Chapter 3 The Four Seas End in One Family

What Yang Jian thought about next was how to end the national glory of the regime in Jiangnan, unify the whole country, and do what Qin Shi Huang could do back then.

Sui. The capital was built in Chang'an. The area generally includes the north of the Yangtze River, the south of the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, the coast in the east, and the vast area of Sichuan in the west. The initial population was "left" to the Sui Dynasty by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the official statistics were 6.5 million households (Book of Sui, Volume 42), but in fact, there was still a large number of concealed populations. The population is conservatively estimated at more than 30 million.

Chen Dynasty. Jiandu Jiankang. When it was passed to the later lord Chen Shubao, it retained more than 400 counties and more than 200 people in the south of the Yangtze River, east of Xiling Gorge and southeast coast.

30 million against 2 million, isn't this a dimensionality reduction blow? Yang Jian thought the same way at first.

In March of the first year of Kaihuang (581), Yang Jian sent two tiger generals of the Sui Dynasty, He Ruobi and Han Baohu, to serve as the governors of Wuzhou and Luzhou, and the key places in the north of Zhenjiang Guangling (now northwest of Yangzhou, Jiangsu) and Lujiang (now Hefei) to prepare for the destruction of Chen. In September, Chen's general Zhou Luoyu captured Hushu in Sui (present-day southwest of Liuhe, Jiangsu). Yang Jian ordered Shangshu's left servant to shoot Gao Gong Jiedu marching marshals Changsun Lan and Yuan Jingshan to lead the army to attack Chen. Just when he was full of ambition and was about to conquer the south in one fell swoop, trouble came.

came to avenge the old man.

This person's name is Ashina Photo. Ashina, a typical Turkic surname, who is his father-in-law? Yuwen Zhao. Familiar? You don't have to look forward, yes, it's Zhao Wangyu, one of the Northern Five Kings who was designed by Yang Jian to be wiped out at one time.

How did a nomadic herding sheep become the son-in-law of the Northern Zhou royal family? Because, Ashina has a senior title - Sha Bo Luo Khan. As a result of the Northern Zhou Dynasty's peace with the Turks, Shabalu Khan married the daughter princess of Zhao Wangyu Wenzhao, a member of the Northern Zhou royal family. Wait, the "daughter" of this princess does not refer to the eldest lady, but the title of this princess is called "princess".

The Northern Turks were nomadic slave societies that rose from the middle of the 6th century to the time of Shabalu Khan, controlling a vast area north of the Great Wall, south of Lake Baikal, west of the Khingan Mountains, and east of the Black Sea, with hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

When Emperor Wen of Sui was preparing to use troops against the Southern Dynasty, Sha Bolu Khan, in the name of avenging his father-in-law, united with the former Northern Qi Yingzhou to assassinate Shi Gao Baoning, and in December 581, captured Linyu Town (now Funingdong, Hebei), preparing to attack Sui on a large scale.

Do you really have such deep feelings for your father-in-law? Even Lao Wang believes that readers may not believe it either. There was only one motive for Sha Bolu Khan to attack Sui, and that was that he felt insulted.

This insult is that the Sui Dynasty stopped making peace with the Turks. The Central Plains Dynasty married the royal princesses who could write poetry, play the piano, and be a female celebrity, and were born noble like flowers and jade to these bitter cold places, and accompanied these old men to rough sheep heads, for what? Go without saying. Now, Yang Jian was hardened and resolutely stopped sending women for peace, and the Turks felt insulted and continued to raise troops to invade the south, threatening Sui's rule.

Since ancient times, there has not been a dynasty in the world that has been able to fight on two fronts at the same time and still succeed. During World War II, the Japanese military was divided into the northward faction (fighting the Soviet Union) and the southward faction (fighting Korea, China, and Southeast Asia), and the two factions quarreled incessantly and even developed into mutual assassinations. As a result, in the Battle of Suzhino Gatekan, in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, the Soviet Union tried its best to fight the invading Japanese Kwantung Army to the point that it could not take care of itself, and the southward expansion faction of the Japanese army gradually gained the upper hand. The arrogant Austrian mustache also brazenly attacked the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front without Britain completely solving the problem on the Western Front, and finally brought about his own destruction after entering a dead end of two-front warfare. The Sui Dynasty was newly established, and it was obviously not strong enough to fight on two fronts. Yang Jian judged the situation and decided to change the original plan and change to the strategy of fighting in the south and the north, defeating the Turks first and then destroying the Chen dynasty.

