In the cold wind, Yang Ji, the Yingzhou general manager who was inspecting the border defense, stood on a mound. With the help of a thousand-mile mirror, he observed the large snow-covered field in front of him, and there were a large number of cavalrymen on both sides.

With more than a thousand cavalry as guards, Yang Ji was not afraid of accidents when he encountered Goguryeo cavalry on the edge of this Liaoze. At this time, looking at the endless Liaoze, Yang Ji didn't know what words to use to describe his mood.

Liaoze is the Great Lakes in the Liao River Basin, located in the central part of the Liao River. Because the terrain here is low and lying, the Liao River surges in the rainy season in summer and autumn, thus forming lakes of all sizes. This has been the case for thousands of years, forming a muddy zodiac spanning two or three hundred miles.

Liaoze is like a natural chasm, dividing Liaodong and western Liaoning. It is precisely because of the existence of Liaoze that the Central Plains court has many difficulties in using troops to Liaodong.

The muddy and difficult-to-go Liaoze is a disaster for the army's logistics transportation. It is not impossible to cross Liaoze by light cavalry, but the many supplies needed by the army when it is advancing can only be pulled by a cart, and if the carriage wants to pass through Liaoze, the road must be built in advance.

When the road was built during the war, the road was repaired and the baggage wasted without any obstacles. However, the battle in Liaodong had not yet decided on the outcome, and winter was almost here, and the troops in the Central Plains could only withdraw.

I will fight again next year, and most of the roads I built in the previous year have been damaged, so I have to start over again.

Yang Ji visited Liaoze on the spot and experienced the "side effects" of Liaoze's strategy for Liaodong. However, this is an unavoidable fact. If you want to use troops to Liaodong on land, you have to find a way to overcome the "natural barrier" of Liaoze.

There are two roads between Liaoxi and Liaodong, located in the north and south of Liaoze, so they are called "North Road" and "South Road".

These two roads avoid crossing Liaoze, saving the muddy pain. However, in order to prevent the Zhou army from coming to the west, Goguryeo, which occupied Liaodong, would definitely set up strongholds in two important places, north and south, which would have an adverse impact on the Zhou army's operations.

Yang Ji carefully studied the terrain of Liaodong and the distribution of cities in Goguryeo, and thought it would be better to go by sea. In this way, he could bypass the Liaodong defense line in Goguryeo and cross the sea to directly attack the enemy's capital Pyongyang.

This kind of tactic is the most sharp, but only on the military level. For the generals, the war is over after the battle, but for the emperor who intends to manage Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula, this is just the beginning of the second war.

More troublesome "public security wars" come one after another. If they are not dealt with properly, they will be enough to make all previous victories in Liaodong vanish.

This is the difference between governing the army (war) and governing the country.

Of course, Yang Ji knew that Goguryeo was not an invincible and powerful country. For hundreds of years, the Central Plains court has not failed to use troops to Liaodong, nor has it won battles.

During the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Gongsun clan occupied Liaodong and defeated Goguryeo many times. Later, he surrendered to Cao Wei and became the prefect of Liaodong of Wei. When he was in Gongsun Yuan, he rebelled against Wei and proclaimed himself the King of Yan, so he invited the Wei army to attack him.

Gongsun Yuan had already defeated the Wei army before he became independent, but this time he led the troops to attack the Taiwei Sima Yi. Gongsun Yuan was not an opponent, and he was defeated and his family was destroyed.

Goguryeo, who was beaten to run away with her head, took the opportunity to get a bargain.

By the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a chaos in the Central Plains, and Goguryeo tried to take the opportunity to expand its territory, occupy Liaodong and even Liaoxi, but ended up hitting the Murong family head-on.

The Yan State of Murong was strong. In order to make a move to compete for the Central Plains, he had to deal with Goguryeo, who was ambitious behind him, so he took the initiative.

Yan State was located in western Liaoning and sent troops to attack Liaodong. How to pass through Liaoze is an unavoidable problem. Direct crossing is not conducive to combat. Therefore, there were two options for the Yan army's march route at that time, namely the "south road" and the "north road" at the north and south ends of Liaoze.

