Qu Tutong still doesn't understand the temperament of this new master, Li Po has always been very decisive in military affairs, and only in political affairs will he follow the normal process, which is inseparable from the process of his start, he is different from Li Yuan, it can be said that he is a standard emperor immediately.

While thinking about it, he suddenly heard a why, Qu Tutong couldn't help but be surprised.

He immediately looked up at the emperor's face slightly according to his habit, his eyes are not very good when he is old, he can't see clearly, and his brain actually doesn't react so quickly, so he can only think slowly.

Wei Chigong, Li Nian, Xue Wanche...... He had just returned to Beijing, and the time was not enough for him to be familiar with what these names represented, he returned from the northwest, Wei Chigong, and Li Nian had both seen them, and they were all cavalry brigades.

The momentum is huge, coming and going like the wind, even when the Great Sui is strong, you can't see such a scene, and the Turks are not successful, there are quite a lot of cavalry over there, but the armor, bows and arrows are not as neat as the Jin army.

The generals of the Right Guard, Xue Wanche, should also be mostly cavalry, and the troops and horses led by Xue Wanche are stationed in Henan.

And gather tens of thousands of cavalry to come to Chang'an to rest and recuperate? If you don't go to the northwest to quell those rebellions after the fall of the Liang Kingdom, you are definitely not preparing for the invasion of Henan, is it because you want to spend the winter here?

Although he thinks slowly, Qu Tutong has led the army for many years, and he is no longer familiar with the army......

After a long time, he arched his hand and said: "The Supreme wants to gather troops to prepare for the Turks?" ”

After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, and it should be to prevent the Turks from attacking from the direction of Yulin?

"When a leaf falls, you know that the autumn wind is coming, and Qing really knows it." Li Powen praised it crepe, "Before, the north came to report that the Turkic Jieli Khan Ashina Qiuluo was recruiting soldiers from all tribes to join the sweat tent, and he wanted to use the soldiers, thinking that he was not looking for trouble with his fellow people in the West, or he wanted to lead the people to congratulate me on being emperor."

If he comes from the south, wouldn't it be rude for me to lead my army to meet him? ”

At the end of autumn, the cattle and sheep were fattening, and the war horses were also on the autumn fat, which was the best season for the Turks to use troops, and Li Po never relaxed his snooping and defense against the Turks.

And there are a lot of Turks under his command, coupled with the secret help of the Turkic Da Luo Ben Ashina Luo Heng stationed in Dali City, Dingxiang County, most of the Turkic movements can be detected by Yu Wenxin in the north.

This year, the steppe is relatively calm, the Turkic Khanate has generally entered a new stage, the matter of the heroine's accession to the throne has slowly subsided, and the Turks have gradually accepted this fact, and most of those who do not accept it have been killed.

Once the internal strife of the Turks was over, the power of the Turks was revealed, and their old enemies to the north were quickly routed and fled into distant land.

In the east, they were fighting with the Khitans and the Tatars, as these savage tribes were fiercely resisting the oppression of the Turks.

Ashina Tawen, the Khan of the East, was not a benevolent or resourceful Khan king, and his reputation for being lustful, cruel, and irascible was spreading among the tribes of the East.

Especially after he helped the Khitans repel the Murwei tribes, the remnants of the Khitans and the Murwei began to gradually merge, and their momentum gradually grew stronger, and they began to resist the Turkic conquest.

The barbaric Tatars were more direct, they were driven into the deep mountains and forests by the Turks, but they did not forget the pain brought to them by the Turks, so in the autumn, they came out in groups to plunder the Turkic tribes, and the harassed Turks were annoyed.

Moreover, the dispute between the Turks and the Goguryeo people was also intensifying, and with the great weakening of the Goguryeo people, the sound of the horses' hooves of the Turks had sounded under the city of Liaodong, which made the Goguryeo people very angry, and they loudly condemned the treachery of their allies, but they were helpless about their actions.

What made the Goguryeo people even more angry was that the Turks were planning to turn the entire Liaodong into their pasture, and the Turkic figure was spreading to the hinterland of Liaodong, but the Goguryeo people could only watch and could not stop this infestation.

The Turkic Khan Ashina Tawen was creating more and more enemies for the Turkic Khanate, but he showed little interest in Dou Jiande's proposals in the south, because there were too many stories told him that dealing with the people in the south would not bring him any benefits, and it was likely to anger their Khan king, Ashina Yanghuan.

Relatively speaking, he was not much worse than Jieli Khan, who reached the peak of his popularity in the Turks after defeating the Western Turkic Khan of the Shoku.

He was the wisest commander of the Turkic people today, and countless Turkic warriors wanted to serve him.

Maybe it was because the Western Khan's subordinates suffered heavy losses and their strength was greatly weakened, maybe the Western Khan's tent was closer to the Turkic royal court, or maybe there were more and more people in the royal court who spoke good things about the Western Khan, anyway, the Turkic Khan king Ashina Yanghuan gave Jieli Khan a lot of trust.

