A few years ago, Ning Yueshan was still a little girl in the cotton clothes in the Mingyue Building, hiding behind the pillars, and stealing a glance at the shadow of the green blue shirt was very satisfied. At this time, Ning Yueshan stood quietly at the head of Hailing City, wearing a dark brown cloth robe outside the Qinghuo Lianjia, with a long sword hanging from his waist, and his slightly thin body revealed the momentum of Yuanting Yuezhi.

Ning Yue Shan got into the Yunqing Void Gate, gradually grew up in the Battle of the East China Sea, and became one of the important generals in the Jiangning Army.

Di Gongda stood beside Ning Yueshan, although he had experienced the war for the first time, his expression was calm and calm, wearing a blue and black official uniform, although he was not familiar with martial arts, but he learned from Ning Yueshan, with a long sword hanging from his waist.

Di Gongda was originally a small official in charge of supporting money and grain in front of the Zhong Ji Screen, and because of the merits of the cofferdam reclamation and the entry into the "Long Liquidation Table", he was overpromoted to the supervisor of Hailing Cang and Hailing Order. is not familiar with poetry and scriptures, but he is quite talented in supporting the economy of money and grain, which makes Xu Boying also quite praised.

At the edge of the two of them's field of vision, countless clusters of human heads rushed out of the horizon.

Xu Ruyu concentrated his troops in Baishi and wanted to swallow Chen's pre-station, but Zhang Jidao ignored it and led his troops to invade Yongyang from the west side of Qingpu County, and went straight to Hailing.

Countless East China Sea soldiers bravely entered the field of vision that could be observed by the Hailing City Tower, and they divided into two roads, separated by two arrows from the left and right sides of the Hailing City Wall, and continued to march. Judging by the situation, Zhang Jidao wanted to bypass Hailing and continue to advance south.

Di Gongda said worriedly: "If Zhang Jidao bypasses Hailing again and continues to advance in depth, Sanshui, Haiyun, Yanling and other cities will be in danger. ”

The Pingcheng Water Battalion did not dare to leave the waters of Zehu Lake, otherwise the defense east of Yongyang would be self-defeating, but with only more than 10,000 troops, tens of thousands of elites of Zhang Jidao were blocked outside Jinghai, but there was no need to think about it. The limited forces had to be concentrated in the two cities of Hailing and Qingpu, and the other cities were only garrisoned by Tunding.

Zhang Jidao did not attack Qingpu City, which was garrisoned by 6,000 soldiers, but went straight to Hailing from the west of Qingpu City.

If Zhang Jidao led his troops to bypass Hailing and continue to advance to the south and east, the cities of Sanshui, Haiyun, and Yanling would be self-defeating.

Ning Yueshan said: "Zhang Jidao's family background is not thick, how dare he risk 50,000 elites?" Sanshui, Haiyun and other places are defenseless soldiers, but since November last year, the Lord led more than 100,000 troops to cross the river to the north, divided into three roads and stationed in Zhenning, Wangjiang, Yongyang, now only Wangjiang and Zhenning two roads, Yongyang's soldiers and horses have not moved, even if the truth of Yongyang's 40,000 troops is now handed to Zhang Jidao's case, I forgive him for not having the courage to bypass Hailing and continue to advance south. Speaking of this, he sighed lightly, "Zhang Jidao intends to Hailing, Hailing only has four thousand soldiers and horses, so he will feel more difficult." ”

Although Di Gongda was not familiar with military affairs, he also knew Zhang Jidao's intentions.

Jiangning set up a long position to close the position, and Hailing Cang was the top priority, filling it with surplus millet from the East China Sea in case of his military conquest. Not only did they hoard money and food, but they also raised weapons such as blades and equipment. In the twilight of spring, tens of thousands of people from the Youji family went south to avoid disaster, Xu Ruyu left most of the forces of the foundation hall in Hailing, and transferred skilled craftsmen from Yongyang, Jiangning, Lishui and other places to set up the Hailing craftsman camp, about 20,000 craftsmen, and nearly one-third of Jiangning's ordnance production was moved to Hailing. Because Hailing gathers the best craftsmen in Jiangning, the artisan camp here is far more important than the artisan camp in Jiangning, Lishui, Yongyang and other places.

