Chapter 7 The return of Wuhu Lake
Donghae and Viet counties have been in the scorching heat season since late May, and people who work in the scorching heat are looking forward to a rainy day to cool off.
The lead-gray clouds covered the heavens and the earth tightly, and there was not a trace of wind, and the sea water pressed by the lead clouds was as clear as jade. Xu Ruyu was a little restless, the fleet from Wuhu had already entered the sea area east of Tairu in the East China Sea, and it was a day or two to Sanshui, if there was a storm at this time, it was necessary to stay in Tairu temporarily. Although the sailor fleet led by Li Yin went to meet the situation, and there were still tens of thousands of elite soldiers on the north bank of the river to deter Wanling, Xu Ruyu was still a little worried in his heart, and from the moment the fleet entered the East China Sea, he sent more than ten groups of rangers to sneak into the East China Sea to scout the movement of the Chen army in the East China Sea at any time.
There are still 20,000 water battalions stationed in Pingcheng and Tairu in the Pingcheng water battalion, and the 20,000 water battalions left the port and went to sea when the Wuhu fleet arrived in the East China Sea, and they were nowhere to be found. It was not until the sea area northeast of Tairu that the Wuhu fleet realized that the warships of the Pingcheng Water Camp were left behind.
When the news reached Sanshui, Xu Ruyu felt a lot more at ease, if Chen Yu deliberately swallowed the Wuhu fleet, he could threaten the fleet with superior forces to dock. In addition to the children of the family who took refuge in Fan Yang, the real value in the fleet was the nearly 10,000 craftsmen and countless war materials in the foundation of the Gen Hall, among which four or five thousand fine war horses would be coveted by anyone who saw them. In addition to the Eight Hundred Miles Grange, the Fanyang Cai family relied on the foundation of the Gentang, which was famous for its instrument making, to support a wealthy family for hundreds of years.
The Fanyang Cai family and the Yongyang Mei family are both proficient in making utensils, but they have some expertise.
Yongyang Mei's family is famous for its longbow, an ordinary longbow can pierce a two-inch thick pine board 200 steps away, and ordinary wooden shields and leather shields cannot form effective protection within 200 steps. The manufacturing secrets of the Yongyang bow and crossbow were originally shared among the Yongyang Mei tribe, the Wanling Chen tribe, and the Tairuxi tribe, and the longbows made by the Mei family were mainly supplied to the family army in the East China Sea. However, in the Battle of the East China Sea, the Mei clan first allied with Puji and Baishi, and then attached to Xu Ruyu's command, and the secret of the Yongyang longbow gradually spread, and the longbow manufacturing in various places was almost influenced by the Yongyang hard-horned longbow and went to a higher level within this year. In view of this, Xu Ruyu ordered Jiangning to mass-produce good bows and crossbows and sell them to those small and medium-sized families who survived in the cracks of the big forces.
The sharp blades produced by Fanyang Cai's foundation Gentang are folded into tools, tough and sharp, and the secret of its tools lies in the refining of fine iron, and the blades are sold all over the world, and the sellers can participate in the bidding no matter who they are, even the Haikou forces like Puji Island do not refuse. Xu Ruyu got Cai's family in Shangnan half of the gift and half of the gift of a batch of good knives, and Xu Ruyu also prepared a standard saber with him. When Xu Ruyu first arrived in Qingjiang, he often took the lead, and there would be hundreds of souls under the knife, and the blade was reversed and collapsed, which shows the excellent quality.
When Xu Ruyu really controlled Yongyang, he made the Mei family and the foundation of the Gong Tang learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and the foundation of the Gong Tang was also able to surpass the Mei family to produce a giant crossbow that could be triggered by fifty people, but the skilled craftsman was the most fundamental guarantee for the mass production of good weapons.
Xu Naiji died in Xiangzhou City because the Xun family's Datong iron cavalry broke down the temporary defense of Xiangfan in front of the city gate and collapsed. The heavy armored iron cavalry equipped with armor cavalry charged head-on like a lead cloud, and the momentum was extremely terrifying, giving people an indelible shock. Shao Haitang recalled at this time, still sighed, and often said: "There are too many wonderful things about having these heavy armored cavalry for flank assault, frontal assault, and ambush." The more than 1,000 armor of the Datong Iron Cavalry were all provided by the Foundation Gentang, and Shao Haitang looked forward to Cai Yuhua's arrival, and said: "Cai Yuhua came to Jiangning, and he could take the rank of lieutenant to lead the military weapons division." ”
Cai Yuhua has a deep relationship with Xu Ruyu, and when he was in Shangnan, he met Xu Ruyu, and gave great help to the Qingyan Army at the beginning of its establishment. Later, the Jun family was attached to Jiangning, and Cai Yuhua mediated between Fan Yang and Jiangning, and Cai Yuhua mediated in Fan Yang's family, and was the core figure of Fan Yangnan's family attached to Jiangning.
