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"Your Majesty invites you and several generals to his study to discuss the battle plan." The prince said with a smile.

"Obey the order!" Li Yuan was overjoyed, but he glanced at the son behind him, and then proposed: "I don't know if I can bring the two dogs of the minister, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, to go with them, the two of them have been in charge of military horses in Dingxiang recently, and they know the situation of the border fortress very well. ”

Wang Gonggong hesitated, it stands to reason that generals of the level of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin cannot participate in such a combat meeting. But Yang Guang had spoken before, wanting to marry Princess Luo Qi to Li Yuan's son. In this way, Li Yuan's status will rise even higher. If you don't let him take your son to the imperial study, I'm afraid that you will greatly offend this person.

"Alright! Let's go together! "The prince finally decided to curry favor with Li Yuan, if Yang Guang really didn't want to see Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin appear, he would let the two of them leave.

Li Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and in this way, the two of them had another opportunity to show their faces in front of the saint. At present, there is a shortage of generals in the DPRK and China, and a group of old generals are dying and degrading. And the young but the talent is zero, and only one Yuming, who is worthy of the big responsibility, is still self-reliant. The other generals look at Pei Renji's son Pei Xingyan, and Luo Yi's son Luo Cheng is still a little improving. If his two sons can be appreciated by Yang Guang and entrusted with important tasks, it will be of great benefit to the Li family in the future.

He hurriedly glanced at the two children behind him, and then took a big stride and followed the prince towards the imperial study.

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As early as when Yang Guang led his army from the eastern capital, Shibi Khan had already led the army to the Yinshan area. The soldiers and horses accompanying him appeared to be only 100,000 men, but this was not the whole of his army. He had already asked his son Tuli, his younger brother Chu Luo, and Jieli to lead 100,000 horses each to the mountains around Dingxiang to ambush early. He prepared to launch a surprise attack, breaking Dingxiang, Mayi, and Yanmen in one fell swoop, and looting grain to relieve the tribal people who were suffering from famine.

Originally, his 100,000 people were supposed to go to Dingxiang, but because Tiele, Murowei and Xue Yantuo sent him a message for help, he had to come to Yinshan. Here, he had a dispute with the other Turkic leaders over the need for an immediate march. Shibi Khan wanted to delay some longer, and wait for the Liaodong Army and Xue Yantuo and other troops to fight and defeat before sending troops.

His Ashina tribe has the best pastures on the steppe, and although there is also a famine, it can afford to wait. And the other Turks did not have so many resources to consume. They united and proposed to Du Ji: either go south to plunder the cities of the Sui Dynasty and grab food to go back to the people to help the tribesmen; Either attack to the east, defeat the Liaodong army, and then take advantage of the situation to attack Liaodong and seize the grain of Liaodong.

Shibi Khan did not want to attack Liaodong, firstly, the distance from Yinshan to Liaodong was far farther than to Hedong, and secondly, his agreement with the Western Turkic Khan was to attack the Sui Dynasty instead of attacking Liaodong. If he didn't keep his promise, the Khan wouldn't give him the pastures of the Golden Mountain.

But just like that, he didn't care about Xue Yantuo and other departments, and went south to attack the Sui Dynasty, and he was worried that after the Liaodong Army defeated this, he would attack him from behind.

When Shibi Khan was hesitating, one of the guards hurriedly entered the big tent and shouted: "Qiqi Khan, Marshal Yu of the Liaodong Army has sent a messenger, saying that he wants to negotiate with us!" ”

"Oh? He would have sent a messenger over? Shibi Khan was also taken aback.

As soon as he rolled his eyes, he said, "Call the messenger in!" ”

A moment later, a thin young man dressed in a white silk robe strode into the tent. He bowed his hand to Shibi Khan and said: "Below is Du Ruhui, the envoy of the Liaodong Army, to meet Shibi Khan!" ”

"Du Ruhui? I heard that you are Marshal Yu's number one military advisor, and you are very wise. I didn't expect to be so young! Shibi Khan glanced at him, also slightly surprised. Yu Ming became a marshal at such a young age and divided one side, and his subordinates turned out to be so young. However, seeing that he actually sent Du Ruhui as an envoy, it can be seen that he should still attach great importance to negotiating with himself.

Du Ruhui smiled slightly and said, "Khan, you must have also heard the news that my marshal supported the army and stood on his own. Now, although our Liaodong Army is still loyal to the Great Sui Emperor on the surface, in fact, it has long been separated from each other. Therefore, in this war between the Turks and the Sui Dynasty, our Liaodong Army does not want to participate in it. ”

After hearing this, Shibi Khan couldn't hold his breath and said: "That is the case, then why did your Liaodong Army attack Xue Yantuo, Tiele and Murowei, you must know that this is my Turkic subordinate." Don't you Han people have a saying? It depends on the owner to beat the dog, Marshal Yu does this, I really can't see what he doesn't want to participate in! ”

After hearing this, Du Ruhui smiled and said, "Khan, in fact, my marshal is helping you by doing this?" ”

"Oh?" Shibi Khan's eyes showed a glimmer of essence, and he said coldly: "The subordinates who attacked me are helping me? Woo Ming really thought I was an idiot! ”

"Khan, let's not talk darkly. Xue Yantuo, Tiele and Murweibu, how many battles you Turks have fought over the past few decades, you must know better than me. Although it has always been the Turks who have the upper hand, they have won this subservience. But as long as they get through the difficulties and have a little strength, they will come back. After all, the steppe overlord wants to do it. This time, the Khan led his army south to the Central Plains, and it is believed that there will be gains. Our Liaodong Army marched westward into the grassland, also wanting to eliminate Xue Yantuo and other troops and stop their invasion of our Liaobei grassland. Let's just take what we need! Du Ruyan said lightly.

