Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 611 The Great Showdown (21)

Zhishilang in front of Changbai Mountain, wearing a pure red cotton back crotch.The long spear invades the sky for half a day, and the round knife shines in the sun.Go up the mountain to eat roe deer, and go down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep.Suddenly hearing the arrival of the officers and soldiers, he raised his knife and swung forward.For example, when Liaodong died, how could he be beheaded?

There are more and more rebels in the world, and the people would rather rebel than submit to military service or go to Liaodong to die.

another half month later

Zhuojun
The army of the empire began to return to the Central Plains, preparing to suppress the rebels from all walks of life, especially the rebels Yang Xuangan and Li Mi who occupied the imperial capital.

After the failure of peace negotiations with Yan, Yang Guang, who was anxious to return to the Central Plains, chose a decent way to stop the war.

That is, leave 3 people stationed at Linyu Pass, claiming that they are ready to continue attacking Shanhaiguan Pass at any time, but in fact, they completely gave up the plan to attack Shanhaiguan Pass. These 3 people just stayed Defending Linyu Pass.

"The empire has not failed, it has only temporarily stopped attacking."

Emperor Yang Guang, even at this point, still cared about his own face. He didn't want people in the world to know that he couldn't defeat Yan, and wanted to stop the war in this decent way.

Yan Xu also saw through it, and left [-] soldiers in Shanhaiguan for defense, while the rest of the soldiers were all sent back to the country to reduce military expenses.

Yan Guo did not fail, just take a rest first.

When the peace talks failed, the two sides reached the state of "successful peace talks".

It was a truce without a signed truce, a peace without a peace, a war without a war.

An army of one million went straight to Luoyang. Although the army of one million were recruits, the number alone was enough to make people feel frightened.

The news that the imperial army was returning to the Central Plains reached Luoyang, and Yang Xuan panicked.

In the past few months, he took the opportunity to expand his territory and conquered some counties around Luoyang, but that was all.

At the critical moment, Yang Xuangan followed Li Mi's suggestion and led the army straight to Guanzhong, hoping to rely on mountains and rivers to almost resist the empire's million-strong army.

However, on the way straight to Guanzhong, Yang Xuangan was intercepted by the imperial cavalry who arrived in advance.

Yang Xuangan was defeated and killed, and Li Mi went deep into the mountains and old forests to escape the pursuit of the imperial cavalry.

Since then, Li Mi has disappeared.

After Yang Xuangan's rebellion, he once opened a warehouse to release grain to feed the hungry people.

Now that Yang Xuangan is being suppressed, Yang Guang does not intend to let go of those Luoyang people who once supported Yang Xuangan.

"Any common people who have eaten the disaster relief food of the rebels will be killed without hesitation!"

The emperor showed no mercy to disloyal subjects, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty massacred the imperial capital Chang'an, Emperor Yang Guang carried out a massacre in his imperial capital Luoyang!

Both Yang Xuangan and Li Mi were from Guanlong nobles, but they rebelled in the imperial capital. This made Emperor Yang Guang, who was already dissatisfied with the Guanlong nobles' control of the imperial government, even more dissatisfied with the Guanlong nobles.

When Yang Guang was not yet the prince, he often wooed the aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River.

The aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River were too lazy to talk to Yang Guang at first, and they knelt and licked Yan Guo wholeheartedly. Until the rebellion of the Jiangnan family was suppressed, but the country of Yan refused to support it. After this happened, the remnants of the Jiangnan family fully recognized Yang Guang , bound with Yang Guang, wanting to hug Yang Guang's thigh, so as not to be eradicated by Yang Jian.

After Yang Guang became emperor, in order to strengthen the imperial power, he continued to improve the status of the Jiangnan family and suppressed the Guanlong nobles.

This approach naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Guanlong nobles, so they secretly supported Yang Xuangan's rebellion.

The Guanlong nobles were originally from the uprising army in the six towns of Wei State in Xianbei, and they were also from the bottom of the class at the beginning.

However, relying on their military exploits to rise, they also began to suppress other new forces that wanted to compete for the cake.

The Six Towns uprising army who once resisted class oppression, after they became the nobles of Guanlong, also began to class oppress others.

The dragon slayer has finally become a new dragon!

Of course, Yang Guang's opposition to the Guanlong nobles was not for the sake of the people, let alone opposing class oppression, but simply wanted to strengthen the imperial power.

