Chapter 97 Emperor Yang of Sui was killed
March 10 of the 14th year of the Great Cause (618 AD) is one of the most alarming days in the history of the Sui Dynasty. The sky was full of dark clouds, the clouds were very low, the air was very dull, the wind rolled on the ground with leaves and stones, and roared like a beast, and the trees shook violently, as if they were about to be blown off by the waist, it was obviously noon, but the sun could not be seen, the sky was dark, the day was like dusk, and only the gray light shrouded the entire Jiangdu City.
On the same day, when the wind blew dark, Sima Dejiao bought off the city gate guards, so the city gates were not locked.
That night, Yuan Li and Pei Qiantong were on duty in the Imperial Palace Pavilion, responsible for the security of the palace, and Tang Fengyi was responsible for the security of the city gate, all of whom were members of the rebel gang.
At the time of the third watch, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Sima Dekan gathered tens of thousands of soldiers in Dongcheng Square and lit torches.
The Blood Eagle Battle Flag, in the red light of the night, hideously flaunted, countless wearing red gold leopard helmets, wearing blood-colored armor, with blood eagles tattooed on their left arms, riding sweaty and bloody horses, strong soldiers gathered under the Blood Eagle Battle Flag, they are the most elite and fierce, the most well-equipped, the most brave and good at fighting the Royal Forest Xiaoguo Army of the Great Sui.
The tiger Benlang who was draped all over his body, Sima Dejiao, sat on the back of the horse, standing proudly, looking ahead, with a cold face, a fierce gaze, and a murderous aura like a rainbow. It's like an unsheathed sword, exuding a huge murderous aura and a sharp edge!
"Brothers, we are all sons and daughters of Guanzhong, and we all have parents and sisters at home, but now we are far away from home and cannot go back to reunite with our relatives. If anyone dares to go home, they will be beheaded by the emperor. Now there is not much food in Jiangdu, the emperor is addicted to wine all day long, poor and extravagant, ignoring the government and politics, the world is in chaos, if we continue to stay here, there is only a dead end in the end. Therefore, I, Sima Dejiao, discussed with the generals in the army, and now our Xiaoguo army has only one way out: that is, rebellion! Only by rebellion can we return home alive! ”
The soldiers were silent for a while, and then someone in the army shouted: "We want to go home!" Then, the army resounded with the echo of countless people: "Go home!" ”
"Go home!"
"Go home!"
……
By someone shouting again: "It's the other way around! ”
Through the countless voices echoed: "Reversed! ”
"It's the other way around!"
"It's the other way around!"
……
Sima Dejiao looked at the enthusiastic Xiaoguo Army, and a smile appeared on his cold face......
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty saw the fire in the palace, and heard the noise outside, and asked what happened, Pei Qiantong said: "There is a fire in the forage storehouse, and the soldiers are fighting it with people outside the city." At that time, the palace was isolated from the outside world, and Yang Guang believed it.
The city of Jiangdu is now in chaos, and there are heavily armed and murderous soldiers in action. Crazy emotions wafted in the sky above Jiangdu City, and a strong aura of death permeated the entire Great Sui New Imperial City.
Yang Qi, the grandson of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, found that the situation was wrong, pretended to be sick, and asked to enter the palace late at night, but was arrested and imprisoned by Pei Qiantong and others.
In the early morning of March 11 in the 14th year of the Great Cause (618 AD), Sima Dekan handed over the army to Pei Qiantong and replaced the guards of the palace gates. Pei Qiantong led his troops into the Chengxiang Palace, killed General Dugusheng, who was not a member of the rebel group, and ordered all the city gates to be closed, only the east gate to be opened, and all the Praetorian Guard sergeants in the hall were expelled.
Seeing a large number of wolf-like soldiers rushing towards them, the Praetorian Guard sergeants realized that the situation was not right, and they threw down their weapons and fled in all directions. Only Emperor Yang of Sui's most trusted and intimate guard, Niu Gang, nicknamed "Bull", resisted desperately, but was finally outnumbered and chopped into meat sauce by the Xiaoguo army.
