Yizhi Wende ran away.

Yu Wenshu was furious and questioned Yu Zhongwen, suspected that Yu Zhongwen was informed.

Yu Zhongwen was even more furious. He said that he would not arrest Yizhi Wende for the time being. While allowing Liu Shilong to negotiate with him, he was waiting for the Holy Lord's reply. However, Yu Wenshu ignored his decision and arrested him as soon as he could not catch him. He suspected that he deliberately let Yizhi Wende go. It was tolerant, but it was unbearable. Yu Zhongwen was determined to delay the crossing of the river, so he took the opportunity to "break up" with Yu Wenshu, open up the contradictions, and then reported to the Holy Lord and the Central Command to wait for the verdict. The decision-making level of the front-line command department could not be united, and the consequences could be imagined. Of course, the Holy Lord and the Central Command would come up with countermeasures immediately, either to attack Yu Zhongwen or to curb Yu Wenshu. In short, the results were all beneficial to Zhongwen.

Liu Shilong was angry. The Holy Lord hid his secret orders from him, and arrested Yizhi Wende. This was itself a distrust of him and made him feel humiliated. After Yizhi Wende came, Yu Zhongwen and Yuwen Shu still hid him and allowed him to negotiate with Yizhi Wende. This was not just a distrust of him, but a deliberate digging of pits and intentionally framed him. Is there anyone who blatantly framed his colleagues? If you want to kill me, you can come openly and not act behind your back. Such despicable actions would be too despicable and shameless.

Liu Shilong was angry and disregarded his demeanor. He pointed at Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu's nose and cursed, completely "breaking up". It was impossible not to break up". Now that he reached Yalu River, the conflicts in the front-line command broke out. If it was just distrust between colleagues, it would be fine, but now it is serious. They frame each other and they will kill each other. Then when they reach the city of Pyongyang, they should not draw their swords and kill each other?

The three decision-making members of the front-line command headquarters were quarreling and the conflict was fierce, which of course alarmed the other commanders, Jing Yuanheng, Jing Wensheng, the right guard general, Xue Shixiong, the right guard general, Xin Shixiong, the right guard general, Zhang Jin, and Zhao Xiaocai, the right guard general, all rushed to persuade the fight.

Yu Zhongwen, Yuwen Shu and Liu Shilong are both powerful and powerful people in the surname of the enemy, while the other six commanders are all powerful and powerful people in the surname of the Han. Whether it is Jing Yuanheng, Wei Wensheng, Heluo native Xue Shixiong, or the local nobles of Guanlong, Xin Shixiong, Zhang Jin, and Zhao Xiaocai, they are neither "one of the same people". They are political enemies and have their own straits in the military. The effect of this "dissuasion of fights" can be imagined.

The six commanders spoke in unanimously and accused Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong of not negotiating with Yizhi Wende. The Holy Lord clearly stated that he would never accept the surrender of the Goguryeo and resolutely destroy Goguryeo with force. Since this is the case, why do you still violate the wishes of the Holy Lord and the Central Decision? Without the consent of the Holy Lord and the Central True, they negotiated with the Goguryeo without authorization? Especially Yu Zhongwen, he had received the secret order of the Holy Lord to arrest Yizhi Wende, but he did not arrest people at a critical moment, and even prevented Yuwen Shu from arresting people. Why? Why did you violate the secret order of the Holy Lord?

Yu Zhongwen became the target of public criticism. According to the principle, Yu Zhongwen should have been furious, but Yu Zhongwen was happy and humbly accepted the criticism of the commanders. Yu Wenshu's face became gloomy. He was "stand out" by Yu Zhongwen and the six commanders. Although it seemed that the six commanders were standing on Yu Wenshu's side, in fact, this was the plan of the six commanders to siege Wei to save Zhao, which was to help Yu Zhongwen get rid of the current unfavorable situation.

Liu Shilong could see the "methods" of the six commanders at a glance, and immediately felt overjoyed. OK, so good, I immediately responded to the Holy Lord and the Central Committee.

It can be foreseen that due to the current situation of the command, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee had to suppress Yu Zhongwen, weaken Yu Zhongwen's military power, and correspondingly improve Yu Wenshu's position in the front-line decision-making level. Otherwise, the front-line command may be out of control, and the Expeditionary Force will fall into a dangerous situation and will not be able to launch an attack according to the wishes of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee. In this way, Yu Zhongwen got rid of the embarrassing position of "scapegoat" and was demoted from the front-line commander to the first deputy commander of the front-line. Yu Wenshu had to assume the heavy responsibility of this long-range attack on Pyongyang. The power was great and there were many constraints, but the position of "first deputy commander" did not play a great role.

