Chengdu-Chongqing County is located in the southwest depression area, surrounded by high mountains and mountains, and only a handful of dangerous roads such as Puyin Pass Road and parallel canyons are connected to the outside world. For a hundred years, the chaos and war spread like a plague in all counties of Zhongzhou, but Chengdu-Chongqing County blocked the plague-like chaos and war from the Puyin Pass and the parallel canyon because of the closed terrain.

The Luo clan guarded the Puyin Pass to block the northern heroes who were eyeing the tigers, the Wu clan guarded the parallel canyon and blocked the heroes who looked down on the world in the east, and the two heroes of Chengdu and Chongqing used generations of marriage to maintain the covenant between the two. In addition to the incessant chaos of the Di people in the southwest mountains, the hinterland of Chengyu County in the Puyin Pass and the parallel canyon has not experienced war for about a hundred years. In particular, Rongcheng, as one of the four capitals of the old dynasty, has continued to prosper for more than 200 years, which can be described as a miracle in the history of Zhongzhou, which is full of wars and riots.

But the miracle can only last until Rong Yanmen enters Chengdu-Chongqing.

When Rong Yanmen attacked Yuzhou, he continuously sent troops to Chengdu and Chongqing, and advanced to the northwest for more than 500 miles in just two months. The defenses organized by the Wu clan and the Luo clan on the offensive route of the Nanping army were torn apart by the swift and thunderous offensive.

The Wuluo and Luo clans gathered the troops under their jurisdiction to form a coalition army with a total strength of more than 250,000, but several consecutive field battles were not conducive to the coalition army, and the loss of tens of thousands of troops was lost.

In addition, Wu Luo and his family also sent an elite combat force to detour back between Zishui and Lingshui, disturb the grain route of the Nanping West Expedition Army, and threaten Yuzhou City. The Nanping Western Expeditionary Army's fierce offensive was stopped outside Rongcheng and Meizhou three months after Yuan Xun attacked the city of Yuzhou.

When the Nanping army first entered Chengdu-Chongqing, the Wu clan wandered between resisting the city and temporarily avoiding the front, often with insufficient defense preparations, and the materials in the city could not be evacuated, so they were given to the Nanping Western Expeditionary Army in vain. The wealth of Chengdu and Chongqing, the generals of the Nanping West Expeditionary Army were dumbfounded, the Nanping Front Offensive Department advanced to Shujing along the two lines of Lingshui and Zishui, this area belongs to the edge of the Shuzhong Plain, although it is not the essence of the Shuzhong Plain, but the materials captured by the capture of Rucheng are enough to supply the 200,000 Western Expeditionary Army for a year.

Although the Wu and Luo families sent elite troops to disturb the grain routes of the attacking troops in Nanping, the supply of the front-line troops in Nanping did not depend on the supply from the rear.

The offensive of the Western Expeditionary Army was as fierce as the fire of the plain, but Rong Yanmen, as the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, always stayed in the city of Yuzhou.

The river water has become turbid since Jingjiang Lake in Jingzhou, although the river water outside the city of Yuzhou is mighty but clear and beautiful, as if there is a bright woman with the surname of a wild horse, the Lingshui that comes from the north is gentle as jade, the two waters meet, open up the water surface of four or five miles, in Yuzhou, which is accustomed to seeing mountains and hills, it is more magnificent. The bright glow on the top of the distant mountain seems to sink in the river, and the glow shines in the water.

Rong Yanmen likes the scenery here very much, and every night he either stands at the head of the city and gazes, or stands alone on the sandbar where the water waves swirl. Ge scarf tied his hair, and the blue silk robe swayed slightly in the river breeze, but the light in his eyes was as gorgeous as the bright glow.

Wu Qingyi squatted down, looked at his own vague shadow in the river, and thought in his heart that his life would be as broken and blurred as the shadow in the water, and the sigh he spit out gently fell into the wind swirling on the river, and he couldn't smell it. The hair that was blown up was brushed on the face like red nephrite, the melancholy hidden in the bright eyes was like the blue background in the dark eyes, the two curved eyebrows were as delicate as they had been painted, and the undulating body in the skirt couldn't help but throb in the bottom of his heart.