The palace has been replaced by rebels, and Sima Dekan immediately led the army into the palace from the Xuanwu Gate.
When Yang Guang heard the news of the coup, he was shocked, and hurriedly changed his clothes and fled to the West Pavilion to hide.
Pei Qiantong and Yuan Li rode into the inner palace on horseback, and caught Wu Jiangxian, the favorite concubine of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, and asked, "Where is Your Majesty?" ”
Wu Jiangxian, a native of Jiangdu, is a "palace foot girl", because of her natural beauty, she is good at painting long moth eyebrows, and was favored by Emperor Yang of Sui, and was fascinated by her flexibility and beauty, and wanted to promote her to Jieyu. But at this time, Wu Jiangxian was already married, her husband was a jade worker Wanqun, although Emperor Yang of Sui was a little disappointed, but Yang Guang still included her in the harem as usual and was named "Mrs. Kongtong". Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty often praised Wu Jiangxian as a Wu beauty, saying that Wu Jiangxian "can cure hunger if she is beautiful and can be eaten". Because Wu Jiangxian not only looks beautiful and has an abnormal body flexibility, he was especially favored by Emperor Yang Guang of Sui.
Although Wu Jiangxian is a little debauched, she is still a woman who is very affectionate and has a lot of personality, and she would rather die than say where Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, is hiding. As soon as the sergeant of the Xiaoguo Army saw Wu Jiangxian's beauty, he wanted to be strong. Rape her, although Wu Jiangxian is debauched, her attitude towards love must be voluntary, if she is forced, she will rather die than obey, and she is ready to be forcibly hugged by a few Xiaoguo soldiers. During the rape, she used her flexible body to break free from the entanglement of the sergeant and crashed to her death on the pillar of the inner palace.
The sergeant of the Xiaoguo Army was annoyed and angry, and grabbed a palace maid, this palace maid was more timid, and as soon as the sergeant of the Xiaoguo Army was intimidated, she trembled and pointed to the West Pavilion where Emperor Yang of Sui was hiding.
The captain ordered Hu Xing to draw his sword and rush to the door, Yang Guang asked through the window, "Are you going to kill me?" ”
Ling Huxing said: "I don't dare, I just plan to invite you back to the west." ”
Yang Guang walked down the attic and saw Pei Qiantong - this was his old cronie when he was the king of Jin, but he didn't expect to become an enemy now. Yang Guang was very surprised and asked, "Aren't you my old friend?" What kind of resentment is there to rebel? ”
Pei Qiantong said: "The ministers don't dare to rebel, it's just that the soldiers want to go back to their hometown, please go back to Beijing." ”
After dawn, the rebel regiment sent cavalry to pick up Yu Wenhua, who didn't know how things were going, and was so frightened that he was speechless. When someone came to Jin, he just lowered his head and kept saying "sin". When he was taken to Miyagi, Sima Dekan led Yu Wenhua to the Jinluan Palace, and called him "Prime Minister". And told him that Emperor Yang of Sui had been arrested, and Yu Wenhua and his heart that had been hanging fell to the ground, and he immediately became arrogant again.
In the West Pavilion, Pei Qiantong said to Yang Guang: "All the civil and military officials are in the Jinluan Palace, and Your Majesty must personally go out to comfort you." ”
After that, he brought the horse he was riding over and asked Yang Guang to get on the horse, but Yang Guang claimed that the saddle was too broken and refused to get on, Pei Qiantong found someone to change a new saddle and new reins, and Yang Guang had to step on the horse.
Pei Qiantong pulled the reins in one hand and carried a knife in the other, and took Yang Guang out of the palace gate.
The coup sergeants saw Yang Guang come out and shouted "Long live", which shook the earth.
Yu Wenhua looked frightened, he was worried that if Yang Guang was alive, the coup soldiers would rebel again, and he would be the head of the rebellion now, and it would be strange if he was not exterminated by the Nine Clans. Yang Guang must be killed as soon as possible so that he can survive.
