And after the two issued the order, the craftsmen and tailors of the entire camp, as well as some ingenious soldiers, were mobilized to sew masks and make leather gloves.

Fortunately, it is located in Liaodong, which is rich in fur, and the Sui army carried extremely rich materials on this expedition, but in three days, 200,000 masks and 100,000 pairs of leather gloves were made.

At this time, Yu Wenming ordered the start of action, first Guo Ziyi led the soldiers at the gate of Liaodong City, as well as the gate of the surrounding plague camp conspicuously, posted a relocation notice, informing the people and the soldiers who stayed in the rear camp that in order to control the spread of the plague, they would move those who had not yet fallen ill to the newly built camp on the west bank of the Liao River to live temporarily.

At the same time, the sick soldiers and civilians are also managed in shards, so that they are not allowed to move around freely. Then, in the camp of Liaodong, the original tents and houses in the city were cleaned with lime, saltpeter, sulfur, etc. Avoid the spread of the epidemic.

Liu Wenfeng, on the other hand, took a large number of soldiers with masks on their faces and leather gloves on their hands to 60 camps and informed them of the incident from tent to tent. And the people and soldiers who did not respond to the illness were taken to the camp on the west bank of the Liao River for isolation. After 10 days of observation, there was still no symptomatic response, and he was allowed to be included in the retreating army sequence after confirming his health.

During this period, it was inevitable that many people would not be separated from their brothers and family members, but under the persuasion of Red Sleeves, Liu Wenfeng and a group of articulate soldiers, they finally failed to cause any accidents.

At the same time, Yu Wenming also ordered that all drinking water should be made of well water, and it was forbidden to drink the water of the Liao River and its nearby tributaries. Because he found that there were many corpses floating on the surface of the river, which was a great source of pollution. And it's not easy to eliminate. He even suspected that the spread of the plague was related to the contamination of water sources.

After the measures to combat the plague were announced, the quarantined civilians and soldiers were initially panicked, fearing that they would be killed. This practice of killing all the infected people and then burning the corpses was not uncommon when the plague occurred in ancient times.

But they soon discovered that their worries were too much. Neither Yu Wenming nor Liu Wenfeng killed people for no reason, except for those people and soldiers who had already shown obvious symptoms of illness, and were carried out by a group of so-called epidemic prevention team members wearing white masks and shrouded in sealed leather clothes. There was no such thing as an unintended act of killing.

Therefore, soon the people and soldiers of the entire Liaodong battalion settled down and were in order, and the sick and healthy people and soldiers were gradually distinguished. After a month's quarantine period, about 50,000 soldiers and more than 300,000 civilians were diagnosed as healthy by Liu Wenfeng and other military doctors, and followed Yang Guang's army back to the Central Plains.

However, the total number of soldiers and civilians who died of disease also reached about 300,000, accounting for half of the total number of people in the battalion. You can see how powerful this plague is.

However, all the people who left were grateful to Yu Wenming, if it weren't for this fifteen-year-old general, who proposed such effective prevention and control measures, I am afraid that all of them would have been given up by Yang Guang.

In September of the eighth year of the Great Cause, the first expedition launched by Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Sui Dynasty to Goryeo finally came to an abrupt end.

More than 300,000 troops led by Yang Yichen and Lai Hu'er landed in Nampo by ship and launched an attack on Pyongyang, the capital of the Goryeo Kingdom, but were defeated by an ambush by the Goryeo. In the end, only 2,700 people were able to swim across the Yalu River and return to Liaodong. The remaining 200,000 or more were either killed or taken prisoner.

The main force of the Sui army stationed in Liaodong also suffered a serious outbreak of plague in the army, resulting in serious illness and death of soldiers and people. Although Yu Wenming, the son of Yu Wenshu, offered a plan and adopted the prevention and control measures of "isolation", it only saved the lives of half of the people, and the rest of the people and more than 50,000 infected soldiers were still buried in other places. According to the statistics of the burial team led by Guo Ziyi later, the Sui army buried nearly 500,000 corpses within a radius of 100 miles from Liaodong City and Liaodong Daying.

Therefore, this expedition to Goryeo, for the Great Sui, the losses were extremely heavy. The loss of dispatching the country could not take a small country in Liaodong. And the casualties are so heavy. made Yang Guang's prestige for defeating Tuyuhun disappear all of a sudden.

The ***, who had already surrendered, also had a lot of changes in his attitude towards the Sui Dynasty.

Although Shibi Khan married the princess of the Great Sui, he was not willing to submit to the Sui Dynasty. Both the Western Turks and Goryeo sent envoys to persuade him to deal with the Sui Dynasty together, which made his ambition to go south again.

Although Yang Guang was extremely angry, but in the end there was nothing to be done, after the squad returned to the eastern capital, he ordered a group of generals who he thought were ineffective in combat all dismissed, and then sent the returning government soldiers home, which was the end of the first expedition to Goryeo.

This war, which took nearly two years of careful preparation, exhausted the countless grains, grasses and savings of the Great Sui, and killed more than one million people, but the final result was only to occupy a few cities west of the Liao River.

When the 1,130,000-strong army finally withdrew to Zhuo County, there were only more than 500,000 soldiers and more than 300,000 people left. How many soldiers were killed in battle, how many people fled, and how many died of epidemics? How much money and food are lost? It's all a mess that's hard to figure out.

can raise all the troops of the country in exchange for such a fiasco, but it shocked the world. Let all the gate valve families and ordinary people be furious.

