Zhu Tongshan looked at the Qingfeng Banner erected in the thick barrier of the Jiangning Army in the northwest, and stood for a long time like a thunderbolt, only to wake up the footsteps of the generals who came over later.

Xu Ruyu came to Liyang in person, and everyone knows the meaning. Zhu Tongshan looked at the generals on the left and right, sighed, and said: "Tongshan is tired of the princes here, where to go, the princes have decided." He walked towards the tent and stayed in the crowd looking at each other.

At the end of August, after the entire territory of Liyang was lost, Zhu Tongshan led 30,000 lone troops trapped in Tangyi Mountain to surrender to Xu Ruyu.

At noon on August 30, Zhu Tongshan held the Liyang military flag, put the Liyang Lieutenant Seal on it, and walked alone to the Jiangning military base with his sword, and behind him nearly 1,000 officers of the Liyang Army were disarmed, and stood outside the barracks and looked at this side.

Xu Ruyu had already received a report from the camp sentry, and at this time he stood on the wall with Wei Yu and others, looking at Zhu Tongshan who was getting closer and closer.

Zhu Tongshan knew that the defeat was irretrievable, and he was only worried that Wei Yu, the head of the Fengling camp, would not be surrendered, and tens of thousands of generals would be affected. I wish the new face of the Tongxin, the crown hair is neat, tied with green silk on the back of the neck, the face is indifferent and idle, and there is no heart for victory or defeat in my heart.

Wei Yan looked at the look on his face from a distance, and muttered in a low voice: "This guy sleeps more peacefully than us." ”

Xu Ruyu remembered the situation of confronting the Qingjiang Estuary with Zhu Tongshan a few years ago, thought for a while, and said softly: "Open the camp and surrender." ”

Zhu Tongshan saw Xu Ruyu slowly walking to the barrier surrounded by Jiangning's generals, and was full of emotion for a while.

When Xu Ruyu crossed the Qingjiang Estuary, he was not yet the age of crowning, and his generals were brave but 400 people, and now only Wei Yu, Wei Yan, Jimo Shixi, Liang Bao, Mi Yusheng and a few other generals in Jiangning served under the account. So far, Xu Ruyu has been among the heroes of the world, and Zhu said secretly: A few years ago, if he ignored the ban of Wuzhou and blocked Xu Ruyu from Qingjiang, Xu Ruyu would have to spend a lot of effort to sit firmly in the position of the lord of Yongyang.

Zhu Tongshan secretly laughed miserably, lifted his expression slightly, raised his eyes to look at Xu Ruyu's gaze, and said loudly: "Zhu Tongshan, on behalf of the 31,000 and six generals under his command, surrender General Qingfeng, and ask General Qingfeng and the Jiangning Army under his command to give them the most basic rights and the most basic dignity to survive. "Kneeling on one knee, with his hands raised, his head bowed, and the flag, seal, and sword raised above his head.

Xu Ruyu looked left and right, walked forward slowly, took the military flag and other things in Zhu Tongshan's hand, and said solemnly: "On behalf of the Jiangning Prefecture, Xu Ruyu, the general of Qingfeng Mansion, respectfully accepts the surrender of the 31,000 and six generals of the Liyang Army from Zhu Tongshan, and gives the surrender of the army to the basic right and dignity of survival. He handed over the military flag and other things to the guards beside him, took Zhu Tongshan's arm, helped him up, and said: "There are many things to worry about the placement of generals and other matters. ”

Luo Boyuan led 10,000 armed guards to escort nearly 600 generals above the sentry captain of the Liyang army to return to the east in advance, and took over the defense of Dangtu, Liyang and other seven counties from Zhang Xu and Ziyang Yalan. Wei Yu, Feng Yuanyuan, Yang Shang and others led 20,000 Xiao guards to Xin'an, and joined the five school armies led by Xing Kunmin and Shen Bingcurling to prepare for the second phase of the Battle of Yuejun. Xiao Wuye served as the commander of the Su Guard Army with the rank of Wei general, and led the elite of 20,000 Su Guards to escort 30,000 Liyang troops across the Qingjiang River to Wuzhou, Nanling, Jingzhou and other places on the west bank of the Qing River, and joined Li Gonglin's troops to build a defense line in the west of Jiangning.

