Chapter 2 Three points of Zhu's
Zhu Lianzhi stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the two sides of the mountain mixed together. That area is a little too narrow, and there are too many Wuzhou soldiers, which is not good. Zhu Lianzhi also understood at this time that only by climbing the mountain first, and then impacting the inner side of the riverside earthen fortress from the bottom of the mountain, it destroyed the layout of the five school armies in Huishan, the east bank, and the west bank.
On the west bank of the Liang River, the 8,000-5 school army was ready to set up, and it seemed that the situation on the east bank was about to be abandoned. As long as the enemy on the west side leaves the Liang River, the remnants of the enemy on the east bank will lose the will to resist.
Victory was in sight, Zhu Lianzhi couldn't help but gasp slightly, and his face was flushed with blood, and this desire for victory surprised him. After all, destroying 3,000 enemies is not a big deal, although Xu Ruyu won a hundred battles, but Xu Ruyu only showed a face the night before, and at this time he was afraid that he had returned to Jiangning City.
Zhu Lianzhi couldn't help but start planning to annihilate the enemy on the east bank and then expel the Qingfeng cavalry from Linjiang and cross the river to pursue the main force of the Fifth School Army.
Decades of cultivation allowed him to regain a moment of clarity at the most critical moment, and it was too late to turn around and block, so he had to pounce forward with the attack of the incoming person, and the huge force suddenly added to his body almost crushed the bones of his whole body, and a mouthful of blood gushed out, but it could not completely dissolve the Dan power that invaded his body.
Zhu Lianzhi wanted to retreat, and when he breathed the Taiyin Lung Meridian in his hand, he aroused a violent stinging pain, and his mind was scattered, and the Dan breath was also dissolved and dissipated in the veins.
Jingwei reacted quickly, a Jingwei moved horizontally in front of Zhu Lianzhi when he pounced in front of Zhu Lianzhi, and before he could draw his knife, a huge palm had been imprinted on the door in front of him, and he only had to let out a muffled snort, and his body flew out from in front of Zhu Lianzhi and fell off the south cliff.
A Jingwei raised his sword and stabbed it, and the person who came grabbed it with two fingers, like a cast of pig iron, unable to move. Jingwei's sword arm is thick and thin, and the wrist veins are blue and red, and I wish Lianzhi to see that the person who came can change the power of yin and yang in the other party's body, this cultivation is already the ultimate of the Dan Breath technique, Jingwei is loyal to the lord, but he can't hold on for a moment. When the meridians were about to be split, I heard someone say: "I read that you have this heart, and spare your life." With a sticky finger, the Jingwei couldn't help but throw the person behind him.
Zhu Lianzhi smiled sadly and said: "I can't imagine that you are the honor of the southeast, but you are planning to assassinate, Zhu Lianzhi will die here today, and he will not be reconciled." ”
Xu Ruyu stood with his hands long, and didn't seem to put the few people who came behind him in his eyes, and said: "Shoot people first and shoot horses first, capture thieves and capture kings first, the simple meaning of military affairs, don't you want me to teach you here today." There was a calm and unhurried confidence between the words, and the momentum passed through, giving Jingwei the feeling of a thunderous blow when he took another step forward.
Jingwei didn't dare to continue to press forward, and only Zhu Lianzhi was left alone to face the god-like Qingfeng General.
Zhu Lianzhi retorted speechlessly, and the outcome of the war was decided in an instant.
claimed to have taken the initiative from the beginning of the battle, but unexpectedly people were always leading the nose, and his heart was full of unprecedented frustration.
If the Wuzhou army can capture Huishan, Xu Ruyu calculated that he would personally come to Huishan to see the enemy. Xu Ruyu hid in the water curtain of the south cliff, and attacked when he got carried away.
Xu Ruyu was about to imprint his vest with a palm, and he was shocked and dodged the fatal blow, but the upper line of the vest was seriously damaged, and he couldn't escape with his breath, let alone fight against Xu Ruyu alone.
