In order to achieve this goal, on the one hand, the empire continued to send people to contact the generals and even mid-level and low-level officers of the frontline units in South Huzhou and Northwestern State, and at the same time, in order to put greater psychological pressure on the generals of the units in the above two states, even in the cold winter. , both launched sustained winter offensives against the above-mentioned two states.
The purpose of the winter offensive was not to completely capture these two states, but to put pressure on the senior generals and middle- and low-level officers of the troops in the two states, forcing them to give up resistance and choose to surrender.
After the empire disintegrates the troops in these two states, it won't matter what the attitudes of the large feudal towns in the two states are.
And Dafan Town also knows this!
On December 14, facing the continuous rebellion of subordinate troops, Fang Xingqiu, one of the two major vassal towns in Nanhu Prefecture, formally presented a letter of allegiance to Nanhu Patrol Envoy, declaring the unification of the central region of Nanhu Prefecture.
Just two days later, Xu Rong, the magistrate of another major vassal town in Nanhu Prefecture, issued a notice declaring his support for the unification of the empire, his support for the Lin dynasty, and his allegiance to Emperor Qian Sheng.
In this way, among the thirteen states of the empire, only one northwest state is still resisting!
But everyone knows that the unification of the northwest states is only a matter of time, and this time will not be long!
The only uncertainty is whether the northwest states will be unified this year or next year.
But this uncertainty did not last long. On December 26, the first year of Qian Sheng was coming to an end.
Huo Jianchang, the actual controller of the Northwest State and commander of the West Sea Guard Army, officially ordered a total of 150,000 people from various departments of the Northwest Frontier Army to formally declare their allegiance to the new dynasty and to Emperor Qian Sheng Emperor Lin Ziran.
Thus announcing the peaceful reunification of the northwest states.
This also made Lin Ziran feel a little relieved. In the past, the Imperial Army had always been timid in the direction of Northwest State. This was not because the terrain of Northwest State was more complex and the enemy was stronger, but because the northern part of Northwest State was the West Sea Defense Line, and the West Sea To the north of the defense line is Daheng's old enemy, the Northern Six Nations Alliance.
The Imperial Army is worried that it will hit the Northwest State too hard, and then the actual controller of the Northwest State, Huo Jianchang, will ruthlessly defect to the Northern Six-Nation Alliance, or engage in some strategy of luring wolves and driving away tigers, leading to the deterioration of the situation in the Northwest.
This is also the reason why the First Army, the First Cavalry Army and other troops did not rush to launch a large-scale military offensive after strategically surrounding the northwest state.
The West Sea defense line controlled by the West Sea Garrison is too important. If they fail, let alone directly cooperate with the Northern Six Nations Alliance, even if they disband the troops on the spot and directly abandon the West Sea defense line, it will not be acceptable to the Imperial Army.
The West Coast Defense Line is so important. It is not only a bridgehead for the Empire to launch an attack on the Northern Six Nations Alliance, but also a solid fortress to resist the Southern Six Nations Alliance's move south!
More than fifty years ago, during the Heng'ao War, Daheng was fighting so lively in the south, but the Northern Six Nations Alliance did not give Daheng a knife in the back. That was because the Daheng Empire was fighting in the southern continent at that time. It's lively, but there are still heavy troops stationed on the West Coast Defense Line, and the six northern countries cannot cross the West Coast Defense Line at all.
During the subsequent civil strife in Daheng, the six northern countries still stayed calm. This was because the West Sea garrison had always been stationed on the West Sea defense line, giving them no chance to go south.
Although the subsequent commander of the northwest garrison, Huo Yuanbing Shangqing, gradually took control of the northwest state due to the civil strife in the Daheng Empire and became the de facto king of the northwest state. After his death, his son Huo Jianchang also became the king of the northwest state.
It actually took control and became one of the great vassal towns of Daheng.
