On this day, a mighty and continuous Sui army came out of Yiwu and approached Gaochang. The sharp spears of the 20,000-strong army flickered with a chill, and the hooves of the horses neighed.

Su Dingfang sat on a tall black horse, and the extremely sharp knife in his hand exuded a chill. However, his gaze did not fluctuate in the slightest, as calm as a mountain.

Seeing that it was not early and there was an open area in front of him, Su Dingxiang instructed his side: "Pass the order to go down and camp on the spot." ”

"Whoa!"

At the sound of an order, the army quickly set up camp.

"Mr. Du, how do you think this battle should be fought?" Su Dingfang sat on horseback and asked Du Ruhui, the military advisor of the army, for his advice on marching and fighting!

"What does General Su think?" Du Ruhui asked rhetorically.

Su Dingfang said: "Most of the countries in the Western Regions are one city and one country, and their forces are uneven among each other, but the Western Regions are not without big countries, and Gaochang is a big country with hundreds of thousands of people. ”

"Gaochang is the only country with the Han nationality as the main body in the Western Regions, and the war in the Central Plains in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty led to the influx of Yongliang Han people into the relatively calm Hexi region. Later, Fu Jian Dongping Liuzhou. If you want to map the Western Regions, send tens of thousands of troops to the west to seek Liangzhou. As a result, the previous tide of displaced people who flocked to Hexi, together with the newly joined local residents of Hexi, and the Han Dynasty Tuntian officials who had previously settled here, and the soldiers left behind in the expedition to the west constituted the main ethnic group of the Gaochang State. Although Gaochang's troops are only about 20,000 troops, they are all brave and good at fighting. ”

"Gaochang was originally subordinated to my Great Sui, but unfortunately these years the Great Sui civil war has been repeated and divided, and my Great Sui's influence in the Western Regions exists in name only, Gaochang is now not only the first country in the Western Regions in terms of military strength, but also has been closely concerned with the Western Turks, in addition to intermarriage between the two, there are also common political and economic interests. If we pass like this, Gaochang may not be well-intentioned. ”

Su Dingfang continued: "If Gao Chang is uneasy and kind, then we can only attack one way. This Gaochang implements the county system like us, there are eight big cities alone, namely Gaochang, Baili, Hengduan, Linchuan, Tiandi, Dujin, Shichang and Jiaohe, among which Gaochang Wangcheng and the second largest city Jiaohe is the place where the Gaochang kings of the past dynasties must repair, after hundreds of years of repair, on the solidity of the city, it may not be as good as Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng, Zhuojun City, but it will not be inferior much. These two cities are located in a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if you want to capture Gaochang, these two cities will be the biggest threat. ”

Du Ru secretly praised Su Dingfang for seeing it thoroughly: during Yang Guang's reign, he built a tributary system that all countries were subject to. The vassal states regarded the Great Sui as their suzerain, paid tribute regularly, and the countries lived in peace. If someone was unwilling to surrender, the Great Sui resorted to the means of war to subdue them. If a country invades another country, the Great Sui will help the weak state defeat the strong in order to maintain the tributary system. If countries submit to the Great Sui, the Great Sui will also give preferential feedback. Under such a diplomatic concept, there is a magnificent situation in which all nations come to the dynasty.

In the fifth year of the Great Cause, when Yang Guangxi was touring, the twenty-nine kings of the Western Regions went to Wuwei to see him. However, after all, that has become a thing of the past, the countries of the Western Regions are now subordinate to the Western Turks, they may not agree with the Great Sui, and they may even cooperate with the Western Turks to be unfavorable to the Great Sui.

With this in mind, Du Ruhui said: "Gaochang has a wide area, with a total of four counties and eighteen counties, with a population of hundreds of thousands. If Lu Boya is bent on subjugating the Western Turks, then there will be 40,000 soldiers, and tens of thousands of troops can be quickly withdrawn, plus it has countless heavy cities, no matter how we force or fight, we can't take it quickly. In this case, we simply make it an enemy and go in another way. ”

"Now that Gaochang is still nominally a subject state of the Great Sui, we can send a team of elites to go in the name of the Great Sui Dynasty with great fanfare. Even if Lu Boya is dissatisfied, he can only receive, and we are small in number, and we can't attract the attention of the Western Turk garrison, even if we come to ask, there are only a few garrison generals, and then we take the opportunity to behead the Western Turks, and force Lu Boya to throw himself to the Great Sui, if he is obedient, he will continue to be his king of Gaochang, if he dares to be disobedient, he will take the opportunity to capture him alive, and then recruit the generals of Gaochang in his name, as long as these people are controlled, we can let Gaochang's army help us fight. ”

