Everyone felt that Song Jingang's sudden request for surrender was very suspicious, and while they were discussing, a general stepped forward and reported that a captured general of Liu Wuzhou's subordinates had suddenly confessed an important piece of news. Three days ago, the Turks who came to meet Liu Wuzhou were led by a Han woman, according to the general's confession, the woman was the daughter of Dou Jiande, the rebel leader of Hebei who was captured and killed.

Wei Chi Jingde slapped his thigh when he heard this: "Dog day, I said that Song Jingang, a horse thief, why did he keep saying that Huayi Dafang, but it turned out that it was because of this Dou red line." At the beginning, Dou Hongxian and her father, who refused to surrender, first killed Wang Xuba, then killed Wei Dao'er, and finally even attacked Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er, and the two fled to Hedong to escape for their lives. Now that Dou Hongxian has become the Kedun of the Tongye Protector, Song Jingang naturally does not dare to descend to the Turks anymore. ”

With this latest news, everyone also began to be optimistic. Even Qin Qiong began to agree to accept the surrender of Song Jingang and others, and proposed that the imperial court immediately send troops and horses into Dingxiang and Ma Yi to reinforce the two. Only Chen Kefu didn't speak, he thought calmly for a long time, and suddenly said: "Send a message to Song Jingang immediately and tell them that I accept their invitation to surrender." And let them gather all the soldiers and horses within three days and withdraw into the Yanmen Pass. ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Wei Chi Jingbei was surprised: "Your Majesty, why is this?" Since Song Jingang is willing to surrender, then we are the best time to recover Dingxiang and Mayi. Wouldn't it be better now to send troops north to reinforce the Turks before they have yet to go south, so that the Turks can be kept out of the fortress? Chen Kefu shook his head and said: "Although Song Jingang's surrender is eight points credible, it has not been completely confirmed after all. Now is the time for the Turks to prepare to go south. We have the audacity to believe in Song Jingang at this time. This is a very dangerous thing to do. Second, we have not yet assembled our troops and horses, and the enemy is outnumbered. At this time, we cannot divide our troops, so that the enemy can take advantage of it. We will concentrate our troops and horses, and hold the city firmly. Iron cavalry power and field superiority against the Turks with our defensive superiority. ”

"What about Dingxiang and Ma Yi? Just gave it to the Turks for nothing? This is a great opportunity for the imperial court to recover the entire Hedong in one fell swoop, and if you miss this great opportunity now, you may not have a chance in the future. Sun Wuji, the governor of Hedong Province, said a little unwillingly. He has been the governor of Hedong for two years, but even the whole province of Hedong has not been recovered, and seeing that his term of office is about to expire, he is unwilling to leave like this.

Chen Kefu said: "Tong Ye Hu has always had the ambition of the four seas, my dynasty has gone through great chaos, and the world has not yet been unified, I have long expected that he will not be able to hold it in the face of this opportunity." Wei Chi Jingde looked puzzled: "No." Tong Yehu has been fighting for so many years, and he has just unified all the departments of the grassland, so he always has to take a breath before he can use troops again. Besides. The Turks gathered troops and horses in the Yinshan area, which was only possible to go south. It doesn't mean they're going south. What's more, now that the Eastern Turkic steppe has been divided and occupied by the Xi State, the Xiabu, and the Tiele Khanate, it is more urgent to unify the entire Turkic tribe. Chen Kefu shook his head: "Can the grassland fill the ambition of the Leaf Protector?" Think about it, Tong Ye Hu knew that Dou Hongxian was a rebellious remnant wanted by me, but he just set up such a woman as Ke Dun. He knew that Liu Wuzhou was our enemy, but he also crowned Liu Wuzhou as the Khan of Dingyang, and also sent troops to cross the Yellow River to rescue Liu Wuzhou. There can only be one explanation for this, and he wants to express his intentions to me through this method, and his men are probably already heading south. ”

Chen Kefu decided to stay in Yanmen, but not for the time being. He sent an envoy to Mayi to convey a message to Song Jingang, saying that the imperial court accepted their invitation to surrender, and the imperial court crowned Song Jingang as the Duke of Song County and Zhen Zhai'er as the Duke of Yan County, and ordered the two to immediately lead their subordinates to withdraw to Yanmen Pass. And in order to deal with the Turks, the envoy brought the will of the fortified wall and Qingye, and when they went south, they took all the people with them as much as possible, and then burned all the cities and villages along the way, filled up the wells and poisoned them, and even the rivers of the two counties also threw dead bodies to pollute the water sources. …,

On the other hand, Chen Kefu asked Wang Rengong to put all the 100 cannons prepared by the imperial court on the head of Yanmen Pass, and all the 100 cannons transported this time were also set up on the fortresses on Gouzhu Mountain and other peaks on Yanmen Pass. In addition, Chen Kefu also issued an emergency mobilization order to gather all the government soldiers in Hedong, and began to recruit all the township soldiers in Hedong to assemble and prepare for war. At the same time, he also sent an edict to Luoyang, ordering Marshal Luo Yi to immediately lead the army north to Beijing, guard the capital of Beijing's foreign army, transfer Marshal Yu Qinming to sit in Liaoyang, Tokyo, and transfer Marshal Luo Zhong to guard Linyu Pass. At the same time, he also sent an edict to the Khitan and Jin kingdoms outside the Guanwai, asking them to transfer troops and horses to prepare for the deployment of defenses along the western line of the Khitan grassland.

