Just when Wang Ze led a large army to loot Sihyun City, the capital of Silla on the east coast of the peninsula was still quiet, and only some families whose children joined the army and lost on Jeju Island would hear bursts of cries from time to time, adding a touch of unease to the silent Jincheng.

As the capital of Silla, Geumseong is not in a good geographical location, compared to the flat and abundant Nakdong River basin, there is no large plain near Geumseong near the Sea of Whales (later the Sea of Japan) to provide enough food, and there is no wide river to facilitate the navigation of ships.

Of course, the advantage of Jinseong's proximity to the sea is more suitable for the berthing of sea ships, but Silla's poor shipbuilding industry cannot build sea ships that can withstand the wind and waves of the sea, but is prone to strong invasion by foreign naval forces, and the sea that can be used as a barrier is not necessarily safe.

Silla identified Geumseong as the national capital, but it was here from the very beginning of the tribal period of Silla, and later developed step by step from here, becoming a tribe and tribal alliance, relying on the gradual annexation of other tribal forces in Jinhan, which gradually became a relatively powerful country in the southern part of the peninsula.

Originally, Silla was only one of the 12 tribes of Jinhan, with only 6 villages and 6 families, and the founding of Silla was quite late compared to the Chinese history books that acknowledge that Goguryeo and Baekje, both of which were founded earlier in the country, after BC.

After being a vassal of Goguryeo for more than 200 years, Silla became more and more powerful, and after it began to unite with Baekje against Goguryeo in 427 AD, Silla was only a large tribal alliance until 503 AD.

In the official history books of the Northern Dynasties, Silla used to use country names such as "Jilin" and "Siluo", and their earliest history before them basically belonged to a tribal alliance country or a city-state state, which can only be said to be the prototype of a country.

Perhaps because of the relatively short period of its rise, Silla did not have the twilight of the ancient states of Baekje and Goguryeo, and after a series of expansion wars in recent decades, Silla quickly became a relatively powerful military power on the peninsula during the reign of King Jinheung.

In the original history, Silla later hugged the thigh of the Tang Dynasty and successfully eliminated the old rivals Baekje and Goguryeo, and then took advantage of the Tang Dynasty's great war with Tibet and the Western Turks to take away the Xiongjin Prefecture and part of Goguryeo's territory from the Tang Dynasty, and finally succeeded in controlling all the land on the peninsula south of the Daedong River in its own hands, and then expanded northward step by step to become a regional power.

However, now the momentum of Silla's rapid rise was interrupted by Wang Ze, not only in the past few years, Wang Ze vigorously supported Baekje's attack on Silla, causing a large number of losses in personnel and materials to Silla; Wang Ze also continued to raise the purchase price of Silla girls from Baekje, causing a large number of Silla girls with a population smaller than that of Baekje.

When King Jinheung of Silla made up his mind to reunite with Baekje to attack Wangze, he did not want to be annihilated by Wangze's most elite army of 50,000 on Jeju Island, resulting in the loss of more than half of Silla's originally powerful army comparable to Goguryeo, and also made King Jinheung of Silla in Jinseong particularly panicked.

After learning of the defeat on Jeju Island, Silla sent letters of help to almost all the surrounding countries, and even the Northern Qi Dynasty, which had just regained some peace, also received a letter of help from Silla.

For Silla's request for help, Baekje was too busy to take care of himself, and Northern Qi was too lazy to care about these because Gao Zhan, who had just ascended the throne, and his old rival Northern Zhou came to attack and disturb him from time to time.

In the end, the messenger sent to Goguryeo brought back some ambiguous replies, just to let King Zhenxing resist Wang Ze's attack with peace of mind, and Goguryeo would definitely not do anything to watch, but the specific means of support were not mentioned at all.

King Jinheung, who was uneasy, immediately sent a large number of spies to the outside world, especially since Wang Ze led a large army to attack Baekje, King Jinheung immediately sent a large number of scouts and spies to Baekje in order to spy on what Wang Ze's army would take against Silla.

The Silla royal palace in Geumseong was also built according to the palace architecture of the Central Plains, but because of the short construction time, it looked much newer than the royal palace in Baekje, and a large number of fruit trees in summer and autumn were full of ripe fruits, making the little palace maids passing by salivate.

