Chapter 4 Puji Returns
On June 16, the good news of the battle of Huishan reached southern Fujian.
Uncle Sun Fang Wu was drinking with Zheng Menghuai, Liang Bao and others in the East Courtyard of the Min Prince's Mansion, and at first heard the news that Xu Ruyu ambushed Zhu Lianzhi on the top of Huishan, Zhu Lianzhi was seriously injured and died on the way, and Zhu was divided into three, and he was surprised and delighted. The headache will be solved, and the Nanmin family will no longer add obstacles to the northward transfer of the Nanmin garrison.
He Jiongyi, Qin Zeduan, Jing Hao and others rushed to hear the news, and they didn't say anything about the requisition, but only about Liang Shuai's wedding.
Xu Ruyu and Jiang Youli's wedding ceremony was very simple, Liang Bao wanted to follow suit, and did not want the people of Southern Fujian to do a lot of extravagance and waste for his marriage, and was about to stand up and push away everyone's fist and fist, Uncle Sun Fangwu stopped him and said: "I came to Quanzhou only for the wedding, and I can discuss this matter with the princes." ”
Liang Bao saw that he had taken over the wedding together, and he didn't want to disobey his will, so he sat back in the banquet and didn't say anything more.
During the Battle of Southern Fujian, Liang Bao calmed Southern Fujian, and with the support of Xu Ruyu, he took Shui Ruying and his sleeves to Quanzhou for a reunion. Liang Ding and Sleeve Er had feelings for each other as early as Yongyang, but the world was out of the ordinary, and the relationship between Shui Ruying and Xu Ruyu was less and more separated in a few years.
It's just because Shui Ruying is like a shadow, and a wisp of thought is empty, but the matter between Shui Ruying and Xu Ruyu is not allowed to be talked about by Liang Bao and Sleeve, and the two of them have also delayed until now, and they don't want to get married before Shui Ruying.
The hanging lamp of the flower boat is wrapped in green yarn, and the boat is contained, and the servants are also.
Although Shui Ruying is the best in the world, it can't erase the past as a servant.
Jiang Youli's identity has become the truth of everyone's attack, and the princes of Jiangning will never tolerate a single water like a shadow again.
Shui Ruying knew that he was thinking about airdropping, and he didn't know the heart of falling flowers, and he didn't want to see Liang Bao and Sleeve Er delay Shaohua for themselves, so he wrote a letter to Jiang Ning and asked Xu Ruyu to marry Liang Bao and Sleeve Er.
Despite this, there is still a trace of hope in his heart, and he often thinks about it secretly at night, maybe Xu Ruyu suddenly feels his affection, even if he can't stay together, he goes to Jiangning to accompany Jun's side and fulfills his wish; However, when he learned that Xu Ruyu had sent his uncle Sun Fangwu and his wife to preside over the ceremony, the last installment in Shui Ruying's heart also dimmed.
Sleeves are happy and sad, sometimes I don't know whether I am happy or sad, sitting on the brocade couch, looking at the thin face of the water like a shadow under the moon, gritting his teeth and saying: "Sister, I am not uncommon to marry that fool, you go to Jiangning with me, I want to ask that person if he has a heart." ”
Shui Ruying smiled bitterly: "I'm wishful thinking, why should you blame him?" ”
The guards in front rode over, and reported that they could already see the tower of Quanzhou Xicheng.
