Time unconsciously came to December of the seventh year of Sui Daye, which was destined to be an unusual month.

As soon as December began, the pillars of the Yellow River collapsed, clogging the river, flooding countless farmlands for dozens of miles.

At this time, in Zhuo County, the Sui Dynasty had already assembled an army of 1,133,800 people, known as 2 million, and the people were twice as many. (From the Book of Sui)

With so many people here, the daily consumption of food is astronomical, not to mention that it has been there for more than half a year now?

In the past six months, the road to the north, the grain transport team has not stopped, in the first few months, because of the large amount of grain delivered in advance, it is nothing, but recently it feels a little stretched.

So Yang Guang waved his pen again, and requisitioned more than 600,000 small coachmen, and two people pushed three stone rice to Huaiyuan Town and Luhe Town, the military food base (both in the southwest of Fuxin County, Liaoning Province).

However, due to the difficult and remote road to transport grain, three stone rice was not enough for the coachmen to eat on the road, and when they arrived at the two towns of Huaiyuan and Luhe, the coachmen had no food to pay, so they had to flee in fear of crime.

In addition, since the beginning of this year, labor has been frequent, resulting in loss of time for cultivation and barren fields, so the price of grain in many places has risen desperately, especially on the northeast border, and a bucket of rice costs several hundred yuan.

People who can't eat naturally won't wait for death at home, some drag their families around, and some finally can't bear it anymore and pull the banner to rebel.

Wang Bo, a native of Zouping, Qi County (now north of Zouping, Shandong), was originally an ordinary person, and on December of the seventh year of the Great Cause, he led people to occupy Changbai Mountain (now in Zhangqiu, Shandong, not Changbai Mountain in the northeast), and claimed to know Shilang, claiming that he could know anything in the world.

Wang Bo also wrote "The Song of Death in Liaodong Waves" to persuade people to take refuge in themselves, and the song said:

Changbai Mountain's former Zhishilang, pure red Luo Mian's back crotch.

The long invading is half a day, and the wheel knife shines in the sun.

Go up the mountain to eat roe deer, and go down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep.

Suddenly, when he heard the arrival of the official army, he raised his knife and swung forward.

For example, if Liaodong died, he was injured by beheading.

Don't go to Liaodong, and the road is long.

The old relatives are looking forward, and the young women are guarding the empty house.

If there is land, you can't plow, and if you have something, you will be in charge.

I don't know when I will return, and I will remember my hometown on the sun.

This "Song of the Death of the Waveless Liaodong Wave", the text is straightforward, and every sentence hits the hearts of ordinary people now, so it has spread very widely at once, and many people who evaded conscription have defected to Wang Bo after listening to this song, making Wang Bo's subordinates reach tens of thousands of people at once.

Wang Bo led his men and horses to loot and plunder near Qi County and Jibei County, and made a great noise.

Wang Bo was basically the first person to pull the flag and rebel at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and after him, rebellions sprung up one after another in various places.

There is a place called Douzigang in the east of Pingyuan County, which is backed by the sea and surrounded by the river, and the terrain is far-reaching and dangerous, and since the Gao Dynasty of the Northern Qi Dynasty, groups of thieves have mostly hidden in it.

There is a person named Liu Badao, his family lives next to Douzigang, his family has been an official eunuch for generations, rich assets and likes to help others, fight unevenly, his family's diners often reach hundreds of people, until the rise of group thieves, many thieves near and far are attached to Liu Badao, he has more than 100,000 people, known as "uncle thief".

Dou Jiande, a native of Zhangnan, advocated heroic and righteous deeds when he was young, and his courage and strength surpassed ordinary people, and the villagers loved to belong to him.

Just as the imperial court recruited people to conquer Goryeo, Dou Jiande was selected as the commander of two hundred men because of his bravery.

Sun Anzu of the same county was also selected as a soldier because of his bravery, Sun Anzu excused himself on the grounds that his home was flooded and his wife starved to death, and the county order was angry and whipped Sun Anzu. Sun Anzu assassinated the county commander and fled to Dou Jiande's house, where Dou Jiande hid him.

The official army pursued Sun Anzu and followed the traces to Dou Jiande's house. Dou Jiande said to Sun Anzu: "During the time of Emperor Wen, the country was rich and powerful, and he sent millions of people to crusade against Goryeo, but he was defeated.

Now the floods are flooding, the people are poor, and the people who went to the west have not been able to come back, the devastation of the country has not been calmed down, and the emperor does not know how to sympathize with the hunger of the people, and still has to send troops to personally conquer Goryeo, and the world will be in chaos. If the husband does not die, he should establish great achievements, how can he only be a fugitive slave! ”

So he recruited hundreds of helpless teenagers and let Sun Anzu lead them into Gaojibo as thieves.

At that time, Zhang Jin, a county person, said that he had gathered people in Hequ; Gao Shida, a county man, gathered a crowd in the territory of Qinghe to be a thief. The county officials suspected that Dou Jiande was in contact with the thieves, and arrested and killed his family.

Dou Jiande led 200 of his subordinates to flee to Gao Shida, who proclaimed himself the Duke of the East China Sea and appointed Dou Jiande as a soldier.

In the near future, everyone in the world will know the name Dou Jiande.

Since then, groups of bandits have swarmed in the territory of the Great Sui, and there are countless of them, and there are more than 10,000 people who have captured the city.

On December 13, the seventh year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang ordered the commanders and Ying Yanglang to cooperate with the county to hunt down the thieves and kill them as they were arrested, but they still could not stop the people from rebelling.

For the rebellion of the people in the country, Yang Guang just felt very angry, and did not take these rebels to heart, in his opinion, as long as he returned from Goryeo, he could suppress those mud legs in minutes.

At this time, Yang Guang was very happy, because Dong. The Turkic Shibi Khan finally arrived at the Linshuo Palace in Jicheng to meet him.

The reason why Yang Guang did not attack Goryeo for a long time, in addition to Goryeo's slow strategy to confuse him, was that he wanted to wait for the Qi vassal states to fight again, so that they would know the consequences of not obeying the orders of the Great Sui.

The lords of the other feudal kingdoms arrived early, but only this one was the strongest. The Turks began to be Khan, but they kept saying that they were on the road. It wasn't until mid-December that it finally arrived.

Yang Guang also knew at this time that Goryeo would not surrender, so he decided to start the operation of attacking Goryeo!

On this day, Yang Guang was in the northern suburbs of the south of Jicheng City, organized the armies on the expedition, and personally awarded the generals the festival.

There are twenty-four armies on the left and right, one general and one general in each army, forty teams of cavalry, one hundred people in each team, ten teams as regiments, and one general in each regiment, and each regiment is distinguished by four colors of armor: blue, red (crimson), white, and black; There were 80 infantry regiments, divided into four regiments, each regiment had different colors of armor, tassels, and flags, and each army's baggage skirmishers were also divided into four regiments, so that the infantry soldiers could protect them.

What is more peculiar is that in the 24th Army, each army also has a surrender envoy, who undertakes the edict to comfort and appease, and is not subject to the control of the general.

In other words, in the course of the battle, if the enemy wants to surrender, the attacking general has no right to accept it, and needs to be handed over to the surrendered envoy to deal with.

This strange regulation will be one of the important reasons for Yang Guang's defeat in Goryeo.

In addition, there are 12 guards of the Chinese army (led by Yang Guangqin), and the internal army is divided into six armies, so a total of 30 armies and 12 guards.

This far-reaching earth-shattering battle is about to begin.