Xu Ruyu has no objection to placing Cai Yuhua in the Changshi Mansion, and it is appropriate to use him to lead the military weapons and ordnance department. However, he did not agree to start forming heavy cavalry after returning to Jiangning in the south of the foundation.
It is not easy for the Central Plains family to obtain war horses, but the Chen family of the East China Sea, the Fanyang Cai family, the Xun family of Fenjun, and the Suchuan Valley family have tens of thousands of cavalry camps due to their geographical advantages, and the Yi family pours the power of Qingzhou, and the cavalry camp is only 4,000 people, but Wu Chu and Changge 49 cavalry either died or left Qingzhou, and the cavalry camp in Qingzhou gradually declined. On the basis of the original Xiangfan Hui cavalry, Xu Ruyu integrated the forces of Southern Fujian and Yuejun, and the cavalry camp was only 3,000 people. In addition to these five, Nanping is as strong as Hulan, but because of the lack of horses, it is impossible to have an organized cavalry camp.
If he competes for hegemony with the Central Plains heroes, Xu Ruyu will not take the trouble to establish a cavalry camp, and the Hulan people may be the last fierce opponent, with an elite cavalry battalion, which will play a great role in the confrontation with the Hulan people.
Although the Hulan cavalry is known as the iron cavalry, it is not a heavy cavalry, and the armor of the cavalry is not as good as the light cavalry of the Central Plains family, but the Hulan people are skilled in riding and shooting, and they are skilled in martial arts, and they can give full play to the mobile surname of the elite light cavalry.
How many people are in heavy armor who can gallop on the field without hindrance like the light cavalry? At that time, the ghost of Qingzhou could not ride Changge and forty-nine horses, and such characters wore heavy armor. However, the forty-nine people who are good at sprinting, like the blade of the Qingzhou ghost horse, are invincible, or wedge into the weak points of the enemy formation, tear the enemy formation, or use the strong in the face of force, sprint to the most stubborn place of the enemy formation, and destroy the will of the enemy army. Most of the prestige of Qingzhou ghost riding was established by these forty-nine horsemen.
With the cultivation and military literacy of the forty-nine cavalry figures of Changge, he is enough to serve as a general below the battalion captain level in the army, and Xu Ruyu does not expect to have the luxury of forming such a luxurious lineup. There are only 12 cavalry lieutenants in the cavalry camp who can be compared with the 49 cavalry figures of Changge that year, Qingliu died in the battle in Quanzhou, Fenglin and others were transferred to other armies to serve in middle and senior military positions, and only Jiehai and Burning Stone remained in the cavalry camp to continue to assist Wei Yan in commanding the cavalry battalion.
Thinking that Wei Yan had been lame at sea with the fleet for more than 20 days for the sake of 4,000 war horses, Xu Ruyu didn't know who to tell him that the cavalry couldn't get a war horse this time.
Qingfengwei has 4,000 soldiers, Xu Ruyu can only leave 2,000 war horses, Jiang Lingtian, Zhang Zhongdao, Liang Bao, Wei Yu, Zhang Xu and others must form a personal guard battalion, and they must be divided into a batch of war horses, and the rest of the war horses must be divided into the armies. Hulan's control over Bohai, Baekje and other places was not very strict, and if the cavalry camp wanted to expand its scale, it would have to wait until later to buy war horses from the locals. The role of the Wuhu Water Camp is not only this, but also to encourage the resistance forces in Bohai, Baekje and other places to contain Hulan.
Xu Ruyu said secretly: Li Yin served as the commander of the Wuhu Army with the rank of General Wei, and Lou Qingzhi was the chief sentinel of the Wuhu Army. This person must not only be familiar with government affairs, but also be extremely familiar with the situation in various parts of the Northlands. Such a person naturally chooses the most suitable from the Jun family, Xu Ruyu's mind flashed the names of several people, and said secretly: Jun Xiaoyun and Song Qian are still on Wuhu Island and have never returned with the fleet, so it is better to let them continue to stay there.
Xu Ruyu for Wuhu, can be described as painstaking, Wuhu Island is far away from Jiangning, return to more than ten months, if there is a change, rush to help. The Wuhu Army is targeting the strongest force in the world, and even if the water camp in Hulan is unfavorable, it is not difficult to unite the huge forces to establish a water camp force in a short period of time. And Qingzhou, the back of Wuhu Island, is not a good person, if Yi Hanwen understands the situation, he will naturally be safe, if Yi Hanwen thinks that he can form an alliance with the Xun family and the Li family to resist Hulan, he will inevitably attack Wuhu Island secretly, after all, Jiangning, which is rising rapidly, is also a potential enemy of Qingzhou.
