The treacherous Wang Shichong's worst fear finally happened, the same treacherous old opponent Li Mi really gave up the hinterland of Hanoi and mobilized troops from all over Hanoi to retreat to Heyang.

Wang Shichong is not afraid of Yu Culture and fighting the Tiger Pass, nor is he afraid of Yu Culture and going to Hedong through Hanoi, he is afraid of Yu Culture and coming to Luoyang, and he is forced to fight hard with Yu Culture and the Xiaoguo elite under his command, Yu Culture and from Hanoi to Henan County, Wang Shichong is the first to bear the brunt and is the biggest victim.

Chen Fuliang is the second victim, Yu Wenhua and bypassing the Tiger Prison Pass to take the eastern capital, in fact, has threatened Chen Fuliang's strategic interests in Cuihan Dao, and will inevitably lead to various unpredictable consequences, and may even lead Li Mi and Wang Shichong to deliberately indulge Yu culture and directly attack the west to fight Guanzhong, so that Chen Fuliang can bear the drudgery of fighting with Yu culture and head-on alone, Chen Fuliang took the initiative to ask for an alliance with Li Mi to fight against Yu Wenhua and, and desperately repaired the relationship with Wang Shichong, just to prevent this.

Li Mijun is also a victim on the surface, but in fact he is the biggest beneficiary, on the surface, Yu Wenhua and crossed the Yellow River from Heyang to the south, bypassed the Tiger Prison Pass and appeared behind Li Mi, which is a huge threat to Li Mi, but in fact it is not, because even if there is no Yu Culture and the threat behind it, Wang Shichong is still staring at Luokoucang behind his back, even if Li Mijun resists Yu Wenhua with the Tiger Prison Pass, as long as the opportunity arises, Wang Shichong will still unceremoniously attack Luokoucang. After Yu Wenhua's main force detoured to the south via Heyang, Li Mi not only concentrated his forces on the western front to defend Luokoucang, but also used the power of Wang Shichong and Chen Fuliang to contain Yu Wenhuahe, so that Yu Wenhua could not devote all his strength to fight with Li Mi.

- Li Mi did not hesitate to agree to form an alliance with his old rival Chen Fuliang, that is, for this reason, at the same time, after the water of the Eastern Capital battlefield was muddied by Yu Wenhua, Li Mi could also take the opportunity to win the opportunity to make a comeback.

Wang Shichong and Chen Fuliang are no longer happy and useless, from a tactical point of view, although Yu Wenhua and bypassing the Tiger Prison Pass to take the Eastern Capital directly is a dangerous move, but it is also a wonderful move, at least there is no need to attack Xiongguan Jiancheng one after another, constantly being consumed, constantly being weakened, and after Yu Wenhua and the army directly enter the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, as long as the contradiction of mutual distrust and mutual hatred between the three thieves of Chen, Wang and Li is well utilized, seize the time to quickly destroy one of them, and obtain a solid foothold or an endless supply of grain and grass, It's much easier to deal with the other two.

So there is no way, in Wang Shichong's resentful gaze, Hanoi Li Mijun is very shameless to retreat to Heyang Bridge, Sima Dejun also immediately took the Yuwen Army forward to Heyang to kill, Wang Shichong had no choice, he could only ask his son-in-law for help, while making the last effort to contact Li Mi, asking for an alliance with Li Mi to discuss Yu Culture and, and a rare initiative to be willing to suffer, promising to sign an alliance with Li Mijun After signing an alliance, he would immediately send troops to help Li Mi hold the Heyang Bridge, and join forces to resist Yu Wenhua and the army to cross the Yellow River in the south.

Li Mi thought about it for a day before verbally agreeing to form an alliance with Wang Shichong, and when Wang Shichong's envoy hurried back to the eastern capital, Wang Shichong had just sent his army north to help defend the Heyang Bridge, and there was bad news from Heyang, Sima Deji's army had successfully captured the Heyang Bridge, and Zheng Qianxiang, the general of Li Mi's army, had not even had time to cut the pontoon bridge, and had been killed by Sima Dejiao and fled back to the south bank of the Yellow River, and fled directly back to Yanshi.

