Fang Su smiled slightly and returned the salute.

Zhao Jingyun continued: "The discord between the generals of the East China Sea is due to Jiangning's annexation and the East China Sea has not done anything, but Jiangning's unification of Yue County is imminent, if Huo Qingtong has the heart of returning to the north, he will inevitably give up the area around Raozhou to my Jiangning, and the pressure on Jiangning today probably makes him anxious to make up for the rift between him and the side generals. The East China Sea is handsome, and I, Jiangning, have no gaps, which is very worrying. ”

Xu Ruyu was able to unscrupulously launch the Battle of Yuejun, not only because Rong Yanmen mobilized his forces to the Western Front to conquer Shu, but also because there were many contradictions among the generals in the East China Sea and could not concentrate their forces to prevent Jiangning from launching the Battle of Yuejun.

Jiangning said to grow stronger, becoming the second largest force in the south after Nanping, even if Rong Yanmen already felt the threat of Jiangning, but in the strategic process of Nanping, Rong Yanmen could only concentrate troops to deal with Jiangning after conquering Chengyu and Jingxiang. During this period, what Jiang Ning could do was not only to drag Rong Yanmen's hind feet, but also to enhance his own strength as much as possible, so as to note the long-lasting decisive battle that was destined to come. At a time when Rong Yanmen had no time to look eastward, the East China Sea was the only force that could balance Jiangning. Jiang Ning wants to make a difference, so he naturally doesn't want the East China Sea to be restrained everywhere.

Xu Ruyu quietly looked at the turbid and mighty river in the distance, thoughtful, and was noncommittal to Zhao Jingyun's words.

Zhao Jingyun knew that there were some things that Xu Ruyu also thought about, but he was trapped in the past and didn't want to think deeply. Looking at Xu Ruyu's depressed face, Zhao Jingyun glanced sideways at Fang Su, his eyes slightly hesitant.

As Zhao Jingyun said, it is not a long time ago for Jiangning to incorporate the entire territory of Yuejun under his rule. At that time, Jiangning could not expand westward for a while, and a conflict with the East China Sea was inevitable.

Fang Su sighed softly, walked to Xu Ruyu's side, looked at the river side by side, and said, "Although this step is difficult, it must be taken no matter what." ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "There are many reasons for the battle between the generals and commanders in the East China Sea, but the most important is because of Zhang Jidao's ambition. Si Wencao's spies collected some folk rumors in the East China Sea, and the scope was not wide at this time, but the significance was not trivial. ”

"Oh." Xu Ruyu turned around, not knowing what rumors were worth Zhao Jingyun to say so carefully, "You say come and listen." ”

"Chen's pre-arrival is not right."

Fang Su was taken aback when he heard this, and said: "Chen Yu took over the authority of the East China Sea from Master Chen, how can the younger brother and brother be in the wrong position?" ”

Xu Ruyu sighed and said, "Godfather is powerless to change the evil customs of the Donghai family, so he has the heart of escaping the world and gives way to Chen Pre. Probably the rumor said that Chen pre forced his godfather to give way. ”

"Exactly. Chen Pre held the authority of the East China Sea, and there was no room for beaks, that is, Chen Pre was really suspected of forcing Chen Zong to abdicate, and he was also supported by the clan and various families in the territory. Although it is impossible to confirm that the rumors came from Zhang Jidao, there is a more important piece of information that deserves our attention. Zhao Jingyun paused for a moment and continued, "Chen Yu not only has many contradictions with the side generals, but also the support he has gained within the clan is also weakening. In the battle of the East China Sea, the power of the Chen clan expanded rapidly, all thanks to the merits of Chen Ang and the adults, and then Chen Pre took over the position from Chen Ang, but over the years, only Zhang Jidao made some gains along the way, and the southern front led by Chen Pre made no progress, and those forces that supported Chen Pre to inherit the marshal position are gradually losing patience. ”

Xu Ruyu said: "In this way, it is not the blessing of Jiangning. ”

