Infinite war begins with Cao thief.

Chapter 416: Conquering Goryeo

When Dayu decided to launch a northern expedition, it was actually still far from unifying Yingzhou.

In fact, the Yingzhou that Dong Huang actually controls now, that is, the area near the capital, is only about a quarter of the size of the entire four islands of Yingzhou.

The remaining areas are controlled by war agents authorized by Dong Huang, some are controlled by indigenous people, some are controlled by so-called gods, some are deep mountains and forests where few people go, and even the residences of Ainu people. In addition, there are also resistance forces against the war agents.

The entire Yingzhou area that is not directly controlled by Dayu has become a mess.

But no matter how chaotic it was, even if hundreds of ghosts were leading beasts to eat people every day, Dayu at this moment did not have the time to care.

Anyway, the person being eaten is not a good person.

For Dayu at this time, the affairs of Yingzhou had actually become a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of time before Yingzhou was completely ruled. There was no need to rush.

The most important thing at the moment is to expand the sphere of influence, seize strategic space, enhance the strength of soldiers, and prepare for the final capture of Kyushu.

Kyushu is the center of everything.

If one wants to expand their sphere of influence, there are only three options: go north, go south, or go west.

Going south means attacking Ryukyu Islands and even Chitu, going west means landing in Shandong and confronting the Sui Dynasty head-on, and going north means attacking the three countries on the Korean Peninsula.

Going south was rejected first because time was precious in the early stage and Dayu would never use its precious combat power and transportation capacity on the island chain with extremely low production value.

Advancing westward was not realistic either, because at that time the Sui Dynasty was at its peak, at least in terms of military strength. It would be extremely unwise to confront the Sui Dynasty head-on. Not to mention losing, if you win, the Sui Dynasty might simply stop conquering Goryeo and focus on attacking Dayu.

Of course, if we can't fight directly, we can still cause trouble. We can send out spies and organize an insurgent army.

In recent years, due to the heavy corvee labor and other reasons of the Sui Dynasty, many small gangs of bandits have actually appeared in the Sui Dynasty.

In March of this year, Wang Bo, a native of Zouping, incited the people and used Changbai Mountain (now Huixian Mountain in Zouping, Shandong) as a base to raise the anti-Sui rebellion banner for the first time. The people who wanted to avoid conscription voluntarily gathered under Wang Bo's rebel banner, reaching tens of thousands of people.

After Emperor Yang of Sui's expedition against Goryeo fails, there will be more rebellions.

This is also a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters. Dong Huang believes that many war agents in the Sui Dynasty also think so.

Everyone is waiting for the collapse of the Sui Dynasty, but no war agent is willing to be the first to take action.

The war agents just want to wait and take advantage of the natives.

The war agents who have survived into this world have mastered the art of preserving their strength and taking advantage of troubled waters.

To get back to the point, since the roads going south and west are blocked and the east is all water, Dayu has no choice but to go north to the Korean Peninsula.

At this time, there were three countries on the Korean Peninsula. The most powerful one was Goryeo, which occupied Liaodong and the north-central part of the Korean Peninsula, followed by Silla and Baekje, located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

According to the course of history, Silla would have two more empresses in the near future, and both would have been canonized by the Tang Dynasty. It is hard to say whether Wu Zetian in history saw that Japan and South Korea had empresses and thus developed the idea of ​​becoming an empress.

Because there were three coexisting countries on the Korean Peninsula, Korean historians call this period of history the Three Kingdoms Period.

The area of ​​Goryeo in historical maps was expanded to the Yangtze River Basin, and in film and television dramas, one of Li Shimin's eyes was shot blind.

Jin Bushi, a subordinate of Dong Huang during the Song, Liao, Jin and Xia dynasties, also wrote a book called "Records of the Three Kingdoms" in history.

Despite the fact that Goryeo was founded by the Buyeo people, who were originally vassals of the Han Dynasty, they didn't care at all.

