Chapter 259: Grafting

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Etozhi Wende ran away.

Yu Wenshu was furious and questioned Yu Zhongwen, suspecting that Yu Zhongwen had reported the news.

Yu Zhongwen was even more furious. He said that he would not arrest Yizhi Wende for the time being, and let Liu Shilong negotiate with him while waiting for the Holy Lord's reply, but Yu Wenshu turned a deaf ear to his decision-making, saying that he would arrest it, and if he couldn't catch it, he suspected that he deliberately let go of Yizhi Wende. It is tolerable, which is unbearable, just because Zhongwen deliberately delayed the time to cross the river, so he took the opportunity to "tear his face" with Yuwenshu, make the contradiction public, and then play the Holy Lord and the center, waiting for the verdict. The decision-making level of the front-line command cannot be united, and the consequences can be imagined, of course, the Holy Lord and the center will immediately come up with countermeasures, either to attack Yu Zhongwen or to contain Yuwen Shu, in short, the results are beneficial to Zhongwen.

Liu Shilong was furious. The Holy Lord secretly ordered Yu Zhongwen and Yuwen Shu to arrest Eulzhi Wende without him, which in itself was a distrust of him and made him feel humiliated. And after Yizhi Wende came, Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu still hid it from him and let him negotiate with Yizhi Wende, which was not only distrustful of him, but deliberately dug a pit and framed him. Is there such a blatant framing of colleagues? If you want to put me to death, you can come openly, and don't do anything behind your back, which is too despicable and shameless.

Liu Shilong was annoyed and angry, and regardless of his demeanor, he pointed at Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu's noses and scolded, completely "tearing his face". It's not okay if you don't "tear your face", just when you get to Yalu Water, the contradictions in the front command will explode, if it's just the distrust between colleagues, it's okay, but now it's strict, they have framed each other, and each side has to put each other to death, so when it comes to Pyongyang, don't you draw your sword and kill each other?

The three members of the decision-making level of the front-line command quarreled fiercely, and the conflict was fierce, which of course alarmed the other commanders, Jing Yuanheng, the general of the left Xiaowei, Wei Wensheng, the general of the right guard, Xue Shixiong, the general of the right guard, Xin Shixiong, the general of the right guard, Zhang Jin, the general of the right guard, and Zhao Xiaocai, the general of the right guard, all hurried to persuade the fight.

Yu Zhongwen, Yu Wenshu and Liu Shilong are all powerful people with the surname of Yu, and the other six commanders are all powerful people with the surname Han, whether it is Jing Yuanheng from Jiangzuo, Wei Wensheng from Heluo, Xue Shixiong from Hedong, or Xin Shixiong, Zhang Jin, and Zhao Xiaocai, the local nobles of Guanlong, and the three of them are not "people all the way", they are political enemies in the political circles, and they have their own mountains in the military circles.

The six commanders spoke in unison, unanimously accusing Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong of not negotiating with Yizhi Wende. The Holy Lord has clearly said that he will not accept the surrender of the Goguryeo people and will resolutely destroy Goguryeo by force, so why do you still negotiate with the Goguryeo people without the consent of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee against the will of the Holy Lord and against the decision of the Central Committee? Especially Yu Zhongwen, who obviously received the secret order from the Holy Lord to arrest Yizhi Wende, but did not arrest people at the critical moment, and even prevented Yuwenshu from arresting people, why? Why do you disobey the Lord's secret command?

Yu Zhongwen became the target of public criticism, it stands to reason that Yu Zhongwen should be furious, but Yu Zhongwen was happy and humbly accepted the criticism of the commanders, but Yuwenshu's face was gloomy, he was "put together" by Yu Zhongwen and the six commanders, although it seems that the six commanders are on Yuwenshu's side, but in fact this is the six commanders' plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and they are helping Yu Zhongwen get rid of the current disadvantage.

Liu Shilong saw the "means" of the six commanders at a glance, and immediately burst into joy, okay, great, immediately report to the Holy Lord and the center.

It is foreseeable that the Holy Lord and the Central Authority are forced by the current situation of the Command to suppress Yu Zhongwen, weaken Yu Zhongwen's military power, and correspondingly improve Yuwenshu's status in the front-line decision-making level, otherwise the front-line command may get out of control, and the expeditionary force will fall into a dangerous situation, and it will not be able to attack according to the will of the Holy Lord and the Central Command. In this way, Yu Zhongwen got rid of the embarrassing position of "scapegoat" and was demoted from the commander-in-chief of the front line to the first deputy marshal of the front, while Yu Wenshu had to take on the heavy responsibility of attacking Pyongyang from a long distance.

