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Chapter 122 Crisis

Racing for 300 miles a day and night to defeat the enemy is a common tactic for many famous generals to win battles, but the cost of galloping day and night is high. One is to exhaust the horses, and the other is to be tired and half-death. Even if the war is not killed, you have to rest well before you can recover.

If you don’t fight after galloping day and night, but continue to gallop day and night, it will feel uncomfortable. Although Yuwen Wen has not spent all his seven days on horseback, he will not feel good.

From Fanyu, he rode a horse to the southern end of Zhenyang Gorge, took a boat to the north overnight, and after leaving the canyon, boarded a horse in Zhenyang, rushed to Shixing without stopping, and crossed Dayu Ridge and entered the boundary of Jiangzhou.

Although you can take a boat downstream to Nanchang after passing Dayu Ridge, the river in the first half is proliferating and dangerous shoals, which makes the boat speed not as fast as the horse speed. Therefore, Yuwen Wen has been riding on the horse's back in addition to being convenient.

He traveled day and night, except for being able to close his eyes while riding a boat, he could not sleep the rest of the time, so he was so sleepy that he could fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes. In order to prevent him from falling off the horse's back when he was napping, Yuwen Wen carried spicy things with him to refresh himself.

After using it for several days, the sense of taste and smell have become paralyzed.

To ensure that you don’t fall off a horse when you fall asleep, you can tie yourself to the horse’s back, why not do this?

It's very simple. There is a large section of the road from Guangzhou Fanyu to Jiangzhou Fengkou. If the person and the mount are tied together, once the horse falls off the front and falls down the mountain, the person will be finished with him.

When he was in the territory of Nankang, Yuwen Wen's mount slid down the cliff. At that time, he was in a semi-confused state. At that moment, his body was unbalanced, he at least reacted. He jumped off his horse when his mount fell off the cliff, and was pulled by his followers so he did not die young.

There is certainly a reason why Yuwen Wen rushed to the road so desperately, that is, he realized that the crisis was coming, and everything came from the sudden departure of the marshal Scholar Tatsuya.

"Mr. Cui, since that day, Fan Yu parted... Haha... I miss you very much. Because I had something unknown, I came to ask."

Yuwen Wen yawned, sat on Hu's bed, and asked a question to Cui Daju, who was tied up. The other party was frightened, but pretended to be calm: "The king imprisoned the chief and Sima, and this move was like a rebellion. What exactly should the king do!"

"What are you doing? This is the question I want to ask Mr. Cui." Yuwen Wen said with a smile. He called Cui Daju "Mr. Cui", which was originally a joke. "I don't remember having ordered Mr. Cui to act cheaply in Jiangzhou."

Speaking of this, he changed his subject: "Didn't Cui Gong hurry back to Yecheng? Why did he change his mind halfway and come out of the Hongmen Banquet at Fengkou?"

"King, the war in Jiangnan is tight, and the subordinates and Sima Cui were ordered to mobilize troops to advance eastward to reinforce. Where did they come from..."

Before Cui Daju finished speaking, he stopped abruptly because he saw someone walking in with a snake. The snake was green all over, the body was as thick as a thumb, and it looked very cunning.

"I once cut a case." Yuwen Wen continued to speak, but this seemed to have nothing to do with the problem just now. "One day, someone died suddenly while herding cattle by the bamboo forest. The death was very strange. It seemed that the cause of death was a serious disease attack, but after the coroner's autopsy, he found that the person was suspected of venom of snakes."

"However, there was no sign of snake biting all over his body, and I couldn't figure it out, but in the end I found the reason. Can Gong Cui know what the reason for this person's death?"

Seeing that Cui Dana had no intention of speaking, Yuwen Wen smiled: "It's very simple. This person was lying on the big rock next to the bamboo forest to take a nap, but was crawled into his mouth by a poisonous snake named 'Bambooyeqing'..."

Cold sweat came out in an instant, Cui Dana knew roughly what Yuwen Wen was going to say, but he didn't dare to think about it, but Yuwen Wen still said:

"When the coroner was conducting an autopsy, the deceased was exposed to his stomach, and it was found that his heart was bitten by the bamboo leaf green, causing his life to be lost. However, before that, I think life was worse than death."

With a "thump", Cui Dana knelt down and begged for mercy: "Master! Please spare your life!"

He was not a steadfast man, and he knew that he could not stand the torture and did not have the courage to commit suicide to avoid humiliation, so he could only surrender and beg for mercy. Seeing this, Yuwen Wen smiled slightly and said to his followers: "Please take this snake to drink."

"King! The officials dare not drink snake wine!"

"This snake wine is sold after it is soaked. Have you ever said that you should let Mr. Cui drink it?" Yuwen Wen stared at Cui Dana, like a fox who had succeeded in the conspiracy. "Then, I have a few questions, please help Mr. Cui solve his doubts..."

......

In the bathtub, Yu Wenwen was taking a shower, and there were people staring at him. It was not that he had an exposure habit, but that he wanted to prevent himself from sliding into the bucket and drowning after falling asleep. He was so sleepy, but it was not possible to take a bath, so he could only do so.

