With a "bang", the book case was trembling with a shaking. The pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table were changed. The maids were so scared that they all bowed their heads and did not dare to show up. After the book case, Wang, the concubine of Shu, took back her right hand. Although her hand hurt a little, her mind was completely out of her hands.

After sitting down, he didn't say a word. When the maid saw that Wang seemed to be a little angry, she quickly came up to clean up the desk, then stood by her hands hanging down, still not daring to speak.

It is winter now, but because of the glass windows, it can ensure light transmission without opening the windows to keep the room warm. Wang's heart was in chaos as he looked at the sunshine sprinkled on the ground of the room.

Today, her daughter-in-law, Princess Angu, and her grandson, Prince Angu, Yuchi Jiade, were kidnapped and her whereabouts were unknown. Although the whole city has been searched, I am afraid that no one will be found again, just like last time.

Last time, the thief sneaked into the palace through the tunnel and kidnapped the emperor, the queen mother and the queen Zhu. Since then, there has been no news about these three people. Now it has come again, which makes Wang feel cold.

Yecheng is not as vague as she imagined. Among the civil and military officials in the court, there must be someone secretly colluding with the rebels to provide convenience for the other party to act in Yecheng.

Thinking further, it is possible that these people will be planning bigger conspiracies, and may serve as an insider to occupy the traitors of Liyang Pass and wait for an opportunity to offer the city. If the other party really succeeds, it will be completely over.

So Wang was worried about this. Just now, a group of civil and military officials gathered in the Shu Palace to discuss matters. Some people suggested that the kidnapped Princess Angu and the prince were not simple, and it was very likely that there would be a greater conspiracy afterwards.

First of all, the kidnapping mastermind had a great idea, and his purpose was definitely not to ask for ransom. Then, the purpose of the other party kidnapped Princess Angu and the prince was very likely to change his mentality of the Prince of Angu, who was leading the army outside.

Or, the mastermind behind the scenes was to force King Angu to surrender, so the person might be King Zhu (King of Xiyang) Yuwen Wen.

In contact with the last time, the emperor, the queen mother-in-law and the queen Zhu were kidnapped from the palace, Yuwen Wen is likely to have planned this kidnapping and kidnapped his mother-in-law and brother-in-law, using this as a threat to threaten his father-in-law Chi Shun to submit.

If Yuchi Shun surrenders to Yuwen Wen, there is a high probability that he will save his family's life and even be a rich man. Therefore, under the current situation, this has to be said to be a very good choice.

Another possibility is that the mastermind behind this kidnapping is Yuchi Shun himself. When his wife and children leave the court's surveillance, he can defect to his son-in-law without any scruples.

Of course, there is another possibility that an unidentified person planned this kidnapping with the intention of creating distrust between the court and King Angu. Sudden changes occurred, so the person took the opportunity to profit from it.

No matter which possibility is, it means that the court has lost the final constraint on King Angu, so it is difficult for the court to stop what the other party wants to do next.

This view was a consensus reached by everyone. Considering that King Angu disobeyed several times before and refused to lead his troops to retreat north to Xingyang, it made people feel uneasy about King Angu's true intentions.

Regarding the issue of King Angu's disobedience and not withdrawing troops, everyone has different opinions. Some people believe that King Angu and Yu Wenming have been in confrontation for nearly a year, and the camps between the two sides are intertwined. If King Angu wants to retreat north in a short period of time, it will be very difficult, so it is understandable that the other party will disobey.

The reason is this, but the Shu Tai Concubine Wang was very annoyed by this. She wrote several handwritten letters to her stepson Yuchi Shun, and persuaded her to put the overall situation first. However, the other party's performance made Wang uneasy.

Is the stepson unable to help but unable to withdraw his troops immediately, or is he complaining in his heart, so he is determined to surrender?

Wang was not sure, but one thing was certain: Yuchi Shun had a way out and could surrender to his son-in-law and keep his family safe.

