The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 335 Raiding the Western Regions
Li Gui personally led an army of [-] troops to march eastward. He ordered the prince Li Boyu to be the rear army, and the governor rewarded the army with food, supplies and treasures.

When he came to Shule Mountain, the earth-shattering shouts of killing suddenly sounded.

"kill!!!"

On both sides of the mountain range, arrow feathers flew horizontally, Li Gui avoided in panic, looked at the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who had already rushed out on both sides, his face was pale, there is actually an ambush from the Sui Dynasty here?

"What's going on here?" Li Gui shouted in shock, looking at the tens of thousands of Sui troops all around.

"Li Gui, you're done for today." Standing on a hillside, Wang Fubao announced Li Gui's death loudly, without the slightest emotion in his voice, but with an astonishing evil spirit.

"Wang Fubao?"

"It's the scumbag!"

"Your Majesty, we have been tricked. There are Sui troops in front, back, left, and right." A general reported to Li Gui in horror.

Hearing this, Li Gui was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled desolately, and said, "I understand, you tricked us into opening Yumen City with the Turks, and then deliberately tricked us here to die."

"Not too stupid."

"Even if XX is dead, don't be complacent." Li Gui looked at the continuous rain of arrows, swung his gun to block it, and said sharply, "Follow me to kill."

"Let go!" After Wang Fubao stretched out his hand lightly, he pressed down fiercely, and instantly a famous archer

"Boom!" There was only a loud noise, like the sound of thunder, and a crossbow arrow was fired at Li Gui's cavalry like raindrops. Before a group of cavalry could react, they had already been hit by the arrow and fell down, like cutting seedlings Generally, pieces are wiped out in pieces.

Wang Fubao looked at Li Gui who was trying to rush out, but was blocked by layers of elite soldiers. He waved the flag in his hand, and the rain of arrows poured down in this direction.

In an instant, Shule Mountain, which was originally peaceful, became a Shura purgatory. Thousands of corpses blocked the official road, and the corpses piled up like a mountain. Everything was frenzied, frightening, chaotic.

But they couldn't escape very far, so they ran into the encirclement circle formed by Su Dingfang, Niu Jinda, and Xue Wanjun's [-] cavalry. All the rebels were killed, and only more than a thousand desperate bandits knelt down and kowtowed for mercy.

In this battle, Li Gui's entire army was wiped out. Emperor Li Gui of Great Liang, Prince Li Boyu, and Prince Jin Li Zhongyan all died in the rebellion.

Niu Jinda looked at the corpses of Li Gui and his son with mixed feelings: "Li Gui still has the foresight."

"How do you know?" Su Dingfang was curious
"It's cool enough to call the country the Great Liang." Niu Jinda said seriously about the bodies of Li Gui and his son who were covered in holes.

Xue Wanjun smiled and said, "What about you, what's the big deal with an old cow running into it?"

"An old cow ran into the prairie for thousands of miles; Xue Wanjun has a lot of blood."

"not like this."

"You have ten thousand catties of blood, your life is tough and auspicious! Be satisfied!"

Xue Wanjun: "..."

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Not long after, the Sui army rushed to Jinchang City, sent Li's father and son into the city, and then captured the city without bloodshed.

Li Gui's father and son all died in the forest of Shule Mountain, Wei Yunqi sent a small army to recruit and surrender all parts of Dunhuang, while he and Wen Wu discussed the follow-up matters in Jinchang City.

"The recovery of Dunhuang is extraordinary. First, the land for raising horses in the Sui Dynasty will be protected. Second, as long as the Yiwu and Shanshan counties are recovered, the Silk Road will be reopened. Looking further, I am The Sui used Yiwu as the logistics center, so they could fight against the Western Turks without worrying about the future, without going to the east/Turkic territory, facing the risk of cutting off the food road; at the same time, using Yiwu and Shanshan as the logistics center, they could conquer the Western Regions, Expand the land."