The Turkic cavalry was brave and fierce, and its combat effectiveness was terrifying, so how easy was it to defeat the Turks? Yang Jian, but he is very confident. Because, he keenly discovered one of the greatest weaknesses of the Turks.

Disunity. At that time, the Turks had four khans, each with heavy troops, and Sha Bolu was at odds with the Khans such as Apo and Datou. Back then, I was able to destroy 5 of your father-in-law's brothers at once, and now I have a way to defeat 4 of you one by one.

In April 583, Emperor Wen of Sui divided his troops into eight routes and launched a counterattack against the Turks. And with Changsun Sheng's divisive strategy, he finally split the Turkic Khanate into two parts, the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks, and let the four khans kill each other for the throne. In 584, Shabalu Khan sued for peace with the Sui Dynasty because of his unfavorable war against the Sui.

It's okay to ask for peace, you have to be called a minister, and after you are called a minister, I have to change your titles for the two of you. As a result, the Khan of Shabalu became the "Khan of Ilikulushemo He Shibolo", this string of words, looking painful, readers simply remember it as "a broken gong" Khan. Her daughter-in-law "Princess Qianjin"? changed to "Princess of Righteousness", and had to change her name to call Yang Jian her father. Yang Jian turned into the father-in-law of the "One Broken Gong" Khan, and the identity of this father-in-law was not obtained through humiliation and kissing, but by beating the opponent to call his father.

Domineering!

The Sui army counterattacked the Turks and won, and the northern border troubles were basically eliminated. As mentioned earlier, it is the Four Kingdoms, in addition to the Sui Dynasty, the Turkic Dynasty and the Southern Dechen Dynasty, who else is there? A small country that doesn't want to mention but has to mention.

Later Liang, built by Xiao Jing, the grandson of Emperor Wu of Southern Liang Xiao Yan, was the first capital of Xiangyang, and later moved to Jiangling. In 587, Yang Jian sent troops to easily destroy this small separatist regime. The four kingdoms have become the north and the south standing side by side, and the south Chen has naturally become Yang Jian's banner.

The Southern Dynasties were able to survive for hundreds of years when the world was in turmoil, and its life-sustaining agent was the Yangtze River barrier. To invade the southern part of the capital, the foreign invasion of the southern part of the capital must cross the Yangtze River moat. There are only two specific tactics. Before introducing these two tactics, let's take a look at the following with questions: First, why did the Mongol army destroy the Southern Song Dynasty to fight Diaoyu City and Xiangyang, which achieved the tall image of Guo Daxia created by Mr. Jin Yong as "a great man of chivalry for the country and the people"? Second, why did Chiang Kai-shek take the initiative to launch the Battle of Songhu at the risk of Shanghai being destroyed? Okay, let's start with these two tactics.

The first is simple and crude, and it crosses directly. However, this requires that the attacker must have an absolute overwhelming advantage, and it is extremely difficult to cross the river and defend at the same time. Many people who do not believe in evil and want to take this road have bruised noses and swollen faces everywhere.

For example, the fierce cavalry troops of the Northern Wei Dynasty looked at the river several times and sighed, saying that the good thing is "drinking the horse and returning the Yangtze River", and the bad thing is that they want to eat and stare dryly;

For another example, the Jin army invaded the Southern Song Dynasty, and 100,000 elite divisions could only return with a feather.

The Mongol army, which is as strong as the world's nightmare, attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, did it choose this road? No. They wisely chose the second path.

The million-strong division of the People's Liberation Army crossed the river? It really has an absolute overwhelming superiority, both in terms of the hearts of the people and the military, and this is in the era of hot weapons.

The second is insidious and vicious, inserting your weakness. First seize the Bashu in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in addition to the granary base of the country of abundance, the Bashu region in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has geographical advantages. The list goes on and on.

For example, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, that is, to take Bashu first.

For another example, in the melee of the Three Kingdoms, the main direction of attack of Cao Wei (later the Western Jin Dynasty) was Shu. Once the Shu regime was suspended, the Wei (Jin) army could directly descend the river from the upper reaches of Bashu and take Sun Wu. Therefore, Zhuge Liang, this kid is really powerful, and he insisted on joining Wu to carry Cao until he died, but unfortunately the two families of Sun and Liu were short-sighted, and they fought by themselves, ruining the overall situation.

At that time, the world's strongest Mongolian army destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, and also wanted to take Sichuan in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River first. Fortunately, they adjusted their strategy in time and won Xiangfan in the middle first.

