Although Yuwen Hu was extremely authoritarian after taking power, he had always lacked martial arts, so he always wanted to make up for this lesson, and the defeat in the battle with Chen Guo made him understand that Jiangnan was not the dish of Xianbei Iron Cavalry, so fighting Qi Guo was put on the agenda. Several court discussions, the ministers of the hundred officials and ministers were unanimously opposed as always, and they still did not erase the tragic memory of the bloody battle, but Yuwen Hu insisted on sending troops. Dasikong Yang Zhong offered a plan to break into the state from Mobei and go straight to Jinyang, the political center.

Yang Zhong has always been known for his long-distance travel, and Yuwen Hu attaches great importance to his construction. However, the ministers and officials all thought that this road was extremely dangerous, and it was difficult for the general of Qi to resist Hu Lu Mingyue, and if he really wanted to fight, it would not be enough to have an army of 100,000. Yang Zhong said alone: Shi Ke is not in the crowd, ten thousand horses are enough.

Mingyue erection, what can be done. Some people said that if they could say that the Turks could send troops, then Yang Zhong's plan was feasible. The matter was put on hold for the time being. Soon, the Great Zhou delegation set off under the leadership of Wang Qing, the deputy envoy of Yang Jian, and their mission was twofold, one was to finalize the emperor's personal affairs, and the other was to discuss the matter of joint troops. It was originally a matter of course, but how could I think of regeneration.

It turned out that after Emperor Wucheng of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Zhan changed his statecraft strategy, and the development of good-neighborly and friendly relations with the surrounding countries became the mainstream of Northern Qi diplomacy.

When the Qi people got the Northern Zhou Dynasty to form an alliance with the Turks, they hurriedly sent an envoy to propose to the Turks, and the envoy brought a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and directly bought off the Khan Ashina Kutou, who was in charge of the east of the Turks. Mu Zhu planned to get rid of the poor countries and make friends with the rich countries, and wanted to present the envoys of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yang Jian, Wang Qing and others as a meeting gift to the envoys of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

The Northern Zhou envoy group was in a panic when they heard the news, and Yang Jian knew that the time had come to test himself. Yang Jian went straight into the big tent of the wooden pole. Righteously and awe-inspiringly accusing the wooden pole and saying: My Taizu and the Khan jointly developed good-neighborly relations, and thousands of people came to surrender. In order to make the khan happy, my Taizu handed them all over to the khan's envoys.

How to be ungrateful today. Aren't you afraid of ghosts and gods three feet above your head? Mu Zhu was embarrassed by Yang Xuan's nonsense, and said miserably: What Jun said is extremely true, I have made up my mind, I should unite to level the East Thief, and then marry my daughter. After Yang Jian received the promise of the wooden pole khan, he returned to Chang'an.

At this point, the time is ripe for Vazi. Emperor Yuwen Yong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty planned military affairs with Yuwen Hu in Tongzhou, and did not return to Chang'an until December. Yuwen Hu sent two large armies to attack Qi at the same time in the north and south. The south road is bright, the north road is dark, and the commander of the South Road Army, Da Xiwu, led 30,000 foot cavalry to Pingyang Road with great fanfare. The Northern Route Army took Yang Zhong as the marshal, and the generals Yang Su, Li Mu, Wang Jie, Er Zhumin, Kaifu Yuanshou, Tian Hong, Murong Yan and other troops accompanied the army, and 10,000 cavalry and the Turkic army agreed to attack from the North Road.

The weather is cold, the Yellow River is frozen, it is the best time for the cavalry to cross the river, after Yang Zhong's troops crossed the river, Liuer Zhu Min according to Shiben. The guerrillas were on the river to protect the retreat of the Zhou army. Yang Zhong arrived in Wuchuan, and after the baptism of many wars, Wuchuan had fallen and desolate. Become an abandoned town. Yang Zhong returned to his hometown, paid homage to his ancestors, and then slaughtered cattle and sheep to reward the three armies. Izutakekawa launched an attack on Northern Qi.

