In the fourteenth year of Daye (618), Yang Guang, seeing that the world was in chaos and the situation was out of control, decided to abandon the north and take a safe corner in the south. But I didn't think that Yuan Li and Pei Qiantong pushed Yu Culture and led together to launch a mutiny rebellion. When Pei Qiantong killed his son in front of Yang Guang with a knife, no one knew the emperor's mood, would he regret trusting Pei Qiantong, or would he regret his own fainting, or would he remember the famous Sui Dynasty general Yang Yichen that he had abolished?
No one knows what Yang Guang was thinking in his heart, because Yang Guang was strangled alive by the rebels, and with him, there was the Sui Dynasty, which lasted only two generations.
In fact, as of Yang Yichen's death, Yang Guangdu still had the opportunity to regret it, but he not only failed to seize this opportunity, but also saved the only hope of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Yichen, to push into the abyss.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Yang Yichen can save the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty is not like the old empire that has lasted for hundreds of years and is difficult to return to the end, and its demise can be said to have been "made" by the Sui Emperor Yang Guang.
When Yang Yichen was alive, he had been cleaning up the mess for Yang Guang.
Yang Yichen was one of the talents left by Emperor Yang Jian of Sui, and even the surname Yang was given to Yichen by Yang Jian. Yang Yichen's real name was Wei Chi Yichen, and his father, Wei Chi Chong, was a great general of Northern Zhou. When Wei Chichong and Yang Jian were officials in the same dynasty, Wei Chichong had already seen Yang Jian's extraordinary features, and he believed that Yang Jian would definitely become a great thing in the future, so he often took the initiative to visit Yang Jian and was very close to him.
After Yang Jian served as the Chancellor of Northern Zhou, Wei Chichong's fellow wei Chi rebelled. Wei Chichong believed that Yang Jian would be able to put down the rebellion, but fearing implication, Wei Chichong imprisoned himself and sent someone to the capital to plead with Yang Jian. When Yang Jian learned of this, he immediately wrote a letter to comfort Wei Chi Chong, and asked him to ride back to Beijing. After returning to the capital, in order to show his trust in Wei Chichong, Yang Jian often arranged Wei Chichong's side. In addition, Yang Jian also raised Wei Chichong's son Wei Chi Yichen in the palace and made him a close bodyguard.
Later, once Yang Jian chatted with other ministers and recalled Wei Chichong's past, Yang Jian was very moved, so he compiled Wei Chi Yichen into yangmen family tree and made him his cousin. Soon after, Yang Jian appointed Yang Yichen as the Assassin of Shaanzhou.
Recognizing Yang Yichen as his cousin may be mainly to win over the Wei Chi family, but to make Yang Yichen a feudal official is undoubtedly Yang Jian's ability to see Yang Yichen's potential and ability.
I have to say that Yang Jian's vision of people is very accurate. In the nineteenth year of the Kai Emperor (599), the Turkic Datou Khan led an army to kowtow to the border and plunder the border people of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Yichen was ordered to lead 30,000 infantry cavalry to fight against the Turks as the commander of the march. In this place of Baidao, the Sui army encountered the Turks, and Yang Yichen commanded Ruoding, engaged the Turkic army, and broke the Turks. This defeat did not hurt the Turks, and the following year they made a comeback and attacked the border plugs again. The border cities of Yanmen and other places were invaded, and the people were taken captive by the Turks and deeply affected. Yang Yichen once again led an army to attack and break the Turks. The Turks saw the situation and ran outside the Cyprus, this time Yang Yichen did not intend to let the Turks go, he led his troops out of the cyprus, all the way to dajin Mountain, caught up with the Turks. At this time, Shi Wansheng's army also arrived, and Yang Yichen and Shi Wanzai attacked the Turks together, defeated the Turkic soldiers, and beheaded tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers. However, due to Yang Su's frame-up, Shi Wanzai died, and Yang Yichen's merits were not known to the imperial court. Later, when Yang Jian heard the rumors, he learned that Yang Yichen had broken the Turks and given him the armor for royal use.
