They are all concubines, so of course they choose the future emperor.

This year, the newcomers in the Eastern Palace used all means to win favor and the fighting continued.

At the same time, fighting was also going on in the northern border of the Great Zhou.

In April, the Tujie tribe split up. The fleeing sons of Helu gathered the remnants, won over the Mohe tribe in the northeast, and counterattacked the Tujie tribe that had surrendered to the Great Zhou.

Fortunately, King Dingbei discovered the situation in time and defeated the Mohe tribe.

When the news reached the capital, Emperor Li Ce was furious and sent three envoys to Mohe to question the matter.

However, after the three envoys left, there was no news from them again. It was not until a month later that the court learned that the three envoys were attacked and killed as soon as they entered the territory of the Mohe tribe.

No one survived.

Now not only Li Ce was furious, the entire court was furious.

Immediately afterwards, Dingbei King Fu Nian asked for permission to take the initiative to attack Mohe to seek justice for the Great Zhou.

Li Ce did not respond immediately.

He could see that King Dingbei wanted revenge. The combat effectiveness of his Tujie tribe was damaged and it was difficult to defeat Mohe, so he wanted to use the army of Da Zhou.

After discussing with court officials, Li Ce sent General Fan, the eldest son of the Crown Princess, to lead the border troops to the expedition.

He is known as General Xiao Fan.

Unfortunately, after General Xiao Fan entered Mo River, he encountered ambushes one after another. Although he managed to escape, he caused heavy losses to the border troops.

Afterwards, Li Ce sent two more experienced generals to the border, but they could only barely defend the border and could not make any progress.

No one knows how the small Mohe tribe could suddenly become so powerful.

Mohe is just one of the tribes in the northeast. Not to mention compared with the Great Zhou, even the former Tujie is much stronger than Mohe.

The Tujie were defeated and it was understandable that the remaining Tujie tribes could not defeat Mohe, but how could the Great Zhou, with its powerful military force, suffer successive losses?

Just when the court officials were puzzled, the situation at the border suddenly changed.

The three cities in Liaodong were suddenly attacked by the Mohe tribe. In just a few days, they were all lost and fell into the hands of Mohe.

When this news reached the capital, the whole court was in an uproar.

After annexing the three cities, the Mohe tribe was still not satisfied and was eyeing the entire Liaodong.

The Great Zhou fell into an unprecedented border crisis.

Not long after, King Dingbei brought new news.

It turned out that in addition to the people of Helu's son in the Mohe tribe, there was also a rebel group from the Great Zhou.

The leader of the rebel army was Tong Hu, the grandson of the former general of Liaodong.

Tong Hu used his previous connections in the military to plant a number of spies in the Great Zhou army. As a result, he received the news of the Great Zhou's dispatch of troops in advance, which enabled him to defeat the Great Zhou's three attacks.

At that time, the general of Liaodong defected to the King of Qi and conspired with him to rebel. After the rebellion failed, his three clans were executed. However, the Liaodong army was large in number and it was impossible to kill them all. Therefore, only those Liaodong soldiers who entered the capital without permission were killed, and those who stayed at the border were only generals above the fourth rank.

Later, Liaodong was disrupted and new generals were stationed there, but they were only stationed in one place and there was no longer a general.

The three cities in Liaodong were easily captured. It was obvious that there was a traitor in the Liaodong army.

When Tong Hu escaped, he only took a few dozen of his personal soldiers with him. Who would have thought that over the years, he would end up raising a tiger to become a threat.

Although several generals stationed in Liaodong searched in time and found the traitor, the loss had already been done, and it would not be so easy to recapture the three cities.

Li Ce was extremely furious. He smashed the teacup on the spot, took off the imperial crown, and wanted to lead the troops to attack Mohe personally to save the face of the Great Zhou.

This was naturally blocked by all the ministers.

But how could these ministers stop Li Ce’s temper?

At the critical moment, they hurriedly invited the queen over.

Under Jiang Wanyue's persuasion, Li Ce temporarily gave up the idea of ​​leading the army in person.

After some discussion, the ministers finally proposed to send King Dingbei to lead the troops.

The Mohe tribe has a rebel general from the Great Zhou who is very familiar with the Great Zhou's marching formations. If we send a general from the Great Zhou to fight, it will probably be difficult to win in a short period of time.

In this case, it would be better to let King Dingbei be the general leading the troops. By taking the enemy by surprise, it might be effective.

Li Ce thought about it again and again and finally agreed to the proposal.

In September of that year, Li Ce appointed Dingbei King Fu Nian as the general and led an army of 100,000 to Liaodong.

Fu Nian lived up to expectations and at the end of the year, he defeated the Mohe tribe and recaptured the city.

The Great Zhou regrouped and in March of the following year, it recovered the remaining two cities and expelled the Mohe tribe from the Great Zhou. It then continued to advance triumphantly and drove the Mohe tribe to the north of the Almo River.

The army returned victoriously and the whole country celebrated.

Li Ce was very pleased and sent various rewards to the Dingbei Palace.

King Dingbei did not stay in the capital for long, as he was worried that the Mohe tribe would join other tribes to counterattack. He only stayed for five days before leading his army north.

At this point, King Dingbei was no longer just King Dingbei, but also the Great Zhou’s General Dingbei, stationed in the northern border all year round.

Mo He did not give up, and went south every year with the intention of seizing the border towns of Da Zhou again.

Such battles continued for more than three years.

Three years later, in late autumn, good news came from the border: King Dingbei defeated Mo He's large army, leaving only a few thousand remnants who escaped.

At the same time, King Dingbei wrote a letter saying that he had found the Mohe nest.

Li Ce was delighted.

This time, we can finally destroy Mo He.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of troops at the border, scattered all over the place, there are only a few thousand remnants left in Mohe. They are totally unable to resist. It is only a matter of time before they are destroyed.

Once Mohe is destroyed, the territory of the Great Zhou will be expanded.

Expanding territory is a great achievement for an emperor.

There were constant praises in the court, and many called the emperor "the reincarnation of Emperor Wu of Han" and "the legacy of Emperor Qin Shi Huang."

Under such circumstances, Li Ce slammed the table again and decided to lead the army in person to destroy the Mohe nest personally.

This time, the resistance from the court was not strong, and Li Ce got what he wanted.