Chapter 2 The Island in the middle of the lake
The dock fort built of brown boulders stands on the vast plains, and a clear stream flows down from the slope on the north side, and merges into a lake of hundreds of hectares on the north side of the dock fort, and the lake water flows out from the southeast end and flows towards Laishui.
Between the lake and the dock fort, there is a thousand-step square school field, on which horses gallop, iron hooves rhythmically hit the solid hard ground. Cai Hui looked at the dust flying in the sky over there, and only felt that the ground under his feet shook slightly. The world's riding camp, led by the Hulan Iron Cavalry. The life and death of the Hulan people are on horseback, and their superb riding skills have an advantage that others cannot match, but the Youji Cai family has been fighting against Hulan for a long time, and although the scale of the cavalry camp cannot be compared with the Hulan Iron Cavalry, the combat power is also quite strong. Although the ghost ride in Qingzhou was annihilated in the dust and smoke of the old days, when Cai Hui looked at the scene in front of him, he remembered the rumors more than ten years ago. Although there are only more than 400 horses, it gives people a strong sense of oppression, especially the current 100 or so horses galloping, like a row of huge waves rolling in, giving birth to a terrifying momentum that swallows everything, making people not have the courage to dare to stand sideways in front of the charge.
Wei Yan waved Changge, and where Changge pointed, a cloud of dark light and shadow appeared, the air hissed, and the energy that was generated blew the stones and sand flying. Wei Yan laughed, stopped the horse, and the elites behind him stood on their feet. Wei Yan leaned forward slightly, glanced at Cai Hui who was standing on the sidelines, pursed his lips, turned his head, and said, "Catch the right fight, don't worry about breaking the blade." Riding a horse slowly walked to the sidelines, squinted at Cai Hui, and said, "The defense of Jinmen is very tight, you don't need to come." Without waiting for Cai Hui to reply, he said directly: "I will fight with Luo Boyuan, and you will watch the battle for me." ”
Luo Boyuan held a long sword, standing aside, his robe hung down, his demeanor was free and handsome, when he saw Wei Yan riding his horse over, his brows furrowed slightly, and when he saw Wei Yan staring at himself, he naturally did not allow himself to escape, and he unconsciously showed a wry smile.
The people in Jiangning are the most powerful between Zhang Zhongdao and Wei Yan's gestures.
Zhang Zhongdao's cultivation has entered the realm, the moves are secretly in the Dao, the long halberd is swinging heartily, like flowing water, looking for a gap to enter, but the murderous aura between the moves has weakened the budding Dao heart, and he tried to move, although he was defeated, he was also defeated heartily, and he was extremely happy.
There is a dead air between Wei Lu's moves, a set of Biluoge, Xu Ruyu will get up, the evening sky is bright, and the stars are gone, but when it comes to Wei Lu's hands, there are dark clouds and thunderstorms, and all the original tricks of Biluoge are lost, that is, Xu Ruyu also shook his head when he saw it, and often sighed: "The deeper Wei Yan's cultivation is, the more Ge Shu is in line with his original surname, although there is another realm, Bi Luoge has to choose another successor." "Under the fierce and powerful momentum of Wei Yan's death intent, even those who cultivate stronger than him will also have a feeling of being restrained by their hands and feet. Even if Luo Boyuan's cultivation is stronger than Wei Yan, he is also very limited, and he tries to recruit him, under his burning fighting spirit and fighting spirit at any time, he feels very difficult, and often tries to fight, but there will be a slight frustration in his heart.
Luo Boyuan saw Wei Yan walking closer, and hurriedly said: "I told Miss Yingxue that I would ask her for swordsmanship with Miss Huaguang, and I didn't have time to accompany General Wei to try his moves." Seeing that Wei Yan didn't look away, he said again, "Why don't General Wei go and try out with Yingxue girl?" ”
Wei Yan snorted twice and said secretly: That female worm, who dares to provoke her? Strode to the lake, found a lake stone and sat cross-legged to practice.
When Xu Ruyu left Jiangning, he passed Biluoge to Wei Lu, and determined that Wei Yan was the successor of Biluo Jue, and asked Meng to pass on the general recipe of "Stopping the Water Heart Sutra", and later Wei Yan went north, and Xu Ruyu successively taught him the "Water Stopping Heart Sutra".
Xu Ruyu has learned nothing in his life, and the martial arts taught to Liang Bao, Wei Yan, Wei Yu, and Jimo Mingxi are also miscellaneous, but the four of them have specialized in practice according to their own surnames. Liang Bao has been playing ancient practice breath boxing since he was a child, the quality of his understanding is different from ordinary people, and the body is extremely pure, second only to Xu Ruyu's twisting pill breath, although he also learned Biluoge and Starry Sky Fragrance Sword, but he is the most proficient in the ancient practice of breathing boxing, and immediately used an iron halberd to raise a knife under the horse, but it was the fist that made the highest frequency. Panmu fist is extremely extreme, and the body is several feet, and it is a unique domain.
