In the first year of the Great Sui Dynasty, in November, the Haidong Jin tribes attached themselves to the Great Sui and sent envoys to pay tribute. In the same month, the Goguryeo king Gao Jianwu again sent an envoy to Luoyang, sending a letter of surrender written by himself, asking for a truce between the two countries. and paid a tribute of 1,000 catties of gold, and returned 100,000 Han people in the territory to the Great Sui.

"The Goguryeo people panicked." Yi Feng accepted Gao Jianwu's credentials, as well as the 1,000 catties of gold, and accepted the 100,000 Han people who were returned, but did not explicitly agree to Goguryeo's request. Throwing aside Gao Jianwu's letter of state signed by Jianwu, the minister of Liaodong dung, Yi Feng returned to the front of the huge map in the hall and asked the privy envoy Wang Bao, "Where is Li Jing?" ”

In the Yeonying Palace, the government hall and the Privy Council gathered and knelt on both sides of the huge map. The gentlemen and ministers in the Yeonying Hall were much more relaxed, and there were no celebrants who always paid attention to the behavior and etiquette of the ministers, and the monarchs and ministers talked with each other in a relaxed manner. However, those who can enter the Yanying Hall to enjoy this treatment are currently only the governors of the two prefectures, and occasionally relevant important ministers in Beijing are summoned to attend. The important meetings that surpass the deacons are generally in the Daye Hall, and the music in the Daye Hall is not so important. It has now become an important meeting between the emperor and the deacons, and they always discuss military and political matters related to the empire.

"There is intelligence that Datou is asking for reinforcements from Persia and Rome." Attending the meeting today as observers were three directors of the Supervision Yuan, and Pei Zeng, director of the Military Intelligence Department, gave a briefing on an important military situation.

"I don't think you can worry about this, when Datou's father was in charge of the western Turkic region, he joined forces with Persia to destroy the powerful country of the Western Regions, and originally agreed in advance that the two sides would each take half of the land of Hatda. But after the victory, the Western Turks immediately turned their faces. Under the pretext of making zuò, the last attack on Persia. The other half of the Hinda was also seized, and then the war between the Western Turks and Persia was triggered, which lasted for almost 20 years, in which the Western Turks united with the Roman Empire to attack Persia against Persia, and the Persia and Rome also fought for 20 years without stopping, and then the Western Turks stabilized the Hinda region, and then started a war with Rome, taking advantage of the opportunity of Persia and Rome to fight. He seized a lot of Rome, and Rome and the Turks became hostile from then on. And just last year, Datou took advantage of the years of war between Persia and Rome, coupled with the weakness of the internal strife and rebellion, to send troops to defeat Persia and fight for peace. Seeing that the head is weak, he wants to ask for help from Persia and Rome, both of which have been played by the Turks and paid a heavy price. They are not stupid, how could they send troops to help him at this time, and it would be better if they didn't take the opportunity to send troops to seize the land that was looted by the Turks before. Gao Yi, the director of the Investigation Division, said with a sneer, although Persia and Rome are thousands of miles away to the west. But the Investigation Division had infiltrated these areas long ago and planted their agents.

For the Great Sui, which has now become the center of the East, it will inevitably open its horizons to the far west. With Yi Feng's advocacy, the officials, civilians, and businessmen of the Great Sui have long been no longer limited to the East. They also already knew from many new books and newspapers on geography that the Great Sui was indeed the center of the world. It is a central country, but on the four sides of the Great Sui there are those regions and nationalities that they have long been familiar with. There are also many regions and countries that they did not know about or did not know before. For example, the countries of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty are not really the land of the extreme west. This is only a relatively speaking, in the west of the Green Mountains, there are more extensive areas, Tianzhu, Persia, Rome, Egypt, Greece, etc., and even this is not the polar region, there are countless countries and regions in the world that are in an undiscovered state. Books, newspapers, and magazines constantly publicized these new geographies, encouraging the merchants of the Great Sui to go to those unknown places, and bring the culture and goods of the Great Sui to those places.