The emperor himself is the biggest landlord, and other nobles are just second-level landlords. Some people always think that the emperor suppresses other lower-level landlords for the sake of the people. This is a very wrong idea. The biggest landlord suppresses other lower-level landlords. Landlords, this is just a power struggle within the ruling class.

now
The Sui Army's Grain Transport Militia Corps
Li Yuan was inspecting grain transportation. He was appointed by Yang Guang as an official in charge of military grain transportation. He was responsible for transporting grain from the south to the north, especially to the front line of Shanhaiguan.

In the past few months, Li Yuan has seen too much chaos. When he transported grain to Hebei, he saw with his own eyes many rebels attacking a county.

Fortunately, his grain transportation team had enough guards to avoid being plundered by the anti-people.

When he transported grain to Linyu Pass, he saw an even more shocking scene. The plague was everywhere, and the corpses floating on the sea could not be seen at a glance. .

Seeing the various current situations of Da Sui, Li Yuan also began to think about it.

At this moment, it is just like the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"The emperor broke with the nobles of Guanlong. At this moment, many families in Guanlong must hope for a new regime that can maintain their privileges. Whoever can guarantee their privileges, they are willing to fight for whom. This is a trend that can be used. powerful force!"

Li Yuan sees very far, and has already begun to conceive of his own future.

another year later
Summer of the 615th year of Yan Kingdom ([-])
During this year, Yang Guang has been busy suppressing the rebels everywhere, but with little success. He often pressed the gourd and raised the ladle again. The rebels here were suppressed, and the people there rebelled again, and the rebels were suppressed there. The people here rebelled again.

The status quo of the empire is like the last years of Wang Mang. Although the officers and soldiers are victorious in every battle, the rebels are suppressing more and more.

If one rebel is killed, two more people will rebel. The rebels can't be killed all the time, and the more they kill, the more they will be killed.

Faced with the current situation that the rebels are killing more and more, Yang Guang's solution is: keep killing!

"The reason why there are so many rebels in the world is because the population is too large. As long as the excess population is killed, there will naturally be no more rebels!"

Emperor Yang Guang believed that the reason why the people rebelled was mainly because of the large population. If the population was small, there would naturally not be so many rebels. rare.

Yang Guang decided to continue the conscription, and then divided the troops into two groups, one with a million troops to go to various places to suppress the rebellion, and the other with a million troops to Shanhaiguan to scare Yan Guo and force Yan Guo to surrender to himself.

With the failure of the previous two conquests against the Yan State, Yang Guang no longer had the confidence to destroy the Yan State. His third attack on the Yan State was only to make the Yan State a vassal, and he did not even dare to let the Yan State pay tribute. Yan Guo became a minister.

The mobilization of millions of troops is just to make Yan Guo surrender to himself, so that he can have face, so that he will not lose face.

However, the empire's third million-army plan had just recruited 30 soldiers, and there were no more soldiers. The people would rather rebel than serve as soldiers for the emperor.

Yang Guang's "Million Army" had already "missed" 20 people on the road before reaching Linyu Pass, leaving only [-] troops.

Many strong soldiers secretly became deserters on the way.

The 30 army, which is known as a million to the outside world, has not yet reached the front line, and has not even seen the border of Yan State, so there are only [-] left.

However, when he arrived at Linyu Pass, Yan Guo ignored him at all. Instead, he increased his troops in Shanhaiguan Pass and was always on guard against Yang Guang.

Yang Guangda was furious. He had a strong self-esteem and cared about face very much. In order to save the face of the emperor, he decided to use the Turkic people to play prestige and force the newly enthroned Khan of East Turkic to come and lead a horse for him.

I want to redeem my dignity by sacrificing the dignity of my younger brother, East Turkic.

However, the new Khan of the Eastern Turks - Shibi Khan, after seeing the nature of the empire's external power but internal power, has secretly negotiated peace with Yan, and is always ready to rebel against the empire.

Now, Yang Guang wants to humiliate Shibi Khan. Shibi Khan, who originally wanted to rebel, simply rebelled ahead of time, sent troops to surround Yanmen, and besieged Yang Guang who was waiting for Shibi Khan to come to lead the horse in Yanmen. .

Yang Guang didn't expect that Shibi Khan would rebel directly, so he was unprepared against the Turkic cavalry, so that he was caught off guard by the Turkic people.

At the critical moment, in the army of the Sui Army, a young general named Li Shimin...

(End of this chapter)