Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was very different from his father Yang Jian, Yang Jian himself lived a frugal life but was very generous in rewarding his subordinates for meritorious personnel, Yang Guang was just the opposite. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Guang saw that there was too much silk in the warehouse, and the bottom layer was about to fail, so he asked someone to move it out and reward those who had contributed to the suppression of the rebellion. There was also the promotion of official positions, and the relevant units presented Yang Guang with a list, but Yang Guang did not give instructions for a long time, except for some well-known generals, the others finally disappeared. Yang Guang saw that Yang Liang could mobilize so many soldiers and horses to rebel, obviously the state raised too many soldiers, and after the edict was issued, the soldiers of the prefectures could only become soldiers at the age of twenty-two.

Yang Su was sick, it was the terminal stage of prostate cancer, Yang Su invited many famous doctors, and the treatment recommended by everyone was to cut off the place. Although Yang Su was a very brave person, this treatment was unacceptable to no one at the time. Yang Su has achieved this life, no one can compare with Wenzhi and martial arts, the Yang family is extremely rich, but everything must be reversed, and the children of the Yang family are arrogant and extravagant, and it will be difficult to have good results in the future.

Yang Su died, Li Yuan returned to Weiwei Temple to serve as Weiwei Shaoqing, and Li Jing handed over the request for transfer very interestingly, requesting that the governor be released. Yang Guang was particularly jealous of those who were strong and burly, and refused to let Li Jing be the governor, so Li Jing had to retreat and go to the forbidden army to be the head of a thousand households. Wei Mulan was the happiest with this result, and Li Jing immediately transferred him to his command as the commander of the troops, and they could get along day and night again.

Yang Guang inherited a huge and rich empire, and raised the ambition to conquer the barbarians in all directions, at this time the Turkic Khan Ashina Rangan was already a submissive retainer, so he sent Liu Fang recommended by Yang Su to attack the Linyi State in Vietnam, Liu Fang was victorious, but most of the soldiers who were recruited died of infectious diseases, including Liu Fang himself, Yang Guang then sent Pei Ju to conquer the entire Tuyuhun and the north and south of Xinjiang.

The eastern kingdom sent an envoy to visit because the other party's letter read: "The Son of Heaven at sunrise greets the Son of Heaven at sunset." Yang Guangda was unhappy and refused to entertain.

Yang Guang sent Chang Jun to envoy to the country of terracotta, Zhu Kuan sent an envoy to the country of Liuqiu, the country of terracotta was later Malaysia, the king of the country of terracotta warmly received Chang Jun, and sent the prince to return to China with Chang Jun to meet Yang Guang. Liuqiuguo ignored Zhu Kuan, so Yang Guang sent Hu Benlang to take Chen Ling with 10,000 soldiers from Dongyang County from Yi'an County, which was later Chaozhou Shantou Port, to attack Liuqiuguo, and the Liuqiuguo attacked by Chen Ling was Taiwan.

Yang Guang did something that affected China for hundreds of years when he conquered Zhuyi, he sent Wei Yunqi to lead 20,000 Turkic cavalry to attack the Khitan, because the Khitan originally belonged to the Turkic jurisdiction, so the Khitan people did not guard against the Turks, Wei Yunqi succeeded in a blow, captured 40,000 Khitan men and women, Wei Yunqi killed all the Khitan men, gave half of the women to the Turks, and half brought them back to China.

Yang Guang didn't know that he had formed a deep enmity with the Khitan, and he was very happy to reward Wei Yunqi for not using the Chinese army. Among the Khitans who migrated north with grief and grief was their 50-year-old general Diethorn Yeluliang, who led eleven sons and eighty-nine grandsons to Goguryeo. Although the Yelu clan suffered more than half of the casualties in the war in the next fifty years, the Yelu clan not only defeated Yang Guang's million-strong army, but also stopped the onslaught of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Tang Dynasty was stabbed on the back of the Tang Dynasty until their descendant Yelu Deguang entered the Central Plains and established the Great Liao Empire.

Originally, Yang Guang just hoped that the barbarians from all over the world would pay tribute to him and satisfy his vanity as the king of the world, so as long as he was a minister, Yang Guang would give him a very rich reward. It's just that Goguryeo King Gao Yuan has a bad gender, so he just doesn't eat this set and ignores Yang Guangai.

