When the wax moon enters, a new snow comes with the wind, making the entire Shendu City covered with snow, and there is a festive atmosphere in the square song. However, an urgent military report swept away the atmosphere.

In the court of the Shendu, the emperor had just forced the prime ministers to bow their heads a little by taking advantage of the Beiya's martial arts and the boiling of the courtiers, but the joy of this victory had not yet been savored, and the mood quickly became anxious because of this.

In the Ouchi Wucheng Palace, the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the court and the central government gathered together, and the emperor sat in the hall, with a hint of anxiety in his tone: "In the old year, he was defeated in the river meander, and he only fled with his body, and he was obviously already weak, so why can he still attack from the south this winter?" ”

The emperor asked this question, and no one in the palace answered. A silent defeat in the old year, which was not the result of the imperial court's dispatch of troops, and then the creation of Shaanxi Daodaxingtai, and the military affairs related to the river meanders were all in Xingtai, and the imperial court was able to grasp even fewer details.

The second emperor asked a question in his tone, which was clearly a question about the old merits of Xingtai. This involves a higher-level dispute, and Wei Juyuan was previously dismissed because he questioned his performance in Taiwan. At present, the courtiers do not know whether the emperor wants to take advantage of this to set off a new round of power reduction on Xingtai, so naturally they dare not express their position easily.

But although many courtiers were silent, there were still people who were not so sensitive.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wang Xiaojie, the general of the Left Guard, stepped out of class and said: "In the old years of Zhenguan, the Turkic place was defeated, Jieli lost his position by being strong and rebellious, and Tuli guarded his department with obedience. After that, the imperial court set up a feudal bond for the Turkic tribes because of the northern border, and after many years, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate and the Shan Yu Metropolitan Protectorate were bounded by the moraine, and the north and south were divided.

In the old years of the emperor, the Turks rebelled first in the single Yu Du Protectorate, although it did not become a big trouble at that time, but did not die Lu brothers escaped outside the legal net, the legacy is still so far, flowing in the north of the desert, the south of the desert, so it is dead but not stiff, it lies in the tribes before and after the tentation, the thieves and armor are out of this, and the advance and retreat follow their path. In the old years, the silent sip was defeated, and most of the ambushers were the people who were impatient in the Yu Governor Mountain, but Mo Nan's ethnic branch was small, and the loss was not much......"

In the early years, the Turks were the overlords of the north, and their territory and people spanned the south and north of the desert. Although the Eastern Turks were defeated during the Zhenguan period, the main blow was the Turkic royal power with the Ashina family as the core. But even the Ashina family still has the Eastern Turks led by Ashina Simo and the Turkic Khan.

As for the other large and small tribal branches of the Turks, they were relatively retained. The post-Turkic forces with the Gu Dulu brothers as the core developed from the Monan region ruled by Shan Yu Duhufu, so the initial battles between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks after the death of the country mainly took place in Shan Yu Duhufu and its surrounding areas.

During the special period of the Wu and Zhou dynasties, the feudal system in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty further collapsed, and Gu Dulu led his troops to return to the Yudu Army Mountain in Mobei to rebuild the tooth tent, which became a symbol of the success of the Turkic restoration. As the brother of Gu Dulu, Mo Si stayed in the Black Sand City in the south of the desert and set up for the south of the Turks. It was not until after the death of Gu Dulu that Mo Si went to Yu Du Jun Mountain to compete for the throne of Khan, and then led the people south to enter the Kouhe Meander and suffered a great defeat.

But in this series of victories and defeats, it is still the core strength of Gu Dulu who is on the line with the Tang army, and the Huzhou under the command of the Duhufu alone is not deeply affected. It is not surprising that after the defeat of the Mosihe Meander, he only fled with his body, but in just one or two years, he gathered the forces of his southward attack, but it was a repeat of the development process of his brother Gu Dulu.

As the old steppe overlords, the Turks were dismembered and divided before they were officially destroyed, and the biggest contradiction was the uncle and nephew of Jieli and Tuli. The fall of Jieli was stabbed in the back by the Turks, so the next sanctions and settlements against the Turks were also different.

But this is only relative, and a group of people who have lost their country can never be entertained with good wine and food.

Although the eastern tribes to which the Turkic Turks belonged were relatively intact and retained, they also undertook heavy military service in the process of the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, so the first wave of the Later Turkic forces came from the Eastern Turks of Monan under the control of the Shan Yu Protectorate. In other words, the Imperial Prefecture ruled by the Imperial Protectorate alone was the true source of the Turkic restoration.

After the death of Ashina Nishu, the Turkic rebels who participated in the turmoil crossed the Yellow River to meet Ashina Funian as the leader of the six states of Hequ. However, the surrender of the six states of Hequ itself was more strictly controlled, and he was in awe of the Tang Dynasty even more, Fu Nian surrendered directly under the threat of the Tang Dynasty, and took the initiative to arrest the eastern chieftains who participated in the rebellion.

The Gu Dulu brothers were the ones who slipped through the net in this rebellion, and after realizing that the six states were not credible, they returned to the Monan region within the scope of the capital to develop their forces, and gradually grew stronger.

This time, Mo Si lost a clean sweep in the river meander, and also wandered back to Mo Nan to continue to develop his power, and the real reason for his resurgence was still the connivance of Shan Yu Duhufu.

Wang Xiaojie consciously talked about things and analyzed the root cause of the resurgence of silent sipping. But when he said this, everyone in the hall couldn't help but be embarrassed. Because this means that Mo Si has grown stronger again, the responsibility is not on the Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai, but on the fact that the imperial court did not seize this opportunity to beat the water dog and give Mo Si a chance to breathe.

