The news of Sima Yi's departure from Yangzhou has not spread, and even Han Jian thinks that this old friend is still in Yangzhou City. Han Jian sent Daxiliu to rescue Sima from Yangzhou City at any cost, but the people sent did not report back.

On the afternoon of the second day after Sima Yi left Yangzhou, Sima Yi and his companions Li Fangwei and Huan'er arrived at a town hundreds of miles south of Jinling City, the town was only developed next to a post station next to the official road, and it was also a gathering place for merchants that was formed in recent years, but due to the chaos in the north, the town was far from being as lively as it used to be, and even the merchants could not be seen, only refugees who kept migrating south.

Even though the town is only 100 miles away from Jinling City, the capital of the Qi Dynasty, the people still choose to flee south, because Lingnan has rarely been involved in military disasters since ancient times, but Jinling City often experiences wars, the most recent one is only the Battle of Jinling 20 years ago, in that battle, if it is not for the reinforcements from the northern and southern palaces did not arrive, or Jinling City will also be burned in the war.

That night, Sima Yi and the other three could only settle down in the inn of the town, because further south, there would be a long way without a post station and inn, and now the situation is a little chaotic, and if you want to sleep in the wilderness, it is easy to be looted by bandits, and the result of the war disaster is that the world is chaotic, and bandits are rampant.

When I entered the inn, there were actually no guests, and even the shopkeeper didn't really want to do the business of Sima Yi and the three of them. But in the end, I couldn't screw the knock of Sima Yi and others, the shopkeeper opened the door and welcomed the three people in, not even the shopkeeper Xiaoer, directly the shopkeeper led the way to the upstairs guest room, there was no tea to entertain, and there was not even a basic service supply, just a guest room, but it was a tael of silver every day.

Sima Yi also knew that prices were soaring during this time of chaos, and he had encountered a similar situation when he took Huan'er north more than half a year ago. It was almost looted by bandits. However, that time Sima met Li Shanye, and Li Shanye also left him in Yangzhou City by making a bet with him.

"Sir, it seems that the north side is still very stable for the time being, why don't we go back to Jinling City?" Li Fangwei still has a lot of worries in his heart, and Sima Yi has already left his post without permission against the orders of the empress and King Hui when he came out of Yangzhou, and now he wants to return to Xu Ding. Now he didn't even know what Xu Ding's situation was, and he didn't get any news about whether King Hui had sent a new Xu Ding Taishou to take his place.

Sima Yi looked at the north and sighed lightly: "If it is not bad as expected, there will be a war in Yangzhou City tonight." ”

"Huh?" Li Fangwei gasped, in the previous description of Sima Yi, Zhu Tongjing would use the warship lent to him by the Northern Dynasty to carry his soldiers and horses to attack Yangzhou, knowing that it was on the other side of the river. It is Jinling City, Jinling City and Yangzhou City are just separated by a river, if Zhu Tongjing has a warship and can break Yangzhou's defense line, then Jinling City will be very dangerous.

As we all know, in order to deal with the southward movement of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties arranged the river defense line, among which the Jiangling City to the Yangzhou City in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River formed the river defense. At this time, Jiangling City was being besieged by Su Tingxia's men and horses of the Northern Dynasty, and there was Sima in Yangzhou City to coordinate and dispatch through this Jiangbei military commander. Seems to be very stable. After that, the court of the Southern Dynasty sent a large number of Qinwang troops to the land of Jiangzuo, in fact, to take advantage of the time when Zhu Tongjing and Su Tingxia's men and horses were fighting, and occupied the land of Jiangzuo. And there are still many Linjiang kings in Yangzhou City, and the Yangzhou defense line is also useless.

"Sir, are we going south overnight?" Li Fangwei was a little flustered, if Yangzhou City encountered a war, it would be a day shorter. For two or three days, Jinling City was not spared from the war. Obviously, Zhu Tongjing must fight fast and slow, and take Jinling City before the Qi Dynasty court and King Hui's soldiers and horses have time to withdraw from the land of Jiangjiang. In the past 20 years, only two emperors of Jinling City have been replaced, but the ministers in charge of power have changed four or five people, and there have been six or seven coups in the middle.

Sima Yi shook his head slightly and said, "It's not in a hurry at this time. Even if Jinling City is broken, as soon as King Qin's soldiers and horses arrive, the men and horses of King Linjiang will be restrained in Jinling City, and the war will not extend to the south. It's just that I don't know where the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty came from. ”

Li Fangwei didn't speak, he was very nervous, and he hadn't been so nervous when he came out of Yangzhou with Sima Yi.

