Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 588 Competing in the Central Plains (71)

half year later

Winter of the Sixth Year of Yan State 390 (606)
Lin Yiguo

"Hold it! Hold it up!"

The lord of Linyi asked his soldiers to hold on to the northern city and withstand the attack of the Sui army. He himself took dozens of concubines and countless treasures and fled frantically towards the southeast port, preparing to cross the sea by boat and go to Yanzhou. Spice Islands.

In the past few years, Lin Yiguo has listened to Yan Guo's conquest, and has continuously invaded the border of the Sui Dynasty to the north, captured cities, and plundered the population and wealth.

Finally, after the domestic reforms were basically completed, Yang Guang was able to free up his hands to clean up the remaining allies of the Yan State and prepare for the future decisive battle.

Considering that Linyi State was very hot and humid, Yang Guang followed Yang Su's suggestion and chose to go south in autumn. When he arrived in Linyi State, it happened to be winter. In this way, the soldiers of the Sui Army would be much less affected by the hot and humid climate.

With the gradual warming of the climate, the temperature at this moment has actually returned to the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the time when eunuchs and relatives were fighting for power.

Originally, Linyi was hot, and the weather got warmer, so it became even hotter.

Compared with the soldiers of the Sui Empire, the soldiers of Lin Yiguo had the only two advantages of being familiar with the terrain and adapting to the climate, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Sui army.

At the beginning, Linyi Kingdom was able to resist for a while, but when the Sui army paid a heavy price, traveled through many virgin forests, and finally reached the capital of Linyi Kingdom, the Lord of Linyi Kingdom instantly lost the courage to continue to resist.

1 Sui troops, more than 1000 casualties, most of them died of malaria on the road, many soldiers were burned to death, and more than 300 people were bitten to death by mosquitoes, and they were actually killed by Linyi people in battle , less than [-] people.

This is the main difficulty for the empire to expand its territory. The main difficulty in conquering the Central Plains is the strength of the enemy, and the main difficulty in conquering areas outside the Central Plains is various harsh terrains and climates.

As the Lord of Linyi fled on the ship of Yan State, the soldiers of Linyi State finally collapsed completely. They put down their weapons, opened the city gate, and knelt on the ground to welcome the Sui army.

After the soldiers of the Sui Army entered the city, they burned, killed and looted. It was not because of enmity with the people of Linyi. It was just a normal operation after the victory of the war. The army of this era is like this.

The gilded idols were transported away, and the beauties in the city were taken away. It was not until the officials sent by the imperial court arrived that order was restored here.

The local aborigines were demoted to serfs, and their fields were allocated to soldiers of the Sui army who had meritorious service and were willing to stay. These soldiers of the Sui army would become powerful here, and the local aborigines were their serfs.

If normal development is followed, the aborigines here will gradually be Sinicized in a few hundred years, because those who are not Sinicized have been slaughtered by warlords such as Sun Quan just like the Shanyue people.

At that time, this place will become the new homeland of the empire just like Yangzhou, and those sinicized aborigines will become mercenaries of the local warlords like the Danyang people, follow the imperial princes to the Central Plains to fight north and south, and become the leaders of the new dynasty. From the hero of the dragon.

This is how the history of Yangzhou in the Han Dynasty came about. Those so-called Danyang people, Shanyue people and other empires called barbarians were the natives of Yangzhou, while the Han people were foreigners who migrated from the north.

another month later

The fleet of Yan State arrived at the southernmost part of Linyi State, the southeast of Chenla State, and the east of Funan State-Mo area (Ca Mau Province, Vietnam), and planned to let Linyi State restore the country here and establish Linyi under Yan.

The reason why it is called the ink area is because there are tropical swamps all over the place, and the sea water next to it is as black as ink, so it was named ink by the country of Yan.

Regarding Chenla Kingdom and Funan Kingdom, Yan Kingdom did not have the idea of ​​wooing them into the alliance, mainly because they did not directly border the Sui Empire, and it was difficult for them to have military conflicts with the Sui Empire, so it was meaningless to join the alliance.

The Kingdom of Chenla and the Kingdom of Funan were also very clever. They paid tribute to the Kingdom of Sui and the Kingdom of Yan at the same time. The domestic culture was also dominated by Brahman culture, supplemented by Han culture.

It has to be said that although the strength of the body poison is not very good, the external cultural influence is very strong.

Summer of the eighth year of Yan State 390 (608)
Sui State
After allowing the people to recuperate for a year, Yang Guang started the war against Tuyuhun again.

"Tuyuhun invaded Hexi, and neglected my people, he deserves to be punished!"

"Besides, the Hehuang Valley is my homeland in the Central Plains. It was opened up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the past. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, it was stolen by the Xianbei. Today, I just regained my homeland!"

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Murong Xianbei had a civil war, and some Murong Xianbei tribes entered the Central Plains and belonged to the Jin Dynasty.

However, the Jin Dynasty had already been harassed by the frequent barbarian violence at that time, and did not dare to continue to accept the barbarians, so it directly moved the subordinate Murong Xianbei tribes to the Hehuang Valley to keep them away from the Central Plains.

Gradually, these Murong Xianbei who migrated to the Hehuang Valley conquered the local Qiang people and established Tuyuhun.

Compared with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yang Guang wants to rebuild the prosperous scene of the Central Plains Dynasty and all nations.

Eliminating Tuyuhun is only the first step, and the next step is to recover the Western Regions and rebuild the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

In the past two years, the Western Turkic Civil War ended, and the new Khan returned to the Western Regions to enslave the Western Regions again.

Countries in the Western Regions sent envoys to the Central Plains secretly, asking the Emperor of the Central Plains to help them expel the Turks.

another three months later

One hundred thousand infantry and cavalry soldiers from the Sui Dynasty marched westward to Tuyuhun, and at the same time sent envoys to demand that the Western Turks become ministers and pay tribute.

The Western Turks categorically refused, and formed an alliance with Tuyuhun to jointly attack the Hexi Corridor of the Sui Empire.

After another year of fierce fighting, Tuyuhun destroyed the country, and the royal family and many nobles fled south to the hinterland of the snow-covered plateau.

Taking advantage of the great victory, the Sui army went westward and captured Gaochang, Shanshan, Cheshi, Qiemo and other countries, and shared the Western Regions with the Western Turks.

At this time, Sassanid Persia took the opportunity of the Northern Expedition to recover the lost ground and played a wave of perfect cooperation.

The Western Turks were attacked from two sides. The Sui Empire wanted to rob him of the Western Regions, and Sasanian Persia wanted to rob him of the Tocharian area.

After thinking for a long time, the Western Turks finally surrendered to the Sui Empire and paid tribute to the Sui State. In this way, the threat from the Central Plains was temporarily resolved, and they could wholeheartedly compete with Sasanian Persia for Tocharia.

At this time, the time has come to the winter of the ninth year of 390 (609) in Yan State.

In the past three years, Yan State did not do nothing, but continued to send navy to plunder along the coast of Sui State, plundering people and supplies, but for the huge Sui Empire, it was just not painful.

The countermeasure given by Yang Guang was to issue the [Forbidden Sea Order]: All trade with the Yan State is prohibited, no boards are allowed to enter the sea, and all coastal people move inward for fifty miles.

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The rulers of the Sui Empire, in order to deal with the pirate harassing tactics of the empire on which the sun never sets, had to order a sea ban, known in history as "closing the country". ——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)