Yuan Gongchen failed to bring Wu Qingyi into the room after all, and after Rong Yanmen arrived in Yuzhou, Rong Sifu sent Wu Qingyi to Yuzhou City. Rong Yanmen only said one sentence: "Why did you send her?" Rong Sifu couldn't hear the cracking sound in the depths of his soul, so he naturally didn't know the meaning of Rong Yanmen's words.

Rong Yanmen thought that his cultivation was complete, and only because of Wu Qingyi's brilliant glance, a slight crack appeared. Rong Yanmen knew that his heart was moved, looked at Wu Qingyi's calm and clear eyes, and said, "You can go back to Shujing, and the warriors in Yuzhou City will not stop you." ”

Wu Qingyi smiled sadly and said: "The red face of the troubled times is just a dazzling bead ornament on the man's bright helmet, today it is not hanging above your head, it is hanging above his head in Ming said, Shujing, Yuzhou, isn't it the same?" ”

Rong Yanmen did not say anything, and Wu Qingyi stopped in Yuzhou for three months and stayed by Rong Yanmen's side.

Wu Qingyi looked at Rong Yanmen's grim side face, sometimes secretly pondering the thoughts of the people in front of him, and sometimes wondering if Xu Ruyu, who was five thousand miles away, would consider the same problem as the people in front of him.

Rong Yanmen turned around and said softly, "Can Tsing Yi want to see that Qingfeng general?" ”

Wu Qingyi was slightly startled, his ruddy lips opened slightly, and he was surprised how Rong Yanmen guessed what he was thinking at this time, but he couldn't help but blush and fly up his cheeks.

Rong Yanmen smiled slightly and said: "When Hu Benlang attacked Tsing Yi City, Tsing Yi said a word, I think Tsing Yi should be willing to meet the famous General Qingfeng, Yuan Xun will represent Nanping to envoy Jiang Ning, Tsing Yi can go with Yuan Xun if he is interested." Youyou sighed and said, "If you think the scenery of Jiangning is pleasant, Tsing Yi will stay there." ”

Yuan Xun was originally the main general of Lingshui, and Rong Yanmen recalled him back to Yuzhou before saying that he was originally asked to send him to Jiangning. If it weren't for the fact that the war here couldn't be separated, Rong Yanmen would probably be willing to go there in person. Yuan Xun's envoy to Jiang Ning was to observe the ceremony for Xu Ruyu's newborn, and it was also Rong Yanmen who really regarded Xu Ruyu as his lifelong enemy, so he would not hesitate to send Yuan Xun to Jiangning at this juncture to stab Jiangning's situation.

Yuan Xun sent an envoy to Jiangning, and General Rong Yan personally went to the front line, Wu Qingyi's eyes were slightly blurred, and he didn't understand why he had to accompany the envoy.

In August, the autumn water is in full bloom, down the water, the boat is fast, there is an ancient saying: the morning is Baiyi, and the twilight is to Jiangling. Jiangling is a territory of Jingzhou, thousands of miles away, but it is just a trip. Yuan Xun stopped in Jingzhou for a while, met with Ling Fengjing, and reported the battle of Chengdu and Chongqing in detail. Yuan Xun said that he went to the mouth of the Jingjiang River in Yuezhou to meet with the envoy of the Han court in Linxiang, but he did not know that the envoy sent by Linxiang was Yuan Gongchen who had let Rong Yanmen drive back to Nanping a few months ago.

When Yuan Gongchen stretched out his feet and stepped into the Yuan Xun boat, he saw Wu Qingyi standing quietly on the side side. Although Wu Qingyi is masked, but Yuan Gongchen has been sleepless since returning to Linxiang, thinking day and night, Wu Qingyi's eyebrows and eyes are frowning, raising his hands and whispering all the time in Yuan Gongchen's heart, even if he glimpses a corner of the placket, there is no reason to admit mistakes, Yuan Gongchen never expected that Wu Qingyi would be in the mission, at that moment, like a thunderhammer, he only felt a loud roar in his heart, no thoughts, no thoughts, stepped into the empty place, fell into the water, and stirred up a splash of more than a foot high.

