Golden Palace.

"Okay, great! Xiao Hunhou, I ordered you to be the General of the Northern Expedition and be fully responsible for the dispatch of troops in the Northern Expedition! Prime Minister Kong is responsible for the logistics and the supply of food and grass."

Seeing that Chu Tianxiu agreed to the Northern Expedition of the Huns, Xiang Tiange couldn't help but feel joyful and excited all over his body.

When he was still a prince in his teens, he was influenced by Emperor Taizu and his father Xiang Yanran. He often dreamed of one day when he ascended the throne and personally led the imperial to fight against the Huns.

This day came so quickly that he was not ready yet.

Among the four auxiliary ministers in the court, Xiao Hunhou expressed his willingness to fight, Prime Minister Kong Hanyou and Wang Su expressed their support, while Xie Anran remained silent.

Among the five auxiliary ministers, the majority of those who supported the Northern Expedition to the Huns were already supported.

"The Northern Expedition to the Huns is decided, please retreat! My dear friends, hurry up and go back and prepare!"

The young emperor stood up and rushed away with a group of small eunuchs.

This time he was expeditioning the Huns in the north, and he also wanted to go to the north.

He was afraid that the ministers would object, of course he did not say it in advance. He would talk about it when he was about to go to war.

There are a lot to prepare.

He wants to create the most refined and dazzling 100-refined armor and peerless sword for himself, as well as the emperor's chariot and the majestic battle flag of the young emperor Xiang Tiange.

...

The morning dispersion.

The ministers took their leave and left the palace in groups of three or three, discussing the top priority of the Great Chu Dynasty.

The Northern Expedition to the Huns!

After the resolution was passed in the court, it has officially become the national policy of the Great Chu.

This means that since the last emperor Xiang Yanran returned from the northern expedition, he has undergone a ten-year rest policy and has officially ended.

The Great Chu Dynasty will launch a large-scale counterattack on the northern Huns to destroy the biggest threat to the Great Chu.

Chu Tianxiu was wearing the purple ribbon of General Cavalry and the autumn clothes, and walked slowly on the palace road in the palace.

After autumn, with a heavy rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the scorching summer was no longer there, and there was a slight chill in the wind.

There seemed to be a solemn aura in the air.

The Northern Expedition to the Huns!

No one dared to take this important task except Xiao Hunhou.

All the civil and military ministers walked silently behind him and did not dare to walk in front.

In just one year, Xiaohuhou shined like a slowly rising star.

If we talk about papermaking, printing, literature masters, fireworks, gunpowder guns, small steel cannons... he was just a shining star in the night.

After defeating King Xiang Bi of Wu, 200,000 troops and 500,000 coalition forces of the ten princes in Jiangbei, he turned the tide and resolved the biggest crisis of the Great Chu Dynasty.

The light of Xiao Hunhou was like the dazzling sun and could no longer be blocked.

Moreover, he is also the son-in-law of Li Rong, the Grand Marshal of the Prince Ping's Mansion.

The two strongest war gods in the Great Chu Dynasty, one old and the other young, actually came from the Pingwang Mansion. The fate of the Pingwang Mansion is simply incredible.

In one mansion, there were two princes and princes of the three public ranks and the young emperor's auxiliary minister.

Xiao Hunhou was not born in the Jinling clan, but was born in the rather down-and-out Hunhou Mansion.

But he himself has become a clan.

This made all the civil and military officials in the court feel deeply awe, admire, or jealous, but afraid.

Kong Hanyou looked at Chu Tianxiu's backs walking alone in front of the civil and military ministers, and his mood was a little complicated.

As the prime minister, the leader of the Confucian official in the temple, and the leader of the Confucian scholars in the world, he shoulders the heavy burden of Confucianism. Anyone who hinders his path will inevitably become his political enemy.

Xiaohunhou is such a mountain that blocked his way to complete the cause of Confucianism.

However, Xiaohunhou is too strong.

