Chapter 4: Fight

As the weather turned colder, it was indeed more and more unfavorable to the Sui army. The Turkic invasion was September, and the weather was still very hot at that time. Most soldiers could wear one or two clothes. By the end of November, the weather quickly turned cold. Due to the inability to transport winter clothes in time, the Sui army suffered a lot of frostbite in hands and feet, and its combat power was greatly reduced.

On the other hand, although the Turks also set out in September, the north where they grew up was much colder than the Central Plains, and they had already prepared leather jackets, and they were much colder than the Sui army. The Sui army felt the cold weather, but the Turks did not feel cold at all. If the two sides fought again, the Sui army would naturally suffer a loss.

Because of the problem of winter clothes, Yu Qing sent countless messengers to the rear, and the same was true for Gao Ying and Yang Hong. He had no choice but to let the two ministers of Duzhi and the Ministry of Works scratch their heads and couldn't take out the hundreds of thousands of winter clothes they needed. Even if they couldn't even take out one tenth of them, Yang Jian had to order Yang Yong to take over the winter clothes himself.

During the Zhou Dynasty, except for the Imperial Guards, only the twenty-four prefectures were considered recruiting soldiers, with a total of 48,000 people. For example, Yang Yong's Xuanlong Army was one of the prefectures. After Yang Jian usurped Zhou, the army was also very changed. The prefectures changed from recruiting soldiers to conscripts, and they were only recruited from various prefectures during the war. After the war, the prefectures immediately disbanded and returned to the prefectures and became ordinary peasants. This is the origin of the system of prefectures in the Tang Dynasty when the war returned to the prefectures and were scattered in the court.

The recruitment of the Great Sui Dynasty was only the generals of the twelve prefectures, who led the internal and external imperial guards and were directly under the emperor. In this way, Yang Jian could firmly grasp the military power in his own hands.

Except for the soldiers of the twelve governments, the rest of the soldiers were half soldiers and half farmers. Not only did they have no military pay, they even needed to bring their own clothes, armor, weapons and other things. Due to the invasion of the Turks, the court summoned hundreds of thousands of troops at once, and everyone needed winter clothes, so that the court could raise the court in a timely manner.

Winter clothes must be sewn one by one, and even if you have money, you can’t buy them. For this reason, Yang Yong was frowning and had no choice but to mobilize the people of Chang'an to take out cotton and fabric from the treasury, and ask everyone to sew winter clothes for the frontline soldiers together.

Although many people are very enthusiastic and go to the treasury to collect cotton and fabrics without paying them, it takes a long time to make a qualified cotton coat. Moreover, the cotton and fabrics in the warehouse are not enough to provide hundreds of thousands of winter clothes.

The court was worried about the problem of winter clothes. In such a large country, he could not even produce hundreds of thousands of winter clothes. Only then did Yang Yong remember how backward the textiles were now. If they were in later generations, a medium-sized garment factory could be produced. When they thought of those down jacket factories with production of tens of millions of pieces in the year, Yang Yong was even more shocked, and he was really incomparable.

Regarding textiles, Yang Yong knew that the current method seemed to be much worse than later machines, even manual work seemed to be too bad. A cotton coat, from planting, picking, deseeding, spinning, sewing... There are many processes in the middle. If the middle is improved, it is not impossible to increase the efficiency several times.

According to what he understood, during the Yuan Dynasty, a woman named Huang Daopo made some changes to the process, and the efficiency of producing cotton cloth increased several times, not to mention Jenny's textile machine, which was the key to the dominance of the world in later generations of a small island country in Britain.

Yang Yong couldn't help but secretly annoyed that if he had been focusing on textiles a few years earlier, although he had never worked in a textile factory, he could always find some ways to improve his experience in future generations. If it doesn't work, he could also provide this opinion to find someone to study. If it can increase the efficiency several times, maybe he wouldn't have to worry about winter clothes now.

But now it is too late to study, so Yang Yong had to distribute the prepared winter clothes to the army that needed the most, and let Shi Wansui personally take them to send them to the camp where Yu Qingze is located as quickly as possible. As for the army of Gao Ying and Yang Hong, they had to continue to endure the cold wind and freeze.

Shi Wansui's winter clothes were still one step late. Yu Qingze's main force was under fire due to insufficient cold protection equipment, and more than a thousand people fell into the fingers. His combat power was greatly reduced. He could not take the initiative to advance and retreat, and could not respond to Da Xi Changru. Da Xi Changru's troops lost their previous maneuvers and were surrounded by tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry in Zhoupan.

