Listening to the arrogant words of the Turkic envoy Yili, Chen Kefu couldn't help but laughed in anger and laughed loudly.

"The mad minister is ruthless. You opened your eyes and talked in a sleep early in the morning. If you want to betray your family, Ye Hu, is the first to betray your trust. Yuchi Gong pulled this ignorant and arrogant maniac to the bottom of the Yanmen Pass city gate. He said something nonsense and rewarded him with a whip.

Yuchi Jingde stretched out his hand and grabbed Yili, dragged it away. Yili struggled hard to report a letter to Tongye Hu, don't think that there were a few war horses and a group of rash men who could regard the world as nothing. Behind me, there are millions of great Chen people. If he really dared to fight, huh, his cemetery is his cemetery! Tell Tongye Hu, if he still remembers how he became the Khan, then he should immediately retreat to the west of Jinshan and hand over the grassland east of Jinshan again.

Return to our jurisdiction of Da Chen, and if he immediately handed over Dou Hong Line, the remnant of Hebei's rebel bandits, to Yanmen and I, I can live without any blame for his offense to me, and even send Princess Yicheng to the grassland, it is not something that cannot be discussed. If Tong Ye Hu is obsessed with it, he cannot retreat to the west of Jinshan, and does not hand over the line of Da Chen's offensive to Dou Hong Line, then when I lead a million troops to flatten the grassland in the future, don't blame me for not saying anything." The two followers ran away with their heads in their arms.

Xiao Yu, the commander of the Hedong Youti Censor, said hesitantly: "The two countries are fighting, but they will not behead the envoy. Your Majesty, Yili is the envoy of the Turkic commander Ye Hu Khan. We will detain him and punish him. This is not harmonious with the rites." Chen Kefu smiled at Empress Xiao's younger brother: "The commander Ye Hu gathered his troops under Yinshan Mountain, and even took Dou Hongxian as Ke Dun, and appointed Liu Wuzhou as Dingyang Khan. All these things have long been planned to go south.

Idiot. Now he sent Yi Li to come, Mingming asking for Princess Yicheng. In fact, he was just to come to explore the reality of our court and observe our attitude towards the Turks. At this time, if we still talk about etiquette to them, it would only make Tong Ye Hu think that we are weak and can be bullied. Let's show a little timid. I am afraid that he will lead the iron cavalry to the Yanmen Pass in one go. Now that we are so tough, with my understanding of Tong Ye Hu, I am afraid that he will have some concerns."

In front of the ministers of the court, Chen Kefu tried his best to maintain a relaxed attitude, but in fact, Chen Kefu still had a lot of concerns in his mind. For the grassland tribe, Chen Kefu always admired Yang Jian's method of dealing with the Turks, using barbarians to control barbarians, attacking far and near, differentiating and disparaging, and fighting against the strong. The court relied on diplomatic means and used strategies to provoke internal disputes among the people of the grassland themselves. Then he continued to provoke their wars. All the court had to do was to pay money and give the weak side, so that he could continue to fight with the strong side. In the end, the internal disputes within the grassland were endless and unable to take advantage of the outside.

This was how Yang Jian was back then. He divided the powerful Turkic Empire into two. He asked them to attack each other. The Eastern Turkic strongly joined forces with the Western Turkic to fight the Eastern Turkic. When the Western Turkic strongly, he joined forces with the Eastern Turkic to fight the Western Turkic. Under this strategy, he continued to divide and disintegrate the East and West Turkic, allowing more small khans to rise up, and make the Turkic constantly differentiate and always be under the control of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Jian from taking charge of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to establishing the Sui Dynasty, the grassland people in the north were under his control for decades. After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he was busy with the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, and gradually slapped the Turkic people. Finally, he changed his previous differentiation strategy and took the initiative to attack, which eventually led to his defeat and death.

As Emperor Chen, Chen Kefu knew very well the strength of Da Chen. If it had not been unified today, the court's finances and food were insufficient. Although most of the troops were elite in a hundred battles, they could not support the victory of the army without sufficient logistics. What's more, the world had not been unified at this time, and there were tribes outside the Northeast, which required a lot of troops to monitor and defend. On the front line of the Yangtze River, the long border line forced the court to arrange a lot of troops to defend. At this time, the court had even arranged a large number of troops in Wuguan and Tongguan area of ​​the interests of all parties.

At this time, facing the overwhelming embarrassment of the Turkish army, although Chen Kefu tried his best to draw troops, he still had few troops to use. For this reason, he also began to convene the rural soldiers and militias in Hedong, Henan and Hebei. However, facing the Tongye Hu, who had hundreds of thousands of cavalry, Chen Kefu did not have much confidence in winning.

Beneath the hundreds of thousands of iron hooves of the soldiers of Ye Hu, even the strong Yanmen Pass city still felt like it was about to fall. A few years ago, Yang Guang was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Turkic people, and he was almost destroyed and captured. Although he finally rescued the siege, he could not avoid death and destruction of the country. Now, the young Emperor of the Great Chen Dynasty and the Emperor of the Chen Dynasty Chen Kefu are also facing the same crisis as Yang Guang back then, even worse. He was full of worries, but he could not reveal any of them to his ministers. He was not only the emperor of the Great Chen, but also the undefeated military flag of all the Great Chen army.

Faced with such a situation, Li Jing, the prime minister who also served as the Minister of War, secretly met with him that night and advised Chen Kefu to start making the worst plan.

