Listening to the arrogant words of the Turkic envoy Yili, Chen Kefu couldn't help but laugh angrily and laughed out loud.

"The Lord is mad, you are here early in the morning to open your eyes and talk in your dreams. If you want to say treachery, it is also your family's leader Ye Hu's treachery. Wei Chigong, pull this ignorant and arrogant madness to the downstairs of the gate of Yanmen Gate, and reward him with a whip if he says another nonsense.

Wei Chi Jingde stretched out his big hand and grabbed Yili, dragged it up and left. Yi Li struggled to protect the Ye to deliver a message, don't think that with a few war horses and a group of reckless men can treat the world as nothing, behind me, there are tens of millions of great Chen people, if he really dares to fight, hum, the Yanmen Gate is his cemetery! Tell Tong Yehu that if he still remembers how he became a khan in the first place, then he should immediately retreat to the west of Jinshan. If he immediately handed over the red line of the remnants of the Hebei rebel bandits to Yanmen and me, I would not be guilty of his previous offense against me, and even sending Princess Yicheng to the grassland would not be negotiable. If Tong Ye Hu is obsessed and can't retreat to the west of Jinshan, and doesn't hand over the red line of my Da Chen's Qin offense, then when he leads a million troops to level the grassland, don't blame me for being unpredictable. The two attendants hugged their heads and scurried.

Xiao Yu, the envoy of Hedong's right punishment, said with some hesitation: "The two countries will fight each other, and they will not be killed." Your Majesty, Yili is the envoy of the Turkic Yehu Khan, and we will detain him and punish him. Chen Kefu smiled at Empress Xiao's younger brother: "Tong Ye protects the army under the Yin Mountain, and he actually accepted the Dou red line as Kedun." He also named Liu Wuzhou as the Khan of Dingyang, and so on, because he had already planned to go south. Now he sent Yili to ask for Princess Yicheng. In fact, it is just to probe the reality of our court and to see our attitude towards the Turks. At this time, if we still give them a salute, then it will only make Tong Ye Hu think that we are weak and can be bullied. Let's show a little timidity, I'm afraid that he will lead the iron cavalry to kill the Yanmen in one go. Now that we are so tough, with my understanding of this person as Tong Ye Hu, I am afraid that he will have some worries. ”

In front of the ministers of the imperial court, Chen Kefu tried his best to maintain a relaxed attitude. But in fact, Chen Kefu still has a lot of worries. For the grassland tribes, Chen Kefu has always admired Yang Jian's method of dealing with the Turks back then, using razing to defeat raze. Long-distance and close-range attack, differentiation and discord, combined weak and strong. The imperial court relied on diplomacy and used strategy to provoke internal strife among the steppe people, and then constantly provoked their wars. All the court has to do is give money and goods to the weaker side. Let him keep fighting with the strong side. In the end, the internal strife of the grassland continued, and there was no way to look outside.

This was the case with Yang Jian back then, dividing the powerful Turkic Empire in two and letting them attack each other. If the Eastern Turks are strong, they will unite with the Western Turks to fight the Eastern Turks, and when the Western Turks are strong, they will unite with the Eastern Turks to fight the Western Turks. Under this strategy, the Eastern and Western Turks continued to divide and disintegrate. Let more little khans become independent, so that the Turks will continue to divide and remain under the control of the Sui Dynasty forever. From Yang Jian's reign in the Northern Zhou Dynasty to his independence in the Sui Dynasty, the grassland people in the north have been under his control for decades. After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he was first busy with the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, and the monitoring of the Turks gradually became abandoned, and finally he changed the previous strategy of division and took the initiative to attack, which finally led to the defeat and death.

As the son of Da Chen, Chen Kefu is very aware of Da Chen's strength. For example, if it is not unified today, the imperial court's finances and food are not sufficient. Although most of the soldiers and horses were elite in a hundred battles, they could not support the victory of the army without sufficient logistics. What's more, at this time, the world has not yet been unified, and there are still various tribes in the northeast outside the pass, which requires a lot of soldiers and horses from the imperial court to monitor and defend. On the Yangtze River, the long border line also made the imperial court have to deploy a lot of soldiers and horses for defense. At this time, in the area of Wuguan and Tongguan, the axis of the interests of all parties, the imperial court deployed a large number of troops. …,

At this time, in the face of the pressure of the Turkic army, although Chen Kefu tried his best to draw troops, there were still not many troops available. For this reason, he began to gather the township soldiers and militia groups in Hedong, Henan, and Hebei, but in the face of Tongye Hu, who had hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen, Chen Kefu did not have much confidence in victory.

Under the hundreds of thousands of iron hooves of the soldiers who protected the country, even the strong Yanmen Pass still had a crumbling feeling. A few years ago, Yang Guang was besieged by hundreds of thousands of Turks here, and was almost captured by the city. Now the young Great Chen Empire and Chen Dynasty Emperor Chen Kefu are also facing the same crisis as Yang Guang back then, or even worse. His heart was full of worries, but he could not reveal half of it to his courtiers. He Chen Kefu is not only the son of Da Chen, but also the undefeated military banner of all Da Chen's army.

Faced with such a situation, Li Jing, the prime minister who was also the secretary of the Ministry of War, secretly met with him that night and persuaded Chen Kefu to start planning for the worst.

The worst-case plan Li Jing mentioned was actually to take this battle with the Turks to a few more levels and make more thorough preparations in advance. According to what he said, although the current imperial court has made arrangements on the northern front, it is obviously not enough to face hundreds of thousands of Turks. In order to avoid the possibility of being like Yang Guang back then, the imperial court should send more troops and horses to the north, and be prepared to fight the Turks, fight viciously, and even fight a decisive battle.

