Looking at the sand table in front of him, the emperor said with a calm face: "Xiao Qing! ”

"The minister is here." Xiao Dezhao, the squire of the military department, stepped forward and gave his hand to receive the order.

"The edict ordered Suizhou, Yinzhou, Xiazhou, Lingzhou, Yanzhou, Fengzhou, Huizhou, Youzhou, Shengzhou, and Linzhou to assassinate the history, prepare state soldiers, and put them under the command of Pei Xingjian, the general manager of the Dingxiangdao March, with 150,000 soldiers."

With the emperor's words, in an instant, the 150,000 army had already begun to gather under Pei Xingjian's command.

"Commandment." Xiao Dezhao bowed his hand, and then stepped back.

"Xu Qing." The emperor turned sideways.

Xu Yushi, the head of the household department, stepped forward: "The minister is here." ”

"The household department mobilized grain and grass from Yongzhou, Northwest Road, and Jiannan Road to transport the front line." The emperor raised his head, looked at Master Xu, and asked, "Can you do it?" ”

"The front line is not far away, and there is no loss of plateaus and mountains, so it is not difficult." Master Xu bowed and bowed his hand.

"Hmm!" The emperor nodded, and then spoke again: "Huang Qing." ”

"The minister is here!" Huang Rensu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, gave his hand.

"The Ministry of Engineering dispatched crossbows, chariots, and various equipment to support the front of the army." The emperor's eyes were awe-inspiring.

Huang Rensu arched his hand and said, "The minister's decree." ”

"Dou Qing!" After the emperor finished speaking, Dou Xuande, the secretary of the ministry, stepped forward: "The minister is here." ”

"The officials immediately sent personnel to inspect, and if there was any slackness in the storage of grain, armaments, and soldiers in all states and counties, they would be immediately dismissed." The Emperor's voice was cold.

"Whoa!" Dou Xuande gave up again.

"Pei Qing." The emperor raised his head, and Pei Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, stepped forward: "The minister is here." ”

"The prison of the criminal department, the prison of Zhuzhou County, before choosing good people to join the army, march to resist the crime." The emperor is another hand, and the neat chess pieces fall.

"Whoa!" Pei Yan gave up.

……

Li Xuan stood aside and listened calmly.

The emperor's hand not only increased the number of people who dared to die in front of the army, but also emptied the prison of the criminal department and the prison of Zhuzhou County, and the pressure on the department was suddenly reduced.

Immediately, more orders from the emperor were issued.

From all kinds of big and small, all the details, all aspects, to add the odds to this battlefield.

The meaning of this battle in front of us is completely different from before.

Since the Eastern Turks were wiped out by Li Quan, although there have been occasional accidents over the years, most of the time they have been honest.

But in the same way, it also allowed the Turks to accumulate too much power.

Turkic and Tibetan are two completely different concepts.

Even if the Tibetans were able to capture the plateau, they were quickly repulsed.

But the steppe is completely different, the steppe tribes from the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, for many years, and the Central Plains have been fighting and fighting.

Their understanding of the Central Plains is far from being comparable to that of the Tibetans.

Any slight negligence has the potential to have unpredictable consequences.

You must know that the grassland is not far from Chang'an.

In those years, the grassland also hit the edge of Chang'an more than once.

Today, the Turks claim to have hundreds of thousands of troops, but the Tang Dynasty is also not weak.

Different from the grassland, once the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty reach the plateau, they will immediately encounter the influence of the plateau miasma, but the grassland, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, can fully exert their combat power.

There are not so many scruples, and the combat power that the emperor can mobilize is powerful and terrifying.

Especially in this battle, Li Xuan once analyzed that the Turks lacked the elite who were really good at fighting.

Without losing more than 100,000 troops, it would be difficult for them to compete with Datang.

……

"In this battle, it is not difficult to defeat the Turks, but the difficult thing is how to defeat them all?" Li Zhi looked at the sand table, and finally turned his head to look at Liu Renliang and asked, "Zuo Xiang, where do you think the main force of the Turks is?" ”

"It should not be far from the ancient city in the clouds." Liu Renliang looked at the entire sand table and said: "Your Majesty, at present, the forces of the Turks are deployed along the entire Great Wall, but their primary goal is to drive the Anbei Protectorate and the Shan Yu Protectorate out of the grassland. ”

"Can you find them?" Li Zhi followed closely and asked.

