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While Yuming swept Silla and Ji in Liaodong, the Sui army was also in Guanlong and Hedong.

Yang Guang launched the first expedition to Goryeo, the main purpose was not to destroy Goryeo, but to lure the snake out of the hole and kill the horse pistol.

Therefore, the number of troops he used for the offensive in Liaodong was only 200,000, while the several major armies deployed around Guanlong had 500,000 troops.

Although at the beginning, because Li Jing, Wang Rengong, Wang Shichong and other soldiers and horses did not receive Yang Guang's order, they did not dare to launch an attack without authorization, but let the Yuan clan and the Dugu clan make some progress. However, after the main force of the Sui army killed a horse gun from Liaodong, and at the same time the five armies of Li Jing, Wang Rengong, Wang Shichong, Pei Renji, and Wei Xuan marched together and cut off the two rebel armies, the outcome of the war was basically doomed.

In the next battle of Chang'an City, the main force of the Yuan clan was attacked by Wei Xuan, Pei Renji, and Wang Rengong, and was defeated and suffered heavy losses.

And Wang Shichong led an army of 100,000 from Hedong County, and unexpectedly appeared in Jingzhao County, where Yang Jian and Yuan Shou, the head of the Yuan family, were located, and then surrounded Jingzhao County like a torrent.

At this moment, Jingzhao County is only guarded by 10,000 yuan troops, and all of them are old and weak, how can they be Wang Shichong's opponents?

After only an hour of siege, the city of Jingzhao was breached. Wang Shichong swept his army into the city, annihilated the remnants of the Yuan army, Yuan Shou was killed in battle, and Yang Yong was also taken prisoner.

At the same time, the Dugu clan also suffered the fate of destruction, Li Jing's army was killed from Xiliang with lightning speed, seven battles and seven victories, and Lianke Jincheng, Pingliang, Longxi, Tianshui and other counties uprooted the Dugu clan's lair.

After Dugu Luo learned of this, he was terrified, and he originally planned to personally lead the army to attack Chang'an with the Yuan clan, but he had to give up.

He then hurriedly led the army back to Longyou, trying to recapture the territory around Longxi.

However, when he led his army through the Nagano Valley in Hechi County, he was ambushed by Li Jing's army, which had already been ambushed here, and after a fierce battle, Dugu's army was defeated, with more than seventy percent killed, wounded, and captured.

Dugu Luo knew that his uprising had failed, but he didn't know that the Yuan clan was dead at this time, so he held on to a glimmer of hope and led the remnants of the army to retreat to Jingzhao County, trying to take refuge in Yuan Shou and then seek other strategies.

However, in the middle of the day, he encountered the main force of the Sui army led by Yang Guangqin, and after a bloody battle, the entire Dugu clan was annihilated. Dugu Luo knew that he rebelled as an uncle, and Yang Guang would not tolerate himself. So, when the Sui army killed him, he drew his sword and killed himself.

At this point, the rebellion of the Yuan family and the Dugu family was all extinguished, and the new emperor Yang Yin, who was respected by Yuan Shou, although he was Yang Guang's pro, was also given death by him with a glass of wine. All the Yuan clan and Dugu brothers who participated in the uprising were all beheaded. Even some ministers who had a relationship with the two major lords were also implicated and removed from their official positions.

However, in the process of counterinsurgency, ministers who took a firm stand and did not surrender were promoted.

In addition to the fact that the commanders of the five armies were heavily rewarded, there was another promotion that surprised many ministers.

That man was Li Yuan, who had always been known for his timidity and prudence, and on his way back to his division, he was arranged by Yang Guang to join Qu Tutong to capture the land east of the river occupied by the Yuan clan.

Although Li Yuan fought tremblingly and advanced slowly, he finally managed to take all the lost cities in Hedong before the Yuan clan was destroyed.

Yang Guang believes that although Li Yuan is timid and incompetent, he is his cousin after all, and he has a firm position in this counterinsurgency process. It shows that he is a person who can be trusted.

Moreover, as an emperor, it is also very important for him to play with the balance of power among his ministers. Now two more Guanlong lords have been destroyed, almost uprooted. There are countless central and local officials involved, and the power of the Guanlong group has been greatly weakened. This is also unacceptable to Yang Guang.

Therefore, he decided to suppress a group, promote a group, and try his best to create a balance among his ministers.

In this case, Li Yuan was appointed by him as the original left-behind and Hedong envoy, responsible for exterminating the remnants of the Yuan clan in the Hedong region, as well as the rebellion of the peasant rebels.

At the end of the year, after Yang Guang had settled down in the Guanlong area, he finally decided to return to Luoyang to end the year's war.

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One day in February of the eleventh year of the Great Cause. In a side hall of Pei's Mansion in the Eastern Capital, Pei Ju and his team were discussing something that made them nervous. Two days ago, Yujuluo had just returned to the Central Plains and met with Emperor Yang Guang, telling him that Goryeo had been destroyed and that the entire territory of Liaodong had been returned to the Great Sui. He was full of praise for Yu Ming, the marshal of the Liaodong camp. asked Yang Guang to reward this hero of the Great Sui.

This good news surprised Yang Guang, who had just put down the rebellion. You must know that his previous expedition to Goryeo suffered heavy casualties, but they all returned in vain. And Woo Ming wiped out the whole of Goryeo at once, how could he not be happy?

So, Yang Guangdang even said that he must reward Yuming heavily. As for what kind of reward method, he threw this problem to Pei Ju and Yu Shiji and several other ministers, asking them to think carefully about how to reward this young marshal.

However, at this time, both the Yuan clan and the Dugu clan had been destroyed. In Pei Ju's view, it is a good opportunity for his Shandong Shi clan to replace the Guanlongmen valve and make the Pei family the first family in the world. How could he be willing to defeat the Dugu clan and the Yuan clan and support another Yu clan?

At present, Yu Ming's official rank has been promoted to the position of General Zuo Lingwei and Marshal of Xingying, and he is also among the twelve Wei generals in the imperial court. In addition, he won consecutive battles and was young, and many ministers in the court believed that Yuming was a rare pillar of the Great Sui, and even Yang Guang believed that although Yuming should be weakened, Yuming should be rewarded, otherwise the rewards and punishments were unknown, which would make the soldiers centrifuge and affect his future plans to conquer the Turks.

In Pei Ju's view, the court has been divided into factions, with the Shandong Shi clan represented by him and his cousin Pei Yun as a faction, the Guanlongmen valve represented by Yuhua and Wei Xuan as a faction, and the rest of the people as the wall-riding faction, or can be called the Conglong faction.

At present, the two factions have started an open and covert struggle. Although his own faction is far stronger than the purged and weakened Guanlongmen valve, his own ideas are also in line with the emperor's wishes. But the saint obviously doesn't want to completely bring down the Guanlongmen valve, this is the so-called imperial mental technique. Maintaining the balance of power among ministers and avoiding the emergence of a powerful minister under one person and above ten thousand people should be the best choice for the saint.

Thinking of this, Pei Ju couldn't help but shudder. Although this saint seems to be stubborn and self-serving, he only knows how to fight abroad, and he likes to kill people and abuse people's power at every turn. But his tricks of playing with the balance of power are still very powerful......

At this time, Pei Renji rolled his eyes and said to Pei Ju: "Family master, at present, there are many wars and disasters in the Central Plains, and there are many people who have different intentions in Guanlongmen. If Yuming is allowed to echo with its north and south in Liaodong, it will be a big trouble for the imperial court! In case Yuhua and dissent arise again, Yang Xuangan, Yuanshou, Dugu Luo and others rebelled like that, and the Great Sui Jiangshan Society would be in danger. This is where we can speak to the Holy Beings and explain the dangers. In my opinion, we should take advantage of the fact that its foundation is not stable and it does not have the strength to resist the imperial court, and get rid of it as soon as possible to eliminate the disaster! ”

Pei Ju pondered for a moment, but he was a little embarrassed: "Yuming has made outstanding achievements, the saint has just praised and rewarded, and there is no chaos in Liaodong, Yuming's ambition is not obvious, if the butcher's knife is raised in vain to the heroes, it will make the imperial court fall into the unjust reputation of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge." The Holy One will never agree to it......"

Pei Yun, who had not made a sound next to him, waved to Pei Ju at this time and said: "Big brother, I have a plan to solve the hidden danger of Yuming, and no matter how bad it is, it can eliminate its potential threat." ”

"Oh? What is Brother Yun's plan? After Pei Ju heard this, his eyes flashed.

Pei Yun smiled and said, "The eldest brother can make a statement to the saint, which shows that the heart of guarding against others is indispensable." If you are worried that the imperial court will fall into the name of the bird's bow and hide, you can use the method of rising and descending to the east to summon Yuming to the eastern capital, and appoint someone else to serve as the Liaodong guard. According to Yu Juluo, Yu Ming's soldiers are all newly recruited from the left-behind people, except for the 10,000 people of Zuo Ling's guards, and they must not have become their dead friends, just a little encirclement, they can receive their Liaodong forces without blood, if Yu Ming refuses to obey the edict, or prevaricates, then his unsubmissive heart is clearly revealed, and the saint will also find another way to kill him. ”

"That's a brilliant idea! The Holy One will probably agree. However, if you want to plan carefully, you should also put forward a replacement candidate and the official position and reason for transferring Yuming back to the Eastern Capital! Pei Ju's face finally eased a little, obviously moved.

At this time, Pei Renji's son Pei Xingyan also had a flash of inspiration in his mind: "Uncle, the little nephew has come up with a solution. It can give the imperial court enough reasons to recall Yuming! ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it, what is the reason? Pei Ju asked.

Pei Xingyan bowed down and said: "Shengshang is a man with great ambitions, he destroyed Nanchen and Tuyuhun, defeated the Western Turks, and now Goryeo has also been destroyed. The little nephew thought that within a year or two, the saint would inevitably use the sword again. But now that the surrounding countries have perished, he can either attack the Tibetan on the plateau, or he can only attack the Eastern Turks in the north! ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "And the Eastern Turkic Shibi Khan has always been eyeing the Central Plains, as early as when Yu Ming sent a Turkic tent before, he showed a clue, and the Western Turkic Khan tried to collude with the Western Turkic Khan to go south to the Central Plains together. It's just that it was destroyed by Yuming and the eldest grandson Wuji. ”

"But according to the report of the imperial court on the grassland, after the Shibi Khan sat on the throne of the khan, he has been expanding his military warfare, and he is practicing how to siege the city and how to fight the infantry. If he were to attack the Western Turks, it would never have been possible to train these tactics. After all, the Western Turks had no cities at all, let alone infantry...... Therefore, I thought that Shibi Khan might be the spearhead of the attack against my Great Sui! Pei Xingyan said.

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