Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 691 Thanks
The next day, the Turkic troops divided into eight groups and charged towards the Sui army's positions. The eight-pronged army came from eight directions, but none of them came towards Yang Ming's Chinese army.

Because Jie Li's purpose this time was to test and see how many troops Yang Ming had.

Knowing yourself and your enemy will lead to victory in any battle. If you don't even have a rough estimate of the opponent's strength, you will never rush into a decisive battle.

In fact, Jie Li felt guilty. He didn't believe that Ge Qian was finished. If Ge Qian was not finished, there shouldn't have been so many Sui troops heading north. So this time of testing was to judge how Ge Qian was doing. .

If the Sui army was really as large as the fortresses they deployed, then Geqian would be in trouble. As his internal correspondent in Hebei, he was finished, basically declaring that Jieli's strategy of going south to the Central Plains was aborted.

He was testing it, but Lai Hu'er didn't know it. Lai Hu'er thought this was a decisive battle, so he prepared carefully and ordered Su Lie, Yang Yuanqing, Pei Xingyan, Lai Zheng, Yang Xuanting, Hou Junji, Xu Shiji, and Han Shi'er to avoid the eight-pronged cavalry. The enemy troops were launched to attack, and then infantry was used to meet the enemy. The cavalry provided cover and support, and Jieli's Eighth Route Army was released.

Kang Sheoli was the first to blow the retreat horn halfway, because his eyes had clearly seen how large the Sui army was.

What the hell, what is going on with Geqian? Has the main force of the Sui army been brought in?
He ran fast, but others didn't react this way.

Jieli's younger brother Yu Gushe, his cavalry had already made a charge, and it was as difficult as Maguire's to turn around, so he could only bite the bullet and charge for a while, and then wait for an opportunity to turn.

Laizheng would not give him this chance. He directly cut off Yugushe's cavalry in the middle like a knife. Those who were still behind were ignored. Those who had already entered the range of the crossbow were killed by Laizheng and Zhang Dinghe. The infantry attacked and was eaten like this. Yu Gushe was chopped into pieces.

Lai Hu'er was not good at defense, but this time he did not use miscellaneous soldiers, but the elites of the Central Guards, the left and right guards of the East Palace, the Luoyang garrison, and the Hedong soldiers. In the Sui Dynasty, together with the left and right Yiwei and the left and right guards, Not much worse.

The quality of the soldiers is too high, which will undoubtedly improve Laihuer's defensive ability. If you put Maldini, Cannavaro, and Cafu in the back line, and if you let Li Tie be the coach, it will not be easy to lose.

This tentative attack by the Turks resulted in heavy losses. 6000 people were thrown on the battlefield, never to return.

Lai Hu'er did not stop there, but directed the army to move forward. This is called taking advantage of your illness to kill you. He was good at organizing large groups to fight, and he was one of the few people in the Sui Dynasty who had this ability.

Li Jing is not good enough now, and Xu Shiji is even less good.

Jie Li was already panicking. Zhao Deyan advised him to stay away for now, but he didn't listen, because the Turks valued warriors, and he had not completely controlled the East Turks yet. If he ran away like this, his face would be damaged when he returned, and there would be unrest within the royal court. .

The Turks are not afraid of defeat, but they are afraid that you will not fight.

So Jieli commanded the army and advanced across the board. A large-scale decisive battle on the plains was staged in Zhuojun.

The sound of killing shook the sky, and blood flowed freely.

This decisive battle lasted for two days and two nights. On the Sui side, Chen Junbin, Xiong Bao, Han Xiaoji, and Lai Hong died in the battle.

The Turks were defeated. Three leaders, Sunishi, Chijishe, and Simo, were killed in the battle. Sijie Qijin and Kangsumi were captured. Jieli led thousands of remaining troops and fled to the direction of Yanshan.

Chief Mohe Tudiji surrendered, and the Khitan army fled northeast.

