Early the next morning, as soon as Dayang appeared, Yi Feng and his party left the city in a mighty way.

On the road outside the Dingyuan Gate at the south gate of Huaihuang City, the red and green are hung, and the five-colored flags are displayed in the wind, as if they are happy events in the New Year. The mighty 800 guards regiment were all wearing bright navy blue cuirasses, fiery red brocade robes, covered with fire fox skins, and wearing bronze tiger head swords at their waists. Dozens of horns sounded, dozens of drums were beating, and carriages slowly drove out of the city gates.

The purple handsome flag is embroidered with a white tiger, hunting and dancing in the wind, Yi Feng wears a purple and gold crown, wears an embroidered gold-purple robe, and stands on the side of the road with a solemn expression. Wei Zheng, who consulted the army, Xu Decheng, the chief bookkeeper, Qin Qiong, the commander of the second cavalry battalion, and Wang Bao, the commander of the first infantry battalion, all rode behind him energetically. Yi Feng's body is a little stronger than when he came at the beginning of the year, the battle in the past year has left an iron and blood mark on his face, and even the original blue stubble has grown into a short mustache of inches, after a little trimming, with that resolute face and bronzed complexion, it is natural for people to ignore that he is only nineteen years old and less than twenty years old, and people can only feel the majesty of a young commander.

The teams heading west into Beijing continued to gather, Yi Feng's eyes swept over one by one, and he said to Wang Bao behind him, "Let's go." Wang Bao nodded, and immediately stepped forward to give the order, shouting: "The commander ordered, set off!" ”

Shouting, one of the eight hundred guards who served as the pioneer of the road has taken the lead under the guidance of an apricot yellow road opening flag. Gallop south.

The team entering Beijing is very large, and Yi Feng will never neglect his own safety, especially when he has just offended Yang Liang, the king of Han. At the same time, it has always been regarded as a thorn in the flesh by the prince. In addition, he also arranged the 100 flag guards of the Flag Guards to secretly protect the left and right of the team, and the three intelligence agencies also sent men and horses to the front station early to prepare for reconnaissance work and collect intelligence according to the predetermined route. In addition, Yi Feng also used the excuse of escorting 10,000 horses and many gifts to the Son of Heaven. Another 1,000 elite soldiers were sent to serve as escort gifts and follow them. It was a huge team, with 800 cavalry guards on the surface. However, the 1,000 retinues were also elite soldiers, and there were 100 other three intelligence department personnel, including the Banner Guard and the Special Branch, to play the front station, and they chose to take the safe route of Hebei and Henan to meet the King of Jin in Luoyang, and then enter the customs and enter Beijing together, so as to ensure that nothing went wrong.

The front team has been opened. Gao Qianxue and Murong Rose hugged their son and led a group of handsome concubines and concubines to see them off. Gao Bo and Pei Zeng, who were entrusted by Yi Feng with the important task of staying behind, also came to see them off, and a large number of merchants from the Central Plains also chose to accompany the caravan that was about to return. With Yi Feng's huge team, not only is it safe and secure, but it can also borrow money and waive many road checkpoint fees, maybe there will be a chance to have a relationship with Yi Shuai, and many businessmen who did not return at this time have also changed the time to this time.

Goubber is getting older, though his days are no longer running around. Be scared, but relax down. On the contrary, he was much older, and his beard and hair were all white. The old man handed it to Yi Feng with a glass of wine, "Have a good journey, go early and return early." ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Gao, I will be back in February or March at the latest." This time was Yi Feng's speculation based on his time for the Sui Dynasty and the next year's war, and the war between the imperial court and the Turks was imperative and could not be delayed any longer. Generally speaking, the southern invasion of the Turks will be selected in winter, when it is the time of high horse fat in autumn, especially in the cold weather in the north, after winter, not only the war horses have a layer of fat, but also the herdsmen have time to assemble and fight, and more importantly, those wide rivers in the north of the Central Plains will be insurmountable natural danger for Turkic war horses in summer, but in winter, it will become a smooth road. The Turks will definitely not be able to fight this winter, because the Great Sui has already successfully supported a pro-Sui Turkic traitorous little Khan in the rear of the Turks. If Dulan Khan wants to invade the south on a large scale, he must first settle the nails of the Sui Dynasty behind it. In addition, they are still in contact with the Datou Khan of the Western Turks, and the Eastern and Western Turkic Khans are ten thousand hours apart, and it takes a long time for envoys to come and go. Moreover, according to the historical records that Yi Feng knew, this war would indeed start in the spring of next year.

The Sui Dynasty chose the end of spring to start, it was a good time, spring was just before the arrival of summer, when the rivers began to thaw, but the forage began to run out, and the war horses entered the thinnest period. The season was not conducive to the southern invasion of the Turks, but it had little impact on the Central Plains people who attacked the steppe. Moreover, the imperial court also needs so much time to mobilize this national war.

