In Huangcheng, Laizhou, dark clouds cover the sun, and the storm on the sea surface is getting bigger, indicating that another storm is coming. A large number of ships are entering the port, preparing to hide from the storm in a safe port area. The ship commander Wang Nai patrolled the port on the wharf and saw that all the precautions were in place, and he was very satisfied with this.

The increasingly perfect "meteorological observation" system in the southeast coastal areas has made the storm prediction more and more accurate, and has bought several days for ports in Laizhou to prepare.

The teams attacking the northern part of the Liaodong Peninsula have all taken a boat to retreat to Lushun before the storm. The mission to harass Goguryeo this year was successfully completed. If nothing unexpected happens, everyone can have a good New Year.

I don’t know what the situation will be in Goguryeo.

Wang Jun thought about it and turned around and walked towards the port area, with several officials following behind.

Wang Jun served as the commander of the Maritime Convoy for several years, but he did not do much "main work". He followed the emperor's order and thought about how to deal with Goguryeo all day long, so the job of the Maritime Convoy was handed over to the assistant.

The situation on the Liaodong Peninsula is now developing as Wang Jun expected. The important stronghold Lushun has been built. The armed forces of the Beiyang Trading Company took this as the starting point and continued to harass the Goguryeo garrison in Liaodong. The results were good in the first year.

The investigation of Liaodong and the coastal areas of Goguryeo has achieved further results, and everything is in an orderly manner. The net that Wang Hu set up for Goguryeo has been initially taken.

But the time to do it is still not ripe.

With further understanding of the domestic situation of Goguryeo, Wang Jun has become increasingly aware of the strength of this country: Goguryeo is not a small country, and its national strength is not as weak as ordinary people imagine, and it is still in a stage of continuous enhancement.

Not to mention anything else, according to the observation records of our own side's repeated battles with the Goguryeo Army, the Goguryeo soldiers' armor rate is very high, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and their armor and weapons are well-made, which shows that the iron smelting technology in Goguryeo is good.

There are quite a lot of war horses, and there is no shortage of Marine cavalry to assist in the war.

It seems that the Goguryeo army likes to rely on mountain cities to defend, but Wang Jun knows that this does not mean that the Goguryeo army cannot fight in the field. On the contrary, the other party knows how to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

The so-called "playing one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses" means taking advantage of the shortcomings of the Central Plains court's failure to use troops in Liaodong for a long time. In summer and autumn, relying on the strong city to stand up. When winter approaches, the Central Plains army is inadequate to prepare for withdrawal, it is the best time for the Goguryeo army to attack.

This kind of tactic looks a bit dirty, but the effect is definitely good. If you want to crack it, you can only strengthen your siege ability and unplug the Goguryeo stronghold in Liaodong before winter comes.

This is not a problem for the Zhou army, which has a catapult and a thunderbolt.

It's not a problem to use artillery again.

Although there are few artillery numbers, in order to pacify Liaodong, we can always get some out. Wang Na knew the power of artillery and knew that as long as there were more than twenty special siege cannons, it would not be a problem to pull out all the Goguryeo mountain cities in Liaodong.

The question is what to do next.

In Liaodong and Goguryeo, we have to win over or beware of the various troops of the Marine tribes in the north, which requires a large amount of army and materials to be invested.

If we concentrate our army across the sea and take Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, even if the country is destroyed in one battle, the court will have to spend more manpower and material resources to defend the old land of the four counties of Han that have been recovered.

To solve a series of problems, we have to continuously invest a lot of manpower and material resources for several years or even more than ten years. Considering the current financial revenue and expenditure of the court, this is a bit difficult.

In order to stabilize the foothold in Nanzhong, the court had already spent a lot of effort; in order to give the Turks a head-on attack, the emperor led the army to fight in person, but the Turks could not be defeated in one go.

Now, if we mobilize a lot of manpower and material resources to gain a foothold in Liaodong, how can the court bear it?

There is a priority for the matter. It is obvious that it is not appropriate to launch a large-scale military service in Liaodong and even Goguryeo in the near future, and the national strength cannot be afforded. Therefore, Wang Jun was very "aware of the situation" and did not inspire the emperor to make a decision.

He knew that the emperor would not make a decision easily at this critical moment.

Therefore, in order to avoid revealing his true strength, Wang Jun did not use a large catapult or cannon when he sent troops to harass the city of Goguryeo, Liaodong (even if he wanted to use it, he didn't have it at hand).

We can only keep "blooding" Goguryeo, consume the other party's food and population as much as possible, so that the other party can deal with it inappropriately and reveal greater flaws.

Wang Jun thought so, and he felt that with the emperor's knowledge, he should be able to calm down.

Seeing autumn and winter is not far away, Wang Jun is preparing to summon assistants to discuss the action plan for the coming year and continue to give Goguryeo a steady stream of surprises. If the time is right, he will not hesitate to send a fleet to the coastal areas of Goguryeo, causing chaos on the other side.

The king, who had returned to the city's official office, reported a news from Lushun: the navy warship intercepted a Goguryeo ship in the waters east of the Liaodong Peninsula. The personnel on the ship claimed to be an envoy sent by the Goguryeo King.

The envoy said that he was ordered to take the apology from King Goguryeo, and to go to Chang'an to pay homage to the Emperor of Great Zhou and apologize to the Emperor.

The general of the Lushun guard was undecided and quickly sent someone to Laizhou to ask for the Wang Jun’s opinion: Should he detain the envoy or let him arrive in Laizhou and go to Chang'an.

