Chapter 89: Fighting the Turks
300,000 Turkic troops, how many they are, you must know that even at the time of the Weishui Alliance.
At this time, Jieli Khan defeated the Tuli Second Khan, and the army led by the two of them did not have so many.
At the beginning, they were able to lead a small number of people to approach Chang'an City directly, but now that they have an army of 300,000, wouldn't it be easier to do it?
"Your Majesty, now that the Turkic army is large in number, and it is eyeing it, please think twice."
"Yes, Your Majesty, once the war starts, the Turkic army enters the land of my Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that there will be another round of burning and looting."
This time the Turkic army was too many people for them, so naturally some people were even more afraid.
"Chu Feng, what do you think?"
Li Shimin glanced at them, although he didn't speak, everyone could see that Li Shimin was very unhappy now.
"This battle will be fought, and we will win this battle."
Chu Feng's words were simple, it was impossible to change.
No matter how many people there are in the Turkic army, and how great their momentum will be, they can only fight.
"Your Majesty, don't listen to the words of the horse, the horse is young, it is the time of impulse, Your Majesty must not decide on state affairs because of this."
"Otherwise, then it will be a great misfortune for the people of the world."
"Oh, is it? Then I would like to ask Lord Zhou, since you think that this battle cannot be fought and deserved, then let me ask you, do you think the Turkic Jieli Khan and his army will agree? ”
"Do you think that if you ask for peace, they will let you go, and they will let go of the people of Datang?"
Chu Feng looked at the man and asked directly in a cold voice.
This kind of person says that it sounds good, that is called conservatism, and if it is not good, it is cowardice.
Bullying the weak and fearing the hard has always been an eternal thing, and the Turks are as insatiable as hungry wolves, how can he be satisfied.
No compromise will only make him more arrogant, and will only raise his appetite and make their strength stronger.
"This..."Lord Zhou was stunned, he obviously understood that the Turks would definitely not give up easily if they were so powerful.
"We just need to send a good official to negotiate and then add some material chips, and I believe that the Turks will agree."
In the end, Lord Zhou continued to speak, but his confidence was not as strong as before.
"And then, and then the Turks took the supplies we sent and continued to plunder our people in the Tang Dynasty?"
"Or do we have to make an offering every time the Turks come?"
Chu Feng looked at Lord Zhou, who was not cowardly, and continued to ask rhetorically.
"Two years ago, the Weishui Alliance was just an expedient measure, in order to allow Datang to resume its strength and develop better."
"Lord Zhou, you must not go too deep into the play, you can't stand up after kneeling for a long time."
Chu Feng doesn't have a good impression of this surnamed Zhou, why not fight now that Datang has the strength to fight.
It's not that there is no resistance, so this kind of measure of China's material resources is tied to the joy of drinking the country, and such a thing cannot happen.
At least Datang doesn't need it, and everyone under the Tang Dynasty knows it, and everyone knows it.
"Your Majesty, the lord of the war, in one fell swoop, defeated the Turks in the name of the Tang Dynasty, starting with the defeat of the Turks."
Chu Feng looked at Li Shimin again and said, Li Shimin is an ambitious emperor, and he will not let the Tang Dynasty under his rule be harassed by the Turks at this time.
"The ministers are willing to fight the Turkic thieves for Your Majesty, so as to protect the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Tang Dynasty."
Originally, all the generals of the Wagangzhai faction came out and spoke to Li Shimin.
Naturally, as military generals, they can't endure such a thing anymore.
"Okay, the army will face the Turks, and I will personally command the three armies and personally drive the expedition."
Li Shimin was very satisfied when he saw this scene, and then got up very happily.
As Chu Feng said, what he Li Shimin wants is the Tang Dynasty, not to become someone else's money bag.
The next day, the Turkic war letter was also delivered, and according to the time calculation, it is estimated that the war letter began to be delivered before the army set off.
In this way, when the war letter was received, it was the time when the Turkic army of 300,000 set off towards the Tang Dynasty.
In this way, it will naturally be more imposing and will have a more deterrent effect.
"You kid, everything is pretty much the same as you calculated, it's time for us to go to Taiyuan in person, and then fight the Turks."
"This time, we can't let the Turkic army step into the territory of my Tang Dynasty again."
Li Shimin looked at Chu Feng and said with a smile.
In the past month or so, Li Shimin has also been actively preparing for war, and almost all of them are done in secret not for the sake of spreading the news.
In addition, Chu Feng did things, and deliberately attracted his attention to the past, and during this time, those ministers looked at Chu Feng.
Naturally, it makes it even more difficult for people to find out.
"This time the Turks will definitely be defeated." Chu Feng said confidently.
Two days later, Li Shimin personally led the army to Taiyuan, with a total of 150,000 troops, and another 50,000 troops were drawn from all over the country to rush to Taiyuan.
