On the last day of the nineteenth year of the summer calendar, the city of Pyongyang fell.

With the full cooperation of the Han soldiers and generals in the original Goguryeo defenders in Pyongyang, Wang Ze led 70,000 Xia troops to seize the seemingly impregnable Pyongyang City in one fell swoop, once again verifying the truth that fortresses are always conquered from the inside.

After seizing the city, more than 100,000 Goguryeo Han generals and soldiers in Pyongyang surrendered, and the rest of the Goguryeo soldiers of all ethnic groups became prisoners of war helplessly after being killed 50,000 or 60,000.

Because the Xia army entered the city too suddenly, the Goguryeo people had no time to react, and in Pyongyang, including the Goguryeo king Gao Yuan, who was only five or six years old, almost all the Goguryeo monarchs and nobles were captured by the Xia army, and only Yuan Dazuo led thousands of cavalry to escape in time.

With the complete defeat of the Goguryeo army in Pyongyang, the Goguryeo defenders originally arranged on the left and right flanks of Yuan Dazuo were suddenly panicked, so Zheng Kui and Han Zigao took advantage of the situation to launch an attack at the same time, and defeated the two Goguryeo armies in just one day.

When the news of the sudden victory of the Xia army in the southern battlefield and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo troops spread throughout the Xia Kingdom, many Xia people thought it was a joke.

Although everyone has a lot of confidence in Wang Ze, after all, it is a Goguryeo army of 3670,000, even if it is hundreds of thousands of pigs, it can't be so easy, right? I only heard that the two sides were facing off before, why did the Xia army suddenly win?

But no matter what, the victory of the Xia army in the southern battlefield is a good thing after all, so the people and merchants of the Xia Kingdom cheered one after another, and the people of the Xia Kingdom have known for so many years that as long as the Xia Kingdom can continue to achieve victory, they will also get a lot of war dividends.

The cheering people of the Xia Kingdom did not know that their king Wang Ze was worried about Yuan Dazuo's escape at this time.

Although Yuan Dazuo was not the king of Goguryeo, he still had a great reputation among many tribes of Goguryeo as the eastern Raksa, the Great Pair of Lu, and Mo Zhili, and Goguryeo was a large country with a large population after all, and once he rearmed an army, the war of Xia against Goguryeo would continue to drag on for a while.

Just when Wang Ze was worried about Yuan Dazuo's escape, a good news suddenly came from Cao An that Yuan Dazuo was caught by them.

Cao An's blue wolf army and tree demon scouts arranged in the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River in advance not only wiped out all the Goguryeo cavalry that Yuan Dazuo took away when he fled, but even captured Yuan Dazuo alive.

It turned out that after seeing a large number of Xia troops blocking his way, he had to lead thousands of cavalry to retreat to a hillside overgrown with pine trees, trying to resist by relying on the hillside and woods, and then patiently waited for the nearby Goguryeo tribe to come to his rescue.

When he escaped, he sent people to contact the nearby Goguryeo tribes, and he was confident that these Goguryeo tribes would support him, and as long as he could gather a large number of Goguryeo tribes and then re-establish an army in the inner city, he would have the hope of relying on the favorable terrain of the upper reaches of the Apul River to continue Goguryeo.

In Yuan Dazuo's opinion, as long as he held on for a day or two, he could wait for reinforcements, but he didn't expect Cao Ansheng's determination to capture him.

This Goguryeo cavalry is indeed very elite, and the Xia army must pay a great price to attack after hiding in the woods, but as long as it can capture Yuan Dazuo, it is appropriate to pay a great price, not to mention that the Xia army also has a special method to deal with this kind of enemy in the woods.

Originally, Li Biao, the captain of the Dryad Scout, also asked Cao An for his life, wanting to lead the Dryad Scout into the woods to engage the Goguryeo people head-on, but Cao An refused with a smile.

In Cao An's opinion, even exchanging one Dryad Scout for ten Goguryeo cavalry would be a loss, not to mention that he still had a large number of weapons available in his hands.

Cao An set out with a large number of Zheng rockets that were easy to transport, and after hundreds of rockets were launched into the woods, even if there were big trees to block them, the Goguryeo cavalry in the woods still suffered great losses in the big explosion, but they were still reluctant to come out, in their opinion, after the Xia army used up the gunpowder weapons, they could escape by waiting until dark.

Unexpectedly, in addition to rockets, Cao An also had a large number of arson materials in his hand, which is a weapon made of flammable fuel grease extracted from cattle and sheep fat, and combined with waste silk, cotton and other materials produced by Shangxia Kingdom. UU Library

When the Xia army threw these arson weapons into the woods, large areas of pine trees were quickly ignited, and the billowing smoke soon submerged the entire forest, not only the fire would burn the Goguryeo people, but the smoke was very toxic.

