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Chapter 1 Expedition to the Turks

[It has reached the second place in the new book, so I beg for recommendation votes].















On January 17, Emperor Yang Jian of Sui worshiped heaven and earth, sacrificed to Mazu in the north, and personally taught the three armies the talismans. The Sui Dynasty army divided into three groups and marched out of the frontier. The Left Pushe Gao Bing was the general of the middle route, leading 50,000 troops to go out of the frontier, the Right Pushe Yang Su was the general of the west route, leading 100,000 troops to go out of the Lingwu route, Yan Rong, the Shangzhu Kingdom, was the general of the east route, and led 50,000 troops to go out of the Youzhou route, and appointed Yang Liang, the King of Han, as the marshal of the Northern Expedition, and led the three armies from afar.

This was the first large-scale counterattack against the Turks since the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, marking the transition from passive defense to active attack, opening the prelude to the Sui Dynasty's comprehensive counterattack against the Turks.

This time, the Sui Dynasty used 200,000 troops and 160,000 war horses, which was already 20% of the permanent troops of the Sui Dynasty, and were all elite troops guarding the capital.

In addition to various logistics supplies, the counties piled up mountains of food and grass, and countless horse-drawn carriages were requisitioned. The logistics civilians mobilized alone reached one million, and an average of five civilians would need to provide logistics assistance for one soldier.

The war fought for national strength. It was the time when the Sui Dynasty was at its peak. The abundant materials accumulated by major official warehouses were difficult to bear in all dynasties. Even more than 20 years after the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, the Sui Dynasty had not yet used up.

The 100,000 troops on the west road set out in the morning. General Zhou Luohu was the vanguard and led 5,000 elite cavalry to advance first. The remaining troops were divided into front, central and rear troops, and marched westward, and extended for more than twenty miles together with the baggage, food and grass of the accompanying army.

The soldiers' wives and children all went out of the city to see each other off, with cars and horses and horses and arrows on their waists. My wife and wife walked out to see each other off, and the dust was gone and Xianyang Bridge was gone.

















Yang Yuanqing's height is no different from that of ordinary soldiers. It is difficult to see in the team that he is just a half-year-old boy. He rode a pure white tall horse and named it Baiyunju.

The Baiyunjiao was given by his grandfather Yang Su. It was an Yili horse that was tributed by Gaochang Kingdom. The war horse was snow-white, strong in body, slender and powerful in all fours, and was especially good at long distances. This horse was seen by Yang Yuanqing from more than 100 horses.

He was dressed as Yang Su's personal soldiers, wearing a black bright light armor, an eagle-edged helmet, a round shield and a pot of feather arrows on his back, and a stone-like bow hanging on his saddle, a horizontal knife on his left waist, and a three-foot-long short sword under his right waist. This was given to him by Yang Jian's Golden Lin sword, named because the sword handle was a golden unicorn, but it was by no means a decoration, but an extremely sharp battle sword.

This is one of Yang Jian's beloved Nine Swords. He was given to him by Yang Yuanqing's life-saving grace. Even his grandfather Yang Su did not have such honor.

Yang Su's personal guards used standard horse lances, while the rest of his personal soldiers used spears, but he used a fine steel goose feather knife, which was 10 feet long and 30 kilograms long. It was made of Zhang Xutuo's long sword.

With a horse and a sword, Yang Yuanqing was named Renyong's Captain, but this was just a kind of scattered officer, not an actual military position. He had no soldiers under his command, but was organized into Yang Su's personal regiment, following the commander Yang Su. The personal guards beside Yang Su were 4,000 heavy cavalrymen of the Fourth Regiment, and were the most elite troops of the Sui Army. In addition to guarding Yang Su himself, there were also a group of civilian officers such as the Chief Shi, Sima, Records, Merit, Cang, Bing, and Cavalry Cao.

The Sui Dynasty army implemented the system of government troops in normal times, but during wartime, the army was reorganized, with the army as the combat unit, with 16,000 troops in one army, of which 8,000 infantry, two thousand people in a regiment; 4,000 cavalry, one thousand people in a regiment; there were 4,000 baggage soldiers, and one thousand people in a regiment.

The downward organization is a team of hundreds of people, ten people are one fire, and the military positions are the chief of fire, hundreds of people are the chief of fire, Yi Tong, partial general, secondary general, general, and general, with clear ranks.

Yang Su led a hundred thousand troops, that is, the six armies, and his own 4,000 personal soldiers, exactly one hundred thousand.

Due to the urgent battle situation, the army marched extremely fast. The next day, the army entered Fufeng County.

"Yuan Qing, are you in a better mood?"

