At the beginning of the third year of Yongzhen, during the early war on the Western Front, two people were born.

Li Pingyang of the Western Army, a fifteen-year-old girl who had just reached Lu, first raided from Puzhou through Pukang Town at lightning speed to the city of Changzhou, and easily took Changzhou City on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

After resting for a day or two, and waiting for the soldiers and horses that quickly went south to reinforce them, they did not gather troops to advance steadily, but let the reinforcements of 15,000 soldiers and horses as a temptation to contain the 3,000 defeated soldiers and 8,000 soldiers and horses who lured Longshui Town.

Li Pingyang led 18,000 men over Niutou Mountain and effortlessly took Bishan County, which was not garrisoned by the slightest force.

Like a nail, nailed to the throat of Yuzhou.

This nail suddenly made the entire forbidden army in Yuzhou extremely uncomfortable - not only because of Bishan County, but also because of Li Su's soldiers and horses who were nailed to Yongchuan City by the Junzi Banner.

Li Su was nailed to Yongchuan, and it was not a nail nailed to the throat of the forbidden army.

The two nails echo each other from afar, if the follow-up soldiers and horses of the Western Army arrive, the entire southwest of Yuzhou will be under the control of the Western Army, and further, the soldiers can threaten Yuzhou City.

Take a step back, and you can also echo each other's defense.

Moreover, as Li Pingyang entered Bishan County and faced the 30,000 soldiers and horses of Qin Yujing of Meng Hui's department, he was a little disregardful, fearing that he would accidentally fall into the embarrassing situation of Meng Hui and Li Pingyang's front and back attacks.

The other person is Li Ruyu, the forbidden army.

Although Li Ruyu broke the crossbow arrows and crossbow guns, as well as the last sword to fight for the space for the second accelerated sprint of the Cloud Piercing Army, the government and the opposition still preferred the tactical success of the Junzi Banner.

Subsequently, the battle of Shiting River made Li Ruyu completely famous.

In the battlefield documents of the military machine lang among the 3,000 defeated soldiers, during the first battle of Shiting River, the guerrilla general Zhao Kuo led 8,000 people to attack, fell into the enemy's encirclement, and when the whole army was destroyed, the main general Li Ruyu led 3,000 defeated soldiers to break through with sharp knives, broke the enemy's encirclement formation, and beheaded the enemy's main and deputy generals, completely reversing the tide of the war.

Subsequently, Li Ruyu's 3,000 defeated soldiers and Zhao Kuo's more than 3,000 remnants converged in front of Changzhou City, won the siege of the city, and only took half a day's effort to successfully recapture Changzhou City with more than 600 battle losses.

In this battle, Li Ruyu commanded 11,000 people, and only 6,000 people remained.

Battle losses amounted to a terrifying five thousand.

Among them, in that siege battle alone, the battle losses amounted to a terrifying more than 3,000 people...... However, he won a complete victory, not only defeating 15,000 enemy troops, but also killing two enemy generals.

But this time the battlefield documents sent to Yuzhou City, there are two completely different statements, and the rhetoric of several other military aircraft is diametrically opposed to the previous one: in front of the Shiting River, the main general Li Ruyu is conservative and stubborn, and sits back and watches the enemy cross the river, if the enemy army crosses the river, then his own army will be crushed by the opponent's strong forces, the guerrilla general Zhao Kuo took the opportunity to lead the army to attack, and pursued the enemy after the soldiers and horses of the Hexi Army were completely annihilated, and encountered stubborn resistance from the enemy, but the officers and men of our army were not afraid of death, and first lured the enemy to fight back with a small number of troops, Then he broke the enemy's army formation with blue blood and strength, and finally defeated the 15,000 soldiers and horses of the invading Western Army, and finally Huitong Hua Xiaodao and Xiahou Chi, Xu Xiao and others took Changzhou City strongly.

In these battlefield documents, the merits of the 3,000 defeated soldiers in Longshui Town were emphatically mentioned.

