After the rest of the day.

Ouyang Rong went to the Jiangzhou lobby every day, and the first thing he did when he walked into the lobby was to browse the front-line battle report.

Half a decade has passed since Qin Jingqin led his army out on the march, and there is no important news from the front line for the time being.

The latest news this morning is that the former army has entered Hongzhou.

In addition, there are some new movements of Li Zhengyan's army in the southwest.

However, compared with the previous message, the latter message is less time-sensitive, so it has to be estimated.

Yuan Huaimin, the old stepping pointer, has not yet arrived, the main hall in the morning is empty, there is an autumn morning mist in the courtyard, and on the promenade not far away, from time to time walk over the soap-clad officials who come to the duty......

Ouyang Rong, who arrived early, took a sip of hot mist into the palm of his hand, turned to bring the map, and pushed it off the desk.

There is still some time before the conquest army and Li Zhengyan's army meet each other.

Looking at it now, the vanguard of the conquest army should be able to reach Hongzhou City before Li Zhengyan, the only question is whether it can take Hongzhou City before Li Zhengyan's army arrives in Hongzhou......

In fact, the marching speed of both sides was not too fast, but it was normal.

Because the march of these tens of thousands of troops is actually a huge and complex project, this military machine seems to be slow, but once it is opened, it is difficult to stop easily.

Not only in the initial stage now, but when the two armies meet in the future, if nothing else, it will still be such a "slow" move until a head-on decisive battle becomes inevitable, and then at a time and place where both generals think that the advantage is mine, they will "collide" together like a mountain.

The pull before the decisive battle may look like an old man in the square playing Tai Chi in the eyes of the layman.

As for the so-called surprise attack, the divine soldier descended from the sky, and the surprise...... Most of the time these wonderful scenes are just thinking about it.

The examples of miracle soldiers that can be recorded in the history books are all won, which also caused the big victories of celebrities in history, as if they were all dramatic and interesting schemes.

However, throughout the ages, from the pre-Qin war to the current Qianzhou, there have been many large and small wars, and most of them have been dull and boring.

Even if he is a famous military god who shocks the past and the present, most of the battles in his life are like this.

Therefore, if you can fight head-on and destroy the enemy's living force, you should honestly fight head-on, and don't keep worrying about your big meteorite technique, great flood technique, and great destiny technique......

Take the current march route of the army westward into Hongzhou, which was set early on at the internal military meeting, and Ouyang Rongmen Qing will not change it easily, because it involves the logistics of the army.

And Cai Qin, Hongzhou, could also guess the approximate march route of the conquest army.

The reason is very simple, with the traffic conditions of this era, there are not many roads that can support a large number of military horses to march, let alone Jiangnan with a mild climate and more vegetation.

If you take tens of thousands of troops into the deep mountains and old forests, you don't care about anything, you just want speed and oddity, then what about logistics and transportation?

You have a hard time thinking about milk in the back row.

Maybe the emperor had a whim, and he couldn't find anyone if he wanted to issue a decree. What a daring guy.

In addition, after the army is deployed, the forward, forward, middle, and rear armies are on the road in batches, and in order to cooperate with the strategic goals proposed by the commander-in-chief, their respective marching tasks will be discussed in advance before the march.

For example, such and such an army, such and such a day, must arrive at such and such a place on time.

If you go out and have a strong sense of initiative, you pat your head and take the "convenient new road" provided by the farmer hunter on the side of the road, what if you get lost or are late?

Well, not only did it surprise the enemy, but it also exceeded the expectations of its own commander.

This is called violating military orders and delaying fighter planes.

On the contrary, it is a well-known common road, and the predecessors have walked it thousands of times when they were fighting, and it is easiest to estimate the approximate marching time before the army marches.

Therefore, it is not only convenient for logistics, but also not easy to "delay fighters" by honestly following the right path that has been planned, not only to facilitate logistics.

