Chapter 59: Saving the Force
Now it is unlikely that the Yu army wants to close the city and cross the river and go straight to the Yuecheng in the capital of the Ul country, not to mention that the army's food supply line is too long and not conducive to marching and fighting, and there is a danger of annihilation if it crosses the border of the Ul country and encounters the joint attack and obstruction of the armies of various cities, so it is said that the number of people fighting with the Yu army is not enough, they will leave the Nine Heavens Cavalry on the one hand, and send troops to invade the territory of the Ul country on the other side. Unless the Yu State sends an army to come, then they will risk the emptiness of the country's borders to involve the contempt of other countries.
Yun Yanzheng re-looked at all kinds of information he had obtained recently, although Yu Guo had sent people to envoy Mo Guo and Chengguo, but Mo Guo was powerful, and the lord of the country was old and had no ambition to swallow the world; Although Chengguo is eager to try, he has secretly accumulated weakness after several bloody storms, and he does not have the strength to dominate the world for a while, so he can only temporarily settle in a corner but seek stability. Yu sent envoys to these two countries, and was secretly intervened by Wei State, and neither of them was able to reach a consensus alliance with one of them.
Does this time Yu send troops to test the military strength of Wei State, or do you want to swallow a few cities and expand the territory of Yu State step by step? Or did you reach some agreement with the traitors and thieves in the territory of the Ul Kingdom, to unite the inside and the outside, and divide the Ul Kingdom into one side?
Before the army set off, Yun Yanzheng had already secretly revised several important ministers in the court that she could trust, and analyzed and narrated the purpose of the Yu invasion in her heart and the doubts about the various crises in the territory one by one, hoping that they could convey it to the emperor, in order to awaken the emperor's attention. During the exchange of troops between the two countries, they can send an envoy to the country to accept the country, even if they can't reach an agreement on assistance, they must also use a lot of money to benefit their important ministers and even the harem of Lida, so that the ability of the tongue can persuade the two countries to promise not to send troops to help the Yu country, so as not to be from the risk of being attacked by the two countries. For the territory, the states and governments in the two countries during the exchange of troops, all kinds of abnormal forces must be investigated layer by layer, martial law, or gentle channeling; or differentiation and disparity; or crackdown on repression; or inducement to rebel, and preceded the death of its purpose.
It's just that she is so worried, but she doesn't know what these important ministers can do for the country and the people? She was so worried, but she couldn't be of the same heart with the emperor and his ministers, and she could directly share her worries and even give advice. She can only knock on the side like this, and can only add fuel to the fire like this, so that the emperor and all the powerful ministers can see this or that worry and hidden dangers.
But what is powerless and helpless is that the current war has distracted her even more. She didn't have time to gather more evidence to prove her guess. However, she was convinced that such a calculation must exist, but in the entire Wei Kingdom, except for the third brother, who would completely believe in herself, how could anyone else understand the anxiety and all kinds of worries in her heart, and even if she wrote ten letters, only one or two important ministers barely believed and took the initiative to worry about such worries; Perhaps she stated a hundred reasons in her letter, and only one or two of them attracted the attention of others.
She knew that she couldn't hold out too much hope, and in the country of Wei, she said that she was in the army to make people feel awe-inspired. But in the government and the opposition, after all, for various reasons, she can't be particularly close to the court officials, first, she is a woman after all, men and women are not close, even if she is not bound by common sense, but there is no guarantee that others can be as open-minded as her; secondly, after all, she was a person who was able to hold military power at the time of the first emperor and was feared by the current emperor, not to mention that she herself was unwilling to form a faction, and most of the officials in the court and China were people who were wise enough to protect their lives and shy away from her; Thirdly, in the imperial court, the emperor also intentionally or unintentionally made her isolated, without friends and no party, Yun Yanjin is a self-exiled idle Yunye Crane in the royal family, compared to her, she can not do anything, and it will arouse the emperor's suspicion, but Chu Ruirong is good with her, but because of her identity, her position has become extremely delicate and embarrassing.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, her various speculations and worries are only regarded as unfounded worries, and there is nothing to do. Yun Yanzheng smiled to himself, his eyes cold and clear, neither cold nor warm. With such painstaking attainments, she had to do everything possible to hide from the emperor, lest the emperor find out that her words and deeds were suspected of having ulterior motives and delay the opportunity, and for fear of burdening those loyal ministers who were still willing to ask for advice in front of the emperor, she took all the trouble to quietly send letters, and let them believe in the authenticity and credibility of these letters as much as possible.
Maybe only one or two people believe it, maybe there are only one or two reasons for people to pay attention to it, but as long as one person attaches importance to it, but as long as there is one reason for people to believe it, she feels that her thoughts are not in vain. The light of the candle was faint, but it at least once illuminated the people around it; Although its light and warmth were short-lived, it at least burned itself, just to drive away the darkness and coldness of this world, and ignite the hope and future of others. She is not burning herself lonely, silently, and lonely, just to keep the peaceful and stable future of the people of Ul.
