The Fifth School Army was wrapped in dust flying in the sky and poured in from the east and southeast, and it was impossible to see the specific number of people.

Zhu Lianzhi stood on the parapet wall of the earthen fort, his heart tightened for a while, and he secretly wondered: Xu Ruyu launched the Battle of Yuejun without warning?

Seeing that this side was on guard, the army of the fifth school stopped at a distance of two arrows, reorganized the formation, and formed two giant cone formations in the east and southeast.

Zhu Lianzhi saw that the five school troops almost formed an attack formation in the process of marching, between the two giant cone formations in the east, a group of men and horses galloped from behind to the front of the array, and the current rider was the left lieutenant of the military banner, only to see him insert the big gun in his hand on the ground, grabbed the corner of the big gun with his left hand, and shook violently, and the azure blue phoenix flag suddenly stabbed Zhu Lianzhi's eyeballs.

Then several people rode their horses to the bottom of the big hand, one of them, without armor, knotted scholar scarf, Bo clothes hanging shirts, hanging swords around his waist, pointing to this side, talking to the people around him, his demeanor was relaxed and pleasant, it was Xu Ruyu, the southeast male lord.

Zhu Lianzhi carefully discerned the flag, and the horror in his heart became more and more intense, and the few people who followed Xu Ruyu were Wei Yu, Wei Yan, Xing Kunmin, Shen Bing, and several generals, Jiang Ning. I couldn't help but worry that the troops who crossed the river from Yongyang with Xu Ruyu would far exceed more than 10,000 people, but in the previous intelligence, it was not found that Jiangning had a large-scale military movement against the Zhu family, which made Zhu Lianzhi feel a lot more relieved. It is impossible for a large-scale military transfer to hide the eyes of the Zhu clan scattered all over Jiangning, thinking that Xu Ruyu could not seek a decisive battle at this time, most of the soldiers and horses crossing the river in front of him were to invade Yuejun with Xu Ruyu, intending to deter the Yuejun family, but Xu Ruyu did not expect to meet him in Linjiang County.

Zhu Lianzhi's mood gradually calmed down, and he felt a little ashamed of the initial panic, and roared a few times in a low throat, and said to the deputy general next to him: "Xu Ru foolishly deceived me too much to cross the county, and led 10,000 people to cross the river and treat my Zhu clan as nothing, and immediately flew and sent a message asking Fan Che to send troops to contain the Jiangning Yantan garrison, and asked Chen to contain the Jiangning Guangling garrison and the Qingwei army of Baishi, and ordered Zhu Tongshan to lead the elite under the jurisdiction of the Liyang Governor's Mansion to contain the Xiaowei army of Fengling and the military guard army of Jiangning, and ordered Lanling, Huzhou, and Wuzhou to transfer 5,000 soldiers and horses each. Zejiang transferred 8,000 soldiers and horses to the Linjiang River to surround Xu Ruyu's army crossing the river. ”

Zhu Lianzhi made up his mind to pay attention to it, as long as it was confirmed that Xu Ruyu led no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to cross the river and the other Jiangning armies did not move, he would lead the army to encircle and annihilate Xu Ruyu's soldiers and horses crossing the river near the river.

Only five hundred Jingwei entered the earth fort with Zhu Lianzhi, and the rest of the soldiers were in front of the earth fort to open a fan-shaped fish array, protecting the earth fort in the middle, with the earth fort as the center, the tail column should be far denser than the front, Zhu Lianzhi heard Xu Ruyu lead the army to cross the river at the beginning, panicked, just wanted to borrow the earth fort to hold on, waiting for Lanling's reinforcements, and at this time wanted to entangle Xu Ruyu's army in Linjiang, such a formation seemed to be sluggish. It is impossible to temporarily change the formation in front of the earthen fort, not only Xu Ruyu, but also several generals who come with him all know tactics, and they will definitely take the opportunity of the change of formation to launch a fierce offensive. At this time, the earth fort can only be used as the revolving door of the formation, and troops can be drawn from the dense tail column of the fan-shaped fish array to enter the earth fort, exit from the west gate of the earth fort, and rearrange to the front of the earth fort.