The top leaders of Dayu were very unanimous on the order of conquering the three countries on the Korean Peninsula - attack Goryeo first!
After staying in Yingzhou for almost two months, Dong Huang had actually completed the main mission in this world easily.

During this period, thousands of alien war agents died at the hands of Dong Huang's army, which brought Dong Huang a large amount of rewards and implicit improvement in the qualifications of the entire force.

In addition to this main quest which has been completed but is still effective, the quest with the highest reward at this stage is [Three Expeditions to Goryeo].

Dayu planned to have its cake and eat it too, first destroying Goryeo and then defeating Yang Guang to gain the greatest benefit.

As for Silla and Baekje, which are Japan's neighboring countries, they can be left alone for the time being, just like other areas in Yingzhou.

Anyway, it is not necessary to take the land route through Silla and Baekje.

Dong Huang actually prefers taking the waterway rather than the dry road.

Dayu’s plan is to directly cross the sea and land through the waterway to pierce Goryeo’s hot spot, Wang Xiancheng!
Cross-sea landing, or amphibious landing, is not actually a mode unique to modern warfare.

Both the Sui and Tang dynasties did this in history, and they both attacked Goryeo.

During the Sui Dynasty, when Emperor Yang of Sui first conquered Goryeo, the general Huer crossed the sea and landed, and for a time broke through the dangerous city walls of the king.

The outer city of a big city is called the 郛国.

The Tang Dynasty general Xue Wanche participated in the expedition against Goryeo, entered the Yalu River, and defeated the Goryeo army.

To some extent, the Korean Peninsula is a place that conflicts with amphibious landings.

This strategy of Dayu was actually proposed by Duan Wenzhen, the Minister of War of the Sui Dynasty in history.

Duan Wenzhen said: "The Liaodong clowns have not yet accepted the severe punishment... The barbarians are cunning and we must be on guard. They offer surrender but are betraying us in their hearts... I only hope that we can strictly order the troops to march forward as fast as possible, both by land and sea, and take them by surprise. Then the isolated city of Pyongyang can be captured. If we destroy their roots, the rest of the cities will be conquered by themselves..."

The Pyongyang mentioned by Duan Wenzhen is Wangxiancheng, which is also the capital of Goryeo.

For Dayu, the best outcome would be for Goryeo to surrender directly after taking Wangxian City.

However, even if Goryeo still refused to surrender after taking Wangxian City, it would not matter. Dayu could completely rely on its naval superiority to cut off the Liaoshui and Yalushui rivers, divide Goryeo, and prevent it from surrendering to the Sui Dynasty, thus annexing Goryeo before the Sui Dynasty was able to march east.

After that, they could replace Goryeo, wait for Yang Guang's attack while they were at ease.

After defeating the Sui Dynasty's first eastern expedition, it would not be too late to deal with Yingzhou, Silla and Baekje later.

As for whether Yang Guang would continue his eastern expedition after Dayu replaced Goryeo, the answer is yes, because as early as last year, Yang Guang was preparing to attack Goryeo because of Goryeo's friendship with the Turks, and had already begun preparing horses and weapons.

This year, an imperial decree has been issued to attack Goryeo, but building ships, assembling troops, and transporting grain all take time, so they have to wait until next year to officially start the war.

By then, even if Dayu replaced Goryeo, the Sui Dynasty had already mobilized its troops for so long, with countless casualties. Could it really stop?
Even if we take a step back and the Sui Dynasty wants to stop, won't the Yu Dynasty take the initiative to add fuel to the fire?
Simply sending someone to deliver a letter insulting Yang Guang for being a coward and murdering his father and mother would be enough to make him start a war.

Therefore, this battle is inevitable, unless Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty dies early!
In order to ensure the smooth operation as much as possible, Dayu dispatched an ultra-luxurious lineup this time.

