Xu Ruyu seemed to see through Tu Wenyong's worries, and said: "If Rong Yanmen is really the hero of the world, he will not be in a hurry to compete with me in that corner of the northwest of the Qingjiang River. ”

His right hand landed on the top of Jinyang County in the fifteen counties, and said: "Jinyang is the hometown of Jingxiang, and its original name is Xiangyang. There are three centers of gravity in the Jingxiang area, namely Xiangyang, Hankou and Jingzhou, which are like the three legs of the tripod, supporting the situation in the Jingxiang area, making Jingxiang show different strategic significance when facing different directions. Upstream from Jingzhou along the river, crossing the Three Gorges, is the main passage into Chengdu-Chongqing; The occupation of Jingzhou can prevent the eastward exit of the Yuzhou forces in eastern Sichuan. Hankou is located in the upper reaches of the southeast, which puts a lot of pressure on the southeastern family forces. From Xiangyang's Hanshui to the north, you can also pass through the Central Plains and enter the north. The resistance to the restoration of Nanping mainly came from the four northern counties, and the capture of Jingxiang and the management of Jingxiang was a strategy that could not be ignored. ”

Tu Wenyong said: "Nanping seized Jingxiang, established a defense against the four northern counties in Xiangyang, and then used Jingxiang to occupy the advantage of the upper reaches and pass through the southeast? ”

Xu Ruyu nodded, and said: "It is also possible to pass through Chengyu first, go out of Chengyu and map Longxi in Suchuan County, and then map Hanzhong and Qinzhou." Which policy will be adopted for the restoration of Nanping actually depends on the strength of the forces in the southeast. If the southeast is strong, the old Nanping clan will go down the river and seize the Chengdu-Chongqing Basin; If the southeast is weak, the old Nanping clan will go down the river and unify the south, but the north. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Occupying the Jingxiang region to gain the initiative in the overall battle situation, Rong Yanmen must not want to lose this opportunity. Although Rong Yanmen will detach a part of his troops to contain the southeastern forces, as long as the main direction of Nanping's attack is not in Qingjiang, why be afraid? ”

Despite this, it was not easy to directly face the restoration forces of the old Nanping clan.

The reason for this, Shao Haitang and others also knew that in their hearts, they not only hoped that the remnants of the Huo family in Jingbei would return to Jingxiang to strengthen the garrison, but also hoped that they would stay in Jingbei and become a buffer between Qingjiang and Nanping.

It was probably because of such a contradiction that Ding Zheng was asked to meet Xu Ruyu in person, so that he could explain their meaning clearly so that Xu Ruyu could make a decision.

In particular, the battle of Nanmin has not ended, the situation in Nanmin has not stabilized, and if there is a big mistake on the Qingjiang side, it will inevitably affect the overall situation.

Although there was such a worry, there was no need to show it in front of He Jiongyi and others, Xu Ruyu said to Ding Zheng: "The journey is tiring, you go and rest first, and then tell me the details of the Qingjiang side later." He sighed slightly, looked around at Tu Wenyong, Zhao Jingyun, Luo Boyuan, He Jiongyi and others, smiled wryly, and said, "The matter of Quanzhou depends on you. ”

Tu Wenyong was slightly stunned and asked, "Your Excellency wants to go back to Qingjiang Mansion?" ”

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "When I go back, I have to wait for the situation in Southern Fujian to stabilize initially." Said to Zhao Jingyun: "You send someone to find Li Gonglin." ”

At the beginning, it was Zhao Jingyun who commented on Li Gonglin's landscape, and now he wants Zhao Jingyun to invite Li Gonglin. Others didn't understand what they meant, but Zhao Jingyun knew it in his heart. Xu Ru foolishly wanted to go to the battlefield in northern Fujian.

Zheng Menghuai went to Fengzhu, and Quanzhou needed Xu Ruyu to be in charge personally, and now that Xu Ruyu was going to the battlefield in northern Fujian, the pressure on those who stayed in Quanzhou would increase sharply.