The enthusiastic Wei Yunqi said this, looked at the excited rookies of the Sui Dynasty, sighed and said: "I am old, and in the future, the strategy of the Western Regions of the Sui Dynasty will have to be realized one by one by your assistance. The Sui re-unified the world, and then drove the Western Turks to the west of Congling, and established ten or a hundred counties in the Western Regions!"

Everyone was infected by Wei Yunqi's lofty aspirations, Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "My Great Sui is under the command of His Royal Highness, and Congling is by no means the border of the Great Sui."

Fang Xuanling's words made Wei Yunqi's eyes light up, and he sighed leisurely: "One day, I, Wei Yunqi, will die without regret!"

After sighing for a while, Wei Yunqi's thoughts returned to reality, "Let's not talk about this, let's talk about how to help His Highness break the deadlock in the south?"

"Yiwu County is the land conquered by old General Xue Shixiong. Does General Xue know about Yiwu?" Wei Yunqi didn't have much hope in his heart, but he had to mention Xue Shixiong when he mentioned Yiwu, so he asked casually. .

"It's been too long, and the final general really doesn't know what Yiwu's situation is now... However, the final general knows Emperor Wu's intention to attack Yiwu very well!" Xue Wanjun said.

At first, Wei Yunqi showed a trace of regret on his face, but his eyes lit up when he heard it: "What is the intention of Emperor Wu? Maybe it can be used as a reference.!"

It can be known that Yang Guang's strategy in the Western Regions is definitely beneficial to the present.

It's just that when Yang Guang was attacking the Western Regions, Wei Yunqi was a dispensable marginal man, and was not qualified to know or participate in the decision-making at that time.Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others are juniors, let alone know.Therefore, Xue Wanjun's words were definitely a surprise.

"Speaking of which, the situation at that time is very similar to now."

Everyone is more happy when they hear the words.

Seeing Xue Wanjun's expression of reminiscence and thought, no one dared to disturb him.

"Emperor Wen used the strategy of the late Youxiaowei General Sun Sheng to attack the Turks from far away and close to them, from the strong to the weak. The blow made the Sui’s reputation in the Western Regions reach its peak. After Emperor Wu succeeded to the throne and restarted the Silk Road, all the countries in the Western Regions went to Zhangye to do business with the Central Plains. Not only do they manage food and housing, but also let them make money! Wei Shangshu should know about this, right?" Xue Wanjun asked.

Wei Yun nodded and said, "You know, the government and the public criticized it very much at that time. Could it be that there are other intentions?"

"Yes!" Xue Wanjun nodded, and said, "Pei Ju has two motives for being kind to the Hu merchants of the Western Regions: first, to lure the Hu merchants of the Western Regions, and pry their mouths open, so as to obtain information about the customs, mountains and rivers, weather, etc. of the Western Regions. Preparations for marching into the Western Regions and expanding thousands of miles, that’s how Pei Ju’s "Pictures of the Western Regions" came about."

"Second, the Hu merchants in the Western Regions are actually nobles from various countries in the Western Regions. The Turkic people were mean to the Hu merchants in the Western Regions, which means they were mean to the nobles in the Western Regions. The Sui Dynasty was lenient to them and gave them benefits, making them feel that the Sui Dynasty was profitable, so they rejected the Turks. To win over, once the Sui marches westward, these people will join the crowd and cheer, thereby clearing the way for the Sui to encroach on the Western Regions. When the Sui gains a firm foothold in the Western Regions, they will be killed as pigs. The money will be returned with interest in the end.”

Everyone was amazed to hear that they had such sinister intentions to be kind to the merchants in the Western Regions. However, this kind of gradual and gentle method is indeed easier to succeed than iron and blood.

Xue Wanjun also said: "In the third year of Daye, the Silk Road outside Dunhuang was extremely unstable. Merchants who traveled to and from the Silk Road were repeatedly robbed by powerful horse thieves and suffered heavy losses, which directly affected our business exchanges between the Sui Dynasty and countries in the Western Regions. In just three months, there were countless losses, and the situation became more and more serious. According to the investigation, the so-called horse thieves were actually Tuyuhun's army, who were guarding and stealing themselves. Tuyuhun also secretly formed an alliance with the Western Turks to deal with the Sui Dynasty and defeated After the Sui Dynasty, the Tiele tribes in the Western Regions were owned by the Western Turks, and the Hexi Corridor was owned by the Tuyuhun. Therefore, the late emperor decided to completely destroy the Tuyuhun, and extend the territory of the Sui Dynasty to the west for thousands of miles.”