Sleeves lifted the curtain, only to see the miserable blue moon, the Xicheng City Tower towering like a mountain, seeing that the female guard wanted to step forward to clear the customs, Sleeves stopped her, and said: "You stay here, let's go into the city quietly, I don't want that fool to pick me up, I think of it, I can't figure out why Xu Ruyu sent him to guard Nanmin, and I'm not afraid that the affairs of Nanmin will be bad in his hands?" ”
The female guard smiled and said nothing, and her sleeves called her name directly to the adult, or replaced him with "that person", and there was never any respect between the words, and Liang Bao was also full of fools and idiots. In the eyes of everyone in Southern Fujian, Liang Bao was quite arrogant in his words, and his demeanor was dignified. Sleeves sneered, often said that Yongyang told everyone about it, and said: "One is crazy and the other is stupid, being a master and apprentice is a perfect match, but I didn't expect that when the son also had a career." Naturally, everyone didn't dare to take her words, and when they heard her, they all had a strange look on their faces, and they hated that they had to cover their ears with their hands. But I didn't know that when Xu Ruyu was in Yongyang, he often felt a headache because of his sleeves.
Shui Ruying pulled her sleeves back to her and sat down, and said, "After a few days, I will be another woman, and I still speak like this?" ”
Sleeve sighed lightly and said: "Although Liang Bao is very different, he is a little better than that person, I heard that that person has recently included Shao Ruyan in the inner mansion." ”
Two years ago, Shui Ruying and her sleeves saw Shao Ruyan when they crossed Lishui, and as a woman, they were also confused by her appearance, and they wanted to be stunning in the world.
Shao Ruyan entered the inner mansion as a female official, but in the eyes of everyone, it is undoubtedly equivalent to Xu Ruyu having included her in the room, otherwise it would not be possible to explain the fact that Shao Ruyan went north alone for Xu Ruyu at the beginning of the year.
Shui Ruying felt even more sad when she heard her sleeves mention this, and tears welled up in her eyelashes, and she hurriedly turned around, and through the gauze, facing the miserable moonlight outside the carriage, she quietly felt a sudden sting in her heart.
Seeing this, Sleeve Er knew that she was speechless, and didn't know how to comfort her, so she sat there and stared at the road in front of the car. Secretly: My sister has been busy for that person for the past two years, and she doesn't feel bitter, but her health is getting worse and worse, how can she be good if she goes on like this?
The carriage drove into the Min Wang's Mansion surrounded by dozens of guards. The original Min Wangfu is divided into two, the east courtyard is the camp courtyard, the west courtyard is the capital court, Liang Bao did not open another residence in Quanzhou, the east courtyard is separated into a typical official office of the front and back houses, and lives in the back house of the east courtyard. Before Zheng Menghuai and Zongzheng Xunda had a bad relationship, he ruled a private house in Quanzhou, and later let the clan invade Mexico, and after the end of the Battle of Southern Fujian, Xu Ruyu specially took care of these private house properties from the clan family property and returned to the Zheng family.
After Shui Ruying and Sleeves came to Quanzhou, Zheng Menghuai gave the back garden belonging to the West Courtyard to the two of them to live in, and lived in a private house in Quanzhou by herself.
Sleeve jumped out of the carriage, helped Shui Ruying down, vaguely heard the sound of Sizhu Qingyue from the east courtyard, frowned slightly, and said: "My sister and I have worked tirelessly to return to Yi'an and Quanzhou, how can he sit there and listen to this beautiful sound with peace of mind?" He didn't say he would pick us up from outside the city. ”
Shui Ruying said with a smile: "You asked the post station not to send the specific itinerary to Quanzhou first." ”
"That's it, he can also think that we will return to Quanzhou today, wait for a while, isn't he tired?"
Shui Ruying called a female guard and said, "You go to the East Courtyard and ask Liang Bao to come over and apologize to Sleeve." ”
Sleeve waved his hand and said, "Uncle and grandson Fangwu are in Quanzhou, and Liang Bao can't get out, so I'll go see him." ”
Shui Ruying said "oh", and did not answer her words, but it was the female guard who laughed first.
Liang Bao sat in the hall and received a report that Shui Ruying, and his sleeves had returned to the back garden, stood up and glanced at everyone, and said, "I'll go and ask Ruying and Sleeves to come over." He waved his hand for the performer to leave the hall.
