Chang'an, Qi Wang Mansion, Qi Wang Yuwen Liang returned to the mansion with the afterglow of the sunset. The concubine waited for him to change clothes and bathe. It took a while for dinner to be ready, so he turned to the study room, sat alone on the couch by the window, and looked at the sunset in deep thought.

Today, the emperor will be married in Yecheng. Zhou State has an empress from then on. Yu Wen Liang, as the leader of the clan, was supposed to go to Yecheng to participate in the celebration, but based on various considerations, it was not done in the end.

Last year, Yuwen Liang and his eldest son Yu Wenming went to Yecheng to prepare for the emperor's wedding. There was a risk of being taken over, but all signs showed that Yuchi Jiong, the king of Shu, who was the prime minister at the time, would not do such a thing, so the father and son dared to go to Yecheng at the same time.

As a result, Yuchi Jiong suddenly passed away, resulting in the postponement of the emperor's marriage to this year. It is uncertain whether the new prime minister, Yuchi Dun, would take advantage of the emperor's wedding to take advantage of the emperor's wedding to attack Yuwen Liang who arrived in Yecheng.

This is not because Yu Wenliang was too cautious, but because at the end of last year, the Zhou State gathered a large army to attack Chen State in Jiangnan. His two sons were appointed as marshals of the army and attacked Ba, Xiang, Guizhou, Jiangzhou and Lingbiao respectively. Therefore, leaving Shannan, it was like being lured from the mountain.

Now Yu Wenming and Yu Wen are in Xiangzhou and Lingbiao Guangzhou. If something happens to Yu Wen Liang, who is in Guanzhong, will be completely over.

The situation is not good, and it is the case for the Yuwen family, but for the Yuchi family, which holds the power of the court, the situation is very good. Sooner or later, the two families will break apart. So how to gain a foothold in the other party's full-strength attack is a problem that Yuwen Liang has been considering.

In short, the current situation is full of crisis, and the strength comparison between the two sides is too great. Yuwen Liang feels that unless there is a miracle, it is good that he can defend a piece of territory and "Xu Tuzhi".

Twelve years ago, the Zhou Kingdom destroyed Qi, and the Chen Kingdom in Jiangnan was like fat on a chopping board. As the world was about to be unified, the Yuwen family was about to reach its peak, but it was instantly destroyed and disappeared on the horizon like the setting sun.

The family has fallen to such a state, which makes Yuwen Liang very worried. It is already here that it is meaningless to blame the sudden prodigal son Yuwen Yun. If he wants to shoulder the heavy responsibility of reviving the family, he has to grit his teeth and persevere.

Not only that, even his two sons had to go into battle, so even if they were concerned about being transferred from the mountain, Yuwen Liang agreed to the appointment of the court, allowing his two sons to take charge of the battle, in order to make more military achievements, accumulate more reputation, and restore everyone's confidence in the Yuwen family.

In particular, we must let everyone see that the people in the Yuwen family are very good at fighting. Only in this way can we gather people's hearts and let those families excluded by Yuchi Dun have the determination to bet on the Yuwen family. Although this is a bit merciless, it is an indisputable fact.

Yuwen Liang has been trying his best to win over any force that can be won over for more than a year, and the results are good, but in fact he knew very well that on the day he really broke up with the Yuchi family, he had to win a big victory similar to the Shayuan War that year before others would truly follow him.

If everyone has confidence in the Yuwen family, then the men of the Yuwen family must be able to continue to win battles. Therefore, Yuwen Liang is working hard and also let his two sons fight for more opportunities to make military achievements. As the marshal of the marching marshal, the best opportunity is to go to the Chen State.

This is very risky, but Yu Wen Liang weighed the pros and cons and thought it was worth taking the risk, so he would not go to Yecheng anyway before his son returned to Shannan, so as not to encourage Yuchi Dun's ambition to take action in advance.

So today the emperor's wedding was not present, but Yuwen Liang knew that the emperor's elder sister, Princess Jin, had returned to Yecheng. I think the emperor would not be too lonely. As long as he survived for a few more years, when the power of the royal family grew to a certain level, he would be able to restrain the Yuchi family and prevent him from taking that step.

