Li Yuan looked at everyone's faces uncertainly, and no one spoke, so he had to speak again, "I don't know what you think?"

Murong Luo snorted, then looked at Li Yuan and said, "Liu Wuzhou's rebellion is not a matter of a day or two, did I ask the county guard to send troops to fight against him before?" Now that he is raising tigers, he actually ransacked Fenyang Palace, and you and I are afraid that it will be difficult to escape the involvement! ”

Murong Luo didn't know if his brain was hot for a while, or in order to express his dissatisfaction with Li Yuan, he immediately accused him; But when he realized that now was not the time to blame each other, he went around himself.

"General Murong's reminder that day is still in my ears, but how many troops can we transfer in Taiyuan? The reason why I didn't send troops for a long time was also because I was worried that Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe and others would take advantage of the situation" Li Yuan's face was embarrassed, and he finally forced a smile.

Li Yuan's words also have some truth, after all, the soldiers on the surface of Taiyuan are really more defensive than enough to attack.

However, that was in the past, and now Liu Wuzhou has blatantly colluded with the Turks, if he leads a large army to Taiyuan, Taiyuan is now 30,000 soldiers, and I am afraid that it will not even be enough to defend.

In the current situation, it is obvious that there is only one way to ask Yang Guang for help; But Yang Guangyuan was more than 3,000 miles away in Jiangdu, and Liu Wuzhou's rebels were within hundreds of miles.

More than 3,000 miles, even if you use 800 miles to walk a round trip, it will take about ten days, and this is not counting the fact that the road is full of thieves today; The most important thing is that who else Yang Guang can send to help Taiyuan?

Liu Zhenghui can also be regarded as Li Yuan's confidant, and seeing that everyone was speechless at this time, he tentatively proposed, "Or the county guard will order the local recruitment?" Only by expanding the military can we compete with the invading enemy. ”

Li Yuan was overjoyed by Liu Zhenghui's proposal, but shook his head and waved his hand, "It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate." However, whenever the imperial court moves troops, it is necessary to report to the military department, and it must be approved by His Majesty. Let's be arrogant, it's not reasonable, but the thief is close at hand, even if Your Majesty can send troops, far water can't save the fire."

Seeing that Li Yuan and Liu Zhenghui were in collusion, Wang Wei could probably always guess some details, but if he opposed Liu Zhenghui's plan at this time, he was afraid that he would become a sinner for the ages. After all, Yang Guang let himself spy on Li Yuan to prevent him from rebelling, but now that Fenyang Palace has fallen into the hands of Liu Wuzhou, if Jinyang Palace is also lost, he will not be able to escape Yang Guang's accountability.

"I think Liu Sima's suggestion is good, if you can destroy the thief, you can only do extraordinary things in extraordinary times." Wang Wei glanced at Gao Junya, and then said loudly.

Wang Wei and Gao Junya are both pawns that Yang Guang put next to Li Yuan, and the two have the same purpose, but they are not all the way.

However, as long as one of Wang Wei and Gao Junya spoke, Li Yuan's goal was achieved.

After nodding to Wang Wei, Li Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned his gaze to Gao Junya, "What do you think of the deputy guard?" ”

Gao Junya thought about it, but couldn't refute them, so he had to raise his head and say, "Everyone here agrees to recruit soldiers, so I naturally have no reason to object." ”

Li Yuan was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Liu Zhenghui to say, "Since this is the case." Then ask Liu Sima to write an edict as soon as possible and summon the people to join the army. ”

Liu Zhenghui gladly complied, and the conscription work then entered the substantive stage.

The people of the border counties have long suffered from the plundering of the Turks, and whenever the Turks invade, they pass like locusts gnawing at them.

When they heard that the conscription was to defend their homeland against the invasion of the Turks, the common people enthusiastically signed up, and a large number of displaced people joined the army in order to eat a good meal.

A few days later, Li Yuan had recruited 60,000 new troops, and as long as these new troops were equipped with weapons and armor and trained for a few more days, they would be a fighting force that could not be ignored.

Just as Li Yuan was expanding his strength in the name of dealing with Liu Wuzhou and vowed to attack Liu Wuzhou, the Turkic envoy came to Taiyuan secretly after disguised himself.

Raising troops with the help of the Turks was also one of Li Yuan's plans, and the reason why he recruited troops with great fanfare was not to force the Turks to take the initiative to contact him.

Now that the Turkic envoy has finally arrived, Li Yuan was relieved and immediately sent his henchman Liu Wenjing to meet him secretly.

Liu Wenjing is Li Mi's brother-in-law, if it was according to the ideas of later generations, he should have taken refuge in Li Mi; But the ancients have long known that eggs can't all be put in one basket, so the three brothers of Zhuge Liang will be divided into three countries, and the three brothers of Wen Yanbo also have their own lords.

Wen Yanbo is dominated by Luo Yi, Wen Yanbo's elder brother Wen Daya is dominated by Li Yuan, and their younger brother Wen Dayou is in Li Mijun.

Liu Wenjing talked with the Turkic envoy for more than half an hour, and then returned to Li Yuan's county guard's mansion.

