Heavenly Martial Arts - 125. Chapter 125 Guanlong Nobles (for the lord of war Arisgar 2

“Your Majesty, now Goguryeo retreats to the opposite bank of the Liaohe River, defending against danger, it is difficult for our army to cross the river.” A general in Yang Guang’s imperial camp said anxiously.

Yang Guang, dressed in golden armor, sitting in the tent with a sword holding his sword, sternly shouted: “Huh, I have a million masters, enough to overwhelm the world, and a small Liaohe River also wants to stop our army’s footsteps, spread my will, and all the army lays down. The pontoon bridge crosses the Liao River, hits the Liaodong city directly, and captures King Goryeo alive.”

All the people knelt together: “Please follow the sacred parable.”

“Okay, I will personally go to the frontline warlord, and all Aiqing will walk with me.” Yang Guang suddenly got up, his eyes were very firm.

He Heng and Wang Zhiyuan accompanied them to a place thirty miles away on the west bank of the Liaohe River, and looked at the opposite bank on a high platform.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Sui army were on the west bank of the Liaohe River, and the floating bridge was almost halfway there. At this time, there was a bang from the Korean army.

Sui Jun bravely went to the water to fight with the Goguryeo army, and at the same time erected a pontoon bridge. The battle was extremely fierce, and thousands of people fell under the water of the Liao River.

Goguryeo was on the east bank of the Liaohe River. The terrain was relatively high, and it was already occupied from a condescending position. Moreover, the Sui army confronted it when the pontoon was halfway erected. The opponent’s timing was very accurate. It was the time when the Sui army was weakest and the damage was extremely heavy.

As for Yang Guang, he was extremely anxious when he saw the situation of the battle. He saw that some soldiers retreated to the West Bank with fear in their hearts. He immediately furiously said: “Proclaim my will, whoever takes a step back, make a decision! Within three days, it will be necessary to break through. This Liaohe.”

The generals did not dare to refuse, and then they desperately tried to fight to the other side of the Liao River. Pontoon bridges continued to be erected, and batches of soldiers died. However, Yang Guang continued to send more soldiers and horses, vowing to grind off the Liao River with a large number of people.

“Oh, this move hurts the heavens, Immeasurable Tianzun.” Wang Zhiyuan sighed, a little unbearable.

He Heng looked at the Liaohe coldly, without speaking.

“Report, General Youtunwei and Doctor Zuo Guanglu Mai Tiezhang died in battle!” A soldier said with a sad expression on his face.

“I see, I will bury him generously and comfort his family.” Yang Guang’s expression remained unchanged.

“Report, Wu Benlang killed Qian Shixiong in battle!” A general soon came in with a calm face.

Yang Guang still doesn’t change his face: “The burial is thick, and the family members are treated kindly.”

Before long, another general of the Sui Army, Meng Jincha, died in battle, and Yang Guang’s expression remained unchanged.

Many Sui army generals fought bravely and suffered heavy casualties. With their own sacrifices and the blood of more than 30,000 soldiers, they finally erected the pontoon bridge and the Sui army passed the Liao River smoothly.

When He Heng and Wang Zhi crossed the river far, the water of the river was bright red, full of bones.

Wang Zhiyuan silently recites the Hou Tu Rebirth Sutra, saving the souls of the dead.

He Heng turned his gaze to the other side. The Sui Army was fighting the Korean Army in Dong’an.

Looking at the accumulated corpses under Hexia, Wang Zhiyuan said worriedly: “Junior Brother, you said that if Yang Guang continues to fight like this, even if he wins Goguryeo, he will probably hurt his own vitality. Is it worth it? He shouldn’t be so reckless!”

He Heng smiled coldly: “For a king, it doesn’t matter how many people die, what is important is that his own goals have not been achieved.”

“Junior Brother, I don’t quite understand what you are saying?” Wang Zhiyuan frowned.

He Heng looked at the tens of thousands of Sui Army’s bones under the bridge and said coldly: “Brother, have you noticed, Sui Jun’s pioneers this time are all from the Longxi area.”

Wang Zhiyuan’s expression was startled, and he suddenly said: “Junior Brother, what do you mean is that Yang Guang knows that this kind of battle will cause a lot of damage to his own side, so his original intention is to use Goguryeo’s hands to weaken the strength of the Guanlong nobles.”

He Heng nodded and said, “That’s right, haven’t you noticed it? Is it Yu Wenshu who is leading the army to fight with the Goryeo army now!”

The so-called Guanlong aristocracy is a very powerful political group in this era.

