The war with the Turks is a plan that Chen Kefu will never change.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong proposed to Qi Henggong to respect the king, and then Kuang Yu, after the achievement of Qi Henggong's hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, the outside must first be secured, and then it became the governing policy of many politicians later. Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty's teacher Chao Cuo Li advocated the cutting of the feudal domain "must first be in peace", although it began to attract heated discussions in the court, and even gave away his own life in the end, but he helped Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty to finally cut the feudal domain successfully, strengthened the centralization of power, and revitalized the Western Han court.

Zhao Pu, the founding prime minister of the early Song Dynasty, also said in an excerpt to Song Taizong: "China is peaceful, and the people are self-serving." If the deceased husband wants to go outside, he must first settle inside. ”

Later, Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, and even Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China, were also supporters of the belief that the outside must be at home first, and the old Chiang had said many times that the outside must first be at ease, and the unification could resist the insult, and no country could not be unified and could win over the outside.

The lessons and lessons of countless predecessors seem to tell Chen Pojun that internal governance is fundamental. And the decisive battle with the Turks at this time is really not a wise move, such as Pei Lian, Mao Xi and other old ministers in the DPRK and China have also persuaded Chen Kefu several times, and the Turks are taking advantage of the momentum of new unification, and the troops are very sharp. At this time, there were still seven major separatist forces in the country occupying half of the country, and the imperial court's top priority should be to compromise with the Turks first, even if it temporarily agreed to some unreasonable demands of the Turks. The imperial court first delayed the army with the Turks, and freed up its hands to unify the Central Plains with all its might, so that the conditions could be used to solve the problems of the Turks.

Having said that, Chen Kefu hesitated for a long time. After much thought, he finally chose to fight the Turks.

Although Pei Lian, Mao Xi and others have good ideas, how can the Turks get along well. You want to delay the army, but the Turks may not be willing to cooperate with you.

The years of the year. Chen Kefu never gave up reconnaissance of the Turks. From the Shibi Khan of the Eastern Turks, to the Shekui Khan of the Western Turks, to the Luo Khan, and then to the current Tongyehu Khan, among the four great khans, in terms of strategic vision, it can be said that none of them is short-sighted.

Shibi Khan originally unified the Eastern Turkic tribes and led them to the south. almost captured Yang Guang and captured Yanmen. Although Shibi was defeated in the end, his strategy of going south cannot be said to be wrong.

And the Khan was originally just after the defeat of the Western Turks at the hands of the Eastern Turks, and the Great Khan of the Western Turks was defeated by the Great Sui in the Central Plains. A tribal leader who gradually ascended to the throne of Khan. However, when the Western Turks had just been defeated by the Great Sui and the Eastern Turks when he ascended the throne, and were in a critical situation of one-third of the Western Turks, they still integrated and unified the entire Western Turkic Khanate in just a few years, and even continued to attack westward, conquering countless lands in the Western Regions west of Jinshan and the Sogdians such as the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms. Finally, the Western Turks were brought to a peak.

The successful expansion to the west has always been in mind to unify the grasslands in the east, and then go south to fight with the Han people for the Central Plains. In the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Shooting Kui once fully supported Li Yuan, Li Rail, and Xue Ju, but if it wasn't for the last Chen Kefu's envoy to join Ye Hu to assassinate Shooting Kui. And the Western Turks were divided from then on, and Daro and Tong Yehu's uncle and nephew fell into the middle of the war. Chen Kefu can be sure that the Western Turks had already unified the steppe in the hands of the Archers several years ago. Then he would have already waved his troops to the Central Plains.

Yang Jian, Yang Guang, father and son, have always put the Turks in a very high position, and spared no effort to fight the Turks. The game of splitting the Turks, weakening the Turks, uniting the weak, attacking the strong, has never stopped.

Chen Kefu has always had a high opinion of Yang Jian's father and son, who unified China that had been divided for hundreds of years, and led the Sui Dynasty to a peak that no one had reached for hundreds of years. Around the dazzling and glorious kingdom of the Great Sui, no kingdom dynasty and tribe can emerge, but there is a little sign in the mortal world, and they are strangled to death in the bud by the father and son of the Yang family. …,

This is true of the Turks, this is true of the Khitans, this is true of Tuhun and even the same is true of Goguryeo.

The international strategy of the Sui Dynasty was deeply respected by Chen Kefu, and Yang Guang and his son opened up communication with the Western Regions and established the Celestial Empire system. However, the Tang Dynasty, which inherited the Sui Dynasty in history, was able to suppress the surrounding areas except for the first few decades when it was founded, but it collapsed after decades of poverty and hunger.