Jimo Mingxi's endowment Chonghe, Xi Biluojue, Starry Sky Fragrance Sword, Buyun Trace, etc., have all achievements, between gestures, self-sufficient, quite a lot of demeanor.
Wei Yu and Wei Yan's surnames are the most suitable for learning Xu Ruyu's martial arts, but on the basis of the martial arts taught by Xu Ruyu, they created a martial arts suitable for their own surname. Wei Yu is good at killing in battle arrays, and the city slaughtering knife created by the later generation has the yin condensation and death intent of burning the city, which is the farthest away from Xu Ruyu's martial arts, and has its own system.
Although Wei Yan's natural quality is not as good as Xu Ruyu's, his mind is much firmer than Xu Ruyu's, and his firm will is the most helpful for the initial realm of practicing the "Water Stopping Heart Sutra".
Before practicing martial arts, the five senses were much more sensitive than ordinary people, and then the mind often forced the situation into the realm of unturnable enlightenment, and gradually reached the realm of true knowledge. When a person enters the realm of enlightenment, he can often break through a temporary bottleneck and make progress to a higher level.
Although Wei Yan's mind is strong, compared with Xu Ruyu, the inner knowledge of the heart lake is like the surface of a stubborn stone, unable to reflect the external appearance, and the practice of stopping water and the heart meridian is obstructive and long. The Heart Sutra of Stopping Water is the art of cultivating the mind, and the practice pays attention to independence, Xu Ruyu is to narrate his own understanding of the mind cultivation to Wei Yan, and Wei Yan will also transform into other objects, and he cannot truly comprehend the wonderful meaning. Wei Yan's cultivation is said to be profound, and it is very easy to squeeze into the forest of peerless masters, if you want to go to the next level, it is difficult to become a grandmaster-level master, but in the past hundred years, how many people are the grandmasters who surpass the mortals?
In addition to the three great masters, Cai Linya is the first; Chen Ang put down his mundane affairs and became the Southeast Martial Sect; Watching the snow knife more Feixue, for the Tiannan Wuzong; Jinghu Dazong Ji Siyi; Li Sixun, a Yaoguang person; Hulan Ting Xiang He Lan Rongruo. In the past ten years, only Rong Yanmen and Xu Ruyu have been qualified to become grandmaster-level figures. Although Gu Shida, the brave general of the Western Regions, has been crisscrossing the West for decades and has not met an opponent, all because his killing intent is too strong, but the killing intent cannot invade the firm and unswerving Dao heart, and Gu Shida finally said that he was off the line. In addition, there are almost more than 100 first-rank and third-order masters, and Wei Yan's cultivation at this time is almost just up to the level of the first-rank and lower-order.
Cai Hui walked towards the lake, only to feel that the lake in front of and behind his body and the school field were like two points, the soldiers on the school field were practicing and murderous, but when they approached the lakeside, they felt quiet and peaceful.
Cai Hui looked at the island in the middle of the lake in surprise. The island in the middle of the lake is just a fake island piled up with dozens of huge rocks, covered with soil, planted with fragrant grass, several pines and cypresses stretching horizontally, covering a hut, a gust of wind blows, the roof blows down a few thatched grass thorns down the lake, slightly ripples.
But it was the man in the hut that made the whole lake radiate infinite vitality as if it were alive. If you reach out to the lake water, you will also have a mysterious feeling of dissolving into this lake, ordinary martial artists who have been practicing for ten years may not be able to experience such a mysterious realm, but because of a person in the hut on the island in the middle of the lake, ordinary people will give birth to a mysterious feeling of dissolving with heaven and earth as long as they touch the lake water quietly.
After Cai Hui returned to Jinmen, he thought to himself: It is not good to leave a back road in Jiangning. Jun Zhuoyan said that when he came to visit, Cai Hui naturally pushed the boat down the river, and asked his cronies to bring the worship post to the door, and took the momentum of his cousin, ready to meet Xu Ruyu again.
When the cronies returned, they said that Xu Ruyu was in retreat to heal and that there were no visitors. Cai Hui only used Xu Ruyu to oppress people, and resentment was bred in his heart, but he still sent his cronies to post at the door. After a dozen days, it was still the case, and the situation in Fanyang deteriorated more and more, the Hulan Middle Route Army began to approach northward, and tens of thousands of iron cavalry stationed in Yancheng also crossed the Gubeikou passage in the Yanshan Mountains and detoured back to between Yuguan and Linggu. Cai Hui finally couldn't sit still, so he left the city in person and came to Junjiabao to ask for a meeting.
