Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty launched the third crusade against Liaodong, and the news was like a hurricane in the country, inspiring more popular uprisings and flights, but Yang Guang obviously did not realize that his rule was already in jeopardy, and the news about local rebels rarely reached his ears, and they were often deducted by Pei Yun, Yu Shiji and others, so as not to accompany them by the king's side, Yang Guang was in a bad mood, and they were unlucky. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, if the rebels in a certain place are exterminated, the twists and turns of this kind of good news will be transmitted to Yang Guang's dragon case in time, and if an uprising and a popular uprising break out in a certain place, the twists and turns will sink into the sea, so that Yang Guang cannot see or hear them.

After March, Yang Guang couldn't wait to send troops, the royal drive in person, this time the minister of civil and military affairs was still accompanied, leaving only the Ministry of Civil Affairs Shangshu Fan Zigai, assisting the Yue King Yang Tong to Luoyang, absorbing the last Yang Xuangan rebellion, and leaving the generals Zhang Jin and Wu Benlang to guard Chen Ling in the eastern capital to prevent any more nobles from rebelling.

100,000 Praetorian Guards and 100,000 Xiaoguo Guards set off one after another, end to end, mighty, and murderous.

Tens of thousands of cavalry troops, galloping, dusty, rolling like waves, forward.

After the imperial army arrived in Zhuo County, Luo Yi led 50,000 soldiers to join, and came to Yuyang County, and only four roads were on the way, and the other fifteen roads were still on the way.

Such a mixed army, compared with the first and second crusades against the regular army of Goguryeo, is much worse in combat effectiveness, and the military morale is not aligned, they all feel that they are going to die in Liaodong this time, and they are very angry in private.

This time, the accompanying generals included Li Jing, Zhou Fashang, Yu Juluo, Lai Hu'er, Pei Renji, Xue Shixiong, Tu Wanxu, etc., and the scale was much weaker than the previous two times.

Originally expected to have 900,000 troops, but only more than 600,000 troops actually numbered, they left the border fortress of Yan County and went to the battlefield of Liaodong to storm the first line of defense - Liaoshui River Beach!

In this battle, the Sui army invested 100,000 elite soldiers, and the troops on the opposite side of the river bank were only 20,000, and the battle was very fierce, and half a month later, the defense line was broken, and hundreds of thousands of Sui troops entered Liaodong again, and the front of the troops pointed at Pyongyang City.

Goguryeo was originally a small country, the first two times against the Great Sui, although it persevered, but after years of war, the national strength was less than one-twentieth of the Sui Dynasty, and in recent years, the crops were barren, and many strong men were killed in the war, which made Goguryeo weakened and was no longer the head of the three major countries on Korean Island.

In the royal palace of Pyongyang City, there was a gloomy cloud, because of the invasion of the Sui State, the royal family, ministers and nobles, their faces changed greatly, and they realized that the country would not be a country and could not withstand a big war.

Although the hawks still insist that they would rather be broken than destroyed, more conservatives and neutrals do not agree with continuing to fight Sui to the end.

Yizhi Wende stood up and analyzed: "Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui State, is a person who is very happy, after splitting the Turks, pacifying Tuyuhun, and pacifying the Western Regions, only our Goguryeo did not bend down to be a vassal, so he was psychologically extreme, persistent in demons, and had to conquer our one state, and come to history to leave a name, the first time, because he was too light on the enemy, he returned in vain, and the second time, because of the rebellion of Yang Xuangan in the country, they retreated in a hurry when they were about to succeed. ”

"And this time, menacing, known as one million, our military strength, less than 50,000, now the Liaoshui front has been broken, our army is not enough, can not set up cards one by one, the Sui army will be a horse Pingchuan to Pyongyang City, this is a battle to the death, Goguryeo is likely to be destroyed, slaughtered, if you want to keep the royal family, so that Goguryeo does not suffer a catastrophe, there is only one way."

"What's the solution?" From Gao Yuan, the king of Goguryeo Yingyang, to officials of all ranks, they all paid attention and listened.

"That is to take the initiative to ask for surrender, to express surrender to the Sui State, to recognize Yang Guang as a holy khan, and to pay tribute to the Sui court every year, like the Western Regions and the Turks, it is only a nominal vassal, and it will not dissolve the court system here, withdraw the king's name, and call the public title of marquis, as long as Yang Guang can get by with his face, he may withdraw the army, and the crisis of my Goguryeo will be solved." Etozhi Wende has always been a representative of the main battle faction, and this time, even he said so, naturally no one objected.

"Can this fool Yang Guang?" Gao Yuan was a little worried, could he take the initiative to surrender, but without disbanding the army and not handing over power, he could make the Sui army retreat? This kind of verbal recognition of the other party's holy khan, without substantive expression, will Yang Guang believe it?

Yizhi Wende smiled mysteriously and said: "Actually, Yang Guang and many ministers probably don't want to come to conquer Liaodong, but Yang Guang is in the name of the Holy Khan, in order to cover up his face of two failures, so he is difficult to ride a tiger, and he must wash away the shame of the emperor; The rest of the ministers have no choice, they don't move, they have to come if they don't come, and we are not completely insincere, just make the necessary sacrifices. ”

The ministers thought that he was going to cede the land and pay compensation, but in fact, the meaning of Eulzhi Wende was to return Hu Sizheng, the military squire who had defected to Goguryeo last year, as sincerity, with Yang Guang's good-faced character, the soldiers who surrendered without a fight were also considered to give enough face.

Gao Yuan hesitated for a moment, half-convinced, handed over the matter of negotiating peace to Eokji Wende, and let his royal brother Gao Cheng accompany him, representing the royal family of Goguryeo, if it can be negotiated, it will be good if it can be negotiated, there is no need to worry about the destruction of the city, the destruction of the country, and the remaining tens of thousands of people will not be able to stop the onslaught of the Sui army.

In addition, Baekje and Silla were already secretly uniting to take advantage of Goguryeo's weakness to come to crusade and seize territory, and he really didn't want to fight with the powerful Sui State like this.

Gao Cheng stood up, gave up his hand side by side with Eulji Wende, took over the king's order, and was jointly responsible for the peace negotiation, in an attempt to stop Yang Guang's anger and leave a glimmer of life for Goguryeo.