Liu Shilong drafted the memorial as quickly as possible, and then asked the commanders to sign the signatures in turn. Although his official position was a comforting envoy, he was actually a military supervisor and had the power to pick and impeach. No one of the commanders wanted to offend him, so he followed his wishes and satisfied his revenge mentality. At this time, everyone discovered that Cui Hongsheng, the prefect of Zhuo County, and the procurator-in-chief, did not come.

Before leaving, Cui Hongsheng, who had been low-key, unexpectedly volunteered to the brigade army. The brigade army not only had to open roads across mountains and build bridges across water, but also had to investigate the enemy situation and clear obstacles. It was a thankless chore. Yu Dehao was taken for granted, and Yu Dehao was very guilty of being guilty, especially when he was leaping thousands of miles and entering the alone army, the brigade army was most likely to fall into the enemy's siege, which was very dangerous, so the general commander was not willing to brigade. Cui Hongsheng volunteered to help the commander solve this problem, so Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu were very happy and unconditionally satisfied Cui Hongsheng's many requirements.

Cui Hongsheng considered that Yalu Water and Sashui were both big rivers, with wide rivers and difficult to build bridges, but the unobstructed two rivers not only directly related to whether the Expeditionary Force could successfully realize the intention of this long-range attack, but also to the survival of the army. Therefore, Cui Hongsheng asked the commander that before equiping enough materials and equipment needed to build bridges, he still needed to apply to the Saint Lord and the Central Committee to equip the Selected Front Army with more skilled craftsmen and strong civilians with rich experience in bridge building. The Saint Lord and the Central Committee met Cui Hongsheng's requirements, not only gave a large number of craftsmen and civilians, but also transferred some relevant professional officials from the Ministry of Works to ensure the needs of the Expeditionary Force.

Now Cui Hongsheng is commanding the front-selling army to build a floating bridge on Yalu Water, but the rainy season is approaching and the river water is soaring, so it is very difficult to build a bridge, so it is reasonable that he did not come to "dissuade the fight".

However, a few hours later, Cui Hongsheng came uninvited and brought good news, and he captured Eji Wende.

Everyone was very excited, and even Liu Shilong was smiling. Capturing Yizhi Wende was equivalent to following the secret orders of the Holy Lord and the decisions of the Central Government. It was also a blow to the Goguryeo people and could increase their chances of winning against Pyongyang. Of course, if the Holy Lord and the Central Government decided to accept Yizhi Wende's surrender and put him back, that would be another matter. It had nothing to do with everyone and no one had to bear any responsibility.

But next, Cui Hongsheng gave a bad news, that this Yizhi Wende may be fake, not a real person.

The fake Yizhi Wende? Everyone looked at each other, especially Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong, a hint of chill came from the bottom of their hearts. If this Yizhi Wende was fake and was a trick of the Goguryeo people to transplant flowers and trees, then the two of the top commanders on the front line not only failed to distinguish the true or false, but instead believed the other party's lies, and negotiated with them in a good manner, and even reported to the Holy Lord and the Central Committee with a good nose. This "mistake" was not a big deal, but a shame.

Is this Yizhi Wende fake?

If you think about it carefully, it is almost certainly fake. The reason is very simple. The Goguryeo people deceived the emperor of Middle-earth through repeated deceptions, delayed the attack speed of the Middle-earth Expedition Force, and destroyed the Middle-earth Expedition Plan, so that the attack time was half over. The Middle-earth people were still delayed under the city of Liaodong, and were more than a thousand miles away from Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo. It is certain that the Middle-earth Expedition will probably last until the second year. Once the Middle-earth Expedition continues, it will not only make the arrogant Middle-earth Expedition lose face, but the Middle-earth national strength will also be further damaged. What is 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.

From this we can imagine that the anger of the Middle Earth Emperor and the commanders of the Middle Earth Expeditionary Force at the Goguryeo, especially the anger of the Goguryeo King Gaoyuan and the Goguryeo's first powerful minister Yizhi Wende, was even more extreme, and they must kill him quickly. In fact, if the Middle Earth conquered Pyongyang, they would definitely kill Gaoyuan and Yizhi Wende, because these two people were the culprits of Goguryeo dominating the Far East and maliciously damaging the interests of Zhongtu. These two people and their supporters must be eradicated to fundamentally resolve the Far East crisis.

Therefore, Gao Yuan would not accept the summons of the Middle Earth Emperor to go to Dongdu, nor would he go to the Zhongtu Emperor's palace to visit and meet. Even if the palace is on the border of Liaodong, he would not go there. It was purely a trap, a sheep entered the tiger's mouth, and there was no return. The facts also proved that this is true. King Qu Boya of Gaochang and the former Western Turkic Chuluo Khan were imprisoned in disguise when they arrived in Dongdu. Although he enjoyed all his glory and wealth, and even married the princess of the Middle Earth royal family, he lost his kingdom, lost his power, and lost his freedom. Is he still a king? He is just a pet dog of the Middle Earth Emperor.