When these documents were put on An Xianggong's desk, the deputy minister of the Daliang Privy Council had mixed emotions, and a blind man could also see that one of these two completely different battlefield documents must be lying.

It's also bold.

Who is lying, An Meiqin was undecided for a while, but Tian Shun, who also read the battlefield documents, pointed out with dissatisfaction that this was a contradiction between Li Ruyu and Zhao Kuo.

An Meiqin knew that Tian Shun was dissatisfied with his deployment this time.

Indeed, this time there was no consideration, and after a thousand calculations, Zhao Kuo could not tolerate Li Ruyu, but the matter has come to this point, and An Meiqin must take responsibility for her mistakes.

So after leaving the transcript of the battlefield documents, he sent all the battlefield documents to Lin'an, and at the same time sent a letter of guilt, taking the initiative to take the mistake of transferring troops.

Not surprisingly, when these battlefield documents and An Meiqin's plea are delivered to Lin'an, there will be a bloody storm between the government and the opposition, and between Li Ruyu and Zhao Kuo, as well as those who write fake war reports, one party will inevitably be dealt with by the Daliang military law.

Not to mention that.

The situation is a bit more delicate.

The Western Army Meng Hui led an army of 30,000 to the south, and in the vast area of Diaoyu City down the Fujiang River, he and Qin Yujing's 30,000 army were anxious, and the two sides continued to test each other, but they were sure of victory.

For a time, an anxious situation was formed.

On the Yongchuan side, Li Su's 10,000 troops were nailed to the city, and at the same time, a nail was nailed to the forbidden army there.

The 20,000 troops of the forbidden army gathered in Jiangjin are extremely embarrassing, if the army is sent to recover Yongchuan City, it will not take care of Bishan County, if Li Pingyang continues to go south, the ghost knows what kind of situation will be caused.

But if he turned back to intercept Li Pingyang in Bishan County, Yongchuan City would nail the entire Yuzhou extremely uncomfortable.

Jiangjin 20,000 soldiers and horses are in a dilemma.

And Li Pingyang in Bishan County has also become a dagger against the throat of the entire Yuzhou forbidden army, fortunately, An Xianggong has ordered that the forbidden army in Yuzhou has all pressed towards the western front, and the two nails of Bishan County and Yongchuan City must be pulled out.

The Yuzhou Forbidden Army has such a nail, but in the same way, the Western Army also faces a nail.

Changzhou City.

Now Li Ruyu is sitting in Changzhou, there are still more than 2,000 defeated soldiers under his command, plus more than 3,000 remnants of Zhao Kuo, and nearly 6,000 troops have penetrated into Changzhou City.

The Western Army wanted to support these three fronts as quickly as possible, and the fastest, most effective, and most strategic route to increase the number of troops was through Changzhou, but now Changzhou was under the command of Li Ruyu.

For the Western Army, it was also difficult to suffer.

When the forces of the Yuzhou Forbidden Army advanced to Bishan, the troops of the Western Army were also pouring into Changzhou.

Both sides have to pull out the nail.

Not surprisingly, the most important strategy of the Western Army and the Forbidden Army in the next step is to pull out this nail from each other, and whoever can take the lead in getting rid of it will be able to grasp the active advantage of the entire Yuzhou front.

Li Pingyang of Bishan County has 18,000 troops, but the forbidden army has more troops to face.

Li Ruyu in Changzhou City had nearly 6,000 troops, and the Western Army was also less powerful.

How long can Li Pingyang defend Bishan County?

How long can Li Ruyu defend Changzhou City?

Each depends on his ability.

It's just that Li Pingyang's soldiers and horses in Bishan County are monolithic, and the city of Changzhou is ...... But it is an undercurrent flowing.

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Changzhou changed hands twice, for the people of Changzhou, it is not a big deal, anyway, the Western Army and the Forbidden Army have strict military discipline, even if it is a siege war, the damage caused to civilians is not great - of course, many civilians have died.

