"Alas······"

In the Goguryeo palace in Pyongyang City, Gao Yangcheng sighed and put a book in his hand on the desk, and then slowly raised his head and leaned on the soft couch behind him and sighed, his voice was so weak, and it revealed some helplessness.

"Is the king still anxious about the aggressive offensive of the Xia Kingdom?" A delicate and charming voice sounded.

This is a woman's voice, but it is Gao Yangcheng's favorite concubine - Concubine Zhen, although Concubine Zhen is not the most beautiful one among Gao Yangcheng's concubines, but she is definitely the smartest one, Gao Yangcheng has always felt that only when he is with her can he feel some relaxation.

Gao Yangcheng held the woman's soft and boneless little hand, although Concubine Zhen's appearance was not the best, but this silky skin made him feel pampered, and he always felt that he was reluctant to let go.

Gao Yangcheng looked at Concubine Zhen a little godlessly, and then said a little sadly: "I thought I could stay with you for the rest of my life, but looking at the aggressiveness of this Xia Kingdom, I have the posture of destroying our Goguryeo, haven't I done well enough over the years?" ”

Concubine Zhen looked at Gao Yangcheng's somewhat weak appearance, and she was also sad in her heart, she stepped forward and sat down next to Gao Yangcheng and snuggled in his arms, and then stared at Gao Yangcheng with both eyes and said softly: "The king is the most wise king of Goguryeo, but it's a pity that the way of heaven often mutates, and the luck is hard to find, and the king has done the best he can!" ”

Gao Yangcheng's heart warmed slightly, this woman has always trusted herself so much and encouraged herself, he sighed: "No matter how wise you are, but you have led our Great Gao clan to this desperate road, I am afraid that I will also be the last king of Goguryeo!" ”

"Don't worry, the king, we still have millions of people in the whole country, even if we die, we have to drag the Xia Kingdom to die together, General Gao Wencan in Liaodong is still leading two or three hundred thousand troops to resist the attack of the Xia army, he has always been loyal to His Majesty!"

Concubine Zhen snuggled up to Gao Yangcheng's side and suggested softly: "There is still General Zhu Weiwei in the south and Gao Huizhen in the south to resist the Xia army in the south, and the Xia army in the east also has Yuan Dazuo to resist, and there are still 100,000 troops in and outside the city of Pyongyang, so we are not hopeless!" ”

Hearing Concubine Zhen's comfort, Gao Yangcheng smiled bitterly and said: "These are just things on paper, although there are two or three hundred thousand troops in the counties of Liaodong, but General Gao Wencan can command only 150,000 people, and Gao Huizhen and General Zhu Weiwei on the South Road have some contradictions!" ”

Although Gao Huizhen was very concerned about the safety of Goguryeo, and he did not reserve his strength when fighting against the Xia army, he was after all a master of the southern Sasa and belonged to the local powerful faction, so it was a matter of course to have a conflict with Zhu Wei, a general who represented the royal family.

Originally, there were a total of 120,000 troops in the southern Goguryeo, and during this time, Gao Yangcheng requisitioned a large number of recruits to reinforce his troops, and there were already nearly 150,000 people, so compared with the 100,000 troops of Zheng Kui and Han Zigao, Goguryeo's strength was already superior.

Although the quality of individual soldiers of these Goguryeo armies has decreased a lot because of the relatively weak combat effectiveness of the recruits, so many troops should be able to block the attack of the Xia army!

However, because the southern Goguryeo army was led by Gao Huizhen and Zhu Wei, the contradictions between the two intensified due to many things during this time, and the contradictions between the two led to the overall combat effectiveness of the southern Goguryeo army unable to be integrated.

"Poof" Concubine Zhen actually laughed out loud when she heard Gao Yangcheng's distress, she chuckled, "The king is really too benevolent!" Since Gao Huizhen has become a disadvantageous factor in our battle against the Xia army, let's kill him, so that General Zhu Weiwei will naturally be able to take charge of the southern army! ”

"That's not good!" Gao Yangcheng shook his head slightly and said, "After all, Gao Huizhen is loyal to my Goguryeo, although he also wants to maintain the power of Lord Nisa, but when he fought against the Xia army over the years, he never said that he would push back and hinder!"

At this time, he lost a lot of troops because of his battle with the Xia army, but in this way, I can't do this to him, otherwise what will the other lords and city lords think of me as a king, who is willing to be loyal to me? ”

Concubine Zhen still chuckled and said: "The king is still too kind-hearted, Gao Huizhen is already in his fifties after all, people will always have all kinds of old problems after so many years of fighting, and when he dies, His Majesty can also take over all the troops in his hands, so that he can take the opportunity to fight with the Xia army to gradually eliminate the various tribes, is the king still afraid that he can't beat the Xia army?" ”

"Is that so?" Gao Yangcheng was suddenly moved by Concubine Zhen's words, he stood up and paced back and forth in the study, and only sighed after a long time, "Since the Xia army is attacking urgently, I can only do this, but I'm sorry General Gao Huizhen!" ”

Now that he has made up his mind, it is better to act late than early, Gao Yangcheng immediately secretly ordered Zhu Wei that once Gao Hui really has bad intentions, he can be secretly executed, and all the military power of other members of his family must be confiscated immediately! 520

Gao Yangcheng's order Zhu Wei could understand at a glance, if Gao Hui really had bad intentions, why would he go earlier? Do people have to wait until now?

This is obviously just an excuse to collect all of Gao Huizhen's troops, in fact, Gao Huizhen has already been sold, although Zhu Wei is also a little uncomfortable in his heart, but because of the contradiction between him and Gao Huizhen, he doesn't bother to pay attention to those.

On the day that Zhu Wei received the secret order, Zhu Wei invited Gao Huizhen under the pretext of the military deployment meeting, first poisoned Gao Huizhen's tea, and then strangled Gao Huizhen to death in the camp, and announced to the public that Gao Huizhen had died of a violent illness.

After killing Gao Huizhen, Zhu Wei immediately took all the troops under Gao Huizhen into his hands under the pretext of unifying the military order, although some of Gao Huizhen's descendants of the generals objected, but Zhu Wei immediately pulled out and killed, and for a time all the Goguryeo troops on the southern road were in Zhu Wei's hands.

Although Gao Huizhen's relatives have doubts, but when they have lost all their troops and their territory has been occupied by the Xia army, Gao Huizhen's family and relatives have no climate, which is the fundamental reason why Zhu Wei dared to kill Gao Huizhen unscrupulously.

However, Gao Yangcheng, Concubine Zhen and Zhu Wei couldn't imagine how serious the series of serious consequences caused by killing Gao Huizhen and seizing the military power in his hands were, it can be said that this was the direct fuse of Goguryeo's rapid demise in the later period.

Gao Yangcheng killed Gao Huizhen and seized the essence of his military power Everyone knows what is going on, although everyone began to obey the command of the generals sent by the royal family on the surface, but the resentment against the Goguryeo royal family in their hearts has become stronger, and these are gradually moving away from Gao Yangcheng's vision.

Gao Yangcheng dared to do this to Gao Huizhen, the lord of the southern Gangsa, and did not hesitate to kill this general who was loyal to Goguryeo, but he didn't dare to do it for another person who didn't take him seriously, of course, this person was the great pair of Lu and the eastern lord Yuan Dazuo.

Although Yuan Dazuo had been defeated one after another under the attack of the Zhonghu army led by Wang Ze himself, not only did he not hold Najin Castle, but even the most important Wonsan grain producing area on the eastern coast of Goguryeo was completely lost, but he was still the most powerful lord force in Goguryeo.

Although Yuan Dazuo is only a middle-aged man, he is an old fox in terms of fighting, and he knows how to preserve his strength, and it is precisely because Yuan Dazuo led the army of mountain people under his command and relied on the favorable terrain of the eastern mountains to resist steadily, so that the Xia army, which is closest to Pyongyang City, did not quickly attack Pyongyang City.

In the process of Yuan Dazuo's battle with the Xia army, Gao Yangcheng could also see that the combat effectiveness of the army under Yuan Dazuo's command was indeed strong, after all, it was not comparable to the army of 100,000 people under his command, who were mostly recruits, so Gao Yangcheng was even more afraid of Yuan Dazuo.

By now, all the troops that Gao Yangcheng was able to mobilize have been mobilized, and even many Han and Baekje people in the country who were originally not trusted have been mobilized as soldiers, except for the 100,000 troops inside and outside Pyongyang, Gao Yangcheng has no other army.

Therefore, although the person Gao Yangcheng wanted to get rid of the most in his heart was Yuan Dazuo, but now he still has to rely on Yuan Dazuo to resist the Xia army on the East Road, and Gao Yangcheng is more afraid of the combat effectiveness of the army under Yuan Dazuo, so he never dares to deal with Yuan Dazuo.

By now, after this large-scale mobilization, more than 30% of the country's young and strong people have entered the army from all walks of life, and such a high-intensity mobilization of troops will have devastating consequences for the production of the agricultural economy.

It can be said that even if Goguryeo can repel the offensive of the Xia State by concentrating millions of troops this time, the seriously damaged agricultural production in its country will cause an extremely serious famine in its country next year, and when the Xia State attacks again, Goguryeo will definitely not be able to withstand it.

Although Gao Yangcheng also knew this in his heart, he couldn't care about it so much, as long as he could repel the attack of the Xia Kingdom this time, even if he personally tied himself to the king of the Xia Kingdom to plead guilty, and let him accept his little brother and make him a vassal of the Xia Kingdom.

Now Gao Yangcheng no longer has the ambition of concentrating on development and then defeating the Xia Kingdom in the past, in his opinion, as long as he can inherit the country of Goguryeo, it is already a great credit, although he also knows that it is difficult for the Xia Kingdom to keep such a country as himself.

Now look at the Xia Kingdom has occupied the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, the hometown of Samhan, and the northern part has occupied the land of Beji, so that as long as Goguryeo is eliminated, all its territories can be linked together, and it is no longer the kind of fragmented appearance.

Only by eliminating Goguryeo can the Xia Kingdom completely sweep away all other countries that can endanger the safety of their regime, and everyone knows the truth that others are allowed to snore on the side of the couch.

In addition, after the elimination of Goguryeo, the Xia State could more easily absorb immigrants from the Central Plains, and could wage a long-term war with the unified Central Plains for a longer time.