Although the Turks died, the original small Khitan sat in the Tang Dynasty, and eventually became the Great Liao that oppressed the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years. Even the Korean Peninsula, which was almost collapsed by the Sui Dynasty, finally allowed the Silla people to benefit from the fishermen in the Tang Dynasty, and finally put the peninsula in the hands of the stick forever.

A group of savages on the southwest plateau, and Tuyuhun in the northwest, these tribes that used to be vassals in front of the Sui Emperor, established the Tubo Empire in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty almost always pinned on the head of the Tang Dynasty. Even the indigenous people of the southwest eventually divided and established the Nanzhao Kingdom. After the Turks, there were Hui Hui crisscrossing the grasslands and repeatedly bordering the Koubian.

Chen Kefu is familiar with the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and although the Sui was short-lived, it was a glorious dynasty. Although Tang was famous, it only lasted for several generations through the glory of Sui, and then it was completely reduced to a pathetic thing that could be bullied by any surrounding kingdom or even tribe. Even due to the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains for the next few hundred years has been completely oppressed by the surrounding tribal kingdoms.

Sui has long since died, and now it is the Great Chen established by him Chen Kefu who replaces the Tang Dynasty in history and has the potential to unify the world.

Historically, at the beginning of Li Yuan's establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he once took refuge in the Turks, borrowed troops from the Turks called Ju Nagong, and then pulled the wolf skin of the Turks, and finally stole the Great Sui. It was precisely because of Li Yuan's behavior at the beginning of the army that Li Shimin, who later killed his brother and killed his brother to drive his father from power, also chose to temporarily forbear and call himself a tribute when facing the Turks. After Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty repeatedly borrowed troops from foreign tribes and made peace with the surrounding forces, but in the end he was beaten in turns and finally lost the country.

Chen Kefu doesn't want to become Li Yuan, and he doesn't want his Da Chen to become the second Da Tang. And he knew very well that compared with the current situation in history, the Tongye Hu at this time was more difficult to deal with than Shibi, because Shibi Khan was only the Eastern Turkic Khan. However, Tong Yehu was the Great Khan who had just unified the entire Eastern and Western Turks.

Although Wuhu Chaohua is history, it is not far away.

Fighting a war is not only about troops, but also about the opponent. There is a great khan like Tong Yehu who usurped the throne by killing his brother and betraying his nephew, and Chen Kefu can't pin all his hopes on the enemy. All the situations that Chen Kefu faced. It's actually just a simple choice question.

It was to attack the weak seven separatist forces in the Central Plains first, and then gradually unify the Central Plains, and then carry the momentum of the entire Central Plains to fight a decisive battle with the Turks. Or did he directly deal with the strongest Turkic Khanate at the beginning, so that the Turks would not be behind his back when he unified the Central Plains?

For Pei Lin and Mao Xi and other old ministers, it is natural to settle inside first and then go outside.

But for Chen Kefu, such a choice has long been experienced. Hundreds of years later, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty faced the same choice with his powerful vassal uncles. It's the strongest that comes first. Or deal with the weakest first. Historically, that emperor listened to the words of his cronies and chose to start with the weak. But the result of history is that he was finally robbed of the throne by his strongest uncle.

Persimmon can be picked soft pinch. But in the face of a war related to the safety of the dynasty, Chen Kefu's choice had already been decided. He is an emperor who started immediately, and in countless wars, it has always been his way to kill the Chinese army and smash the enemy's nest. How to prune and prune leaves. In addition to being able to startle the snake, there are not many opportunities to really break through, especially when facing an enemy army with more than one million forces in the north and south. …,

In Chen Kefu's view, the more such a crisis is in place. The more you have to pick the strongest opponent first, and solve it as quickly as possible. In this way, he can deter those who want to make up his mind in one fell swoop, and then he can take the opportunity to calm all forces in one fell swoop.

Such an idea is risky and bold. Maybe most people don't choose this way, but this is Chen Kefu's style, his way of thinking. In the eyes of others, this is an adventure, but in Chen Kefu's view, this is a dangerous and dangerous soldier.

Because it is a surprise soldier, what Chen Kefu needs most now is to deal with the Turks in one fell swoop before the seven enemies in the south and west react. He didn't really want to annihilate these hundreds of thousands of Turks and defeat the unified Turkic Empire, but at least, this battle had to make the Turks feel painful, and they had to be pained to retreat back to their nests and lick their wounds, so that they would not dare to go south to the Central Plains for two or three years.

