Morning.

Zhu Yuheng finished attending the temporary pre-war meeting in the Jiangzhou hall,

After worshipping the king of Xunyang, he led the fish talisman out, went to the military camp outside the city, and ordered troops to go out.

Traveling with him, there were also female prison officers selected by Rong Zhen, who followed together.

This time, the Jiangzhou front army dispatched a total of 1,500 soldiers.

In a sense, they are the private army of Zhu Lingxu's father and son, led by Zhu Yuheng, as a striker, it can be regarded as a kind of example.

Zhu Lingxu, as a veteran of the battlefield, with more than 8,000 former soldiers and horses, did not drive out of the city in one go, but also in order.

Moreover, the army was dispatched, and the grain and grass went first.

With so many soldiers and horses, all of them will be on the pat on the head, and the corresponding logistics required will simply explode.

The food, grass, equipment, soldiers, and horses needed by the former army were complicated and a cumbersome project.

The vanguard army led by Zhu Yuheng was more convenient, and they went into battle lightly and went out to explore the road first.

Zhu Lingxu's big tent of the Chinese army was to stay in Xunyang City for the time being, and continue to train the remaining 6,500 or so government soldiers......

The so-called rectification training means that after the personnel arrangements of the generals and other personnel are made, the marching troops sent by the military governments in various localities are disorganized one after another on the basis of the team, and the marching system is reorganized.

Prevent the government soldiers from gathering from all over the country from forming gangs and forming factions, and there are many small hills.

This work takes a little time, but Zhu Lingxu is aware of the importance and strictly implements it.

This made Ouyang Rong take a high look.

Zhu Lingxu is worthy of the old guy, his military style is very traditional and old-fashioned, and he focuses on a steady and impeccable one.

It is suitable for the kind of head-to-head duel battle of the large army, and does not pay attention to any surprise soldiers and night attacks.

Make it difficult for the enemy on the frontal battlefield to exploit the loopholes.

A hard-fought decisive battle and competition is the war potential of all sides.

In this way, the dominant side is naturally easy to win.

However, this kind of classical old-school general, steady and steady style, also means that almost every subsequent step of the order is traceable, and it is not difficult to guess.

Ouyang Rong participated in these pre-war meetings, and after figuring out Zhu Lingxu's leading style, he almost closed his eyes and knew how this old guy would take a few steps back.

For example, the current striker Zhu Yuheng's first expedition was expected early on......

In any case, at the moment, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner according to the arrangements discussed at the pre-war meeting.

Lixian, Ouyang Rong, Wang Lengran and others sent Zhu Lingxu's father and son to the city gate.

"Lord Wang, all the kings, please stay, just send it to the city gate, Yuheng has received the prince's mind, haha, the road behind, let him go by himself, he must always be alone."

Zhu Lingxu bent down and saluted, and stopped everyone with a smile.

Zhu Yuheng nodded, he was wearing chain mail today, saluted to Lixian, and bowed his hand to Ouyang Rong, Wang Lengran and others.

However, when his gaze passed over Ouyang Rong, he crossed over in disregard.

Since Zhu Lingxu's father and son came to Xunyang City, Ouyang Rong and Zhu Yuheng, who had attended Li Zhengyan's banquet together in the past, have not said a word, and they are like strangers.

After a while, Lixian took the lead and symbolically poured Zhu Yuheng a glass of practice wine and exchanged pleasantries.

Between drinks.

Ouyang Rong, who was standing quietly not far away, looked at Zhu Lingxu and his party.

In order to facilitate military affairs, Wang Lengran arranged a big mansion for Zhu Lingxu to rest in the city in the past two days, close to the Jiangzhou Hall, and Zhu Lingxu began to swagger into the city every day.

Today, Zhu Lingxu still only carried ten personal guards that had been strictly stipulated by someone before, in and out of Xunyang City.

It's just that in the past two days, the ten personal guards around Zhu Lingxu have changed a handful, and they have become a little different.