Zhang Jidao led the army straight to Hailing, and saw Hailing's important surname.

The generals embraced Zhang Jidao and rode towards Hailing City, and saw the arrow tower of Hailing North City from a distance, and stopped stepping off the war horse at a distance of an arrow.

Xi Daoning narrowed his eyes and suppressed the yawn that surged to the tip of his nose.

Since the Battle of the East China Sea, the Xi family's strength has been greatly damaged, and from the status of one of the three major families in the East China Sea, it has fallen to a second-class family attached to the Chen family. Xi Dongye still served as the governor of Tairu Prefecture after the war, but his real power was no longer as good as that of Liu Zhaoyu, the governor of the prefecture. Tairu's reorganized guards, but the important generals are mainly the children of the Chen family.

Jiangning and the East China Sea have always pursued a strategy of reducing troops and ending disputes on the eastern border, especially Jiangning's heavy troops in Cuiping Mountain and Guangling, and almost all of the East China Sea's troops in the south have been attracted to Longyou, Dingyuan and other places to confront Jiangning, and the control of Tairu and other hinterlands has declined sharply.

Chen pre-transferred troops from the Tairu Guard, but the Xi family took this opportunity to fill in the guards with the children of the family loyal to Tairu's locality, and the Jiangning and Donghai confronted each other in Guangling, but the Xi family's power in Tairufu rose.

Zhang Jidao commanded the troops to enter the southern border of Tairu, but Xi Dongye was wary. This time, Xi Daoning led the children of the clan to help with the army, but it was to test whether Zhang Jidao had the ambition to completely control Tairu under his command.

Xi Daoning remembered several encounters with Xu Ruyu, and his mood was complicated and inexplicable, but the Xi family had become weak and weak in the East China Sea, and they could only go with the flow between the East China Sea and Jiangning. If there is a choice, Xi Dao would rather not hope that the children of the Xi family will meet Jiang Ning. The eldest brother asked him to lead the children of the clan to help Zhang Jidao's army, and Xi Daoning asked the eldest son Xi Tianyi to pick some people from the clan who only knew how to fight cocks and walk dogs, and talked exaggeratedly, but were greedy for life and afraid of death.

Zhang Jidao will not rest assured that he will appoint them as generals and leaders, nor will he drive them to death in front of the battle; Zhang Jidao thought of completely overpowering Chen Yu, how could he lack the help of the Xi family?

Zhang Jidao coughed lightly, saw Xi Daoning open his eyes, smiled slightly, and said, "General Xi, do you know why I didn't listen to the governor's suggestion and march 50,000 elite soldiers all the way east?" ”

Xi Daoning said slightly, and said: "The commander has thousands of mountains and valleys in his chest, and non-Daoning can figure it out." ”

Zhang Jidao sighed lightly and said, "Jiangning has not yet taken over the Huo clan's defense line in Jingbei, and the soldiers and horses of the Fengling battalion can be quickly transferred from the waterway to Baishi at any time. If Xu Ruyu transferred Jiangning's main combat strength to the north bank of the river, although there were more than 100,000 elite soldiers in the East China Sea, the chances of winning the decisive battle in the plains were extremely slim. That's what I'm worried about. ”

Xi Daoning's heart was slightly cold, and he said secretly: But there is no such possibility.

Xu Ruyu was good at taking advantage of the situation to force his opponent to fight a hasty decisive battle, as was the case in the Battle of the East China Sea, the Battle of Fuzhou, and the Battle of Nanmin. The reason why Zhang Jidao led his troops to borrow the road from Piling, and after arriving in Longyou, he went east into the southern border of Tairu to invade Jiangjing Haifu was to see the trap that Xu Ruyu might have set in the northern border of Baishi.