Liang Bao walked out of the house, and the afterglow in Zheng Menghuai's eyes fell on the face of his uncle Fang Wu.
After the disaster of Zhangzhou, the Zheng family was wiped out several times, and the fruitless bitter love between the second daughter Zheng Tian and Ding Mianchen made Zheng Menghuai think about it at this time, and his heart was full of remorse. Although Zheng Menghuai still hopes for the revival of the family, the secular concept in his heart has faded a lot, and if possible, he still hopes that the bitter love of Shui Ruying will have a good result.
Liang Bao entered the hall with his sleeves and water like a shadow, and sat down next to Liang Bao. Shui Ruying is in the position of the left sign of the camp in Nanmin, and is equivalent to the captain in the army, and the banquet in Nanmin is only under Liang Bao and Zheng Menghuai, and the sleeves are inseparable from the shadow of the water, and they often sit side by side.
At this time, the family banquet invited Uncle Sun Fangwu and his wife, who assumed the chairman, and Uncle Sun Fangwu and his wife were in the first place in the guest seat, Zheng Menghuai and Ding Zheng accompanied each other, and sat down one after another.
Uncle Fang Wu saw that Shui Ruying was losing a lot of money, thinking of the rumors over the years, he felt that it was true, but his face was silent, and after drinking, he asked his wife to invite Shui Ruying to discuss the marriage of Liang Bao and Sleeve.
Youli is in labor, although there is no shortage of people waiting, but the uncle and grandson Fangwu and his wife are still worried, and they are only looking forward to the wedding as soon as possible.
Liang Bao is the governor of a county in southern Fujian, and the big wedding is not trivial, even if the war in Yi'an is going on tightly, it is necessary to notify the family Gaomen of the whole territory of Southern Fujian, and notify the neighboring Yue family and the Sanmiao people in Yunling.
Uncle and grandson Fangwu left Jiangning at the beginning of the month, and the wedding notice was also sent to various places at the same time, the Yi family, the Fan family and the Jingnan family all sent envoys to Quanzhou to congratulate them, and the envoys of Sanmiao also went to Quanzhou City, but the envoys of the Le'an Yue family in Nanning had not yet sent people over.
The rise of Jiangning threatens the surrounding forces, large and small, but the Nanning Yue family is Jiangning's most important and stable ally. Other forces are not important yet, but Liang Bao's wedding can only start when the Yue family comes over.
Yue Feixue is the Wuzun of Tiannan, and he is the only person south of the river who can balance the heavenly machine and the snow.
The Chengling Ridge begins at the southwest foot of Wuling Mountain, goes straight to the south for thousands of miles, until the territory of Nghe An suddenly closes the mountain, and only a few single peaks are uplifted in the middle of Nghe An. Looking north from the head of Ngee Ann City, you can see the rolling mountains not far away, and the dark blue dense forest covers the mountains, and you can almost hear the sound of the stream flowing.
Jiangning requisitioned the Southern Fujian garrison to the north to participate in the battle of Yuejun, this order involves the fundamental interests of the Southern Fujian family, and is not limited to discussion in the courtyard of the camp of Southern Fujian, although Yan Xun was trapped in the city of Yi'an, but also quickly knew about it, compared with the news that Rong Yanmen captured Yuzhou, Yan Xun knew that the news that Xu Ruyu wanted to launch the battle of Yuejun was true.
In the past few days, the scouts outside the city have detected that the Southern Min army is withdrawing from the large camp in the east in batches to the north, and the first army to set off has arrived in Yongjia.
Yan Xun couldn't help but sigh deeply, his eyes were full of bitter emotions.
Since Xiao Wuye entered the Southern Fujian army a few years ago, he gathered nearly 60,000 elites under his command, and declared that he had launched the Yi'an War, in fact, for several months, Yan Xun stood at the head of the city, and only saw a few invading light soldiers far away from the dust.