At this time, Wei Yan had already come to Jinmen to take over the command of the cavalry infantry from Luo Boyuan. When Wei Yan learned that the Cai family refused Xu Ruyu outside Fanyang City, he had to be angry, Cai Hui sent his cronies over, but Wei Yan didn't even let the fort gate in, and went straight to let the messenger back. Cai Hui came over, for the sake of the Jun family's face, there was no difficulty, but he didn't have a good face, led him to the lake, and said, "If you can cross the lake, you can naturally see Mr." ”
Cai Hui's practice is Cai's jade trick, although it has not reached the extreme, Ling Bo is not difficult to step on the lake and travel a hundred steps, people are close to the lake, and they will step on it, but it is the lake water under their feet that gives birth to a vigorous and harmonious qi machine, Cai Hui actually gave birth to the strange feeling that the lake wants to jump out of the attack, the number of thoughts turned, the momentum gradually declined, and he couldn't give birth to the courage to go to the island in the middle of the lake. After that, he also put aside his grievances, thought quietly, and thought that even if the Cai family escaped this catastrophe, they would never come out, but it was their best choice to take refuge in Jiangning. Thinking about this, I also understand the intention of my father to send Cai Yuhua to meet Xu Ruyu last time: the retreat of the Cai family is still in Jiangning, Cai Zhengshi descends to Hulan, uncle Cai Yun and the eldest brother and second brother either fight or surrender, and the hundreds of years of the big clan are facing the disaster of extinction, and they will fall apart.
At this time, Peng Muqiu led the first batch of Yongyang sea ships to bypass the East China Sea and the waters outside Qingzhou to arrive at Jinmen.
Cai Hui understood, but his actions were extremely fast. Zhao Jingyun, Peng Muqiu, Jun Zongrui, Ge Jing, Zi Zhongnan and others were incorporated into the Jinmen Army as co-commanders, in fact, they controlled the defense of Jinmen and downsized the Jinmen defenders. The defenders of Jinmen, plus the water camp, had a total of more than 11,000 people, and in a few days, 6,000 people were reduced, and only 5,000 elites remained. Fan Yang's eyes were all elsewhere, and they didn't notice the movements in Jinmen City.
Qingzhou County, Youji County, and Bohai Ancient County form a huge arc to embrace a vast sea area, and the opening of the arc is the northeast corner of Qingzhou County and the southern end of Bohai Ancient County, which are only separated by more than 500 miles of sea area. Wuhu Island is located in the middle of this sea area, more than 240 miles away from Qingzhou in the south, and it can be reached day and night by boating downwind; It is 328 miles away from the ancient county of Bohai in the north, and it is only two days away, in addition to Wuhu Island, there are several larger islands such as Modao, Turtle Island, and Daxie Island.
The water camp of the northern family is unfavorable, that is, there are warships, and they are all small inland river boats, which cannot withstand the impact of the waves, the family does not attach importance to river rights and sea rights, and the control of islands other than land is naturally not strict, and the land on the island is barren, and there are some aborigines living on the island, which are fierce and stubborn, and it is difficult to train, so those islands are actually separated from Qingzhou and Youji family system.
The Jun family often walks this sea area, has a close relationship with the aborigines on the island, and is quite familiar with the situation of these islands, but they lead a thousand elite soldiers over, but they don't know what the attitude of the aborigines on the island is.
Jun Zongqing was a little apprehensive in his heart, looking at the undulating sea, a huge blue silk cloth blowing in the wind, and a corner of the huge dark outline of Wuhu Island loomed on the wrinkled blue silk.
In order to curb the rapid expansion of Hulan, taking advantage of the naval battle, on the near side of Youji, a sharp blade was put against Hulan's armpit, which was of great use, needless to say. Wuhu Island is an excellent place to implement this strategy, the strategic significance is so great, even if the aborigines on the island resist, they must be forcibly captured, Jun Zongqing's purpose is to make the aborigines on the island build a simple harbor and base. After Wuhu Island plays a role, it will inevitably attract the attention of the Hulan people, and then it will be necessary to build Wuhu Island into a fortified city in the center of the sea.
Jun Zongqing said secretly: Naming Wuhu City, controlling the surrounding islands together, just like a giant warship that will always stop on the sea, the Hulan people can not compete with a warship as big as Wuhu Island even if they build a water camp. The garrison on the island left a part of the people who withdrew from Youji to Jiangning, and then drew a water camp from Jiangning. The great victory on the nameless island has been introduced to Jinmen by land flying horses, and the war between Jiangning and Puji has an irreversible advantage. Even if the Winged Tiger Army is not as good as the Nanpingshui Battalion, it is no worse than the Donghai Sea Battalion. The garrison of Wuhu will be one of the most important combat forces of the Winged Tiger Army, but I don't know who the Lord will send to command.