Jia Xu, who had never left Dong Huang's side for many years, took the command of the front line, controlling Fa Zheng, Guo Jia, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Zhou Tai, Yue Fei, Jiang Qin, Hua Tuo, Han Xin, Le Jin, Han Shizhong, Hua Xiong, He Qi, Yang Zaixing, Gao Chong, Ma Dai, Dian Man, Xu Yi, Zhang Hu, Gongshu Chou, Lu Meng, Zhang Lu, Xiao Meng and other generals, and commanded 8,000 mythical fourth-level officers, 200,000 mythical third-level elite soldiers, and 1.8 million mythical second-level elite troops all equipped with the Shenniao Type 1 armor, entered the mouth of the Pei River, divided into two armies, land and water, went upstream along the Pei River, and attacked Wang Xiancheng directly.

(Situation map of Goryeo)

When a lion fights a rabbit, he also uses all his strength.

If the King of Goryeo knew that Dayu had sent out such a powerful military combination, he would be smiling in his grave. After all, even Wang Jian could not force Dayu to use such a combination of civil and military forces.

As for the soldiers, Dayu now has a total of more than 10,000 mythical fourth-level officers and soldiers, more than 300,000 mythical third-level elite soldiers, and more than 5 million mythical second-level elite soldiers. Excluding those who went to other worlds to perform missions and those who stayed behind in the Naruto source world, sending so many people this time is a huge investment.

This time, Dayu has taken into account the possibility that there are evil Buddha clones or even evil Buddhas in Goryeo. It has made preparations to kill the gods and is determined to defeat Goryeo in one fell swoop.

The army advanced with unstoppable force all the way.

Although the area of ​​Goryeo is much larger than in history due to the overall expansion of the world map, and Wangxiancheng is farther from the coast than a certain blue star, it is not possible to land and rush to Wangxiancheng on the same day. However, the rivers are relatively wider and the river valley plains are larger, which is very conducive to marching.

The only problem is that the river water is not abundant this season, making large-scale transportation difficult, but it is not a big problem.

Dayu is not the Eastern Wu, and it cannot fight a war without its navy.

The most powerful force of Dayu has always been the cavalry!

Caught off guard, the Dayu army encountered almost no decent resistance.

Occasionally there are some short-sighted cities, especially those of war agents, but they basically do not cause any trouble.

The main reason is that the dimensionality reduction attack is too terrible. At this stage, the city defenses of most of the native cities of Goryeo cannot stop the Great Yu army equipped with the Divine Bird Type 1 armor.

The Dayu army could easily take a running start and fly over, then use the ability of their armor to stick to the city wall, and use their hands and feet to easily climb the city.

It took less than fifty breaths to climb up the city wall from a thousand meters away.

And everyone is wearing heavy armor!

Originally, the strength of these war agents from Goryeo and Yingzhou was about the same. Each war agent city had no more than a hundred mythical level three soldiers, which was less than the number of mythical level four officers sent by Dayu to attack the city.

Dayu's armor is even more powerful, so powerful that a third-level myth warrior can exert the combat power of a fourth-level myth warrior with the enhancement of the military formation and armor, and a second-level myth warrior can also exert the combat power of a third-level myth warrior.

How is this played?
However, this is not the worst thing.

The most hateful thing is that he knows magic!

Before attacking, create a thick fog, then use bows and crossbows to shoot from a distance, and then throw some lightning, fireballs, or make some good-looking fire dragon bombs, earth dragon bombs, water dragon bombs, etc.

Not to mention the lethality, at least the morale of the defending troops was destroyed by this.

What the hell is this?

There's no way to fight!
The Dayu army was invincible all the way.

The war agents along the way fled in panic. The lucky ones escaped to the mountains where no one cared about them, while the unlucky ones were caught up by the Dayu cavalry and brutally strangled.

The news of the enemy invasion soon reached Wangxian City.

King Go Won of Goryeo was horrified.

"Is it... Is it the Great Sui calling?"

Gao Yuan's voice was trembling a little.

