Great Zhou Republic, Chengde Prefecture.

Half a month ago, Wu Haogu arrived here from Tianjin Prefecture under the escort of a whole cavalry division. In the newly built Chengde official residence, he secretly met with Dongliao Empress Dowager Xiao Sesse and held hands.

Holding hands is of course not the main purpose of the two meeting in Chengde, but at most it is just a relaxing entertainment activity.

They now rule a country, and they all have a major war waiting for them to win. The pressure is great. Relaxation is also beneficial to physical and mental health.

Wu Haogu faced the battlefield of Goryeo. In the early autumn of the second year of the Republic, Yin Yanchun, who expelled the Wu clan group, began a military adventure that was almost desperate. He concentrated the last vitality of Goryeo, and the elite troops of the Bianwu squad, and the northern expedition of Kaijing and Xijing, trying to unify the north and south.

The reason why he did this was actually due to helplessness. Because the Jin Dynasty's troops retreated completely from Bei Goryeo in the summer and took away everything he could take away. Food, livestock, property, and slaves only left a very small population and military force for Takujoon-kyung in Pyongyang.

In other words, the entire Northern Goryeo has almost become a "borderless land". If Yin Yanchun did not send troops to occupy it, the Zhou Kingdom in the north would definitely take over the territory of Northern Goryeo.

At that time, the Goryeo people will always lose the beautiful country in the north. As the Grand Tutor of the Goryeo Kingdom, the Grand Tutor of the Goryeo Kingdom, the military and national affairs of Pingzhang, Yin Yanchun, who holds full power, does nothing and watches the loss of northern territory, then he will become a traitor in the eyes of the powerful clan of the Goryeo!

The Goryeo Kingdom was not the Song Dynasty. A bunch of powerful clans passed down from the Goryeo Taizu era are still very powerful.

If they attacked together, Yin Yanchun, a powerful minister who came to power by coup and took over the king and ordered Goryeo to be unable to maintain his power position.

Moreover, if the Great Zhou annexed Northern Goryeo, how long can the Kingdom of Goryeo last?

So after repeated weighing, Yin Yanchun sent Jin Fushi, a great scholar from Silla royal family, to Tianjin, to request the head of state of Dazhou to agree to the Goryeo Kingdom's northern expedition to eliminate the thieves (referring to Takujunjing) and recover the two capitals. On the other hand, without waiting for Wu Haogu's reply, he personally led a 30,000 army to attack Kaijing and Pyongyang. At the end of June, he successively conquered the two capitals and completed the unification of the Goryeo Kingdom.

However, Yin Yanchun's army was unable to capture or kill the King of North Goryeo Wang Yu and Pingzhang. The two fled to the Yanbian Prefecture of Zhou under the protection of a small number of brave military officers and soldiers of North Goryeo.

The arrival of Wang Yu and Tuo Junjing gave Wu Haogu the best excuse that he could now declare Wang Yu the legal king of Goryeo and launched an aggressive war in the name of helping Wang Yu restore the country!

The final result of this war was not determined by the battlefield. Because Wu Haogu mobilized 70,000 troops and most of the navy for the invasion of Goryeo, Ma Zhi also mobilized all his 30,000 troops. In addition, Taku Junjing's 3,000 brave army, a total of 103,000 troops. His strength is far greater than Yin Yanchun's 30,000 Biewu Ban.

Moreover, Wu Haogu can also advance in land and water, and attack Pyongyang Prefecture and Hanyang Prefecture at the same time. Yin Yanchun's 30,000 people had no way to resist.

However, defeating Yin Yanchun does not mean controlling the entire territory of Goryeo, nor does it mean completing annexation. The powerful Goryeo clans scattered in various places are not so easy to surrender!

Moreover, Wu Haogu did not have to surrender, but moved them to various parts of the Great Zhou... Without the leaders of this group of powerful clans, ordinary Goryeo people were just a pile of loose sand and would soon be assimilated by the Han people who moved in. In fact, they were not much different from the Han people, and they had similar appearances, clothing, and the words they used were exactly the same.

If Wu Haogu was going to fight a winning battle in Goryeo, then his lover Empress Dowager Xiao was facing a difficult and long war.

Empress Xiao’s goal is to capture the entire Korqin grassland, including the Linhuang Mansion, which is firmly controlled by the Jin Kingdom!

Only by taking down Linhuang Mansion can she re-establish her prestige and firmly control the Dongliao regime.

However, it seems impossible to complete the task to take down Linhuang Mansion and master the entire Korqin Grassland.

Therefore, Wu Haogu gave up the route from the water to Qingyuanzhou, Andong Province (Incheon in later generations). He led 20,000 cavalry north to Chengde to cheer for Empress Xiao, and then went to Yanbian Prefecture to enter Bei Goryeo after finishing his work.

Today is the time for Wu Haogu and Xiao Sesse to go their separate ways, but they seem to have endless things to say. When the cavalry guarding Wu Haogu continued to drive out of Chengde City and headed southeast along the winding mountain road, Wu Haogu still reluctantly held Xiao Sesse's jade hand and stood on the city gate tower and whispered.

"Se, don't worry..."

Wu Haogu said to Empress Dowager Xiao with a soft voice: "A Guda must have never expected that you would dare to send troops to the north bank of Huanghe River, so he would not have left heavy troops in Linhuang Mansion. Your 60,000 cavalry lineup is huge, and it is very likely that the Jin soldiers in Linhuang Mansion will shock you. As long as they dare not take the battle, your chance will come.