At the same time as these orders were issued, Chen Kefu Feige urgently ordered Li Jing, the most capable marshal of Da Chen, to lead 100,000 elites from Luoyang to the north, and bring dozens of fierce generals such as Cheng Yanjin from Beijing to the north.

As soon as the order was issued, Li Jing, who was in Taiyuan, took the lead in rushing to Yanmen in the starry night. As soon as he arrived at Yanmen, Li Jing asked to see Chen Kefu. In recent years, Li Jing, as the secretary of the military department, has also been paying attention to the Turks, and he told Chen Kefu that with the strength of the current imperial court, it is by no means the time for a decisive battle with the Turks. In the face of the Turkic provocations, the imperial court should be patient, because the main next goal of the imperial court is to unify the Central Plains. Only after unifying the world can the imperial court free up its hands to clean up the Turks. And now, if it fights hard with the Turks, then against the Turks, who have millions of people, even if the court wins, it will be a crushing victory. Because the Turks are all soldiers, the nomadic Turks can fight, and everyone can control the strings, if the commander is determined to fight, then the Turks can even arm four or five hundred thousand iron horses, which is greater than the power of the initial Bi Khan. At the beginning, the Eastern Turks only occupied the Eastern Turks east of Jinshan, and already had 400,000 iron cavalry. And today's Tongye Hu has basically unified the two Turks of the East and the West, and restored to the time of the Turkic Empire when the Turks were at their strongest, and such Turks cannot be underestimated.

Chen Kefu asked Li Jing if the Turks deliberately provoked and attacked, then how could the imperial court withdraw its troops in addition to responding to the war? After Li Jing hesitated for a long time, he proposed that he could temporarily forbear, give the Turks and relatives, and raise the wealth of the treasury to retreat.

Chen Kefu was shocked when he heard this: "I didn't expect that Senior Brother Yao would actually say this. ”

Seeing Chen Kefu's unkind face, Li Jing said with a panicked face: "What the minister says, every word is for the country." ”

With a long sigh, Chen Kefu said: "I have tried to read history books, although the Han is strong, there is also the siege of the white horse, and the shame of kissing. After the Han Dynasty, the northern grassland tribes have repeatedly had strong people, such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, and Turkic, and the powerful grassland tribes have always been the nightmare of the Central Plains. There was even a rebellion at the end of the Jin Dynasty, and the Han people were in danger of being wiped out. The Jin, Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui dynasties have always been friendly with the northern tribes. ”

"But I, I don't want me to be the same."

"No harmony, no reparations, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies. This is the precept I want to leave to my descendants of Da Chen. ”

Li Jing looked at Chen Kefu in surprise, and his eyes couldn't help but be excited by those words, as a marshal, he was naturally very enthusiastic when he heard the emperor's words so hard. But in a blink of an eye, he was worried about what was in front of him. He was worried that the emperor was too conceited, and that Yang Guang was fighting in the east and west, and the Great Sui army was invincible, and even the grassland tribes had to succumb to the iron hooves of the Great Sui. In the end, Yang Guangcai's self-confidence was extremely inflated, and finally he first conquered Goguryeo four times, and finally prepared to conquer the Turks, but was besieged by Shibi Khan Yanmen, and finally died in Taiyuan City.

Chen Kefu felt his thoughts from Li Jing's gaze, and patted Li Jing's shoulder appreciatively: "I am very pleased that Senior Brother Yao can have this calmness, you are not fanatical because of my words. He was a good marshal, and he always maintained the calmness of a commander, which is a good thing. However, you have just said the truth, but you should not say it to anyone from now on. Because you are my best marshal and a symbol of the invincibility of my Dachen army, I must keep this flag for the soldiers, otherwise the army's spirit will be shaken. ”…,

Li Jing was moved a little more by these words, and Chen Kefu told Li Jing that this time he was not ready for an all-out war with the Turks. But in the face of the provocation of the Turks, he must return the color, otherwise blindly retreating, but the Turks will gain an inch. At that time, the imperial court would be caught in a dilemma between the Turks and the other separatists, and it would not be able to advance or retreat.

Therefore, in order to avoid this possibility, the imperial court needed this war to end the war with war. The imperial court first fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, took the initiative to give up Dingxiang and Ma Yi as a buffer, and then gathered troops and horses to fight a defensive counterattack in Yanmen, beating the Turks and letting them understand Da Chen's determination, so as to force the Turks to withdraw their troops voluntarily.

Apart from this method, they had no other way to deal with the ambition of the Leaf Protector. In order to win this battle, Chen Kefu told Li Jing that this time the battle of Yanmen will not stop at Yanmen, but will also include the thousands of miles of border borders from Yanmen to Beijing to Guanwai, Liaoxi, and Mobei. This time, the imperial court will mobilize about 300,000 soldiers and horses. Chen Kefu handed over the command of the entire battle situation to Li Jing. It was up to him to take command of the battle.

Chen Kefu looked at Li Jing and said sincerely: "Senior Brother Yao, this battle is related to the life and death of our Great Chen Dynasty. If I lose, maybe I will end up like Yang Guang, and my Da Chen may collapse like the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, in this battle, only victory is allowed, not defeat. From now on, the sooner you defeat the invading Turks, the sooner our Dachen country will be guaranteed and safe. ”

From Chen Kefu's expectant eyes, Li Jing saw the burden on his shoulders.

Li Jing said gloomily: "The minister swears to complete the task and will live up to His Majesty's trust!" ”