Xu Ruyu stared at Chen Yu, silent, and after a while, turned around and walked down the embankment and walked towards the camp behind. Xu Boying, Fang Su, Wei Yu and others followed him down the embankment, leaving Chen to stand on the opposite bank of the embankment and look at the silent night here.

Xu Ruyu did not stay long in the camp on the south bank of the Xiaoyang River, when the morning mist spread from the surface of the Xiaoyang River to both sides, Xu Ruyu and Xu Boying, Fang Su, Wei Yu and others returned to Guangling City under the escort of a thousand elite horsemen. The sound of horses' hooves on the solid soil was loud in the morning mist.

Xu Ruyu rushed to his temporary residence in Guanglingzhong, and there was no time to rest.

Xu Boying, Fang Su, Cai Yuhua and others hurriedly had breakfast at the post house, then set up a few carriages, and returned to Jiangning first under the escort of a team of elite guards.

Xu Boying, Fang Su, and Cai Yuhua rested in the carriage for a while, arrived in Suzhou at dusk, rested at the post station for the night, and changed horses in the early morning to continue driving, and did not arrive in Suzhou City until late in the evening. Sixty miles east from Suzhou, you will enter the boundary of Jiangning, cross the river, and you can see the majestic Jiangning City.

From Guangling to Jiangning, the whole journey is about 350 miles, and the carriage is much faster than sailing against the current. Xu Boying and the others caught up with the fleet that had passed through Sanshui several days ago on the riverside post road west of Suzhou.

Mei Tierui, Cai Hui and others took the land route from Sanshui, and also met the fleet last night, so they abandoned the car and boarded the ship, at this time, they saw Xu Boying and Cai Yuhua catching up from the land route behind, and took them on the boat, and said with a smile: "In the end, you are strong in the foot, and you have gone around in a circle from Guangling, and you have not fallen behind us." Xu Boying said with a smile: "We came out of Sanshui and rested for a night yesterday." Jiehai saw that Xu Boying intended to go with the fleet, so he said: "Since Lord Xu is traveling with the fleet, we will return to Guangling immediately to return to resume our lives." ”

Mei Tierui asked, "What is General Jie doing in a hurry to return to Guangling?" ”

Xu Boying saw that there was no one on the boat, and told what happened in Guangling, Mei Tierui sighed when she heard it, glanced at Jiehai, and said: "You go back to Guangling, be careful to follow the adults, don't do anything out of the ordinary." ”

Xu Boying smiled: "Lord Mei is afraid that General Wei will do something out of line, right?" ”

There are Xu Ruyu and Wei Yu here, and Wei Yan's wild surname can only be pressed down, but he is afraid that Xu Ruyu will do something that will surprise everyone. You can't say this in front of others, Mei Tierui shook her head and smiled at Xu Boying.

Cai Yuhua listened to the meaning of their words, as if Xu Ruyu intended to personally lead the surprise soldiers to attack the Zhu family, and he was slightly surprised in his heart, and he didn't think that there was anything when he thought about it.

Mei Tierui saw that Xu Ruyu asked Fang Su, Cai Yuhua and others to return to Jiangning with Xu Boying first, and she could guess Xu Ruyu's intentions.

Jiang Ning didn't know that Fang Su was accompanying him on this trip, so Mei Tierui sent a quick horse to go ashore to Jiangning to deliver the letter first. Fang Su said bluntly that there was no need to be so troublesome, Mei Tierui smiled and said: "General Zhongdao is looking forward to it in Jiangning, and if others don't inform him, I should notify him first, so as not to complain about me later." ”

When Fang Su served as the captain of Piling in the East China Sea, he got along well with the people of Yongyang, and there was no sense of alienation between him and Mei Tierui. Fan Yang Cai's family is Xu Ruyu's mother's family, and Youli is not good at doing things, but Jue'er has to greet her in person, so as not to feel alienated from Fan Yang. Seeing that Mei Tierui was like this, he didn't insist.

Cai Yuhua was only worried about how Fan Yang and the others could gain a foothold in Jiangning as soon as possible.

There are more than 30,000 Fanyang people who went south with the fleet this time, except for the craftsmen of the foundation of Gentang, most of them are from the Fanyang family, Jiangning can't accommodate so many people, one will stay in Yongyang, some will go to Lishui, one will stay in Jiangning, and the big families like Cai, Jun, and Lou can choose to relocate.

The Jun family asked to move the clan to Wenling, probably considering that the Puji bandits had been entrenched there for nearly 20 years, the local family power was wiped out, and there would not be much rejection, although Wenling is a coastal border, but it is the relay point of the Quanzhou to Yongyang sea navigation route, and the nearest city on Puji Island is connected by land, and the Jun family made a fortune by ship, and Wenling will be the best place to relocate.

