Xu Jingcheng danced the halberd for a while, and the dark light of the halberd spread out in the clear morning light, faintly reflecting the dark shadows of the surrounding flowers, trees, and stones. Suddenly, the two halberds struck, and suddenly a clear sound sounded, like a phoenix chirping and a crane, and the two halberds were like a one, and the huge shadow turned into a huge halberd-shaped and attacked towards the moon gate.

Xu Zhaorong was caught off guard, bent his fingers on the tip of the halberd, the two forces struck each other, the delicate body bounced into the air like an arrow off the string, unscrewed the dark energy, Fang slowly fell, looked at the water in the court, saw that the temples were messed up, a wisp of green silk was stacked down, stretched out his hand to his ears, and Fang stepped into the atrium. Xu Jingcheng was wiping the Chiyou war halberd with a silk handkerchief.

The world does not know how many halberds there are, but Rong Yanping's self-created Sorrowful Moon Halberd, and the Gu Family's Falling Flower Halberd, and Xu's Chiyou War Halberd are known as the world's three major halberds.

Xu Zhaorong said: "Shao Junshi and Bo Ying have sent letters one after another, but my brother really ignores them? ”

Xu Jingcheng's eyes twitched, and without saying a word, he immediately lowered his eyes and continued to wipe the halberd. The twin halberds are butt left and right and twist each other, and they become a black giant halberd, and the giant halberd pokes out, holding the halberd tail in the right hand, secretly making the rotation force, and the halberd head suddenly has a ghostly glow.

Xu Jingcheng inserted the Xuantie halberd into the instrument rack and said, "Xu Ruyu wants to take Xin'an, but it's as easy as a snap, so many things?" After a pause, he said, "The Xu family's Chiyou War Halberd will not succumb to just two letters. ”

"Shao Junshi and Bo Ying are tied to the same branch as us, how can they be forced to force each other?"

"Who forced me out of Xuancheng back then?"

"My brother doesn't have the bearing to tolerate people, and I don't know how many heroes there are in the world, why does my brother want to fight for this first?"

"What?" Xu Jingcheng looked back angrily, looked at Xu Zhaorong's sad face, and said slowly: "At this point, I can't justify it, Xu Ruyu can rise to dominate the southeast in three years, better than me." Speaking of the last sentence, his tone weakened to the point of sighing.

Xu Zhaorong's heart was unbearable, when Xiangfan would raise troops, Xu Jingcheng was the first general in the army in the year of the weak crown, and his name shook Beijun.

Since Xu Jingcheng was forced out of the Lishui River Valley by Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang and served as the new Andu of the Zhu clan, the Zhu clan did not trust him, and only hoped to temporarily prevent the Qingyan Army from developing northward through the intricate and delicate relationship between him and the Qingyan Army.

In the past few decades, the Qingjiang bandits have broken Xin'an, which has made the remnants of the Xin'an city wall and the people's livelihood withered, except for thousands of garrisons and a few profit-seeking merchants, there are few pedestrians on the long street. There were no attached people in the city, but the Qingyan Army wiped out the cottage forces in the whole territory of Qingjiang, and some displaced people settled in Xin'an Chengye one after another. However, the Zhu clan has many restrictions, and the garrison often has no money and salary, so how can there be spare strength to open up the land for the economy and people's livelihood, Xu Jingcheng served as the new Andu Mansion for two years, but the development is far from the momentum on the north bank of Lishui.

Learn from the pain, how can you not know that Xu Ru can't learn the talent of people and geography when he is foolish? It's just that the anger that left Xuancheng at the beginning was like a stalk in the throat, how could it be easily dissipated? But the sharp energy in his chest was wiped out.

