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

This person is a loser and has a thin body. As the saying goes, thin people are so popular. Although this guy looks a bit sissy, he has a very good temper. However, although he has a hot temper, he is a real brother. He dares to tell the truth, does not fear authority, ignores the rich and the poor, and just needs to be like-minded and can be entrusted with his life.

The two met in their freshman year and gradually established friendship from a bowl of wontons. In four years of college, the two walked side by side and struggled on the stage. Even though Cai Xudong, the guy later found a girl vote, no longer came out to hang out together as often as before, his relationship remained unchanged.

That evening, Cai Xudong also came to participate in the sketch performance at Yao Ruoyu's invitation, and then took the stage to take a photo together. So when the light ball fell, he was also on the stage, showing a glimpse of a smile towards the camera.

After traveling through time, Yao Ruoyu focused on looking for this guy. Unfortunately, like other companions who had not found yet, this guy seemed to have disappeared. No matter how he sent someone to search for him, there was no news about Cai Xudong.

So when Thunder God Camp and Beast God Camp returned and saw Cai Xudong standing beside Song Kai, Yao Ruoyu was still a little dazed and thought he had hallucinations. Until he saw the other party looking at him with a smile, he rushed over as if he woke up from a dream, hugged him hard, and said happily: "Cai Cai?"

"Haha, don't be excited. I've lie down. Can you be less powerful?" After laughing for a while, Cai Xudong was already cursing in anger, but Yao Ruoyu ignored his scolding, but he just hugged him hard. After a long time, he let him go, and slammed his chest excitedly, and cursed with a smile: "Where did you go? It's easy for me to find!"

"It's hard to describe!" Shaking his head, Cai Xudong's expression became a little bitter, and then he suppressed it. He turned to laugh, "Let's talk more carefully when you go back."

Yao Ruoyu nodded, then looked at the dusty Yang Renjie and others, frowned and said, "You guys are..."

"I ambushed in the middle," Song Kai didn't make any arguments and nodded, "It's my fault, I'm willing to be punished."

Yang Renjie and Li Yilin wanted to speak, but they saw the heavy losses behind them, but they were helpless to shut up. Xiang Beibei stared at Song Kai hatefully. If it weren't for Yang Renjie's stopping her, she would have complained to Yao Ruoyu long ago.

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

Before, after Song Kai and others left, he practiced in the military camp until Zou Buyi came back and found out about this. He immediately reminded that there might be ambush in the Jin Dynasty. Yao Ruoyu hurriedly brought the Dark Night Dragon Cavalry, but halfway through, he met the people who returned home in vain.

On the way back, Yao Ruoyu also introduced Zou Buyi to Cai Xudong. After Zou Buyi greeted him with a smile, he smiled and said to Yao Ruoyu: "Prince, this is the vegetable you often think about day and night, right? It seems that Zou did nothing wrong that day!"

Yao Ruoyu frowned when she heard this, and then she appeared. Everyone around her looked at her with strange eyes. Except for Yang Renjie and Li Yilin who knew the relationship between them, the others, including Xiang Beibei, all their eyes were complicated and weird.

Suddenly recalling the influence of Zou Buyi's funny thing that day, Yao Ruoyu was immediately angry, while Cai Xudong was unsure of the intention and said curiously: "What's wrong? What did you do wrong?"

"Nothing." Yao Ruoyu waved his hand, glared at Zou Buyi fiercely, and then asked about Cai Xudong's situation after traveling through time.

Because there were other people around you, Yao Ruoyu did not mention time travel, but said that after he got separated, Cai Xudong also understood and briefly described his own experience.

It turned out that after traveling through time, Cai Xudong landed in Anhui and wandered for a while. When a local Wulin Sect called the Blood Sect recruited disciples, Cai Xudong also went to participate. Unexpectedly, not only passed the situation, but also because his physique was very suitable for the Blood Sect's martial arts, he was accepted as a disciple by the Blood Sect leader.

"Oh, it's a pity that our Blood Sect was destroyed by the enemy soon. My master and I hid in Tibet. We originally wanted to escape from the Song Dynasty and take refuge in the Jin Kingdom. Unfortunately, when we escaped halfway, our master was seriously injured and died of illness soon after. I also fled here and lived in seclusion in a village ahead."

Although she was talking about this kind of thing, Cai Xudong looked lazy, as if she had seen through it. Only Yao Ruoyu, who was familiar with him, could feel the grief hidden deep in her heart.

After patting his shoulder, Yao Ruoyu said with some blame: "Why don't you come to me?"

