The night party was too long.

Until noon the next day, Xu Ruyu seemed to put away his talk, bent his left hand on the case and lightly buckled it a few times, and said: "It's really late to meet with the princes, if it weren't for the fact that all the princes have important things to do, Ruyu still wants to talk to the princes as before." ”

Everyone laughed so hard that their mouths were numb, and they hated it in their hearts, but they couldn't make color on their faces, and they all smiled: "Talking to adults, you get a lot, you get a lot." ”

After everyone left, Jue'er stretched her waist and kicked Xu Ruyu's shoulder to stand up, couldn't help yawning, covered her lips lightly with her bare hands, and saw Xu Ruyu staring at herself with a smile, her face flushed, and she nudged him, and said: "Their search for the stomach and stomach is the first hour for you, it's really difficult for them." ”

"When the news of the defeat of the Jingxiang Huo family in Nanping came, not only Gongliang Youqin and Zongzheng Xunda had the idea of recuperating, but most of the families in Nanmin thought that I couldn't wait to return to Qingjiang. There is no good chance of a decisive battle with Gongliang Youqin, but in order to deter the Southern Fujian family, it is still necessary to make a duel with Gongliang Youqin. Xu Ruyu looked at Jue'er's beautiful eyes and said softly: "In the afternoon, you still have to go to the Tianbao with me, you go to the back house to rest." ”

Ding Mianchen and He Zhou imprisoned Zeng Zhi, refused to send grain and grass to the Puji bandits, raised the strength of the whole city to defend Longyan, and coordinated with Gantang Yang Shangbu to restrain Gongliang Youqin from advancing westward. However, when the Puji bandits landed in the eastern part of Longyan, several villages outside the city failed to withdraw into Longyan City in time, and under the pressure of the Puji bandits besieging and trapping the village, these villages successively handed over the grain stored in the village. However, Zongzheng Xunda suppressed other forces in Longyan, limited the amount of grain stored in the village outside the city, and under the strong oppression of Gongliang Youqin, he obtained less than 30,000 quintals of grain and grass from the village in the east of the city.

Zongzheng Xunda was unwilling to withdraw from Southern Fujian, and in early July, he moved south along the tortuous coastline by sea and land.

The villages in the north of Longquan were all destroyed under Xu Ruyu's strict orders. The two cities of Longyan and Longquan are the walls, and Feng Yuanyuan commands the elite soldiers as the base, and builds a bag-shaped defense in a circle of hundreds of miles between the two cities.

The leather armor was piled up on the desk, Jue'er held the fan and fanned it gently, leaning on the soft couch and watching Xu Ruyu under the candle flame to examine the topographic map of Southern Fujian attentively, leaning forward, and constantly drawing a virtual marching route with her hands.

Jue'er said in a coquettish voice: "It has long been said that Zhao Jingyun, Li Gonglin, Ding Mianchen, and He Zhou will assist Feng Yuanyuan to drive the 40,000 Puji bandits into the sea. In my opinion, with Yang Shang, it is difficult to lose here. ”

Xu Ruyu stood up straight with his hands, his eyes swept over the topographic map at great speed, turned to look, and said: "Zongzheng Xunda was trapped in the Tiger Swallow Gorge, and he should have been out of food recently, but he did not have the slightest intention of surrendering, and only by driving Gongliang Youqin into the sea as soon as possible can he avoid a large number of casualties in the Tiger Swallow Gorge." ”

Zong Zheng Xunda could not survive for a long time, Xu Ruyu had already regarded the more than 30,000 trapped Southern Fujian guards in the Tiger Swallow Gorge as the reserve source of the Qingyan Army, how could he tolerate a large number of casualties?

Jue'er turned her head, propped her chin, and asked curiously, "Since you are so earnest, why don't you lead the army yourself?" ”

"Mr. Shao's letter persuading me to settle down in Nanfu and settle down in the overall situation, and it is not appropriate to compete with others for merit, haven't you seen that I have been eating a vegetarian meal for a few days?"