Jinling City will encounter a political struggle again, this time the confrontation becomes Zhu Tongjing and Hui Wang Xiao Ling, Zhu Tongjing has the ships and soldiers of the Northern Dynasty behind him as a backing, and Hui Wang basically has no help, and the only empress who can help has no actual military power in his hands. Maybe even Zhu Tongjing's men and horses will occupy Yangzhou, and King Hui will be confused, as if no one can detect that Yangzhou will encounter a war until now.

Sima Yu motioned for Li Fangwei to go back to the room, because he wanted to stay with Huan'er, and Li Fangwei couldn't share a room with them.

"Sir, you have to think of a way, we can't go south like this, two legs are not as fast as four." Li Fangwei was already anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

Sima Yi smiled indifferently and said: "It's useless to be anxious, now the focus of the competition between several parties is Jinling City." If Jinling City can still be calm tomorrow, in the next month, Xu Dingcheng will still be as stable as ever, or it is impossible to say who will come to Xu Ding. ”

Li Fangwei was stunned, he didn't understand who the "who" in Sima's excuse was.

But Sima Yi obviously didn't want to explain, but Sima Yi looked out the window and sighed faintly: "If that person can come, maybe today is the last chance." ”

Li Fangwei still didn't know who Sima Yi was talking about, and when he returned to the room, Sima Yi first settled Huan'er to sleep, and at this time he looked at Huan'er's eyes with many complicated emotions.

In the carriage, Huan'er was still not feeling well, and after arriving in the town, Sima Yi went directly to the pharmacy to ask the doctor, and the doctor's diagnosis was that Huan'er was pregnant. That's where Sima Yi couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't expect anyone to be able to tie him up until now, but in the end it was Huan'er, a caring woman, who originally wanted to rush south overnight, but thinking of Huan'er's body, plus wanting to stay in the town to see if he could see Li Shanye again. He had just canceled his plan to travel overnight.

But Sima Yi waited until late, and there was still no movement from Li Shanye.

Sima Yi always felt that Li Shanye was unfathomable, no matter where he was, this Li Shanye could always find him, but this time he was a little surprised, when he wanted to meet Li Shanye to discuss the situation between the Southern and Northern Dynasties. And it didn't show up.

By the early morning of the next day, the carriage would be on the road again.

The carriage was bought by Sima for twenty taels of silver, and he and Li Fangwei took turns to catch the carriage, so they must leave the range of Jinling City as soon as possible.

At this time, there was still no news from the north, and Sima had calculated that if Zhu Tongjing's soldiers and horses attacked Yangzhou overnight, the news would reach Jinling City in the early morning, and the news would reach their town at noon at the earliest. Because Zhu Tongjing led his troops to attack Yangzhou, he was unaware. Therefore, even the refugees who fled the famine will not receive the news in advance, as long as they leave in time, there will be no remnants of the defeated soldiers who have retreated in front of them and loot along the way, so they are still relatively safe.

The carriage is not a horse after all, the carriage carries three people, and the road is not very flat, and by noon it has walked out of more than 30 miles, which also depends on the relatively flat road in the south of Jinling City.

By noon for a short break. There was still no news from the north. Sima Yi's heart began to tense, according to his speculation. At the very least, there should be a fast horse to deliver the news from Jinling City to the south, and the news should be about to be obtained at this time.

He didn't think much about it, and continued on the road in the afternoon, and after more than twenty miles, even the axles of the carriage were about to wear out to the point that they could no longer support it, and there was still no news from the north.

"Sir. It seems that your speculation is not very accurate, if Yangzhou City suffered a military disaster last night, why has there been no emergency report to all parts of the country until now? Li Fangwei was also very tired along the way, but he was able to endure it in the end. He knew very well that he was not on the road at the moment, but on the run.

Sima Yi also felt that things were unusual. Based on his inference, there should be no mistakes, he calculated the time of Zhu Tongjing's troops, and the route of the southward boat trip, and even combined the previous defense situation around Yangzhou, and expected that Yangzhou would encounter a military disaster on July 26 at the latest.

"Or maybe I'm wrong." Sima sighed with emotion.

In fact, there are three explanations in front of him, one is that Sima Yi's inference is really wrong, even if Zhu Tongjing wants to attack Yangzhou, it will be delayed for a day or two or longer, or Zhu Tongjing himself has leaked the news before attacking Yangzhou.