"Reasonable." When Su Dingfang said this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Gaochang was originally the homeland of the Cheshi people, when the east-west traffic rushed, because of its geographical point, Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty set up Wuji Captain Tun Shu here, and the Han people began to enter the place on a large scale, and in the eighteenth year of Chengping in Beiliang (460), Rouran attacked Gaochang, and established Kan Bozhou as the king of Gaochang, which was the beginning of the founding of Gaochang. During this period, it was successively ruled by the Kan clan, the Zhang clan, the Ma clan, and the Koji clan. Today's Gaochang King Lu Boya is ambitious, with the support of the Western Turks, encroaching on the surroundings, expanding Gaochang from a city to four counties and eighteen counties, if it is allowed to develop, it will become a great enemy in the west, we simply destroy him in the name of the Western Turks. It justifiably captured Gaochang and incorporated it into the Great Sui and became a county of the Great Sui. Maybe Your Highness will be named after us. ”

Since Liaodong had the 'Xuanling City' and had a system of expanding the land for thousands of miles, that is, ordering the name of the county, county, and city in the name of the main general, the Great Sui Wenwu dreamed of a place named after him, and Su Dingfang was no exception.

"Your Highness has long had the intention of restarting the Silk Road, and this Gaochang is lying on the Silk Road, and sooner or later it will become a cancer of my Great Sui, and we should take precautions and nip it in the bud, this is one of them; Second, Lu Boya was first my Great Sui Minister, but he was in collusion with the Western Turks and was embarrassed, which was disloyal and must be destroyed; Third, the Western Turks expropriated and extorted from the people of Gaochang and exploited them to the extreme, and the cowardice of Ko Boya was cowardly and left alone, which was unkind, and the people were dissatisfied with it early, and we destroyed him, which was a righteous move that conformed to the hearts of the people; Third, Gaochang takes the Han people as the main body, and as the suzerainty of the Han people, I have the responsibility and obligation to seek justice for my compatriots...... General Su, are you right? Du Ru pointed out Gao Chang with great dignity, and he had the courage to point out the country, and counted the ten sins of Lu Boya in one breath.

Su Dingfang was a little stunned when he heard this, nodded hurriedly, and made a decent gentleman: "Mr. Du is reasonable, and the general also thinks that Koji Boya is heinous!" Then ......"

"him!" Du Ruhui is magnificent.

"How?" Su Dingfang asked shamelessly.

"Don't we have a herd of tigresses?" Du Ruhui smiled.

"You mean General Yin Mingyue?" Su Ding's face became strange.

Yang Tong has a heroic female swordsman, usually trained by Yang Dong, Yang Dong is no longer taught by Li Jing's wife Hongfu Nu, the number has grown from the initial three hundred to five hundred, and their leader is Yin Mingyue, the daughter of the Yin Shishi.

This time, there were more civil officials in them, and Yang Tong sent two hundred people to protect Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other big men, which made these literati very faceless and disgraced to the whole army.

Du Ruhui was originally a key protected animal, and because the troops led by him and Su Dingfang were insufficient, Wei Yunqi assigned him a hundred female soldiers, and the other civilian officials were not only not jealous, but also wished that Wei Yunqi would send all the female soldiers to Du Ruhui.

Du Ruhui understood that Su Dingfang was laughing at him, and said with a smile: "Although these swordsmen are daughters, they are outstanding in martial arts, especially General Yin's more martial arts and tactics, but His Royal Highness has many talents, so she has no chance to show it." ”

"Concubine Wu led the flying feather bow horse, crisscrossed the world, and made great feats, and even I dare not say that I dare to compare with martial arts; Concubine Li started with hundreds of domestic slaves and laid down the entire Guanzhong for Li Yuan, which can be called Li Tang's first hero, so I don't mean to despise women! Su Dingfang smiled bitterly.

"That's right." Du Ruhui clapped his hands and said, "Now it is up to General Yin and I to show the banner of the Great Sui and enter Gaochang City in a grand manner." ”

"That's it!" Su Dingfang agreed with a smile.

Literati and women are indeed more likely to be despised.

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