The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 249 The Pattern of the Peninsula

Silla has a long history. Its history can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. In the early days, the relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty was relatively estranged. In the Taikang period of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were two records of tribute from Chen Han. In 553, Silla seized the Han River from Baekje. Downstream, the outlet of the west coast was obtained, and from then on, it was able to communicate with the Central Plains Dynasty.Since then, Silla paid tribute to Northern Qi twice and Nanchen five times. Among them, Emperor Wucheng Gao Zhan of Northern Qi canonized King Zhenxing in 565 as envoy Jijie, Dongyi Xiaowei, Lelang County Duke, and Silla King. Lord Luo was conferred the title of the Central Plains Dynasty for the first time.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the relationship between Silla and the Northern Dynasties was mainly based on political ties, so it was able to obtain canonization; while the relationship with the Southern Dynasties was mainly on cultural ties, so people such as Jude, Mingguan, Zhiming, and Yuanguang entered Liang and Chen. Seeking the law, Liang and Chen also sent envoys to Silla to present Buddhist relics and scriptures.

After the Sui Dynasty unified the Central Plains, King Jin Baijing sent an envoy to the Sui Dynasty in 594. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty canonized King Zhenping as Kaifu, Duke of Lelang County, and King of Silla.However, with the increasing attacks of Goguryeo and Baekje, the situation facing Silla is becoming more and more dangerous. King Zhenping planned to use the power of the Central Plains to repel Goguryeo, so in 608 he ordered the monk Won Kwang to write "Biao Shi Biao" to the Sui Dynasty. .

Of course, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty did not want Goguryeo to unify the peninsula, because that would be equivalent to a powerful neighbor appearing next to him, so he often supported Silla and Baekje, and helped the second and third to deal with the boss Goguryeo. Goguryeo was naturally uncomfortable, and Liang Zi of the Sui Dynasty That's it.

As early as the period of Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty asked Goguryeo to recognize it as its suzerain state. Unexpectedly, Goguryeo strongly refused. He also had territorial ambitions for the Sui Dynasty and sent troops to attack western Liaoning. Fortunately, Wei Chong, who was then the governor of Yingzhou, ruled Because of the way, Goguryeo did not get cheap, and the army was expelled from the country.

When Yang Guangsan attacked Goguryeo, Silla took advantage of the fact that the Goguryeo army was fighting against the Sui army on the northern front, and seized a lot of land in Goguryeo.When the Sui army retreated, Goguryeo retaliated angrily, Silla retreated steadily, and the country would not be safe if it continued to fight. At the critical moment, Yang Tong took one-third of Goguryeo's territory by surprise, and Goguryeo's national power quickly weakened.

King Jinbaekjeong of Silla Shinpyeong is quite capable and highly respected the culture of the Central Plains. He took the official system of the Central Plains as the standard and perfected the official system of the Silla Kingdom. It is a country that is relatively close to the Central Plains. Kinderman traveled to the Sui Dynasty many times and purchased a large number of advanced weapons and armor. Silla, which had improved equipment, defeated Goguryeo steadily.

Goguryeo saw the civil war in the Sui Dynasty and set the tone that the Sui Dynasty was unable to continue going south. It took a defensive position against the Sui Dynasty in the north, and joined forces with King Wu of Baekje, who had a grudge with Silla, to deal with Silla, so as to prevent the Silla family from dominating.

King Wu of Baekje destroyed the peace treaty with Silla and launched a conquest against Silla.However, Baekje's strength is inferior to Silla after all, and it is not an opponent of Silla, which made Silla general Jin Yuxin beat him.

King Zhenping intended to go all out to destroy Baekje, and turned around to compete with Goguryeo.But when Kim Yushin launched troops to kill Baekje, Goguryeo suddenly gathered heavy troops to invade the border. When Jinyuxin returned to defend, Goguryeo attacked him and caused Silla heavy losses. Pressing hard, Silla retreated step by step.

At this time, the treacherous Goguryeo suddenly withdrew its troops and let Silla and Baekje fight, while he returned to the north, preparing to take back the lost land lost in the hands of Sui with the momentum of victory. Breathing room.

The capital of Silla, Jincheng.

Silla Shinpyeong King Kim Baekjeong suddenly held an emergency meeting in the middle of the night, and called his two daughters, Kim Deman and Kim Seungman, and his confidant General Kim Yushin to him.

"Father, you called us here, but Baekje is calling again?" Kinderman's beautiful eyes flashed with anger, and he had a strong hatred for Baekje who kept making troubles. The hostile heart even surpassed the feud against Goguryeo.

Jin Shengman and Jin Yuxin also had similar thoughts, and their expressions were both ugly.

Jin Baijing slowly shook his head: "Our scouts have received a message from the Celestial Dynasty that their Highness King Qin personally led an army of water and land to conquer Goguryeo, and will soon arrive in Lushun County."