The Northern Qi army never dreamed that the Zhou army would suddenly attack, and it was defeated in a panic. Yang Zhong progressed smoothly and broke more than 20 cities in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Hit all the way to the Yanmen Pass, leaving Yang Su to guard the Lingqiu as a backup.

What happened later proved that Yang Zhong's move was very wise. At this time, the 100,000 cavalry of the Turkic wooden poles, the head of the land, and the three khans also arrived, and the two armies joined forces along the line, and then the troops divided into three routes to attack Jinyang.

The Northern Qi side first received an alarm from the front line of Pingyang, and Hu Luguang led 30,000 cavalry to be stationed in Pingyang to fight, and Da Xiwu did not dare to confront it, and the two sides were in a standoff.

The news of the fall of many places in the north road spread, the alarm flew to Yecheng like snowflakes, according to the attack speed of the Zhou army, it will not be possible to reach Jinyang in a few days, Jinyang is the military and political center of Qi and cannot be lost, Gao Zhan, the emperor of Wucheng of Northern Qi, was frightened, and rushed to Jinyang from Yecheng to the sixth army, and Duan Shao, the king of Zhaojun, and Duan Shao, the assassin of the state, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and comprehensively organized the defense of Jinyang. The heavy snow continued continuously, and it fell for several decades in a row, and the snow was three feet deep on the flat land for more than 1,000 miles from north to south, and the wind chill was miserable.

The Zhou-Turk coalition army reached Jinyang, and the Turks occupied Xishan. Jinyang City ushered in the cold and panic in the day, do not care about celebrating the new year, just after the New Year, Emperor Gao Zhan of Qi personally boarded the north city to review the city defense troops, Jinyang City gathered the most elite Baibao Xianbei army of the Northern Qi Dynasty, this is the main force of Gao Yang to conquer the northern frontier, the Qi army is neat, the armor is distinct, shining in the reflection of the sun and snow.

The Turks took in this scene, and such a neat military appearance frightened the Turks, who sighed that "there is iron in the eyes of the Qi people, how can they resist it", and blamed Zhou for spreading rumors about the civil strife in Qi. Yang Zhong took the foot soldiers as the forward, and went down from the west mountain to the city for about two miles, but the Qi people still did not move.

The Zhou army continued to advance, but the pace of the Zhou army was extremely difficult due to the deep snow, and the soldiers were exhausted. Suddenly, the gate of Jinyang City was opened, and the Qi army came out with a noise, and it turned out that Duan Shao saw that the Zhou army was sleepy and led the army to attack. When the Turks saw the elite of the Qi army coming over, they retreated to the western mountains one after another, refusing to engage in battle.

When the Zhou army saw the Turks retreating, they were all terrified. Seeing this, Yang Zhong knew that it was difficult to succeed today, but if he fled here, not only would he not be able to retreat, but he would become a joke of the world, even if he was defeated, he would be defeated decently, and he would be so defeated that the enemy would be afraid, he had made up his mind, so he roared angrily: It is in the sky, don't take the enemy as a matter of numbers. After speaking, he led more than 700 people from his own personal guards to rush forward.

In the end, there was a huge disparity in numbers, and most of Yang Zhong's 700 foot soldiers were quickly killed and wounded, but the Qi army also suffered countless casualties, and Yang Zhong began to retreat.

Duan Shao led people to pursue, but the Turkic brigade was in front, and the Qi army only followed from a distance, and did not dare to press. The Turks ran in front, led troops to plunder, from Jinyang to Pingcheng more than 700 miles, people and animals were robbed.

The Turks retreated to the Mountains, the road was frozen and slippery, so they had to spread the felt on the ground, Huma was so thin that the hair under his knees fell off, and when they retreated to the Great Wall, the horses were almost dead, and the soldiers had to cut off their spears and use them as crutches to go north. Due to the fact that there were two lines of soldiers and horses on the road, Yang Zhong basically returned with the whole division, and waited for him to retreat to Xiazhou. Yuwen Yong sent people to work the army, and after returning to Chang'an, the emperor rewarded him greatly.

