In late May of the thirteenth year of Daye, the winter wheat in Hebei began to ripen one after another.

After staying in Leshou for nearly twenty days, Su You finally began to send troops again, marching south along the Grand Canal towards the land of Yu Wenhua.

The army led by Su You this time included 3,000 light cavalry led by Wang Bodang, 2,000 heavy cavalry led by Zhang Long, 3,000 mixed cavalry led by Xue Wanche, 3,000 infantry led by Wei Ting, 2,000 infantry led by Zhang Junli, 2,000 infantry led by Zhao Hu, and 1,500 artillery and 5,000 soldiers led by Su Lie, Liu Heimin and others, and more than 10,000 soldiers led by Li Jing, for a total of 50,000 troops.

Among them, the cavalry and artillery led by Wang Bodang and Zhang Long, as well as a small number of Su You's personal guards, totaling more than 7,000 people, were brought by Su You from Nanzhong, and the remaining 40,000 people were newly developed.

Needless to say, the 25,000 troops led by Liu Heimin and Su Lie and other old generals of the Xia State, Zhang Junli led the old department of Gao Kaidao, and Wei Ting led the old department of Luo Yi, these people are basically foot soldiers, only half of Su Lie's 5,000 troops are cavalry.

Most of the soldiers led by Xue Wanche were also cavalry from Youzhou, including 1,800 light cavalry and 500 heavy cavalry, as well as some reserve cavalry recently selected from the prisoners of Liu's Dock Fort.

Li Jing brought nearly half of the soldiers from Yanmen to Wang Xuan, and the rest were the original Wei Dao'er Department that was collected and surrendered from Shanggu, although they have only practiced for more than half a month, but under Li Jing's demonic existence, they have no big problem fighting with ordinary soldiers.

Before leaving, Su You received a large amount of armor and weapons from Sanshan, which were enough to equip the more than 30,000 new soldiers, but that's all, Su You couldn't get any more equipment.

With such a large-scale march, Su You obviously couldn't arrange them on the same day, and it was impossible to arrange them all on the ship.

In fact, after Su Lie and others conquered Xindu, Qinghe, Zhangnan and other counties, they chose to stand by, and after joining the Su You army down the river, they went to the location of Yu Wenhua together.

The army commanded by Li Jing began to cross Pingyuan County and began to recover Bohai County, Qi County, Linji County and other places to the east.

Su You took Xue Wanche as the pioneer and went straight to the territory of Yu Wenhua.

It has been more than a month since Zhongyu Culture and the coalition with Yang Shanhui were defeated in the battle with the Wagang Army in April. At the beginning, Yu Wenhua led the remnants of 50,000 troops to the north, first occupying Ji County and then arriving in Wei County.

In just one month, most of the 50,000 troops of Yu Wenhua and his commander have run away, and there are only more than 20,000 soldiers who are still following Yu Wenhua and his soldiers.

Despite this, Wei County's supply capacity still seems to be less than Yu Wenhua's 20,000 troops.

Wei County was not big in the first place, but in recent years, there have been frequent wars, there are not one out of ten people in the county, and most of the land is barren, how can it bear the supply of Yu culture and the army?

Previously, Yu Wenhua had not heard the news of Li Yuan's occupation of Chang'an, so he had been looking forward to returning to the west; Although hope is at hand, the actual problem is that it is a long road, and there are Wagang army, Dongdu Sui army, and Li Tang army on the way.

If Yu Wenhua wants to take these 20,000 soldiers back to Guanzhong, it is obviously not a trip to go; Yuwen Zhiji, Su Wei and other ministers all believed that relying on these 20,000 people to fight back to Guanzhong was tantamount to a fool's dream.

For the Yuwen family, there is only one thing that is imminent, and that is to find a base to settle down temporarily and wait for a comeback.

Forced by the situation, Yu Wenhua had to lead hundreds of civil and military officials and more than 20,000 soldiers all the way north, pointing directly at Liaocheng.

Now the 20,000 soldiers who are still with Yu Wenhua are also considered to be die-hard loyalists of the Yuwen family, and most of the senior and senior officers in the army are fake sons of Yu Wenshu and Yu Wenhua, so the combat effectiveness of these 20,000 people is still extremely impressive.

In the face of Yu Wenhua's elite troops from Jiangdu, the people from all walks of life along the road either fled from the wind or bowed down.

At that time, it was Fude who was entrenched in Liaocheng under the banner of Wagang, and his troops had more than 10,000 people, however, most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and the real elite was only about 1,000 people.

Fude chose to surrender without any surprise, and Yu Wenhua finally had a foothold.

Liaocheng is close to the two counties of Qinghe and Pingyuan, and is only separated by a river from the territory of the original Xia Kingdom, but before Liaocheng was stationed in the army of Yang Yichen and Yang Shanhui, so Liaocheng is really a fairyland on earth compared with the surrounding counties that are frequently affected by wars.

The people in the Liaocheng area rarely fled, and the geography was close to the Yellow River, so whether it was fertile land and abundant production, although Yu Wenhua and 20,000 people entered this place, there was not much pressure to survive in a short period of time.

Despite this, Yu Wenhua also knew that Liaocheng had some land, and if the Yuwen family wanted to survive in this troubled era, they had to expand externally.