In this way, everyone knows that Li Shimin has long been ready to fight this battle.
But there are only 200,000 troops, and although they hate the Turks, it doesn't negate their combat effectiveness.
Moreover, the Turkic army is 300,000 strong, and I am afraid that there will be more than 100,000 cavalry, which is an astronomical number.
Cavalry is the most difficult soldier to cultivate, but the Turks are nomadic people, so their cavalry is their own horses.
There will be so many cavalry, so in the eyes of many people it is still a battle with a huge disparity in strength.
Not to mention that the number is not as large as the other side, and the combat effectiveness is not as large as the opponent's cavalry.
This is tantamount to sending people to death.
The army left Chang'an, and under the provocation of well-intentioned people, a pessimistic mood began to spread for a while.
They felt that Li Shimin could not win this battle, and neither could the Tang Dynasty, and when the time came, they would not only have to compensate the Turks for treasures, but also kill and wound so many people.
In this way, the crowd felt even more unworthy, and then began to condemn the instigators of the main battle.
After everyone knew that it was Chu Feng who instigated it, the group of people began to scold again.
Chu Feng misled the country and should be killed.
Sending Chu Feng to the Turks for peace is the right way.
This pessimistic sentiment swept through and naturally quickly spread to the imperial court.
At this time, Li Shimin was not there, and the prince was in charge of the country, but it was basically an ornament.
Everything is done by the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Wei Zheng, who was called back, and the four of them make decisions.
"This son is misleading the country and harming people." Wei Zheng also scolded after knowing the condemnation of the people.
But at this time, he knew that everything could only wait for the outcome of the big war.
However, they still told Li Shimin about it.
Although they can decide major matters, everything needs to be reported, so that Li Shimin can know and monitor them.
Second, if something goes wrong, you can settle accounts with them when the time comes.
"Even the people of their Datang don't believe that they can win, and this time I'm afraid that they will lose soon."
"That scumbag was also ashamed, saying that if he couldn't defeat the Turks, he would be willing to take his head off." Xing'er said with a look of disdain.
In her opinion, this is just a wild talk and looking for her own death.
"No, what he said was to kill Jieli Khan, so that he can't go back to the grassland." The saint corrected after listening to Xing'er's words.
Every time the Turks attacked the Tang Dynasty, they first attacked the state, and then drove straight from Taiyuan, which is why Li Yuan was threatened by the Turks when he first raised his army.
After the people of Taiyuan knew that there was going to be a big war this time, they were both happy and afraid, and they hoped that Datang would win, and they would not have to suffer.
They are afraid, afraid of losing, and when the time comes, the group of Turks will retaliate again.
So when the army first arrived, there was a Taiyuan garrison that asked Li Shimin to deal with Chu Feng first.
In this way, there will be no people who are ashamed to influence Li Shimin and increase the chances of winning this battle.
Chu Feng looked at the scene in front of him coldly, "Why don't I make a bet with you, if I win this battle, how about I want all of you to kneel down and apologize to me?" ”
"If I lose, I'll kill myself and apologize."
"Oh, by the way, I don't need 200,000, just give me 20,000."
As soon as these words came out, it was like a thunderclap.
It's crazy, who do you think you are, and 20,000 people fight the Turks.
"Don't say win, kneel down and apologize to you, our entire Taiyuan people apologize to you."
"If you can win, I'll eat."
"Yes, if you can win me, I'll eat."
Suddenly, in addition to the soldiers, many people also raised their voices.
"Okay, very good, come on, let them all sign it, so as not to run out of food."
Made, don't you have to be responsible for being a keyboard warrior, I think it's all up to your mouth.
They didn't believe Chu Feng at all, so many people signed one after another, and some were also thinking, anyway, the law is not responsible for the public, what does it matter if you win or lose.
A few days later, Jieli learned that Chu Feng had led 20,000 people to fight them, and he also made a bet with the people of Taiyuan.
Jieli was immediately angry, "This Chu Feng is damned, I'm going to skin him and cramp." ”
If you dare to ignore our Turkic warriors, you must make him pay the price he deserves.
"Twenty thousand troops against our 300,000 army is simply a fool's dream."
"Ashina Wolf Feng, you lead the cavalry to Taiyuan as quickly as possible to destroy Chu Feng's army."
"I want them to know how vulnerable they are, and that 20,000 men can't even deal with our 50,000 cavalry."
"No, no, it's not enough to kill 20,000 people, I want you to take the cities you pass through and kill them all."
"I want everyone to know that anyone who dares to despise our Turkic warriors will die."
"I'll give you twenty days, can you do it?"
"Back to the Khan, twenty days is too long, fifteen days later, the Khan's army came, I have taken Taiyuan, presented the head of Chu Feng, and captured the Tang Emperor alive."
"Haha, okay, go ahead, remember, you must kill hard, you don't need to show mercy to the Tang people."