Chapter Twenty-Five: The Five Elements Commit Water
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The Great Sui army continued to march into Goguryeo, and it turned out that the brutal methods of Yuwenshu to massacre the city were still very effective, almost making the Goguryeo people lose their courage, and wherever their troops went, after defeating the stubbornly resisting Goguryeo army, their people no longer had the heart to resist and surrendered numbly.
However, this also greatly stimulated Goguryeo's hatred of the Sui army, which was extremely unfavorable to Yang Guang's rule after the conquest, but there was no way to do it.
Things came to this point, and Yang Guang had no choice but to continue to suppress Goguryeo with brutal means, and those who dared to resist along the way were all killed.
In this way, hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo people died under the butcher's knife of the Sui army, which was an unparalleled heavy blow to Goguryeo, a country with a total population of only a few million.
In fact, with Goryeo's current strength, it is impossible to match the Sui army for long.
The whole country of Goguryeo is only a few million people, minus the old, weak, women, and children, how many young and middle-aged people can there be? I am afraid that the total is not much more than the millions of the Sui army, even if all of them are soldiers, how can those ordinary peasant households be able to match the real elite soldiers in a short period of time, and with Goguryeo's national strength, it is impossible to consume too much of the Sui army.
So Yang Guang is now taking a steady and steady way, slowly consuming with Goguryeo, he knows that Goguryeo will definitely not be able to consume him.
The army soon marched to the Yalu River, where the Sui army expected to have a tough battle with Goguryeo, but unexpectedly, the soldiers who went to investigate brought unexpected news.
"What, the Goryeo garrison general Eulji Wende actually ordered the withdrawal of the army and abandoned the Yalu River? How is this possible!" Yang Guang said in disbelief.
The spy was very sure: "The villain is absolutely right, the Goryeo army has all withdrawn, and now the entire Yalu River is empty, and there is not a single figure." ”
"That's strange, what is Yizhi Wende going to do?" Yang Guang said in surprise.
"According to the old minister, he was forced by my Great Sui soldiers and did not dare to contact our army, so he directly avoided the edge and retreated. A minister stepped forward.
"What Lord Zhang said is very true, under my Great Sui soldiers, these foreign barbarians can only flee in fear, and dare not resist!"
There are also people who pat their ass and say: "The emperor's heavenly majesty is mighty, the universe is subdued, and where he passes, the Yizhi Wende generation is not too young, how dare he compete with the emperor's heavenly might? ”
Yang Guang looked coldly at the minister who was rejoicing, with a look of disgust on his face, but he didn't attack, he looked at He Heng and said, "I don't know what the national teacher thinks?"
He Heng was stunned, he didn't expect Yang Guang to ask him this, but now that the ministers all looked at him, he didn't dare to lose face to Yang Guang, and said with one hand: "Immeasurable Tianzun, Poor Dao is a person outside the party, but he doesn't understand much about marching and fighting, but Poor Dao has just made a divination and found that my army has recently violated the water in the five elements!"
"Five elements violating water?" Yang Guang had a slight understanding.
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The Sui army continued to advance, and sure enough, they crossed the Yalu River without any obstacles, and then pointed their troops straight towards Pyongyang.
"Report, Yizhi Wende Chen Bing Qingchuan River, seems to be preparing for a decisive battle with our army. ”
In the big tent, the voice of a spy rang out.
Yang Guang looked down and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of Yizhi Wende's move?"
Many Sui generals said: "Yizhi Wende has already been frightened by my Great Sui soldiers, and he didn't dare to make a contact with my army along the way, hundreds of miles behind the Yalu River, running faster than rabbits, I think this time is just a bluff." ”
"After this Qingchuan River, there is Pyongyang, and he has no way to retreat. The other minister scoffed.
"Hey, you Aiqing can't underestimate the enemy!" Yang Guang looked at the many generals who were a little disdainful, and hurriedly said: "It would be bad if he fell for his strategy of showing weakness to the enemy, it would be better to figure out the details of Yizhi Wende, and then say, don't rush to send troops." Our Great Sui army has already approached Pyongyang, and the destruction of Goguryeo is only a matter of time, so we must not make a mistake at this time. ”
"Your Majesty. And they came.
At this time, a general hurriedly broke into the big tent: "Tell the emperor that there is indeed a conspiracy!"
Yang Guang's face changed, and he hurriedly said: "Tell me quickly, what is his conspiracy?"
