For Yang Guang at the moment, he is already making a gamble, betting that he can succeed in a battle and completely defeat the Turks. At the very least, the Turks must be unable to start disputes with the Great Sui for ten years.

Only in this way can he free up his hands to clean up Chen Kefu in Liaodong, and now another wave of rebellion of the peasant army in the Central Plains.

This northern expedition against the Turks was not only a victory, but also a heavy blow to the Turks, and it was also necessary to fight a quick victory in a short period of time. The longer it drags on, the greater the Sui will face a two-sided, or even three-sided battle. He can't afford to drag it, and neither can Da Sui.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you discuss, how much of what Tuli said is true and how much is false? What is true or false? ”

After the officials took Tuli away, Yang Guang sat on the dragon chair, looked at the minister of the palace and asked.

Li Yuan stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, no matter how much of what Tuli said is true or false, now that our army is on the line, we can't lead it out." We have been planning for this war for several years and preparing for almost two years, and now we cannot stop it for whatever reason. The pacification of the Turks is of great importance to our Great Sui, and there can be no hesitation. ”

Pei Yun also nodded and said, "According to the minister's opinion, it is very likely that the Turks have already smelled something, and when they saw that the situation was wrong, they had to be wronged." If you want to delay the army, you will plan later. ”

The rest of the ministers in the palace also spoke one after another, saying that they all had the same meaning, that is, no matter what the Turks said, the imperial court still fought according to the previous strategy, and would never give the Turks the slightest chance.

"Ma Yi Taishou, tell me what you think?" Yang Guang called Li Shimin's name.

"The minister agrees with your lordship, it is very likely that the Turks know something about it, and now the Turks have just suffered from the white plague, and the steppe is unstable. At this time, they could not mobilize a large army in a short period of time to deal with it calmly. That's why Shibi Khan will carry out this strategy, which is nothing more than a plan to delay the army, delay the opportunity for His Majesty to use troops, so that he can have time to mobilize troops and horses to deal with it. ”

Yang Guang stroked his long beard and was silent.

"Pei Shiju, what's going on with the alliance of Tiele, Western Turks, and Kumoshuang? How long will they have to prepare before they can send troops? For this operation, Yang Guangzhi is sure to win, so he also attaches great importance to the three allies, he needs them to contain part of the Turkic forces in the Hui, north, and east, so that the imperial army can directly enter the Turkic tent from the south and completely defeat the main force of the Turks.

"Back to Your Majesty, the grassland departments last year the snow disaster was serious, the tribes of the grain and grass are insufficient, now the three tribes are preparing grain and grass, among which the Western Turks and Kumoxi have the imperial court to support the grain and grass, and now most of the grain and grass have not yet arrived. Therefore, according to the news, it will take at least a month for the three clans to prepare for sending troops and send troops together. Pei Shiju told Yang Guang the latest information one by one.

Yang Guang shook his head, "It's too long, twenty days, I will give them twenty days at most, and they must be ready within twenty days, and then they will fight the Turks on all sides and fight a battle." ”

"Do your best." Faced with this request, Pei Shiju could only respond first.

"Twenty days is too long, Tang Guogong, in your opinion, if we send troops alone, what are the chances of winning to take the Turks?" "If there is no containment of the three tribes, then it is possible that our army will face the western and western Turks at the same time.

Although the imperial court mobilized 500,000 soldiers and horses, only 150,000 cavalry were there, and the situation was not optimistic. ”

Yang Guang shook his head and gave up the idea of attacking the Turks alone. But if you want to wait for the other tribes, you have to wait for 20 days to a month. On the surface of the current situation, the Turks may already know some rumors, if it drags on for too long, and when the Turks are prepared, this Fu Ke will not be easy to fight.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a plan, but I don't know if it's feasible or not."

Yang Guang looked at it, but it was Li Shimin who came out of the ranks, nodded and said, "But it's okay to say it!" ”

"The minister's idea is that we need at least twenty days at the moment, and the Turks must want to delay the army, so it will definitely take time to confirm their suspicions and arrangements for us.

So I thought there was an opportunity in this. ”

"What chance?"

Li Shimin smiled confidently, "Your Majesty, didn't Tuli say that he wanted to go south to ask for guilt?" Why doesn't Your Majesty take advantage of this opportunity? ”

"What do you mean?"