The Yizhi Wende will not fall into the trap. For the Far Eastern hegemony of Goguryeo and Goguryeo, the king can be temporarily lacked and replaced, but the Yizhi Wende is indispensable and irreplaceable. The Yizhi Wende is more important than the Gaoyuan, so it is impossible for both the Gaoyuan and the nobles of Pyongyang to let the Yizhi Wende leave Goguryeo, and the Yizhi Wende himself will not risk his life, nor will he risk the destruction of the Goguryeo country and the Goguryeo hegemony being destroyed, and he personally negotiated with the Middle-earth people.

Now the Middle-earth people are furious. The main force of the Expeditionary Force jumped thousands of miles to kill Pyongyang, and put on an attitude of swearing to destroy Goguryeo. It is conceivable that at this moment, Gao Yuan or Yizhi Wende went to negotiate with the Middle-earth people. What was the result? Even if the Middle-earth people still had the idea of ​​negotiating and the idea of ​​using diplomatic means to resolve the Far East crisis, Gao Yuan and Yizhi Wende dared to take their own heads and take risks with the survival of Goguryeo?

The reason why Cui Hongsheng suspected that this Yizhi Wende was fake was because his scout saw Yizhi Wende on the other side of Yalu Water. The scout was once a personal bodyguard of a pro-China-Turk noble in Pyongyang. He knew Yizhi Wende. The reason why he fled to Zhongtu and worked hard for Zhongtu was because his master failed in Pyongyang's political struggle and was killed by Yizhi Wende. For this reason, he vowed to avenge his master and his family who died of implicated. Cui Hongsheng inferred that Yizhi Wende who came to negotiate was probably fake.

In order to confirm Cui Hongsheng's inference, Yuwen Shu immediately decided to torture all the people who caught Goguryeo, including the one who claimed to be Yizhi Wende. If the result is just as Cui Hongsheng said, Yizhi Wende is fake, then Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong not only embarrassed and lost authority, but also had to bear corresponding responsibilities. In this way, in the decision-making of the front-line commander, Yuwen Shu had the ability to suppress the two and took over the power.

The "Yizhi Wende" has a strong will and does not change his words after being tortured, while the other Goguryeo people are no longer able to do it. Under the torture, they all admit that this "Yizhi Wende" is a fake and a substitute. The real Yizhi Wende is on the opposite side of the Yalu River and is commanding the Goguryeo army to block the Middle Earth people from crossing the river.

This time it was Yuwen Shu's turn to report to the Holy Lord and the Central Master, and to "slaughter" Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong into death.

Yu Zhongwen honestly closed his mouth and let Yuwen Shu do whatever he wanted, and Liu Shilong even clamped his tail and became a human being. Although the punishment for him will not come down for the time being, after the battle, the Holy Lord will definitely settle the accounts after the fall. Unless the merits and demerits are offset, he will find it difficult to save his official position and his career even if he is the confidant of the Holy Lord and his in-laws.

The front-line commander ordered the forced crossing of Yalu River and advance towards Pyongyang as quickly as possible.

In July, when the expeditionary army crossed the Yalu River and advanced towards the Sashui River, the navy commanded by Huer and Zhou Fashang arrived near the Pyongyang coast.

There were three people at the navy's decision-making level, the navy chief manager came to Hu'er, the navy deputy chief manager Zhou Fashang, and the navy chief Shi Cui Junsu.

Lai Huer was from Jiangdu. He was born in Jianghuai. During the period when the Holy Lord was in charge of Jiangzuo in Yangzhou, Lai Huer and Jiangdu Lai gave great support to the Holy Lord. Both emperors of this dynasty valued Lai Huer, especially the Holy Lord, who had entrusted important tasks. During this Eastern Expedition, Lai Huer was not only the chief supervisor of the navy, but also the commander-in-chief of Goguryeo, but also the commander-in-chief of the sea expedition. Due to inconvenient communication, the Holy Lord granted the power to act in a convenient way. After the unification of Middle-earth, Lai Huer had been in control of Jiangzuo for a long time. In addition, he was deeply supported by the Holy Lord who was in charge of Jiangzuo at that time, so he became the pedestal figure of the new Jiangzuo noble group after the unification.

Zhou Fashang was an old minister of Jiangzuo, a powerful man in Jiangzuo, and also the spokesperson of the old Jiangzuo noble group in the military.

