Cai Xudong is Yao Ruoyu's best buddy in college.

This person has a dick temperament, a thin body, and can be called a thin person who is hot, this guy doesn't look a little bit of a sissy, but his temper is not small. It's just that although he has a hot temper, he is a real brother, who dares to speak the truth, is not afraid of authority, ignores the rich and the poor, and only needs to be like-minded, and he can trust his life.

The two have known each other since their freshman year and gradually established a friendship from a bowl of ravioli. In the four years of college, the two walked side by side and struggled on the stage, even though Cai Xudong later found a female ticket, and no longer came out to fight together as often as before, the relationship remained the same.

At the evening party that day, Cai Xudong was also invited by Yao Ruoyu to participate in the sketch performance, and also took a group photo together after the end. So when the ball of light fell, he was also on the stage, smiling at the camera.

After the crossing, Yao Ruoyu focused on looking for this guy, but unfortunately, like other companions who had not yet been found, this guy seemed to have disappeared, no matter how he sent people to look for him, there was no news of Cai Xudong.

So when the Thunder God Camp and the Beast God Camp came back and saw Cai Xudong standing next to Song Kai, Yao Ruoyu was still in a trance, and thought that he was hallucinating, until he saw the other party looking at him with a smile, he rushed over as if he had just woken up from a dream, hugged him fiercely, and said happily: "Caicai?"

"Haha, don't get excited, don't get excited, lie down in a groove, can you have a little strength?" After laughing for a while, Cai Xudong had already scolded angrily, but Yao Ruoyu didn't pay attention to his scolding, just hugged him fiercely, and only let him go after a long time, and slammed his chest excitedly, and scolded with a smile: "Where the hell did you go? Let Lao Tzu find it!"

"It's hard to say!" Shaking his head, Cai Xudong's expression was a little more bitter, and then he was pressed down, and then smiled, "I'll talk about it when I go back." ”

Yao Ruoyu nodded, then looked at the disgraced Yang Renjie and the others, and frowned: "You guys are ......?"

"It's an ambush," Song Kai didn't quibble, and said with his head bowed, "It's my fault, and I'm willing to be punished." ”

Yang Renjie and Li Yilin wanted to speak, but when they saw the army under their command with heavy losses behind them, they had no choice but to shut up, while Xiang Beibei stared at Song Kai hatefully, if it weren't for Yang Renjie to stop her, she would have already sued Yao Ruoyu.

"Let's go back to the city first. Yao Ruoyu waved his hand and said with a complicated expression.

After Song Kai and the others set off before, he practiced in the military camp until Zou Buyi came back from wandering around and knew about it, and immediately reminded that there might be an ambush on the Jin side, Yao Ruoyu hurriedly came with the dark night dragoon, but halfway through, he met everyone who had returned.

On the way back, Yao Ruoyu also introduced Zou Buyi to Cai Xudong, and after Zou Buyi greeted him with a smile, he smiled with Yao Ruoyu and said: "Lord Wang, this is the dish you think about day and night, and often hang on your lips, right? It seems that Zou did nothing wrong that day!"

Yao Ruoyu suddenly furrowed his brows when he heard this, and then he realized that the eyes of everyone around him were strange, except for Yang Renjie and Li Yilin, who knew the relationship between the two, and the others, including Xiang Beibei, looked at him with complicated and strange eyes.

Suddenly recalling the impact of Zou Buyi's weirdness that day, Yao Ruoyu was suddenly angry, but Cai Xudong didn't know what he meant, and said curiously: "What's wrong? What did you do wrong?"

"Nothing. Yao Ruoyu waved his hand and glared at Zou Buyi fiercely before asking about Cai Xudong's situation after crossing.

Because there were other people around him, Yao Ruoyu did not mention the crossing, but said that after they were separated, Cai Xudong also understood and briefly recounted his experience.

It turned out that after crossing over, Cai Xudong fell in the Anhui area and wandered for a while, which happened to be recruited by a local martial arts sect called the Blood Sect, and Cai Xudong also went to participate. Unexpectedly, not only did he pass in the end, but because his physique was extremely suitable for the Blood Sect exercises, he was accepted as a disciple by the Blood Sect Master.

"Alas, it's a pity that it didn't take long for our blood sect to be wiped out by the enemy, my master and I hid in Tibet, originally wanted to escape from the Song Dynasty and take refuge in the Jin Kingdom, but unfortunately when I escaped halfway, my master was seriously injured and died of illness not long after, I also fled here and lived in seclusion in a village in front. ”

Although he said this kind of thing, Cai Xudong's expression was lazy, as if he had seen through it, and only Yao Ruoyu, who was familiar with him, felt Cai Xudong's grief hidden in his heart.

Patting him on the shoulder, Yao Ruoyu said with some reproach, "Why didn't you come to me?"

