In Fuzhou, except for the undulating western foot of Taishan, most of the remaining more than 100 peaks are single peaks, the mountains are not connected, the terrain of the not high peaks is precipitous, there are 46 large and small villages, each occupies one or several hills, and the village is set up to resist the invasion of the Liukou. Most of the mountains in Fuzhou are rocky mountains, and there are no sloping fields in the mountains to cultivate, so the families and villages have joined forces to cultivate a small number of dam fields between the peaks to make a living. To a certain extent, the villages of Fuzhou are more united than those in other parts of Qingjiang Province.

Fuzhou Yi has a half-moon-shaped area from the Yushan Ridge in the southwest to the old man's peak in the northeast, accounting for about a quarter of the area of Fuzhou, among which there are 74 large and small solitary peaks, a total of 26 villages settle down here, and there are about more than 80,000 villagers. For decades, these 26 families worked together to expel the rogues from the area and basically control the area.

The Yuejun family did not recognize the existence of this force, and implemented a strict blockade in the direction of Yueqing and Jinhua, and the material use of these 26 villages had to rely on the black market controlled by Puji.

On 16 July, Xu Ruyu led the crowd to cross Yunxi and disappeared in the area of Yuzhan Ridge in the southwest of Fuzhou.

On July 29, the second day of the night battle on the banks of the Wulun River, the eyeliner of Puji Island rediscovered the traces of Xu Ruyu and others in the old man's peak in the northeast of Fuzhou.

Because of the existence of the Qingjiang cavalry camp, the Liukou eyeline in Puji Island, Fuzhou, Chongyi and other places could not get close to the team investigating Xu Ruyu, and they could only analyze some situations from the traces after passing by.

Zhao Weixu is short, but he doesn't like to look up at people, his eyes are not bright when he looks at people, his nose is red and swollen, and no one can see that his cultivation is in the second place on Puji Island, but he looks like a bad old man who is addicted to alcohol.

When Xu Ruyu led the crowd to appear in Fuzhou, Zhao Weixu did not think that he had the ability to influence the situation in Fuzhou, after all, Jizhai and Shaozhai were now firmly controlled by Puji Island, and several other rugged trails at the northern foot of Taishan were controlled by Gaotangzhai and other forces, and the entrances of these trails were mostly on the north shore controlled by Xiangfanhui. Not to mention whether the Xiangfan Society will allow the Qingyan Army to borrow the north bank, even if they want to uproot these copycat forces one by one, it is enough to give Xu Ruyu a headache.

The prisoners of Jizhai and Shaozhai escaped the first massacre, and the news of the massacre could not be blocked, especially after learning that Xu Ruyu was at the right time, Zhao Weixu did not want to be entangled in this matter. Nanping has its own arrangements in the Lishui River Valley, and the Twelve Kou Leagues in the north of the Lishui River Valley and the large and small forces on the Qingjiang River are united enough for Xu Ruyu to panic for a while, as long as the overall situation in Fuzhou and Yueqing is certain, he can naturally calmly clean up the Qingyan Army.

No matter what the result of besieging Xu Ruyu in Fuzhou, he will always be unfavorable. The handsome man was folded in Xu Ruyu's hands in Donghai County, and if he really wanted to clean up Xu Ruyu, he had to go out and arrange it in person.

Thinking of this, Zhao Weixu squinted his eyes and glanced at Gongliang Xiaotian, who was sitting beside him, and sighed secretly: The young marshal and the handsome man secretly shouted, but let me be caught in the middle. Although Yin Weixiu went out of my door, he didn't have any master-apprentice relationship with me, and his revenge should be avenged by others.

Gongliang Xiaotian has small bones, handsome face, slender eyes, looks like a woman in men's clothes, his eyes fell on his slender fingers at random, playing with his neatly trimmed nails, and popped out lightly without care, and the mosquitoes lying on the window paper fell, but the window paper did not damage a bit, which shows that he is extremely accurate.

If it weren't for Xu Ruyu's birth, Gongliang Xiaotian might have been the best martial artist among the younger generation. After Rong Yanmen, Tianji Xueqiu has not accepted another disciple in the past twenty-five years, but he appreciates Gongliang Xiaotian's qualifications and allows him to practice with his attendants.

"My father is old, and my father will be old when he comes back from the East China Sea." Gongliang Xiaotian said casually, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him, "My father was too conformist in Donghai County's established strategy of Rong Yanmen, and he didn't know how to adapt it at all, so Xu Ruyu took advantage of the loophole. Among all the people in Puji, I admire Wei Xiu the most, but I didn't expect him to come back. Father is really old......"