Xu Zhaorong saw his brother's heroic shortness of breath, and his heart was full of sorrow, and he said gloomily: "Brother is still worried about what happened back then? ”

Xu Jingcheng sighed and said: "Three thousand congregations, more than 10,000 family members, and in the end, only 600 people left Xuancheng with me. Seeing that Zhao Rong wanted to open his mouth to persuade him, he slowly shook his head, prevented her from speaking, and said to himself: "For more than ten years, I have been tossing and turning, seeking justice for the people, and I can't complain about them. Xu Ji, Guo Shan, Song Tingyi, Ye Pianhong and others have been idle so far, which is also rare. ”

"Since my brother understands, why ......?"

"What if you know it in your heart?" Xu Jingcheng was bored in his heart, and he didn't want to be entangled with Zhaorong in this matter, so he turned his mind and said: "Gao Quan said a letter before, Zhu Tongshan wants to recommend me as the capital of Huzhou, and govern Huzhou and Xin'an soldiers and horses. ”

Xu Zhaorong smiled bitterly and did not answer silently.

Xu Jingcheng snorted coldly and said, "They also look down on me too much, how can I, Xu Jingcheng, do such a thing?" ”

Xu Zhaorong doesn't care about anything else, the Zhu clan is located between Yongyang and Qingjiang, the Zhu clan probably brought up the old thing out of such a worry, there are not many famous generals in Wuzhou and Liyang who can compete with the Qingyan Army, if you can make Xu Jingcheng really recruit for his own use, Zhu Lianzhi is willing to pay more price.

It's just that the Zhu clan can block the edge of the Blue Flame Army?

Xu Zhaorong shook his head slightly, but such words cannot be used to admonish, the eldest brother's surname is fierce and arrogant, and it is only counterproductive to say such words.

The brother and sister were silent, and the general of the tooth gate walked in with a panicked face, and saw that Xu Jingcheng and Xu Zhaorong were relatively speechless in the atrium, and they were stunned for a while, not knowing how to tell the matter.

Xu Jingcheng cut his hands and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"General Qingfeng and Shao Junshi stand under the south gate, asking to see your lordship."

"Ahh Xu Jingcheng's face changed several times in an instant, from surprise to anger to confusion, and he looked back at Xu Zhaorong in a daze, not knowing what to say for a while.

"Let's go out of the south gate and have a look." Xu Zhaorong pulled Xu Jingcheng and galloped towards the south gate.

In the morning light, Xu Ruyu wore a green shirt like a cage of red, Danxia streamer reflected his side face, refracting a short and long light, and his calm eyes were surprisingly clear in the streamer, as if the light was all in that place, showing that faint eyes.

Shao Haitang was dressed in a cloth robe, with a long sword hanging on his waist, and his hands were in his hands, looking at the closed city gate, but he didn't see the sharp clusters of cold light sticking out of the city. Apart from these two, there was no one else in the city.

The two people under the city are both people who are admired in their hearts, and when they came to the meeting alone, Xu Zhaorong was still inevitably surprised and admired, thinking of this, he felt a burst of shame in his heart for the panic of the soldiers at the head of the city, and turned his head to look at his brother to see how he dealt with it.

Xu Jingcheng's expression was both solemn and indifferent, looking at the South Gate Patrol Captain who was looking down in a panic, and reprimanded: "Everything is the same as before, why is it so panicked?" He turned around and stepped on the road to the city, walked down the steps, and said to Xu Zhaorong: "You go out and tell them that I, as a Xin'an guard, cannot have a private meeting with the enemy general." ”

Xu Zhaorong was stunned, watching Xu Jingcheng's back disappear into the corner of the street, dazed and at a loss.

The city gate slowly opened, and Xu Ruyu saw Xu Zhaorong coming out alone with a bitter face, and chuckled sideways at Shao Haitang: "Hey, Jing Cheng doesn't want to see us." Xiang Zhaorong arched his hand and said: "I haven't seen her for two years, but Miss Xu is much haggard." ”

Xu Zhaorong's face was like jade, and he chuckled: "Zhaorong hasn't congratulated the general and Sister Jue'er yet." ”

Xu Ruyu smiled and turned his face to look away.

