From Puji to Wenling, it takes four days and four nights for the fastest boat to sail smoothly, and it is much faster to pass information on land, and it is only a day and two nights to travel six or seven hundred miles. Jiang Ning received the good news from Puji ten days ago.

Ji Ziheng led 5,000 soldiers of the Jinghai Sea Battalion to land from the west side of Puji, and Wei Yu personally led the main force of the Water Battalion to land from the southern end of Puji and advance north along the coast on the east side of Puji Island. The important dock ports of Puji Island are concentrated on the east side, and the dock harbor still has traces of damage left by Wei Yu's invasion of Puji last year, but this time it has been more completely destroyed. Wei Yu seems to be determined to make Puji Island, where the bandits depend, unrecognizable.

There are still 20,000 defenders on Puji Island, most of them are concentrated in the northern Puji City and several forts, Gongliang Youqin and Xu Ruyu fought for five or six years, Puji Island suffered heavy setbacks, Jiangning generals, only Wei Yu gave Puji bandits an indelible deep feeling, and although Wei Yu invaded the island with less than 20,000 troops, and the troops were divided into two places, but Liu Dahuai, who had 20,000 elite soldiers, did not have the courage to go out of the city to face the battle. Hearing that Wei Yu led the troops to attack, he didn't know how many troops were attacking the island, so he ordered the northern Kou soldiers to shrink to Puji City.

Wei Yu was quite a headache for this person who was deterred by his own prestige and greedy for life and afraid of death, Ji Ziheng divided 5,000 troops in Puji West, Wei Yu led more than 10,000 elite soldiers in the east of Puji Island, and Liu Dahuai gathered about 16,700 troops in Puji City, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to attack one of the water camps. On the one hand, Wei Yu ordered Ji Ziheng to attack the dock fort stronghold of the Puji bandits, and on the other hand, blocked the escape route of the bandits in Puji City, and ordered Li Yin to lead the team to collect military rations from all over the island.

The Puji bandits could ignore the invasion of Puji by Ji Ziheng on the West Road, but they could not ignore Wei Yu's destruction policy against Puji. Wei Yu did not let go of all the looting and burning outside Puji City, if it were not limited to Jiangning's repeated strict orders, Puji Island was only afraid that there would be a large number of civilian casualties, and even so, conflicts between the soldiers of the water camp and the islanders on Puji Island also occurred from time to time.

The defenders in Puji City did not know that Gongliang Youqin had given them up, and if Wei Yu was allowed to attack Puji Island like this, even if Wei Yu finally retreated, the remaining Puji Island would become a desert island full of devastation. Liu Dahuai guarded the city of Puji for six days, and finally forced the generals to go out of the city and rush to the Wei Yu water camp at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Puji River. If even that harbor were to be destroyed by the Winged Tiger Army, there would be no place for the large warships on Puji Island to anchor. Liu Dahuai led 13,000 Kou soldiers to advance by land and water, wanting to force Wei Yu to go to the sea, leaving only 4,000 Kou soldiers in Puji City to prepare for the Ji Ziheng Water Camp operating on the west side of Puji Island, never expected that Yang Shang would lead 12,000 elite infantry battalions across the entire Puji Island, and had been potential in the mountains of the north-central part of Puji Island less than 60 miles away from Puji City.

When Liu Dahuai led the main force of the bandits out of the city, Ji Ziheng led 5,000 soldiers to abandon the ship and go straight to Puji City. The 13,000 soldiers led by Liu Dahuai and the 10,000 soldiers of the Wei Yu Water Battalion had already begun to engage in battle on the alluvial plains of dozens of miles around the lower reaches of the Puji River. However, when the defenders in Puji City went out of the city to attack Ji Ziheng with the main force of Liu Dahuai's Kou soldiers, Yang Shang led the infantry battalion to appear in the east of Puji City at the right time, annihilating all the 3,000 Kou soldiers who went out of the city, while attacking Puji City, which had only 1,000 defenders, and on the other hand, leading Ji Ziheng's troops to converge together, launching an offensive against the main force of Liu Dahuai's Kou soldiers. Wei Yu surrounded Liu Dahuai's 13,000 Kou soldiers in a river valley in the lower reaches of Puji with more than twice the force, which lasted half a month, ending the siege and annihilation battle, and only a small number of Kou soldiers fled into the mountains in the middle of Puji.

At this time, the news came that Gongliang Youqin had fled from the river to Jingbei, and the Qingyan Army completely controlled all the sea areas south of Jinghai to the southern end of Fengzhu, including the two large islands of Liuqiu and Puji.

Puji Island is about 400 miles from north to south, about 200 miles from east to west, except for a few large rivers that almost cross the whole island and have small alluvial plains in the lower reaches, there are only a few valley basins in the mountains of the island, and most of these valley basins have rivers running through, so that they can communicate with places outside the mountains, Puji City is built in a large river valley basin in the north. Puji City is only four miles around, bluestone is the base, burns brick and builds the wall, more than three zhang high, seems to be embedded in the mountain cliff in the north, although it is a small city, the terrain is extremely dangerous.

