Guangling, with a high city and a deep pond, a tiger lies north of the Yangtze River, opposite to Jiankang, and its strategic position is extremely important and has always been a must-fight place for military strategists.

In the first year of Kaihuang, He Ruobi offered Chen Shi Ce to be praised by Emperor Wen of Sui, and ordered him to be the chief supervisor of Wuzhou, to build a canal in Guangling, and to prepare for the destruction of Chen.

After seven years of preparation, the Sui Army's Jiangbei Camp has been completed and the first naval force of the Sui Army was also established.

In the middle of the Yangtze River, He Ruobi stood on the battleship command platform, looking far away at the Chen Army Navy Camp on the south bank.

But seeing the Chen army's warships lined with huge and extremely lush marinas, densely packed with piers on the riverside, stretching for dozens of miles, endlessly. In contrast, the Sui army had only a hundred old warships and more than a thousand sailors of varying quality, which was really cold and tight.

When the lights were in hand, Chen Jun's warship was filled with bright lights, which made the stars and moon in the sky dimly.

He Ruobi was about forty years old, with a tall body, wide mouth and square face, and a high temple bulge, making people believe that he must be a trainee. What is particularly different from the powerful deputy generals of Kong Wu beside him is that his deep eyes are particularly confident, and he is obviously a good person with strategy.

Perhaps this is why He Ruobi was highly valued by Emperor Yang Jian of Sui and Prime Minister Gao Ying.

You can vaguely hear the noise coming from the camp opposite.

Liu Guang, who was standing behind He Ruobi, snorted coldly: "It's almost a month since the Spring Festival, and Chen Jun is still celebrating it. Are you not afraid that we will take the opportunity to fight and destroy them?"

Li Jin, who was also He Ruobi's confidant next to him, sneered: "Just the hundreds of dilapidated warships and thousands of sick naval troops in our camp, even the barracks felt that it was too weak, so the arrogant Chen navigators naturally ignored it even more."

Liu Guang laughed and said, "How can these idiots understand that this is just a plan by our general deliberately showing the enemy to weaken his plan. Our real navy is currently practicing secretly in the canal."

He Ruobi said lightly: "The battle to destroy Chen is of great importance. Our army has not yet prepared enough, so we should not be careless now."

Li Jin and Liu Guang immediately said their promise, and the latter suddenly asked: "General, in three months, General Han must have completed the supervision of the new warships. At that time, the navy we secretly trained will also be in place. Will we ask the emperor to send troops to destroy Chen?"

Li Jin's words represent the inner desires of the generals around him. They have been waiting for the day of the Battle to Destroy Chen for eight years, and they are eager to try it out at this moment.

A mysterious smile appeared on the corner of He Ruobi's mouth and said lightly: "No hurry! Now the whole country of Chen is not exhausted yet. Besides, before we destroy Chen, we still need to do something."

Liu Guang interrupted, "I just received a tip and Xiao Moha's son Xiao Ping turned out to be born to Chen Shubao and his wife Liu."

When the generals heard this, they immediately smiled sarcastically. Li Jin even sneered and said, "What's the fuss about this? Chen Shubao has become famous all over the world. Who has never been touched by Chen Shubao?"

Everyone burst into laughter again.

Although Li Jin's words were a bit exaggerated, Chen Shubao, under the instigation of treacherous ministers such as Kong Fan and General Jiang, followed the example of Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms and was a well-known secret. However, due to Chen Shubao's power, no one in the Southern Dynasties dared to mention it, but in the Northern Dynasties, there was no such taboo.

Liu Guang ignored the ridicule of the crowd and continued, "This matter is not only Xiao Maha, but also has caused extreme dissatisfaction among his confidant generals. Xiao Maha is in charge of the General of the Cavalry and opens the Huang Pavilion, which is equivalent to the right prime minister being the supreme commander of the military, holding 200,000 elite troops of the Chen army, and is the spiritual pillar of Chen **'s side. Should the general send someone to lobby? If Xiao Maha is willing to abandon the secret and turn to the light, Nan Chen can be destroyed just now, and the general should be the first contribution to the battle to destroy Chen, and it is not difficult to be named a marquis and a prime minister."