The Gu poison in her body will break the seal at some point, and it will ravage and destroy again, making her face a desperate situation of life and death choice; At some point, these letters of hers may become a sharp blade for those who have a heart to attack her, and all kinds of worries will become the signs of rebellion. Fighting for power and profit, reversing black and white, you live and die, these dark methods have long been familiar to her from the court. She didn't want to be in such intrigue all her life, living in nothingness, pale, and hollow, she originally held the military power to protect herself, in order to protect the third brother, but I don't know when she has slowly changed her original intention, maybe when her father took her south to the disaster relief and saw the people displaced and separated from life and death, maybe it was when she once transcribed and folded for her father and realized that people's livelihood was not easy, even the third brother never knew that when her father wrote for her, her words were not given by her father: "Yuhua."
Instead, she asked her father for it.
"Give it up."
What she wants in her heart is not a lifetime of wealth and glory; Not a right from above; It's not the second half of the life of the fly camp dog; It's not a string-pulling puppet without a backbone; is not a powerful minister who supports the emperor's brother to achieve great causes, she has seen through and is tired, what she wants is only for the people's livelihood, for the sake of the territory of the country, and she can give up everything she can give up.
She only hopes that she can silently and quietly burn herself to the end like an ordinary candle for what she wants to hold on to in her heart.
After repeated analysis, Yun Yanzheng consulted with the generals, and decided that she would personally lead 5,000 cavalry to take a shortcut and rush to the front to disrupt the march of the Yu army, destroy its baggage, cut off the middle road to support Wenyuan, and drag the main force of the Yu army. The rest of the people stayed in Huicheng, sticking to the strict guard against the repeated attacks of the Yu army, although the Yu army's forces here have been emptied and transferred, but they must not be wary of their deception, and the spies who have infiltrated the city may also wait for the opportunity to move.
Originally, Yun Yanzheng was supposed to be in Huicheng to dispatch, but all the outstanding generals under her were on standby. The rest of the people were overwhelmed, and only the cavalry led by herself could complete this mission. In fact, as she expected, from the beginning of the sneak attack at the tail of the Yu army, to the fighting on the middle road, and then waiting for the opportunity to rob their grain routes, the nine-day cavalry of more than 5,000 people came and went like a gust of wind like lightning, good at ambushing, good at strangulation, good at scheming, good at bow shooting, no one can beat its edge wherever it goes, every time it comes, it will rush to kill and capture, and if the army is encircled and suppressed, it will retreat; Every time they pursued, they would fall into a trap and lay in ambush, and if they fought in formation, they were united in men and horses, and they were skilled in bowing, and there were countless casualties in the way of sharp arrows.
The Yu army that rushed to Sioux City was constantly harassed during the march, and the grain route was destroyed by it, and finally had to stop and camp against it.
Just when the Nine Heavens Cavalry, relying on the familiarity of the terrain and the unstoppable power, stubbornly dragged the footsteps of the Yu army heading to Suzhou City, the more than 5,000 people did not have time to be happy and breathe, only to see their commander standing quietly after receiving a spy report, his face was solemn, and his eyes were cold.
Yun Yanzheng led more than 5,000 people to hide in the mountains waiting for the next attack, but they ushered in a spy sent by a fast horse. Because of their uncertain whereabouts, the scouts who delivered the newspaper followed the faint traces to find their whereabouts. The spy report said that Huicheng was attacked by the Yu army, and this wave of Yu troops did not turn around from the road to the blockade, but a new wave of troops sent from Yu.
Yun Yanzheng's heart was cold, did Yu Guo reach any agreement with the other two countries? Otherwise, the Empress of Yu would never dare to send another elite to the border to support the war situation here. What's more, according to the intelligence, this army is not exactly the strength of the rest of the border guards of the Yu Kingdom, but more like a new army that has been secretly trained from the ground.
Such a Yu army should have been secretly trained in Yu for a long time, and now it has come from afar through the state, and she is unaware of it. In addition to the fact that it may be that the Yu army is broken into pieces and secretly marching, it is more likely that the spy she personally sent to Yu to lurk in Yu encountered the most violent and secret interception, and the spy of Yu has the ability to do this? Yun Yanzheng had a lot of doubts and concerns in her heart, she knew the strength of the two sides, unless there were some new characters in the Yu State Army that added more variables, or someone in the Wei State Army had defected, so that such important information could not be transmitted back in time.
Now that she abandoned Wenyuan and the Nine Heavens Cavalry Chinese Army and returned to Hui City, they would inevitably suffer from the encirclement of the Yu army, and the disparity in strength between the two sides, coupled with the tactics of Gu He, the commander of the Yu army, the situation of the Wei army was bound to suffer heavy casualties; If she abandons Hui City and saves Wen Yuan and the Nine Heavens Cavalry Army, she is afraid that the city will be in danger of breaking under the strong attack of the Yu army led by You Zimo.