Although the surprise attack on Jinyang ended in failure. However, the commander of the Zhou army drove straight into the enemy's lair, and a major breakthrough had already been made militarily. Yu Wenyong wanted to take Yang Zhong as his master. However, because Yang Zhong never bought Yuwenhu's account, this appointment was opposed by Yuwenhu and was abandoned.

Under the arrangement of Yuwen Hu, Yang Zhong was appointed as the governor of Jingfeng Lingyun Yanxian Six Prefectures and Jingzhou Assassin History, and temporarily left the power center of the Zhou State. After Yang Zhong retreated, Da Xiwu still confronted Hu Luguang in Pingyang. After Hu Luguang received the news of Jinyang's siege, he sent a letter to Xi Wu: Honghu has flown in the few outlines, and Luo is still depressed.

The geese have already flown into the open sky, and the bird-hunters are still waiting in the swamp with their nets spread. Mingyue tried her best to ridicule, and Da Xiwu immediately withdrew after seeing the letter. Hu Luguang then pursued into the territory of the Zhou State, plundering more than 2,000 mouths and returning.

This battle shook the Northern Qi Dynasty a lot, the enemy will come as soon as he says, look at the world, is there still a difference between the front and the rear? After Hu Luguang returned to Jinyang in victory, Gao Zhan hugged his head and cried with him, which shows how frightened the emperor was. This battle also changed the shape of Zhou Qi, which was basically Zhou in the past to prepare for the attack of Qi, but now it is the other way around. Qi began to worry that the Zhou army had sneak attacked.

So the special forces on the bank of the Yellow River changed their clothes, at first the Zhou army took a sledgehammer to break the ice on the frozen day, and now the ice-breaking troops of the Zhou State have withdrawn, and the ice-breaking troops of the Qi State wearing red armor have appeared on the ice of the Yellow River.

Finally wrote about the counteroffensive of the Northern Zhou. However, the strength of the Northern Qi is still very strong, if it were not for the contradiction between the emperor and Hu Han in the east, the road behind the Northern Zhou would not be so easy to walk. Anyway, one is on the rise. One is in the declining period, and one day the declining one will be finished.

For the next two or three years. There was a rare rapprochement between the three countries in the confrontation.

The emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty got along well, and of course this harmony was at the expense of Emperor Yuwen Yong who gave up his power and devoted himself to the elephant opera.

Yu Wenhu, the powerful minister who once slaughtered the three sons of heaven, has reached the highest level of power and prestige in terms of power and prestige. Become the real master of the Northern Zhou court, of course, Yuwen Hu is still only a minister, there is no evidence to prove that he has the idea of replacing him, and using the supreme authority of a courtier is the real way to take trouble.

However, behind the scenery, Yuwen Hu always has a little regret.

In the final analysis, Yuwen Hu is a person who talks about family affection and filial piety, but his father died early, his mother's whereabouts are unknown, and it has been more than 30 years since he was 16 years old and his mother Jinyang, which can not but be said to be a pity.

At that time, Yuwentai's younger sister, Aunt Yang, who lived with her mother, I don't know if they are still alive. In the dead of night, Yuwentai always sighed when he thought of his mother.

As the Northern Zhou Otsuka Zai, Yuwen Hu didn't believe that there was anything he couldn't do, he had sent people to Jinyang secretly to search for him many times, but just like looking for a needle in a haystack, he never gave up lightly.

The war stopped, and the state of Qi sent envoys to Yubi to ask for mutual opening of the market, and Yubi reported to the foreign government, and Yuwen Hu asked Sima Xia's doctor Yin Chengcheng to contact Yubi, and Yin Chengcheng also undertook a secret mission - to visit the whereabouts of the relatives of the Duke of Jin.

The negotiation with the envoy of Qi was very smooth, and the secret mission was completed very well, and the envoy of Qi promised to help inquire.

The hard work paid off, and under Yuwen's persevering search, his mother was finally found.