Li Jin and others did not expect this, and immediately stopped their smiles and made suggestions to He Ruobi, supporting Liu Guang's ideas.

He Ruobi's desire for fame and fortune is indeed very strong, so it is naturally his dream to be a marquis and ministers. Otherwise, he would not have first destroyed Chen Shi Ce, and then actively prepared to attack Chen. However, he was good at fighting and was very resourceful. After years of investigation, he had already learned the habits of Chen **'s important officials and generals.

Thinking of Xiao Maha's character, He Ruobi sighed and said, "Don't I know that persuading Xiao Maha to surrender is equivalent to destroying the State of Chen? But you only know one thing but not the other. Xiao Maha is loyal and righteous. Even if he knows that his wife and Chen Shubao are in vain, he may not rebel. Otherwise, how could Xiao Maha's confidants just complain?"

"What the general is concerned about is, but don't try it." Liu Guang turned his mind and said, "Even if it is not successful, it will definitely arouse mutual suspicion and recession between Xiao Mohe and Chen Shubao, and it will be of great benefit to our army's attack on Chen."

He Ruobi thought about it and felt it made sense, so he nodded and said, "Anyway, we have to stay some time to cross the river, so we will do as you say."

Li Jin then advised: "General, don't have to risk crossing the river. According to the general's instructions, our people have destroyed more than a dozen grain storage bases of Chen's army in succession. The remaining last generals will be dealt with, so General He Lao will take action personally?"

Chen Jun's food and grass were mostly placed in bamboo grass tents, and few were buried in the cellar, so the Sui Jun was able to make it easy to do it in detail. But Li Jin didn't know that He Ruobi had actually had more important things to do when crossing the river.

Seeing that Li Jin was not aware of it, Liu Guang immediately said proudly: "Deputy General Li doesn't know anything. Chen Shubao has just changed his name to establish a new crown prince and will go to Zhongshantian to hunt according to customs. The general plans to assassinate Chen Shubao and his son. If he succeeds, he will definitely make a great contribution. The emperor will be very happy, and it is not difficult for the general to be a marquis and a prime minister."

He Ruobi nodded with a smile. When he thought of the title of Marquis and the Prime Minister, he immediately asked, "How is the matter you ordered to do?"

Liu Guang responded: "Report to the general, the last general has sent people to outside the pass to catch two white-headed tigers with hanging eyes and white foreheads. Ke Ri sent them to Zhongshan for preparation."

It turned out that He Ruobi wanted to make great contributions and seek appreciation from Emperor Wen of Sui and promoted a second position, so he planned to assassinate while Chen Shubao was hunting. The tiger he prepared was also one of his plans.

He Ruobi nodded with satisfaction and continued to look at Chen Junshui Village opposite the river to observe the enemy situation.

Liu Guang seemed to be more respectful to He Ruobi. Li Jin, who is also a competitor, snorted coldly with disdain, his face full of jealousy.

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All things are inferior to those who are superior to those who are good at studying.

In ancient times, this was an iron law. But all those who could study and go to school came from the gentry class, and other classes did not have that power. Although Yang Jian of the Northern Sui Dynasty had already implemented the imperial examination system that broke the monopoly of the gentry's government affairs, it was still monopolized by the gentry class in the Southern Chen Dynasty.

When Zhang Yuhua left the General's Mansion of the Cavalry, she had already broken up with Xiao Moha'en, so Xiao Jing and Xiao Yi lost the privileges of the gentry class.

Fortunately, Xiao Jing was well-educated as the daughter of the General's Mansion and was quite proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She was originally enough to cope with children's education under the age of ten, but Xiao Yi's learning ability was far beyond ordinary people. In a few months, Xiao Jing had no talent and had to find another famous teacher for her younger brother.