Xu Ruyu's blue wide shirt hung down, a long sword hung from his waist, his hands shrunk between his sleeves, standing on the stone, surrounded by enemies, but calmly, his clear eyes fell on Zhu Lianzhi's body, and said: "The family has been a hundred years, the prosperity is withering, what is the person who Zhu Zong wants in his life?" ”
Zhu Lianzhi coughed out a mouthful of blood, almost couldn't stand, and said: "The king of the winners, the loser Kou, today you are said to be killed, although you are unwilling, but you are helpless." Why are you acting like this? The life of the old decay is not worth much, if General Qingfeng wants to use the life of the remnant body to coerce the old decay to surrender, it is delusional. ”
Xu Ruyu pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said: "As the lord of the Zhu clan, how can you ever fulfill the responsibility of the suzerain, now because of your death, the blood of the children of the Zhu clan is flowing like a river, and the corpses are piling up on the mountain, can you die with peace of mind?" ”
Zhu Lianzhi followed Xu Ruyu's gaze and looked down, and the two masters of the melee under the mountain had a panoramic view of the drastic changes on the top of the mountain, and the Wuzhou soldiers suddenly became chaotic and forced the five school troops back. The five school armies on the west side set up camp, but instead of withdrawing, they wanted to attack and cross the river. He asked Xu Ruyu to kill the top of Huishan, and the Wuzhou soldiers could not escape the end of the rout.
Zhu Lianzhi shook his shirt, bounced off the dust that had just fallen to the ground, lowered his eyes slightly, avoided Xu Ruyu's forced gaze, and said: "The sect master is humiliated to death, and the children of the clan should be the same enemy and fight bravely to kill the thief." He shouted to the generals behind Xu Ruyu: "After I die, Kunda will be the commander of the army, and I will lead the generals back to Wuzhou to establish my son Bai Yan as the lord of the Zhu clan." ”
Xu Ruyu laughed loudly, his eyes were as bright as a cold sword, and he shouted in a deep voice: "The hundred-year-old family prides itself on being noble and does not associate with the untouchables, however, the children of the high-ranking families such as you, who are the thieves who eat without ploughing, do not weave and clothe, and eat the people's food and clothes without relieving the people's worries?" ”
Xu Ruyu's long smile contains Dan power, Qingyue is deaf, and there is a faint rumor.
Xu Ruyu took out his long sword, held the scabbard in his left hand, pressed it against Zhu Lianzhi's shoulder blade, and said: "Today, I will leave you dead, he said that he wants to fight, and you will come to fight." The scabbard was handed out, pierced into Zhu Lianzhi's shoulder blade, and the sword in his right hand suddenly appeared several fine flashes, and he pulled back, and the thin flashes grew into a chain-like thunder light iron-seeker drilled in, and several masters who were encircling the vicinity were like electric shocks, and they were slightly weaker, and they couldn't help the power of the lightning strikes generated by the alternation of yin and yang, and the weapon took off their hands, and their wrists and arms exploded into bloody mouths, spurting blood, and suddenly several people rolled down.
Xu Ruyu took advantage of the moment when everyone was stunned, jumped up, and jumped down the mountain. Jingwei snatched out two people to support Zhu Lianzhi, who was crumbling and didn't know life and death, and the rest of the people chased after Xu Ruyu and ran down the mountain. When Xu Ruyu traveled farther and farther and killed the Wuzhou rebel army under the mountain, several Jingwei retreated to the top of the mountain.
Nearly 10,000 soldiers on both sides fought bravely at the foot of the northwest foot of Huishan, Zhu Lianzhi's life and death were uncertain, and the Wuzhou soldiers had no intention of fighting, and they were about to collapse under the counterattack of the 3,005 school army led by Shen Bing.
Xu Ruyu held the sword and fought in the chaotic army for a while, and after meeting with Shen Bingjiao, he abandoned the bloodstained long sword and went down the mountain alone. The orthodox 2,000 soldiers of Xingkunmin crossed the river, and Xu Ruyu said: "You cooperate with Wei Yan to attack the Wuzhou army camp, and if you can't get it, you can retreat." "Let's go across the river with the sparkling waves of the Liang River.
The generals of the five schools on the west side bravely saw the scene on the top of Huishan, reading the enemy army, and going to be like this, the enemy could not stop it, seeing Xu Ruyu stepping on the waves, they shouted in unison.
