Goguryeo attacks the Sui rear guard at Salsu
The Zizhi tongjian records a Goguryeo attack on the Sui rear guard during its crossing of the Salsu.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned revision 1502738, line 166. Neighboring passages identify this as the retreat of Yuwen Shu and the other commanders; the emperor's separate withdrawal is dated guimao in line 168.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Sui Emperor Yang, Daye 8, autumn seventh month, renyin
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read zztj181.wikitext lines 160–178, including sixth-month jiwei and the following guimao withdrawal. Inspected actual Sui headers and December cells in sinica-611-12-31.html and sinica-612-12-31.html: Julian 611-12-31 = Daye 7, 11/22; Julian 612-12-31 = Daye 8, 12/4. Daye 8 autumn seventh month is within Julian AD 612.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
秋，七月，壬寅，至薩水，軍半濟，高麗自後擊其後軍，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In autumn, in the seventh month, on renyin, they reached the Salsu; when the army was halfway across, Goguryeo attacked its rear army from behind,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Zizhi tongjian, juan 181; Wikisource contributors https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1502738, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); project translation, adapted and share alike where applicable.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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