Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen: Emperor Sui Yang's Military Navigation

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty not only traveled to Jiangdu three times in a big dragon boat, but also conducted military voyages due to his superb shipbuilding and navigation skills. During the Sui Dynasty, Taiwan was called Liuqiu.Emperor Yangdi sent people to Taiwan three times. The first navigation to Taiwan in the Sui Dynasty was in March of the third year of Daye (AD 607).First, in the first year of Daye, sea master He Man and others reported that during the rainy season in spring and autumn, when the sky is clear and the wind is calm, looking east into the sea, there seems to be smog.Therefore, in March of the third year of Daye, Emperor Yang ordered Yuqiwei Zhu Kuan to go to sea to visit other customs.He Man went with him, and then went to Liuqiu. Because the residents on the island could not understand the language, they only brought back one islander.

The second navigation to Taiwan was in the fourth year of Daye (608 AD).Emperor Yangdi sent Zhu Kuan to Liuqiu again, but Liuqiu failed to persuade him, so he took his armor and returned it. The third navigation to Taiwan was in the sixth year of Daye (AD 610).Emperor Yangdi repatriated Hu Benlang, general Chen Leng, and invited the doctor Zhang Zhenzhou to send more than 10,000 soldiers from Dongyang (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) to cross the sea from Yi'an County (now Chaozhou, Guangdong). The lower strider) [goubi Goubi] island, another day will reach Liuqiu." ("Sui Shu" Volume 81 "Liuqiu Country") Gaohuayu is Nan'ao (120 miles from Shantou to Nan'ao), (Shanghai Strider under the sentence) Islet is the Penghu Islands, from Nan'ao to Penghu, about two degrees of longitude, can be reached in two days, from Penghu to Taiwan in one day (Cen Zhongmian's "History of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" p. 40).When Liu Qiuren first saw the ship, he thought it was a merchant traveler, and he often came to trade with the army. Chen Leng and others led his troops ashore, and Liu Qiu Wang sent his troops to resist the war. And also.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty also launched three military voyages to Korea for three consecutive years in the eighth year of Daye, the ninth year of Daye, and the tenth year of Daye (AD 612-614). In the Sui Dynasty, Koryo often sent envoys to pay tribute, and the officials still belonged to the Sui Dynasty on the surface. In the 18th year of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty (AD 598), King Gao Yuan of Koryo, with more than ten thousand mohe [mohe], invaded western Liaoning and was repelled by the Sui army.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty took Han Wang Yang Liang and Wang Shiji together as the marshals of the march, and sent 300,000 land and water troops to attack Koryo. Yang Liang, king of the Han Dynasty, left Linyuguan (now Shanhaiguan), but the transportation was blocked due to deep water, the army was short of food, and suffered from disease.Zhou Luohu's navy sailed across the Yellow Sea from Donglai to Pyongyang. Due to the wind, many ships drifted away.In September, all of them returned without success, and nine out of ten sergeants died.However, Gao Yuan, the king of Koryo, was also afraid to send an envoy to apologize. He said on the table that he was "a minister of the dung in Liaodong", so he stopped fighting and the two countries resumed diplomatic relations.

After Emperor Yang came to the throne, he was very happy, and in the sixth year of Daye (610 A.D.), he started large-scale preparations to fight against Goryeo.Build cars and ships, and concentrate the army on the two water and land attack bases of Donglai and Zhuojun.He ordered to "add more military mansions and sweep the land into soldiers" in Shandong ("Sui Shu Shihuo Zhi"), and the whole country's army, regardless of distance, must gather in Zhuojun.Another 10,000 Jianghuai sailors, 30,000 crossbowmen, and 30,000 Lingnan rowers (cuanbo) were recruited to serve as sailors going north.He asked the rich people all over the country to pay for war horses, and ordered the people in Henan, Huainan, and Jiangnan to build 50,000 military chariots and send them to Gaoyang, Hebei (Ding County, Hebei) for carrying armored tents.Ling Yuan Hongsi supervised the construction of 300 warships in Donglai Haikou to supply the water army, and sent people and ships south of the Jianghuai River to transport rice from Liyang and Luokou warehouses to Zhuojun.The fleet is more than a thousand miles from head to toe, and there are hundreds of thousands of people on the road, day and night.