Yu Yongfu, whom I sent, is a master of city building. He also brought many engineers and will build a bastion on the north bank of Huanghe River that can garrison tens of thousands of troops!"

"Human Castle?" Xiao Sesse was confused.

"Yes!" Wu Haogu nodded, "It's a bastion, an eight-sided castle with eight prismatic castles... This is a bastion that can exert the maximum power of artillery."

"A eight-sided castle plus eight-person castle?" Xiao Sesse became more and more confused as he heard it. What is a "human castle"? Is it almost the same in personal appearance? Do you look like a man or a woman?

"It's probably that..." Wu Haogu saw that Xiao Seser didn't understand, so he picked up her jade hand, spread it out, and then used his fingers to gesture a diamond shape in Xiao Seser's palm.

Wu Haogu said: "Eight such fortresses extend from eight corners of the eight-sided fortress to form fortresses. Each fortress is deployed to support each other with firepower, and there are basically no blind spots for shooting. Such fortresses are not only strong, but also save troops. You only need to deploy troops in the eight fortresses to defend the entire fortress. A castle that can garrison tens of thousands of people is enough to defend it with two or three thousand people!"

If you want to conquer the grassland, you will of course have to take Russia as your teacher. The Cossacks Fortress line of Tsarist Russia is the killer weapon that makes nomads have no tempers.

Ordinary square or multi-faceted fortresses are not enough to keep nomadic people helpless. The only one who can conquer the grassland is the only one who can conquer the grassland.

For medieval grassland peoples, it is impossible to break through with strong attacks. The cannons set up on the ridge-shaped castle can form deadly cross-fire fire on the enemies trying to attack... This is an absolute massacre! The attacking troops do not even have the means to fight back, and they can only stand up to death.

So as long as sixteen to twenty-four bronze cannons and two or three thousand defenders can defend a huge fortress.

"As long as the fortress is repaired, you can return with the main force." Wu Haogu continued, "Next year we will continue to build a bastion on both sides of the Huanghe River, build a bastion this year, build two next year, and build four in the next year... The entire Korqin grassland will belong to us sooner or later!

This is called cultivating a battalion, fighting a stupid war!”

"Build a man's fortress and fight a stupid war?" Xiao Sesse seemed to understand, but she nodded, "I just listened to the officials... I don't have to worry about it, and I will slowly fight with Agu. It takes ten years to recover Linhuang Mansion!"

"Yes! It took him ten years to spend..."

Wu Haogu laughed. Xiao Sesse was quite capable. In such a difficult situation, he actually stabilized his team, completed military reforms, formed three cavalry divisions, and established hundreds of wall docks on the Korqin grassland and the Bashang grassland.

Now we can turn from defense to offense and fight against the Jin Kingdom to fight the grassland fortress.

As long as Aguda is a little careless and let Xiao Sesse successfully build the first bastion north of Huanghe, then his Great Jin Kingdom will fall into a passive position on the Korqin grassland!

...

The Great Zhou Kingdom sent troops to Goryeo, and the Dongliao Empress Dowager Xiao Sesse sent troops to the Korqin Grassland at the same time, the news soon spread to the Xijing Datong Prefecture of the Great Jin Kingdom.

At this time, Aguda was also preparing to send troops!

It is already autumn now, and autumn is the time for the livestock to be fat and strong. For the northern nations that rely on horses to fight, it is the season for the use of martial arts.

The target of Aguda's military use was part of the Hetao grassland controlled by Liang Kingdom, and he was also preparing to fight with Yelu Dashi, who went south on the grasslands on the north bank of Hetao, Heishan and Yinshan areas.

He hopes to drive the army of the Tianli Sect away through this war, and at the same time drive Yelu Dashi's Western Liao away, the Liang army and the Western Liao army are both troops on horseback. It is not easy to annihilate them in large groups. Just drive them to the Western Regions!

As for Wu Haogu's dispatch of troops to Goryeo, Aguda had known it for a long time. Northern Goryeo was the bone that the Jin Kingdom threw to Zhou Kingdom to chew!

Although the Zhou State has a strong military strength, Goryeo (including the previous countries) has been established for hundreds of years, and it is not so easy to fully incorporate it into China. It will always take several years to struggle.

By the time the Zhou Kingdom finished the struggle, the Jin Kingdom almost subdued the grasslands in northern Desert, the Hetao grassland and most of the southern Desert grasslands...

However, Xiao Sesse sent troops to the north bank of Huanghe River a little beyond Wanyan Aguda's expectations.

"Dubo Jilie, that stinky woman Xiao Sesse must have been instructed by Wu Haogu!"

"Yes! We are too polite to those surnamed Wu, so we have to let them know how powerful our Great Jin Kingdom is!"

"Du Bo Ji Lie, I will give me two handsome men in Lou Shi, and I will keep Xiao Sesse's ungrateful woman to warm you up!"

"Du Bo is extremely erect. As long as I have a strong Yin Ke Shu, I can teach Xiao Seser a lesson!"

"Hahaha……"

In the main hall, the generals of the Great Jin Kingdom did not take Xiao Sesse seriously, and were even a little eager to try.
Chapter completed!