On 29 July, Zhang Xu led 700 soldiers of the Fuzhou Light Armor Infantry Battalion to cross Taishan and appear near the Yuzhan Ridge in Fuzhou, and then disappeared into the half-moon-shaped area controlled by the Fuzhou people's village.

At this time, the news that the Qingyan Army had broken the Twelve Kou Alliance's 4,000 invasion soldiers on the banks of the Wulun River had spread throughout the entire territory of Yue County. Although the situation in the Lishui River Valley has not been alleviated, the prestige of Xu Ruyu and the Qingyan Army has risen to an unprecedented level in Qingjiang Mansion.

At the beginning of August, about 14,000 people from 16 families gathered around Old Man Peak.

In view of the great victory of the Qingyan Army on the banks of the Wulun River, there are no longer large-scale rogues gathering under the Old Man's Peak, but the people of Yue County are fierce, and the cottage a little farther away also sends a small number of elites to meet them to see if there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

On August 6, as expected, Zhang Xu led 700 soldiers of the Qingyan Army to appear at the Old Man Peak, passed through the gap that the group of Kou took the initiative to let out, and entered the Old Man Peak. Subsequently, 14,000 rogue people once again surrounded the old man's peak.

The group of Kou who judged the situation no longer thought that any family had the strength to eat the 1,600 Blue Flame Army on the Old Man's Peak alone. Everyone can see that Xu Ruyu used himself as bait to gather all the rogues in Fuzhou and Chongyi here, which must have unexpected intentions.

The sixteen rogues formed a loose alliance and set up a large tent on Yantan Mountain, ten miles away. In view of the situation near the Old Man's Peak, Gongliang Xiaotian led Zuo Jin to Yantan Mountain secretly and met with the leaders of various families.

Slowly riding a horse in the wilderness, the sky is high and the clouds are light, Gongliang Xiaotian has an irrepressible excitement in his heart, and the leaders of sixteen cottages such as Yantan Village follow closely. The two hundred Jingwei who followed Gongliang Xiaotian to Yantan were scattered around on guard.

"Xu Ruyu disappeared in the half-moon-shaped area controlled by Fuzhou Minzhai for half a month and reappeared on the Old Man's Peak, attracting cottages in Fuzhou and Chongyi, probably wanting to make a difference with the help of the power of Fuzhou Minzhai, and the young marshal doesn't seem to be worried." Yantan Village is not worried about the punishment of the family.

Gongliang Xiaotian was in a good mood, and he didn't mind the tentative tone of the punishment at all, his eyebrows were raised, revealing an unfathomable smile, and he said: "All cottages coexist with my Puji Island, if it were not for the support of all the leaders, the forces of our Puji Island would not enter the territory of Fuzhou so easily." Say not worry, it's for others to see, the criminal master and I are not outsiders, I might as well tell you that I have sent 100 elite scouts into this area to monitor the movement of the people in the half-moon shaped area. ”

The village and the cottage have been fighting each other in the Qing Mansion for decades, and the combat power of the cottage soldiers has always been far better than that of the village, although Xu Ruyu transferred 700 elites from the Lishui River Valley, but placed in the Fuzhou Mansion, it may not be able to affect the overall situation. There are many shrewd and thoughtful people among the liukou, and one person is busy saying another layer of worry, "Fuzhou people have always been more united than cottages, and now there is Xu Ruyu and this matter, I am afraid of ......"

Gongliang Xiaotian laughed and said: "Master Yang, you and I have anything to avoid before, let's talk about it." Are you worried that the sixteen masters will intrigue for the future lord of Qingjiang, and let Xu Ruyu have a chance? ”

Yang Shang, the head of the village along the river, was noncommittal, as if he acquiesced to this layer of worry. The faces of the others were different, some avoided the gaze of Gongliang Xiaotian, and some looked at Yang Shang with vicious eyes, and they said "haha" twice and looked away.

