"What?" Wang Yong was immediately stunned by Zheng Kui's words, and he couldn't help but raise his voice and said, "The Turks are attacking the Xia Kingdom in an all-out way?" But why hasn't anyone ever told me about it? Why did Da Lang send you here? How's he there? ”

Jiang Chuan, Xu Ning, Luo Huan, Yuan Jia, Xun Yun, Ge Wei and others next to them also gathered after hearing Wang Yong's series of exclamations, and after careful introductions by Zheng Kui, Jiang Chuan, Xu Ning and others, the original Sanqi people couldn't help but worry about Wang Ze's situation.

Zheng Kui smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty probably doesn't want you to worry too much, eldest brother, after all, the Xia Kingdom now has tens of millions of people, and the whole country alone can mobilize at least a million troops, before I came, General Han Zigao was also transferred by His Majesty to form the Sixth Cavalry Army, there were more than 600,000 troops before, and this time it will increase by two or three hundred thousand, and I think it can also resist the Turks!"

Jiang Chuan shook his head and sighed: "Yuwen Yong's move is too powerful, not only can it relieve his worries, but it can even make us unable to take care of each other, so that whether he attacks us or Nan Chen, he can attack with the greatest strength!" ”

After listening to everyone's careful explanation, Wang Yong finally knew why Wang Ze only sent 90,000 troops, and finally knew why Wang Ze did not come in person, at this time, the complaints against Wang Ze in his heart dissipated, and he began to worry about Wang Ze's safety again.

After all, the prestige of the Turks is too powerful, whether it is the powerful Xiongnu Empire, which dominated the Hezhong region of the Western Regions, or the former steppe overlord Rouran, who was the great disaster of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Central Plains, was either killed and expelled by the Turks, or was defeated and merged into the Turks.

The Turks have proved their strength with the blood of the Rouran, the blood of the Huns, and even more small tribes that have been wiped out.

According to the estimation of the staff officers under Wang Yong's account in the past, if the Turks were all mobilized, including which servant tribes, city-states, etc., a total of millions of cavalry could be mobilized, and all of them were cavalry with very good mobility ability, and it was difficult for the Central Plains countries, which were dominated by infantry troops, to resist.

Wang Yong was worried about Wang Ze, and when Wang Ze received Wang Yong's letter, he was also helpless in his heart, the Northern Zhou provoked the Turks to attack him before preparing to attack Sanqi, and even in order to let the Turks send troops as soon as possible, Yuwen Yong did not hesitate to provide the Turks with enough military food for hundreds of thousands of troops to eat for a month.

By doing this, Yuwen Yong can not only let the Turks and the Xia State contain each other and even fight to the death, unable to support Sanqi on a large scale, but also attack Sanqi and even Nanchen without any worries, and can also weaken the Turks and the Xia State, two powerful opponents.

For Yuwen Yong's provocation, the Turkic Dervish Khan was not unaware of his intentions, but the Dervish Khan still agreed to the request to send troops to the Xia Kingdom, because he also had to attack the Xia Kingdom.

Although the Turkic people have a territory of nearly 20,000 li from east to west, their control over the steppe, desert, Western Regions, and rivers is not absolute, and there are still a large number of tribes and city-states that depend on the Turks for survival.

As vassals of the Turks, they continued to pay tribute to the Turkic tents every year, and when they were fighting, they had to send troops to fight and pay taxes in peacetime, among which the Tiele people, the Khitans, and the Lite people in the Hezhong region, Gaochang in the Western Regions, Khotan and other city-states were typical representatives.

The reason why the Turks were able to convince these tribes and city-states was the strong fighting power of the Turks, as exemplified by the destruction of the Huns and Rouran in the past, who could only submit to the hooves of the Turks or die.

But now suddenly someone made the Turks suffer a big loss, not only daring to resist the raids of the Turks, but even killing tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry, which began to affect the prestige of the Turks in this land.

The previous defeat of Luo Hou not only lost tens of thousands of cavalry, but also greatly threatened the prestige of the Turks on the steppe, those city-states and tribes did not care if you lost so many cavalry in the battle, or because the ice cracked, they only knew that you were defeated, and lost tens of thousands of cavalry!

If the Turks let this situation go on and did not retaliate, more tribes and city-states would dare to resist the orders of the Turks in the future, so the Turks had to continue to attack the Xia State, and only with the blood of the Xia people could the prestige of the Turks continue to spread.

Although the Dervish Khan was seriously ill, he was very shrewd, and there was another important reason why he was determined to attack the Xia State, that is, in his opinion, the threat of the Xia State to the Turks was far greater than the threat of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to unify the Central Plains.

