Chapter 107: The Third Expedition to Goryeo

On the first day of the tenth year of the great cause, every family in Taoyuanyu hung peach charms, lit firecrackers, and after meeting, they said auspicious words to each other.

Throughout the mountains, everyone's faces are filled with happy and healthy smiles.

For ordinary Li people, the greatest happiness is to have food every day, and the family can be reunited safely.

But in the palace of Daxing, Yang Guang looked at the information submitted by his subordinates, but his face was extremely ugly.

From the information collected by the Wind Listening Envoy, Yang Guang could already determine that the real masterminds behind Yang Xuangan's rebellion were the gate lord clans represented by the Eight Pillars Kingdom.

Their purpose in doing so was to prevent themselves from giving the decree and taking back the privileges that had been promised to them, as well as the military power in their hands.

Looking at the information in his hand, Yang Guang couldn't help but think with a gloomy face: "Privately, I just decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the great victory in the conquest of Goryeo, first take back the military power in the hands of the Zhu State and the local governments, and then reduce their privileges and reduce the impact on the imperial court. Before the decree had been drawn up, they had already received the news. It seems that this palace needs to be cleaned up so that they can understand whose territory this palace is!"

You must know that the military power was withdrawn, the privileges of the family lords were limited and weakened in order to increase the local dominance of the imperial court, the annexation of land by the family lords was reduced, the population was re-censused, the slaves were removed, and the state treasury was taxed according to the land was nationalized. Each of these decisions is a decision that benefits the country and the people.

But for the Maison, every item is to cut their flesh and drink their blood. Coupled with "a hundred-year-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old family", this wise saying that they believe is reasonable, and they have long ignored the imperial power.

For the family gate lords, the imperial power is just a tool to protect their interests, and if they are not obedient in that position, they don't mind changing the emperor or even changing the dynasty.

As for the lives and deaths of those untouchables, what does it have to do with them!

Therefore, through brutal repression, peasant uprisings have sprung up in various parts of the north.

Therefore, Yang Xuangan, who already harbored different intentions, was instigated by them to rebel.

Yang Guang stood in the imperial study, looking at the clouds in the sky, constantly thinking, constantly recalling, and got only one result, that is, he lost.

Yes, since the failure of the second expedition to Goryeo, Yang Guang has already lost the entire Great Sui world!

However, as an emperor, he has no shortage of mind and courage.

So, Yang Guangxian summoned Jin Wuwei, who was guarding the palace, and arrested the eunuchs, palace maids, and all the guards who could have access to their conversations when he was discussing national policies with the courtiers at that time.

After that, there was no interrogation, and I didn't think about whether the killing was wrong, or whether it was wronged, and they all fell directly to the ground.

At this moment, the ruthlessness of the emperor's anger and blood flow is vividly reflected.

Then, in the morning of the next day, Yang Guang issued another order: "In March next year, we will do our best to recruit the world's soldiers and conquer the unsubordinate."

After the holy decree of the third conquest of Goryeo was spread to the world, rebels sprang up all over the country, and rioters were rampant.

And the generals of the various provinces also began to issue specific assembly times.

However, after this expedition to Goryeo, Yang Guang directly issued an order, so that all officials above the fourth rank would follow the royal car and be protected by the Xiaoguo army.

This practice made those courtiers with different intentions, after returning home, all their faces changed drastically and they were worried.

Then, for their own safety, they all began to gather their own private soldiers. The private soldiers of each family ranged in size from hundreds to thousands, but all of them were well-equipped and powerful, and they could not be defeated by one enemy or ten.

In March of the tenth year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang once again drove his own expedition and made the third expedition to Goryeo.

According to the requirements of the Holy Decree, the size of the army this time is still in the millions. Yang Guang also planned to completely settle Goryeo after this battle. In this way, it can be used to weaken the private soldiers of the family gatekeepers, and to solve the border troubles and recover the territory of the Northeast.

What I didn't expect was that in order to protect themselves, those family lords not only increased the persecution and increased the scale of the domestic rebel riots, but also quietly provided weapons and equipment, just to hinder the speed of the army's assembly.