There is a private school in Gaoqiao Lane in the west of Jiankang City, called Jinling Academy. The one who built the museum was an old master named Li Dan and his name was Ru, which was a rare famous scholar in the Chen State. It is said that Li Ru was once the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was in charge of rituals. After Yang Jian stole the country, Li Ru and Sima Xiaonan and others went out of the Northern Sui Dynasty to join the Southern Chen State.

Li Ru was famous for being upright and unfamiliar, and he valued virtue and education the most. Chen Shubao, the king of Southern Chen, was incompetent and incompetent. The court was most dissatisfied with him, so he resigned and opened Jinling Academy to teach and educate.

Li Ru had a very deep concept of family background and originally did not accept Xiao Yi's apprenticeship. But when he discovered that Xiao Yi had the qualifications of a child prodigy that was rare in a century, he immediately changed his attention and allowed Xiao Yi to enroll in school in an extraordinary manner, and focused on training as his disciple.

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the teaching of students mainly focused on the seven classics and six arts. The seven classics were "The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Yi Li", "Book of Changes", "Spring and Autumn", "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Book of Filial Piety". The six arts were rituals, music, shooting, archery, calligraphy, and numbers. Xiao Yi had already practiced a thousand-character calligraphy under the guidance of his sister, so it became much easier to learn the seven classics and six arts later.

Xiao Yi knew that his sister expected that he would achieve his future achievements must be above Xiao Maha, and that his mother's death was something that Xiao Yi could not forget. Therefore, Xiao Yi studied very carefully and soon overwhelmed other classmates at the age of three and aged five or six, and became the first child school student in Jinling Academy. The name of a child prodigy became a good story.

"The order is in this trunk, and the southern mountain is as quiet as bamboo buds, as lush as pines. Brothers and brothers are as good as each other, but they are still as good as each other."

The sound of reading with pleasant rhymes came from the academy hall. If you listen carefully, it would be easy to hear one of them with a heavier tongue-rolling sound.

This is Xiao Yi.

Although Xiao Yi adapted to writing with his left hand, he was not very adaptable to the pronunciation of ancient Chinese. Because later Mandarin was severely affected by the rolling tongue sound of the Jurchen nomads, the tone had undergone great changes, which was much different from the pronunciation of ancient Chinese. Just as the pronunciation of foreigners today when speaking Chinese dialect made Chinese people feel very awkward, Xiao Yi's rolling tongue sound also made ancient people uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Xiao Yi was young, so no one in the academy's master and classmates blamed him, and he would not doubt the real reason why his pronunciation was out of tune.

"Who will explain the meaning of this passage?"

After listening to the students' reading, Li Ru began to ask questions. This book was what he had said before, but no student answered it on his own initiative, which made him very unhappy, so he called and asked questions one by one.

Most students could explain one or two sentences, but when Xiao Enci was about to explain, he was so confused that he made all the classmates laugh.

Li Ru was so angry that his beard was raised up. He immediately called Xiao Enci in front of him and hit him heavily. Xiao Enci was so painful that he burst into tears in his eyes.

"Xiao Yi, please explain the meaning of this passage."

After Li Ru taught Xiao Enci a lesson, his eyes turned to Xiao Yi again, and his face showed expectations and trust.

Xiao Yi stood up and replied, "No", and then explained loudly: "The stream water is clear and clear, and the southern mountains are deep and quiet. There are dense bamboo bushes and lush pine forests. My brother and younger brother are together, and they live in harmony with each other, without fraud or bullying."

Li Ru gently stroked his beard and nodded constantly with Xiao Yi's rhythm, as if intoxicated.

"Okay! Very good! Sit down."

Xiao Yi bowed and knelt down in front of the desk again, without looking sideways. The classmates around him all looked envious and jealous.

