Knowing that the Turkic army of 100,000 invaded, the Great Zhou Dynasty suddenly became a mess, and Emperor Tianyuan often did not go to court for several days, while Zheng Yi, Liu Fang and others would only slap the emperor's beard, please the emperor, and fight political opponents.

A few days after the news reached the people, the entire capital began to panic, and Zheng Yi and others did not send reinforcements to the front line, nor did they post notices to calm the hearts of the people in the capital. Before Emperor Tian Yuan made a clear designation, all the ministers could only wait, watching the time pass day by day.

In the face of the enthusiasm of the Xuanlong Army, Yang Tian did not suppress it, although he had poor historical knowledge, he also knew that the Turks were the main enemies of the Central Plains during this period, and it would last for decades, at this time, the Turks were no worse than the Mongols in later generations of destruction and ferocity of the farming people.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks dominated the war for hegemony of various rebel groups in the Central Plains, among which the final victory of the Li Valve also relied on the strength of the Turks, and the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty directly led to the death of three-quarters of the population of the Central Plains, how many of them died at the hands of the Turks, which cannot be counted.

Although the Great Zhou is a regime composed of Xianbei nobles, it has been sinicized, and now it has formed a situation of co-governance between Xianbei and Han people, and the war between the Great Zhou and the Turks is actually a war between agricultural peoples and nomadic peoples.

If the Great Sui is established, the first thing to be solved is the Turks, it is with this understanding, Yang Tian wants to take this opportunity to have a battle with the Turks, find out the strength of the other party, he quickly handed a request to the court to go to the front line to resist the Turks, just when the Xuanlong army was gearing up to go to the front, a few days passed, Yang Tian's recital seemed to sink into the sea without news, Yang Tian had to return to Chang'an with more than a dozen personal soldiers, to see what the court was planning.

The general of the army was ordered by the imperial court not to return to Beijing without authorization, but Yang Tian did not have any obstacles, the Xuanlong Army itself belonged to a team that maintained the safety of the Beijing Division, but it was only stationed outside the city, as long as Yang Tian did not bring the army, even if he returned to Beijing every day, he would be accused of dereliction of duty at most. There will be no other charges.

On the official road outside Chang'an City, there is a flow of people everywhere, some rich and noble families have driven big cars to rush out, and more people are dragging their families to the city, both sides are anxious, crowded together from time to time, Yang Tian and his party were caught in the flow of people, so they had to slow down.

One of the soldiers asked suspiciously, "What are they doing here?" ”

Yang Tian's personal soldiers have formed a hundred people, in addition to the fifty veterans selected from the Xuanlong Army, there are also fifty orphans adopted by Yang Tian, these fifty people have entered one after another in the way of recruitment, and fifty people have been inserted in the army of two thousand people, and they are Yang Tian's personal soldiers, no one will pay attention.

Li Gang replied: "They are fleeing. ”

The soldiers were puzzled: "Flee." So how do you divide it in two directions? ”

"Because the people who are going out are rich people, they are afraid that Chang'an will not be safe, so they all have to flee out, and those who enter the city are ordinary people, who originally lived outside the city, and now they want to move into the city to escape the coming war.

Yang Tian's face tightened, the Turks are at least thousands of miles away from Chang'an, I didn't expect Chang'an to be in such a mess, if the Turks really come to the city, the city doesn't know what the chaos will be, this is the Great Zhou, which unified the north three years ago, and was ambitious to conquer the Turks two years ago.

At this time, the Turkic envoy An Suijia was talking boastfully in the court of the Great Zhou, and said in a condescending tone: "The sand bowl is slightly younger than the Khan is still married, I heard that the Great Zhou beauty is outstanding, and I asked the Great Zhou Emperor to marry a beautiful wife, and the Great Zhou needs to pay tribute to the Great Turkic silk and satin in the past three years, 400,000 pieces of porcelain, and 3 million catties of ironware, and the sand bowl will be brought back together." ”

The arrogance and rudeness of the Turkic envoys in the court made the ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty all look upset, but everyone understood that the Great Zhou was no longer strong and prosperous when Emperor Wu was in power, and he must not fight on two fronts and suffer from the enemy on his back.

At this time, the Southern Dynasty Chen State was in power by Emperor Chen Xiaoxuan, Emperor Chen Xiaoxuan's name was Chen Ji, and he was the nephew of Chen Gaozuwu Emperor Chen Baxian, who was originally the assistant minister of Chen Bozong, who later abolished Chen Bozong and established himself as emperor. It was precisely because of this precedent of the Chen Dynasty that Emperor Xuan of Zhou regarded those uncles of his as a thorn in his side.

Although Emperor Chen Xiaoxuan and Emperor Zhou Xuan also have the same Xuan character, they are as different as cloud and mud. During the reign of Chen Ji, the construction of water conservancy, reclamation of wasteland, encourage peasant production, Chen Guo's strength greatly increased, Chen Ji also has a strong heart to expand the territory, in the fifth year of Taijian (AD 573), sent the general Wu Mingche to take advantage of the Northern Qi chaos to go on a northern expedition, captured Luliang (near Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province) and Shouyang, once zhan had Huai, Si land, but in the end was taken away by the Northern Zhou, the two sides formed a deep feud.

In 577 AD, a few months before the death of Emperor Wu of Zhou, Chen Ji sent the general Wu Mingche to lead tens of thousands of troops, advancing by land and water, trying to recapture the Luliang region, but this time the failure was even worse, Wu Mingche was defeated by Wang Liang and Daxi Changru, and the tens of thousands of troops of Chen were annihilated, and even the general Wu Mingche was captured by the Zhou army.

It was this defeat that greatly injured the vitality of Chen Guo, so that Emperor Wu of Zhou died, and the Great Zhou court was in turmoil, and Chen Guo was unable to attack the Zhou Dynasty, but after two years of dormancy, the strength of Chen Guo has slowly recovered, and the strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been tossed by Emperor Xuan of Zhou for more than two years, and it has declined a lot compared to the reign of Emperor Wu of Zhou.

If the Turks really gathered 100,000 troops and killed them under the city of Chang'an, even if they could hold Chang'an, Chen Guo would never let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the Great Zhou Sheji might be in danger of overturning, and no one dared to accept the words of the Turkic envoy for a while.

Yu Wenyun's face was so angry that his face turned pale, he usually regarded himself as a sky, but he didn't expect a Turkic envoy to dare to be rude to him in the court, what made him even more angry was that these ministers usually dared to point fingers at him, the Heavenly Venerable, but they lost their voice to the Turks. He slapped the dragon chair heavily and said to An Suijia: "There is no Wang Zhaojun here in this Tianzun, I want Wang Zhaojun to find it in the Southern Dynasty!" ”

The ministers were stunned when they heard this, and the emperor dared to refuse the Turks because he was reluctant to accept the beauties in the palace, but the hundreds of thousands of silks, hundreds of thousands of porcelain, and millions of catties of iron had the meaning of agreeing.

At this time, Yang Jian had no choice but to stand up and say to An Suijia: "Let my monarch and ministers discuss this matter again, and your envoy can go down to rest first." ”

An Suijia turned a deaf ear to Emperor Tianyuan's words, and pointed to the full Zhou ministers and said: "Sha Bo slightly Khan will give you a month to prepare the beauties and tributes that my Great Turks want, and then the army will go to Chang'an City to collect them, otherwise it will be impossible to break through Chang'an." ”