Zhao Weixu smiled secretly, and he also knew a little about Tianji Xueqiu's evaluation of Xu Ruyu. A character who has just squeezed into the top 100 on the list of miraculous skills has received such a high evaluation from Tianji Xueqiu and the Sect Master of Jinghu, how can Gongliang Xiaotian, who has always been arrogant, be convinced?

Zhao Weixu thought to himself: Shuai Ye has not let the young marshal interfere in the affairs of Puji Island for many years, this is the crux of the problem, right? Although he sent troops to Fuzhou this time, he was the main general, but the handsome man asked the young marshal to accompany him, the intention was to let the young marshal accumulate military merits so that he could take his place, right? Coming back from Donghai County, the handsome man was really tired, but the young marshal was in a hurry to perform, which was a real headache.

"Uncle Zhao, what do you think about this?"

"Oh, the spies reported that there are still more than 1,000 people who follow Xu Ruyu, and I think it is still those refugees who follow him, they are in the northeast of Fuzhou at this time, mainly because they are out of the sphere of influence of the twenty-six villages and cannot hide their traces, it seems that he is going to borrow the road from Jinhua and return to the Lishui River Valley in a big circle. In this case, it is better to let the cottages wait and see what happens. More than 12,000 of our army have also entered Fuzhou one after another, and we should immediately open up the land passage between Wenling and Fuzhou, and then encroach on Yueqingyi. Zhao Weixu said vaguely, only the last sentence aggravated the tone, reminding Gongliang Xiaotian that this was the top priority.

"Do you really think that Xu Ruyu will hide and hide for nearly half a month without any action? The village in Fuzhou has long been secretly in collusion with Xu Ruyu, Xu Ruyu can completely transfer flowers and trees, hide the refugees in the village, and let the elite of the Qingyan Army pretend to be refugees to follow him, so as to lead us into fooling. ”

Zhao Weixu said secretly: Although I am not hit, it is not far away, and the thousands of elites of the Qingyan Army can't hide my eyes from Taishan, but it will not still be those refugees who are following Xu Ruyu. More than 10 people from each of the 46 villages in Fuzhou maintained the same team following Xu Ruyu.

"Ah, Xiao Shuai is wise, see through Xu Ruyu's tricks, in this case, we don't have to pay attention to him, let's see how to uproot a few forts here, as long as these forts are removed, the Fan family's defense in Yueqing is only a thin line......"

A cold light flashed in Fenliang Xiaotian's eyes, the anger on his face was fleeting, he laughed twice, and said angrily: "General Zhao is coaxing me as a three-year-old child, since Xu Ruyu is in a formation, if we shouldn't, won't we let the world laugh at our Puji Island?" ”

"What shouldn't be is what should be." Zhao Wei straightened his waist, and in an instant, a huge aura emanated from his body, and his eyes were no longer as dim as they were just now, but in the darkness, they seemed to be covered with a layer of purple lingering mist, "In the hands of Xu Ruyu in Fuzhou, there are no soldiers and no food, just with those unfashionable villages, how can he interfere with our plan to seize Yueqing?" ”

Zhao Weixu drew a straight line on the topographic map of Fuzhou from the lower left corner (southwest of Fuzhou) to the upper right corner (northeast of Fuzhou), and the half of the topographic map above the imaginary finger oblique said: "The forty-six villages in Fuzhou are mainly concentrated in this half, and our route from Fuzhou to Yueqing completely avoids this area. Fuzhou Minzhai has no ability to send troops to fight at all, so we naturally don't need to pay attention to what Xu Ruyu will do in Fuzhou. ”

Very few people can see Zhao Weixu's aggressive appearance, Gongliang Xiaotian couldn't help but be stunned, thinking about his words, he felt a little bit of truth, but he was unwilling in his heart, and argued: "The 80,000 children of Puji Island are lost in the East China Sea, this account should be recorded on Xu Ruyu's head, if you ignore him like this, how can you and I have the face to return to Puji Island?" ”

Over the past few decades, Puji Island has suffered two big losses, but both of them are in the hands of Xu Xing and Xu Ruyu's father and son. Is it difficult for Xu Ruyu to eat the knot in the hearts of everyone in Puji, so that there will be such an arrangement? Zhao Weixu sighed, knowing that it would not last long to suppress this matter at this time, and there would not be a few people in the army who thought the same as Gongliang Xiaotian, and asked slowly: "What does the young marshal want?" ”

"Xu Ruyu uses the folk villages in Fuzhou, why don't we use the cottages in Fuzhou and Chongyi, as long as we promise which one captures Xu Ruyu, we will be the lord of Qingjiang in the future, so that we don't need to occupy our own army." Gongliang Xiaotian said proudly, secretly glancing at Zhao Weixu, wanting to see his reaction.

Zhao Weixu was silent, and after a while, he asked, "The young marshal thinks those cottages can keep Xu Ruyu?" ”

"Although Xu Ruyu can't be kept, at least Xu Ruyu can be forced back to the Lishui River Valley, so that he can stay in Fuzhou and spoil our big plan."