Most of the forces of the Foundation Gentang were to be merged into the Ordnance Division, but Xu Ruyu promised to hand over part of the mines on Wuling Mountain to the Cai family in exchange for it, and some of the Cai clan would move to Lishui, and some would stay in Jiangning to engage in other businesses, but it would be much more difficult than the Jun family to gain a foothold in Jiangning. He is the leader of the military weapons division, although he is the highest position in the south, but in addition to Jun Shuishui, Jun Zhuoyan, Jun Xiaoyun, Song Qian, Jun Zongqing, Jun Zongrui, Jun Huaguang and others have Xu Ruyu quite attention, the Jun family is only a second-rate force in Youji, but it has become a first-class family in Jiangning, and it is the most correct choice for the Jun family to come to Tu Yongyang two years ago and not turn to Xu Ruyu.

The Jun family married Jun Zhi to Cai Hui, but they coveted the power of the Cai family, but at this time, the Cai family had to rely on this marriage to ask the Jun family for help. Cai's only advantage is probably the extraordinary relationship with Xu Ruyu. Jiangning did not have any drastic measures to curb the local family power, but Xu Ruyu was most likely unwilling to see the clan power over-expand, so as not to harm Jiangning's political system.

The Knowles owned 10,000 hectares of granges in Fanyang, but Hulan invaded the south and came to naught, and the wasteland obtained from the Jiangning campaign was allocated to military households and displaced people in proportion, and the local families were probably not willing to sell the fields to the family forces that moved south. Fortunately, Lou Qingzhi met Xu Ruyu in the Northern Tang Dynasty, and this time he did not meet with everyone, and went directly to Wuhu Island with Li Yin to serve as the chief post of the Wuhu Army, and he would be an important figure in the North Five Counties Division in the North. Si Wencao also deliberately chose to record the children of the Knowles to fill in the two divisions of military strategy and assassination, and the situation of the Knowles family was better than that of other southward migration families.

Xu Ruyu handed over the relocation of the Fan Yang family to the political affairs hall, and Mei Tierui may not have a headache than Cai Yuhua. Mei Tierui was reluctant to take over the relocation of the Fanyang family, and the contradiction between the southward family and the local family was almost inevitable, but the biggest family in Jiangning was not another family, it was the Mei family, and outside it was the Jiang family, Jiang Lingtian was born in the Su Gang, and he spared no effort to support Xu Ruyu from the beginning of the Battle of the East China Sea, and his influence in the army was really incomparable to others. At the beginning of Xu Ruyu's rise in Qingjiang, in addition to the 200 Qingyan Army led by Jimo Mingxi, Wei Yu, Wei Yan, etc., only Xu Tingyi and Xu Boying's Southern Henan Horse Gang forces and Hankou Taoyuan had more than 1,000 attached residents. In addition to these four families, the Yongyang Shen family, the Fuzhou Ban family, the Xuancheng Zhang family, as well as the Zheng family of Dongyang, the He family of Hui'an, and the Ding family of Longyan are all family forces that have risen with the rise of Xu Ruyu, and Baiyi is divided into two surnames, Jimo and Ziyang, and these families will be the backbone of the family's co-governance.

These families cover almost the entire territory of Jiangning, which is a newly opened land, and these families can't wait to infiltrate their forces, no matter where the Fan Yang family is placed, it will always be impossible to satisfy everyone.

Mei Tierui glanced at Fang Su, the council hall that was about to be formed will be led by Fang Su and Kou Zichan, and the two of them will coordinate the distribution of interests among the various families on behalf of Xu Ruyu, whether the relocation of the Fan Yang family can be without asking his opinion.

Mei Tierui asked: "Ru Yu asked Zisu to leave the Lingyi Hall, and before leaving Jiangning, he drew up a book, and when Zisu arrived in Jiangning, there was no time to say." ”

Fang Su smiled: "Su is young and knowledgeable, I am afraid that I will be entrusted by Ru Yu and the princes, fortunately, with Mr. Kou as the leader, Su can be strong, and I hope that Lord Mei will not hesitate to give advice." ”

Mei Tierui smiled and said, "Jiang Ning is familiar with the coder but Shao Haitang, but he can't get out of the heavy affairs of the Changshi Mansion. ”

Xu Boying said: "Ru Yu set up the council hall with the intention of opening a generation of pioneers, and the code system from the council will be the foundation of the family's co-governance, and Lord Mei and Mr. Shao will inevitably be arrested and sent to the council hall to serve as coolies. ”

This is true, the canonical system comes out of the council hall, and important families will have spokespersons in the council hall to participate in the formulation of the Jiangning code.

