In the days when Xiao Han was immersed in the experimental research of the Qinling Workshop, the outside world had changed a little.

On the Turkic side, Jieli Khan did not know how to use it, but he still gathered more than a dozen large tribes.

These big tribes are taking advantage of the abundance of water, fertilizer and grass now, and are moving closer to the location of the tooth court little by little!

It is said that blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular! The same is true of today's Datang.

After knowing that Li Shimin moved the coup d'état, in addition to the Turks, the Goryeo in the north, the Tubo in the west, and the Nanzhao in the south all more or less thought about this brand-new Tang Dynasty, and there was not a day of peace at the border!

Foreign changes are frequent, and within Datang, it is not necessarily stable.

Hebei, Jiannan, Liangzhou, there are rebellions from time to time, Li Shimin, who has just ascended the throne, has to carefully maintain the stability of the country, and at the same time send those henchmen and generals who have just been divided like beans in all directions.

Not only did these people have to suppress the small rebellions that have risen in the country, but they also have to deal with the surrounding countries that are eyeing each other!

East Palace, Chongwen Palace.

Li Shimin, who was dressed in a dragon robe, was clenching his fists and sitting behind a desk with a gloomy expression.

In front of him, Xue Shu, Tang Jian, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others all looked tired.

"Now it seems that the Turkic invasion is irreversible! In a month at the latest, they should go south! In addition to them, there are also Goryeo, Tubo and other places are also not restless, this autumn, hey......"

Tang Jian, who was sitting next to Xue Shu, put down the letter paper in his hand, lowered his head and sighed deeply.

Although I don't want to admit it, when I first saw the marching map of those steppe tribes, Tang Jian, who had been walking in the steppe for a long time, had already seen through the ambitions of the Turks!

Li Shimin glanced at the worried Tang Jian, and said in a low voice: "Gaoli, these places in Tibet are not to be feared, they are nothing more than some howling wild dogs, as long as we can repel the Turks, those dogs will naturally shrink home with their tails between their legs!" Now the question is how to defeat the Turks! ”

“……”

Li Shimin's voice had fallen, but the room was silent, and no one answered for a long time.

All of you here are now important ministers of the court! For the current situation in Datang, they naturally know better than anyone else!

Many people say that the Tang Dynasty inherited the blessings of the Sui Dynasty and became so strong!

But who would have thought that if the Great Sui really had so many so-called heritages, why would he kill the eighteen anti-kings and seventy-two puffs of smoke and dust?

How could Yang Guang, the owner of these heritages, be hanged to death in Jiangnan, and even the bones were unrestrained?

People who have this kind of thinking can carefully calculate, since Yang Guangsan's expedition to Goguryeo, has the world been too peaceful?

In the past ten years, the soldiers have been fighting, the merchants have been fighting, and the peasants have been at war! The whole world is at war!

The population of the world has plummeted from 8.9 million households in the five years of the Great Cause to 1.8 million households in the Wude period! That's 80 percent less! In this world, there are no two out of ten!

Therefore, today's Datang seems to be thriving, but they know that this is just a false shell!

Now, the Turks are going to come and smash this shell, what can they use to stop the pace of the Turkic iron horsemen?

Silence, long silence.

When the silence passed, Li Shimin opened his dry lips and asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "How many troops can the Turks send this time?" ”

"At least 400,000!" Tang Jian replied with a bitter smile when he heard this, and then he thought about it and added: "There are 200,000 elite cavalry alone, and the union of more than a dozen large tribes, plus the royal court tent, it is not difficult for each force to produce 20,000 people." ”

"There are 400,000 so many ......" Hearing this number, although Fang Xuanling had already prepared in his heart, he still felt a tingling in his scalp.

God, that's 400,000 people, not 400,000 sheep!

In other words, even if it is 400,000 sheep, it is enough to trample Chang'an from beginning to end!

"How many people can we produce?" Xue Tightening frowned, looked at the silent eldest grandson Wuji on the side and asked.

Eldest Sun Wuji glanced up at him, and replied in a deep voice: "We are now mobilizing a maximum of 100,000 people, if it is decided today, other places will not dare to lack manpower!" ”

"That is, with our 100,000, to 400,000?"

After Xue heard this, his body trembled and leaned back on the back of his chair tiredly.

It's not that he's scared, it's true, it's really that these two data are too different!

Although Li Shimin had the miraculous feat of defeating all enemies with a hundred horsemen before, the problem was that this time they were not facing Dou Jiande, but the treacherous and barbaric Turks!

Compared with Dou Jiande of the Huanghuang Division, these Turkic people are simply a group of robbers who do all kinds of evil, a group of bandits who have lost their conscience!

If you see a bargain, you will go on it, and if you encounter difficulties, you will hide! Dealing with such people and trying to stop them with a strong city is tantamount to a fool's dream!

In the Chongwen Palace, a feeling of loss slowly rose in it.

In the face of the most dangerous invasion since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, everyone, including Xue Shui, felt a deep sense of powerlessness welling up in their hearts!

"Everyone!"

When the last piece of sandalwood in the incense burner slipped down, Li Shimin, who was sitting behind the desk, suddenly raised his head, looked at everyone present with his bloodshot eyes, and then said slowly:

"Now, it's not a question of whether we fight or not! It's a question of how to fight! Now that the Turkic invasion is a foregone conclusion, all we have to do now is how to repel them, and leave the rest for later! ”

"That's right! I agree with Your Majesty's words! They're going to hit the door this time, and what we have to do is to fight back! ”

Wei Chigong was choked by this matter from the beginning, and now when he heard that Li Shimin was going to fight, he was naturally the first to jump out in favor!

"Call back? How to call back? With the tens of thousands of people under your command? Tang Jian glanced at Wei Chi Gong and said mercilessly.

"That's better than you complaining here! Can you kill people with your mouth? "Wei Chigong has a brave personality, and he is inherently inherently incompatible with a person like Tang Jian, except for the wine table, the two of them can pinch each other in other places.

"You...... You! Tang Jian's face turned red from choking, and he pointed at Wei Chigong in a trembling voice, but he didn't say anything for a while.

"Jingde, Maoyo (Tang Jianzi Maoyo)!" Li Shimin glanced at the two of them with dissatisfaction, and then turned his head to look at the map hanging on the wall.

Just now, Wei Chigong's words also reminded him that a bold idea flashed in his heart at this time.

"Tang Jian, apart from the tribe collected by Jieli Khan on the grassland, is there any other power that can be borrowed?" Li Shimin asked.