In this battle, Da Xi Changru had only 2,000 people around him. He fought with tens of thousands of Turkic troops in Zhoupan. The number was disparate, and the army was shocked. Da Xi Changru looked calm and passionate, and treated the enemy as if nothing had happened. His morale was revived. His troops were attacked by the enemy, scattered and gathered again, and fought desperately with the enemy.

Da Xi Changru had long been determined to die, and led his troops to fight and fight with each other. He fought for three days in a row and fought with the Turks fourteen times. In the end, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers were broken and unable to use them. He had to steal the enemy's weapons, or directly compete with the enemy with bare hands. Da Xi Changru's own hands were all bones and still fought hard. This Sui army was originally an elite force, and was encouraged by the commander Wu bravery. Seven or eight out of ten Sui army were killed and injured by the two thousand Sui army and still refused to surrender to death, killing and injuring tens of thousands of Turks.

The Turkic soldiers were all composed of ordinary herdsmen. They rushed into the Central Plains just to steal more clothes and silk from the Central Plains. Faced with the Sui army, which seemed to be unable to defeat, they were scared and hesitant to attack again, and wanted to drag the remaining hundreds of people to death directly.

The Turks were determined by wishful thinking, and most of the hundreds of people were injured, but they were short of cotton coats and food. They would not freeze to death for a few days and would starve to death. So they stopped attacking Da Xi Changru's troops.

Da Xi Changru had five injuries, and two of them were injured in the front and back. Most of the other soldiers were seriously injured, tired and hungry. Even the Iron Man could not fight again, so they had to sit and wait for death as expected by the Turks.

Yu Qing got the cold clothes escorted by Shi Wansui and finally could send troops again. He had heard about Shi Wansui's martial spirit, so he ordered Shi Wansui to personally lead 2,000 troops to respond to Da Xi Changru. At that time, the Turks had more than 10,000 troops. Seeing that Shi Wansui was few, he sent troops to fight. Shi Wansui led the Sui army into the enemy formation. In a moment, Shi Wansui killed more than ten Turks. The Turks remembered the shadow of fighting Da Xi Changru, and were shocked and turned around and fled.

Shi Wansui easily rescued Da Xi Changru. In the end, only more than 100 people were alive in Da Xi Changru's 2,000 troops, and the general Yuchi Chong was also in the formation. Yuchi Chong and Yuchi Jiong had a close relationship with Yuchi Jiong, but Yuchi Chong also had a deep friendship. When Yuchi Jiong rebelled, Yuchi Chong understood the general situation and knew that Yuchi Jiong could not succeed. In order to avoid suspicion, he ordered himself to apologize to Yang Jian for the prisoners.

After quelling the rebellion of Yuchi Jiong, Yang Jian did not punish Yuchi Chong, so he comforted him and ordered him to rush to the post to the court and put him on the left and right sides. He favored him on the surface, but in fact he was not very relieved. Unexpectedly, he died of Zhou Pan this time, which was considered a tragic illness in Yang Jian.

When Yang Jian heard that Yuchi Chong died in battle, he felt guilty about Yuchi Chong. Yuchi's eldest son Yuchi Yichen was still young. In order to report the sacrifice of Yuchi Chong for the country, Yang Jian specially brought Yuchi Yichen into the palace and changed his name to Yang Yichen, who was raised as the crown prince and wrote it into the family genealogy. In history, Yang Yichen had made many contributions to the Great Sui Dynasty, but in the end he was suspicious of Yang Guang and died of illness after lifting the military power. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

This time, Da Xi Changru almost wiped out his entire army. Although he killed and killed tens of thousands of Turks, he had the upper hand on the surface, but in fact, it was not the case. Da Xi Changru led the most elite recruits of the Sui Dynasty, and the Turks lost only ordinary herdsmen. Compared with Sha Boluo's 150,000 troops, he did not hurt his vitality. Without the elusive restraint of Da Xi Changru's army, the Turks were much more relaxed and continued to cross several counties in the Sui Dynasty.

Changsun Sheng stayed in the camp for more than ten days and was almost mad when Hou Luo came to see him. When he saw Changsun Sheng, Hou Luo was stunned and asked unconsciously: "Changsun Envoy, how haggard is so haggard."

Changsun Sheng was placed under house arrest by Hou Luo. Although he was very good at drinking and food every day, he was worried that he would not be able to complete his mission. He was even more worried that the Sui Dynasty would not be able to withstand this Turkic attack. Naturally, he would have been useless in bed and food. After more than ten days, he had already become a bone-breaking person.

The face of Chuluo Hou was also gloomy. Changsun Sheng couldn't guess what the war was going on, so he had to reply: "I worry about the king, the two tribes, and the three were worried about Lord Ye Hu. How could I ignore it?"