Zhao Jingyun was slightly stunned, and said secretly: The adults have already noticed it in their hearts, and said: "If the son born to Shuyu is the heir, Zhang Jidao may also steal the handsome position in the East China Sea." ”

Xu Ruyu locked his eyebrows and pondered, and asked slowly: "What if Zhang Jidao established Chen Zhuzi as the son of the world?" ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "Jingyun is most worried about this happening. At that time, the internal troubles in the East China Sea were eliminated, and the military power in the East China Sea was concentrated in the hands of Zhang Jidao, which was really a big disaster for Jiangning. ”

Fang Su said: "I'm afraid that it may not be so convenient, can Chen Zhuyan not worry about abolishing the son of the world during Zhang Jidao's reign and replacing it with his own son?" At that time, Chen Pre was going early, and as long as Zhang Jidao established the son born by Shuyu as the son, he would be able to pass the test more easily. ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Chen Yu can't get out of the current predicament, and he doesn't want to watch the East China Sea split, maybe he will believe Zhang Jidao's self-deception promise." ”

Zhao Jingyun took his words and said: "Maybe due to internal and external pressure, I have to believe in Zhang Jidao's promise. ”

Xu Ruyu looked at Zhao Jingyun and said, "You should have considered countermeasures, let's hear it." ”

Zhao Jingyun smiled slightly, and said: "My lord asked Jing Yun and Wen Yong to co-deacon Wen Cao, Wen Yong has recently put his mind on the war in Yue County, Jing Yun first returned to Jiangning, and he also knew the battle of Yue County, the Lord and the princes of Jiangning have planned carefully, and there is no place for Jing Yun to spend his thoughts, Jing Yun is more concerned about other things." In the early days of the Battle of Liyang, Liu Zhaoyu sent an envoy to Jiangjin and returned to Longyou after discussing with Yi Fengchen for three days. After more than ten days, General Wei officially led the army into the territory of Liyang, and Liu Zhaoyu made Jiangjin stop for two days and return to Longyou. In the intervening two months, Liu Zhaoyu went on three missions, and once met Mr. Ziyang on the street. Originally, such frequent envoys could be regarded as Chen Pre's hope that he could send troops with Jiang Jin to control Jiang Ning's abdomen and armpits, giving Liyang a chance to breathe. However, what is even strange is that when Zhu Tongshan gave up the defense of the city and took the initiative to send troops to defeat my army that crossed the Jiyuan Canal and blocked the Fengling camp army south of the Jiyuan Canal, Liu Zhaoyu did not send an envoy to Jiangjin. At that time, Zhu Tongshan saved his disadvantage slightly, and if he wanted to send troops to control his elbows, it was a good opportunity for Jiangjin and Donghai to send troops. Jingyun thought that Liu Zhaoyu sent Jiangjin not to invite Jiangjin to send troops. ”

"Oh......"

"Chen Pre is trapped in the contradiction with the side generals, and is forced by the pressure of Jiangning externally, as long as the situation of discord between the generals and commanders in the East China Sea is ended, the East China Sea and Jiangning can coexist in the southeast. His support within the clan was waning, and Jing Yun thought it was possible for him to actively gain support from elsewhere. ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Jingyun thinks that Jiangjin may be merged into the East China Sea? ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "Jiangjin is merged into the East China Sea, and Yi's can also maintain the position of relative reading power, and Yi Fengchen may not be moved. ”

"This is also true, Chen should have such a plan, not only to regain the support of the clan, but also to work with Yi Fengchen to suppress Zhang Jidao and other side generals."

Fang Su said: "Previously, Yi Xingzhi sent Jiang Ning to flatter Jiang Ning, if Jiang Ning allowed him to maintain a certain reading power surname, and asked Yi Fengchen to merge Jiangjin into Jiangning, it would be fine." ”

Xu Ruyu shook his head and said: "Nominal attachment is not beneficial to Jiangning, not to mention that at that time, as Jingyun was worried about, Chen Yu gave up the position to Zhang Jidao in exchange for unity within the East China Sea. He looked at Zhao Jingyun and asked, "You want me to push Jiang Jin to the East China Sea." ”

Fang Su sighed secretly, although he was uneasy in calculating Donghai, he had to do it. Pushing Jiangjin to the East China Sea, Chen Zhen could only temporarily take the initiative, and did not really solve the contradiction with the side generals.

