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Chapter 263 The Northern Expedition
After the Battle of Tuima, Chen Xun waited on Tamna Island for more than ten days. During this period, the Japanese country sent two more groups of warships over without giving up.

The number of the last wave of warships exceeded [-], and Chen Xun deliberately let a few survivors go back.

Since then, Japan has never sent a ship.

According to a letter from the trade director of the military government who stayed in Hizen Province, some senior officials from the Japanese country kept visiting to apologize for several days.

In addition, the Wa Kingdom also planned to send envoys to Tamna Island, but they were afraid that the envoys would be sunk by sea monsters halfway, so they hesitated to set off.

For this reason, Japan also dragged the military government's trade manager stationed in Japan to send a message to Chen Xun so that he could order the sea monster to release the ship.

Chen Xun naturally ignored it.

This is the best excuse to counterattack the Japanese country in the future. How can we give them the opportunity to apologize and admit their mistakes?

We are currently short of manpower. When we can free up our hands, we will naturally come to ask for explanations.

Another half month later, news came from the north that Han Shizhong led his army to occupy several main passages between the east and west boundaries of Goryeo, and then stormed Xijing.

It's a pity that Wang Kai is worthy of being a character whose original name is "Gou". He actually inherited Zhao Paopao-Zhao Gou's escaping talent from a distance.

(This is purely coincidental, not directed at book lovers named "Gou".)
This escape was really overwhelmed, and he escaped directly from the border to the territory of the Kingdom of Jin.

"Damn, the government-in-exile, I don't know if this is the first of its kind." Chen Xun pinched the letter in his hand and was a little surprised.

According to the current situation, my previous battle plan of letting Han Shizhong block the road first was wrong.

Attacking the checkpoint between the east and west realms indeed blocked Wang Kai's escape to the east, but it also had the negative effect of "snatching the enemy".

Who would have thought that Wang Kai could be so decisive and escape directly into the arms of his father Jin.

If Han Shizhong had chosen to attack Xijing directly according to his original plan, he would have been very likely to capture Wang Kai directly.

"The forest is really big, and there are all kinds of birds. Wang Kai, Wang Kai, you might have expected that our Chen family army would chase you and invade the Kingdom of Jin?"

Otherwise, it would be impossible to write a book without coincidence.

The Kingdom of Jin did not send troops south to support Goryeo. Now that Wang Kai fled into the Kingdom of Jin, he gave Chen's army an excuse to hunt down the remnants of Goryeo, allowing the army to invade the territory of the Kingdom of Jin.

"Come here." Chen Xun greeted the guards outside the door.

"Captain." The guard came in to salute.

"Ask the pigeon breeder to come over. I want to send a message to the mainland." Chen Xun ordered.

After speaking, I came to the desk, picked up the pen and started writing the letter.

With the development of the war to the present, going north to the Kingdom of Jin has become the only option, and it has to be done quickly so that the Kingdom of Jin cannot react and send Wang Kai back.

Although it is possible to force the Northern Expedition without any excuse, it would be shameless anyway. Now that we have a good excuse, we don't have to use it in vain.

Chen Xun wrote several letters in a row and sent them to generals such as Lai Qingyun, Gan Ping, and Yue Fei.

According to the plan in the letter, Han Shizhong would directly enter the Kingdom of Jin from the northern border of Goryeo. As long as the Kingdom of Jin defended and resisted, he was forced to think that they wanted to protect Wang Kai, and an all-out war would naturally begin.

At that time, Lai Qingyun and Yue Fei's Hebei Army Group divided into two armies and invaded the Kingdom of Jin from Zhending Mansion and Cangzhou respectively.Gan Ping's Xuzhou Group Army also divided into two groups, attacking northward from the Liaodong Peninsula. Finally, it joined Han Shizhong's Marine Army and landed all the way from the Korean Peninsula to clean up the mess left by Han Shizhong.

The main enemy along the last route is the remaining counties of Goryeo. Some second-line troops can be used, but all the [-] elite troops under Han Shizhong can be freed up.

On March [-], Chen Xun landed in Longzhou, the most northeast corner of Koryo.

Longzhou is located at the mouth of the Yalu River, which was famous in later generations.This later boundary river between China and North Korea is now entirely within the territory of the Jin Kingdom.

This time heading north, the Yalu River will become the most important logistics supply line for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

"Pei Ren, where did Wang Kai escape to?" Chen Xun asked.

"He has now hidden in Liaoyang Prefecture-Tokyo City." Pei Ren came here quickly after receiving Chen Xun's order.

In the next few months, the Northern Expedition will be the main combat direction of the Chen family army, which naturally requires the highest level of intelligence support.

"Tokyo?" Chen Xun thought about the location of Tokyo.

The city of Liaoyang Fucheng was set up as Tokyo in the former Liao Kingdom and the current Jin Kingdom because of its important strategic location.

Located in the north of the Liaodong Peninsula, it can restrain Bohai Bay in the southwest and Koryo Bay in the southeast.

"Are we going there?" Pei Ren asked.

"No, we are heading north. We will first hold the south side of the Yalu River and the east side of Changbai Mountain in our hands to ensure the defensive advantage over the Koryo Peninsula before heading to Tokyo."

From north to south, after crossing the Yalu River, there is basically no danger to defend.

On the contrary, the Yalu River originates from the southern foot of Changbai Mountain and can be connected to Changbai Mountain, occupying the south bank of the Yalu River and the east side of Changbai Mountain. If the direction of the attack is changed in the future, it will be easy to defend the Koryo Peninsula.

"Understood, I will arrange spies to strengthen the investigation in this direction." Pei Ren responded.

"Where is Han Shizhong, where is he?" Chen Xun asked again.

"In Pengshan County, Pengshan County is the largest city on the west bank of the Daning River. By capturing Pengshan County, the land route from Xijing to Anbei Prefecture and Longzhou will be opened up." Pei Ren replied.

"Okay, then let's attack Longzhou first. After Han Shizhong arrives, we will go north along the Yalu River and sweep all the cities along the banks of the river." Chen Xun ordered.

"Take the order, Commander."

The name of Longzhou sounds very majestic, but it is actually just a small city. The permanent population in the city is less than 2000, let alone the garrison, which can be ignored.

Chen Xun's personal guards captured the small town with a single charge.

Next, the troops who followed Chen Xun north began to arrange the main logistics base for the Northern Expedition around Longzhou.

The Koryo people around Longzhou were "forcibly" expropriated by spending money to level the land, repair roads, build docks, and build temporary houses.

With the sufficient supply of money and food, the progress of various tasks is very fast, but the lack of manpower is what affects the progress.

For this reason, Chen Xun directly led his army to capture Linzhou, Jingzhou, Tiezhou, Tongzhou, and Xinghua towns around Longzhou, bringing the number of young and strong women working in Longzhou to 2.

The further inland Chen Xun felt the difficulty of the Northern Expedition.

The terrain of the Yalu River Basin is really rugged, with mountains and rivers everywhere, and few plains.

Those small towns are dotted in the valleys and river valleys, and the roads are narrow and sparse, making it too difficult for the army to pass through.

No wonder the country of Goryeo has been able to survive for hundreds of years before the northern regime.

It's barren, hard to chew, and really tasteless.

In order to reduce the Chen family's army's advantage in subsequent mountain battles, Chen Xun had to search for gray wolf species everywhere, and also asked Hebei East Road nearby to help.

(End of this chapter)