In this battle, 5000 Eastern Turks were killed and 3000 were captured, with the rest fleeing in all directions.

As Gao Kaidao arrived at Juma River with Ge Qian's head, the Hebei Rebellion ended completely.

General Su Lie led Liang Shidu, Luo Shixin, Qin Shubao, and Cheng Yaojin across the Yanshan Mountains and went deep into the grassland to pursue Jie Li.

On September 21, the army went north and entered Ji County, the capital of Zhuo County. Yang Ming sent an order to Luoyang Dugu Compilation to immediately dispatch ships to go north along the canal. During the time when the ships arrived at Zhuo County, the army would rest here and then go south along the river. , Sweeping Shandong and Jiangnan.

In the Zhuo County Sheriff's Mansion, the generals were in a good mood. Yang Ming ordered the people to offer wine and meat to reward the three armies.

These people are not ordinary people. The ordinary people have no wine or meat in their homes. They are mainly the landlord class. To put it bluntly, Yang Ming changed from robbing landlords to asking for landlords.

If I ask for it from you, but if you don’t give it, the people below will definitely take it away from you, so you’d better be more decent.

The soldiers have won a great victory. You must give them some benefits, no matter how little. After all, everyone wants a benefit.

It will be very troublesome if you cannot appease the soldiers under your command.

"How do you think we should deal with this person?" Yang Ming sat on the main seat and smiled at everyone.

He was talking about Gao Kaidao. Yang Ming was quite polite to Gao Kaidao and gave him a cushion to sit in the middle of the lobby.

Gao Kaidao didn't feel embarrassed and sat down as soon as he could. He felt that he must be dead. Then the death row inmates in the prison were given a good meal before they died. I couldn't sit down for a while?

The hall was filled with high-ranking generals, more than 100 people, all of whom had just come off the battlefield and looked fierce.

Yang Xuanzang can now sit up and no longer needs to lie down. He sneered:

"I thought that if we hold Ge Qian's head, we will spare him. This man's brain is not very good."

The third child, Xuan Ting, laughed: "What the second brother said is that if his brain is not working well, he will not appear here. I think this person is very smart. Are you right, Lord Qi?"

Gao Shengdao also came. He was the one with the most complicated mood in the whole hall. His younger brother Gao Biaoren and his son Gao Zhan also looked ashamed and hung their heads.

Gao Shida of Xindu County also surrendered and is currently being guarded outside.Faced with Xuanting's ridicule, Gao Shengdao looked at Yang Ming and said with shame, "It's all my fault. I failed to restrain the children of my clan. I'm willing to take the blame."

Yang Ming smiled: "Shengdao's prestige within the clan is not enough to be the head of the family. When they elected you, you should have guessed that they were setting a trap for you. It is difficult for an upright official to handle household affairs. You At most, it’s a crime of lax family tradition.”

When Gao Zhan heard that the prince had exonerated his father, he quickly pointed at Gao Kaidao and cursed: "You were promoted by my grandfather and entrusted with important tasks by my grandfather. How could you do such a treasonous thing? Harm my relatives."

Gao Kaidao and Gao Shida were both trained by Gao Xi, so there were many voices in the capital complaining about Gao Xi during the Hebei Rebellion.

Although Gao Xi did not say anything bad about Yang Guang in front of his clan members, Gao Shida and Gao Kaidao both knew that Gao Xi was unhappy with the emperor and complained very much, and they had inherited Gao Xi's resentment.

Gao Kaidao was also a smart man. When faced with the rebuke, he looked aggrieved and said, "I was also bewitched by the thief, so I made this big mistake. Fortunately, I regretted it in time, so that the river would not turn into a river of blood."

If you commit a serious crime, you must not admit it. No matter what kind of punishment you receive, you must not admit it, because this is not a matter of death, but a matter of how many deaths.

If you dare to admit the crime of treason, you will destroy your three clans.