When Shibi Khan heard this, Fang was slightly moved. After all, this film has indeed been unconvinced by him, and he will inevitably make trouble whenever there is a stir. This time he went south to the grassland, and he originally informed them, but he didn't expect them to refuse to disobey the order at all, saying that the tribe had suffered a snow storm and froze to death a large number of livestock and personnel, and could not afford to send troops to accompany them.

"Humph! These wall grasses did not listen to the orders of Ben Khan at all, but often rebelled, and it was no pity that they were destroyed by the Liaodong army! Thinking of this, Shibi Khan snorted coldly. His expression eased slightly: "Mr. Du, you just said it clearly: what do you want me to do Turkic?" And at what cost are you going to pay? Although some of the practices of the Xue Yantuo and other tribes are inappropriate, they are nominally subordinates of our Turks, and it is somewhat unreasonable that they will not be rescued when they see death. ”

After Du Ruhui heard about it, he was relieved, he knew that Shibi Khan had actually agreed in his heart.

"Khan, what my marshal means is that my Liaodong army will occupy the territory of Xuyantuo, Murowei and Tielebu, and the Turks can rest assured that they will move south. In return, our army will offer a plan to the Khan to help the Khan capture Emperor Yang Guang of Sui! Du Ruhui said this sentence in one breath that surprised the Turks present.

Shibi Khan frowned and said, "Mr. Du, don't lie to us by talking big things." Yang Guang is said to have sent 500,000 troops north, and his battle base was located in Yuan, which was the first fortified city in Hedong. Even if our army can defeat the Sui army in Dingxiang, Mayi, Loufu, Yanmen and other counties, and kill them under the original city, I am afraid that it will also suffer heavy losses. How could he have the ability to capture so many Yuan guarded by the Sui army and capture Yang Guang? ”

Du Ruhui said disapprerovingly: "Khan, please rest assured, since the marshal of my family has explained like this, there must be a clever plan to capture Yang Guang." If the Khan doesn't believe me, how about listening to me and then deciding? ”

Shibi Khan said at this time: "If this plan is really feasible, how can I disagree?" ”

Du Ruhui smiled slightly, and Fang lowered his voice and said the strategy that Yu Ming had explained earlier.

When he finished speaking, not only Shi Bi Khan, but all the Turkic leaders present were shocked. Because they all understand that if this strategy is really implemented, there is indeed a great possibility of capturing Yang Guang.

And once the Sui emperor was captured, the Turks would be able to extort an astonishing amount of grain, grass, weapons, gold and silver from the Great Sui. It is very likely that the Sui Dynasty was even forced to cede Hedong, Hetao, Hebei and other places to the Turks. In this way, Shibi Khan did not need to sacrifice many soldiers and horses at all, and he could achieve the goal of weakening the Sui Dynasty and increasing his own strength at the same time. At that time, it would be much easier for him to attack the Western Turks in the west, Liaodong in the east, or continue to occupy the Central Plains in the south.

"Alright! Mr. Du, since Marshal Yu is so smart, and he has a common enemy with Ben Khan. Then Ben Khan might as well cooperate with him! Shibi Khan finally got up and smiled: "Ben Khan likes to work with smart people. I believe that we can both get what we want this time! ”

With that, he took out a golden arrow from his quiver, and a lifelike wolf's head was engraved on the tail of the arrow.

"Mr. Du, bring this golden wolf arrow to Marshal Yu! This is a token of the covenant of the Turks. You tell him that we steppe people have sworn a long time ago, and since Ben Khan has promised to ally with him today, then we will be allies between us. After that, Marshal Yu and I took Yinshan, Saiyin Mountain, Qiaoba Mountain and other places as the boundary, and returned to Liaodong in the east and Turks in the west. Plus the cessed Hetao, Longxi, Hedong, and Hebei counties. I, the Turks, will abide by the covenant and support him as the emperor of the Central Plains! "Shibi Khan is the right way.

After Du Ruhui took the golden wolf arrow, he put it in his pocket, and then chuckled: "The Great Khan is a wise man, I believe you will never regret today's choice in the future." If the Great Khan said it, Du must have truthfully told the marshal of my family. When the time comes, the Central Plains and the steppe will be shared, and the Great Khan will share it with the marshal of my family! I'll take my leave! We caught Yang Guang on another day, and then set up a wine to get together! ”

With that, he made a compilation, and then left the tent, mounted his horse, and set out for the vast steppe to the east.

After Du Ruhui said goodbye, Shibi Khan's eyes swept over the leaders of several other Turkic tribes in the tent, and then ordered: "Pass my order, the whole army will pull out the camp and march south, the target - Dingxiang, the northern border county of the Sui Dynasty!" ”

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