Yan Xun, who had gained the dominance of the clan, resolutely gave up the cities of Putian and shrank his limited forces to the territory of Yi'an, which borders southern Fujian and Nanning. Although the living space was shrinking, Yan Xun was forced to do so. The composition of the Yi'an soldiers is complex, the original Yi'an garrison directly belonged to the Zongzheng clan, Zongzheng Xunda died by suicide, Zongzheng Ningshuang died under Xu Ruyuge, and nearly 1,000 people from Zongzheng Jiwang were reduced to criminals and imprisoned in Wuling Mountain. The original Yi'an garrison had no allegiance, and the relatives and family members were properly settled in Quanzhou, how could they be willing to work for the Yan family? If several cities were to be defended, the original Ngee An garrison would be easily rebelled, how could there be a way for the Yan clan to survive at that time?
Yan Xun gathered all his soldiers to Yi'an, broke up the establishment of the original Yi'an garrison, and mixed it with the combat force directly under the Yan family, although to avoid the original Yi'an garrison being rebelled, but Yan Xun was still worried that if he brought this army outside the city, there would be a lot of deserters, not to mention that this army would fight a decisive battle with the Southern Fujian army thirty miles away.
Xiao Wuye was the commander of the Yi'an front-line war in the right sign of the camp in southern Fujian, and Liang Baoan sat in Quanzhou, and he didn't seem to be worried about the dullness and slowness of the Yi'an war.
Compared with the Jinghai Battles launched by Jiangning at the same time, the Nghe An War was extremely unsmooth.
For several months, Xiao Wuye did not launch a slightly decent offensive directly against Nghe An, and only drove his troops to capture a few inconsequential fortresses.
Assembling a large army, consuming a huge amount of materials but not launching a righteous offensive against Yi'an, at the beginning, Yan Xun was very puzzled, and he couldn't help but suspect that Xiao Wuye had no big talent, and he was only promoted to take on the big responsibility because of Xu Ruyu's trust.
Before the Battle of the East China Sea, Xiao Wuye briefly served as a senior general in command of the Yongyang Army, and then demoted to a middle and low-level military position such as Longyou Sentinel. After the end of the battle of the East China Sea, Xiao Wuye attached himself to the Chen clan of Wanling, and held an insignificant idle position in Wanling, Jiang Youli, Zhang Zhongdao and others went to Wanling to watch the wedding ceremony of Zhang Jidao and Shuyu, and invited him to Yongyang. When Xu Ruyu was in Youji, he ordered Xiao Wuye to be transferred to the camp of Nanmin Xingyuan, and served as the right signatory, and was actually responsible for the war in Yi'an.
With Xiao Wuye's resume, there are really no deeds worth writing about in the past, but Xu Ruyu is such a heavy responsibility for a character without the slightest background, Yan Xun believes that he will not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
In the Battle of Southern Fujian, Yan Xun was too impressed by Xu Ruyu's majestic posture, and Yan Xun would never believe that Xu Ruyu would make a fatal mistake in appointing people.
After a long time, Yan Xun couldn't help but think: Xu Ruyu may not have the will to fight? Yes, no matter how wishful thinking he is, in fact, Xu Ruyu has never regarded himself as an opponent who can make him pay a little more attention. The composition of the Yi'an soldiers is complicated, the Yan clan can't make it like an arm, and it can't threaten the safety of Southern Fujian, Xu Ruyu doesn't have to pay attention to this, just need to work with the Le'an Yue family and the three Miao people in the Zhencheng Ridge to besiege it, and the destruction of the Yan clan is only a matter of time.
Thinking like this, Xu Ruyu launched the Ngee An War, but he had other thoughts.
Yan Xun understood Xu Ruyu's intentions at this time: when Xu Ruyu attacked Quanzhou, there were only 8,000 elites, and at this time, Xiao Wuye could bring back 50,000 heroes to Jiangning.