Thousands of Goguryeo cavalry hiding in the woods, in the face of such vicious arson weapons, were either burned to death, or forced to escape, jumping out they could only become prisoners of war of the Xia army, but they could only choose this path if they didn't want to die.

After a fire, only three or four hundred of the thousands of Goguryeo cavalry in the woods escaped and were captured by the Xia army, and Yuan Dazuo was one of them, while the rest of the Goguryeo cavalry either died in the previous explosion or were burned alive by such a fire.

After eliminating the Goguryeo cavalry, Cao An ordered the soldiers to extinguish the remnants of the fire, and then led the army to Pyongyang City.

Although Meng Xian regretted that he was not captured by his own troops, the coastal defense line he was responsible for also blocked the path of the 30,000 Goguryeo troops who tried to escape, so he was not very jealous of Cao An's military exploits.

And when Cao An led the army to appear in Pyongyang City with Yuan Dazuo, the last bit of caution of the Goguryeo people in the entire Pyongyang City disappeared, and even the most treacherous and cunning and powerful Dazheng Lu and Mo Zhili who they thought were the most cunning and capable had become prisoners of war of the Xia army, so why should they resist?

The capture of Yuan Dazuo greatly dealt a blow to the determination of all the Goguryeo people south of Yalushui to resist, especially after the Xia army fleet continuously transported a large number of Xia army reinforcements here, the Goguryeo people finally surrendered completely and honestly waited for the further slaughter of the Xia state.

Goguryeo, which was once a behemoth, collapsed, attracting a large number of people and merchants of the Xia Kingdom to participate in it, and it was simply a feast of dividing and defeating the fruits.

These commercial houses are all industries dominated by Wang Ze and the high-ranking officials and generals of the Xia Kingdom, and they have been playing the role of leaders in the technological upgrading of the Xia Kingdom over the years, and they are also responsible for the monetary rewards for the soldiers, and now it is a matter of course that they intervene to obtain these wealth.

After more than 20 years of development, these three major commercial banks have become a behemoth, they are not only a tool for the foreign economic expansion of the Xia Kingdom, but even prepare for the establishment of a bank.

During the previous months of the war, a large number of people from southern Goguryeo had been transported to the counties of Xia, which were desperately short of labor, but there were still more than 2 million Goguryeo people in the vicinity of Pyongyang, and more than one million refugees from Pyongyang and its surroundings alone.

Fortunately, more than half of the people who originally lived around Pyongyang City were Han people in Goguryeo, and these Han people who were handed down from the former Han Dynasty, as well as a large number of Han people who fled during the Northern Wei Dynasty, although they may not be too supportive of the rule of the Xia State, but they have to be obedient in front of hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention that the Xia State may promise to have a certain reward for those Han soldiers and generals who participated in the event.

In fact, Wang Ze could not accept these Han people all at once, and for those who cooperated with Goguryeo to oppress and bully other Han people during the reign of Goguryeo, Wang Ze treated them as Goguryeo people, and for those small ethnic groups that were friendly to Han people, Wang Ze adopted a strategy of assimilation.

Wang Ze's practice aroused the opposition of many former Goguryeo Han landlords, who were able to oppress the Han people during the reign of Goguryeo, of course, it was the powerful Han landlords who were strong, so they took advantage of the fact that they still had a certain amount of military power in their hands to try to launch a mutiny, and it would be better if they could kill Wang Ze and cause civil strife in the Xia army.

Wang Ze has been an expert in this coup d'état for many years, and he has been waiting for these people to take the initiative to jump out, so after some killings, more than half of the Han landlords around Pyongyang City have been swept away, and some other Goguryeo people are unwilling to fail and jump out to participate.

As a result, Wang Ze let go of a massacre, and more than half of the Goguryeo people who originally lived here were killed, and only 500,000 survived, and the other nearly a million Han people had to leave their original homes.

Now that there is a huge shortage of manpower in the Beji counties of the Xia Kingdom, the counties of the East China Sea, and the counties of Nanyang, these people are being welcomed to enrich the local population, and with the departure of these people of the former Goguryeo ethnic groups, there will be a large number of people from the counties of the former Xia Kingdom and a large number of Sanqi immigrants to settle on the land vacated by them.

After nearly half a year of migration, the Xia Kingdom had accumulated millions of Han people from the Central Plains in Hanyang County, Qingyang County and Liaodong Peninsula south of the Han River.

Of course, Wang Ze could not fail to give benefits to the people of the Xia Kingdom, and a large number of the people of the Xia Kingdom who were willing to participate in the migration were also continuously relocated from various counties.

In this way, in the newly occupied hometown of Goguryeo, a situation was basically formed in which the people of the original Xia Kingdom, the Han people of Goguryeo, and the immigrants from the Central Plains lived together, and with the influence of the people of the original Xia Kingdom, and then the official government of the Xia State could guide them, it only took a few years to assimilate all these people into the people of the Xia Kingdom.