At this time, the end of January corresponds to the end of February and the beginning of March in the western calendar, and the snowmelt season in the northeast has arrived.

The annual snowmelt season is about the most troublesome time of the year in the rich Northeast land, even more than the midwinter season when thousands of miles of snow drift and thousands of miles of ice are frozen. Because melting snow can make the roads muddy and difficult to navigate. It can cause the water level of the river to skyrocket, causing flooding.

Therefore, people who have lived in Tokyo Province for a long time know that it is very inconvenient to travel outside the country until the spring snowmelt and muddy season has passed, let alone march to fight.

However, Wu Haogu and Empress Dowager Xiao had no way to avoid the snowmelt season this time. When Empress Dowager Xiao's 50,000-strong army left Chenzhou and marched westward, it happened to be late January. Four days later, Wu Haogu also led an army of 80,000 and left Qianzhou to the east. The vanguard forces of both sides made their first contact on the first day of February.

At the same time, the main forces of both sides marched with all their strength while the snowmelt season had just begun and the ground was still relatively dry. Finally, on the fourth and fifth days of February, they arrived at both sides of a tributary of the lower reaches of the Liao River called the Tangwang River north of the Liao River swamp and began to camp and confront.

At this time, the temperature has risen above freezing, and the surface of the Tangwang River has begun to thaw, leaving only a thin layer of ice on the surface, which is impassable and there is no way to cross the river.

Both sides who are temporarily unable to fight can only choose to go down to the village on a high ground (in order to prevent flooding) and build wooden rafts and wooden boats at the same time, and prepare to cross the river to fight after the river surface is completely thawed.

Here, the Republican Army and the Liao Army's hundreds of thousands of troops are facing each other across the river, and it seems that they are waiting for another life-and-death battle. And in the rest of the Liaodong battlefield, all sides of the battle did not sit idle and wait for the snowmelt season to pass by themselves.

The Battle of Arthur only knocked out the authority of the Liao State on the rich and fertile territory of Tokyo, but did not decide the ownership of the vast territory of Tokyo--fighting and grabbing territory are sometimes not the same thing! It's not that if you win the battle, the territory will automatically belong to you.

It's really complicated. The situation is different in each place, and the methods of land grabbing are also different.

Now, of course, the best place to settle is the territory controlled by the central government of the Song Dynasty. Because the Song Dynasty was engaged in the defense of the outside and the internal examination of the imperial examination, and then the emphasis on literature and light military force, the local powerful force was very weak, and there was no wall dock fortress to rely on.

In "Water Margin", there were thousands of soldiers and horses in this village and that village, which was not available in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Otherwise, how could the Jurchens control the Central Plains in a very short period of time and establish a fairly effective rule? If there are thousands of villages in the Central Plains, and one village consumes ten Jurchen lives, the Jurchen nation will become a widow nation, and it will be a fart.

And the most difficult thing is, of course, the territory and prairie of the birth of a girl. It's useless to win the battle, and the Jurchen and the Meng Guren are both masters who can run. It is not easy to annihilate the living forces of others.

Moreover, the land of the people is large, the population is small, and there is no central city to occupy, and large areas of land are undeveloped or of low development value. After hard work and occupation, it is also to help the poor and engage in development.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the Central Plains Dynasty to have no tricks against this kind of remote territory, so it has to use the policy of restraint to rule.

The problem is just that the Central Plains Dynasty does not have a tool to export ideas, and it cannot be razed into Xia in a relatively short period of time......

Looking back at the current Liaodong, the situation in Liaodong is similar to the situation described in "Water Margin". Everywhere there are the wall docks with the right surname of Bohai and the military states under the heads of Khitan nobles.

In fact, there is not much difference between the two, and the head of the military state on the territory of Liaodong is also actually controlled by Haoqiang, the right surname of Bohai.

Therefore, after the Khitans ran away, the right surname of Bohai became the actual controller of most of the land in Liaodong.

On the Liaodong Peninsula, after the snowstorm at the beginning of the first month, the enemy of the republican army changed from the Liao army to this group of Bohai right-hand surnamed Haoqiang.

In the original history, although the Jin Dynasty of Aguta eliminated Gao Yongchang's Great Yuan Kingdom (this country name is really good), the Jurchen and Bohai ethnic groups are very close to each other and complement each other economically.

As a result, most of the Bohai tycoons eventually integrated into the Jurchen regime, in which the Bohai people had a high status and enjoyed national treatment.

However, the republican regime of Wu Haogu and the right surname of Bohai are incompatible - only a few people can be the evil landlord class! Now the poor and middle peasant soldiers of Wu Haogu all want to be the landlord, and the right surname of Bohai has to be the landlord......

So there's nothing to say, just fight!

In Fuzhou, Ningzhou, Zhenhaifu, Muzhou, Guizhou, Luzhou (Gui and Lu Erzhou are also on the Liaodong Peninsula and are under the jurisdiction of Chenzhou Fengguo Army) and other places, the fighting between the Republican Army and the right surname Haoqiang of Bohai has not stopped since the fifth and sixth days of the first lunar month!

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In the cold wind, the old Dagong Ding wore a thick cloak and rode his horse slowly along the coast of Liao. He has really languished to the point that he can't look like a person, since he was released by Ma Zhi and returned to Guo Yaoshi's army, he has a heavy heart, as if the end is coming. Riding on horseback, it looks almost curled up in a ball. Coughing a few times from time to time, it seemed to remind Guangmingjun (Guo Yaoshi's father-in-law) who accompanied him that he, the head of the big clan, was seriously ill and could not bear the heavy responsibility of reviving the Great Bohai Sea.

