Seeing the Xianbei envoy Yan Pi leaving, Sima Yi walked out from behind the screen of the main hall, bowed to Luan Yi, and said, "Your Majesty, do you say that the Goguryeo people will agree to the conditions of the empire." ”

"Of course not!" With a playful smile, Luan Yi replied affirmatively.

"Then aren't they afraid that I will wave my army to attack them?"

"According to the information sent back by the Goguryeo Aegis Hosaku, the new king of Goguryeo (the 'new king' is the royal name of Goguryeo) is an arrogant man." Luan Yi took a sip of tea proudly, "Although he has a certain fear of the imperial army, in his eyes, the Changbai Mountain moat is an insurmountable moat of the imperial army. He needed to hold the mountain passes of Changbai Mountain, and it would be difficult for the imperial army to reach Goguryeo itself. ”

"That's exactly what happened." Sima Yi nodded.

Luan Yi continued: "More importantly, I deliberately inadvertently leaked an important message to him. The empire sent troops to Liaodong not only against him, Goguryeo, but also Baekje, Silla, and Samhan. This gave him ample reasons for Baekje, Silla, and Samhan to settle their old suspicions with him, share the same hatred, and join forces to unite with the common empire. ”

Sima Yi is a smart person, and immediately realized Luan Yi's intentions, "Your Majesty, is this trying to catch them all?" ”

"Yes!"

"But Changbai Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult to break through the garrison of Goguryeo alone, not to mention that the four countries are united." Sima Yi said worriedly.

"Who said that you have to go to Changbai Mountain to fight Goguryeo?" Luan Yi picked at Sima Yi, and said, "Changbai Mountain is just a cover, and the true direction of the empire's main attack is not here. This also explains why I transferred the 80,000 soldiers and horses from Qingzhou and Xuzhou back to the empire early. ”

"Your Majesty mean?" Sima Yi stared at the blue area on the painted "Land Under the Sky" behind Luan Yi, and suddenly realized.

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Just as Luan Yi had predicted, instead of accepting his credentials, the new king of Goguryeo burned the delicate print to ashes.

Subsequently, he sent envoys to travel to the countries of Liaodong to reveal the news that the Holy Chinese Empire was about to use troops on the peninsula to attack Baekje, Silla, and Samhan. For a time, everyone in the peninsula was in danger, and in order to resist the imminent powerful enemy, they united with many contradictions in the past, and gathered 70,000 allied troops to set up layers of camps in Changbai Mountain.

After spring ploughing on February 28, the 22nd year of Shengyuan, Luan Yi sent troops according to the agreement. Only 80,000 imperial guards were sent to the empire this time, with Luan Yi personally in command, Lu Bu as the deputy commander, Guo Jia, Sima Yi and the newly emerging Lu Xun as military advisors, marching chief and military Sima. The generals Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Lü Meng, Xiahou Yuan, and Xu Chu went out with the army, and Ma Chao, the governor of Luzhou, fought with 20,000 Luzhou Qiang soldiers.

The vast army of locusts generally swept across the grassland, aiming directly at the Changbai Mountains.

To the surprise of Goguryeo and other countries, the huge army of the Holy Chinese Empire was fierce when it came, but when it reached the foothills of Changbai Mountain, it died down. Tens of thousands of troops stayed in the camp, in addition to training the military formation, it was to practice military drills, and from time to time there were a few lively jujus, but they did not take the initiative to attack.

On the top of the mountain, the Baekje lord looked at the Central Plains people under the mountain with a disdainful expression, and sneered: "The Central Plains people won't see that we are well prepared, and they are afraid, right?" ”

Yan Pi rolled his eyes, "I advise you to know more about the pope of the Central Plains before expressing your opinion!" He began to lead his troops to fight at the age of sixteen, and he was invincible in all battles, and even the Qiang, Xiongnu and Xianbei were not his opponents, and he was afraid of anyone. ”

"Then tell me why he didn't attack?"

Yan Pi shook his head, saying that he didn't know why. But one thing is certain, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and the people of the Central Plains must be brewing some conspiracy. "Command all armies, brace yourself and guard the passes. In particular, we must pay attention to those mountain streams and paths, and we must not let the enemy go around behind us. ”

But he didn't know that even if he blocked all the mountain streams, paths, and rivers, he couldn't stop the progress of the imperial army around him. Because the way for the empire to take the back road is not in the mountains at all, but in the vast sea.

At the same time that Luan Yi personally drove the army to Goguryeo, the 20,000 Qingzhou guards under the command of Yu Ban boarded the ship in Dongrae, and under the escort of the 20,000 sailors of the North Sea Fleet of Tai Shi Ci, they took advantage of the spring monsoon all the way north and arrived on the south coast of Baekje.

Faced with Baekje, a small country without any coastal defense, the huge North Sea Fleet did not encounter any form of resistance, and 20,000 Qingzhou guards easily landed and set up camp on the shore. Tae Shi Ci divided the fleet into two, 36 treasure ships and 81 Haehanglou ships to continue to cruise on the coast of Baekje, and the remaining 300 or so transport ships unloaded their baggage, turned around and returned to sail to continue to send follow-up troops to Baekje.