However, their father and son made great contributions to resisting the Northern Six Nations Alliance from moving south and stabilizing the situation in the northwest of the empire.
Because of the special characteristics of their father and son and the Xihai garrison under their command, the Lin Dynasty did not rashly choose to launch a large-scale military attack. Instead, they chose peaceful negotiations to promote the peaceful reunification of the northwest states, hoping to stabilize Xihai through peaceful means.
Huo Jianchang, commander of the garrison, hopes to successfully complete the handover of the West China Sea defense line and maintain the situation in the northwest.
Otherwise, if there is a problem along the West China Sea Defense Line, we will be in big trouble.
The West Sea Defense Line is located at the southern end of the West Sea Corridor, and the northern end of the West Sea Corridor is the West Sea Corridor Defense Line of the Northern Six-Nation Alliance.
The entire West Sea Corridor, in the south is controlled by Daheng and has built defense lines, and has been fortified, while in the north is the Northern Alliance of Six Nations, which has controlled and built defense lines, and has also been fortified.
The two sides unanimously built a fortress here, and many wars broke out in the past many years. This is because the West Sea Corridor is the only land passage between Daheng and the Northern Six Nations Alliance, and its strategic location is extremely important.
The West Sea Corridor is located in the northwest coastal zone of the Central Continent. It is a long and narrow coastal corridor, about ten kilometers long, narrow in the middle and wide on both sides, showing a loophole shape.
The narrowest point in the middle is about five kilometers!
In such a short five-kilometer-wide area, countless bodies of soldiers from both sides have been buried in the past few hundred years!
The fundamental reason that prompted both sides to use this place as the main battlefield in the past hundreds of years is that to the west of the West Sea Corridor is the sea, and to the east is the Maiais Mountains that stretches for more than a thousand kilometers.
The mountains are so steep that the army cannot pass through them.
Further east from the Maiais Mountains is Dongbei Lake, and further northeast from Dongbei Lake is a large frozen swamp. There is no way for people to survive in that poor place. The army wants to pass through this piece of frozen soil.
Going to Qifeng Country, one of the six northern alliances in the west, means traveling through thousands of kilometers of frozen soil and swampy no-man’s land.
This is simply impossible to do.
If it were not for the existence of the Maiais Mountains and the frozen swamps in the north, the six northern countries would have been destroyed by Daheng long ago. They would still be there for hundreds of years and become the so-called old enemy of the Daheng people!
Hundreds of years ago, there were many countries in the central continent, but now they have all disappeared. The few remaining countries bordering Daheng are all protected by terrain.
This is true for the Six Kingdoms Alliance in the north, and the same is true for the Kingdom of Khasi and the Kingdom of Dana in the south.
And those countries that were not protected by insurmountable terrain and bordered Daheng have long since disappeared in the long river of history.
In view of the terrain between the Northern Six Nations Alliance and the Daheng Empire, the importance of the West Sea Corridor is self-evident. The West Sea Defense Line that controls the West Sea Corridor and the West Sea garrison stationed here are also paid more attention to by the empire and do not rush to adopt large-scale measures.
The method of military attack was to exert pressure through small and medium-sized battles while negotiating with Huo Jianchang.
After several months of on-again, off-again talks, the other states in the northern part of the country have been gradually destroyed, leaving only the northwest state, and his soldiers are unwilling to continue fighting. At the same time, because of the importance of the West China Sea Corridor, the empire gave Huo Jianchang
Huo Jianchang finally chose to surrender his allegiance when the treatment was better than that of other feudal towns.
As Huo Jianchang, the actual controller of the northwest state, declared his allegiance to Linzi, it was also officially announced that the Daheng Empire had been completely unified.
After receiving the news, Emperor Qian Sheng of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire immediately issued an edict to announce to the world that Daheng would be reunited.
After the news came out, the whole country in Daheng was filled with joy!
However, when this news spread to other countries on Blue Star, it caused concern and even panic!