There are also large courtyards outside the Silla Palace, most of which are the buildings where some foreign officials lived when they came to Jinseong, and in one of the side courtyards that seem to be relatively bleak, the courtyard overgrown with large trees is full of dead leaves, and if you can still see the fresh footprints of some people, it is estimated that most people will think that this is a courtyard that has been abandoned for a long time.

However, although some people were active in the yard, it was obvious that the people in these yards did not have the slightest intention of tidying up the yard, and let the yard be overgrown with wild grass, and even the eaves and walls had thatch growing in places.

In a room in this desolate courtyard, it looked much cleaner, and King Jinheung of Silla was sitting on a soft couch listening to several leaders of the Xuanyi warriors recount the latest news that had just arrived from Baekje.

Several leaders of the Xuanyi warriors slowly recounted what Wang Ze had done in Baekje, which made King Zhenxing feel a little chilled when he heard it, and his originally calm expression began to be a little flustered, and the hands hidden under the hem of his clothes were clenched even tighter, and his palms were full of sweat stains.

In the summer and autumn of the third year of the summer calendar, it was originally a harvest season full of joy, and during this time, Wang Ze first broke through a large naval camp in the southern part of Baekje and wiped out almost all the remnants of the Baekje naval army that fled back from the naval battle of Jeju Island.

Immediately after that, Wang Ze sent a team of 5,000 men and 500 ironclad troops under Liu Wancheng's command to land from this destroyed camp and quickly sweep some of the surrounding Baekje counties.

Subsequently, Wang Ze led more than 30,000 soldiers of the main force of Zhang Hang, Ji Xiang, White Wolf Battalion, and Liu Wancheng to attack Si Xian City on more than 150 naval warships of Sun Xing, Zong Li, and Du Sheng.

At that time, there were more than 30 warships of the Baekje Navy guarding the port of Si Hyun City, and there were also more than 5,000 elite soldiers on the shore to guard it, but such a strong force did not want to be completely wiped out by Wang Ze in just two quarters of an hour.

Surrounded by dozens of ministers and more than 1,000 Praetorian Guards, he fled in a hurry with a few concubines and a few cherished princes and princesses, and finally fled to Xiongjin Castle, an important city in northern Baekje.

Fuyu Chang's monk can't run the temple', leaving the rich Siyu City to become the spoils of Wang Ze's army, and the treasures of the treasury were swept away by Wang Ze, and even a large number of palace ladies in the palace did not have time to take away, and were packed and taken away by Wang Ze, ready to be distributed to the meritorious soldiers under his command as concubines.

Even though Baekje's comprehensive national strength has been declining over the years, the wealth accumulated over the centuries is still unparalleled, and the grain seized from the grain depot in Sihyun City alone is as much as one million stones.

In addition, the grain harvested from the nearby Xiongjin Plain and the grain reserves seized in the surrounding counties, and even the grain that had just been harvested from the surrounding farmland was all taken away by Wang Ze, which was also as much as two million stones.

The more than 3 million stone grain seized is not a small amount, it is enough to feed more than 900,000 people under Wang Ze's command for a year, and other gold and silver wealth is even more numerous.

However, after robbing a large amount of money, grain, materials and a large number of people in Sihyun City, Wang Ze was not satisfied, in order to transport money, grain and materials, Wang Ze recruited a large number of young men and ships from Jeju Island, Qinjin and other places to come to Baekje Sihyun City to assist in transporting materials.

Next, Wang Ze sent a large army to the plains around Sihyun Castle to snatch away a large number of young women from Baekje, which is outrageous because Wang Ze not only took away the school-age women under the age of twenty-five in these places, but even the young girls who had just turned three years old.

It's not that Wang Ze is mad and even his young daughters can do it, but these young girls who are only a few years old will be sent to the homes of ordinary people everywhere to raise, and when these young girls grow up, they will only recognize themselves as serious Han daughters, which can be regarded as a way for Wang Ze to increase his population.

