Han!

Although this ethnic group is the most populous ethnic group in Goguryeo, it has always been the ethnic group with the weakest sense of existence, even if there are many large Han landowners who have been rewarded by the Goguryeo royal family, and their lives are richer than that of princes, but the Han people have always been a marginal ethnic group in Goguryeo.

When Goguryeo started, because the population of Goguryeo was very small, and in order to increase their national strength, they had to retain a large number of Han people to create wealth.

In fact, in ancient times, the Han people's sense of national state was very weak, although the ancients had people of insight and Huayi's distinction and defense, but for the vast majority of ordinary Han people, as long as they can live a stable life, it doesn't matter who will be the boss, this is a fact that has to be admitted.

In the original history, the Sui Empire conquered Goguryeo three times, and there were actually not a few Goguryeo Han people who participated in the Goguryeo army against the Sui army, but these Han soldiers living in Goguryeo would not be soft at all when they killed the Sui army, and in the eyes of these people, they were Goguryeo people, not Sui people.

In the past, Wang Ze also sent Jian Yu, Lian Yucheng, and Bo Haotu to take charge of each one, hoping that they would mobilize a large number of Goguryeo Han people to migrate to the East China Sea, but the Goguryeo Han people have always been very cold.

In the past ten years, only a few thousand people have been attracted to the counties of the East China Sea, and a considerable number of them are the families of their own relatives and friends, so in Wang Ze's original plan, these Han people who were desperate to join Goguryeo would also be the enemies of the Xia Kingdom.

Later, Wang Ze learned that the Han people in Goguryeo were still the kind of dependent people, and these Han people had been the slaves of those high-level landlords for generations, although they did not like this kind of life, but another strange world was also escaped by them.

When Wang Ze suddenly received a letter from Sun Yu, who was stationed in Nanyang, he suddenly changed his mind, and although a considerable part of the Han people in Goguryeo were die-hard supporters of the Goguryeo regime, there were still some Han people who could be recruited.

So he quickly summoned Sun Yu back from Nanyang, in addition to Sun Yu, there were also some reliable soldiers personally selected by Sun Yu, these soldiers were the original Goguryeo Han naval soldiers who had followed Sun Yu to surrender helplessly.

In the face of the great battle of the Xia army against Goguryeo, they did not want their relatives to be killed by the Xia army, they wanted to use their native advantages to mobilize their relatives and let them make the right response at the critical moment.

Because Gao Yang had become an army of hundreds of thousands against the Xia State before, he didn't care about the restrictions of Han people or Han people, not only recruited nearly 200,000 Han people from Han settlements around the country to join the army, but also a large number of Han people with higher classes were gradually promoted to officers, although only middle and low-level officers.

When Yuan Dazuo seized power through a coup d'état, although he was dissatisfied with the fact that there were so many Han officers in the garrison inside and outside Pyongyang, as soon as Goguryeo was facing a large-scale attack on the Xia army, he also needed these Han people to resist the offensive of the Xia State, and the position of the Han people in the Goguryeo army was not high, which was the reason why Yuan Dazuo did not clean up the Han officers.

But Yuan Dazuo would never have imagined that even if the positions of these Han officers were not high, they controlled almost all the positions in the middle and lower ranks, and most of the soldiers under their command were composed of Han soldiers, so the senior generals sent by Yuan Dazuo to take over the army could not completely and practically control this army.

While Yuan Dazuo was busy sending a large army to stop the Xia army that was attacking the inner city, and vigorously integrating the army in order to have a decisive battle with the Xia army in the near future, Sun Yu had already led hundreds of trusted soldiers to infiltrate his hometown.

The unexpected return of these people can be said to have brought mixed feelings to their families.

The joy is that I thought that the relatives who had died could come back alive, and these soldiers were forced to endure the thoughts in their hearts in order to protect their families, and they did not contact their families when they came back.

But what worries the families of these soldiers is that after learning that they have defected to the Xia Kingdom, they were afraid of retaliation by the Goguryeo people, although the return of these people is very hidden, but after all, they have lived in these places for many years, and once they meet acquaintances, they are easy to expose.

These worries were not a matter in the eyes of these soldiers, so these soldiers began to tell their families about the various treatments of Han immigrants in the Xia Kingdom, not to mention that they also had a lot of military exploits in the past, and they could be exchanged for a large area of land.

In this way, their families could get a better life, and with the personal accounts of these soldiers, their families of course felt differently, so the families of these soldiers began to prepare to leave Goguryeo, a country that was about to be destroyed.

Because of the successive wars during this period, the people of all ethnic groups in Goguryeo have formed villages to protect themselves, and the Han people have always been the most vulnerable to being bullied by other Goguryeo people because of their political weakness, so the situation during this period is even worse. dog

If people have a good way out, if possible, they not only want to get it, but also take their relatives and friends to go quietly, so that under the spread of intentional or unintentional, in just one month, more than 100,000 Goguryeo Han people left Goguryeo through various means.