Xi Daoning looked at Zhang Jidao's handsome side carefully, and his expression was extraordinary, which the East China Sea man couldn't reach, but the light of his eyes was a little feminine, not as clear as Xu Ruyu.

Zhang Jidao said these words to make the Xi family dispel their wariness of him, Xi Daoning snorted, but did not answer.

Zhang Jidao continued: "If the East China Sea wins, it will only weaken Jiang Ning's strength and cannot deal a fatal blow; If the East China Sea is defeated, there is no chance to turn over. Not to mention that the odds of winning this battle in the East China Sea are not big, even if there is a seven-point chance of winning, Ji Dao will not want to fight a decisive battle too soon. Speaking of this, he seemed to glance at Xi Daoning unintentionally.

Tian Wenguang stopped on the left side of Zhang Jidao, withdrew his gaze from the head of Hailing City, and said: "Avoiding a hasty decisive battle with Jiangning is a decision made before the governor led his troops south, but the governor still hopes to defeat Xu Ruyu's ambition to occupy the East China Sea in one fell swoop, which is worrying." ”

In fact, Chen Pre hoped to concentrate his forces and force Xu Ruyu to abandon his aggressive intentions in the East China Sea, and although there was a danger of a decisive battle, Chen Pre still did not believe that Xu Ruyu would resolutely involve hundreds of thousands of soldiers and almost the same number of displaced people in the monstrous war of death.

However, this almost weak emotional judgment cannot be pronounced in the military council; Maybe if you say it, you will also be criticized by the generals. In military decision-making, pinning the hope of victory on the enemy's heart is tantamount to treating war as child's play.

What's more, in the past few months, Jiangning has been prosperous and aggressive, and Xu Ruyu's ambition has been exposed.

When the war in the East China Sea was about to break out, even if Xu Ruyu did not transfer the Fengling battalion to Baishi, the world still believed that Jiangning firmly grasped the wedge of victory.

Xu Ruyu used his tricks to create a power struggle between Chen Pre and Zhang Jidao, so that although the 170,000 elite combat forces gathered in the South China Sea were actually under the command of Chen Pre and Zhang Jidao.

Chen Pre and Zhang Jidao had a fatal disagreement over military decision-making, and Chen Pre was inclined to a decisive battle, wanting to solve Jiangning's threat to the East China Sea in one fell swoop. In fact, Zhang Jidao led the troops to the east without authorization, which made it impossible for Chen to gather superior forces in the west and was forced to take a defensive position. However, Chen Pre still did not give up the intention of the decisive battle on the Western Front, and when Zeng Yixing led the troops to retreat to Dingyuan City, the 60,000 soldiers and horses led by Chen Pre did not immediately retreat, and the position was slightly advanced.

At this time, Jiangning had a four-way army crossing Xia Adu, Zhang Xu and Fan Wenlong combined 70,000 troops to attack the right flank, and Mei Liting commanded 20,000 troops, cutting the connection between Chen Pre and Longyou, and pulling Chen Pre's left flank.

Wu Cheng thought to himself: If the 40,000 soldiers and horses led by Xu Ruyu are the same elite combat power as the Green Guards, then he can order the Green Guards led by Zhang Xu to continue to advance, cut off the connection between Chen Pre and Dingyuan City, and encircle and annihilate the 60,000 soldiers and horses led by Chen Pre on the plains on the north bank of Xia Axi.

Thinking of this, Wu Cheng felt pity in his heart, and said secretly: Even with Xu Ru's foolish ability, he can't understand every change on the battlefield. Looking sideways at Xu Ruyu, who was sitting in front of the long case, since Zi Yangqiu rushed from Jiangjin, the momentum on his body was a little more dignified.

Xu Ruyu bent his fingers and gently tapped the long case, but did not make a sound.