After little Japan arrogantly put forward the slogan of destroying China in three months, its initial strategy was to take Shanxi first, from Shanxi to Shaanxi, and then to Sichuan. Chiang Kai-shek was also fought in the southern and northern wars, and he was not an idle man, so he decisively opened up a second battlefield in Shanghai, pinned down the Japanese heavy troops in Shanghai, and turned the quick decisive battle into a protracted war. Although Nanjing was later lost, it did not affect the success of the strategy, after all, the Bashu region was firmly controlled by us Chinese themselves, and they could attack and retreat, and finally drove away this group of island barbarians who could only make romantic action movies later.

In 587, the defenders of the Chen Dynasty stationed at the Langwei Beach near Yichang suddenly found that there were a number of objects floating on the river. Show it to the main general, and the main general will be shocked - it's broken, and the Sui people are going to do something to us.

Why did General Chen Junshou make such a judgment? This is because either of these two tactics requires an extremely important strategic tool. Yes, boats, of course. These waste timbers should be left over from the shipbuilding of the Sui army upstream.

Yang Jian needed a ship, and in 587, he gave this task to a confidant.

Yang Su. After Yang Su was Hongnong Yang, his grandfather Yang Xuan, the official was the general of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the doctor of the Auxiliary State; His father, Yang Fu, was the assassin of Fenzhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. At this time, Yang Su, 43 years old, was the governor of Xinzhou in the Great Sui Dynasty, passing through the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. How to describe this person in the most concise words? Adulterous, ruthless, superhuman.

Yang Su ruled the army very strictly. Before every war, I like to do one cruel thing - kill people. He often beheaded the soldiers who made mistakes in front of the battle, and killed chickens and monkeys to set an example. When the enemy and us set up a battle formation, he generally did not order the whole army to charge, but selected 200 death squads to charge the battle, and after winning the battle, he was rewarded, and he dared to flee back if he could not rush in? Behead them all. Under this tactic, everyone fought bravely, and the army was extremely combative.

The so-called art of leadership is to be ruthless to subordinates.

Yang Su has a very high military literacy, and has made many military exploits when he attacked the Turks in the north. Cavalry combat was the strength of the Turks, and the Central Plains army could only rely on infantry and cavalry to defend themselves with chariots, antlers, trenches, etc. When Yang Su was fighting against the Turks, he was unusual, and transferred the only cavalry to the front to take the lead, and used the cavalry to PK the cavalry. The Turkic army was very happy to see it, just like the Spanish football team of TTTK, suddenly saw that the Italian football team, which had always been defensive and counterattack-oriented, was going to fight against them, and they all dismounted and worshiped heaven and earth, thinking that God was helping them.

As a result, Yang Su took advantage of the Turkic paralysis and commanded the cavalry to attack in a whirlwind, rushing unexpectedly, and the infantry followed behind to cover and kill, and the Turkic cavalry was scattered and became a straggler. Organized vs. unorganized is a dimensionality reduction strike, and the Turkic cavalry is defeated. However, when the Sui army returned to the camp victoriously, they were all shocked.

Yang Su is gone. Killed? Captured? Or did you take your retinue with you for great health care?

None of them. At this time, Yang Su was taking two personal soldiers and two surrendered Turks, wearing Turkic clothes, mixed in with the rout of the Turkic army. After fleeing to safety, the defeated troops gathered one after another and set up camp. Yang Su wrote down the location of the Turkic camp, left the two of them to keep an eye on, and quietly returned to the base camp with the two of them. It was getting dark, and the Turks, who had been on the run for a day, were about to fall asleep. Suddenly, Yang Su led the army as if falling from the sky, burst into the Turkic camp and slashed and killed, the Turks suffered heavy casualties, and cried away.

Gou Jian can eat King Wu's, and he is so ruthless to himself, he will naturally not be soft when he kills the brothers who started a business together. Yang Su can personally infiltrate the land of tigers and wolves to make up reconnaissance, and he is so ruthless to himself, so it is not strange that he is also ruthless to his subordinates.

Yang Su received the order to build a ship, but Yang Jian was not disappointed, and built a "Jumbo" warship in Yong'an (Badong County, now east of Fengjie County, Chongqing), called the "Wuya Ship". This ship has five floors, about 30 meters high, and a total of five floors up and down, and each battleship is equipped with a "slapping rod", which is specially used to shoot enemy ships. Most importantly, this kind of battleship can accommodate 800 people to fight, which can be described as an invincible giant. In addition, Yang Su also built a series of small warships, such as "Huanglong", "Pingcheng", etc., these warships can also accommodate more than 100 people, which can not only fight water battles, but also can be used as landing tools.