In addition to the six former guards who had often seen them before and Ouyang Rong remembered, the other four people were very faced.

These four people,

A monk,

together

Two people.

The leading monk, old and hunchbacked, wears dark black monk's robes, has extremely long earlobes, and has low eyebrows.

The Taoist priest is young, twenty or thirty years old, wearing a Nanhua scarf, with a frivolous expression, a dirty yellow and white Taoist uniform, carrying two long swords, and looking like a Taoist priest in the north.

As for the remaining two people, one tall and one short, gray suits, with dirty braids, they look like brothers.

However, Ouyang Rong knew this look, it should be a Xianbei person, and Qiu Shenji was almost dressed up before.

There were four more strange guards around him, and this change happened that day after the king coldly informed Zhu Lingxu that the king of Wei sent someone to protect his safety.

Presumably, these four people are the masters selected by King Wei.

Ouyang Rong nodded lightly.

With that monk, he didn't see too many clues for a while.

However, this tall and short two humble big men, Ouyang Rong not long ago, he caught a glimpse of a hint of aura running.

Light red aura.

Seven grades of cultivation, two seven grades.

As for the rest of the monks, at least they are equal.

A certain cold maiden in palace clothes also came to the city gate with everyone today.

She sent one of her old-fashioned female officers out of the city to follow the vanguard and act as a supervisor.

As for Rong Zhen himself, as a military envoy, he naturally followed the Chinese army's big tent that temporarily stayed in Xunyang City.

Ouyang Rong found that Zhu Lingxu tilted his head slightly towards the four strange guards behind him.

The two Xianbei men immediately got on their horses and followed closely behind Zhu Yuheng.

Obviously, it was with him to go out to escort him.

Ouyang Rong suddenly saw in his afterglow,

The sword priest behind Zhu Lingxu seemed to think that the scene of greeting and toasting in front of him was boring, looked left and right, turned his head, and smiled at Rong Zhen to talk.

Rong Zhen didn't look at him at all.

At a certain moment, his cold eyes deflected, and he glanced at the head monk whose breath was silent and had no sense of existence.

After a while, drink the candied wine.

"Then the king wishes Zhu Duwei a victory, and when he returns to Xunyang City, the palace will hold a banquet, and invite Zhu Duwei and Zhu Duwei to drink celebration wine."

Leave with a smile on your face.

"Haha, the prince is polite." Zhu Ling waved his hand.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your love." Zhu Yuheng's expression remained unchanged on the horse, and he bent down slightly.

Zhu Lingxu did not forget to turn around and tell his eldest son:

"Your Majesty and the princes are watching, this time you will lead the army to go out, take charge alone, and don't be impulsive...... The soldiers arrived in Fushui County on time, and they were not allowed to delay the military order. ”

"Yes."

Today happens to be Chen You on duty at the West City Gate, guarding the city gate.

Just after chatting with Zhu Lingxu and Zhu Yuheng's father and son, Ouyang Rong walked to talk to Chen You and happened to be standing at the gate of the city.

At this moment, with the end of the practice, Zhu Lingxu and his son were ready to go out of the city.

Chen You immediately led people to open the city gate.

Ouyang Rong, who stayed in place, stood under the bridge in front of the city gate, and turned his sleeves back.

Zhu Lingxu's father and son and ten guards rode forward and stopped under the bridge in front of the city gate.

The latter is crowded and tall.

When approaching, Ouyang Rong's position seemed to block the main road a little.

So, he turned around slightly and automatically got out of the way.

In addition to Zhu Lingxu, Zhu Yuheng, and the black-robed head monk who did not squint, other guards such as frivolous Taoist priests looked sideways.

The two teams were in the darkness of the city gate and bridge.

Ouyang Rong was slender, wearing a thin shirt, isolated from the horse, and was squeezed on the edge.

The others rode on tall horses, looking down at the figure of the weak scholar.

The atmosphere was silent.

With the sound of creaking chains, the gates slowly opened.

"Sneer——!"

