In May, with the Qi, Heng, Bi, Yi, and the same prefectures around Chang'an, the situation in Guanzhong was settled, and the marshal of the army in the army of the Sui Dynasty, Wei'an County Duke Yuchi Dun led his army to Chang'an. He first visited the tombs of the previous emperors, and then met with Yuwen Liang, the general manager of the army of the Sui Dynasty, and the Duke of Qi.

There are many things to do, and the most important thing is to determine the next combat strategy. Although Yuwen Liang, as the marching chief, was nominally controlled by the marching marshal, Yuchi Dun could not actually directly command the Zhou royal family.

In terms of qualifications, Yuchi Dun is not as good as Yuwen Liang, but he is the son of Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong, so it is natural to take charge. The Shannan Zhou army led by Yuwen Liang was actually a flank operation of the imperial army.

The Sui Kingdom is now in a desperate situation, and it depends on how to eliminate it as quickly as possible and with the least losses. After all, things have changed a lot. The Chen Kingdom in the south, the Tuyuhun in the west, and the Turks in the north may be unable to resist small movements.

The remaining territory of the Sui Kingdom, the Sui army in Hedong was like a frightened bird. We need to be wary of the Turkic fisherman who was already weak due to internal fighting to gain benefits. If Yang Jun, who was defeated and fled to Hedong, surrendered to the Turks or requested reinforcements, it would be a very troublesome thing.

The Sui army in Longyou was threatened by Tuyuhun to the west and the Turks were eyeing each other in the north. If they were forced to force them, it would be troublesome for the generals of the Sui army in Longyou to attract wolves into the house. Even if the other party was willing to surrender, those two families would have a headache if they took advantage of the situation.

Not to mention Tuyuhun, although the Turks now have in-laws with Zhou State, their in-laws are Zhang in the face of attractive interests.

The Sui army in Shu guarded itself behind closed doors, while the Sui army in Liangzhou and Jinzhou in the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains would not pose a threat unless it breaks through Xiangyang, but beware of Yang Xiu, who has already claimed to be emperor, is anxious to jump over the wall.

Once this person calls the vassal of Chen State, the war between the north and the south may break out early, things will become difficult.

That is to say, it is a little trickier. If the situation is today, it is not that the Zhou army is afraid of the Chen army, but that they just want to have some time to cultivate and nourish and wait for the consumption of the Sui Dynasty to recover. Then the army will go south to pacify Chen Yiru.

Therefore, time is on Zhou State, and it is urgent to stabilize the situation as soon as possible.

The specific plans of the Zhou army were unknown to outsiders, but Yuchi Dun came to Chang'an. In addition to discussing military affairs with Yuwen Liang, he also brought the imperial decree to comfort all the loyal ministers "anyway" and let them continue to serve the Great Zhou.

In fact, this is what Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong means. From Yuchi Dun, the credibility is a little more. With the dual guarantees of Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong and the royal family Yuwen Liang, the person who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, led by Liang Shiyan, the Duke of the Kingdom of Hui, finally felt relieved.

But what makes people feel assured is the harvest in Guanzhong this year. Due to the impact of the war, the large-scale failure of Guanzhong this year has been a foregone conclusion. Yuchi Dun learned about the current situation in Chang'an in detail and urgently reported to the court to mobilize food support.

But that's still a drop in the bucket. Guanzhong should be the base camp for military use on Hedong, Longyou and even Shu. The military pressure is very high, and the impact of the poor farmland harvest cannot be effectively solved. The best way is to accommodate some people.

Some moved to Luozhou and some moved to Shannan. Many matters were complicated. By the end of the month, new news came out:

The marshal Yuchi Dun set out from Chang'an, went to Huazhou to join the main army, and then headed to Pujin, Tongzhou. The Zhou army in Heyang had captured Puzhou on the east bank and built a floating bridge in the Yellow River. The war to recover the Hedong area of ​​Zhou was about to begin.

In the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, Baqiao Station east of Baqiao, Qi Duke Yuwen Liang led civil and military officials to see off Yuchi Dun. The scene was very lively. In a yard where the carriage was parked at the post station, there were soldiers guarding a prison carriage, so that no one could approach it.

