Mid-Autumn Festival in August.

It is the time when the autumn is high and the horse is fat.

On the tower of Xiangping City, Liaodong County, on the bank of the Liao River, under the banner of the Sui Hunting and Fluttering, Luo Cheng overlooked, and Wei Zheng, who was dressed in a white robe, stood side by side with him.

"Do you really want to send troops to King Qin? Wei Zheng looked at Luo Cheng.

"The emperor was besieged by Yanmen and issued an edict from King Qin."

"Hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops besieged Yanmen, and thirty-nine cities in the forty-one cities of Yanmen County have fallen, and the emperor is more auspicious this time."

"No, there are 100,000 Xiaoguo troops in Yanmen City, and the Xiaoguo army is all brave, and most of the officers are the sons of the generals, well-equipped, defending the city and fighting, and they are not afraid of the Turkic cavalry."

"But there are only twenty days of grain in Yanmen City, and the emperor avoided entering Yanmen on the twelfth, and today it is already sixteenth, so there is only half a moon's grain left. No matter how elite the Xiaoguo army is, it is impossible to protect the emperor and hundreds of officials to break out of the siege of 300,000 Turkic cavalry, after all, the entire Yanmen County is now Turkic. Although your brother General Heiye commanded the left army of Xiaoguo and still held on to Cuixian, but Cuixian is a hundred miles away from Yanmen, and it is difficult for him to protect himself, let alone rescue the Son of Heaven. ”

"Hebei Fanyang Mansion Yin, Beiping Governor, Monan Jiedu Envoy, Taiyuan Mansion Yin, Hedong Pacification Envoy Yamen, and Hebei Yecheng Pacification Yamen, and even Guanzhong, Luoyang and other places Qinwang Army will also rush to."

"But far water can't quench your thirst."

"With only half a month's worth of food, can it really last until the reinforcements arrive?"

Wei Zheng looked in the northwest direction and said with a smile, "Haven't you thought about what the situation in the world will be like if the emperor is captured or killed?" If the emperor dies, even if Luoyang or Daxing set up another son of heaven, but no one in Liaodong can control it, as long as you continue to train troops in Liaodong's Tuntian reclamation, then after three or five years, you can go south to enter the customs to fight for the world. ”

Luo Cheng just shook his head.

"You're right, but have you thought about another question? If the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains is captured or killed by the Turks at Yanmen Pass, the Central Plains will be in chaos, and the Turks may even drive straight down, even if they cannot enter Luoyang and Daxing, but they will enter Taiyuan and go down the trend, and even the Hetao area will be occupied by the Turks. ”

"And if the Great Sui loses the Son of Heaven and the world is in chaos, who will be able to suppress those ambitious people at that time? At that time, you will fight for me, maybe in order to compete for the world, there will be many people vying to claim the Turks to pay tribute and cede land and relatives, and they all want to fight for the help of the Turks, who will resist the Turks going south?"

"Do you still remember that when the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi were competing for hegemony, they were competing to curry favor with the Turks, so that the wooden pole Khan could boast that he had two sons in the south, do you want me to be the emperor of the Turks?"

Wei Zheng, who was dressed in a white robe, looked at Luo Cheng seriously.

"You really make me admire, if you were an ordinary person, seeing such an opportunity, I am afraid that I would have been desperate for a long time. Just like Yang Xuangan, a famous aristocratic family in Guanlong, a family of honorable relatives for generations, but as soon as he had the opportunity, he rebelled, and even did not hesitate to collude with the Goguryeo people to bury the good prospects of the Eastern Crusade. You're different, it's admirable. Wei Zheng said sincerely, ordinary people, in this situation, how can they think about the world, what Han family Huaxia is considering, and only thinking about their own power and territory.

Luo Cheng just shook his head and said, "A manly man, he has something to do, but he doesn't do something." We are dissatisfied with the emperor's mediocrity, and we can find a way to overthrow him, but this is our own family's business, and our family will solve it ourselves behind closed doors, but we will never allow the Turks to take advantage of the opportunity to invade. ”

If Yang Guang is killed in Yanmen, who knows if it will be another Wuhu Chaohua, or Xianbei will occupy the Central Plains.

"Then if you send troops, don't be wary of the Yuan clan? In the past two years, we have cultivated in Liaodong, and we have not taken the initiative to attack him, but he has always been strong. If we go west to King Qin, maybe the Yuan clan will come to raid our hometown. Wei Zheng reminded Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng laughed.

"I have never taken the Yuan clan in my eyes, since the Yuan clan killed the monarch and stood on its own, the Yuan clan now has nothing to worry about. I haven't touched him in the past two years, it's just to stabilize people's livelihood first and accumulate strength. Don't forget, although I haven't moved the Yuan clan in the past two years, Yang Wanchun in Pyongyang has almost completely fallen to my Great Sui, and now not only the king of Qi is in Pyongyang, but there are also 2,000 pro-troops there. ”

Yang Wanchun was forced by the pressure of the Yuan clan to actively move closer to Luo Cheng, and he accepted the officials sent by Luo Cheng, and now there are dozens of Sui Dynasty officials in Lelang County. Not to mention, Luo Cheng also helped Yang Wanchun reorganize the army, recruit the remnants of Goguryeo, and also brought Silla over and made them form an alliance to fight against the Yuan clan and Baekje together.

Lelang County now has a population of no less than 500,000, and an army of about 50,000 people, which is also fighting while farming, after all, Pyongyang has always been controlled by the Goguryeo royal family, so Yang Wanchun still gathered a lot of people after playing the banner of reviving Goguryeo to avenge the king.

Even if Yang Wanchun didn't really belong to him, he was still a sharp knife against Goguryeo's back.

"Just one Yang Wanchun is definitely not enough." Wei Zheng said bluntly.

"I know, so this time King Qin, I will only take the cavalry away, and the infantry will stay behind."

From Liaodong City to Yanmen Pass, the journey is two thousand miles, this distance is too far. If Luo Cheng takes the foot rider to Qinwang together, he is afraid that when he rushes to Yanmen, the daylily will also be cold.

Although Luo Cheng's infantry basically has horses, the infantry with horses is only infantry, and the more soldiers, the greater the demand for logistics food and grass, the more soldiers, and the slower the action.

"I will take nine thousand light horsemen and three thousand heavy horsemen to King Qin."

"Only so much? Our family has 20,000 light riders and 4,000 heavy riders. Wei Zheng said.

"Not much."

"But the Turks have 300,000 cavalry."

"We are not the only one in the Qinwang Army."

Luo Cheng still has to leave some guards, after all, he looks down on the Yuan clan, but it is almost certain that as soon as he leaves, the Yuan clan will definitely make moves, so there must be cavalry as a mobile force. Otherwise, it is just the infantry guarding the house and each defending the city, and it is possible that they will be broken one by one.

Wei Zheng caged his sleeves.

"What if, I mean, if you don't catch up, Yanmen City is broken, and the emperor is captured or killed?"

"Even if Yanmen City is really broken, the emperor will be captured at most and will not be killed, Shibi Khan Duji is not a stupid person, a living emperor is much more useful than a corpse. If the emperor is captured, I and the other Qinwang troops will take the emperor back even if they pursue them to Beihai. ”

Yang Guang is the emperor of the Central Plains and the son of heaven of the Han family, and he will never be allowed to be captured by the Turks and brought back to his Khan court to sing and dance and drink for him, it will be a shame for the entire Han family, and Luo Cheng will never allow it.