"At that time, Yiwu State, which was located between West Turkic and Tuyuhun, was subject to Western Turkic. Therefore, in order to attack Tuyuhun, it was necessary to conquer Yiwu State, thereby cutting off the connection between Western Turkic and Tuyuhun. The late emperor appointed his father as the general of Yumen Daoxing, Jointly attacked Yiwu country with Qimin Khan. My late father led the army out of Yumen, but Qimin Khan did not arrive. My late father simply led a lone army across the desert. The Yiwu people did not know that I was coming to attack in the Sui Dynasty, so they did not take precautions , When they heard that the army had crossed the desert, they surrendered directly. This is the origin of Yiwu County. The next year, the first emperor personally marched and slaughtered Tuyuhun with bloody means. The king wore gold jade and brocade clothes, and worshiped at the feet of the first emperor. At that time, the last general, the eldest brother and the second brother practiced at the side of the late father, and witnessed the glory of the Sui Dynasty."

Everyone was fascinated when they heard it, and they felt unspeakably happy. They thought to themselves: It turned out that Emperor Wu's attack on Tuyuhun did not threaten the Silk Road, but caused substantial damage to the Silk Road. Naturally, it is an act of establishing prestige by killing chickens and monkeys.This is probably because the time was ripe for the invasion of the Western Regions.It was only at that time that Goguryeo was more threatening, and Emperor Wu planned to solve it first, but in the end, due to various reasons, the Great Sui Dynasty fell apart and fell apart.It's really regrettable.

It's just that the good effect on Hu merchants in the Western Regions has shown its power in Yiwu, because after Yiwu was merged into the Sui Dynasty, he really never betrayed, and Li Gui can only be regarded as a brotherly dispute.In a sense, Emperor Wu's strategy of attacking the Western Regions was actually successful.

"The image of benevolence and righteousness in the Sui Dynasty is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Western Regions. Turks are a nation that only knows brutality and plundering, and their image in the Western Regions may not be good. If I, the Great Sui Dynasty, came forward and killed the Western Turkic garrison, the countries in the Western Regions will probably secretly cooperate. If they are afraid that the Western Turks will be held accountable, they can blame it on me, Da Sui. Anyway, we don’t care about it.” Finally, Xue Wanjun expressed his suggestion.

Wei Yunqi, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui looked at me with ecstatic expressions at the same time.

The countries in the Western Regions are now under the rule of the Western Turks. With the Turkic people's fierce nature, life must be difficult for the countries in the Western Regions.This also provided the basis for the Great Sui to enter the Western Regions again.And all of this is caused by Yang Guang's planting, which really echoes the saying that the predecessors planted trees and the descendants rested.

"Soldiers leave Yiwu County, threaten Ye Hu's army from the southwest to retreat, and then break into the countries in the Western Regions with a small force. The countries are in turmoil, and Ye Hu can't do without returning. This is the opportunity to defeat the enemy."

Wei Yunqi made a final decision.

Once the general direction is determined, the next things will be easy to handle.The Sui army rested for one night, and immediately dispersed their operations. The main force marched into Yiwu, threatening the Western Turkic mainland; divided into small groups of elite troops to attack Gaochang, Kucha, Yanqi, and Khotan...shaking the colonial system of Western Turkic.

Li Gui's father and son were killed in battle, and the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty recaptured Yiwu and Shanshan counties. Three days later, the army broke into the Jinshan Mountains and converged in the direction of Yang Tong.

Su Dingfang's task was to wipe out the [-] Western Turkic garrisons in Gaochang, lest the other party invade Yiwu and cut off the supply road of the Sui Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)