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Just after the Lantern Festival, another spring snow fell, and the sky was flying snow, spreading the earth into a vast white area.

At dusk, Yi Feng came out of the palace and returned to the mansion in a carriage. Today, the emperor summoned him into the palace and talked about family matters. The day for Yi Feng to leave the capital has been decided, just three days later. Three days later, the Marshals of the Northern Expedition and the 100 general managers will all go to the front line, and the war will officially begin. In fact, it is already the late first lunar month, and it is not the best time to use troops. For the grassland, the best season should be when the horses are tall and fat. At the end of the first lunar month, the season of spring is about to thaw the glaciers and rain falls. It is very bad to use troops in such a season. Especially such a war, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of civilians will also have a great impact on the cultivation of this spring and autumn.

However, the war is not reversed by human will. A full-scale war between the Turks and the Sui Dynasty cannot fight like a local conflict. Both sides must be prepared. Neither side can truly control the rhythm, and they can only follow the trend when they get involved in this torrent. Last autumn, neither side was ready, and now both sides are ready to go and can't stop.

Yang Jian attached great importance to this war. In front of Yi Feng, he bluntly stated that this would be a destiny battle that would affect the future fate of the Sui Dynasty.

Although during the strategic discussion of the court, the Eastern Route Army led by Yi Feng was a role of preparatory support, after all, Yi Feng commanded twenty general managers and 100,000 troops, and Yang Jian still had high hopes for him. For this reason, Yang Jian specially selected four important officials for Yi Feng to assist him in the Eastern Route.

Long live the history of the Shangzhu Kingdom. The two famous generals of the Shangzhu Kingdom, He Ruobi, were temporarily appointed by Yang Jian as deputy commander of the Eastern Expedition by Yang Jian. The Minister of War Su Xiaoci was appointed as the chief of the Eastern Expedition Army, and the Censor-General Liu Xingben was appointed as the marching officer of the Eastern Expedition Army. Yang Jian even specially pulled out the famous general of the royal family, Yang Xiong, the King of Zhang of Qing, and handed over the most elite armed forces of the royal family, the cavalry of the Three Thousand Sects of the Hongnong Yang Family, to command Yang Xiong, and let him go north with Yi Feng and escort the crown prince. In addition, Yang Guang also specially selected 3,000 imperial guards from the capital guards to Yi Feng as the personal army of the guards.

Even the King of Jin, Yang Guang, who served as the Marshal of the Northern Expedition, did not get such treatment. Yang Guang served as the Marshal of the Northern Expedition. The emperor only issued an order to allow Yang Guang to establish left and right guards and selected two thousand elite soldiers from the guards' mansion. It was far from Yi Feng's treatment. Especially the five thousand clan cavalry, although they had been stationed in Hongnong, were elite troops guarding the royal family's Yang family's ancestral tombs, and were even more elite than the imperial guards stationed in the capital. This was an almost complete group of troops.

The clan soldiers and horses, who were middle and high-level officers of the Hongnong Yang clan, were extremely loyal. What made Yang Guang envious was that there was an iron-armored cavalry in the clan cavalry, and the real armored cavalry was a total of 1,000 armored cavalry. However, there were only three armored cavalry like this in the Sui Dynasty. Each of them was only a thousand people. The clan cavalry had one thousand cavalry, and the other two were stationed at Xuanwu Gate, the northern gate of Daxing Palace in the capital, and had been stationed in Tongguan, the gateway of Guanzhong.

Armored cavalry was once the most powerful unit developed during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was a real heavy cavalry, and the knights and horses were wrapped in iron. When they launched a cluster charge against the enemy array on the open battlefield, it was unstoppable. This armored cavalry was powerful, but it was extremely expensive to be equipped, especially if it needed extremely excellent war horses and excellent knights. By this time of the Sui Dynasty, the world was unified, and the court only retained three armored cavalry. Although these three armored cavalry had few chances to go to the battlefield again for many years, the armored cavalry in the capital was used as a royal ceremonial guard more often, but no one would underestimate the power of this iron armored cavalry. Now that the emperor actually handed over such powerful troops to Yi Feng, Yang Guang was really depressed.

Yi Feng doesn't like this kind of treasure too much. Although he also admitted that as long as the armored cavalry is used properly, it can serve as a strategic group that can change the situation on the battlefield, this group is too expensive. If a cavalry costs five infantry, then an armored cavalry costs five light cavalry. Moreover, this is not only a matter of cost, but also requires extremely excellent war horses and strong and excellent cavalry. Moreover, such a heavy cavalry that is completely accumulated with money is often useless. It is rare to use it, which leads to the fact that this type of soldier is actually not cost-effective. The training time is long, the cost is expensive, and it is not easy to replenish, which makes Yi Feng not like this almost eliminated group of soldiers. He still likes cheap and replenishes quickly.