Wei Yu shouted: "The tree is green and the phoenix flag." ”
Xu Ruyu looked at the Qingfeng Banner hanging high in the wind, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. There were thousands of Wuzhou soldiers on the right flank who wanted to cross the river to contain the five school troops on the west bank, but unexpectedly, this change occurred, and at this time they were retreating to the opposite bank in a hurry, and Wei Yu divided an army to attack at the tail.
When Xu Ruyu attacked Zhu Lianzhi, the main force of the Wuzhou army was still in the improvised camp, and it did not completely collapse due to the uncertainty of Zhu Lianzhi's life and death.
Xu Ruyu saw that the enemy in front of him could not win quickly, and the military rations he carried could not allow the Fifth School Army to stay in the enemy territory for too long, so he ordered Xing Kunmin to lead the main force of the Fifth School Army to the south to attack Langxi County, and be sure to cut off the connection between Liyang and Wuzhou, while he and Wei Yu, Wei Yan, Tu Wenyong and others led the Qingfeng Cavalry from the southeast of Lanling to return to Jiangning.
The day after Xu Ruyu and others returned to Jiangning, the news that Zhu Lianzhi died on the way back to Wuzhou came.
On the way, the generals supported Zhu Kunda as the master, Zhu Kunda did not accept it, and returned to Wuzhou and was rejected by Zhu Baiyan, the son of Zhu Lianzhi, Zhu Kunda led 10,000 remnants to return to Lanling, and established himself as the lord of the Zhu clan in Lanling.
Zhang Zhongdao heard the news, laughed, and said: "Ru Yu, when you say the top of Huishan, how many surnames did you leave for that Zhu old man?" ”
Xu Ruyu smiled slightly and said, "I didn't want to take Zhu Lianzhi's surname. ”
Shao Haitang said: "Zhu Lianzhi did not set up an heir before his death, and when he was dying, he wanted Zhu Kunda to support his son as the master, but he wanted to die quickly, and Zhu Baiyan was not stupid, and he refused to wish Kunda outside Wuzhou City behind closed doors, otherwise he would also be punished with knives and axes." After a pause, he raised his eyebrows and said, "The Zhu clan is not the enemy of my Jiangning in Wuzhou and Liyang, let alone divided into three?" ”
Although Zhu Tongshan did not express his position in Liyang, Guan Qizhi was definitely unwilling to be under either Zhu Kunda or Zhu Baiyan, and Zhu was divided into three. Zhu Kunda has 30,000 elites under his command according to Lanling and Huzhou, Zhu Baiyan has 20,000 elite soldiers according to Wuzhou and Zejiang, and Zhu Tongshan is the strongest, according to the whole territory of Liyang Province, with 40,000 elite infantry and 5,000 water battalions.
When Xu Ruyu returned to Jiangning, it was natural that Xu Ruyu would lead the process of the Battle of Yuejun.
In the battle of Huishan, Xu Ruyu ambushed Zhu Lianzhi and hit it hard, Zhu Lianzhi was seriously injured on the way back to Wuzhou, and the news that Zhu was divided into three spread all over the world. Jiangning's ambition for Yue County was naked in front of the world, and Xu Ruyu sent a letter to Wuzhou, asking the Zhu clan to follow Jiang Ning's decree from Zhu Bai Yan.
The invitation letter recognized Zhu Baiyan's status as Zhu Zhengshuo, but the envoy who held the festival sent the messenger to Wuzhou and asked Zhu Baiyan to be whipped and sent back to Jiangning.
The defense of the Xiaowei army was in the area from Fengling to Xin'an, and when Cao San was sent back to Jiangning, he passed through Xin'an.
Feng Yuanzhi laughed loudly, the laughter intensified, tears burst out of his eyes, wiped them away with a wave of his sleeves, knelt on his knees, kowtowed to the ground, walked to Cao San's knees, untied the thorns for him, and said: "Mr. is humiliated, and he said that Yuanyuan will ask for it ten times for Mr. ”
Cao San said: "If you want to personally lead the war in Yuejun, you must use General Wei as your deputy commander." If General Ling Tian led the battle in Yue County, he could fight for the position of deputy commander from a distance. ”
Feng Yuanyuan stood up, bowed again, and said, "Thank you, Mr. for your advice." ”
Xu Ruyu heard this and did not say anything.