Cai Xudong shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "When I fled, you had just established Hezhou City, and at that time I heard that it was also attacked by the Yanggu Army, I originally wanted to help, but at that time I couldn't protect myself, after escaping here, I didn't know your situation, I was afraid of affecting you, not long ago when the Song Dynasty hit here, I just heard about you." ”

Yao Ruoyu bowed silently when he heard this, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he only patted him lightly on the shoulder.

After returning to Dazhu City, everyone did not stop, and returned directly to Guang'an City.

Halfway through, Yao Ruoyu asked Song Kai about their ambush this time.

Talking about this, Song Kai's already ugly face became more and more gloomy, but Yang Renjie and Li Yilin said something.

After knowing that the Jin soldiers had already been ambushed on both sides of the riverbank, Yao Ruoyu suddenly looked at Song Kai with understanding, and the latter also sighed slightly, and said: "Most likely it's him, that Jin Guoshi, who is like a god, I am not as good as him." ”

"Hey, it's rare for Kaikai to be so modest?" Yao Ruoyu said with a smile, and when he saw that his face was pale, he smiled and comforted, "Don't care, this time it's just that guy has a calculating intention." ”

"But speaking of which," Yang Renjie suddenly took off his helmet, grabbed his hair, and muttered, "This guy has no grievances with us, and he is a national teacher of the Jin Kingdom, so it stands to reason that he shouldn't be busy dealing with the Yanggu Army?

The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, although Yang Renjie is just muttering casually, but Yao Ruoyu and Song Kai glanced at each other silently, and some of the same doubts floated in their hearts.

In this silence, everyone finally returned to Guang'an City.

At this time, Xu Xuanrong and others had occupied all the cities in Guang'an, and the civil officials were also escorted by the army to take over the city, but except for Guang'an City, which had a city lord, several other small cities had not yet arranged a city lord.

Xu Xuanrong, who is the head of the Ministry of Officials, has drawn up a list, and Yao Ruoyu has no opinion after reading it, and he signed his name and asked people to release it.

On the night of returning to Guang'an City, everyone gathered at the City Lord's Mansion in Guang'an City to discuss the next arrangements.

Because Fu Feng, Fu Chaozan, and Ren Jiasheng led the army to the west of Guang'an to guard against Suining City, so at this moment, only Yang Renjie, Jiang Siyu, Song Kai and others, fortunately, there was no omission in Wenchen, and they were all gathered here.

After everyone arrived, they talked about the next arrangement.

The current situation is that the heavily damaged Bingquan Army has withdrawn from Sichuan, and joined the other two Yanggu armies of Jade and Red Cavalry, plus the Tiger Army and other armies, and attacked Shaanxi together, so now in addition to the Jin soldiers, only the literary and artistic army is left in Sichuan.

Pointing to the sand table, Xu Xuanrong raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "In the first battle of Yuechi, the elites of the three cities of Nanchong, Deyang, and Mianyang were almost wiped out, and Dazhou, Bazhong, and Guangyuan in the north were also greatly injured in the earlier confrontation with the Yanggu Army, so now in the entire northwest of Sichuan, there is almost no city that can stop the advance of our literary and artistic army." ”

"Minister Xu, isn't he planning to take the opportunity to seize these cities?" Zou Buyi, who was shaking a feather fan, groaned slightly, shook his head, and said, "I'm afraid it's not proper, even if we occupy these cities, how many troops can we have to stop the counterattack of the Jin Kingdom?"

Yao Ruoyu couldn't help but bow his head slightly when he heard this, indeed, the regular army of the literary and artistic army now has 24,000 people, even if you add the reserve battalion, it is only 30,000 people, and when it was placed in Hezhou, Diaoyu, Sanjiang, and Yitong Four Cities before, the military strength was still quite strong.

However, if we send troops to occupy the six cities of Nanchong, Deyang, Mianyang, Bazhong, Guangyuan, and Dazhou, even if the 30,000 people are doubled, they will not be able to hold so many cities at all.

"How about expanding the army?" Song Kai suddenly suggested.

Shaking his head, Yang Renjie smiled bitterly on his face, and said in a rare way: "Kai Kai, it's impossible, if you don't reach the Five Realms, you can't gather the army, three thousand people are already the limit of what we can control, and if there are more, it will look bloated." ”

Although Jiang Siyu and Li Yilin did not speak, their faces were obviously in agreement.

If you want to comprehend the military situation, generally speaking, you must reach the five realms, and generally when you enter the five realms, you can gather a military strength of up to 2,000 people, the initial level of the five realms can gather 4,000 people, the intermediate level can gather 6,000 people, and only the high level can gather nearly 8,000 people.

Generally speaking, the city lords and city defense generals are all in the five realms, so at first glance it seems that 16,000 people are needed, but firstly, not everyone has the strength of the five realms, and secondly, they are also worried that each city has a self-respecting army, so the Jin country has stipulated this, except for a few special military cities, other cities can have a garrison of up to 8,000 people.