And among those merchants, monks, Taoist priests and others who went abroad and went to that more distant country, many of them were secret agents arranged by the three divisions of the Supervision Yuan.

"There are no absolutes, in case Persia or Rome has ambitions for the Western Regions, they take this opportunity to intervene in the Western Regions, whether it is to send troops to aid Datou, or to contain Datou to retreat into their territory, it will not be a good thing for us. Persia and Rome are both the two great powers of the West, and if these two empires want to take the opportunity to intervene in the Western Regions, then it will be a trouble for the imperial court. In the past, the Western Turks controlled the Western Regions, and they were left and right between Persia and Rome, and even left and right, so that Rome and Persia were at war without stopping, and he took the opportunity to take advantage of the fisherman's profits, stabilized the Western Regions, and at the same time isolated the Central Plains from Persia and Rome. But now that the reach has declined, a new situation will emerge in the Western Regions, and none of us can guarantee whether these two countries will take the opportunity to advance eastward. ”

Yi Feng nodded, although Liu Wenjing was not a leader, her grasp of the situation was still very accurate. This is the case between countries, there is no friendship to speak of, there are only interests. Persia and the Turks could join forces in order to destroy the powerful country of the Western Regions, and even the western Turkic khan married his daughter to the Persian emperor, and the two countries worked closely together to destroy and divide up a powerful kingdom that occupied Afghanistan at that time. But in a blink of an eye, in order to monopolize the land of Hatda, the Turks immediately betrayed Persia, sent troops to each other, forcibly took away the other half of Hatda, and united with Rome to attack Persia. It's not just the Turks who are cunning and untrustworthy, but all countries, where profit and faith are just a joke. The Western Regions region is a piece of fat, not to mention that the Western Turks control not only the east of the Green Mountains, their power has long reached the west, the Western Turks have long been bordering the two major Western empires of Persia and Rome, especially the Turks control the Western Regions, and also control the Silk Road, the golden route of trade between the East and the West is in his hands, I don't know how much wealth he earned, Persia and Rome have long been envious. Who wouldn't be tempted if they had the opportunity now?

And once the two countries advance eastward and want to seize the Western Regions of Datou and control the Central Plains, the Sui Dynasty will be very troublesome, not only may the control of the Western Regions be lost, but the Silk Road will also be controlled by others, especially the Western Regions has always been the western barrier of the Central Plains, and it is a solid barrier to prevent Western forces from invading the Central Plains. And the imperial court wants to start a war with them in the Western Regions, which is basically impossible at this stage. It's too far away.

"I hope that Li Jing can make a quick decision and win the head as soon as possible. Before Persia and Rome could make a move, they controlled the Western Regions, and the princes who were divided by the imperial court each controlled their own fiefs. Then it will be much more difficult for the two countries to reach out and get in. ”

"What are we going to do if Persia and Rome do send troops?" Su Wei asked a question in everyone's minds.

"Then find a way to solve it, if both countries really send troops, then we will provoke them to fight, and then wait for them to lose both before attacking. If only one country sends troops, then we can also provoke another country, or unite with another country to destroy that country. In short, the Turkic Khans of the West were able to play Persia and Rome in the palm of their hands. They played in a mess, fighting each other for 20 years, so that the Western Turks sat on the profits of the fishermen, it is impossible for us to be the central country and the leader of the Eastern Alliance, but it is not as good as a small Western Turk. "Yi Feng Dao.

Western Regions, Sanmi Mountain, Datou Khan Court.

Da Tou asked in a panic, "How many people are here from Li Jing?" ”

The squire replied. "300,000 troops!"

Datou was shocked and asked, "How can there be so many people?" ”

Li Jing was unstoppable along the way, and all the troops surrendered one after another, although Du Lan led his troops to resist. But he was defeated in a battle, his soldiers were defeated and died, and his troops all surrendered to the Sui army. And. The rebel Tiele tribes in Mobei also led their troops to cooperate with the Sui army to fight, fighting all the way. All of them are looking forward to the wind falling, and now the Tiele tribes in the Western Regions. As well as Gaochang and other countries, they all took the initiative to join the Sui army, and all roads converged, and Li Jing's army had reached 300,000 people, and they were about to be killed here. ”

"What about the envoy sent to Persia, why hasn't there been a reply yet, the Persian emperor is willing to borrow troops to rescue us, and the envoy sent to Rome, has there been a reply?"