Yuan Xun was close to the side, despising him in his heart, and he was annoyed that Linxiang took it upon himself to send this envoy, and coldly saw him lose his soul and fall into the water, and he did not help. Wu Qingyi turned his head to look, only to see the splash, and he didn't know why.

Yuan Gongchen hurriedly climbed ashore, ashamed and angry in his heart, and asked the attendant to take the official uniform and change it on, and didn't dare to look at Wu Qingyi again. Yuan Xun let the embarrassed and angry Yuan Gongchen into the ship, looked at the attendant warrior who wanted to get on the ship later, stood sideways in front of the ship, raised his eyebrows and said: "The ship is small, Yuan Zheng has made one person redundant, how can there be more waste?" "The ships north of Linxiang were all transferred by Ling Fengjing, and Yuan Gongchen had no choice but to let the attendants carry the envoy's congratulatory gifts to the ship, so that they could return to Linxiang first.

The river turns to the northeast to Yuezhou, there are 600 miles of waterway to the mouth of the Hanshui of Jiangxia, from the Hankou of Jiangxia, the river turns to the southeast, to the mouth of Pengli Lake in Jiangzhou (Xunyang), there are nearly 800 miles of waterway.

Yuan Xun set off from Yuezhou, and arrived in Jiangzhou (Xunyang) in three days.

Gongliang Youqin only saw Yuan Xun once, at that time Yuan Xun and Rong Yanmen were not in harmony on the surface, Gongliang Youqin didn't know the details, and naturally didn't pay attention to Yuan Xun. After Yuan Xun followed Rong Yanmen to the west, Gongliang Youqin realized that Yuan Xun and Rong Yanmen lost harmony but a strategy to slack off the vigilance of the Chengyu family, and Yuan Xun was really a heavy general who Rong Yanmen relied on as his arm. Gongliang Youqin knew that he was under the fence, and he naturally did not dare to be snub to Yuan Xun and other famous generals in Nanping, not to mention that Yuan Xun had just come from Rong Yanmen, so he rushed to Jiangzhou from Yuzhang to meet Yuan Xun.

In addition to the fertile land around Pengli Lake, the rest of the area in Jingbei is mostly lofty mountains and mountains, and various forces compete for Jing County, and the wars are mostly concentrated in the cities around Pengli Lake, as well as the cities on the tributaries of Pengli Lake.

Qichun, Jiangzhou, Yuzhang and other places are the easternmost line of Nanping, Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang withdrew their forces from Baishi and Puji, and then defended the eastern defense line for Rong Yanmen. Rong Yanmen led the army to the west, and the army on the eastern front was only 60,000 elite soldiers (30,000 water battalions and 30,000 foot soldiers). Across Pengli Lake, Raozhou, Pengze and other places are the last base of the Huo family in Jing County.

Recently, Huo Qingtong went to Wuzhou to meet Xu Ruyu, and he could guess one or two of the intentions of Gongliang Youqin. It has not been half a year since the Jinghai Wars, and he has to face Wei Yu head-on, and Gongliang Youqin does not know whether it is anger or fear, or other fierce but vague emotions that fill his heart.

Yuan Xun said: "Zuo Governor had expected this when he was in Yuzhou. The matter of the western expedition will not be completed for a while and a half, and the left governor of the east will not have time to take care of it. Zuo Governor asked Xun to send an envoy to Jiang Ning, and the only thing he told Xun was: Don't be arrogant. Governor Zuo also hoped that Mr. Gongliang would be vigilant. ”

Gongliang Youqin was silent, but Yuan Xun ignored him and said: "Zuo Governor said that Jingnan Yuan Longyi used considerable troops, Nanping should be settled, Jiang Ning replaced Huo's to take over Raozhou, Pengze and other places, before the end of the Western Expedition, Yuan Longyi's choice can determine the direction of Jing County, Zuo Governor hopes that Mr. Gongliang will not ignore this." ”

The Yuan clan holds the command of the Jingnan family coalition army, and the Jingnan family alliance army has a strength of up to 100,000, although Huo Qingtong regards it as a rabble, but when Jiangning and Nanping are unable to take care of Jing County, these 100,000 troops are the decisive force for the direction of the situation in Jing County.