There is the absorption of Chengyang Lake, the flow of Qingjiang River is extremely gentle when passing through the mouth of the lake, and at the mouth of the lake that is as wide as two or three miles, the turbid river water is poured in, and it opens into a concave watershed. The water of the Qingjiang River is green and clear, beautiful and eternal, and the river water muddy soup, Haoran folds eastward, the green and turbid inside and outside the watershed line are distinct, and the rapidly rotating water vortex is born and extinguished.

Xu Ruyu stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the beautiful scenery of smoke and rain in front of him, and his heart was like a stratus cloud. Counting the history, he can be regarded as embarking on the road to hegemony from this Chengyang Lake mouth. However, the generals who crossed the lake with him back then had military affairs and government affairs in their bodies, and they were not by their side, otherwise they would be invited to drink by the waterscape.

When Xu Ruyu crossed the mouth of Chengyang Lake, Zhu Tongshan, Huang Fu and others fell at the right time, but at that time, Xu Ruyu failed to prevent him from entering the Qingjiang River in the south.

Xu Ruyu was supposed to return to Jiangning after the battle of Liyang was over. Youli gave birth in July, and Xu Ruyu took a "Mu" character as the name, but the official name needs to be performed after the full moon to perform the Yulin ceremony.

The etiquette of giving birth to a child in a poor family is very simple, and the heirs of wealthy families have performed the gift of Yulin to show their dignity since they were born. Yu, nurturing also; Lin, unicorn also, there are rituals such as washing three, full moon, washing dust, naming, sending names, sacrificing the year, catching Zhou, and learning from Mengxue. After Xu Ruyu was honored as General Qingfeng, the etiquette in Qingfeng's mansion was not autonomous, not to mention that Xu Ruyu and Youli had been married for several years before giving birth to a son, and the people of Jiangning did not allow Xu Ruyu to treat it as a child. Jiang Ning wanted to perform the rites of moon, dust, naming, and sending names for Xu Ruyu's newborn, but Xu Ruyu couldn't stop him.

However, Xu Ruyu received a letter from Huo Qingtong on the third day of Liyang. Huo Qingtong wanted to meet Xu Ruyu in Wuzhou.

It has been six years since the Huo clan invaded Jing County, and at the beginning of the invasion of Jing, progress was very rapid, and almost no force in Jing County could slightly curb the Huo clan's fierce offensive. In less than a year, the Huo family occupied almost the entire northern part of Jing County. At the same time, many Wuzhai villagers in Jing County joined forces to form the Jingnan Family Alliance with hundreds of thousands of combat power.

The head of the Huo family thought that as long as the main force of the Jingnan Family Alliance was defeated in one fell swoop, there would be no force in Jing County that could prevent the Huo family from annexing Jing County. The battle of Jingjun will not take long to end. Huo Kailai was not busy consolidating the boundaries he had already occupied, and only urged Huo Qingtong to lead the Huo clan to invade Jing and quickly advance towards Jingnan.

The total number of Jingnan family alliance forces is comparable to the Huo clan's invasion of Jingjing, but the generals in the army are all dock fort owners in their own places, and there is no direct subordinate relationship between them, and there is a lot of confusion in such a command system, just as Huo Kailai said, but the rabble.

However, Yuan Longyi, the son of the second sect of the Yuan family in Fengchengyi, Linchuan Prefecture, emerged in the Battle of Jingjun and gradually grasped the command of the Jingnan family coalition army. Then he avoided the main force of Huo's invasion of Jing, and used the deep mountain barrier to fight with Huo's soldiers and horses in Jingnan.

Jingnan Mountain is dangerous, the forest is deep and the water is urgent, Huo's troops are not accustomed to fighting in this kind of terrain, and they cannot find the opportunity for a decisive battle, and the fierce offensive is blocked in the central part of Jingjun on the line of Shanggao, Gao'an, Jinxian, and Dongxiang.