"Your Majesty can ask Tuli to bring a decree to Shibi Khan, saying that Your Majesty is ready to tour the grassland north as before, and then let Shibi Khan personally come to the grassland border to greet him. At that time, His Majesty will lead 150,000 guards to the grassland, and I believe that if Shibi Khan gets this will, in order to delay time, he will definitely come to greet him. At that time, His Majesty suddenly attacked and captured Shibi Khan, then next, the grassland must be leaderless, and when our coalition forces attack the grassland on all sides, we will definitely be able to succeed in a battle. Li Shimin talked eloquently. …,

Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly spoke out against it, "Your Majesty, you must not, you can't sit in the hall with a golden body." Now that the war is imminent, if the Shibi Khan hears the rumors, if he leads his troops south, won't he put His Majesty in danger? It's not right, it's not right! ”

"What Lord Fan said is not true, Your Majesty does not need to really go to the border in person, you just need to travel with 150,000 forbidden troops and make a show. It is not close to the border of Dingxiang, and if you drive slowly, it will take at least half a month. If all goes according to what we have envisaged, Your Majesty will have to reach Mayi, and our coalition forces will be ready to send troops at the same time. ”

The older ministers in the middle of the court all came out one after another to support Fan Zigai.

This Li Shimin's plan... It's not just the emperor who travels, but none of them are missing, and when the emperor leaves, they must also follow. Everyone is sixty or seventy old men, who is willing to run to the border and risk it before the two sides go to war. Even if Li Shimin said that there was no danger, they were not willing to take risks. Anyway, if it succeeds, the credit will also be Li Shimin's, if Li Shimin is wrong, then it will be them who will be in danger.

"Silence!" Yang Guang looked at the ministers who were arguing below, and stood on the ground with the golden scepter in his hand.

After glancing at the ministers in the palace, Yang Guangdao said, "According to the original plan, as long as the four families are ready, they will start fighting on the same day." And the 500,000 soldiers and horses that have already been ready to go from all parts of our Great Sui will also quickly gather in Mayi, and then go straight to the Turkic tent, capture the Shibi Khan alive, and change the stability of our Northern Sui for decades in the First World War. I have thought about it, and the Turkic Shibi Khan sent the Turks south, obviously to warn us to react. If we don't deal with it properly, then Shibi Xiao'er will definitely guess that I want to clean him up. Therefore, what Shimin said is a good strategy, I am just one step ahead, and I have 150,000 janissaries to protect me, and I am in the territory of my Great Sui, so there will be no danger at all. Therefore, I have made up my mind, and Pei Shiju immediately urged the three Tiele families to make all preparations for the attack within 20 days. And I will summon Tuli tomorrow and ask him to bring my will to Shibi, and let him go south to the border to welcome me into the grassland. ”

Fan Zigai was still angry, and continued, "In order to ensure the safety of Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that when you send Li Shimin, the Taishou of Mayi, to return to Mayi first, and check and control the surrounding area for Your Majesty first, in case of accidents. ”

"That's good, I ordered Li Shimin, the Taishou of Mayi and the general of Zuotunwei, to lead 5,000 elite soldiers of Mayi to the north and return to Mayi on the same day!"

"Obey the order!" Li Shimin glanced at Fan Zigai with some dissatisfaction, originally he followed Yang Guang every day, and he was more and more liked by Yang Guang day by day, but Fan Zigai actually made a stalk from it.

On the same day, Li Shimin ordered 5,000 soldiers from his four prefectures to leave Taiyuan City, and returned to Mayi with Li Xiaogong.

On the second day, Yang Guang summoned Tuli and said that he was about to tour the steppe north, and asked him to inform Shibi Khan first, and let him come to the border of the steppe to meet him. At that time, he would bring food and fodder to help the Turks.

Tuli thanked Yang Guang, received the holy decree and rushed back, and along the way, he still felt like he had a dream. Although he was a little skeptical of Chen Kefu's tricks when he came, he never thought that things would go so smoothly. He just said that, and Yang Guang actually agreed to his request the next day. This made him a little suspicious that Yang Guang was in collusion with Chen Kefu.

While rushing back, Tuli's heart was also very moved, and he admired Chen Kefu, who was only famous and had not yet met. Liaodong, who lives thousands of miles away, can predict everything early in the future. Not only predicted that Shibi Khan would send troops, but also predicted that Shibi Khan would hesitate after arriving in Dingxiang, and even more predicted that Yang Guang would actually go north from Taiyuan by himself. All this, in Tuli's eyes, is simply like a miracle, and Chen Kefu is like the omnipotent immortal heaven on the grassland in his eyes.

