When they learned that the Turkish army had invaded 100,000, the Great Zhou Dynasty was in chaos. Emperor Tianyuan often did not attend court for several days. Zheng Yi, Liu Fang and others could only flatter the emperor, please the emperor, and attack political enemies. They might not have the real ability to govern the country. They knew nothing about how to deal with the attack of the Turkic army.

After the news reached the people for several days, the entire capital began to panic. Zheng Yi and others did not send additional reinforcements to the front line, nor did they post notices to calm the hearts of the capital. Before Emperor Tianyuan clearly designated it, all the ministers could only wait and watch as time passed day by day.

Faced with the enthusiastic fighting spirit of the Xuanlong Army, Yang Tian did not suppress it. Although he had poor historical knowledge, he also knew that the Turks were the main enemy of the Central Plains during this period and would last for decades. At this time, the Turks' destruction and cruelty of the farming nation were no worse than the Mongols in later generations.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks dominated the war of hegemony among various uprising groups in the Central Plains. The final victory of the Li family also relied on the power of the Turks. This chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty directly led to the death of three-quarters of the population in the Central Plains, and how many of them died at the hands of the Turks is uncountable.

Although the Great Zhou was a regime composed of Xianbei nobles, it had been sinicized and now there was a situation of co-governance between the Xianbei and the Han people. The war between the Great Zhou and the Turks was actually a war between the farming and nomadic peoples.

If the Great Sui Dynasty established a country, the first thing to solve was the Turks. It was precisely with this understanding that Yang Tian wanted to take this opportunity to fight the Turks and find out the strength of the other party. He quickly handed the court a memorial to go to the front line to resist the Turks. Just as the Xuanlong Army was ready to go to the front line, several days passed, but Yang Tian's memorial seemed to be sinking into the sea without any news. Yang Tian had to bring more than a dozen personal soldiers back to Chang'an to see what the court plan was.

The commander of the army finally received the imperial edict from the court that he would not return to Beijing without authorization, but Yang Tian did not have any obstacles. The Xuanlong Army itself is a team that maintains the security of the capital, and is just stationed outside the city. As long as Yang Tian does not lead the army, even if he returns to Beijing every day, he will be accused of neglecting his duties at most. There will be no other crimes.

There were crowds everywhere on the official road outside Chang'an City. Some wealthy families drove their cars out, and more people were dragging their families to the city. Both sides were anxious and crowded together from time to time. Yang Tian and his group of dozens of riders were trapped in the crowd, so they had to slow down.

A personal soldier asked in confusion: "What are they doing?"

Yang Tian's personal soldiers had formed one hundred people. In addition to the fifty veterans selected from the Xuanlong Army, there were fifty orphans adopted by Yang Tian. These fifty people entered one after another through recruitment, and inserted fifty people into the army of 2,000 people. Yang Tian's personal soldiers were also Yang Tian's personal soldiers, so no one would pay attention.

Li Gang replied: "They are fleeing."

The personal soldiers were puzzled: "Escape. How do you divide it into two directions?"

"Because the people who go outward are rich, they are afraid that Chang'an will not be safe, so they want to flee, while those who come into the city are ordinary people. They originally lived outside the city, but now they want to move into the city to avoid the upcoming war.

Yang Tian's face was tense. The Turks were at least thousands of miles away from Chang'an. Unexpectedly, Chang'an was in such chaos. If the Turks were really at the city, they would not know what would be in chaos. This was the Great Zhou Dynasty that unified the north three years ago and was ambitious to conquer the Turks two years ago. If Emperor Wu had a spirit in the spring, I wonder if I would regret it if I saw this situation.

At this time, the Turkic envoy An Suijia was talking loudly in the Great Zhou court, saying in a condescending tone: "Shaboluo Xiaohan was still married. I heard that the beautiful women of the Great Zhou were outstanding, so I asked the Emperor of the Great Zhou to marry him. In the past three years, the Great Zhou Dynasty had to pay tribute to the Great Turkic silk and satin, 400,000 pieces of porcelain, and 3 million jin of iron. Shaboluo Xiaohan would bring back together."

The arrogance and rudeness of the Turkic envoy in the court made the ministers of the Great Zhou all change their qualities, but everyone understood that the Great Zhou was no longer strong when Emperor Wu was in power, and they must not fight on both sides and be attacked from both sides.

At this time, the Chen State of the Southern Dynasty was in power in Emperor Xiaoxuan of Chen. Emperor Xiaoxuan of Chen was named Chen Xu. He was the nephew of Chen Gaozu Chen Baxian. He was originally an assistant minister to Chen Bozong, the deposed emperor of Chen Bozong. Later, he deposed Chen Bozong and proclaimed himself emperor. It was precisely because of this precedent of the Chen Dynasty that Emperor Xuan of Zhou regarded his uncles as thorns in his side.

Although Emperor Xiaoxuan of Chen and Emperor Xuan of Zhou also had the same name as Xuan, the height was different. During Chen Xu's reign, he built water conservancy, reclaimed wasteland, and encouraged farmers to produce. The strength of Chen State increased greatly. Chen Xu also had a strong desire to expand territory. In the fifth year of Taijian (573 AD), he sent general Wu Mingche to take advantage of the chaos in the Northern Qi Dynasty to attack the north and conquered Luliang (near Xuzhou, Jiangsu) and Shouyang. He once had the land of Huai and Si, but was finally taken away by the Northern Zhou Dynasty and formed a deep hatred between the two sides.

In 577 AD, several months before Emperor Wu of Zhou passed away, Chen Xu sent general Wu Mingche to lead tens of thousands of troops, advancing on land and water, trying to retake the Luliang area, but this time the failure was even worse. Wu Mingche was defeated by Wang Gui and Da Xi Changru. Tens of thousands of troops in Chen State were destroyed, and even general Wu Mingche was captured by the Zhou army.

It was this failure that greatly damaged the vitality of Chen State, which led to the death of Emperor Wu of Zhou. The Great Zhou Dynasty was in a turbulent situation, and Chen State was unable to attack the Zhou Dynasty. However, after two years of dormancy, Chen State's strength had slowly recovered. After more than two years of struggle by Emperor Xuan of Zhou, the strength of Zhou had dropped much lower than when Emperor Wu of Zhou was reigned. At this time, he could only barely gain the upper hand in the Chen State.

If the Turks really gathered 100,000 troops to fight to the city of Chang'an, even if they could defend Chang'an, the State of Chen would never miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The country of Great Zhou might be in danger of overthrowing, and no one dared to accept the words of the Turkic envoys for a while.

Yuwen Yun was so angry that his face turned pale. He usually regarded himself as heaven, but he did not expect a Turkic envoy to dare to be rude to him in the court. What made him even more angry was that these ministers usually dared to point fingers at themselves, the Heavenly Lord, but lost their voices to the Turkic people. He slapped the dragon throne heavily and said to An Suijia: "There is no Wang Zhaojun here in this Heavenly Lord, so Wang Zhaojun wants to find him in the Southern Dynasty!"

All the ministers were shocked when they heard this. It was said that the emperor refused the Turks because he was reluctant to let go of the beauties in the palace. Instead, the hundreds of thousands of pieces of silk, hundreds of thousands of pieces of porcelain, and millions of pounds of ironware meant to agree.

At this time, Yang Jian had no choice but to stand up and said to An Suijia: "For my monarch and minister to discuss this matter again. The envoy can go down and rest first."
Chapter completed!