A young man was locked in the prison car, well-dressed but with shackles, sitting cross-legged with disheveled hair, looking down at the car board in a daze. The morning sun shone on him, but it failed to evoke a trace of warmth.

Yang Guang, who was only eighteen years old, had a lot of vicissitudes of his face in several months. Although he had not been beaten, his spirit had dissipated, just like an old man in his 80s.

The news of Yang Guang, the King of Jin in Sui State, was revealed to the world, and he will be escorted to Yecheng today, and he will probably be paraded in the streets and then beheaded by the Taimiao to behead the public.

When he thought that he was about to be tortured in public, Yang Guang felt like a knife was shattered. He thought of breaking it off on his own so as not to be humiliated at that time, but he couldn't make up his mind. Although he could be reunited with his family after death, he...

But he couldn't let go of the princess who were far away in Jinyang, and could not let go of the country's hatred and family hatred. Yang Guang always felt that as long as he could hold on, things might turn around.

Maybe there will be a righteous man who cares about the Yang family to rescue him, maybe Yuwen and Yuchi will have to fight inside, maybe he still has a chance to escape halfway, maybe...

There was a saying outside the courtyard that someone seemed to want to enter the courtyard, but was stopped by the guards. They whispered for a while. The gate of the courtyard opened and a man walked in with a soldier.

The man was in his twenties, carrying a water jug ​​and a bowl in his mouth. He came to the prison van, received another search from the soldiers, and leaned towards the prison van.

"Your Highness."

Several consecutive calls made Yang Guang come to his senses. He raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at the source of the sound, and then was stunned.

"Your Highness, Yichen is here to see you off."

"It's you? Yang Yichen?"

Yang Guang was very surprised. At this time, someone dared to see him off, and it was this person.

"Your Highness, the journey to Yecheng is long, and Yichen has not been able to accompany you. Please take care of me."

Yang Yichen poured the bowl of water, held it in both hands and handed it to the cage. The bowl was slightly smaller in size and could barely pass through the cage.

"You have a replacement surname, right?"

Yang Guang took the bowl and asked, his tone sounded ordinary, but Yang Yichen was a little lost when he heard it, and then nodded: "Yes."

"Then it should be called Yuchi Yichen." After Yang Guang said that, he drank the bowl of water and then squirted it at Yang Yichen, making the other party's face full of water.

"Repeated villain! When you saw that my Yang family was powerful, you changed your surname to Yang. Now that the Yang family is over, Yuchi Jiong is powerful and is impatient with the duplicate surname, shameless! Repeated villain!"

Yang Guang roared, and even laughed loudly afterwards. Yang Yichen, who looked watery, looked stunned when he looked at him. The soldiers next to him felt inexplicable, but after hearing what Yang Guang said, he began to treat this person differently.

Someone who knew his background began to whisper. This Yuchi Yichen knew some tricks by his surname. Although there were many people with the surname Yuchi in the world, this person really had some relationship with Prime Minister Yuchi.

Yuchi Chong, the father of Yuchi Yichen, was the distant relative of Yuchi Jiong, the Prime Minister of Zhou and Duke of Shu. However, this person had a good relationship with Yang Jian. In the second year of the Elephant, he did not respond to Yuchi Jiong's call to raise an army, but instead surrendered to Yang Jian.

When Yang Jian usurped the throne, Yuchi Chong became a minister of the Sui State. A few years later, he led his troops to resist the invading Turkic army and finally died in the battlefield. The underage Yuchi Yichen was adopted by Yang Jian in the palace.

Yuchi Chong did not "rebellion" with Yuchi Jiong, and later he did not have any national affairs. Yang Jian was grateful to this old friend whom he really followed, so he asked Yuchi Yichen to change his surname to Yang and formally compiled it into the Yang family genealogy as his own clan member.

In this regard, after Yuchi Yichen changed his name to Yang Yichen, he was already a member of the royal family of Yang Sui. He received many rewards from Emperor Yang Jian of Sui on weekdays. He prospered with the Yang family and suffered losses... That's not the case.

