The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 317 A History of Enmity
Turkic is the collective name of the ethnic groups active in the Mongolian Plateau and Central Asia. It is also another important nomadic people in the northwest and northern grasslands of the Central Plains Dynasty since the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Rouran. In 540, the word Turkic began to appear in the annals of the Central Plains.

Turks used to be an independent tribe, and later they belonged to the mighty Rouran Kingdom. They became iron slaves of the latter and migrated to the south of Jinshan Mountain. Because Jinshan looks like a war helmet, it is commonly called Turkic, and its tribe is named after it. .There were only a few hundred Ashina clans at first, but later there were tens of thousands of Turkic tribes, and most of them came from the surrounding Tiele tribe.

In 550 A.D., the Turkic leader Ashina Tumen led the tribe, defeated and annexed more than [-] tents from Gaoche tribes, and began to grow and grow, and was valued by the Western Wei Dynasty.Two years later, the Turks defeated the suzerain Rouran, and Ashina Tumen called Yili Khan, established a vast Turkic Khanate, and quickly expanded its power to the entire Mongolian plateau. In two more years, the Western Wei Dynasty wiped out Rouran various remnant tribes.With the killing of Rouran's last khan, the Turkic forces quickly extended to the Western Regions.

At this time, the Central Plains Dynasty was in a state of separation between the North and the South, and the Three Kingdoms. The Southern Dynasty was a unified and complete regime. In the Northern Dynasty, it experienced the Western Wei (Northern Zhou Dynasty) and the Eastern Wei Dynasty (Northern Qi Dynasty). , and in order to eliminate each other, they both adopted the policy of paying tribute to the Turks and making peace with each other in exchange for the support or neutrality of the Turkic Empire.

The Turks took the opportunity to obtain a large amount of economic benefits by means of peace or war.However, the pace of Turkic expansion did not stop because of this. Around 560, the Turks conquered Tuyuhun, conquered the Western Regions, and even joined forces with Persia to annihilate the White Huns.In a short period of 30 years, the Turks continued to expand their territories. The territory stretched from the Liaohai Sea in the east, the Caspian Sea in the west, the Mongolian Gobi in the south, and Lake Baikal in the north. big country.

It is unfortunate for anyone to be a neighbor of such a great power, for it is a predatory people.

Unfortunately, the newly born Sui Dynasty was such an unlucky guy.

In fact, before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks regarded the plundering of the population and wealth of the Central Plains as a common practice, and the countries of the Northern Dynasties had to make peace with them or pay tribute to them in exchange for a few days of stability.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, due to the civil strife among the nobles in the Turks, Shabo, the Great Turkic Khan, felt that the territory was too large to manage by himself. In order to "live a stable life", he established three other Khans. Let these three people share power with him, namely the second Khan Anluo who is under one person and above ten thousand people, Abo Khan Daluobian, and Datou Khan Tanjue.In addition to these four, there is one more step away from Khan.

In the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, a Turkic army of 50 troops, led by Sabolo Khan himself, marched southward to the south of the Great Wall. The army of 50 marched south together, and each of them could drown the new Sui Dynasty.

The nascent Great Sui Dynasty had internal and external troubles, and the situation was at a very delicate juncture. The over 50 fierce army invaded, and they were defeated again and again. Changsun Sheng, who has lived in Turks for many years, said that he had a way to deal with Turks. Yang Jian, who was overjoyed, immediately summoned him to discuss in detail.

As early as 580 A.D., Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty named Zhao Wang Yuwenzhao's daughter Princess Qianjin, and sent someone to Turkic. Among the escorts was Changsun Sheng.

At that time the Turks were very powerful and looked down on the Northern Zhou Dynasty very much. During a day trip, they met two big eagles.Changsun Sheng shot through the two eagles with one arrow and shocked the grassland.Sabolo Khan was so shocked that he ordered his disciples to learn archery from Changsun Sheng.So much so that Changsun Sheng stayed in Turkic for as long as one year.

Changsun Sheng was a caring person. He used the opportunity of hunting with Sabolo Khan to investigate the situation of the Turkic mountains and rivers and the strength of the tribe in detail. After returning, he reported what he learned to Yang Jian, who was the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Yang Jian was very happy to report in detail, and immediately promoted him to Fengche Duwei.

During his time in Turkic, Changsun Sheng also made a very important "friend".The man's name was Chu Luohou, and he was Sabolo Khan's younger brother. He was hated by Sabolo Khan because he was very popular. Chu Luohou then secretly formed an alliance with Changsun Sheng.During his one-year "undercover investigation", Changsun Sheng also learned that the uncles and nephews such as Sabolo Khan, Datou Khan, Abo Khan, and Tuli Khan, who all held strong soldiers, were on the surface. As close as a family, in fact, each is suspicious and wary, and it is easy to cause rift.