Xu Ruyu transferred the only two giant building ships in the Quanzhou Water Camp and six of the eight 400 warships to the Wuhu Army. The Quanzhou water camp sailed to the vicinity of the Nghe An sea area under the leadership of Luo Shanyang, and cooperated with Xiao Wuye on land to besiege the Yan clan in the city of Nghe An. At the beginning of the establishment of the Gantang Water Battalion, almost most of the large warships were transferred from the Quanzhou Water Battalion, and this time the eight large warships of the Quanzhou Water Battalion were transferred to the Wuhu Army with the Gantang Water Battalion as the predecessor to strengthen the military strength of the Wuhu Water Battalion, although the Quanzhou Water Battalion still had a full strength of 15,000 people, its strength was weakened a lot, and it became the weakest part of the Jihu Army.
Southern Fujian is in a corner, and there is no need to have such a powerful water camp, but there is also the intention of weakening the old military power of Southern Fujian.
Xu Ruyu couldn't take too much into account of Luo Shanyang's feelings, Qingfengwei became the pro-guard army of Qingfeng Mansion, Fan Wenlong became the commander of Qingfengwei, and Luo Boyuan was transferred to the army as a general, which was regarded as a compensation for Luo Shanyang.
On the last day of May, the fleet finally arrived safely in the sea area under the jurisdiction of Jinghai Prefecture, and the Pingcheng Water Camp fleet, which had been following for several days, continued to follow for a while, until it saw Xu Ruyu's big tree on the simple harbor of Sanshui County, and then hovered on the sea in the distance.
Fang Su, Wei Yan, Zhao Jingyun, Cai Yuhua, Cai Hui, Jun Zongqing, Xuanji, Jun Huaiwei and others took several pilot warships docked at the simple seaport of Sanshui County, and the rest under the cover of a small number of warships, continued to sail south along the coastline of Jinghai, bypassed the mouth of the river, and stopped at Yongyang, some of which will be placed in Yongyang, and the rest will go directly to Jiangning.
Jun Xiaoyun, Peng Muyun, Jun Zongrui, Jun Huaguang, Ge Jing, Zi Zhongnan and others stayed in Jinmen and Wuhu for the time being, and only after Li Yin led the main force of the water camp to rush to the aid would they withdraw to Jiangning. In addition to the hands of the Shang Cai family in Fanyang and Juyong, most of the rest of the cities have fallen, and Jinmen cannot be defended for a long time, so when the displaced people on the islands near Jinmen move about the same, they will abandon Jinmen and concentrate their troops on Wuhu Island. Coupled with the combat strength of the water battalion led by Li Yin in the past, the establishment of the Wuhu Army will exceed 20,000, and there are still many reduced and merged sergeants on the island who can serve as soldiers, and within a few years, there is no need to send additional troops to the Wuhu Army, but logistics supply is still a problem. The Wuhu army could not raid the city and plunder grain and grass in the countryside, which was undoubtedly to take food from the people's mouths. Xu Ruyu repeatedly warned Li Yin before leaving, but the worries in his heart were not over.
Wei Yu, Wei Yan, Feng Yuanyuan, Li Yin, and Yang Shang, although they have repeatedly applied for five orders, they still don't take human life seriously. Thinking that they all had the past of licking the blood of the knife to survive, maybe he didn't take his life seriously, Wei Yu, as the commander of the first army, still used himself as a bait, Wei Yan, Feng Yuanyuan, Li Yin, Yang Shang and others were accustomed to taking the lead in the battle.
The army of troubled times is a brutal existence, as long as he does not commit a big taboo, Xu Ruyu will still not blame him too much. Wei Yu has repeatedly made great contributions, and Xu Ruyu will blame him more for the brutality of his actions, and often does not mention military exploits, but every time he encounters a major event, he is entrusted with a great responsibility, and he makes up for all the achievements that have been suppressed in the past.
Wei Yu originally went directly to Jiangning to report on his work after the end of the Puji War, and asked Xu Ruyu to summon Jinghai from Wenling with the Jinghai Sea Battalion halfway, but at this time he was also in Sanshui County, and he saw Wei Yan standing on the front deck of the ship from a distance, showing a rare smile. Cai Yuhua, Cai Hui, and Jun Zongqing saw that not only Xu Ruyu came to Sanshui to greet him, but also brought Mei Tierui, Xu Boying, Wei Yu, Tu Wenyong and other Jiangning dignitaries, and they were very moved, and the sorrow of leaving their hometown was much lighter. Xu Ruyu looked at Fang Su, and then at Xuanji beside him, slightly surprised why she didn't land in Pingcheng and return to Wanling. Thinking of the six children who fled in a carriage ten years ago, I felt a sense of intimacy in my heart.