Suddenly, a sneer sounded, even in the creaking bridge, it was very harsh, and everyone heard it.

Ouyang Rong turned his head calmly, glanced at the sneering man, and found that it was one of the six original guards that Zhu Lingxu was carrying.

There are faint whip marks on this man's neck that have not healed, covered with the collar of the soap robe, at this moment, he grabbed the reins in his hand, held his head high, and waited, not looking at Ouyang Rong, but the curvature of his mouth was very sarcastic.

When the other guards saw this, they either knew the inside story, and laughed;

Or like a frivolous Taoist priest, he looked at the handsome young man who seemed to be humiliated under the horse with curiosity, and he didn't know how this son had offended Zhu Lingxu and his personal guards by doing his death.

Zhu Ling seemed to be temporarily deaf, and after a while, the city gate was about to open, and then he turned his head consciously,

He first glared at the guard named Chen Laosan, and then turned around, his old face apologetic:

"Ouyang Changshi, don't get me wrong, this guy is not stingy...... But that's not what it means......"

This is, there was a loud bang ——! the city gate had been completely opened, Ouyang Rong shook his head, turned sideways calmly, and spread his palms.

Seeing this, Zhu Lingxu nodded calmly, led ten people to follow, and rode out.

As for Zhu Yuheng, he couldn't take his eyes off the whole time, as if he didn't see Ouyang Rong.

A group of warriors marched away.

"How can this be reasonable, these martial artists are inevitably too arrogant......" Chen You muttered angrily.

"It's okay, let's do our own thing. Warriors often go to the battlefield, their heads are tucked into the waistband of their trousers, and they naturally speak without taboo. ”

Retracting his gaze, Ouyang Rong instead comforted Chen You, who admired it.

At the end of the send-off, everyone dispersed, and Ouyang Rong sent him back to the palace.

In the next few days, Ouyang Rong did everything as before, doing what he was doing with peace of mind, and the training of the Jiangzhou front army was also completed one after another.

According to the latest news from Zhu Yuheng's striker.

The vanguard had already broken through into the territory of Hongzhou to find a way for the army.

After receiving the military report, Zhu Lingxu's former army was ready to pull out.

The time is tentatively scheduled for the day after tomorrow.

When Ouyang Rong received this news, he was sitting in the lobby to deal with official documents, and in the current wartime state, the Jiangzhou lobby needed to cooperate with Zhu Lingxu's front army, and things were a little busy.

This is probably one of the reasons why Zhu Lingxu has never turned his face with him, and he also needs to cooperate with the logistics work, a long history who is familiar with Jiangzhou affairs.

"Mingfu."

Yan Liulang came out of breath, evened down for a while, handed over a note, leaned over to Ouyang Rong and whispered:

These are the addresses that Li Li often haunts in Xunyang City......

"And the news of Jishui County that you asked me to investigate...... That Jishui County Lieutenant Zhao Rushi was raised by His Majesty and was named a guerrilla general.

"In fact, it's a false name, but a few days ago, Wang Lengran and Zhu Lingxu sent him to lead his troops to deal with the recovery of several surrendered counties around Jishui County...... As of yesterday, it has been recovered.

"This person is expected to return to Xunyang City in the next two days, report to Zhu Lingxu and Wang Lengran, it seems that he is going to be promoted, this trend, the official rank may be transferred to the front army, lead a team, and sit on the name of guerrilla general.

"Heh, recovering the lost city, which is easy to take credit, Zhu Lingxu specially handed over to this person to do, it must have a lot to do with it......

"Also, Zhu Yuheng sent back news that he had arrived in Fushui County in Hongzhou as scheduled yesterday and occupied it easily, half a day earlier than scheduled.

"Zhu Yuheng's forward is not far from Hongzhou City, according to the informant, on the Hongzhou side, Cai Qin is rushing to prepare for the ......."

Yan Liulang finished talking about everything.

Ouyang Rong put down what he was doing, listened silently for a moment, dipped his fingertips in water, and began to write on the table.

provoked Yan Liulang's sideways, obviously there was an inkstone and a brush at hand, but Ouyang Rong just used water stains.

