Fan Wenlong bowed his head slightly and said, "There is General Laojie." ”

Jiehai probe glanced at the endless flow of people, took out a document from his arms, and said: "My lord led Lord Shao, General Zhang, Lord Fang, and Lord Zhao out of Jiangning, and asked me to send this military order. Let General Fan lead his troops to besiege Wuzhou and invite him to surrender, and if he does not surrender, he will attack it. ”

Fan Wenlong took the document and read it carefully, Xu Ruyu asked Zhu Baiyan to abandon his weapon and surrender in this military order, only to protect his surname. Fan Wenlong sighed secretly: The scenery of Zhu's hundreds of years will become a cloud of smoke from now on.

Fan Wenlong led 50,000 elite soldiers of the Fan clan to set off from Linxi, inserted the gap between Wangting and Huating, crossed the Wujiang River, and pointed directly to Wuzhou, the place where the Zhu clan was established. Wuzhou only had 5,000 defenders, and the other troops were scattered in various cities, seeing that the Fan people were attached to Jiangning, they drove troops to attack Wuzhou, but they all did not move, and no one brought troops to help.

At the request of Jiang Ning, Fan Wenlong transferred all the troops, and the Fifth School Army took over the original Fan city. Puji and bandits, and the west and south sides are under the jurisdiction of Jiangning, Xing Kunmin only ordered Shen Binglu to lead a force to take over the defense of Jinhua, Yuezhou, Yuhang, Linxi and other places, and he himself led the main force of the five school armies to follow behind Fan Wenlong and enter the territory of Wuzhou. Fan Wenlong led his troops directly to Wuzhou, and Xing Kunmin drove his troops to capture Wangting, Huating, Jiaxing and other cities in the south of Wuzhou.

The Yujiang River bypasses the eastern border of Linxi and connects the Qianjiang River with Zhenze Lake. On the third day when Shen Bing led the troops to Yuhang, Fan Che and more than 100 people from Benzong took a light boat along the Yujiang River to the north, entered Zhenze Lake, and turned into the Jiyuan Canal through the south of Huzhou, where they could reach Xin'an, and then Xin'an took a boat north to reach Jiangning.

Yuhang and other places are temporarily assisted by Fan Zhan to take over the defense and government affairs, and when the situation is a little fixed, the original Fan territory will be divided into Yuhang, Yuezhou, and Mingzhou, which will be under the jurisdiction of Qingjiang Xingyuan, and the defense will also be taken over by the Qingjiang garrison.

Fan Che leaned over and looked at the white reflections of his temples in the river, he had mixed feelings for a while, turned his head to look at Yu Hangcheng in the smoke waves, and looked sad: this time I went to Jiangning, and there was no chance to return to my hometown. On the edge of the waves, he chanted: "The other is separated, and the seedlings of the other are separated." The line is vigorous, and the center is shaky. Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want. Hello sky! Who is this? He is separated, and he is the spike of grass. The line is vigorous, and the center is drunk. Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want. Hello sky! Who is this? He is separated, and he is real. The line is vigorous, and the center is like choking. Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want. Hello sky! Who is this? ”

Zi Yangqiu listened to his singing, seemed to have a sad and hesitant sigh of the rise and fall, guessed what he was thinking, and said: "Ten years of bullet index, grudge and hatred, Fan Weng has worked hard all his life, and it is difficult to leave his homeland when he is old." ”

Fan Che sighed slightly, silent. Baiyi buried many bones in Qingjiang, and the Fan family also made a lot of efforts, and built long walls in Yueqing and Wenling to seal the way of Baiyi to Wuling. Zi Yangqiu didn't mention this matter, and Fan Che was grateful.

Zi Yangqiu turned around and looked back, crossed the escort warship, his eyes fell on the vast land, and said in a low voice: "This land finally ushered in a day full of vitality, there is no war and hatred to make this land suffer, and the yellow flowers will be everywhere in the coming year, but you can carry wine and move slowly." ”

Fan Che listened to his words, and couldn't help but get excited after being silent for a long time, looking at the dark wilderness from afar, with tears in his eyes, and said: "I have done nothing in my life, and I feel ashamed when I leave." ”

Zi Yangqiu retracted his thoughts and smiled at Fan Che.

