"Minister Zhao Zheng is knocking to see Your Majesty!" Zhao Zheng hurriedly took two steps forward and was about to kneel.

"Minghao is here? Don't kneel, come here and see! Li Guan waved his hand without looking back and said.

Zhao Zheng approached with a puzzled expression, only to find that what was hanging on the wall was not the territory map of Daqian, but the map of the northern steppes, among which the Eastern and Western Turks were listed.

Zhao Zheng didn't know what Li Guanqi wanted him to do, so he had to take a closer look honestly, but he was immediately shocked and moved, and then he was attracted tightly. Because this map is particularly meticulously made, the spheres of influence of the various tribes of the Eastern and Western Turks are clear at a glance, and they are all distinguished by different colors, and what is even more rare is that every river and every mountain range is clearly depicted.

Li Guanqi looked at Zhao Zheng's expression, smiled slightly, walked to the dragon book case, picked up the teacup and took a sip of water, and then said with a smile: "How is the life of the master of the horse?" Did my sister bully you? ”

Zhao Zheng was fascinated and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words, he didn't expect His Majesty to call him over, and the first thing he asked was his own family affairs. smiled awkwardly at the moment and said, "Your Majesty Lao is worried!" Everything is fine with the minister and the eldest princess! ”

"That's good! I've been worried that my brutal sister will bully you! Li Guanqi smiled lightly, and then said, "If I have something for you to do, I have to leave the Jingshi for a long time, and even my life is in danger, are you willing to do it?" ”

Zhao Zheng's spirit was shocked, and he said hurriedly: "Your Majesty has an order, and the minister will not give up!" ”

Li Guanqi waved his hand and said: "You people are really, always dying and dying, I only ask if you are willing to leave Gentle Township and go to the bitter days of licking blood with knives and shrouding corpses in horse leather?" ”

"The minister is willing!" Zhao Zheng stepped forward again and said.

"Really?" Li Guanqi stared at Zhao Zheng tightly and asked.

"Your Majesty!" Zhao Zheng suddenly raised his head and said loudly, "Chen Yuan was born as a thief. is so that he took refuge in His Majesty, in order to be able to contribute to the court and the people, and to be able to really do something in vain in this life, instead of being just an idle relative like now. It's not that the eldest princess is bad, it's just that this is really not the life that the minister wants. "Speaking of which. There were already faint tears in the eyes of this iron-clad man.

"Good!" Li Guanqi high-fived and praised, "Since you have great ambitions, I won't let your ambitions not be fulfilled." After a pause, he asked, "What do you think of this map?" ”

Zhao Zheng said with a solemn expression: "This picture alone can be worth 100,000 male soldiers!" ”

Li Guanqi nodded with satisfaction, stood up and said, "The first time I led my troops to fight was I learned from you, at that time you used surprise attack tactics, and this time I will give you another chance to go deep behind enemy lines. ”

Zhao Zheng frowned. With his eyes shining, he asked, "Your Majesty means to take the initiative to attack the Turks?" ”

"Not bad! Come and see! Li Guanqi walked to the hanging steppe map, pointed his finger at the map, and said, "There are ten tribes in the Western Turks and eight in the East Turks, and the forces of each tribe are uneven, and the Turks have regarded plundering as a matter of course. To add insult to injury, tribes are robbing each other of limited resources in order to survive. ”

Zhao Zheng frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty wants the minister to lead a lone army to fight behind enemy lines?" ”

Li Guanqi clenched his fists hard and said, "Send a lone army deep behind enemy lines." It was a taboo in the army, but I received reliable information that the Western Turks were pouring out of the nest this time, and the rear was extremely empty, and the rest of each alliance were old and weak, women and children, and there were very few soldiers left behind to fight. Originally, the Turks were nomadic peoples. There are no fixed cities, and although we know that there is an emptiness behind them, it is very difficult to find their specific location in the vast steppe, but now we have established a complete intelligence network in the Turks, and we have such a detailed combat map. Add to that your military literacy and the combat power of the cavalry, and it's worth the risk. ”

"Horseman? That's His Majesty's personal guard! Zhao Zheng said in surprise.

"It's because they are my guards, so I know more about their combat power, and I have more confidence, and if I don't use the best soldiers, wouldn't it be equivalent to letting you die?" Li Guanqi said in a deep voice, "I will give you 5,000 people, and then transfer Xie Chen to you for use." Well, Tang Zifeng, you also bring it, this person has a lot of ideas, you should also use it. ”

Turning around, Li Guanqi continued: "You must remember that the main task of these 5,000 people is to destroy, eat their cattle and sheep, burn their forage, sweep their grasslands like locusts, and in short, destroy everything about them as much as possible. It is not your duty to kill the enemy, especially the old and weak women and children who try to kill as little as possible. You will disgust him as much as you like a fly that flies into the throat of Sharo Khan.

Of course, you are alone behind enemy lines, without our support and supplies, and they must plunder their own food and grass supplies to feed the war.

And the most important point, for these Turkic tribes, you have to treat them differently, only one family is robbed between neighboring tribes, so that they can be rich and poor, some can live, some starve to death, the Turks regard looting as a matter of course, so that the whole Turkic interior will be full of smoke, and then the headache should be Sharo and Jiba! ”

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The so-called unpredictable weather in the sky, the Western Turkic Sharo Khan led an army of 150,000 to attack Daqian. Originally, the Great Qian Dynasty had a strong Great Wall as a barrier in the entire north and northwest, and according to Li Guanqi's idea, if it was fought head-on, although it might not be able to hold it in the end, it should still be no problem to hold on for a month or two. And during this time, Zhao Zheng's strange soldier should also play a role, and then Sharo Khan will have only one way to retreat.

However, what Li Guanqi did not expect was that the guards of the Qiyang Pass, which was the first checkpoint of the Great Qian Dynasty to resist the Western Turks, actually defected to the enemy.

In this way, the Western Turkic army entered the pass without bloodshed, drove straight in, and then captured the important northwest town of Rouyuan, which had no time to react, at almost no cost.

I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, after the Western Turkic army captured Rouyuan City, they only cared about burning, killing and plundering, searching for prisoners and women everywhere, and the people of Rouyuan City paid an extremely painful price, and for a while the Western Turks did not mean to continue to go south.

When the 600-mile urgent military report from the front came, Li Guanqi was really annoyed and anxious, and without a moment's delay, he immediately convened a court meeting to urgently discuss the military situation. (To be continued......)