Yang Guang thought, the population of one of my counties is larger than the population of your whole country, not to mention that I have many generals and well-armed weapons, and I will pinch you to death with a pinch like an ant. Yang Guang was very eloquent, his articles were also very good, and he thought that he was an expert in military affairs, so he excitedly launched the Liaodong campaign against Goguryeo.

Yang Guang first ordered Yuan Hongsi to build 300 warships in Donglai Port, Shandong, although the deadline given by Yang Guang was very urgent, but Yuan Hongsi was a heartless cool official, he made all the craftsmen stand in the water day and night, and did not give shifts to rest at all, and the craftsmen grew maggots from the waist down, resulting in a large number of deaths of craftsmen.

Then Yang Guang actually issued an edict that the whole army should gather in Zhuo County, which is later Beijing, regardless of distance or distance, and the vehicles loaded with equipment, armor, tents, and siege equipment were not enough cattle and horses, and Yang Guang ordered the soldiers to be dragged by manpower. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people were conscripted to transport grain from the north and south of the Yellow River, and hundreds of thousands of people were crowded on the roads in Zhuo County in the north, eating, drinking, lazing, and living were all problems, and the soldiers and men who fell ill and died were in an endless stream, and the corpses were lying on their pillows, decomposing one after another, and the stench was overwhelming.

In fact, when the army fights, logistics and supply are prioritized over everything, Yang Guang is mentally retarded in this regard, and the generals and officials he uses are all laymen. 600,000 small carts were requisitioned, and two people pushed a total of three stones of rice, the road was far away, three stones of rice was not enough for two people to eat on the road, and there was no food to pay when they reached the destination, so 1.2 million people all fled. The officials who came up with this method should be damned, and the officials who carried out this order should be damned, the Liaodong campaign had not yet begun, and the entire states north and south of the Yellow River were already full of displaced people, thieves and bandits.

It took a whole year, and finally the army was assembled in Zhuo County, with a total of 1,133,800 officers and soldiers. Yang Guang whimsically ordered the whole army to be divided into twenty-four troops to attack twenty-four cities respectively, but there was only one way forward. So one army was set out every day, and the distance between each army was forty miles, and the twenty-four troops stretched for nine hundred and sixty miles, not to mention that the roads were all broken, and the excrement of the troops in front continued to accumulate, and it was simply miserable to see later. Li Jing and Wei Mulan inevitably found themselves in this long line of nonsensical marches, witnessing the most naïve military action in history.

The army of the Sui Dynasty set out in the first month of the year, and was assembled on the west bank of the Liao River in March, Li Jing and Wei Mulan were subordinate to Wang Rengong's department, and Wang Rengong's army was under the command of Xin Shixiong in the 24th Army, they were the twenty-third of the 24 troops to set off, a full two-month march, they were faced with garbage all the way, human and animal feces and urine, filthy water sources, and tattered roads. It was even more painful to camp at night, and there was hardly a single piece of land along the road that was not filled with human and animal excrement.

Li Jing followed Yang Su to fight several battles, Yang Su led the army to march, not only the camp must be dug toilets, but even the whole army marched strictly to the time of rest can only be convenient, and is lined up in a specific pit to be buried afterwards, because experienced enemies, just from the amount of human and animal excrement can judge how many men and horses the incoming army has, and the garbage must also be kept secret, can not be discarded arbitrarily.

The Sui Dynasty was strong for too long, and the generals were either proud and dismissive, or had no actual combat experience, coupled with the complete ignorance of military affairs of Yang Guang and the staff officers appointed, they gathered a million troops in a place in Zhuo County, and then asked the million troops to advance from the same road, and then gathered in the same place on the west bank of the Liao River, and the march alone was already a catastrophe in itself.

Finally, the million-strong army of the Sui Dynasty and the defenders of Liaodong City of Goguryeo faced each other across the Liao River, at this time the Khitan Assassin Yelu Liang was standing with his people in the ranks of the Goguryeo army, he was not yet a general of Goguryeo, he was just a foreign mercenary who returned to Shun, and the Yelu family was ready to start from this battle.

The Sui Dynasty army built three pontoon bridges on the west bank of the Liao River, Yang Guang ordered the attack to begin, and the Mai Tie Staff Army, which served as the vanguard, shouted and charged forward, but the unthinkable happened, the pontoon bridge was not long enough, and it was more than a zhang away from the east bank of the Liao River. The soldiers who charged in front were pushed by the soldiers behind and had to jump into the water, the Goguryeo army leaned down on the river bank and attacked, shooting arrows and slashing, a large number of casualties of the Sui Dynasty army, Mai Tiezhu and his subordinate Hu Benlang generals Qian Shixiong and Meng Yi were all killed in the battle.

Yang Guang had no choice but to withdraw his army, and two days later the pontoon bridge was lengthened and the attack resumed, and the Goguryeo army could not stop the offensive of the Sui Dynasty army, killing more than 10,000 people and retreating to Liaodong City to hold on. In this battle, Diestabbing Yeluliang killed three sons, and the lord of Liaodong City noticed Diethorn Yeluliang because of the courage of the Khitans.

The offensive and defensive battle of Liaodong City began, Yang Guang because of the reception of the first khan of the Western Turks, Ashina Daman, and the king of Gaochang Kingdom, Qu Boya, watched the battle, and specially ordered the troops to attack Liaodong City, if the Goguryeo army surrendered, it must be accepted immediately, and it can not be attacked again, so every time Liaodong City is in a critical situation, it declares that it wants to surrender, and when the Sui Dynasty army rushes to ask Yang Guang, he quickly regrouped and strengthened the defense, so three times and twice, Yang Guang never understood that there was something wrong with him, so Liaodong City could not be captured for a long time.

Yang Guang allocated nine armies from the twenty-four armies and asked them to attack the nine different cities, and asked them to join forces on the banks of the Yalu River after victory. All the horses were given a hundred days of food, and many generals could not imagine that they asked the soldiers to carry the food on their own shoulders, and you must know that the soldiers also had armor, swords and guns, clothes, military blankets, and shields, all of which added up, weighing more than three stones, and no one could carry the march.

Therefore, there was abandoned grain everywhere, and Yang Guang did not investigate why the soldiers abandoned the grain, but ordered the beheading of those who dared to abandon the grain, so the soldiers could only dig pits and bury the grain under their tents before leaving. The nine corps ran out of food before they had reached half the distance of the target to be attacked, so none of them reached their destination. A year after Yang Su's death, Yang Guang killed He Ruobi, Gao Gong and other generals who were accustomed to fighting, Pei Ju was far away in the Western Regions, only six years after Yang Su's death, and the Sui Dynasty army was all stupid pig generals like Yuwenshu.

None of the nine corps completed their tasks and could only meet at the place specified in the order first. Since Yang Guang did not set up a commander-in-chief, the commanders of the various armies gathered to discuss countermeasures, Yu Wenshu advocated the retreat of the division, and Yu Zhongwen opposed it, because Yang Guang thought that Yu Zhongwen had a military strategy, and once said that everyone could ask Yu Zhongwen for instructions, but now no one dares to be responsible, so he temporarily obeys Yu Zhongwen's command.

Yu Zhongwen asked everyone to cross the Yalu River to join the Sui Dynasty navy that attacked the capital of Goguryeo, but in fact, at this time, the Sui Dynasty navy had already failed, and Yu Zhongwen did not know it at all. It is really sad and lamentable, the military intelligence of the Sui Dynasty army to such a point, the commander of the Sui Dynasty navy, Lai Hu'er, went upriver from the Hunshui where the capital of Goguryeo is located, and met the Goguryeo army at a distance of sixty miles from the capital of Goguryeo, and broke the Goguryeo army.

After Goguryeo set up an ambush, he sent troops out of the city to fight with Laihu'er, pretending to be defeated, attracting Hu'er's army to follow into the city, and then closed the door and beat the dogs.

After Yu Zhongwen and the Nine Armies crossed the Yalu River, Goguryeo pretended to be defeated and retreated all the way. The Sui Dynasty army won seven battles and seven victories, and it was only thirty miles away from the capital of Goguryeo that they found that their navy was gone, and it was too late.

Then of course, the Sui Dynasty army's outlaw escape, Xin Shixiong's army was unlucky to run the last, Xin Shixiong soon died, Wang Rengong didn't know the courage that came, and frantically ordered his soldiers to turn back and counterattack, and unexpectedly stopped the pursuit of the Goguryeo army. However, it only gained some precious time, because the road to escape was still very long.