On the west bank of Yunxi, the green grass meets the sky, and the sky is a lush mountain forest, green and distinct. In the barren grass that spread over people's waists, Ban Zhaolin shook the iron sword in his hand, and looked into the distance with his eyes intently.

After a while, hundreds of people swept north along the cloud stream, cloaked in firmness and perseverance, and the cold light of the blades of hundreds of various weapons reflected the stream. Dozens of scouts were scattered around. From time to time, the dull horn of the ox whistle sounded "whirring", sweeping over the sparkling water, wild grass, shrubs, gentle slopes, and depressions to disperse in all directions.

"Puff puff", dozens of sticks shot out of the wild grass, the current more than ten scouts fell down when they heard the sound, and one of them rolled down the slope embankment into the cloud stream, splashing a splash, and instantly the blood stained the clear stream red.

A sharp whistle sounded suddenly.

Hundreds of people quickly formed a defensive formation, the sword and shield hands occupied the periphery, squatted down, and protected the half-body round shield in front of them, the halberd halberd tail was inserted into the ground, and the halberd tip was pointed obliquely from the gap between the round shields, and the longbowmen took out their longbows one after another, took arrows and drew strings, and pointed obliquely in the air, but their eyes looked straight ahead.

Fifty men from each flanked out, forming two wings with the scouts who had gathered to defend both sides.

Ban Zhaolin pulled out his iron sword, raised his arms and shouted, and five hundred soldiers from the village behind him rushed out one after another, rushing towards the outpost of the Puji bandits. In a moment's time, the arrows flew like rain, and they all rushed into the living human body, and the blood shot out. Not long after the two armies met, the Puji outpost retreated slowly, and the two flanks attacked with pincers. After a while, the two flanks were united in one place, taking the offensive of the soldiers of the Minzhai village, and the outpost was separated from the battlefield and retreated.

The soldiers of the village retreated into formation, drew their longbows, and shot at the current enemy one after another. There were no longbowmen in the wing array, and the thirty half-body round shields could not protect more than a hundred people, and people kept falling from arrows.

By the time the enemy in front of him was routed, the Puji outpost was already a thousand paces away.

Seeing that it was difficult to catch up, Ban Zhaolin ordered the troops to be collected, and slowly retreated to Yuzhan Ridge.

Xu Ruyu slowly walked out of a tall tree, and walked towards the battlefield with a slight brow, looking quite dissatisfied with the battle that had just happened. Liang Bao followed behind him without saying a word.

When the Puji bandits fled, seven or eight seriously injured Puji bandits were abandoned on the battlefield, the Qingyan army had an iron law of not killing prisoners, and the soldiers of the village did not dare to disobey lightly.

Xu Ruyu sighed secretly, looking at the dead corpses on the ground, seven or eight dying people clinging to the dead corpses, and when they were about to die, their eyes were still so fierce and indifferent.

If left unattended, these people will eventually bleed to death. Ban Zhaolin saw this, so he abandoned it, and Xu Ruyu couldn't afford it. Xu Ruyu casually stopped the bleeding for these people, thinking to himself: There is some dry food to be found in the pile of corpses, and maybe one or two people will survive.

Xu Ruyu and Liang Bao crouched on one side just to see the combat power of the soldiers in the actual battle. The outpost of the Puji pirates left the battlefield with ease, and the more than 100 people seemed to be about to be sacrificed. Xu Ruyu grabbed a handful of grass with his right hand and wiped the blood away. After glancing at Yuzhan Ling, he wanted to return.

"If you want to save us, please move us somewhere else." One person said coldly.

Xu Ruyu was slightly startled and turned his head to look. The man's face was covered with blood, he couldn't see what he looked like, his eyes were cold, and there was a pool of black condensed blood under his left ribs.

Xu Ruyu said: "Why? ”

"It won't take two hours for Gongliang Youqin to lead an army to pass through here, so how can we have the strength to leave?"

Xu Ruyu frowned and said, "I didn't have time to take care of you when the Puji army broke and fled just now, how could I not save you when their army arrived?" ”

The man snorted coldly, and the wound on his left rib was touched, and his brows suddenly furrowed, and then relaxed. Xu Ruyu checked the severity of his injuries when he stopped the bleeding, and saw that he was touching the wound, but he frowned slightly, but he was also very resolute.

Liang Bao's eyes swept vigilantly over the other seven people who were seriously injured and lying on the ground.

The man said: "The Puji army does not leave anyone seriously wounded, and our lives are not guaranteed if we stay here." ”

Liang Bao remembered the battle just now, and said in surprise: "Gongliang Youqin is so royal, you are still not afraid of death when you fight?" ”

The man said, "What do you say? He looked away with a fierce face.

Xu Ruyu smiled slightly, waved his sleeves, and sent a soft breath towards him. The man's heart was suffocated, and he tilted his head and fell. Xu Ruyu knocked the remaining seven people unconscious in turn, and said, "Whether you can wake up or not depends on your luck." ”

At the end of April, the 35,000 Puji pirates assembled in Yunwuhuang Town finally marched north along Yunxi after hesitating for ten days.