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In Binzhou, smoke was rising in the camp of the army. The Zhou army soldiers who came back here in the south were having dinner. Because it was only a few days away from Chang'an, everyone was very happy.

In front of the tent, Yuwen Wen looked at the sunset, then looked at the tents one after another, and turned around to tell his son Yuwen Weihan:

"You go to patrol the camp later and supervise the troops of various departments to take strict precautions. Remember, even if the army is in the country, you should still pay attention to the safety of the camp and never take it lightly."

"Yes, father."

"It's cold at night, wear more clothes and don't catch a cold."

"Yes, father."

After Yuwen Weihan finished speaking, he finished dinner in a few seconds and took his entourage to arrange the camp patrol. Yuwen Wen ate a few more bites of roast lamb legs and turned into the tent.

Looking at the documents on the table, he threw the uncooked roast lamb legs into the trash can, took a piece of cloth to wipe his hands, and sat by the table and sulked.

This afternoon, there was news from Chang'an that the King of Goguryeo sent an envoy to the court to apologize. His envoy came floating in the sea and was intercepted by the Zhou navy outside Lushun. He is now stranded in Lushun. The general of Lushun was waiting for the orders of the court.

In response to this, the officials of the Zhengshitang were to let the other party come to Chang'an. After receiving the news today, Yuwen Wen felt that no matter what, he should let the Goguryeo envoy come to Chang'an. It would be boring to play tricks to make things difficult for the envoy.

Goguryeo finally surrendered, at least it seemed like that. However, Yuwen Wen was not happy at all. The other party raided Yingzhou at the beginning of last year and was defeated by the garrison. There was no such thing as the king of Goguryeo sent an envoy to apologize. It was obvious that he was just trying to get rid of the sheep and get it right after seeing the situation was not good.

Or a delaying strategy.

The other party delayed so long before he came to "apologize". Of course, Yuwen Wen was not sure about the specific reason, but considering that Goguryeo and the Turks were related, he believed that the other party must have discovered that the Turks suffered a great loss, so he responded.

First of all, I was worried that Zhou State would concentrate its troops eastward to attack Liaodong; secondly, the opponent chose a good opportunity because Zhou State consumed a lot of military use on the grassland and did not really break the bones of the Turks, so I would not have the energy to use military use on Liaodong for a long time.

At this time, Goguryeo came to admit defeat, just to give Zhou a step forward and give him a reason to truce: Look, it’s not that I don’t want to send troops, Goguryeo apologized!

When Yuwen Wen was angry when he thought of being regarded as a fool by Goguryeo, he was very angry. However, the time for Goguryeo to choose was indeed good. Normally, he should have gone astray.

However, if the apology is useful, what should the police do?

Of course, Yuwen Wen would not just let Goguryeo go so far, but there was a gap between reality and ideals. The reason why he was sulking was that the results of the imperial enlistment were not as effective as expected.

This time, Yuwen Wen drove to the Liting Spots. The 200,000 army was busy on the grassland for several months, but the battle was fought a lot, but the decisive battle that Yuwen Wen imagined was never completed.

It’s not that the entire army is not strong enough, but that the enemy is too cowardly and cannot fight the decisive battle.

Turkic Dulan Khan and Datou Khan had suffered several major defeats before. Seeing him bringing troops to the battle in person, he dared not fight head-on. After tentatively sending a cavalry to harass him several times, he found that he could not get any benefits, so he tried his best to avoid the war and started playing "hide and seek".

In the vast grassland, Yuwen Wen could not chase the main force of the Turks, but instead copied many Turkic tribes and captured a large number of tribes and cattle and sheep. Seeing that the fire was about the same, he ended the "armed parade" and returned home.

The grass was cut without eradicating the roots, and the spring breeze blew, and Yuwen Wen was unable to kill the two great khans of the Western Turks. It is conceivable that the Western Front would have to be involved in a lot of energy in the next few years, so he could not concentrate his efforts on Liaodong for a long time.

The problems of Liaodong and even Goguryeo cannot be solved in one or two years. If the main army of Zhou State fell into a long-term "security war" in Liaodong or the Korean Peninsula, then once the Turks in the west recovered and invaded again, it would be a difficult situation for Zhou State.

It was for this reason that after destroying Goguryeo and Baekje, the Tang Dynasty in history was unable to effectively consolidate the territory of Xinna in the east, and as a result, Silla gained a huge advantage.

As soon as the main force of the Tang army retreated, Silla instigated Goguryeo and Baekje's remnants to rebel, took advantage of the situation to rob, attack the Tang army's strongholds, and continued to erode the territory.

When the main force of the Tang army came to the sea to raise an army to question the crime, Silla saw that he could not defeat and quickly apologized. He dragged it back until the main force of the Tang army retreated. Silla's old behavior resurfaced again.

After repeated struggles, the Tang Dynasty could not afford the huge consumption of the "overseas garrison". Even though he knew Silla's apology and apologized, he could only make a fuss, and apologized for the truth. He had gained the benefits of face and lost his inner self.

In the end, Silla got his wish and annexed the old places of Goguryeo and Baekje at the cost of superficial obedience and apology, becoming the country with the last laugh on the Korean Peninsula.

The Tang Dynasty spent decades of huge manpower and material resources on this matter. In the end, it was not only the destruction of Goguryeo and Baekje, but it was not even good. Even Liaodong could not afford it, so it created a Bohai Kingdom.

Of course, Yuwen Wen was unwilling to repeat the mistakes of "historical". The arrangements he should have made had been made long ago. He just thought that the imperial commander could not fight the decisive battle this time, and a wave of evil fire in his stomach rushed upwards.
Chapter completed!