"General Zhao and I were also troubled when we were in Funan, so let me personally discuss this matter. The old man's peak is overhung on three sides, only the 'old man's back' in the west can be climbed by the mountain, if the old man's peak is attacked, the heavy damage may not be able to get Xu Ruyu. If the attack cannot be carried out for a while, the morale will be low, and the Yongyang tragedy will be repeated at that time...... "A year ago, the Puji bandits attacked under the Liyang Gate for a night and failed to break through the defense line of the Yongyang defenders. Although Gongliang Xiaotian did not meet the incident, he knew all kinds of things in detail, his eyes flashed with a devouring cold light, and he said contemptuously, "Xu Ruyu is a fool, but unfortunately he miscalculated. ”

"According to the young marshal, what should we do?" The convict asked, pretending not to know.

"With the merits of each family in this battle, it is decided that the Qingjiang Mansion belongs to the Hough, and if you think you can hide it from my eyes, you can do your best to work and not contribute."

Everyone was busy saying that they didn't dare, and when they lowered their heads, they all looked at each other's faces on the faces of the people around them.

Gongliang Xiaotian saw this situation and thought to himself: If he doesn't come to discuss the affairs here, I'm afraid that Xu Ru will succeed again. coughed lightly, his eyes swept over everyone's faces in turn, and he said slowly: "Do you see if this situation is similar to the situation under Yongyang City last spring?" This old man's peak is like Yongyang City, and the more than 10,000 soldiers hidden in the Fuzhou village are like Xu Ruyu's strange soldiers. Of course, if all walks of life can cooperate in the battle, they will have a greater grasp. ”

The criminal party was originally a son of a broken family in Fuzhou, and he was considered a soldier in the group, and seconded: "The young marshal is really wise, and he will send reinforcements around him, as long as the forces of the Fuzhou people are eliminated, he is not afraid that Xu Ruyu will be captured without restraint." ”

"What if Xu Ruyu realizes that we are surrounded by reinforcements and forcibly breaks through the blockade line and returns to the sphere of influence of *zhai?"

Gongliang Xiaotian glanced at Yang Shang and thought: There are only four hundred soldiers in the village along the river, but the owner of this village is not simple, and said in a deep voice: "The owner of Yang Village thinks that Xu Ruyu can break through the siege?" ”

Yang Shang shook his head secretly, knowing that Gongliang Xiaotian's last words were to integrate the forces of various families, for the sake of the lord of Qingjiang that he had allowed empty, Gongliang Xiaotian was afraid that he was running for these fourteen or five thousand cottage forces, it was good to be able to keep Xu Ruyu, but if he couldn't keep him, Puji Island had a combat power of fourteen or five thousand out of thin air. I thought: Why does Xu Ruyu only have these two brushes. If it weren't for the fact that the village was next to the boundary of Yantan, why would I have to wade into this troubled water. Walking down the gentle slope, looking at the flattering face of the convict, his heart suddenly moved: Fan's family. He immediately shook his head and expelled this thought from his mind: the Puji army had launched an offensive from Wenlingyi in the direction of Jinhua and Yueqing at the same time, and more than 12,000 Puji troops had gathered in the south of Fuzhou to start uprooting the Wubao north of Yueqingyi, how could Fan Hui have the spare strength to interfere in the situation in Fuzhou. What's more, the Fan family has always been taboo about the expansion of the power of the village, so they are naturally happy to see both the Fuzhou village and the cottage lose.

"How can you lose both? Look at Gongliang Xiaotian calmly integrating all kinds of bandits at the foot of the mountain, it seems that we will be defeated and defeated. Xu Ruyu said this in an unusually relaxed tone.