Liu Shilong drafted the piece as quickly as possible, and then asked the commanders to sign it in turn. Although his official position is to comfort him, he is actually a supervisor of the army, and he has the right to picket and impeach, and none of the commanders want to offend him, so they follow his will and satisfy his revenge. At this time, everyone showed that Cui Hongsheng, the Taishou of Zhuojun and the general of Zuo Wuwei, did not come.

Before leaving, Cui Hongsheng, who has been low-key, unexpectedly took the initiative to ask for help, and was willing to choose the front army. The selection of the front army not only has to open the road in the mountains and build bridges when encountering water, but also has to explore the enemy's situation and clear the obstacles, which is a thankless chore, and it is a matter of course to be good, and the responsibility is very great if it is not good, especially when the army is leaping forward for thousands of miles and the lone army is deep, the selection of the front army is most likely to fall into the enemy's encirclement, and the danger is very great, so the general commanders are unwilling to do it. Cui Hongsheng took the initiative to ask Ying, which happened to help the command to solve this trouble, so Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu were very happy and unconditionally satisfied the many requirements put forward by Cui Hongsheng.

Cui Hongsheng considered that Yalu Water and Sashui are both large rivers, the river surface is wide and wide, and it is difficult to build bridges, but the unimpeded flow of these two rivers is not only directly related to whether the expeditionary force can achieve the intention of this long-range attack, but also related to the life and death of the army, so Cui Hongsheng asked the command that before he can be equipped with enough materials and equipment required to build bridges, he still needs to apply to the Holy Lord and the center, and equip the Xuanfeng Army with more skilled craftsmen and strong men with rich experience in building bridges. The Holy Lord and the Central Hub met Cui Hongsheng's request, not only gave a large number of craftsmen and people, but even transferred some officials of related professions from the Ministry of Industry to ensure the needs of the expeditionary force.

Now Cui Hongsheng is commanding the Xuan Feng army to erect a pontoon bridge on the Yalu River, but when the rainy season comes, the river water is soaring, and the difficulty of building a bridge is very great, and it is reasonable that he did not rush to "persuade the bridge".

However, a few hours later, Cui Hongsheng came uninvited, and brought good news, he caught Eulji Wendeok.

Everyone was very excited, and even Liu Shilong was smiling. The capture of Eulji Mundeok was tantamount to complying with the secret orders of the Holy Lord and the decision of the center, and it was also a blow to the Goguryeos, which could increase the chances of winning the attack on Pyongyang. Of course, if the Holy Lord and the Central Council decide to accept the surrender of Echiwende and put him back, it will be another matter, and it has nothing to do with everyone, and no one has to bear any responsibility.

But then, Cui Hongsheng said bad news, this Eulzhi Wende may be a fake, not a real person.

Fake E-Chi Wende? Everyone looked at each other, especially Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong, and a chill welled up from the bottom of their hearts. If this Eulji Wende is a fake, a trick by the Goguryeo people, then the two front-line supreme commanders not only failed to distinguish the truth from the false, but believed the other party's lies, negotiated with them in a decent manner, and even reported the Holy Lord and the center with a nose and eyes, this "oolong" would not be a big trouble, but a disgrace and a loss of face.

Is this E-Chi Wende a fake?

If you think about it, it's almost certainly fake. The reason is very simple, the Goguryeo people deceived the emperor of Middle-earth with repeated deception, delayed the attack of the Middle-earth expeditionary force, and destroyed the eastward expedition plan of the Middle-earthers, so that more than half of the attack time was over, and the Middle-earth people were still sluggish under the city of Liaodong, and there were still more than a thousand miles away from Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo. Once the Middle-earth's crusade continues, not only will the invincible Middle-earth people lose face, but the national strength of the Middle-earth people will be damaged even more, and what is even more serious is that the political situation at home and abroad will undergo a series of unpredictable changes, which is obviously not conducive to Middle-earth.

It can be imagined from this that the anger of the Emperor of Middle-earth and the commanders of the Middle-earth Expeditionary Force towards the Goguryeo people, especially the anger of the Goguryeo king Gowon and the first powerful minister of Goguryeo, Eulji Moondeok, reached the extreme, and they wanted to kill them as soon as possible. In fact, if the Middle-earthers conquered Pyongyang, they would definitely kill Gowon and Eulji Moondeok, because these two people were the main culprits of Goguryeo's hegemony in the Far East and maliciously harming the interests of Middle-earth, and they and their supporters must be uprooted in order to fundamentally solve the crisis in the Far East.

Therefore, Gao Yuan will not accept the call of the Emperor of Middle-earth to go to the Eastern Capital, nor will he go to the palace of the Emperor of Middle-earth to pay homage to him, even if the palace is on the border of eastern Liaodong, he will not go. Facts have also proved that this is indeed the case, Qu Boya, the king of Gaochang, and Luo Khan, the former Western Turk, were imprisoned in disguise when they arrived in the Eastern Capital, although they enjoyed all the glory and wealth, and even married the princess of the Middle Earth clan, but they lost their kingdom, lost their power, and lost their freedom, so they were still kings? It's just the pet dog of the Emperor of Middle-earth.