The Hou of Wai Luo reluctantly squeezed out a little smile: "You are a minister of the Sui Dynasty. You can explain whether you worry about the king or the people. What are my worries?"

Changsun Sheng pretended to be surprised: "Mr. Ye Hu didn't know his hidden worries. Your army went south, and all the jades and stones were burned, and the lives were ruined. What I was worried about, but who was the one that Sha Boluo Khan was afraid of? Don't you understand?

There are many Turkic brothers who inherit their brother's business. It would be fine if Sha Bo is deliberately spread to you. If you are unintentionally spread to you, you will still be useful to him now, so you have not harmed you. Once he returns to victory, he has a great reputation and a solid position. How can Lord Ye Hu be self-restrained? You are working hard to defend the border for him now. Is it just to wait for him to return to you before harming you?"

When he was talking about the pain of the Wai Luohou, he often received information about Sha Bo's victory these days. The more the Turkic army won, the more unhappy the Wai Luohou was not only unhappy, but also more worried.

The reason why he put Changsun Sheng under house arrest and enjoyed wine and drinking was on the one hand because he was afraid that Sha Boluo would blame him when he learned that he would contact the Sui envoy, and on the other hand, he was also unsure. Seeing that Changsun Sheng was saying so sinister, he immediately had no idea: "Envoy Changsun, you kill two birds with one stone. Not only are you good at martial arts, but your strategy is also very clever. Can you find a good plan for your own safety?"

Changsun Sheng secretly thought about Fu. Sha Boluo was powerful now, so he would definitely not want to raise an army, but would arouse his disgust. He thought he was deliberately letting him die. He sighed deliberately: "If Lord Ye Hu raises up, once Sha Boluo returns to the north, Lord Ye Hu is no match. If he doesn't raise an army, he will see that Sha Boluo's prestige is getting higher and higher, and he will no longer need adults, and he will not be able to escape his life worry. In this way, it would be better for Lord Ye Hu to relieve his military power and become an ordinary herdsman. I thought that Sha Boluo's Khan could always tolerate Lord Ye Hu."

Hou Wailao has been pampering since he was a child. In recent years, he has tasted the taste of commanding the army. It is harder to ask him to be an ordinary herdsman than to kill him. His head quickly shook like a rattle: "It's not appropriate, it's inappropriate. If I'm the Khan's own military power, my elder brother will be even more scruple."

"Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! It's not possible to raise an army, it's not possible to delegate power, it's not possible to seize power." Seeing that the Hou Luo of Wai Luo took the bait, Changsun Sheng felt very calm, but he refused to easily say the plan he had thought hard these days.

Although Changsun Sheng was even more anxious than Chuluo Hou, the so-called haste would not be achieved. Chuluo Hou was not at the point of panic and hungry and food, and would not take the risk of swallowing the bait given to him by the Sui Dynasty.

The tent suddenly became silent, and there were only the sound of the two people breathing. They exchanged glances at each other and sometimes avoided them. The Hou Luo Hou wanted to find a solution in Changsun Sheng's eyes, but Changsun Sheng wanted to observe the degree of the Hou Luo Hou's anxiety, whether it was time for him to express his plan.

Chuluo Hou suddenly walked out of the tent with great strides, and before leaving, he ordered the soldiers: "Look at this person and don't allow him to leave the tent."

Seeing the departure of Chuluo Hou, Changsun Sheng was shocked and opened his mouth to scream, but finally shut up. If he spoke at this time, it would be obvious that he had concealed Chuluo Hou before, which would easily arouse his suspicion. However, after Chuluo Hou left, Changsun Sheng was uneasy, fearing that Chuluo Hou would be cold for more than ten days.

Changsun Shengbai was worried. In the evening, Chuluo Hou came to Changsun Sheng's tent again, with a panic and depressed expression: "There has been a battle ahead. Our army has captured Jincheng, Shangjun, Honghua, and Yan'an. Now it has crossed the Great Wall, forming an arc-shaped encirclement and is advancing towards Chang'an quickly. In dozens of days, Chang'an may fall.

Even if Chang'an is not trapped, now Shaboluo Khan has already brought a large number of children, and jade and silk and livestock are being sent to Dujin Town. The Turks praised Shaboluo Khan's wisdom in unison. When he comes back, his status will never be shaken."

When Changsun Sheng heard the information from the mouth of the Chuluo Hou, he was also frightened. The news that it had been transmitted from the front line would take a few days tonight. Now it cannot be delayed for a day, otherwise it would be possible that the Turks would break through Chang'an. But the more this happens, the more he is, the more he is calm and does not say a word.
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