The situation of Yuchi Dun being afraid of the enemy in Zhou State was that Yuchi and Yuwen shared the world. It lasted for several years. The new balance force increased, and the contradiction between the two sides gradually dissipated, turning the crisis intovisible.

This was the best solution that Yuwen Liang could think of, but the emperor's nature made him feel a little worried, worried that the two families would break up early.

When Yuwen Wen came back from Yecheng, he brought the emperor's oral order. In his words, Yuwen Liang knew the emperor's general idea. Although Yuwen Gankeng was young, his mind was beyond his age, so Yuwen Liang was worried that the other party would not be calm and was eager to succeed and would cause trouble.

For example, at the wedding ceremony, the assassination of Yuchi Dun while the people were not prepared, and then called on all the ministers to raise an uprising.

The possibility of such a thing happening is very small, so Yuwen Liang did not think this year was very dangerous. In order to avoid irritating Yuchi Dun, he did not rashly send someone to contact the emperor secretly, and the emperor seemed to be very calm and did not send anyone to contact him privately.

Everything is to maintain a fragile balance. Yuwen Liang only hopes that this balance can last for a few more years. At that time, the power of the royal family will be stronger and the hope of defending the country will be greater.

But this does not mean that Yuwen Liang is not wary. On the east side of Guanzhong, he is located in Hedong, where Yuchi Qin, the general manager of Bingzhou, and on the west side is the Shu area of ​​Yizhou, where Xipiluo, the general manager of Yizhou. Once the Yuchi family takes action, it is inevitable that the east and west will be attacked.

The road to Shu is difficult, so the threat from Xipiluo in Yizhou to the west is relatively light, while the threat from Yuchi Qin in Bingzhou to the east is the biggest. The trends in Jinyang are something that Yuwen Liang has been paying attention to, and he dare not take it lightly even now.

He arranged a detailed plan in Bingzhou to inform the other party of his abnormal situation at any time, knowing that because autumn is approaching, the Bingzhou army is "preventing autumn", which is a normal mobilization of troops, but once these troops suddenly move south, it will be amazing.

The large-scale mobilization of troops must not be hidden from Seizuo's eyes. However, Jinyang has more than 800 miles to Puban by the Yellow River, and after crossing the Yellow River, it has more than 200 miles to Chang'an. The whole journey is more than 1,000 miles. Can Seizuo send the news back in time?

cannot.

If Yuchi Qin really wants to do something, he can block the checkpoints along the way and prevent idle people from coming and going, and then dispatch cavalry first. With plenty of horses, he will travel day and night to Puban, and it will be possible to arrive in about two or three days.

Even if these cavalry did not raid Chang'an, as long as they controlled the Yellow River floating bridge in Pujin and arrived on the west bank to defend, the main force of the Bingzhou Army that followed would be able to easily cross the Yellow River and enter Guanzhong. The time left for Chang'an would not be enough at all.

He was riding a horse from Jinyang to Chang'an to inform the news, and he could not prepare Chang'an in time. However, this was not a problem for Yuwen Liang, because his second son Yuwen Wen gave a solution.

Fei Ge delivers a letter.

Yuwen Liang probably knew that pigeons had the habit of returning to their nests, but he never thought that people could use this habit to let pigeons pass letters, so when Yuwen Wen revealed this method, he was a little unbelievable.

It is not surprising that pigeons can return to their nests dozens of miles away, but they can return to their nests even if they exceed thousands of miles away. That is incredible. Yuwen Wen gave a demonstration on this.

That day, several pigeons released from Xiyang flew back to Chang'an and brought a few notes with half of the seal. More than twenty days later, the messenger who came from Xiyang brought a note with the other half of the seal.

After the notes were put together and confirmed that they were correct, Yuwen Liang could believe in the feasibility of Feige's letters and was full of confidence in how to resist the Bingzhou army's surprise attack.
Chapter completed!