Therefore, when Yang Jian summoned him, Changsun Sheng immediately appealed to Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and put forward the suggestion of "strangling from a distance and attacking closely, separating from the strong and joining the weak". Changsun Sheng, who has an amazing memory, talked and drew while talking, detailing the situation of the Turkic mountains and rivers he had learned before. presented in front of Yang Jian.With such important information, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty immediately had confidence in defeating the enemy's aggression.

But after making the plan, Changsun Sheng gave Yang Jian a difficult problem that was almost impossible to resolve, that is to defeat the 20 headquarters army led by Sabolo Khan himself.The main reason is that Sabolo Khan is too strong. He has an undefeated record in Turkic. Although the other Turkic khans have a lot of dissatisfaction with him and want to replace him, they are afraid of his prestige. If Sui The court could not dispel his reputation of being invincible, and those few khans probably would not dare to rebel against Sabolo Khan, let alone cooperate with the weak Sui Dynasty. Therefore, before defeating Sabolo Khan, I am afraid that Neither the differentiation meter nor the separation meter will work.

Yang Jian thought about it too, if it were him, he would not entrust the fate of the whole family to a weak person.So he asked Chaowen Wu, who would dare and who could lead troops to defeat Sabolo Khan.

When everyone heard it, they thought Yang Jian was crazy. At that time, the Sui Dynasty had just replaced the Zhou Dynasty. People's hearts were not attached, and they couldn't even defend themselves. He still wanted to defeat Sabolo Khan, who had hundreds of thousands of soldiers?Isn't this crazy what is it?Even Gao Jiong, Yang Su, Yu Qingze, He Ruobi, Han Qinhu, Shi Wansui and other well-known marshals with great achievements all thought this was an impossible task. Death, because this is a difficult task that cannot be defeated, cannot afford to be defeated, and must be won with a weak force to attack an enemy dozens of times stronger. Everyone cannot afford the consequences of failure and not winning.After all, it doesn't matter if I die, but the situation at that time made everyone not qualified to die for the country.

Just when everyone was in a dilemma, 19-year-old Wei Wang Yang Shuang said that he could complete this task.

Yang Shuang is Yang Jian's youngest half-brother. His mother Li Shi died of dystocia when he was born. When he was six years old, his father Yang Zhong passed away. He was raised by his sister-in-law Queen Dugu. Among the brothers, Yang Jian and his wife are particularly doted on, and the couple loves this younger brother so much that even Yang Yong and Yang Guang are jealous.After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian attached great importance to him. He named him King of Wei, Shangzhu Kingdom, served as the shepherd of Yongzhou, and led the generals of the left and right guards. It can be said that the safety of Chang'an was entrusted to him. Get killed in minutes.But after all, he did not do anything unfavorable to his brother and sister-in-law.Not long after, he moved to the left and right to lead the generals, to lead the governor of the state, and he was actually the one who took office.

But although he is high and powerful, he has never experienced a battle, so when everyone heard him say that he could defeat Sabolo Khan, they all thought he was bragging.But what is even more insane is that Yang Jian actually believed Yang Shuang's rhetoric. Not only did he believe it, but he was also appointed as the governor of Liangzhou and the marshal of the march to lead the army to fight back against the Turks.

After Yang Shuang took over the appointment, he did not go to Wuwei, Jincheng, Tianshui and Turks to confront the Turks head-on. He personally led a cavalry out of Shuofang and met Shabolue's army in Baidao.Yang Shuang rode Shabolue Khan's repeated victories and underestimated the enemy. He led five thousand fine cavalry to attack and plunder the troops of the Sui Dynasty. , I don’t know how many people from the enemy army came, and they all abandoned their horses and fled in fright. Are these Turkic cavalry without horses still cavalry?Next, it was naturally a one-sided massacre. In this battle, Yang Shuang defeated Sabolo Khan's 20 army with only five thousand cavalry, thus breaking the myth that Sabolo Khan was invincible.

This battle also let the second Khan Anluo, Abo Khan Daluobian, Datou Khan Tanjue, and Buli Khan know that Sabolo Khan was not so terrible, and the Sui Dynasty was not that weak.

Yang Jian and Changsun Sheng saw that the time was ripe to divide and alienate the Turks, so they started their plan.

The first person to be "stared" was Datou Khan, and the person Yang Jian sent to divide him was Taifu Yuanhui.

