At night, Yu Chi Youqi was reading at night, reading a secret letter written by his brother Wei Chi Dan himself, the secret letter was brought to him by another secret envoy sent by the Shu Palace, and the content must not be known to outsiders.

The Weichi family has now reached a critical point, encountering a hurdle, if it can be successfully passed, the future is bright, but if it can't be passed, the fate of the Erzhu family back then is a lesson for the Weichi family.

Today's Yu Chi clan, whether he wants to or not, must replace the Yuwen clan, because retreat is only broken bones, although the family is strong, but the hidden danger is not without it, Yu Chi Dun specially wrote a secret letter to his younger brother, just to make the other party aware of the internal and external troubles faced by the family.

The external danger is the Yuwen clan, originally according to the comparison of strength, Wei Chi Dan suddenly attacked this time, should be able to catch the Yuwen clan off guard, quickly attack Guanzhong, Shannan, and let Yuwen Liang and his son be defeated before the end of the year.

As a result, there was an accident, and the several arrangements made by Wei Chi Dian in advance did not seem to take effect, and Wei Chi Qin, the governor of the prefecture, was blocked in Pusaka and failed to enter Guanzhong; The marshals of the Lingnan Road March, Shi Cui Da and Sima Cui Hongsheng, failed to launch a mutiny at Jiangzhou Huangkou.

As for the progress of Xi Biluo, the governor of Yizhou, and Cui Hongdu, the marshal of the march of Xiangxi Road, it is unknown because the road is blocked, and Wei Chidun feels that these two can defend Shu even if the war is unfavorable and contain the forces of the Yuwen clan, so it is not a big problem.

The problem is that Wei Chidun arranged five routes of soldiers and horses to attack the five passes of Dabie Mountain at the same time, but the result was inexplicably wiped out by the whole army, not to mention, and was also attacked by Yuwen's Anzhou army Yuzhou Prefecture Hanging Gourd success, resulting in a series of defeats, the siege of Fangcheng was lifted, and Yuwen's family was able to survive.

The timing of Wei Chidun's choice of action was carefully planned, that is, to use troops before the autumn harvest, and after attacking the opponent's territory, he could harvest local grain, and eat the enemy when he came, so as to reduce the logistical pressure.

Even if you fail to break the main force of the Yuwen clan at once, you can interfere with the opponent's autumn harvest, and even if the war lasts for half a year or even a year, you can toss the opponent to have a famine.

No matter how brave and good the army is, it will not be able to fight hungry, if a famine breaks out in Guanzhong and Shannan, the Yuwen clan will collapse without a fight, and then someone will naturally capture or cut off Yuwenliang and his son, and send the head to Yecheng.

The result is good now, the officials and troops are turned away from the gates of Guanzhong and Shannan, and it doesn't matter if the other party has a smooth autumn harvest at the moment, the key is that if the stalemate continues, people's hearts will change.

It had only been a year since he succeeded to the throne, and before the Battle of Pingchen was over, he broke with the Yuwen clan without warning, and in fact, many civil and military officials were holding a wait-and-see attitude, even for some followers of the Yuchi clan.

Those who are loyal to the late Shu King Wei Chi Yuan may not be loyal to the Shu King Wei Chi Dan; Yuan Cong, who is loyal to the Wei Chi family, may not be loyal to Shiro Wei Chi Dian.

This is the internal hidden danger faced by the Wei Chi family, it is not a big problem, but once the war is stuck, people's hearts will fluctuate, and if there is another big defeat, I am afraid that those ghosts will jump out.

The current situation, even if the Yu Chi clan can't eat the Yuwen clan, it is enough to reproduce the situation of the confrontation between the East and the West Wei back then, and the Yu Chi clan firmly occupies the hometown of Qi, as long as it is managed carefully, it is the first power in the world.

But those ghosts and ghosts will not be reconciled, they will definitely stir up trouble and stimulate the contradictions of the Wei Chi family, and the first thing to bear is the brother wall.

The throne of the king of Shu should have been Sanlang Wei Chi Shun, but it was Shilang Wei Chi Shun who succeeded to the throne, in fact, many people were dissatisfied with this, but the king of Shu had already made it very clear when he set the son, and no one dared to provoke trouble.

After Wei Chi succeeded to the throne, his position gradually became solid, but if there was a serious setback in the war with the Yuwen clan this time, someone would inevitably take the opportunity to cause trouble, leading to infighting in the Yu Chi family and repeating the mistakes of the Erzhu family back then.

Therefore, Wei Chidun decided to concentrate his forces and drive Yuwenwen, who was entrenched in Yuzhou, back to Shannan as soon as possible, and then strengthen the offensive to make a breakthrough in Guanzhong or Shannan before the year.

There is no need for Wei Chi Youqi to pay too much attention to related matters, and Wei Chi Dan asked his younger brother to sit in the southeast and defend the land of Huainan and Huaibei.

First of all, be prepared to suppress the Chen army that intends to take advantage of the fire to loot south of the Yangtze River, if the other party sees that the northern expedition is hopeless, it will inevitably turn to the west.

Just like the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Jiangdong Sun Quan attacked Cao Cao in the Central Plains in the north, and after the fiasco in Hefei, he turned his attention to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the west.

Therefore, Wei Chidun hoped to repeat history, and he sent Fang Gongyi to preside over the peace negotiations with Chen Guo, in fact, in order to delay time, and would never hope that the peace negotiations would allow Chen Jun to march west.

In the letter, he explained that his younger brother must be closely defended in Huainan, so that Chen Jun could retreat in the face of difficulties, and if necessary, he could give the other party a head-on attack and cut off the idea of the Northern Expedition.

While doing a good job in "defending the south", Wei Chi Dan asked Wei Chi Youqi to do the second thing, that is, to grasp the military power and guard against being seized power, especially to guard against Sima to eliminate difficulties.

This kind of thing can only be said in secret letters, Wei Chidun has no evidence to prove that Sima Zhen's intentions are wrong, and he is not targeting Sima Zhenjiao alone, he asks his younger brother so much, it is based on the principle of power struggle.

Military power must not be pretended to be in the hands of others.

In the letter, Wei Chi Dan always stressed to Wei Chi Youqi that the Wei Chi clan must not repeat the mistakes of the Erzhu clan, and one of the lessons is that the family must be united, so as not to be broken one by one, and the second lesson is to prevent his subordinates from taking advantage of the opportunity to become bigger.

Taking the rise of Qi Shenwu Gao Huan as an example, Gao Huan belonged to the Erzhu clan back then, and after trying his best to deceive the trust, he incorporated the displaced people of the six towns to settle in Hebei, colluded with Hebei Haoqiang to gradually become bigger, waiting for an opportunity to break with the Erzhu clan, and finally replaced him.

After Wei Chi Dan succeeded to the throne of Shu, he has been guarding against the recurrence of this kind of thing, so the very important position of the governor of the state is held by his cousin Wei Chi Qin, and at the time of breaking with the Yuwen clan, Wei Chi Duan has reached a reconciliation with his brother Wei Chi Shun.

The military power of the imperial court must be firmly controlled by the Weichi family, and must not be left to the hands of others, this is the case in Hebei, Hedong, and Huainan.

Wei Chi Youqi's Jiangnan Road march, originally shouldered the heavy task of destroying Chen, so gathered the elite of the Zhou army, now although the march is about to be disbanded, but the army still has to stay in the southeast, Wei Chi Dan told his younger brother that this army must be firmly grasped in his hands, and must not be earned by others.

Those who have the ability to wrest power from the hands of Yu Chi Youqi, Sima Ji is ranked first, and Wei Chi Dan reminded Wei Chi Youqi that the other party is not a protégé of Yu Chi's family, nor is it a master-slave relationship.

As a noble son of the Qi State, and an official in the Zhou State for decades, Sima Xiao's connections cannot be underestimated, and at this critical moment, he must be strictly guarded against.

However, all kinds of precautions must be cleverly concealed, so that the other party must not be dissatisfied, lest they should be okay but insist on making an accident, which will lead to a sharp turn for the worse.

Wei Chidun was afraid that his younger brother would not pay attention to it, so he gave an example: Liu Yu's Northern Expedition at the end of the Jin Dynasty successfully recovered Chang'an, but Liu Muzhi, a henchman who stayed behind in Jiankang, died suddenly, and Liu Yusheng was afraid that Jiankang would change and could only return south in a hurry.

Liu Yu left Wang Xiu, Shen Tianzi, Wang Zhenwei and other civil and military officials to assist his youngest son Liu Yizhen to sit in Chang'an, but he was extremely uneasy about one of them.

Wang Zhenwei is the grandson of Wang Meng, the former famous minister of Qin, and has a high reputation in Guanzhong, Liu Yu returned to the south, felt that Wang Meng was a hidden danger, and was worried that the other party would take the opportunity to cut off Guanzhong and stand on his own, so he instructed his henchman Shen Tianzi to beware of Wang Meng, and his words were very explicit, so that Shen Tianzi would act once he felt that Wang Meng had different intentions.

Shen Tianzi has always had a very poor relationship with Wang Zhenevil, and after Liu Yu personally confessed, the more he looked at Wang Zhenevil, the more suspicious he felt, so when the enemy was at present, he took it upon himself to kill Wang Zhenwei to prevent future troubles.

Shen Tianzi thought he was "eliminating harm for the country", but he was killed by Wang Xiu, the young Liu Yizhen felt that Wang Xiu's intentions were wrong, and he was killed under the influence of others.

The internal strife among the main civil and military officials directly led to the great confusion among the officers and men of the Jin army, and the gains and losses of Guanzhong, and the results of the Northern Expedition, which was in the best situation, died in this way.

Using this example, Wei Chi told Wei Chi Youqi not to go overboard, and Sima to be vigilant in eliminating difficulties, but also not to be suspicious and suspicious, so that his own side would break out into internal strife and be taken advantage of by outsiders.

Tsai carefully read it a few times, Wei Chi Youqi burned the secret letter and blew the ashes away, he felt that the responsibility on his shoulders was very heavy, not only to guard against the outside but also to guard against the inside, and to prevent the inside could not do things too explicitly.

When you go into battle to kill the enemy, you can distinguish between the enemy and us, but it is not easy to watch out for the inside, and it is difficult to figure out in a short period of time whether the smiling faces are sincere or false and wronged.

Wei Chi Youqi has read books, and he has also heard people talk about Gao Huan's fortune experience, when this hero was under the command of Er Zhurong, he has always shown his loyal face, so he deceived Er Zhurong, and also deceived Er Zhuzhao, who was in power after Er Zhurong's death.

Even if Gao Huan raised an army to break with the Erzhu clan, Erzhu Zhao didn't believe that his righteous brother would do such a thing at first, thinking that there must be a misunderstanding, and Wei Chiyou Qizhen didn't know if there was such a person around him.

If there is, he may take advantage of the fact that he is only staring at Sima to eliminate difficulties, take advantage of the situation, and finally take advantage of the fisherman and get the military power.

As soon as he thought of this, Yu Chi Youqi felt a headache, but he decided that even if it was difficult, he would successfully complete his brother's entrustment.

The Erzhu clan is infighting, and outsiders are cheapened in vain, the Yu Chi clan must not repeat the mistakes of the past, now that the Yu Chi clan is in power, Xiao Xiao can only hibernate, if the Yuwen clan is successfully eradicated, then these people will have no chance to become bigger.

But once the situation changes greatly, there will inevitably be people who are ready to move, so the key now lies in the gains and losses of Yuzhou Prefecture.

Wei Chi Youqi took out the map, looked at the position of the hanging gourd, the official army suffered two defeats in succession, but the situation in Henan has not yet gotten out of control, Yuwenwen claimed to have encountered the son of heaven in distress in the hanging gourd, and called on the world's soldiers and horses to work on the king, but there were few responders, and all parts of Henan were waiting.

All of this is based on everyone's awe of the absolute strength of the Wei Chi clan, but once the hanging gourd cannot be attacked for a long time, and even the imperial army that goes south again is defeated by the other party, then any ghosts and ghosts will jump out and make waves.

Will the imperial army that goes south again be defeated?

Yu Chi Youqi thought so, walked out of the room, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and then looked at the night sky in the northwest direction, and after a while, he smiled and said to himself: "How is it possible!" ”