Although Zhao Weixu felt that something was wrong, he couldn't think of a reason to refute Gongliang Xiaotian's suggestion, so he had to agree to this proposal and instigate Fuzhou and Chongyi to continue to besiege Xu Ruyu.

The old man's peak is covered with green and hanging brocade, such as the old man sits down, the mountain is more than 100 zhang high, only the "old man's back" has a slight mountain potential to climb by borrowing, and the rest of the places are dangerous rock overhangs. After the old man's peak, it is the Shili Dam Field, and the other end of the Shili Dam Field is a Kou village in the northeast corner of Fuzhou, Yantan Village.

Yantan Mountain is close to the boundary of Jinhuayi, Yueqingyi, the mountain is only four or five miles, the highest place is only more than 60 zhang, there is a pond on the top of the mountain, the spring geese will inhabit Si when they return to the north, so it is named. Yantan Mountain and Old Man Peak, as well as the Shili Dam Field between the two mountains, were the jurisdiction of a small sect of the Fan nationality thirty years ago. When the Fan forces withdrew from Fuzhou, they did not hand over the dock fort on Yantan Mountain to the folk village forces in Fuzhou, but unexpectedly ceded it to the Liukou all the way, trying to use the Liukou forces to block the people's villages in Fuzhou that were gradually becoming a climate.

Xu Ruyu led everyone to appear near the Old Man's Peak, and Puji Island immediately declared that as long as Xu Ruyu could be retained, he would be the lord of Qingjiang in the future. For a time, the Liukou in Fuzhou and Chongyi were ready to move, and in two days, four families with a total of 3,000 Liukou gathered in the north and southwest of the Old Man's Peak. Rogues farther away are heading here.

Xu Ruyu seems to linger in the scenery here, leading the crowd to stay in the small old man's peak, a simple camp, but there is no intention of leaving. The Qingjiang Cavalry Camp lurked in the shadows for miles around, but it no longer prevented the eyes of the rogue families from entering this area.

Since Xu Ruyu entered the Lishui River Valley, he has often been worried about all kinds of people in Qingjiang Mansion in Donghai County. Xu Ruyu put on a posture of opening the door and stealing, but it made the rogues hesitate for a while.

Thirdly, Xu Ruyu led everyone to start building fortifications on the Old Man's Peak.

Xu Ruyu attracted a lot of people in the area of the Old Man's Peak, which not only made the Puji bandits think hard, but also the people of the Fan family in Jinhua City were puzzled.

Jinhua City is one hundred and twenty miles northeast of Yantan Mountain, Yueqing City is one hundred miles southeast of Yantan Mountain, the Fan family has built more than ten dock forts between Jinhua City and Yueqing City, these more than ten dock forts form an arc-shaped blockade line, and the Wenling City where the Puji bandits are entrenched is closed in the southeast corner. Yantan Mountain is only twenty miles away from the nearest Wubao Tianshi Village.

Gu Mingshan pointed to the overgrown field under his feet and said: "Nine years ago, the forces of the Fan family withdrew from Yantan and left the dock fort of Yantan Mountain to be tortured by the bandits, and tens of thousands of acres of ten-mile dam fields became wilderness. If Yantan Fort had been taken over by the people of Fuzhou, I don't know how many people could be saved. The desolate words seemed to see through the meanness and unkindness of the family's high family.

Xu Ruyu knew that the Fan people were more worried about the Fuzhou people's village than the Liukou, and they were afraid that the power of the people's village would become the root of the family's clan system if the climate affected it. Xu Ruyu didn't answer Gu Mingshan's words, looking at the green and white Yantan Mountain in the distance, his eyes flickered far and near, making people wonder what he was thinking.

Mei Yingxue was still standing on the other boulder coldly and arrogantly, and when the breeze rose, the sleeves of the gray and white cloth shirt did not move at all.

For more than ten days, Xu Ruyu visited the village forces on the way one by one, and temporarily settled the old and weak women and children in the team in batches in each village. Mei Yingxue naturally would not be so simple as to think that Xu Ruyu was just settling the refugees into the Fuzhou village, and with Xu Ruyu's current influence in Qingjiang, it was impossible for the slightly larger village to refuse to accept these refugees. Although it is inevitable to accept that there are certain risks, the benefits are self-evident. The Xiangfan Society and the Qingyan Army have been developing their respective forces on both sides of Lishui for more than half a year, and the advantages and disadvantages are clear at a glance.

Xu Ruyu's behavior these days is obviously to make arrangements for dealing with the Puji bandits in Fuzhou in the future.

Mei Yingxue didn't understand what arrangements Xu Ruyu made to get out of the current predicament, in the north of the Lishui River Valley, the news of the alliance between the Twelve Kou League and the Qingjiang Water Bandits had just arrived, and the four thousand thieves invaded the north bank, and the Qingyan Army also made the decision to send troops to the north bank. Regardless of the outcome of this battle, the situation in the Lishui River Valley is not optimistic, at least until the problem of the Twelve Kou Alliances in the north is resolved, the Qingyan Army will not be able to devote too many troops to Fuzhou. Maybe 1,000 people is the limit.

Along the way, Xu Ruyu and Gu Mingshan talked a lot, but most of them were about the people's livelihood and customs in Qingjiang Mansion, and rarely involved the current situation.

Gu Mingshan is the mentor of the brothers of Jizhai Jijintang and Ji Kailai, and he is highly respected by everyone in the two hundred miles of Taishan, and his knowledge is extraordinary. At the beginning, in order to encircle the villages, Xiangfan would promise that each village would be armed by itself, instead of reorganizing it like the Qingyan Army. Taishan Folk Village has a certain amount of armed forces, and there are many people who are unwilling to let Xu Ruyu disband. When the village chose Xiangfan to be attached to the Qingyan Army, the small village mostly chose the south bank, and only the brothers Zhang Ji and Zhang Xu of Shengyun Village were attached to Xu Ruyu as always. Ji Jintang did not take Gu Mingshan's suggestion, so Gu Mingshan did not go down the mountain, so he did not appear in everyone's field of vision.

Xu Ruyu led everyone to stop at the old man's peak for three days, and Mei Yingxue vaguely guessed what he was thinking.

In the face of the more and more rogues gathering around the Old Man's Peak, the people in the mountain did not panic at all, and according to Xu Ruyu's instructions, they built fortifications in an orderly manner halfway up the Old Man's Peak. Although most of the fortifications here are useless, it is better to pass the time by being trapped in the mountains.

Mei Yingxue thought contemptuously: The Fan family has its own plans, how can they easily fall into your trap? The thousand people in front of you really trust you unusually, and said coldly: "Open the door and steal, it is self-defeating, and let yourself enter the urn." ”

Xu Ruyu smiled unmindfully, sat on the mountain rock casually, looked at the company camp of the group of gangsters a few miles away, and said with a smile: "I only have 1,000 people here, you see that there are more than 6,000 people under the mountain, and my appeal is really not weak." ”

Mei Yingxue turned her face proudly, knowing that Xu Ruyu didn't want to talk about what he was thinking, thinking of the blue-shirted figure, she couldn't think of why his eyes were so similar to the person in front of her, and said lightly: "I understand, I'll go back to Yongyang." Except for Jiang Lingtian and our Mei family, the loyalty of the others to you is limited, as long as you are slightly frustrated in Qingjiang Mansion, there will be people who are ready to move. Why would you risk yourself here? ”

Xu Ruyu didn't respond, stood up, and looked into the distance with a faint layer of tiredness in his eyes.

Mei Yingxue suddenly felt that the figure in front of her coincided with the blue-shirted figure in her heart, and the faint tiredness in her eyes was so similar, and now they regarded each other as the biggest rivals of the body. If it is a peaceful year, they may be able to become close friends. Mei Yingxue looked up at the light clouds flowing past the sky, expelled the strange thoughts in her heart, and returned to her indifferent and cold expression.

Gu Mingshan looked at the slightly thin figure of the young man with a weak crown in the evening breeze, for more than half a month, Xu Ruyu no longer regarded him as an outsider, he already knew most of the secrets of the Qingyan Army. He is well versed in the world, he naturally understands Xu Ruyu's control over Yongyang Mansion, in addition to Jiang Lingtian and Mei Tierui's two forces, Xu Ruyu's prestige is also an important factor.

It wasn't until Xu Ruyu insisted on setting up a bait here that Gu Mingshan was convinced that he was the same kind of person as Xu Xing he met thirteen years ago. In their eyes, power is like a passing cloud, not worthy of the slightest cherishing.

"I don't dare to spare my life." Xu Ruyu spit out lightly, turned around and returned to the mountain, leaving Gu Mingshan and Mei Yingxue standing in the twilight in a daze.

"I don't dare to spare my life." Mei Yingxue repeated softly, suddenly remembering that a year ago, he faked his death under the assassination of Gongliang Youqin, and finally defeated the combined forces of the Puji bandits and Baishi Xu Bodang. Thinking of this, he resolutely said to Gu Mingshan: "Mr. Mingshan, the grain and grass here can only last for half a month, if it is August 10th, there has been no change in the direction of Jinhua, you have to persuade him to give up this plan." The 800,000 people of Qingjiang Mansion and the trend of the world are all dependent on him alone, how can he not spare this life? ”

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