On March 9, the eighth year of the emperor's reign (588), Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian made a historic decision - to fight across the Yangtze River and liberate the whole of China!

At the same time, Yang Jian ordered Yousi to copy and print 300,000 copies of the inscription and send it to Jiangnan to be distributed everywhere in order to break the heart of the Southern Chen army. Why print 300,000 copies? Lao Wang calculated, according to the Chen Dynasty's population of 2 million, about one per household on average, don't grab it, you have a share, and you won't give much if you call.

At the same time, Yang Jian sent a seal to Chen Shubao, the speaker of the Chen Dynasty, but this one was specially made, and the content was to list his so-called 20 major crimes. Xiao Chen had just turned 35 years old at this time, and from the age of 16 or 18 years old at the age of full civil capacity, he could only do one big thing a year on average, and it seemed that he Yang Jian had killed so many people from the Northern Zhou royal family, and the granddaughter of his former colleague Wei Chi Hui was all acting for heaven.

No way, that's what propaganda warfare needs. However, the scale of Yang Jian's propaganda war is somewhat unprecedented, and I don't know how many paper mills and printing factories have been fed.

When Chen Shubao received the inscription, he was really trembling and spasmodic for a while, but for several months after receiving the inscription, there has been no movement on the other side of the river. Chen Shubao breathed a sigh of relief, he hadn't slept well every day in the past few months, and he also snubbed his super beautiful concubine Zhang Lihua, how could this work? Chen Shubao then got tired of being in the harem with Zhang Lihua and other beauties, and continued to live a shameless life. And during this period, Zhang Da Meinu frequently blew the pillow wind to Chen Shubao, asking him to abolish Queen Shen and the crown prince. In May 588, the third month after Chen Shubao received Yang Jian's letter, he deposed the crown prince and began to abolish it, preparing to re-establish Zhang Lihua.

In the past few months when the south is still infighting, what is Yang Jian doing in the north? There are many opinions in history. The most credible one should be Zhang Juzuo, director of the War Bureau, who analyzed the strategy that the US imperialists might adopt before attacking Iraq -- today they say that they will fight you, but they will not fight; Tomorrow I will say that I will beat you, but I will not fight you, and I will fight again when your tense nerves have relaxed. Although in fact the US imperialists later said that they would strike at any day, the strategy mentioned by Zhang Juzuo was indeed commonly used in history, especially in ancient China.

In October 588, Yang Jian finally broke the incomprehensible silence of more than seven months and established Huainan Province in Shouchun, marking the beginning of a large-scale war against Chen.

On October 28, Yang Jian led hundreds of civil and military officials to hold a grand ceremony in front of the Taimiao, and at the same time officially paid homage to the generals. The overall battle plan is to attack on all fronts from Canghai in the east to Bashu in the west, on the Yangtze River:

Yang Guang, the king of the Jin Dynasty, attacked Liuhe (now Liuhe District, Nanjing, Jiangsu);

Yang Jun, the king of Qin (brother of Yang Guang and third son of Yang Jian), attacked Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei);

Qinghe Gongyang Su, attacked Xinzhou (now Chongqing, eastern Sichuan, western Hubei);

Liu Renen, the assassin of Jingzhou, attacked Jiangling (now Jingzhou, Hubei);

King Shiji, Duke of Yiyang, attacked Qizhou (now Qichun County, Hubei Province);

Xinyi Gong Han captured the tiger and attacked Lujiang (now Hefei, Anhui);

Xiangyi Gonghe Ruobi attacked Wuzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu);

Luocong Gong Yanrong, attacked the East China Sea (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu).

Judging from the attack areas of the eight bigwigs, Qinghe Gong Yang Su is a steel pestle on his back, Yiyang Duke Shiji and Jingzhou Thorn Shi Liu Renen are stabbing butt stingers, Luo Cong Gong Yanrong is a misty lime, Qin King Yang Jun is a throat gun, Jin King Yang Guang is knocking on the skull gourd, Xinyi Gong Han Capture Tiger and Xiangyi Gonghe Ruobi are two ribbed flying knives, which are more complete than Da Vinci's "3000" combination of "3000 to kill you", are you afraid?