At the same time, they also secretly sent envoys to Goryeo to persuade and recruit the lord of Goryeo, King Youngyang, to claim as a vassal. For this reason, the envoys they sent all brought a team of thirty people, led by the elite of the Gangqi Realm master, to show their strength fiercely in Goryeo.

On the side of the Sui army, due to various factors and the fanning of the flames by the family lords, the deserters continued.

The March expedition date had arrived, and after Yang Guang arrived at Zhuo County, the Sui soldiers fled one after another on the assembly road.

Therefore, after Yang Guang arrived at Linyu Palace and sacrificed to the Yellow Emperor, he ordered the rebels to be killed to provoke the drums, but on the way, he still could not prevent people from fleeing.

In autumn and July, Yang Guang's car had arrived in Huaiyuan Town.

However, at this time, the Sui Dynasty was already in turmoil, and most of the conscripted troops failed to arrive on time.

As for Goguryeo's side, it also fell into trouble after two conquests.

Therefore, when Laihu'er defeated a Goguryeo army at Bihaocheng (present-day Jinzhou District, Dalian, Liaoning) and took the opportunity to march to Pyongyang, the Goguryeo king Gao Yuan was frightened, so he sent an envoy to surrender, imprisoned him, and sent him back to Husizheng.

After Yang Guang heard this, he was very happy with his great achievements, so he sent an envoy to summon Hu'er to lead the army back.

Lai Hu'er thought that this was a good opportunity to break through Goguryeo, and wanted to continue the attack, but he refused to obey the edict, but the generals obeyed Yang Guang's order and asked them to return, and Lai Hu'er was ordered to retreat and return.

In August, Yang Guang returned to the DPRK from Huaiyuan Town and returned to Chang'an, the capital of the country.

On the way back, Yang Gongqing, the handan thief, led his party of 8,000 people to loot the eighth team behind Emperor Yang of Sui's chariot, and obtained 42 horses from the Feihuang stable.

In October, Ding Mao and Yang Guang arrived in the eastern capital, Jichou, and arrived in Xijing. The king of Goguryeo, Gao Yuan, entered the court, but Gao Yuan did not come.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered the generals to be dressed strictly and prepare to conquer Goguryeo again, but at this time, in the territory of the Great Sui, the righteous army had already spread all over the world under the ignition of the family gate, and the government decree was difficult to implement, and the army was quelling chaos everywhere, so it did not make the trip in the end.

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This time, Yang Jun also continued to participate in the Second Northern Expedition to Goryeo, and was subordinate to Lai Hu'er.

Although he did not defeat Pyongyang and destroy Goryeo in the end, he also made great contributions to the country in the previous battles.

Therefore, after returning to China, Yang Jun was promoted to the lieutenant of Zhengjiupinxia County, leading the soldiers and horses of Huayin County, and 300 quintals of Lu.

But when he really returned to Huayin, Yang Jun found that those soldiers and horses couldn't be adjusted at all.

Because, Huayin County Order, Jun Cao and others are all people planted by the family. Moreover, Huayin County is still attached to the Great Sui Imperial Court on the surface, but in private it has been controlled by the Li family.

So, for the sake of his own safety, Yang Jun let go of his military power after reporting, and he returned directly to Taoyuanyu.

By the eleventh year of the Great Cause, the entire Great Sui world was full of smoke and rebellions.

Among the rebel army, the rebel army, which is called the strongest anti-king army of the Eighteen Routes in the history books, has all developed and divided the entire Great Sui into pieces.

And when the Great Sui fell into civil strife, the surrounding alien races were ready to move again, wanting to plunder the Central Plains of Shenzhou, which was known as the land of anointing.

And those rebels who wanted to be kings and hegemons, as well as the clanlords who raised the banner of rebellion and joined the competition for the world, began to accumulate strength and even cooperate with other races.

In the forest road of Taoyuanyu retreat, after nearly five years of transformation, the consciousness of the Dao body finally began to awaken.

On the occasion of the advent of this general trend, we will participate in stirring up the world and write our own legendary chapter.