(Recommend the legend of brocade, the book of my friend Hu family's eldest young master, although the number of words is not much, but the writing is more fine, if you are interested, you can take a look!) )

"Your Majesty, good news, Longxi is fighting!"

Yang Guang looked at Yu Wenhua who rushed in excitedly in surprise, since Yang Guang was established as the crown prince, Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua has become the leader of his Praetorian Guard, because Yu Wenhua is very good at figuring out Yang Guang's thoughts, so he is very favored by Yang Guang.

"Your Majesty, it's the Xia Kingdom and Tubo who are fighting in Xiping County and the Western Regions!"

"Sure enough, that's good news!"

Yang Guang stood up excitedly, and he walked back and forth in the house according to the excitement in his heart, "Although there are not many people in Tubo, all the people are soldiers, and everyone is proud of dying in battle!" And in the past few years, we have also supported a lot of their armor, and we also have two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses, once we start a war with the Xia Kingdom, it will inevitably give the Xia army a headache! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Yu Wenhua also said excitedly, "It is said that this time it is Tubo Zanpu Nangri Lunzan who personally led an army of 150,000 to attack Xiping County, and there is also a Tubo general Qinling Rilong who led an army of 70,000 troops west out of Qilian Mountain to attack Shanshan and Dunhuang, so as to cut off the support of the garrison of the Western Regions of Xia Kingdom to the counties of Hexi!" ”

"Oh?"

Yang Guang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he sighed, "It seems that the ambition of this bag is not small, it is not only to capture Xiping County, but even to capture the entire Hexi Corridor in one go!" It seems that the Tubo we support is also a hungry wolf, and I am afraid that the threat to my Great Sui will not be small in the future! ”

"Your Majesty needs not worry!" Yu Wenhua said with a smile, "Since ancient times, two tigers must be injured when they fight, and for my Great Sui, the strength of Tubo is strong, and it is just fighting to the death with Xia Guo, so wouldn't this have a lot of benefits for my Great Sui?" Although Tubo is strong now, it is still only a small trouble compared to the Xia Kingdom, so the minister thinks that it is necessary to further strengthen the support for Tubo! ”

Although he was very reluctant in his heart, Yang Guang still had to admit that Yu Wenhua spoke to his heart, and after thinking for a long time, he finally nodded and said: "What Yuwen Aiqing said is reasonable, then continue to support Tubo with 100,000 sword soldiers and 10,000 pairs of armor!" ”

I have to say that the Sui Empire's family background is indeed too thick, even if it lost so many soldiers and materials in the major battlefields of the Xia State before, but in just a few years, Yang Guang has accumulated huge military supplies again, and if it is fully used, it can once again equip millions of troops.

It's just that Yang Guang is on the basis of vigorously oppressing the people and craftsmen of the Sui Empire, so although the Sui Empire has barely put down the rebellions in various places in recent years, there have been many bandits on the big mountain ranges such as Mount Tai, Taihang Mountain, and even the Qinling Mountains, as well as the lakes in various places.

Taking advantage of the good opportunity of Yang Guang to increase the amount of taxes, officials from all over the country have gone up and down, and the local nobles and powerful people colluded with these officials to transfer a large number of taxes that should have been borne by these powerful people to those yeoman farmers, and the yeoman farmers who were originally very many in Yang Jian's period went bankrupt at this time.

You must know that the military system implemented by the Sui Empire is the government military system, which is to allocate a certain amount of land to these yeoman farmers by the state, and then the yeoman farmers undertake military service, and they are all equipped with their own weapons, horses, and armor to fight wars, thus forming an economic foundation.

It can be said that yeoman farmers are the solid foundation of the Sui Empire, and if the yeoman farmers are greatly reduced, then the foundation of the Sui Empire's rule will be destroyed.

In the later Tang Empire, the Anshi Rebellion was because the yeoman farmers were unscrupulously annexed, which led to the destruction of the economic foundation of the government military system, which had to implement a large number of conscription systems, and finally rebelled because of the soldiers.

