A heavy snow blocked the 20,000 troops of Goguryeo who went to crusade against Zhenhai in Luojin City, thinking that this heavy snow would soon pass, but I didn't want it to be seven or eight days, and there was a white-haired wind in the middle, completely cutting off the Goguryeo army's main general Gawain's attempt to attack in the snow.

The intermittent heavy snow sometimes snowed heavily, and sometimes only a few snow particles drifted, but there was no sign that the sky was clearing, and according to experienced local elders, this heavy snow would continue for several days, which made Gawain's heart more and more irritable.

Heavy snow for several days in a row, so that the small Luojin City was covered with a thick layer of snow, because the weather is cold, everyone will not go out if there is nothing to do, so the snow on the street is not swept away, it looks extremely white, and only a few lines of footprints quickly disappeared in the snowflakes flying in the sky.

Luojin Fortress is the most remote town in the northeast of Goguryeo, if it weren't for the fact that this time Goguryeo King Gao Yangcheng suddenly learned from King Jinheung of Silla that the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea, which he feared the most, had set up a stronghold near his own land, otherwise Goguryeo, who had been staring at the north and south, would not have set his sights here.

Outside the house, the snow was flying, the cold wind was howling, but the inside of the house was as warm as spring, Gao Wenwen sat next to the fire pit in the house, there was a copper pot filled with hot water, and there was some local game boiling in it, and there was also a wine jug wrapped in hot water in a basin next to it.

This is the mansion of the lord of Luojin City, Gao Wen lives here these days, after all, it is a remote town, even the life of the lord of Luojin City is not as good as an ordinary rich family in Pyongyang City, especially the charcoal burning in the fire pit in front of him is burned by the local people themselves, not only smoke, but also a spicy atmosphere.

All this made Gao Wen, who was used to living a good life in Pyongyang City, frown, but he didn't say anything, after all, these were already the best things that the city lord of Luojin City could provide, but the jar of sugarcane wine that the city lord of Luojin had just brought out made him quite satisfied.

Seeing that Gao Wen liked the sugarcane wine he took out, the city lord from the Jingren Kingdom said with a smile: "General Gao, this sugarcane wine was bought from some Southern Chen merchants when he went to Pyongyang City last year, it is not only luscious and mellow, but also has a fiery feeling, especially suitable for drinking in winter, it is worthy of being a fine wine brewed in the Celestial Empire, it is really a rare good wine!" ”

Gao Wen nodded appreciatively, originally he thought this wine was good, and now he heard that this wine is still from Nanchen, so he is even more satisfied, at this time Goguryeo because of the full implementation of sinicization, so the nobles in Goguryeo are proud of Nanchen's goods, and when they hear that this wine is produced in Nanchen, they feel very sweet.

In ancient times, drinking wine was to drink hot liquor, and sugarcane wine would taste good when it was hot, and after drinking two sips of hot wine, Gao Wen suddenly asked the lord of Luojin City: "Have the leaders of the Wofu people and the Zhai people contacted you have replied?" ”

The city lord of Luojin hurriedly bowed down and replied: "I almost missed the general's big event, it should be beaten, nearly a hundred tribes within two hundred miles around Luojin City have sent people to go, but at present, it may be because the time is too short, and it is snowing heavily, and there are less than forty tribes who have replied to us at present." ”

The city lord of Luojin said and carefully glanced at Gao Wen's eyes, seeing that his face was expressionless, so he said carefully: "Up to now, most of the other tribes have not heard from it, and only twenty-three of these tribes who have replied to us are willing to send troops to help in the war, but the general must provide a certain reward!" ”

"Humph!" Gao Wen snorted coldly and said, "These guys, they live in the land of the Gao family, and they scramble one by one when they are ministers and take advantage of the benefits on weekdays, but when the king needs them, they hide far away one by one, and even want benefits, pass on my military order, limit them to lead the warriors in the tribe to arrive within five days, and let Gao Yannian, the lord of the eastern army, cooperate with the conscription, if there is anyone who disobeys the military order, there will be no forgiveness!" ”

Saying that, Gao Wen's hand was ruthless, and he actually crushed the wine cup in his hand raw.

It's no wonder that Gawain is not very angry, now the 20,000 Goguryeo army has been delayed in Najin City for seven or eight days, and the Goguryeo army only carried a total of food for the 20,000 army to eat for half a month when they set out.

Originally, before the departure of the army, there was a baggage team behind to transport grain, but because of the rolling mountains between the western and eastern parts of Goguryeo, the road connecting the eastern part was not easy to follow, not to mention the fact that the northeast was not valued by the Goguryeo headquarters.

The subsequent heavy snowfall made Goguryeo's transportation even worse, even if the grain was transported from the southern region of Goguryeo on the verge of Silla, it would take more than ten days to reach it by sea, so that the poor logistics alone could drag down the Goguryeo Eastern Expeditionary Army.

The cold climate in Beji not only caused great trouble to the soldiers of Wang Ze's Blue Wolf Army, but even the soldiers of Goguryeo were unbearable, especially in Goguryeo's logistics, which was not as good as that of the Blue Wolf Army.

When Gao Wen came, Gao Yangcheng told him very clearly that he came this time not only to uproot the stronghold set up by the Xia State outside the mouth of the Tongmen River, but also to have a more important responsibility, that is, to use this time to conquer the stronghold of the Xia State to unify the indigenous tribes living in this land.