At the same time that Wang Shichong scolded Li Mijun for being despicable and shameless, Yu Wenhua's surrender envoy also came to Luoyang City, showed Wang Shichong the edict canonizing him as King Zheng, and persuaded Wang Shichong to open the city to surrender Yu Wenhua. Wang Shichong gritted his teeth and was ruthless, and simply came to a noncommittal, did not refuse or accept, and at the same time sent the envoy of Yuwenjun out of the city, playing the same appeasement policy as Li Mi, not offending Yu Wenhua to death, so as to find an opportunity for Yu Wenhua to trouble Li Mi first.

Seeing that Li Mi and Wang Shichong did not dare to offend themselves, they vaguely revealed their intention to surrender, and Yu Wenhua's confidence was inevitably greatly increased, leaving the eldest son Yuwen Chengji and Yang Shilan to lead an army to guard Liyangcang, and personally led the main force west into Hanoi County, and also brought all the accompanying officials and puppet emperor Yang Hao and others who were captured in Jiangdu. It was intended to be used to force their families in the Eastern Capital to surrender.

Yu Wenhua is not too stupid, knowing that it is easy to be threatened by detouring Hanoi to the south of the grain route, so he let the main army carry as much grain as possible to the west, and there are as many as 10,000 grain trucks alone, forcing the people of Ji County to pull carts to transport grain, which makes people angry, and at the same time slows down the speed of the march, giving Wang Shichong and Li Mi more time to respond. During this period, Wang Shichong of course hurried to strengthen the eastern capital and repeatedly asked Chen Fuliang for help; Li Mi also hurriedly strengthened Luokoucang City, dispatched the main force back to Luokoucang to defend the city, and even more shamelessly dispatched the Western Front army back to Luokoucang, guarding all dangers, making room for Yu Wenhua and Wang Shichong to let go of the war.

At the same time, Wang Shichong and Li Mi, who were also noble, also coincidentally made their own tricks, respectively sent envoys to meet Yu Wenhua and his most trusted second brother Yu Wenzhi, and then Wang Shichong's envoy presented Yu Wenzhi and Li Mijun's Luokoucang defense map, detailing Li Mijun's troop deployment and road conditions in the Luokoucang area, and letting Yu Wenhua and the army know everything they knew about Li Mijun's situation. Li Mijun's envoy generously presented the defense map of the eastern capital, as well as the list of civil and military officials at all levels of the imperial court of the eastern capital, and also built Yuwen culture and first attacked the southern city of Luoyang to seize a foothold, and on behalf of Li Mi, he secretly promised not to interfere in the war of Yu culture and attack the eastern capital.

After carefully looking at the map of the eastern capital, Yuwen Zhihe asked Li Mijun to give up Jinyong City to Yuwen Army in exchange for Yuwen Army not to attack Luokoucang, and Li Miming knew that this was tantamount to drinking water to quench his thirst, but in order to avoid the edge of Yu Culture and the army, he still gritted his teeth and agreed to the requirements of Yu Culture and the army, and promised that when Yu Culture and the army came to the city, Li Mijun would not make any resistance and abandon the city and leave, so that Yu Wenhua and the Jinyong City that was only twenty miles away from the eastern capital, Directly threatens the lair of the sworn rival Wang Shichong.

At the same time, Yu Wenhua and the envoy sent to contact Chen Fuliang finally arrived in Daxing, Guanzhong, and the envoy sent by Yu Wenhua was none other than Yu Shinan, the younger brother of Chen Fuliang's former political enemy Yu Shiji. After meeting, without waiting for Yu Shinan to open Yang Hao's holy decree and read it, Chen Fuliang's teacup had already smashed on his body, and then pointed to his nose and scolded, severely condemning Yu Shinan's various crimes for Yu Wenhua and serving the tiger, Yu Shinan was both ashamed and aggrieved, and finally cried loudly in front of Chen Fuliang, and desperately said: "Chen stays behind, it's not that the criminal minister doesn't want to be loyal to the country and be martyred for the Son of Heaven, when Yu Wenhua and they want to kill the criminal minister's brother Yu Shiji, the criminal minister has been willing to die in place of his brother, but they don't allow it, No, he also took the nephew of the criminal minister as a hostage, and the elder brother was very kind to the criminal minister, and in order to keep the blood he left behind, he had to do this. ”

The story of Yu Shiji and Yu Shinan brothers Chen Fuliang has heard of it, and Yu Wenhua, Yu Shiji, who is not a good thing, is a good brother, raised the young Yu Shinan for his deceased parents, and Yu Shinan is called a brother, in fact, he is a father and son, Yu Shinan himself is also relatively simple and kind, not as treacherous and insidious as his brother. So after listening to Yu Shinan's heartfelt cry, Chen Fuliang also suppressed the anger that was originally pretended, and stopped scolding, in order to learn from him about various Yu culture and military situations that he urgently needed.

