He advocated that while the Sui army on the eastern route had not yet completed the deployment of troops and the deployment along the river, he would take advantage of the fact that the Southern Chen army had completed the assembly in Jiankang to launch an attack on the Sui army on the eastern route, turn defense into attack, and advance the battlefield to the north bank of the river, so as to ensure that the imperial capital Jiankang was foolproof. The army of the western two roads was blocked in the middle reaches of the river.

In order to make Chen Shubao adopt his own suggestions, Ren Zhong also explained: "Your Majesty, if Sui comes to attack me, I will be the master, and Sui will be the guest, and the main side will occupy the time, place, and convenience of the people, which is conducive to long-lasting, and the guest side is conducive to a quick victory." As long as our eastern and western armies can reach a draw with the soldiers and horses of the Sui Third Road, within half a year, the rear of the Sui will inevitably change, and the Sui will be trapped in the predicament of the enemy on the back of the abdomen. ”

However, when Shang Shubao, who was deeply trusted by Chen Shubao, Shang Shu Lingjiang and Shi Wenqing, who were deeply trusted, heard that if they acted according to Ren Zhong's plan, the war with the Sui Dynasty would last for at least half a year, and they were afraid that during the war for half a year, their position as Pang Xin before the emperor would be replaced by Xiao Maha and Ren Zhong, so they expressed strong opposition to Ren Zhong's suggestion. It is more inclined to adopt Xiao Maha's suggestion to meet the enemy in a separate way.

The two sides were evenly matched, and they argued with each other in front of Chen Shubao, which made it difficult for Chen Shubao to argue between good and bad, right and wrong, and he didn't know who to listen to.

At this time, Kong Fan, who had never publicly expressed his position on Xiao Maha and Ren Zhong's suggestions, spoke.

"Your Majesty hastily ended the oath meeting, isn't it just because the two defense lines in the upper reaches of the Wolf Tail Beach and the Qiting River were broken through one after another by the naval army led by Yang Su, how could it be involved in the middle and lower reaches? At this time, the first thing to do is to immediately send a close general to Jingmen to prevent the upstream Sui army from advancing to the middle reach, and everything else can be postponed. ”

Chen Shubao was already feeling a headache for not knowing which of Xiao Maha or Ren Zhong's suggestions should be adopted, at this time, listening to Kong Fan greatly simplify the topic of this military meeting, it boiled down to the matter of sending generals to reinforce the upstream, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then patted his head and shouted: "What Kong Qing said is reasonable, today I only discuss the matter of sending reinforcements to Jingmen, and all other things, Xiao Lang, Ren Lang, you two go back separately, and draw up the Taoist chapter in detail, and then make a decision after discussing it with the ministers of the court at the court meeting seven days later." ”

Thousands of miles away in Chang'an, the capital of Sui, when Yang Su led the Western Route Expedition Chen army to defeat the Southern Chen army at Langwei Beach, as soon as the good news reached Chang'an, Sui Gaozu Yang Jian couldn't sit still in the Daxing Palace.

Although Yang Su led the army to achieve a great victory at Langweitan and defeated the Nanchen naval army, it also marked the official beginning of the war of destruction launched by the Sui Dynasty against Nanchen. Faced with the situation that Yu Qing in the northwest led a large army to conquer Tuyuhun and plundered horses in Jingyuan and Jingyuan to no avail, and Changsun Sheng sent an envoy to the Eastern Turks to pacify Dulan Khan, Yang Jian deeply felt that if there was a change in the west and north at this time, the great cause of defeating Chen would fall short, and he would miss the good opportunity to realize the reunification of the north and the south that had been waiting for many years.

After weighing again and again, Yang Jian believes that Yu Qing in the northwest has led nearly 200,000 troops to defend it, and Tuyuhun is not a problem in the short term, while the Eastern Turks are completely different, since the fifth year of the opening of the emperor, Sha Bo Luo Khan Jin Jing court, bowed to the Great Sui Dynasty, after the two great khans of Sha Bo Luo and Mo He made great efforts, in recent years, the Eastern Turks have a great tendency to re-rise, according to the military report sent back by Yang Liang, who guarded and merged the state, the domestic military strength of the Eastern Turks has recovered to as much as 200,000, close to the military strength in the early years of the emperor. Now under Yang Liang's control, the Sui army stationed in Hebei is only more than 100,000 people. With a mixed force of 100,000 horses and infantry against the enemy's 200,000 Turkic iron cavalry, and the newly succeeded Dulan Khan Yongyu Lu was far less than his uncle Mohe Khan, who had always had a friendly and friendly attitude towards the Great Sui during his lifetime, this could not but make Yang Jian feel a little more deeply worried and worried about the situation in Hebei.

Based on this consideration, at the beginning of the battle against Chen, Yang Jian took advantage of the opportunity of the Sui army's victory at Langweitan, announced the restoration of the crown prince Yang Yong's power to participate in the administration of the court, and ordered the crown prince Yang Yong to live in Beijing to temporarily take charge of the government (of course, in view of the lessons of the past, before Yang Jian went out on patrol, he specially left the new Yongzhou pastor, Guangping King Yang Xiong to take charge of the military and political power of Gyeonggi and supervise Yang Yong). , and at the same time inquire about the news of Hebei.

The emperor's inspection of the customs greatly stimulated the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the wealthy families and ordinary people in the Kanto and Central Plains to support the imperial court to raise troops and defeat Chen. The wealthy members of the family were busy donating money and grain to the imperial court, recommending the children of the family and clan to the emperor as eunuchs and officials, while the common people enthusiastically sent their children and grandchildren to join the army and make meritorious contributions to the country.

Yang Jian personally sat in Luoyang, the eastern capital, accompanied by his subordinate Nayan Su Wei, from morning to night, almost uninterruptedly received the representatives of the wealthy families and households who came to see them, and successively issued edicts to commend and reward them for supporting the imperial court's efforts to raise troops and attack Chen, which greatly stabilized the hearts of the people in the Kanto and Central Plains areas, and created a very stable rear for the all-round development of the battle of Chen.

Soon after Yang Jian went out to inspect the Guandong and Central Plains, Sun Sheng, the eldest Sun Sheng, who was ordered to send an envoy to the Eastern Turks, heard the news that the emperor was sitting in Luoyang, the eastern capital, to supervise the defeat of Chen, and went south from Bingzhou, rushed to the eastern capital to meet Yang Jian, and presented him with a table from Yongyu Lu, the blue khan of the Eastern Turkic capital, to Yang Jian, in which Yongyu Lu promised to continue to pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty, and to be a vassal forever and not to invade each other.

After looking at this table, Yang Jian finally showed a relaxed smile on his face: since the official edict to attack Chen, in the past two months, changes have taken place in the western Xinjiang and northern borders, forcing him to have the idea of postponing the attack on Chen for a while, but now, the threat from the north has finally been eliminated temporarily, and he can concentrate on fighting against Nanchen.

While Yang Jian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he immediately sent an urgent edict of 600 li to Yang Guang, the king of Jin who commanded the army in Guangling, and ordered him to cross the river from the rate army to attack Chen, and launch a comprehensive war to destroy the country against the Southern Chen Dynasty.