The same is true here in the literary and artistic army, although Yang Renjie and others were only in the three realms in the past, they didn't have to worry about condensing the military momentum, two thousand five hundred people were just enough for them to control, until they were all promoted to the four realms, and under the increase in prestige, the establishment of each battalion was expanded to three thousand.

Hu Xian was leisurely sipping tea with a teacup, and when she saw that everyone was distressed, she suddenly smiled: "Oh, what kind of headache do you have?

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then they turned their heads to look, and saw that Xu Xuanrong was really as shallow and smiling as Hu Xian said, and there was no frustration that he couldn't figure out.

Yao Ruoyu is also one of the few people who can see Xu Xuan's confidence like Hu Xian, and he also smiled at the moment: "Meng Mengda, tell everyone what you think." ”

Xu Xuanrong looked at him with a smile, and there was a bit of ridicule in her eyes that she hadn't seen for a long time, until Yao Ruoyu shrank back a little embarrassed, and then she smiled and talked to everyone about her thoughts.

"As I just said, at this moment, the cities in the northwest of Sichuan are no longer able to resist us, and the west of Sichuan is nominally the territory of the Jin State, but in fact it is occupied by the remnants of the various dead countries of the year, so to be precise, the troops that the Jin State has now gathered in Sichuan are only the ten cities of Chengdu, Meishan, Ya'an, Leshan, Yibin, Neijiang, Zigong, Ziyang, Suining, and Luzhou in the middle. ”

With a fingertip, Xu Xuanrong continued: "However, Neijiang, Luzhou, Yibin, Zigong and other cities all border with the Song Dynasty and the Nanban, in other words, if they dare to mobilize the forces of these cities to deal with us, then the Nanban and the Song Dynasty will definitely take the opportunity to attack." ”

"In that case," Song Kai understood, and said with his head bowed, "If we plan to take the opportunity to seize Nanchong and other places, then the only thing we need to deal with at this stage is ...... Suining, and the farther Chengdu and Ziyang cities. ”

"So it's going to divide the troops and go out on the expedition, right?" Jiang Siyu also asked suddenly.

Gently bowing his head, Xu Xuanrong smiled and said: "That's right, Guangyuan, Bazhong, Mianyang and other places are connected to Gansu, and if you rush over, it is easy to provoke the Jin garrison over there to attack, so now the most suitable for us to occupy is the two cities of Nanchong and Dazhou, and at the same time, we also need to leave enough troops to garrison Guang'an in case Suining attacks." ”

Yao Ruoyu pondered for a moment, and then said: "In this case, early tomorrow morning, Song Kai, Siyu, and Tease, you take the Thunder God Battalion and the Sequoia Battalion to Dazhou, let Mad Dog, Chaozan, and Abu lead the army to Nanchong, and I will lead the army with Xunhuan to conquer Suining." ”

Song Kai shook his head and said, "I'll go with you, there should be no five realms left in the military of Nanchong and Dazhou Jinguo, and the rest are the five realms that may exist in the local family, just let a few guest secretaries go with the army." ”

Yao Ruoyu was about to speak when he heard this, but Zou Buyi smiled and said, "In that case, why don't you accompany General Yang and them to Nanchong?"

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at it a little inexplicably, Yang Renjie was even more stunned by leopard eyes, and he was about to oppose when he opened his mouth, but Yao Ruoyu didn't have time to think about it when he saw this, and said with his head bowed: "Okay!"

Yang Renjie looked at him sadly when he heard this, and Yao Ruoyu smiled and turned his head away as if he hadn't seen it.

Since Zou Buyi dares to say this, then most of them also have a way to resolve the relationship with Yang Renjie and others, so no matter how Yang Renjie and they object, Yao Ruoyu will inevitably agree to Zou Buyi's request for his life this time.

In a few words, everyone has agreed on tomorrow's arrangement.

The East Route Army took Fu Feng as the commander, Wu Xue as the military division, Fu Chaozan and Ren Jiasheng as the deputy generals, Han Zhaoji and Hu Bilan and the two guest secretaries accompanied the town, and led the three battalions of the Yanhu Battalion, the Divine Eagle Battalion, and the Hantie Battalion to Dazhou.

The Northern Route Army took Yang Renjie as the commander, Zou Buyi as the military division, Jiang Siyu as the deputy general, and sat in the five realms as the two elders of the Chu family, leading the Thunder God Battalion and the Sequoia Battalion to attack Nanchong.

The Western Route Army was personally commanded by Yao Ruoyu, Song Kai was the military advisor, and Chen Tingchao accompanied him, leading the Night Dragoon Army and the Beast God Battalion to Suining.

Among the rest of the people, Xu Xuanrong and Li Huan sat in Guang'an, and Chen Meng, Cai Xudong, Fan Difei, Hu Xian, and Hou Jingru followed Yao Ruoyu to Suining.

When the discussion was decided, the people dispersed to prepare for the to-morrow expedition.