Seeing Ru Yu frowning bitterly, Jue'er burst out laughing, remembered something, and said: "Jin Niang sent some rare things today, which are indeed exquisite, and I want you to send them back after seeing them, but you are still in the barracks at night, so I will let people send them back, Li Yuanji is soft." ”

After that night banquet, Li Yuanji couldn't get sick, and locked himself in a private house in the city, neither friends nor leaving the city. It was not until the Puji bandits invaded the northern part of Longquan in early July, as Xu Ruyu expected, that Li Yuanji reopened the banquet at home to invite the guests in the city.

The head of the family in the city was afraid to avoid it, so he was willing to go to the banquet, and none of the generals in the army attended the meeting. His position in the capital is equivalent to nothing, and he can't be dismissed, but Xu Ruyu is a piece of paperwork, and I don't know how many people are staring at the location of the Longquan capital, even hopeless people don't want to offend others at this time to intercede in front of Xu Ruyu for him.

In desperation, Li Yuanji had to let the concubine Jinniang come to welcome Jue'er.

Xu Ruyu walked over, sat down next to the edge of the couch, scooped up half of Jue'er's body and hugged it into his arms, smiled, and said: "Use it properly, its benefits are not small, ignore him for the time being." ”

Jue'er rested her head on Ru Yu's knees, looked at each other unhindered, and said: "Jue'er can understand your thoughts, Li Yuanji may not understand, Jin Niang will come to me again, I will hint one or two." ”

"The Mindong family can still maintain such strength under the suppression of Zongzheng Xunda because the Minzhong family has many talents. Li Yuanji has become cunning, do you still need to be reminded? If he wants to continue to serve as the capital of Longquan or go to the next level, the only way to implement the prefecture and county system in Longquan is for me, and he is hesitating in his heart. ”

Jue'er thinks about it, Tianhua Quanzhou in southern Fujian, and Tianhua in Quanzhou and Longquan, if the prefecture and county system can be successfully implemented in Longquan, the political power in eastern and northern Fujian will be stabilized. The Yan family occupies the two cities of Putian and Yi'an, and it cannot be solved for a while, but they will also station heavy troops in the two cities of Hui'an and Haicang.

When she opened her mouth to say something, she heard the footsteps of several people, Jue'er sat up from Ru Yu's arms, and followed Ru Yu's eyes to arrange her mane and clothes while talking: "Why did the documents from all over the world come over at this time?" ”

Xu Ruyu heard the voice of Tu Wenyong and Luo Boyuan talking, and said: "Wenyong came from Quanzhou, I am afraid that there is news of Zheng Gong. I got up and pushed the door to see that Tu Wenyong and Zhao Jingyun were stepping into the moon gate.

Tu Wenyong's face was happy, and he said from afar: "Fengzhu is attached, Zheng Gongming said that he and the Peng clan returned to Quanzhou by sea, I know that the adults are most worried about this matter, and they received a letter from the light boat, and they didn't delay for a moment, so they came over quickly, and specially presented Zheng Gong and Peng Fengming's handwritten letter. ”

Xu Ruyu stretched out his hand, and the letter in Tu Wenyong's hand was like being held by an invisible thread. Xu Gongyinrong, I still saw it in my dream yesterday, and Xu Gong taught in the past: The righteousness and benefit of the people cannot be violated. The affairs of Southern Fujian are all bad for the Zongzheng, but in the past, the old people were scattered, unable to gather strength to refuse Puji, and lived in the world, and felt very ashamed. Feng Ming was summoned in Fengzhu, and now he sent his youngest son Mu Qiu, female Mu Qiong and his clansmen to serve Feng Ming in front of the lord......"

Xu Ruyu's heart was extremely happy, and he said to Jingyun: "Go and inform Feng Yuanyuan, you can let Gongliang Youqin go back to his hometown." ”

The Puji military camp is set up by the sea, there are no sea ships and warships to block its way back, if it can't be led deeper, it is helpless in the end, and the heart is still worried about Fengzhu's instability, if Gongliang Youqin is driven into the sea, Gongliang Youqin divides his troops all the way to capture Fengzhu Mansion, and it will be too late to regret it.