Zhao Jingyun said with a smile: "It is better to give Jiangjin to the East China Sea than to let Zhang Jidao take charge of the East China Sea." Not only that, but after Jiangjin was annexed to the East China Sea, Jiangning should also restore the close relationship with the East China Sea. ”

Xu Ruyu listened to the words of "intimacy", and felt a thorn in his heart, and also knew that Zhao Jingyun had no intentions, pouted, and asked, "Jingyun has a good plan in his heart?" ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "Jingyun heard that Yi Fengchen's youngest son, Yi Huaxi, is twenty-six years old and has no wife...... Speaking of this, he saw Xu Ruyu resolutely waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

"Jingyun has seen the list of guests who will observe the ceremony of the little prince Yulin, and Yi Huaxi will represent the Yi family to envoy Jiangning ......"

"Don't say it, this plan won't work, let's think of another way."

Zhao Jingyun insisted: "When Jingyun climbed the city wall, he mentioned this matter to the girl like a shadow......

Xu Ruyu glared at him, flicked his sleeves and walked down the road to the city, leaving Zhao Jingyun and Fang Su who were looking at each other. Fang Su only knew what Zhao Jingyun wanted to use at this time, he sighed, didn't say anything, and knew in his heart that it was not easy to anger the Yi clan quietly. It's just that you are stupid and don't allow it, so what can you do?

Fang Su stretched out his hand and patted Zhao Jingyun's shoulder lightly, and said, "Ru Yu just can't see the grievances of others, calculating that the East China Sea has made him embarrassed, so don't mention this matter again for the time being." The ritual of washing the dust and sending names will stay until mid-September, and then we will see the situation. Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh again, "Ru Yu originally wanted to send Xiao Mu'er to Master Chen's name......

When people worship martial arts, newborns take small characters from the name of the strong in the world, which is to send names, and there are also names to the gods. The name of the children of the family also has the meaning of choosing a teacher. When Xu Ruyu went north through Wanling last year, he had this meaning in the thatched cottage behind Wanling. It's just that the relationship between Donghai and Jiang Ning has changed several times, and now it is a situation where the two heroes are fighting together, which makes Xu Ruyu feel shameless in his heart to face Chen Ang, not to mention sending his young son to Chen Ang's name.

Yuzhou is located at the westernmost point of the parallel canyon in eastern Shu. From Yiling Shangjiang River downstream, passing through Jiangguan, Baiyi, until Yuzhou, hundreds of miles of waterways are sandwiched by parallel canyons on both sides. The forces in the lower reaches of the river want to invade Chengyu, and they do not borrow from Hanzhong, but only by forcibly passing through the parallel canyon and capturing Yuzhou can they see the hope of success. Although there are only three cities in the parallel canyon, and Jiangguan and Baixian are small cities, the city is at the throat and can be captured without a strong attack.

Rong Yanmen pressed his hands against the battlement wall, leaned out slightly, and looked at the vast water surface under the city, thoughtfully. Yuan Xun leaned against the battlement wall and looked up at the city of Yuzhou.

The river and the Lingshui meet here, the city of Yuzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, one side is against the mountain, the water is by the mountain, the layer goes up, the day is late, the lights in the city rise and fall, the stars that flicker in the sky reflect each other, and the silver glow behind is bright and extinguished, and the sparkling waves of the two rivers reflect each other, beautiful and intoxicating.

Rong Yanmen and Yuan Xun didn't have much leisure in their hearts.

Xu Ruyu came to Liyang in person, and wished Tongshan to lead 30,000 Liyang troops to surrender, and Liyang was incorporated into Jiangning. Gongliang Youqin reported the news to Yiling, and Ling Fengjing, who was guarding in Yiling, sent people to send the news to Rongyanmen in Yuzhou day and night.