Xu Zhaorong had no estrangement with Shao Haitang and Xu Ruyu, but he couldn't persuade Xu Jingcheng, everything was useless, and the three of them recounted their old feelings under the city and returned to the city.

About an arrow away, Xu Ruyu turned to look at Xin'an City, the broken city wall was rammed with clay, under the refraction of the morning light, countless bright spots flashed, and sighed secretly: There is no time to sift away the broken porcelain with clay, which shows Xu Jingcheng's embarrassment. Looking at Shao Haitang's face without hiding his sorrow, he said, "Mr. Shao, I have some questions for you, why don't we talk here?" ”

Shao Haitang sighed: "Jing Cheng is not familiar with political affairs, he can be a brave general, but it is difficult to be a military commander." He found a meadow under the shade of a tree and sat down cross-legged, pointed to the clearing in front of him, and said, "You don't need to come with me. ”

"Jing Cheng's talent can be wasted in this ruined city, Mr. Shao just doesn't have this intention, I also want to come." Xu Ruyu let go of the reins casually, let the horses chew the grass everywhere, sat in the shade of the tree without care, and said: "Si Wen Cao has Si Wen, the assassin army, the military strategy, and the Jing'an Division, and Mr. Shao lists the many duties of the Jing'an Division. ”

Mingjian means surveillance, Shao Haitang saw Xu Ruyu list this article alone, vaguely guessed what he was thinking, did not dare to be sloppy, and persuaded him: "Monitoring the generals and officials is a means of the monarch, and it should not be wasted." ”

Xu Ruyu raised his eyebrows and said: "The abolition of this article is not to show the world my leniency, I am in my current position, and meaningless leniency is useless." Mingjian is light on power, and my father once said in the art of power: the way of checks and balances. I thought that the power trick was harmful. I thought that there was a separate Mingjian Division, outside of reading the power of the Cao, Mingjian lawlessness, and supervising everything, and I hoped that the tradition of monitoring the generals and officials would stop with me. ”

Shao Haitang was slightly stunned, the Mingjian that Xu Ruyu was referring to was the power to divide the political affairs hall and prison, although the meaning of monitoring the generals and officials was reduced, but it was not completely absent.

Xu Ruyu was not surprised by Shao Haitang's expression at all, and said lightly: "I am not good at the power of prison, if you say that you supervise the generals and officials, it starts with me." ”

Shao Haitang was shocked but not the look on his face could be described, looking at Xin'an City, which was not far away, remembering that he and Xu Ruyu were also in the "enemy realm" at this time, he had a strange feeling in his heart, and asked rhetorically: "Did Ruyu really go to the prison to have the right to specialize, and allow the Ming Jian Division to supervise it?" ”

"Really." Xu Ruyu was categorical, and the absolute tone of his tone made Shao Haitang feel awe-inspired.

"But who would dare to master the Mingjian Division?" The weight of the power of the Mingjian Division is appalling, and the person who presides over the Mingjian Division will be the target of everyone's attack. Shao Haitang changed his mind and said: "If you implement this system, the person in charge of the Mingjian Division cannot be easily abolished." After a little hesitation, he still said the key to this system, "If you really want to prevent the night from taking away the power of your own monopoly, you can set up a post as a secretary, and this post will be abolished by other rules, and it will not be controlled by others, and those who perform their duties shall not be allowed to hold part-time military and political positions, so as to prevent eunuchs." ”

Xu Ruyu nodded and said: "Mr. Shao's familiarity with the canonical system is beyond the reach of others, and I mean exactly that, and the key is to bother Mr. Shao to think carefully, so as not to make him miss the disease." Turning his head to look at the head of Xin'an City, he pointed to the guarded soldiers there with a panicked expression, and said with a smile: "Mr. Shao, let's go back for the time being, and come back tomorrow, I want to see how long Jing Cheng will refuse me." "Whistled, summoned mounts, and returned to the camp.

