Many elites in the Sui Dynasty did not understand the "obscure" Goguryeo, let alone ordinary people. In addition, Turks attracted everyone's attention, so that more than 90% of the people in the Sui Dynasty thought that Goguryeo was an insignificant world. It was such a small country that no one knew that Goguryeo was a big country with 700,000 to 800,000 strong soldiers.
It was not until Yang Ji was ordered to retaliate against Khitan in the first year of Daye and had a fierce conflict with Goguryeo that the imperial court and the elites of the Sui Dynasty focused on Goguryeo. And ordinary people also knew about Goguryeo through official residence newspapers, official documents, and official announcements. , and knew that Goguryeo was a powerful tiger, not an insignificant little country, so when Yang Ji began to march eastward with only tens of thousands of elite troops, many people thought the court was joking; after the official war began, he asked The voice of increasing troops is even more constant.
When Yang Ji broke through the three major lines of defense in Goguryeo's Liaodong Plain, the military generals from a military family asked the court to increase their troops by 300,000 in order to deprive them of their military exploits. Although Yang Guang did not agree to this seemingly normal but actually selfish idea, the resulting consequences The great debate in the court gave people a further understanding of Goguryeo's strength.
As the actual situation and national strength of Goguryeo were revealed step by step by the court, people's attention to this war was also increasing day by day. When the news that the Eastern Expedition Army led by Yang Ji successfully annihilated Goguryeo and returned home in triumph spread back to the country, the whole country was filled with joy.
For a time, all eyes were focused on the triumphant army, and its itinerary was closely watched by the imperial court and local officials.
As the victorious army gradually approached Luoyang, the trend of public opinion for peaceful coexistence between the Sui Dynasty and the Eastern Turks began to flourish again. The people who control this public opinion do not really want to negotiate and make peace, but are trying to use this public opinion method to welcome the bellicose Yang Ji, hoping to see the true attitude of Yang Ji and Yang Guang behind him, so that they can plan and arrange in advance Children.
When the news that Yang Ji was sailing westward up the Yellow River and arrived at Xingyang County reached the capital, Yang Guang gave an order and personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to Luokou to welcome the triumphant army. Accompanying him were more than 100,000 scholars and Luoyang people who spontaneously left the city.
There were so many people that the imperial court had to dispatch 30,000 Xiaoguo Army soldiers to maintain order along the way.
At this hour of the day, the sun was shining brightly on the Yinluo Plain, and on the west bank of the Luoshui River, flags were everywhere and people were buzzing. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, with his ancient sword hanging on his waist, stood like a straight green pine tree with his hands behind his hands under the cover of a yellow sail. He looked up at the rolling Yellow River in the distance, guarded by his ministers.
Yang Guang was already in an agitated mood. Looking at the magnificent river and thinking about the returning army, he suddenly became inspired by poetry and wanted to compose a poem to remember his mood at this moment. However, for a while, he couldn't think of anything. come out.
At this moment, Duan Wenzhen, the Minister of War in military uniform, received the flag from the sentry tower, strode to Yang Guang, performed a military salute, and said loudly: "Reporting to the saint, the triumphant army has arrived."
When Yang Guang, the children of the royal family, and all the civil and military officials heard this, they immediately became energetic and looked at each other from afar. I saw masts like spears and halberds appearing on the sparkling surface of the Yellow River, and warships were gradually approaching with their sails pumping; while teams of black armored knights guarding the river walked through the withered grass on the shore, There was a thundering sound of horse hooves.
After a while, several five-tooth warships as tall as a city came slowly and out of formation. The flagpole of the first ship hung a huge battle flag with the word "Sui", and the flagpole that was a few feet shorter was hoisted with the word "Sui". Wearing the handsome flag of "Wei Wang Yang".
The "flagship" arrived at the ferry and dropped anchor. The two tall racket poles on the bow of the ship were slowly lowered. The soldiers were already prepared to lay out large shields one by one, and soon a pontoon bridge was built.
On the first deck, Yang Ji wore a gorgeous gold armor specially made for him by the Ministry of Etiquette, a red cloak, and an ancient sword Long Yuan that had never been used on the battlefield hanging from his waist. When the pontoon bridge was set up, he stepped off Battleship. Followed by two soldiers in uniforms, each holding a tray, on which were placed the yellow silk wrapped seal of the Minister of the Xingtai of Hebei Province and the seal of the Marching General of the Liaodong Province.
Following closely behind were the marching Sima Pei Ju, the marching deputy general manager Yang Lun, Yu Zhongwen, Li Jing, Li Zixiong, Cui Hongsheng, Zhou Fashang, followed by the generals and important civilian officials on the expedition. Everyone was wearing ceremonial ornate armor. .