Mei Tierui said with a smile: "There is no shortage of well-educated people in Fan Yang, where can I put my beak?" ”

When Fang Su saw him say this, he also knew what he thought. Along the way, Cai Yuhua was silent and wanted to worry about this matter. Fang Su and Xu Ruyu walked together for a few lines in Youji, and they knew Xu Ruyu's thoughts in their hearts. Fanyang City will not fall as soon as it is said, and the main force of Hulan will not be able to get out of the northern part of Youji and go to other battlefields. The soldiers in Fanyang City still stuck to Fanyang Lonely City when there were no reinforcements, winning considerable breathing time for the major forces in the Central Plains, and Xu Ruyu naturally did not want to treat their relatives badly.

Fang Su thought to himself: Ru Yu asked Mei Tierui to be responsible for the resettlement of Fan Yang's relocated family, he should have said these words to Mei Tierui, why do you need to say more to make others unhappy? He only smiled and didn't say much.

Departing from Guangling, he arrived in Jiangning with the fleet at noon on the third day. Such a huge fleet entered the waters of Jiangning, and was escorted by the warships of the Jinghai Sea Battalion, and the fleet was four or five miles away from front to tail.

Although the Zhu family's army on the south bank of the river was informed by Jiang Ning that the people in the fleet were all people who had moved south from Fanyang, how could Zhu Lianzhi be relieved and ordered the forts and cities along the river to be strictly defended, and he led 10,000 elite infantry from Wuzhou to keep a distance of more than ten miles from the river, and secretly followed the fleet to the west to sneak in case of accidents.

There were mostly women and children in the fleet, but the neighing of war horses came from time to time in the cabin, which was enough to make Zhu Lianzhi's heart tremble and frightened.

Xu Ruyu made good use of strange soldiers, and such a large fleet was enough for Xu Ruyu to hide all the troops on the north bank of the river in the fleet. At the time of the Battle of Fuzhou, Xu Ruyu had a plan to transfer flowers and trees, and secretly transferred Yongyang's combat power to Fuzhou through the merchant ships of the Donglin Society, so that Gongliang Youqin suffered a big loss in Fuzhou. If Xu Ruyu concentrated tens of thousands of elites and suddenly attacked a city within the Zhu clan's forces, it would not be a difficult task?

When the ship sailed into the territory of Jiangning on both sides of the strait, and could not continue to monitor the ships in the river, Zhu Lianzhi led the soldiers and horses into Lanling City, and sent several times more sentry posts to infiltrate the territory of Jiangning to scout the military situation. After waiting for a while, he realized that the fleet was only tens of thousands of people who had moved from Fanyang, and most of them were women and children.

Zhang Xu led the Qingwei Army into the territory of Baishi, shielding the north of Jiangning, the main force of the Wuwei Army stationed in Jiangning was transferred to the south of Jiangning, and the garrisons of Jurong and Xinpu counties in the south of Jiangning City more than doubled, in the past, Huzhou, Liyang, Xin'an, Jiangning four cities, each based on two cities diagonally, hundreds of miles between the four cities became a floating land that both families can pass, Xu Ruyu not only built a city in Nanning, Jiangning, but also built a city and a county in the north of Xin'an, shortening the distance between Xin'an and Jiangning to less than 100 miles. The Zhu family also built a city in the west of Huzhou and the east of Liyang, shortening the distance between Huzhou and Liyang to 60 miles. However, Jiangning used to face the threat of Baishi Xu Bodang on the north bank of the river, and nearly half of the Wuwei army was stationed in the barrier on the south bank of the river.

After the end of the Jinghai War, Gongliang Youqin lost Puji Island, Xu Bodang withdrew his troops from Baishi, Zhang Xu led the Qingwei Army to quickly cross Liyang, cross the river and go north into Baishi to fight for land with the Chen people in the East China Sea, which was unexpected by everyone, but in hindsight it was wonderful. At that time, the middle base army and the five school armies were not assembled, and the troops on the front line of Hailing and Guangling were only 30,000. The Qingwei Army has been reorganized and ready to go in the Fengling defense line, and the world thinks that it is Xu Ruyu used to guard against the elite soldiers of Nanping in Jingbei. From the empty city of the Qingwei Army to the move of the Xiaowei Army to Fengling, there were only more than 1,000 defenders in the Fengling defense line for several days, but only Zhu Tongshan of Liyang could grasp this opportunity, but Zhu Tongshan did not dare to take the opportunity to take Fengling City.

The Qingwei army crossed the river to the north, but the Wuwei army moved from the barrier along the river to the counties south of Jiangning, the Xiaowei army was reorganized and stationed in Fengling City, the Xiaowei army suffered little losses in the Jinghai battles, and the 12,000 elites brought back by Yang Shang from Gantang were almost intact, and the Xiaowei army was reorganized into more than 32,000 people. Nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Su Guard Army temporarily rested in Yantan, but various materials were constantly arriving in Fuzhou City.