"Look at the progress of Xiao Yi's descendants is faster than yours. You are all five or six years old, but you are not even as good as your three-year-old juniors. You are so embarrassed for you. In the future, you should ask Xiao Yi for advice and study humbly. Do you know?"

"Yes! Master!"

The children were extremely reluctant to accept the order. Especially the punished Xiao Enci, whose eyes looked at Xiao Yi with hostility.

Because she doesn't like to stay with a group of children, Xiao Yi always stays alone in a place where no one is reading during class breaks.

After Xiao Enci was punished by his master, he felt angry. Suddenly, he saw Xiao Yi alone and saw no one around him, so he snorted coldly and came to Xiao Yi near him.

"The little brat knows that he is so stinking in front of the Master!"

When Xiao Yi heard this, he looked up and saw that it was Xiao Enci. He knew that he was not angry with his master and was too lazy to argue with him, so he continued to read and ignored him.

Xiao Enci is the little overlord of this academy, and all his classmates are afraid of offending him. He is used to showing off his power, and Xiao Yi's ignorance suddenly made him angry.

"Did you hear me?" Xiao Enci snatched Xiao Yi's book and glared at him angrily.

Xiao Yi frowned and said impatiently: "Give me the book back."

Xiao Enci warned: "Look at your surname is Xiao, this time I will not remember the villain and spare you. Next time when the Master asks you, remember to tell me that I don't know. Let me see you again and be careful, I will beat you!"

Xiao Enci gestured at Xiao Yi a few times, and the meaning was very obvious.

When threatened by a child, Xiao Yi suddenly turned his eyes speechlessly, stood up suddenly, looked at Xiao Enci coldly, and said, "For the sake of your surname Xiao, I don't know anything like you, a little kid. Return the book to me and leave quickly!"

Xiao Enci immediately looked at Xiao Yi in surprise, as if he was even speechless. He looked up and down at Xiao Yi's clothes. Seeing that the material of Xiao Yi's clothes was not as good as his own, he thought he was not a powerful child, so he didn't take Xiao Yi seriously.

"Give it to you."

Xiao Enci pretended to hand the book to Xiao Yi. When Xiao Yi reached out to pick it up, he threw the book away, and then smiled smirkedly.

It's really too much to deceive others!

Xiao Yi was immediately annoyed and kicked Xiao Enci's soft flesh on the inner part of his thigh. Xiao Enci was so painful that he screamed and fell to the ground.

"leave--"

Before Xiao Enci could scold him, he was hit by Xiao Yi's heavy punch. Although Xiao Yi was young, he was very strong in training every day. This time he immediately stunned the other party, and blood oozed from the corners of his nostrils and mouth.

Xiao Yi snorted coldly and picked up the book.

"Those who lose your mother dare to hit me!"

Xiao Enci suddenly recovered from the spirit and rushed over to take revenge with a loud shout.

Xiao Yi was not panicked, just waiting for the other party to rush over. In his era, work pressure was high, and many people chose to go to the martial arts hall to fight boxing and relieve stress. Xiao Yi was no exception. Although he was also a half-baked person, he was still more than enough to deal with the little kid in front of him.

When the opponent's fist was about to reach his sight, Xiao Yi suddenly lowered his head and avoided the opponent's fist. He suddenly stretched out his right hand and accurately grabbed Xiao Enci's left hand and pulled forward with the flow. His body quickly turned 180 degrees and bent into a bow-shaped shape to block the lower part of the opponent's body and left leg, and his right foot quickly stretched out to trip the opponent's right ankle.

Xiao Yi did it quickly and with one move, he immediately threw Xiao Enci to the ground with a "falling body".

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yi held Xiao Enci's left hand with both hands and pressed him hard on one knee. At the same time, he shouted: "Your sister, everyone said not to mess with me."

Xiao Enci kept resisting and struggling, but it was useless, and finally burst into tears in a hurry.

Just a little brat. Just teach me a lesson.
To be continued...