The night sky of the Northern Plateau is invisible to the Central Plains, and the vast stars cover the entire night sky, as if covered with silver sand on black velvet, and there is no empty space.

In the palace of the king of Zhenbei, Yuwen Haotian, the king of Zhenbei, walked out of the hall of the palace alone and came to the platform to the north.

At the top of Gulu Pass, he looked at the largest city-state in the north, and the Gulu Pass under the night sky of the northern plateau was quiet and peaceful, not at all like a place that had been disturbed by war for a long time. In the middle of the night, there are still a few lights in the city that are shining in the distance, echoing the stars in the sky, giving people warmth and hope.

This man in his forties, with a tall and strong body, a cold and resolute face, his eyes were fixed ahead, his gaze was deep and calm, and the night wind floated his handsome robe, and also stirred the two strands of sideburns in his ears.

Less than 20 years ago, it was a small town of less than 100,000 people, but now it has become an important northern town with a population of nearly 700,000, prosperous economy and trade, rich people, and rich people.

More than 30 years ago, his father Yu Wenbo was worshiped as the great minister of the Dafeng Dynasty, one person under ten thousand people, with supreme power, is the only important minister in the court.

The first emperor Wuyu King once said to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty: "I have won the world, and there is one of them." This is true, King Wu can level the world, all rely on the great help of the Yuwen family, which was known as the rich world, and the son of the Yuwen family, who was already famous in the world at that time, known as the talent of the sky, the depth of the sea, the handsome talent of the world - Yuwenbo's assistance, in order to finally pacify the six countries of the Central Plains and dominate the world.

After King Wuyu pacified the world, the capital was Youjing, the year name was "Wuzhi", the country name was "Dafeng", and worshiped Yu Wenbo as the great minister country, and implemented a series of changes and reforms to enrich the people and strengthen the country.

After Yuwen Xiangguo worked tirelessly and vigorously promoted the comprehensive reform in the political, economic, and military fields, the initial stability of the country was ensured, the old system was abolished, the tax system was reformed, the country's economy was rapidly restored and developed, and the combat effectiveness of the army was greatly enhanced. "Wenzhi" and "martial arts" have been fruitful, and there has been a prosperous scene of national peace and security, known as "the prosperity of martial arts".

But the good times didn't last long, in the fourteenth year of Wuzhi, King Wuyu died, and the son of Huang Guifei succeeded to the throne in Wushi. The power of the Huang family of the noble concubine has become increasingly powerful, and it has gradually controlled the key departments and important positions in the DPRK and China.

Yu Wenbo also resigned from the position of Great Prime Minister due to his advanced age and returned to his hometown. The Yuwen family is declining day by day, but because of its high achievements, it still has a decisive influence in Dafeng Kingdom. What's more, because Yu Wenbo's eldest son, Yu Wenhao Tianguan, worships the internal guard of the 500,000 Imperial Forest Army, has a heavy army, and is in charge of the two major intelligence agencies and security agencies of the Internal Security Division and the Tiger Ben Army, which makes the Huang surname dare not underestimate the forces.

Later, under the instruction of Huang Guifei, when the emperor went to Wushi, the lieutenant general Yuwen Haotian was named the king of Zhenbei, named Fengwang, which was actually stripped of power, and transferred to the northern frontier far away from the capital, to guard the northern border.

As a family with a non-royal bloodline was crowned king by the emperor, it was really even a high honor, and the Yuwen family could not help but obey, and Yuwen Haotian had no choice but to take office immediately.

At that time, on the plateau of the Northern Regions, there were not many people living in the Central Plains, only a few cities, and the largest Gulu Pass City was only tens of thousands of people, and it was robbed and harassed by the northern nomads all the year round, and local wars often occurred, but the imperial court garrison was less than 60,000 people.

Yuwen Haotian only brought less than 2,000 elite soldiers under his command to the northern region to take office, before leaving, his father Yuwen Bo personally gave him the secret book of governing the border, telling him how to promote governance by war, how to alleviate ethnic contradictions, how to promote the integration of northern nationalities, and stabilize the country's rule.

After taking office, Yuwen Haotian took advantage of his superiority in intelligence work to fully investigate the people's customs, people's feelings, social, economic, and military conditions in the entire region under his rule, and made sure that he had a good idea of the situation.

He found that there are many ethnic minorities in the north, such as Khitan, Turkic, Tufan, etc., these ethnic groups, or between tribes, there are often wars, fighting for territory, and also taking turns to harass and rob the Han people.

There is a long section of protective wall outside the northern region to strengthen the city, which has been damaged a lot in the perennial military rebellion, and it is no longer continuous and neat. The soldiers stationed there relied on these intermittent walls to fight the invading enemy.

Some subordinates suggested to Yuwen Haotian that the city walls outside the city should be repaired and improved and connected as a whole, so that they could better resist the enemy army. However, King Yuwen did not accept it, but ordered the soldiers to demolish all these walls.