It was the power of powerful landlords in Longxi and Hedong. In the battle between the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, those powerful landlords belonged to Yuwentai, the ancestor of the Northern Zhou imperial family. In order to unify the military commanders of the six northern towns and the Guanlonghao clan, Yuwentai formed the Guanlong military aristocratic group with the Eight Pillars as the core, the generals and the Kaifu as the main members, and the military system as the basis. It is called Guanlong Group. According to later generations, this is a group built by armed forces and combined with Hu and Han.

The royal families of the Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties were all born in this system.

The so-called Eight Pillar Kingdom refers to the eight people Yu Wentai, Yuan Xin, Li Hu, Li Bi, Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, Duguxin, and Hou Mo Chen Chong.

Among them, Li Hu and Li Bi are Li Yuan’s father and grandfather, and Duguxin is Yang Guang’s grandfather.

In this world, among the four main gates, three can be said to be from this force.

From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, this force can be said to have been controlling the rise and fall of the world. No matter which emperor came from it, it was not until the time of Wu Zetian that with the efforts of predecessors to boil frogs in warm water, this noble force was wiped out in one fell swoop.

Yang Guang himself also came from the Guanlong Group, but as an ambitious monarch, he was not willing to be swayed, so he wanted to eliminate this power.

The so-called imperial examination system was born to fight against the noble clans with the power of ordinary people, and the representative of this noble clans was the Guanlong Group.

The establishment of the Sui Dynasty was largely supported by the Guanlong Group, and they were fundamentally dependent on this force. Even if Emperor Wen Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian and Yang Guang were both a generation of heroes, it would be very difficult to disintegrate this group. .

It has been nearly 30 years since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, but Yang Guang still can’t stop this power.

Another important goal of Yang Guang’s expedition to Goguryeo was to continue this battle and consume the vital power of the Guanlong Group.

Historically, this move by him has succeeded and failed. The success lies in his behavior that really made the Guanlong Group go downhill, laying the foundation for the three generations of the Tang Dynasty monarchs and the centuries of efforts to break the Guanlong Group in one fell swoop.了基。 The foundation.

The failure was that his move also completely broke the Guanlong Group with it. When he was successful in his second expedition to Goguryeo, the Guanlong Group sent Yang Xuangan to rebel, which made him have to return to help. The result was instant. After the death, the national power was greatly consumed. After three conquests of Goguryeo, it was no longer able to suppress the world, and the Sui Dynasty was destroyed.

Li Tang was another representative of Guanlong Group launched in Yang Suzhihou, who swallowed the Sui Dynasty and put the world under the control of Guanlong Group again.

But Yang Guang’s actions also consumed a lot of power in the Guanlong Group. After the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, the Guanlong Group was no longer able to fight against the Shandong Group of the new sound. With the efforts of the three emperors of Li and Tang, it was wiped out bit by bit until the female emperor Wu Zetian. At that time, it was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the shining Guanlong Group completely disappeared.

And in this world, Yang Guang still has the opportunity to fight with Goguryeo to kill the idea of the Guanlong Group. The few generals who have just died and tens of thousands of soldiers are all members of the Guanlong Group. Now they are fighting against Goguryeo. Yu Wenshu is also a member of the Guanlong Group.

Yang Guang was using Goguryeo’s knife to dig out the meat of the Guanlong Group. For this reason, he deliberately went to the front line to supervise and never gave the Guanlong Group any chance to steal the merits.

“It’s just that the rabbit bites when the rabbit is anxious, but Yang Guang is a little too anxious this time, I’m afraid that the Guanlong Group dog jumps over the wall in a hurry.” He Heng sighed suddenly when he looked over the battlefield in the distance.

Wang Zhiyuan also sighed. I don’t know if he was sighing for the Guanlong Group or Yang Guang, or because of the countless lives killed and wounded in this war. They shouldn’t have died like this. It’s just that the superiors sacrificed them for their own power.

On the distant river bank, fierce fighting continued. Both the Sui Army and the Gaoli Army had a tendency to kill red eyes. The Sui Army suffered heavy casualties, coupled with Yang Guang’s strict orders and heavy rewards, one by one. The Goguryeo army is defending their homeland. For them, the Sui army is a group of hateful invaders, invading their country, killing their relatives, and occupying their land. Naturally, they must rise up to resist.

Hundreds of thousands of troops collided here, the sound of fighting resounded across the sky, weapons and blood were intertwined, and countless lives were dying. The ground was wailing and roaring endlessly, inch by inch of beacon flames burned, spreading for hundreds of miles, and blood stained the ground.

In the end, the Sui Army had many generals and sufficient preparations. In this open area, the Goryeo Army was far from being an opponent. In a short time, it was killed by tens of thousands of people. Here, relying on the strong city wall to block the Sui army, Yang Guang ordered the large army regiment to surround the Liaodong city, cut off its water and food, and then ordered the siege of the city.