Gu Mingshan has never cultivated martial arts, but under the bright blue sky, he looked at the performance of the rogue in the distance, and said with feeling: "The rogue plundered the countryside, killed people and goods, and his combat power was better than that of the people who were just guarding the village. ”

"The arrays are dense but not rigorous, as if Mr. said, 'The difference is a thousand miles', this kind of army that has not completely broken up the various formations and forcibly integrated them in one place, the Qingjiang cavalry battalion can be confident that it will kill back and forth, and ensure that the casualties are not large. Gongliang Xiaotian is too conceited, and no one in Puji Island can be taken by him, not even his own father and son. It is rare for Wei Yan to speak without foul language, Xu Ruyu glanced at Ziyang Yalan, and thought: Could it be because of her, smiled slightly, and looked to the northeast.

For dozens of days, there was no movement in the old man's peak, but the people of Fuzhou repeatedly sent troops to disturb the grain road leading to Yantan Mountain. The soldiers of the Minzhai had limited ability to fight in the field, and the dispute over the grain route lasted for a few days, but instead of robbing the grain and grass, the Minzhai lost more than 100 soldiers.

On the 12th of August, 5,000 soldiers gathered in the center of the half-moon-shaped area, which was only 90 miles away from the Old Man's Peak, and the foot soldiers could reach the Old Man's Peak day and night.

Wei Yan led dozens of masters of the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion to sneak out of Old Man Peak and scatter in the half-moon-shaped area, going deep into the area to spy on intelligence, even the scouts of Puji Island had to pay a considerable price.

The Old Man's Peak is close to the outer edge of the half-moon area, and it is only eight miles away from the nearest village, Yanyu Village. How could Gongliang Xiaotian allow himself not to know the movements in this area.

On 16 August, 5,000 soldiers from Minzhai were about to rush out of the half-moon area, but they were intercepted by the rogues, and both sides were damaged. The people of Yan's village are scattered to other villages, and now it has become a pure military garrison, and the five thousand soldiers of Fuzhou Minzhai can't get close to the old man's peak, so they are stationed in Yan's village.

After several encounters, the soldiers of Minzhai exposed many deficiencies, and their strength was not as good as that of the rogue army that had only been integrated and trained for half a month. I had to hold on to the stockade and no longer fight.

On the 19th of August, the Qingyan Army on the Old Man's Peak tried to break through with the surname.

The old man's peak is overhung on three sides, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is also good to block the road under the mountain. Gongliang Xiaotian set up various roadblocks on the west side of the only descent of the old man's peak, and did not hesitate to waste manpower to attract river water to form a swamp at the bottom of the mountain, although the swamp was only a hundred steps wide, but the arrangement of longbows on the outer edge of the swamp would cause great casualties to the Qingyan army, which could only pass slowly through the swamp area.

The Green Flame Army and the Liukou shot at each other across this artificial swamp, and the Liukou arrow feathers were far denser than the Qingyan Army, and the Qingyan Army hidden under the high shield was shot by Liao Liao dozens of arrow feathers every time. However, after paying 300 casualties, the rogues realized that most of the archery masters were hidden under the opponent's high shield.

The uneasiness in Yang Shang's heart became stronger and stronger. The Qingyan Army's initial tentative breakthrough happened to be on his defensive line, Yang Shang used an arrow array to force three hundred Qingyan soldiers back, and the other cottage sergeants next to him rushed out of the defense line together, but they were entangled by the Qingyan Army two hundred steps away, and when they led people to rescue, there were already more than 100 corpses of cottage sergeants lying on the ground. With the combat power of the Blue Flame Army, it seems that it can break out of the encirclement without much damage, which is really another attempt.

On August 24, Liang Bao led 2,000 soldiers from the guard camp to suddenly attack Gaotang Village, and captured Gaotang Village, which was only 500 Liukou, after still paying the price of 200 people. There is a sheep intestine trail on the north bank of the Lishui River Valley, the entrance is controlled by Gaotang Village, and the exit is controlled by Luozhai at the eastern foot of Taishan Mountain. Liang Baoma kept leading the guard camp to approach the village, and he had the momentum of not giving up until he captured the village.