Kinderman, Jin Shengman, and Jin Yuxin looked at each other, with excitement shining in their eyes.

"Father, but I don't know how many soldiers and horses His Highness King Qin will lead this time?" Kinderman asked.

Jin Baijing said: "The army is [-], and the navy is [-]."

Jin Shengman was disappointed: "The Sui Emperor used to have millions of people at every turn, why is it only [-] this time?"

Kinderman, who knows the Central Plains quite well, said with a smile: "The interior of the Celestial Dynasty is unstable, and there are already a lot of 15 troops, and Goguryeo is not the Goguryeo of the past. With the defenders of Lushun and Xiangping, the Sui army has 5 The strength of the ten thousand army is equal to that of Goguryeo, and the 50 army of the king of Qin is not a tiger and a hundred. They defeated dozens of troops in Mayi and took back the Monan grassland. After that, they went deep into the grassland many times , Killed the grassland with corpses all over the field. These [-] people were used well, and the effect was no less than [-]. His Royal Highness Qin Wang was young and powerful, and he had no defeat in his life, so we don't have to worry about the Celestial Dynasty. What I want to say is , How should we take advantage of this opportunity and expand ourselves.”

Jin Yuxin also said: "Baekje once surrendered to the Sui Dynasty and accepted the canonization of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. When Emperor Wu of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times, he also sent troops to join him. We must take the lead in Baekje and show our greatest sincerity to the Sui Dynasty."

Silla has enmity with the two neighboring countries, because of its strength, it can't help Goguryeo. Although the other Baekje is not as good as Silla, it has formed an alliance with Goguryeo, so that Silla cannot do its best to attack.Silla was attacked on both sides, exhausted, and eager to embrace the thigh can be imagined.

"General Jin's words are very true. The Great Sui is the number one prince in the Central Plains! His Royal Highness King Qin is the actual emperor of the Great Sui. He defeated the old enemy Turks many times. No one can stop them from rising. We must not lose the opportunity."

Kinderman traveled back and forth between Silla and Sui all the year round, and her understanding of the Central Plains was better than others, she said in a deep voice, "Baekje Martial King Fu Yuzhang is a treacherous person, once he hears that King Qin has arrived in Liaodong, he must be ready to curry favor Prepare to please Sui. Without further ado, we should immediately send envoys to Lushun to express our vassalship again."

Jin Shengman blinked his eyes and said: "Of course we have to go immediately, the key is how to go. Goguryeo doesn't want us to befriend Tai Sui, and there must be many dangers along the way. We can only go by water. The only way is to go from Kaesong on the west coast takes the waterway to Lushun City (formerly Beishe City) in Lushun County, but for the sake of safety, we have to attack Baekje with all our strength."

Looking at Jin Deman and Jin Shengman, the sisters, Jin Baijing was full of emotions. He had no children under his knees. Fortunately, God gave him two beautiful and intelligent daughters, who could inherit the Silla kingdom. It is a blessing in misfortune.He pondered for a while, and said, "Then who do you think is the most suitable to send?"

"I go!"

"Let me go!" Almost at the same time, Kinderman and Jin Shengman said in unison.

The two sisters with nearly the same appearance looked at each other, both showing surprise. After a long time, Kinderman pondered and said: "The temperament of King Qin is different from that of other Central Plains people. I have many relationships with King Qin. His temperament is more familiar, and I am the first princess, my visit can best reflect Silla's sincerity."

Jin Shengman glanced at his sister and said, "Why don't we go together?"

Jin Baijing frowned and said: "It's enough for your sister to go, what are you going to do?"

Jin Shengman talked eloquently: "This can better show the sincerity of our Silla! After our sisters visited the King of Qin, one of them came back to report the situation, and the other watched the King of Qin beat Goguryeo closely, learning the way of using troops in the Central Plains, and doing something for the unification of the Three Kingdoms in the future." Get ready."

Kinderman agreed: "Your sister is right. King Qin is a victorious general in the Central Plains. He must know a lot of superb tactics. If it is normal, they will definitely not teach us. If we can watch them fight Goguryeo, some advanced tactics Fazang can't hide either."

Jin Baijing looked at Jin Yuxin and said, "What do you think, the general?"

"My Majesty, I think the advice of the two princesses is very good!"

"Okay then, prepare generous gifts and go to Lushun immediately."

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The capital of Goguryeo is Pyongyang City located in the lower reaches of the Beishui River. Pyongyang is also the largest city on the entire peninsula, with a circumference of more than [-] miles and a population of more than [-].

Goguryeo was originally a relatively powerful country in Liaodong, but after the three Eastern Expeditions of the Sui Dynasty and the Liaodong Campaign launched by Yang Tong, as well as years of fighting with Silla, Goguryeo’s military strength was not as good as before, with only more than [-] troops. Distributed on the border of the Han River in the south to defend Silla, followed by Xuantu City and Guoguo City beyond the Yalu River, and Xincheng to the east of Nanyufu City to defend against the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, the Goguryeo Kingdom was not peaceful at this time. Gaoyuan, the plain king of Goguryeo, died of illness the year before last, and then his younger brother Gao Jianwu ascended the throne, known as King Rongliu, but the military and political power of Goguryeo was in the hands of Mo Lizhiyuan Taizuo.