There are more than 510,000 troops from all walks of life, all of whom were blackened into briquettes by the Tang Dynasty historians, and the Huainan Xingtai Shangshu and the Jin King Yang Guangjiedu. At this time, Yang Guang was only 19 years old, and no matter how wise and martial he was, his superficial experience was not enough to support him to command such a decisive battle that would determine the fate of the country. As a result, Yang Jian assigned him a senior chief of staff.

Gao Gong. Gao Gong, one of the founding fathers of the Great Sui Dynasty, served as Marshal Yang Guang, the king of Jin, and decided the staff matters of the three armies.

On November 10, Yang Jian personally led the army to Dingcheng, which was thirty miles away from Tongguan, and the whole army solemnly swore here. 47-year-old Yang Jian stepped on his war horse and personally escorted the army out of Tongguan. 510,000 troops rushed out of the Tongguan gate in eight ways according to their respective combat objectives......

In December, Yang Jun, the king of Qin, led 30 marching commanders with a total of more than 100,000 troops into Hankou, and the target was Wuchang across the river. Chen Shubao got the report and urgently ordered Zhou Luoyu, who was stationed at the mouth of the gorge, to lead the upstream army back to defense, and let the general Xun Fashang lead tens of thousands of troops to garrison Parrot Island. Parrot Island, a sandbar in the Yangtze River, is located in the southwest of present-day Hanyang County, Hubei Province. Qingchuan calendar Hanyang tree, grass and parrot island? Yes, this is it.

As soon as the Chen army was mobilized, the ruthless Yang Su immediately took the opportunity to launch an offensive in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and led the army out of the Three Gorges, officially opening the curtain of the Battle of Pingchen.

The soldiers came out of the gorge, and Yang Su was blocked by Chen General Qi Xin in the high mountains and rapid water of the Wolf Tail Beach. The northerners were not good at water warfare, and Nanchen relied on dangerous ships to dock, while the Sui army's warships were large, but they were not completely sure in actual combat. Let's pick up what the northerners are best at.

On a dark and windy night, Yang Su sent a death squad to destroy the fence blocking the warship from the south bank. At the same time, two elite troops were dispatched to march quickly along both sides of the Yangtze River to capture the army camp of Chen's army. Then the water and land echoed, breaking through the gorge in one fell swoop. The whole fleet headed east.

For a while, on the long Yangtze River, all kinds of warships were dotted around, like a giant python winding forward. The fleet was neatly formed, the soldiers were neatly organized, and the military discipline was strict. The 44-year-old general Yang Su has a majestic appearance, dressed in bright light armor, sitting on the parade platform of the tall flagship, two plate-shaped heart goggles reflecting the dazzling light of the noon sun, and the handsome flag of "Yang" behind him flutters in the wind, making a sound of hunting, and a proper Ultraman of the Great Sui.

When the people on both sides of the strait saw this, their hearts suddenly brightened -- the Celestial Empire is mighty, and it is not bad for us to mess with such a boss. The defenders of the Chen Dynasty who retreated to Yichang saw that the psychological shadow area was equal to the length X width, and the length was equal to the positive infinity.

The Chen army arranged three iron chains on the Xiling Gorge River, and Yang Su sent troops to the shore, defeated the defenders in a battle, and then easily unlocked them. After Xiling Gorge, it is a horse Pingchuan, and then Yichang, all the way to Jingzhou. At this time, on the gradually widening river, I finally saw the main fleet of the Chen army.

Officially water war, start fighting.

Results: The Sui fleet destroyed and sank more than ten Chen warships with cannons and sticks, the Chen army's national defense army collapsed, and the defenders along the river east of Yueyang automatically laid down their arms and knelt down to Yang Su. The water battle of Jingzhou ended with Yang Su's complete victory.

Under the command of their respective commanders, the Sui armies of all walks of life also made rapid progress and captured many strategic points in Nanchen. Nan Chen's forces in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were completely controlled by Yang Su and Yang Jun, the king of Qin. The defense of the capital city Jiankang? Let's look at fate. What is Jiankang City doing at this time? It's more comic.

Busy with the New Year.

At this time, it was the end of the year 588, and it was almost the end of the year, and Chen Shubao ordered the preparation of the New Year's celebration. At the moment of the great enemy, he just burned incense, kowtowed, and set off a few firecrackers, but Xiao Chen gave a more joyful order: the generals along the river defense line also returned to Beijing for the New Year and participated in the New Year's celebration. Why?