On the 26th, the Qingyan Army increased its efforts to break through the encirclement, and the soldiers of Fuzhou Minzhai in Yanyu Village approached the Old Man's Peak. Gongliang Xiaotian knew that he might not be able to leave Xu Ruyu behind with all his might, but how could he dare to return to the mountain at this time. If the village is lost, the Lishui Valley and Fuzhou are not completely isolated, the Fuzhou village can continue to obtain grain and grass from the Lishui Valley, Xu Ruyu can calmly integrate the power of the village, and it is unknown who will kill the deer. Gongliang Xiaotian sent 200 elites to support the village on the one hand, and on the other hand, he stepped up the siege of the Old Man Peak.

Xu Ruyu returned to the mountain in blood, and he didn't have time to change his blood robe, so he called Gu Mingshan, spread out his hand and exposed his palm to fold into a small silk book, and asked: "Nineteen said that Qingliu led the crowd to break through, and the red-faced short man he met, that person guarded the arrow array, Mr. Gu still remembers?" ”

"He is the head of the village along the river twenty miles in the northeast, called Yang Shang, there are 400 Liukou along the village of Louhe, specializing in looting Jinhua, Yuhang and other places of Gaomen merchants, but there is no invasion of civilians, what civilians have no oil and water to scrape. has a good reputation, and is quite talented among the rogues from all walks of life in Fuzhou. ”

"Why are there only 400 people in the village along the river?"

"Yang Shang chooses people to eliminate those who are thirsty for killing and indiscriminately, the rules in the village are heavy, naturally there is no rogue to follow him, Fuzhou people have shown favor to him, he has not appreciated it, but he is not embarrassed by the people of Fuzhou."

It seems that he was forced to be wrapped in it, since Mr. Gu commented on him so, then let's see what is written in this silk book, oh, this is what he quietly stuffed into Qingliu's hand when he just came down the mountain, and let him bring it to me. Judging by the situation, his cultivation is a cut above that of Qingliu. ”

Xu Ruyu hurriedly finished reading, handed it to Gu Mingshan, and asked, "Does Mr. Gu think it's credible?" ”

"He can guess three or four points of our sword borrowing strategy, and if he is really talented, why don't he let him escape back to Yantan Mountain afterwards as an internal response?"

"Then it's up to the gentleman. After three more days, Jinhua has no action, we are really going to break out, although these days are pretending to break through, I also find out the deployment of the Liukou, in case of emergency. After that, he sighed lightly and said: "It is not easy for Gongliang Xiaotian to integrate the sixteen families into such a state in such a short period of time, with his talents, he may not be able to think of my strategy, but he is too greedy for the strength of more than 15,000 people. ”

Gu Mingshan also nodded with feeling, thought about it, and said: "But he may not have thought of the major impact of this policy, if this policy is successful, the Fan family will give up the blockade policy of Fuzhou people's village." ”

Late at night, Xu Ruyu, who was resting with his eyes closed, flashed his inner knowledge and smiled slightly, and after a while, the overwhelming sound of fighting sounded in the northeast. Xu Ruyu put on a green shirt and walked out of the tent, Gu Mingshan, Wei Yan, Ziyang Yalan, Zhang Xu, Qingliu and others gathered on the flat ground in front of the tent, looking at the fire burning in the direction of Yantan Mountain.

Xu Ruyu stared at the beginning of the firelight, and in less than a moment, the northern slope of Yantan Mountain was red, and thousands of men and horses were fighting in the firelight.

"It's really hard for the Fan family to be able to draw so many troops from Jinhua. Light stream, send a signal, let the soldiers of Yanshan Mountain go south to ambush and defeat the fleeing rogue, Wei Yan, Zhang Xu, you each lead the troops to attack the encirclement under the mountain, just defeat the enemy formation, now is not the time to destroy them, Wei Yan, you don't want to learn Wei Yu. ”

Wei Yu was idle because of the massacre of the fleeing rogues on the banks of the Wulun River, and the original more than 100 Qingjiang water camp guards were also withdrawn, and they were confined to the village and could not leave lightly, waiting for Xu Ruyu to return to the Lishui River Valley to deal with it personally. Wei Yan is only temporarily leading the Qingjiang cavalry camp now, although he has an opinion on Xu Ruyu's last warning, he doesn't dare to show it, he should be muffled, he pulled out his saber, and saw Xu Ruyu's eyes fall in the distance, and hurriedly gestured to Zhang Xu twice, the meaning in his eyes was very obvious.