When Xu Ruyu presided over the battle in Southern Fujian, the Zhu and Fan tribes gathered heavy troops on the border with Qingjiang, Xu Ruyu almost effortlessly captured Southern Fujian, and the Zhu and Fan tribes withdrew the heavy troops on the border, but the Qingyan Army did not withdraw, and built forts and garrisons on the border between the two sides, so as to say that the county was placed behind.

Originally, there was no garrison of the Qingyan Army within a hundred miles of Xin'an City, but at this time, there were three camps of the Qingyan Army about forty miles away from Xin'an City.

Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang have been here for a few days, and the north of the Qingjiang River was originally Zhang Xu's defense area, so he naturally came with it, and in a few days, this place has become a large camp of the Green Guards.

Zhang Xu was patrolling the school outside the camp, and when he saw Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang coming from the reins, he looked like a wild swim, and said: "The adults are really leisurely here, do you want me to prepare a pair of fishing tackle for the adults?" His expression was reserved, and he didn't seem to be joking.

Xu Ruyu pointed at Zhang Xu and said to Shao Haitang: "Zixu's jokes are also serious. Riding on the horse, leaning forward slightly, he looked at Zhang Xu and said with a smile: "Zixu is here to command the troops, and the Zhu clan will definitely strengthen the defense of Xin'an; Mr. Shao and I are here, and I wish Tongshan will not dare to treat Xin'an, and will only gather heavy troops in Huzhou. Just fishing can determine the whereabouts of the Zhu clan's soldiers and horses, so why not? Zi continued, quickly prepare fishing tackle for me and Mr. Shao, and Ming, I will pass the time by fishing when I return from Xin'an. ”

Zhang Xu was overwhelmed by it, and said with a smile: "My lord came here to recruit Jing Cheng, but what he did deepened the Zhu clan's suspicions about him, I don't know what Brother Jing Cheng thinks now?" ”

Xu Ruyu shook his head and said, "There is no contradiction between the two, Brother Jingcheng will understand." But there is no confidence in the words.

For several days, Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang would go to Xin'an City and knock on the door to ask for a meeting.

Xu Jingcheng went to the city to meet him at the beginning, and after four or five days, he saw that Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang were still like this, so he only said to Xu Zhaorong: "They have other plans, don't pay attention to them." "I didn't even bother to go to the head of the city, and asked my subordinates to bring in the information on the movements of the various departments of the Blue Flame Army.

However, in addition to gathering more than 10,000 troops here, the rest is that the Yongyang Wuwei Army and the Jinghai Sea Battalion cooperated with the Chen people's soldiers and horses to attack Xu Bodang in Baishi, at this time the Wuwei Army and the Jinghai Sea Battalion have invaded the territory of Zhenning in Baishi, and are entangled with the defenders of Zhenning, and there is no possibility of escape.

Shao Haitang was puzzled, and when he reached the eighth day, he finally couldn't help it, stood at the head of the city and asked, "Xu Ruyu, are you really so simple to see me?" ”

Xu Ruyu chuckled and said to Shao Haitang: "Jing Cheng finally couldn't help but ask. He arched his hand to Xu Jingcheng and said, "Jingcheng can allow the two of us to go to the city to talk about the old relationship." Seeing that he was noncommittal, he walked lightly under his feet, like clouds out of the mountain stream, and in a blink of an eye, people were already standing on the battlement wall. Xu Bu stepped down, stood in front of Xu Jingcheng, bowed long, and said: "The sincerity of my heart has not diminished a little, Jingcheng is undoubted." ”

Xu Jingcheng snorted coldly, glanced at Shao Haitang, who immediately jumped onto the city, and said, "It's a good sound, I just don't understand where that blow is hidden?" ”

"Jiang Ning." Xu Ruyu said without hesitation.

Shao Haitang's face changed greatly when he heard this, and his doubts naturally increased greatly in the eyes of Xu Jingcheng and Xu Zhaorong.