It turned out that after Yuwentai took Yuwen Hu away with He Bayue Jingluoguan, the east and west Wei were divided, Gao Huan and Yuwentai began a struggle for more than ten years, and Yuwen Yuanbao and Yuwen Bodhi who stayed in the east were killed, and Yan's, Sugan's, and Yuwen's (Yuwen's fourth daughter) were sent to Zhongshan Palace as slaves, and the sisters depended on each other and survived.

Now, the only old people in the Yuwen family are Yan and Zhou Huanggu (the aunt of the Northern Zhou Emperor), and Yan is already eighty years old.

Xunzhou Assassin Shi Wei Xiaokuan did not dare to slack off on Yuwen Hu's affairs, he released a group of Qi people who had been captured in the past, and asked them to send letters to Yecheng to express Zhou Guo's desire to communicate with Qi State, hoping that Qi State could return the two old men to Chang'an.

But Wei Xiaokuan knew that the Qi State must have thought that it was a strange commodity to live in, and he would never agree lightly, so he played a trick.

The Zhou side released rumors that it was unfavorable to attack Jinyang in advance, so they conspired with the Turks to attack Qi again. In line with this, the Yang Zhong Department of the Zhu State moved towards Woye Town.

When Emperor Gao Zhan of Great Qi heard that the Zhou and Turk coalition forces were going to attack again, he was frightened and hurriedly sent an envoy to Zhou, promising to send his mother back to the west. Taking this as an opportunity for the two countries to establish normal diplomatic relations, in order to show their sincerity. sent back to Zhou Huanggu first.

Since the relations between the two countries were normal, Yang Zhong immediately led his army back to the station. But more than 100,000 Turks did not want to work for nothing, so they crossed the Great Wall and marched towards Youzhou.

Zhou Huanggu returned to Chang'an and brought a letter from Yuwenhu's mother, in which he counted the events of Yuwenhu's childhood, and at the same time brought back a brocade robe as a token.

The letter wrote: Even if you are as noble as a prince and rich in the mountains and seas, there is an eighty old mother who is wandering thousands of miles away and dying in an instant. If you don't see each other all the time, you can't get your clothes when you're cold, you can't get food when you're hungry, even if you're glorious and glorious in the world, what's the benefit to me? I will not receive your support before today, and after today. I can only entrust my life to you.

Yuwen Hu saw the clothes that the old lady had treasured for more than 30 years, and when he saw the old mother's emotional words, he couldn't help but feel sad and cried.

Yuwen Hu hurriedly replied. In the book, it says: It has been thirty-five years since I was far away from my knees, and who in the world is as unfilial as Sabao? The son is a prince, and the mother is a slave. I can't see my mother's heat on a hot day, and I can't see my mother's cold on a cold day. I don't know if I have clothes to wear, if I have enough to eat. It's as if outside the heavens and the earth, and there is no news at all. Thanks to Qi Chao's great kindness, our mother and son have a good time to meet. Even if the dead are resurrected, it will not be comparable to the grace of today.

How do you know that the letters have been exchanged many times, but you don't see Qi Guo release people. It turned out that Gao Zhan, the emperor of Qi, wanted to get more capital, and Gao Zhan sent the letters exchanged with the Zhou people to Duan Shao, who was defending against the Turks.

Duan Shao believed that the Zhou people were capricious, and Yuwen Hu, although nominally the prime minister of the Qi State, was actually the master. Since he asked for peace for his mother, but did not send a formal envoy to the state, if he returned it to his mother with a private letter, I am afraid that it would be a sign of weakness. It is better to promise first, and it is not too late to send it after the relations between the two countries are stable. It's just not repatriated.

Although Duan Shao was not close to people, it was the old city's strategy to seek the country, but Gao Zhan was worried about angering Yuwen Hu, so he didn't listen to Duan Shao's words and returned his mother Yan. When Yan arrived in the Zhou State, he celebrated the dynasty, and Yuwen Yong also issued an amnesty decree for this matter. Every festival, Yuwen Yong personally led the relatives of the Yuwen family to perform family etiquette together to celebrate the old lady's birthday.