See which tribes are willing to stand with Goguryeo and which are dissenting.

Under the guidance of the old minister Gao Shaocong, Gao Wen planned to first recruit some tribes who were willing to serve Goguryeo to conquer the indigenous tribes who were unwilling to submit to Goguryeo, and then use the conquest of the Xia stronghold to consume these tribes who had already taken refuge in him. Baixiao

After uprooting the stronghold of the Xia Kingdom, he could take the opportunity to annex the tribes here and further advance Goguryeo's sphere of influence to the northeast, so that he could go hand in hand with the direction of Buyeo Fortress further north in Liaodong, and then encompass this vast and fertile land into Goguryeo's arms.

Since ancient times, the tribes living in the land of Liaodong have survived in the cruel law of the jungle, and they believe in the law of the jungle, so they have become the Central Plains people's pen of 'fear of power but not virtue', only let them feel strong strength, they will obey your orders.

Five days later, as Gao Wen expected, more than 40 tribes living around Luojin City sent their own young men to assist the Goguryeo people in the battle, although most of them were small and medium-sized tribes, but because there were indeed many tribes, there were also an indigenous army of nearly 5,000 people after they were gathered.

At this time, the baggage fleet from the southern part of the east coast of Goguryeo came to Najin City, so Gawain waved his hand and took out a large amount of salt, cotton jackets, grain, and other items that the tribes urgently lacked from these baggage to reward these tribes who were willing to send troops.

Seeing the patriarchs and young men of these tribes crying gratefully one by one, Gao Wen secretly sneered in his heart, but he still comforted and said all kinds of words of encouragement, nothing more than all kinds of promotions, fortunes, wishes, etc., which were obviously very fake, but they made these tribes convinced.

When Goguryeo began to lay out the land of Beji, Cao An and Zhang Hang in Zhenhai were also anxiously waiting for Wang Ze's reply, and they also had to start to strengthen their efforts to win over these Beji indigenous tribes in Zhenhai, Jiangkou and other surrounding areas.

The Beji people were called Su Shen in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before, the Han Dynasty was once called Ru Lou, and in the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, it was called Beji, and in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it became the Jin Dynasty, and there will be Jurchen and other titles in the future, but all in all it is the same thing.

The indigenous tribes around Zhenhai Fortress, in addition to the Beiwofu people in the direction of Goguryeo and the Baeksan tribe, there are also activities in the west of the Fune tribe, and there is also the Horn Department near the Great Lake in the north.

These tribes are said to be one tribe, but they are divided into small tribes of different sizes according to blood and family relations, and the population is very sparse, and it is very difficult to live in the land of Beji, where the natural conditions are harsh.

For Cao An, Zhang Hang, Zhao Qin and others, in addition to the Beiwofu and Baishan tribes living around Goguryeo's Luojin Fortress, the other two Beji wild tribes could be co-opted, and the Heishui tribe near the mouth of the river further north of Zhenhai was the key direction for recruiting soldiers.

The recruitment of the Heishui Department near the mouth of the river is not because there is a larger indigenous population here, on the contrary, because the climate here is harsher than that of Zhenhai, and the population of the indigenous tribes living near the mouth of the river is even more sparse, mainly the Heishui Department.

However, it is precisely because the population of Heishui near the mouth of the river at the mouth of the mixed river (Heilongjiang) is particularly sparse, and there are basically no disputes between the Han and Heishui because of land, but the arrival of the Han people has brought a lot of cash production experience and technology, which has greatly improved the living standards of the local Heishui department.

In this way, the two sides have been in a very friendly relationship from the beginning, and nearly seventy percent of the savage soldiers recruited by Zhao Qin from the land of Beji last time were recruited from the relatively friendly Heishui tribe near the mouth of the river.

And these Beji savage soldiers followed Wang Ze's army to the northeast and west for a while, and after seeing the 'bustling big city', they were no longer willing to return to their remote and backward small places.

For them, after helping Wang Ze fight and make meritorious contributions, they are already a glorious Hanmin under the rule of the great general Wang, and even their family members can take over and become Hanmin to live a good life, of course, this will not be officially counted until these family members learn Chinese.

Although these soldiers were reluctant to return to their tribes, the gifts they brought back and the large amount of what they saw and heard when they took their family's children irritated the hearts of those people in their tribes.

The people of the Heishui Tribe, who were envious, couldn't sit still, and as long as they were okay on weekdays, they began to run to the Eguchi Hanmin more often.

This time, the Goguryeo people made a lot of movement in Luojin City, constantly co-opting and forcing the indigenous tribes in the south to stand in line, and began to pull the younger brother on a large scale, and some tribes who were unwilling to express their stance to participate in the attack at first were soon defeated by the Goguryeo people who joined forces to join their own tribes.

Now everyone has no choice but to take refuge in Goguryeo, after all, these tribes still live in the land that nominally belongs to Goguryeo, and the Xia stronghold in Zhenhai has never heard of any special combat effectiveness, so it is more reliable to take refuge in Goguryeo.

When Goguryeo's behavior of forcing the younger brother to take refuge in Luojin City reached Zhenhai, Cao An, Zhang Hang, Zhao Qin and others who got the news had to use the same method to deal with it, so Zhao Qin was also rushed back to Jiangkou by Cao An and Zhang Hang in advance to be responsible for recruiting the local Heishui Qingzhuang.