"Your Majesty, now that Goguryeo has retreated to the other side of the Liao River, it is difficult for our army to cross the river according to the danger."
In Yang Guang's imperial camp, a general was worried.Yang Guang was dressed in golden armor, sat in the tent with a sword, and shouted: "Hmph, my Great Sui Xiongshi is one million, enough to pour the clouds and Han, and the universe, and a single Liao River also wants to stop the footsteps of our army, spread my will, and all the armies will lay pontoon bridges to cross the Liao River, directly attack Liaodong City, and capture the king of Goryeo alive." ”They knelt down together: "Follow the parables." ”"Okay, I'm going to go to the front line to oversee the army in person, and you Aiqing will walk with me."
Yang Guang suddenly got up, his eyes were extremely resolute.He Heng and Wang Zhiyuan came to the west bank of the Liao River thirty miles away, and looked at the opposite bank on a high platform.Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Sui army gathered on the west bank of the Liao River, driving a pontoon bridge, and it was almost halfway, and at this time, a drum suddenly sounded in the Goryeo army, and tens of thousands of troops took advantage of the situation to attack and fight with the Sui army on the Liao River.The Sui army bravely went to the water to fight the Goguryeo army, and at the same time was erecting pontoon bridges, and the battle was extremely fierce, and thousands of people fell under the Liao River in an instant.Goguryeo is on the east bank of the Liao River, the terrain is higher, and it has already occupied a favorable position from a high position, and the Sui army is engaged with it when the pontoon bridge is halfway erected, and the opponent's timing is very accurate, and it is when the Sui army is the weakest, and the damage is extremely heavy.And Yang Guang here, seeing the battle situation, was also extremely anxious, seeing that some soldiers were frightened in their hearts, retreated back to the west bank, and immediately said angrily: "Spread my will, those who take a step back, cut it down!"
Within three days, he must break through the Liao River. ”The generals did not dare to disobey, and then desperately killed on the other side of the Liao River, the pontoon bridge was constantly erected, and the soldiers died batch after batch, but Yang Guang continued to send more soldiers and horses, vowing to grind off the bank of the Liao River with the number of people."
Alas, this move is hurtful to Tianhe, Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable."
Wang Zhiyuan sighed, a little unbearable.He Heng looked at Liaohe coldly and did not speak."
Report, the right Tunwei general, the left Guanglu doctor, Mai Tiecane died in battle!"
A soldier said with a sad face."
I know, bury him well, and appease the family."
Yang Guang's complexion remained unchanged."
Report, Wu Benlang killed Qian Shixiong!"
A general quickly came in with a calm face.Yang Guang's face still did not change: "Thick burial, family members treat it well." ”It didn't take long for Meng Jincha, another general of the Sui army, to die in battle, and Yang Guang's face remained unchanged.Many generals of the Sui army fought bravely, suffered heavy casualties, and with their own sacrifices and the blood of more than 30,000 soldiers, the pontoon bridge was finally erected, and the Sui army successfully passed the Liao River.When He Heng and Wang Zhiyuan crossed the river, the river was bright red and full of bones.Wang Zhiyuan silently recited the Sutra of the Aftermath of the Earth, surpassing the soul of the dead.He Heng set his sights on the other side, and the Sui army was fighting with the Goryeo army in Dong'an.Looking at the corpses accumulated under the river, Wang Zhiyuan said worriedly: "Senior brother, you said, Yang Guang if he continues to fight like this, even if he wins Goguryeo, I'm afraid his vitality will be greatly damaged, is it worth it?"
He shouldn't have acted so recklessly!
”He Heng smiled coldly: "For a king, it doesn't matter how many people die, the important thing is that his own purpose has not been achieved. ”"Senior brother, I don't understand what you said?"
Wang Zhiyuan frowned.He Heng looked at the tens of thousands of Sui soldiers' bones under the bridge, and said coldly: "Senior brother, have you noticed that the pioneers of the Sui army this time are all people from the Longxi area. ”Wang Zhiyuan's face was shocked, and he suddenly said: "Senior brother, what you mean is that Yang Guang knows that this kind of battle will cause a lot of damage to his side, so his original intention is to use the hand of Goguryeo to weaken the strength of the Guanlong nobles. ”He Heng nodded and said: "That's right, haven't you found out, is it Yushu who is leading the troops to fight with the Goryeo army now!"
