The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 58 False Dao Destroying Guo
After resting for three days, Yang Tong learned that morale in Koguryo was low and people were in panic. The Gao family and the second largest family, the Yuan family, blamed each other and shirked responsibility.Although Goguryeo built a fortress on the south bank of the Yalu River, it was already unable to attack!

Yang Tong decided to return the class teacher.

In this short period of three days, many Sui troops who were lost in Goguryeo heard the news and returned to Jian one after another!
The number of people is as high as five or six thousand.

Yang Tong comforted them one by one, and what moved and admired him was that all these heroes voluntarily stayed and continued to fight against Goguryeo.

In the end, Yang Tong gave Wei Yunqi and Zhou Shaokuan [-] Sui troops to guard Xiangping; Deng Hao and Mai Zhongcai led [-] to guard Lushun County!Then escort the captives and treasures back to Liaoxi, er, Shuangliao County.

This time Yang Tong used 13 troops to attack the two countries together without warning, and achieved great results.Now, on behalf of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, and Yang Guang, he has finally recovered all the Liaohe Plains that Goguryeo had occupied for hundreds of years.

This is not only a grand event for the Yang family, but also a grand event for the Han people.

When they arrived in Liucheng County, the first thing they did after the prisoners were settled was to discuss with the envoys of the Xi clan about the distribution of spoils.

Yang Tong naturally agreed.

After the envoys of the Xi Clan left, Fang Xuanling said, "Your Highness, is it true?"

"Daydreaming!" Yang Tong snorted coldly, and said, "The Xi people are the lackeys of the Turks, and giving them supplies is an enemy! He wants to share the spoils, but I also want their land."

Fang Xuanling's eyes flashed, and he said, "Your Highness wants to..."

"Destroy him!"

"How?" Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Niu Jinda, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanjun, Xue Wanche, and Yu Chigong's eyes lit up, and even Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, was also paying attention!

"Use the essence of greed to destroy!"

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On the other hand, the leader of the Xi tribe, who received Yang Tong's promise, was happy.

The Xi nationality is also one of the long-lasting ethnic groups in the grassland. In the early days, it was called Donghu because it was in the east of the Xiongnu. It was called Wuhuan in the Han Dynasty, and it was changed to Xianbei in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The political system of the Xi nationality is the same as that of Khitan, consisting of five tribes: Ahui, Chuhe, Aoshi, Duji, and Yuanqizhe. Ahui is the chief of the alliance and is honored as the chief. Its festival.They have a total population of more than [-] and more than [-] soldiers.

The five chiefs of the Xi tribe sat together, and the slaves brought out the milk wine and cheese. The great chief Kirby warmly greeted the guests to eat and drink, but there was a faint gloomy look on his brows.Everyone was secretly guessing in their hearts. They only took a rough sip of wine, and the chief of the Department and Department asked: "Brother Kirby, what are you going to discuss?"

Hearing this, Kebi stopped hiding it, put down the wine glass in his hand, and sighed heavily: "I'm telling you, brothers, for the sake of the future of my Xi Clan, I didn't sleep a night. Arbitrary, so call everyone to discuss together."

"I'm thinking, where will our Xi clan go after today."

Everyone was in an uproar, and a chief hurriedly asked, "Brother Kirby, what happened?"

"Our Xi family borders the Great Sui in many places. From east to west, they are Shuangliao County, Beiping County, Yuyang County, Anle County, and Zhuo County. In Shuangliao County, we and the Sui Dynasty take Yanshan as the boundary. , the remaining four counties are either Yanshan or the Great Wall. Our Xi family is like a drop of water, and the lower half of the big Sui is surrounded by the Great Sui. Now that the Great Sui has acquired the land of Khitan, we have seven points of the border with the Great Sui. Two points for the Turks and one point for the Qi people."