Zhu Lianzhi sneaked with the fleet in hiding, although his own territory, he also died down. Jiangning Fengmei and Tanma noticed the abnormal movement in the direction of Lanling, but they didn't expect that it would be Zhu Lianzhi who went out in person, Zhu Lianzhi stopped in Lanling for two days, and suddenly led his troops back to Wuzhou late at night, the original intention was not to alarm Jiangning. Xu Ruyu sat on the boat and sailed across the heart of the river before he learned that there was a large army in the direction of Lanling to pull this way, and he didn't know who the leading general of the Zhu clan was.

In the face of the threat of Jiangning, the Zhu family vigorously expanded their armaments in Wuzhou and Liyang, and Wuzhou alone had nearly 50,000 troops, and the troops were mainly concentrated in Lanling and Wuzhou. Xu Ruyu's original intention was to quickly intersperse to the south before the Wuzhou and Lanling garrisons of the Zhu nationality reacted, cut through the boundary in the south of Lanling, and entered the territory of Huzhou along the northwest side of Zhenze Lake.

Xing Kunmin suggested canceling the battle of crossing the river to deterrence, but Wei Yan looked at each other sideways and said in a deep voice: "The ferry has traveled to the center of the river, isn't it a joke to withdraw this time?" ”

Wei Yu said: "Take Linjiang City first, and adjust the Jinghai Sea Camp to respond, the situation is not right, and it is not too late for us to retreat to the north shore." ”

Linjiang is only a small county, before crossing the river, the deployment of troops in Linjiang is clear, and before the army in the direction of Lanling arrives, it is not a problem to capture Linjiang City.

Xu Ruyu smiled at Xing Kunmin and said: "It's not that I can't lose the battle, retreating at this time will not have a small impact on the morale of the army, so it is better to cross the river and act at the opportunity." ”

The Jiangning armies, except for the 10,000 elites secretly transferred to Jiangyang who are about to cross the river into the territory of Linjiang, Jiangning has no extra troops to deploy in this vicinity, and the Guangling garrison and Longyou's East China Sea army have recently confronted each other across the Xiaoyang River, and there are more than 300 miles away from Linjiang. In the Jinghai battles, the Jinghai battalion suffered the heaviest losses, and it was resting in Jinghai at this time, and there were not 5,000 people who could be dispatched to reinforce it within three days. If Zhu Lianzhi is allowed to get a head start, he will have to take considerable risks when crossing the river this time.

Seeing that Xu Ruyu and the others said that they would continue to cross the river, Xing Kunmin no longer insisted on his own opinion and took a boat to the front to avoid any mistakes in attacking Linjiang County. There are only 500 garrisons in Linjiang County, and the Jiangdi Beacon Sentinel has been removed by the outposts who sneaked across the river first, and the Zhu soldiers standing at the head of Linjiang City saw thousands of generals of the five schools bravely pouring down from the river embankment to this side, that is, the turbid flood that overflowed the river embankment swept towards Linjiang City, and they were terrified for a while.

The defenders of the north gate hurriedly tried to close the city gate, but let dozens of men rush up from the city to disperse. The defenders on the tower of the city shot arrows indiscriminately, the captain of Linjiang County led the reinforcements over, and the army outside the city also rushed to the city. The county lieutenant resisted for a while, then retreated to the city, and the county governor fled from the city through the south gate.

Soon after the Fifth School Army entered Linjiang City, the scouts scattered in the west of Linjiang City discovered the whereabouts of the army coming from the direction of Lanling, and found that Zhu Lianzhi was also in the array, and it seemed that the changes on this side of Linjiang had not yet been discovered.

Wei Yan smiled at Tu Wenyong and said: "Si Wencao's exploration horse is really good, Zhu Lianzhi walked back and forth between Wuzhou and Lanling, but it was the rangers of the Fifth School Army who discovered it first. ”

Tu Wenyong's face turned red, Zhu Lianzhi entered and exited Wuzhou City, and Jiang Ning did not get the news in advance, it was indeed Si Wencao's fault, he glanced at Xu Ruyu with a side face, and did not dare to speak.

