Laihu'er captured Jinling and destroyed the pseudo-Chen Dynasty. The only regret was that Chen Shen, the puppet emperor of Nanchen, took advantage of the civil strife in Jinling City to escape from the palace and disappeared without a trace!
The famous families in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Xie family, the Zhang family, the Lu family, and the Yuan family, all suffered devastating blows. Although Lai Huer claimed that Xie Zong, the head of the Xie family, was trying to poison and assassinate him, he was discovered through it, which triggered The chaos in the city resulted in heavy casualties among the major families.
However, many scholars were still skeptical, and some even publicly criticized Lai Hu'er, believing that the tragedy happened because of Lai Hu'er's poor handling. Even the two most important ministers when Yang Gao ascended the throne, the Prime Minister and the left and right servants, She Pei Jusu Weidu wrote a letter to impeach Lai Huer, believing that he had committed dereliction of duty, and asked Yang Gao to punish Lai Huer, so as to calm the minds of the scholars in the world.
However, Yang Gao laughed off these impeachments and did not take them to heart at all.
Because to be honest, Yang Gao didn't have much affection for these Jiangnan nobles. Since the Three Kingdoms period, the Jiangnan gentry have had a high degree of autonomy. Each of their families has a large number of private soldiers. The military strength of Soochow at that time was mainly composed of these private soldiers. Therefore, if these families collectively disagreed, Sun Quan would There are no soldiers available at all.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the power of these Jiangnan nobles became even larger, but they did not want to make progress and relied on their own troops. They sat back and watched the northern Han people being bloody massacre by the barbarians, living like livestock under the iron hooves of the barbarians.
However, in order to comfort Pei Ju, Su Wei and other important officials in the court, Yang Gao downgraded the Duke of the country who would protect his children to that of a county prince. Lai Huer had no complaints about such a punishment, because he originally thought that he would never be able to fight again after this battle, but unexpectedly, he could still keep his official position due to some strange combination of circumstances. As for the title, Lai Huer believed that as long as he could still go to the battlefield, the title of Duke of this country would come back sooner or later.
Nanchen was destroyed, and only Shen Faxing was still resisting in the whole Jiangnan. But to be honest, Yang Gao really didn't take Shen Faxing seriously. From the battle of Xulongling, it can be seen that this man is timid and afraid of getting into trouble. When faced with difficulties, he becomes timid and looks for a way out. He is not the type to do big things at all.
As early as in Hailing City, Fang Xuanling came up with a plan to let Niu Jinda, who was not well-known in the Sui army, lead hundreds of elite soldiers to sneak into Wu County, and take advantage of Shen Faxing's arrest of strong men to sneak into the Wu army. Niu Jinda also relied on his Shen Faxing gradually valued his extraordinary abilities, and now he has become a general under Shen Faxing, in charge of the defense of the East Gate.
With Niu Jinda as an internal agent, Yang Gao didn't even bother to go to Wujun. He ordered Chang Yuchun to lead 40,000 elite soldiers to Wujun, while he led a group of civil and military personnel to Jinling, the famous ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.
When the situation in the world is divided between the north and the south, Jinling will basically become the capital of the southern regime. Therefore, this city plays a decisive role in stabilizing the situation in the south. In addition, the vitality of the Jiangnan gentry is greatly weakened, and Yang Gao must Taking advantage of this opportunity to take back the many rights and interests of the Jiangnan gentry, we must not repeat the mistakes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and let the Jiangnan gentry become a constraint for the Northern Expedition.
And Chang Yuchun did not disappoint Yang Gao. About the sixth day after Yang Gao arrived at Jinling, the system's prompt sounded quietly, "Ding dong, Chang Yuchun's ability to destroy Shen Faxing has been detected. Congratulations to the host for taking over Jiangnan. The host will be rewarded with unlimited summons once and 30 soul points, and the current total number of soul points has increased to 157."