Guo Yaoshi's henchman Zhen Wuchen followed closely behind the two leaders of the big family. He is a strong Han man who was born at the bottom, Guo Yaoshi befriended him, and became a confidant - the Han heroes in Liaodong may not be used by the Ma family, because the Ma family is a wealthy family after all, and there are a bunch of children, and they can't use it themselves, so there are not many places to give to foreign surnames.

And Gao Yongchang's situation is similar, he mostly uses Bohai's right surname, and even a wealthy family with a non-right surname like Guo Yaoshi can't enter his inner circle, let alone a Han like Zhen Wuchen?

The republican government, which had just entered the country, had its own officer training system, and it was impossible to provide too many opportunities for Liaodong warriors outside this system.

However, Guo Yaoshi didn't need Haoqiang's children, and he couldn't use others, so he gathered a group of Hanmen warriors who wanted to fight a rich and noble warrior in this troubled world.

But Guo Yaoshi, who was born in a poor family, is not easy to become a force in Liaodong, a society that needs to fight for his ancestors.

originally thought that the royal family of the big clan could be useful, but who thought that after the death of the Sword King, the big clan family would be in the hands of Dagong Ding, an old scholar who was afraid of wolves and tigers. He didn't even want to be a ready-made king, he just wanted to go to Liaoyang Mansion to live in seclusion.

Without this banner, what should the team that Pharmacist Guo finally pulled up? Are you going to give Gao Yongchang a hand?

Dagong Ding and Guangming Jun walked under the escort of Zhen Wuchen for I don't know how long, watching the sun gradually go west, Guangming Jun said to Dagong Ding: "The king ......"

Dagong Ding interrupted him and said: "Don't call him the king, now the old man is not the king of the Bohai Department, Gao Yongchang is the king." ”

"Patriarch," Guangmingjun changed his title, "Do you want to let Gao Yongchang's mess come?" ”

"Messing around?" Dagong Ding was stunned, "What kind of mess?" ”

"You don't know yet, do you?" Guangming Jun said, "Gao Yongchang's gang took Liaoyang Mansion, and they were all crazy, and the gang of right-surnamed Haoqiang around him didn't know the severity, and they were all persuading ......"

"Persuade?" Dagong Ding smiled, "It's nothing to be a king, and those who are virtuous live there." ”

"What kind of king? Be an emperor! ”

"What? He's going to be emperor? The Grand Duke Ding was stunned and stunned, "Is he crazy?" ”

"Alas......" Guangmingjun just shook his head, "Raise the banner to win over Haoqiang!" He is not a royal family, and he does not have the ability of martial arts, nor does he have the tribal warriors of the Wanyan family, so he has no foundation to Taoguang and raise obscurity! ”

"It's a giveaway!" Grand Duke Ding shook his head again and again, "Now Wu Haogu is the master of Liao, he has not become an emperor, Gao Yongchang has taken the lead."

And he is a king, and he can join forces with the Wanyan family. When he became the emperor, even if he was attacked by Wu Haogu, Wanyan Agu would not save him! He is killing himself, and we Bohai people want to finish ......"

Now Ah Gu can't beat the king, if Gao Yongchang becomes the emperor, Ah Gu is younger than him, and sending troops to save him will not be at his disposal?

Grand Duke Ding paused: "What is Pharmacist Guo going to do?" ”

Guangmingjun shook his head again and again, "I don't know! Now that Chenzhou City is occupied, there are Haoqiang who have been driven out of their homes by the Republican Army every day to defect, and the team is expanding very quickly, but the future is bleak! ”

Guo Yaoshi is now under the name of Gao Yongchang and has just occupied the city of Chenzhou, which was abandoned by Xiao Sese. The territory is good territory, but can the IRA tolerate him? Now the Republican Army is busy "fighting landlords" on the Liaodong Peninsula and has no time to take care of him. When this is over, isn't it as soon as the soldiers arrive?

As for taking refuge in the republic, Wu Haogu can tolerate him, and a group of broken landlords surnamed Bohai who have taken refuge in Guo Yaoshi will not agree!

"The old man gives me a point!" Dagong Ding Dao.

"To whom?"

Dagong Ding gritted his teeth: "Da Liao! Now His Majesty is still near Qianzhou, and he is confronting Wu Haogu, if we can go to the same place, we will definitely get preferential treatment. ”

"What?"

Guangmingjun and Zhen Wuchen both couldn't believe their ears.

Now that the market in Daliao is so bad, isn't it looking for death to go to the same place again?

Yelu Yanxi didn't know that the tendon was wrong, and he actually stood north of the Liaohe swamp to confront Wuhaogu...... How is this different from sending to death?

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"Queen Mother, you can't go! Wu Haogu is a tiger and wolf, if you go to see him, what is the difference between it and a sheep entering the tiger's mouth? ”

"yes, what can we do if something happens to you? Who are the 50,000 sons here going to fight for? ”

At the same time, in the imperial tent of the Great Liao Emperor near Qianzhou, Xiao Wuna, Xiao Tao Suhu, and Yelu Dabei Nu were struggling to persuade the Empress Dowager Xiao Sese.

Because this Empress Dowager Xiao has just made an incredible suggestion to cross the river in person and go to negotiate peace with Wu Haogu!