The second explanation is that Zhu Tongjing's soldiers and horses did attack Yangzhou last night, but the battle situation was not so smooth, and now that the war is still ongoing, the fast horses that spread the news everywhere will be delayed for half a day to a day.

The third explanation is that Zhu Tongjing has conquered Yangzhou, but he is bloodless, so that Yangzhou City has not even had time to send news, so that even Jinling City does not know what happened in Jiangbei. This possibility is the most terrifying, which will mean that Zhu Tongjing is likely to continue to wave his troops south, occupy Jinling in one day, and the most extreme hypothesis that King Hui is captured alive on the belly of a woman appears.

Sima Yi no longer has any channels to obtain information at this time, just like he took Huan'er north half a year ago, but this time there is an additional escort Li Fangwei. Sima Yi couldn't casually speculate on the current situation in the north, all he could do was to hurry, to continue south, and it was best to arrive at Xuding within half a month.

Li Fangwei did not have many men and horses in Xuding, and the local garrison had about four or five thousand soldiers and horses, many of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled, but Sima Yi wanted to rely on these people to stabilize the situation in the Southern Dynasties.

Sima used his previous inference that if Zhu Tongjing succeeded in capturing Jinling City, Xiao Ling and Xiao Zhan would most likely be captured alive or killed, and there was also a possibility of escaping from Jinling City. At that time, Xiao Zhan and Xiao Ling had only one way to flee south, because the rear of King Hui's soldiers and horses was in Fujian and Zhejiang, but because of the war around Jinling City, Xiao Ling and Xiao Zhan had to go south.

Sima Yu didn't want to turn the tide, but he had to make sure that the situation in the court would not continue to deteriorate, in his mind, even if King Hui and the empress fled to Xuding at the same time, it was still not the worst outcome, as long as he had military power in his hands and the support of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Jiangjiang region, it would not be difficult to turn back and attack Jinling City. What he was afraid of was that the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty were surging, and at that time, there was chaos around Jinling City, and I am afraid that there would be no obstacles.

"Zhu Tongjing, Zhu Tongjing, don't let me underestimate it!" Sima Yi could only clench his fists in hatred.

He hated Zhu Tongjing, a capricious villain, when he was in Luoyang City, when he was nothing, he and Han Jian suffered Zhu Tongjing's loss. Then he went to the Southern Dynasty and was placed under house arrest by Zhu Tongjing for more than a year, until he became friends with King Hui, and gradually gained his freedom.

Zhu Tongjing first stood on the side of the eldest princess Xiao Zhan, then betrayed and sent someone to kill Xiao Zhan, and then finally even Xiao Zhan's younger brother and mother did not let go, and now Zhu Tongjing has the opportunity to regain his authority, Sima Yi also has a very tangled feeling in his heart, because helping Zhu Tongjing is not someone else, it is his most trusted friend, Han Jian, the emperor of the Northern Dynasty.

But at the moment, he can only hope that Zhu Tongjing will not be too cowardly, otherwise even if Zhu Tongjing attacks Jinling City, he will soon be defeated by the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty. The only hope is that Zhu Tongjing will receive assistance from the Northern Dynasties and at the same time guard against the profits of the Northern Dynasties' soldiers and horses, so that Zhu Tongjing can gain a firm foothold after occupying Jinling City and block the surging southward movement of the Northern Dynasties' soldiers and horses.

But Sima Yi was afraid that Xiao Ling and Xiao Zhan would not be able to escape from Jinling City, so he wanted to send someone to remind him, but there was no chance until now, even if he sent someone, the people of the Southern Dynasty would not believe his "nonsense". Who would have expected that Zhu Tongjing, who was already struggling to survive, would suddenly send troops to attack Yangzhou and Jinling?

That night was a starry night, Sima Yi personally drove the car, and Li Fangwei had fallen asleep when he sat outside the car. The carriage was not moving fast, Sima looked at the dark road ahead, and even a little unable to discern the direction, the horse itself was already very tired, and his heart felt even more tired, and he even wanted to plunge into the boundless wilderness to sleep, and never wake up again.

In the middle of the night, the carriage stopped at a roadside station. At this time, there was finally a fast horse on the official road in the north from Jinling City to deliver the news, and a news that made Sima feel cold for half reached his ears, Yangzhou City was lost, and Jinling City was also in danger. (To be continued.) )