She even married one of her daughters to Ashnaqiura, raising Ashinaqiura's reputation to the next level.

And in this autumn, the Khan Ashina Qiura issued a khan decree to recruit all the warriors to gather at the foot of the holy mountain, and the meaning of war was very obvious.

When Yu Wenxin got the news, he immediately sent someone to report to Li Po, and by the way, he also brought his ardent hope that the Han King would be the emperor.

He has been serving in Daizhou for seven or eight years, from the beginning of the Yanmen County Guard to the Daizhou Governor, and has been sent to the Turks several times in succession, and his talent and loyalty are not in doubt.

However, it is precisely because of this that Li Pocai left him in Daizhou to stay unmoved, in order to prevent the Turks from moving south, because Yuwenxin not only knew the Turkic situation, but also led a large army, and was a talent who could take charge of himself at a critical time.

The only thing to worry about is that this person is likely to do something when he is desperate, for example, when he sacrifices Jinyang, he will be extraordinarily simple.

In addition, this person has a very bad problem, a bit of flattery and bullying, of course, the flaws are not hidden, Li Po has always been able to promote his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

Now the guy who dedicated Jinyang and encouraged him to listen to the root of the wall under the Wang family's wall has become the first barrier of the newborn Tang Dynasty in the north.

The news reached Chang'an, Li Po had already proclaimed himself emperor, and the delay in the news was so great that it made people quite helpless, just like Yuwenxin got the news and then sent it back to Chang'an, Ashina Qiuluo might have mobilized troops.

This is undoubtedly bad news for Li Po, the Turks take advantage of the gap to go south, which will cause great trouble, or even change, to many plans in the future.

Over there, Qu Tutong also frowned, Ashina Qiuluo...... He hadn't heard of the name, and his first reaction was that the Turkic Western Khan had been replaced? Why haven't I heard of it?

What about Ashina? It is said that it was a tiger among the Turks, could it have been killed?

Regarding the news in the north, except for Li Po, no one can be as well-informed as Sui back then, and even many people in the south don't know that the strong neighbor in the north has changed a hostess.

As for the last time Qu Tutong got news from the Turks, it was because Chen Shuda and Dugu Huaien sent an envoy to the Turkic royal court, Dugu Huaien was let back, and Chen Shuda was unlucky enough to have his nose cut off and his ears, but he was sent to Jinyang.

This is undoubtedly a great shame for Li Yuan, and at the same time, he also got some news from the Turks, Ashina Yanghuan turned out to be a Turkic Khan, where do you make sense? In a steppe empire like the Turks, there was a female protagonist in power......

At that time, Li Yuan and his subordinates were shocked and angry, so they cut off the Turkic goodwill and had no more contact, so the Turkic news was also cut off.

What Li Yuan was most afraid of in these years was not what the princes could do, but the Turks going south from the direction of Yulin, or the Turks colluding with Li Po and moving south.

"The minister doesn't know who Ashina Qiuluo is, but if the Supreme wants to go out in person, the minister thinks it is impossible, why don't you send a general to welcome him......"

I am not familiar with the situation at all, and Qu Tutong can only say this.

Li Po smiled, waved his hand and motioned to Yan Shigu, who presented all the several secret reports that had been prepared to Qu Tutong, and stood next to him to explain for a while.

When they were almost done, Li Po said: "The year before last, the Western Turks shot the Khan to the east, and Ashina Qiuluo greeted him, and won the battle, and the Khan fled westward in embarrassment, but the Turkic court was also greatly damaged.

Now it's only been two years, and he still wants to gather soldiers to go to war, but he is really dead, and he just goes to the Western Regions, if he dares to peep south, he should let him know that my Tang Dynasty cannot be humiliated.

You go back and take a good look at these secret reports, the military department must come up with a feasible strategy, especially the grain and grass of the army, and prepare it together with the household department, and the war at the end of this autumn will not be the only one, and it must not be chaotic. ”

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Qu Tutong slowly walked out of the Taiji Palace, and the sunlight outside sprinkled down, making him squint, today is another good weather, but the news that the Turks want to go south still weighs on his heart.

The Turks have been the strong enemies of the Central Plains Empire for decades, and the two families sometimes reconcile and marry each other, but more often they are intrigues and attack each other.

As a former Sui relic, he has not dealt with the Turks once or twice, so he doesn't have much fear, but when the Tang Dynasty was using troops, the Turks suddenly had a strange move, and he didn't know if this battle could be fought or won.

He remembered the cavalry battalion he had seen in Qinzhou, and remembered the news he had heard before, so he also felt that the battle with the Turks was not so worrying.

He had a general look at these secret reports in the hall, and Yan Shigu was beside him to explain, and he was still a little vague about the others, but the Turks were going downhill with great certainty.

Can it still gather more than 300,000 iron horsemen to flock south like more than ten years ago? If there are not many enemies, you can fight a battle.

And what reassured him the most was that the emperor's determined attitude invisibly gave him some confidence......