Under the bright sunshine, everyone is shining.
Yang Ji walked between the two rows of honor guards and walked towards Yang Guang, who was like a star over the moon. I haven't seen him for a long time. Although the emperor who dominates the world is in high spirits, he is much thinner than before the expedition. It seems that the pressure on this emperor is not less than that of him fighting on the front line.
When he came closer, Yang Ji stopped and gave a military salute to Yang Guang: "General Yang Ji pays homage to the saint!"
"Yang Qing, no courtesy!" Yang Guang stepped forward, helped Yang Ji up, patted his shoulders heavily with both hands, and said loudly: "You have made countless military exploits at a young age. This time you are facing Goguryeo was even more powerful with strong soldiers and horses, powerful terrain, dangerous terrain, and bad weather. However, Yang Qing annihilated it in less than half a year, regaining the vast territory lost by the previous dynasty for our Sui Dynasty, and promoting our Sui Dynasty's prestige. This is the ancient Bai Qi, Han Xin, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing are not as good as him."
Thinking that Goguryeo, which had never been recovered by previous generations, was easily recovered by the Daye Dynasty and the royal family, Yang Guang was very excited. Looking at the young military god he had trained with his own hands, he felt very proud: "Your illustrious military achievements are no longer necessary. In terms of words of praise, I can only say that the Sui Dynasty and the royal family are very lucky to have you! As the emperor and your brother, I am proud of you."
The cousin was ordered to face the danger. He first rectified the officialdom of Youzhou, and then captured the traitor Yuan clan who was entrenched in Yuyang County. Then he attacked and conquered all the battles, easily annihilating the powerful country Goguryeo and regaining the lost territory... a story Everything was in line with his wishes, but he was subject to power and control in Yicang, and had to be dismissed from his position.
Looking back, Yang Guang felt guilty.
Yang Ji said humbly: "Thanks to the saint's teachings, he has repeatedly used the general against all opinions. Otherwise, the general would still be a playboy and still doesn't know that he has such potential."
These words brought to Yang Guang's happiest point.
That's right, Yang Ji was the prodigy he taught and the military god he and his father forced him to be. Then, if it weren't for Yang Guang's ability to recognize people, use people wisely, and overcome all opinions, the Sui Dynasty would definitely miss the god of military and war in front of him.
Regarding this point, Yang Guang actually "wanted" to deny it, but since everyone said so, he could only "reluctantly" admit it.
well! There is really no other way, who makes him a wise king? It’s hard to deny it selfishly.
Yang Ji took the seal of Hebei Daoxingtai Shangshu from a tray, held it in front of Yang Guang with both hands, and said loudly: "Fortunately, the last general has lived up to his command and successfully defeated and regained the lost territory. I hereby return the order."
The Sui Dynasty learned from the bloody lessons of the previous dynasty's military and political discord and inconsistent orders. Whenever a general went on an expedition, he would accept the position of Marching Commander or Marching Commander, taking charge of the military and political affairs of a certain "war zone" so that he could perform them freely. During Yang Ji's expedition this time, Yang Guang granted him the posts of Shangshu Ling of the March in Hebei Province and General Manager of the March in Liaodong Province, so that he could confidently and boldly mobilize all military supplies in Jizhou and Youzhou according to actual needs.
However, the power of this temporarily granted position is too great, so the court only uses it during wars or critical moments. Once the mission is completed, the seal must be handed over as soon as possible.
At this time, Yang Ji handed over the two seals in public, and in accordance with the law, he resigned from his post as the Minister of the March of Hebei Province and the General Manager of the March of Liaodong Province.
After Yang Ji completed the delivery, Pei Ju and several deputy general managers stepped forward one by one to salute, hand over the seal, and step down from their temporary duties.
Yang Guang took the seals and orders one by one to show respect and attention. After handing them over to the etiquette officer next to him, he praised them again.
After the ceremony to welcome the victorious army was held, Yang Guang did not wait for Yang Ji to refuse, then pulled Yang Ji onto the tall Luan Yu in full view of everyone, made him sit next to him, and returned to Luoyang City along with the civil and military officials and the honor guard. .
As he walked westward, he saw cheering troops and people on both sides of the official road. Yang Ji couldn't help but sigh out of some unknown emotion.
Yang Guang was very attentive and knew that Yang Ji had always disliked fake, grand, empty, and hypocritical ostentation. He thought he had misunderstood, so he left everyone's sight and spoke casually: "Vajra slave, let me tell you. ! This is not a pomp arranged by the court, but came by the scholars and students themselves. The people nearby are in the slack season of farming at this time, and they have nothing to do at home, so they came to welcome the triumphant army. "
"This is the sincerity of thousands of people in the Sui Dynasty. The imperial court could not extinguish everyone's patriotic enthusiasm, so it had to send a large army to maintain order. When they arrived in the capital, the number of people would definitely be even greater."