As long as your mouth bites you to death, someone will help you get rid of the crime. If you can, die as little as possible.

Gao Kaidao had forty adopted sons among the rebels, but his biological son was hiding in his hometown of Beixian County. He changed his name just to deal with today's situation.

In ancient times, people were not afraid of the death of their wives, but they were afraid of the death of their sons.

"The chaos in Hebei has settled. I think Hebei needs to be appeased, and the fewer dead people, the better," Lai Hu'er said.

People saw that Yang Ming would not completely wipe out the old Gao family, and to be honest, too many people had died in Hebei. It was time for the sword to stop. If we could not kill, let's not kill anymore.

His intention was not to let Gao Kaidao go. Gao Kaidao was bound to die, so how many of those implicated by Gao Kaidao could be killed or not could be discussed.

Yang Ming nodded, looked at Goldman Sachs and said, "How many sons does he have?"

Gao Kaidao was immediately shocked and looked at his clan brother, hoping that the other party would protect him.

But Goldman Sachs, how could it be possible to deceive Yang Ming?
"Four sons and two daughters," Goldman replied honestly.

Gao Kaidao's face was ashen, and he closed his eyes.

"Not only the children, but also the three tribes, no one can be spared this time," Zhang Dinghe said: "Killing such a thief is not enough to anger the common people."

Pei Xingyan, who was injured, gritted his teeth and said, "I would say, except for the Dugu Gong lineage, all the other families should have been wiped out."

Gao Biaoren's mouth twitched, are you trying to destroy my family?
Dou Jiande took a deep breath, stood up and said: "The general will think that Gao Kaidao's surrender is a meritorious service and avoids fighting in the river. He can be exempted from his crime as appropriate."

"It is surrender after all. The treatment is too harsh and will not be conducive to our army's march south," Xue Shou also suggested.

"You fart!" Yang Yuanqing said: "This is called surrender? When a turtle crawls out of an urn, this is surrender. Just one word makes a huge difference."

Xue Shou rolled his eyes immediately: "Dalang, can we stop swearing?"

This is Yang Yuanqing's speaking habit. Everyone has become accustomed to it and won't care about it, because they all know that Yuan Qing is not really scolding, but just a catchphrase.

Gao Kaidao surrendered with one hundred thousand rebels and a lot of generals. If you deal with him too harshly, the people below may think too much.

But if you don't deal with it harshly, it won't work. After all, this is a handsome thief.

Even though Ge Qian is the king, everyone knows that Ge Qian is just a puppet.

Dou Jiande in history cannot be killed because the people he rebelled against belonged to the Yang family and had nothing to do with Li Yuan. Li Yuan could have kept him as an idle errand to appease Hebei, but this life is different. They are all rebels against Lao Yang. , and the Yang family has not yet fallen, so Gao Kaidao will not be allowed to survive.

After Yang Ming pondered for a moment, he said: "Keep his eldest son alive, the remaining sons will be killed, the two daughters will be demoted to slaves, and the others will not be held accountable."

"Your Highness," a group of people stood up to persuade Yang Ming. They felt that Yang Ming was too gentle.

Yang Ming also has his own considerations. Jiangnan, Shandong, has not calmed down yet. You were too harsh in Hebei. If you go to Jiangnan in the future, no one may be willing to surrender.

This is a time of war, and some things need to be handled with caution.

"I have decided to be alone. There is no need to persuade anymore. Gao Kaidao will show his head to the public and spread the news to the capital." Yang Ming looked at Gao Kaidao and said: "All the generals under your command, including those with the surname Gao, will be killed. The rest will be exempted as appropriate and no harm will be done to them." Descendants.”

Gao Kaidao gritted his teeth and kowtowed heavily towards Yang Ming:
"The Bohai Sea is clearing the way, thank you."

Yang Ming left him an eldest son, which was a kindness. He would not have to annihilate his descendants, and he could rest in peace.

(End of this chapter)