957, white bones
After half a month's march, Datang's 100,000-strong army finally arrived at the Yalu River and prepared to cross the river.
"Majestic, high-spirited, across the Yalu River! ……”
Jing Wengang wanted to sing the song of the later generations to resist US aggression and aid Korea, but later he couldn't sing it.
"Sing! Why not sing it? This momentum is actually good! Yuriko said.
"Hehe, the inspiration is gone, so I can't sing!" Jingwen said.
"What a disappointment!" Yuriko also complained.
Of course, Jingwen can't say that this song is followed by a song that defeats the wolf of imperialist ambitions, but imperialism has nothing to do with this era! As for what you think about defeating imperialism at that time, what do you think of Li Shimin, the leader of imperialism? When the time comes, you can't peel Jingwen alive, do you think Jingwen is going to rebel? So it's better not to sing this kind of song, so Jingwen won't continue to sing.
"The emperor has an order, stop the march!" Suddenly there was a shout.
Hearing this order, everyone also stopped marching. Everyone didn't know what was going on, and they were about to stop advancing when they were preparing to cross the Yalu River, was there an enemy situation ahead? And Jingwen is also a little strange, according to the report of the reconnaissance force, the enemy in front has shrunk his forces and concentrated on the capital Pyongyang, there should be no enemy here! Even if the other party wants to hit a half-cross, this is unlikely. Because with the current strength of the Tang Army, it is completely possible to ask the engineering staff to help build a pontoon bridge, so that there is no support at all for fear of the enemy's half-crossing attack.
However, Jingwen is still conscientious, and he must go to the meeting as the Minister of Military Affairs to see what Li Shimin has done.
"Ladies and gentlemen, have you seen it? Those things across the Yalu River! Li Shimin said angrily.
"What's that?" Everyone was puzzled for a while.
And Jingwen suddenly had a needle in his head and said, "Your Majesty, are they the bones of the fallen soldiers when the former Sui conquered Goguryeo?" I've always heard that Goguryeo was used to make Gyeonggan. And then showing off his martial arts, all the way from Pyongyang to the Yalu River, is this true? ”
"Yes, it's true! Don't let you look through your binoculars, and in the distance are the bones of those fallen soldiers, you can take a look! Li Shimin said.
And Jingwen picked up the binoculars and jumped when he saw it. The white objects were apparently white bones, and the bones were arranged in a long dragon that stretched out into the sight of the telescope. And the telescope can't see the border, which is obviously enough to show how long this long dragon is. So there are a lot of these white bones. It's so much that you can't see the edges.
And Jingwen also shuddered, how many white bones do these have to be like this! This is enough to show that the number of dead soldiers in the Sui Dynasty was already innumerable. If it is an approximate number, then I am afraid that it is nearly a million, which is enough to show that it is a lot.
Jingwen also probably knows that many times there is no hatred on both sides at the beginning of the war, but once the fight is fought, more and more people are sacrificed on both sides, and as a result, both sides have a lot of hatred. The same is true now. When Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo, in fact, Emperor Yang of Sui did not really want to destroy Goguryeo, and Emperor Yang of Sui just wanted to rebuild the order of East Asia. However, Goguryeo wiped out hundreds of thousands of troops of the Sui Dynasty at one time, which made Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty almost murderous. And hundreds of thousands of people died at once. This was enough to make many people in the Sui Dynasty army extremely hateful towards Goguryeo. However, the second and third times, one was because of the civil strife in the Sui Dynasty, and the other was when Goguryeo surrendered and was willing to be a vassal. That's why the battle stopped.
However, the Sui Dynasty's loss of troops was seven or eight hundred thousand, and if it was exaggerated, it could be said to be millions. Even those captured Sui prisoners of war were killed after the retreat of the Sui army. Then as Kyokan. Such a murderous country, such a country that disrespects its opponents so much, there is really nothing left behind. Killing the enemy on the battlefield has no hatred. But it is obviously unforgivable to treat the bones of death like this.
In war, it is normal for everyone to kill and injure each other. However, in the internal war in the Central Plains, it was necessary to help bury the corpses of the opponent's fallen soldiers, and there were almost no insults to the corpses. Even if it was a war with the Turks, the Turks would hardly do such a thing, at least Jingwen hadn't heard of it. But Goguryeo did such an uncivilized, so inhumane, and so cruel and shameless thing, which is already unforgivable. This kind of strict zhòng violates the morality of the war, so this is the reason why the Central Plains must destroy this Goguryeo.
For many ordinary people in the Central Plains, those territories are not the most important, but the most important thing is that the bones of those fallen soldiers are so insulted. This is almost a million soldiers, and on average, everyone in the Central Plains has relatives or friends who died in Goguryeo. And their corpses were so insulted, which is the reason why the people hate Goguryeo. As for what territory, the people of this era do not have such a lofty sense of territory, they just care whether their relatives and friends are insulted. Now this kind of thing is regarded as a Jingguan thing, but it is a model of not being able to be at peace even if you die, and this is the most fundamental reason why the people hate the Goguryeo people. If this were not the case, it would be impossible for the people to support another attack on Goguryeo. And with these Jingguan, it is equivalent to forming an irreconcilable hatred with the Central Plains Dynasty, and one party must perish. However, it was only Goguryeo that could perish.
"Let's cross the river!" Li Shimin said.
Soon, the army also organized a large army to cross the river. However, everyone knows that there are the bones of the fallen soldiers of the former Sui on the opposite side, and this Tang Jun is not very comfortable in his heart. After all, they empathize with each other, they are all the same army of the Central Plains, and they are all the same army of Goguryeo, but their "predecessor" was so insulted, and everyone was a little unhappy. Everyone can't help but substitute this identity for themselves, after all, no one wants to follow in the footsteps of their "predecessor". As for now, everyone is looking at these white bones with reverence.
Li Shimin led all the senior generals to this pile of white bones with invisible edges, and then Li Shimin directly stroked these white bones regardless of his identity.
"Sad!" Li Shimin suddenly sighed and said. (To be continued......)