Cui Junsu was Cui from Qinghe. He was born into a super wealthy family in Shandong and a royal relative. Cui Junsu's father was Cui Yanmu, Cui Yanzhen, and Cui Yanzhen was the grandfather of Emperor Wenxian Dugu Jialuo. Cui Junsu's brother was Cui Junchuo, a member of the prince. He was implicated by the crown prince Yang Yong and was expelled from the people by the former emperor. The family's children were imprisoned in the career of officialdom. After the lord ascended the throne, in order to quell the rebellion of King Yang Liang of Han, he had to compromise with the Shandong aristocratic group. For this reason, he took the initiative to marry Cui from Qinghe, marry Cui Junchuo's daughter as a concubine, and rehabilitate the Cui family and rehabilitate the children of Cui Junchuo and Cui family. Cui Junchuo and Cui Junsu's brothers came back. Now Cui Junchuo is Zong Zhengqing, who manages royal affairs and is one of the chief officials of the nine central temples. Cui Junsu served as the chief minister of the Ministry of Justice, and was transferred to the commander of the Navy during the preparations for the Eastern Expedition.

These three people are trusted by the Holy Lord, but their trust levels are different, so their roles are different. They come to protect the whole situation, Zhou Fashang is in charge of the daily affairs of the navy, while Cui Junsu's role is to supervise and restrain, and the navy cannot become a one-man in Jiangzuo people.

After the navy arrived near Pyongyang, he came to Hu'er and invited Zhou Fashang and Cui Junsu, and took out a secret decree in front of them. This secret decree was sent by the navy before crossing the sea, from the Saint Lord from the Liaodong front line, through the special post connecting the Donglai Navy's army, through a station line connecting the Donglai Navy.

The content of the secret decree surprised Zhou Fashang and Cui Junsu. The Holy Lord actually asked them to attack Pyongyang City with lightning speed after arriving in Pyongyang. In other words, the Holy Lord and the Central Army changed their attack strategy and attacked Pyongyang by land and water, becoming a navy as the main force. The land army, which should have been the main force of the city, became a partial division, restraining the Goguryeo people on the front battlefield and helping the navy to attack Pyongyang. The status and attack tasks of the two armies of water and land in the battle of Pyongyang were just adjusted and exchanged with each other.

After Lai Hu'er read the secret edict, he sat in the main seat without saying a word. It was hard to see his mood at the moment from his cold expression.

Zhou Fashang and Cui Junsu sat opposite each other, with a serious expression and a heavy mood. They each focused and pondered for a long time without saying a word.

In June, when the rainy season in the Far East came and the expeditionary land army was still besieging Liaodong City, the navy's decision-makers were worried that they might not be able to leave the sea this year, because from the limited attack time, it was very difficult to capture Pyongyang this year and the risk was too high. The Holy Lord and the Central Government were very likely to continue the war until the second year. However, soon an edict was sent from the Liaodong Palace, and the Holy Lord and the Central Government decided to implement Duan Wenzhen's legacy. The main force of the expedition army jumped thousands of miles to directly kill Pyongyang, while the navy must cross the river and expedition before the end of June.

Lai Huer and Zhou Fashang are both veterans in a hundred battles, and the risks of implementing Duan Wenzhen's legacy are clear. However, this time it is a battle of all national strength. The main force of the Guardian Army came out in full swing. Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers killed Pyongyang. Even if they could not conquer Pyongyang, there would be no problem of retreating. From the political standpoint of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, it is of great significance to end the Eastern Expedition this year, so the two agreed and unconditionally implemented the orders of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee.

But Zhou Fashang never expected that the Holy Lord would have a secret decree that would allow the navy to bear the heavy responsibility of capturing Pyongyang alone. From a military perspective alone, the navy's 60,000 troops could not conquer Pyongyang at all. After all, Pyongyang is the capital of Goguryeo. The city is tall and strong, and the defense is strong, and it has the advantage of the right time, place, and people. The navy's number is seriously insufficient, unless a miracle occurs, unless Pyongyang is infighting and split, unless the gates of Pyongyang are opened and the Middle-earth people are allowed to enter unobstructedly, it is impossible to conquer Pyongyang.

The more Zhou Fashang deduced, the more uneasy he became. He couldn't help but look at Lai Hu'er, "Mr. Rong, do you believe in miracles?"

Lai Hu'er looked at the drizzle outside the cabin without saying anything. After a long time, she sighed in a low voice, "All victory was achieved in a certain military life, and there was never a miracle, and there was no merit that could be won without a fight."

Zhou Fashang nodded slightly and said coldly, "Mr. Rong, in the battle between Pyongyang, there is only death for the navy, and no miracle."
Chapter completed!