Cai Xudong shrugged and smiled, "When I ran away, you had just established Hezhou City. At that time, I heard that they were still attacked by Yanggu Army. I originally wanted to come to help, but I couldn't protect myself at that time. After escaping here, I didn't know your situation, for fear of implicating you. I only heard about you when the Song Dynasty came here not long ago."

Yao Ruoyu nodded silently when he heard this, and didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only pat his shoulder gently.

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

On the way, Yao Ruoyu asked about Song Kai and the others' encounter this time.

When talking about this, Song Kai's already ugly face became more gloomy, but Yang Renjie and Li Yilin told some things.

After knowing that the Jin soldiers had already been ambushed on both sides of the river bank, Yao Ruoyu immediately looked at Song Kai with some clarity. The latter also sighed slightly and nodded: "It's probably him, the Jin national teacher, who is as good as a god, I am not as good as him."

"Oh, it's rare that Kaikai is so humble?" Yao Ruoyu joked. Seeing his face turned pale, he smiled embarrassedly and comforted, "Don't care, this time it's just that guy is determined and unintentional."

"But said that," Yang Renjie suddenly took off his helmet, grabbed his head, and muttered, "This guy has no grudges with us, and is also the national teacher of the Jin Kingdom. Logically speaking, shouldn't he be busy dealing with Yang Gujun and the others? Why do you always come to trouble us?"

The speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. Although Yang Renjie is just muttering casually, Yao Ruoyu and Song Kai look at each other silently, and a little bit of the same doubts arise in his heart.

In such 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 servants were escorted by the army to take over the city. However, except for Guang'an City, the city lord was not arranged in several other small cities.

As Minister of Personnel, Xu Xuanrong has already drafted a list. Yao Ruoyu has no objection after reading it, so he signed the name and asked someone to go to the cloth.

On the night back to Guang'an City, everyone gathered at the lord's mansion in Guang'an City to discuss the next arrangement.

Because Fu Feng, Fu Zan and Ren Jiasheng led the army to guard against Suining City in the west of Guang'an, only Yang Renjie, Jiang Siyu, Song Kai and others were at this moment. Fortunately, there were no gaps in the civil officials, and they all gathered here.

After everyone arrived, they talked about the next arrangement.

The current situation is that the severely damaged Ice Spring Army has withdrawn from Sichuan and joined the other two Yanggu Armys of Jade and Chiqi, and the Tiger Army and other troops, attacked Shaanxi together. So now, except for the Jin soldiers, there are only the Literary and Art Army left in Sichuan.

Instructing the sand table, Xu Xuanrong raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "In the battle between Yuechi, Nanchong, Deyang and Mianyang, the elite troops of the three cities of Nanchong, Deyang and Mianyang were almost wiped out. Dazhou, Bazhong, and Guangyuan in the north were also seriously injured in the early confrontation with the Yanggu army, so now there is almost no city in the entire northwestern Sichuan that can block the front of our literary and artistic army."

"Does Minister Xu plan to take the opportunity to seize these cities?" Zou Buyi, who was shaking his feather fan, pondered slightly and shook his head, "I'm afraid it's inappropriate. Even though we occupy these cities, how many troops do we have to stop the counterattack of the Jin Kingdom?"

Yao Ruoyu couldn't help but nodded slightly when he heard this. Indeed, the Literary and Art Army now has 24,000 regular troops, and even if there are only 30,000 reserve battalions, it was only 30,000. When he was in Hezhou, Diaoyu, Sanjiang, and moved to the four cities, his military strength was still quite strong.

But if the troops now occupy the six cities of Nanchong, Deyang, Mianyang, Bazhong, Guangyuan and Dazhou, even if the number of people is twice as many as 30,000 people, they will not be able to defend so many cities at all.

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

Shaking his head, Yang Renjie smiled bitterly and said with a rare word: "Kaikai, it's impossible. Before we reach the fifth realm, we cannot gather military power. Three thousand people are the limit we can control. If there are more, it will appear bloated."

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

To understand the military power, you generally have to reach the fifth realm. Generally speaking, you can reach the fifth realm at most, and the first level of the fifth realm can gather the military power of two thousand people. The first level of the fifth realm can gather 4,000 people, the middle level can gather 6,000 people, but the higher level can gather the military power of nearly eight thousand people.

Generally speaking, the city lord and the city defense general in the Jin Dynasty are both in the five realms, so at first glance it seems that 16,000 people are needed. However, not everyone has the strength of the five realms, and secondly, they are worried that each city will have its own troops. Therefore, the Jin Dynasty has regulations on this. Except for a few special military cities, other cities can have up to 8,000 defenders.

