The establishment of the Sui Dynasty undoubtedly brought the people out of the years of war. The Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, ending the chaotic world of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and from this point of view, the merits of The Sui Wen Emperor were comparable to that of Qin Shi Huang, and both were emperors who put an end to the chaotic world. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui began to carry out major reforms and created the rule of the Kai Emperor.
As a result, the people of the Sui Dynasty became rich. However, the Sui Dynasty existed for only 38 years before it perished. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he created the reign of Kai Huang, but during the sui dynasty, problems continued to arise. The Sui Dynasty Emperor was very happy and successful, constantly marching south and fighting in the north, followed by the wanton excavation of various projects.
In ancient times, there was no modern machinery and equipment, and if you wanted to build a super project, it would definitely cost the people money. In this situation of laboring and hurting the people and money, the Sui Dynasty went to extinction. Continuous conquests coupled with super projects made the National Strength of the Sui Dynasty continue to decline. At this time, the people were not happy, so the Sui Dynasty's uprisings continued to appear.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, many rebel armies appeared. Later generations adapted this history into a novel Sui and Tang Dynasty. In the last year of the Sui Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, various rebel armies appeared one after another. No matter which rebel army it is, it wants to dominate the world. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were eighteen anti-kings. Li Yuan of Taiyuan is one of them.
Among the eighteen anti-kings, each of them can fight a good war, and these people have their own forces. For example, the Chaos Demon King Cheng Yaojin, the Great Liang King Li Rail, the Xiaoliang King Xiao Milling, the Jining King Wang Bo, the Jiangnan King Shen Faxing and so on. Who is the most powerful of the Eighteen-Way Anti-King? Some people will definitely say that it is Li Yuan, after all, Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty.
But when it comes to real military ability, this person must be Xue Ju. Xue Ju is recognized by later generations as the first in military ability. Xue Ju raised an army in Jincheng, known as the Overlord of Western Qin, and began to fight in the south and the north. Xue Ju's first opponent was the Sui Dynasty general Emperor Fuxuan. At that time, Emperor Fuxuan had an army of more than 10,000 people, compared to Xue Ju's soldiers, only 2,000.
In such a situation where the strength of the enemy and us was very different, Xue Ju did not flinch and chose to attack Emperor Fuxuan. The history books record this: "In the beginning, the wind was against the front, and it did not strike; Suddenly returning to the wind, the positive and negative array, the atmosphere is dim, and the army is disturbed. The horse was the first to ascend, and the army followed, and the Sui army collapsed, so it fell to Yuhan. "In the case of the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us, Xue Ju still fought a big defeat with the army.
Before the outbreak of the war, the history books also recorded the following content: "Encountered with the Qiao army on the red shore, Chen Bing did not fight, and Russia was stormy." In other words, Xue Ju took advantage of the weather to defeat the Sui army. From this point of view, Xue Ju showed his outstanding military command art, and at the same time, his study of the art of war was definitely outstanding. More importantly, it was a battle in which less was won.
This battle made Xue Ju's great name famous all over the world, so many people came to Xue Ju. For a time, Xue Ju's people and horses soared. The history books record this as "not in the end, all in the land of Longxi, 130,000 people" At that time, Xue Ju's army was about 200,000 people. At this time, Xue Ju had the idea of unifying the world, but later Li Yuan appeared.
Xue Ju, who wanted to unify the world, met Li Yuan. Xue Ju sent his own son Xue Rengao (薛仁杲) to fiercely fight Li Yuan's son Li Shimin. The final result was that "the King of Qin broke it, beheaded thousands of levels, and went north to Longhui." This was something that Xue Ju could never have imagined. So Xue Ju sent troops to Chang'an of the Li Tang Dynasty, and at this time Xue Ju wanted to fight a decisive battle with Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son.
Li Yuan sent Li Shimin, but the battle situation at this time was favorable to Xue Ju. At this time, Li Shimin was beaten and fled. Li Shimin experienced the biggest defeat of his life, and this failure made Li Shimin remember it vividly. You must know that Li Shimin was able to fight a good battle and defeated anti-kings such as Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande.
After defeating Li Shimin, for Xue Ju, Chang'an was within reach. At this critical moment, the problem arose, and Xue Ju fell ill. After falling ill, Xue Ju died of illness not long after. The history books record that "Fang Xing was sick, summoned witches to occupy the view, said that Tang Bing was revered, and held up evil, and did not die much." "That's why God doesn't help.
At the critical moment, Xue Ju died. After that, Jiangshan was handed over to Xue Ju's son Xue Rengao. In comparison, Xue Rengao's ability was definitely inferior to Xue Ju's. In the face of Xue Rengao, Li Shimin was definitely not in the question, and as a result, he was defeated and surrendered. After Xue Ju's death, Li Shimin had no opponents, and later assisted Li Yuan in establishing the Tang Dynasty. If Xue Ju had lived for ten more years, I am afraid that Jiangshan would not have been the Li family.