Peng Fengming led the Fengzhu family to Shun Xu Ruyu so that there was no suspense in Southern Fujian, July 10, Longquan and Longyan cities frequently attacked, disturbing the Puji coastal camp, but the Puji bandits were dependent on land and water, invulnerable, the two armies were connected, there were mutual damages, and the damage of the Qingyan Army was slightly higher than that of the Puji bandits.

At the same time, Xu Ruyu issued a summoning order, ordering the soldiers of the Southern Min family to assemble in the northwest of Longquan. In the absence of the possibility of gathering and annihilating the Puji bandits, issuing the convening order is just taking advantage of the situation to capture the private soldiers of the family, and no one can reverse the situation of the Qingyan Army's entry into Southern Fujian, and there is no family to resist the order or disobey the yang and yin. By the 18th of July, the Longquan and Longyan areas had gathered up to 70,000 new troops of Xiangyong, and under strong pressure, Gongliang Youqin had to withdraw from Southern Fujian in disgrace, and thousands of people retreated to Puji Island with losses, and the Puji chain at this time was already full of devastation under the attack of the Jinghai Sea camp.

On the third day of the Puji bandits' withdrawal from Southern Fujian, Liang Bao served as the commander of the Qingyan Army's Southern Fujian Xingyuan, with the rank of general, responsible for the formation of the new army of the Southern Fujian garrison, with an establishment of 50,000 and five armies, Peng Fengming, Xue Mingrui, Li Gonglin, and He Zhou as the new lieutenants of the Southern Fujian garrison, Peng Fengming with the rank of general, Quanzhou Water Battalion, with an establishment of 10,000, and Luo Shanyang as the captain of the water battalion.

Ziyang Yalan served as the commander of the Baiyi Army and held the rank of General of Jiawei.

The elite of the 6,000 guards of the neighboring department of Banzhao was temporarily stationed in Quanzhou.

Longquan Captain He Zhou and Longyan Captain Li Gonglin each led 4,000 troops to garrison Longquan and Longyan cities, Zheng Menghuai and Tu Wenyong led nearly 40,000 villagers to enter Zhangtai and handed them over to Zhou Shizhong and Yang Shang, Yang Shang will transfer 10,000 people from them to the Gantang Department of the Xiaowei Army, Li Yin will transfer 3,000 people from them to the Gantang Water Battalion, and the rest of the township warriors will be transferred to Tunding and stationed in Zhangtai.

Feng Yuanyuan led the 5,000 elite soldiers of the Xiao Guard Army to retreat into Dongyang Fort, preparing to return to Qingjiang first after the war in Southern Fujian was completely over.

On July 25, Xu Ruyu led more than 10,000 villagers to arrive at the camp at the mouth of the East Gorge of Hutong Gorge.

Looking at Liang Bao's frowning thick eyebrows, Xu Ruyu thought that he might already know what Shui Ruying and Sleeve Er said in Le'an for the upstream and downstream of the Qingyan Army, and said: "I agreed with the Yue family in Nanning to jointly curb the old Nanping clan, according to Yunling, Wuling Mountain, and Huaiyu Mountain, if the old Nanping clan dares to brazenly enter the Jingnan area, Jingnan will become a nightmare for the old Nanping clan." You are now the head of Nan Min Xingyuan, and it is also your duty to suppress the remnants of the Yan clan together with the Yuedong family in Nanning. ”

Liang Bao raised his head slightly, let the hot wind dry the wetness in his eyes, and said: "Liang Bao guards southern Fujian for Mr., and he has a heavy responsibility, and he will go all out." ”

Xu Ruyu laughed, glanced at Jue'er beside him, and said: "You can invite Ruying and Sleeve Er to enter the shogunate and use it, if there is resistance, you can write to me, and I will support you." ”

Liang Bao nodded and said: "The formation of the new army of the Southern Fujian garrison has a long way to go, I will hand over the military affairs here to Mr., and I will go to Quanzhou first." ”

"Don't be in a hurry, the battle of Tiger Swallowing Gorge has always used you as the main general, and it is clear that you and I will lead the army into the gorge, and see how long Zongzheng Xunda can survive?"