The north road is wide and flat, which is convenient for large army to walk; while the south road is narrow and dangerous, which is not conducive to marching.

Goguryeo felt that the Yan army would not go to the south to ask for trouble, so they gathered their main forces in the north to wait for the rabbit, and the south was a side army with bluffing momentum.

As a result, the main force of the Yan army took the southern line, and the road was unstoppable. It even captured the capital of Goguryeo, and returned to the north.

The Murong family repeatedly attacked Goguryeo, but Liaoze did not seem to have caused much obstacles to its use of troops. Why is it that the Zhou State is going to use troops against Liaodong, but facing Liaoze, the monarch and ministers are worried about this all day long?

Is there any problem with ability?

No, Goguryeo has become stronger.

The young children who were beaten to the ground by Gongsun and Murong were randomly looking for teeth. They have been receiving refugees in the Central Plains for hundreds of years and absorbing various Sushen (Mihe) tribes. Now they have grown up

The Yan Kingdom of Murong's family divided the front and back, and the front Yan fought Goguryeo and bowed down to his surrender, but he was defeated by his opponent while competing for the Central Plains, and then collapsed.

Goguryeo, who was originally kneeling on the ground, stood up and took the opportunity to embezzle the land in Liaodong.

The Murong family restored the country, and the Yan State (Later Yan) did not fail to attack Liaodong, but at this time the national strength of Yan State is different from the past, and the monarch and ministers' abilities are not the same as those of the former Yan State. So finally, he could not suppress Goguryeo, which had "grown up". Until the country was destroyed, Yan State could no longer make Goguryeo truly surrender.

After the Yan Kingdom was destroyed, the Yan Kingdom of Feng's family (Northern Yan) rose again, but it still could not solve the Liaodong issue.

When the Wei army (Northern Wei army) invaded a large-scale invasion, the Emperor of Yan led all civil and military officials and countless people to carry out a major escape, crossed the Liao River, and defected to Goguryeo.

The well-equipped Yan army soldiers surrendered to the Goguryeo army whose military was not as good as theirs. The Goguryeo soldiers took off the armor of the Yan army on the spot, held the Yan army's weapons, and cheered.

The monarch and ministers of the Yan Kingdom who fled east to Goguryeo were soon "harmlessly treated". Ordinary soldiers, families and ordinary people, and tens of thousands of households all became the "fresh blood" of Goguryeo, which greatly increased the strength of the other party.

The Central Plains are in chaos and have no time to look east, so that Goguryeo, whose ambition is a wolf, has gradually become bigger. Now it is already a big trend. It is impossible to ravage the other party at will like Murong Yan back then.

Yang Ji looked at the desolate in front of him, and turned over and walked slowly into the Daze under the guidance of his guide. He wanted to personally experience how difficult the mud in Liaoze was to reach.

If the imperial court sent troops to recover Liaodong, it would be a lot of trouble to take the sea route. The problem is that there are many storms on the sea during summer and autumn, which is a big unstable factor. In winter, the coast is prone to freezing, which is not conducive to sailing.

War is a major event for the country. If the Zhou State wants to use troops to Liaodong, it cannot return to a defeat because of a storm or even suffer heavy casualties. Such a war is like a joke and it will consume a large number of elite combat soldiers in vain.

Therefore, it is necessary to advance together in the Liaodong battle, sea and land in the future.

Beiyang Trading Company is preparing for the sea march, while the new Yingzhou General Manager Yang Ji needs to prepare for the land march.

He came to western Liaoning to prepare for victory, not really to herd sheep.

Not to mention that if there is a large-scale development in Liaodong in the future, then governance of the Liaoze area is imperative.

Liaoze has existed for thousands of years and is extremely difficult to manage. The first priority is to understand the situation of the relevant water systems so as to lay a solid foundation for Daxing’s water conservancy in the future.

Yang Ji was not sure whether he could survive until then, but his predecessors planted trees and then took the cool off. The hard and tiring work he should do, as well as various preliminary work, will be completed by their generation.
Chapter completed!