The northeastern part of the Sui Dynasty, like the northwest, was dotted with many countries, ethnic groups, and tribes, bounded by the Yanshan Mountains. To the north of the mountain were the Turks, Xi tribes, Khitan tribes, Lin tribes, North and South Shiwei, Sumo Mohe, Heishui Mohe, Goguryeo, etc., they all accepted the canonization of the Sui Dynasty and surrendered to the Sui Dynasty.
In the north of Yanshan Mountain, there were also several very important states in the Sui Dynasty, namely Liaozhou, Yanzhou, Yingzhou, and Pingzhou distributed in the Liaodong Corridor; since the late emperor failed in his expedition to Goguryeo, the King of Goguryeo called himself "Liaodong Shitushi Yuan" Since then, the Liaodong region of the Sui Dynasty has maintained a peaceful situation, with the Han and Hu ethnic groups coexisting peacefully and non-aggression against each other.
In the northeast of Yingzhou, close to Khitan, and to the east of Raizhenshui, there is a large town called Li Chongtun. This village was named after Li Chong and three thousand Sui troops were stationed there, because Raizhenshui is the only way for Khitan to go south to Yingzhou. Road, so during the war, this was a purely military location, with more than 200 military households stationed in the village. Later, as Liaodong moved toward peace, some business-minded people migrated here one after another, and used items from the Sui Dynasty to The Khitan people exchanged livestock, furs, gold, silver, and jewelry, and then resold them to the large caravans who came here to shop, and lived by earning the price difference.
Today, there are more than 400 families in Li Chongtun. While people are engaged in business, they have cultivated thousands of hectares of fertile land. Because they also shoulder the responsibility of guarding and guarding the land, every family enjoys the treatment of famous taxes.
The people of Li Chongtun had convenient location, fertile fields, and no need to pay taxes. They lived a life no less than that of the people in wealthy prefectures and counties. They cherished this wonderful life very much. Even if they had conflicts with the Khitans during the transaction, they would try their best to Harmony is valuable and we strive to maintain a friendly relationship.
"The Sword Comes"
But the peace that had lasted for seven or eight years was suddenly broken.
At night, the hot weather makes it difficult for people to fall asleep. It is not only that the babies are crying, and even the housekeeping dogs raised by the people are "Wang Wang" kept calling. Under the night sky of the whole Tunzi, an extremely impetuousness emerges. atmosphere.
He Bi, a veteran who was over sixty years old, couldn't sleep well, so he simply got up, took a sip of warm water, then walked out of his yard with a cross knife and a lantern. Not long after he left, he could see from a distance We walked toward the bridge at Tunkou with more than a dozen lanterns flickering on and off. He quickly chased after him.
When I got to the bridge, I couldn't help but grin. However, several other veterans and several young people came out with knives. He stepped forward and said, "What's the matter? You can't sleep?"
"Can't sleep!" A middle-aged man with a scar on his face replied, and said worriedly: "This year's weather is really weird. At this time in previous years, the night was already very cool, but now, you also know it. "
A young man said with a worried look: "Uncle He, Uncle Liu, I heard people in Liucheng say that abnormal weather is often a sign of military disaster, and babies and dogs have extremely sensitive intuitions about danger. The children will cry endlessly tonight. , The dog keeps barking, I am very worried..."
"You kid, don't talk nonsense!" He Pi laughed and scolded: "How can such a thing happen?"
"You can't say that!" The scarred man said to Hepi: "We are all people who have been on the battlefield. We have a sense of danger that is difficult for ordinary people to understand. I couldn't sleep tossing and turning tonight. This feeling is different from that of the battle. The feeling of coming is exactly the same. I think it’s better to be careful.”
"That's right, everyone can't sleep anyway, so why don't I wait and do a patrol to feel more at ease."
"That's right! It involves the safety of a village and nearly 2,000 people. You can't be careless!"
Gradually, everyone reached a consensus.
"Uncle He, since you are old, please stay and watch the clock. If we find danger ahead, we will blow the horn to warn you, and you ring the bell..."
Before they finished speaking, a rumbling sound came from the northeast. The sound was like muffled thunder, getting closer and closer, and even the ground beneath their feet seemed to shake.
Everyone first looked towards the sky, thinking there was thunder, but with the crescent moon hanging high in the sky, there was no sign of thunder.
"Enemy attack!"
"Enemy attack!"
"cavalry!"
"A large number of cavalry are running towards the village!"
The eyes of He Bi, the man surnamed Liu and other veterans suddenly widened, and they all said one thing in unison.
The man surnamed Liu reacted quickly and immediately ran to the ancient tree at the entrance of the village, pulled up the hanging rope, and swung it from side to side. Suddenly, the warning bell rang "Dang, Dang, Dang, Dang...".
The sudden and clear ringing of the bells, like a heavy rain, soon spread throughout the village. Suddenly, there were shouts and cries in the village, and the lights in the dark village were lit up one after another.
More than a dozen men from the village worked together to pull the bridge away, but it was too late. Hundreds of people suddenly stood on the ground on the other side and fired arrows at them.
Everyone was hit by arrows one after another, screaming and falling into the rushing water of Lian Zhen.
The man surnamed Liu who was trying hard to ring the bell followed the sound and saw his accomplice falling down. Countless black shadows crossed the bridge and rushed towards him quickly. In the distance, the fire was soaring into the sky, making it difficult for him to see clearly what was in front of him. .
After a while, he got used to the sudden change in light. He squinted his eyes and took a closer look. He saw countless bald heads glowing with light. He knew these were Khitan people with stylish hair. These people were holding long knives. He rushed towards himself with a ferocious smile.