Hearing the system prompt, Yang Gao frowned with joy and said with a slight smile: "Chang Yuchun has indeed lived up to my expectations, Jiangnan is settled!"
"The soul points have increased a lot! It seems it's time to summon!" Yang Gao decisively gave the order, "Use 94 soul points for me to summon, focusing on the commander."
"Ding dong... The host used 94 soul points to summon the commander. We are providing the host with a candidate list. Please wait patiently..."
"Ding dong, the first candidate for military general is Li Keyong, a warlord in the late Tang Dynasty. He has 94 in command, 90 in force, 92 in intelligence, and 89 in politics."
"Dingdong, the second general candidate, Feng Sheng, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, has 93 in command, 95 in force, 87 in intelligence, and 82 in politics."
"Ding Dong, the third general candidate is Zhang Xun, a famous general during the Anshi Rebellion. He has 95 in Commander, 73 in Force, 92 in Intelligence, and 84 in Politics."
"Ding Dong, the fourth general candidate is Li Guangbi, a famous general in the mid-Tang Dynasty. He has 96 in command, 88 in force, 90 in intelligence, and 84 in politics."
"Ding dong, the fifth general candidate, Genghis Khan Temujin, is 99 in command, 93 in force, 94 in intelligence, and 89 in politics."
Hearing the last name, Yang Gao shrugged helplessly, "Why is Genghis Khan on camera again? It's a pity that I have to say sorry to you, and I have to pass you again!"
"Ding dong, the five candidate generals have been provided, and the host has removed Temujin. Please remove one more, and the system will randomly select and summon!"
"Li Keyong, get rid of him!" Yang Gao made the choice without hesitation. Although Li Keyong did not proclaim himself emperor under the banner of the Tang Dynasty until his death, if Li Keyong had no ambition, Yang Gao I wouldn't believe it even to death. Furthermore, Zhang Xun, Feng Sheng, and Li Guangbi are not weak in ability, so it is better to summon someone who is more reliable.
"Ding dong, the host will remove Temujin and Li Keyong, and the system will randomly select one person from the remaining three. Please wait patiently..."
"Ding dong, congratulations to the host for acquiring Zhang Xun, a famous general from the Anshi Rebellion, and implanted with the identity of a new Jinshi, and now serves as the magistrate of Xinye County!"
"Zhang Xun, who is guarding Suiyang, is very lucky! With a commander value of 95 points and an intelligence value of 92 points, he is enough to lead an army on his own!"
Yang Gao nodded and expressed that he was quite satisfied with this summons, and continued to issue instructions attentively, "Use unlimited privilege summons, focusing on force."
"Ding dong, the host uses the unlimited privilege to summon generals. The database is running and the lottery is in progress. Please wait patiently..."
"Ding dong, congratulations to the host for acquiring Lei Wanchun, a brave general who defended Suiyang during the Anshi Rebellion. He has a command of 84, a force of 99, an intelligence of 61, and a politics of 47. The implanted identity is the county captain of Xinye County."
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After Li Jiancheng was appointed to Li Yuan's imperial study, he and his clan brother Li Zicheng, as well as generals Li Yan, Feng Li, Xie Shufang, Liu Zongmin, Pei Longqian, Wei Ting, Ma Sanbao and others led 30,000 elite troops to sneak attack Jingxiang on the mediocre paths. After more than two months of arduous journey, they finally entered the border of Jingxiang without anyone noticing. Liu Zongmin, the front vanguard, led five thousand elite troops to march day and night. At this moment, they were less than ten miles away from Xinye.
Liu Zongmin's implanted identity was that of a bandit from the Guanzhong area who had been recruited. He was a cruel man. He had been wandering around the mountain roads of Shangyong County for more than two months. He had already been feeling angry. At this moment, he saw that Xinye City was close in front of him, so he immediately ordered Said: "Brothers, capture Xinye, let's go to the city and have some fun!"