The attitude of the people in Jiangning towards the Zhu clan is that there are both surrenderers and war seekers, and the Zhu clan is divided into three, which is far from being Jiangning's opponent, and it can be completely divided and recruited, so that the war can be avoided and the problem of Yue County can be solved. Yun Qingxu, Jiang Lingtian, Yi Guanyuan, Xu Boying and others all advocated exerting pressure to recruit the Zhu family to follow. Avoiding war can avoid the huge consumption caused by war, which is a great blessing for the people of Yue County.
However, Shao Haitang, Mei Tierui, Zhang Zhongdao and others advocated war.
Jiangning absorbs the power of the family, and Jiangning must be able to force the fusion of other forces with an overwhelming advantage, so as not to harm the Jiangning political system. It is foreseeable that if the Zhu family is more completely integrated into Jiangning, the Fan family and the Yi family of Jiangjin will also bow down, the interests of these three families and Jiangning have many contradictions, the situation is favorable to Jiangning, and the three families are harmless if they can't make big waves, once the situation is unfavorable to Jiangning, there will be a disaster of falling apart. After saying that, it would be more advantageous to spend a lot of time to fuse the three forces, and it would be more advantageous to seek war at this time to defeat the overall power of the Zhu clan first. In addition, the most fertile land in Yue County is in the hands of the Zhu family, and the civilians are all slaves of the Zhu family, defeating the Zhu family's forces, deterring the Fan and Yi families, so that the Jiangning political system will not be blocked in Yue County, and the land is allocated to the people, which is the blessing of eternity.
There are more war seekers in the Jiangning army, and Feng Yuanyuan has a hatred for killing his mother with the Zhu family, so he naturally does not want to be a minister in the same hall with the Zhu family's children.
However, regardless of whether it is surrender or seeking battle, a letter of surrender must always be sent to the past to show that the soldiers will be saluted first.
When the two voices of Jiangning surrendering and seeking war were not yet unified, the messenger of the festival became the key.
Cao San was humiliated in Wuzhou, and there was naturally no room for turning around between Jiangning and Zhu.
Cao San, who was born as a homeless person, has no good impression of the family, and he himself should be inclined to seek war. Xu Ruyu sent Cao San to Wuzhou to submit a letter of surrender to Zhu Baiyan, depending on Zhu Kunda and Zhu Tongshan and did not see, Cao San returned to Jiangning, Xu Ruyu not only did not take responsibility for the dereliction of duty to humiliate Jiang Ning, but also promoted him to sign the Changshi Mansion, and the leader heard Cao Jing'an, and everyone in Jiangning could also see that Xu Ruyu was also inclined to seek war at this time.
The situation has reached the point where war is inevitable, and naturally no one pursues the actions of Feng Yuanyuan and Cao San behind the scenes.
The Jiangning territory encircled the Zhu clan from the north and south, which belonged to the internal line of operations, and the consumption of materials was far less than that of the outer line of operations. Even so, the Changshi Mansion still felt a lot of pressure.
The Jiangning army is distributed on the north bank of the river, with 30,000 troops of the reorganized Green Guards, 30,000 troops of the reorganized middle base army, and 15,000 troops of the Ningyue Mountain Department of the Fifth Colonel, a total of 70,000 troops, which are mainly stationed at the northern foot of Cuiping Mountain, Guangling, and Hailing in the north of Baishi Zhenning. After the Battle of Huishan, the forces on the north bank of the river shrank to the south, and the Guangling garrison was reduced to half, with only 20,000 middle base troops, abandoning the barriers along the Xiaoyang River and retreating into Guangling City and the nearby fortresses. The Hailing garrison was reduced to 5,000, and the Cuipingshan garrison was reduced to 10,000. Zhang Xu led 20,000 Qingwei troops, and Mi Yusheng led 10,000 Jiangning water battalion troops to be stationed in Zhenning, peeping at Liyang; Mei Liting led 15,000 middle base troops, and Ji Ziheng led 10,000 Yongyang water battalion troops stationed in Yongyang, across the river from Wuzhou.