The relocation of the Qingyan Army and the suppression of bandits were forced to stop, the people of Chongyi and Fuzhou retreated to the village, and the 8,000 soldiers of the Suwei Battalion were stationed in Yuzhanling, and Shao Haitang also rushed to Yuzhanling with the army. The village and the Yuzhan Ridge each face one side of the Yunxi, separated by twenty miles.

Puji is located in the village, and those remaining cottage forces have come to join each other, except for the original 35,000 Puji bandits, and by the morning of May 3, the number of rogues gathered in the left side of the village reached 6,000.

There were only 25,000 Qingyan troops defending Yuzhan Ridge, of which 15,000 were still weak soldiers. Since the Puji army was stationed near the village on the other side, Ban Biao's brows had never opened.

"My lord, this matter must not be worried."

Xu Ruyu cut his hands and stood out, and there were thousands of pink butterflies gathered outside the window, stopping on the branches like elegant flowers.

"The Puji army is gathered near the village, the grain and grass will not last, Gongliang Youqin will definitely find a way to fight with me, we have to be more patient than him."

"The more and more the Liukou gather, Gongliang Youqin does not need to divide the people of the headquarters, and the assembled Liukou can be used to threaten the villages of Chongyi and Qingjiang, and we are not the same decisive battle with them at that time."

Xu Ruyu smiled faintly and said, "Gongliang Youqin probably played this idea. The confidence revealed in his tone made Ban Biao feel a lot more at ease.

Helplessly, Xu Ruyu's overall plan was that the direct generals of the Qingyan Army didn't know much about it, Ban Biao retreated uneasily, and when he went out, he saw Ban Zhaolin coming up the steps, pulled him aside, and said: "These few days always make people feel uneasy, why did the generals of Fuzhou leave you in Yuzhanling, where did Zhang Xu, Yang Shang and others transfer to the adults?" ”

Ban Zhaolin smiled apologetically and said, "If I am not in Yuzhan Ridge, Gongliang Youqin will be wary." As for the whereabouts of Zhang Xu and the others and the Fuzhou Infantry Battalion, even the adults can't be sure, the adults only let Zhang Xu and the others wait for the opportunity to move, if Zhang Xu feels that this place is really in danger, he will lead the Fuzhou Infantry Battalion to appear at the right time. ”

Ban Biao was very dissatisfied with his plausible answer, this is not a dangerous situation, when will it be counted? Could it be that Xu Ruyu plans to give up the villages in Chongyi and Fuzhou. Ban Biao was shocked in his heart, and said secretly: Most of the soldiers of the villages in Fuzhou and Chongyi gathered in Yuzhanling, and Gongliang Youqin only needs to send out 6,000 Liukou, and the scattered villages will not be able to resist, if there is any loss, everyone will only remember the hatred on the head of Gongliangyouqin.

Ban Biao looked at Ban Zhaolin with doubts on his face, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to sacrifice some people?" ”

Ban Zhaolin followed Xu Ruyu for a while, and he knew Xu Ruyu's ability, and although his brother's voice was low, he couldn't hide Xu Ruyu's sensitive hearing. Ban Zhaolin's face stiffened, and he wondered if Xu Ruyu would have a grudge against his Ban family because of this.

Ban Biao thought he had guessed, his face turned pale, he pointed at Ban Zhao's neighbor, and his tone suddenly became intense: "The Ban family has been in the village for decades, and there has never been the idea of sacrificing the people to achieve hegemony, you... You ......"

Xu Ruyu pushed the door and walked out, saying, "Some people will definitely be sacrificed in battle, but no one will be sacrificed deliberately. Zibiao, I don't know the way, you might as well lead me to Qingjiangyi. ”

Ban Zhaolin was surprised: "Adults are indispensable here, and I hope that adults will stay here to preside over the overall situation." ”

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "Mr. Shao presides over this place on my behalf, and you all need to listen to his orders, and don't act rashly." In the north, I went to the north in person to reassure people, a total of 180,000 people in Sanyi are concentrated in more than ten villages in the northern foot of Taishan. ”

Hongjiang River is also known as Shouchun River, originates from Huaiyu Mountain, Huaiyu Mountain flowing spring waterfall merges into Shouchun River, flows down, reaches the flat land, accommodates several tributaries, the water volume increases suddenly, and the mighty rush into the Qingjiang River.

The Qingjiang League, the Lichun Society, and the Hongjiang League have been sealed in this Hongjiang waterway for four months. Xu Ruyu had already spread the word that he did not blame the bad deeds of Shuizhai in the past, but the Qingjiang Shuiying had not organized a large-scale offensive against Qingjiang Shuizhai for several months, and he couldn't help but make the leaders of Shuizhai hopeful, thinking that Xu Ruyu was focused on the Fuzhou war situation at this time, and was unable to clear up the Shuizhai forces.

The slight wave of water from boat to boat, the soft sound came. Soon after nightfall, there was a mist and the wind lamp provoked by the bow of the ship, the light could not be cast far away, and Li Yin vaguely saw the black shadow of the tall tree, and there was no other recognizable object.

