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There was silence in the handsome tent, and in the dim candlelight, the twelve ladies and Cui Jiuyi sat and stood still, holding their breath, lest they disturb Cui Hongsheng's contemplation.

Cui Hongsheng stood in front of the map with his hands in his hands, his eyes were like torches, as if he wanted to penetrate time and space to see Pyongyang and Dongnae, as if he wanted to exhaust his efforts to gain insight into the mysteries of the future.

This afternoon, the Expeditionary Force High Command conducted a rehearsal of the attack on Pyongyang in accordance with Duan Wenzhen's posthumous strategy, and the result of the deponement was that the Expeditionary Force returned in vain and was preparing to fight again next year. Cui Hongsheng agreed with this result, but since Cui Jiu relayed Li Fengyun's deduction of the first battle of Pyongyang, predicting that Laihu'er and Zhou Fashang would command the naval division to attack Pyongyang in advance, he realized that the headquarters of the expeditionary force had overestimated its own control over the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, and the deduction process was full of loopholes, and the deduction results might be wrong.

In fact, since the beginning of the Eastern Crusade, because the emperor and the center have excessively seized military power and unscrupulously involved and changed the attack strategy of the command, the headquarters of the expeditionary force has long become an executive organ under the emperor's palace, and because of this, the expeditionary force is still difficult to advance under the city of Liaodong, and the subsequent battle of Pyongyang is even more in danger of defeat.

Judging from the political crisis faced by the emperor and the center, and from the unfavorable situation facing the current Eastern Crusade, it is indeed possible that the emperor may secretly order the naval division to attack Pyongyang as soon as he arrives. From a military point of view, although this strategy is very risky, but the wealth is in danger, who dares to say that this strategy will not succeed?

However, the Goguryeo people must have estimated the attack strategy of the Middle-earth Expeditionary Force, and the best attack strategy of the Middle-earth Expeditionary Force was to advance with water and attack from both sides, so in order to avoid falling into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, the Goguryeo people must try every means to prevent and destroy the flanking strategy of the Middle-earth Expeditionary Force. From the perspective of the Goguryeo people, the 6th Route Army of the Middle-earth Expeditionary Force is large in number and strong, while the Middle-earth Naval Division is limited by various conditions, and its number and strength are very limited, so as long as the Middle-earth Naval Division is defeated first, it can destroy the two-way attack strategy of the Middle-earth Expeditionary Army.

If there is no secret order from the emperor and the center, they will not violate the secret order of the commander and launch an attack without authorization, because they cannot afford to lose, and once they lose, the difficulty of attacking Pyongyang will be greatly increased, and they cannot afford to shoulder this responsibility. But if the emperor and the central privy order that they must attack, then even if they guess that the Goguryeo people have set a trap under the city of Pyongyang, they have to attack, because not attacking means that they have violated the emperor's will, which is equivalent to betraying the emperor, and the emperor will take revenge on them mercilessly, and even kill them, on the contrary, they attack, fail, and affect the entire Eastern Crusade, but because they are loyal to the emperor, and the emperor wants to protect his vested interests in the military, then even if they have to punish them, The punishment is also very limited.

Although Cui Hongsheng was unwilling to accept the prediction of the defeat of the Eastern Crusade, Li Fengyun's deduction was based on facts and was not made up out of thin air, which made Cui Hongsheng's psychological balance gradually unbalanced, and his confidence weakened a little bit.

The emperor and the center knew that they no longer had the conditions to implement Duan Wenzhen's last policy, but they still had to take the risk and still force the military to carry it out, which of course showed that the emperor and the center were full of confidence in the strength of the expeditionary force, and on the other hand, it also showed that the emperor and the center were determined to take a gamble. Since the emperor and the central government were determined to take a gamble, it was indeed possible for them to pin their hopes for the capture of Pyongyang on the sailors, on Lai Hu'er and Zhou Fashang, when the contradictions with the military were intensifying, the trust between them and the military commanders was becoming less and less, and the suspicion of each other was deep.

In this way, whether the sailors won or lost, or whether they failed to overcome repeated attacks and fell into a stalemate, they all had a severe "impact" on the authority of the expeditionary force headquarters, the psychology of the commanders of the 6th Route Army, and the morale of hundreds of thousands of expeditionary soldiers, and the consequences were unimaginable.

The actions of Laihu'er and Zhou Fashang not only ignored the authority of the command and the safety of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the 6th Route Army, but also made the contradictions between the emperor and the military and the 12 Wei Mansions within the military public, and it can even be said that they directly contributed to the split of the 12 Wei Mansions. If the naval division succeeds in conquering Pyongyang and the Eastern Crusade ends, the division within the military is very beneficial to the emperor and plays into the hands of the authorities, on the contrary, if the naval division fails to conquer Pyongyang, or even retreats to the sea, it can be described as a fatal blow to the Eastern Crusade.

Regardless of whether the Eastern Crusade is unsuccessful or failed, it must be held accountable, and it will inevitably fall into a struggle for power and interests, the palace and the headquarters will fight to the death, the emperor, the center and the military will fight to the death, the Twelve Guards will usher in a shocking storm, and the central ministers in the palace and the senior commanders of the military will be involved in this storm, and some of them will be wiped out in this storm.

Cui Hongsheng had an ominous premonition, a premonition that he would not be able to escape this earth-shattering storm, that he would be brutally torn apart in this storm, and that he would die in this bloody political battle.