Wing Wende will also not fall into the net. For Goguryeo and Goguryeo's hegemony in the Far East, the king can be temporarily absent or replaced, but Ulji Wende is indispensable and irreplaceable, and Ulji Wende is more important than Gao Yuan, so whether it is Gao Yuan or the princes and nobles of Pyongyang, there is absolutely nothing that can make Ulji Wende leave Goguryeo, and Ulzhi Wende himself will not risk his life, and will not risk the destruction of Goguryeo's hegemony and negotiate with the Middle-earth people in person.

Now the Middle-earth people are furious, and the main force of the expeditionary force leaps thousands of miles to kill Pyongyang, putting on a posture of vowing to destroy Goguryeo, it can be imagined that at this moment, Gao Yuan or Eulji Wende personally went to negotiate with the Middle Turks, what was the result, even if the Middle-earth people still had the idea of negotiating, and the idea of resolving the Far East crisis by diplomatic means, but Gao Yuan and Eulji Wende dared to take their heads and dare to risk the survival of Goguryeo?

The reason why Choi Hongsheng suspected that this Eulji Wende was a fake was because his scouts saw Eulji Wende on the other side of the Yalu River. The scout was once the personal guard of a pro-Middle-earth nobleman in Pyongyang, and he knew Eulji Moondeok, and the reason why he fled to Middle-earth and worked for Middle-earth was because his master lost the political struggle in Pyongyang and was killed by Ulchi Moondeok, for which he vowed to avenge his master and the family who died because of Zhulian. Cui Hongsheng deduced from this that the Eulzhi Wende Shiyou** who came to negotiate was fake.

In order to confirm Choi Hongsheng's inference, Yuwenshu immediately decided to torture all the captured Goguryeo people, including the man who claimed to be Ulji Wendeok. If the result is as Cui Hongsheng said, Yizhi Wende is fake, then Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong not only lose face and lose authority, but also have to bear the corresponding responsibility, so that in the decision-making of the front-line command, Yuwenshu has the ability to suppress the two and monopolize power.

"Ulji Wende" was strong-willed and did not change his mind after being tortured, while other Goguryeo people were not good, and under torture, they all admitted that this "Ulji Wende" was a fake and a stand-in, and the real Ulji Wende was on the other side of the Yalu River, and was directing the Goguryeo army to block the Turen crossing the river.

This time, it was Yuwenshu's turn to report to the Holy Lord and the center in a hurry, and put Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong to "death".

Yu Zhongwen honestly closed his mouth and let Yuwen do whatever he wanted, and Liu Shilong even clamped his tail and behaved, although the punishment for him will not come down for the time being, but after this battle is over, the Holy Lord will definitely settle accounts after the autumn, unless the merits and demerits are offset, otherwise even if he is a close confidant of the Holy Lord and the in-laws of the Holy Lord, it will be difficult to save his official position and his career.

The front command ordered to force the Yalu River and advance to Pyongyang as quickly as possible.

In early July, when the expeditionary force crossed the Yalu River and advanced towards Sasu in great strides, the sailors under the command of Lai Hu'er and Zhou Fashang reached the coast of Pyongyang.

There are three people at the decision-making level of the water division, the chief manager of the water division to protect the children, the deputy director of the water division Zhou Fashang, and the head of the water division Shi Cui Junsu.

Lai Hu'er is a native of Jiangdu, born in a wealthy Jianghuai family, and during the period when the Holy Lord was in charge of Jiangzuo in Yangzhou, Lai Hu'er and Jiangdu Lai gave great support to the Holy Lord. The two generations of emperors of this dynasty have attached great importance to the child protectors, especially the Holy Lord, who has entrusted them with important tasks. In this Eastern Crusade, Lai Hu'er was not only the chief of the naval division, but also the commander-in-chief of the sea expedition to Goguryeo. After the unification of China and Earth, he came to protect Jiangzuo for a long time, and won the support of the holy lord who was in charge of Jiangzuo at that time, so he became the pillar of the new Jiangzuo aristocratic group after the unification.

Zhou Fashang is an old minister of Jiangzuo, a powerful person in Jiangzuo, and the spokesperson of the old Jiangzuo aristocratic group in the military.

