His Royal Highness King Yu, the fifth prince of the Great Li Dynasty and the general of Northern Xinjiang, and Liu Jiande, the commander of the eastern border areas, together led an army of more than 35,000 troops and marched into Goguryeo from the Fenghua Valley.
Within half a month, they used thunderous momentum to seize the three defense lines of Goguryeo and approach the capital.
At this time, several small-scale large-scale rebel armies appeared in the northern area of Goguryeo. They acted in a guerrilla manner, making the defenders everywhere exhausted and unable to return to defend the capital.
Suddenly, people in the capital city of Goguryeo were panicked and everyone was in danger.
Five days later, the army led by Emperor Xin finally reached the outskirts of the capital city of Goguryeo.
Khan City.
As the capital of Goguryeo, Khanseong is undoubtedly the largest city in Goguryeo, and it should also be the city with the strongest defensive power.
However, less than two months ago, in order to block the expeditionary force from northern Xinjiang, Goguryeo sent two-thirds of its domestic troops to Hucheng. As a result, not only did it fail to stop Emperor Xin's army,
Instead, the entire army was wiped out.
After that, when Emperor Xin's army finally entered the capital of Goguryeo, they successively wiped out 10,000 Goguryeo soldiers on the three defense lines they broke through.
Although Goguryeo also conducted compulsory military conscription for domestic people during this period, Goguryeo, a small country with a small population, could only recruit a limited number of people in a short period of time.
Not to mention that the troops temporarily recruited may not even have the most basic combat effectiveness. Rather than being an army, they are more like a group of civilians holding spears.
Today, in the Khanseong, the capital of Goguryeo, of the 20,000 soldiers guarding the city, 10,000 of them are composed of such civilian men.
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The expeditionary force chose to camp twenty miles away from the capital of Goguryeo.
After half a month of fighting, although they did not experience many battles, the soldiers of the expeditionary force still felt tired from running around for days.
The physical strength of the soldiers has declined rapidly.
Therefore, Emperor Xin ordered a temporary rest before attacking the capital of Goguryeo.
He was not worried that the Goguryeo royal family and high-ranking officials would take the opportunity to escape from the Khan City at this time.
There are few people in Goguryeo. The royal family and officials have few places to go after they escape from the Khan City. Coupled with the pursuit of the expeditionary force, once the Goguryeo royal family and officials choose to flee without fighting, they have no choice but to escape from Goguryeo.
A choice was made.
And once this is done, it will directly represent the subjugation of Goguryeo.
Even if the royal family and officials who abandoned the people found an opportunity to return to Goguryeo, they would no longer receive support from the people within the country.
Water can carry a boat and capsize it, but at any time, the people of Goguryeo can overthrow the rule of the royal family and officials.
For Di Xin and his army, the escape of the Goguryeo royal family and high-level officials would directly lower the morale of the soldiers defending the city.
In a battle between two armies, whether the morale is high or not can affect the morale of an army.
When the time comes, dealing with the Goguryeo garrison whose morale has plummeted, it is impossible to say that his army will be able to defeat the Khan City at a faster speed and at a lower cost.
Therefore, Emperor Xin actually hoped that the Goguryeo royal family and high-level officials would choose to escape when they knew that the immortal army they said was approaching the city.
But he was just thinking about it.
Di Xin knew that no matter what the reason was, Goguryeo's royal family and high-ranking officials would not make such a stupid mistake at such a critical moment.
Because compared to escaping, defending the city is their only possible way to survive.
This is true whether the city of Khan is defended or captured.
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The first night after setting up camp passed like this.
When the sky is bright.
In the handsome tent, Di Xin opened his eyes and looked at Xizi, who was lying in his arms with his eyes closed. He could feel the smoothness of Xizi's delicate skin through the contact between their bodies.
Even though they had been married for such a long time, Di Xin had to admit that Xizi's body was still very attractive to him.
And this was even more true after she broke through and became a magician in the realm of illumination.
Cultivation is the process of optimizing oneself. It is not only the strength that changes, but also some minor flaws in the body that can be repaired due to the improvement of the realm.
This is why, whether in the prehistoric realm or the ancient moon realm, the higher the realm, the greater the proportion of handsome men and beautiful women.
Of course, except for those with "extraordinary" talents, there are some looks that cannot be saved no matter how high the level is.
After all, most of the changes brought about by cultivation are just fine-tuning a person's body to make it more optimized, rather than a real change in appearance.
And for a person like Xizi, whose appearance is enough to charm a city, once his body is already perfect, once it continues to be optimized, it will truly break free from the shackles of a mortal.
Now Xizi, once she regains her true body like a daughter, she will really be a woman like a fairy.
After discovering that some people looked at her strangely when she was dressed as a man, Xizi would wear a layer of gauze to cover her face in front of outsiders even when she was dressing up as a man.
Nowadays, only Di Xin can appreciate such a face that looks like a goddess descending from heaven.
Di Xin naturally expressed his support for Xizi's actions. He didn't have any bad habits. It would be best if his woman could only be seen by him.
Thinking like this, Di Xin couldn't help but reach out and pinch a strand of Xizi's scattered hair, and swept her nose with the tip of the hair.
Perhaps because he felt his nose was a little itchy, Xizi frowned in his sleep and subconsciously reached out to touch his nose, trying to get rid of the foreign object that made his nose itchy.
Di Xin didn't tease Xizi much.
When Xizi raised his hand, he let go of Xizi's hair, with a doting smile in his eyes.
But soon, there was an inexplicable meaning in his eyes when he looked at Xizi.
Not long after the expeditionary force set off from Yanque Pass, preparations were made for the day when Song Qianwei and Zhao Yueer's infiltration into the army was discovered.
That night, he and Xizi were talking normally, but Xizi suddenly became more proactive than before.
And after that, whenever the two of them were alone together, Xizi would also show different initiative from time to time.
Although Di Xin felt a sense of enjoyment from Xizi's abnormal behavior, he also knew that he couldn't just ignore it.
However, after a period of investigation, there was no result.
There were no warlocks following them, and Xizi's body and soul had not been tampered with in any way.
Putting aside the fact that people from the Ancient Moon Realm can quietly influence a warlock who has entered the Illuminating Realm, even if they can, with the level of power promised by the Ancient Moon Realm, it is impossible to hide it from Di Xin, who is a Realm Master.
Even if the power that Di Xin can use is also limited to the second realm.