I saw that the weak crown Changshi wrote some crooked words on the table, as if he had calculated the distance and time.

"It's not far, it's not close, it's just right...... It's finally all in place. ”

He buried his head in his muttering.

After a while, Ouyang Rong brushed his sleeves, not too dirty, and wiped off the water stains on the table.

Raise your head and bow slightly:

"Good work."

"Mingfu is hard."

Ouyang Rong suddenly smiled:

"Count it up, I haven't taken a vacation for a long time, Da Lang asked me to go to the newly built Juxian Garden to enjoy the piano and chant poetry, Ming'er will take a day off, will Liulang go with him?"

Yan Liulang shook his head: "There is something to do, I can't go for the time being, let's go and relax in the Ming Mansion." ”

Ouyang Rong nodded:

"It's okay, then we will meet again the day after tomorrow, it just so happens that General Manager Zhu will lead the army to the expedition the day after tomorrow, and I will come back and hand him a glass to practice the bar, and send him on the road."

The tone was very serious.

Yan Liulang was slightly stunned.

Half an hour later, Ouyang Rong finished handling the matter at hand in an orderly manner, left a letter of leave, went down in advance, and returned to Huaiye Lane Zhaidi.

After an unprecedented day off, Ouyang Rong was relaxed.

It's approaching evening.

"Go to the palace, don't come back tonight, tomorrow night...... Maybe you won't come back, don't wait for me, go to bed early. ”

After Ouyang Rong gave these orders, he rarely changed into a red regular clothes, which was quite public,

He walked to the dark grid, pulled out a bronze mask, and silently tucked it into his sleeve.

Then, take out a brand new piano case that has been prepared in advance, and inside is the real piano;

Ouyang Rong turned his head, and wrapped the qin-shaped sword box containing the True Ding Sword, a Weizi Xuantie token, Mojiao Dan box and other items together with gray cloth.

The ash wrap was held in his arms along with the real piano case, and he took it out the door.

Before going out, Ouyang Rong didn't forget to take out a felt hat from the cabinet, shake the ashes, put it on with his head down, and walked away.

Shaoqing, at the back door of the house, Ouyang Rong boarded a carriage that had been waiting for a long time.

When the curtain was lifted, Xie Lingjiang's red dress was faintly visible, waiting for him, and he took the burden on his hand intimately......

Half an hour later.

In the water workshop, a horse-drawn carriage stopped at the gate of the busy Xunyang Palace.

At first, it did not attract the attention of messengers and passers-by.

Ouyang Rong bent down and got out of the car, and a certain ash package in his hand was missing, leaving only a narrow piano case and holding it in his arms.

The figure of the prince from Fusu appeared at the door and came out to pick up people in person, which immediately surprised the messengers and guests who came from afar.

Ouyang Rong kept his eyes off, hugged the piano in public, walked into the gate of the palace, and greeted Da Lang with a smile:

"Lianghan can be counted, the weather is good today, the sunset is like fire, and it is fifteen, there must be stars and moons, suitable for wine and singing......"

Ouyang Rong smiled and nodded, and patted the piano case: "If you don't get drunk, you won't return." ”

Look at each other and smile, ignore others, and touch shoulders to get started.

However, many people in Jiangzhou City knew that Ouyang Lianghan had a good relationship with the prince of Xunyang, and they went to it frequently, and the surrounding spectators were not surprised for too long.

It didn't take long for the two to enter the door.

A quarter of an hour later, Princess Wei Mei suddenly led a group of maids out with great fanfare, as if going out to shop.

Among the accompanying maids, there was a young woman with a very thin mouth, she silently followed behind Wei Mei, and was inconspicuous among a large number of maids in the same company.

Two quarters of an hour later.

On the busy street of the West Market in Xiushuifang, Wei Mei took the maids to buy things along the street, and a thin-lipped maid who went out together behind him disappeared.

(End of chapter)