Of course, what the Silla people are reluctant to admit is that because Wang Ze has issued decrees over the years to protect foreign women who marry into Jeju Island, so that these foreign women can live better under Wang Ze's influence, it is often the Baekje women in these places who are willing to follow the soldiers on Wang Ze's side to leave Baekje.

Since most of Baekje's soldiers were lost on the battlefield with Silla and on Jeju Island, there are only 30,000 soldiers in Baekje today, of which about 20,000 are concentrated near Xiongjin Fortress and nearly 10,000 others are concentrated near the border with Silla. 163TXT

After knowing that the 80,000 allied troops of Baekje Silla and Silla were wiped out by Wang Ze, these soldiers who had been defending Goguryeo in the north were even more reluctant to fight hard with Wang Ze's army, even if the anxious Buyeo Chang gave orders many times, these Baekje troops only patrolled fifty miles away from Sihyun City, for fear that Wang Ze would seize the opportunity to beat them up.

What made both Baekje and Silla even more terrible was that Wang Ze was not satisfied after sweeping the fortress, and he transported a large amount of wealth from the fortress while sending Son Xing, Du Sheng, and Jong Lisuo to attack all the port cities of Baekje.

This time, Baekje lost almost 90 percent of the country's ships, whether military or merchant, and only a very small number of ships barely escaped because they entered Baekje's inland waterways.

Baekje originally had fewer people and more land, and the local grain production was low, and it originally relied on the prosperous maritime trade, and Baekje's small life was relatively nourishing, but now that he has offended Wang Ze, life has become more and more difficult.

Sun Xing's group of sailors not only destroyed all the ports of Baekje, but also plundered almost all of the Baekje shipyards, and robbed five or six thousand craftsmen from these places, plus the families of these people amounted to 20,000 or 30,000 people.

In contrast to the Baekje prisoners of war and ordinary young men who were used as slaves, these Baekje craftsmen were generally treated as ordinary people, and as long as they were able to do their jobs seriously, their families gradually acquired some of the rights that ordinary civilians under Wang Ze's rule had.

Of course, if these people want to become citizens under Wang Ze, they must at least go to the second generation, and after receiving secondary education under Wang Ze, they must wait until these people pass the grade examination prepared by Wang Ze when they become adults before they can become civilians of the country, and if they want to become citizens, they must join the army for more than three years to be possible.

By the time Wang Ze had finished plundering Si Yu City, Sun Xing, Zong Li, and Du Sheng had gradually plundered all the coastal cities in Baekje, but these port cities were far less prosperous than Si Hyun City, and at best they were just small county towns in the inland of the Central Plains.

When Wang Ze was about to leave, the Xiongjin army sent by Fuyuchang to attack Wang Ze began to advance towards Siyu City, but before they could get close to Siyu City, Siyu City began to burn a raging fire, which burned for more than three days before being extinguished by a heavy rain.

When these Baekje troops came to the outside of Sihyun City, they saw that the people in the city were basically driven out of the city, and the vast majority of healthy young men and women were taken away by Wang Ze, leaving behind basically the old, weak, sick and disabled, and it was impossible to even help the army fight the fire.

The fire at Sihyeon Fortress greatly shocked the people of Baekje, and from this day on, they honestly waited until the day of their destruction.

After this round of battle, more than 100,000 Baekje people died in the war and burned the city, and there were more than 100,000 Baekje young men who were snatched by Wang Ze as slaves, and Wang Ze also looted at least 780,000 Baekje women who were good-looking.

This is only the official statistics, and there are also a large number of women who left Baekje directly with the young men who came to deliver money and food, and Wang Ze estimates that there are at least 40,000 or 50,000 of these women.

With these alone, basically about a quarter of Baekje's population is gone, and if you add the troops lost in the previous war, as well as the Baekje shipwrights and their families who were taken away by Wang Ze, these Baekje alone lost nearly 500,000 people at once.

It can be said that the population of Baekje is now less than 1 million, which is already a serious loss of vitality.

