After crossing the river, the goose feathers and heavy snow fell from the gloomy sky. Wu Cheng wrapped the big man tightly and rode north with the two heralds accompanying him.

Kou Zichan asked Wu Cheng to take Cezi to see Xu Ruyu, but when Wu Cheng left Jiangning, he didn't know where Xu Ruyu and the others were at this time, as long as he arrived at Yongyang General Station, he could know Xu Ruyu's whereabouts.

In late November, the battle in Yuejun was basically over, and Xu Ruyu led more than 100,000 troops to cross the river and go north into the territory of Yongyang, and did not continue to advance to Guangling or Baishi. The forces of the Zhufan and Fan clans were evacuated, and Jiangning only left the 10,000 armed guards led by Ziyang Yalan to guard the area around Zhenze Lake, and the combat power of the Fengling Xing Battalion, including the Five School Army and the Xiao Guard Army, was transferred to the west one after another, crossing the Qingjiang River, and entering Wuzhou and other places in the west of Liyang.

Huo Qingtong was anxious to return to Jingxiang, eager to give up the Jingbei region to Jiangning for defense, so that he could lead the 40,000 remnants of the army to return to Jingxiang. Not long after Wei Yu led the leading troops into Wuzhou to join Xiao Wuye, Huo Qingtong personally arrived in Wuzhou to discuss the matter with Wei Yu.

Jiangning took over Huo's city in Jingbei and extended the territory to the west for more than 400 miles, facing Nanping across Pengli Lake. The Huo clan could concentrate their limited forces in Jingxiang County to stop the Nanping army from continuing northward.

Wu Cheng rode on the horse, but he thought about Nanping's reaction to the matter.

Rong Yanmen led the army west to conquer Chongqing, Xu Ruyu also led the army to invade the East China Sea, and the southern duo may default to Penglihu as the border between the two families.

Did Xu Ruyu really bring 100,000 troops across the river? Wu Cheng couldn't help but have such a question in his heart.

Although Wu Cheng is Kou Zichan's guest, it involves secrets such as military transfers, which Wu Cheng cannot touch.

When Xu Ruyu was in Lanling, in addition to tens of thousands of troops in Lanling, there were also Xiao Wei Army, Five School Army, and Wuwei Army were also stationed in Lanling.

Thinking about it this way, it is somewhat possible that although Xu Ruyu has peerless military talent, it is also difficult for him to lead an army that has reduced more than half of the army to attack the East China Sea.

Shiraishi and the area bordering it are sparsely populated. In the spring and summer, Xu Bodang gave up Baishi, led the remnants of the army and Gongliang Youqin along the river and retreated under the wings of Nanping; Zhang Xu led the Qingwei Army to cross Liyang Mansion, which was still in the Zhu family's sphere of influence at that time, entered the territory of Baishi, and advanced to Cuiping Mountain, bringing most of the territory of Baishi Mansion under the jurisdiction of Jiangning. After several years of war, Shiraishi ushered in a bloodless autumn for the first time, but the air was still filled with the smell of slaughter.

Relations between Jiangning and the East China Sea deteriorated, and Xu Ruyu ordered the border between the two countries to be sealed in the autumn of this year. At the beginning, the world didn't know what it meant, and it wasn't until the Hulan Iron Cavalry raided and crossed the river before the river was completely frozen and defeated the camp of the displaced people in Taoling that Xu Ruyu knew that Xu Ruyu was far-sighted, and only a few months ago did he anticipate this catastrophic surprise attack.

The Hulan Iron Cavalry crossed the river, and after defeating the camp of the displaced people in Taoling, they divided into three routes, avoiding the main forces of the three allied forces, and galloped deep in Bianzhou, Qinghe, Jeju and other places, invading the countryside. On the north bank of the river, there were 20,000 Hulan iron cavalry, 40,000 servant battalion foot soldiers, and 60,000 Hanyang battalion foot soldiers gathered in Hanyang Prefecture, so that the main forces of the three allied forces in Hanoi, Bianzhou, and Jeju did not dare to act rashly, but only shrank their forces to defend important cities, and ignored the three-way Hulan light cavalry led by Boyan Ziyi, who had invaded to the depths.

Millions of civilians in the countryside of Sanfu are like a fire and water, even in places that have not been looted, they are not at peace, and they have helped the old and young to migrate south to avoid disaster.

The area north of the East China Sea has long been icy and snowy, and the road is crowded with people fleeing. Along the whirlpool south, passing through Pengcheng, crossing the Huaishui, crossing the Linhuai, millions of displaced people evacuated to the East China Sea. In a short period of ten months, more than 100,000 displaced people have gathered on the two borders of Guangling and Cuipingshan, and the number of displaced people is increasing dramatically every day.

Since Jiangning has long blocked the border between the two countries, unless the East China Sea uses force to tear up the blockade line and open up the way south, the more and more displaced people who gather will be a huge burden on the southern border of the East China Sea. Moreover, if the East China Sea is unable to effectively resettle and evacuate displaced people in transit, millions of displaced people will cause great damage to the production of the East China Sea. Without enough food and clothing, there is only one way to plunder, and the sudden appearance of hundreds of thousands or even millions of rogues will shake and even completely destroy the foundation of the East China Sea.