Gongliang Youqin remembered something and said: "Jiangning is blocked in the East China Sea in the north, if Xu Ruyu is committed to expanding his power to Jingjun, what can he do? ”

Yuan Xun smiled and said, "The Huo clan has been invading Jing County for several years, and the Jingnan Coalition Army is getting stronger and stronger, even if Xu Ruyu wants to expand his power to Jing County, he will be extremely careful. This time, the Jingnan family will also send someone to Jiangning to explore the truth, but they can't guess who it will be. ”

Huo Qingtong ceded Raozhou and Peng Ze to Jiangning, and the three seedlings in Yunling were no longer allies in the ordinary sense because of the relationship between the Yue family, so it can be said that Jingnan faced the threat of Jiangning on three sides, why didn't the Jingnan family worry?

On 10 September, Yuan Xun left Jiangzhou on an envoy's boat and continued to sail downstream downstream.

Although Pengze controlled by the Huo clan is a riverside city, the Huo water camp has forced the Nanping water camp back into the Han River, and the shadow of the Huo water camp warship can no longer be seen on Peng Li Lake and the river. When the ship passed through Pengze, it was not intercepted by Huo's army.

Entering the waters of Wuzhou, Yuan Xun ordered the ship to stop at the shore and sent Hu Cong to deliver the envoy to Wuzhou City by land. Looking at the detached vines on the ground on the edge of Wuzhou, Yuan Xun felt a little impatient in his heart. The big tent of the Fengling camp in Jiangning was set up in Wuzhou, but Wei Yu was temporarily in Xin'an, and Wuzhou was temporarily presided over by Xiao Wuye.

Jiangning has 30,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 water battalions stationed in Wuzhou and Nanling, in addition, the 30,000 troops in Liyang are also not to be ignored by Nanping. Even if Zhu Tongshan is not used by Xu Ruyu, Jiang Ning can slowly transform these 30,000 surrenders into elite combat power loyal to Jiang Ning.

Yuan Xun secretly thought: Just as Zuo Du regards Xu Ruyu as his lifelong rival, Xu Ruyu is also very careful about Zuo Du.

Coming out of Yuzhou, Wu Qingyi never got off the boat, and the two maids in Tsing Yi City stayed by her side, and Rong Yanmen also asked her to take these two maids out this time.

Yuan Xun said to Wu Qingyi: "The envoy book is handed to Wuzhou, Xiao Wuye has to transfer to Jiangning, it takes a lot of time, we have to stop in Wuzhou City for a long time before we can continue to go to Jiangning." ”

Wu Qingyi asked: "The Liyang War has just ended, and the city of Wuzhou is probably very depressed. ”

Yuan Xun smiled slightly, and said: "This is the border between Yue County and Jing County, civilians dare not go to the border land to cultivate, it looks very barren, the Liyang War, Xu Ruyu won it without effort, it did not involve Wuzhou City, Xu Ruyu sent so many soldiers and horses to Wuzhou City, the city should look lively." ”

The two Hu who delivered the envoy's book walked to Wuzhou City, waited for a long time, and came back on horseback, followed by two people, one was a Jiangning scribe, wearing a purple official uniform, with a branch of Hanmei embroidered on the cuffs and placket, and the other was an ordinary soldier. The official system of Jiangning is not perfect, and the civil and military officials wear purple, and according to the different government offices to which they belong, different floral ornaments are embroidered on the cuffs and plackets, and the rank is related to the number of floral ornaments. Qingfeng Mansion is special, and the collar has Qingfeng ornamentation. However, there are very few officials directly under Qingfeng Mansion, which is also what makes the various forces wonder: Xu Ruyu really doesn't care about power?