However, the emperor was still very happy to be able to pull out these two elite troops, with a total of 6,000 tigers. Six thousand tigers, one thousand heavy cavalry, one thousand light cavalry, and four thousand infantry, added a lot of strength to him. Previously, the emperor gave Youzhou Prefecture 108 military towns, including 18 Shang Town, 36 Zhong Town, 54 Xia Town, 50. According to the number of Shang Town, 100 Zhong Town, 800 Xia Town, 500. In fact, the Youzhou General Administration has a total of 73,800 soldiers. It turns out that the uncut Youzhou Prefecture under Yan Rong has 50 towns. Now, Youzhou Prefecture contains 32 Prefectures and ten general administrations, and the number of more than 70,000 people has not increased much. Moreover, Yi Feng has also been in this period.

Through the intelligence department, it was learned that in addition to its own Huaihuang Army, the current Youzhou Prefecture's military and military department is 50,000. However, in fact, the garrison soldiers belong to the border army, which is much lower than the military soldiers in the capital of the Central Plains. Most of them are recruited by criminals and the original rural soldiers and land groups from various places. Not only are they low in combat power, but they also have many vacant quotas, especially in Yi Dinghengying Prefectures, there are a lot of staff. The total number of soldiers in each prefecture may be about 30,000, and they are also concentrated in several states near the border of Youying Xuanping. Among these 30,000 people, the logistics and auxiliary troops account for about 40,000, and the remaining less than 20,000 combat soldiers are estimated to be only 10,000.

It sounds mysterious when 50,000 border troops were organized to garrison troops, which really could fight 10,000 troops, which sounds mysterious. But the fact is that. After the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom, there were often wars. It was mostly concentrated in the northwest Longyou and Hedong. The political center of the Great Sui Dynasty was in Guanzhong, and the military focus was always concentrated on the Guanlong line. The second was Hedong. The elite military soldiers and hundreds of thousands of troops were all arranged on the Guanlong Heluo line. For the remote Youzhou line in the northeast, this was already a very remote border of the empire and a place for criminals to exile. Last year's Eastern Expedition Battle hit the already increasingly weak Northeast region with a heavy blow. At least half of the troops that were destroyed in Liaodong came from the Youzhou Prefectures. This caused the strength of the border troops in the Youzhou Towns to greatly reduce, and their vitality was greatly damaged, and they have not recovered to a certain extent.

However, this situation is not bad news for Yi Feng. At least the weak border troops in Youzhou towns will be of great help to his control of Youzhou.

Originally, the Youzhou prefectures were under the Bingzhou General Administration. Bingzhou has always been an important northern area of ​​the Great Sui Dynasty, and Taiyuan is a central and central city in the north. Bingzhou has also issued elite troops. The empire has always been heavily stationed. Therefore, the Youzhou border army was slightly weak, but it was not a big deal to have Bingzhou elite troops there. But now Youzhou Prefecture is divided and independent from Bingzhou Prefecture. Bingzhou Youzhou is not subordinate to each other, and the Bingzhou soldiers cannot pass through Taihang, which makes the newly established Youzhou General Administration seem to have weak military strength.

Fortunately, Yi Feng himself also has a Huaihuang Army. Although his Huaihuang Army's 100,000 troops are actually just paper numbers and have not been formed yet, at least it has a good framework. Even if the three armies of Huaihuang Town Guard City Defensive Garage Unit, which actually serve as urban management teams, public security teams, police forces, highway patrol teams, militia teams and other mixed functions, Yi Feng also has four field troops that have actually fought several times. Three steps and one cavalry, and there are tens of thousands of people. After more than half a year of training, at least it will not be worse than the original Youzhou Town Guards Army.

Sitting in the carriage, he had even thought about it.

After returning to the north, the three garrison troops continued to station in Huaihuang towns and forts. Then he pulled out one of four field troops to take over the garrison of Youzhou, and the other three field troops were stationed in Guizhou between Youzhou and Wuzhou. In this way, even if Guizhou was Qu Tutong as the general supervisor, Guizhou connected the two north and south Guan cities of Youzhou and Wuzhou, Daningguan and Junduguan were controlled by Yi Feng. In fact, Yi Feng could control this important passage. The three states of Youjing and Wuzhou were connected together, occupying a favorable situation and being invincible.