"Indeed, the emissaries of Shibi Khan have come to seek cooperation. As long as the Ming Duke promised to cooperate with him, the Turks would not help Liu Wuzhou in his attack on Taiyuan. The envoy also sent the words of Shibi Khan, saying that he fully supported the Ming Gong uprising, and promised that these subsidies were only a lot more than Liu Wuzhou, but he set three conditions"

After Liu Wenjing said these words, she couldn't help but sigh.

From Liu Wenjing's exhaustion, Li Yuan also knew that the conditions mentioned by the Turks in this negotiation must be too harsh, but Li Yuan had this realization, that the negotiation would not be successful after only one negotiation, and what he wanted was to delay the time first.

Because there is no news that Li Xuanba, Li Xiuning and others have left Jiangdu or Dongdu, Li Yuan does not want to rebel before the safety of his children is guaranteed.

Despite this, Li Yuan couldn't help but ask, "What kind of conditions?" Let's talk about it. ”

"The first condition is that the Duke of Ming must send a proton to the Turks, and only after the prince arrives in the Turks, the agreement between the Turks and the Duke of Ming will take effect." Liu Wenjing immediately spoke.

"Is there a rule on who to hostage?" Li Yuan nodded, he was not too surprised by this.

"This is not true, it just says that it must be the son of Ming Gong." Liu Wenjing shook his head, as if he understood the meaning of Li Yuan's words, and then added, "The Turks don't value their concubines as much as the Great Sui, and if Duke Ming lets Liulang go, it's okay." ”

Liulang is Li Yuanjing, Li Yuan's sixth son, the son of Shude, who is only thirteen years old this year, and he happens to be in Taiyuan now.

Li Yuan has more than ten children, including Jiancheng, Shimin, Yuanba, Yuanji and Xiuning, and there are many concubines, but in addition to Jiancheng, Shimin, Yuanji and Yuanjing, a small half of these children are in Dongdu, and the other half are too young.

At present, among the children in Taiyuan, the most talented are Jiancheng and Shimin, and it is obviously impossible for Li Yuan to send them to the Turks as protons; The ugliest and most slender-looking Yuan Ji is about the same age as Yuan Jing, but he is a descendant, and he was abandoned by the Dou family because of his appearance when he was a child, Li Yuan has always felt indebted to him, so he will not send him out to suffer no matter what.

In fact, Li Yuan is still an enlightened father, he doesn't have much concept of concubines in his heart, he loves every one of his children; He would never let go unless he had to.

Of course, Li Yuan also knew that if these protons were sent out, they would just suffer hardship, so he could understand this condition.

"What about the second condition?"

Liu Wenjing was a little embarrassed, and said after a while, "The second condition is that the Ming Duke must be a vassal to the Turks, and the Turkic white flag must be used when raising troops." ”

Li Yuan pondered for a long time, and then asked, "What about the third condition?" ”

"The third condition is that the land and men of the Sui Dynasty do not want it, but the treasures and women of the Sui Dynasty must belong to the Turks, and if the Ming Duke accepts it, the Turks can send troops to help the Ming Gong in trouble."

Li Yuan sighed, among these conditions, he could only reluctantly accept the first one; The latter two are too harsh, and even if they become emperors in the future, they will inevitably be scolded by people for thousands of years.

Seeing that Li Yuanliang was speechless for a long time, Liu Wenjing couldn't help but call softly, "Ming Gong"

Li Yuan came back to his senses and said with a wry smile, "Any negotiation is not a one-time negotiation, let's send them away first, but we must express our intentions to them."

What Li Yuan is thinking about now is still a procrastination, but are the Turks really so easy to deceive?

Su You is now besieging Lulong City, the seat of Beiping County, and he used a procrastination trick a few days ago, and Su You ordered someone to put a few cannons in the city when he was fine, even at night, so he didn't let them sleep well.

On the evening of the third day, Su You received news from the scouts from the east, saying that the 3,000 reinforcements sent by Liaoxi County were thirty miles away.

Thirty miles is a house, that is, a one-day march in ancient times, although the speed of the march is much faster than in ancient times, but after all, the chaotic army cannot popularize horses, and it takes them at least half a day to walk these thirty miles.

Su You has always wondered what the significance of these 3,000 reinforcements to Beiping County will be, could it be that Zhang Junli wants these 3,000 people to relieve the siege of Lulong? Isn't this obviously a dream?

Even if the 3,000 people from Liaoxi were allowed to reach the battlefield, they would only choose one tactic, that is, to outflank and seek a decisive battle with the 3,000 troops who were guarding the south gate.

Even if there are 3,000 more people, they will be able to pose a threat to Ji Ziheng's troops?

Although Su You has enough self-confidence, he will not give them a chance anyway, otherwise why would he take Zhang Long and them to ride a thousand heavy horses?

Zhang Long's 1,000 heavy cavalry was for encirclement and reinforcement.

After nightfall, more than 30 warships loaded with 1,000 soldiers and 2,000 horses quietly broke away from Su You's fleet, and they quietly approached the east bank downstream five miles away from Lulong, disembarked and put on armor and armor, and then ambushed on the road to reinforcements in western Liao.

The ships transporting these horses then quietly returned to Su You's fleet, as if they had never moved.