When the Zhou army entered Chang'an, Yang Yichen, who served as the palace guard, managed to save his life by chance. Because he was a distant relative of Prime Minister Yuchi, the Zhou army only put him under house arrest.

Not long ago, the marshal Yuchi Dun came to Chang'an and summoned the distant relative. Yang Yichen immediately restored the surname "Yuchi" and became Yuchi Yichen again, and became a relationship with the Prime Minister.

Since he has returned to the clan, his status will be different, so today he can also have the guards to get close to the prison cart to see Yang Guang off.

When everyone heard this, they looked at Yang Yichen. No, Yuchi Yichen's eyes became contemptuous.

What kind of righteous ministers? They keep changing their surnames for glory and wealth. Where is the word righteous? They are shameless and have been repeatedly villains!

Yang Yichen wiped his face and smiled awkwardly. He didn't dodge when he saw Yang Guang smashing the bowl at him. Fortunately, the cage stopped the water bowl, otherwise he would have been caught on his face.

With a clang, the water jug ​​in Yang Yichen's hand fell to the ground and cracked into several pieces. A short knife appeared in the wreckage and an oil paper bag. Before anyone could react, Yang Yichen bent down to pick up the oil paper bag, tore it open and then swung it to his side.

The white mist was filled with the face, and several soldiers were covered with white powder sprinkled from the oiled paper bag, covering their faces in pain and rolling all over the ground. Yang Yichen took a short knife and cut over a soldier who was about to draw his sword, shouting loudly: "Do it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a fighting sounded outside the yard. Yang Yichen pulled out his sword from the soldier and fought to the death with the people rushing up. He had few enemies but was unstoppable. He was killed by several people by Shuang Chuang.

The gate of the courtyard was knocked open, and several casual men rushed in. One of them held an axe and swung the axe at the iron chain in the prison car and chopped it. Yang Yichen led the remaining people to block the Zhou army. After a while, most of them were killed.

The chain was cut off quickly, and Yang Guang, who had not yet come back to his senses, was pulled out of the cage. Yang Yichen, covered in blood, turned his head to look at him and shouted:

"Your Highness, please leave quickly, Yichen will cut off the rear for you!"

"Ah? You... are you here to save the orphan?"

Yang Guang could hardly believe what was happening in front of him. He had been praying countless days and nights, praying that someone would come to save him. As a result, he was disappointed again and again. When disappointment turned into despair, someone really came to save him!

The footsteps were heard, mixed with the impact of armor leaves. A large number of Zhou soldiers rushed from outside the front yard after hearing the news. Yang Yichen protected Yang Guang and retreated to the back yard, turning back to close the gate.

Yang Guang was helped to the back courtyard wall. One person climbed up first, rode on the wall and turned around to reach it. Yang Guang stood on tiptoe and reached out to reach it but couldn't reach it. The other person didn't care about so much, and picked up Yang Guang straight up and handed it up:

"Your Highness, there are horses prepared after climbing over the wall!"

The sound of bang was heard, and someone was hitting the gate with force. Although the door bolt was applied, it couldn't last long. Yang Guang rode on the wall in a mess. He saw that there were indeed several people leading more than ten horses not far from the wall, and several Zhou soldiers were upside down on the ground next to him.

Sure enough, someone answered and had a chance to run away!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel extremely excited and asked, "Yi Chen, where will you escape later?"

Looking back, Yang Guang found that Yang Yichen did not come over, but led the door to the door, and it seemed that he was really going to break the back personally.

"Yichen! Come here quickly!"

Yang Guang was anxious. The gate of the courtyard was already shaking. It was too late for Yang Yichen to come again. Someone from the distance outside the wall saw the movement here and was shouting and running.

"You guys, take Your Highness away quickly!"

"Yi Shi, Yi Shi!"

Yang Guang shouted, being taken off the wall. Yang Yichen felt a little relieved when he saw this. At this moment, the main gate was knocked open. The murderous Zhou soldiers rushed in, many of them carrying crossbows.

"Kill one to earn enough money, kill two to earn money!"

Yang Yichen shouted and led his companions to rush forward, as tragic as a moth to the fire.
Chapter completed!