Chapter 654: Drastic Means
Just when the dark tide was surging on the side of Youzhou, the situation in the entire Great Sui was even more turbulent.
Not only did the rebellion in Hebei erupt, but the situation in Shanxi and Hedong was not optimistic, and several rebel armies raised their flags one after another, threatening the safety of the imperial capital Chang'an!
Yang Guang was furious, and immediately dispatched one of the four major gate lords, Li Yuan, as the ambassador of Shanxi and Hedong to comfort him, responsible for clearing the rebellious army in the two places!
At that time, Lin Sha was leading 10,000 Youzhou iron cavalry to wander in the Saibei grassland, and was preparing to deal with the impact of the same number of Turkic cavalry, and when he solved the trouble of the Turkic cavalry, Li Yuan's command of Hedong and Shaanxi to comfort the ambassador was a foregone conclusion.
After the Turkic army of 50,000 attacked, Lin Sha thought about leading his younger brother to retreat, how could he have the kung fu and energy to pay attention to the rest?
Of course, according to the meaning of the imperial court envoy Dugu Sheng, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui originally intended to let Lin Sha lead Hedong to comfort the ambassador on this errand, but unfortunately Lin Sha had no time to be in Saibei at that time.
Lin Sha scoffed at this, and said it lightly.
It's almost the same to give him a Shanxi comfort ambassador, Hedong and Youzhou don't have a boundary, he wants such a position to be useful, just a passing problem, and those powerful Hebei clans can play with him.
When he led the army back to Youzhou safely, the doubts in his heart not only did not alleviate but worsened.
In Saibei, the 50,000 Turkic cavalry came too quickly and too suddenly.
It's not that the Turks don't have this strength, the Turks at this time are definitely much stronger than the Xiongnu in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and the people who control the strings are several times that of the Xiongnu.
But the problem is that the Turks are nothing more than steppe empires, although all the people are soldiers. But it's not so easy to gather people.
According to the information obtained by Lin Sha, the Turkic Khan's court had 50,000 cavalry stationed all year round. This is the absolute trump card in the hands of Shibi Khan, and he will not be easily used until the last resort.
This is the characteristic of the tribal alliance. The tribes are very scattered among themselves, and if they want to gather them under a single Khan banner, first of all, the strength of the Khan Court can deter the entire Saibei grassland.
Every time the Khanting cavalry was dispatched, it was a great event. Like Lin Sha leading his troops to wander on the edge of the Saibei grassland, it is not a matter to destroy 10,000 Turkic cavalry, although the guy is mad, it is impossible to send the royal court cavalry to encircle and suppress.
Once the royal court is empty and someone takes advantage of it, the fun will be great.
And want to gather 50,000 cavalry. It's simply impossible without half a month!
But the result was that Lin Sha had 10,000 Turkic cavalry, and within two days, the Turkic court immediately sent 50,000 cavalry to sweep it, as if they had already assembled.
Later, through the confessions of the captives, this was indeed the case.
It turned out that as early as the third expedition of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui to Goguryeo, Shibi began to slowly gather the cavalry of the major tribes of the grassland, as if he was going to do something big.
Lin Sha's heart suddenly understood, he didn't say a word to report the information to the imperial court, he wanted to see what Yang Guang's reaction was. The Turks obviously have bad intentions, could it be that Yang Guang really can't make a northern tour regardless of the danger?
As a result, Lin Sha was really disappointed.
There are all kinds of signs that the Turks are secretly preparing to make a move against the Great Sui. Yang Guang was still arrogant and arrogant, and he didn't take this seriously at all, as if he could really exude the aura of a deterrent king with a shock to his tiger body. Lin Sha's information was handed over to Chang'an. It didn't make the slightest wave.
Seeing this, Lin Sha naturally gave up the idea of continuing to persuade. Yang Guang himself doesn't pay attention to it, isn't he annoying to get up?
Originally, this had nothing to do with Li Yuan. But when the Youzhou Iron Cavalry left, the 50,000 Turkic cavalry who had been violently killing the Yanmen Pass retreated with thunder and rain.
With the Turks' habit of revenge, this matter is too strange and unreasonable.
If the historical results of the Tang Dynasty are reversed from the current situation, a surprising conclusion can be drawn: Li Valve colluded with the Turks, or Li Valve had a tacit understanding with the Turks!
Otherwise, it is difficult to explain that the Turkic 50,000 cavalry only walked around outside the Yanmen Pass and quietly withdrew their troops without doing anything.
Although it is difficult for 50,000 Turkic cavalry to break through the defense line of the Great Wall where Yanmen Pass is located in one fell swoop, the ability to make a profit on the border and cause some trouble for the Great Sui is still not lacking.
But the reaction of the Turks is too strange.
Thinking about it, the biggest variable in Hedong and Shanxi is Li Yuan, the newly appointed ambassador of the two consolations.
It is precisely because of this that Lin Sha's perception of Li Valve, who seems to be the most low-key among the four major gate valves, but is the biggest profiteer in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, instantly fell to the freezing point.
If Li Valve acted according to the normal rules of the troubled times, and accumulated a lot of money to get the country in one fell swoop, Lin Sha really had nothing to say. But if Li Valve colluded with the Turks early on, and then calculated the world, then don't blame him for stirring up the situation and making Li Valve's bamboo basket empty.
Thinking of all kinds of weird and chaotic situations in the Tang world, Lin Sha's heart was surging, and for some reason he suddenly remembered a poem that was very popular in modern times: Men should kill people, kill one for heaps, slaughter ten thousand for males, slaughter nine million, for male middle school!