In order to scare two people. Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhen (sound also), as mentioned in the face, were easily destroyed by Yang Jian, and the small separatist power Liang defected over. After all, the two are the Liang clan, Xiao Yan's grandfather is Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming, and the uncle of Xiao Cong, the emperor of Southern Liang, he has a grandson Xiao Miao, one of the heroes in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, Chen Shubao in order to win the hearts of the people, sealed Xiao Yan as the assassin of Dongyangzhou, and his nephew Xiao Zhen as the assassin of Wuzhou. At the end of the year, Chen Shubao called Er Xiao to Jiankang, and then summoned the generals to the national capital to eat dumplings and watch the party together for the New Year, showing off the military might, so as to achieve the purpose of deterring the two.

Speechless.

Not only that, but the governor of the military town of Xiangzhou (now Changsha, Hunan) is not in his post, but he is also in Jiankang? Right. Was Chen Shubao called for the New Year? No, it's that he has been staying in Jiankang and not leaving.

Shi Wenqing, Chen Shubao's favorite minister, worked hard to get the position of Xiangzhou Assassin, but he was worried that he would be attacked by political enemies in the capital if he left the capital, so he refused to go to Xiangzhou for a long time, and accompanied Chen Shubao with Shen Keqing, a member of the Zhongshu House, as a life secretary and confidential secretary.

The defense of the local towns was relaxed, and the two places of Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) and Quarry (now Dangtu, Anhui), which directly defended the capital, were not well prepared. Fan Yi, the general of the protector army, reminded the imperial court to send additional warships to defend the two places, and the proposal was approved by the ministers, but Shi Wenqing and Shen Keqing suppressed the document and did not report it.

In this way, the various portals of Jiankang in the capital city of Nanchen have gradually opened. During the Spring Festival in 589, Chen Shubao was still pushing cups and changing lamps with the generals, watching fireworks and singing, and the Sui army's two ribbed flying knives He Ruobi had gone to Guangling (Yangzhou, Jiangsu), and Han Baohu had arrived at Caishidu (Ma'anshan, Anhui), and quickly crossed the river, and the flying knives began to develop to the heart after entering the ribs. Yang Guang, the king of Jin, led his army to establish a general attack headquarters in Liuhe Town, on the opposite bank of Jiankang.

On the second day of the loss of the Yangtze River defense line, Xu Zijian, the defender who escaped from quarrying, ran to Jiankang to report. However, no one paid attention to him, because the person who spoke Chen Shubao was already drunk. When Brother Chen woke up the next day and got a report, he was covered in chaff. At this time, a famous general stepped forward.

Hussar general, Suijian County Gong Xiao Maha. Xiao Maha is surnamed Xiao, but he has nothing to do with the group of Xiao in Nanliang and Houliang, he is a native of Lanling (Zaozhuang, Shandong), with rich resume, brave and good at fighting, and his hometown Zaozhuang football star Wang Dongning is similar, with explosive physical fitness, and he is not stingy. When he was 18 years old, he followed his uncle to fight against Chen Baxian, and he was invincible. In 573, Chen's army made a northern expedition to Northern Qi. There is a group of monster-like daring people in the Northern Qi general's Wei Pohu forward army, each with big shoulders and round waists, and they are extremely brave, forming murderous gangs such as "Cangtou", "Rhino Horn", and "Vigorous", and there is also a Hu people in the Western Regions with superb archery skills in the center to release cold arrows, which makes Chen Jun very frightened.

When the two armies faced each other, the commander asked Xiao Maha: This Hu man in the Western Regions is extremely arrogant, has killed countless people, and if he can kill him, the morale of the enemy army will be greatly reduced.

Xiao Maha didn't say a word, took the big bowl of wine handed by the boss and drank it all, and led his troops to rush straight to the ground. Seeing that Xiao Maha was menacing, the Hu people of the Western Regions hurriedly stretched out their bows, wanting to send out a soul-chasing Cupid arrow like before. The 41-year-old Xiao Maha shouted, rounded his arms, and threw a short weapon like a chisel with all his might, which hit the skull of the Hu people in the Western Regions, and the brains burst and hit the street on the spot. This kind of short weapon is called milling (xi xia

Like a chisel, it is specially thrown and smashed people. Killed Xiao Li Guang in the Western Regions, more than a dozen people in the Northern Qi Mighty Army went to battle, and they were also killed by Xiao Maha successively. In the battle with the Northern Qi in 577, the 45-year-old Xiao Maha led only 7 people to rush into the enemy formation, captured the banner of the Qi army, and was named the Jiejie, General Wu Yi, and the Assassin of Qiaozhou. In the same year, he fought with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and this guy only led 12 people to attack the Zhou army's big array, and he was invincible and killed countless battles.

After Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne, Xiao Maha was named Shizhong, Hussar General, Zuo Guanglu Doctor, and also chose his daughter as the crown princess, which can be described as a very popular minister. At this time, in the face of national difficulties, Xiao Maha, who was 57 years old, stood up and asked to lead troops to fight and directly attack He Ruobi's department, which had arrived in Jingkou (Zhenjiang).

Xiao Maha is not only brave, but also extraordinary in strategy: He Ruobi is alone in the depths, his foothold is not stable, he can raid, and he will definitely succeed.

Chen Shubao was still sifting the chaff, and the chamberlain carried him into the bedroom.

It was not until the main force of the Sui army He Ruobi was assembled that Chen Shubao recovered from muscle spasms and ordered Xiao Maha to fight.

The result of the match between Xiao Maha and He Ruobi? Shi Zai Xiao Maha played against He Ruobi in the front, and Chen Shubao did the eighth set of radio gymnastics with Xiao Maha's wife in the rear, resulting in Lao Xiao's war intent being captured at all. Actually, Lao Wang didn't believe this at all. One is that when a man is in danger of destroying the country and destroying the door is at hand, there is such a lewd interest that cannot be found in the universe. Second, it is rare for the historians of the dynasty who have died to be scolded as inhuman beasts by the historians of the dynasty who have not been replaced by later generations. The third is Xiao Maha's performance after being captured in the country: Now I am a prisoner and can die at any time, but as long as I can see the old master, I will die without regrets. After seeing Chen Shubao, Lao Xiao knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, took out the food hidden in his clothes for Xiao Chen to eat, and then said goodbye. This looks like a performance of being cuckolded by Xiao Chen?

In the face of the general trend of changing the dynasty, a 57-year-old veteran is already weak even if he has more than enough courage.

He Ruobi and Han Baohu occupied Zhongshan and Xinlin respectively, and Jiankang, the capital of southern Chen, was surrounded by the Sui army and became a bag. At the same time, Yan Rong led the navy out of the East China Sea, all the way south into Taihu Lake, and captured Wu County; Another naval army went out of Jiujiang Road under the command of King Shiji, the Duke of Yiyang, and successfully captured Jiujiang. The river defenses of Nanchen were cut into several sections, cut off from each other, and became isolated strongholds, and their entire defense system no longer existed.

Ren Zhong, one of the main generals of the Chen army, saw that the general situation had gone, so he led his troops to surrender Han Baohu, and at the same time led the Sui army into the Suzaku Gate as a guide. threw down the sentence "It is not immoral, but it is also Jiangdong's clothes", similar to the words of Chongzhen in later generations who shook the pot before hanging the crooked neck tree (all the ministers were mistakenly destroyed), and then threw off the ministers and ran into the harem like crazy, and never came out again.

When Yang Su and He Ruobi were fighting the periphery, Han Baohu took the lead in leading the Sui army to rush into the palace, this is fate, just like Liu Bang and Liu Bastard, who attacked Chang'an first, it is a good fate. Han Minghao's goal? Find Chen Shubao and make the first contribution. Searching all over the place, Han Baohu ordered a dragnet search. When they searched for the rouge well in today's Jiming Temple in Nanjing, the soldiers found that there was a noise in the well, and felt that there should be someone inside, so they hung down the rope and shouted to the well. After that, the rope sank, but no matter how the soldiers pulled the rope up, the rope did not move. After increasing the combined force, the rope was slowly activated, and after coming out of the well, everyone was stunned.

Chen Shubao and his beloved Zhang Lihua and Kong Guifei are hugging each other and sifting chaff collectively.

Han captured the tiger and the dragon in the deep palace, and asked Chen Shubao to handwrite a surrender letter and send it to all parts of Nanchen. The boss has hit the street, what are we going to do, the generals of Nanchen have laid down their arms, the Nanchen regime no longer exists, Guozuo, passed on 5 emperors, a total of 32 years.

What happened to Nan Chen's surrender to the monarch?

Chen Shubao was named the Duke of Changcheng County, and died of illness in Luoyang 15 years later at the age of 51. The nickname is "Yang", and Yang Guang, the commander-in-chief of the Sui army who captured him, finally got this nickname, which is interesting.