The Yuwen brothers are also a mess in terms of employing people, knowing that Yu Shinan is unable to defect for the sake of Yu Shiji's several kinds of impossibility, so he is relieved to let him come to see Chen Fuliang, but although Yu Shinan did not dare to betray the Yuwen brothers and stay in Guanzhong, he reported all kinds of information about the Jiangdu mutiny and the knowledge of Yu culture and military information to pour beans into the bamboo tube, all of which were reported to Chen Fuliang. Only then did Chen Fuliang know about the process of the Jiangdu Mutiny, and also had a preliminary understanding of the basic situation of Yu Culture and the current army.

The blood-soaked night of the Jiangdu mutiny naturally does not need to be described, but the blood did not flow out that night, and afterwards Yu Wenhua and killed Yu Shiji, Pei Yun and Lai Hu'er and others, Yu Shinan did plead to die instead of Yu Shiji, but unfortunately Yu Shiji's reputation was too bad and he was the culprit who instigated Emperor Yang of Sui to move the capital to Danyang. Then the Huya generals Shen Guang and Mai Mengcai, who were loyal to Emperor Yang of Sui, launched a mutiny again, trying to kill Yu Wenhua and avenge Emperor Yang of Sui, but failed, Shen Guang and Mai Mengcai and other hundreds of mutinous righteous soldiers were all killed, so frightened that Chen Ling, a famous general of the Sui army, also became a soft bone, surrendered Yu Wenhua and stayed in Jiangdu.

Later, it was Yu Wenhua and coerced Baiguan and Liugong to go north, and it was at this time that Chen Fuliang knew that Sima Dejiao and Yu Wenhua did not turn their faces as in history, and at the same time, Feng Deyi and Zheng Shanguo and other soft bones also gave Yu Wenhua and became loyal lackeys, in addition, Yu Wenhua also reused the third brother Yu Wenshi and, and more or less adopted some Yu Wenshi and proposed the correct construction, so he barely maintained the cohesion of the army. As for Yu Wenhua and whose strategy he listened to, Li Mi successfully took Liyang Cang, and what kind of relationship and transaction did he have with the old Li family, because Yu Shinan was not Yu Wenhua and his confidants, so he didn't know anything.

He also asked Yu Wenhua in detail about the number of troops, the composition of the troops and the main commanders of the army, and after recording all these important information, Chen Fuliang set up a banquet to entertain Yu Shinan, and symbolically invited Yu Shinan to stay and serve him. It's a pity that Yu Shinan, who is also one of the famous ministers of Lingyan Pavilion, can only shake his head and refuse, and tell Chen Fuliang with tears, "Chen stays behind, it's not that the criminal minister doesn't want to take the opportunity to get out and stay in Guanzhong to atone for his crimes, it's that several nephews of the criminal minister have been held hostage by Yu Wenhua and stayed in the army, if the criminal minister stays, they will definitely not be spared." ”

After that, Yu Shinan couldn't help crying again, Chen Fuliang knew that this was the result, so he sighed and said: "Okay, whatever you want, I'll let you go back, and after I exterminate Yu Wenhua in the future, it's not too late for you to come back." ”

Yu Shinan hurriedly thanked Chen Fuliang, and wiped his tears and asked: "Chen Liushou, Yu Wenhua and the traitors sent criminal ministers to canonize you as the king of Tang, I don't know how you plan to deal with it?" Is there a letter for the sinner to take back to the traitor? ”

"No need for letters." Chen Fuliang snorted coldly and said: "Bring me a message back, tell him Yu Wenhua and wash his neck and wait for death, if you are smart, quickly put down your weapons and surrender to me, I can also leave him a whole corpse, let him die a happy death, otherwise, I guarantee that he will die worse than Hu Sizheng!" By the way, tell him again, Wang Shichong and Li Mi have already temporarily abandoned their previous suspicions and joined forces with me to recruit him, a traitor who kills the king! ”