These practical factors have also led to some places becoming the so-called battleground for soldiers, becoming an important gateway to a territory, and even a turning point for easy attack and defense.

Because this is in the thousands of ancient wars with cavalry, infantry and other arms as the main force, the ancestors summed up and groped it up again and again, the two armies must fight for it, must collide here, and must pass through it if it is difficult to make a detour in logistics......

In the lobby, Ouyang Rong finished browsing and put down the latest frontline battle report.

Recently, Ouyang Rong has been practicing "True Message" at night, and he is also silently studying the military books of this era, and has given birth to some insights that are difficult to figure out without being present in his previous life.

Sometimes, for the officers stationed in the rear, there is no big news from the front, but good news,

This means that the armed forces of all walks of life are in the process of implementing the strategic plan one by one, and there is no delay in any link or fighter plane.

At present, the army is out on the march, with Qin Jingqin in full power to command the war, Ouyang Rong only needs to seriously cooperate with the new marching battalion commander Shi and preside over the smooth operation of Xunyang City, the most important link in logistics in Jiangzhou.

It also gave him a good opportunity to get a closer look at the patterns of warfare in this era.

In fact, at the family banquet that night, Ouyang Rong's words at the dinner table were surprising and reprimanded Fang Xuan, which was more inclined to strategic theory, more like a senior counselor and strategist.

After all, in his previous life, he had dived into the key government group for 10,000 years, and the mouth cannon with high vision must be a set, saying that there is no duplicate for three days and three nights.

If Qin Jingqin gave up the position and let him play as the commander, it would actually be a bit false, although the strategic judgment may not be wrong.

However, no matter how good the strategy is, it also needs an excellent and solid executor, and no matter how good the theory is, it is another matter to turn it into practice.

However, Qin Jingqin, Xie Xue'e, Xie Lingjiang, and Qin Ying seem to be very fond of Ouyang Rong's set, and they are amazed by his vision and strategy.

This is also the disadvantage of the aristocratic politics of the Great Cadres and the Great Zhou, the aristocratic elite monopolizes a certain knowledge channel, where can the average Han scholar learn Ouyang Rong's vision knowledge.

Where did the general public learn this kind of rare knowledge that does not touch the spring water with ten fingers and is not conducive to the imperial examination?

Guided by the purpose of the imperial examination, most of the Han scholars focused on the path planned by the upper-class elites such as poetry and songs, the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Therefore, in the face of Ouyang Rong, a big outlier, these elites of the scholar clan who monopolized scarce knowledge such as military, Confucianism, and qi refining were naturally stunned.

Moreover, Ouyang Rong's strategy is not wrong, in the eyes of a knowledgeable person like Qin Jingqin, it may be extremely high, and it is ahead of the times.

Although it may be quite empty for him to go up, the first execution will be a little clumsy and rusty, lack of practical experience, and need to stumble and run-in, but fortunately, without him coming right away, Qin Jingqin, a veteran, is not bad at practice.

A famous general of the Great Zhou Dynasty who has been systematically certified by the Great Qianbian Army, needless to say, has a gold content.

Because Qin Jingqin also has his own military methodology, Ouyang Rong's methodology is more about appreciating similar "cooks" and learning from each other's strengths.

At the moment, Qin Jingqin personally came on the field, which was just convenient for Ouyang Rong to quietly learn military facts, and by the way, to make up for some cognitive differences between the past and future lives.

These days, he is not absent every day to observe the line newspaper and logistics, and after reading it carefully, he takes notes diligently, which is the reason.

It is true that Ouyang Rong has some knowledge systems that are ahead of the times, but if he is not grounded and integrated, it will be in vain......

So you can't stop learning.

Ouyang Rong is very self-aware of this.

In addition, because of the geographical location, the rich southeastern states of Jiangnan Province are continuously transporting materials through the Yangtze River waterway, and the southward and northern military sources to Jiangzhou, Xunyang City has become the most important transshipment node.