Yuan Hui took the wolf-headed banner specially bestowed by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, and passed through Yiwu to Turkic, where he saw Datou Khan.

Datou Khan was very happy and sent an envoy to pay a return visit, but to his surprise, his envoy was neglected in the Sui Dynasty, but he was extremely enthusiastic about Sabolo Khan's envoy.

This encounter immediately gave Datou Khan a bucket of cold water, and the two have been suspicious and wary of each other ever since.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Jian canonized Changsun Sheng as a chariot general and asked him to bring a large amount of money to meet Chu Luohou.The two had been in contact before, and this time they met, their relationship deepened.Since then, the plan to isolate Sabolo Khan has been initially realized.

At this time, Datou Khan, who had been alienated by Changsun Sheng, began to play a role. He refused to carry out Sabolo Khan's orders, and sent people to accompany Changsun Sheng to the court to meet Yang Jian, and replaced him with a boss.At the same time, Apo Khan's army no longer fought against the Sui army.

At this time Sabolo Da Khan was very upset by Yang Shuang's beating, and seeing that Abo Khan was dying, he was so angry that he simply launched a surprise attack on Beiya, where Abo Khan lived, and Abo Khan stayed there. All his followers became his captives.

Apo Khan, who lost everything, defected to Datou Khan, and Datou Khan lent him [-] soldiers and horses to avenge him.Apo Khan regained his hometown in the first battle with the anger of revenge. Afterwards, he fought Sabolo Khan many times, winning almost every battle, and his strength became stronger and stronger.

Sha Boluo Da Khan, who was in decline, couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked the Sui Dynasty for peace and proclaimed himself a vassal.And asked the Sui Dynasty to help him put down the rebellion.Yang Jian very righteously appointed Wei Wang Yang Shuang as the marshal, and asked him to lead 15 soldiers on foot and cavalry out of Hechuan, and joined forces with Sabolo Khan to defeat Abo Khan.

In the seventh year of Emperor Kaihuang, Sabolo Khan passed away, and his younger brother Chu Luohou was proclaimed Mohe Khan. He asked the Sui court to acknowledge him, and Yang Jian sent his grandson Sheng to congratulate him.

In order to show his loyalty to the Sui Dynasty, Chu Luohou offered to clean up the five or six thousand remaining forces of Abo Khan. After obtaining his consent, he attacked Abo Khan in the west under the banner given to him by the Sui Dynasty. was captured alive.

From then on, Yang Jian adopted Changsun Sheng's Turkic policy of "friending far away and attacking close, and joining the weak when away from the strong", united the weak Turkic tribes, isolated the powerful tribes, and then sent the super thug Yang Shuang to fight.

The two brothers Yang Jian and Yang Shuang were happy, but the Turks fell into endless civil wars and eventually split into East and West Turks.

The Turkic civil strife thus eased the Turkic threat to the Sui Dynasty and gave the Sui Dynasty a valuable respite.

It can be said that Yang Jian, Changsun Sheng, and Yang Shuang are three well-deserved contributors to the splitting of Turks:
As the emperor, Yang Jian knew how to use people well, and beyond all consensus, he reused the notorious Changsun Sheng and Yang Shuang to take on the task of splitting the Turks.

Although Changsun Sheng was a military general, he had never commanded a major battle, but his outstanding strategy made great contributions to the division and disintegration of the Turks and the maintenance of peace in the northern border of the Sui Dynasty.

Wei Wang Yang Shuang sent troops for the first time, with his extraordinary courage and courage, he defeated the 20 Turkic army with five thousand light cavalry, and won countless gains.When he served as the general manager of Liangzhou, Yang Shuang paid equal attention to kindness and power, stabilized the situation, and sent Turks out of Liangzhou one by one, regained the entire Hexi Corridor, and re-opened the Silk Road connecting the Central Plains to the Western Regions.When he guarded Liangzhou, he slaughtered thousands of miles, which made the Turks frightened.However, due to his repeated battles in the war, he also fell ill all over, and finally couldn't even ride a horse.Yang Jian simply let him enter the court as a prime minister, and the official worshiped Nayan, but before he took office, his bones could not support him. He died in the seventh year of Kaihuang at the age of 25.

Yang Shuang was Huo Qubing of the Sui Dynasty, and his fate was similar to that of Huo Qubing.After his death, Yang Jian never launched a large-scale war against the Turks again. The young prince seemed to have finished their generation's war against the Turks, and passed away sadly after completing his mission.His short and brilliant life seemed to be born for the war against the Turks. After that, he was like a beautiful and dazzling shooting star. Although it was shining, it was only a flash of youth.
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