Chapter 599: Yang Guang's Death
The Great Sui of Xuan He suddenly fell into a difficult situation of chaotic warfare in a short period of time, which confused the people of the Sui Empire, who were still cheering for the empire to become strong again, but they soon found that the most important thing at this juncture was to save their lives first.
As a result, Luoyang, the eastern capital of Luoyang, which was originally defended by Emperor Yang Guangtun of the Sui Dynasty, seemed to be the safest place, after all, this was the place where the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty was, with more than a dozen huge granaries stockpiled with abundant grain, and had just repelled the invading Wagang army.
Therefore, in a short period of time, a large number of people from the Sui Empire gathered around Luoyang in order to get a glimmer of life in the troubled times, but as a large number of displaced people gathered around Luoyang, the atmosphere inside and outside Luoyang became more and more tense.
Luoyang City and its surrounding counties were originally an important area where the Kwantung scholars gathered, and the Kwantung scholars were very powerful here, but in the troubled times, even these scholars began to feel uneasy, and constantly evacuated their families to safer places.
Yang Guang didn't pay any attention to the practices of these scholars, he just drank and dissipated his sorrows every day, he was unwilling, he had just restored the Sui Empire, which was a mess before, and there were still many ambitions that had not been realized, and he wanted to lead the Sui Empire to an unprecedented height.
But now in the face of an unprecedentedly strong enemy outside, these warriors in the Sui Empire are so short-sighted about the military aristocracy of Longxianbei, for which he has been completely disheartened, since these people are so careful, then everyone will be completely destroyed with this empire.
"The great head is here, I don't know where the hero will come to get it!" Listening to the worsening situation outside Luoyang City, Yang Guang laughed at the bronze mirror, but he couldn't hide the sadness in the laughter.
Watching Yang Guang become depressed day by day, Concubine Xiao, a virtuous woman, also knew that she could not advise, so she could only maintain the daily order in the Dongdu Palace as much as possible, and then accompany him to prepare for the final ending of life together.
Yang Guang soon didn't need to worry, just when the news that Li Yuan's eldest son Jiancheng led his army south from Hedong County to seize Fengyi County reached Luoyang, the news that the army led by Li Yuan himself swept almost the entire Guanzhong Plain and captured Chang'an within a month also reached his ears.
Originally, after Li Yuan seized Chang'an, there was still Hangu Pass and Tongguan between him and Luoyang, and Luoyang was still safe, but at this time, the news of Chang'an City came that the soldiers of the forbidden army in the eastern capital Luoyang couldn't bear it, and they were clamoring to rush back to Guanzhong and back to Chang'an City.
Li Yuan, who had already established the Li Tang regime, in order to conquer the entire Guanzhong as soon as possible, actually exchanged all the wealth in Chang'an for the aid of Tubo's troops, which not only included all the gold, silver, money, grain, cloth and silk in Chang'an City, but also hundreds of thousands of ordinary people inside and outside Chang'an City.
In the original history, Li Yuan used the lives of the people of Taiyuan City and Chang'an City and the wealth of the city in exchange for the help of the Turks.
During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Tang also exchanged the bones of the people of Luoyang for the dispatch of troops from Hui, which shows that the Li Tang regime did not put the people in his eyes at all, and Li Tang was definitely not as kind to the people as later generations touted.
The Tibetans had been constantly fighting with the Xia army in Xiping County, the Western Regions, and the Hexi Corridor, but after months of fighting, the Tubo Zanpu Nangri Ronzan found that the Xia army's combat effectiveness was far stronger than that of the Sui army, and he really suffered a loss in fighting the Xia army at low altitudes.
After several months of fierce fighting, Nangri Nonzan had to end the war with the Xia State, dispelling the ambition of seizing Xiping County and even the entire Hexi Corridor, and the Tubo people withdrew from the Xia army and only stationed on the spot without pursuit, but Nangri Nonzan had just retreated to Caohan County when he received a letter from Li Yuan.
Seeing Li Yuan's list of requests and returns, he was overjoyed when he thought he was going to return empty-handed, Li Yuan actually offered to send troops in return for the wealth of Chang'an, and he had been unable to ask for relatives from the Central Plains Empire before, but now he just took advantage of this rare opportunity to enter Guanzhong to seize what he wanted.