The south is the territory of the Wagang Army, and Yu Wenhua has just eaten the defeat of the Wagang Army, so he naturally does not dare to pull out his teeth; The east is Wang Bo's sphere of activity, and the north and west are the territories of the Xia Kingdom.

At that time, Leshou, the kingdom of the Xia Kingdom, was besieged by Su You's army and did not attack, and Yu Wenhua naturally chose to launch an attack on the chaotic Xia Kingdom territory; It wasn't until Su You sent Su Lie and others to lead the soldiers of the former Xia Kingdom to quell the rebellion, that Yu Wenhua and the grain grabbing team sent by Yu finally began to shrink back.

Later, Yu Wenhua heard the news of Li Yuan's occupation of Chang'an, and later incorporated Luo Yi and Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong defeated the Wagang army, blocked Li Mi in the Tiger Prison Pass and recovered most of the lost territory in Xingyang

After hearing this lot of news, Yu Wenhua was finally so anxious that he almost went crazy.

is also a courtier around Yang Guang, why did Li Yuan, Su You, Wang Shichong and others rebel so smoothly, but they are looking for a mecha like a lost home?

Not to mention where he should go next, if Su You's army is killed, will he still be able to live?

Anyway, it's a dead end, so why bother dying like this?

This thought swelled sharply in his mind, until he heard that Wang Shichong was the emperor in the Eastern Capital, Yu Wenhua's eyes finally lit up, and then he said viciously, "Instead of nesting in a nest for a lifetime, it is better to be vigorous, since they have all rebelled, wouldn't it be in vain if you don't become an emperor?" Lao Tzu wants to be the emperor! ”

"Brother, what did you say?" Yu Wenhua originally thought that his brother was talking drunk, but when he looked at his suddenly hideous face, he couldn't help but be startled.

"Die early and die late, sooner or later, it's his mother's death. Now that I have been charged with killing the king, of course I can't waste this crime, and it's good to be the emperor for a day! Yu Wenhua held the wine bowl and laughed wildly.

"Overthrow the Yang family and replace it" was originally the high hope that Yuwen Shu placed on Yuwen Zhiji back then, otherwise he would not be so keen on letting Yu Wenhua and preside over the mutiny.

Seizing the throne for the Yuwen family is Yuwen Zhiji's dream all along, although he has his own careful thoughts about pushing his brother out, perhaps because he is quite an emperor.

But in any case, now is not the time to replace the Yang family!

Yuwen Zhiji hurriedly supported his brother and said carefully, "Brother, have you drunk too much?" ”

Yu Wenhua pushed his younger brother away and said angrily, "I didn't drink much, I'm more sober than anyone else now." When you pushed me first, did you mean to use me as a shield? Li Mi also said that day, 'only punish me for this first evil', and now you can surrender to the Eastern Capital, to Suyou and Wagang, but what about me? Are you my brother or not, and are you human beings? ”

Yu Wenhua and his voice rose higher and higher, and then he threw the bowl in his hand against the wall, snot and tears.

Yuwen Zhiji's mind was guessed by his brother, and he suddenly became embarrassed, and said in disguise, "Brother, you are too careful." ”

"Fuck off, where am I so distracted?" Yu Wenhua pushed his younger brother away, and asked sharply, "Although I am incompetent, I am not a fool, you must push me as the leader, and then support Yang Hao as this puppet emperor; Yang Hao is a puppet, why am I not a puppet? I was confused at the beginning, but that doesn't mean I can't be smart, I can see it now, it turns out that everyone knows that I am stupid and is taking advantage of my stupidity! Am I born to be used by you? ”

Yu Wenzhi's face changed slightly, and he couldn't make a sound.

Yu Wenhua and drunk spit out the truth, when he is drunk, he is really more sober than usual!

"Lao Tzu originally thought it was bad luck, but now he understands that he has always been at the mercy of others like a puppet. Now that nothing has been accomplished, the number of people is decreasing day by day, and he is still charged with the crime of killing the monarch, which is not tolerated by the people of the world. If I die like this, I won't be able to die! Yu Wenhua sat down and said helplessly, holding his head.

Yuwen Zhiji had never heard of the saying "God wants to destroy people, but he will make people crazy", so he couldn't understand his brother's complaint for a while, but he obviously didn't want to bear the sin of deceiving his brother, and immediately screamed innocently.

"Brother, why don't you touch your conscience when you speak? I'm your brother, have I done anything bad to you in my life? Don't talk about death now, what's in it for me if you die? Okay, you don't trust me, so you can kill me! ”

Yuwen Zhihe is the son that Yuwen Shu values the most, he not only completely crushes Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenshi in terms of IQ, even in guts, he said while "clanging" and pulled out the sword he was carrying, and reversed the hilt of the sword and handed it to Yu Wenhua.

Yu Wenhua took the sword and his eyes showed a fierce light.

Yuwen Zhihe was shocked in his heart, and couldn't help but take a step back.

Yu Wenshi shook his head, "What did I kill you for?" You're my brother! I'm going to kill him, and I'll be the emperor. Since Lao Tzu has this black cauldron on his back, he must always live up to his name! ”

"Brother, you can't kill Yang Hao." Yu Wenzhi and shouted urgently.

"To this day, who else would I dare not kill?" Yu Wenhua laughed indifferently.