Liang Baoyan didn't know that Xu Ruyu wanted to put the glory of this battle on his head, and he was grateful in his heart.

In the early morning of the next day, the banner covered the sky and closed, and countless stubborn armorers filled the Tiger Swallow Canyon and slowly moved westward.

Xu Ruyu, Jue'er, and Liang Bao drove side by side, followed by Zhao Jingyun, Ding Mianchen, Luo Boyuan, Peng Muqiu, Peng Muqiong, Zhou Shilong, Feng Lin and others.

At the same time, Ming Xi, Fenglin, Cao San, and Guan Jian led the 5,000 elite troops of the Su Guard Army from Yongjiabao and slowly moved north; Ziyang Yalan, Minna, and Sun Lai led the 5,000 elites of the Baiyi Army out of Zhangzhou City and marched to the camp at the mouth of the West Gorge of Hutong Gorge in the south.

Zong Zheng Xunda's two jaws were high and bulging, his beard was messy, and his narrow eyes were deep, like a trapped beast in a cage, and Zong Zheng Qu and Zong Zheng Ji Wang were all haggard horses following him.

In the past ten months, no news has come from the outside world, and the scouts in the camp have rarely returned to the camp after crossing the Fujian and Zhongshan mountains, and even if they return to the camp, it will not bring good news?

Since Xu Ruyu succeeded in attacking Quanzhou, Zongzheng Xunda fell into despair, even if he led 30,000 guards to break out of the encirclement, there was no place to stay.

The only way to break through the Dongxiakou camp and Gongliang Youqin is to go to Fengzhu or Puji. However, Liang Baosheng's surname was cautious, did not seek merit, did not rush forward, the Dongxiakou camp was as strong as a city under Liang Bao's management, the Puji bandits could not advance westward, and the Nanmin Guards broke through from the inside, and even the Dongxia camp did not take away an inch of the fortress.

Xu Ruyu glanced at Liang Bao, and the two rode forward slowly, came to the middle of the two armies, and shouted: "There is no more sky for the sect politician in Southern Fujian, why don't you dare to come forward to meet me Xu Ruyu?" ”

The sound containing Dan Xi vibrated and transmitted between the canyons, such as the dragon chanting Daze, and the ear drums of the soldiers of the two armies were transmitted far away, and the soldiers of the Ming Xi and Ziyang Yalan tribes were also clearly heard more than ten miles away. A total of more than 20,000 Qingyan troops in the three places responded with thunder, straight through the clouds.

Only the more than 30,000 Southern Fujian guards besieged by the three armies were frightened when they heard this, and their faces were as depressed as defeat.

Zongzheng Xunda sat silently on horseback, and Xu Ruyu appeared in the army, which undoubtedly showed that the general trend of Southern Fujian had been decided, and he now came to accept the remnants of the army.

With a bitter smile, he lightly clamped the horse's belly, stepped forward alone, ten steps away from Xu Ruyu, and then lightly pulled the reins to stop the mount, staring at the eyes that seemed to hide countless expressions but had no overflow, sighed in his heart, and waited for the shouting and cheering in this valley before he said slowly: "The first battle of Southern Fujian, a few months in a hurry, only 30,000 remnants of the Zongzheng clan's century-old foundation are left behind me......"

Xu Ruyu raised his eyebrows and said: "Since you were the throne of Fujian, you have destroyed the Great Wall, more than 1,000 families and two million people in Southern Fujian have turned their backs, and you have ignored it for more than ten years, so how can you sigh here at this time?" His eyes swept into the distance, and he turned to look directly at the haggard face of Zongzheng Xun Da, and said: "I think that your Zongzheng family was the last generation of the King of Fujian, and he was restless at night and tasteless because of the bandits, and when he came to your office, he colluded with the bandits to covet ill-gotten wealth and suppress dissidents, how can you be qualified to sigh here?" ”

The sentence was like a pound to the chest, Zongzheng Xunda suddenly felt that his breath was stagnant, he took a long breath, looked a little, and said: "There are still 30,000 elite soldiers around me, I didn't come here to listen to your count." ”

Xu Ruyu snorted coldly and said, "Thirty thousand elite soldiers, how many people can you drive now?" ”

The ten ** of the Southern Fujian family belong to the Qingyan Army, in the past ten months, the families have sent people here to shout surrender, if it is not for the abnormal soldiers trapped in the camp, the military strength left here at this time is afraid that it is less than 10,000 people. As long as Xu Ruyu gave the order to attack, the army in hunger and panic would immediately collapse.