While Yu Shinan nodded in agreement, Chen Fuliang suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked, "Wait, what did you just say?" Yu Wenhua and let you canonize me as the king of Tang with a false edict? Why Tang Wang? I don't have the Tang character in my title? ”

"Oh, stay behind and forgive your sins, the sinner was emotional just now, and I forgot to report to you." Yu Shinan hurriedly explained: "Before the first emperor was killed, at the last court meeting, he had changed the title of you to stay in Daxing, and deprived Li Yuan of the title of traitor, and changed the title of Duke of Tang to you. ”

Originally, it was just a small matter the size of a sesame mung bean, but it turned out that the wine glass in Chen Fuliang's hand almost fell to the ground, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Tang Guogong?" The first emperor renamed me the Duke of Tang at the last court meeting? ”

"Yes, it can also be said to be the last decree of the emperor." Yu Shinan nodded and said: "As far as the criminal minister knows, the deceased brother of the criminal minister has already drafted this holy decree in the Inner History Province and forwarded it to the Ministry of Men for review, but there was a mutiny in a few days, and the holy decree was not sent, and it should still be in the hands of Pei Zuoxiang." The first emperor decreed that Shi Yu Wenhua was also there, and he knew about it, so this traitor changed the edict to leave you as the king of Tang. ”

Chen Fuliang's reaction continued to make Yu Shiji and the others present wonder, and after pondering for a while, Chen Fuliang actually sighed lightly and said, "Doomed, since it is destined Tang, then I can only do this Tang Guogong better." ”

After that, Chen Fuliang also turned to his prime minister, Shi Sun Fujia, and instructed him: "Fu Jia, write down this matter, and report to His Majesty tomorrow in the morning, and obey the will of the emperor to change my title to the Duke of Tang." ”

The Daxing Imperial Court is actually Chen Fuliang who has the final say, and of course it is only a matter of one sentence to change the title of a mere knight, and it will be easily handled by the court the next morning, and there is no second person who pays attention to this matter except for Chen Fuliang himself. With Wang Shichong's repeated urgency, Yu Wenhua and the main force of the army gradually approached Luoyang, and the problems of the Eastern Capital battlefield also reached the point where it was impossible to determine the response strategy. Therefore, after the dispersal of the dynasty, even if Chen Fuliang did not speak, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and other henchmen and lackeys came to the Wude Palace, which had been occupied by Chen Fuliang as the Prime Minister's Mansion, and took the initiative to raise this issue, asking Chen Fuliang to speed up his ideas to deal with the changes in the Eastern Capital.

What made Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others a little puzzled was that Chen Fuliang didn't care very much about this matter, and he still dealt with the official business in his hand that was not too urgent, and then took over the topic and said: "Don't worry, Yu Wenhua and the Yellow River haven't even crossed, why are we in a hurry to send troops?" The natural danger of Kui Han Dao is not so easy to break through, with He Yanyu and Yao Yi guarding the rebuilt Han Valley Pass, even if Yu Wenhua and the sudden entry of Kun Han Dao, we have plenty of time to deal with it. ”

"Prime Minister, but what if Yu Wenhua takes the Eastern Capital or Luokoucang?" Wei Zheng reminded worriedly: "The soldiers and horses under the command of this traitor are too strong, and if they fight head-on, neither Wang Shichong nor Li Mi can be his opponent." Luoyang and Luokou Cangcheng, the eastern capital, no matter which of these two key points is taken by him, he will definitely become our henchmen, and if we want to exterminate him, it will be even more difficult for us. ”

"Send troops to recruit Yu Wenhua, I told Fu Jia when I was in Hedong, I will definitely send troops, and I will personally lead the troops forward." Chen Fuliang replied casually: "But after I carefully analyzed and deduced the course of the war, I found that I could send troops, but the time to send troops must not be too early, and I must wait for the time to be ripe before sending troops." ”

After that, Chen Fuliang added another sentence and said: "Don't get me wrong, I'm really not afraid of Yu Wenhua and losing both sides this time, and cheapening my father-in-law and Li Mi traitors in vain." I was worried that Li Mi, the traitor, suddenly turned against Yu Wenhua, suddenly stood on Yu Wenhua's side, caught us off guard, helped Yu Wenhua and hit us hard, and killed Wang Shichong easily. ”