Puji Island is short of grain, but the city is still rich in grain, and the islanders have only a very small amount of grain in their hands. Yang Shang said: "If Liu Dahuai doesn't go out of the city, Niangniang, Lao Tzu doesn't want to accompany him on the island for more than half a year." "If you can't lure the main force of the Kou soldiers out of the city, you can only go all the way until the city runs out of food, and you must not release the more than 10,000 Kou soldiers in the city as a place to trouble the coast.

On the one hand, Wei Yu sent a light boat to Jiangning to report the victory, and on the other hand, he sent elite combat forces into the Puji Mountains to search for the escaped Puji Kou soldiers, and prepared to return to land by water battalion warships on the lower plains of the Puji River where the army had gathered.

It was 12 May when the light boat arrived in Wenling, and the messenger arrived in Jiangning on the night of 15 May.

When Xu Ruyu first met Zheng Cangzi two years ago, he was not a childish young man, at this time, a beard grew on his lips, and his body was a lot taller than a year ago, and his eyes were bright, with a slight sharpness of conquest and killing.

Zheng Cangzi was originally a member of the Zheng clan in Dongyang, the Zheng clan was wiped out in the battle of the scorched earth, and the young generation of the main clan was only Zheng Ke and Zheng Zhixiang.

Xu Ruyu looked at Zheng Cangzi, who came with Tu Wenyong, took his hand, asked him to sit beside him, and looked at the report documents sent by Wei Yu from Puji.

Within half a year, Wei Yu commanded all the armies in the eastern battlefield, and in half a year, he achieved an impressive record of destroying 60,000 enemies, but his own casualties were less than one-third of the annihilated soldiers. The complete occupation of Puji Island marked the complete end of the Puji Campaign, and all the princes rushed to hear the news, their faces filled with joy.

After Xu Ruyu finished reading, he raised his head to look at Mei Tierui and asked, "There are still 200,000 people on Puji Island, can half of them be relocated to Wenling?" ”

Without waiting for Tu Wenyong to answer, Zheng Cangzi whispered beside him: "Although there are 200,000 people on Puji Island, there are many towering white-headed people, all of them are thin and weak, and these people seem to die if they walk a little farther. ”

Xu Ruyu's face froze, then he sighed and said: "The matter of moving the people is stopped, and Puji County will be under the jurisdiction of Wenling Mansion." He also said to Jiang Lingtian, "Summoning Wei Yu to return to Jiangning, that is, to withdraw the Gantang Water Battalion, Li Yin led the original Gantang Water Battalion to Jinghai to wait, Yang Shang led the Gantang Department of the Xiao Guard Army to land from Wenling by the Jinghai Sea Battalion warship, and the main force of the Jinghai Water Battalion then returned to Jinghai to standby. Ding Mianchen temporarily stayed in Puji to lead the remaining army in Puji to continue to exterminate the remnants of the bandits and pacify the islanders. Puji Port is under the jurisdiction of Jinghai Water Camp, Gantang Port is under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou Water Camp, and the port is built in Wenling, which is under the jurisdiction of Jinghai Sea Camp. ”

Wenling and Jinghai are separated by Yuhang and Wuzhou, Wenling Harbor is under the jurisdiction of Jinghai Sea Camp, Xu Ruyu has the ambition to take these two places into his pocket in the near future, everyone hid the joy in their eyes, but heard Xu Ruyu say again: "Let Li Yin lead the Gantang Water Battalion to Jinghai after the war to stand by The military text has already been transmitted to Puji, these days are about to arrive in Jinghai, I will go to Jinghai tomorrow, Tie Rui, Boying, Wen Yong will put aside the affairs at hand for the time being, Ming said to go to Jinghai with me, Mr. Kou will also go together." ”

Xu Ruyu asked Mei Tierui, Xu Boying, Kou Zichan, Tu Wenyong and others to accompany him to Jinghai to greet the people of Fanyang who were about to arrive.

Mei Liting gathered 30,000 troops from the middle base to go out of Guangling, entered the territory of Baishi to the west, turned to the north, and approached the territory of Biling; The army of the five schools assembled in the north of Hailing City, and the 30,000-strong army was stationed next to the border line of Tairu.

Chen Yu knew in his heart the intimidating significance of Jiang Ning's move, and he didn't dare to take it lightly, plus the water camp, Jiang Ning gathered more than 100,000 troops in Jiangbei, while Wanling's troops in the southern line were only 60,000. If Xu Ruyu's fake play was really done, Jiangning's army would easily break through the defenses of the southern part of the East China Sea and penetrate into the depth of the East China Sea.

Chen pre-ordered the scattered forces of the first line of Piling, Tairu, and Longyou to concentrate on the important cities, and personally led 3,000 elite cavalry and 5,000 foot soldiers to Longyou City, and feared that Mei Liting would detour back to Longyou to cut off his back road, so he urgently ordered Zhang Jidao to suspend the offensive against Pengcheng and transfer 20,000 elite troops to the southern front in case of emergency.

