Chapter 8 The Silent Lake Reflects the Snow
In the early morning of the next day, Xu Ruyu ordered 4,000 sergeants in the reserve camp at the west school field.
Xing Kunmin placed a number of special Yongyang hard bows, swords, guns, halberds and halberds in front of the platform, and stood on the high platform of the general and said loudly: "Anyone who can pull up the two-stone hard bow and practice the martial arts of boxing and sword will come forward to try to recruit soldiers." ”
The soldiers recruited by each family among the displaced people were all strong and courageous, and although the reserve battalion selected the remaining 4,000 men, it was selected from among the 500,000 displaced people. After the heavy rain last night, there were few people who fell ill, which can be seen. It's just that although the 4,000 people have all the military positions of the battalion, left, sentry, and army, most of them are temporarily appointed by each family, and the real original military positions are not held by the elites of each family, so how can they stay in Xu Ruyu.
Although both the Su Gang and the Mei family handed over the reorganized men and horses, these people and horses were all incorporated into the camp army by Chen Zifang, which is also the fundamental reason why it is difficult for the Wanling forces to enter Yongyang in the future. Although the high-level military positions of the 4,000-battalion army are held by the direct generals of Wanling, the middle and low-level military positions have always been held by the people of the Su Gang and the Mei family, and the real control is in the hands of Jiang Lingtian and Mei Tierui. Xu Ruyu didn't realize this at first, although he thought about it later, he inevitably complained that Chen Zifang and others were ruthless first, leaving only 4,000 rebel troops for himself, and he didn't pick it out.
Although the morale of the 4,000 displaced soldiers has been greatly boosted, the military rank system is still chaotic, so there are candidates for the generals.
The military ranks at all levels are the children of various departments trained by the family, so as to firmly control the army, who has ever seen such a selection of military positions. Although more than 100 people walked out of the queue, they gathered in front of the stage, pointing to the various weapons placed on the ground and whispering, but no one stepped forward to try it.
Xu Ruyu smiled at Mei Yingxue, who was pretending to be a scholar beside him, took a step forward, and said loudly: "It is said that the heroes of the East China Sea are only in Yongyang, and today I am disappointed, who can be the person behind me with all his strength to hit three times and reward ten gold." ”
After that, he whispered to the torture Kunmin beside him: "Lend me ten gold, and I will pay you back instead." ”
Xing Kunmin smiled awkwardly and said in a low voice, "I don't have either." ”
Everyone listened to the conversation between the two and couldn't help but laugh. Shen Deqian secretly handed over Liang Bao's ten golds and asked him to hand them over to Xu Ruyu.
Xu Ruyu threw it to the ground in front of the stage and looked at everyone.
Seeing this, everyone in the audience said that the blood surname that was suppressed by him yesterday was agitated again, and there were people with red necks, people who were panting and breathing, and people who clenched their fists and fingers.
Mei Yingxue looked at Xu Ruyu sideways and said, "Why don't you end the game, you have an invincible image of a handsome general?" ”
Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "General, force; Handsome; Masaya. It may not be good for me to show my courage and cover up the edge of the brave general. If Zhang Zhongdao was here, he would definitely say that he beggars his neighbor and evaded his responsibility. Yesterday, news came from Wanling that Zhang Zhongdao led the Qingfeng cavalry camp on March 6 to defeat 3,000 enemies in Baishi, and now he is hiding and disappearing.
Mei Yingxue was dressed in Confucian clothes, and her snow-white scholar's scarf lined her jade face and handsome, coupled with her tall posture of being only slightly shorter than Xu Ruyu, which made her particularly conspicuous among everyone.
When everyone in the audience saw a handsome scholar like a girl walking to the stage, they laughed and said: "This man who can pinch out water with his face, and he can catch a chicken with both hands, which is good." ”
Mei Yingxue didn't hear it, and floated to the stage, and the whirlwind aura suddenly expanded to more than zhang, and several strong men with thick arms and round arms in the aura were all pulled by the strange pill released by the aura for a while.