For his strategic decision, Chen Kefu firmly believes that this is the most correct. But what has always bothered him and made him uneasy day and night was the sneering face of Yang Guang who could not be forgotten.

The decision was good, but now he had ordered the urgent mobilization of the entire Dachen Empire's 800,000 troops, including all the troops and reserves, and basically adult men with a little training had been drafted into the battlefield. In addition, there are more than 2 million auxiliary soldiers. It can be said that this is the real battle of the nation, and for this war, the whole empire has turned.

The scale of this war was no more than the huge scale of Yang Guang's expedition to Liao. Yang Guang launched an army of 1.1 million that year, and more than 3 million people conquered Liaodong, and several times in a row.

From Chen Kefu's perspective at the national strategic level, Yang Guang's conquest of Goguryeo, which had no respect for the Great Sui and was constantly expanding, was a suitable and correct move. Goguryeo's strength can already be on an equal footing with the Great Sui in Liaodong, and if it continues to serve in the brigade, it will even eventually become a superpower comparable to the Great Sui in the northeast. The Sui Dynasty chose a time when he had not yet reached his strongest, and sent troops to conquer Liao, which was the best time to block Goguryeo.

But in fact, it was Yang Guang's conquest of Liao that finally led to the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and finally buried the glorious Great Sui Empire.

Now, in Chen Kefu's view, this war with the Turks, which he thinks is very correct, has also had many characteristics when the Sui Dynasty conquered Liao. Mobilize millions of military and civilian forces to face a super steppe empire that can rival the strength of the Chen Dynasty, and carry out a war that may last or even fail.

At this moment, Chen Kefu really deeply understood Yang Guang's feelings.

Yang Guang was an emperor of great talent, and it was he who took over the glorious Sui Empire from Yang Jian's hands and led him to the pinnacle of the Empire for a time. Many of Yang Guang's important decisions are actually very important and correct, but there were mistakes in the final operation.

Before Yang Guang's expedition to Liao, he must have carefully considered the burden of the expedition, right?

But in the end, Yang Guang still decided to take a gamble, perhaps it was because Yang Guang took into account the burden of conquering Liao, so he had the idea of finishing his work in one battle, so he would face the powerful Goguryeo, brazenly mobilize a million troops, and want to solve the hidden danger of Goguryeo, which had to be solved.

It's a pity that he was defeated, defeated again and again, the four expeditions to Goguryeo were all defeated, millions of teachers were lost, natural disasters finally led to a peasant uprising.

What about yourself? What will be the result? Mobilized so many troops, what if it fails? Or what if both sides lose with the Turks? Does Da Chen still have the strength to compete with other forces in the Central Plains?

Chen Kefu felt uneasy, but he had to bear it. The decision has been decided, as an emperor, who is in charge of the fate of more than 20 million people, how can he change his order overnight, not to mention, he has not found a better way to deal with it. …,

Pray, pray that Heaven will help him with this, so that he can survive this ordeal.

Since the decree to call the militia was issued, Chen Kefu has not had a good night's sleep for three consecutive days. He was constantly worried that the decree would be resisted by the people. After more than ten years of turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains were already tired of war, military service, and conscription. He was afraid that his decision would lead to another round of peasant uprising in the Chen Dynasty that refused to conquer Liao, as it had done in the seventh year of the Great Cause.

Three days have passed, and the reports sent back by the Investigation Department, which is responsible for monitoring all provinces, prefectures and counties, have not appeared as Chen Kefu feared. On the contrary, after the government army, township soldiers, and militia groups successively received orders from the imperial court to go to various places, the various places where the troops and horses were originally assembled in the provinces and counties were not deserted, but still had people coming from all over the country.

Among these people, the first is the military children of the Yingyang Reserve Military Academy in the Yingyang Prefecture of each prefecture, and these military families are from excellent physical and other aspects of the children are selected to the Yingyang Reserve Military Academy opened in each province to receive several years of training as reserve non-commissioned officers. These selected students are all children of the government army who graduated from county schools over the age of 16, and because Da Chen stipulates that they will be 21 years old, and the school system of the Yingyang Preparatory Military Academy is four years, so the highest grade is only 20 years old. These students are now reserve officers, and seeing that even the reserves of reserve units such as the militia regiment have been put on the battlefield in various places, the quasi-officers who were selected to study at the Yingyang Reserve Military Academy actually refused to accept it when they were asked to continue their studies at the school.

Led by many leading students from the schools in each prefecture, the cadets of the various Yingyang Reserve Military Academies began to connect in tandem, and finally began to rush to the original conscription assembly points, asking to join the imperial team and set foot on the battlefield. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )