All Heavens Immortal Martial Arts

"Your Majesty, now Goguryeo has retreated to the other side of the Liaohe River and is defending against danger. It is difficult for our army to cross the river." A general in Yang Guang's imperial camp said worriedly.

Yang Guang, dressed in golden armor, sat in the tent with a sword in his hand, and shouted: "Hmph, my great Sui Xiongshi is one million, enough to overwhelm the world, even a mere Liao River wants to stop our army's footsteps. Cross the Liaohe River with the pontoon bridge, hit Liaodong City directly, and capture the King of Goryeo alive."

Everyone knelt down together: "Follow the holy scriptures."

"Okay, I want to go to the front line to supervise the army in person, and you Aiqing will walk with me." Yang Guang stood up suddenly, his eyes very firm.

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

Tens of thousands of Sui troops were crowded on the west bank of the Liaohe River, and they were almost halfway through setting up a pontoon bridge. At this time, a drum beating suddenly resounded in the Goryeo army, and tens of thousands of troops took advantage of the situation to attack and fight with the Sui army on the Liaohe River.

The Sui army bravely went to the water to fight against the Goguryeo army, and at the same time was erecting a pontoon bridge.

Goguryeo is on the east bank of the Liaohe River, with a high terrain, and it has already occupied a favorable geographical position. Moreover, the Sui army confronted it when the pontoon was halfway up.

And Yang Guang here, seeing the situation of the battle, is also very anxious, seeing some of the soldiers in fear, retreating to the West Bank, he immediately said angrily: "Pass my will, take a step back, be executed! Within three days, you must step through. This Liaohe."

The generals did not dare to disobey, and immediately fought desperately to the other side of the Liao River. The pontoon bridges were continuously erected, and groups of soldiers died.

"Alas, this move will hurt Tianhe, Boundless Tianzun." Wang Zhiyuan sighed, feeling a little unbearable.

He Heng looked at Liaohe coldly, without saying a word.

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

"I know, bury him thickly and comfort his family." Yang Guang's expression did not change.

"Report, Wu Benlang killed Qian Shixiong in battle!" A general quickly came in with a sullen face.

Yang Guang still didn't change his face: "Bury it thickly, and the family will treat it well."

Not long after, 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 sacrifice and the blood of more than 30,000 soldiers, the pontoon bridge was finally erected, and the Sui army passed the Liaohe River smoothly.

When He Heng and Wang Zhiyuan crossed the river, the water was bright red and filled with corpses.

Wang Zhiyuan silently recited the Sutra of Rebirth in the Later Earth to save the soul of the dead.

He Heng turned his attention to the other side, where the Sui army was fighting against the Goryeo army in Dongan.

Looking at the corpses accumulated under the river, Wang Zhiyuan said worriedly: "Junior brother, you said, if Yang Guang continues to fight like this, even if he wins Goguryeo, I am afraid that his vitality will be greatly damaged, is it worth it? He shouldn't be so reckless!"

He Heng sneered: "For a king, it doesn't matter how many people die, the important thing is that his own purpose has not been achieved."

"I don't quite understand what you said, Junior Brother?" Wang Zhiyuan frowned.

He Heng looked at the bones of the tens of thousands of Sui soldiers under the bridge, and said coldly, "Brother, have you noticed that the pioneers of the Sui army this time are all from the Longxi area."

Wang Zhiyuan was startled, and suddenly said: "Junior brother, what do you mean, Yang Guang knows that fighting like this will cause a lot of damage to his side, so his original intention is to use the hand of Goguryeo to weaken the strength of the Guanlong nobles."

He Heng nodded and said, "That's right, didn't you find out that Yu Wenshu is the one leading the troops to fight with the Gaoli army now!"

The so-called Guanlong nobles were a powerful political group in this era.

It was the power of the 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 royal family. In order to unify the military commanders of the six northern towns and the Guanlong aristocracy, Yuwentai formed a Guanlong military aristocratic group with the Bazhu Kingdom as the core, the generals and Kaifu as the main members, and the Fubing system as the basis. It is called Guanlong Group. In later generations, this is a group established by armed forces and combining Hu and Han.

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

The so-called eight-pillar country refers to the eight people Yu Wentai, Yuan Xin, Li Hu, Li Bi, Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, Dugu Xin, 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 major sects, it can be said that there are three from this faction.

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, until the time of Wu Zetian, with the efforts of the predecessors to boil frogs, this aristocratic force was swept away in one fell swoop.

Yang Guang himself is also from the Guanlong Group, but as an ambitious monarch, he is not willing to be swayed by it, so he wants to eliminate this force.

The so-called imperial examination system was originally born to fight against the gentry with the power of ordinary poor families, and the representative of this gentry is the Guanlong Group.

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

It has been nearly thirty years since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, but Yang Guang is still consuming this power.

Another important purpose of Yang Guang's expedition to Goguryeo this time is to continue this battle and consume the living strength of the Guanlong Group.

In history, this move of his has both been successful and failed. The success lies in that his actions have indeed made the Guanlong Group go downhill, laying the foundation for the subsequent three generations of monarchs of the Tang Dynasty, with a hundred years of hard work, to dismantle the Guanlong Group in one fell swoop. foundation.

The failure is that his move also caused the Guanlong Group to completely break with it. When it was successful in its second expedition to Goguryeo, the Guanlong Group sent Yang Xuangan to rebel, so he had to return to help, and the victory was instantaneous. After being buried, the national power that was consumed a lot was lost. After three conquests of Goguryeo, it was no longer able to suppress the world, and the Sui Dynasty was destroyed.

Li Tang is another representative of the Guanlong Group launched after Yang Suzhi, who engulfed the Sui Dynasty and brought the world back under the control of the Guanlong Group.

However, Yang Guang's actions also consumed a lot of power of Guanlong Group. After the annihilation of Sui Dynasty, Guanlong Group was unable to fight against Xinsheng's Shandong Group. With the efforts of the three emperors of Li and Tang Dynasty, it was consumed little by little until the empress Wu Zetian. At that time, it was destroyed by one action, and the Guanlong Group, which was once illustrious, completely disappeared.

In this world, Yang Guang is still taking the opportunity of the battle of Goguryeo to kill the Guanlong Group's idea. The few generals who just died and tens of thousands of soldiers are all from the Guanlong Group. Now they are fighting against Goguryeo. Yu Wenshu is also a member of Guanlong Group.

Yang Guang is using the knife of Goguryeo to dig the flesh 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.

"It's just that the rabbit was in a hurry and bit people, but Yang Guang was a little too anxious this time. He was afraid that the Guanlong Group would jump over the wall." He Heng looked at the distant battlefield and sighed.

Wang Zhiyuan also sighed, not knowing whether he was sighing for the Guanlong Group or Yang Guang, or the countless lives lost and wounded in this war. They should not have died like this, but the superiors sacrificed them for their own power.

On the far bank of the river, the fierce battle continued. Both the Sui army and the Gaoli army had a tendency to kill red eyes. The Sui army was killed because of the heavy casualties, coupled with Yang Guang's strict orders and heavy rewards. The Goguryeo army was defending its own homeland, and it was only for them. The Sui army was a group of hateful invaders. They invaded their country, killed their relatives, and occupied their land. Naturally, they had to rise up and resist.

Hundreds of thousands of troops collided here, the sound of fighting resounded in the sky, weapons and blood were intertwined, and countless lives were dying. The mourning and roaring of the earth continued, and the beacon fires burned every inch, spreading for hundreds of miles, and blood stained the ground.

In the end, the Sui army had a large number of soldiers and sufficient preparations. In this open area, the Koryo army was far from an opponent. They were killed by tens of thousands of people in a short period of time. In desperation, they had to retreat and retreated into Liaodong City. There, relying on the solid city wall to stop the Sui army, Yang Guang ordered a large army to surround Liaodong City, cut off its water and food, and then ordered a siege.