”The so-called Guanlong aristocracy was a powerful political group in this era.It was the power of the powerful landlords in Longxi and Hedong, and in the battle for the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, those powerful landlords attached themselves to Yutai, the ancestor of the Northern Zhou royal family.In order to unify the military generals of the six northern towns and the power of the Guanlong Hao clan, Yutai formed the Guanlong military aristocratic group with the Eight Pillars as the core, the generals and the Kaifu as the main members, and the government military system as the basis, which is generally called the Guanlong Group.According to later generations, this was a group established by relying on armed forces and combining Hu and Han.The later royal families of the Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties were all born in this system.The so-called Eight Pillars Kingdom refers to eight people, Yutai, Yuan Xin, Li Hu, Li Bi, Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, Dugu Xin, Hou Mo and Chen Chong.Among them, Li Hu and Li Bi are Li Yuan's father and grandfather, and Duguxin is Yang Guang's grandfather.In this world, among the four major gates, it can be said that three of them come from this force.From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, this force can be said to have controlled the rise and fall of the world, no matter which emperor is from it, until Wu Zetian's time, it was only with the efforts of the predecessors to boil frogs in warm water that this aristocratic force was swept away in one fell swoop.Yang Guang himself is also from the Guanlong group, but as an ambitious monarch, he is not willing to be swayed by it, so he wants to eliminate this force.The so-called imperial examination system was born from the beginning to fight against the scholar clan with the power of ordinary Hanmen, and the representative of this scholar clan was the Guanlong group.The establishment of the Sui Dynasty was largely supported by the Guanlong clique, and they relied on this force fundamentally, even if the Sui Emperor Yang Jian and Yang Guang were both male lords of a generation, it was very difficult to dismantle this clique.It has been nearly 30 years since the Sui Dynasty was founded, but Yang Guang is still wearing down this power.And this expedition to Goguryeo, another important purpose of Yang Guang is to continue this battle and consume the vital force of the Guanlong group.In history, his move was both successful and unsuccessful, and the success lies in the fact that his actions did indeed make the Guanlong Group begin to decline, laying the foundation for the subsequent three generations of Tang Dynasty monarchs and a hundred years of efforts to disintegrate the Guanlong Group in one fell swoop.The failure is that his move also made the Guanlong group completely break with it, when it went to Goguryeo for the second time, there was a success, the Guanlong group sent Yang Xuangan to rebel, so that he had to return to help, the results of the war were buried instantly, a large amount of national power was wasted, after the three conquests of Goguryeo, no longer able to suppress the world, the Sui Dynasty was destroyed.Li Tang is another representative of the Guanlong Group after Yang Su, engulfing the Sui Dynasty and bringing the world back under the control of the Guanlong Group.But Yang Guang's actions also consumed a lot of strength of the Guanlong Group, after the Sui annihilation, the Guanlong Group was powerless to fight against the Xinsheng Shandong Group, and with the efforts of the three emperors of Li Tang, it was consumed little by little, until the time of the empress Wu Zetian, it was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the Guanlong Group of Xuanhe completely disappeared.In this world, Yang Guang is still using the opportunity of the battle of Goguryeo to kill the idea of the Guanlong group, and the few generals who have just died and tens of thousands of soldiers are all people of the Guanlong group, and Yushu, who is now fighting against Goguryeo, is also a member of the Guanlong group.Yang Guang was digging up the meat of the Guanlong Group with the help of Goguryeo's knife, and for this reason, he deliberately went to the front line to supervise and never gave the Guanlong Group any chance to steal the beam and change the pillar."
It's just that the rabbit is in a hurry and bites, but Yang Guang is a little too anxious this time, I'm afraid that the Guanlong Group dog will jump off the wall in a hurry."
He Heng looked at the battlefield in the distance and sighed.Wang Zhiyuan also sighed, I don't know if he was sighing for the Guanlong Group or Yang Guang, or the countless lives killed and injured in this war, they shouldn't have died like this, but the superiors sacrificed them for their own power.On the distant banks of the river, fierce fighting continues.Both the Sui army and the Goryeo army already had a tendency to kill red eyes, and the Sui army was beaten one by one because of the heavy casualties, coupled with Yang Guang's strict orders and heavy rewards.The Goguryeo army was defending their homeland, and the Sui army was a group of hateful invaders, invading their country, killing their relatives, and occupying their land, so they naturally had to rise up and resist.Hundreds of thousands of troops collided here, the sound of fighting resounded in the sky, weapons and blood were intertwined, and countless lives were withering.The wails and roars on the ground were endless, and the beacon fire burned inch by inch, spreading for hundreds of miles, and the blood stained the land red.In the end, after all, the Sui army was many generals and well-prepared, in this open area, the Goryeo army was far from being an opponent, and was killed by tens of thousands of people in a short time, so it had no choice but to retreat, retreated into the city of Liaodong, relying on the strong city wall to block the Sui army, Yang Guang ordered the large army to surround the city of Liaodong, cut off its water and food, and then ordered the siege of the city.