Chapter 41: The villain stirs up the situation
Wei Wensheng asked Wu Han, "Is there something wrong with Deputy Chief Zhou sending you to me?" ”
Wu Han took out a letter handed to him by Li Yin from his bosom, and then respectfully presented it, "My son-in-law is a subordinate of Deputy General Manager Zhou, and he was sent to Pyongyang City to investigate the enemy's situation, and he learned a major piece of information, so he sent me to inform you. ”
Wei Wensheng opened the envelope with doubts, and after taking a look, his face changed greatly, he stood up, stared at Wu Han and said, "What this letter says, is it completely true?" ”
Wu Han scratched the back of his head, "I'm just a messenger, and I don't know what the letter says." ”
In that letter, Li Yin mainly said two things: first, Yizhi Wende will come to deceive and surrender, the purpose is to spy on the reality of the Sui army; Second, if Ezhi Wende sensed the weakness of the Sui army, he would attack the Sui army in Sashui or flood it.
If what was said in this letter was true, Wei Wensheng felt that the Sui army would be in big trouble.
After Wei Wensheng sorted out his emotions, he sat down again, "Your son-in-law, what's your name?" ”
Wu Han said: "Our son's surname is Li Mingyin, and he is the concubine of Tang Guogong. ”
"Oh? It turned out to be the concubine of Tang Gong, and the Li family is talented! Wei Wensheng sighed.
Wei Wensheng and Zhou Fashang are general friends, but their friendship with Li Yuan is very good, and when they were young, they often went to the Qinglou to drink flower wine together.
After Wei Wensheng told Wu Han to retreat, he paced back and forth in the house for a long time, and finally made up his mind, got out of the house, and came to the City Lord's Mansion in the Black Bone City, where Yu Zhongwen was.
Yu Zhongwen had already fallen asleep, but Wei Wensheng said that there was an urgent military request to see him, and the guards had to wake him up.
"Wensheng, what's the matter at such a late hour?" Yu Zhongwen walked out of the living room while getting dressed.
Wei Wensheng didn't say much, and directly handed Li Yin's letter to Yu Zhongwen.
After Yu Zhongwen read the contents of the letter, he asked Wei Wensheng with a normal face how the letter came from, and then lowered his head and pondered.
After a long time, Yu Zhongwen said: "The letter said that Yizhi Wende would come to deceive and spy on the truth of our army, which I believe, but what I said later, the general was deeply skeptical. ”
Wei Wensheng asked, "Why are you suspicious?" ”
Yu Zhongwen muttered: "Yizhi Wende is not an ordinary person, his prestige, even the saint knows, if he wants to do anything in Sashui, he will definitely not tell the plan until the end, how can people easily know this kind of high-level secret?" ”
Yu Zhongwen's words were actually the doubts that Wei Wensheng was thinking about, but he still asked: "What if this is true, won't our army be defeated at that time?" ”
Yu Zhongwen smiled and said, "It's okay, as long as we arrest him when he surrenders, we don't care if this information is true or not." ”
Wei Wensheng nodded, this method was also what he thought of in his heart, but only Yu Zhongwen could capture the general, so he reported this matter to Yu Zhongwen late at night......
The Sui army rested overnight in the Black Bone City, and then continued to set off the next day, emptying all the food in the Black Bone City before departure, and burning this dangerous place with a fire.
When the army marched to the west bank of Yalu Water, the Goryeo general Eulji Wende really led thousands of people to surrender, and Yu Zhongwen said that he could accept it.
When Yizhi Wende entered the Sui army camp and came to meet Yu Zhongwen, Yu Wenshu and other Sui army generals, Yu Zhongwen gave an order and asked the soldiers to tie up Yizhi Wende.
Yizhi Wende said in horror: "General, why do you do this to me? ”
Yu Zhongwen laughed, "This question, wait until you see my Great Sui Heavenly Son to ask it!" ”
It turned out that Yu Zhongwen wanted to capture Yizhi Wende, in addition to the reason for Li Yin's letter, but also because he had already received Yang Guang's secret order in advance: "If you meet Gao Yuan and Yizhi Wende, you must arrest them to see me." ”
Yu Zhongwen easily caught this No. 1 military general in Goryeo at this time, and he was very happy in his heart.
However, Liu Shilong, who was also the right man of Shangshu and the comforting envoy, said with an ugly face at this time: "General Yu, I am against capturing General Yizhi Wende!" ”
After hearing this, Yu Zhongwen chuckled in his heart, "This ...... What's going on? ”
Liu Shilong has a special position in the Sui army, although he can't command the army, but no one can command him, he is directly under the orders of the emperor Yang Guang, in fact, it is similar to the prison army.
Liu Shilong replied: "The Holy Lord once instructed me that after the army captured Pyongyang City, I would be responsible for the government affairs in the city, and let me use gentle means to win over all the important people in Goryeo, so that Pyongyang City can wait for his holy car to arrive. ”
After hearing this, Yu Zhongwen couldn't understand Liu Shilong's logic for a while, "But we haven't captured Pyongyang City now, and letting him go now will be very disadvantageous to us, and this person is what the Holy Lord asked me to capture." ”
Liu Shilong frowned and asked, "General Yizhi Wende, was the saint who asked you to arrest?" Do you have a holy decree? ”
Yang Guang informed Yu Zhongwen of the oracle, and he naturally couldn't come up with the holy decree at this time.
Liu Shilong had the holy decree given to him by Yang Guang in his hand, and he carried it with him at any time, so he took it out angrily, let Yu Zhongwen and others see it, and put his hands behind his back, raised his head and said: "General Yu, do you want to resist the decree?" ”
Yu Zhongwen's face turned red at this time, and finally he had to shout in despair: "Release people!" ”
After Liu Shilong heard this, his face was triumphant, and then he personally went to untie Yizhi Wende, with a chrysanthemum-like smile on his face: "General Yizhi Wende, you are frightened, can you go to my camp tent to drink a cup of warm tea?" ”
Yizhi Wende happily agreed, and then walked out with Liu Shilong, leaving only Yu Zhongwen, Wei Wensheng and other generals looking at each other.
The next day, Yizhi Wende left the barracks under Liu Shilong's send-off, and then crossed the Yalu water and walked away.
After Wei Wensheng learned of this situation, he immediately found Yu Wenzhong, "General Yu, we can't let the tiger return to the mountain like this!" ”
Yu Zhongwen regretted it at this time, and let go of Yizhi Wende, he couldn't explain it to Yang Guang!
So, he said to Wei Wensheng: "General Wei, you immediately lead the men and horses of your headquarters out of the camp to chase Yizhi Wende, be sure to take him down, but don't harm his life." ”
Wei Wensheng was ordered to go, and after leading the 30,000 troops of the headquarters to cross the Yalu water, he chased for more than 60 miles, and he didn't see two figures.
It turned out that Eulzhi Wende had already prepared horses in the nearby city of Goryeo, and after crossing the Yalu water, thousands of people immediately rode to join the army, and Wei Wensheng's 30,000 Sui troops, most of whom were foot soldiers, naturally could not catch up.