Cui Junsu is Qinghe Cui, born in a wealthy family in Shandong, and is still a relative of the emperor. Cui Junsu's father is called Cui Yanmu, and Cui Yanmu's elder brother is Cui Yanzhen, and Cui Yanzhen is the grandfather of the Emperor of Literature Dugu Jialuo. Cui Junsu's elder brother is called Cui Junsu, a member of the princelings, implicated by the crown prince Yang Yong, and was removed from the list of the people by the first emperor, and the children of the family were imprisoned in the official career. After the Holy Lord ascended the throne, in order to quell the rebellion of Yang Liang, the king of Han, he had to compromise with the Shandong aristocratic group, so he took the initiative to marry the Cui family of Qinghe, married Cui Junqiu's daughter as a concubine, and rehabilitated Cui Junqiu and Cui's children. Cui Junsui and Cui Junsu brothers made a comeback, and now Cui Junsui is Zong Zhengqing, managing the affairs of the imperial family, one of the governors of the nine central temples, and Cui Junsu has served as the chief of the court, the Taishou of Qi County, and during the preparation of the Eastern Expedition, he was transferred to the chief of the water division.

These three people are all trusted by the Holy Lord, but the trust level is different, so the role is different, to protect the overall situation, Zhou Fashang presides over the daily affairs of the water master, and Cui Junsu's role is to supervise and restrict, and the water master cannot be made a word hall of Jiang Zuo people.

After the sailor arrived off the coast of Pyongyang, he invited Zhou Fashang and Choi Junsu to come up with a secret edict in front of them. This secret edict was sent by the Holy Lord from the front line of Liaodong to the post station connecting the Donglai Navy Division through Guò before the sailor crossed the sea, and traveled 600 miles a day.

The content of the secret edict surprised Zhou Fashang and Cui Junsu very much, and the Holy Lord actually asked them to attack Pyongyang City with lightning speed after arriving in Pyongyang, that is to say, the Holy Lord and the center changed their attack strategy, and the water 6 flanked Pyongyang, which became the main force of the naval division to attack Pyongyang, and the 6th Route Army, which was supposed to be the main force of the siege, became a partial division, pinning down the Goguryeo people on the frontal battlefield and helping the naval division to attack Pyongyang. The positions and offensive missions of the two armies of Shui 6 in the First World War of Pyongyang were just changed and swapped with each other.

After Lai Hu'er read out the secret edict, he sat on the main seat and said nothing, and it was difficult to see his mood at the moment from his cold expression.

Zhou Fashang and Cui Junsu sat opposite each other, their expressions were very strict, their hearts were very heavy, they each pondered and were silent for a long time.

In early June, when the rainy season in the Far East came, and the expeditionary army of the 6th Route was still besieging Liaodong City, the decision-makers of the naval division were worried that they might not be able to go to sea this year, because from the limited attack time, it would be very difficult to capture Pyongyang this year, and the risk would be too high, and the Holy Lord and the center would most likely continue the war until the second year. However, soon an edict came from the Liaodong Palace, and the Holy Lord and the Central Committee decided to implement Duan Wenzhen's last policy, and the main force of the expeditionary force would leap thousands of miles to kill Pyongyang, and the sailors must cross the river before the end of June.

Lai Hu'er and Zhou Fashang are both veterans of a hundred battles, and they are clear about the risks of implementing Duan Wenzhen's will, but this time it is a battle with all the national strength, the main force of the Weifu army poured out, and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers directly killed Pyongyang, even if Pyongyang cannot be captured, there is no problem for the whole division to retreat, and from the position of the Holy Lord and the center, it is of great significance to end the Eastern Crusade within this year, so the two have the same opinion and unconditionally carry out the orders of the Holy Lord and the center.

But Zhou Fashang never expected that the Holy Lord would have a secret edict and let the sailor alone bear the heavy responsibility of capturing Pyongyang. Purely from a military point of view, with the strength of 60,000 sailors, Pyongyang could not be captured at all, after all, Pyongyang is the capital of Goguryeo, the city is tall and strong, the garrison is strong, and it has the advantage of the right time, place and people, and the sailors are not enough in terms of numbers or attacking strength, unless there is a miracle, unless Pyongyang is divided by internal strife, unless the gates of Pyongyang are wide open and the people of Middle-earth are allowed to enter unimpeded, it is absolutely impossible to capture Pyongyang.

The more Zhou Fashang deduced, the more uneasy he became, and he couldn't help but look at Laihu'er, "Rong Gong, do you believe in miracles?" ”

Lai Hu'er looked at the drizzle outside the cabin, did not speak, for a long time, and sighed in a low voice, "In the life of a certain horse, all victories are killed by a knife, there has never been a miracle life, let alone a victory without a fight, and there is no merit at your fingertips." ”

Zhou Fashang frowned slightly, and said in a cold voice, "Rong Gong, the first battle of Pyongyang is only death for the sailors, and there is no miracle. ”

Laihu'er suddenly turned his head, his expression was resolute, his eyes were cold, and his tone was resolute, "Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of him, a certain person will obey the order of the Holy Lord and sacrifice his life to die without hesitation." ”