In the view of the dervish Khan, even if the Northern Zhou Dynasty unified the Central Plains, it still could not threaten the Turkic tent located in the hinterland of the desert, and the Turks could still retreat to Mobei to restore their strength even if they were defeated, and the two sides were at most competing for the position of the hegemon of the world.

However, the existence of the Xia State has begun to threaten the future of the Turks, if the Xia State continues to be strong, not only will the hegemony of the Turks be challenged, but even whether the Turks can find a home to survive on the steppe in the future. vp

At first, the Dervish Khan only thought that the Xia Kingdom was an agricultural country like the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and when the Marquis of Chu Luo asked him for instructions, the Dervish Khan only thought that he could let him explore the road first, and then the Turks could have another object for them to plunder.

However, when Luo Hou began to attack the Xia State, the Xia State actually mobilized 300,000 cavalry in one breath, and then the Turks found that something was wrong, it turned out that the Xia State was not only an agricultural country, but also a half-ploughing and half-pasture, and even nearly a million pure grazing Han herdsmen.

After the defeat of the Marquis of Luo and fled back to the Turks, the Dervish Khan did not punish Luo Hou much, but only deposed his Turki official position, and the troops of his headquarters were still under his own command, but the Dervish Khan listened carefully to the process of each battle explained by the Dervish Khan.

At this time, the Dervish Khan discovered the strong ambition of the Xia State, and they not only wanted to occupy all the land that could be cultivated, but also take away the steppes that could be grazing.

At that time, the Turks felt that the Servant Bone Department was telling jokes, so they just reprimanded the Guli cadres who attacked the Servant Bone Department, and then there was no movement.

The threat of the Xia Kingdom was unparalleled compared to the Central Plains states such as the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the southern Turkic region, and once the Xia Kingdom gained a foothold in the land of Beji, the vast and rich black soil could cultivate more food to feed tens of millions of people.

The cold weather in the land of Beji made these large numbers of people physically strong and brave and good at fighting, and the Han people's innate superb forging skills could make a large number of sophisticated weapons, and now they have millions of war horses and hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

When the time comes, millions of cavalry and infantry, armed with their elite weapons, will be able to travel all the way up the Wanshui, Nanshui, and even Liaoshui rivers all the way up to the Turkic tent, at which point the Turks will lose everything they currently have.

The thought of this made the Dervish Khan shudder, although his health was declining day by day, and he could no longer see this day, but for the sake of future generations, he still could not allow a Han kingdom like Xia to stand in the east in the land of Beji.

Under the orders of the Dervish Khan, the entire Turkic tribes, including the vassal tribes and city-states under his command, mobilized one after another, and all the Turkic tribes east of the Golden Mountain (Altai Mountains) alone mobilized a huge cavalry force of up to 400,000.

Under the strong orders of the Turks, the other Tiele people also sent a total of 200,000 cavalry, the Khitans and the Xi people sent 20,000 troops, and the Khitans were better.

Although the city-states in the Transoxiana region and the Western Regions did not need to send troops because of the distance, they had to bear a large amount of money and food for the dispatch of the army, and they also had to provide a large number of craftsmen for the siege equipment.

Although Datou Dayehu, who was located in the middle of the river, did not receive a request to send troops to participate in the battle, in order to please his uncle Dervish Khan, he still squeezed out 100,000 cavalry to climb over the high mountains and deserts and came to Mobei to join the Turkic army.

In this way, the Turks themselves sent 500,000 cavalry, plus the number of cavalry of other ethnic groups was as much as 750,000, in addition to the army, there were also herdsmen who drove cattle and sheep for the army, and took care of the horses, plus these people The Turks have gathered an army of millions of people.

In the eyes of many people, the last defeat of Luo Hou was undoubtedly just his own light enemy, if the Turkic army faced the enemy, only four or five hundred thousand cavalry would have been able to completely wipe out these Han people, and there was no need to make such a big move.

However, in the eyes of the Dervish Khan, as long as he can destroy the Xia State in one go, it is worth sending more troops, and the Dervish Khan knows that he does not have the courage of his father and brother, and now his sons and nephews in the Turks are already powerful.

The Dervish Khan could already imagine that after his death, it would be the beginning of the Turkic division, even if these sons and nephews would initially maintain a semblance of friendship due to their kinship, but over time, this division was inevitable.

Therefore, the Dervish Khan said that he must completely destroy this future henchman before his death, otherwise the Turks will completely disappear from the steppe.

Although the war between the Turks and the Xia army was finally a super national war with millions of people and thousands of miles of battlefield, this battlefield was too remote, and because of the war between the North and the North, there were not many people in the two countries who were at war.