Huo's foundation is in Xiangyang, and strategic materials and soldiers and horses are transferred from Xiangyang to the battlefield in the middle of Jingjun, and the waterway turns more than 2,000 miles, and the material consumption is extremely large. The soldiers and horses of Nanping entered Nanxi, Jingjun, and the Huo clan no longer had the ability to carry out a large-scale clearing battle in the Jingnan Mountains. In the first battle of Yuzhang, Rong Yanmen burned 70,000 Huo's elite soldiers and 80,000 civilians in the city to ashes, plus several major battles before and after, Huo's elite combat power in Jingjun was exhausted, and Yuzhang, Xinyu, Jianchang, Wuning and other places were lost. It marked the complete failure of Huo's invasion strategy.

Rong Yanmen did not allow the Huo clan to have a chance to breathe, and captured Jiangzhou, an important town in the north of Jing County, which controlled the mouth of Pengli Lake, which was a major channel for the main water system in Jing County to flow into the river. The occupation of Jiangzhou blocked the possibility of Huo's invading remnants of Jingxiang fleeing back to Jingxiang by water. Rong Yanmen then led the army to cross the river and invade the north, and successively captured Jingzhou, Xiazhou, Hankou, and Qichun, which were important towns along the Yangtze River in Jingxiang County, completely cutting off the connection between the remnants of Huo's invasion of Jing and Jingxiang County. The Huo family was originally a wealthy family in a county and the first male in the Central Plains, but in less than a year, Rong Yanmen was forced to this point.

Xu Ruyu and Fang Su said with a smile: "Back then, I traveled with Youli to the world on a flower boat, and when I passed through Xiangyang, I met Huo Qingtong a few times. Huo Qingtong is the son of the Huo family, with a noble identity, I am a small guy in the flower boat, Huo Qingtong allowed me to go up to salute is quite lifting, and his gaze is over the tip of his shoe is considered to have exceeded the rules, it is really difficult for me to be a person who does not follow etiquette in the world. ”

When Xu Ruyu was in the East China Sea, there were rumors about Huo Qingtong and Youli in the world, and at that time it sounded like a knife, and at this time I only felt ashamed when I thought about it. In the past few years, his impression of Huo Qingtong has not weakened, but Xu Ruyu saw the changes in Zhu Tongshan a few years ago, and he didn't dare to think that Huo Qingtong was still as graceful as he was back then.

Zhu Tongshan surrendered, the Battle of Liyang ended, and the battle of Yuejun entered the second stage, Zhang Xu led the Qingwei Army to leave Zhenning and return to the camp at the northern foot of Cuiping Mountain. Nearly 80,000 foot soldiers of Wei Yu, Feng Yuanyuan, Yang Shang, Xing Kunmin, Shen Binglu, Zhou Shilong, Ziyang Yalan and other units, as well as 30,000 water battalions in Jiangning and Yongyang, are making pre-campaign deployments to the Zhu forces in Lanling and Wuzhou.

The people who went to Wuzhou with Xu Ruyu by boat included Fang Su, Tu Wenyong, Fan Wenlong, Shui Ruying, Cao San, Shao Ruyan, Xuanji and others, Zhao Jingyun returned to Yongyang from Wuhu at the beginning, Xu Ruyu was anxious to know the details of the territory of Youji, so he rushed straight from Yongyang to Wuzhou. Mi Yusheng went to Southern Fujian to lead the Quanzhou Water Camp, and Jun Shushui was invited by Xu Ruyu to serve as the captain of the Yihu Military Academy, temporarily leading the Jiangning Water Camp. The eastern section of the Jiyuan Canal is not yet passable for warships, and the battleships of the Jiangning Water Camp parked in Liyang will not participate in the upcoming offensive against Lanling, and will follow Xu Ruyu to the Chengyang Lake area. Zhu Tongshan and Huang Fu accompanied them as generals of the surrendered army, and Qin Zhongshu and Feng Ge'er were also in the fleet.

Tu Wenyong and Cao San did not dare to conceal Qin Zhongshu's words and deeds in Xuancheng, Xu Ruyu knew that there were many people who were dissatisfied with him by the government and the government officials, and using him at this time would only lead to discord between the upper and lower levels and the calamity of the government decree, and he was a little annoyed in his heart. Qin Zhongshu asked people to send a post to ask for a meeting, but Xu Ruyu just ignored it, only hoping that there would be a proper way after returning to Jiangning.