Fang Su said: "When he was about to leave the sea area of Tairu, he encountered General Li Yin leading the fleet north, and the Pingcheng fleet that followed wanted to intercept General Li Yin. The Pingcheng Water Battalion was divided into two teams, one team continued to follow the fleet south, and the other team monitored the water camp led by General Li Yin to the north through the East China Sea. ”
Xu Ruyu's nose was sour, he suppressed the tears in his eyes, turned around and bowed three times to the vast sea in the north. When the fleet sailed south through the East China Sea, Chen Ang sneaked all the way at the end of the tide in a light boat, in order to ensure the safe transit of the fleet and avoid the two families from provoking.
Xu Ruyu's heart was like the ups and downs of the sea, and he was moved in his heart, but he couldn't pronounce it, as if he felt that his godfather was standing at the end of the light boat and looking eagerly at this side. Thinking of Jiang Ning's many next actions, many of which would be aimed at the Chen family, he felt guilty and embarrassed, and stood stunned for a while, and when his mind calmed down, he turned his head and said to Xuanji: "Godfather, I hope that you will inherit his martial arts, I have some understanding of the north this time, and I hope it will help you to comprehend the subtle meaning of the amazing trick." ”
Chen Ang received a large number of disciples, but only Xuanji's state of mind was the most pure, and the other sons could only practice martial arts after Chen Zifang was frustrated, but the loss in his heart was never exhausted, and the progress was very rapid at the beginning, and after gradually getting a glimpse of the realm, he stagnated, Chen Ang thought that unless he had another opportunity, his lifelong cultivation would stagnate above the level of the first grade. Chen Ang has recently put his mind on Xuanji, hoping that she can inherit her martial arts.
Although the Amazing Divine Technique is the coexistence of yin and yang, it is still a domineering martial arts, and it is difficult for women to achieve great success in practice.
Xuanji's comprehension of martial arts is far more than his own cultivation, and he can't confirm it physically, showing his Taoist heart, and he is confused in his heart. Chen Ang entered the Tao from martial arts, and it took decades to reach such a realm, and he couldn't help her in this regard. But it is Xu Ruyu who has the same realm as her, thinking that Xu Ruyu used his heavenly resources, almost within a year, from a person who does not know martial arts to the realm of the lower level of a class, and his knowledge of martial arts is more than the cognition of martial arts.
Since Xu Ruyu founded the Starry Sky Fragrance Sword, he began to take a different path of cultivation from the Amazing Divine Technique, from the yin and yang in the body to the yin and yang of heaven and earth, so that in the wilderness north of Fanyang City, the yin breath in the body can be used to connect the heaven and earth with the breath of heaven and earth, triggering the vision of heaven and earth. However, Xu Ru is the master of one party, how can he have the opportunity to do it with others? However, he had already glimpsed the realm, and the cultivation of a master of this level exceeded the realm of skill, but in the perception of the Dao heart, and the wealth of combat experience, which was not conducive to the improvement of cultivation. Although Xu Ruyu doesn't have to do anything with others, his cultivation has never stopped. Xu Ruyu only hopes to help Xuanji comprehend martial arts to comfort the guilt and feelings in his heart.
Xuanji saw that Xu Ruyu wanted to instruct her in martial arts, and she didn't shirk it, as if she said, "Thank you, senior brother." ”
Wei Yu glanced at her sideways and didn't speak, but Wei Yan said, "Why are you a generation shorter than her out of thin air?" ”
Fang Su smiled: "I am asking Ru Yu to transfer Zi Zhongnan to the cavalry camp......"
Wei Yan was taken aback, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "The cavalry camp doesn't want him." "I'm afraid that Xu Ruyu will agree before him.
Xu Ruyu and Chen Ang have learned amazing tricks, Xuanji, Ge Jing, and Zi Zhongnan have the same friendship with him, and it is not inappropriate for Xuanji to call him a senior brother, Zi Zhongnan was transferred to the cavalry camp, but Wei Yan wanted to call this subordinate general as his uncle, this face was naturally embarrassing, and he secretly said in his heart: I have to think of a way to let Li Yin collect the two of them in the Wuhu Army, and it is best not to go out in front of me for the rest of my life.
Xu Boying and Fang Su knew his name, but they had never met, so he stepped forward at this time, saluted, and said: "Jiang Ning has been looking forward to Zisu for a long time, and I can only see him today." ”
Among him, Mei Tierui, and Wei Yu, Fang Su only knew Mei Tierui, but Wei Yu was not dressed up, and he was still wearing a captain's robe in the hot weather, seeing them standing side by side beside Xu Ruyu, and the rest of the people who greeted him were half a position behind them, so they naturally guessed his identity and said: "Listening to Zhongdao, Bo Ying's wine is not good, but the wine is good, so he can't bear to pour you." He bowed to Mei Tierui and Wei Yu again.
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