Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 353 Tianwei
Huaiyuan.

This former remote military town is now very lively.

The emperor led hundreds of civil and military officials to visit Huaiyuan City. It took only three months for 50 civilians to build a brand new and majestic Huaiyuan Palace in the north of this frontier town.

The Huaiyuan Palace is only nine miles around, but the city is six feet high, the moat is nine feet wide, and three feet deep.

It is almost a smaller Daxing Palace, complete with front and back halls.

When the emperor came, he was very satisfied with this palace, and he also greatly appreciated Yu Wenkai who was in charge of building this palace.

It was already the end of April, and the nine armies assembled by land to attack Pyongyang had set off one after another, and all of them had crossed the Liao River. Even among the seven armies sweeping Liaodong, two armies had already crossed the river.

The other five armies have also advanced to the end of the middle road and the north road on the west bank of the Liaohe River, and are preparing to cross the river.

The six armies of the imperial battalion led by the emperor also all reached Huaiyuan.

As many as one million civilians gathered in the front line of the Liaohe River, and there were hundreds of thousands in the towns of Huaiyuan, Xiangping, Tongding, Wanghai, Liucheng, and Luhe. Transport grain and grass ordnance.

With this extraordinary momentum, the Turks in the north were also very disturbed.

According to an edict from the emperor, Turkic Khan brought [-] Turkic light cavalry to watch the battle, and Khitan Khan Dahe Duoluo also led [-] cavalry.

In addition, the chiefs of Kumoxi and Shiwei also came to listen to the imperial edict.

The chiefs were all shocked when they saw such a majestic military might in Huaiyuan.They had seen the prosperity and prosperity of Daxing and Luoyang, as well as the might of the army, but it was beyond their imagination that the Sui army could gather millions of soldiers and conscript millions of civilians in the remote Huaiyuan.

Even after decades of recuperation, the East Turks, who have grown stronger again, are secretly worried when they see this situation.Shibi Khan lasted for several days. He was happy on the surface, but he sighed secretly.

This time to conquer Goguryeo, after Goguryeo's demise, the next one will be the goal of the Sui Dynasty.

Your Majesty.

A huge map, made of dozens of sheepskins, was laid flat in the hall. Yang Guang, holding a golden staff in his hand, stepped on the map with his bare feet.

"The Ninth Army has already launched and its goal is Pyongyang. In order to ensure that the Ninth Army has no worries, the last Seventh Army must immediately launch an offensive to sweep Liaodong and attack the cities."

"Li Jing's Left Six, Luo Yi's Right Six and Two Army are responsible for capturing Xincheng, the Left Seven and Right Seven Two Army and the Right Fifth and Third Army are responsible for capturing Liaodong City, and the Left Eight Army is responsible for attacking Fuyu, and the Right Eight Army is responsible for capturing An city."

The Sui army had many soldiers, so Yang Guang accepted Duan Wenzhen's plan and did not try to put hundreds of thousands of troops under one city.

Under the largest Liaodong city, Yang Guang only released 10 people from the three armies. It is enough to besiege a city with 10 people, and any more is a waste of troops.

With seven armies of 20 people, Yang Guang divided them into three attacking groups to attack the three fortresses on the east bank of the Liao River, Xincheng, Liaodong City, and Anshi City.

And his own Sixth Army of the Imperial Battalion will serve as the general reserve team for the battle, and then cross the river and sweep the east bank of the Liao River. After the Seventh Army captures the city, the Imperial Battalion will take over.

As for the 8 or [-] troops of the Huren Fanbang, Yang Guang had no intention of using them at all, but just let them come over as spectators, and let them see how invincible the Sui army was.

However, this arrangement hurt the self-esteem of the Hu chiefs a bit.

Shibi Khan came out.

Shibi Khan can be regarded as a relative of Yang Guang. At that time, Qimin Khan, Shibi's father, was defeated in the battle of the Turkic Five Khans. He later defected to the Sui Dynasty and was placed in the south of Yinshan Mountain by the Sui Dynasty. Yang Jian also married into the clan Later, the princess died of illness not long after, and Yang Jian married another clan daughter to him.

Later, that clan was given the title of Princess Yicheng when she got married. After Qimin Khan died, according to Turkic customs and traditions, Shibi Khan, who succeeded him, accepted Princess Kedun Yicheng as his wife and continued to respect her as Turkic Khan. dun.

Princess Yicheng is Yang Guang's cousin according to her seniority, so Shibi Khan can also be called Yang Guang's cousin-in-law.

After two generations of efforts by Qimin and Shibi father and son, up to now, Shibi Khan has conquered all the tribes in the eastern grassland, and he can be regarded as the overlord of the vast Turkic grassland east of Jinshan. Overlords of all ministries.

After many years of rest and recuperation, especially after owning the fertile pastures in Monan, the eastern Turks developed rapidly, and now they have 40 people who control strings, while the Khitan, Xi, Shiwei and other eastern tribes, as well as the northern Tiele tribes Ministry, all surrender to him.

"Your Majesty the Great Holy Khan, why don't you use our fierce and loyal Turkic cavalry? Does Your Majesty look down on our Turkic warriors?" Shibi said loudly, "I, Ashina Duoji, ask to fight for Your Majesty, and I am willing to lead [-] warriors from my headquarters to attack the north Fuyu City, if His Majesty permits, I can send another [-] elite cavalry from the grassland tribes."

"His Majesty!"

A servant came forward with an excited look holding a booklet.

"What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the victory report just came back from Liaodong, great victory. Luo Cheng, the general of the Fifth Left Army, broke the new city on the way to Pyongyang."

"What?" Yang Guang's voice suddenly raised an octave.

The fortification of the new city is very famous, and it can be ranked among the top three most dangerous cities in Liaodong, second only to Liaodong City in terms of scale.Just now, he planned to use two armies, 7 people, to besiege the new city, but now he has captured it?

Serve the memorial to the good news.

"General Luo Cheng handed over the cities of Xuantu to Li Jing and Luo Yi, and handed over the money, food and population to Li Yuan, and then led his headquarters eastward. A few days ago, he passed by Xincheng, and his troops approached the city. While sending troops to sweep the surrounding area of ​​Xincheng, he went down again. The book persuaded the general Yang Wanchun to surrender. Yang Wanchun was hesitant, so Luo Cheng sent troops to attack the city. After a great battle, more than [-] people were killed and injured in Goguryeo.

Yang Guang took the memorial and looked at it carefully. The memorial was written by Luo Cheng and Wei Zhengrun, so it was written very well. In the letter, Luo Cheng explained in detail the process of attacking the new city, and finally briefly mentioned a few additions by Yang Wanchun. condition.

Luo Cheng said that he originally wanted to stay under the new city and wait for the emperor's order, but the military situation was urgent and he had to rush to the Yalu River to gather, so he could only hand over the follow-up affairs to Yuwen Shiji, the surrender envoy, and said that Yuwen Shiji should go to Xuantu Find Li Yuan to preside over this matter together.

Put down the memorial.

Yang Guang laughed out loud.

"Luo Chengzhen, Marquis of Xiangyang, is my blessed general. On the way to Pyongyang, he took Xincheng by the way. Now that the guard of Xincheng, Yang Wanchun, has surrendered, the six left and right armies can attack Fuyu and Jinshan cities in the north."

Yang Guang smiled and said to Shibi Khan Ashina, "Ai Qing, I also know that you are loyal and commendable, but my army in the Sui Dynasty is strong and powerful, and it is popular all over the world. Naturally, it is easy to capture a mere Goguryeo. Warriors."

"Hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)