[History Is Alive - Goguryeo Edition] Episode 13: Eulji Mundeok and the Battle of Salsu - Cheongcheongang, Which Swallowed 1.13 Million Troops

1. In 612, a 305,000-strong special unit of the Sui dynasty was crushingly defeated by Goguryeo forces at the Salsu River (today's Cheongcheongang), and only 2,700 men made it back alive to Liaodong.
2. Goguryeo general Eulji Mundeok lured the enemy commander U Jungmun close to Pyeongyangseong using a scorched-earth tactic, a feigned surrender, and a taunting poem.
3. The defeat became the trigger for the fall of the Sui dynasty, and the article interprets this battle as the prototype of today's asymmetric strategy.

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