Before today, Wang could also prevent the other party from taking risks by placing his wife and children in disguise. Now that the last method is gone, can she have to wait helplessly and wait for Yuchi to follow his next move?

This feeling is very bad, just like someone is strangled by your throat. Maybe the other party is just a joke and then let go; maybe the other party will be strangled to death as soon as he exerts force.

Wang would never sit idly by and watch herself, her son, grandson and the Wang family turn into meat on the chopping board, and would never let others slaughter them at will, so she had to take action immediately, but she had just discussed it with everyone but couldn't make up her final decision.

Yuchi Shun was in Zhengzhou, and the movements of his army directly determined the safety of Yecheng. To prevent it, sending people to seize the military power of Yuchi Shun is the best way, but the problem is that if Yuchi Shun was the mastermind behind the kidnapping incident, such an approach would be meaningless.

If the other party was not the mastermind behind the scenes, and the real mastermind behind the scenes revealed the situation to Yuchi Shun in advance, then the court sent someone to replace him and would inevitably force him to rebel against Yuchi Shun. In this way, he would really be attacked by the counter-espionage plan.

It is precisely because of this that everyone is in a dilemma and can't explain it after much discussion. It has to be said that this kidnapping is more like an open conspiracy than a conspiracy.

It directly undermined the trust between the court and King Angu, leaving the Zhengzhou army out of control at any time. No matter what choice the court makes, it will face huge risks.

As long as you deal with it slightly inappropriately, the situation that is already barely maintained will easily collapse instantly and will never be restored.

For Wang, it is certainly not enough to sit still and wait for death, but it is not enough to make a decision in a hasty way. If someone rashly sends people to seize military power, a person who is not careful and may force Yuchi Shun, who has no intention of rebelling.

But it cannot be delayed for too long. Once Yuchi Shun really has the opposite intention and let the other party know that his wife and children are safely free from control, then turning against each other in front of the formation will be a matter of instantaneous matter, so...

So the Shu Tai Concubine Wang felt very stressed and was so anxious that she was like an ant on a hot pan. While she was anxious, she was a little regretful.

She felt that if she had been more decisive before, when her own son Yuchi Dun passed away, she blocked the news and sent someone to seize the military power of her stepson Yuchi Shun, how could she be in a dilemma now?

It's really a mistake, every step is wrong.

As he thought about it, Wang only sighed that his own son was reliable.

However, Yuchi Youqi has already rushed to Luoyang. Now that he is not by his side, the only ones that Wang can rely on are the few confidants left by Yuchi Dun and a few family members.

Just as he was frowning, a maid came to report that several Wang's children were looking for a meeting. Wang's frown slightly when he heard this, and said, "Let them come in."

......

Xuchang, Zhengzhou, Yuchi Shun, who returned from patrolling defense, started studying the map again. He has slept very little over the past period of time and has been thinking about how to beware of his son-in-law Yu Wenwen who is most likely to launch a sneak attack. At the same time, he also has to think about how to deal with Yu Wenming in front of him.

Yu Wenming is determined to seek stability. He has been spending time with him since the beginning of the year. It is almost enough for a year, but he still plans to spend it.

It was not that Yuchi Shun had thought of various strategies and tried every means to lure the opponent to attack. However, Yu Wenming's army was as stable as Mount Tai, with almost no flaws in the formation and would never attack easily. Relying on the large and small fortresses as a support, it was to waste his time with him.

The enemy in front of him was like a stone, making Yuchi Shun at a loss, while the enemy that might exist behind him was like a poisonous snake, making Yuchi Shun unable to sleep well.

Previously, the southern bank of the Yellow River, the southern bank of the Yellow River, and the northern bank of Liyangjin were lost, and Yecheng was directly threatened. Yuchi Shun believed that this was his son-in-law Yuwen Wensheng's strategy to attack the east and west, and he was actually going to attack Yecheng in a sneak attack, so he defended day and night, and has been on guard until now.