Chengyang Lake is located at the junction of Qingjiang River and river water, more than 400 miles around, the water depth and lake are wide, second only to Zhenze Lake in Yue County, when Tu is on the east side of the lake, Wuzhou is located on the west side. Passing the mouth of Chengyang Lake, along the river water back sixty or seventy miles is the Jinshui water mouth that runs through the north and south, and the Wangjiang City of Jiangjin and Wuzhou City face each other across the river.

Wangjiang City is actually the acropolis of Jiangjin. Two hundred years ago, Yuan Hua, an important minister of the old dynasty, was ordered to build Jiangjin City to control the waterways of the river and Jinshui, and gave up Wangjiangyi City, and relocated the site to build the city at the northern foot of the Setshan Mountain, which was forty miles to the north. At that time, water warfare was in full swing, and the maximum number of warships sailing on the river had reached 400, and the roof of the ship could be placed with a crossbow. Wangjiang City is built close to the river, the south city wall stands according to the river cliff stone, less than 100 steps away from the river, if it encounters war, it is directly within the range of the warship's attack. Due to tactical considerations, Yuanhua abandoned the idea of expanding Wangjiangyi and rebuilt Jiangjin Castle on the west bank of the Seshan Jinshui. Here, the mountains of Setshan pierce the water, and the waterway is steeply narrow, and large warships are not allowed to go north. However, because of the congenital deficiency of Jiangjin, most of the water camps are small and medium-sized warships with less than 200 pins, and it is difficult to compete for the power of the river.

Zhang Dong was in charge of the Yongning regime that year, but he was suffering from the lack of sharpness in the water camp and could not compete for the world. In the later period of his reign in Yongning, he vigorously rebuilt the dock port of the Wangjiang waterway so that it could berth 400 warships and even building ships, and stepped up the capture of important water camp towns in the upper and lower reaches of the river. However, neither was realized, and Zhang Dong was killed by Wu Chuge. The Yongning regime established by Zhang Dong was in ashes, and Jiangjin City fell into the dust pocket of Yi Feng, however, he had to deal with the pressure of the Zhangdong people who occupied Susong and Qianshan Eryi in Nanyang and Xu Bodang in Baishi, and he had no time to continue to expand the Shuiyingwu Port in Wangjiang.

Yi Fengchen then built all the Wangjiang Water Camp in Jiangjin Water Camp, which was almost undefended in the southern Ze country, where water warfare was prevalent and Jiang power was important. However, there has not yet been a strong local government in Jiangnan, and Wangjiang and Jiangjin can be taken in one fell swoop, and Wangjiang is now quite safe.

But when Xu Ruyu rose to Jiangning, the situation completely changed.

Wangjiang was originally a small city, the city was low, the front city had no city wall and was built on the river cliff, the defense of the north city and the west city was even weaker, and the Wangjiang River was captured, and the most important city in the southeast could be reached by running for forty miles: Jiangjin.

As long as the Wangjiang River is occupied, Wangjiang City is the best transit base, and the rear materials, soldiers and horses can be continuously transported here from the waterway, rectified, and completely converted into combat power to be transported to Jiangjin City. It was only a matter of time before Jiangjin was captured.

In order to open up the Shangnan trade road, the forces of the Central Plains worked together to eliminate the Zhang Dong remnants entrenched in Nanyang, and Xu Bodang could not raise his head under the suppression of the East China Sea and Jiangning, and the pressure of the Jiangjin Yi clan was slightly reduced, and he had the spare strength to strengthen the defense of Wangjiang City.