Seeing Zongzheng Xunda's expression, Xu Ruyu said solemnly: "In the battle of Southern Fujian, the Zongzheng clan is the first to sin, the Zongzheng clan needs to go to the throne of Fujian, analyze the clan for the people, confiscate the clan property, and the adult men and women of the relatives are criminalized, and those who are not the first evildoers can be pardoned for five or ten years, and the first evil is listed as war prisoners, and the young ones are civilians and live in Qingjiang." Those who surrender to the general and coerce will not be prosecuted, and those who follow the evil can be pardoned and punished first-class, and ordinary soldiers will not be guilty of any crime, or they will be registered in the Southern Fujian people, or they will be registered in the Qingyan Army, and they will be given 10 to 30 acres of land. After a pause, he continued: "If it doesn't fall at noon, I will attack, and at that time, I will not be able to tolerate this affection." After that, regardless of Zongzheng Xunda's reaction, he rode back.

Xu Ruyu's conditions were all said in a loud voice, and the more than 30,000 guards in the camp could hear it clearly.

Zongzheng Xunda reluctantly returned to the camp, weak and about to fall off his horse, and the left and right sergeants hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

Zongzheng Xunda reluctantly said: "What do the generals think? ”

Everyone said, "Listen to the general." ”

Zongzheng Xunda looked around and felt that he was surrounded by everyone, and if he said "no surrender", they would rebel together.

Zong Zhengqu's face was as pale as dirt, he was listed as a prisoner of war, life and death were in the hands of Xu Ruyu, Danxi controlled his voice, and said to his father: "There is no battle to fight, we can only lead the elite to highlight Fujian Zhongshan." ”

Zongzheng Xunda shook his head, I don't know what Xu Ruyu is capable of, he actually set up a battle force in the Zhencheng Ridge that is comparable to the elite of the Qingjiang cavalry battalion, but if he thinks about other places, he will inevitably be like an iron wall that cannot penetrate through the past.

If you lose your power, your army, and your property, where will you become a lost dog? The most terrifying thing is that there are many people around the generals who are eager to offer good things to Xu Ruyu, they are watching their every move with fierce eyes, if it wasn't for Xu Ruyu's appointment time, they would have defected a long time ago.

Zongzheng Xunda waved his hand and said weakly: "Come over at noon." ”

Speaking out of the middle of the sky, the scorching sun was like fire, Xu Ruyu and Liang Bao rode their horses between the two armies, and they didn't seem to feel the heat at all, and looked at the camp with the gate closed calmly.

Orr, the camp gate slowly opened, Zong Zhengqu slowly walked out with a corpse in his arms, and Zong Zheng Ji Wang and the generals tied their hands and followed him out.

Xu Ru was stunned there, thinking: Zongzheng Xunda is faceless after all. Walking to a hundred paces, the generals stopped, Zong Zhengqu continued to walk forward with the corpse in his arms, walked in front of Xu Ruyu's horse, knelt down on his knees, and shouted: "Wang Zongzheng Xunda of Nanmin County surrenders to the Qingyan Army. He fell to the ground and raised the corpse in his hand with his elbows.

Zong Zheng Xunda, who died by suicide, had a face full of dying despair, the black blood at the corner of his mouth was not wiped clean, the neat battle armor flashed with silver light, and a letter was lightly tied with a ribbon on his chest, with more than ten words written on it, "Sin King Zongzheng Xunda Cheng Qingfeng General Xu Ruyu" more than ten words, the handwriting was mellow and neat, and meticulous.

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