Mei Ying said coldly: "I'll just catch the chickens." ”
Several people were weak, and they were forced out of their aura by Dan Jin and rolled to the side.
Xu Ruyu once was in the whirlwind aura, and experienced the power of being pulled by Dan Jin and wanting to earn it, and knew that Mei Yingxue was just a small punishment for them, and the real beauty has not been fully played.
Jiang Lingtian moved to Xu Ruyu's side and whispered, "This is Jinghu Martial Arts. ”
Xu Ruyu had never heard of it, so he looked at Jiang Lingtian with inquiring eyes and asked, "What is Jinghu?" ”
Mei Yingxue looked back as if she was sensitive, and there seemed to be a wisp of brilliance in her eyes, which made Xu Ruyu's heart flutter.
The dialogue between Xu Ruyu and Jiang Lingtian was controlled by Dan Xi, although he was not afraid of what Mei Yingxue heard, but when he saw her meaningful glance, he was startled, and said to Jiang Lingtian: "It's better to be careful, her cultivation is very weird." ”
Jiang Lingtian said with a smile: "Yesterday I was full of confidence, why do I look like this today?" ”
Xu Ruyu told him about Wanling: "This can release countless Dao Dan energy's aura, it is obvious that this skill secretly captures the power of creation, if she relies on her own cultivation, she can easily control the potential field that can interfere with a master like me, it is really appalling." ”
Jiang Lingtian said: "Were you a master at that time?" I deeply doubt it. However, Jinghu martial arts is unique in the world, and Master Fu has visited Jinghu three times, which confirms martial arts, which can be seen. ”
"Isn't it possible to say that Jinghu and Mr. Fu have a high status in the eyes of the world?"
"Yes, Jinghu does not interfere in the general trend of the world, so there are very few people who know Jinghu, and those who know it have no weaker respect for it than the three great masters. Wanling, Mei Yingxue doesn't mean to be in your surname, otherwise how can you stand here today? ”
"Exactly, when I was in Wanling, she must have come to see me more than once, otherwise I wouldn't be so familiar with her eyes. And when she stabbed it, she didn't use all her strength. She killed and injured me, didn't she violate the common covenant that Jinghu would not interfere with the general trend of the world? ”
Jiang Lingtian scolded with a smile: "You were counting onions at that time, killing you to interfere in the general trend of the world?" In his heart, he knew that Xu Ruyu had gradually recovered from the past, so he could laugh so easily, and he was sincerely happy for him, looking at him with a smile.
Xu Ruyu said: "I am fortunate to have Mr. Fu teach the righteousness of Dao Zesheng to remove the heart barrier. Why did Brother Jiang come under Mr. Fu's name? ”
"That's also because of your father, when your father was successful in the East China Sea, Yun Bo brewed 'Yun Tianyuan', to celebrate your father's success, your father left an altar, and Fu Shi said he came here to taste. Ten years ago, Master Fu came to Mingyue Tower to taste wine, saying that I had a one-year master-apprentice relationship with him, so I followed Master Fu to travel the world. Most of my martial arts were taught by Yun Bo, and every time I followed Master Fu, I didn't learn anything, and I still complained about him in my heart, and after I came back, I found that my cultivation was advancing by leaps and bounds unconsciously, and then I knew that Master Fu cultivated me like spring rain moisturizing things in a silent way, and I only hated that my qualifications were too shallow and my learning was limited. ”
Fu Yichen's method of living on the avenue makes people feel like a spring breeze, and Xu Ruyu has a deep understanding. Xu Ruyu saw himself in Fu Yichen's mystical pupils, and only then could he return to his original surname by the mystical magic method of his "Great Dao Zesheng" to dissolve the incomprehensible anger accumulated over the years.
Xu Ruyu nodded with deep feelings: "Master Fu's demeanor is difficult to admire. It especially makes people want to see the demeanor of Tianji Xueqiu and Mengduan. ”
Listening to what my godfather said, my father passed on the heavenly machine Xueqiu, if I could see him, many doubts in my heart would probably be solved.