In fact, as Wang Xiaojie said, the route of the Turkic invasion this time was to bypass the Hequ area controlled by Xingtai, and directly pass through the south of Yunzhou, where the Shan Yu Duhufu is located, and enter Shuozhou, Daizhou and other places in the north of the east of the Kou River.

Seeing that Wang Xiaojie finished his complaint, the atmosphere in the hall was depressed and dull, and Prime Minister Li Sixun spoke again: "What is the cause of the matter, it is not appropriate to investigate it deeply at the moment. It is imperative that we be prepared for the thief who comes to commit it. At present, the Turks have invaded Lanzhou, which is only a stone's throw away from the state, and the number of armored soldiers gathered in the prefecture and county of the state is less than 3,000, once the Turkic thieves break in, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Hearing Li Sixun say this, everyone in the hall gasped, and several people couldn't help but say: "The armament of Bingzhou is so relaxed? ”

As soon as this question was raised, there was inevitably an awkward silence. Bingzhou is the capital of Hedong Province, and its own geography is also straightforward, it was originally a major military base in Shuofang Monan, and it was able to gather less than 3,000 soldiers, which is no different from an undefended empty gate. Once the Turks were incorporated into the state, they won the money and grain, and had the strength to continue to come south, maybe around the New Year, the Turkic iron cavalry would be able to reach the north bank of the Yellow River!

And there are deep reasons for the emptiness of the state's defense. After the Shendu Revolution, the first big problem that the imperial court needed to face was the Daibeidao army led by Xue Huaiyi at that time. Although this problem was properly resolved with the cooperation of the then governor Shi Wuyouyi and the general manager of the marching army, it also buried hidden dangers for the imperial court.

The successor of Changshi Suwei is also the person of King Yong, after the creation of the platform, King Yong has been alone in Shaanxi, if it is gathered in the state of Jiaqi, it is undoubtedly conniving King Yong's power to continue to spread to the east of the river.

In order to prevent this situation, the imperial court was a false defense strategy for the annexation of states. Even the major ordnance warehouses originally set up in Bingzhou were transferred to Xiangzhou, east of Taihang Mountain.

Of course, this does not mean that Hedong Road is completely undefended. After all, it was Li Zhaode who was in charge of military and political affairs at that time, although the state was no longer full of armor, but it directly strengthened the scale of the garrison of the Shan Yu Protectorate, with the general Yang Xuanji as the commander of the Shan Metropolitan Protectorate, the imperial court directly stationed 20,000 troops, plus the armed forces of the Zhuhu Prefecture, there were 50,000 people.

Such a military force is enough to control the situation in Monan and suppress all kinds of rebellion. Therefore, whether the state's defense is comprehensive or not is not enough to affect the overall defense situation of Monan.

But the question is, since Shan Yu Du Hufu has such an arrangement, why is there such a defense loophole, Mo Si actually led the crowd to pass through Shan Yu Du Hufu and the prefectures and counties of the east of the Zhikou River!

What are the tens of thousands of troops in the Protectorate of Shan Yu doing? Even if the prevention and control is negligent for a while, but now that the Turkic thieves have connected several states, they should always wake up, return to defense and intercept and kill Mo Si and his party!

When this issue was raised, the ministers of the palace were also furious, and they all reprimanded Yang Xuanji for dereliction of duty, and tens of thousands of troops actually allowed the Turks to come south, which really deserved to be killed!

However, when the Ministry of War took out the detailed rules for this year's adjustment of border military affairs, it was dumbfounded, and in September, 3,000 troops from the garrison of the Metropolitan Protectorate alone were transferred back to China and stationed in the capital.

But this part of the military registration was not entered into the South Ya, and the reason is very simple, because it was directly included in the North Ya. Previously, the emperor played martial arts at the north gate and inspected the new army of the Northern Yawan, part of which belonged to the men and horses of the southern border of the desert.

Of course, there is no need to delve into this, the Son of Heaven wants to create a pro-army, and he draws soldiers from the frontier into the arch, which is also a normal operation. What's more, the entry of 3,000 soldiers into the Sensu Guard was not enough to cause a big loss to the defense of the Shan Yu Protectorate, but the timing was a bit unlucky.

But there is a bigger problem, that is, in addition to these 3,000 soldiers who entered the Sansu Guard, there were still 10,000 horses in the Yudu Protectorate who left the defense area and went east into Youzhou, including Yang Xuanji, the town guard.

And from the point of view of time, it was after this group of people was taken away that Mo Si sent troops south and entered Koushuo Prefecture!

It is already obvious that it is the evacuation of the garrison of the Protectorate of Shan Yu that caused the emptiness of the defense of Monan, giving Mo Si an opportunity to take advantage of it to raise troops to the south, and also exposing the defense loophole of the state to the Turkic thief army!

But it is reasonable for Yu Duhu Mansion to monitor Mo Nan, and it is reasonable to transfer some of the A people into the Sansu Guard, and suddenly such a large group of soldiers evacuated the Fang District and went to Youzhou to do something?

In the main hall, Emperor Li Dan's face was gloomy, he just lowered his head to read the information submitted by the Ministry of War, and only after coughing dryly did he say: "What Li Xianggong said is really urgent, silently sipping the dog of the dead household and relying on his slight crowd, and offending the Tang Tianwei several times, we must not condone it for a long time, and there is no prohibition on comings and goings." All the ministers of the country should immediately formulate a strategy to kill the thief and settle the chaos! ”