"Nope."

"No news at all?"

"Nope."

"Is God going to kill me?" Datou looked up to the sky and sighed, his heart almost collapsed.

"What now?" The guard asked.

"Run." Datou looked up to the sky and sighed, more than a year ago he defeated the Persian army, and then marched eastward, and defeated the Dulan soldiers and horses, at that time he was so majestic, how proud, after Dulan surrendered, the first order he gave was to prepare to attack Sui. Many Great Khans of the Turkic Khanate had never conquered the Central Plains, and he wanted to become the first Turkic Great Khan to conquer the Central Plains. At that time, he never thought that he would lose so badly, and in a short period of time, he was already cornered.

Gritting his teeth, he waved his hand, "Retreat westward, the green mountains left behind, don't be afraid of no firewood, I will come back sooner or later." ”

Datou evacuated from the Khanting, and three days later, Li Jing had personally led 10,000 light horsemen to chase after him. In the middle of the night, Li Jing led the light cavalry to suddenly enter the camp of Datou's westward retreat, shouting and killing sounded on all sides, the Turkic camp was chaotic, looking at the banner of the Sui Dynasty, many Turkic herdsmen who were awakened in their dreams were terrified, thinking that the Sui Dynasty army had been killed, and they scattered and fled.

In a night of chaos, Li Jing only relied on 10,000 forward light cavalry to collapse the battalion with a head of more than 100,000 people. After daybreak, the follow-up troops of the Sui army arrived and continued to pursue westward.

Seven days later, outside the Broken Leaf Broken Leaf City, Datou and his party arrived tiredly, Datou looked at the Broken Leaf City, and breathed a sigh of relief, the wolf bèi had escaped for so many days, and he could finally enter the city to rest and replenish for a while.

Running closer and closer to the city, the city gate slowly opened, and Datou's face suddenly changed.

I saw the city gate open, a fine horse rushed out, galloping, and in front of this team, is a fiery red Sui flag, behind the Sui flag, is embroidered with the big Li character handsome flag.

Li Jing had already taken a shortcut and waited here in ambush for the first half a day.

In a battle without suspense, Datou, who abandoned his clan and fled, was finally captured alive by Li Jingsheng under Broken Leaf City. Subsequently, Li Jing dispatched troops and horses, divided into multiple routes, quickly swept away the remnants of Datou, purged the Turkic rebels, and then presided over the fiefdom division of the princes on behalf of the Son of Heaven.

When the first snow fell in the Western Regions, Li Jing received an urgent report that both the Persian Emperor and the Roman Emperor had sent troops to the east, but halfway through, he heard that Datou had been defeated and captured, and the Sui army had taken control of the Western Regions and had divided the seals, and then retreated.

After hearing the news, Li Jing sighed for a while, "Finally, after waiting for this good news, the Western Regions can finally be stable, and there will be no trouble for the time being." We can also return to the court with peace of mind, and pass the order, the class division, the grassland princes and the vassal states each withdraw their troops and return to their own vassal states and fiefdoms, and the leaders of the first steppe rebellion enter Beijing to offer prisoners. ”

Luoyang, although into the winter, but the weather is sunny and warm, Luoyang's pigeon station, a white pigeon flew down, there are already pigeon personnel to catch up, pick up the pigeon, carefully record the information on the pigeon foot ring, and then take off the letter tube on the pigeon's foot. The letter was quickly delivered to Li Keshi's hands, and he only glanced at it and knew that it was an urgent 100,000 flying letter sent back from Guanzhong, so he personally picked up the letter and jumped on his horse and galloped towards the Luoyang Palace. (To be continued......)