Xu Ruyu turned his head sideways, Wei Yan knew that he couldn't hide his eyes, failed to reprimand him, and took the lead in rushing down to the mountainside, only to let Qingliu lead the men and horses of the Qingjiang cavalry camp to follow.

Ziyang Yalan was about to go down the mountain, but heard Xu Ruyu say, "Yalan, please protect Mr. Gu." ”

Gu Mingshan was about to say that he would be fine if he stayed on the mountain, but when he saw Ziyang Yalan's uncertain face, he thought that Xu Ruyu didn't want her to be in danger.

Gongliang Xiaotian stationed 3,000 men and horses on the northern slope of Yantan Mountain to prevent a sudden attack in the direction of Jinhua. But Gongliang Xiaotian didn't expect that the Fan family would draw five thousand elites from Jinhua Mansion, which was pressed by the enemy. The elite soldiers of the Fan family, who sneaked in day and night, threw 5,000 troops into the battlefield on the northern slope for a time. Within half an hour of the start of the contact battle, the rogues on the northern slope could not withstand the strong pressure and slowly retreated. Seeing this situation, the Liukou who were besieging Old Man Peak did not listen to Gongliang Xiaotian's dispatch, and they all gathered their strength and evacuated to the rear.

Wei Yan and Zhang Xu led their respective armies in the Old Man Peak without much resistance, and they smashed the seemingly tight encirclement of Duo Yu to the ground.

Before the hour arrived, the rogues surrounding the Old Man's Peak were completely evacuated.

Wei Yan waved his saber and watched the rogues who were like the wind retreating in the direction of their respective cottages, remembering Xu Ruyu's comment that they "will fall apart if they encounter the slightest resistance", and moved closer to Zhang Xu with hatred. There was also a small group of rogues over there who were fighting with the Fuzhou Light Armored Infantry Battalion led by Zhang Xu.

The Liukou on the northern slope of Yantan Mountain supported for an hour without reinforcements, and the offensive in front of them did not weaken at all, and they all had a bad feeling.

Gongliang Xiaotian looked at the initially integrated various rogues who had been defeated by the five thousand elites of the Fan clan for a while, and the pain in his heart was unbearable, especially the three thousand rogues stationed on the northern slope were the forces that Puji Island had spared no effort to support for more than ten years.

Gongliang Xiaotian wanted to return to Yantan Fort to regroup his troops, but he hugged him with the left and right Jingwei and persuaded him: "If the young marshal is trapped in Yantan Mountain, it will be difficult for me to die to resist his guilt." ”

"It's hateful, why did you let this erector succeed again." Gongliang Xiaotian sat back in the saddle and looked at the fire-lit Yantan Mountain with unwillingness, where the sound of fighting gradually weakened.

"Young marshal don't worry, the elite soldiers of the Fan family don't dare to stay here for long, if it weren't for the prior blockade of the Wulun River, the ability of each village to escape for their lives should not be weaker than others."

How could Gongliang Xiaotian not know that this was a word of comfort for the punishment. Except for the rogue on the northern slope of Yantan Mountain, which was defeated by the elite soldiers of the Fan family, all the other rogue bandits took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield, but Puji Island no longer had the opportunity to integrate the rogue in Fuzhou and Chongyi.

Fan Wenlong looked at the man in green shirt who was walking slowly towards this side alone, remembered the rumors about him, exhaled very quickly, slightly cheered up his slightly tired expression due to the midnight fight, waved his hand, let the Jingwei who was protecting him disperse, and sat on the fire horse and looked condescendingly at the young man under the horse.

