Turks are the collective name for ethnic groups active in the Mongolian Plateau and Central Asia. They are also another important nomadic group in the northwest and northern grasslands of the Central Plains dynasty after the Huns, Xianbei, and Rouran. In 540, the word Turks began to appear in the history of the Central Plains.

The Turks were once an independent tribe, but later they were subordinated to the powerful Rouran State. They became the latter's iron-smelting slaves and moved to the southern foot of Jinshan Mountain. Because the Jinshan Mountain resembled a war helmet, they were commonly known as the Turks, and their tribe was named after it.

There were only a few hundred Ashina clans at first, but later there were tens of thousands of Turkic tribes, most of whom came from the surrounding Tiele tribesmen.

In 550 AD, the Turkic leader Ashina Tumen led his tribe to defeat and annex more than 50,000 tribes of Gaoche tribes. They began to develop and grow, and received the attention of the Western Wei Dynasty. Two years later, the Turks defeated the suzerain country of Rouran.

Shina Tumen was called Ili Khan and established a vast Turkic Khanate. His power quickly expanded to the entire Mongolian Plateau. In another two years, he united with the Western Wei Dynasty to eliminate the remaining tribes of Rouran. With the last khan of Rouran

After being killed, the Turkic forces quickly extended to the Western Regions.

At this time, the Central Plains dynasty was in a state of separation between the north and the south, and the three kingdoms were at odds. The Southern Dynasty was a unified and complete regime, while the Northern Dynasty experienced the Western Wei and the Eastern Wei. The two sides in the Northern Dynasty were intimidated by the powerful military strength of the Turkic Khanate, and they also wanted to eliminate each other.

, all adopted the policy of paying tribute to the Turks and making peace with each other in exchange for the support or neutrality of the Turkic empire.

The Turks took the opportunity to gain a lot of economic benefits through peace or war. However, the pace of Turkic expansion did not stop. Around 560, the Turks conquered Tuyuhun, conquered the Western Regions, and even joined forces with Persia to annihilate the White Huns. In just thirty years, the Turks

Over time, the Turks continued to expand their territories. Their territory stretched from the Liaohai Sea in the east, to the Caspian Sea in the west, from the Mongolian Gobi in the south, to Lake Baikal in the north. It stretched thousands of miles from east to west and five to six thousand miles from north to south, making it a veritable big country.

Anyone who has such a big country as a neighbor will be unlucky, because this is a predatory nation.

Unfortunately, the new Sui Dynasty was such an unlucky man.

In fact, before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks had plundered the population and wealth of the Central Plains as a daily routine. Countries in the Northern Dynasties had to either make peace with them or pay tribute to them in exchange for a few days of stability.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, due to internal strife among the nobility within the Turks, the Turkic Great Khan Shabolu felt that the territory was too big for him to manage alone. In order to "live a stable life", he established three additional khans.

Let these three people share power with him. They are the second Khan Anluo who is under one person and above ten thousand people, the Apo Khan Daluobian, and the Datou Khan Dingjue. In addition to these four, there is another step.

Li Khan.

In the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, a Turkic army of 500,000 people, personally led by Sabolo Khan, marched southward and invaded the south of the Great Wall. The 500,000-strong army marched south together, and if one of them peed, they might drown the newly born Sui Dynasty.

The newly born Sui Dynasty was faced with internal and external troubles, and the situation was at a very delicate juncture. The fierce army of more than 500,000 invaded, and was defeated again and again. It was in danger on all sides, and the Sui Dynasty was in danger. At this critical moment,

Changsun Sheng, who had lived in the Turks for many years, said that he had a way to deal with the Turks. Yang Jian, who was overjoyed, immediately summoned him for a detailed discussion.

As early as 50 AD, Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty named the daughter of King Zhao Yuwenzhao the Princess of Thousand Gold and sent people to the Turks. Among the escorts was Changsun Sheng.

At that time, the Turks were very powerful and looked down upon the Northern Zhou Dynasty. On a day trip, they encountered two giant eagles. Changsun Sheng shot an arrow through the two eagles, shocking the grassland. Shabolu Khan was so shocked that his descendants rebelled.

He learned the art of archery from Chang Sun Sheng. As a result, Chang Sun Sheng stayed in Turks for as long as a year.

Changsun Sheng was a thoughtful man. He took advantage of the opportunity of hunting with Sabolo Khan to conduct a detailed inspection of the Turkic mountains and rivers, as well as the strength of the tribesmen. Later, after returning, he reported what he learned to Yang Jian, who was the Prime Minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

After the detailed report, Yang Jian was very happy and immediately promoted him to Captain Fengche.

During his time in the Turks, Changsun Sheng also made a very important "friend". The man's name was Chu Luohou, who was the younger brother of Shabolu Khan. He was hated by Shabolu Khan because of his popularity among the people.

