In order to achieve this goal, on the one hand, the empire continued to send people to contact the generals and even middle and low-level officers of the front-line troops in Nanhu Prefecture and Northwest Prefecture, and at the same time, in order to give greater psychological pressure to the generals of the troops in the above two states, even in the cold winter season, it launched a continuous winter offensive against the above two states.

The purpose of the Winter Offensive was not to capture the two states completely, but only to put pressure on the senior generals and middle and junior officers of the various units in the two states to give up resistance and choose to surrender.

After the empire dismantled the forces of these two states, it didn't matter what the attitude of the two states' big feudal towns was.

And this is also known to the big feudal towns!

On December 14, in the face of the mutiny of the subordinate troops, Fang Xingqiu, one of the two major feudal towns in Nanhu Prefecture, officially presented his letter of allegiance to Fang Xingqiu, the self-proclaimed envoy of Nanhu Prefecture, announcing the unification of the central region of Nanhu Prefecture.

Only two days later, Xu Rong, another major feudal town in Nanhu Prefecture, issued a notice announcing his support for the unification of the empire, his support for the Lin dynasty, and his allegiance to the Son of Heaven.

In this way, the thirteen states of the empire are already the only northwest states left and still resisting!

But everyone knows that the unification of the Northwestern states is only a matter of time, and it will not be too long!

The only uncertainty is whether the Northwest will be unified this year or next.

But this uncertainty did not last long, and on December 26, as the first year of the Qiansheng Dynasty was coming to an end.

Huo Jianchang, the actual controller of the Northwest Prefecture and commander of the Xihai Garrison, officially ordered a total of 150,000 troops of the Northwest Frontier Army to officially declare allegiance to the new dynasty and to Lin Ziran, the son of Qiansheng.

Thus the peaceful reunification of the Northwest State was proclaimed.

This also made Lin Ziran a little relieved, before the Imperial Army was actually in the direction of the Northwest State, it had always been shrinking, not because the terrain of the Northwest State was more complex and the enemy was stronger, but because the north of the Northwest State was the West Sea Defense Line, and the north of the West Sea Defense Line was the Northern Six Nations Alliance, Daheng's old enemy.

The Imperial Army was worried that it would beat the Northwest State too hard, and then Huo Jianchang, the actual controller of the Northwest State, would ruthlessly defect to the Six Nations Alliance of the North, or engage in some strategy to lure the wolf and drive the tiger, resulting in the situation in the Northwest being corrupted.

This is also the reason why the First Army, the First Cavalry Army, and other units did not rashly launch a large-scale military offensive after strategically encircling the Northwest State.

The West Sea Defense Line controlled by the West Sea Garrison is too important, if they break the jar and break it, let alone cooperate directly with the Six Northern Nations Alliance, it is to disband the troops on the spot, and it is also unacceptable for the Imperial Army to directly abandon the West Sea Defense Line.

The Western Sea Defense Line is too important, this is not only a bridgehead for the Empire to launch an attack on the Northern Six Nations Alliance, but also a strong fortress to resist the South Movement of the Northern Six Nations Alliance!

More than fifty years ago, during the Hengao War, Daheng fought so vigorously in the south, but the Northern Six Nations Alliance was stunned and did not give Daheng a knife in the back, that is, because at that time, even if the Daheng Empire was fighting in the southern continent, it still stationed heavy troops in the West Sea Defense Line, and the six northern countries could not cross the West Sea Defense Line at all.

During the follow-up civil strife in Daheng, the six northern countries were still honestly coiled, and that was also because the West Sea garrison had always been stationed in the West Sea defense line, and they were not given the opportunity to go south.

Although the follow-up commander of the Northwest Garrison, Huo Yuanbing, with the civil strife of the Daheng Empire, slowly took control of the Northwest Prefecture and became the de facto king of the Northwest, and after his death, his son Huo Jianchang also became the actual control of the Northwest Prefecture and became one of the towns of the Daheng Domain.

However, their father and son still made a great contribution to resisting the southward movement of the alliance of the six northern countries and stabilizing the situation in the northwest of the empire.

Because of the particularity 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, but chose the way of peaceful negotiation to promote the peaceful reunification of the northwest state, hoping to stabilize Huo Jianchang, the commander of the Xihai garrison through peaceful means, and hoped to successfully complete the handover of the Xihai defense line and maintain the situation in the northwest.

Otherwise, if there is a problem in the area of the West Sea Defense Line, then it will be a 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 Six Northern Alliance.

In the entire West Sea Corridor, Daheng controlled and built a defense line in the south and fortified it, while in the north it was the Northern Six Nations Alliance that controlled and built a defense line, which was also fortified.

The two sides have built forts here, and many wars have broken out in the past many years, 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.

Located in the northwest coastal zone of the Central Continent, the West Sea Corridor is a long and narrow coastal corridor about 10 kilometers long, narrow in the middle, wide on both sides, and in the form of a loophole.

The narrowest position in the middle is about five kilometers!

In such a short five-kilometer-wide narrow strip, I don't know how many corpses of soldiers on both sides have been buried in the past few hundred years!

The fundamental reason that has prompted both sides to make this the main battlefield in the past few hundred years is the west side of the West Sea Corridor, which is the sea, and to the east, the Mai Aisi Mountains, which stretch for more than 1,000 kilometers.

The mountain range was so steep that it was impossible for the army to pass through.

Further east of the Mai Aisi Mountains, there is Dongbei Lake, and further northeast of Dongbei Lake is a large frozen swamp, that broken place can not make people live normally, the army wants to go around this frozen soil to the west of the Northern Six Nations Alliance, one of the Qifeng Kingdom, which means to cross thousands of kilometers of frozen soil and swamp no man's land.

It's simply not something that can be done.

If it weren't for the existence of the Mai Aisi Mountains and the northern permafrost swamps, the six northern countries would have been wiped out by Daheng a long time ago, and they would have been bouncing there for hundreds of years and become the so-called old enemies of the Daheng people!

A few hundred years ago, there were a lot of countries in the Central Continent, but now they have all disappeared, and the few that border Daheng are all the ones that belong to the kind of terrain protection.

This is true of the alliance of the six northern states, as well as the kingdoms of Cassie and Tannar in the south.

And those countries that do not have uncrossable terrain protection and border Daheng have long disappeared in the long river of history.

In view of the topography between the Six Northern Alliances and the Great Heng Empire, the importance of the West Sea Corridor is self-evident, and the West Sea defense line that controls the West Sea Corridor and the West Sea garrison stationed here are also more valued by the Empire, and it does not rashly adopt the means of large-scale military offensives, but talks with Huo Jianchang while exerting pressure through small and medium-sized battles.

After talking about this intermittently for a few months, the other states in the north have been finished one after another, leaving only the northwest state, and the soldiers under him are not willing to continue to fight, and because of the importance of the West Sea Corridor, Huo Jianchang, who was treated better by the empire than other feudal towns, finally chose to surrender his allegiance.

With Huo Jianchang, the actual controller of the Northwest Prefecture, declaring his allegiance to Linzi, it was also officially announced that the Daheng Empire had completely completed its unification.

After receiving the news, the Qiansheng Emperor of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire immediately issued an edict announcing the return of Daheng to the world.

After this news came out, the whole country was jubilant!

However, when this news spread to other countries on the Blue Star one after another, it caused a lot of worry and even panic!

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