This move was questioned by many officials, believing that the barbarian soldiers were all fast horses and light horses, and if there was no outer parapet to resist, the enemy soldiers would definitely drive straight in, and our bows, artillery, trebuchets, etc. would not be able to exert greater lethality.

However, King Yuwen did not think so, he felt that although these protective walls outside the city could resist the enemy's attack and did not play a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the battlefield, they dispersed our limited forces, and at the same time, when the enemy broke through the defense line, he used bows and arrows, artillery and the like to attack, which would inevitably injure his own people and cause unnecessary casualties.

After the demolition of the parapet wall outside the city, there is a flat river outside the city, which is connected with the vast grassland outside the city, and there is no longer any obstruction.

After the news spread, the leaders of several Turkic tribes got together to discuss it, and decided to take this opportunity to lead their troops to break into Gulu Pass to make a big profit, so they united and sent 40,000 troops to attack.

After getting the news, the atmosphere in the Gulu Pass City was very tense, everyone was panicked as if they were facing a great enemy, and some people had already packed up their soft and prepared to take refuge in the city.

There were less than 30,000 troops in the city, and 20,000 were arranged by King Yuwen to complete a secret project, and only 10,000 soldiers were actively practicing and preparing to defend against the enemy.

Wang Changyi, the commander of the troops in the city, suggested that the king of Zhenbei quickly transfer the troops in several cities in the northern region to Gulu Pass to strengthen the defense, but King Yuwen did not accept it, and said with a smile to let him rest assured to meet the enemy, he has his own skills to break the enemy, so he doesn't have to worry.

When the enemy's army approached the city, from a distance, there was a large area of dense black pressure on the grassland outside the city, all of them riding horses and holding swords, all of them had high morale and looked like they could not be beaten.

Look at this side of the city, only 10,000 pikemen and broadsword soldiers lined up under the outer wall of the city, ready to meet the enemy, and on the city wall, archers and artillery are not in place, and they are ready to prepare an empty city to meet the enemy.

The generals in the city were all panicked when they saw the situation, but they saw King Yuwen, the king of Zhenbei, standing on top of the city, looking calm, and he did not panic.

Hearing only a trumpet, the enemy army immediately marched together, and in the shouting, they went straight to Gulu Pass.

The soldiers of the city clenched their spears and broadswords in their hands and stared nervously ahead, ready to fight to the death against the invading enemy.

When the enemy's cavalry rushed to the halfway, a cannon was suddenly heard, and then two chariots rushed out from both sides of the city, one left and one right, and on the chariots stood two generals under the king of Zhenbei, Chen Jinchao and Duan Fei.

After the two chariots, hundreds of chariots followed. It's just that the shape of the chariot behind is very different, and it is pulled by three heavily armored war horses to hold a large cart, and on the cart is a huge rectangular wooden cabinet, and there are windows on all sides of the wooden cabinet, and it is vaguely visible that the chariot is full of soldiers.

Led by two generals, nearly a thousand chariots rushed towards the oncoming enemy troops.

When the distance between the two sides was dozens of zhang away, the two generals who rushed in front raised their flags and waved, only to see that at this time, ten thousand arrows suddenly fired at the chariot and shot at the enemy's cavalry camp.

The Turkic cavalry, which was caught off guard, immediately suffered numerous casualties and dismounted one after another, and the remaining cavalry continued to charge forward, and their fighting spirit did not diminish in the slightest.

When the two soldiers met, the enemy cavalry came to our chariot, and when they felt helpless in the face of the large wooden compartment on the chariot, dozens of spears suddenly stabbed out of the chariot, and the enemy was knocked off the horse, and there were casualties.

Seeing this, the cavalry that came behind wanted to avoid the chariot, and interspersed with the space between the chariots, but there was an iron cable between the chariots, and the iron rope was suddenly tightened and pulled up, becoming a tripping rope, and the war horses were unable to avoid it, and all of them were tripped and fell to the ground, and the Turkic soldiers on the horse immediately rolled to the ground, and were slashed by the pikemen and broadsword soldiers who caught up behind, as if chopping claws and cutting vegetables. And the Turkic soldiers who landed on the ground were like fish on the shore, and they had no power to fight back.

However, seeing that the chariot rushed forward all the way, forming a crushing momentum against the enemy's cavalry, the momentum was like a bamboo, and the enemy was no longer able to parry after a while, and the whole line was routed.

After the chariot chased for a while, it stopped continuing the pursuit, drove home, cleaned the battlefield by the way, and won the division. In less than half an hour of this battle, more than 10,000 enemy soldiers and horses were killed and wounded.

It turned out that after Yuwen Haotian repeatedly and carefully studied the tactics of the grassland cavalry, he found the loopholes in the cavalry operation, and personally designed the wooden cage chariot that broke the enemy's cavalry, and asked General Chen Jinchao to lead 20,000 people to secretly rush to make it.

Seeing that it had been less than half an hour before the party had achieved a complete victory, the generals who watched the battle with the king of Zhenbei on the city wall couldn't help but be amazed, and they all claimed that the king of praise was strategizing, and the odd soldiers won the victory!