However, the imagined enemy surprise did not appear, and Yuchi Shun did not dare to take it lightly, so he couldn't sleep at night. After tossing until now, his eyes were dark every day and he looked like he was sleeping insufficient.

He is no longer the young and strong Yuchi Sanlang, who was old this year. He is old this year. Although he is not yet as confused as he is forgetting things, he is not as hard as when he was young. It is quite hard to survive, but no matter how hard he works, he has to endure it.

The war situation in Zhengzhou is of great importance. Yuchishun dared not relax at all, for fear that his son-in-law would succeed in a sneak attack and end up losing all the money.

Yuchi Shun knew that his son-in-law was suspicious and always suspected that someone wanted to harm him. So while he was suspicious, he liked to launch sneak attacks. Various conspiracies and tricks emerged one after another during war, so...

When exactly will your surprise appear?

After rubbing his temples and drinking a cup of freshly brewed tea, Yuchishun felt better and continued to think about the defense he had arranged.

The army gathered in Zhengzhou, with Changshe as bait and Xuchang as support. The large number of fortresses around him were relied on, confronting the Yuwenming army in front of him. The key point of the rear road was Xingyang.

Xingyang (Hulao) is very important, not only affecting the safety of the Zhengzhou army, but also the eastern barrier of Luoyang.

The Yuwen army, which now occupy Shanzhou, seriously threatens the west of Luoyang, but is afraid of the Yuchi Qin army in Hedong and dare not advance east easily.

If Xingyang, east of Luoyang, is in trouble, Luoyang will be attacked from both sides and the enemy will come from the east. With the current strength of the imperial court, it will no longer be able to fight the Yuwen family in a battle of Mangshan, and Luoyang will not be able to defend for a long time.

Therefore, Xingyang is the most important. Yuchi Shun carefully arranged troops and horses for this and wanted to guard Xingyang like an iron barrel.

He recalled his many arrangements one by one, but did not find any problem, but when he thought of his son-in-law's record, Yuchi Shun was a little worried. It was nothing. Yuwen Wen was very tricky, and Yuchi Shun was worried that he would have any flaws that he had not discovered, and that the other party would take the opportunity to succeed.

Are there any flaws? Where can there be flaws?

Yuchi Shun asked himself these two questions every day. He thought about it every day but didn’t feel that he had any flaws.

This kind of life that the father-in-law and son-in-law plotted against each other really made him helpless. I don’t know how many years would be lost for this. Yuchi Shun sometimes wondered, his son-in-law would think about everything every day, either calculating others or being careful of being plotted against others. If this continues, will he die young because of excessive use of his brain?

By then, his little grandson would have disappeared Aye early, and his two daughters were widowed. Wouldn't life be very miserable if he was an orphan and widowed mother?

Thinking of this, Yuchi Shun shook his head with a wry smile. It is meaningless to think of such things at this time. The battlefield of life and death cannot tolerate affair between children. Only those who win have the power of compassion. Whether the loser can survive is the only way to see the winner's family is destroyed.

After a little daze, Yuchi Shun continued to think about how to defend against the enemy. At this moment, the servant entered the tent and brought him a letter.

After opening the letter, Yuchi Shun looked at it for a while and stood in a daze.

"Where is the messenger?"

"Master Huilang, that man is waiting in the camp."

"Take him here!"

......

At night, Yuwen Wen used candlelight to study the map before the case. This was not the map of Henan. Although his current enemy was the Yuchi family, his potential enemy was the Chen Jun in Huainan.

Although Chen Jun in Huainan has been quite honest so far, it does not mean that he can rest assured.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Yuwen Wen dared not forget that Guan Yu was careless and lost Jingzhou. His current situation was somewhat similar to Guan Yu: he attacked north with all his strength and exposed his back to his allies.

At this time, once allies turn against each other, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Overall, Yuwen Wen looked down on Chen Jun's combat effectiveness, but it does not mean that he would really not beware of the other party. Chen Shubao, the emperor of Chen, is a coward, but if the other party has to play a big game one day, and then "White Clothing Crossing the Huai River" again, he would not have much troops to put out the fire.