"My brother, according to the messenger who brought the news, the enemy's flags, armor and weapons are not those of the Sui people. There seems to be a "Yu" character on the flag, but because no prisoners have been captured, we don't know what kind of force they are. We only know that there are at least a million soldiers, and everyone is heavily armored! They can cast spells, and it seems that there are demons helping them. Fortunately, the enemy's magic power is not very strong!"

Gao Yuan's half-brother Gao Jianwu answered calmly.

Go Gonmu made great achievements in history. He defeated Lai Huer who invaded the outer city of Wangxiancheng and became the next King of Goryeo. He was a very courageous member of the royal family. However, he was killed by the powerful minister Yeon Gaesomun in history.

Gao Jianwu's words were like a bolt from the blue, making Gao Yuan even more panicked.

"This... What should we do? Brother Wang, quickly mobilize the army to come back for help!"

Gao Yuan was already confused.

Goryeo still has a large army, and there is no shortage of elite troops of the third and fourth levels of mythology. The number of elite troops can probably reach about 600,000. In addition, there are more than two million soldiers and civilians of the second level of mythology who can be recruited as auxiliary troops.

It was because of so many elite soldiers that Goryeo had the confidence to fight against the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, considering only the number of mythical third and fourth level elite soldiers, Goryeo has almost twice as many as Dayu, and three times as many mythical third and fourth level elite soldiers as Dayu can mobilize.

But the problem is that Dayu has an advantage in equipment.

This advantage is enough to allow the Dayu mythical warriors dispatched this time to at least exert the combat power of the third level of mythology.

Rounding it off, Dayu is equivalent to betting on an army of two million people who can exert the strength of the third and fourth level of mythology at one time.

Even if the navy is excluded, the Dayu army that directly landed is about 1.7 million.

Basically three times the number of elite troops in Goryeo.

Not only that, most of Goryeo's elite troops were not in Wangxian City at that time.

Although Goryeo was a country, it was more like a tribal alliance.

There are five major tribes in Goryeo:
One is called Nei Nei, also known as Huang, which is the Guilou tribe of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This tribe is the tribe to which the first generation of Goryeo Hou Gao Jumong belonged, and was led by the Goryeo royal family. They used to live near the Hunjiang River, and now they are mainly gathered in the Goryeo hinterland such as Wangxiancheng, with about 200,000 elite soldiers.

The second is the northern part, also known as the rear part, which is the Jue Nu tribe of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was mainly distributed in the area north of the Hunjiang River. The king of Goryeo selected women from this tribe for marriage. The chief of the tribe, Gao Yanshou, had about 120,000 elite soldiers.

The third is the Eastern Division, also known as the Left Division, which was the Shunnu Division of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was mainly distributed east of the upper and middle reaches of the Hunjiang River and the Yalu River. It had 150,000 elite soldiers. The leader was Yeon Taejo, who was also the Prime Minister of Goryeo. His son was the famous Yeon Gaesomun, who was the main opponent of the Tang Dynasty's Eastern Expedition to Goryeo in history and the powerful official who killed Go Geonmu in history.

The fourth is the southern part, also known as the front part, which is the Guannu tribe of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is mainly distributed in the south of Wangxian City. The commander of Lisa is Gao Huizhen, who has 80,000 elite soldiers.

The fifth is the Wubu, also known as the Youbu, which is the Xiaonubu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This tribe used to be the core of the five tribes of Goguryeo and was the former royal family of Goguryeo. Later, it was replaced by the Guilou tribe and its status gradually declined. It has only more than 50,000 elite soldiers, mainly distributed in the Hunjiang River Basin. The current leader is Fu Cailin.

Although the five major tribes have a lot of troops, they have been deployed to the Liaodong front in large numbers in order to fight against the Sui Dynasty.

In order to resist the invasion of the Sui Dynasty, Goryeo began to make preparations when the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Chen Dynasty, and operated a total of three lines of defense.