In order to contain the Qingzhou soldiers, Wanling invested nearly 100,000 troops in Pengcheng, and almost all the troops that could be drawn were gathered in the areas of Suining and Pixian, and also drowned 80,000 elites in Qingzhou in this projectile land. At this time, Hulan has gained a foothold in Anyang, and can appropriately relax the containment of Qingzhou, after all, Chen Yu only hopes that Qingzhou will be forced by the situation to return to Wanling, and does not want the situation in Qingzhou to be so bad that it cannot be lost like Youji.

When Xi Daoning returned from Suining, he didn't bring back a single soldier, looked at Chen Pre-consultant's gaze, was ashamed, and said: "Zhang Jidao said: Just take Pengcheng in one go, how can you give up halfway?" If the governor wants to withdraw his army, please transfer him back to Wanling first. Not a single soldier will be allocated to me. I wanted to ask Chu Wenchang to transfer troops, but Chu Wenchang said: Suining is only the head of the Northern Strategy, Wanling removed Zhang Jidao's position as the commander of the Northern Strategy, replaced him with a new commander, and then ordered to transfer his troops and horses. Go to find Tian Wenguang, Wei Shuwei, and Wan Rong all said so, Chen Jingzong and Chen Weizheng led their troops to attack Pengcheng, but they couldn't transfer troops to move south, and they didn't bring back a single soldier or a pawn. ”

When Chen heard this, he was holding up a cup of tea, his hand shook violently, and the tea splashed on the sleeves of his wide robe, and he was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses and said: "Ji Dao is extremely right, just to capture Pengcheng in one go." There is something wrong with my military order, and the Beiluo Prefecture has the right to refuse it, and I am tired of running around. ”

Xi Daoning was suspicious, Yu Guang glanced at Chen Yu, who was slightly disappointed, and asked, "Jiangning's army is gathered, but it has to be guarded against." ”

Chen Yu said: "Xu Ruyu's mother family is the Youji Cai family, Xu Ruyu went north to Fan Yang to persuade Fan Yang Cai to go to Jiangning to avoid trouble, the fleet from Jinmen is not escorted by warships, Xu Ruyu gathered heavy troops in Jiangbei, it is to deter my Wanling, he will not settle the Fan and Zhu families before the battle with my Wanling." ”

Xi Daoning said worriedly: "Yue Diliang's general Fan Wenlong is the commander of Qingfengwei, so you must guard against it." ”

Chen pre-smiled and said: "I was also taken aback by Zhao Yuchu's news brought back, but I have carefully read the in-line newspaper from Yue County this year, in fact, Fan Wenlong has defected from the Fan clan, Xu Ruyu has promoted Fan Wenlong, Fan Che will be even more jealous in his heart, and he will never make peace." If it is secretly reconciled, Xu Ruyu, who I know, will definitely treat it as a trick and keep it for later, why did he let Kou Zichan leak it to Zhao Yu so casually? ”

Xi Daoning got up and retreated, Chen Yu's face suddenly became extremely bad, he seemed to have endured it for a long time, looked at the floating clouds outside the window, and said secretly: Zhang Jidao has been in the handsome position of Beiluo Mansion for a long time.

Since Zhang Zhongdao reformed the military system in Wanling, he has unified the army independently, and after that, he only continued to increase his military power, and when he did not separate him from his soldiers and horses, he later entrusted him with all the affairs of the Northern Strategy, counting the time he served as the governor of Yixing Mansion, it has been five years.

Over the years, Wanling and Baishi, Qinghe, Qingzhou have been in constant war, and the conquest of the war only depends on these strategic generals and brave side generals, and the generals of the Chen clan are only Chen Jingzong and Chen Wei. Although Chen Zifang has real talents, he is also in the prime of life, and he can rely on his arms, but he is unwilling to go out, and he lives in seclusion with his eldest brother Chen Ang. Fang Su originally took Xuanji, Zi Zhongnan, and Ge Jing to travel abroad, but it was rumored that he walked with Xu Ruyu in the north, and since March, his family has disappeared from Wanling, and it is thought that Jiang Ning is a troublemaker.

Thinking of this, the corners of Chen Yu's mouth couldn't help twitching a few times. The appointment of collateral generals, and without Jiang Ning's effective set of restraints, it will be difficult to control after a long time, let alone make an arm. However, the talents in the clan withered, and there were no available generals, which also made Chen Yu helpless.

Chen Zhen thought to himself: After this turmoil, it is time to make a good move on these side generals. However, such a turmoil made Chen preface with a sense of fear. Chen Pre claimed to know Xu Ruyu very well, and he successfully cut off the meat of Longyou from Yongyang back then, which was to take advantage of the weakness of Xu Ruyu's surname, but since Xu Ruyu went north to Fanyang, Jiang Ning's actions made Chen Pre feel confused.

This feeling made Chen Yu extremely uncomfortable, and he faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't guess where the joints were.

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