Xu Ruyu was silent, and he didn't look up to look at Fan Wenlong, the concubine of a sub-sect of the Fan clan, a talented man from Zhenyue County.

After a while, Fan Wenlong jumped off the horse, arched his hand, and said, "Father asked me to say hello to you." There is a rogue in Yantan Mountain, saying that it is your General Qingfeng's subordinates, and I have them sealed in the stone fort, so I will ask you for verification. ”

"If it is the people and horses of Yang Shang along the river, it is indeed arranged by me in advance. It's a pity that Gongliang Xiaotian knows how to run fast, otherwise it would be possible for Gongliang Youqin to withdraw from Wenling. ”

Fan Wenlong naturally didn't believe the untrue words of the person in front of him, but he still admired this person very much in his heart.

When Xu Ruyu led the crowd to appear at the Old Man's Peak, the Fan family had a lot of speculations, and when they saw that the group of Kou gathered in front of the Old Man's Peak because of the empty promise of Puji Island, the Fan people who were most concerned about the movement of Fuzhou took the lead in guessing Xu Ruyu's intentions, and used the knife in the hands of the Fan clan to kill Fuzhou and Chongyi's Kou. The Fan family wanted to ignore it, but Gongliang Xiaotian integrated the forces of various rogue gangsters at the foot of Yantan Mountain, making it impossible for the Fan family to get out. If Gongliang Xiaotian succeeds, Puji Island will undoubtedly add more than 15,000 elite soldiers in Fuzhou. The Fan family could not accept this result, and sending troops became inevitable. However, the timing of the dispatch of troops is quite controversial. If it's too early, wouldn't it be cheap Xu Ruyu, and if it's too late, I'm afraid that Fuzhou Liukou will become the climate.

In the end, it was the head of the family, Fan Cheli, who overrode the public opinion, and said: "The Fan clan is here, and everyone is still here to care, and an outsider can see it more thoroughly than you." If the people of Fuzhou can't become a climate, they won't have the strength to contain the Puji bandits in Fuzhou. Wenlong, you quickly lead 5,000 elite soldiers to Yantan Mountain, and you must lead the troops back within three days, otherwise Jinhua City will not be able to stop it for too long. You go to Yantan, take Yantan Fort first, and then form an alliance with Xu Ruyu. If Yantan Fort is taken by Xu Ruyu, forget it. ”

Although Fan Che's other meaning was not explained, Fan Wenlong could understand it in his heart. Puji's offensive against Jinhua and Yueqing in the past six months has suddenly intensified, especially in the past month, 10,000 elite soldiers on Puji Island have returned to Yueqing's back and abdomen with the help of the Wuling Mountain Waterway, which has not caused panic among the people of Yuejun, because Xu Ruyu and his Qingyan Army appeared in Qingjiang Mansion in Yuejun. It has only been a year since Xu Ruyu broke the alliance between Gongliangyouqin and Xu Bodang in Donghai County, and everyone believes that Xu Ruyu will also help Yuejun completely defeat the Puji bandits this time.

Although current affairs have mutated, the Qingyan Army has not yet had the power to affect the overall situation of Yue County, but Xu Ruyu suffered a crushing defeat at this time, which may not be a blessing for Yue County. Thinking of this, Fan Wenlong put away his indifferent expression, laughed, and said, "My father asked me to entrust General Xu to govern Yantan Fort, it seems that it doesn't have to be so troublesome." My father couldn't get away in Jinhua, but he wanted to have a meeting with General Xu, I don't know if General Xu can deign to him? ”

Xu Ruyu replied calmly: "Don't hide it from General Fan, the situation in the Lishui River Valley is at a critical juncture, and General Zhang Xu will lead 1,500 soldiers to garrison Yantan Village until the forces of Puji Island are driven out of Fuzhou." Gu Mingshan can handle the affairs of the Qingyan Army and the Fan family on my behalf, what do you think of this arrangement? ”

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