Shao Haitang knelt down before sitting on the long case, and said in a deep voice: "The Yi family wants to intervene in the meantime, Jiang Ning has been planning for several months, whether it is successful or not, there are only more than ten days left, and I hope that Ruyu will make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Xu Ru seemed to wake up from his contemplation, looked around at the people sitting beside him, his eyes fell on Zhao Jingyun's face, and said, "Zhang Jidao has surrounded Hailing. ”

Zhao Jingyun nodded and said, "Exactly." Zhang Jidao was afraid of the 40,000 troops in Yongyang City, and had not yet launched an offensive against Hailing. ”

"Oh." Xu Ruyu said, "If Chen Yu is attacked here, Zhang Jidao will probably have a little less care." Zhang Jidao will not bypass Hailing and rush south, but Hailing only has 4,000 defenders, which is worrying. ”

Shao Haitang said: "Zhang Jidao has the courage to bypass Hailing, even if he gives up Guangling City, he must let Shen Yi lead 10,000 elites to seal his return route first." Zhang Jidao led the army to the south, and there was no preparation for the siege, and Hailing had Ningyue Mountain, so he had no worries in a short time. ”

Xu Ruyu said again: "Qin Ziqing's surname is undecided, and I can't figure it out; He is in Nanping, and Nanping is very likely to make a bad move, so that Wei Yu should be careful. ”

When everyone saw Xu Ruyu say this, they knew that he had made a decision in their hearts, and they couldn't help but straighten up together.

On the sixth day of the first month, on the second day of Ziyangqiu's arrival at Xu Ruyu's big tent on the north bank of Xia'axi, Ding Mianchen led 10,000 Qingwei troops to separate from the left flank and stormed the fallen mast fort thirty miles south of Dingyuan City, fought fiercely all night, and fell into it. After the war, Ding Mianchen handed over the Falling Mast Fort to the follow-up troops to garrison, and he led the elite to continue to intersperse to the east.

Zhang Jidao led the troops to camp outside Hailing City, and when he heard the news, he was shocked and exclaimed: "Xu Ruyu really wants to swallow the East China Sea?" He walked quickly to the long case, unfolded the topographic map, looked at it for a moment, and put his hand on the new city.

Xinzi is located in the south of Piling, behind the side of Longyou, and south of the east side of Dingcheng. Longyou originally belonged to Yongyang, but because of Wan Rong's betrayal, the East China Sea was allowed to go. In terms of geographical location, Longyou is in the semi-encirclement of Guangling and Qingpu, and only borders Xinzi in the northwest.

Zhang Jidao said secretly: Xinzi City let Jiangning take it, Zhang Xu and Fan Wenlong are heavily armed on the right flank, and Chen Yu is bound to lead the army to evacuate to Longyou City in the east. At this time, Mei Liting led the troops to jump out and reinforce Qingpu or Hailing, and Longyou fell into the encirclement of Xinzi, Guangling, and Qingpu. Chen predetermined that if he wanted to get out of trouble, he was bound to avoid the heavy troops in the west, and led the army to continue to move eastward, looking for a gap to break through.

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhang Jidao's mouth pulled up slightly, but there was a bit of hideousness in his light smile, and he said to himself: "Xu Ruyu, is it only your family in the world that can hide troops?" With a solemn expression, he looked sideways at Tian Wenguang and said, "Jiangning's soldiers and horses are close to Xinzi Baili, and the cavalry camps scattered in Xinzi will gather in Xinzi. He stood up slowly, his eyes fell on Xi Daoning's body, and said, "Does General Xi feel that Xu Ruyu is a little anxious to launch an offensive at this time?" ”

Xi Daoning didn't know what he meant.

Zhang Jidao knocked his fingers heavily on the northern border of Tianchang County, where Xu Ruyu's camp was located, and said: "I can be sure that these 40,000 troops are vulnerable. ”

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