Yuan Taizuo's father, Yuan Ziyou, was also Mo Lizhi of Goguryeo. Speaking of it, Yuan Ziyou was an outstanding talent that was rare in Goguryeo in a hundred years. He was both civil and military, and had great prestige. , the accumulation of national power, Goguryeo's ability to rule the roost in Liaodong, and attracted the attention and fear of the Sui Dynasty, all have a lot to do with Yuanziyou. When it comes to contributions to Goguryeo, Yuanziyou is naturally the first to be recommended.

When Yang Guang made his first expedition to Goguryeo, Yuan Ziyou, Mo Lizhi, who was in charge of the military and state power, was the first to stand up.He personally led the troops to confront the Sui army on the front line of Liaodong, restraining the main force of the Sui army, thus ensuring that Liaodong was not lost.

But at that time, after the Sui army had been attacking Liaodong City for a long time, many soldiers divided Yang Guang into three groups. He left hundreds of thousands of main forces to besiege Liaodong City in Liaodong. He led the navy to attack Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, by sea; he also ordered the general Yu Wenshu to command an army of 30 across the cities of Liaodong, and marched directly to Yalushui, and attacked Pyongyang from north to south with the navy who came to protect children.

At that time, the main elite of Goguryeo were all gathered on the front line of Liaodong. How could Pyongyang have the strength to resist the land and water army of the Sui Dynasty?Goguryeo shook up and down.

At this time, Ulji Mundeok was born. He saw through the shortcomings of the Sui army's poor logistics, and adopted a tactic with Gao Jianwu to lure the enemy deep, and sent the Sui Dynasty ten victories in a row, thus lengthening the supply line of the Sui army.Then the Sui army was forced to retreat with a trick of surrender, and then a flood of water smashed more than 30 Sui soldiers into pieces and drowned countless.The Pyongyang defenders of the Goguryeo Army took the opportunity to launch a fierce offensive against the Sui Army.The Sui army, suffering from hunger and cold, was about to collapse at the first touch, and fled in desolation.Only 30 of the 700 troops who crossed the Yalu River fled back to Liaodong, losing all their weapons and supplies.

Therefore, the entire Goguryeo respects Ulji Mundeok who led the battle of Sashui and turned the tide of the battle like a god, so much so that he has the title of Goguryeo Army God.

Ulchi Mundeok was born in a poor family, but he lived in an official position. The eldest brother is also the deputy prime minister. In Goguryeo, he can be said to be under two people and above ten thousand, which is quite remarkable.In addition to Gaoyuan, the king of the Goguryeo Plain, there is only Yuan Ziyou, the patriarch of the Yuan family, above him.However, his prestige seriously threatened the status of Yuanshi, the first family of Goguryeo, and caused Yuan Ziyou's serious dissatisfaction.

Ulji Wende could not compete with Yuan Ziyu, so he had to choose to give in. Now that Gao Yuan and Yuan Ziyou have died one after another, Gao Jianwu, who inherited the throne, can be regarded as a promising king, but he was born at an untimely time when the powerful ministers were in power , although he controlled the regime of Goguryeo, the military power was in the hands of Yuan Ziyou's son Yuan Dazuo from beginning to end.In order to restrain the increasingly powerful Yuan family, he used Ulji Wende, who launched the Sashui battle with him.

Although today's Goguryeo is a country, the domestic forces are divided into two. The north of Sashui is the territory of the Yuan family. Now the Yuan family has deployed 12 heavy troops in the inner city area, and also deployed [-] heavy troops in the north of Sashui. , These [-] troops are all in the hands of Yuan Taizuo.

Rongliu Wang Gao Jianwu's forces were south of Sashui. In addition to the [-] troops facing Silla on the front line, the capital Pyongyang still had [-] troops. It was not only to defend the capital, but also to prevent the Yuan family from launching a coup.

Because Pyongyang is under the control of Gao Jianwu, almost no one of the Yuan clan headed by Yuan Tae-joo lives in Pyongyang.So even the children in Pyongyang know that there are deep contradictions between the monarch and his ministers in Korea.

But recently, the Goguryeo monarchs and ministers have reached a rare consensus, that is, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains and the uneven border, each side will send out [-] troops, with Yuan Taejo as the commander and Ulji Moondeok as the deputy commander. The army is at the edge of Sashui The Jingguan League oath piled up with the corpses of the Sui army, worked together and with one heart and one mind to regain the homeland of Liaodong that was lost in the Sui Dynasty. When the news came out, the three kingdoms of Haidong were shocked.

(End of this chapter)