The forbidden army hall converted into the state government is also Li Ruyu's general's mansion, and the atmosphere is so stagnant that it can drip.

Li Ruyu, Xiahou Chi, Hua Xiaodao, Zhao Kuo, and the six generals who survived the war gathered together, and everyone sat in their positions in silence, and no one spoke first.

There is no staff, and there is no military aircraft.

This meeting is said to be a post-war summary meeting, but in fact, everyone knows that it is very likely that Li Ruyu is going to use the knife against Zhao Kuo, who faked the military order to Shiting Heqian. It is to equip everyone with swords and swords - although they know that it is unlikely to fight, and if they fight, it is useless for Zhao Kuo and a few henchmen to match more swords.

After all, Li Ruyu is a kendo master.

But everyone still has the meaning of the sword, and the loser can't lose the momentum, of course, their confidence is still in the defeated soldiers and remnants of the two camps in the city.

Li Ruyu sat at the head of the hall.

The first one on the left is the guerrilla general, the county prince, and Zhao Kuo, a relative of the emperor, this big man who pretends to pass on military orders has no consciousness of committing major events at all, and he is drinking tea calmly, looking like a rich and noble son.

Li Ruyu caressed the hilt of the long sword at his waist with his palm, and looked out of the gate with a gloomy face.

I sat like this for almost half an hour.

Li Ruyu and Deputy General Zhao Kuo didn't speak, and the others wouldn't take the initiative to jump out, anyway, everyone was waiting, waiting for Li Ruyu to make trouble, and waiting for Zhao Kuo to resolve it.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Li Ruyu stared at the door and said the first sentence: "Xiahou Chi, have the corpses of the robes been recovered?" ”

Xiahou was stunned for a moment, and didn't react, until Hua Xiaodao quietly pushed him, and then hurriedly said: "After the battle, the soldiers need to rest, and only a small number of people have been dispatched, and I am afraid it will be difficult to complete it in a short time." ”

Li Ruyu was silent for a while, "Requisition the people in Changzhou City, in addition, there is no need to bury them in a unified manner, bury the names of the grave trees on the spot, and as for the corpses of the soldiers of the Western Army, bury them on the spot." ”

The soldiers of the forbidden army can still leave their names, and the soldiers of the Western Army can only be nameless graves.

Such is the cruelty of war.

This was still the early stage of the war, and in the later stage, the strength of both sides declined, and it was still a problem whether there was no one to bury the corpses, and most of them would not be able to see their hometowns in the wilderness of bones.

Xiahou Chi was taken aback, "This-"

Li Ruyu interrupted Xiahou Chi, "This is a military order. ”

Xiahou Chi had no choice but to respond, saying that he would give the order later, but Zhao Kuo sneered and said in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "General Li is not afraid of chilling the hearts of those six thousand sons in Changzhou City?" ”

Only then did Li Ruyu set his eyes on Zhao Kuo, "What's the matter, General Zhao has a better way?" ”

Zhao Kuo took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and said slowly: "I, Zhao Kuo, am a general, if I win a big victory, I will definitely bury the body of a strong man in our army, how can I be so hasty." ”

Li Ruyu sighed, his tone was cold, the white heart in his mind began to beat, and the killing intent gradually boiled, "If I remember correctly, if someone doesn't make up their own minds, then thousands of robes will not die in a foreign land at all, and many of them can even walk into Changzhou City with us." ”

Although it was early spring, the council hall was like a cold spring, like a cold winter.

Everyone's faces changed.

It's time to tear your face...... However, Li Ruyu still has room to die, and Zhao Kuo did not fake the military order when he was beaten to death with a stick, but everyone knows the truth.

Zhao Kuo's face sank, and he unceremoniously accentuated his tone, and his tone was almost reprimanding, "If I don't make a decision immediately, then I will miss the opportunity, once all the 15,000 people of the Western Army cross the Shiting River, it will not be the 5,000 robes who will die, I am afraid that I and 11,000 others will all die under the front of the Western Army, General Li, don't you think so?" ”

But he never mentioned the fact that he was surrounded.

Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao were speechless, and even the general Xu Xiao shook his head helplessly.

There is no one who reverses black and white.

From Fanmian Village, Li Ruyu was relatively calm and precocious, and now that he has experienced too many things, Li Ruyu, who is already a young man, has become more and more calm, and he was not angry at all by Zhao Kuo's reversal of black and white, and said lightly: "So, I should thank you for the fake military order?" ”

Zhao Kuo's face was straight, "I don't like to hear General Li's words." ”

After a pause, "Some words can't be said nonsense, the fake military order is to kill the head, I Zhao Kuo has a hundred bear-hearted leopard guts, and I don't dare to be so contemptuous of military law, the situation was critical, General Li was intimidated by the might of the Western Army's soldiers and horses, I, as a deputy general, after the main general lost his composure, I stepped forward and immediately chose the time to send troops, isn't this exactly where the intention of my Daliang First Army is to set up the main and deputy commander-in-chief, and I acted in full accordance with the charter My duties and authority as a deputy general have been, how did it get to the mouth of General Li Zheng, and it became a false military order?" ”

This is Zhao Kuo's real confidence.

Compared with the fake military order, Zhao Kuo's statement has full weight even if it goes to the Privy Council, even in front of Her Majesty the Empress, which is a fact, so what Zhao Kuo is afraid of is not the fake military order - he has the qualifications to issue an order to send troops at a certain time.

What he was afraid of was the fact that Zhongji was surrounded.

It's just that this matter has been insignificant with Li Ruyu leading his troops to break the Western Army, and even if he wants to be investigated, it will be worth the credit.

As soon as these words came out, Xiahou Chi, Hua Xiaodao, Xu Xiao and the other three were completely speechless...... also knows that what Zhao Kuo said is the truth, and if he really wants to make a fuss about this matter, he is afraid that Zhao Kuo will be helpless.

But who is Li Ruyu?

The killing intent burst out, as the main general, he even had the right to kill Zhao Kuo first and then explain to Lin'an.

Li Ruyu pressed the sword.

In the conference hall, there was a sudden cold light.

Zhao Kuo's henchmen got up one after another to draw their knives, Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao were not to be outdone, and immediately drew their knives to each other, even Xu Xiao also hesitated for a moment, and then drew his knife and stood next to Xiahou Chi.

Li Ruyu was furious, and the white heart in his mind instantly beat violently, and the long sword in his hand wanted to be unsheathed to correct the military law.

In the blink of an eye.

In the world in his mind, in the sea of corpses and blood, the armored general suddenly appeared, and almost instantly, Li Ruyu immediately gave up control of his body.

Behind Li Ruyu, a huge armored phantom appeared out of nowhere, standing between heaven and earth through the room.

The general came uninvited.

The killing intent is like weaving, like substance.

The entire council hall and even the entire state government were like falling into hell in an instant, and thousands of unjust souls were suddenly crying in the cold.

All of them were people who had walked through the battlefield, who had never seen a dead man, who had not pinned their heads to their belts, but all of the assassins had goosebumps all over their bodies.

At this moment, Li Ruyu's murderous intent and momentum erupted, where does he look like a person?

It's a butcher at all.

That terrifying killing intent, even if it was a sea of thousands of corpses and a sea of blood, was nothing more than that.

Even Xiahou Chi, a veteran, felt uncomfortable being suppressed, let alone people like Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo only felt that it was difficult to even breathe.

Then he heard Li Ruyu's heart-cold words.

Li Ruyu, who was already a killing god, had disdain, contempt and sarcasm in his eyes, staring at Zhao Kuo coldly, as if he was looking at a dead man, pressing the long sword on his waist, and said coldly.

A word that makes everyone unclear, a word that reveals endless killing intent.

"Changping Zhao Kuo, do you know who I am!"