All eyes in the tent were on the general.
The general hurriedly said: "The last general went to explore the details of Eji Wende at the behest of His Majesty, and found that he had begun to prepare in the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River a few months ago, using the dam to store water, and now it is May, which is the most serious time for flooding, if he opens the valve to release water when our army crosses the river, the consequences will be unimaginable!"
"What, this guy of Yizhi Wende has been prepared for a long time to rush my army with a big flood?" Many generals were shocked.
The general said, "That's it!"
Yang Guang waved his hand and said, "You did a good job this time, you will be rewarded when you turn around, you go down first." ”
"Thank you, Emperor Longen. The general was overjoyed and hurriedly retreated.
Yang Guang sat in the tent, looked around at the generals who had just disdained Yizhi Wende, and said sharply: "Is this what you call a jumping clown, who is vulnerable? If I hadn't listened to the words of the national teacher and let people carefully explore the truth of the Qingchuan River, would you know how many people my Great Sui would have lost here?"
Many of the generals were famous generals of the Great Sui, and naturally knew the consequences of the army if they were really so waterproof and impacted by Yizhi Wende, they all bowed their heads and were silent at the moment.
In real history, the soldiers and horses of the Sui army also attacked the Qingchuan River, and were washed by Eji Wende with a large water, and then led the troops to attack, 300,000 troops came here, and finally there was no one in a hundred, only 2,700 people escaped, and Yang Guangyi's expedition to Goguryeo ended there.
Yang Guang looked coldly at the many Sui generals who were silent, and said sharply: "You are still the most elite general of my Great Sui, which one is not the general who leads the party? But I can't even see Yizhi Wende's plan to lure the enemy, one by one is laughing at Yizhi Wende's incompetence, how do you know that the other party is also laughing at you." ”
Many Sui soldiers hurriedly bowed down and said: "This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the ministers, and I hope Your Majesty will blame you." ”
"I hope you don't make this kind of mistake again in the future, otherwise Hugh will be ruthless. Yang Guang snorted coldly and didn't say anything more.
The generals trembled, and said in unison: "Thank you for the emperor's forgiveness, and the ministers will do their best to pacify Goguryeo." ”
The Sui army saw through Eulji Wende's plan and destroyed the embankment set up by Eulji Wende from the upper reaches of the Cheongchon River, and the rolling river roared down, flooding thousands of miles of fertile land in Goguryeo. Then Yang Guang's hundreds of thousands of troops crossed the river in one fell swoop, broke through one of the inner cities of the three capitals of Goryeo, and killed and captured 100,000 Goryeo troops.
At this time, the Sui army had no barrier from Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and was only short of meeting with the 500,000 sea and land armies attacking Pyongyang by sea, and they could gather millions of troops to level the most central place of Goguryeo in one fell swoop.
In one fell swoop, Goguryeo was leveled, and the great cause of opening up the territory that had never been done for thousands of years seemed to be only in the morning, and the Sui army was boiling up and down, but at this time, the Sui army suddenly stagnated.
"Your Majesty, why is this?" some generals were puzzled, because this was what Yang Guang ordered to stop the march.
Yang Guang's face was gloomy to the extreme, and he looked at a secret report in his hand: "Yang Xuan felt that he had rebelled, cut off our army's food and grass, and was leading his troops to besiege the capital at this moment." ”
"What? Yang Xuan felt that he was a traitor, a traitor!" a courtier rebuked angrily.
Seeing that the army's achievements in defeating Goguryeo were in front of him, and the completion of the immortal feat was only in the morning and night, Yang Xuangan rebelled at this time, cut off the army's grain and grass, and besieged the capital.
"Your Majesty, how is this good? Do you want to give up the results of the battle, return to the capital, and put down the rebellion?"
Yang Guang shook his head: "No, the army will continue to advance, I have my own decision." Yang Xuan felt that he thought he was hiding well, but he didn't know that as early as when he attacked Tuguhun, I saw that he had a heart of disobedience, but for the sake of his father Yang Situ, he never moved him, I didn't expect him to be so ignorant, this time he dared to rebel, I want him to die without a place to be buried!"
Yang Guang rose up and glared angrily, and many officials bowed their heads timidly.
They are all members of the Guanlong group, and Yang Xuangan's rebellion this time was originally a plan of the Guanlong group, just to make Yang Guang's army fail to attack Goguryeo, and they would lose their money and gain nothing, so as to facilitate their actions.