In the Qianqiu Palace, Prince Yang Zhao, Prime Minister Yang Xiong, Su Wei, Xiao Cong, Changsun Chi, Cui Zhongfang, Minister of Civil Affairs Niu Hong, Minister of Civil Affairs Wei Chong, Minister of War Xiao Jue, and Minister of Punishment Li Yuantong were all present. When they learned that the Khitans had entered Kou Yingzhou, they all felt a sense of absurdity. The Great Sui Dynasty was invincible in the world. Even the Great Khan of the Eastern Turks, Qimin Khan, came to apologize and has not left yet. The Great Khan of the Western Turks, Nichuluo Khan, also accepted the invitation of the Great Sui Dynasty to watch the ceremony. On the way to Daxing.
And the little Khitan actually entered Kou Yingzhou, where did it get the courage? Who gave it the courage?
"Sage, calm down!" Su Wei looked at the furious Yang Guang and comforted him softly.
"How do I calm down?" Yang Guang was so angry that he almost set Daxing Palace on fire, roaring: "The defenses we built in Liaodong are simply vulnerable. In just a few days, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were massacred by Khitan dogs. , now you tell me to calm down my anger? If Deng Hao hadn't endured his anger for a while, I'm afraid the Khitan dogs would have beaten him to Binzhou! Mr. Su, tell me, how can I calm down my anger?"
Everyone saw that Yang Guang's face was red with anger, and they were all cautious. No one dared to add fuel to the fire at this time. Yang Guang has a calm personality and does not get angry easily. If he gets angry, he will kill people. If such a big thing had not happened, how could he be like this?
In fact, Yang Guang knew that Liaodong and Youzhou had been at ease for a long time, and he had long lost his vigilance against foreigners, but he never expected that he would be so paralyzed.
Generally speaking, nomadic peoples have no secrets in their wars. As long as they form gangs, they know that war is coming. However, the Khitan sent out tens of thousands of troops this time, and the idiots in Liaodong didn't even notice, and they just killed one of them. Caught off guard.
These bastards, do they really think that the Khitan, whose beastly nature is hard to change, doesn't need to be on guard?
It's absolutely abominable.
It is simply a crime worthy of death.
At this moment, Yang Guang hated the Liaodong troops and officials who had neglected their duties more than the Khitans. However, his hatred turned to hatred, and his anger turned to anger, but he was still somewhat surprised by the Khitan's invasion of Sui Dynasty.
Speaking of which, the Khitan, like Goguryeo and Tuyuhun, all developed insignificantly during the hundreds of years of chaos in the Central Plains. They took advantage of the endless civil war in the Central Plains and had no time to care about, devouring the territory of the Central Plains and plundering border villages and towns; At the time of the Three Kingdoms of Zhou and Chen, Khitan entered a state of glory that was as short-lived as a flash in the pan. At its peak, the Khitan had a population of over one million and more than 300,000 string-controlling people. With such strength, the Khitan had unprecedented ambitions.
At one time, they occupied Pingzhou, Yingzhou, Yanzhou, and Liaozhou under the Northern Qi Dynasty. However, although the previous emperors of the Gao family behaved strangely and had special hobbies, none of them was a coward when it came to fighting. The Khitan's large-scale march south angered Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty Gao Yang. In the fourth year of Tianbao (553), he personally led the Northern Expedition. Not only did he regain the lost territory, he also entered the hinterland of the Khitan. In this battle, Gao Yang bloodbathed the Khitan over and over again. Eventually, more than 100,000 people and countless livestock were captured.
The Khitan suffered heavy losses and declined rapidly from then on. However, Gao Yang did not let the Khitan go. After a great victory, he seemed to have found a new way to get rich. As long as he felt that the Khitan's livestock had grown up, he would send troops Going to harvest a wave, and going back and forth like this, the Khitan couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply knelt down and surrendered, and obediently paid the protection fee according to Gao Yang's request.
This is also helpless. Even though Northern Qi still has a powerful enemy as big as Northern Zhou, Northern Qi still has enough power to deal with the weak Khitan. The Northern Qi army massacres one tribe today and several tribes tomorrow. If this continues, who can bear it? We can't let all the people live in a certain place without going to graze, right?
In this case, instead of waiting for Northern Qi to rob and kill, it is better to obediently pay the protection fee. This can avoid casualties among the people, and the losses will not be so serious. Moreover, after the Khitan paid the protection fee to the big bandit Northern Qi, it had extra troops to attack relatively weak tribes such as the Xi tribe, the Lin tribe, and the Nanshiwei tribe. When they gave the plundered wealth to the Northern Qi Dynasty as required, they actually still There is a surplus.
Under this mechanism, the Khitan went through the most difficult period; however, as the Northern Qi Dynasty was annihilated by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Khitan, which finally recovered, was even more severely exploited by the Turkic Khanate. It was not until the rise of the Sui Dynasty and the confrontation between the two powers that the Khitan had a chance to breathe. After more than 20 years of silent development, it gradually recovered.