Although it is considered a wartime front, there are also opportunities for profiteering in the midst of crisis and danger, and many southeastern businessmen have taken risks and transported goods.

There are also officials and scholars who have fled east in the southwest, and the rich and wealthy people have also disembarked and landed in Xunyang Ferry in a steady stream.

This in disguise promoted the prosperity of Xunyang City's "wartime economy".

Ouyang Rong, the governor of Jiang who presided over civil affairs, has become a popular figure with high power in the eyes of outsiders.

However, Ouyang Rong didn't have time to beat them for money, and his focus during the day was mainly on the construction of the Buddha statue in the Xunyang Grottoes.

The major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong.

This is not bad at all, this is the country's capital, even if the front-line conquest army and the Kuang Fu rebels are about to fight each other, but on the Jiangzhou side, the official documents exchanged with the imperial court in the Jiangzhou lobby are the most talked, or the construction of the Donglin Giant Buddha involving the "national ritual".

The matter was ordered not to be delayed for half a minute.

Even a certain cold palace girl came to check and urge from time to time.

Ouyang Rong was a little speechless, but he didn't say much, a few days ago he called the "Great Wisdom Monk" from Longcheng Dagu Mountain, with the help of this opportunity for the rich and wealthy west of Jiangnan Road to flee east and gather in Xunyang, so that the master of good guidance pulled a lot of rich people who were pious and worshiped the Buddha generously and invested money to build the grottoes, which saved a cost.

In the main hall, when Yuan Huaimin stepped on the door under the bell and threw him some of this month's civil affairs, Ouyang Rong pondered for a moment, looked at the bright sunlight on the floor at the door, and shouted:

"Chen joins the army, what about Rong Zhennushi, in the city? Can you see it? ”

"Yuming Mansion, the female historian also sent someone to urge the manpower in the morning, and the officials listened to your orders, did it one by one, and seriously cooperated with the female historian...... Listening to the number of people in the past, today they should be investigating in the bamboo incense paper mill on the side of Xingzifang in the west of the city. ”

"Did Yan join the army?"

"Go. According to your advice, every time the female Shi came to ask for someone, it was arranged by Yan to join the army, and someone was appointed to help. ”

"Got it."

After listening to Chen Youyu's report, Ouyang Rong nodded quietly.

Rong Zhen has recently focused on investigating the owner of the butterfly love lyrics.

In Ouyang Rong's opinion, for the sake of this truth, she was already a little stunned, and even asked a little less about the construction progress of the Donglin Giant Buddha, which was supposed to be in charge.

Moreover, Rong Zhen, as the supervising envoy of the conquest army, was going to go to the Hongzhou front line with Qin Jingqin's army.

But I don't know what she said to the above, the post of supervising the army was transferred to Miaozhen, who supervised the Xunyang Palace.

The latter went out of the city on his behalf, while Rong Zhen continued to stay in Xunyang to track down the owner of Butterfly Love......

Ouyang Rong rubbed his face.

Since Rong Zhen wanted to investigate, he had no choice but to cooperate.

She did her duty, and he did his duty.

Ouyang Rong got up, changed his official uniform, and left the Jiangzhou hall in his regular clothes.

He drove to Xingzifang.

The Zhuxiang paper mill is located near the western city wall.

Ouyang Rong walked into the paper workshop with his back hand, walked into a wide backyard where he dried paper without squinting, and saw the cold figure of a girl in palace clothes.

Rong Zhen stood under the eaves, twisting a new piece of paper with two fingers, looking up in the sunlight and squinting at the thin paper that showed through the shadow of his fingers.

Ouyang Rong looked at it in his eyes, and his sleeves stopped:

"What did you find?"

Rong Zhen didn't look back, he was quiet for a while, and then said coldly:

The direction is not wrong, the paper used in this butterfly love flower is produced in this workshop, called bamboo incense paper, which is one of the three major bamboo papers in Xunyang. The date of completion of drying should be two months and three days ago. ”

Ouyang Rong smiled: "The investigation is quite detailed." ”

At present, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, bamboo paper is not the mainstream, and it is only popular in the south.