When Yang Su saw his grandson Yang Yuanqing remained silent for a day, she knew it was because she was crying sadly with her wet nurse and sister when she saw her off yesterday. In fact, it was not only Yang Yuanqing, but almost all the soldiers who came to see her off were immersed in the sadness of parting. It was difficult to return to normal without a day or two.

Yang Su is already commonplace in such scenes, and he doesn't care. It's just that Yang Yuanqing is his grandson, so he pays special attention to it.

He smiled and patted Yang Yuanqing on the shoulder, "When you go for a walk with the scout team, maybe you will feel better."

In fact, Yang Yuanqing's mood had returned to normal. He was about to say that he was okay, but when his grandfather asked him to patrol with the scout camp, he immediately changed his mind and nodded repeatedly, "The grandson is willing to go!"

Yang Su laughed and ordered a personal soldier beside him, "Take him to the Second Scout Regiment of the First Army and ask General Zhao to teach him well."

The personal soldiers nodded and agreed, "Little General, come with me!"

Yang Yuanqing began to feel excited, and the sorrow of parting was left behind. He whipped the horse hard and "Hold!" and followed the personal soldiers toward the other side.

Yang Su nodded slightly at his back. This child looked quite like King Wei Yang Shuang. Yang Shuang went to war with the army for the first time. She was twelve years old. She was ambitious. Unfortunately, God was jealous of talent, which made King Wei die early. I hope his grandson can be safe and trained to become a talent in the army.

"The Prime Minister Yang, letting Sun go to war with the army as a young man, is commendable!" An officer in his thirties and a thin face sighed.

Yang Su glanced at the officer talking beside him. It was Yu Wen Shu's son Yu Wen Shu. Yu Wen Shu served as a pre-market Qianniu on the left-leading military commander. He was already a sixth-rank military post. This time Yu Wen Shu was forced to Yang Su by his father Yu Wen Shu.

Although he accepted it for the sake of face, Yang Su always led the troops without any ambiguity. He did not give Yu Wen and the military post, but instead asked him to be a military counselor, which means giving advice.

Yu Wenji also readily accepted this false position. He went to the Great Wall to participate in the war for gold coating. He was so delicate and expensive that he could really go to the battlefield. Yu Wen Shu was afraid that he would be in danger, so she specially sent his Yuwen Shisan Taibao to protect him.

"General Yuwen is too rewarded. He is just a young man. If the emperor had not approved it, I would never have let him go to the battlefield."

Yang Su smiled faintly, but glanced at the thirteen silver-armored knights not far away, that is, the famous Yuwen Thirteen Taibao beside Yuwen Shu. They were the thirteen elite soldiers selected by Yuwen Shu from tens of thousands of troops under him, all of whom were extremely brave. Yuwen Shu accepted them as the adopted sons of Moeh, and according to the old customs of the Xianbei, they all changed their surname to Yuwen.

Yang Su was quite interested in these thirteen Taibaos. Coincidentally, Yang Su also had eighteen personal guards, known as the Eighteen Iron Shadow Cavalry. These eighteen cavalry were also elite selected by Yang Su from more than 100,000 troops. Each of them could fight against him for many years. He followed him for many years and gave up on him, just like his shadow.

Yang Su always had a thought, who is more powerful, the Tieshaw Eighteen Cavalry and the Yuwen Thirteen Taibao? Can you compete?

He originally wanted to make this suggestion this morning, but when he saw the Taibao of Yuwen Shisan Taibao, his idea was dispelled. The Taibao of Yuwen is only 18 years old, six feet and five in height, and a phoenix-winged gold-plated boring weighing 120 kilograms was extremely powerful. It is said that this man once fought against a thousand horse thieves on Longyou with a single horse and killed more than 300 people. I really don’t know where Yuwen Shu found this adopted son?

Yu Wenji glanced at the sky and smiled and said, "Yang Xiangguo, it's already dusk, why don't we stay in the camp!"

Yang Su looked around and smiled slightly, "Although the terrain here is flat, the surrounding forests are dense and easy to hide troops. It is not suitable to camp here. Go ten miles to camp in Yong County ahead."

"But... this is Guanzhong, will there be enemies?" Yu Wenhua and he was stunned.

Yang Su smiled faintly, "No matter where you are, the principles of camping are the same. Yu Wen and General, you must learn from your respectful father. He is the number one master of the Sui army camping."

Yu Wenhua's face turned red, and he couldn't say a word for a while. He laughed dryly and went back.

Yang Su smiled coldly and immediately ordered, "Travel ten miles more, the army will be stationed in the camp!"

He couldn't help but look at Yuwen Shisan's wife, but found that the tall-shaped wife was not in the team. He was stunned.




















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