Rong Yanmen's eyes narrowed slightly, as if the water light in the twilight was too dazzling, and the slightly opened eyes revealed a strange light, as if the lake reflected by the flowing glow had a gorgeous shadow.

Yuan Xun showed a slightly excited look on Rong Yanmen's face, and he was not surprised. has been lonely for too long, and finally met the excitement of his bosom friend, is Xu Ruyu his long-awaited opponent? Yuan Xun thought to himself.

Yuan Gongchen led a thousand tiger Benlang to attack Tsing Yi City and imprisoned Wu Tsing Yi in Tsing Yi City. The Wu clan immediately dispatched 3,000 elites from Yuzhou to suppress Tsing Yi City, but 1,000 Tiger Benlang defended the city, and the siege force increased to 10,000, densely attached to the Tsing Yi city wall, and could not recapture Tsing Yi City from the hands of 1,000 Tiger Benlang.

Yuan Xun led six thousand Tiger Benlang along the path of the former army, and after going through a lot of hardships, he also crossed the North Heavenly Ridge, which the Wu clan regarded as a moat. Rong Yanmen began to lead the army when he was a teenager, and then ruled the Tiger Benlang Army, and after nearly 20 years, Rong Yanmen brought a million armor, and the Tiger Benlang was only 8,000 people, which showed its elite, among which the 1,000 people who attacked Tsing Yi City with Yuan Gongchen at the beginning were the most brave. Hu Benlang can be said to be one of the strongest elite soldiers in the world, but Yuan Xun led the North Tianling, along the way opened up by the previous army, there are still nearly 1,000 people who have not been able to get out of the North Tianling, and they are buried in the belly of the tiger in the deep trench.

At the same time, Rong Yanmen began to transfer the soldiers, horses, and materials that had hoarded Yiling to Jiangguan. On the eighth day of the Wuren's attack on Qingcheng, Rong Yanmen personally led 20,000 water battalions to attack Baiyi City from downstream. Baiyi is the front screen of Yuzhou, and Rong Yanmen attacks Yuzhou, and Baiyi needs to be taken first. Baiyi City is located in the parallel canyon, the city and the mountain are dissolved, the town locks the waterway, the riverside pass outside the city is steep and narrow, the car is not square, the horse is not driven together, if you take Baiyi, only from the waterway to attack. It is difficult to imagine the difficulty of attacking the steep Baiyi City from the turbulent water like a galloping horse, and Rong Yanmen has tried his best to make the siege warships stop on the river under the Baiyi city wall. In the third day of the siege, as many as 8,000 people fell into the heart of the river and died in the belly of the fish, and nearly half of the warships were destroyed under the rolling stones.

Only then did the head of the Wu family understand that the 1,000 people who attacked Tsing Yi City were not from the Gu family, but the elite outpost of Rong Yanmen. Although it is not easy to select a thousand elites to cross the North Tianling moat, it is not impossible to do it. Wu Renli did not expect that the elite combat power of Nanping that crossed the North Heavenly Ridge was as high as 6,000 people.

Yuzhou City is located at the mouth of the parallel canyon, the river and Lingshui meet in the southwest of the city, out of Yuzhou, the first city along the Lingshui to the north is the small city of Tsing Yi, and Baiyi is the first city of Yuzhou along the river. The two cities are less than 50 miles away from Yuzhou City, but the riverside pass between Yuzhou City and Baiyi City only allows horses to pass, and the traffic depends on the waterway, and the terrain between Yuzhou and Tsing Yi City is open and easy, both Lingshui and Tongqu are connected.

Rong Yanmen captured Baiyi City, and he could transfer part of his troops to Lingshui through the waterway and send them to Tsing Yi City. Wu Renli continued to storm Tsing Yi City while sending troops to reinforce Baiyi. The fourth batch of soldiers and horses transferred by the Wu clan to Tsing Yi County were ambushed by 5,000 Hu Ben Lang led by Yuan Xun, and the battle was defeated, and Yuan Xun led the Hu Ben Lang to attack Yuzhou directly after the defeated army. The defender of Yuzhou came to his senses when Hu Benlang rushed into the cave of the North City Gate. When the witches led their troops back to help, the 8,000 defenders in the city had slaughtered 5,000 Tiger Benlang. The casualties of Hu Benlang were less than 1,000.