Xu Ruyu didn't say anything to reproach, glanced at Wei Yan, stopped him from continuing, and said: "We can quietly transfer 10,000 elite soldiers from Guangling to Jiangyang, and it is not difficult for Zhu Lianzhi to transfer 10,000 elite soldiers from Wuzhou or Lanling out of the city to hide Jiangning's eyes, and the top priority is to try to control Zhu Lianzhi's thoughts." ”

Wei Yan scratched his head and said: "Yes, the Zhu clan only needs to keep an eye on my Jiangning family, but Si Wencao has to keep an eye on all the forces in the world, no wonder Lao Tu occasionally makes some mistakes." ”

Tu Wenyong couldn't cry or laugh, so don't turn his head and ignore him.

Xu Ruyu ordered the army to go out of the city to meet the attack, and saw that Zhu Lianzhi turned south, and set up a sluggish and dense defensive formation in the earth fort, and said to everyone: "This time I met Zhu Lianzhi on a narrow road, and it seems that he was also surprised. Seeing Zhu Lianzhi using the earth fort as the center of the formation, the revolving gate transformed the sluggish and dense fan-shaped Yuli formation into a mixed formation with both offense and defense, and said to everyone: "How should this battle be fought?" ”

Wei Yu snorted coldly and said: "Zhu Lianzhi was panicked at the beginning, but now he is greedy again, and he doesn't teach him a lesson, just as no one in Jiangning." "When it comes to this, he doesn't say how to fight this battle. Zhu Lianzhi hurriedly changed the formation, exposing his thoughts undoubtedly, seeing that he was deploying like this, most of them wanted to mobilize troops from all over to encircle and cross the river.

The commander of the five schools is Xing Kunmin, Xu Ruyu asked for advice, most likely hoping that Xing Kunmin would command the battle, Wei Yu pointed out Zhu Lianzhi's thoughts, so he didn't say much, and Xing Kunmin was secretly grateful when he heard it.

Xing Kunmin said: "The cavalry war horse is still hidden in the boat, and Zhu Lianzhi should not know the existence of the cavalry battalion. If Zhu Lianzhi wants to encircle and annihilate our army crossing the river in a field battle, he must have at least 25,000 to 30,000 people to have considerable confidence. The Zhu army is stationed in the four cities of Zejiang, Wuzhou, Huzhou and Lanling, and the Lanling garrison has the most, but just as Jiangning is at the edge, the reinforcements that can be sent should be similar to the other three cities. The army went south, attracting the main force of the Zhu people, and the cavalry camp sneaked out in a roundabout way, and broke the Zhu troops from all sides one by one. Can?

Tu Wenyong said: "Zhu Lianzhi's vision is quite narrow, and I don't know if Rong Yanmen can launch a large-scale battle by secretly transferring troops from Jingbei. ”

The news of Shu is extremely difficult to come back, although it is known that Rong Yanmen secretly mobilized troops from all over the country to open up the river, but it is impossible to know for sure whether Rong Yanmen has conquered Yuzhou City. Yuzhou City is the gateway for Rong Yanmen to enter Chengdu-Chongqing, and Yuzhou is blocked, and Nanping's army will not be able to send it to Shu. If the movement on Yuejun's side is too big, and the Nanping army is blocked outside of Yuzhou, maybe Rong Yanmen will be forced to make other considerations?

Xu Ruyu shook his head and said, "I can't know for sure the news that Rong Yanmen captured Yuzhou, and the Yue County action should not be too big. ”

Wei Yu said: "Although there are conditions for the formation of a general battle, but in the case that the cities of Lanling, Huzhou, and Wuzhou are still in the hands of the Zhu clan, they cannot be fought into a war of annihilation, and Zhu Lianzhi is a cautious person. ”

Tu Wenyong thought to himself: The purpose of crossing the river is to deter the Yuejun family, although there are fighters, the adults may still be unwilling to fight a war of annihilation.