On the south bank of the river, 30,000 armed guards, 3,000 Qingfeng cavalry, 30,000 Xiaowei troops, 10,000 Zhou Shilong troops of the Su Guards, and 20,000 people of the five school troops and Shen Bing were organized in Langxi, with a total of more than 90,000 troops, which were concentrated in Jiangning, Xin'an, Chongyi, and Lanling. The Wuwei Army and the Qingfeng Cavalry are stationed in Jiangning, and there are still 10,000 water battalions in battle; Although the battle of Huishan was short, the Xiao Guards still transferred 10,000 elite soldiers to Xin'an, just in case, Jiangning divided the two counties of Langxi and Changxing into Xin'an Mansion, Xin'an not only stationed 20,000 foot battalions after the expansion of Xing Kunmin and Shen Bing, but also 10,000 elite Xiao Guards, and 20,000 Xiao Guards stationed in Fengling. The Zhou Shilong division of the Su Guard was stationed in Chongyi. In addition, there were still 20,000 newly formed garrisons stationed in Fuzhou and Lishui as reserves.
The requisition of the Southern Fujian army to the north to participate in the Battle of Yuejun was sent as early as the eighth day, and there was no response from the Southern Fujian side, but in the Battle of Yuejun, Jiangning was able to invest at least 170,000 troops, which was nearly twice as high as the total number of troops in Sanzhu, and even taking into account the reaction of the forces in Yuhang, Jiangjin and other places, Jiangning was more than enough in terms of troops.
Although Jiangning did not formally declare war on the Zhu clan, and there was a large-scale build-up of troops, Jiangning did not even set up a temporary command structure to govern the war in Yuejun, but on June 16, Jiangning revoked the order prohibiting the armies from provoking military provocations, and in fact the battle of Yuejun broke out from this day.
Zhu Baiyan, Zhu Kunda, and Zhu Tongshan respectively asked Jiangjin, Yuhang, and Wanling for help, asking for an alliance with them to jointly resist Jiangning's expansion.
If Zhu Lianzhi was still alive and united the forces of the entire Zhu clan with a strong hand to confront Jiangning, the Jiangjin Yi clan, the Yuhang Fan clan, and the Wanling Chen clan would naturally not sit on the wall and watch.
Now that the Zhu clan is divided into three, and Lanling Zhu Kunda and Wuzhou Zhu Baiyan are incompatible, Yi Fengchen knows that he is pouring the power of the whole clan into power, and may not be able to suppress Jiangning's ambitions. Even if they are defeated by Jiangning, the Yi family will not be able to exist for long in this turbulent river of mud and sand, if the southeast is to be subsumed under the banner of one family, Yi Fengchen does not know which one to choose at this time is more in line with the interests of the Yi clan.
Yi Fengchen stood on Wangjiang City, looking at the sails above the river, the Jiangning Water Battalion put the sentry ship in the river water area above Wangjiang City, and the Qingjiang Estuary was completely blocked by the warships of the Jiangning Water Battalion.
Yi Xingzhi looked up at his father's thin and thin back, and was full of emotion for a while. Wu Chu assassinated Zhang Dong, which made the Yongning regime of the Zhang family collapse, Yi Fengchen took advantage of the situation to unite the Jiangjin families to occupy Jiangjin and stand on their own, and the Yi family became the first family in Jiangjin, prosperous for ten years, but in an instant, although the Yi family is still the first family in Jiangjin, but the situation in the world is earth-shaking changes that people do not know. The Yi clan could no longer calmly respect Jiang Jin.
In order to prevent the young and vigorous Yi Huaxi from provoking troops to Jiangning, Yi Fengchen transferred him away from Wangjiang City, which shows Yi's retreat from Jiangning. But it was only avoided for a while, and after Jiang Ning solved the Zhu family, the Yi family would face the powerful and aggressive Jiang Ning alone, and I don't know if he would regret his decision at this time.
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