During the days when Xiao Han was concentrating on experimental research in the Qinling Workshop, the outside world had undergone some changes.
As for the Turks, Jieli Khan still managed to gather more than a dozen large tribes using some method.
These large tribes are taking advantage of the abundant water, fertilizer and grass to move closer to the Yating location!
It is said that blessings never come in pairs and misfortunes never come alone! The same is true in today's Tang Dynasty.
After learning that Li Shimin had moved the coup, in addition to the Turks, Goryeo in the north, Tubo in the west, and Nanzhao in the south all began to think more or less about the new Tang Dynasty. There was not a single day at the border. peaceful!
There were frequent changes abroad, and it was not necessarily stable within the Tang Dynasty.
Rebellions broke out from time to time in Hebei, Jiannan, and Liangzhou. Li Shimin, who had just ascended the throne, had to carefully maintain the stability of the country. At the same time, he sent the confidant generals who had just been enfeoffed to all directions like spreading beans.
These people not only have to suppress the small-scale rebellions that are happening in the country, but they also have to deal with the surrounding countries that are eyeing them!
East Palace, in Chongwen Hall.
Li Shimin, who was wearing a dragon robe, was sitting behind a desk with clenched fists and a gloomy expression.
In front of him, Xue Shou, Tang Jian, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others also looked tired.
"Now it seems that the Turkic invasion is irreversible! In one month at the latest, they should go south! Apart from them, there are also Korea, Tubo and other places that are restless. This autumn, eh..."
Tang Jian, who was sitting next to Xue Shou, put down the letter in his hand, lowered his head and sighed deeply.
Although he didn't want to admit it, when he first saw the march map of those grassland tribes, Tang Jian, who had been walking on the grassland for a long time, had already seen through the ambitions of the Turks!
Li Shimin glanced at the worried Tang Jian and whispered: "Korea and Tubo are nothing to be afraid of. They are just some howling wild dogs. As long as we can repel the Turks, those dogs will naturally retreat with their tails between their legs." Go home! The problem now is how to defeat the Turks!"
"..."
Li Shimin's words had already fallen, but there was silence in the room, and no one answered for a long time.
Everyone here is now an important minister in the court! Naturally, they know the current situation in Datang better than anyone else!
Many people say that the Tang Dynasty became so powerful because it inherited the blessings of the Sui Dynasty!
But has anyone ever thought that if the Great Sui Dynasty really had so many so-called secrets, why would it be necessary to fight against the king in eighteen ways and seventy-two puffs of smoke?
How could Yang Guang, the owner of these secrets, be hanged to death in Jiangnan, with no one even collecting his bones?
People who think this way can carefully calculate. Since Yang Guang's three conquests of Goguryeo, has the world been peaceful?
In these ten years, soldiers are fighting, businessmen are fighting, and farmers are also fighting! The whole world is at war!
The population of the world dropped sharply from 8.9 million households in the Great Year 5 to 1.8 million households in the Takeru Year! A full eighty percent less! There are not even two people out of ten in this world!
Therefore, today's Tang Dynasty seems to be prosperous, but they realize that this is just a false shell!
Now, the Turks are coming to break open this shell. What can they use to stop the Turks' cavalry?
Silence, a long silence.
When the silence passed, Li Shimin opened his dry lips and asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "How many troops can the Turks send this time?"
"At least 400,000!" Tang Jian heard the words and replied with a wry smile. Then, he thought for a while and added: "There are 200,000 elite cavalry alone. With the union of more than a dozen large tribes, plus Wang Tingya Zhang, each force has Twenty thousand people is not a difficult thing.”
"There are four hundred thousand..." When Fang Xuanling heard this number, although she was prepared in her heart, she still felt a numbness in her scalp.
God, this is 400,000 people, not 400,000 sheep!
In other words, even 400,000 sheep are enough to trample Chang'an from beginning to end!
"How many people can we send out?" Xue frowned and looked at Changsun Wuji, who was silent at the side, and asked.
Changsun Wuji raised his head and glanced at him, and replied in a deep voice: "We can mobilize up to 100,000 people now. Now that the situation has been decided, other places dare not be short of manpower!"
"That means, use us 100,000, versus 400,000?"
After Xue Ting heard this, his body trembled and he leaned back on the chair tiredly.
It's not that he's scared, it's actually that the two data are really different!
Although Li Shimin had a miraculous feat of defeating thousands of enemies with a hundred horses before, the problem this time was that they were not facing Dou Jiande, but the cunning and barbaric Turks!
Compared with Dou Jiande of the Huanghuang Master, these people in Tujue are simply a group of bandits who do all kinds of evil, a group of bandits who have no conscience!
Go for it when you see an advantage, hide when you encounter difficulties! To deal with such people, trying to stop them with a fortified city is nothing more than a dream!
In Chongwen Hall, a feeling of disappointment slowly rose among them.
Facing the most dangerous invasion since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, everyone, including Xue Shou, felt a deep sense of powerlessness welling up in their hearts!
"Everyone!"
When the last piece of sandalwood slipped out of the incense burner, Li Shimin, who was sitting behind the desk, suddenly raised his head, looked at everyone present with his bloodshot eyes, and then said slowly:
"Now, it's not a question of whether we should fight! It's a question of how to fight! Since the Turkic invasion is a foregone conclusion, all we have to do now is how to repel them. The rest will be discussed later!"
"Yes! I agree with your Majesty! They are going to fight at the door this time. What we have to do is fight back!"
Yuchi Gong had been aggrieved by this incident from the beginning. Now that he heard that Li Shimin wanted to fight, he was naturally the first to jump out and agree!
"Fight back? How to fight back? With the tens of thousands of people under your command?" Tang Jian glanced at Yu Chigong and said mercilessly.
"That's better than you complaining here! Can you kill people with your words?" Yu Chigong has a brave personality. He is naturally incapable of dealing with people like Tang Jian who show off their words. Except for the wine table, the two of them can pinch each other anywhere else. stand up.
"You...you!" Tang Jian's face turned red from being choked, and he pointed at Yuchi Gong tremblingly, but did not speak for a long time.
"Jing De, Mao Yue (Tang Jian's nickname is Mao Yue)!" Li Shimin glanced at the two fighting cock-like people with dissatisfaction, and then turned to look at the map hanging on the wall.
Just now, Yu Chigong's words reminded him, and a bold idea flashed through his mind.
"Tang Jian, apart from the tribes gathered by Jieli Khan, are there any other forces on the grassland that we can borrow?" Li Shimin asked.