With the 50,000 Tubo army led by General Qinling Rilong and the 100,000 Tang army led by Li Yuan swept through the land of Guanzhong, the ordinary people in Guanzhong were unlucky.
Of course, the strong scholars in the Guanzhong area, as well as the Xianbei nobleman Li Yuan, would not let the hot-eyed Tubo people move, but those ordinary people in Guanzhong did not have such a good fate, and they were burned and killed by the Tubo people, and a large number of women and young people were looted as slaves.
The slightest resistance was killed, and for a time the entire Guanzhong Plain, especially the hundreds of miles centered on Chang'an City, was a scorched earth, and the bones of the tragic dead people could be seen everywhere.
Yang Guang's forbidden army was almost all composed of good families inside and outside Chang'an City, and when they heard that Li Yuan had dedicated all the people of Chang'an City to the Tubo people, they no longer wanted to stay in Luoyang, and they wanted to go back to save their families and friends, so they clamored to return to Chang'an.
At first, it was just a few soldiers who secretly fled together, and after a few days, even almost all the middle and lower-level officers began to be impatient to return to Guanzhong, so Wu Benlang, who was in charge of Xiaoguo, was afraid that it would not be easy to control Sima Dejiao, so he simply took the opportunity to incite it.
He first conspired with another Wu Benlang general, Tuobali and Zhige Pei Qiantong, Yu Wenhua and his brother Yu Wenzhi were also one of the accomplices, and many officials inside and outside Luoyang City also participated in this conspiracy and rebellion, only Yang Guang still thought that Luoyang was still his place.
As the leader of the forbidden army, Yu Wenhua was initially taken aback by the schemes of these people, but after seeing so many soldiers and officers involved, he also had his own careful thoughts, and he decided to take the opportunity to launch a mutiny.
One morning, Yu Wenhua and the many officials who led the participants in it, as well as thousands of forbidden soldiers, suddenly rushed forward, killing the only dozens of loyal guards, and capturing Yang Guang and Empress Xiao and dozens of other palace personnel.
Yang Guangda was taken aback, he thought that even if he might be bad to the people, he treated these officials and soldiers very favorably, and he didn't expect that even these people would betray him, and in the face of Yang Guang's reprimand, those officials and soldiers who participated in the conspiracy hid their faces and bowed their heads.
But things have come to this point, these officials and soldiers know that even if they are sorry for Yang Guang, they can't let him go, so a generation of emperor Yang Guang was strangled to death in the main hall by his own forbidden army, and finally buried in the courtyard hastily, and dozens of officials who were unwilling to take refuge in Yu Wenhua were killed together on this day.
Yu Wenhua and launched a mutiny to kill Yang Guang, Empress Xiao and others, and then took Yang Guang's nephew Yang Hao as the puppet emperor to force the hundred officials of the Eastern Capital to agree with this regime, and then Yu Wenhua and self-proclaimed Otsuka Zai to lead the world's soldiers and horses, thinking that he could use this as a righteous command of the world.
After Yu Wenhua and mastered the power of the Eastern Capital, he collected all the troops, including the forbidden army, and there were nearly 200,000 people, so he appointed Wang Shichong to continue to defend the Tiger Pass, and then he led the forbidden army, including 150,000 people, to prepare to march west to fight with Li Yuan for the land of Guanzhong.
But what Yu Wenhua didn't expect was that after Yang Guang's death, many generals who were still fighting under the banner of the Sui Empire actually raised troops against him, and the first one to jump out and raise troops against him was Xue Ju, the general who guarded Hongnong County.
Yu Wenhua and in order to enter Guanzhong as soon as possible to fight for this most important place, Hongnong County is the most critical way, so in a fit of rage, he used his younger brother Yu Wenzhi to defend the eastern capital Luoyang, and Wang Shichong to defend the Tiger Prison Pass, and then hurriedly attacked Xue Ju to the west.
Xue Ju had the intention to stop Yu Wenhua, but before his army led more than 10,000 people to support Wang Shichong after Renguo led more than 10,000 people, there were only about 10,000 people, so in front of Yu Wenhua and the 150,000 army, Xue Ju was quickly defeated and killed, and Yu Wenhua led the army from Tongguanxi, which was only two or three hundred miles away from Chang'an.