Yang Ji was stunned for a moment and said, "I didn't think so, but I was deeply touched when I saw everyone was so enthusiastic."
Yang Guang asked cheerfully: "How do you feel?"
"A lot, I won't be able to explain it for a while." Yang Ji didn't expect Yang Guang to ask such a question, so he had to explain: "This feeling, this feeling is very wonderful, it's like there is a beautiful emotion in my mind, and I feel it I want to express it in a poem, but no matter how I think about it or how I write it, I can’t express that beautiful mood.”
"What a coincidence, I was planning to write a poem just now but couldn't write it, but no matter what, I couldn't write it." Yang Guang couldn't help laughing. He laughed and said: "Vajra slave, this time you are going on an expedition to Goguryeo. The difficulties you encountered were also greater than before, but you fought far more brilliantly and crisply than before. Although I have read all the victory reports you sent, they were just dry results, and there was no trace of the exciting process... …Tell me about this battle, what exactly happened?”
Yang Guang's words made Yang Ji directly suspect that he came here specially to listen to war stories and commentaries, rather than to welcome the victorious army. However, he still said: "It is true that a lot of things happened, but this war was due to Gao Yuan's death." The coordination was really good, so on the whole there wasn’t anything spectacular happening, and not even a lot of arrangements were needed.”
He skipped Yicang Eucalyptus and started talking about the lightning attack on the Third Camp of Xifeng. He neither exaggerated nor deleted the "parts" of other people. But his so-called "nothing worthy of praise or tears happened" actually made Yang Guang break into a cold sweat.
Yang Ji's troops were originally not as large as those of Goguryeo, but after he conquered the Xifeng Camp, he was stunned to disperse all the limited and exhausted troops he had when there were many surrender troops in the rear and Maigu City and Momi City were not captured. What's even more exaggerated is that he actually asked Yang Yichen to lead more than a thousand soldiers to attack the Goguryeo army of more than 100,000 troops in Changchun. Fortunately, Goguryeo was disrupted by his lightning attack, otherwise the Sui army would have been completely annihilated.
What is even more exaggerated and shocking is that at this time, Yang Ji dared to order Yang Lun to cross the Bohai Sea to capture Gaimou City and Anshi City.
He originally thought that Yang Lun's move to fight south of the Liaodong Peninsula was a reasonable arrangement by Yang Ji. Unexpectedly, Yang Lun was blown away by a strong wind and wave. However, this storm turned a bad thing into a good thing.
Logically speaking, after learning this big lesson, they should be more stable, but Yang Ji then divided his troops everywhere and fought everywhere. But the strange thing is that although he fought randomly from beginning to end, the entire war was still firmly under his control.
Thinking more carefully, Yang Guang found that all arrangements were based on Gao Yuan and Yuan Ziyou, and it was because Yang Ji thoroughly analyzed Gao Yuan and Yuan Ziyou that he defeated the enemy to death. And this is the most critical success of this war.
What makes Yang Guang even more ridiculous is that everyone thinks that Yang Ji has made arrangements, so he dares to do this and fight like this... Therefore, when the Ministry of War and many famous generals conduct military training exercises, they are desperately saying that Yang Ji has the wisdom to use troops. No trace of style...
However, the truth that everyone thought was "untraceable" turned out to be Yang Ji's mess. He had messed up, so where could there be any trace? If Yang Ji hadn't said it himself, he would have thought that everything was under Yang Ji's control.
However, although Yang Guang understood the cause and effect, if this war reappeared and he was asked to fight it, he would not dare to do so, and he would not be able to do as many tricks as Yang Ji did.
Thinking of this, Yang Guang asked extremely curiously: "Vajra slave, if this battle were to be fought all over again, would you dare to send Bin Zhen out?"
"How dare you!" Yang Ji shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I sent Brother Teng Wang out, but I was stuck. During those ten days, I was frightened, on tenterhooks, and scared to death every day. .If it happens again, I won’t dare to do it even if I’m beaten to death.”
Just when Yang Guangshen thought so and was about to comment on the war, he heard Yang Ji say again: "But if someone asks about this some other day, then I will definitely say that everything was planned by me and everything was expected. Everything went according to my plan.”
Yang Guang was speechless, but this was human nature: if it were him, he would brag like this.
After a long time, he said: "People are shameless, and ghosts are afraid of them."