When Yuwen Hu was still immersed in the joy of seeing mother and son, the Turks sent an envoy.

It turned out that the former Turks plundered Youzhou with 100,000 horses, and were attacked head-on by the assassin Shi Hulu Fengle of Youzhou in Northern Qi, and returned in vain. At this time, the people of various tribes were gathered in Saibei, and the Zhou State was asked to send troops to attack Qi according to the agreement between the two sides.

Yuwen Hu was reluctant to send troops, but he was worried that the Turks would be angry and cause another incident, so he had to issue a national mobilization order to send troops to attack Qi.

The 24th Army of the Imperial Army, the Left and Right Forbidden Army, the soldiers of Qinzhou Longyou Bashu, and the Qianghu followers gathered a total of 200,000 troops, and Yuwen Yong awarded Yuwen the axe and personally worked in Shayuan.

A big battle in Zhou Qi is about to begin.

Yuwen Hu died, the Zhou State Otsuka Zai, who had killed the three emperors, and the governor of the Chinese and foreign military Yuwen Hu died, and the murderer was Yuwen Yong, his cousin, the emperor of the Great Zhou State. It happened suddenly, when many people were not ready, a new era had come, and for the Northern Zhou courtiers, whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, depending on their past choices.

Facts have proved that Emperor Ming Yu Wenyu is a person with a unique vision, he is not wrong, his fourth brother Yu Wenyong is definitely not an ordinary person, he is really the person who can be entrusted with the future to avenge himself.

Yu Wenyong witnessed the fate of the two brothers, and he wanted to hide himself deeply, and if he wanted to survive and not repeat the mistakes of the two brothers, there was only one way to gain the trust of his cousin Otsuka Zai.

Brothers turn against each other, what they fight for is nothing more than power, power is a devil, a devil who makes people forget family affection, Yu Wenyong deeply realized that if you want to kill the emperor in peace, you must be a person who is not obsessed with power, be an emperor who reassures his cousin Otsuka Zai, and an emperor who will not threaten Otsuka Zai's power.

Having said that, but it's not easy to really do, Yuwen Yong is free, smart and talented, Yu Wentai once told the people around him that the person who will inherit his career in the future must be Yu Wenyong, when Yuwentai was alive, Yuwen Hu acted as the housekeeper of the Yuwen family, who in the family is smart and who is stupid, can he not know?

What's more, although Yu Wenyong was only eighteen years old when he ascended the throne, he had already served as the general of the Zhuguo State and the Great Sikong before, and he had been out of the town in Tongzhou, so he could also be said to be in a high position, although most of these titles were because of his father and brother. Therefore, it will definitely not work to learn from Gao Yang, the emperor of Qi State, to deceive his brother Gao Cheng to pretend to be crazy and stupid, if Yuwen Hu can see that he is deliberately disguised, Yuwen Yong's good days will come to an end.

Yu Wenyong found a sharp weapon to deal with Yu Wen Hu: Elephant Opera. At the same time as the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he was madly obsessed with elephant opera, except for pretending to be in the court, whenever he had a little time, he stared at the chessboard in front of him, either checking ancient books, or writing and painting, and swore not to give up if he didn't make a book like that. There is an idiom called plaything losing heart, and those ministers who are looking forward to the emperor's pro-government look at the emperor's obsessed appearance and pull out the cold. Many people who might otherwise be very successful lose their enterprising spirit because they are obsessed with some gadgets.

Yuwen Hu looked at the changes in Yuwen Yong and was very happy. In the court, Yuwen Hu can do whatever he wants, and even Yu Wen Yong can figure out Yu Wen Hu's mind and do what he likes, for so many years, the two have been peaceful, Yu Wen Hu is satisfied, Yu Wen Yong is also satisfied, however, Yu Wen Hu is satisfied that he finally found an emperor with a fetish, and Yu Wen Yong is satisfied with his acting skills. (To be continued......)