Seeing that Xu Ruyu agreed to ride the camp to attack Zhu Lianzhi from all over the encirclement, Wei Yan looked excited, turned his horse's head, and was about to go back to Linjiang City to prepare, but let Wei Yu stop him.

Wei Yan was puzzled and said, "Chef Wei, what are you stopping me from doing?" ”

Wei Yu said: "General Xing is the main general, he has not issued an order, what are you doing in a hurry to return to the city?" ”

Wei Yan opened his eyes and looked at Xing Kunmin and said, "General Xing, Wei Yan has asked you for an order." ”

Xu Ruyu looked back and said, "You watch the battle with me, and let Jiehai lead the troops out at night." ”

Wei Yan's big hair is erected on the side of the Qingfeng flag, Wei Yan's body is strong, his beard is even his cheeks, his appearance is quite heroic, no one can pretend to be a fake flag, if Wei Yan goes, I wish Lianzhi will be suspicious.

Seeing Wei Yan's resentful face, Xing Kunmin was amused, but he didn't want to provoke him in person, and said: "If General Wei doesn't feel condescending, Kunmin asks General Wei to lead the front army to attack Zhu Lianzhi on his behalf." ”

Wei Yan had a battle to fight, but he did not feel condescending, dismounted and led the front army, and launched an attack on the enemy army in front of the earthen fort.

Xu Ruyu and others did not know that the news of the fall of Yuzhou was transmitted back to Jiangning at noon. Immediately, Sima Ya summoned all the high-ranking generals who stayed in Jiangning to discuss with the officials above the signing of the Changshi Mansion and several senators to discuss whether it was necessary to send out the armed guards to cooperate with the Jiangyang River crossing troops. At the same time, several flying cavalry galloped out of Jiangning City, infiltrated the jurisdiction of the Zhu clan to search for the whereabouts of the soldiers and horses crossing the river, to ensure that this military information was transmitted to Xu Ruyu in the shortest possible time, and sent the flying cavalry to pass the military information to the Qingjiang Xingyuan Xing Camp, Nan Min Xing Yuan Xing Camp, and Baishi Xing Camp, and reported that Jimo Mingxi, Liang Bao, and Zhang Xu were the three of them.

Rong Yanmen conquered Yuzhou City, unless Nanping itself was attacked by foreign enemies, it was impossible to twist Rong Yanmen's determination to conquer Shu. Although there is no detail of the fall of Yuzhou sent back to Jiangning, but in such a short period of time, Yuzhou was captured, and most of the time Rongyanmen used surprise soldiers. Although Rong Yanmen fell into Chongqing, it is still far from defeating the Wu family, and the Wu family also has nearly 100,000 elite soldiers in the twelve towns of southern Shu, and the Luo family, who is sitting in the thirteen cities of Western Shu, will not sit still, and will join forces with the Wu family to fight against Nanping.

After the battle of Yuzhang between Nanping and Jingxiang Huo's family, Nanping mobilized troops to press on the line from Jingzhou to Yiling, but there was no large-scale battle with the Huo family. In the face of Nanping's superior forces, the Huo family had to shrink their limited forces to the defense around Xiangyang. If the 40,000 Huojia troops who stayed in Jingbei wanted to return to Xiangyang, they would not only have to cross the river, but also pass through Qichun, which was heavily defended by Nanping.

Rong Yanmen is the commander of the left road of Nanping, with more than 300,000 elite soldiers under his command, and is also the main combat force of the old dynasty of Nanping, distributed along the river from the north of Jing County to Jiangguan, and the main assembly places are Jingjun Yuzhang, Jingxiang Qichun, Jingxiang Jingzhou, Jingxiang Yiling, Nanping Linxiang, etc. The Yuzhang garrison spied on the northern part of Jing County and Yue County, the Qichun garrison spied on Yongning, the Yiling and Jingzhou garrisons spied on Xiangyang, and the Linxiang garrison guarded the northern border of Nanping.

