By the Yalu River, wild grass is lush, foxes and wolves are roaming among the spirit swords, and black crows are crying in the wild trees.
This area is a sparsely populated place.
After the fall of Goguryeo, the survivors fled to various places and did not dare to stay in this area.
However, an army from Goryeo appeared in the dense forest.
"The king has issued an order. We are descendants of Goguryeo. This is our ancestral land. We must take it back."
Skeletons can be seen everywhere on the road.
That was the remaining battlefield between the previous dynasty and Goguryeo.
Looking at the skeletons being eaten by wild beasts, the Goryeo soldiers, with tears in their eyes, mourned for their ancestors.
Guo Kai, who saw this scene clearly, asked the natives around him to help translate what those Koreans were whispering about.
“They are crying for their ancestors.”
Guo Kaihu glared at him and said angrily, "Bullshit. How could they be descendants of the Tang people?"
The natives explained: "They are saying that Goguryeo is their ancestor."
Guo Kai's eyes widened. "Is this what His Majesty was talking about? How shameless! How can they blindly recognize their ancestors? Wang Jian named it Gaoli for the legitimacy of his regime, and their people actually believed it?!"
"Oh my god, I'm so angry! If Goguryeo knew that they were being blackmailed, I'm afraid they would jump out of their graves and beat up Goguryeo!"
The guard next to him reminded: "General Guo, the key is what they want to do by crossing the Yalu River?"
Guo Kai drew his sword and sneered, "What else can he do? He just saw that we drove the Tartars away and wanted to come here to take advantage of us."
"Fortunately, my father was wise and sent us north. Otherwise, we worked so hard to drive away the Tartars, but the Goryeo people took advantage of us. I would be so angry that I would die."
Guo Kai is the eldest son of Guo Xiaoyue from Yuyi Town.
After the Yun Dynasty was established, Gu Nanxi appointed Guo Xiaoyue as the General of the Northeast.
Guo Xiaoyue looked at the map and found that there was no line drawn to the north of Yuyi Town. This meant that all the land to the north belonged to their Yun Dynasty!
As a general of the Northeast, he must send troops to guard the Yun Dynasty's territory and security.
The north is bitterly cold, so Guo Xiaoyue handed over such an important task to his eldest son Guo Kai.
Guo Kai had once followed his father and His Majesty to the battlefield.
He didn't even take the small Korean army seriously.
He took about fifty people and drove back more than 300 Koreans who had crossed the Yalu River.
If it weren't for the suddenness of the incident and the lack of logistics, he could have fought all the way to the Goryeo capital.
…
In Kyoto, Gu Nanxi was furious after receiving the urgent war report from 800 miles away.
"What a jerk! We haven't even bothered them yet, but they dared to invade our Yun Dynasty territory first!"
Wang Buxi was filled with righteous indignation: "Wang Jian, this old man, has no credibility, is despicable and filthy! He doesn't even look in the mirror to see how much he weighs, and actually wants to compete with our Yun Dynasty! Your Majesty, this is intolerable, we must give Gaoli a powerful counterattack!"
Cui Sanlun moved his lips.
He felt that Wang Jian was not that bold and was just trying to take advantage of some small opportunity.
After all, in the eyes of the people in the Central Plains, that place is too harsh and cold, and there is no need to develop it.
But the current Yun Dynasty Emperor Gu Nanxi is a stingy man who attaches great importance to the country's territory and insists on declaring to the outside world that the Northeast is a treasure land.
Now that she has said so, who can refute her?
In addition, many officers were clamoring to make merit and fight. They finally got Gaoli, so how could they let him go? !
Thinking of this, Cui Sanlun sighed slightly in his heart. He was old and not as motivated as young people.
If he were younger, he would take the lead and charge forward!
Now, Goryeo has stationed troops at the Yalu River, confronting Guo Kai.
But they still didn't fight. How to fight became a topic to be discussed in the court of Yun Dynasty.
Judging from the strengths in all aspects, Goryeo and Goguryeo are completely incomparable.
The Liao River is over a thousand miles long, and most of it is under the control of Goguryeo. Along the way, Dawangcheng, Baiyancheng, and Wugucheng are all beside the Liao River. Therefore, it is very difficult to fight.
During its heyday, Goguryeo extended from the Liao River in the west to the Sea of Japan in the east and the Songhua River in the north. It was an ancient frontier regime in Northeast China.
After the demise of Goguryeo, some of its survivors moved to the inland area of the Tang Dynasty, some moved to the Bohai Kingdom, and a small number moved south and joined Silla.
In order to win over the remnants of Goguryeo, Wang Jian established the country of Goryeo.
In fact, Goryeo's area was less than one-third of Goguryeo's.
Wang Buxi said matter-of-factly: "The land area and manpower of our Yun Dynasty cannot be compared with those of the previous dynasty."
Gu Nanxi asked the Privy Council to decide on the strategy for attacking Goryeo.
Don't hesitate, you must fight.
We will discuss how and when to fight.
With so many outstanding generals and so many excellent students, they can definitely develop a perfect military plan.
…
The lights in the Privy Council were bright.
Professors from the Military Academy were also called here to discuss major plans together.
"How much gunpowder and firearms can we spare?"
The representative of the Military Workshop shook his head frantically: "It is best not to use firearms."
The real rival is actually the Great Zhou in the south.
The navy of the Great Zhou is very powerful, and the artillery of the Yun Dynasty will be used to guard against the Great Zhou.
As Your Majesty once said, you can do without it, but you can't live without it.
Another professor looked at the map and frowned: "Sir Song, how strong is our navy?"
Goryeo is a small country located on a peninsula with almost no strategic buffer space. As long as the Yalu River is controlled, a landfall is made at sea, and several of its major cities are attacked, Goryeo will be destroyed.
Of course, they also have to control the sea line between them and Japan to prevent Japan from interfering in the matter and causing more trouble.
Song Shoujie was extremely excited; his navy could finally be put to good use!
“Theoretically very strong.”
"In actual combat?"
"have no idea."
Feeling the complaining eyes of the crowd, Song Shoujie said aggrievedly: "Your Majesty did not give our navy a chance to perform."
Originally, the navy was preparing to capture Kyoto, but unexpectedly, before the navy arrived, His Majesty took Kyoto in no time.
The professors sighed and said, "Okay, just to be on the safe side, let's prepare some other methods."
They whispered with the representatives of the military workshop for a long time.
The next day, the representative of the Military Workshop in Kyoto found Fang Yinnian and consulted him on a few issues. After receiving a positive response, the Kyoto branch of the Military Workshop started working on a large scale.
They first found many wooden barrels and some black oil with a pungent smell. The quantity was not large and was just for experimentation.
Following Fang Yinnian's suggestion, the craftsmen steamed the black oil like wine, and finally some yellowish liquid flowed out of the long tubes.
Fang Yinnian smelled it and confirmed that the gasoline had been separated, so he asked the military workshop to start the next step.
What they were going to make was simple: gasoline incendiary bombs.
The result was very gratifying. The military workshop increased its purchase volume to prepare for the Yun Dynasty army's expedition to Goryeo. (End of this chapter)
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