Chapter 5268 Chang'an City

The world was turbulent, and as the ice and snow melted, the catastrophe and war gradually became more intense.

Zhan Ying had left Changbai Mountain. He did not go south to attack the heavenly army entrenched in Liaobei, but went to Chang'an City in Liaodong.

This Chang'an is not that Chang'an.

The Liaodong Peninsula was deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture. From the scholar-official class to the peddlers, they all took the Central Plains culture as an example.

It was similar to Fusang, always like to steal things from the Central Plains.

Fusang came to the Central Plains to steal men, rice, culture, and texts. As long as they were in the Central Plains, Fusang would take them home as treasures.

The Goguryeo people in the Liaodong Peninsula also liked this.

As a vassal state of the Central Plains court for thousands of years, Goguryeo also liked to steal things from the suzerain state.

In the previous dynasty, the capital of the Central Plains court was Chang'an, and all races came to pay tribute. There were millions of people in Chang'an City.

The King of Goguryeo was so jealous when he heard this that he mobilized more than 100,000 civilians and worked day and night to build the new Chang'an City belonging to Goguryeo.

It is said that the construction drawings at that time were all based on the Chang'an City in the Central Plains.

After it was built, it was large in scale and looked down on Liaodong. It was said that it could indeed hold thousands of sheep, becoming a laughing stock for the people of the Central Plains.

The previous dynasty was destroyed, the Zhao Dynasty rose, and the founding emperor sent troops to attack Goguryeo, killed the King of Goguryeo, and assisted the new king to ascend the throne.

As the saying goes, a new emperor has his own ministers. In order to show his favor to his master, the new king changed Chang'an City to Hancheng.

Just by listening to the name, you can tell that he is still learning the culture of the Central Plains.

Or, he is flattering his master.

The name has been changed for thousands of years, and the people of Goguryeo have long forgotten that Hancheng was called Chang'an City before.

But the people of the Central Plains still like to call it by its previous name.

The Chang'an City built by Goguryeo was jokingly called by the people of the Central Plains that it could hold thousands of sheep, which was actually a joke.

After all, this city was built according to the blueprint of Chang'an City in the Central Plains. It is divided into 108 blocks and is quite large.

As the capital of the Goguryeo Dynasty, it has always been the largest city in the Liaodong Peninsula, with developed commercial trade and a permanent population of one million.

The capitals of Silla and Baekje, which were also moved in Liaodong, are far inferior to it.

Just two months ago, it was quite prosperous here.

After Zhan Ying became the general manager of the Liaobei Road, he forcibly relocated all the people of the three countries in Liaodong to the north of Changbai Mountain.

Of course, there are still many people who are reluctant to leave their homeland and stay secretly.

For those who stay, Zhan Ying just turns a blind eye.

Those who can hold swords and hammers have all left, and those who stay are the old, weak, sick and disabled. Their life and death do not have much impact on this catastrophe.

After the northern army of the Heaven Realm swept across Liaobei, it pushed its main force to the vicinity of Shanhaiguan. Perhaps because Zhan Ying had transferred most of the people of Liaodong Peninsula, the Heaven Realm army only sent a small force to cross the Beishui River and swept the Liaodong area several times.

After the Spring Festival, the Heaven Realm transferred all the troops that swept the Liaodong area to Liaobei.

Like the people of the Middle Earth, they looked down on the Liaodong Peninsula and did not plan to spend more troops to garrison there.

This gave Zhan Ying room to maneuver.

In the past, Zhan Ying thought that after Liaodong and Liaobei were controlled by the Heaven Realm Army, he had only two ways.

One was to retreat westward into the vast grassland.

This step was actually not easy to take. The grassland was flat. Even if Zhan Ying had gunpowder weapons in his hands, he could not defeat the powerful six-legged beast cavalry of the Heaven Realm.

The second was to cross Changbai Mountain and enter the vast Black Forest.

This step was even more difficult.

Once you retreat into the Black Forest, many people will freeze to death or starve to death, and it will be difficult to counterattack again.

Now the commander of the Tianjie North Road Army, for some reason, released the Liaodong Peninsula, which made Zhan Ying ecstatic.

If it was the marching general of other states, the Liaodong Peninsula would be of no use to them.

Zhan Ying was different.

Since Zhan Ying was recommended by Xuan Ying, His Majesty the Emperor valued him very much. He said that he was the marching general of Liaobei Road, but in fact he also assigned the East China Sea Fleet and Bohai Fleet of the court to him, and also gave him the military and political command of Fusang.

Liaodong Peninsula is a natural port. As long as the Liaodong Peninsula is in Zhan Ying's hands, Zhan Ying can connect the land and the fleet.

Today, he came to Chang'an to inspect.

Outside the silent Chang'an City, there is the largest trading port on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Now this port has become a military port.

Standing on the top of the city and looking around, there are ships on the water.

There are warships and cargo merchant ships.

At the port, hundreds of men were carrying large wooden boxes from Fusang's silver transport fleet, which were filled with silver paid to Zhan Ying by Fusang's Emperor.

After this batch of silver arrived, Zhan Ying's pressure would be relieved.

His Majesty the Emperor only gave him an empty title of the general manager of the march, and Zhan Ying had to get everything, including troops, military supplies, food supplies, and medicines, by himself.

The grain in Liaobei has been completely extinct, and most of the grain has fallen into the hands of the heavens.

However, when the three kingdoms of Liaodong went north, they implemented a policy of clearing the fields and taking away all the grain they could take away.

So far, the more than 20 million people in Zhan Ying's jurisdiction are not in danger of starvation for the time being.

But the war is imminent, and Zhan Ying must arm his forces as soon as possible.

On the Liaobei Plain, the most important thing is war horses.

He wants to use the tens of millions of taels of silver tributed by Fusang to exchange for grain through Yang Ershi's channels.

Then use the food to exchange war horses with the grassland wolf tribe through Wanyan Ku, the leader of ten thousand men.

Zhan Ying asked Wanyan Ku beside him, "How much silver did Fusang bring this time?"

Wanyan Ku said, "Three ships, a total of six million taels."

Zhan Ying nodded.

Wanyan Ku hesitated for a moment and said, "Marshal, we have been asking Fusang for silver. If the court knew about it..." Zhan Ying said lightly, "The court is now busy with its own affairs, how can it care about us.

This batch of silver should be used to buy food as soon as possible. The snow has melted, and the war will only last for one or two months. We still don't have enough war horses. If the war horses are lost, it will only be a matter of time before the millions of troops in Liaobei are slaughtered by the Heavenly Realm Army."

Wanyan Ku sighed.

"You told me that Niangzi Pass will not be able to be defended for long, and Shanhaiguan will also be breached. Liaobei has no strategic value. Why do we still have to hold on here?

The future war will only be in the Central Plains, not outside Shanhaiguan."

Zhan Ying said: "Brother Wanyan, you are wrong. It is precisely because Shanhaiguan will be captured sooner or later that we must hold on here.

We are like a nail, nailed to the enemy's rear. As long as the time comes, the role we play will not be compared with the frontal battlefield."

At this time, a lieutenant came to report and presented the report issued by the court.

The content of the report was about the battle of Yumen Pass this morning.

It tells that Yumen Pass has suffered the largest attack by the heavenly army in the past few months.

It was also mentioned later that the heavenly world might be collecting ironware from the human world, so that the defenders of various routes would be vigilant and strictly control weapons and ironware to prevent them from falling into the hands of the heavenly world.