But Yang Guang turned a blind eye to all this, in order to increase his military strength as much as possible, he had put these things behind him for the time being, although he also knew that this was shaking the foundation of the Sui Empire, but in order to realize his dream of defeating the Xia State, he could only do this temporarily.

Yu Wenhua, who received Yang Guang's hand, hurriedly walked out of the palace and returned to his home, and after walking to the middle house, there were actually a few short and sturdy men of different races in the courtyard where there should have been only his own daughters.

"I wonder how things are going for Lord Yuwen?" A middle-aged man of different races with rough skin and a ruddy complexion stepped forward and asked with a smile.

Yu Wenhua looked up at several men proudly and said, "How can this official not achieve his goal if he goes out in person?" In this matter, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui has promised to give you 100,000 sword soldiers and 10,000 pairs of iron armor! Now you're satisfied! ”

It turned out that these alien men were actually the secret envoys of Tibet, and they were overjoyed when they heard this, and the middle-aged alien man smiled and said: "It's really thanks to Lord Yuwen, in addition to the previous three thousand taels of gold, we have two thousand taels of thanks this time!" ”

At this time, one tael of gold in the Sui Empire could be exchanged for ten taels of silver, that is, fifteen thousand yuan, and the purchasing power of a copper coin was enough to compare with four or five pieces in later generations, and it can be said that the value of two thousand miles of gold was very high.

"Humph!" Yu Wenhua said unhappily when he heard it, "Do you think that you won't need this official in the future?" I tell you that these armors will be handled by the officer before they are delivered to you! ”

"Adults are angry, adults are angry!" Only then did the middle-aged man know that he still looked down on Yu Wenhua and his status in Yang Guang's mind, originally he thought that Yu Wenhua and his private trade weapons with Tubo were revealed the year before last, and they were no longer as valued by Yang Guang as before.

Who knew that although Yu Wenhua was punished by Yang Guang, because of the intercession between Yu Wenshu and Princess Nanyang, the eldest daughter of the Sui Empire, Yu Wenhua was still able to stay by Yang Guang's side.

If it seems now, Yu Wenhua not only escaped that catastrophe and even continued to serve by Yang Guang's side, and continued to be reused, not only because of the intercession of Yu Wenshu and Princess Nanyang, but also because of his own ability to cater to Yang Guang's thoughts.

"Your Excellency! In fact, the two thousand taels of gold are just the care of thanking the adults this time, and they are not in our reward! As he spoke, the alien man ordered several large boxes to be brought up.

When I opened it, I couldn't help but smile with satisfaction, in addition to the two thousand taels of gold, there were actually several large boxes of Kunlun mutton fat white jade, these mutton fat jade were hundreds of taels of silver even if they were the size of an egg, and these white jades in front of them were not only rare in texture, they were the size of watermelons.

The total value is not only 10,000 taels of silver, but also a large number of precious stones, which are said to be the high-quality goods that Tubo came from the Tianzhu trade in the past.

When he heard the Tibetan envoy promise that as long as Yu Wenhua quickly delivered all the good Sui Empire armor, there would be the same number of treasures to give away, he was even more satisfied with this matter.

Although he also knew that Tubo could fight against the Xia State and pose a greater threat to the Sui Empire while obtaining these armors, what did all this have to do with him.

Yu Wenhua was busy counting treasures at home, of course Yang Guang would not know these things, the decline of the Sui Empire was very painful for the ambitious Yang Guang, and now he even dreamed of completely defeating the Xia Kingdom and becoming the co-ruler of the whole world.

In this way, even if he knew that it was not a good thing to support Tubo to become strong, he didn't care so much in order to be able to achieve his goals.

Yang Guang was not ready to mobilize a large army to cooperate with Tubo in Longxi to start a war with Xia, he was ready to start a sudden war against Xia from Guandong, Hebei and other places when the main energy of Xia was held back by Tubo.