Luohou secretly sent his confidants to secretly form an alliance with Changsun Sheng. During the year-long "undercover" operation, Changsun Sheng also learned that Shabolue Khan, Datou Khan, and Abo Khan all had powerful soldiers.

, Tuli Khan and other uncles, nephews and brothers, on the surface they are as close as one family, but in fact they are jealous and wary of each other, and it is easy for them to fall apart.

Therefore, when Yang Jian summoned him, Changsun Sheng immediately went to Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and put forward the suggestion of "making distant contacts and attacking closely, leaving the strong and joining the weak". Changsun Sheng, who had an amazing memory, talked and drew, and detailed the situation of the Turkic mountains and rivers that he had learned before.

The land was presented in front of Yang Jian. With such important information, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty suddenly became confident in defeating the enemy's invasion.

But after deciding on the plan, Chang Sun Sheng gave Yang Jian an almost impossible problem to solve, which was to defeat the 200,000-strong headquarters army led by Shabolu Khan himself. The main reason was that Shabolu Khan was too strong, and he had no control over the Turks.

He had a glorious record of being undefeated. Although several other Turkic Khans were dissatisfied with him and wanted to replace him, they were intimidated by his overwhelming prestige. If the Sui Dynasty could not dispel his undefeated reputation, those Khans might

They didn't dare to rebel against Shabolu Khan, let alone cooperate with the weak Sui Dynasty. Therefore, before defeating Shabolu Khan, they were afraid that the differentiation and alienation strategies would not work.

Yang Jian thought about it. If it were him, he would not entrust the fate of the whole family to a weak person. So he asked the civil and military officials of the DPRK and the Central Government, who dared and who could lead the troops to defeat Shabolu Khan.

When everyone heard this, they thought Yang Jian was crazy. At that time, the Sui Dynasty had just replaced the Zhou Dynasty, and the people were not attached to it. They couldn't even defend themselves. They still wanted to defeat Shabolue Khan, who had hundreds of thousands of troops? Isn't this crazy?

What? Even Gao Jun, Yang Su, Yu Qingze, He Ruobi, Han Qinhu, Shi Wansui and other famous generals with great merits thought this was an impossible task, and others did not dare to fight. Not that

Everyone is afraid of death. The real reason is that this is an arduous task that requires a weak force to attack an enemy dozens of times more powerful. It cannot be defeated, it cannot be defeated, and it must be won. Everyone cannot afford the consequences of failure and failure. After all, if you die,

It doesn't matter, but the situation at that time made no one qualified to die for the country.

Just when everyone was in trouble, the 19-year-old Wei Wang Yang Shuang said that he could complete this task.

Yang Shuang is Yang Jian's youngest half-brother. His mother Li died in childbirth when he was born. When he was six years old, his father Yang Zhong died. He was raised by his sister-in-law Queen Dugu.

Among the brothers, he was particularly favored by Yang Jian and his wife. The couple's love for this younger brother even made Yang Yong and Yang Guang jealous. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian valued him very much and named him King Wei.

Yongzhou Mu is the general who leads the left and right guards. It can be said that the safety of Chang'an is entrusted to him. If he had other ideas, Yang Jian would be killed in minutes. But in the end, he did not do anything detrimental to his brother and sister-in-law. Soon after

, he was also a general who led the army from left to right, and had the power to lead and merge with the governor of the state, and he was the kind who actually took office.

Although he has a high position and great authority, he has never experienced a battle. Therefore, when everyone heard him say that he could defeat Sabolo Khan, they thought he was bragging. But what is even more crazy is that Yang Jian actually believed it.

Yang Shuang not only believed Yang Shuang's rhetoric, but also appointed him as the general manager of Liangzhou and the marching marshal to lead the army to fight against the Turks.

After Yang Shuang accepted the appointment, he did not go to Wuwei, Jincheng, Tianshui and the Turks for a head-on confrontation. He personally led a cavalry out of Shuofang and met the Shabolue army at Baidao. Yang Shuang took advantage of the Shabolue Khan to defeat the enemy repeatedly.

He led five thousand fine cavalry to attack and plunder the troops of the Sui Dynasty. Each of these Turkic soldiers returned with a full load. The horses were so tired that they could hardly walk. They were suddenly attacked by Yang Shuang. It was unknown how many enemy troops came, one by one.

They were so frightened that they abandoned their horses and fled. Is this Turkic cavalry still cavalry without horses? What followed was naturally a one-sided massacre. In this battle, Yang Shuang only used 5,000 elite cavalry to defeat the 20-year-old Shabolu Khan.

With an army of ten thousand, the myth of Sabolo Khan's invincibility was broken.

This battle also made the Second Khan Anluo, Apo Khan Duluo Bian, Datou Khan Dingjue, and Buli Khan know that the Great Khan Shabolu was not that terrible, and that the Sui Dynasty was not that weak.

Yang Jian and Changsun Sheng saw that the time had come to drive a wedge between the Turks, so they began their plan.