Along the way, Wu Cheng could still see the displaced people who had bypassed the long distance to reach the territory of Baishi, compared to the territory of the East China Sea, the number of displaced people who entered the territory of Baishi was only tens of thousands. Jiangning has always organized these displaced people in the same tradition, exchanged grain for the displaced people's laborers, opened up galloping roads, and dredged river transportation.

The homeless people who struggle between life and death have very low requirements, as long as they can get food to satisfy their hunger, they can work barefoot in the ice and snow without complaining.

Wu Cheng secretly thought about Jiangning's miraculous family history, and couldn't help but think of making good use of the homeless people. At the beginning of the rise of the Qingjiang River, Xu Ruyu took the displaced people for his own use, and made the displaced people in the construction of cities, reclamation, road opening, river dredging and other affairs without compensation, and after conquering Southern Fujian, he even transported the displaced people to Dongyang, Yongjia and other places on a large scale, and quickly revitalized the production of those areas, making those areas the most reliable and solid rear hinterland of Jiangning. Behind Xu Ruyu, Shao Haitang, Mei Tierui, Yi Guanyuan, Xu Boying, Shen Deqian and others all have great talents in the world, and the reason why Jiang Ning was able to unscrupulously launch one large-scale battle after another was that these people were planning in the rear.

In autumn, Xu Boying went to Jiangbei to inspect, and this time Xu Ruyu took Shao Haitang and Fang Su with him, saying that Xu Ruyu had no intention of launching a large-scale campaign against the East China Sea, and no one would believe it.

As long as the Fengling camp succeeded in taking over the Huo clan's cities in Jingbei and on the east bank of Pengli Lake, the time was ripe for Jiangning to launch a large-scale campaign against the East China Sea.

The snow horse was late, Wu Cheng rode on the horse, his thoughts were flying, and he arrived in Yongyang County on the third day. Xia'axishui in the north of Yongyang County is the division of Jiangning and Wanling in the north of Baishi, Cuiping Mountain is located in the southwest of Yongyang, and the Qingwei Army led by Zhang Xu is stationed in Yusi. Xia'a Creek flows eastward, and when it enters the Biling Mansion, it abruptly turns to the northeast and flows towards Zehu Lake. At the bend of Xia'a River, there is an artificial canal more than 30 miles long that is connected with the Xiaoyang River, which flows through the northern areas of Guangling and Qingpu, and becomes the division between Jiangning and Wanling in the north of Yongyang.

These three waterways constitute the border line between Jiangning and Wanling, and the waterway is twenty or thirty zhang wide at the first place, and the water is more than 100 zhang wide. Jiangning unilaterally blocked the ferries along the river, strictly forbade boats and boats from entering these waterways, and sent soldiers to dig through the river ice every day during the frozen winter, and many obstacles were set up along the coast.

When Wu Cheng arrived in Yongyang County, he learned that Xu Ruyu had left here, so Wu Cheng chased along Xia Axi to Tianchang County. The water of Xia'a Creek is as clear as blue, and the sky is open, and you can see that the north bank of the river embankment is full of ragged displaced people, as if you can see that the displaced people behind the river embankment are even more crowded and crowded, or hiding or lying in the muddy snowmelt, with no life on their faces.

On the south bank of Xia'a Creek, there are mostly patrolling rangers and patrols along the way, and there are few traces of civilians or homeless people. Thin snow covered the heavens and the earth, revealing green grass stalks and black soil.

Along the way, you can also see some homeless people wading across the river. Counting nine severe cold, swimming across the cold Xia'a River, a sturdy man will also lose half of his life, and I don't know what the fate awaits him on the south bank, and there are very few people who can venture to cross the river. Even if they cross the river, if they let the patrolmen and rangers meet them, they will immediately be bound and escorted to other places, and they will not be found; Luckily avoided, standing on the embankment, I don't know where to go.

Xia'a Creek in Tianchang County is shallow, and the narrow part of the river is less than 30 zhang, and the number of displaced people who venture to cross the river here is gradually increasing, and there are many soldiers patrolling along the coast. Jiang Ning's defense here was very strict, and Wu Cheng came along the way and encountered several teams of elite foot soldiers armed with Mo knives. The Mo knife is about six to eight feet long, and the blade is made of iron, and the blade is sharp, and it can cut nearly ten pieces of metal armor without Danxi. After the Jun family secretly attached to Jiang Ning, with the help of the Cai family's foundation Gentang, Jiang Ning had the ability to forge Mo swords and equip the elite of the infantry battalion.

Many of the displaced people who swam across the river could not withstand the severe cold, and they were frozen in the water, and their bodies and ice floes were floating on the water. Wu Cheng saw it, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, and when he moved forward, there was a faint sound of horns in front of him, and in an instant, there was a horn in response, and it spread outward layer by layer. Wu Cheng thought that something had happened in front of him, so he rode his horse with the accompanying Chuanyi Fei to the place where the horn sounded, and the soldiers who were patrolling everywhere also gathered there.