The Fan boat divisions in Yuhang, Linxi, Yuezhou and other places will also be transferred to Jiangning to accept reorganization. Those who went to Jiangning with Fan Che and Ziyangqiu were the first batch. Traveling to the waters southwest of Zhenze Lake near Huzhou, you will meet a large warship belonging to the Jiangning Water Battalion.

After the Liyang War, Huzhou except for Huzhou City, the rest of the territory was controlled by Fengling Xingying, and Jiangning warships were able to enter Zhenze Lake from Jiyuan Canal, but Huzhou did not surrender, and Jiangning only sent sentinel ships into Zhenze Lake to reconnoiter the military situation.

Fan Che and Ziyangqiu's fleet hung the banner of Jiangning when they left Yuhang, and traveled along the river for a few days, staying on the ship all the time, but they didn't know what was going on in the war in Yuejun. When he met the naval warship coming from Jiang Ning, Zi Yangqiu handed over the seal to the other party, and invited the left lieutenant who led the team to inquire about the battle situation.

On the second day after Fan Wenlong led his troops to Wuzhou, Wei Yan led Qingfeng to join them. Zhu Baiyan stood at the head of the city and let Zhu Qinshan stab him to death in the back, and Zhu Qinshan cut off his head, opened the gate of Wuzhou, and presented it to Fan Wenlong. Fan Wenlong and Wei Yan bound Zhu Qinshan and more than 100 relatives of the Zhu family to the north with the army and besieged Linjiang.

That night, the camp was attacked, which coincided with Wei Yan's patrol of the camp and personally killed several criminals; On the second night, the camp was attacked again, and Zhu Qinshan was assassinated in the prison camp, although he killed the enemy who came to attack, Zhu Qinshan was seriously wounded and died. Thirdly, the defenders of Linjiang opened the city gate and surrendered.

Fan Che heard this, sighed, and said: "Zhu Qinshan kept his surname in Jiangning, but when he went to Wuzhou, he became greedy and killed the lord and begged to surrender, can Jiang Ningyan use you, a repeating villain?" ”

Zi Yangqiu said: "Gentlemen and villains, each take what he needs. Jiang Ning only investigates the offenders and does not judge people by morality. Zhu Qinshan assassinated Zhu Baiyan behind his back, Zhu hated him of course, Jiang Ning had to remember his merits, but Feng Yuanyuan had to be grateful to him. ”

Xiaowei General Feng Yuanyuan once had a blood feud with the Zhu family, and was probably the most common person in Jiangning who could not see the Zhu family have a good result.

has been a neighbor of Jiangning for several years, and Fan Che has been thinking about how to calculate Jiangning at night, and his familiarity with Jiangning is really no worse than that of Jiangning Chinese. But it was the first time I had heard such remarks, but I remembered that I was actually not much different from the body of sin, and it was inconvenient to ask questions.

Listening to this lieutenant Zuo, Jiang Ning easily obtained the entire territory of Wuzhou, Fan Che secretly thought to himself: the ancients said that the army to attack the heart, the middle army to attack the strategy, and the army to attack the field, is to surrender the army without a fight; That's it.

Linjiang surrendered, Jiangning's sailors and warships could enter Zhenze Lake from the river, Huzhou and Lanling really became the land in Jiangning's belly, and the small enemy was trapped, and the door was closed to catch thieves, and I wish Kunda could not escape from Jiangning's palm in the end. Fan Che said: After the surrender of Zhu Tongshan, the outer edge of Jiangning is thick, and the situation of closing the door to catch thieves has actually been formed for Yuhang, Lanling, and Wuzhou, and the Fan clan surrendered just to take advantage of the situation, in exchange for slightly better treatment than the Zhu family. Thinking about it like this, he felt pity for the same disease, cared about the fate of Zhu Kunda, and asked the left lieutenant: "How is the battle situation in Huzhou and Lanling?" ”

Fan Che is like a big tree has fallen, but Fan Wenlong is like saying that in the sky, the Fan clan will occupy an important position in the political situation in Jiangning, Zuo Wei did not dare to despise Fan Che, according to the number of courtesies, said: "Huzhou guard general Zhu Gongda led 10,000 defenders to annex before he said, and General Feng led 20,000 Xiao guards into the territory of Lanling. ”

Huzhou has also fallen, and Lanling is also difficult to support.