Xu Ruyu said calmly: "In my heart, gaining the trust of Jingcheng and Zhaorong is far more important than seizing the two cities of Jiangning and Xinning. ”

Xu Jingcheng and Xu Zhaorong were still puzzled.

Shao Haitang sighed and said, "The surprise attack on Jiangning will not be launched until after tomorrow. ”

Xu Jingcheng and Xu Zhaorong were moved when they heard this.

The capture of Jiangning and Xin'an is related to opening up the connection between Yongyang and Qingjiang, and Xu Ruyu is afraid that he will secretly arrange it when he is in Southern Fujian, so he told it frankly on the eve of the launch. This is only 300 miles away from Jiangning, and it can be reached overnight by fast horse, as long as Xu Jingcheng has the heart to be the enemy of Xu Ruyu, he only needs to gallop to Huzhou and Jiangning to report, Xu Ruyu will be a hundred times more difficult if he wants to take Jiangning again, how can he not be moved?

Shao Haitang continued: "The Wuwei Army and the Jinghai Sea Battalion are caught in the Zhenning battlefield, and the Zhu clan's eyeliner will naturally not be missed, but the Jinghai Sea Battalion's early achievements are remarkable, which can attract the Zhu clan's eyeliner. It is true that the Jinghai Sea Battalion must not get out, but the Wuwei Army has secretly separated from the Zhenning battlefield, and it is only replaced by the Fifth School Army. The Zhu clan seems to have forgotten that they don't have to rely on the warships of the Jinghai Battalion to cross the river......"

Only civilian boats are required to cross the river. Xu Ruyu temporarily assigned the Jinghai Sea Camp to the Wuwei General Zhang Zhongdao to control it, or wanted to use the Jinghai Sea Camp to attract the eyes of the Zhu clan, but in fact, the main force of the surprise attack was only the Wuwei Army, which had nothing to do with the Jinghai Sea Camp. Keeping an eye on the Jinghai Sea camp and the fake Wuwei army, the Zhu clan gathered heavy troops in the south of Zhenning and in the city of Dangtu.

In order to prevent the more than 10,000 Qingyan troops gathered outside Xin'an City, the Zhu people gathered troops in Huzhou, which further weakened the already weak Jiangning defense.

After the Qingyan Army obtained Jiangning, the Zhu clan naturally thought that they and Xu Ruyu acted together in this play, and naturally they were even more intolerant of the Zhu clan.

Xu Jingcheng's face was blue and red, his eyelids were raised, and he couldn't see through what he was thinking. Xu Zhaorong was secretly anxious, but he couldn't say anything. After a while, Xu Jingcheng opened his eyes and said: "Xu Ruyu has always had no last resort, do you think I will report to Jiangning?" ”

Xu Ruyu smiled faintly and said, "We'll meet again in three days." So saying, he floated down the city, and did not turn back and swept away from the city.

In the early morning of September 6, Zhang Zhongdao led 15,000 Wuwei troops to cross the river and besiege Jiangning by more than 1,000 civilian boats. At the end of the day, the Wuwei army successively descended to Shangyuan, Liyang, Jiangpu, Jurong, and Gaochun Forts to control the entire territory of Jiangning.

After receiving the flying report, Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang rode their horses to Xin'an City again, but saw Xu Zhaorong standing alone in front of the city, his eyes slightly red, and his cheeks were still wet with tears.

Xu Ruyu was puzzled and asked, "Where is Brother Jingcheng?" ”

"My brother left the city yesterday."

Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang were relatively speechless, sighed, looked at Xu Zhaorong and said, "Zhaorong, are you willing to be the captain of the Qingwei Academy?" ”

Xu Zhaorong sighed: "My brother is gone, and Zhaorong can only stay with Mr. ”

Xu Ruyu knew that the "sir" in her mouth meant Shao Haitang, turned her head to look away, her heart was depressed, she sighed again, turned on the horse, turned the horse's head without saying a word, and galloped away.

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