"We surrendered to the Turks, but the border with the Sui Dynasty is the largest, and the Turks and the Sui Dynasty have turned against each other, and the weak and weak Yi people have been invaded by us and the Turks all the year round. Form an alliance! In this way, [-]% of our borders will be surrounded by hostile forces!"

"If one day Shibi Khan asks us to fight Da Sui, what should we do? Fight Da Sui and offend Da Sui! Don't fight, we can't offend Turks." Kirby lowered his eyes, "If we don't help each other, both sides will help each other. Offend, which side to help, in the end it is us who are unlucky."

A stone hit a thousand layers of waves, and everyone opened their mouths, not knowing what to say.

A chief smiled bitterly: "Brother Kirby, in fact, we have more than one dilemma!"

Kirby pondered for a while, and said, "You mean Yehu Ashina in eastern Turkic?"

"It's him!"

Kirby said: "The Turks have been expanding eastward, and Ashina is an ambitious man. He always wants to unify the eastern forces, and then compete with Shibi Khan for the Great Khan. Sooner or later, he will force us to do it." choose."

Another chief said: "Brother Kirby, I think we can exclude the Sui Dynasty. After all, the Sui Dynasty is different from the past. They are in chaos, and sooner or later they will be replaced by a new dynasty! The Yang Tong you are worried about, even your own The country cannot be preserved, so how can he threaten us? In my opinion, as long as we continue like this now, we will not offend or show favors. In a few years, he will be gone! As for the Turks... as long as Shibi is here, there is no chance for Ashina to be aggressive. If you push too hard, at worst, you will completely invest in Shibi. After all, we are not bad. If we really want to form an army, we can afford 10 people. Power is not the purpose of Ashina's aggressiveness and willingness to turn against him."

Kirby laughed: "That's right, I was the one who frightened myself... Our immature wild wolf can only pick up meat and bones to eat by following the tiger! When we have [-] elite soldiers, Tai Sui will be about the same." Fallen, when the time comes we will capture the Khitan and Qi people, and then we will compete with the Turks.”

All the chiefs laughed, Kirby's strategic imagination, so why not everyone's?

Kirby looked up at the sky, and said with a smile, "Sui should be here soon!"

"The army of the Sui Dynasty is in full swing. Maybe someone will plot against us first. I think Yang Tong should have a look at our strength. What do you think?" a chief suggested.

Everyone thought about it carefully, this is indeed an opportunity to demonstrate, Kirby said: "It's okay to go, don't go too far."

Another chief thought for a while, and said: "Why don't we send all our warriors over there, and let the Sui army know that although our Xi tribe is small, we have more than [-] warriors who can fight, so that we can deter them, so we can dispel it." Their bad idea."

Kirby's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea."

Waiting for the Xi family to order Qi's army, it was almost dusk,
I saw that the distant mountains had been dyed from light blue to dark blue, the mist gradually fell on the mountainside, and the sky above was gray - it was dusk!
The western sky is covered with a long smear of blood-red vermilion glow, and the afterglow of the setting sun emerges through the clouds, revealing golden yellow, covering this vast and vast grassland.

All kinds of desolate sounds suddenly came from far away on the grassland, from all directions, from far to near, like the sound of thousands of drums on the battlefield, touching people's hearts.

The large Sui team marching southward was led by thousands of cavalry, followed by hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, crossing the Suotou River like a mountain and overwhelming the sea, and marched towards the army of the Xi people.

Although the number of escorting cavalrymen of the Sui army was a bit too high, it was not worth mentioning against the huge number of livestock.

Kirby and others watched this large-scale team vigilantly. The sky was already dark, and hazy clouds shrouded the land, making it difficult for people to see far away.

At this moment, Yiqi rushed out and said loudly: "I am Yang Tong, and the five chiefs of the Xi clan are here!"

"I'll wait here. What instructions does the King of Qin have?" Kirby didn't understand what he meant, but he still responded loudly.