For Yang Guang, Yang Yichen is a hero of Fulong. After Yang Jian's mysterious death, Yang Guang took the throne. Because Yang Jian's death was unclear and the position of the prince changed hands several times, the hearts of the people in the world fluctuated. The Han king Yang Yu decided to seek wealth and wealth in danger, and yu he rebelled. The General Qiao Zhongkui of Yang Yubu had a strong general named Wang Ba, who was brave and good at war, and was known as invincible in the army. When Yang Yichen led his army to engage Qiao Zhongkui, Wang Ba always led the cavalry to charge the battlefield, causing great pressure on Yang Yichen's army.
Yang Yichen sent many people to fight Wang Ba, and they were defeated, and even the warrior general Yang Si'en, who he recruited, died at the hands of Wang Ba. Yang Yichen was a sympathetic general, and after Yang Si'en was killed by Wang Ba, Yang Yichen also spent money to redeem Yang Si'en and his subordinates' corpses from the hands of the enemy.
The frontal battle was impossible to defeat Wang Ba, and Yang Yichen wanted to understand this truth. So Yang Yichen decided to use a plan, he counted the cattle and horses in the army and hid them in the valley. When Yang Yichen engaged Qiao Zhongkui, who was pursuing him, he ordered his soldiers to drive cattle and horses out of the valley and beat the war drums. Qiao Zhongkui's army thought it was an enemy reinforcement, and the army was in disarray, and the result was a rout. This battle is similar to that of the Fire Bull Array.
After defeating Qiao Zhongkui, Yang Yichen led an army to the south to fight in the north, first subduing Tuguhun and then accompanying Yang Guang in his conquest of Liaodong. During the battle with Eulji Wende, the rest of the soldiers and horses were defeated, but Yang Yichen fought seven victories in a day when he was the vanguard.
Because the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guangxing built a engineering project and went on several expeditions to conquer Goguryeo, the people were not happy, the people everywhere rebelled, and the world was in chaos. The Bohai people, Gao Shida, gathered a crowd to rebel and supported tens of thousands of troops. Yang Guang ordered the general Duan Da to go to the conquest and could not win, but as soon as Yang Yichen left, the rebels were immediately quelled, and the leader of the plague died and fell.
However, Yang Yichen knew very well that the reason for the rebellion of the people in the world was that they could not survive, and as long as Yang Guang did not act, the rebellion would continue. Therefore, Yang Yichen reported the war situation in various places and the severe rebellion situation in Hebei to the imperial court, hoping to attract the attention of the emperor. However, due to the obstruction of the traitorous minister Neishi Shilang Yu Shiji, Yang Guang has not received a report from Yang Yichen.
There was no way, Yang Yichen could only continue to suppress the rebels. Despite the large number of rebels, they were very afraid when they faced Yang Yichen. Yang Yichen led his troops to sweep through the Hebei rebels and surrendered hundreds of thousands of rebels.
Yang Yichen made such a great contribution, not only did not receive a reward, but also was suspected by Yang Guang. Yang Guang, fearing that Yang Yichen's support of hundreds of thousands of troops was a great threat to the imperial court, ordered him to return to Beijing to report for duty and dismissed his soldiers. Before Yang Yichen left, the Hebei rebellion had been mostly quelled, but Yang Yichen could not continue, and he could only return to the capital with a feeling of resentment as a Rebbe Shangshu.
As soon as Yang Yichen left, Dou Jiande once again sat on the throne, and the rebels swept through the Hebei region again, and the situation in the north has since deteriorated to the point of being out of control. As a generation of famous generals, he made great contributions to Yang Guangnan's conquest of the northern war, but at the last moment he was jealous of the emperor and fell short, Yang Yichen's anger can be imagined. Therefore, shortly after returning to Beijing, Yang Yichen died of depression. Of course, Yang Guang soon went with Yang Yichen. After Yang Yichen's death, the Sui Dynasty no longer had any loyal generals, Yang Guang was killed by the rebels, and the Sui Dynasty collapsed.