The next morning, the sky was bright.

Xu Buling woke up from the bunk on the floor, and looked sideways, Xiao Manzhi was lying in front of him, holding his arm, even in his sleep, his little face still had a puffed expression.

Alas......

Yesterday, the matter of 'Zhi Xian's Four' was discovered by Man Zhi, and the consequences were not ordinarily serious. Man Zhi was annoyed and angry, scratching and biting at him. He barely coaxed him when his mouth was worn out, and finally he didn't let him go, so he fell asleep after half the night.

Xu Buling looked at the two small tooth marks on his shoulder, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless. Seeing that Manzhi hadn't woken up yet, he pulled his arm out of the bulging ball, got up lightly, and wanted to go out to wash.

It's just that Zhu Manzhi, who has always slept until the third pole of the sun, woke up immediately after finding that the arm in his arms was withdrawn, frowning his little eyebrows, and staring at Xu Buling suspiciously.

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Xu Buling was slightly embarrassed, and said with a smile: "It's not to find Xiao Ning Daning." The war is undecided, the ships returning to the building are busy, and the Nanyang soldiers have been prepared and have to set off for Xiangyang. ”

Zhu Manzhi sat up and was sullen: "Gongzi Xu, my martial arts are also good, why can the two of them follow, but I can't?" It's a shame that I treat them as sisters and take turns stealing people, which is really immoral. ”

Xu Buling shook his head and sighed: "Fighting is not child's play, swords and guns have no eyes, in case something goes wrong......"

Zhu Manzhi knew that it was useless to follow him if he was not good at martial arts, so he snorted and fell back again, turning his back to Xu Buling, leaving him with the back of his head:

"It's just that I don't have good martial arts, hum...... Anyway, I met you first, and they can't be in front of me. ”

"It's natural, first come, first come."

Xu Buling bent down, put a thin blanket on Zhu Manzhi's back, and then slowly walked out of the door.

is about to set off again, this time the building ship will follow the river, but Xu Buling, as the commander, can't stay in the fat powder pile every day to command the soldiers to fight, or have to go to the barracks and march with the soldiers.

After saying goodbye to the ladies one by one on the boat, Xu Buling led the horse and walked off the boat.

Seeing that they were going to be separated for many days, the girls on the boat were very reluctant. Xiao Qi and Song Yufu stood at the window on the second floor to watch, while Xiao Xiang'er and Lu Hongluan were sent to the deck. Cui Xiaowan stood on the terrace at the stern of the boat, and didn't say anything, but she also waved her hand, with an expression of 'come back soon'.

As before, the master-apprentice quartet still followed Xu Buling. Zhongli Jiujiu was forced to jump into the river by Ning Yuhe's stupid teammate yesterday, and wanted to go to Xu Buling to complain at night, and was bullied with a small bell and tail, and was still a little dissatisfied at this time, and Bai Ningyu glanced at him from time to time.

Ning Yuhe and Ning Qingye were a little embarrassed, the two of them were weird, standing on the left and right sides separately, their eyes did not touch each other, and they didn't seem to have a clear relationship with each other.

Zhongli Chuchu accompanied Xu Buling to go out to buy medicinal materials yesterday, and he didn't know about Zhongli Jiujiu's acting and the Ning family's master and apprentice, seeing that the three of them had strange expressions, he said suspiciously:

"What's wrong with you?"

The three of them were not easy to answer, but the nightingale knew it, and said casually while holding the little sparrow: "It's okay to get up too early and not sleep, the army is about to leave, let's go." ”

Xu Buling naturally didn't say much about this, and after leading the horse and saying goodbye to the girls who were watching on the boat, they went to the military camp not far away......

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After visiting Lou Chuan's daughter-in-law, Xu Buling set off again with the government soldiers, and the 30,000 Xiliang troops also returned from Guanzhong and continued to go south to quell the rebellion.

The generals Tu Qianchu and Yang Zunyi have arrived in Xiangyang for more than half a month, and without Guan Hongye's blind command, the war is much smoother; The Xiliang Army is much stronger than the Chu Army, coupled with the advantage of artillery, the siege of the city can be described as overwhelming, basically treating the city wall as if there is nothing, and driving the Chu army general Qin Jing all the way.

Xu Buling is named as the commander of the rebel army, but at present, his real identity is the 'lord', and there are not many opportunities to really get into battle in person, and even if he has the opportunity, his subordinates will not agree, because it is not necessary.

The greater role of the commander is to suppress the generals at all levels in the first army, ensure that everyone can advance in accordance with the general direction, as well as logistics scheduling, communication with the imperial court, etc., so that the front-line soldiers can have whatever they want, so as to avoid worries. In terms of charging into battle, there are so many fierce generals in the army, and there is really no shortage of Xu Buling.

Xu Buling took the army, but before he arrived in Xiangyang, Tu Qianchu had already broken through Jingmen with the Xiliang army, and when the reinforcements arrived, the battle behind was even more overwhelming.

Under the momentum of the Xiliang army and the government soldiers, from the end of June to the beginning of August, in just over a month, the Chu army was defeated and retreated, from Jingmen and Jingzhou all the way to Yueyang, until it was squeezed into the Ezhou area on the Yangtze River, and guarded the old nest of the king of Chu, and then pushed to the territory of the king of Wei.

Because of the overwhelming superiority of the Xiliang army, it couldn't even use stratagems, and it couldn't stop the Chu army by pushing it evenly, and there was basically nothing to say about the battle with the Chu army; In all the big and small battles, the army broke the city, the Chu army collapsed, and then gathered the remnants of the army and snowballed, and continued to capture the next fortress. The Chu army was all government soldiers, and they were soldiers when they were in the civil war, and they did not have the slightest will to fight under the deterrence of the Xiliang army.

Song Zhengping, the king of Chu, was too embarrassed in his own position, and was used as cannon fodder by the three kings of the east from the beginning, and he was also wilted at this time, knowing that Chu could not hold it, he directly took the whole family to cross the river and ran to Luzhou, and handed over the troops, which was under the full command of Song Shaoying, the son of heaven of 'Dongyue'.

Dongyue has the Yangtze River as a natural risk, and Song Shaoying has won the Liaoxi Army, a strong border army, and its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the Xiliang Army.

If you want to cross the river and fight the four kings in the south of the Yangtze River and push the four kings in the east, you can rely on foot soldiers alone, but you can fight hard with the Liaoxi army, and the cost of casualties is too great.

After Xu Buling understood the situation, he sent a letter to King Su, asking the imperial court to vigorously build gunboats, and when the equipment was in place, he would fight the battle of crossing the river and pacify the four kings in the east in one fell swoop, but this may have to be winter or even spring next year.

The marching and fighting affairs are numerous and boring, and there are very few times when Xu Buling can return to the building ship, basically he can only find time to go back once in ten days.

Ning Qingye and Ning Yuhe followed by their side, although they were still a little weird with each other, but in the army, Ning Qingye knew the general situation and did not make any more emotions; Every day, when the pro-soldiers stand guard, try not to let Xu Buling be distracted, and even when Ning Yuhe comes over to give Xu Buling 'relaxation' at night, he will consciously retreat and not disturb.

When Zhongli Jiujiu saw this scene, he almost died of envy, and he couldn't wait to pull Chu Chu's ears and say, "Look at other people's apprentices, and then look at your ......", but unfortunately these can only be thought about in their hearts, on the surface, they are still submissive, and they don't even dare to speak loudly.

After the situation in Chu gradually stabilized, he took an opportunity to accompany a few people out to take a walk together and go to the shore of Dongting Lake......