Before the Tang Empire and the Silla coalition destroyed Goguryeo. As a country entrenched in northeastern China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, Goguryeo has maintained the inheritance of civilization and the continuation of history.

The Tang Empire currently only exists in Zhao Xing's memory, and all the Han people naturally have no way of knowing, but they know very well that in the northeast corner of Youzhou, there is a country called Goguryeo.

If we have to determine the age of Goguryeo's existence, it should be between 37 BC and 668 AD, a full 700 years of existence. At one time, it occupied most of the Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, and half of North Korea and South Korea.

It is important to note that Goguryeo and Goryeo are two completely different concepts, although the two terms have very similar similarities. The Goryeo Dynasty existed from 918 to 1392 A.D., and was only one of several feudal dynasties on the Korean Peninsula at that time. Because Goryeo was founded by a man named Wang Jian, later generations used to use Wang's Goryeo to distinguish it from Goguryeo.

It is precisely because Goguryeo and Goryeo are extremely similar in Chinese, and because these two small countries that once existed in history are located in the northeast of China, that there are many so-called stick scholars who are full of food and have nothing to support, who like to Zhang Guan Li Dai and selectively forget, continue to shout that "Northeast China, and even Hebei Province should belong to the ...... of the Republic of China in history".

In fact, Goguryeo has nothing to do with present-day South Korea for even a dime. Although Goryeo has something to do with them, it is also North Korea that has more to say.

However, Zhao Xing in this life secretly decided not to give this opportunity to some of the sticks who were well fed and supported in the future, and he was ready to plant the banner of the Han Empire in all the places that the footprints of the Han people could reach in the entire northeast region. Of course, this Han Empire was no longer the Eastern Han Dynasty in the narrow sense of the word, but included many newly opened territories, a super-empire across the Eurasian continent, and the only empire.

These are all afterthoughts, so I won't show them for the time being. It is said that in the early spring of Guangxi's seventh year, Gongsun Du, the "Emperor of the Soil" entrenched in Liaodong, heard that Zhao Xing, who went to Yumen Pass to "show off coquettishness", was suddenly kidnapped by the Hu people who broke into the pass, so he laughed heartily at that time, and also set off firecrackers in the house to celebrate.

has been completely angered by Goguryeo and the Karasuma people, and Gongsun Du, who has secretly calculated for many years, is waiting for such a favorable opportunity to let go of his arms and fight with the Karasuma people and Goguryeo, seize a large area of territory north of Liaodong in one fell swoop, and embark on the road of hegemony to claim the king of Liaodong.

If Gongsun Du now knew that Zhao Xing had been secretly crowned a king of Pingxi by the imperial court, it is estimated that he would be able to bargain with Luoyang now and ask for the big hat of "King of Liaodong".

Although relations between the Shogunate and the Karasuma people and Goguryeo had been tense, there was a period of relative calm before the actual outbreak of large-scale war. During this period, Gongsun Du accepted Guo Huai's suggestion and sent envoys to the inner city and before and after Karasuma Raolushui.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and when the news of Zhao Xing's abduction reached Liaodong, and Zhao Hu happened to take his brothers at this time to secretly do some tricks and tricks between the three forces, as a result, the temporary calm in the Northeast was instantly broken, and the three parties started at the same time, and a large-scale war broke out.

Zhao Hu's specific plan at that time was to send an action team to pretend to be Gongsun Du's subordinates, infiltrate the inner city of Goguryeo's national capital, and wait for an opportunity to assassinate Yeonyou, the 10th lord of Goguryeo, that is, the king of the mountain who had only been on the throne for two years at that time;

At the same time, he sent team members to pretend to be Goguryeo's spies and go to Xi'anping, where Gongsun Gong, the second son of Gongsun Du, was stationed to cause some sabotage in the city and create panic. Sent team members to pretend to be spies of the Karasuma people and went to the Linyu fortress where Gongsun Kang, the eldest son of Gongsun Du, was stationed, and spread the false news that Xuansu County had fallen and Gongsun Du was besieged in Xiangping by the Goguryeo army.

Although Zhao Hu only sent a small number of team members to implement these small tricks, it had a very obvious effect.

Fuyu, north of Goguryeo, has always maintained very friendly and close ties with the Han Dynasty, trying to join forces with the Han Dynasty to squeeze Goguryeo's living space. Forced by the needs of reality to survive, the newly enthroned Goguryeo lord Shanshang Wang Yanyou originally had the intention of annexing Liaodong Xuansu, Le Lang and other places, and after the King of the Mountain succeeded to the throne, he was opposed by one of his brothers in the country, and now he urgently needs to establish his prestige through a war, so when the Shadow Crew gave him a big "surprise" in the domestic city, Yeonyou transferred all his anger to Gongsun Du's head.

The surprise that the Shadow Squad gave to the king of the mountain was that they killed the son of the elder brother who opposed Yanyou, and then came to assassinate Yanyou, and deliberately missed, only to startle Yanyou into a cold sweat, and also left some clues from Liaodong.

After consulting with the minister of the country, Yeonyou determined that the death of his brother's son must have been sent by Gongsun Du to do it, the purpose was to provoke internal strife between the two brothers and cause civil strife in Goguryeo, and then take the opportunity to send troops to attack Goguryeo.

Since Gongsun Du had done it, Yan Yue no longer held back, and directly ordered his brother to be imprisoned, and then announced to the whole country, and quickly launched a crusade against Xuansu County of the Great Han Dynasty.

When Goguryeo was starting, Gongsun Du happened to receive a secret guarantee from his second son, Gongsun Gong, who had returned from Xi'anping, claiming that a large number of Goguryeo spies had been found in the Xi'anping area, intending to incite the local people to rebel and completely mess up the situation on both sides of the Mazi River, so that they could launch the next attack on Lelang County.

Gongsun Du thought that he hadn't gone to Goguryeo for trouble, but they had made the first move, so he immediately ordered Han Qi, who was stationed in the area of Xigaima in Xuansu County, to lead 20,000 soldiers to the east into Goguryeo and officially start a war with Goguryeo.

As soon as the battle on the Eastern Front began, Gongsun Du received an urgent report from Guo Xin, who led the army stationed in the area of Gaoxian, claiming that a large number of Karasuma cavalry had been found near Gaoxian, and the two sides had engaged in battle, and were currently in the tentative offensive and defensive stage.

The reason why the Karasuma people in the western Liaoning region launched an attack so coincidentally was naturally because the Shadow Clan's hands and feet played a role.

When Chief Karasuma discovers that one of his favorite sons has been poisoned in a yurt, his fury can be imagined. The Shadow Crew, who has always been good at leaving clues, naturally will not let go of the opportunity to blame Gongsun Du, so after some investigation by the Karasuma people, they unanimously believe that this is a means for Gongsun Gong, the second son of Gongsun Du, to seize the throne and deliberately blame his eldest brother Gongsun Kang.

Whether it is Gongsun Gong or Gongsun Kang, they are all cubs of the Gongsun family anyway, and this is enough. So the Karasuma people came to attack Gongsun Du with all their troops, claiming to avenge the death of the chieftain's heir!