At this time, there was a change in the audience. The three men couldn't bear Mei Yingxue's contempt, and forcibly stayed in the Xuan Jin Momentum field she had arranged, but what Mei Yingxue did was the Xuan Gong of Jinghu's Heavenly Ambition, how could it be resisted by brute force, and for a moment the three men were red like a tide, and their steps were vain, as if they were drunk.
Xu Ruyu admired the backbone of the three in his heart, and knew that if they persisted, he was afraid that they would suffer a lot of internal injuries. Just as he was about to drink Mei Yingxue, a man about thirty years old, with a thick beard and a black face, shouted and walked out of the crowd.
"Phew, you underestimate Yongyang Yefu too much."
After that, he grabbed a few handfuls, grabbed the three men who were struggling to support, and threw them to the field. Seeing that he completed several actions between electric light and flint, clean and neat, it seemed that he was not affected by his aura at all, and grabbed Mei Yingxue's chest again.
Mei Yingxue's face turned pale with anger, and she slashed her palm at his three-inch wrist with a knife in her hand, and with a flick of her sleeve, she hit the empty part of his chest and abdomen, swinging the person who grabbed the chest five feet away.
Xu Ruyu said: "One blow." ”
Mei Yingxue looked back at Xu Ruyu with a wicked smile on her face, and reprimanded: "He is so unreasonable, you are still..."
"Don't look at me, he's flirting with his feet."
Mei Yingxue was startled, and she didn't look back and kicked the man's ankle as if she had seen something, and pressed his face with a palm.
Xu Ruyu saw that she was angry, and this palm was full of momentum and no longer showed mercy, afraid that under her urgency, her subordinates would lose their proportions, and slap her neck in shock, shouting: "Don't hurt people." ”
Mei Yingxue floated to the side, glared at Xu Ruyu with horizontal eyebrows, her thin lips were extremely bloody, but she kept silent. Xu Ruyu jumped off the high platform, walked to her side, and whispered, "He didn't know that you were a daughter." ”
Mei Yingxue looked away coldly, and snorted: "I just want him to suffer a little, so that he doesn't think that ten gold is easy to get." ”
Xu Ruyu didn't dare to let her come again, looked at the man with a thick beard and a black face, and said, "If you can take another blow from me, you can take this ten gold." ”
The man knelt down on one knee and said, "I don't want to know these ten gold, let the villain take three blows from him in a dignified manner, let him see, my reserve camp of four thousand warriors, is not what he said." ”
Mei Yingxue said coldly: "Then you take another blow from me." ”
Xu Ruyu said in a low voice: "If you have used five points of strength, your Mei family will have one less battalion lieutenant place." ”
Mei Yingxue smiled charmingly: "I only use one point of strength?" ”
Xu Ruyu was stunned and said, "It's not that you don't care about the Mei family's affairs?" ”
Mei Yingxue's face was cold, and she said, "Then I'll use a lot of force." ”
Xu Ruyu saw that her face changed so quickly, but she couldn't feel angry, seeing that although she was dressed as a Confucian student, she was delicate and upright like a beautiful young man, but her eyebrows were as bright as day, a unique softness, and her vivid expression changed with her extremely seductive brilliance.
Dressed in white and snowy, with fluttering hair and a light veil on his face, the impression suddenly flashed through his mind. Xu Ruyu stood there for a while, not knowing what to say.
The man found a heavy sword from the field, and shouted, the heavy sword slashed down from top to bottom, a simple sword, but it gave him the courage to surpass ordinary people, and the split was very imposing. Xu Ruyu couldn't help but be stunned, the sea of inner knowledge of the "Five Senses Returning to the Heart" suddenly opened, and faintly "observed" the faint traces of this split.
Mei Yingxue also found that this style was unusual, her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, her eyes flashed, and she pressed her finger on the top of the sword blade at the nineteenth point, and forcefully broke its strongest place, so that there was no gap in its back move, and with a sonorous sound, the man flew sideways towards the crowd, knocking over several people and rolling down.