Jiangning gathered heavy troops in Guangling, Donghai gathered heavy troops in Longyou, the two families faced each other across the hundred-step-wide Xiaoyang River for more than ten years, the world thought that Xu Ruyu wanted to tear off the veil of warmth and affection between the Chen clan in the East China Sea, but Zhu Lianzhi knew best in his heart that Jiangning would not take Yue County and would not have a large-scale conflict with the East China Sea.

However, the relationship between Donghai and Jiangning is delicate, and it is really difficult for outsiders to be humane, and Xu Ruyu's rise is inseparable from the support of Chen Ang, and Jiangning generals Zhang Zhongdao and Xiao Wuye have served in Wanling. Chen Pre sent people to cross the river to discuss the matter of the two families fighting against Jiangning, and Zhu Lianzhi agreed, but he couldn't trust Chen Pre that he didn't have any other thoughts.

When Puji invaded Yuejun, the Zhu were the most determined allies of the Fan people, but Puji Island was breached by Jiangning, and the Fan and Zhu tribes faced the threat from Jiangning at the same time, but they could no longer share the same hatred. Fan Wenlong took advantage of the opportunity to go north to join Xu Ruyu, and when Xu Ruyu returned to Jiangning, he served as the commander of Qingfengwei, and Zi Yangqiu came to Yuhang too many times.

Because Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang withdrew the remnants of their troops into Jingbei, Nanping's troops in Jingbei exceeded 100,000, and under the threat of Nanping's heavy troops, Jiangning did not dare to act rashly, probably only this matter could make Zhu Lianzhi feel a little relieved.

Zhu Lianzhi led the soldiers and horses to stop in Lanling City for a while, and saw that there was no change in the direction of Jiangning, so he led 10,000 elite soldiers out of Lanling and returned to Wuzhou City, the land of the Zhu clan. As soon as he came out of Lanling, when he was still twenty miles away from Linjiang County, he rode a scout to report that Xu Ruyu led a large army to suddenly cross the river to the south and capture Linjiang County, and was waving his army to kill here.

Zhu Lianzhi was frightened, standing there only to feel dizzy, and wondered where Xu Ruyu had come from to levy this army, avoiding the Zhu people's vigilance along the river, and suddenly crossed the river and invaded the south bank of the river. When asked for details, the ranger only said that he saw the change of flags in Linjiang County, and a column of soldiers listing the banners of the five schools came out of the west gate of Linjiang County, and it was not possible to know where to cross the river from or the specific number.

Zhu Lianzhi thought that there were 1,000 elite Qingfeng cavalry who went north to Guangling with Xu Ruyu, and the 10,000 foot soldiers led by him at this time would not take long for the cavalry of Qingfeng cavalry to catch up, and it was definitely not the best strategy to return to Lanling by the same route.

There is an earthen fort more than 20 miles to the south, but it cannot accommodate 10,000 soldiers and horses. Zhu Lianzhi asked the rangers to continue to scout the detailed military situation of the five school troops crossing the river, and on the other hand, he sent an order to the defenders of the nearby cities to rush to help, and he led 10,000 foot soldiers to move to the earthen fort in the south, and chose an open place in front of the earthen fort to wait for the formation.

The rangers searched for several remnants of soldiers who had escaped from Linjiang County, only to learn that hundreds of boats had gushed out of the mouth of the Lutong River before noon, and Xu Ruyu's army of crossing the river was hidden in the boats. The defenders of Linjiang County were only 500, and they were captured in less than an hour. Xu Ruyu crossed the river with an army of about 10,000 people, and no trace of the cavalry camp was found, which made Zhu Lianzhi feel at ease. Probably Xu Ruyu felt that the goal of the cavalry camp was too big to hide, so he asked the guards to abandon their horses and cross the river.

In the battle of Wenling, a thousand Qingfeng cavalry elite annihilated several times the cavalry battalion of the Kou soldiers is too impressive, if Xu Ruyu let a thousand Qingfeng cavalry regardless of casualties to impact their own defensive formation, Zhu Lianzhi has no confidence to be able to hold on until the reinforcements arrive, in the end only to avoid the earthen fort and wait for reinforcements, Zhu Lianzhi believes that Xu Ruyu crossed the river this time and did not plan to attack the city, but the earthen fort can only accommodate 2,000 to 3,000 people.

Although he learned that Xu Ruyu led the army to cross the river without a cavalry camp, it was too late to withdraw at this time, and Zhu Lianzhi could already see the dust raised in the distance.

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