In the Kuanglu Mountain next to Xunyang, there are many bitter bamboos, and Xunyang bamboo paper is also famous in the south of the Yangtze River.

The court and government documents use blue, white, and yellow rattan paper, and the Jiangzhou hall is also used, and a large number of officials play the autumn breeze, and rattan paper is used at home.

Rong Zhen ignored it and whispered:

"The question now is, when the owner of the butterfly love flower wrote the words, whether he was in Xunyang, or whether the bamboo incense paper was lost in other places."

Ouyang Rong thought for a while: "It must be in Xunyang." ”

"Oh?" Rong Zhen finally turned around: "Why are you sure?" ”

"Two months and three days ago, if I remember correctly, it was when Cai Qin and Zhu Lingxu's army in Hongzhou came to invade Jiangzhou, Xunyang was closed and the city was strictly prepared, and the officials were not talented, but the chief guards.

"Martial law has been like this for half a month...... Therefore, this bamboo incense paper can only be sold in the city. ”

Rong Zhen looked at him for a while.

"Ouyang Changshi is really smart." She nodded slightly, and her tone softened:

"This palace also thinks so, but the reason is that the pine ink used by the owner of the butterfly love flower is also a new product in Xunyang, and it is not a coincidence that the two are superimposed."

"Oh." Ouyang Rong was curious: "There are also new discoveries over there in the ink?" ”

"Hmm." Rong Zhen was vague: "Just raised some eyebrows." ”

"Do you want Yan to join the army and send some more people?"

"Look, this palace will call him if necessary."

"Good. Don't be polite to him, Yan joins the army and also likes to investigate cases. ”

Rong Zhen suddenly said: "Ouyang Changshi looks very enthusiastic. ”

"I'm afraid that I will be passive and uncooperative, and I will be deducted by the female historian."

Ouyang Rong chuckled, and Rong Zhen stopped talking.

Shaoqing, feeling the latter's absent-mindedness towards him, began to wander, and Ouyang Rong left calmly.

Rong Zhen raised his head and looked expressionlessly at the back of the young man with a white fox fur who was very compatible with her.

The weak scholar with a fox face in the darkness that night was thinner and taller than Ouyang Lianghan.

Rong Zhen withdrew his gaze.

The date of the paper and ink, as well as the statement that Ouyang Lianghan just added, show that the owner of the butterfly love flower was in Xunyang City when he wrote the butterfly love flower.

The death of Zhao Ruyi, the lieutenant of Jishui County and the guerrilla general, is faintly related to the strange defection of Zhu Lingxu's father and son.

Careful analysis shows that there are two parties to the motivated beneficiary.

One side is Li Zhengyan, and the other side is the Xunyang Wangfu and other Baoli factions.

The latter's motive came from attacking the Wei clan in the court behind Zhu Lingxu.

Judging from the clues that Rong Zhen and Si Tianjian currently have.

The former is the most suspicious.

Whether it is to kill Zhao Ru or to deter Zhu Lingxu's father and son from defecting again;

Or the butterfly love flower poem happens to involve the Yue girl.

Or, in the latest news, there is a more accurate speculation that there is a certain Ding sword.

and other clues, all pointing to Li Zhengyan and them.

But this leads to another problem.

Is it too risky for Li Zhengyan to let a rare sword-bearer and a mythical sword ambush under the noses of the enemies in Xunyang City?

"Are you lurking and staring at the Xunyang Palace?"

Rong Zhen frowned slightly and said to himself:

"Or is it that after you took the Guizhou Buddha statue facility, you found out that something happened by reverse extrapolation.

"To be able to write such beautiful words, it is impossible for this person to be nameless in the city...... But not a gentleman either! ”

Her face suddenly frosted, as if she remembered something, and gritted her teeth.

(End of chapter)