Cui Hongsheng sighed in a low voice, and spit out all his anger, helplessness, and unwillingness into a cloud of turbidity. He will not be tied, let alone slaughtered, and do his best to kill a way out, which is not only related to his own survival, but also related to the rise and fall of the Cui family, although his death will not endanger the foundation of the Boling Cui family, but it will inevitably shake the core position and interests of his own house in the Boling Cui family.

Cui Hongsheng's gaze slowly retracted from the distant time and space, and his eyes became deeper and wiser, sharp as a sword, and his edge was exposed.

The Twelve Ladies and Cui Jiu always looked at Cui Hongsheng, staring intently, trying to peek into the secret of his heart from the change in his eyes, and gradually, they noticed the change, Cui Hongsheng's eyes became more and more aggressive, more and more resolute, and gradually revealed a strong self-confidence. The Twelve Ladies and Cui Jiusi looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of joy in each other's eyes, and fortunately, they persuaded Cui Hongsheng that this trip to Liaodong was not in vain, and they finally caught a chance to reverse their fate.

"Sashui ......" Cui Hongsheng frowned, and his voice was inaudible, "Is it really Sashui?" ”

Pyongyang is more than 200 miles away from Sasu and more than 400 miles away from Yalu Water, and if Pyongyang shrinks its defense, the defense force will definitely be deployed between Satsu and Pyongyang, and Satsu is Pyongyang's first line of defense. As long as the expeditionary force withdraws from Sashui, it will basically be safe, and it can calmly withdraw across Yalushui and return to Liaodong.

The expeditionary force must control the Sa Shui in order to ensure that the advance and retreat are worry-free, so the Commander of the Ming Command attaches great importance to the Sa Shui, and when the main force advances to the city of Pyongyang, it still has heavy troops on both sides of the Sa Shui to ensure the safety of the retreat. However, if Li Fengyun's speculation was correct, and the Goguryeo people had already dug a trap under the city of Pyongyang, built a dam to hold back the water in the upper reaches of the Sa River, and took advantage of the favorable opportunity of the rainy season to store a large amount of water while skillfully concealing their tricks, then the expeditionary force would indeed be deceived by the continuous heavy rain. Once the Goguryeo people's trick succeeds and digs a dam and releases water at the critical moment of the expeditionary force's retreat, then it is foreseeable that the expeditionary force will be caught off guard and will be panicked, and the army will be in great confusion, and it will be difficult to escape the disaster of total annihilation.

Li Fengyun's prediction made Cui Hongsheng realize that although the Expeditionary Force Command had attached great importance to Sashui, it still did not pay enough attention to Cheng Dù. However, Choi Hongsheng is only one of the commanders of the 12th Route Expeditionary Force and one of the commanders of the 9th Route Army that attacked Pyongyang from a distance, and he can participate in the decision-making and discussion of the high command, but he does not have the final decision-making power.

In this long-range attack on Pyongyang, the Ninth Route Army was merged, and the supreme commander of the Ninth Route Army and the commander-in-chief of the battlefield was Yu Zhongwen, the general of Youyiwei. Yu Zhongwen was born in a wealthy family. Yu is one of the eight surnames of Xianbei Xunchen, and his grandfather Yu Jin is one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and he is prominent in the Guanlong wealthy family. Yu Zhongwen is a famous general in the Middle Kingdom, highly respected in the army, and his disciples are all over the Twelve Guards, and he is the first boss in the military today.

The deputy commander is Zuo Yiwei's general Yu Wenshu, a Xianbei nobleman, the emperor's first confidant, an absolute confidant, the only general in the military to enter the central core decision-making level, and one of the hottest authorities in this dynasty

There is also a Shangshu right-hand Liu Shilong, who is nominally a comforting envoy, but in fact he is a supervisor of the army. He is also from the surname Xianbei, and he is also one of the eight surnames of Xianbei Lords, and he also has an important identity, which is the emperor's in-laws. Prince Yuande has two Liangdi, the size of Liangdi, Liangdi's status is second only to the crown princess, Daliangdi gave birth to Yan Wang Yang Zhen, and Xiaoliangdi gave birth to Yue Wang Yang Tong, and these two Liangdi are from the Xianbei Liu family.

The command of the expeditionary force on the front line of the battlefield is in the hands of these three people, and the specific decision of how to fight the first battle in Pyongyang is decided by these three people, and the other commanders must obey their orders. Of course, if the other commanders' backgrounds, qualifications, merits, power, talents, and so on are comparable to or even surpass these three people in any aspect, they can also influence their decision-making, but no, none of them, Cui Hongsheng also does not have the ability to influence these three people. As for the water division, not to mention the distance, the communication is inconvenient, even if the communication is convenient, only the emperor and the center can order Hu'er and Zhou Fashang, and it is difficult for the command to influence their decision-making, and Yu Zhongwen, Yu Wenshu and other bigwigs in the army can't get involved in the water division at all. The Zhongtu Naval Division was established on the basis of the Jiangzuo Naval Division, which is the "territory" of the Jiangzuo people and the interests of the Jiangzuo people.

Cui Hongsheng faced the predicament, helpless and helpless.

"My lord, with your own strength, you will not be able to conquer Pyongyang, nor can you save the 300,000 soldiers of the Ninth Route Army." The Twelfth Lady saw that her father was frowning and knew that he was in a "dead end", so she reminded in a low voice, "My lord, all you have to do is save yourself." ”

Cui Hongsheng stroked his long hair, shook his head and sighed bitterly, "If you can't save the army, how can you save yourself?" ”