The people of Baekje, who lived near the sea, quickly discovered the anomaly by the sea, and after seeing the huge warships and well-armed guards of the empire, they were frightened and hurriedly reported the news to the king of Baekje.

The king of Baekje felt dizzy and fell to the ground. At present, he transferred most of his domestic army to Changbai Mountain, intending to resist the invasion from the north together with Silla and Goguryeo, who would have imagined that the people of the Central Plains could cross the sea to reach his rear.

The Baekje capital city of Comfort Fortress is only 100 miles from the coast, and the soldiers and horses of the fortresses in the middle have been transferred, and it has almost become an empty city...... The army of the Central Plains people could reach the capital in less than two days, and in such a short period of time, he had no time to mobilize troops and horses to rescue.

Thinking about this, he knew that the capital could not be defended, so he fled to the north with his family overnight, moving closer to his own army.

As he expected, after landing, Yu Ban first set up camp for the follow-up troops and set up a supply base for grain, grass and baggage. Subsequently, he left 5,000 men and horses to garrison the camp, and personally commanded an army of 15,000 to attack the capital of Baekje.

Along the way, they encountered sporadic resistance at Qiutai City. Yu Ban didn't waste any time, and directly asked the sappers to push the earthen cannon out. The explosives were discharged and landed on the walls of Qiutai, and the sound of explosions came one after another, not to mention the powerful blasting force, and the sound wave of the explosion alone overturned the dilapidated thatched houses of many Baekje people in the city.

After a round of explosions, a low earthen wall of Qiutai disappeared into the vast smoke and dust. When the Baekje people in Qiutai City saw this scene, let alone fighting, they couldn't stand steadily, and they knelt on the ground one after another to ask for surrender.

With the help of the First Battle of the Emperor Taiwan, the prestige of the imperial army was greatly shaken, and no Baekje people dared to resist wherever they passed, and the imperial army hung up the white flag early before it arrived.

Two days later, 15,000 Imperial Guards blew open the gates of the Baekje capital city and poured into the city, and the battle went so smoothly that the Imperial Guards surrounded the palace with almost no soldiers.

The only regret is that the king of Baekje slipped away quickly and resolutely, and did not even take the wealth hoarded in the palace with him, but only took some portable treasures and clothes and fled to Goguryeo with his wife, children, and some relatives.

The Baekje nobles, wealthy squires, and common people who remained in the city and didn't have time to escape looked at the intruders wrapped in bright armor in front of them. Before that, they heard about the brutality of the Central Plains people on the grassland, and hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people died, causing the entire Xianbei ethnic group to be almost wiped out.

They fear that they will follow in the footsteps of the Xianbei people, that the wealth left by their ancestors will be plundered by the invaders, and that they will lose their precious lives.

However, their fears are clearly unfounded. They quickly discovered that after entering the city, instead of rushing into their homes to kill people and rob things as they imagined, the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains took the initiative to maintain order and captured many wicked people who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob their homes and houses. They also used military funds to subsidize many poor people in the city.

They also have no covetousness for the palace that is undefended and hoards treasures. Under the command of the Central Plains generals, the Central Plains soldiers pasted seals on the four gates of the palace and sent special personnel to guard them, and no one was allowed to break in.

In addition, every morning, the people of the Central Plains would send interpreters to shout around, telling the people of Baekje in the city not to be afraid, that the army of the Holy Huaxia Empire was a good army, an army that brought peace, and that as long as the empire was not an enemy, the defenders of the empire would not endanger their lives and property.

Some Baekje people secretly ridiculed, since it is an army that brings peace and stability, so why did they slaughter the Xianbei people before?

The interpreter seemed to hear him, and explained: The Empire does not kill innocents. Previously, the reason why the imperial army destroyed the Xianbei people was because the Xianbei people had repeatedly been enemies of the empire, and they had repeatedly detained the borders of the empire for decades, slaughtering and plundering hundreds of thousands of imperial people. Blood debts must be paid with blood, and the empire adopted a bloody policy against the Xianbei people in order to avenge the hatred. On the other hand, Baekje and the empire had no enmity in the past, and the empire would never treat Baekje like it did with Xianbei.

Hearing these words, the hearts of the people of Baekje were relieved a lot. Combined with the goodwill of the Imperial Defenders in the past few days, some of the bold Baekje people began to open their homes and communicate with the Baekje-speaking Imperial Interpreters on the street.

Through the interpreter's friendly, courteous, and friendly words, they became more and more convinced that the Central Plains army was harmless to them at the moment, and would give them adequate protection in times of need.

The hearts of the people of Baekje were finally relaxed, and more and more people took to the streets to do business and buy food as they did before the war, and everything in the city was restored in an orderly manner.

In contrast to Yu Ban's successful capture of Baekje, Seo Hwang's campaign against Silla was met with stubborn resistance from the Silla people.

He went to sea at the same time as Yu Ban, but Yu Ban boarded the ship in Donglai and took the warship of the North Sea Fleet, while Xu Huang set off in Shouchun and took the big ship of the Yangtze River Naval Division under the jurisdiction of Wenpin.

Since river boats were not as strong and wave-resistant as sea boats, Munpin's warships did not go deep into the sea, but sent Xu Huang all the way along the coastline to Silla.