"It's unlikely, isn't it?" Yuan Tiangang said in surprise: "After Li Mitongshan's fiasco, his vitality was greatly damaged, and he had no power to fight back in front of Yu Wenhua, even if he didn't use the power of us and Wang Shichong to destroy Yu Wenhua, how could he still help Yu Wenhua and deal with us and Wang Shichong?" ”

"You should have heard the story of Jiang Wei and Zhong Hui, right?" Chen Fuliang said lightly: "After Liu Chan surrendered to Wei, Jiang Wei deceived Zhonghui in order to restore the country, and tried to use Zhonghui to kill all the Wei generals in the army first, and then kill Zhonghui to restore the country, but he was unlucky and failed. Li Mi's cleverness is not under Jiang Wei, Yu Wenhua is much more stupid than Zhong Hui, and at the same time, Yu Wenhua and the army have more problems, Li Mi uses Yu Wenhua's hand to weaken us, destroy Wang Shichong, take the opportunity to gain Yu Wenhua's trust, and then want to follow Jiang Wei to replace Yu Wenhua, it is not hopeless. ”

Everyone was silent, and after a long time, Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "Yes, Li Mi has this possibility, and he is one of the eight major lords of Guanlong, after Li Bi, he has some foundation within the Xiaoguo Army in Guanzhong, and he has the conditions to do so." And compared to joining forces to destroy Yu Wenhua, he may be more sure of doing this, because after Yu Wenhua and his demise, we and Wang Shichong will never let him go, and he will not fail to see this! ”

"Li Mi doesn't have to be as risky as Jiang Wei." Du Ruhui also said: "After his sudden defection, he still has a chance to let us and Yu Wenhua fight and lose both, and when the time comes, he will hide in the rear to accept the rebellion, and regroup with the grain stored in Luokou Warehouse, and may become the biggest winner." ”

Chen Fuliang nodded and said: "I have repeatedly deduced the battle situation and found that if I were Li Mi, I would never be afraid of Yu Wenhua and defeating the Daxing and Dongdu armies, because Yu Wenhua's internal instability is too unstable, and Yu Wenhua and his own ability are too low, and there will be internal problems after a long time. But if Yu Wenhua and is destroyed, I will be miserable, the Eastern Capital will definitely take the opportunity to recapture Luokou Cang to grab grain, the Western Capital Daxing is either to help the Eastern Capital, or to hide in the continued to reap the benefits of the fishermen, I Li Mi can bear one, can't carry two, will definitely lose! ”

While everyone nodded in agreement, Chen Fuliang smiled again and said: "That's why I took the initiative to send someone to find Li Mi to form an alliance with Yu Wenhua, I know that Li Mi will definitely not believe in the sincerity of my alliance, but I believe that he will never miss this good opportunity to drag me into the water, and he really agreed to the alliance and signed an alliance with me." ”

"The prime minister wants to use that covenant to divide the Yu culture and the two thieves with Li Mi, so that they will completely turn against each other and turn their faces to fight?" Wei Zheng said suspiciously: "In front of a traitor like Li Mi, I'm afraid this kind of divisive plan won't have any effect, right?" ”

"No, no." Chen Fuliang shook his head and said with a smile: "The purpose of my alliance with Li Mi is not to separate him from Yu Wenhua. My real purpose is to let Li Mi and Wang Shichong join forces to flank Yu Wenhuaji, and when they are defeated, then we will go to pick peaches. ”

Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and the others looked at each other, and then Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "Prime Minister, your appetite is admirable, but your appetite is too big, your father-in-law and Li Mi are not fuel-efficient lamps, it is not easy to let one of them be deceived, let them both fall for the scheme at the same time, I'm afraid it's even more uncertain, right?" ”

"My father-in-law is indeed very smart, and Li Mi is also treacherous, so it is even more difficult to get them into the scheme." Chen Fuliang smiled and said, "But what about Yu Wenhua? Is it difficult for us to let Yu Wenhua and the two fronts go to war, and at the same time to fight Wang Shichong and Li Mi? Yu culture and a knife holder