Zi Yangqiu asked, "Zhu Kunda hasn't descended yet?" ”

"There is no news yet, and it is said that the adults are in the Armed Guards, so it won't take long to think about it."

In addition to the 20,000 Xiao Guards, 20,000 Wuwei Guards, and tens of thousands of surrendered troops in Wuzhou, Yuhang and other places, what is Zhu Kunda waiting for, is it waiting for any of the troops who can't hold back to stab themselves in the back? Fan Che sighed secretly and said to Zi Yangqiu: "I wish Kunda and I had an early relationship, maybe you can listen to me a word or two, can you turn around and go to Lanling, and you can meet General Qingfeng by the way?" ”

Zi Yangqiu said: "The family still went to Xin'an by boat first, and Fan Weng and I went ashore to change horses. ”

Fan Che didn't know how much patience Xu Ruyu still had, gathering such troops in Lanling, if Kunda didn't surrender, he was afraid that he would follow Xu Ruyu's wishes, Wei Yu, Feng Yuanyuan, Wei Yan, Yang Shang and others were all warlike people, and Wenlong probably wanted to make meritorious achievements.

Ziyangqiu and Fan Che went ashore from Huzhou, transferred more than ten horses to the army, and only galloped north with more than ten guards, rushing nearly 200 miles in one day and one night, and caught up with the Xiaowei army led by Feng Yuanyuan in the south of Lanling.

Fan Che was surprised when he saw that the Xiao Guards had only set off one day earlier than him: after traveling a hundred miles day and night, without fatigue, Jiangning had nearly 200,000 such elite divisions, and he was a well-deserved overlord of the southeast.

Feng Yuanyuan didn't like Fan Che, because of Zi Yangqiu's presence, and he thought that he was in the same hall as Fan Wenlong, and when he had to meet, he was not very colorful.

Ziyangqiu's status is high, the battle of Yuejun, with his tongue to move the Fan clan to surrender, accounted for a lot of credit, and his status in Jiangning, second only to Zhugong, is more important than ordinary capitals. Although the Wuwei army had entered the territory of Lanling, it was not yet able to fully control the situation in Lanling, Zi Yangqiu and Fan Che insisted on going to meet Xu Ruyu first, and Feng Yuanyuan did not dare to be careless, and sent another team of elite soldiers to escort them.

After riding the horse for a long time, Ziyangqiu saw a team of elite horsemen galloping towards this side, and said secretly: Qingfeng Cavalry has also arrived in Lanling, and he drove his horse to meet him, but he saw that the leader was the Qingfeng Cavalry Commander Wei Yan.

Wei Yan got off the horse, arched Ziyangqiu and Fan Che, and said, "Mr. asked me to come over to greet Mr. Ziyang and Fan Lao." ”

Fan Che saw that he was hesitant, but he didn't like himself like Feng Yuanyuan, thinking that Xu Ruyu could let Wei Yan come to greet him, which was already twelve points of glory, and he didn't blame Wei Yan for being lazy, so he hurriedly dismounted and saluted him.

Jiehai stepped forward from behind, saluted and said: "Your Excellency and your lords are in the Wuwei military camp, General Zhang is following behind your lordship, and you will not leave the left and right, and the Wuwei army here is temporarily under the control of General Ziyang." ”

Zi Yangqiu laughed, and Fan Che didn't know why. Zi Yangqiu pointed at Wei Yan and said with a smile: "Jiangning military regulations, the cavalry battalion and the infantry battalion are stationed, and the cavalry battalion is controlled by the infantry battalion; General Wei and her sister have just made a marriage contract, and they must be unhappy. ”

Fan Che didn't dare to laugh presumptuously, but he didn't hide his smile, but he didn't know why Zhang Zhongdao was the commander of the Armed Guards but not the commander.