The Qingjiang League was originally the most powerful water village in the Qingjiang water system, but at the beginning of last year, Cheng Jing, the leader of the Qingjiang League, died under the joint attack of Xu Ruyu and Meng Yi, and the Qingjiang League was actually divided into two factions. Li Yin was the second leader of the Qingjiang League, and he was supposed to take over the entire Qingjiang League, but at that time, Xu Ruyu was against him on the Qingjiang River, and he delayed and did not save Cheng Jing, so that Xu Ruyu and Meng Yi had a chance. Anyone can see that Xu Ruyu is making something out of nothing, but Sun Meng, the third master, grasped this point and did not want to hand over power to him, so the Qingjiang Society became two departments.

Li Yin's first series has 14 large-wing ships, 8 Chong ships, and 29 Mengchong ships, and its combat power far exceeds that of Sun Mengna's series, and it is much stronger than that of Lichunhui and Hongjiangmeng.

Li Yin looked at the dark river, and Xu Ruyu's figure seemed to be conjured up on the deep river, and his indifferent gaze seemed to be disdainful of everything that was happening at present.

Li Yin gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Hang the flag." ”

Under the wind lamp, a battle flag completely different from the Qingjiang Society was hung on the high mast, with several ancient seal inscriptions written on it, and the blue and white flags were torn in the night wind.

Late at night on the fourth day of May, Li Yin's troops hoisted the battle flag of the Qingjiang Water Battalion, and with the cooperation of the first battalion of the Qingjiang Water Battalion led by Mi Yusheng, they raided Sun Meng, fought fiercely all night, wiped out Sun Meng's troops, killed all the leaders of the Qingjiang League who were close to Sun Meng, and all the 1,000 water bandits captured were incorporated into the fourth battalion of the Qingjiang Water Battalion, which was led by Li Yin.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yin and Mi Yusheng led the first and fourth battalions of the water camp to return to Hongjiangpin and continue to block the Hongjiang waterway. At this time, Wei Yu led the warships of the second and third battalions of the water battalion to march along the dredged river of the Fengling River to the central part of Qingjiangyi.

Xu Ruyu and Ban Biao stood on the embankment of the Fengling River, looking west against the wind.

Ban Biao didn't know that the Fengling River had been dredged here in just over four months, and on the right was a waste river with silt and overgrown aquatic plants, but on the left side there were sparkling water waves.

The two of them have been waiting here for a morning light, Xu Ruyu has never said anything about the reinforcements, and Ban Biao can guess one or two, but he doesn't understand where the reinforcements come from. The defense of the Lishui River Valley is already weak, and I am afraid that the combat strength will change if it is withdrawn.

The Lishui River Valley is the foundation of the Qingyan Army, and it is also the hope of the Qingjiang Folk Village, how could Ban Biao let the Lishui River Valley fall into danger, and dissuaded: "The Qingjiang Water Village and the remnants of the Twelve Kou Leagues are all eyeing the Lishui Valley, and it is really not appropriate to send people and horses over, if Gongliang Youqin really divides his troops to attack the Fuzhou Folk Village, I only hope that the adults will allow Ban Biao to die in death, let me go to Huangquan to make it clear to my father, this matter is not to blame the adults for their accidental surnames." ”

Xu Ruyu watched the battleship in the distance slowly sail out of the horizon, Wei Yujianpo's body stood on the deck of the ship, and finally let go of his heart, and smiled at Ban Biao: "Zibiao, don't worry about Xuancheng. ”

Ban Biao watched a total of 6,000 soldiers from the second and third battalions of the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion and the second battalion of the Qingjiang Water Battalion boarding the land one after another, and his heart was shocked, his face changed several times, and his mood could not be calmed down. Liang Bao previously led the first battalion of the Xuancheng infantry battalion into the Yuzhan Ridge, and at this time, only the first battalion and the third battalion of the Qingjiang water battalion and thousands of reserve soldiers defended the Lishui River Valley, and the rest of the combat forces would be transferred to the Fuzhou battlefield by Xu Ruyu.

Xu Ruyu looked at Ban Biao with a worried expression, and explained: "Li Yin of the Qingjiang Society has long intended to belong to the Qingyan Army, and I asked him to stay still until the critical moment. Wei Yu was able to lead the troops here, which means that Li Yin is already the official commander of the fourth battalion of our Qingjiang Water Battalion. ”

Ji Ziheng said with a smile: "Not only that, but last night, Mi Yusheng and Li Yin joined forces to destroy Sun Meng's troops, and this morning they have retreated to the mouth of the Hongjiang River. The news came from the mouth of the Ya Yu Sheng faction, presumably because he was afraid that you would be careful, and the good news would not arrive until later. The soldiers of the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion were originally stationed in the area of Beiling Fort and Tiankuizhai to defend the remnants of the Twelve Kou League, and last month, we replaced them with soldiers from the reserve and water battalions, and now they are quietly transferred here. ”

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