Unlike in the past, he took a warm bath to prevent sudden illness from taking a cold bath. After all, he had to go on a journey for so many days in a row, and his sleep was seriously insufficient and his body's resistance was significantly reduced, so he had to be careful.

Another point is to take the opportunity to restore your spirit, because Yu Wenwen needs to make a quick decision and make targeted arrangements for the sudden outbreak of crises. Therefore, it is necessary to keep your head awake, even if you can only recover for a moment of sanitation after taking a shower.

Everything started with more than ten days ago. That day, an envoy of the court arrived in Fanyu. Yuwen thought it was a command to send him a command, but the edict brought by the other party did not mention the matter.

He was just scolded without any pain, because he was naturally "unleashing border provocations" to attack Linyi Kingdom. After some official articles, he warned him that this situation would never happen again, and then it would disappear.

This is a public affairs, but the private affairs were brought by the envoy to the marshal Shi Triodana. It is said that something happened in the Cui Mansion. If Yu Wen Wen had no objection, Cui Triodana would need to rush back immediately.

When Cui Dana learned that something happened in the mansion was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, Yuwen Wen didn't want to make things difficult for the other party. After all, he would be in a hurry to rush back if something happened at home, so he waved his hand to let him go.

Cui Dana made the handover of all matters that day, and set off in a hurry the next morning.

The Chief of the Army Chief left, Yuwen Wen was happy and comfortable, but not long after he recalled it and felt something was wrong.

First, someone who had just arrived in Fanyu mentioned it to him when he was chatting, saying that he met Cui Dana and his group in a hurry at a certain inn. Yuwen Wen calculated his fingers and found that the other party was rushing to the road was amazing, which could be said to be a journey day and night regardless of danger.

It seems like a filial son is going to rush home to meet his last time before his parents die.

Yuwen Wen didn’t know if Cui Dana was a filial son, but knew that his parents had passed away long ago. So what does Cui Dana mean by "an accident in the mansion"?

Cui Dana married the princess of Qi, Gao, but Gao accidentally said that Cui Dana's mother was killed. Later, Zhou State destroyed Qi, Cui Dana killed Gao and avenged her mother, and later married a bride.

The so-called accident in the mansion was either because Xu Xian was seriously ill or Cui Dana's son was seriously ill, but this was not the reason why "Old Cui" rushed back in a hurry.

With the medical technology level of this era, if a person gets seriously ill and cannot afford to sit on a bed, it means that he will soon be in the world. From Fanyu to Yecheng for thousands of miles, Cui Dana travels day and night, even if he travels back to Yecheng, he will probably not have time to meet for the last time.

So there must be something strange about it!

If it is just a guise of having something at home and leaving Fanyu and walking northward to do something, it can explain why the other party is moving so fast. Then what is Cui Dana so anxious?

As the chief of the army supervisor, Cui Dana's duty is to supervise Yuwen Wen. One of the purposes is to prevent him from leading troops to attack Jiankang and stealing credit. Now something must be happening, which is more important than the army supervisor.

The more Yuwen Wen thought about it, the more strange he felt. The more he thought about it, the more he became more restless. He could not contact Xiyang, Huangzhou and Shangkou, Jiangzhou, using Feige to send a letter to him, so there was no news or evidence that Cui Dana was planning a conspiracy.

But he thought of the marshal Sima Cui Hongsheng, who should be in Jiangzhou or nearby areas at this time. Once these two surnames Cui were combined, they would have to plan any conspiracy, which would be a great thing.

As a conspiracy theorist and a patient with deep persecution, Yuwen Wen smelled the scent of conspiracy. He did not dare to take it lightly. He decided with Yang Jiyi and then set off immediately and secretly rushed to Jiangzhou Chunkou.

If Cui Dana was just passing by Fengkou, then Yuwen Wen would sleep in Fengkou and then sneak back to Guangzhou. If the other party really had a conspiracy, then the key point would be Fengkou or Nanchang.

So he had to race against time to Nanchang or Shuokou. Once the other party really had a conspiracy, he had to make a quick decision.

"King, time is up."

A gentle reminder made Yuwen wake up from his semi-confusion. He set a quarter of an hour for himself to take a shower because there were still many things to do next.

After washing his face, he came out of the bathtub. He changed into dry clothes and walked out of the room quickly.

"Where are them?"

"Go back to the king, all the generals are waiting in the chamber."

"Good, bring the stuff."

After taking the spicy thing handed over by his entourage, Yuwen Wen wiped it into his own people. A spicy smell penetrated his nose, making people feel refreshed.

Yuwen Wen had no time to sleep, so he could only relieve fatigue by taking a bath. The news learned from Cui Dana confirmed his uneasiness: Prime Minister Yuchi Dun decided to take action, and Yuwen and Yuchi's families finally broke up.

This day will come sooner or later, but Yuwen Wen didn't expect it to come so quickly, which caught him off guard. What's even more terrible is that his princess and prince should still be in Yecheng now.

If the situation worsens, he and Yuchi Chifan may never meet again in this life.