The first line of defense is the Liaoshui defense line, with Liaodong City (now Liaoyang City) as its core. This place "relies on its remoteness and danger, rich salt and iron resources, and vast plains and marshes, which are enough to seal itself off, and to attract people from neighboring counties, drive out the Xi and Jie, and take advantage of gaps to attack, which will inevitably lead to its downfall." It is an important town among the important towns in Liaodong. If this line of defense can be held, it can completely keep the enemy out of the country.

Gao Yuan ordered Lu Yuantaizuo to lead 100,000 troops from his own army and 80,000 troops from Gao Yanshou to defend the area. At present, all the troops have made various preliminary preparations, and a lot of supplies, armor and soldiers have been gathered there.

The second line of defense is the Yalu River defense line. The upper reaches of the Yalu River are protected by the Gaima Mountain, which was called Buxian Mountain in ancient times and was called Changbai Mountain in the Jin Dynasty. The core of the Yalu River defense line is Wandu City (now Ji'an City), which was originally the capital of Goguryeo. To the north of Wandu are the remnants of the Gaima Mountain and the ancient capital of Goguryeo during the Han Dynasty, Goguryeo City (now north of Xinbin County, Fushun). To the west of Goguryeo City is Xincheng, and to the northeast of Xincheng are Nansu, Mudi and other cities, which constitute the front line of defense of Wandu.

The third line of defense is the Sashui (now the Cheongcheon River) line of defense, but this line of defense is basically the last line of defense of Wangxian City.

For the last two lines of defense, Gao Yuan ordered the royal general Yi Ji Wende to order 100,000 royal soldiers and 100,000 troops from other tribes to defend them. Various mobilizations had also begun at this time.

There were basically nearly 400,000 people deployed in the three lines of defense. In addition, Gao Huizhen's more than 80,000 elite soldiers had to guard against Baekje and Silla in the south. As a result, in a hurry, Gao Yuan could only mobilize 100,000 elite soldiers.

Based on Dayu's marching speed, Gao Yuan could at most gather 150,000 elite troops and mobilize 200,000 people in the city, and Dayu would have already been at the gates.

How could Gao Yuan not panic?

"The only solution now is to fight to the death. I, your humble servant, dare to ask the gods Gaodeng and Buyeo to come!"

Gao Jianwu said resolutely.

The God of Godeung is the first Goryeo Marquis Go Jumong, and the God of Buyeo is Go Jumong's mother Lady Ryuhwa.

Legend has it that Lady Liuhua was the daughter of Hebo, and she had an affair with the son of the Emperor of Heaven and gave birth to Go Jumong. And Go Jumong was born from a ball of flesh just like Nezha.

It is impossible to verify the facts, but it is true that Go Jumong and Lady Ryuhwa have been worshipped in temples in Goryeo.

According to the secret of the Goryeo royal family, before being killed by Wang Mang, Go Jumong left behind a life-saving relic for his descendants. His relic and the relic of Lady Liuhua were enshrined together in the yin-yang fish in the ancestral temple.

Through the ceremony of summoning gods, two people can each obtain the power of gods and get five hundred powerful magic weapons.

"My brother is a mighty man, so he can summon the God of Gaodeng. But who can take on the important task of summoning the God of Buyeo? There is no woman in the royal family who can bear the power of a god!"

Gao Yuan sighed.

It is not easy to invite gods, but it is even harder to send them away.

Gao Jianwu is the most powerful man in the royal family and can barely afford the cost of inviting Gao Deng God, but who can afford the cost of inviting Buyeo God?

If you can't summon two gods at the same time, you won't be able to summon five hundred divine soldiers.

"Fu Cailin has a disciple named Fu Jun'er, who is currently in Wangxian City. She is extremely talented and skilled in martial arts, and is just the right person to withstand the power of the gods!"

Gao Jianwu obviously had a plan in place.

"Are you crazy? How dare you touch Mr. Fu's apprentice!"

Gao Yuan was so scared that he stood up.

(End of this chapter)