"We don't know how to graze, and we can't drive them away. Apart from these, there are more than 400 million animals in the back. Please, chiefs, pick up this group first, and then pick up the other group while it's still early!" Yang Tong finished. After that, backed away.

Thousands of cavalry who opened the way also rode their horses back to show they were harmless.

Unattended, the herd of cattle, which were faster than sheep, rushed towards the large army of the Xi clan. Although the herd's galloping was loose and slow, they fought continuously during the process, and the black hairs of the cattle ran freely, which seemed thrilling.

The flock of white sheep, however, undulates gently and swiftly. Seen in the black dust and yellow waves, there is another unique sentiment.

Black cows, white sheep... Horse neighing, cow howling, and sheep bleating mixed into a desolate and solemn music, like a hundred thousand troops marching forward.

A chief rolled his eyes and said loudly: "Warriors of the Yuanqi Zhebu, hurry up and catch the sheep, so as not to miss the time."

He Lian also said: "Warriors from the Yuling tribe, go to help a group of brothers from the Rilian tribe."

"Warrior of Okube..."

"Duji Department..."

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"..."

Seeing this, Kirby was in a hurry, and immediately ordered his subordinates to snatch the livestock: "Warriors of the Ahui Department, give me..."

Nomads take plundering as a major hobby, and over time they develop a greedy and selfish character.People in the same tribe can love each other, but they will show their greedy character everywhere towards people outside the tribe.

At this time, the five tribes of the Xi clan gave full play to their greedy nature. Tens of thousands of people looted the sheep. On the grassland, the sheep were the most popular and the most people robbed them.Frightened, the flock fled around. Everyone in the Xi tribe knew that sheep could not withstand the trampling of horses, so they all got off their horses to catch them.

The already chaotic team became even more chaotic under the rush of hundreds of thousands of sheep.

Kirby watched the [-] knights huddled together in a mess, and suddenly felt bad and shouted sharply: "Come back all, come back all of them."

The chiefs of the various tribes looked back puzzled.

Kebi said with tears in his voice: "The Sui army is deceitful! They want to kill us."

The chiefs were not idiots either, and shouted hoarsely, "Get on your horse and fight!"

However, their voices could not be heard amidst the neighing of horses, howling of cows, bleating of sheep and the din of more than [-] people.

"The time is ripe!"

At the same time, Yang Tong clamped the horse's belly, and the mount moved instantly. During the gallop, Yang Tong suddenly turned around on the horse, drew the bow, nocked the arrow, aimed, and fired the arrow in one go.

The bowstring sounds, the arrow is like lightning!Kirby was caught off guard and was shot through the chest by an arrow, and fell from his horse with a scream.

"Brother!" One person's eyes were tearing apart, before he could make a move, he followed in the footsteps of his elder brother.

Yang Tong, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and others are all archery masters, and together they performed a perfect beheading action on Khitan.

None of the five chiefs and dozens of Khitan nobles could escape the fate of falling from their horses. When Yang Tong began to execute the beheading operation, tens of thousands of Sui troops, under the command of Li Jing, rushed towards the chaotic Xi ​​clan army. .

Before the person arrived, he heard countless "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" piercing the air.Arrows all over the sky poured down towards the Xi clan like rain.

The densely packed arrows brought up a sharp and mournful cry, and the Xi clan soldiers and sheep fell one by one.In the dense rain of arrows, the Xi clan soldiers gathered in one place and formed a mess could not resist at all.

After shooting the arrows, the Sui army's drums were beating loudly, and the shouts of killing were loud, and they rushed from all directions to the soldiers of the Xi clan who had escaped the rain of arrows by chance.

Soldiers of the Sui army waved their weapons and galloped and killed by the Suotou River. The heads of the soldiers of the Xi nationality were chopped off and their spears pierced through their chests. A piece of hell on earth.

When it was dark, the bloody massacre gradually subsided, the Suotou River was stained red with blood, and corpses were scattered all over the south bank of the river!
(End of this chapter)