He Jiongyi was present, and many words were still inconvenient to say, Zhao Jingyun only pretended that he didn't know, and didn't open his mouth to ask, and Tu Wenyong retired and went to the school. Xu Ruyu is very likely to lead a new army composed of private soldiers to northern Fujian, Zhao Jingyun thought to himself: Who will be the new military captain, my lord really made such a determination?

After everyone left, Jue'er Rou stood on the case, held up her small head, glanced up and down at Xu Ruyu suspiciously, and said lazily: "You won't let me stay in Quanzhou, right?" ”

Xu Ruyu looked sideways at Jue'er's flowery beauty, reached out to press her head, and waited for her to dodge away and make fun of her, but Jue'er didn't let go, and pressed her hand directly on her smooth forehead, watching Jue'er's cheeks instantly dyed with a delicate peach blossom flush, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Xu Ruyu withdrew his hand embarrassedly, turned his head to look away, and said: "The situation in Quanzhou is quite complicated, I don't worry about you staying in Quanzhou, you should stay with me." ”

Jue'er was relieved, stood up with joy, and said, "Ding Zheng sent an envoy to Nanning, do you know who he met?" ”

Ding Zheng said that 80,000 civilians died in the battle of Yuzhang between the old clan of Nanping and the Jingxiang Huo family, Xu Ruyu was angry for a while, but forgot to ask him about the situation of the envoy to Nanning. ”

"How can you guess?"

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "Your expression is too rich, Ruying and Sleeves have been staying in Le'an since last year, what is so hard to guess?" ”

Jue'er showed a boring look, and said: "Everyone in the world says bad things about you, only Nanning remains silent, this is all the work of the shadow girl's lobbying, Ding Zheng went to Nanning, and was summoned by Yue Feixue, and it was also the work of water and shadow...... but seeing Xu Ruyu fall into a distraction, he pretended to be surprised and said: "Do you remember the time when you were in Yongyang with others?" ”

"Yue Feixue has not asked about Nanning affairs for more than ten years, and she is just strange in her heart."

"The drastic changes in the world are imminent, and Nanning cannot stay away. In the eyes of Nanping and Jinghu, the Yue family in Nanning is just a familiar Fan, not counting the Han people, Nanping's restoration cannot be stopped, how can Yue Feixue sit at ease and understand martial arts? Yue Feixue summoned Ding Zheng for a long time and asked about things related to Baiyi. ”

Xu Ruyu thought for a while and said: "For decades, only the Nanning Yue family has always been wary of Nanping. ”

The steep river built in the early years of the old dynasty, also known as the Shi'an Canal, connects Lishui and Xiangshui, is the only waterway that Nanping enters Nanning, for more than ten years, nearly half of Nanning's elite are stationed in Shi'an City, which shows the vigilance of the Yue family against the old people of Nanping. It is precisely because of this that Nanping had to station a large army in Linglingyi, which actually shared a lot of pressure for the families of Jingxiang, Jingjun, and Chengyu. Nanping's delay until today can only carry out the restoration, which is also the result of the Yue family's containment in Shi'an.

Jue'er knows a little about it, but she is not as familiar with it as Xu Ruyu. I had the heart to listen to Xu Ruyu and say it again, but it was annoying.

Yi Guanyuan found himself in Shangnan at the beginning, and asked: Nanning Yue Pei Xue and his affairs, have you heard of it? I only answered: Yue Peixue's snow watching knife is fierce and silent, like a flame in the water, the way of the ultimate knife, and the miracle list is called the ancestor of the knife.

Xu Ruyu saw that Jue'er's eyelids drooped, if she asked him the details of Ding Zheng's mission, maybe she would yawn immediately, or ask Ding Zheng himself later, smiled, and flicked her fingers, and a wisp of cold Dan Xi "poof" attached to Jue'er's forehead turned into thousands of strands and submerged into Jue'er's body.