Liu Renliang hesitated, and finally said honestly: "It's difficult, the grassland is too vast, the Turkic cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and now the grassland is their world again, and it is not easy to accurately reach the position of their main force." ”

"What is the plan of the military department?" Li Zhi turned his head to look at Xiao Dezhao.

The news that the Turks were about to move their troops began to circulate last year, and at the beginning of the year, the Turks were still making trouble in the court.

The emperor had already ordered the military department to prepare, and Pei Xingjian, the secretary of the military department, also began to patrol the border.

It's just that the military department has prepared a lot of battle strategies, but they all need to be prepared according to the actual situation on the battlefield.

"Your Majesty, the ultimate goal of the Turks is to control the entire desert south and north of the desert, and drive Anbei and Shan Yudu Hufu out of the grassland, but now as long as there is the Dingxiangdao army, then their Dingxiangdao army will inevitably be closely watched, and the main force will inevitably be on the left side of the Dingxiangdao army." Xiao Dezhao's view is different from that of Liu Renliang.

Li Xuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, he had already heard the plan of Xiao Dezhao and the entire military department, and sure enough, ......

"Therefore, the strategy of the military department is to fight steadily and steadily, connect with the Shan Yu Protectorate, base itself on the ancient city in the clouds, reconnect the Turkic tribes, gradually dismember the Turkic army, and then send the main force to defeat it in a battle." Between Xiao Dezhao's words, he had already roughly stated the battle strategy of the military department and Pei Xingjian.

Li Zhi nodded, then looked at Liu Xianli and asked, "Pengcheng County Prince, what's the danger of doing this?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty." Liu Xianli arched his hand and said: "The Turks are now scattered on all sides, attacking the states of the Great Wall, all they want is to disperse our army, and then eat the main force of our army in one bite, Pei Shangshu has a good strategy of fighting steadily, but the premise is that the states of the Great Wall do not collapse." ”

"Pei Yan." Li Zhi looked directly at Pei Yan and raised his head: "You say." ”

"Whoa!" Pei Yan arched his hand, thought for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, the general strategy of the military department is right, the main force of the Turks is between Fengzhou and the ancient city of Yunzhong, watching at any time, once a flaw is revealed, they will immediately pounce on them like wild wolves, patience is necessary."

They will release a part of the elite, pick key locations to try to break into the Tang Dynasty, cause chaos, and then mobilize the army; It will also make suspicious soldiers, so that I think I have found their main force, once the pursuit is too much, the battle line is extended, and then only the grain road needs to be cut off, and the army will not escape defeat. ”

"The King of Beiping?" Li Zhi looked at Li Jingjia.

Li Jingjia arched his hand and said: "In fact, it is not too difficult to find the main force of the steppe Turks, water sources, supplies, there are ways to pursue, it is nothing more than that the other party may set up a suspicious formation and lure the army into the trap, so you must be careful."

In addition, there is the weather, winter is coming, the temperature plummets, and the Turks still have many advantages in winter fighting. ”

"King of Nanchang." Li Zhi finally looked at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the battle strategy of the county prince of Wenxi is accurate, but it may ignore the thoughts of Ashina Wen Fu and others. ”

Li Zhi nodded and motioned for Li Xuan to continue.

"Although there are hundreds of thousands of Turks now, the tribes are strong and weak, and the tribes have many disputes, which cannot be compared with the Jieli period, so even the most optimistic Turkic wise people will not think that they have much chance of defeating the Tang Dynasty in this battle, so the minister thinks that the fundamental purpose of their battle is to gather the elite and accumulate strength."

Li Xuan's words were not finished, and the emperor's face had already sunk.

The Turks are dragging.

Drag it until you are proficient, and then slowly develop it with Datang.

"Although the Turks have experienced the Mobei sacrifice, it has only been less than half a year, and their internal system has not been built at all, and there is no connection between the various tribes, so it is very likely that except for the initial agreement, they are attacking each other at other times, and they don't care about each other at all." Li Xuan carefully analyzed the situation inside the Turks.