As soon as Tuli left, Yang Guang also left the next day. Under the escort of 150,000 Praetorian Guards, Yang Guang and hundreds of officials, harem concubines and thousands of palace maids began to go north. When he left the city, Yang Guang raised his eyes and looked around, his eyes full of "Xing" and "Xing". Although it has been a long time of driving and driving, people are very tired. But just think that this time to the north, the powerful Turks will once again crawl and tremble under their feet, kissing their own boots. Yang Guang's heart was inexplicably moved, when he was touring the west, he personally destroyed the Tuyuhun Kingdom. And now he will make another tour of the north, and the Turks will be ruined from now on. …,

The Great Sui and the Turks have been entangled for decades, and Yang Guang can no longer endure this kind of power struggle with the Turks, he wants to directly knock the Turks into the abyss with unrivaled strength, and never give the Turks a chance to rise up.

Yang Guang stood in the middle of the tall mobile wooden palace, his heart full of plans for the future.

First destroy the Turks, then level Liaodong, and then level the Khitan, shoe roller and other tribes who dare to go against themselves one by one. After pacifying them, the iron hooves of the Great Sui will also level today's allies, the Western Turks, Tiele, Kumoxi, etc., one by one. In the world, there can only be one Great Sui, and any other tribal country will eventually be conquered by the Great Sui. He wants to let the iron cavalry of the Great Sui step on the Quartet, let the banner of the Great Sui flutter in the four seas, and let the five lakes praise his glorious cause of Yang Guang.

Yang Guang's heart is infinitely beautiful, but what he doesn't know is that what awaits him in the north is not beauty, but 300,000 Turkic wolf riders.

Just when dozens of horsemen arrived in Taiyuan day and night, the 300,000 cavalry of Shibi suddenly appeared from the north, and along the way, they killed and burned all the villages and people they could see. In only five days, the Turkic wolf rode all the way to Dali County, Dingxiang County.

Dali County is the only city in Dingxiang County, with more than 300 households, 200 border troops stationed, and thousands of merchants and floating population. If you add up all the people in the city, in fact, there are many people in Dali County, nearly 10,000 people.

It can be regarded as a big city in the border pass, there are many shops in the city, especially all kinds of inns, restaurants, and green buildings, and most of the traders who pass by from the south to the north have to replenish and rest in the imperial court here. Therefore, except in winter, the city has always been bustling, with people coming and going, and it is lively and noisy.

It's just that at this time, Dali County has become a mess, and just now, the defenders at the head of the city found that there was a vibration from the direction of the grassland. At first, I just thought it was a caravan from the steppes that had returned. Because there are some large caravans, among them will also sell horses, and if there are many caravans, there will be a thousand horses at a time. When so many horses run, there will also be this kind of vibration, but today's vibration is a little bit larger.

Sure enough, from the north came out a black sè, which was a moving black cloud, horses,

Knight.

"Which caravan is this? Why did you sell so many horses at once, there must be thousands, right? One of the soldiers at the head of the city rubbed his eyes and said to his accomplices.

The other soldier was much older, with a scar on his face, and looking at the armor on his body, he seemed to be a small officer like a captain or a team deputy. The little officer's expression was serious, and his eyes were straight at the moving cloud.

In the distance, in the clouds of smoke and dust, there were many figures inside, not moving. And the smoke was like a cloud, constantly moving this way, moving closer, and the little officer finally saw clearly, this was not a caravan, this was an army. And he has been at the border for many years, although the imperial court and the Turks have not started a war for many years, but those small grassland tribes on the border will often cross the border from time to time to plunder one or two, at this time it depends on the ability. The defenders are strong, and the grassland tribes who have suffered losses will not come to this place next time. Before this little officer came here, he had used a real knife with the grassland tribe. So he could see at a glance that it was the Turks who came, and looking at the march, it was still a well-trained cavalry unit. A cavalry force of several thousand people, as well as a complete banner equipment, this is definitely not a small tribe.

"Bell, bell!"

The petty officer ran to the alarm bell at the head of the city and struck it desperately. The county town of Dali is five or six days' journey from the border, and now that a fully armed cavalry of thousands of people has appeared here, it will definitely not be a trivial matter. He knew that the grassland had encountered a white plague last year, could it be that these grassland people were crazy and dared to enter the Central Plains on such a scale? Isn't this going to an all-out war with the Great Sui?!。