A few years ago, Xu Ruyu left Youli Huafang in Wangjiang and embarked on the road to the East China Sea alone. Xu Ruyu stood at the head of Wuzhou City, looking at Wangjiang City on the north bank of the river, his heart was quite uneasy, and when he saw Fang Su and Zhao Jingyun climbing the city wall from behind, he said: "Yi Fengchen is probably standing at the head of Wangjiang City and looking here. ”

Fang Su chuckled and said, "The big tent of the Fengling camp has been moved to Wuzhou, how can you let Yi Fengchen sleep in peace?" ”

The area on the east bank of the Qingjiang River is all under the jurisdiction of the Fengling camp, and the prefecture and county do not appoint political officials such as the governor and the county governor, and the Fengling camp is in charge of the military and political economy of the place. Wuzhou controls the river and the Qingjiang waterway, and is far away from Jiangjin, the first strong city in the southeast, and the big tent of Fengling camp will also be moved from Fengling to Wuzhou, and Xiao Wuye will place most of the 30,000 troops in Liyang in Wuzhou. The Jiangning Water Camp also moved a part to Chengyang Lake, and the Water Camp Yamen was naturally located in Wuzhou and was controlled by the Fengling camp.

Zhao Jingyun said: "Zhang Xu led the army back to the camp at the northern foot of Cuiping Mountain, the main force of the Baishi camp and the Fengling camp was only three hundred miles apart, which just formed a flanking attack on the southeast side of Jiangjin, but Jiangjin City's important surname to the southeast is the peddler pawn can also say a thing or two, how can Yi Fengchen feel at ease?" ”

Xu Ruyu laughed, and after a while, he smiled and said solemnly: "The north-south Hengshan mountain system and the east-west Huaishui water system are the natural divisions of the southeast and the other three. The Huaishui Zhongshui system will be the main battlefield of the battle between Jiangning and Hulan, and the battle with Nanping, the battlefield on the north bank of the river will be mainly concentrated in the Hengshan area. Hengshan is also known as Dabie Mountain, located at the junction of Jingxiang and Yongning, lying across the Central Plains, stretching thousands of miles away, choking the key points of Jianghan and Jianghuai. Regardless of the important surnames of controlling the water of the river and the water of Jin, controlling the Jiangjin can control the eastern foothills of Hengshan Mountain. ”

Fang Su said: "There has always been only Jiangning sent envoys to Jiangjin, Jiangjin has never sent important people to Jiangning to see our eyes, when the battle of Liyang was determined, Jiangjin suddenly sent Yi Xingzhi to Jiangning to watch the ceremony for Xiao Mu'er Miyue, Yi Xingzhi frequently went in and out of the prince's house when he was in Jiangning, and even the threshold of my house let him step on it twice, which can be described as extremely diligent. At this point, he laughed first.

Jiangning is different from other forces, and the core figures of Jiangning's military and political affairs, or many forces in the composition of the Jiangning regime, have a considerable degree of unanimity in their interests, which is incomparable with other forces. Other forces want to divide the core layer of Jiangning and benefit, and the difficulty can be imagined.

Zhao Jingyun stood on the side and said, "Huo Qingtong invited adults to meet at this time, Jingyun thought that Huo Qingtong had the heart to return to Jingxiang. If I can attract Nanping's troops on the Eastern Front, Huo Qingtong may lead the remnants of the army of 40,000 to escape, borrow the road from Jiangjin, cross Hengshan, return to Xiangyang, and make a final fight for the fate of the Huo family. ”

Xu Ruyu nodded and interjected: "Nanping is the common enemy of the Huo family and Jiangning, Huo Qingtong wants to return to Xiangyang, I will try my best to help." Rong Yanmen did not capture Xiangyang, and he could not invest heavy troops on the eastern front. ”

The eastern front of Nanping is favorable for defense and is not conducive to attack, and the northern front of Nanping is favorable for offensive and unfavorable for defense, and if Rongyanmen does not attack Xiangyang, it will be necessary to put heavy troops into defense on the northern front such as Jingzhou, Yiling, Hankou, and Qichun. If Rong Yanmen wants to throw the main force to the eastern front, he can only wait until after the capture of Xiangyang.

Fang Su and Zhao Jing are both skilled in military affairs, and Xu Ruyu only mentions it briefly, and the two of them can understand their meaning.

Zhao Jingyun continued: "Huo Qingtong returned to Xiangyang in the north, and my Jiangning continued to expand the territory to the west for 300 miles, and obtained the Raozhou Mansion on the east side of Pengli Lake. In the following two years, the crux of the situation in the southeast remained in the East China Sea. Speaking of which, I owe myself to Fang Su for a crime, after all, Fang Su was born in the East China Sea.

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