In Anlu, cheers came one after another, and Lubu Feijie brought good news from Huangzhou. The Huangzhou army defeated the invading five enemy troops at the five passes of Dabie Mountains. This news once again caused a sensation in the city.

The reason why it is said to be "re-again" is because there have been good news from Jiangling before. The siege of Jiangling has been lifted, and the sudden attack on Xiangxi Road marching has suffered heavy casualties.

Good news came one after another in the two directions, which made Anlu City all kinds of people happy and calm down. When the situation suddenly changed, everyone was still worried about the comfort of Shannan. Now that the flanking crisis has been lifted, the situation has obviously improved.

For most officials and local tribes, it doesn’t matter what the Yuwen family and the Yuchi family fight together. The key is how to ensure their own interests. If the Yuchi family’s army is unstoppable and swept across the mountains, then everyone must quickly draw a clear relationship with the Yuwen family.

But now the territory of Yuwen seems to be relatively solid, so some of the thoughts must be put away and observe the situation carefully. In this way, both ends of the rat are indeed not on the surface, but in the midst of chaos, protecting yourself and your family is the most important thing.

Families with conditions can be bet on both sides. If a family with few males is too small, they must carefully see the situation so as not to make wrong bets and lose money. Therefore, for many people, watching the change is the safest way.

People's hearts are unpredictable, but there are traces to follow. At this moment, Ling Yu Wenming, the Minister of the Grand Historian of Shannan Road, was very clear about the thoughts of many people in the city. Although there was no evidence, he knew that two big wins alone could not resolve the crisis of the Yuwen family.

The Yuchi family was in a strong position and took the initiative to break up, which means that the Yuwen family was at a disadvantage from the beginning. The great victory in Jiangling and the Five Passes of Dabie Mountains only prevented the situation from deteriorating. If you want to turn the situation around, you have to look at two places.

First of all, Guanzhong, and the decisive battle will break out sooner or later in the front line of Puban-Tongguan. Once Yuwen loses, he will lose Guanzhong. If Guanzhong is lost, Shannan cannot hold on.

The second is Jingzhou. Fangcheng, the gateway to the northeast of Jingzhou, has been trapped in many sieges. Once lost, the Yuchi army will face the city of Shangwan. The Yewan passage is controlled by the Yuchi family, and the consequences are unimaginable.

If Shangwan is lost again, Rangcheng, the capital of the Jingzhou General Administration, will be in danger, and the Wuguan Road connecting Guanzhong and Shannan will be cut off, which will easily be defeated one by one by the Yuchi family.

So the current situation is still not optimistic. Yu Wenming knew that in fact, many people on his side were waiting and watching with the attitude of both ends of the rat. Although they were a little helpless, this was the cold world.

Merchants all know that avoiding risks is related to the rise and fall of the family. It is inevitable that those people want to speculate, so even if Yu Wenming knows that some people have a weak position, he can only pretend not to know.

It is precisely because people's hearts are unstable that Yu Wenming can only sit in Anlu instead of Xiangyang, in order to prevent accidents.

But not everyone with them was standing by. Seeing their Yuwen family's jokes, some people helped Yu Wenming a lot. After all, over the years, their father and son have been constantly transferring interests, which has always had some effect, but the key is to win the decisive battle.

Just like the Battle of Shayuan back then, the foundation for the confrontation between the East and West Wei was laid. It was through this great victory that Taizu Yuwen Tai truly stabilized the hearts of the people in Guanzhong. Therefore, for the current Yuwen family, it is urgent to win a decisive battle to prove that it is worth investing.

However, this idea has been seen through by Yuchi, so the war suddenly became stalemate. The imperial army (Yuchi family) on the front line of Pujin-Tongguan, as well as the army besieging Fangcheng, all slowed down the pace of attack.

With the Fei Ge's letter, Yu Wenming could know the situation in the Pujin-Tongguan area. The imperial army was preparing for combat in an orderly manner. They were not in a hurry at all, because there was still Xipiluo from Shu threatening Guanzhong.

If you drag on like this, once the Yizhou army breaks through the Sanguan Pass or marchs from Hanzhong on Ziwu Road to Guanzhong, Chang'an will be attacked from both sides.

If Yu Wenming wanted to restrain Xipiluo, he could dispatch the troops of the Xiangzhou General Administration Office to attack Hanzhong along the Han River; or order the Jiangnan Road that had lifted the siege of Jiangling and attacked the Xinzhou General Administration Office upstream along the Yangtze River.

Through these two methods, threatening Shu, the Yizhou General Manager Xi Piluo was restrained and relieved Guanzhong.

This idea is good, but it takes time. What's even more fatal is the lack of troops. If you want to divide the troops and attack sideways to relieve pressure from Guanzhong, the direction of Jingzhou will not be able to hold on.

The enemy troops besieging Fangcheng have now changed their strategy of attacking urgently. With sufficient troops, they have set the idea of ​​"siege the city and attacking aid" and tried to force the main force of the Jingzhou army stationed in Shangwan to attack and fight to the outskirts of Fangcheng.

Originally, the decisive battle was exactly what Yuwen wanted, but the other party had already occupied most of the favorable terrain around Fangcheng. If the Jingzhou army barely fought to the decisive battle, it would not have the upper hand from the beginning.

But the decisive battle always needs to be fought. Now that the autumn harvest is imminent, the eastern part of Jingzhou is very likely to not be able to harvest food normally due to the war. Once the war spreads, even the autumn harvest in Jingzhou will be affected.

If the harvest is bad this year, even if the enemy is defeated, the food supply will be tight. If the opponent attacks again in summer and autumn next year, it will inevitably lead to a bad harvest. In this way, a famine will break out in Shannan, and it will be really done by then.

Therefore, the decisive battle must be fought, but it cannot be carried out according to the enemy's ideas. Yu Wenming understood that the truth was this, but the enemy has been surrounding Fangcheng, and it will not work if it is not rescued. Once reinforcements are delayed, it will be a heavy blow to his morale.

The defenders from all over the country will feel that there will be no reinforcements to rescue them anyway, so it is better to surrender directly. Once this wind opens, it will be a dangerous situation that is invincible, so Yu Wenming has been having a headache about this for the past few days.

Zheng Wanqing, the general manager of Jingzhou, knew the troops, so he was able to handle the situation properly at present and could maintain the situation of the war. However, if he continues to confront him like this, either Fangcheng fell without rescue, which directly led to the disintegration of the morale of the army, or the Jingzhou army hurriedly rescued the siege and failed in the decisive battle, which would also affect the morale of the army.

The enemy has sent a number of cavalry to go south, breaking through the interception of the cavalry of Jingzhou, and starting to harass the eastern prefectures and counties in Jingzhou, causing panic in various places. If this continues, the autumn harvest in more places will be affected, and people will be panicked everywhere, and the situation will get worse and worse.

Yu Wenming knew that the current situation could be described as dangerous and the huge gap in strength was very difficult to turn the situation around with his strategy, but no matter how difficult it was, he had to think about it, because Yu Wen's family had no way out. If this game continues like this, it would be a dead end.

Thinking of this, he looked at the five wooden boxes on the table in front of him. There were five heads in the wooden boxes. They were the head of the five enemy commanders who led their troops to attack the five passes of Dabie Mountains. They had just been sent from Nandingzhou to Anlu.

Five routes advance together, with more than 10,000 troops. Yuwen Wen could easily 'eat' these five enemy troops like drinking water when he was short of soldiers. Yu Wenming admired his younger brother's good combat, and now, the hope of breaking the deadlock is placed on his younger brother.
Chapter completed!