A Hanmei is about a clerk of the first rank of the county governor and the county lieutenant of the political affairs hall.

Yuan Xun looked at this Jiangning official fixedly, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, Qingjun's face was a little arrogant, although his skills could not be compared with himself, but he could be regarded as a good hand, and the rare quiet elegance made Yuan Xun vigilant. There is no killing aura on his body, so he should not be a person in the Jiangning army.

Yuan Xun was thinking about it, and the official had already dismounted from his horse with Hu Cong, and he waved to Yuan Xun and the others across the narrow line of water, and said, "Zhao Mingchen, the deacon of the Honglu Division of the Jiangning Political Affairs Hall, has seen your envoy. ”

Yuan Xun returned the salute and said: "Jiangning is festive, all parties congratulate, I wonder how many days we have to stay in Wuzhou City to witness the grand occasion?" ”

Zhao Mingchen said: "There is no need to wait in Wuzhou City, as long as your envoy allows Zhao Mingchen to get on the boat, the ship can sail directly to Jiangning." ”

Jiang Ning expected to send envoys to Nanping, and had already sent a foreign affairs official to wait in Wuzhou. Yuan Xun was slightly shocked in his heart, it seems that this person is not a simple role in Jiangning, he has to be ordered, he needs to be careful along the way, and he must not show any words.

Yuan Xun asked the boat board to be put on the shore and led Zhao Mingchen and Hu Cong onto the boat. Bing Ben saluted Zhao Mingchen and said, "Lord Zhao, the little one will go back to Wuzhou to resume his life." He led the four horses to Wuzhou City.

Wu Qingyi stood on the deck looking at the scenery on both sides of the strait, and when he saw Zhao Mingchen coming on board, he saluted and wanted to return to the cabin.

Zhao Mingchen was surprised: "But the girl in Tsing Yi? ”

Wu Qingyi was wearing ordinary clothes, and she was covered with green gauze, Zhao Mingchen recognized Wu Qingyi at a glance, which made Yuan Xun very surprised, Yuan Xun asked: "Lord Zhao also knows the name of the girl in Qingyi." ”

Zhao Mingchen laughed loudly, but he was not crazy, and said: "Your Envoy's strange plot to seize Tsing Yi, Mingchen has already heard about it in Jiangning. When Yuan Xun heard this, his face changed greatly, but Zhao Mingchen didn't realize it, and continued, "When Mingchen left Jiangning, Jiangning Stacked Yanlou Liuting Mountain was talking about this elegant affair of famous men and beauties, saying that your lord led a thousand soldiers to cross the Tianling Ridge and overcome the obstacles, and finally overcame his ......merits."

Zhao Mingchen saw that Yuan Xun's face was blue and white, and he was very ugly, and asked, "Is your envoy unsafe?" ”

Yuan Xun coughed lightly and said, "Nanping is making Yuan Gongchen Yuan's body infected with a slight illness, so he asked Yuan Xun to temporarily take care of many matters. ”

Zhao Mingchen's face changed in surprise, he took a few steps back, and made a salute again: "Zhao Mingchen, the deacon of the Honglu Division of the Jiangning Political Affairs Hall, has seen Lord Yuan Xunyuan. After a pause, his voice lowered a line and asked, "Lord Yuan is..."

Yuan Xun frowned slightly, and said, "Make Jiang Ningzuo." ”

"Oh, Vice-Chancellor." Zhao Mingchen suddenly realized and said, "I don't know what disease your envoy is infected, Mingchen has learned a little about the art of Qihuang, you might as well let Mingchen take a look for your envoy first, Mingchen can't diagnose and treat, you can invite a famous minister from Wuzhou." If your envoy fell ill on the way to Jiang Ning, how could Jiang Ning be at ease? ”

Yuan Xun secretly hated in his heart, but he couldn't stop Zhao Mingchen from not seeing Yuan Gongchen, after all, in the envoy book, Yuan Gongchen was the official envoy of this trip.

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