With a "Zheng" sound, he drew his horizontal sword and strode to meet the enemy. However, before he could cut down the sword he raised high, an arrow shot out with a whoosh and sank into his chest.
The moment his movements stopped, a Khitan man swung his sword like lightning and chopped off his head with one blow.
A large group of Khitans armed with torches and long knives crossed the Chaozhen River and entered Li Chongtun, where they carried out brutal killings and looting.
The common people near the entrance of the village bore the brunt of the attack. The men were killed by the ferocious Khitan people, and the young children were carried on spear points. The women were pushed to the ground while crying, and the Khitan people ripped off their clothes with a ferocious smile. , venting their bestiality...
Not only the families in the village, but the entire village soon fell into the crazy massacre and looting of the Khitan people. There were blazing fires and panic-stricken Sui people everywhere. The elderly and children were all killed. The women in the villages were driven together. They lost their fathers, husbands, and children. They were knocked to the ground one after another and were humiliated in turn by humanoid beasts.
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This violent incident in which the Khitans attacked Li Chongtun was different from the plunder-and-go style of a few years ago. After they looted Li Chongtun, they continued southward along the Chaozhen River, killing and looting all the way, directly pushing their troops to the strategic point where they were stuck. Longshan County, Yingzhou.
In the early morning of this day, thousands of Sui soldiers, state soldiers, and young men who had been urgently recruited were waiting in formation on the top of Longshan City, staring nervously at the northeast.
After a while, yellow dust was billowing in the distance, and the sky was filled with dust. Thousands of naked women were driven in by the Khitan cavalry. If they were just a little slower, the Khitan people behind them would be whipped and knives were cracking.
And under the necks of the horses of tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry were hung the heads of Sui people, some of which were still bleeding.
In order to provoke the defenders to go out to fight, the bestial Khitan cavalry drove the women outside the city and humiliated them in front of the Sui soldiers; some others threw their heads on the ground in front of the Sui soldiers. Face, ride a horse and trample violently.
The tragic elephant outside the city made the defenders' eyes turn red, and they shouted for battle. However, Deng Hao, who was also the governor and general manager, knew that the Khitan people were provoking them to fight, trying to annihilate them in the wild so that they could easily capture the dragon. mountain city, and then pushed the troops to the entire territory of Yingzhou.
Although Deng Hao was also extremely angry and wanted to go out of the city to fight, the defenders only had a few thousand people, and they were mainly young men recruited temporarily. They were no match for tens of thousands of Khitan people. If the mountain city is lost, the more than 100,000 people behind it will be slaughtered by the Khitan people just like the people outside the city.
For the sake of the overall situation, no matter how angry and hostile they are, they can only endure it.
Deng Hao punched the city battlements and roared angrily, "No one is allowed to fight, and no one is allowed to open the city gate. Anyone who violates this will be killed!"
"General, are you just going to sit back and watch the Khitan thieves succeed?" a hussar general from the military mansion said loudly.
Deng Hao gritted his teeth, faced a pair of bloodshot eyes, and said harshly: "Brothers, I also want to fight. I can't wait to go out and kill people, but we can't die now. Just because we die in battle, Longshan City will be destroyed." It’s over. Once Longshan City is lost, the people of Yingzhou will suffer, not to mention the Yanzhou and Liaozhou to the east."
"Brothers, a gentleman's revenge should focus on the overall situation and not seize the day. Sooner or later, I, the Sui Dynasty, will demand tenfold or a hundredfold for this hatred." Deng Hao was afraid that he could not help but go out of the city to fight for his life, so he did not dare to look at the soldiers again. His eyes couldn't bear to look at the tragic scene outside the city.
He looked back to the southwest, gritted his teeth and said word for word: "Four days ago, I sent an envoy to ask for help from General Manager Li Zixiong and report to the court. It won't be long before our army will arrive. Then, revenge will be day."
The Guanzhong-based policy has always been to emphasize the west and despise the east. In the northeast direction, it has always adopted a policy of passive defense and a defensive policy of using barbarians to control barbarians. It was not until the 17th year of the founding of the Sui Dynasty that Gaoyuan, King of Yingyang of Goguryeo, and Sumo Mohe invaded Liaozhou, which directly brought unrest and harm to the border of the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Jian then planned to destroy Goguryeo, and with Yang Liang and Wang Shiji as marching marshals, he led 300,000 land and sea troops to attack Goguryeo. However, unfortunately, the army led by Yang Liang suffered from heavy rains, transportation failure, and lack of food in the army. disease; while the naval army headed by Zhou Luohu encountered a big storm midway, and most of the battles were sunk. In the end, before the war started, 50 or 60 of the 300,000 soldiers died. On the way to the retreat, many soldiers who were infected with the disease died on the road, but they finally came back alive. Yes, less than 20%.
Although the Sui Dynasty failed, Gao Yuan also saw the determination of the Sui Dynasty. He was afraid that the Sui Dynasty would come to fight again, so he had to apologize. Because the main enemy of the Sui Dynasty was the Turkic Khanate across Europe and Asia, Yang Jian could only endure this bad breath and accepted Goguryeo's apology and surrender.
After that, the key defense target was still the behemoth in the north. In addition, all the northeastern ministries were surrendered, so the passive defense policy was still adopted in the northeast, resulting in very few permanent troops stationed in the northeast.
Today, the Turkic Khanate has fallen apart. After Yang Guang decided to move the capital to Luoyang, he consciously strengthened defenses in the northeast. However, due to time constraints and internal complications, many deployments remained on paper. If the deployment plan drawn up by Yang Su is realized, how dare the little Khitan be so arrogant?
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Don’t forget the national humiliation, the alarm bells are ringing!