Xu Ruyu was unable to transfer large-scale materials, grain and grass from Nanmin to Jiangning at this time, so it was better to use the grain of Nanmin to raise the soldiers of Nanmin, and after cultivating, a paper order was transferred to Jiangning, and the war in Yi'an was just a trap to comfort the Nanmin family; Jiang Ning is really calculating.
Yan Xun couldn't help but chuckle, but he couldn't hide the loss in his eyes: Xu Ruyu never regarded himself as an opponent who could match him.
Yan Xun sometimes can't help but think: Ning Shuang is willing to die under Xu Ruyu's Ge, and it is too stupid for him to insist here. Looking at the scorching soil under the city, and the dust swirling by the wind rising between the walls of the city, Yan Xun secretly wondered: Is it just because of the frost that he died under Xu Ruyuge?
In the past, Yan Xun would answer himself affirmatively in his heart, but watching the Southern Fujian army gradually withdraw from the large camp in the east to the north, Yan Xun's anxiety in his heart became more and more intense, and Yan Xun knew that he could no longer deceive himself with such an answer.
The anxiety in my heart is the loss and unwillingness after being despised, and the frost is infatuated with Xu Xing, how can I not be like this, in the past 20 years, how has the frost ever touched a little affection for me? How could Frost ever look at me? I was doing mischief in Zhangzhou, and Ning Shuang didn't even blame her, thinking that she transferred Xu Xing's contempt for her to me, which made my heart burn for more than 20 years, and I couldn't have a moment of peace.
Yan Xun looked at the hazy sky and said secretly: There will be no stars and moons tonight, and if you miss tonight, there will be no chance.
Xiao Wuye set up the camp on a low hill more than 30 miles away from Nghe An City.
Ban Zhaolin led the Su Guard Army to enter the territory of Yongjia, from Yongjia to the north, straight to Wuling Mountain, through Qingfeng Gorge, to Cuishi by boat along Lishui, Qingjiang down, within ten days to reach the destination: Fengling.
The Yan clan took the initiative to abandon Putian City, and Xiao Wuye drove all the residents of Putian out of the city, and moved new residents from Hui'an and Minyi. According to Xu Ruyu's additional dispatch order, the Hutian Army was officially reorganized into the First Army of the Southern Fujian Garrison, and Xue Mingrui served as the captain of the Southern Fujian Garrison. Xue Mingrui led the last 4,000 troops to leave the camp and go to Putian to garrison.
The 20,000 elites of the original Southern Fujian Garrison Army will be reorganized into the Third and Fourth Armies of the Su Guard Army, which will be led by Xiao Wuye and Li Gonglin respectively along the passage between Zhongshan Fujian and Zhenchengling to the Yuejun battlefield.
Li Gonglin looked at the hazy sky, glanced at Xiao Wuye, and said, "The general should leave the camp with Gonglin." ”
Xiao Wuye presided over the Yi'an battle under the instruction of Xu Ruyu and Liang Bao, but the general position was not higher than Ban Zhaolin, Xue Mingrui, and Li Gonglin.
Xiao Wuye said: "Brother Li still call me Wuye, if Yan Xun wants to fight, it will be two days today and tomorrow, I think Yan Xun will not be willing to be trapped in Yi'an City slowly, Brother Li will lead the troops to go first, and I will wait for Yan Xun for two days." ”
Li Gonglin said worriedly: "The general only has 10,000 troops in his hands, if Yan Xun really comes to fight, he will fall into the city to fight, the alliance of the Yue family and Sanmiao is far away, why don't I wait for him here with the general." Seeing that Xiao Wuye was indifferent, he wanted to continue to persuade.
Xiao Wuye said: "The soldiers and horses led by Yan Xun are mixed with the original Yi'an garrison, and it is extremely difficult to control, even if the city is overwhelmed to fight, I am not afraid; Yan Xun should know his disadvantages, probably only the night battle will give him a chance to fight, and he can't be allowed not to fight. ”
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