Under the order of Yang Guang, the 300,000 Sui troops originally stationed in Yecheng, under the leadership of General Zhongwen, began to move north to the area of Zhao County and Xiangguo County, and from here to cross the Hutuo River to the north, which was the Boling County occupied by the Xia State.

At the same time, the general Wang Rengong led 200,000 Sui troops to Taiyuan County, once Yu Zhongwen led the Sui army to launch an offensive in Hebei, he would also take advantage of the situation to attack Lou Fu and Yanmen, Yang Guang's strategic goal was to recapture the Great Wall, so that it would be easier to defend in the face of the Xia State with superior cavalry.

At the same time that Yu Zhongwen and Wang Rengong went north, Yang Guang sent his two sons Yang Yu and Yang Tong, the king of Yue, to lead an army of 300,000 troops in Gaoping County, even if they could not take advantage of the situation to recapture the land of Sanqi, they would make the Sanqi Xia army unable to support Zhuojun and other places.

At this time, Yang Guang had not yet had time to dig the Grand Canal, and of course, the current Sui Empire did not have the strength to dig the Grand Canal, so the heavy grain and grass of nearly one million Sui troops still relied on a large number of people to transport them to the front line by small cars.

It's just that Yang Guang learned the lesson of the defeat of the Sui army before, and built smooth roads from the eastern capital Luoyang to Zhao County, Gaoping County and other places, so that even a flatbed truck can transport a large amount of baggage, which is nearly double the transportation efficiency compared with before.

Especially the general who is responsible for supervising the transportation of military grain is Yang Su's son Yang Xuangan, although Yang Xuangan's personality and style of acting are very disliked by Yang Guang, but Yang Xuangan's father Yang Su has many protégés in the Sui army, so Yang Xuangan can also complete the matter of supervising grain and grass very well.

Yang Guang's orders were conveyed one by one, and the Qinghai Lake in Xiping County and the Huangshui Valley where the Xia army and the Tubo army were in full swing, and the general of Qinling Rilong also fought with the Xia army many times in Shanshan County, and from time to time there were thousands of Tubo cavalry in the Hexi Corridor rushing down the plateau and attacking the weakly protected towns here in the Xia Kingdom.

Even though the Xia State has established a good National Guard system in the resettlement area of the Hexi Corridor, the fighting methods of the Tubo people in all directions are very headaches for the Xia people, and what makes the people of Xia feel even more terrible is that the Tubo people are not afraid of their own lives at all.

Proud of dying in battle, wearing iron armor all over his body, charging on horseback, and even his dead corpse will be split into pieces to feed wild beasts and eagle vultures, which makes people feel disgusting to think about it.

Although the Xia army was relatively strong in combat and was equipped with a large number of gunpowder weapons, their combat effectiveness was greatly weakened because they did not adapt to the plateau climate, and even the gunpowder was temporarily excluded from the ranks of plateau combat weapons because of insufficient oxygen combustion and insufficient power.

In the original history, the biggest enemy of the Sui and Tang dynasties when they were at war with the Tibetans was not the Tubo people, but the damage of the plateau climate, and the Tubo people retreated to the plateau once the battle was unfavorable, and the Tang army could only be helpless.

On the one hand, Xia is vigorously training cavalry troops that can adapt to the plateau climate, and on the other hand, it is vigorously supporting the countries and tribes on the plateau that are hostile to Tibet.

At the same time that the Tibetans were marching north to seize Xiping County and the entire Hexi Corridor from the Xia State, Yangtong, Zhangxiong and Dongqiang Nuguo all launched attacks on the Tibetan mainland, and even the Xia army in Shannan in the Ganges River valley was ready to move, pinning down a large number of Tibetan troops here.

Otherwise, the fully mobilized Tubo can send more than 300,000 troops, instead of the current 220,000 people, and more than 300,000 are not afraid of sacrifice, even if the Xia State can defeat it, it will pay a lot of price.

In order to preserve the achievements of the construction of the Hexi Corridor over the years, Wang Ze sent 500,000 cavalry to fight against the Tubo people throughout Hexi and the Western Regions.