especially in times of chaos, most of the forces are actually makeshift teams.

In the beginning, Li Yun's Jiangdong Group could be said to be a makeshift team. It was not until the last one or two years that Jiangdong Group was barely formalized through Li Yun's top-down construction.

The Jiangdong soldiers can already be called a first-class army. The only question now is whether they can fight against the elite troops of the border army who have experienced many battles.

But no matter what, it is easy to deal with local troops like the Wuchang Army.

Not to mention the quality of individual soldiers, just in terms of fighting will and military morale, the Jiangdong soldiers are far superior to the Wuchang troops.

The Wuchang army didn't even have a chance to fight back.

After hearing the words of the messenger, Li Yun took off his helmet, wiped the blood off the helmet, thought seriously, and then said with a smile: "Go and tell General Lu Jie that I, Li, have always loved peace. This time we are marching into Ezhou just to take back the territory of Jiangnan West Road."

"I was ready to have a good talk with Marshal Lu Jie, but my men were ambushed by your army just after they arrived near Wuchang, so the matter became difficult to discuss."

"That's it."

Li Yun lowered his eyebrows and said, "Within three days, if your Wuchang army retreats to Jiangbei and completely gives up the entire Jiangnan region, I will not pursue you any further."

When the man heard this, he was overjoyed.

Jiangnan, actually the territory of Jiangnan West Road, retreated to Jiangbei. In other words, Lord Li has agreed to the conditions given by Marshal Lu.

If he goes back, he will have an explanation!

Thinking of this, the man bowed to Li Yun repeatedly and said respectfully: "I will definitely tell the commander-in-chief what the governor said, I will definitely tell the commander-in-chief!"

After saying that, he looked at Li Yun and swallowed his saliva: "Master, I... I am leaving now?"

Li Yun glanced at him and said unhappily, "Why, you want me to keep you for dinner?"

"Don't dare, don't dare."

He was worried that Li Yun might have other requests, so he asked this question. Upon hearing this, he quickly bowed to Li Yun, then turned around and trotted away.

With Li Yun's nod, naturally no one dared to stop him, and this man left Ezhou City very smoothly.

Su Sheng stood next to Li Yun and asked with a smile, "Why is the mansion master suddenly so easy to talk to?"

"It's not that I'm easy to talk to."

Li Yun smiled and said, "Calculating the time, it is estimated that in a few days, these local officials will know that I have been dismissed from office by the court. By that time, they may not be willing to leave Jiangnan, and it will be more troublesome to take Yuezhou."

"Now that he has surrendered, let him voluntarily withdraw from Yuezhou, and we will completely occupy the western part of Jiangnan. Then, brother, you can consider stationing troops in Yuezhou. Then the eastern and western parts of Jiangnan will basically be in our hands."

The westernmost part of the Jiangnan West Road is the area of ​​Lizhou and Yuezhou. If troops can be stationed here, the upper reaches of the river will be guarded, and Zhao Cheng who is stationed in the lower reaches will cooperate with him. At that time, the entire south of the river, except for places too far south such as Lingnan Road, will be Li Yun's territory.

Li Yun will immediately take away 20% of the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty!

If we only consider money and grain, it may be more than 20%.

Su Sheng touched his chin, thought for a while, then said with a smile: "In a few days, if that Lu Jieshuai knew that the court dismissed the Duke of Fu, he would probably be so angry that he couldn't eat or sleep."

"He has nothing to be angry about." Li Yun said with a smile: "Whether I am an official of the imperial court or not, he can't beat us, so what difference does it make?"

Su Sheng said, "Hey," "The feeling in my heart is always different."

Li Yun put his hands behind his back and said softly, "The court has stripped me of my official position, but it has also stripped me of my shackles. From now on, we don't have to stick to the Jiangnan West Road or the Jiangnan East Road, brother."

Su Sheng heard the seriousness in Li Yun's words, and quickly bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying, "Yes."

"After we take over Yuezhou in the next few days, we can reorganize and then consider heading north. Didn't the court stop me from being the governor of Jiangnan Province?"

Li sneered and said, "I will follow the imperial court's order and take over the territory of the Wuchang Military Governor!"

"Hit them hard, and save the court's reputation!"

Su Sheng was also a little excited when he heard this. He lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Don't worry, Lord Fu. Leave this matter to me!"

Li Yun said "Hmm", and continued: "Brother, the situation in Yuezhou and Lizhou is not like it was in Jiangdong. It is very likely that there are enemies everywhere. If we want to occupy this place, our current military strength is far from enough."

"Starting tomorrow, you will be in charge of the war, and I will be in charge of recruiting soldiers. After we destroy the Wuchang Army, we need to create another one!"

This place is already the central region of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty. Its geographical location is quite important. It is no longer the southeastern region of Jiangnan East Road.

It is precisely because of this that there is a Wuchang Army stationed here.

In a sense, the Wuchang Army was originally established to suppress Jiangnan West Road, Huainan Road and Shannan East Road to prevent too much unrest in these places.

Now, if Li Yun wants to occupy this place, he must complete a new round of expansion of his troops as soon as possible.

Su Sheng quickly bowed his head and clasped his fists: "I obey your command!"

Li Yun looked at him and said with a smile: "Brother's troops will become the first army in Jiangdong to exceed 30,000 in number."

Su Sheng heard this and said with a nonchalant smile: "Whether there are many or few people, they are all under the command of the Lord of the Mansion, so there is no difference."

The two brothers looked at each other and burst into laughter.

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On the other hand, after hearing Li Yun's request, Lu Yunzhang actually withdrew from Yuezhou obediently. He led his army all the way north from Yuezhou, crossed the river by boat, and arrived in Fuzhou in Shannan East Road.

There is no way, I really can’t win.

The Wuchang Army under his command originally had less than 20,000 troops. After a few days of fighting in Ezhou, he lost more than 5,000 troops.

Among these five thousand people, at least half were surrendered soldiers from Jiangdong.

If he continues to fight like this, his Wuchang Army will soon cease to exist.

Now that he could escape to Jiangbei safely, Marshal Lu Jie felt somewhat fortunate.

Fortunately, Li Yun let him go.

If Li Yun continued to pursue him, the main force of his Wuchang Army might not even have the chance to cross the river and head north. They would be dragged to death in the south of the Yangtze River. As the governor, he would have lost all his main force and would have no way to continue his position.

Now, at least most of his strength has been preserved, so he can continue to be a vassal of his own region.

On the second day after arriving in Fuzhou, Marshal Lu received the court's decision on how to deal with Li Yun.

General Lu Jie looked at the court document for a long time and remained silent for a long time.

He threw the document aside and slammed the table angrily.

"If you don't ask for it, it's just a piece of waste paper!"

(End of this chapter)