In the first month of the eighth year of Daye (612 A.D.), Emperor Yangdi swore an oath to conquer in person.The army attacking Koryo concentrated in Zhuojun, and the land was led by Emperor Yang himself.The soldiers are divided into twelve armies on the left and right, with 1,133,800 people, known as 2 million.An army was dispatched every day, separated by 40 miles, and the battalion was gradually advanced, and the dispatch was completed on the 40th, one after the other, and the drums and horns were heard.The flag stretches 960 miles and is rushing towards Pyongyang.The water route was led by General You Yiwei Lai Huer to lead the Jianghuai water army from Donglai to the sea first, and entered the Weishui (now Datong River) to meet the army.Ships are connected head to tail for hundreds of miles, and the prosperity of sending out troops has never been seen before.The land troops crossed the Liaohe River, defeated the Goryeo soldiers, and took advantage of the victory to encircle Liaodong City (Liaoyang, Liaoning).Emperor Yangdi also went to Liaodong.Shuilu Laihuer led the navy to land and entered Bashui 60 miles away from Pyongyang, the capital of Koryo, where he met the Koryo army. When the Sui army won the first victory, they ventured forward and attacked Pyongyang. Koryo defeated the Sui army with an ambush. However, only a few thousand soldiers survived, and the loss was heavy. Lai Huer retreated the remnant army to Haikou without fighting, and waited for the army.When Yangdi saw that the army had been encircling Liaodong for a long time, he ordered Zuo Yiwei's general Yu Wenshu to lead his army to detour to attack Pyongyang. The color, so I want to be tired. Every battle, (Yuwen) said that seven battles in a day will be victorious" (Daye eight years), the soldiers proudly marched forward to Sashui (Qingchuan River), 30 miles away from Pyongyang, When the Sui army was halfway across Sashui, the Koryo army defeated the Sui army with superior force, and the Sui army fled back to Liaodong. An army of 355,000 people crossed the river, and only 2,700 survived.The loss of capital storage equipment is difficult to calculate.Lai Nuer heard that Yu Wenshu was defeated, and voluntarily withdrew his troops from Korea and returned home.In July, Emperor Yangdi was forced to issue an edict to the teacher.The first war against Goryeo failed.

In the first month of the ninth year of Daye (613 A.D.), soldiers from all over the country were recruited to gather in Zhuo County, and the ancient city of Liaodong was built to store army food.In April, Emperor Yangdi arrived in Liaodong.Liaodong City could not be attacked for a long time. When Emperor Yang heard that Yang Xuangan, a great nobleman, had launched an army to attack Luoyang, the eastern capital, he was terrified and immediately dispatched troops to quell the chaos.The military equipment piled up like a mountain and was abandoned. In February of the tenth year of Daye (AD 614), Emperor Yang ordered hundreds of officials to conquer Korea again. For several days, no one dared to speak.Emperor Yangdi insisted on going his own way, issued an edict to recruit soldiers from all over the world, and launched the third war against Goryeo.Emperor Yangdi went to Zhuojun in March.In July, I went to Huaiyuan Town in western Liaoning to supervise the battle. At this time, peasant uprisings spread all over the country, so many conscripts could not arrive on time, and many soldiers fled.The navy is still led by Lai Nuer.This time, due to the high risk, we did not take the route across the Yellow Sea, which was the first time we fought against Korea, but took the route along the coast of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, which was relatively stable.That is to say, after starting from Donglai, Shandong, they crossed the Bohai Strait, landed at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula and attacked Beishe City (outside Daheishan, Jinxian County, Dalian City, Liaoning Province today), defeated the Koryo defenders, and went straight to Pyongyang.Goryeo was exhausted due to years of war, so he had to send envoys to beg for surrender.Emperor Yangdi then returned to Luoyang, the eastern capital, in October.

From Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty using his navy to cross the river to destroy Chen, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the Grand Canal, built tens of thousands of large dragon boats and miscellaneous boats, went to Jiangdu three times, went to Liuqiu three times, and fought against Korea three times. high development of the industry.From the sea to the Korean peninsula, there are at least two routes across the Yellow Sea and the coast of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea.However, Emperor Yangdi's excessive expropriation of people's power and cruel tyranny eventually led to the fall of the Sui Dynasty.