But no matter how you look at it, the Khitan only has 30 to 40% of the strength of its glorious period, while the Great Sui Dynasty is the number one overlord in the world. There is no comparison between the two, but it dares to invade the Great Sui Dynasty. How can you have it? any solution?
Faced with this very unreasonable thing, Yang Guang's first thought was that the Guanlong nobles were luring wolves into the house again. After all, the Sui Dynasty was now vigorously carrying out military reforms. If the Guanlong nobles allowed the imperial court to carry out the reforms to the end, their power would be greatly damaged. In addition, during the military reforms, the soldiers in Beijing were panicked and the army was disorganized. The imperial court temporarily had no troops to send. This is undoubtedly the best opportunity to lure the wolf into the house.
Next, if the imperial court wanted to resist foreign enemies and stop killings with killing, the only way was to suspend the military reform and compromise with the Guanlong nobles; ask the Guanlong nobles to come forward to appease the military morale, and then deal with the Khitan.
If you think about it carefully, everything makes sense!
"Damn the Guanlong nobles!" After coming to this conclusion, Yang Guang cursed fiercely in his heart.
Seeing that Yang Guang was silent for a long time and seemed to have calmed down, Su Wei stood up and saluted: "Sage, what I, the Sui Dynasty, want is a docile and loyal dog, not a vicious wolf that devours the master. Since the Khitan is seeking death, then I, the Sui Dynasty, want a docile and loyal dog." Just go and transcend it; but I don’t know how to fight this battle? Who will fight it?”
The Sui Dynasty was very martial. Whether they were military generals or civil servants, they were all people who were happy to hear a war but were afraid of not fighting. The foreign policy pursued by the imperial court was to attack if you don't accept it, and take possession after it is done; wait until the enemy is defeated. When the child is tired or crawling, sit down again and patiently teach him what benevolence, righteousness and morality are.
Now a small Khitan actually dares to make trouble on Tai Sui's head, so let's retaliate with tooth for tooth and blood for blood.
But on how to fight, the emperor had to provide a general idea so that everyone could formulate a battle strategy and estimate food and supplies.
After listening to Su Wei's words, everyone also echoed one after another, especially Wei Chong, who had served as the governor of Yingzhou and successfully defeated tens of thousands of Goguryeo coalition forces Wei Chong with fewer strikes and more, and they even loudly called for battle.
Yang Guang was silent. He was sure that the Guanlong nobles were behind the scenes, so it was not appropriate to talk in detail in public. He decided to conduct a one-on-one in-depth analysis with Yang Ji before making a conclusion.
He looked at the crowd and found that even his fat son had invited to fight. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, my Sui Dynasty is a very reasonable dynasty and I don't like to use fists."
"My Iceberg Beauty Wife"
Everyone: "..."
Yang Guang looked beyond the crowd and looked at the scenery outside the palace, and said quietly: "My request is actually not much. I just hope that the surrounding area will be two thousand miles away. Sui has the final say."
As Yang Guang's calm voice sounded, the Qianqiu Palace suddenly fell into silence; then, everyone saluted with enthusiasm and shouted the voice of the saint.
"Let me think about the Khitan matter for a while; you go to the meeting hall to discuss it carefully and give me a response strategy as soon as possible." Yang Guang said, and then warned: "It will cause panic, and this matter can only be stopped in Daxing. palace."
"Yes!" Everyone stood up, saluted, and left in a hurry.
Yang Guang walked to the hanging map with his hands behind his back and scanned the Northeast region with his eyes.
Ever since the elder Sun Cheng proposed the strategic policy of "diplomating far away and attacking close, leaving the strong and joining the weak; using barbarians to control barbarians and dividing the Turks", and successfully divided the Turks time and time again, the Sui Dynasty liked to use barbarians to control barbarians, which could reduce unnecessary losses. When Yang Guang realized that Qimin Khan and his son were going down the road of suffering hardships, he planned to let the Turkic army become a sharp blade in the hands of the Sui Dynasty and deal with the disobedient foreigners for the Sui Dynasty.
Now even Qimin Khan is a grandson in Daxing City, so he can use the hands of the Eastern Turks to kill the Khitans and use the Khitans to weaken the Eastern Turks. If the Eastern Turks refuse to do it, then they should have good relations with the Eastern Tiele, let the Eastern Tiele go south to destroy the Khitan, and then give all the captured people to Tiele, making the Eastern Tiele a serious trouble for the Eastern Turks.
For the great support of the Sui Dynasty, the weak Eastern Tiele would definitely be overjoyed!
Yang Guang made up his mind and decided to send a general to complete this task. This general could not only lead troops to fight, but also be able to intimidate the Turks, and was as cunning as a fox and as fierce as a wolf.
Those who meet these conditions are ready to go.
