The general Qu Tutong that Yang Jian was going to see was definitely a famous general in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Maybe he is not as famous as Li Jing and Cheng Yanjin, but his name is also a respected figure in the hearts of these famous generals. The reason why he is not too famous is actually that he died too early, or even died too suddenly.

In history, this famous general died of a serious illness in the second year of his accession to the throne of Tang King Li Shimin, so Qu Tutong recorded in many historical books was included in the history of Sui. In fact, if you look at the period from Qu Tutong's return to the Tang Dynasty to Li Shimin's sitting in the country, that is, in just ten years, Qu Tutong's name can definitely compete with Li Jing and Li Xiaogong, the generals who opened up territory for the Tang Dynasty.

His status can also be revealed from Li Shimin's establishment of the Lingyan Pavilion and the reward of twenty-four meritorious heroes. You must know that Qu Tutong died in the second year of Li Shimin's Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin built the Lingyan Pavilion in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, that is, fifteen years after Qu Tutong's death.

The people who can enter the Lingyan Pavilion can imagine how great and brilliant their exploits are, and among all the heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion, only Qu Tutong is the first general Li Shimin lost, and being able to include this general in the Lingyan Pavilion can be regarded as a kind of nostalgia for Li Shimin.

The acquaintance of Yang Xuan and Qu Tutong originated from the pacification of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, which was during Yang Guang's second expedition to Goguryeo, and the Liaodong battlefield was inextricably fought, but the Central Plains was suddenly panicked by Yang Xuangan's rebellion.

Hearing that there was a rebellion among the ministers of the DPRK and China in the country, Yang Guang did not dare to slack off, and immediately stopped the attack on Goguryeo and sent a general to suppress the rebellion. At that time, it was Qu Tutong who was guarding Daxing, and Yang Xuangan didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he led the army to attack Luoyang.

Luoyang's geographical location and terrain are quite steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, coupled with the strong city wall, and the defender of the city is the general Fan Zigai, who is good at defense, Yang Xuangan's army was blocked under Luoyang City. At the same time, because Yang Xuangan was the first official figure to organize people to rebel against Yang Guang, Yang Guang attached great importance to it. So Yang Guang ordered the three-way army to surround Luoyang and trapped Yang Xuangan around Luoyang.

Qu Tutong is the commander of one of the roads, and he is also very famous as a deputy marshal, that is, General Yuwenshu, and he presided over the construction of Daxing and Luoyang City. The trapped Yang Xuangan found out at this time that he seemed to have been surrounded, and he broke through several times in vain, and finally had to ask his own brother to kill him and carry his head to surrender, among which Qu Tutong was the commander of this counterinsurgency.

Of course, Yang Guang had to be rewarded for such a great achievement, so Qu Tutong directly moved the general of Zuo Xiao Cavalry with merit, and Yu Wenshu at that time was one of the few generals in the Sui Dynasty.

This is just the beginning, because Qu Tutong is stationed in Daxing many times, so he has no chance to show his confidant's military talent. But through Yang Xuangan's trouble, his reputation also went out, not to mention that Yang Xuangan's rebellion directly led to more rebel teams across the country starting to pull the flag and establish themselves as kings.

Yang Guang was anxious for a while, so he ordered the guards stationed in various places to be sure to defend their respective jurisdictions, and if there were big bandits in any jurisdiction, the guards in the local jurisdiction would directly quell the rebellion.

If you want to say that it should also be famous, there are so many rebels in various places, and I don't see any one who can become a climate, and the most powerful one is just running around, not letting the imperial army catch it, let alone resisting at all. But in the Daxing area where Qu Tutong was stationed, there was a master who didn't want to die.

Shaanxi has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and it is the original birthplace of Chinese civilization. Therefore, whether it is Daxing, the imperial capital, or other areas of Shaanxi, it is basically a dangerous place, and it is also a place that the imperial court must protect.

In the tenth year of the Great Cause (614), Liu Jia, a native of Yan'an, argued that Diaoyin (the county governs the upper county, now Suide, Shaanxi) raised an army against the Sui, proclaimed himself the emperor, and built the Yuan Dynasty, and its people were called 100,000, echoing with the righteous army of Jihu Liu Harrier.

This is probably the first public rebellion that someone called the king in the Great Sui Dynasty experienced, so Yang Guang paid special attention to it. He appointed Qu Tutong as the ambassador of the Guannei to arrest and sent the soldiers in the Guanzhong to discuss.

Qu Tutong was also unambiguous, and led the army to the vicinity of Yan'an and did not move, and the enemy thought that the Sui army was cowardly. After staying in Yan'an for several days, Qu Tutong suddenly announced that he would withdraw his troops to relax the enemy's vigilance. At the same time, he secretly led his troops to Shangjun (now Fuxian, Shaanxi) to ambush.

Liu Jia did not know the enemy's situation, so he led a large army to the south and camped seventy miles away from Qututong's army. Qu Tutong took advantage of his unpreparedness and streamlined his elite troops to attack at night, killing more than 10,000 people of Liu Jialun and the rebel army. Tens of thousands of old and weak people were captured, and a Jingguan was built in Nanshan Mountain, Shangjun, to quell the rebellion.

What is Kyokan? It's a bit mad to say it, it's to build a tall pyramid out of the enemy's head. The most famous Jingguan in history is that after the defeat and retreat of the three attacks on Goguryeo at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo used the heads of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Sui to build the Jingguan outside the city of Anshi, the great city of Goguryeo, to show off, which is a shame that China has not been able to forget for thousands of years!