Although these Han people who were willing to leave Goguryeo were willing to take refuge in the Xia Kingdom, Wang Ze still scattered them all and resettled them in a vast area from Nanyang to Beji, and maybe even some of them in the West in the future.

The Han people at the bottom of Goguryeo fled one after another, and the high-level Han landlord class faced the successive defeats of Goguryeo, and these Han landlords who were originally optimistic about Goguryeo also began to divide.

Except for some top Han families who have been married to the Goguryeo people for many years and have been completely Goguryeo, they have been tightly tied to the fate of Goguryeo and cannot be separated, and the other small and medium-sized Han landlords whose status belongs to the middle and lower reaches feel that the prospects are not good, and they have begun to prepare to hug the thighs of the Xia Kingdom.

Due to the constraints of economic conditions, most of these small and medium-sized landlords had clansmen who became officials in Goguryeo, but after all, they were all petty officials, so their practice with the Goguryeo regime was still relatively weak, and they were still relatively close to the Han regime.

Especially when Wang Ze sent a part of the former Goguryeo officers mainly Sun Yu back to their homes, these small Han landlords, after knowing Wang Ze's attitude, although they were a little dissatisfied with the Xia State's request that they must leave the Goguryeo homeland, they still had to agree when they saw such a powerful offensive of the Xia army.

With the cooperation of these returning Goguryeo officers and soldiers, Lian Yucheng, Bo Haotu, Jian Yu and others, who were hidden in various parts of Goguryeo, took the opportunity to hype up the decline of Goguryeo, so that more Han people began to know that Goguryeo was about to destroy the country, so more Goguryeo Han people joined the ranks of fleeing to the East China Sea.

When Yuan Dazuo learned of this information, he was immediately furious, but he didn't have the energy to care about these things, because Zhu Wei, the general stationed in southern Goguryeo, was suddenly assassinated.

After learning the news, Yuan Dazuo was like hearing a thunderbolt from the sky!

Although Yuan Dazuo himself also wanted to kill Zhu Wei as soon as possible, and then take all the military power in his hands, but it was definitely not something that could be done now, Zhu Wei was the key person who was currently resisting the Xia army in southern Goguryeo!

However, no matter what, Zhu Wei has died after all, and at this time, another evil result of Gao Huizhen's killing appeared, if Gao Huizhen is still there, at least there is a figure who can preside over the overall situation.

But now, with the assassination of Zhu Wei, there is no one who can preside over the overall situation of the more than 100,000 troops in southern Goguryeo, so this army quickly became chaotic.

At this time, Han Zigao and Zheng Kui, who had been blocked for a long time, took advantage of the situation to launch a general attack after learning of the turmoil within Goguryeo, so they easily defeated the more than 100,000 Goguryeo troops who had blocked them for many days, not only killing more than 30,000 people, but also capturing more than 50,000 people, and the remaining more than 60,000 Goguryeo troops fled north in a hurry.

After learning the news of the rout of the front-line army, Yuan Dazuo couldn't care about cleaning up the fleeing Han people, and even the army that had been sent out to stop the Xia army that was trying to attack the inner city was forced to temporarily withdraw by Yuan Dazuo.

Although the domestic city is important, the most important thing is to stabilize the southern Goguryeo army first, otherwise the country will perish, what is the use of keeping the domestic city? So Yuan Dazuo hurriedly withdrew the army that was originally going to attack Cao An's department, and hurriedly transferred his army to the south of Pyongyang City.

In fact, Wang Ze sent Cao An to attack the domestic city was only to mobilize the army of Goguryeo, and the significance of attacking the domestic city was not so great at this time, after seeing the achievements of Zheng Kui and Han Zigao in the south, he also began to prepare for the battle with Goguryeo and Pyongyang.

So Cao An and Meng Xian, who were originally preparing to attack the domestic city, began to lead their troops to Pyongyang City in the south, while Wang Ze personally led the army across the heavy mountains and defeated Yuan Dazuo to send an army to block him.

In this way, in the south of Goguryeo, a three-way outflanking situation was formed, with Cao An and Meng Xian in the north, Wang Ze's army in the east, and Zheng Kui and Han Zigao in the south, and the three-way army and the corresponding naval army of Zong Ze, Zhao Qin, and Ling Cheng added up to 200,000 people.

Although these people are a little less than the more than 300,000 people under the city of Pyongyang, Goguryeo, their combat effectiveness is not comparable to those recruits under the command of Yuan Dazuo, and many Han landlords in Goguryeo began to make decisions secretly after learning the news.

At this time, the two Xia armies attacking from the north and south of Liaodong City also quickly approached Anshi City and Xincheng, and Gao Wencan had to do all the Goguryeo troops in Liaodong and conduct a decisive battle with the Xia army in Liaodong City, and the two major battles that decided the fate of Goguryeo began at the same time.