The witch man had no choice but to lead his troops west.

After attacking Yuzhou, Rong Yanmen stopped attacking Baiyi. Baiyi City is small, Ping said that there are only 2,000 defenders, and the Wuren immediately increased their troops to 10,000, but they are still worried that Rong Yanmen will capture Baiyi, and the grain and grass in Baiyi City are not abundant. In the fall of Yuzhou City, 10,000 defenders were trapped in Baiyi for ten days, so they refused food and surrendered the city.

Rong Yanmen left Yiling, secretly arrived at Jiangguan, and only took more than a month to open the way to Chengyu County, and took all the three cities of Baiyi, Yuzhou, and Tsing Yi. At this point, the real army of Nanping's westward expedition arrived in Yuzhou from Yiling, through Jiangguan and Baiyi.

When Xu Ruyu learned the news that Rong Yanmen had captured Yuzhou, while rejoicing that Nanping's troops had finally moved westward, he couldn't help but secretly curse Wu Renli's stupidity. Baiyi City is located in a dangerous place, the city is narrow, only 3,000 soldiers can resist ten times the troops on the river, and as long as the reinforcements are guaranteed to maintain the defenders of Baiyi City at about 5,000, they can make Rong Yanmen hate Jiangxin. Rong Yanmen lost 8,000 soldiers in three days of siege, and the loss of warships was enough to equip 20,000 water battalions, but only 2,000 defenders were annihilated. Even if Rong Yanmen captures Baiyi City, he can transfer troops and horses from Jiangshui and Lingshui to Tsing Yi City, but as long as Yuzhou is firmly controlled in his hands, Rong Yanmen can fill up to 20,000 soldiers and horses into Tsing Yi City, and it is more difficult to transfer grain and grass, how to start his plan to go west? Many suspicious points have shown that Rong Yanmen will find another way, but Wu Renli was defenseless, and he evacuated the 40,000 defenders in Yuzhou City one by one, and finally only less than 10,000 people remained, allowing Yuan Xun to take advantage of the gap.

After Rong Yanmen conquered Yuzhou, he went north along Lingshui all the way, and successively conquered Shijing, the early Han Dynasty, Xinming, Yuechi, Suining, Suizhou, Ziyi and other places, pointing directly to the southeast border of Luo's forces. Continue to trace the river all the way, and Jiang'an again defeated the Wu family's soldiers and horses, from Jiang'an, to Zishui to the north, and successively conquered Neijiang, Ziyi, Jianzhou and other places. The two armies were less than two hundred miles away from Shujing, the center of Luo's power.

After Wu Renli lost Yuzhou, the soldiers and horses in Jiang'an defeated Rong Yanmen, and it was known that they could not compete with Rong Yanmen head-on for a while. Then he avoided the edge of the Nanping army, turned around the southwest and northwest, gathered troops from all over the country, gathered more than 150,000 troops from all over the country in Meizhou, and kept an eye on the troops and horses advanced by Shangzishui in Nanping.

The Luo clan also amassed more than 100,000 troops near Shujing. The combined forces of Wu and Luo exceeded 250,000, while the total number of troops of Nanping and Xizheng was only 200,000, and the two-way offensive force along Lingshui and Zishui was about 140,000. The strength of the Wuluo coalition army far exceeded that of the Nanping West Expeditionary Army, but the coalition army was defeated in several consecutive battles, losing tens of thousands of soldiers, and no longer dared to fight with Nanping in the wilderness, only holding the city, blocking the way of the Nanping West Expeditionary Army to the west and north, and sent elite combat forces to detour back between Zishui and Lingshui, disturbing the grain route of the Nanping West Expeditionary Army, threatening Yuzhou City. The offensive of the Nanping and Western Expeditions, which was like a fire on the prairie fire, was also blocked from Meizhou and Shujing in late August.

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