In this rebellion, Qu Tutong very cleverly chose ambushes, night raids and other means, and took advantage of the rebels' desire for quick success and quick profit, and completely eliminated the army that posed the greatest threat to Daxing City in the shortest possible time. Yang Guangde gave a rare banquet to all the ministers, and excitedly praised Qu Tutong as "Huo Tutong of the Great Sui Dynasty", which shows Qu Tutong's power.

After this battle, Qu Tutong became a general with the same status as Yuwenshu and Zhang Xutuo, and together with the two of them, he was called the three major generals of the late Sui Dynasty.

After that, the politics of the Sui court became increasingly corrupt, and the peasants everywhere continued to rise up, while the Sui army had no fighting spirit, and many generals were killed in battle. Only Qu Tutong was very cautious when fighting with the peasant army, so although he did not have a great victory, he was never defeated.

When Yang Guang was trapped in Yanmen Pass, Qu Tutong also led his subordinates to go north to King Qin, but unfortunately because of the long distance and the Qinling Mountains in the middle, he did not rush to Yanmen before Yang Guangtu.

When Yang Guangnan went to the Jiangdu Palace, he ordered Qu Tutong to lead his troops to guard Chang'an with Yang Yu, the king of the dynasty.

Of course, the understanding of Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, and Qu Tutong happened when he quelled Yang Xuangan's rebellion. At that time, Yang Yun happened to be in Luoyang, and the King of Qi at that time was one of the few people in the entire Luoyang City who advocated going out of the city to face Yang Xuangan.

But at that time, Fan Zigai, the general who defended the city, clearly judged the situation, after all, Luoyang City has thick walls, there is no need to go out and fight with Yang Xuangan, as long as Luoyang City is held for a few months, Yang Xuangan's army outside will collapse without a fight. And Fan Zigai also knew that Yang Guang would definitely be desperate to rescue Luoyang when it was besieged, and when the time came, it was not a question of whether Luoyang City would be lost, but whether Yang Xuangan outside would run away.

Sure enough, everything confirmed Fan Zigai's judgment, when the three-way army besieged Yang Xuangan's army, which was still attacking outside Luoyang City, Yang Xuan couldn't hold back any longer, and regardless of Fan Zigai's persuasion, he directly led his team out of the city to attack Yang Xuangan's right army.

In fact, if you just say that Yang Jun's martial arts are indeed very powerful, it is really effortless to deal with more than a dozen people. But after all, he is the only one who is powerful, and no matter how powerful his subordinates are, they can't be as invincible as him, so the soldiers he brought out encountered the siege of Yang Xuangan's army, and they were in danger.

At the last moment, Qu Tutong, who surrounded Yang Xuangan outside, got the news that a team of soldiers and horses came out of Luoyang City to directly engage Yang Xuangan's rebels, and they were quite brave with more enemies and fewer enemies. Qu Tutong studied carefully for a long time, decisively issued the order for a general attack, and personally took a team of military horses to support Yang Yong, who went out of the city, so the two met for the first time.

It's funny to say, the first thing the two did after meeting was actually fighting, and both of them treated each other as Yang Xuangan's people, it was really dark, but fortunately, the entire counterinsurgency army was very fast, and Yang Xuangan's men and horses were beaten to the ground.

Fan Zigai also took the opportunity to go out of the city to reinforce, and finally pulled away Qu Tutong and Yang Jian in the hot fight, and then the two realized that it was their own people who had been fighting for a long time.

Both of them are military generals, and they both appreciate each other's martial arts, and they come and go, and the two become friends. Later, Qu Tu informed him that the identity of King Qi did not deliberately curry favor or avoid it, which made Yang Yun cherish this hard-won friend even more.

Later, in the many battles that Qu Tutong participated in, Yang Yong's participation could be seen, and the prince, who loved to fight, continued to learn tactics with Qu Tutong and learn from each other, and in the end the two became brothers who talked about everything.

Qu Tutong is upright, Yang Jian has no shelf, and the two of them are definitely a perfect match in this regard. After Yang Yun followed Yang Guangnan to Jiangdu, he also wrote letters to Qu Tutong from time to time.

Now that Yang Jun has no support in Jiangdu, he immediately thought of asking this close friend who is far away in Daxing to help. However, there are always one or two smart people around Yang Jun, and they know very well what Yang Jun thinks in his heart, so they give reasonable suggestions.

After all, Qu Tutong is the guard of the imperial capital Daxing, and there is still the prince Yang Yu in Daxing City, so rashly going to Daxing City to find Qu Tutong for help will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble. Therefore, these two people suggested that Yang Jun go to Luoyang, which is not far from Daxing City, for the time being, and then find a way to send a letter to Qu Tutong when he gets there.

Yang Jun easily figured this out, accepted the suggestion, and set off immediately.

Halfway through, Yang Jian learned that the imperial court ordered Li Xiang to garrison Luoyang, and handed over all the land of Henan to Li Xiang to take care of, and gave him more power.

Yang Jun has mixed feelings in his heart, he wants some power, but the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty oppose it, this Li Xiang does everything, and the official is getting bigger and bigger. He was unbalanced in his heart, so he asked the two strategists if there was any way to kill Li Xiang's prestige, so those liars made waves in Luoyang City in the name of Li Xiang.