Great Zhou Republic, Chengde Province.

Wu Haogu arrived here from Tianjin Mansion half a month ago, under the escort of a whole cavalry division. In the newly built Chengde official residence, he secretly met and held hands with the Empress Dowager Xiao of Eastern Liao.

Holding hands, of course, is not the main purpose of the meeting between the two in Chengde, at most it is just a relaxing entertainment activity.

They each rule a country now, and they all have a big war waiting for them to win, the pressure is very high, and it is good for physical and mental health to relax properly.

Wu Haogu faced the battlefield of Goryeo, and in the early autumn of the second year of the Republic, Yin Yanchun, who had expelled the Wu group, began an almost desperate military adventure. Concentrated the last vitality of the Goryeo Kingdom, 30,000 elite soldiers of the Bebu Squad went north to Kaijing and Xijing, trying to unify the north and south.

The reason why he did this was actually out of helplessness. Because the soldiers and horses of the Kingdom of Kim fully retreated from Northern Goryeo in the summer, taking everything they could. Food, livestock, goods, and slaves left Pyongyang's Tuo Junjing with only a small number of people and troops.

In other words, the entire Northern Goryeo has almost become a "borderless land", and if Yin Yanchun does not send troops to occupy it, then the Zhou State in the north will definitely take the territory of Northern Goryeo.

When the time comes, the Koreans will lose the splendid country of the north forever. As the guardian of the Goryeo Kingdom, Zhongshu Ling and Pyongjang Military and State Affairs, if Yin Yanchun, who has full power, does nothing and sees the loss of the northern territory, then he will become a national thief in the eyes of the powerful clan of Goryeo!

Goryeo is not the Great Song Dynasty, and a bunch of strong clans that have been handed down from the time of Goryeo Taejo are still very powerful.

If they attack together, Yoon Yanchun, a powerful minister who came to power by coup d'état and blackmailed the king to make Goryeo, most likely not be able to keep his position.

Moreover, if the Great Zhou annexed Northern Goryeo, how long would the Goryeo Kingdom survive?

Therefore, after repeated weighing, Yin Yanchun sent the great Confucian Jin Fushi, who was born in the Silla royal family, to Tianjin to ask the head of the Great Zhou Dynasty to agree to the northern expedition of Goryeo to eliminate the thieves (referring to Tuojunjing) and recover the two capitals. On the one hand, without waiting for Wu Haogu's reply, he personally led an army of 30,000 to attack Kaejing and Pyongyang. At the end of June, they successively conquered the two capitals and completed the unification of the Goryeo Kingdom.

However, Yoon Yanchun's army failed to capture or kill the king of Northern Goryeo, Wang Yu and Pingzhang, the military affairs of Tu Junjing. Under the protection of a small number of brave officers and soldiers of Northern Goryeo, the two fled to Yanbian Province in the Zhou state.

The arrival of Wang Yu and Tuo Junjing gave Wu Haogu the best excuse - he could now declare Wang Yu the legitimate king of Goryeo and launch a war of aggression in the name of helping Wang Yu restore the country!

And the final outcome of this war is not determined by the battlefield. Because Wu Haogu mobilized 70,000 troops and most of the navy for the invasion of Goryeo, Ma Zhi also mobilized all his own 30,000 troops. In addition, there are 3,000 brave troops of Tuo Junjing, a total of 103,000 troops. The strength far exceeds Yin Yanchun's 30,000 martial arts class.

Moreover, Wu Haogu was also able to divide the land and water into the army, and attack Pyongyang and Hanyang at the same time. Yin Yanchun's 30,000 people had no way to resist it.

However, defeating Yoon Yanchun is not the same as controlling the entire territory of Goryeo, let alone completing the annexation. The powerful clans of Goryeo scattered all over the country are not so easy to succumb!

Moreover, what Wu Haogu wanted was not their submission, but to move them to various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty...... Without the leadership of this group of powerful clans, ordinary Koreans would be a mess of scattered sand, and they would soon be assimilated by the Han people who moved in—in fact, they were not much different from the Han Chinese, with similar appearances, clothing, and the exact same script.

If Wu Haogu is about to fight a winning battle in Goryeo, then his lover Empress Dowager Xiao is facing a difficult and long war.

Empress Dowager Xiao's goal is to take down the entire Horqin grassland, including Linhuang Mansion, which is firmly controlled by the Jin State!

Only by taking Linhuang Mansion can she re-establish her prestige and firmly control the Eastern Liao regime.

However, it seems to be an impossible task to take Linhuang Mansion and control the entire Horqin Grassland.

Therefore, Wu Hao Gu gave up the route of marching from the water to Gyeongwonju (later Incheon) in Andong Gyotai Province. He then led 20,000 cavalry north to Chengde to cheer up Empress Dowager Xiao, and then went to Yanbian Province to enter Northern Goryeo after finishing his work.

Today is the time for Wu Haogu and Xiao Sese to go north and south, but the two seem to have endless words. When the cavalry guarding Wu Haogu continued to drive out of Chengde Mansion City and went southeast along the winding mountain road, Wu Haogu was still reluctant to hold Xiao Sese's jade hand and stand on the city gate tower to whisper.

"Don't worry......"

Wu Haogu said softly to Empress Dowager Xiao: "Ah Guda must not have imagined that you would dare to send troops to the north bank of the Huang River, so he will not keep heavy troops in Linhuang Mansion." Your 60,000 cavalry lineup is huge, and it is very likely to intimidate the Jin soldiers of Linhuang Mansion. As long as they don't dare to go out, your chance has come.