Xu Ruyu was looking at the crowd worriedly, but the man stood up suddenly, as if he was nothing, and scolded in his mouth: "I also said that this chop can open up the mountain, and it seems that it will be a neat chopping of firewood." ”
Jiang Lingtian also jumped off the stage and said, "This split is a bit interesting. ”
Xu Ruyu was silent, remembering the old dynasty rules in the "Fan Chuan Records of Experience" to record the use of the short-handled heavy weapon to defend the city, picked up the heavy sword on the ground, slashed from top to bottom, pushed from bottom to out, slashed on the wrist diagonally, stepped diagonally, or this split pushed and stroked, but it was another move, one step on the side, this split and push stroke was a change.
Jiang Lingtian watched with great interest as he stepped on the four-elephant step, deducing the forty-eight styles of this simple splitting and pushing, and said with a smile: "Is it okay to split the wooden stake?" ”
Xu Ruyu retracted the sword momentum and said: "The old dynasty rules recorded in the "Fan Chuan Records of Experience" are the three-style method of long-handled axes, which can be replaced by thick-backed knives, and heavy swords are not good, and the head of the sword is too floating, and ordinary soldiers cannot take advantage of the situation. ”
Then he said to the man, "What's your name, but someone taught you the heavy splitting method?" ”
The man said in a loud voice: "My name is Chang Da, when I was a child, I chopped firewood for Longyou Chang's family, I once met a man who asked for food, gave him two steamed buns, he taught me how to chop firewood, and what to say about opening the mountain, and I also cut firewood to save some effort, and the firewood used by Chang's family was chopped by me alone." ”
Xu Ruyu knew that although the Longyou Chang family was a dock master-level family, the firewood consumed was also accumulated with the hills, and it was rare for this man to chop firewood for so many years, but no one knew the mystery. Xu Ruyu smiled slightly and said: "Your strength is not as good as the three of you just now, but you can withstand three blows, which is the credit of your chopping wood." Take the ten gold, can you read and write? ”
"Lao Niang, there is a ball for literacy?"
Xu Ruyu didn't think it was wrong, and said with a smile: "If you are literate, I will let you be the sentry captain of the silver and ten gold medals of the month." …… Write down his name, Confitier. The latter words were said to Xing Kunmin.
Xu Ruyu returned to Jiangtai and said: "Pull the two stone bows, and those who hit the target in 100 steps can be awarded the rank of soldier, and those who claim to be able to be a sentry captain, a left lieutenant or even a battalion lieutenant can choose to compete with the elite guard in front of the stage, and come to see me again." ”
He whispered to Xing Kunmin: "There must be no sloppiness, otherwise you will not have your share in the position of battalion captain." ”
Xing Kunmin suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, nodded and said, "Do things for Lord Duwei, Kunmin doesn't dare to be careless." ”
Xu Ruyu ordered a few more places to pay attention to him, and galloped towards Beicheng with Jiang Lingtian and Mei Yingxue.
At that time, it was nearly the end of March, the breeze was not cold, Xu Ruyu stood against the empty wall, looked at the enemy camp curtain outside the city, towering into the clouds, hunting and dancing endlessly in the wind, unable to see what words were written, but could distinguish two ancient seals, and secretly thought: Gongliang Youqin personally sat in town. Sighing slightly, he said to Jiang Lingtian: "I said yesterday about the rainy night army, Gongliang Youqin must have heard about it, and the large-scale siege of the city is also a matter of one or two days. ”
Jiang Lingtian knew Xu Ru's foolish ability, and his judgment was definitely not bad, so he was worried in his heart, and said: "The enemy army has been feinting for more than two months, which has made the Yongyang army a lot of difficulty, and the decisive battle of life and death, how can it be a situation. Shen Deqian and other generals were also worried.