Jue'er was not affected by the cold Dan breath at all, stretched her limbs, looked at Ru Yu with beautiful eyes, and said lazily: "I have to sleep to have energy." ”

Xu Ruyu occupied an inner house in the mansion, Xu Ruyu settled Jue'er and several female guards in the east wing of the inner house, and walked back to the front hall, where Li Gonglin was already waiting.

Li Gonglin is in the age of not being confused, with a clear and handsome face, eyes like stars, three long beards, and a green shirt, it is difficult to hide his light and dusty posture. Seeing Xu Ruyu enter the front hall, he saluted and said loudly: "My lord is calling, what is the matter?" With that, he took a half step back, and Zhuo Li's side looked indifferent.

Xu Ruyu walked to the front of the recital and sat down, pointed to the seats on the left and said, "Gonglin, sit down first and then discuss." ”

Li Gonglin sat on Xu Ruyu's left side as he said, silent, and the corner of his eyes looked at the expression on Xu Ruyu's face.

Xu Ruyu didn't think it was angry, smiled faintly, and said: "When I went to Southern Fujian, I heard the rocky peaks and peaks painted by Gonglin, the big axe is split, strange and solid, like the real peaks and mountains in front of me, strong and majestic, and myopic is like thousands of miles away. ”

Li Gonglin couldn't hide the disappointment in his heart, and said lightly: "There are many exaggerated words. ”

Xu Ruyu said to himself: "There is Gonglin's "Five Horses" in this house, I look at it, I only think that the pen is concise, elegant and quiet, the five horses have different colors and appearances, or static, or slow, the bones are evenly stopped, and the style of the landscape of Gonglin is very different from the world's comments, so I ask Gonglin to paint a landscape and compare it. ”

Li Gonglin thought to himself: Internal and external troubles, but what kind of landscape did you come to see? Looking at Xu Ruyu's calm eyes, he sighed secretly, and said sadly: "Rong Gonglin said that he would send it clearly." As he spoke, he leaned over, withdrew from his seat, and turned to leave the front hall.

Xu Ruyu looked at Li Gonglin's straight back and said, "I want to ask Gonglin to paint, but Gonglin is willing to paint in the mansion." ”

Li Gonglin suddenly turned around and looked at Xu Ruyu intently, but he couldn't find a look of humiliation for him, sighed, and said, "My lord wants Gonglin to draw in the mansion, and Gonglin obeys the order." ”

Xu Ruyu held the desk with his hand, stood up easily and pleasantly, and walked straight ahead.

Walking to the courtyard of the inner house, more than a dozen Jingwei stood up. Xu Ruyu stood still, turned around, looked at Li Gonglin and said: "Nan Min commented that Gonglin is good at sword in his left hand, and he is holding a pen in his right hand to make Xiongqi landscapes, but Jingyun commented that if Gonglin holds a weapon in his right hand, it should be a long weapon such as a halberd and a knife. Yan pointed to the instrument rack beside him.

Li Gonglin was stunned, but when he looked up, he saw Xu Ruyu's firm and undeniable gaze looking at him.

That's it, that's it, you're subject to others all your life, so why care about the humiliation of today? Li Gonglin walked over silently, picked a halberd, and squeezed it with his backhand, so that the general would come.

The size of the blur is thousands of miles, near, suddenly thousands of miles away, far away, then the opposite side meets, the stinging jumps out of the wild, and the opening and closing are majestic and tragic.

That's it, that's it, you're subject to others all your life, so why care about the humiliation of today? The halberd became more and more confused in this crazy thought.

Gradually dancing and becoming fascinated, Li Gonglin's mind and the halberd merged, and unconsciously, Dan Xi concentrated on the halberd body, and the overflowing momentum forced more than a dozen Jingwei to retreat to the corner of the courtyard.

All the Jingwei wanted to work together to suppress it, Xu Ruyu waved his hand to stop it, slowly retreated to the side of a Jingwei, drew his sword, and Xu Ruyu walked into the middle, not at all hindered by Li Gonglin's frenzied halberd. The arm was lightly raised, stretched out horizontally, like a branch slanted horizontally, piercing into the halberd.