After an eleven days of sailing, hundreds of seagoing vessels departed from Gantang Bay and arrived in the southeast waters of Puji South Reef. In that sea area, Wei Yu, Li Yin, Ding Mian and others led the water camp warships to wait there for two days. The day before Yang Shang came to rendezvous, Wei Yu received the news that Gongliang Youqin had led 20,000 Puji bandits to Wenling before the fourth day.
From the beginning of the attack on the nameless island to the loss of his life under Wei Yu's knife, Lin Ji thought that the successful sneak attack on the nameless island caught Wei Yu off guard, although the failure was just Wei Yu's trick to burn stones and destroy the shore. Gongliang Yuqin questioned the messenger who was the first to return to the island to report the news and the dozens of soldiers who fled back to Puji Island after the defeat, and the details of the fierce battle also confirmed that it was a successful sneak attack, and the reason why it was unsuccessful was the number of days. In fact, Li Yin did not order the total annihilation of the Puji pirates in the end, as long as the Puji fleet outside the Haiwei was defeated, the reinforcements would not have many casualties, and they could encircle and annihilate the reinforcements on the island earlier.
Li Yin also thought that Wei Yu had let Lin Ji lead his troops to attack without knowing it, and that he had issued an order to avenge Wei Yu by annihilating all the soldiers. Wei Yu really put himself in an extremely dangerous situation to confuse Gongliang Youqin's judgment, plus an additional 3,000 casualties, which did not allow Gongliang Youqin not to believe it.
Wei Yu pouted and smiled, and said: "Although Lin Ji's 10,000 soldiers were annihilated this time, and our army's casualties exceeded 5,000, it is still quite worthwhile to exchange 5,000 casualties for the entire Puji Island. ”
Yang Shang still didn't know the details of the fierce battle on Nameless Island, and Ding Mianchen explained to him in a low voice: "When Lin Ji sneaked up on the supply island, he thought he had a plan, but unexpectedly, General Wei had already found clues from the distribution of the bandit warships that had been annihilated in various sea areas in the past few months. The fierce battle on the supply island made Gongliang Yuqin believe that it was true, and the two sides were just engaged in a hurry. Lin Ji's 10,000 pirates were annihilated, the shipping grain route between Puji and Wenling was cut off, and Gongliang Youqin had to send troops to pick up the 20,000 thieves in Wenling City unless he gave up the 20,000 thieves in Wenling. He never expected that Wei Yu had given the order to assemble a large army long before the fierce battle, although there was only three days before and after, but these three days could make Gongliang Youqin regret it for life. ”
Yang Shang patted his head, and his face looked a little pale after more than ten days of wind and waves. Jiang Ning asked the infantry battalion to also practice water warfare, Yang Shang led the troops to be stationed in Gantang, and often went on the boat to practice, but only stayed on the boat for half a day, one day, Yang Shang with not weak cultivation, can still support it, but staying on the ship is eleven days, so that he feels weak when he walks.
Yang Shang settled down and said: "I brought Gantang infantry and sailors over this time, 18,000 people, crowded into a boat that can only hold 8,000 people, and only brought grain, grass and fresh water for fifteen days. He also said, "Ji Ziheng led the water battalion to bypass from the west side of Puji, and without waiting for him, he sent a sentry ship to attack the island on the west side of Puji Island, attracting the remaining pirates on the island to move westward, and we will then attack from the south." Divide the troops from Nanji Fort, all the way along the east edge of the island, cooperate with the water camp warships, attack and plunder the coastal dock fort, destroy all of them, and not stay, all the way to the infantry battalion, with three dry food, cross Puji Island from south to north, Ji Ziheng all the way, the three route armies converged in Puji City on the north side of the island after five days, and attacked the old suppression of Gongliang Youqin together. If Gongliang Xiao'er rushes back, we will burn this Puji barren land with a fire, and see how Gongliang Youqin can toss in the Eastern Ocean in the future. At this, he burst out laughing.
Li Yin said with a smile: "The adults will be stationed on Wuhu Island, you like arson so much, you can recommend yourself, and you can set a few more fires in Youji in the future." ”
Wei Yu's face was still solemn, and he drew three routes on the map with a pen, and said: "Ji Ziheng led the army to Wen Tong, without the momentum of invasion like fire, so that he feinted to attack Xiji Fort, the East Route Army was led by me, and the second will launch an offensive on Dongjipu later, if Gongliang returns to Puji, only by returning to Dongjipu first, and going west along the Jiangji River can he return to Puji City, the defenders in Puji City may go out of the city to help, the middle route is led by Yang Shang, and Chi Yi said that he started from Nanji Fort and sneaked all the way to Puji City, if Puji City could not be seized by strategy, then at noon on four days, The three route armies united and forcibly attacked Puji City. ”
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