Wang Hanxin's rapid advance did not cause any accidents, and the Goryeo army did not move to fight against it at all, and retreated directly into the Turtle City.

As Su Chengdong had predicted, the real resistance of the Goryeo Army began in Dingzhou. With the deployment of the troops of the Silk Country, the existence of the Goryeo Army was discovered on the line of Dingzhou-Guicheng-White Wolf Mountain.

However, the way the Goryeo army resisted was also a bit strange. They put on a posture of fighting to the death, completely giving up the possibility of attacking, relying on the city wall to hold on, and even blocked the city gate. Especially in White Wolf Mountain, they relied on the dangerous terrain of the main peak to turn the entire main peak into a large fortress, and it is really impossible to estimate how many casualties will be paid if they want to capture this fortress.

The problem was that the Goryeo Army's passive and simple defense completely abandoned the possibility of attacking from inside the city, which meant that their deployment of troops would not be too large. If the army of the country of silk is attacked, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and if the siege battle is adopted, the population of these cities will not be large, and the consumption of food will be relatively slow, but as long as the country of silk is besieged for a long time and continues to move south, they will eventually face the end of being trapped and killed. In other words, the Goryeo army all confronted the Silk Country in a decisive position, and their only way to survive was to hold on until the day when the Silk Country was defeated by the main forces in the rear. It is conceivable that the Goryeo army has put its own fate, and even the fate of this country, on the battlefield to make a big gamble.

All this was also expected by Su Chengdong. In fact, the Goryeo Army had no other choice, and the drastic regression of national strength, coupled with the attrition of years of war, could be said to be in addition to this method at present. There are only two ways to go: escape and surrender. Due to the ravages of Gao Dingbian and Wang Hanxin for three consecutive years, the fighting spirit of the Goryeo army must be very high. Therefore, they will not choose either of the remaining two paths, and fighting to the death will become the only option.

In this regard, Su Chengdong also adopted corresponding coping strategies. He did not storm these cities, leaving only a small number of troops to besiege these recalcitrant Goryeo troops. In response to these possible measures taken by the Goryeo Army, the Silk Country was more prepared. They dug deep ditches outside the range of the Goryeo army's bows and arrows, and then used the earth to build an earthen wall, set up various defenses on the earthen wall, and built a simple wall outside the city to prevent the Goryeo army from attacking, and started a long-term confrontation with Goryeo. At the same time, the main force of the Silk Country continued to move south.

Anju Fortress in the south was the first strategic point of Goryeo, and for the first time, the Goryeo army deployed more than 5,000 troops here. In this regard, Su Chengdong did not dare to slack off. He was personally responsible for the preparation of the siege of Anzhou City, and only ordered Gao Dingbian and Wang Hanxin to continue to the south as the vanguard.

With the order of the commander-in-chief, Wang Hanxin, the deputy vanguard, could finally advance quickly and unscrupulously. Originally, he had a lot of complaints about Su Chengdong's steady and steady approach, but it was just because his identity as the main general was not good, and he disobeyed the general's order in person. Now that Su Chengdong has an order, he let go of his hands and feet, and arrived at the north bank of the Qingchuan River in only one and a half days, and then began to prepare for crossing the river.

It is different from Wang Hanxin's rapid advance of light troops. The approach to the high edge is quite safe. In order to pave the way for the follow-up troops, he erected a total of five pontoon bridges over the Qingchuan River. This laid a solid foundation for the unimpeded supply transportation of the army of the Silk Country in the future. At the same time, Wang Hanxin had already led his troops to break through Nanyang, Pingyuan, Huajin, and Oushan, and marched into Suzhou City. As expected by other generals of the Liaodong Army, the combination of Wang Hanxin and Gao Dingbian is positive and strange, and complements each other well. At the beginning of autumn, the striker of the Silk Country was already approaching the Datong River.

The reason why Wang Hanxin stopped him in Suzhou City was certainly not because he didn't want to move on. Rather, it is because his supplies have reached the limit. While having to stop and wait for the follow-up supplies to arrive, Wang Hanxin showed his unique efficiency. Due to the already presence of Goryeo civilians in the area south of the Cheongchon River. Although the fighting at the beginning of the year caused a significant number of civilians to flee, it is unlikely that they will all be evacuated in such a short period of time. Those who were too late to leave and those who did not want to leave remained on the land where they had lived for generations. Before Gao Dingbian's troops arrived, he had completed complete control over the inhabitants of the existing occupied territory, and although it was a little thin to control this vast area with his troops, he had effectively formed a whole set of institutions, and when the follow-up troops arrived, they only needed to fill the vacancies to make the whole organization functional. Wang Hanxin's move was unanimously praised, and the veterans all believed that his crooked talents, if used properly, could indeed have unexpected effects. If it weren't for the fact that this benevolent brother was too unruly and always wanted to get into trouble, he could actually get a higher evaluation than Gao Dingbian.

As if to give everyone a positive response, the trouble-loving man soon got into new trouble.

Things have to start from Gao Dingbian to Suzhou City. For Wang Hanxin's rapid advance and huge results, Gao Dingbian felt very strange. Because of Wang Hanxin's almost aggressive behavior, the Goryeo army could have attacked him head-on when his supplies couldn't keep up. But the strange thing is that instead of attacking, the Goryeo army even gave up the city of Suzhou, and even more importantly, Wang Hanxin did not use it when he was firmly occupying the territory and dispersing his forces, which is really too strange.

The only plausible explanation is that the Goryeo army thinks that it is not cost-effective to attack in order to eliminate Wang Hanxin's forces, so they must have a bigger and more ruthless means waiting for the army of the Silk Country.

Gao Dingbian's apprehension was quickly confirmed. Two days later, he received news that the Goryeo army was marching towards the city of Suzhou, and this Goryeo army was an elite force of 55,000 led by Cheng Yun.

This enemy force alone has more than doubled the vanguard force of Gaodingbian, not to mention that his forces have been dispersed to various occupied areas, and the actual force that can meet is less than 8,000.

If these were all, Gao Dingbian would still be able to deal with it, but at the same time, almost all the people in the occupied area near Suzhou began to resist, they took out their hidden weapons, and began to attack the army of the Silk Country!

Gao Dingbian immediately understood the reason for this. Both he and Wang Hanxin miscalculated the degree of hatred of the civilians for the army of the Silk Country. After three years of harassment and destruction, he and Wang Hanxin were no different from demons in the eyes of the common people of Goryeo. In terms of combat, they are the best candidates for the vanguard, but if the emotions of the people in the occupied areas are counted, the two of them are the worst candidates, and the hatred of the Goryeo civilians for the two of them was fully utilized by Lu Xuan, no wonder the Goryeo army did not move at all, they had already distributed weapons to the Goryeo people, and then waited for the army of the Silk Country to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Goryeo, and then act together to catch themselves off guard!

All this is based on the premise of fully believing in the loyalty of the people, and what created the people of Goryeo to be completely loyal to the army to resist was precisely the evil deeds of himself and Wang Hanxin!

The situation is close to spiraling out of control. (To be continued......)