Yang Guang also knew that he was so aggressive, eliminated all objections, and insisted on going his own way. But in the end, it ended in a big defeat, which cannot be explained to the people of the world.

So, finding a scapegoat became his first choice.

Yang Guang beheaded eleven eunuchs who had been envoys except for Yue Zeng Province on the grounds that the envoys had interfered too heavily in the war and delayed the fighters. It is said that he misunderstood his will, causing the siege of the city to go poorly.

Then, Yang Yichen, who failed in the surprise attack on Pyongyang, was beheaded. It was said that its combat ineffectiveness led to the failure of the strategy of flanking the north and the south. As a result, the Sui army had to abandon its original plan and suffered a crushing defeat.

The deputy future protector was also almost beheaded. But fortunately, he spent a lot of money to buy Pei Ju and Pei Yun to lobby for him. In addition, his ability to command the naval army was irreplaceable by other generals of the Sui army. Yang Guangcai only demoted him.

In the imperial palace of the Eastern Capital, Yang Guang was pacing in his imperial study with an anxious face. The current situation made him upset, and his strategy to cut down the Guanlongmen valve was unsuccessful, and among the 1,130,000 expeditionary troops, more than 600,000 people still followed him to the Central Plains, and most of them were troops led by the children of the Guanlong nobles, which made him very annoyed.

Moreover, he never dreamed that he would be defeated by dispatching so many troops and ensuring the supply of logistical food and grass, which severely reduced his face and made him feel very embarrassed.

Although he didn't want to defeat Goryeo like a bamboo, he wanted to use Goryeo to deplete the forces of the Guanlongmen valve. But there is no intention of coming back from a big defeat. Such a fiasco is unprecedented in the history of the Sui Dynasty. This will also greatly reduce his prestige among the people of the world and the major families, and make others think that he is an incompetent emperor. And this is unacceptable to him.

However, fortunately, Yuwenshu gave him an idea, saying that in the past history, when a plague occurred in the army, it was often a fiasco. No matter how elite the army is, it will only end up in a crushing defeat. This gave Yang Guangfang some psychological comfort.

His eyes lit up suddenly, and he ordered an edict to the world to explain the reason for the failure of this expedition to Goryeo. At the same time, he accepted Pei Ju's suggestion and exaggerated Goryeo's threat to the Great Sui in the edict, so that the reader understood that attacking Goryeo was a last resort.

At the same time, the severity of the plague is portrayed in a very tragic way. It made the officials and people of the Great Sui believe that the defeat was not due to the incompetence of the emperor, but the misinterpretation of the emperor's intentions by the surrender, and the outbreak of a force majeure plague. Although the losses of this expedition were large, it was the same as the first emperor's expedition to Goryeo in the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, and it was also due to unexpected factors that led to the defeat.

After Yang Guang issued the edict, he sent a group of officials and literati who could speak well to Hebei, Hedong, Shandong, Henan and other places that sent the most people and government soldiers to preach comfort, and finally the dissatisfaction of the local people was finally calmed down.

It's just that he didn't know that because of the defeat of this expedition to Goryeo, many gate valve nobles had a grudge against him, and his intention to weaken the Guanlong gate valve was gradually revealed, so that many gate valve nobles had already felt that the crisis was coming, and many of them had begun to have different hearts.

After the matter gradually subsided, Yang Guangfang decided to reward some young generals who had performed well in the expedition to Goryeo. His strategy was to support a group of young generals and officials, and to remove some veterans and veterans. At the same time, he vigorously promoted the Shandong Shi clan and the Hedong Shi clan, as well as the Jiangnan Shi clan, and suppressed the Guanlong nobles.

Therefore, Luo Cheng, who made great achievements in the Battle of Goryeo, was named the Right Guards from the Four Grades to join the army because of his young age and the Hebei Shi clan.

Pei Renji, because he is a member of the Pei family in the Shandong Shi clan, made the first contribution in the capture of Fuyu City, and was named the doctor of Guanglu of the third grade, and his son Pei Xingyan was also named the left prison general of the fifth grade.

The famous general Zhang Xutuo jumped from Qi County to Shandong to recruit envoys, and added the rank of hussar general, responsible for exterminating bandits and bandits in Shandong.

And other meritorious generals are rewarded. If it is not a Guanlong noble, it will be rewarded more, and if it is a Guanlong noble, it will be rewarded less.

However, after deciding the reward standard for most people, Yang Guang faced a difficult problem: that is, how to reward Yu Wenming?

You must know that although Yu Wenming is very young, the military achievements of this expedition to Goryeo are very great.

As a group commander, he thwarted the sneak attack of the Goryeo army on the rear of the Sui army to transport grain, grass and baggage, and beheaded the general of the Goryeo army, Yuan Taije.

The subsequent extinguishing of the plague allowed most of the soldiers and men to return safely, and the plague did not spread. This achievement is enough to make his merit the first among all generals.

It's just that this little guy is only fifteen years old, and I'm afraid that others will disagree with the reward if there are too many rewards, and Yu Wenming is the son of Yuwen Valve in Guanlongmen Valve, which makes Yang Guang even more hesitant. Although Yu Wenshu is one of the few people he appreciates and reuses in the Guanlong Gate Valve. But the allusion that eggs should not be put in one basket is still clear to him.

"Forget it, anyway, he has already been promoted to be a partial general before, and the promotion of Yu Wenming will be put aside for the time being, so reward him with a good bow and a thousand copper coins first! Wait until later. Now it's time to start preparing for the second expedition to Goryeo! Yang Guang said secretly in his heart.