The worst plan Li Jing said was actually to go up to a few levels to prepare for this battle with the Turks. According to his words, although the court has made arrangements on the northern front line, it is obviously not enough to face hundreds of thousands of Turks. In order to avoid the possibility of Yang Guang back then, the court should draw more troops to go north and prepare for a big fight, a vicious battle, or even a decisive battle with the Turks.

In order to achieve this decisive battle, the court should temporarily draw other elite troops from the south or even the west to head north. According to the court's previous arrangement, although the north would fight against the Turks, the court still left enough troops on the Yangtze River to deal with Nanchen, and also built a large camp in Wuguan and Tongguan. Li Jing suggested that on the front line of the Yangtze River, only Zhang Zhongjian's 100,000 navy troops were left to guard the long Yangtze River defense line, and Qu Tu was the first line of the Yangtze River.

Tong, Chen Ling, Yang Shanhui, and other generals and their troops were all transferred to the north to Yanmen, Hedong. In addition to the Xiying on the front line of Wuguan and Tongguan, Mao Yi and Xue Dingguo led a few troops to defend, the rest of the troops must also be transferred to the north. In addition, the capital Luoyang left the old Marshal Li Benlei to lead 50,000 people to stay, and the other guards must also be transferred to the north to Hedong. In short, for this battle, the court must do its best.

Although Li Jing was tactful, Chen Kefu actually heard a lot of unspoken words. Li Jing was not only worried about the battle at Yanmen, but also considered further away from home. Yanmen and Junduguan were in the northern front line. Most of the troops arranged at this time were elites of the court, and they all followed Chen Kefu in his early years to assist the soldiers and horses. Li Jing was worried that if the battle was unfavorable, it would be very likely that Yang Guang's scene would be staged.

If you think about it further, even if you win in this battle, you will probably have a tragic victory. In this way, those elite troops will inevitably suffer great damage. At this time, the world has not yet settled, and a large number of generals guarding the four sides are not the first to follow the emperor, but many of them later joined them. For example, Qu Tutong and Chen Ling who guarded Huainan, Yang Shanhui who guarded Jiujiang, Xue Dingguo who guarded Wuguan, and Luo Yi who guarded Beiping. If the emperor's personal army was seriously injured after the war with the Turks, then these generals guarding all sides would not have any unfavorable intentions.

Now all these generals and their army are mobilized to the north, leaving behind generals such as Li Benlei, Mao Yi, Zhang He, Liu Tiezhu, Lu Shishen, Guo Xiaoke, Li Chengyi, etc., who had believed in the emperors to guard all over the country. On the one hand, the army heading north has strengthened its strength to fight against the Turks, and on the other hand, it has also avoided worries. Although Li Jing proposed this to him, Chen Kefu understood that behind this, there must be some meanings such as Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, Fang Xuanling and other ministers.

The court has always been divided into two distinct factions. One is Li Benlei, Mao Xi, Changsun Wuji, Li Jing and other first followers. They all claim to follow Long Wuzuo and are naturally loyal to Chen Kefu, but they are not very loyal to those civil and military officials who later surrendered. Even the young generals of the army such as Lu Shishen, Cheng Yaojin, and Zhang Yong had some opinions about the emperor's preferential treatment for the generals who later surrendered. Especially for the ministers who surrendered to Li Yuan, Wang Shichong and Yang Ming, they were all dissatisfied with the ministers who surrendered to the emperor one by one, and even more than many generals who followed the emperor through life and death.

Now in the court, Mao Xi, Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, Lu Guangli and others are the dominant figures of this sect, and military generals such as Li Benlei, Li Jing, Zhang Zhongjian are mostly on their side. Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Chai Shao, Li Xiaogong, Song Jingang, Zhen Zhaier and others are gradually isolated and gradually come to the side. Although Qu Tutong, Zhang Gongjin, Shi Danai, Song Laosheng, Chen Ling, Yang Shanhui, Huangfu Wuyi, Yuan Wendu, Wei Shou and others are treated better than Pei Ji and others, they are also inclined to surrender.

The civil and military officials in the court gradually divided into two major sects of the surrender. This matter has to be said to be due to Chen Kefu's secret acquiescence. He acquiesced the separation and confrontation of the ministers in this way, in fact, to prevent all the ministers from becoming anger and putting him, the emperor, into obscurity. But now Li Jing mentioned this matter in person and wanted to transfer most of the military generals in the surrender sect to Yanmen. Although Chen Kefu knew that Li Jing and the others were starting from the public, he knew that there was still some selfishness in this.

But after all, Chen Kefu was able to reach today and restore the Chen Dynasty. It has to be said that he had the greatest reliance on these heroes at the beginning. Previously, he treated these surrendered ministers with preferential treatment. Although he had the intention to check and balance the heroes, he was also to win the hearts of the people and the talents of the world for the court. He was also clear about the fact that many civil and military generals in the court had some dissatisfaction with his approach in private.

At this moment, Li Jing made this opinion on behalf of Changsun Wuji and the others, and Chen Kefu immediately understood the meaning. Without any hesitation, Chen Kefu immediately agreed to his suggestion. Chen Kefu knew that Yu Gong, the generals who had sent troops north to Yanmen, enhanced their strength to fight against the Turks and prevented possible future troubles. Yu Privately, Chen Kefu agreed to their secretly with the suggestion of dealing with the surrender faction, which was equivalent to appease the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the heroes in the court.

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