The "second generation of officials" Yu Wenhua said to his cronies and coup generals: "What are you doing to get this faint monarch out? Don't you take it down and do it secretly? Don't even want to live if you keep him, one of us rebels! ”
As soon as Yu Wenhua's cronies and some coup generals heard that it made sense, they hurriedly pulled Yang Guang back to the dormitory and prepared to kill him.
Yang Guang looked at those murderous rebel generals in the dormitory, and saw that Sima Dejiao and other generals he had always trusted in the past had now betrayed him, and his heart was like a knife. At this time, he really realized what it means to betray relatives and leave relatives, and what it means to be alone. When a man was about to die, he couldn't help but feel very sad in his heart, he sighed and asked sadly: "What sin do I have to lose my head?" ”
Sergeant Ma Wenju stood up and rebuked him with great righteousness: "Your Majesty abandoned the temple and ignored it, constantly paraded, extravagant and extravagant at home, and kept fighting externally, resulting in strong men dying in the war, the old, weak, sick and disabled dying in the ravines, the people living in poverty, and thieves everywhere. You have been appointing traitors, pretending to be wrong, and refusing to admonish, how can you say that you are not guilty? ”
Yang Guang said: "I am indeed sorry for the people of the world! But I'm not kind to you! You people follow me all day long to eat and drink spicy food, and enjoy all the glory and wealth! You are all people who depend on the court for support! How did you get mixed up with the rebels? Who is the mastermind of today's events? ”
Sima Dekan said: "The whole world resents you, how can there be any mastermind!" ”
Yang Guang's favorite son is Zhao Wang Yang Gao, just 12 years old, the child was stunned by everything in front of him, and cried. So, in front of Yang Guang, the rebel generals stabbed the kid, and blood splashed the emperor's body.
Emperor Yang of Sui knew that he was not in danger, so he said to those who wanted to use the knife: "The emperor has his own way of dying as an emperor, do you still use you guys to use knives and guns?" Fetch the wine! ”
It's a pity that those rebel generals will never allow the emperor to die with dignity, and they still have to be "hanged". Emperor Yang of Sui had no choice but to untie the "practice scarf" by himself, and was strangled to death by his former subordinates like slaughtering dogs, at the age of 49.
This ambitious and versatile emperor ended his life in March of Yangchun. After his death, he didn't even have a decent coffin, so Queen Xiao and the palace people dismantled the bed board and made a small coffin, and secretly buried it under the Liuzhu Hall of Jiangdu Palace.
Later, after Yu Wenhua and the rebels went north, Chen Ling, a loyal hussar general of the Sui Dynasty, gathered the crowd to mourn Yang Guangfa, prepared a guard of honor, and was buried under the platform of Wu Gong.
Yu Wenhua and Sima Dekan, these rebel generals who killed the emperor and rebelled ended up very miserably, Sima Dekan was later killed by Yu Wenhua, and Yu Wenhua and finally was beheaded by Yan Zhao overlord Dou Jiande and his two sons Yuwen Chengji and Yuwen Chengtoe. After the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, the noble and beautiful Empress Xiao was like a rootless duckweed, and successively spent many years in the hands of Yu Wenhua, Dou Jiande, and Turkic Khan, and was finally welcomed back to Chang'an by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and died in Xingdaoli at the age of eighty-one. After the death of Empress Xiao, Tang Taizong buried Empress Xiao in the mausoleum of Yang Guangzhi with the queen ceremony, and was buried with Emperor Yang of Sui. Of course, that's all for later.
After the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, the Sui Dynasty actually perished, and the world entered a chaotic situation of competing for hegemony.
After Li Jing, the Red Whisk Girl, and the bearded guest heard the news that Emperor Yang of Sui was hanged by his subordinates, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, which was exactly the same as Xia Xue's prediction. If they hadn't met Xia Xue, if they hadn't been kindly dissuaded by Xia Xue, it is estimated that the fate of several of them would be almost as tragic as Emperor Yang of Sui. "The eldest grandson girl is really a god!" Li Jing and the three of them all praised in unison, and they were also glad that they chose to follow Xia Xue. Since then, Li Jing, the Red Whisk Girl, and the Bearded Guest have been more loyal and supportive of Xia Xue.