After listening to the Xuanyi warrior's proclamation, King Zhenxing sighed and said, "That Wang Ze's methods are so fierce and violent, aren't you afraid of going to hell after death?" Thinking about it, Baekje is also one of the few powerful countries in the East China Sea, but I can't imagine that it will end up like this! ”

A bearded Xuanyi warrior knelt on the ground and raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, that Wang Ze killed innocents indiscriminately, so unjustifiably and brutally, he will inevitably go down to the Na Ah Nose Hell in the future and suffer from the eighteen-layer mud plough hell, and now it is just a moment of pride!" ”

During the reign of King Jinheung, Futu Sect was established as the state religion, so the style of worshipping Buddha up and down Silla was also quite popular, but if Wang Ze heard it, he would definitely say, I am a believer in Haotian God, who knows where the door of the Buddha's house will open?

King Jinheung continued to sigh and said: "What I am worried about now is that Wang Ze came to rob my Silla after plundering Baekje, my Silla is not as profound as Baekje, and now it has only been more than 20 years since I merged Xiaojiaye, and it has only been less than a year since I merged Dagaye, in case Wang Ze comes to attack the Wa Kingdom and suffers serious losses, what will I use to suppress these places at that time!?" ”

Silla had built a powerful army in the East China Sea since the beginning of King Jinheung, but at first Silla had not yet incorporated the Japanese colonial government in Muhan, and the Han River valley to the north was still largely Goguryeo.

Therefore, at this time, the population of Silla was only 900,000 and less than 1 million, and the total number of troops in the country, including the navy, infantry, and cavalry, was only about 40,000 or 50,000.

It was not until Silla united with Baekje that Goguryeo's power in the upper reaches of the Han River was expelled, and Wang Ze took advantage of Wangze's attack on the Wa Kingdom to completely merge the Wa Kingdom in the former Muhan region into his own territory, and the national population of Silla increased to less than 1.5 million.

In addition, at this time, Baekje, with the support of Wang Ze, began to attack Silla for many years, so it was not until the heyday that Silla's national army expanded to about 100,000 people.

Later, when they united with Baekje to attack Wangze, the Silla people who were determined to attack Jeju Island alone sent 50,000 elite infantry troops, plus a small part of the Silla naval army that attacked the Nagmuto Waterway and participated in the coalition naval army, the total number of troops sent by Silla at that time was almost 70,000.

That is to say, since these armies attacking Wang Ze were almost completely wiped out, the strength of the whole country of Silla was only about 30,000, including more than 10,000 sailors.

Today's Silla is like a weak little girl compared to Wang Ze, where is the ability to resist Wang Ze's invasion, the fate of Baekje before is a portrayal of Silla, and the thought of King Zhenxing here is a special headache.

After a long silence, King Zhenxing finally made a decision: "Summons and the lords of the various departments, I want to patrol Andong City, you prepare, and in addition, you must not let the people of Kaye west of the Luodong River know about these things, you must keep this matter strictly secret, if anyone leaks it, they will be executed!" ”

In the end, King Zhenxing was already full of voice.

Andong Fortress is located 200 miles north of Jincheng, which is the upstream location of the Nakdong River, and only 300 miles away from Goguryeo, which can be said to be the hinterland of Silla, which can not only be far away from the attack of Wang Zebu's army, but also away from Jincheng, which is vulnerable to the attack of Wang Ze's army.

However, this also means that Geumseong, which was originally the capital of Silla, has actually been abandoned by King Jinheung.

Several Xuanyi warriors and other kings of Jinheung came out of the door, and they all looked at each other in horror, and they understood very well what King Jinheung meant, that is, to try to transfer the wealth and population of these old places east of the Dongjiang River in Silla to the interior, and to use the Dagaya area, which had just been incorporated into Silla, as an outcast, as food to satisfy Wang Ze's appetite.

In this way, when Wang Ze has finished plundering the Great Ka Ye, and then continues to go inland, the resistance will be even stronger, and Wang Ze will turn around and go back to his place at this time.

Of course, these Xuanyi warriors also saw that this was the King of Zhenxing while preserving his strength, and also using Wang Ze's hand to weaken the resistance force in the land that had just been merged.

In fact, King Zhenxing has another meaning, that is, if Wang Ze wants to continue to attack Silla after plundering Dagaye, then he gritted his teeth and took refuge in Goguryeo, so that Andong City, which is one or two hundred miles north of Jincheng, can get the support of the Goguryeo people more quickly.