But I saw dozens of young men swimming across the glacier there, each of them pulling a rope behind him, the rope was connected to a simple pontoon bridge made of rough wood and weft grass, and the pontoon bridge was sent into the water from the opposite bank, and these dozens of young and strong men dragged it to this side.

Hundreds of sergeants gathered on the south bank were waiting for them, and the arrows flashing with cold light on the longbows and crossbows shot straight into the center of the river, and a general in fine armor stood on the river embankment and shouted at the man in the water: "Jiangning has sealed the territory, and if you want to race across the pontoon bridge, I can regard it as an invasion of the soil and order to shoot it." ”

The man in the water was so cold that his lips were bruised, and no one answered, but an old man stood up among the crowded homeless people on the other side and said loudly: "Xu Ruyu is famous for his benevolence and righteousness, could it be that the sergeants under his rule will shoot arrows and crossbows at civilians?" ”

The general was slightly stunned, not knowing how to respond.

A man stood up from the old man's side and shouted: "I'll stay here, lack of food and clothing, and after a few more days, I will either die of ice or starve, it is better to let the world-famous Qingyan Army shoot Hexin." ”

The general's face turned blue, he took off the longbow hanging from his mount's side, opened the bow and drew the string, and a long arrow shot straight at a large rock rock that exposed the river in a sharp sound, and the arrow clustered into the stone, and the tail tip trembled and buzzed.

The general raised his hand and waved slightly, pointed to the big rock rock standing in the middle of the river, and shouted: "Shoot the one who crossed the line." The two columns of longbows on the left and right stood out, drew the strings and set up the arrows, and when the man in the river swam past the rock, he shot the arrows and killed them.

A few people swim across the river, and you can turn a blind eye. If you open the example of pontoon bridges, you can learn from other places, and within a few days, dozens of such simple pontoon bridges will be built on the river that stretches for thousands of miles. Not only did a large number of displaced people pour across the border, but the East China Sea army was also able to use these pontoon bridges to cross the border, follow behind the displaced people, break through the defense line of Jiangning's northern border, and invade Jiangning.

Although such a possibility is extremely small, it is not a military risk that a left lieutenant should have and should bear.

Although the general was speechless, the stakes were quite clear, and it was better to shoot civilians than make such an exception.

The people on the south bank were very sparse, and there were still some people watching this change from afar, Wu Cheng Lerma stopped on the river embankment, an arrow away from the army formation, and more than a dozen men in coarse cloth clothes stood on the river embankment in front of him. Wu Cheng began to be attracted by Hexin's changes, and then he noticed that these people in front of him were coming, and at first glance, he was surprised, these more than ten people are rare good players, and they are usually very conceited, but at this time, they are not confident that they can easily win any of them. Although those people were wearing coarse cloth clothes and ornaments, the blades hanging from their waists were all famous weapons, revealing the momentum of the Yuanting.

The current young man was wearing a green shirt with hanging sleeves, and the man on the left side was magnificent, and his breath was heavy, echoing the river flowing under the embankment.

Wu Cheng thought of the identity of the young man, and was even more surprised in his heart, and said secretly: But I don't know how Xu Ruyu will deal with the current changes.

Xu Ruyu was aware of it, turned his head to look, bowed his head slightly, and signaled Wu Cheng to the past. Wu Cheng was not surprised when he recognized the logo of his flying horse, got off the horse, walked forward and gave a long salute, and said, "Wu Cheng has seen General Qingfeng. ”

Zhang Zhongdao looked sideways, Xu Ruyu pointed to Wu Cheng and introduced: "Zhongdao, Wu Cheng is Mr. Kou's guest, and Mr. Xu asked him to send a policy book." ”

Zhang Zhongdao snorted slightly, did not speak, and turned his face to look at the stone rock in the center of the river, the dozens of men were only three or four zhang away from the stone rock with the arrow cluster.

Wu Cheng didn't expect Xu Ruyu to recognize him, he was slightly stunned, took out the sealed lacquer book from his arms, Zhao Jingyun took it, checked it correctly, and handed it to Xu Ruyu. Xu Ruyu didn't have time to open it, put it in his arms, and only said: "Mr. Kou asked you to come, you will stay here first, and let Chuanyi Feiqi ride back to resume his life." With that, his eyes also moved to the rocks in the middle of the river.

A man stretched out his arm to reach the rock, grabbed the stone ridge, and wanted to climb up. The general bit his lower lip, his eyes showed a fierce look, and shouted, "Archery." The right hand cut down, and dozens of flying feather arrows flew away like locusts.

A shadow swept out, blocking the man's body, his wet clothes bulging slightly, water droplets splashed everywhere, and there was a sound of metal hitting each other, and dozens of sharp arrows were shot down by the water droplets splashed out of the man's drum.

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