Xu Ruyu saw that the generals were like this, and secretly said that you are all like this, how can this city be defended? Haha smiled and said: "Gongliang Youqin is afraid that all his belongings will be lost in the East China Sea this time." ”
Everyone saw that his eyebrows were fluttering, and they hurriedly asked, "Do you have a plan?" ”
Xu Ruyu smiled faintly and said: "In May of last year, when I went out of Yongyang at night, I expected that Gongliangyou Qin would be under the city of Yongyang, and let Ling Tian store 500,000 quintals of grain in the name of the Su Gang. ”
The crowd hurriedly said, "Of course." ”
"The food in the city can stay in February, but Gongliang Youqin can't stay in February. I want to go to August to lead the Qingfeng Battalion 600 elite cavalry to break through the Yin Weixiu 20,000 Baishi Army, everyone should have heard of it. ”
All the generals praised.
"In October last year, Yi Zhouwu was forced to remove Yi Chongwu, the commander of Qingzhou who invaded Wanling, and replaced him with Yi Hanwen, everyone probably thinks that Wanling is terrible."
"Could it be that Lord Du Lieutenant arranged it?"
"Hmph, Yi Hanwen, who has always had different ambitions, does not serve as the commander of the Qingzhou Army that invaded Wanling, how can he assassinate Yi and his party in January this year, and how can Yi Hanwen support the army and stand on his own, how can Yi Hanwen form an alliance with my East China Sea and eliminate the threat to the north of my East China Sea?"
"Xu Bodang and Gongliang Youqin have a total of 160,000 troops, surround our Yongyang Jiancheng, and need to fortify in Baishi, Piling, and Tairu to prepare for the elite division of Wanling. Zhang Zhongdao rode 1,000 elite cavalry of the Qingfeng Battalion into Baishi, Zhang Jidao led 1,000 elite cavalry and 10,000 elite soldiers of the Xi family into Tairu, Fang Su brought 2,000 elite cavalry and 10,000 elite soldiers of the Wei family into Biling, and my father-in-law Chen Ang brought 3,000 elite cavalry and 20,000 elite cavalry of the Yu battalion to suppress Yiyang. Thousands of warships of the Pingyi Water Camp have entered the waters east of Yongyang, looking for an opportunity to annihilate the pirate ship.
Everyone looked at Xu Ruyu with incredible eyes, and said: "So, Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang's 160,000 remnants fell into the siege of my East China Sea?" ”
Xu Ruyu's face turned red, but it was fleeting, except for Jiang Lingtian and Mei Yingxue, who were similar to them, and others were not aware of it. Xu Ruyu said triumphantly: "Exactly, my East China Sea army is based on the fortified city to defend, the grain and grass are abundant, but the thief army's grain road is all broken by my design, Xu Bodang got several empty cities in Biling and Tairu, and he has not gotten a grain of grain, it is true that the combat power of the thief army is slightly stronger than our army, but he is hungry, and then climbs this high city wall to engage our army, are you afraid of him?" ”
Everyone said, "Don't be afraid." ”
"But your faces are sad, I am very puzzled, do you have no confidence in me?"
Jiang Lingtian said with a smile: "We are all worried that killing too many enemies will hurt the virtue of heaven's good life. ”
Everyone laughed and said yes.
Xu Ruyu lay on his back on the roof of Mingyue Tower, looking at the spring moon rising like a wheel. Jiang Lingtian sat on his knees. Mei Yingxue stood alone on the high ridge, with a faint and clear light light around her body, which made her look exquisite and elegant, like a fairy in the clouds.
Xu Ruyu said: "Why don't you change into women's clothes and follow me to inspect the city camp, can you still boost morale?" ”
Mei Yingxue's pretty face was cold, as if she was staring at frost on the show, and then she smiled and said, "You always tease other girls like this?" That's good, I'll put on women's clothes, and whoever looks at me more, I'll gouge out his eyeballs. ”
This last sentence was actually said with a smile, Xu Ruyu and Jiang Lingtian shuddered when they heard it, and their faces teased each other.
Jiang Lingtian whispered: "The people who come out of Jinghu are either fairies or demons, you also have to find out clearly before deciding whether to make a joke, don't hurt me, the pond fish." ”
Xu Ruyu pretended to be bitter and said: "Ten **, she is the devil." With that, he lifted the teapot and took a sip.