Li Yuan was originally the favorite candidate of most of the Xianbei military aristocratic group in Guanlong, but of course, there were some people who opposed Li Yuan, especially Li Yuan's collusion with the Tubo people to exchange the Tubo army for the people of Chang'an and Guanzhong, which was despised by many people.
Among them, Li Rail's opposition was the most fierce, after Shi Wansui's death, the army in Shangjun and other places was controlled by many generals, but Li Yuan's behavior made these more than 200,000 soldiers react extremely fiercely, so they gathered under Li Rail's command to seize Shangjun, Beidi County, Anding County and other places.
This greatly threatened the safety of Feng Yijun, Feng Yijun was a key node in Guanzhong connecting Li Yuan's Hedong counties, so Li Jiancheng was ordered to attack but was defeated by Li Rail, and Li Yuan had to concentrate on Li Rail's body.
Just when Li Yuan led the army to fight with Li Liang's army, Yu Wenhua suddenly led the army into the pass to compete with him for the land in the pass, which made Li Yuan extremely anxious.
In order to consolidate the Guanzhong base area that he had just captured, Li Yuan immediately appointed his second son Li Shimin to lead an army to the east to block Yu Wenhua and Li Shentong as assistants, and the two led an army of 100,000 to confront Yu Wenhua and his subordinates in Weinan and fought a series of battles.
After Yu Wenhua and the forbidden army led by Yu Wenhua learned what Li Yuan had done after entering Guanzhong, they were sad and angry and fought desperately against the Tang army with red eyes, so that Li Shimin, who had just led the army, could not stop it at all, even if Li Shimin had many generals under him, but he still couldn't stop the soldiers of the forbidden army full of hatred.
For a while, Yu Wenhua and in a few days from Weinan to the Baling, from Chang'an City is already close at hand, the original prosperous and wealthy Baling has become a piece of ruins, the original rich villages, manors have become a pile of rubble.
These are the remnants of the rebellious army and the Tubo army, seeing such a scene and the scene of green smoke rising in Chang'an City, the soldiers of the forbidden army are even more desperate to attack.
The successive victories made Yu Wenhua a little fluttering, and at this time, there were even some small forces that had come to Yu Wenhua, after all, he had now revealed the ability to be with Li Tangyi for a long time.
However, people are not as good as heaven, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng tried their best to resist the attack of Li Liang's army in the south of Anding County, so Qinling Rilong led 50,000 Tubo troops to support Li Shimin, and Yu Wenhua and his department suffered a big loss in front of the Tubo people.
Maintaining a strong desire to attack, the Tubo people who are not afraid of death at all are completely outlaws, and now the soldiers of the forbidden army have the determination to take revenge, but they can't stand the fact that there are only tens of thousands of soldiers of the forbidden army in the 150,000 army, and the others are just some ordinary Kwantung soldiers.
In the face of the joint offensive of the Tubo and Tang armies, Yu Wenhua, who was gradually unable to resist, gradually dispelled the idea of continuing to advance westward to seize Guanzhong, and had the idea of returning to Luoyang.
At this time, bad news suddenly came from the rear, Wang Shichong, who was originally guarding the Tiger Prison, took advantage of the opportunity of Yu Wenhua and the westward advance to suddenly send troops to attack Luoyang City, and then killed Yu Wenzhi and other left-behind generals and Yu Wenhua and his family on the grounds of Yu Wenhua and conspiring to kill Emperor Yang of Sui.
After Luoyang fell into the hands of Wang Shichong, almost all the tens of thousands of soldiers inside and outside the city surrendered to Wang Shichong, and he also took advantage of the situation to occupy Hongnong County and block the main road of Hangu Pass.
Originally, Yu Wenhua and the army could still support because they still had a way back, even if they were defeated, they could retreat to Luoyang to recuperate, and use Luoyang's rich resources, weapons, and food to continue to develop, but now Wang Shichong's fierce blow from behind made Yu Wenhua completely lose all hope.
At this time, Li Shimin quickly discovered the chaos of Yu Wenhua and the department, so he united with the Tubo army to storm together, Yu Wenhua and the department scattered and fled, the corpses were hundreds of miles, the Tubo army and the Tang army took advantage of the situation to pursue and try to seize Tongguan, but when they arrived at Tongguan, they found that it had been captured by Wang Shichong's army.