The same is true for the Literary and Art Army. In the past, although Yang Renjie and others were only three levels, they did not have to worry about gathering the military power. Two thousand five hundred people were just enough for them to control. Until they were all promoted to the fourth level and their prestige increased, the organization of each battalion was expanded to 3,000.

Hu Xian was holding the tea cup and drinking tea leisurely. Seeing everyone's distress, she suddenly covered her mouth and smiled: "Oh, what are you having a headache? Since Mengmengda just proposed this, I guess she has a solution, right?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, then turned their heads and saw that Xu Xuanrong smiled as beautiful as Hu Xian said, without any frustration at all.

Yao Ruoyu was also one of the few people who saw Xu Xuanrong’s confident heart like Hu Xian. At this moment, he also smiled and said, “Meng Meng, tell everyone what you think.”

Xu Xuanrong looked at him with a smile, and a few laughter that had not seen for a long time passed through her beautiful eyes. Until Yao Ruoyu shrank awkwardly, she smiled and told everyone about her thoughts.

"As I just said, the cities in the northwest of Sichuan are no longer able to resist us. The west of Sichuan is nominally the territory of the Jin Kingdom, but they are actually occupied by the remnants of the various countries that were destroyed. So to be precise, the only ten cities of the Jin Kingdom gathered in Sichuan are Chengdu, Meishan, Ya'an, Leshan, Yibin, Neijiang, Zigong, Ziyang, Suining and Luzhou in the central part."

With a little fingertip, Xu Xuanrong continued: "But Neijiang, Luzhou, Yibin, Zigong and other cities are bordering the Song Dynasty and the Southern Barbarians. In other words, if they dare to mobilize the troops from these cities to deal with us, then the Southern Barbarians and the Song Dynasty will definitely take the opportunity to attack."

"Since that's the case," Song Kai understood and nodded, "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, Chengdu and Ziyang, which are farther away."

"So we have to divide the troops to fight?" Jiang Siyu asked in a daze.

With a gentle nod, Xu Xuanrong smiled and said, "That's right, Guangyuan, Bazhong, Mianyang and other places are connected to Gansu. When they go by rashly, it is easy to provoke the attacks of the Jin garrisons there. So the most suitable city for us to occupy now is the two cities of Nanchong and Dazhou. At the same time, we also need to leave enough troops to garrison Guang'an to prevent Suining from attacking."

Yao Ruoyu pondered for a moment and nodded: "Since that's the case, tomorrow morning, Song Kai, Siyu, Doudou, you will take Thunder God Camp and Sequoia Camp to Dazhou, let Mad Dog, Zan, and Abu take their troops to Nanchong, and I and Xunhuan lead the army to conquer Suining."

Song Kai shook his head and said, "I'll go with you. Nanchong and Dazhou Jinguo's military should have no five realms. The rest are five realms that may exist in the local family. Just let several guest officials go with the army."

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

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became silent. Everyone looked over for some reason. Yang Renjie even stared at him with his eyes wide open and he was about to object. However, Yao Ruoyu couldn't think about it when he saw this and nodded: "Okay!"

When Yang Renjie heard this, he looked over sadly, while Yao Ruoyu smiled and turned his head away pretending to be unseen.

Since Zou Buyi dared to say this, most of them had a way to resolve the relationship with Yang Renjie and others. Therefore, no matter how Yang Renjie and the others opposed it, Yao Ruoyu must agree to Zou Buyi's request this time.

After a few words, everyone had agreed on the arrangements for tomorrow.

The Eastern Army took Fu Feng as the commander, Wu Xue as the military advisor, Fu Zan and Ren Jiasheng as the deputy generals, and Han Zhaoji and Hu Bilan were in charge, leading the Yanhu Camp, Shenying Camp, and Han Tie Camp to Dazhou.

The Northern Army took Yang Renjie as the commander, Zou Buyi as the military advisor, and Jiang Siyu as the deputy general. He was in charge of the five realms and was the two elders of the Chu family, and led the Thunder God Camp and the Sequoia Camp to attack Nanchong.

The Western Route Army was led by Yao Ruoyu himself, Song Kai was appointed as the military advisor, and Chen Tingchao accompanied him, leading the Dark Night Dragon Cavalry and the Beast God Camp to Suining.

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

After the discussion was settled, everyone dispersed and prepared to go to war tomorrow.
Chapter completed!