Jiang Lingtian asked curiously: "Ru Yu, how can you taste tea like this?" ”
Mei Yingxue said coldly: "He made people ban alcohol, but he couldn't help it." ”
Jiang Lingtian snatched the teapot, the aroma of wine overflowed, and the wine worm suddenly woke up, poured a frenzy, and burped, before he had time to ask Mei Yingxue: "How do you see through his tricks?" ”
Mei Yingxue looked disdainful and said: "How can you use Dan Xi to control the overflow of tea fragrance when drinking tea, it is obvious that you want to cover it." ”
Jiang Lingtian laughed and said, "Does Ru Yu now regret letting her take care of your Jingwei in the first place?" ”
Xu Ruyu nodded with deep feeling.
Mei Yingxue said: "How much truth is there in what you said in the city today?" ”
Mei Yingxue asked about the situation in the East China Sea for the first time, which made Xu and Jiang feel surprised.
Xu Ruyu reflexively lay on the eaves, looked up at Mei Yingxue's beautiful and dreamy figure in the moonlight, and thought: If you change into that Shengxue white clothes, you will definitely make people have the urge to bow and worship, and said: "You don't care about your Mei family's affairs?" ”
"What does this have to do with the Mei family? I care about you. As soon as he blurted out the words, he felt that these words made people sound very ambiguous, and his heart was slightly embarrassed, and his face was faintly covered with a layer of red in the moonlight.
Xu Ruyu was stunned, although she was not so arrogant that she thought that Mei Yingxue was showing her affection to herself, but when she saw Mei Yingxue showing a cold look in front of her for the first time, showing her shy woman's side, she was very useful in her heart.
Jiang Lingtian was also stunned when she heard this, and when she turned around to look at Mei Yingxue, she returned to a cold appearance, and said secretly: Could it be that she asked this on behalf of Jinghu?
Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "If your face is so red again, I will tell you the truth." ”
Mei Yingxue swept her eyes, turned to look north, and ignored him.
Jiang Lingtian said on his behalf: "It is true that Wanling has the help of Ru Yu to break the enemy's demolition moves, which has greatly changed the situation in the East China Sea. But the situation is not as rosy as he suggests. The real decisive battle is still in the battle of Yongyang, Gongliangyouqin trapped Yongyang, and Baishi formed a line, and there were several times better than Wanling troops into the northern front, sitting on an invincible position; But Gongliang Youqin could not capture Yongyang for a long time, but Yongyang contained the superior forces, the grain road was blocked, and it was difficult to escape defeat and retreat, if the Baishi Army did not escape to the sea, it would be suppressed by the East China Sea, Jiangjin, and Qingzhou, and it would be difficult for the child. However, with Yongyang's 40,000 weak brigades, it can withstand the army of 100,000 tigers and wolves in Puji, which makes people feel worried. ”
Xu Ruyu said leisurely: "If Gongliang Youqin decisively gives up the two provinces of Biling and Tairu, shrinks the defense line to the area of Longyou and Qingpu, ensures the smooth supply line in Baishi Mansion, and concentrates troops to conquer Yongyang, then Yongyang has only one way to surrender. ”
Xu Ru's foolish words were shocking, Jiang Lingtian was shocked, put his hand on his forehead and pondered, and only hesitated for a while before he said: "When you say it, Wanling will not dare to wave his army to fight a decisive battle with the thief army in Yongyang's territory. ”
Xu Ruyu looked at the lonely moon in the sky, and said slowly: "Attacking the strong with the weak is nothing more than breaking through each and scattering it with the whole blow." My father-in-law once warned you that putting yourself in the upper hand in strength is the only way to defeat the enemy. ”
Jiang Lingtian naturally understood that Gongliang Youqin would gather back tens of thousands of elite soldiers scattered in the three prefectures, Wanling would have no chance to take advantage of it, and Yongyang would only offer one way to surrender his food.
Jiang Lingtian said: "If that's the case, doesn't Gongliang Youqin admit that he is inferior to Chen Ang? ”
Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "Soldiers, the important matter of the country is not a battle of will. Looking at his approach, you can know his decision if he attacks the city or not. ”
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