As long as the war starts, Yi Feng will definitely be able to return to Huaihuang one step ahead of schedule. Such a big war, even if the Son of Heaven who is rich all over the world today must take all his strength to deal with it, Yi Feng's Huaihuang Army occupies an important position, and the strength is not small, in this war, the Son of Heaven will definitely send this other force to the field. Moreover, in addition to him Yi Feng, it is impossible for the Son of Heaven to send another person to command Huaihuang's soldiers and horses, so Yi Feng firmly believes that after the imperial court makes the final preparations for the war after the New Year, he will definitely be able to return to Huaihuang.

"It's better to be careful, in the past, the Tiger League occupied Huaihuang for several years, and no one cared about it. First, the original famine was just a bitter cold and remote place outside the plug, and there was nothing. Although it is located in an important place, the Turks were still powerful in the early years, and the imperial court has been strong, but it has not yet been able to completely suppress the power of the Turks, so although the three years of the emperor and the seventh year of the emperor's two conquests against the Turks, in fact, these two wars were more of a civil war of the Turks themselves, and the Sui army actually only played the role of a helper. Helped one side to fight the other, but never really fought against the entire Turks. Therefore, the imperial court and the Turks were wary of each other, and although the imperial court was a vassal of the Turks, in fact the Central Plains was only a famous vassal. In the north, especially on the border with the Eastern Turks, it had already retreated from the six towns of Wei to the foot of the Great Wall. The Monan grassland is basically occupied by the Turks, and the Ming court took the initiative to settle the attached Turks, but in fact, the Turks are still strong, and the court cannot prevent the Turks from occupying the grasslands at the foot of the Yin Mountain. The two Great Walls in the north, the two prefectures of Yunshuo in the first Great Wall, including the new Yanzhou now, actually had no population at all, only a few military towns were used as guards, and these areas were just buffer zones between them and the Turks. As for our current Huaifamine, it has not been included in the boundaries of the imperial court, but only serves as a buffer line between the Sui and the Turks and the major Hu tribes in the East. Speaking of these, Gao Bo is very familiar with it, "But these are just temporary expedient measures, and they are just a strategy when the imperial court is temporarily unable to defeat the Turks." Now the imperial court has been preparing for many years, with more than 100,000 households, more than 40 million mouths, millions of soldiers, mountains of grain and grass, and hundreds of thousands of war horses. The Turks, on the other hand, became weaker and weaker under the blows of internal strife and the separation of the strong and weak of the imperial court. When the time comes for a decisive battle, this battle will inevitably make the Great Sui the strongest dynasty in the world, and the Turks cannot stop it. After this battle, the Turks must be truly attached to the Great Sui. At that time, the boundaries of the imperial court will be advanced to the north, not to mention the immediate occupation of the entire Monan region, but at least south of Yinshan, it will be actually controlled by the imperial court. Huaihuang is an important mountain pass in Yanshan, Taihang, and Yinshan, and it is the most important passage mountain pass in the eastern part of the grassland and the northern part of the Central Plains. What's more, our Huaihuang is still a cash cow and cornucopia. ”

Gao Bo was very worried that the imperial court would take this opportunity to leave Yi Feng in Jingshi, and then send a big future to replace Yi Feng, take away the control of the Huaihuang army, and then take down the entire Huaihuang.

Yi Feng admits that Gao Bo has a good grasp of the overall situation, but he knows history well. He knew that the war between the Great Sui and the Turks would begin soon, and that it would start next spring, and that it would be a great victory. On the other hand, he knew that after the defeat of the Turks, the Great Sui would begin to enter a period of fierce internal power struggle, the crown prince Yang Yong would be deposed and the Jin king Yang Guang would be established, and then the Qin king Yang Jun would die early, and the Shu king Yang Xiu would be convicted and placed under house arrest. The next few years will be a period of fierce struggle within the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Jian, the son of heaven, is also old, he will not have the energy and ambition to expand the territory or anything, and his last few years will only be a stupor. Only after Yang Guang came to power would the Great Sui revert its focus to the outside world and to a broader frontier. But there is still a long way to go before that time.

"Don't worry, no one can take it away. I recruited and selected the soldiers and horses here, and I built the cities and towns here with my own hands. "Yi Feng's biggest support is that there are 100,000 horses here, and only he can raise them. In other words, he can get Huaihuang and occupy Huaihuang Town, but he will never get all the money-making business of Huaihuang. As long as Yi Feng pulls his hand, the Huaihuang Market will still be there, but the most important source of money that can help support such an army will no longer be. At that time, even the imperial court may not have the money to support such an army, especially an army with such a high salary. And without the generous treatment now, is it possible for the Huaihuang Army to survive? It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, Yi Feng believes that if the imperial court controls the army but can't get such a generous treatment to raise the army, this army will not last for a few days and will be dispersed.

Only he is easy to wind and can raise such an army. The generous treatment of soldiers has always been the heaviest pressure on Huaihuang, but in fact, it has always been the most reliable insurance in Yi Feng's hands. (To be continued......)