He was so strong that he, the prime minister, was extremely afraid and did not dare to fight him head-on.

It’s not that I don’t want to, but that I don’t dare.

In front of Xiaohunhou, the ministers had no chance of winning whether it was a literary fight or a military fight, or even a conspiracy.

Even the Huns, who were regarded as powerful enemies for generations by the Great Chu Dynasty and harmed the border for sixty or seventy years, did not seem to care too much about it... He did not even think about it and agreed immediately.

For the sake of the present, he could only hope that Xiao Hunhou and the Huns would fight in northern Xinjiang for more years, and it would be best for 10 years and 8 years. It would be better not to come back for decades.

In this way, there was a mountain missing in the court of Da Chu, which almost made the court officials feel breathless.

...

Chu Tianxiu took a carriage back to Prince Ping's Mansion.

Li Yu took Zuer and Di'er, riding war horses, holding bows and arrows and spears, and practiced equestrians and archery in the huge Yuyuan courtyard.

Although she is a second-rank general of the guard, she is not very interested in the government affairs and rarely goes to court. She usually reads military books in Yuyuan and practices martial arts such as bow, horse, riding and shooting.

When Li Yu saw Chu Tianxiu coming back, he looked thoughtful and asked in surprise: "Husband, what happened in the court today?"

"The court has decided to conquer the Huns in the north, and I will take charge!"

"when?"

Li Yu was shocked.

"It won't take long, it's late autumn at the latest!"

Chu Tianxiu looked at the sky and said.

Autumn is the harvest season. After harvesting autumn grains in the fields of each county, they will be stored in warehouses in cities and townships.

The Huns most like to plunder food and grass and border people in the autumn of each year.

Every autumn, conflicts of all sizes occur.

What's more, this time, the Xiongnu military minister Shanyu led his army to occupy Shuofang City and had already occupied the border city of Da Chu. With this border city base, it poses a greater threat to Da Chu.

Of course, you should get it back as early as possible.

This is also a good time for Da Chu.

Because the grassland is also yellow withered and yellow, the herdsmen have hoarded the feed so that horses and sheep can survive the winter.

When winter comes, thin snow covers the grassland and there is no grass left.

At this time, the herdsmen did not grazed, and horses and sheep all ate a large amount of stored grass.

If Kou can come, I can go!

Just kill to the grassland.

Zuer's beautiful eyes lit up and he was immediately overjoyed: "Son-in-law, princess, then can we go to the northern prairie? I can see my father!"

Di'er was also happy.

She had never been to the northern grasslands, and she heard that the scenery was completely different from that in Jiangnan.

"So fast?"

Li Yu couldn't help but ask in surprise: "When fighting the Huns, do you not fight against the princes, can your husband have any solutions?"

"Of course, use cavalry to restrain cavalry!"

Chu Tianxiu smiled bitterly.

It is well known to everyone that the Huns are not easy to fight.

The tactics of the Huns were completely different from those of the princes of the Great Chu.

The princes were the main forces of infantry and peasant militia.

The Huns were herdsmen. They had been archers on horseback since childhood and could become cavalry after getting on horseback. Because they lacked iron armor, they were mostly light and tough leather armor, and they were all archers and light cavalry.

It is difficult to exert force on the horse's back, and the bow is also a light bow and arrow.

Individual cavalry and shooting, equipped with short swords, almost never fight with the enemy in close combat.

Cavalry, with its speed and impact advantages, was definitely the strongest military in ancient times.

Those who can defeat cavalry must be another cavalry.

After seventy years of spending huge financial resources, money and food, the Great Chu Dynasty built 300,000 elite cavalry to guard the border area and guard the long border. That was not a waste of money.

If this powerful cavalry appeared in the Central Plains, the princes would not have much power to resist in rebellion.

The late emperor Xiang Yanran and the Grand Marshal Li Rong prepared for this for ten years. Of course, they still did not have enough confidence to defeat the 500,000 cavalry of the Huns, so they continued to attract but did not send out.
Chapter completed!