Chapter Twenty-Four: Giving People and Weapons
Soon after, the border pass sent an urgent document of 800 li, the scouts of the Sui army found a large camp of the Turks in the Yinshan Mountains, and according to the size of the camp of the Turks, it was speculated that their number should be more than 200,000, and this news also confirmed the news spread by the Langya Beacon Fire List that had been widely circulated before. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At this time, the people in the Hedong and Hetao areas were already frightened and were about to flee to the south, and a large number of people fled to Guanzhong with their families to seek refuge and avoid the attacks of the Turks.
The whole north was in turmoil because of the Turkic seizure.
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty sent Pei Ju with an army of 100,000 to the north, preparing to resist the Turkic invasion.
Pei Ju is seventy years old this year, and it is really difficult for him to lead the troops to fight at such an advanced age, and Yang Guang made this decision, firstly, he did not want him to continue to stay by his side and quarrel with Yu Shiji endlessly, and secondly, because Pei Ju dealt with the Turks a lot, and he also knew the Turks and knew their details, so Pei Ju was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate at the moment, and if he was not chosen, there would be no one else available.
Pei Ju had just arrived at Fenglingdu, looking at the rolling waves and the surging river, he felt infinite emotion in his heart for a while, he didn't know how many times he had spent this river, and he didn't know how many times he had been to the place of the Turks, he had reminded Emperor Yang a long time ago that the strength of the Turks was really developing too fast, and he had to guard against it, but Emperor Yang did not take this kind of thing to heart, but wantonly levied civilian service, built cities, built granaries, repaired canals, and reorganized soldiers, and put almost all his attention on the country. Immediately launched a million army to conquer Goguryeo, which made the development of the Turkic people in the north not be curbed in the slightest, and gradually reached this point of being difficult to control, and the territory of the Great Sui is now full of wolf smoke, rebel uprisings are endless, no matter how powerful the imperial court is, it is still powerless to deal with so many rebels, not to mention that at this time the Turkic army invaded south, I don't know how many families will be destroyed, how much loss will be caused, I don't know if the Great Sui can survive this catastrophe.
Pei Ju crossed the Yellow River with an army of 100,000 troops, and arrived in Taiyuan all the way, while Yuwenshu was waiting for Pei Ju in Taiyuan at this time.
Pei Ju originally planned to gather both Yuwenshu and Qu Tutong for a pre-war combat meeting, but Qu Tutong was at the foot of Yin Mountain at this time, far away from Taiyuan, and he couldn't come back for a while.
Pei Ju wanted to discuss with Yu Wenshu about the strategy of using troops, the combined army of the two of them is 150,000 people, although it is not as good as the 400,000 army of the Turks, but if they hold the fortified city, they may not be able to hold it, but what they are most afraid of is that the Turks make full use of the mobility of the cavalry, bypass these castles they are stationing, and march south, in this case, they are not easy to handle.
It's just that as soon as Pei Ju entered Taiyuan City, he received a letter sent to him by someone who didn't know who it was, with only eight words on it: If you want to break the Turks, you still need to see Yicheng!
Pei Ju was shocked, who sent him this letter? He hurriedly asked the director of the inn, but he didn't find any clues, and he couldn't find the letter who left him a letter.
But the messenger must have had no ill intentions, and he obviously knew that the purpose of his trip was to resist the Turks, so he gave himself advice.
Thinking of this, Pei Ju was a little relieved, and he savored this sentence again, he understood what this person meant, if he wanted to defuse the attack of the Turks, the key was to Princess Yicheng, but how to take this step, Pei Ju had not fully considered it in his heart for the time being.
At this time, a middle-aged man named Li Jing came to Pei Ju's post house where he was resting, and wanted to follow him to the northern pit Turks.
Pei Ju is very strange, isn't this Li Jing a county of Mayi? How did he get here?
Li Jing is known for his talent, and even Yang Su, the left servant of the former Taiwei Shangshu, praised him, saying that he has a wonderful talent and can occupy a high position, and Pei Ju has also heard of him.
After the two met, Li Jing took out a letter of recommendation, the content of the letter was roughly stating Li Jing's ability and persuading Pei Ju to reuse him, which is nothing strange, it is similar to the general letter of recommendation, but the signature of this letter of recommendation is indeed the seal of a small seal, Pei Ju carefully identified it, and opened his mouth wide in surprise, this letter of recommendation was actually stamped by Langya Pavilion.
"Have you dealt with the people of Langya Pavilion?"
Pei Ju was slightly surprised, he was originally the same as Yu Shiji, he was not very interested in such a non-governmental organization in the rivers and lakes, but this time Langya Pavilion did not hesitate to release a beacon list in order to warn the imperial court, so that they could know the intentions of the Turks in time, so Pei Ju had a little bit of a good impression of the organization of Langya Pavilion, although he didn't know their details, but at least he knew that their position on the righteousness was not bad.
"Prime Minister Qiqi, the last general did have a little contact with them, they notified me two days ago, let me take this letter to Taiyuan to wait for the prime minister, saying that it can give me a chance to show my military talents, in addition to this letter, they also gave me a design drawing, and I also brought it!"
As he spoke, he took out a design drawing, Pei Ju took it and took a look, only to see that there were two kinds of weapons on it, one was very similar to ordinary crossbow arrows, but a crossbow groove was installed on it, and crossbow arrows were installed in it.
Pei Ju was taken aback in his heart, could this be the legendary long-lost Zhuge Repeater?
He eagerly glanced at the description, but found nothing, the weapon was not named.
The other weapon looks much more complicated, it looks like a beehive, and there is still a crossbow machine and an expansion machine in the back, this weapon is marked with a name, called a bee crossbow, and there is a schematic diagram of a crossbow arrow next to it, marking the length of this crossbow arrow is seven feet, the material is made of pure iron, and the weight is about ten catties.
Pei Ju gasped, fortunately this weapon did not fall into the hands of the Turks, otherwise the armor of the Great Sui army would be as vulnerable as paper paste in front of this kind of crossbow arrow.
He deliberately looked at the lower right corner, and sure enough, he found a red seal of the Langya Pavilion seal carved in a small seal font, which showed that this thing was indeed given to them by the people of Langya Pavilion.
Pei Ju had completely chosen to believe in the other party at this time, he hurriedly found the craftsmen in the army, handed over the drawings to them, and asked them to build a thousand bee crossbows and 10,000 repeaters within five days according to the things on the drawings.