The news of the Turks going south has now spread throughout Ganzhou, but Ganzhou seems orderly, busy and orderly. These garrisons and people who have lived on the border for a long time know that the Turks are a tribal country, and each tribe has a set of operating rules.

The warriors usually live in their headquarters, and under the arrangement of the chiefs of each tribe, they encircle and suppress wild wolves near the tribe, and at the same time, they must prevent other tribes from annexing them.

The population and livestock of the headquarters are scattered all over the place. Therefore, if the Turks want to launch a war, they must first issue an order to all the tribes and order the soldiers from each tribe to gather in a certain place, so that everyone in the grassland knows it.

There is no secret at all. As soon as they start to form a gang, even a three-year-old child will fight, let alone the Sui army constantly sending out scouts?

Because the Turks were the first enemy of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty had been spreading scouts on the grasslands for a long time, and even bribed some people to become internal agents. After Zhang Xutuo became the general manager of Liangzhou, he sent out scouts himself, so Bujia

The Khan gathered his army in the Dujin Mountains

, Zhang Xutuo knew that war was coming when he reached the southern grassland of Punu River (Wengjin River and Wulan Lake) at the tip of the 'V' shape of the remaining veins of Jinshan Mountain. On the one hand, he sent people to pass the news to Yang Ji, Daxing, and

Go north along the drowning road and come to the border town of Datong City to actively prepare for the war.

Datong City is located to the north of Juyanze, adjacent to the modern Bahong Gorji Mountain to the east and Fox Mountain to the west. These two mountains are extremely tall and precipitous and difficult to climb. They are like the work of nature's miraculous craftsmanship, sandwiched between the two mountains.

The city wall of Datong City in the middle was renovated with money from Dugu Min, from the former rammed earth to a high-rise wall.

The stone city wall is three feet and one foot wide. About thirteen or four miles of the city wall protrudes to the north, showing a huge half-moon shape. And there is such a city wall at the rear, forming a northward protrusion with the mountains on the left and right.

In the Wengcheng, if the front wall is lost, the back wall can still play a role in defending against enemies.

Inside the city are government offices and military camps, while the families of the officers and soldiers, as well as more than a thousand households of Han and Qiang people who migrated from the surrounding areas, live in the town further south. This arrangement is to prevent the people in the city from suffering misfortune after the northern wall is lost.

Poison, but no residential buildings

With the burden of the common people, the soldiers could rely on the military camps, government offices and other buildings in the city to engage in street battles with the enemy. If the city was also lost, they could go to the south wall to fight. Together with the soldiers, these common people and the soldiers cultivated several areas around Juyanze.

Hundreds of hectares of fertile farmland.

Building a city here can not only defend against the Turkic cavalry, but also protect Juyanze, which has fertile land and rich water and grass in the south. With this city, the people can farm and herd in Juyanze with peace of mind. This not only solves the problem of military food, but also if the Turks

When the enemy comes, they can also enter the city to help the soldiers defend against the invading enemy.

In addition, more than 20 beacon towers were built on Bahong Gorji Mountain and Fox Mountain in the north of the city. If the Turkic army arrived, they could pass the news layer by layer, so that Datong City, a hundred miles away, could get the news as soon as possible.

When Zhang Xutuo and Qu Tutu, Yin Shishi and others led their troops into the city gate, Dinghe, the deputy governor of Ganzhou and the mayor of Datong City, heard the news and came to greet them.

"The last general will see Zhang Canjun and General Manager Qu Tong."

"General Zhang, no courtesy." Zhang Xutuo returned the salute, looked at the tall city wall, and said with a smile: "I have heard that Datong City is a fortified city. It was not until I saw it with my own eyes that I realized how majestic this city is.

With it in hand, our stress will be reduced by at least half."

Zhang Dinghe said, "This city is the new city of Datong. It was built by the concubine for the soldiers stationed in Ganzhou. The old city of rammed earth is the town where the people live."

"Toffee?" Zhang Xutuo was stunned and asked, "Could it be Princess Dugu of Prince Wei's Palace?"

"Exactly." Zhang Dinghe said with reverence: "Datong City is an important defensive town in Liangzhou against the Turks. When King Wei Zhao was the general manager of Liangzhou, he repeatedly defended the low old city against invading Turkic soldiers. Many of the guards followed him.

The soldiers of King Zhao died heroically in the old city, and many soldiers were disabled due to the battle. After the families of these soldiers and disabled soldiers spent all the imperial pensions, many people

Life was unsustainable. Princess Dugu heard that these people, or their relatives, had fought bloody battles with King Wei Zhao, and that because the old city was too low, there had been heavy casualties, so she paid to help them in Ganzhou.

At the same time, we hired soldiers, relatives and friends to build this new city, which not only reduced the pressure on the garrison, but also improved the living conditions of King Wei Zhao's old subordinates."

Zhang Dinghe was right, but there was another thing he didn't know. Dugu Min had pity on the families of these martyrs who fought with her husband. On the one hand, it was the disabled soldiers, and on the other hand, it was what she had done after monopolizing the Silk Road.

A generous compromise.

In the long boundary between the Sui Dynasty and the Turks, hundreds of miles to the northwest were deserts and Gobi deserts with no human habitation. Only the weak river bank running from north to south was the only trade route from Ganzhou to the Turkic grasslands.

The weak water river is also called Juyan Road. It has been an important trade route connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions since the Han Dynasty. Merchants from the Western Regions and West Asia traveled thousands of miles to Juyanze, and then went south along the weak water into the Hexi Corridor to buy in Zhangye, where trade was prosperous.

Specialties from the Central Plains, such as silk and porcelain, were then transported back to the distant West via this trade route to earn huge price differences.

After the "Zhangye-Dunhuang-Yiwu-Western Regions" line in the south was opened, this long and winding trade road gradually became deserted. Only the grassland people in the north continued to conduct convenient transactions with Zhangye through this trade road. However, after several consecutive

During the century of war, the southern trade route was interrupted to this day, so the Juyan Road gradually prospered. When Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, in order to prevent grain, salt, iron, cloth and other strategic materials from flowing into the Turks, he strictly controlled the border.

Control.

I don’t know what method Dugu Min used to successfully deceive Empress Dugu, who is also both sister and mother, and get this very profitable golden business road. Moreover, she is also the younger brother, sister-in-law, and daughter of Yang Jian who grew up, so Yang Jian

Just let it go and ask Dugu Min not to sell prohibited items.

Dugumin is very politically savvy. In addition to making money from Juyan Road, she also used the courage to resettle martyrs and disabled soldiers and build the new city of Datong. The voices of opposition due to jealousy slowly died down, although they could also

Do this in other places to gain the support of the court, but there is only one such golden port. If you do it elsewhere, you will definitely suffer a big loss.

"The concubine is kind." Zhang Xutuo listened with awe. Since ancient times, all dynasties have issued pensions after wars. After many layers of exploitation, half of them went to the families of the fallen soldiers and disabled soldiers. It would be good.

However, almost no one cares about their living conditions in the future. However, Dugu Min used his family's efforts to settle these soldiers who had made great contributions to the Sui Dynasty. It can be said that he was extremely benevolent and merciful.

The group of people walked into the main hall of the official office. Zhang Xutuo sat on the throne and took the lead in saying: "The imperial court has sent accurate military information from the Turks. It is said that Bujia Khan has assembled an army of 300,000 this time. It is different from the past.

The strange thing is that this time he did not divide his troops, but went straight to Liangzhou, and even raised the banner of avenging shame."

"Avenge? What's the shame?" Zhang Dinghe asked puzzledly.

"King Wei Zhao burned Yanran Mountain back then, which was a great shame and humiliation for the Turks. Bujia Khan heard that the son of King Wei Zhao, His Highness King Wei, paid homage to the governor of Liangzhou, the general manager, and wanted to capture King Wei alive and sacrifice him alive."

Zhang Xutuo felt both admiration and helplessness. Yang Shuang was too fierce back then. He led 150,000 cavalry to destroy the Turkic tents, which frightened the Turks to move westward. In order to force the Turks to die, he sent the Turks to

The mausoleums of the Khans of the past dynasties, where the heroes of the past dynasties were located, were lit by a fire.

Then he sat there and waited while the Turks came and killed one person, one pair and one pair. They burned and killed them for three full months before the satisfied teacher returned to the court. So when the Turkic children cried, the parents only needed to say something to the Turkic children.

"Yang Shuang is here" immediately frightened the child into silence.

To Zhang Xutuo's helplessness, Yang Shuang was gone, but the Turks put the account on Yang Ji's head, and summoned all the tribes to go south with the slogan of revenge.

Regardless of whether they are Turks, Rouran people, or Tiele people, they all have heroic ancestors who are like spiritual totems and are buried in Yanran Mountain. Therefore, when Bujia Khan raised the banner of "Shame on the Snow Holy Mountain", all the tribes with the same hatred and hatred

Came the response.

"I think Mr. Bujia was killed by Jiang Yan." Zhang Dinghe was both civil and military, resourceful and resourceful. In history, when Yang Guang personally conquered Tuyuhun, he was appointed as the marching commander of the army, and he made a distinguished mission in the war to annihilate Tuyuhun.

meritorious deeds.

He sneered and analyzed wisely: "He does not have the strength and prestige to command the entire Turkic Khanate. He urgently needs a big victory to establish his prestige, but he is afraid that his own forces will suffer heavy losses, so he uses this excuse to command all ethnic groups.

, maybe he is still planning to use me, the Sui Dynasty, to help him consume Tiele soldiers, but the Tiele people are not fools, how can they fall into his tricks? If they are defeated again this time and half of their troops are reduced, the Turks will definitely have different people's hearts.

Falling apart.”

Zhang Xutuo nodded and said: "What General Zhang said is absolutely true. It's just that the Turkic invaders have a large number of troops. This battle concerns the safety of Liangzhou and Yongzhou. I would like to hear your opinions from the generals."

Qu Tutong said: "The Turks are not good at attacking cities. We can hold on to the fortified city of Datong and clear the fields in the rear so that the Turks cannot plunder. Then we can lure the enemy deep into the city and annihilate them step by step. Finally, we can attack the enemy at Ruoshui and Lufu."

The Golden Tower Fortress at the intersection of the water can be defended instead of attacked, and the Turkic soldiers with long logistics can definitely be defeated."

Zhang Xutuo frowned when he heard this. Qu Tutong's method is indeed a strategy to defeat the enemy, but it is simple to say, but the loss is huge. If the tall and solid Datong City is abandoned, can the low golden tower fortress be able to defend against the enemy?

If the Turks launch a fierce attack regardless of casualties, the wall made of rammed earth will simply not be able to withstand it; if this city is destroyed, the Turkic army with a large number of troops can be divided into two without any worries, marching all the way east to Zhangye County and all the way west to Guazhou

.

Even if the Golden Pagoda Fortress is not lost, the people in the vast land from Datong City to the Golden Pagoda Fortress will still be tortured by hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry. If the Turkic soldiers are allowed to wreak havoc in villages, towns, fields, and racecourses, how much will it cost? What if?

When reinforcements come from the west, the powerful Turkic army can leave with a slap on the butt. Any attempt to defeat it is nonsense. In this case, it is better to just stick to the strong city of Datong.

However, Zhang Xutuo did not want to offend Tutong, so he nodded noncommittally and asked the generals: "What other opinions do you generals have?"
Chapter completed!