Seeing Zi Yangqiu say this, Wei Yan turned his head, his old face turned red, and he whipped to pump Jiehai: "Let you know your tongue." But let Jiehai dodge lightly.

Jiehai said to Fan Che again: "General Fan is stationed in the east of Lanling City, and the Lord said that if Fan Che wants to meet with General Fan, Jiehai can escort Fan Weng over." ”

Xu Ruyu has a wide range of intentions, others don't have such a heart, Fan Che naturally won't do things that make people suspicious, and said: "Fan Che has heard the name of an adult a long time ago, and he is eager to see it, and he doesn't want to delay. ”

Fan Wenlong led the troops over, not to encircle Lanling, but to cross the river in this narrow place.

In the final battle of Yuejun, almost all parts of the country surrendered, not to mention the private soldiers of the clan clan, and the number of guards who surrendered in various places alone exceeded 100,000. These guards will cross the river and go north, enter the territory of Baishi and Guangling and turn into military camps, and the vacancies in Yuhang, Wuzhou and other places will absorb displaced people to fill. Most of the areas in Mingzhou, Anxi, Wenling, Linhai and other places in Binhai Siyi of Yue County have become barren places because of the Puji bandits, and few people live in them. When Yue County was in its prime, there were more than 10 million people, less than half of them at this time, the land occupied by Fan and Zhu was the southeast elite, when the old dynasty was prosperous, Wuzhou, Lanling, Yuhang, and Huzhou were all super-large cities with more than one million people, and now these two places, plus Zhou Cao Chengyi, the total number of people was only more than 2.6 million. The transfer of the attached guards and the private soldiers of the family to the north bank of the river and the conversion of them into military cantonments will make the shortage of labor in these places even more serious. Even if the homeless people are recruited to fill in, it will not be completed in a moment, and it will cost a lot of money.

Fan Che thought that he was just a sinful person, and that the affairs related to the military system, such as the reorganization of private soldiers and guards, were the most untouchable forbidden scales in Jiangning, and that he, an outsider, could put his beak in the middle? Fan Che thought that he had been the lord of Yuhang for nearly half a century, but he only thought about these things of people's livelihood when he abdicated and fell down, and he felt ashamed and regretful.

Fan Che was thinking very much in his heart, and he followed Zi Yangqiu into the tent to see Xu Ruyu, and he was a little depressed.

When Xu Ruyu entered Qingjiang, Fan Che had been paying attention to him, and he couldn't wait for people to paint his appearance as Danqing hanging on the wall at night, but he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Xu Ruyu. The appearance was consistent with what others described, which surprised Fan Che because he couldn't see the fierce momentum and majesty of being the overlord of one party in his eyes, and he didn't have the flame of ambition to forbear, he was calm and calm, a little tired and a little lonely.

What is the pursuit of this person who started to mess with the world with "Zhixian Policy", why can't I see the familiar fire of hope in his eyes?

Xu Ruyu saw Fan Che standing there in a daze, and he didn't mind, smiled slightly, and said to Ziyangqiu: "Mr. Ziyang and Fan Weng have come all the way, and they have worked hard. ”

Zi Yangqiu said: "General Zhou and General Feng sent people to take care of it, and Ziyang can withstand it. Secretly grabbed Fan Che.

Fan Che came back to his senses, bowed for a long time, and said, "The sinner Fan Che has seen General Qingfeng. ”

Xu Ruyu stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Fan Weng doesn't need to be polite. I told Fan Zhan that the Fan clan has made more contributions to Yue County than to fault, and Fan Weng should not blame himself. He also introduced Shao Haitang, Zhang Zhongdao, Fang Su, Zhao Jingyun, Ziyang Yalan, Luo Boyuan, Peng Muqiu and others to him.

Fan Che was sincerely frightened, and couldn't help but think in his heart: These people gathered here, and they didn't come just to Zhu Kunda. It's just that because of my identity, it's inconvenient to ask.

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