Li Zhi nodded slowly and said, "In this way, the Turks in various departments are not bluffing. ”

"Yes!" Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "The purpose of these people is not to break the Tang Dynasty, what they want is to grab a handful and leave." ”

"Grab a handful and go?" Li Zhi's brows suddenly sank deeply, if this is really the case, then their overall strategy will have to be greatly adjusted.

"But there is also one or several elite ones hiding in these chaotic armies." Li Xuan groaned slightly, and then said: "I am preparing for a big battle on the front line, once I find that the other party is fighting chaotically, then I must do the investigation, so that the real elite will brazenly enter." ”

"It's still the same thing." Li Zhi glanced sideways at Li Xuan, with a smile in the corner of his eyes.

If you want to say that the east and the west are attacking, Li Xuan is a big expert.

Li Zhi asked: "How to deal with it?" ”

"Reinforcement." Li Xuan solemnly bowed his hand and said: "Let each state recruit another 1,000 soldiers, take care of their own expenses, they don't need to be too strong, and after the front line, it will be enough to deal with the chaotic war." ”

Datang's recruitment is not the kind of weak army recruited, the people are already strong, and there are soldiers who go home after completing their service, and Datang has a sword and bow, compared to the state soldiers, except for no armor, it is not much worse.

"Pay for your own expenses." Li Zhi looked sideways at Empress Wu, who nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

"That's it, the Chinese book is provincial." Li Zhi looked at Li Jingxuan.

Li Jingxuan arched his hand: "Oh! ”

"But there's still something to be focused on." Li Zhi looked at the sand table, frowned, and said: "Lingzhou, Yinzhou, and Dingzhou, raise two thousand more to prepare for the Turks to enter the Kou." ”

"Whoa!" Li Jingxuan gave up again.

Li Xuan's gaze fell on the sand table.

Zhongwei and Yinchuan are both gaps in the Great Wall, and Dingzhou is the north gate of Youzhou, and the Turks will not let go of these places.

While raiding with elite soldiers and plundering wealth, he attracted the attention of Pei Xingjian's army, and when the army was mobilized, he suddenly pounced and took a bite.

……

"Zhuqing, what else is there to ignore?" Li Zhi raised his head and looked at the people around the sand table.

Liu Renliang stepped forward and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, there is Wenxi County Gong on the front line, there is no need to worry too much about everything, just prevent the Turks from crossing the border to disturb them, but the Turkic matter, the problem is still in the hearts of the people, how to control the hearts of the people after the war, in order to avoid the comeback of careerists." ”

The ministers bowed their hands at the same time: "Your Majesty! ”

Li Zhi bowed slightly, and his gaze swept across the entire border.

Indeed, in this battle, it is not difficult for the Tang Dynasty to win, but the difficult thing is how to completely strangle the ambitions of the Turks.

The word "restoration" has long been like a flame in the hearts of the Turks.

Li Zhi looked sideways at Empress Wu and asked, "Empress, how is Ashina Nishuluan?" ”

Empress Wu bowed slightly, and said with a solemn face: "Ashina Ni has been in the grassland for a long time, although he has also gathered a lot of old Turkish troops, but he is controlled by Ashina Wen Fu at all times, and as for the attack on the border, he can't control his subordinates. ”

Attack the Tang Dynasty and restore the Turks.

The Eastern Turks, hearing this, rarely did not get excited.

It's the same with Ashina Mud's old Tuli department.

"He's also screening the elite." Li Zhi saw through Ashina Nishu's plan at a glance.

After all, the steppe is dominated by force, not to mention that the Khan of Ashina Nishulu is just a puppet.

Li Zhi raised his head: "What else does he have to say?" ”

"He said that if His Majesty allowed, he was willing to return to Chang'an after the war." Empress Wu's eyes flickered, and she looked at Li Zhi suspiciously.

Li Zhi immediately sneered, waved his hand and said: "What he wants is to be able to go back and forth between Chang'an and the grassland at will, and be a Khan of the eastern grassland like Tuli...... But if he can control the situation on the grassland, I may not be able to allow him. ”

(End of chapter)