The line from Yuzhang to Qichun is the eastern front of Nanping, and before Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang went to Nanping, Nanping gathered nearly 80,000 elite troops on the eastern front. The line from Jingzhou to Yiling is the northern line of Nanping, which has gathered more than 150,000 elite combat forces, and Jiangguan has borne all the pressure from the direction of Chengdu and Chongqing, but the garrison is only more than 5,000 people. However, since the beginning of the year, Nanping's deployment on the eastern and northern fronts has quietly changed. Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang brought 50,000 remnants of troops to the Eastern Front, and Rong Yanmen continued to transfer troops from the Eastern Front to the already quite terrifying Northern Front, and transferred troops from the Southern Front to resist Sanmiao and Nanning Yuejia to strengthen the defense of Linxiang, and the Linxiang garrison under his command was also transferred to the Northern Front, and now has gathered more than 25 elite combat forces on the Northern Front. Although the Jiangguan garrison was small, it was actually an extension of the northern front; Yiling, an important town on the northern route, can reach Jiangguan by going back more than 200 miles along the river. When Rong Yanmen launched an offensive against the Huo family, he used Yiling as a gathering place for materials, grain and grass, in preparation for today's large-scale army into Chengyu.

It is almost certain that as long as Rong Yanmen can capture Yuzhou, the forces assembled by Nanping on the northern front will continue to be sent into Shu along the line of Yiling, Jiangguan, and Yuzhou. The eastern front of Nanping will have to shrink back due to insufficient troops, at least until the conquest of Chengdu and Chongqing, Rong Yanmen is unable to interfere with the situation in Yuejun. Xu Ruyu had been waiting for such an opportunity as early as after winning the Battle of Southern Fujian.

At this time, Xu Ruyu personally led the elite soldiers to deter the Yuejun family, making everyone in Jiangning cry and laugh, Zhang Zhongdao shouted: "Let Qingfeng cavalry escort Ruyu and Wei Yu back to Jiangning, and let Xing Kunmin lead the army to harass the territory of the Zhu clan." ”

When Xu Boying left Guangling, he guessed that Xu Ruyu would personally lead the army of the five schools to sneak across the river, and also knew that Xu Ruyu would rush back to Jiangning before Youli gave birth, and did not persuade Xu Ruyu to return to Jiangning together, but he did not expect Rong Yanmen to capture Yuzhou so smoothly.

Shao Haitang said indifferently: "When you receive the news, you will make a decision. It was expected that the Nanping army would enter Shu, although the news came in a bit hastily, but Jiang Ning had been preparing for it, and now it was just stepping up. ”

Jiang Lingtian said: "Originally, I was preparing for Xiao Wuye to lead the elite troops from Nanmin to return to Jiangning to participate in the offensive against the Zhu family, but now I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for him. ”

Nghe An amassed more than 50,000 elite troops, of which 40,000 troops could be transferred back to Jiangning to participate in the offensive against the Zhu people, and Jiangning could almost mobilize nearly 200,000 troops to solve the problem of Yue County. If the war in Nghe An is over, Jiang Ning cannot count on tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Nghe An. All the armies that participated in the Battle of Jinghai were resting, and the Jinghai Battalion lost more than half of its losses in the Battle of Jinghai.

In the southeast, apart from Jiangning, no other force can realize that Nanping will shrink the eastern front in the short term. Even if the timing is a little long, if the Zhu clan redeploys with the contraction of the eastern front of Nanping, Jiangning will lose many advantageous fighters.

At present, Jiangjin is on good terms with Jiangning in the face of the pressure of the troops on the eastern front of Nanping; Once the eastern front of Nanping shrinks, Jiangning will become the biggest threat to the forces in the southeast, and the relationship between Jiangjin, Qinghe, Donghai, Yuhang, Wuzhou, and Jiangning will undergo earth-shaking changes. The internal contradictions in the East China Sea can be temporarily alleviated by the pressure of Jiang Ning, and Jiang Ning's forces on the north bank of the river can be contained together.

You Li Yin leaned on the brocade couch behind the saman and said: "The strategy of the princes is no worse than that of Ru Yu alone, and the senators of the three governments are all present, so they can make a decision, and there is no need to wait for Ru Yu to return to Jiangning." ”

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