Xiao Maha, who was awarded the three divisions of the Kaifu Yi and retained. Also 15 years later, he raised troops with Yang Liang, the king of Han, against Yang Guang as emperor, and was captured and killed by Yang Su at the age of 72.

These two monarchs and ministers are really a pair of old iron, surrendered in the same year, were sealed in the same year, and died in the same year. Moreover, this year (604) was a magical year, and Yang Jian also died mysteriously in Renshou Palace at the age of 63. The age is exactly between Chen and Xiao.

Shi Wenqing, Shen Keqing? The fly-like thing in the pit was killed on the spot by the Sui army.

On the 29th day of the first month of 589, Yang Jian sent an edict to inspect the county of Chen, and at the same time abolished the Huainan Province of Huainan, a strategic administrative region, announcing the end of the Pingchen Campaign, and also ending the division of China for more than 300 years since the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, and replacing it with the unification of the Great Sui Dynasty. The situation of total social collapse caused by ethnic contradictions during the period of division also changed with the end of the Battle of Pingchen.

It is worth mentioning that it was in the year 589 that the Ryukyu Islands were surrendered to the Sui Dynasty. 1290 later, in 1879, on April 4 of that year, Japan forced the last Ryukyu king, Shōtai, into exile in Tokyo, and changed the Ryukyus to Okinawa Prefecture.

Some countries have always owed us.

If we count the division at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, China was divided between the north and the south for nearly 400 years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty.

In the past 400 years, the land of China has been plunged into endless fighting and warfare, and the people's livelihood is difficult, similar to the dark ages of Europe after the division of the Roman Empire.

After Yang Jian took the world, he took enriching the people and strengthening the country as the primary goal and carried out a series of reforms.

The system of three provinces and six ministries, the imperial examination system, the "world's first city--- the "world's first city" that has a profound influence on the architectural styles of Japan and Korea, Daxing City (Chang'an City), the Grand Canal, and the epoch-making "Kaihuang Law" in the history of China's legal system are all products of the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui and Yang Jian.

Although in the brutal political struggle, Yang Jian cut off the Northern Zhou clan with cruel political means, and countless people, including young children, died under his butcher's knife, showing his cold-blooded and ruthless side. He died mysteriously at the age of 63, and the Great Sui that he created single-handedly was also the same as the Great Qin of Qin Shi Huang, and died in the second generation, I don't know if it was a causal feedback caused by excessive killing.

However, he unified China, making China a prosperous country at that time, reaching the pinnacle of agrarian civilization in human history, and for this reason, he became one of the greatest Chinese emperors in the eyes of Westerners, revered as the "Sage Khan", and was listed in the "100 Most Influential People in Human History" written by the British along with Qin Shi Huang.

He was not a good man, but a good emperor.

From the perspective of the country and the nation, the bloody wind has been blowing uninterrupted in the land of China for nearly 400 years, and this 400-year history also tells us that a big country like China, which has a profound cultural accumulation, multi-ethnic cohabitation and great regional differences, will decline if it is divided, and prosperous if it is united. As long as the country is unified and the society is stable, no one can stop the rise of China, the dragon of the East.

From a personal point of view, if you read this book carefully, and read more than 300 years of Jin Ge Iron Horse, strife and killing, dynastic succession and succession, cultural collision and blending, maybe you will be relieved of a lot of things. Some scientists have found that there is no time in the universe, only movement, and the so-called time is just an illusion of human consciousness. If this discovery is true, then our life is actually just a process of movement that has long been predestined to the result, so why should we still suffer and regret it?

We are accustomed to understanding happiness as "being". Have a car, a house, power, and money. In fact, true happiness should be "nothing", worry-free, worry-free, disease-free, and disaster-free. People, the final outcome is death, and after a few decades, there will be no you and no me. The first ten years were young and ignorant, and the last ten years were old, weak, sick and disabled, whether they were emperors and generals or peddlers.

We struggle all our lives, we can't take away a single grass and tree, and we can't take away vanity and admiration for a lifetime. The average age of the emperors of all dynasties is only 39 years old, and life is so short that we have no time to fight, to flatter, to frame, to envy, to attack ourselves in our hearts, everything is fleeting.

The spring breeze is ten miles, it is better to please yourself. Living in the present with dignity, enjoying the breeze and moon, sunrise and sunset, sending away those who gave birth to us with a clear conscience, and raising and educating us with due diligence is not the greatest victory in life?

The whole book, end.