For the ten general managers under his command, Yi Feng planned to let them command the troops of the original Youzhou. Each general manager commanded 5,000 soldiers, of course, only 30,000 soldiers were actually only 30,000. Therefore, each general manager could only command 3,000 soldiers. As for these 3,000 people, there were actually a thousand auxiliary soldiers, and the real soldiers were only more than a thousand, so he was too lazy to take care of them. If they had the ability, they would recruit soldiers and horses by themselves, and the number of soldiers would be full.

The two soldiers that the emperor pulled him were used as guards. The ones he could really rely on were Huaihuang Army, especially the four field troops that had already seen it. The guns were coming out of power, and the big fists were the bottom line.

The carriage drove slowly and turned into the second street. It was almost dusk at this time. Although the Lantern Festival had passed, it had always been a three-day long time to enjoy the Lantern Festival. Jinwu couldn't help but not close the door and curfew. This street was the main road leading to the East City. There were many pedestrians going to the East City to enjoy the lanterns, which made the road more supportive and the carriage had to slow down. The Xiongjun horse, who pulled the carriage, could only walk step by step like an old cow, and from time to time, stopped three steps, five steps and paused.

The horse stopped again, and a quarrel came from the front. Yi Feng lifted the corner of the curtain and looked at it. Two luxurious four-wheeled carriages sold by King Qingzhang and Yi Feng were parked in the middle of the road. Two coachmen in green clothes cursed and scolded each other with their hips on their hips. At first glance, they knew that it was because of the support of the road that the two cars passed by, and then the quarrel occurred. Although the two carriages collided, they were not seriously injured. It was obviously just a slight collision, but both coachmen cursed, while the door of the carriage was closed, and the passengers in both cars did not show up. Instead, the onlookers surrounded them and blocked the streets that had already been supported and blocked.

Watching the fun is always a hobby of the Chinese people. Although there is a lantern market in the east city, when they encounter this incident halfway, they all stayed around them and were having a lot of fun watching.

Seeing this, Yi Feng shook his head and said to Li Mi next to the carriage: "Master, go and deal with it, don't let them block the road because of such a small matter."

As Yi Feng's secretary, Li Mi has been following Yi Feng recently. He nodded, jumped off his horse and walked over there, pushed away the crowd, and shouted at the two coachmen: "What's the noise!" He shouted, taking out a sign and lifted it up, "Get away quickly, don't block His Royal Highness's car!"

As soon as His Royal Highness's name came out, the people who were surrounded by watching the fun and were shocked. They quickly turned their heads and saw a group of strong and powerful guards and knights guarding a four-wheeled carriage led by four snow-white horses. They didn't dare to stand at the moment, and they all moved away from both sides. The two quarreling coachmen also looked over there, and then they stopped arguing and turned around to their own carriages.

Just when Li Mi thought the two were about to give way, they suddenly changed and murderous intent emerged.

"kill!"

The next moment, the two coachmen shouted loudly at the same time, and then they saw a handful of black crossbows suddenly stretched out from the carriages of the two four-wheeled carriages that had been silently closed.

"Swish swish swish!"

The sound of breaking through the air kept ringing, and crossbow nails passed by like meteors, suddenly shooting towards Yi Feng's carriage.

Many people didn't have time to react to this sudden change. When the crossbow arrows were shot out, the guards and knights of the Royal Grandson had already drawn their swords and raised their shields, shouting loudly: "There are assassins, protect your highness!"

The knights moved closer to the carriage, reacted quickly, swung their swords and shields, and blocked the crossbow nails.

There were a scattered sound, and several crossbow nails were blocked, but there were still several crossbow nails that could not pass through the gaps that were surrounded and landed on the carriage, making scattered sounds.

"ah!"

Only then did the people around finally come to their senses and understand what was going on.

Oh my God, someone assassinated His Royal Highness the Emperor on the street. When they thought of this big thing that broke the sky, many people were already scared and pale, and even fell to the ground with their legs and couldn't get up at all.

Li Mi was shot into the shoulder by a crossbow nail, and the huge force brought him to the ground. The huge pain came, causing Li Mi to scream.

The horse was neighing, and the four male horses pulled the cart in a short moment, and they were covered with crossbow nails like hedgehogs, neighing in pain, and fell unwillingly. The flag guards who wanted to cover Yi Feng's carriage to evacuate here were all lost. They were killed and the carriage could not leave. (A good activity of falling pies from the sky, a cool mobile phone is waiting for you to get it! Follow~ Click/Chinese website official account (Add friends on WeChat - add official account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now follow the ddxiaoshuo WeChat official account!) (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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