Yu Yongfu, the person I sent, is a master of city building, and he also has a lot of sappers, and he will build a fortress on the north bank of the Huang River for you, which can garrison tens of thousands of troops! ”

"Human Castle?" Xiao was confused.

"Yes!" Wu Haogu nodded, "It's the fortress, an eight-sided castle plus eight prismatic forts...... This is a kind of fortress that can bring out the maximum power of artillery. ”

"An eight-sided fort and an eight-man fort?" The more Xiao Si Se listened, the more confused he became, what is a "humanoid fort", is it almost the same as a person? Like a man or like a woman?

"That's probably it......" Wu Haogu saw that Xiao Se Se didn't understand, so he picked up her jade hand, spread it out, and then used his fingers to draw a diamond shape in Xiao Si Se's palm.

Wu Haogu said: "Eight such forts protrude from the eight corners of the eight-sided fort to form the fort. Cannons are deployed at each fort so that they can support each other with fire, and there are basically no blind spots for firing. Such a fortress was not only strong, but also saved troops. It only takes eight out-of-fort troops to defend the entire fort. A castle that can garrison tens of thousands of people is enough to defend it with two or three thousand people! ”

If you want to conquer the steppe, of course, you have to take Russia as a teacher. The Cossack and fortress lines of Tsarist Russia were a killer weapon that made the nomads have no temper.

Ordinary square or polyhedral fortresses are not enough to make the nomads helpless, and the only ones who can conquer the steppe are the bastions.

The fortress equipped with cannons was impossible for the medieval steppe peoples to break through by force. Artillery mounted on a prismatic out-of-fort can create lethal shotgun crossfire against enemies attempting to attack...... This is absolute slaughter! The attacking troops did not even have a way to fight back, so they could only fight to the death.

So with only sixteen to twenty-four bronze cannons and two or three thousand defenders, a huge fortress could be held.

"As long as the fort is repaired, you can return with the main force." Wu Haogu continued, "Next year, we will continue to build fortresses on both sides of the Huang River, one fortress this year, two next year, and four the year after...... The entire Horqin grassland is ours sooner or later!

This is called repairing the fortress, fighting a dumb battle! ”

"Repair the fort, dumbfounded?" Xiao Sese didn't seem to understand, but she still nodded, "The slave family listens to the officials...... The slave family is not in a hurry, and slowly consumes with Ah Gu, and it will take ten years to recover Linhuang Mansion! ”

"That's right! It took him ten years to spend ......"

Wu Haogu laughed, this Xiao Sise is still quite capable, and under such difficult circumstances, he actually stabilized the team, completed the military reform, and formed three cavalry divisions. Hundreds of wall docks have also been built on the Horqin grassland and the Bashang grassland.

Now he can turn defense into offense and go to fight the grassland fortress battle with the Jin country.

As long as Ah Guda was slightly negligent and allowed Xiao Se to successfully establish the first fortress north of the Huang River, then his Dajin Kingdom would fall into passivity on the Horqin grassland!

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The news that the Great Zhou State sent troops to Goryeo, and the Empress Dowager Xiao Sese, the Empress Dowager of Eastern Liao, sent troops to the Horqin Grassland at the same time soon spread to the Datong Mansion in Xijing, the Dajin State.

At this time, Aguta is also preparing to send troops!

It is already autumn, and autumn is the time when the cattle are fat and strong, and it is the season to use force for the northern peoples who rely on horses to march and fight.

The target of Aguta's troops was the part of the Hetao grassland controlled by the Liang State, and he was also preparing to have a big battle with Yelu Dashi in the grasslands on the north bank of the Hetao, Montenegro, and Yinshan areas.

He hoped that through this war, he would drive the army of the Tianli Sect away from his side, and at the same time drive away the Western Liao of Yelu Dashi - the Liang army and the Western Liao army were both armies on horseback, and it would not be easy to annihilate them in large numbers. Just drive them to the Western Regions!

As for Wu Haogu's dispatch of troops to Goryeo, Ah Guta has known it for a long time. Northern Goryeo is the bone that Jin Guo threw to Zhou Guo to gnaw!

Although the Zhou military was strong, Goryeo (including the previous countries) had been established for hundreds of years after all, and it was not so easy to completely incorporate into China, and it would always take a few years.

By the time the Zhou State was finished, the Jin State had almost subdued the Mobei Grassland, the Hetao Grassland, and most of the Monan Grassland......

However, Xiao Sese's dispatch of troops to the north bank of the Huang River was a bit unexpected by Yan Aguta.

"It's all extremely fierce, that stinky woman must have been instructed by Wu Haogu!"

"Yes! We are too polite to the surnamed Wu, we have to let them know how powerful our Dajin Kingdom is! ”

"Du Bo is extremely strong, give me the two sons of Meng'an in the Lou room, and keep the mother-in-law who doesn't know what to do with Xiao Sese's mother-in-law to give you a warm bed!"

"It's all extremely strong, as long as I have a fierce skill, I can teach Xiao Se a hard lesson!"

"Hahaha......"

In the main hall, none of the generals of the Dajin Kingdom took Xiao Sese in their eyes, and they were even a little eager to try.

How can the Hetao grassland be compared with Dadingfu? Dading Mansion was originally the Zhongjing of the Liao State, and now it has the support of the Zhou State and is more prosperous. If you can plunder it, it will be a lifetime of wealth!

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