In order to consolidate the rear and to defend the northern bank of the Huai River, Yuwen Wen made careful arrangements. First, it was Pengcheng, the important Huai Si area at the eastern end of the defense line. This city was the key point of the Huai River defense line. Once there was a problem, the entire defense line would have problems, so he sent the marching chief Yang Su to guard Pengcheng.

Yang Su's ability is undoubtedly a versatile military and political talent. With this person who guards Pengcheng, he can defend Qingzhou in the north and Chen in the south.

The marshal Wei Xuan was stationed in Woyang, which was the middle section of the Huai River Defense Line. Wei Xuan was not good at fighting, but his organizational defense ability was still good, he acted steadily, had a sense of the overall situation, and with this person in the middle, Yuwen Wen was very relieved.

At the western end of the Huai River Defense Line, the marching general Yuwen Shiwu was responsible for the charge. Yuwen Shiwu took on the main role for the first time and performed well. Yuwen Wen also assigned Wang Jun, who had a lot of ideas, to be the chief secretary of the other party, to make Yuwen Shiwu bear the heavy responsibility.

So far, the pair of Yuwen Shiwu and Wang Jun have performed well, firmly controlling the situation in Huaixi, and while monitoring the Chen army in Huainan, they have allowed the owners of Xinwu Fortress to quickly gain a foothold.

Yuwen Wen thought about it carefully. He did not think that there were any major flaws in the Huai River defense line now. Even if one of the sections was broken by the Chen army, which was fighting undeclared, the entire defense line would not collapse instantly. There was enough time for Yuwen Wen, who was on the south bank of the Yellow River to deal with it.

Only when the rear is stable can Yuwen Wen fully plot against his father-in-law Yuchi Shun, sweep Henan as soon as possible, and concentrate the main force to attack Yecheng.

Putting away the Huaibei area map, Yu Wen Wen closed his eyes and rubbed his temples with his hands. Over the past period of time, he used his brain too much, which led to his excessively active thinking, which often caused him to suffer from insomnia, dark circles of his eyes, and panda eyes have gradually taken shape.

This will not work, it will lead to a life span.

Yuwen Wen thought so, but he couldn't help but think about it. If he was not careful in a war, he would lose all his money and he could not afford to lose, so he couldn't help himself.

He has been working hard for ten years, and finally has some wealth and has the opportunity to expand his sphere of influence. Jiangzhou is not good enough, so he has to expand his connections and attract favorable forces in Henan and Huaibei, and cultivate close local forces. If he is screwed up, it will be difficult to have any chance again.

As the leader of a small group, Yuwen Wen should have a planner or a group of counselors to formulate strategies for him and make suggestions from time to time to replace him as a "over-use of his brain."

However, Yuwen Wen did not have the usual sense of strategy around him. Among the "people" around him, Shi Wansui was good at fighting and had outstanding military strategies, but it seemed that he was not very smart in politics and could not be a strategy manager.

Lai Hu'er is similar, not to mention other generals. As for Xu Shao, Hao Wu Bo, and Zheng Tong, the first two are too young and need to be experienced and accumulate experience. Zheng Tong is older and has a dynamic thinking, but also needs to be experienced and broaden his horizons.

Others are good officials and good officials, but they cannot become Yuwen Wen's counselors.

Wang Jun, who recommended himself, is a good candidate. Yuwen Wen recognized the other party's ability, but at this stage, not many people can truly understand Yuwen Wen's ideas, so Wang Jun was unable to plan a suitable strategy for him.

Because Yuwen Wen's ideas are not something that "traditional" strategists can understand, Wang Jun still needs time to adapt.

Yang Ji, the only one who can "talk about the past and the present" with him, also needs experience. Now he is the general manager of Guangzhou in Lingbiao, responsible for presiding over the overall situation and exploring territory. Therefore, Yuwen Wen cannot get rid of the dilemma of overuse of his brain.
To be continued...