Li Gonglin was forced by this sword, took a few steps back, turned around and drew back, and when he was with the sword, the tip of the halberd vibrated with an extremely strange curve.

Suddenly, the sword halberd touched each other more than a dozen times, the sword body was bent like a bow, but the long halberd followed, expanding and contracting in a millimeter, and every stroke hit the tip of the sword without the slightest difference.

Xu Ru foolishly saw that the sword was about to bend, the breath sank and gushed the spring, and suddenly rose to the ground, the curved sword was steep and straight, and floated far away in the sky by elastic force, and when it fell, the sword momentum was swept away, like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves, although it was soft and weak, but it was very natural through Li Gonglin's halberd potential. The head of the sword froze, the sword sink, and the bell struck the head of the halberd. Li Gonglin couldn't withstand the huge force of the sinking halberd head, and staggered back a few steps before he stopped.

Li Gonglin leaned against the courtyard wall, came to his senses, looked at the halberd that fell at his feet, and looked at Xu Ruyu looking at himself with a long sword in his hand, and immediately understood, his face turned pale with horror, knelt on the ground, and said sadly: "Your subordinates should die, offend your lord." Subordinates should be damned, offending adults. ”

Xu Ruyu laughed and said: "I'm itchy for a while, try to recruit with you, what's the matter with you?" You get up. ”

Li Gonglin got up, looked at Xu Ruyu's beautiful face and did not seem to be fake, and his heart was a little fixed, I don't know why Xu Ruyu wanted to see him use the halberd, and he was still puzzled in his heart, but his recklessness just now made him feel palpitations, and he didn't dare to ask anything.

Xu Ruyu said: "Gonglin made the halberd really reach thousands of miles of mountains and rivers between the dimensions, and I benefited a lot. Everyone commented on the size of the Gonglin landscape, but I think that the comments are still not in place, I look at the Gonglin landscape, a little green mountain such as a male soldier and stand, the green water around like a soldier, I want to see the Gonglin army for thousands of miles of mountains and rivers. ”

Li Gonglin was stunned, and he didn't know how to speak.

Xu Ruyu turned around and returned to the front hall, but Li Gonglin was still stunned and didn't know what to do.

Zhao Jingyun came to look for Xu Ru's foolish words, and when he saw the scene just now, he saw Li Gonglin standing there stunned, and said loudly: "My lord, please ask General Li to explain the troops. ”

Li Gonglin came back to his senses, noticed that Zhao Jingyun's title had changed, and asked, "What, what General Li?" ”

Zhao Jingyun was about to make fun of him, but when he saw Xu Ruyu turn around and look at him with a smile, he hurriedly swallowed the words that were about to blurt out, pointed to the front hall and said, "My lord, please ask Brother Gonglin to enter the front hall to explain the troops." ”

"Ahh Li Gonglin re-entered the front hall as if he had lost his soul.

Zhao Jingyun sighed secretly.

Li Gonglin is the son of the Li family in Longquan, the young Qijun is the crown of Southern Fujian, it is inevitable that everyone is slandered, his brother Li Yuanji is the most jealous, and then enters Quanzhou as the quality, for the calligraphy and painting officials, the palace is enshrined, and he has been in trouble for 20 years, and he has a lot of affection for ink and wash landscapes, but his chest is a thousand miles of Xiongqi.

Before Zheng Menghuai went to Fengzhu, he suggested that Li Gonglin should not be used for the time being, so as not to change Longquan.

The situation in Qingjiang is grim, Xu Ruyu cannot sit in Quanzhou for a long time, and the reuse of Li Gonglin is a risky strategy, but it is a strange strategy. Although Li Gonglin was born in a family, he is not actually a member of a family. Li Gonglin's talent is more than qualified as a new military academy captain, and can balance the power of the Mindong family.

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