Yuwen Wen regretted it a little, regretting that he shouldn't have agreed to Yuchi Chifan send the princess of Qianjin to Beijing. Thinking of this, his steps were getting faster and faster, his fists were clenched, and his breathing was a little rapid.

Break? If my wife and son have a few shortcomings, you all have to be buried with you!

......

In the conference hall, Yuwen Wen was summoning the generals to discuss the matter, and a bloody conflict almost broke out in the hall. It was Yuwen Wen's sudden appearance that reversed the situation. However, in fact, he had arrived at Fengkou an hour earlier, so Shi Wansui and others came prepared.

Cui Dana took ten days to get from Fanyu to Fengkou. Yuwen Wen set out on the third day after his departure. He tried his best to arrive before the other party. After a time difference, he was able to make arrangements in advance.

Since the other party chooses to take action, it must be not a sudden idea. Then, if you think deeper, you will know that the current situation has undergone a drastic change.

"Cui Dana had confessed just now, saying that he was ordered by the Prime Minister to summon you to seize military power in Gongkou, in order to keep the important place of Gongkou, one to block me from the ridge, and the other to receive the troops sent by Yuchi Youqi."

"Why are they doing this? It's very simple. The Prime Minister decided to take action! He decided to take action before the Chen State was destroyed!"

Yuwen Wen's words were loud and the generals present did not have much emotion when they heard this. After all, everyone has some understanding of the political situation. After what happened just now, even the slow-witted person reacted: the Yuchi family and the Yuwen family broke up.

"This day will come sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's useless to sigh now, so what should I do next is to decide immediately."

Since Cui Dana made an attack at the meeting, it has just been half an hour since Yuwen Wen didn't even sleep because he had to hurry up and call everyone to make a decision. Except for Chen Wudi, Xu Shao, Shi Wansui, and Lai Hu'er, the other generals in the vegetable market are also from the Hulin Army.

Since they are all their own people, if they have, they should be clearly stated.

Since Prime Minister Yuchi Dun decided to turn against him, he must have a backup plan. If Cui Dana and Cui Hongsheng control Fengkou, they must receive subsequent support, so that they can suppress the Sangluozhou naval army and guard Hukou.

So now they must make a series of reactions before the other side’s reinforcements arrive. Because the incident happened suddenly, time was rushed, and Yu Wenwen was very tired, so they had to brainstorm and everyone came up with advice.

First of all, the news blockade was blocked. Yuwen Wen rushed to Fengkou in advance and arranged for Xu Shao and others to make various preparations. So after the incident, Cui Dana and Cui Hongsheng's people did not run away, and Cui Hongsheng's warships that were arranged to park on the river in advance were unable to run away.

But this does not mean that what happened in Chengkou City has been completely blocked. If Cui Hongsheng agreed with the person he stayed elsewhere in advance that once no news came after a certain period of time, it would mean that the matter would fail, and then his subordinates would also spread the situation.

So there is actually not much time left for Yuwen Wen, and the situation he has to face is very complicated, because although Cui Hongsheng did not confess, there are many signs that the Prime Minister must have planned this time, so the possibility of attacking other places will be very high except for Shunkou.

For example, Cui Hongdu, who was stationed in Jingzhou (Chen State), may lead his troops to attack Bazhou at the mouth of Dongting Lake, and prevent Yu Wenming, who was located in Xiangzhou from leading his troops back to Shannan as much as possible.

The attack on Guanzhong, Shannan Jingxiang is very likely to occur in the near future, so Yuwen Wen must arrive in Anlu as soon as possible, so he cannot stay in the hukou for too long. After deciding the strategy, he has to rush to Xiyang, Huangzhou to make arrangements.

The situation in Jiangzhou is very bad. Since the Prime Minister chooses to turn against each other, Jiangzhou will have to face two enemies in the future: one is Yuchi Youqi's army, and the direction of his march must be Jiangbei.

Another enemy is the Chen army. Because Yuchi Youqi is very likely to stop fighting against Chen, then after Chen army recovers, they may not necessarily cross the river to go north, but send troops to Jiangzhou first.

The Pengli Lake area in Jiangzhou produces a large amount of grain, and the Chen State must recover it. Otherwise, how could the three Wu grain output be able to support so many military and civilians?

Faced with two groups of enemy troops, the troops stationed in Jiangzhou were very tense. Another problem that followed was that the Lingnan Road marching was mainly Huangzhou army, and now it was distributed in Jiangzhou and Lingbei, so the troops on the Huangzhou General Administration were extremely insufficient.

In short, this is a huge crisis. The choice before Yuwen Wen is to choose where to protect: whether to give up the Lingbian, shrink the strength to defend Jiangzhou, or even shrink all the strength to return to Huangzhou, and defend the basic market.

If the entire army retreats back to Huangzhou, it means that all the results of the past year have disappeared, but in order to defend Jiangzhou, soldiers must be dispersed everywhere, which will lead to the empty force of Huangzhou and trigger more serious consequences: the territory is lost and the loss is completely lost.

Yuwen Wen looked around at everyone present. These people were his team. Whether they were mature or not, they had to take the lead. He suppressed his tiredness and said, "There is a saying that is good. If you are unstable, you will lose completely. Now, you must make a decision!"
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