The first person to be "targeted" was Datou Khan, and the person Yang Jian sent to divide him was the servant Yuan Hui.

Yuan Hui took the wolf-headed tapes specially gifted by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and passed through Yiwu to Turks to meet Datou Khan.

Datou Khan was very happy and sent an envoy to return the visit. However, what he did not expect was that his envoy was ignored by the Sui Dynasty. On the contrary, he was extremely enthusiastic towards the envoy of Sabolo Khan.

This encounter immediately gave Datou Khan a bucket of cold water. From then on, the two men were suspicious of each other and wary of each other.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Jian consecrated Sun Sheng as the general of chariots and cavalry, and asked him to bring a large amount of money to meet the Marquis of Chuluo. The two people had been in contact before, and their relationship deepened during this meeting. From then on, it was possible to isolate Shabolue

Khan's plan has been initially realized.

At this time, Datou Khan, who had been alienated by Chang Sun Sheng, began to play a role. He refused to carry out Shabolu Khan's orders and sent someone to follow Chang Sun Sheng into the court to meet Yang Jian. At the same time, a new boss was replaced.

Apo Khan's army no longer fought against the Sui army.

At this time, the Great Khan of Sabolo was very unhappy after being beaten by Yang Shuang, and saw that Apo Khan refused to save him. He was so angry that he simply launched a surprise attack on Beiya where Apo Khan lived, and Apo Khan stayed there.

All his men became his prisoners.

Apo Khan, who lost everything, defected to Datou Khan, who lent him a hundred thousand soldiers and horses to take revenge. Apo Khan regained his homeland in one battle with the fury of revenge, and then fought against Sha Bo on many occasions.

Khan fought, winning almost every battle, and became stronger and stronger.

The great Khan Shaboluu, who was in decline, could no longer stand it and asked the Sui Dynasty for peace and vassal status. He also asked the Sui Dynasty to help him suppress the rebellion. Yang Jian generously appointed Yang Shuang, the king of Wei, as marshal and asked him to lead an army of 150,000 infantry and cavalry.

Hechuan, together with the Great Khan of Sabolo, killed Apo Khan and suffered a disastrous defeat.

In the seventh year of the founding of the Emperor, Shabolu Khan passed away, and his younger brother Chuluohou was elected as Mohe Khan. The Sui court was asked to recognize him, and Yang Jian sent his eldest son, Sun Sheng, to congratulate him.

In order to show his loyalty to the Sui Dynasty, Chuluohou took the initiative to deal with Apo Khan's remaining five or six thousand troops. After receiving the agreement, he used the flag given to him by the Sui Dynasty to attack Apo Khan in the west. Apo Khan's men surrendered, and he

Captured alive.

From then on, Yang Jian adopted Chang Sun Sheng's Turkic strategy of "making friends from far away and attacking close by, separating from the strong and uniting with the weak", uniting the weak Turkic tribes, isolating the strong tribes, and then sending the super thug Yang Shuang to fight.

The brothers Yang Jian and Yang Shuang were happy, but the Turks fell into an endless civil war and eventually split into East and West Turks.

The civil strife of the Turks thus alleviated the threat of the Turks to the Sui Dynasty and gave the Sui Dynasty a precious breathing space.

It can be said that Yang Jian, Chang Sun Sheng, and Yang Shuang are the three most worthy heroes in dividing the Turks:

As the emperor, Yang Jian knew how to make good use of people, and he went against the consensus and re-appointed the unknown Chang Sun Sheng. Yang Shuang took on the important task of splitting the Turks.

Although Changsun Sheng was a military general, he had never commanded a major war, but his outstanding strategies made great contributions to dividing and disintegrating the Turks and maintaining peace in the northern border of the Sui Dynasty.

When Yang Shuang, the king of Wei, sent out troops for the first time, he used his extraordinary courage and courage to defeat the Turks' 200,000 troops with 5,000 light cavalry and captured countless victories. When he served as the general manager of Liangzhou, Yang Shuang paid equal attention to kindness and power, stabilized the situation, and attacked the Turks one by one.

He conquered Liangzhou, regained the entire Hexi Corridor, and re-opened the Silk Road connecting the Central Plains to the Western Regions. While guarding Liangzhou, he massacred thousands of miles, which frightened the Turks. However, because he fought many times in the war, he also fell ill, and finally lost his horse.

He couldn't even ride. Yang Jian simply asked him to join the court as prime minister, and he was worshiped by Nayan. However, before he took office, his body and bones could not support him. He died in the seventh year of Kaihuang at the age of only twenty-five. He was posthumously awarded the title of Taiwei and the governor of Jizhou.

His posthumous title is "Zhao".

Yang Shuang was Huo Qubing in the Sui Dynasty, and his fate was similar to Huo Qubing. After his death, Yang Jian never launched a large-scale war against the Turks again. The young prince seemed to have finished all the wars against the Turks in his generation. After completing his mission, he
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