Oh!
The qi in his body burst out, and his mouth let out an astonishing long roar, and his body flew like lightning to the huge martial arts training ground of the General's Mansion, and the heavy Daguan knife on the weapon rack in his big hand flew autonomously.
Brush Brush Brush ......
The sword light is like practicing qi and blood flying, and all the five zhang around the center of the circle are shrouded in fierce sword qi, and the ground instantly appears shocking cracks, and shallow marks along the solid bluestone ground, like a goddess scattering flowers.
Knock knock knock......
The heart beat like a war drum roaring, the heart fire rose and beat faster and faster, the Daguan knife in his hand almost became a ball of white practice, his ears were full of war drums roaring, blood was like a dragon roaring, and the murderous aura on his body rose into the sky, and he turned into a peerless fierce god at this time.
Whoa......
The guards who were originally training on the martial arts training ground retreated with shocked faces, no matter what their strength was, they were all shocked by the sight, and at the same time, no one could withstand Lin Sha's monstrous killing intent.
Call!
Fiercely vented his heart for depression, and played a set of Daguan knife techniques several times, and later he did whatever he wanted, following the keen qi machine induction and subtle airflow changes, each knife seemed to be able to split the space as terrifying, an absolute ferocious killing move.
Slowly retracted the knife and stood upright, exhaling a long breath of turbid air in his heart, feeling indescribably comfortable and comfortable up and down Zhou's body, and the true qi in his body seemed to have changed, but he was in an inexplicable state of excitement at this time, and he didn't have time to take care of it, so he didn't bother to explore it carefully.
Datang World is really a magical place!
As soon as the sword was vented, the depression and anger in his heart dissipated a lot, Lin Sha immediately cleaned up his mood and prepared to give the Turks and the related Great Sui forces a big surprise.
Three days later, Zheng Jing, the captain of the Youzhou Military Academy, who was sent to the forest farm outside the Saiwai because of his 'mistake', suddenly 'died violently' halfway, and the news was transmitted back to Youzhou, which immediately caused an uproar in the army.
Without saying a word, Lin Sha sent an extremely toughly worded ****** to the Zheng branch in Hebei in Xingyang through the hands of the Zhuojun government, and forcefully demanded that the Zheng family give an answer!
When the news came out, the officials and people in Youzhou and Hebei were in an uproar.
The dignified lieutenant officer of the Youzhou Army, who was from the sixth grade, died unexplained, but the suspect pointed directly at the deceased Zheng Jing's own family, no matter how you look at it, this matter is a bombshell!
At the same time, Wei Dao'er, a Hebei bandit who was in the connection between Shanxi and Saiwai, was suddenly attacked by a master and was seriously injured, and for a while, the remnants of Wei Dao'er were panicked and panicked.
Wei Dao'er insisted on holding on to his seriously injured and sick body, calming his mind and investigating the identity of the sneak attacker, but the result surprised Wei Dao'er, and the anger in his heart rose, and the identity of the assassin obviously pointed to the Hebei clan who had secret dealings with him.
I don't even want to think about it, Wei Dao'er knows that the other party wants to kill people.
When he heard that Zheng Jing, the captain of the Youzhou Military Academy, had inexplicably 'died violently', he was even more chilled, and he no longer wanted to cover for the few gold lords in Hebei.
As soon as the news spread, the officials and people of both Hebei and Shanxi were overjoyed, and they wished that Wei Dao'er's bandits would die cleanly, but the Turks were very angry.
Because of the news that Wei Dao'er revealed to them, it is obvious that the deaths of several captured generals they are investigating are inseparable from this matter, and it is obvious that someone is killing people with this kind of means!
Although the generals who died were not the confidants of Shibi Khan, Shibi was also so angry that he directly cut off some ties with Hebei without saying a word.
The Xingyang Zheng clan's Yifang branch in Hebei was caught off guard, and before they could figure out the situation, they were put on a big hat of secretly killing clansmen and generals in the army.
The Youzhou army was turbulent, and Lin Sha sent a thousand-strong cavalry team to directly control the direct water and land passage between Hebei and Youzhou, and strictly checked and completely sealed the passage of the Hebei clan to Youzhou.
Not only that, but the Zhuojun County Governor soon issued an announcement that it was preparing to carry out salt drying in the area near the Bohai Sea (the modern Tianjin area) under its jurisdiction.
And in just one month, the county guard government mobilized a large number of young and strong laborers attached to the Youzhou Army through the help of the Youzhou Army to clean up the beach and arrange salt works.
When the first batch of huge quantities of sea salt was produced not long after, the entire Youzhou and Hebei were boiling, and the clans of the two places immediately took action to control the sea salt farm.
At this time, the Youzhou army suddenly dispatched and sent 5,000 elite iron cavalry to garrison the salt field, and at the same time, the Zhuojun County Guard secretly contacted many small and medium-sized clans in Hebei and Youzhou to participate in the distribution and sale of sea salt, directly isolating the few giant clans in Hebei!
After such a series of blows, several giant-like clans in Hebei are still beautiful on the surface, but in fact, they have suffered heavy losses in secret, and their reputation has been seriously damaged, and they don't know when they will be completely restored.
Suddenly, the contact with the Turks was cut off, and even the relationship became very bad for a time, and they had to hurriedly suppress the small and medium-sized clans that might rise...... (To be continued.) )