For the possibility of this decisive battle, the imperial court should temporarily send other elite soldiers and horses from the south or even the west to the north. According to the previous arrangement of the imperial court, although the north would be at war with the Turks, the imperial court still left sufficient troops and horses on the Yangtze River to deal with Nanchen, and also built a large camp to conquer the west in the area of Wuguan and Tongguan. Li Jing suggested that on the front line of the Yangtze River, only Zhang Zhongjian's 100,000 naval divisions should be left to guard the long Yangtze River defense line, and Qu Tutong, Chen Ling, Yang Shanhui, and other generals and their troops and horses should all be transferred north to Yanmen, Hedong. In addition, in the western camp on the front line of Wuguan and Tongguan, except for leaving Mao Yi and Xue Dingguo to lead a small number of troops and horses to defend, the rest of the soldiers and horses must also be transferred to the north. In addition, the Beijing division Luoyang left 50,000 people led by Marshal Li Benlei to stay, and the rest of the Praetorian Guards and horses had to be transferred north to Hedong. In short, for this engagement, the imperial court must go all out.

Although Li Jing said it tactfully, in fact, Chen Kefu still heard a lot of extraneous words. Li Jing was not only worried about the battle of Yanmen, but he also considered going further. Yanmen and Junduguan and other northern fronts, most of the soldiers and horses arranged at this time were the elite of the imperial court, and they were all soldiers and horses who followed Chen Kefu in the early years. Li Jing was worried that if the war was unfavorable, then it was very likely to stage the scene of Yang Guang back then.

And think a little further, in the face of hundreds of thousands of Turks, even if this battle is won, it is estimated that it will be a miserable victory. In this way, those elite troops must have suffered great damage, and at this time, the world was not at peace, and there were a large number of generals who did not follow the emperor at the beginning, and many of them were attached later. For example, Qu Tutong and Chen Ling who guarded Huainan, Yang Shanhui who guarded the Jiujiang area, Xue Dingguo who guarded Wuguan, and Luo Yi who guarded Beiping. In the unlikely event that the emperor's pro-army suffered serious damage after the war with the Turks, it would be difficult to guarantee that these generals on all sides would not have any dissenting intentions.

Now these generals and their armies are all mobilized to the north, leaving generals such as Li Benlei, Mao Yi, Zhang He, Liu Tiezhu, Lu Shishen, Guo Xiaoke, Li Chengyi and other emperors to take over the defense of various places, firstly, the army going north has strengthened its strength against the Turks, and secondly, it has also eliminated worries. Although Li Jing proposed this to him, Chen Kefu understood that there must be the meaning of ministers such as the eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Shilian, and Fang Xuanling behind this. …,

For a long time, the DPRK and China have been divided into two distinct factions, one is Li Benlei, Mao Xi, Changsun Wuji, Li Jing and other original Conglong Yuanzuo, they all boast of being from Long Wuzuo, and they are naturally loyal to Chen Kefu, but they are also not very compatible with those civil and military officials who later surrendered and surrendered. Even the generals of the Young Zhuang faction in the army, such as Lu Shishen, Cheng Bitjin, and Daniel Zhang, had some opinions about the emperor's preferential treatment of those generals who were later attached. Especially for Li Yuan, Wang Shichong and Yang Yun's courtiers who surrendered to him, one by one, they were crowned princes and marquis, and even ranked above many generals who followed the emperor from birth to death.

Nowadays, Mao Xi, Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, and Lu Guangli are the leading figures of this faction, and most of the military generals such as Li Benlei, Li Jing, and Zhang Zhongjian are also on their side. Pei Lian, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Chai Shao, Li Xiaogong, Song Jingang, Zhen Zhai'er and others were gradually isolated and gradually came to the side, while Qu Tutong, Zhang Gongjin, Shi Danai, Song Laosheng, Chen Ling, Yang Shanhui, Huangfu Wuyi, Yuan Wendu, Wei Jian and others were treated better than Pei Lin and others, but they were also inclined to the side of the capitulation faction.

The Chinese military forces of the DPRK gradually divided into two major factions, the meritorious faction and the surrender faction, and this matter has to be said to have the reason for Chen Kefu's tacit acquiescence. His acquiescence to the division and confrontation of the courtiers was actually for the purpose of checks and balances, preventing the courtiers from all forming one, and setting him up as an emperor. But now that Li Jing mentioned this matter in person, he wanted to transfer most of the generals in these surrender factions to Yanmen, although Chen Kefu knew that Li Jing and them were starting from the official business, he also knew that there was still some selfishness in this.

But after all, Chen Kefu can come to this day and restore the Chen Dynasty, I have to say that the reliance on these heroes was the greatest at the beginning. Previously, he gave preferential treatment to these surrendered courtiers, although it was intended to be used to check and balance the heroes, but it was also to win the hearts of the people in the world, and collect the talents of the world for the use of the imperial court. He is also clear about the fact that many civil and military generals in the DPRK and China are privately dissatisfied with his approach.

At this moment, Li Jing put forward this opinion on behalf of the eldest grandson Wuji, and Chen Kefu immediately understood the meaning. Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Kefu immediately agreed to his suggestion. Chen Kefu knew that Yu Gong transferred his generals to lead his troops north to Yanmen, which not only strengthened his strength against the Turks, but also prevented possible future troubles. For private reasons, Chen Kefu agreed with their suggestion to deal with the surrender faction, which was equivalent to appeasing the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the heroes of the court. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )