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Chapter 211 [Conquest of Koguryo]

(Fifteenth, I would like to say sorry to all book friends, especially for the alliance, Shuanghong still has a generous reward, but Fifteenth dropped the chain first, which is really ashamed and uneasy... This is the last chapter before the New Year. It is difficult to ensure stable updates. I can only stop updating for a few days. The specific update date will be posted tomorrow. I hope everyone can understand.)

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On June 13, Ma Han rushed back to Xiangping and received a messenger from the Prefect of Xuantu's prefect for help at the prefect's office. He inquired in detail about the invasion of Goguryeo and the defense and counterattack of Xuantu County. He learned that on the third day of this month, the little king of Goguryeo led 2,000 troops and horses to the bank of Liaoshui (now Hunhe), and the enemy rushed to the Xigaima (now Fushun, Liaoning). Xigaima was injured in the city and asked for help from the county. The prefect Gongsun Xian had sent reinforcements. However, there was another urgent news yesterday, and the reinforcements were hidden and retreated back to the city. After this defeat, Xuantu's troops were greatly damaged, and he had more than enough defense in the city, so he was not enough to attack. Please send troops to help him quickly.

Ma Han asked the messenger to go down and rest. He did not rush to send troops. Instead, he summoned the Wumeng captain Le Jin and asked him to prepare for all preparations before sending troops. He then summoned the Sima of the Dian Army, Xiahoulan, and ordered him to serve as Sima of another department, commanding the three thousand Wuwans and Xianbei coalition forces. As soon as the alliance was signed, the sphere of influence of the leader and the boss was invaded by Goguryonu. Of course, all the younger brothers should provide strong assistance and send elite troops to the tent to obey orders.

Finally, Ma Han summoned the head of the "Hawkeye" and said in an unquestionable tone: "Before the troops and horses move, food and grass will go first, and what is more advanced than food and grass is intelligence. I will see the detailed information about Xuantu and Goguryeo placed on my desk within three days."

Eagle Eye did not disappoint Ma Han. Before Ma Han rushed back to Xiangping, he had urgently collected a large amount of information about Goguryeo, but he did not expect that the lord would ask for information about Xuantu County, and it turned out to be a mess again. Finally, on the last day of the time limit, he pulled a whole cart of bamboo slips to the prefect's mansion.

In the late Han Dynasty, paper was not widely popularized. Although Cai Lun improved, the paper still looked rough and there were no albums. The official documents were exchanged, which was very inconvenient. Ma Han had already noticed this problem and ordered craftsmen to start improving the paper and placing it into line-bound albums. It was used in official documents. Some merchants with vision have noticed the convenience of this new type of book and copied it one after another. However, before the emergence of woodblock printing, the popularity of books was still not popular. Apart from official documents, the number of books was not involved.

Due to the haste, most of the information collected by the Hawkeye organization was old documents of the prefecture. It was too late to copy it in the book, so they had to complain that their lord had to read the bamboo slips.

Ma Han spent a whole day and finally got a rough understanding of the origin of Goguryeo and its century-old entanglement with Xuantu County, a border county in the Han Dynasty.

Goguryeo is a different species of Fuyu. It is thousands of miles east of Liaodong, borders Korea in the south, Woju in the east, and Fuyu in the north. It is 2,000 miles in radius. It is about 30,000 households, and the total population of the country is only more than 100,000. There are five state-owned tribes: Juenu tribe, Juenu tribe, Shunu tribe, Guannu tribe, and Guilou tribe. In the early stage, the Juenu tribe was king. Later, the Guilou tribe rose and replaced it.

Goguryeo was bullied by Fu Yu in her early years, so she always relied on the Han Dynasty and paid tribute. She was very diligent. Later, she gradually became stronger and fought with Fu Yu. After repeated tug-of-war, it took decades to finally defeat Fu Yu, a feud. At this time, looking around, Fu Yu, Sanhan, Yilou, Korea, Fu Yu, Wo Ju, Sushen... all were imposing. Goguryeo was invincible anymore, and her self-confidence was inflated, and she was ready to move.

The collapse of the relationship between Goguryeo and the Han Dynasty began in the Xin Dynasty. At the beginning of Wang Mang, he sent Goguryeo troops to attack Hu. The Goguryeo people did not want to go, so they forced them to send them, so they all died out of the frontier and became bandits. Tian Tan, the Dayin of the western Liao Dynasty, pursued him and was killed. The prefectures and counties were blamed on the Julihou Ren.

Wang Mang was furious and ordered the prefect of Liaodong to attack him. Yan You reported: "If a man breaks the law, his crime will not arise from the rush. We should comfort him. Now he is a serious crime, and he is afraid that he will rebel."

Wang Mang refused to accept it, and Yan You ordered Yan You to kill him, so Yan You lured and killed Goguryeo Hou Ren. As expected, Goguryeo has since separated from the Central Plains dynasty, proclaimed himself king, and began to take revenge and annex the county under Xuantu County.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the prefect of Liaodong sent troops to attack Goguryeo. The King of Goguryeo, who claimed to be the Great Martial God King, did not shine on the wall and cleared the fields, retreated into the domestic city, and the Liaodong army returned with a small victory.

By the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, Goguryeo had a highly aggressive monarch "Palace", which had once invaded Liaodong and Xuantu, and were all repelled.

In the fifth year of Yuan Dynasty (118), Gong and Feng again attacked Xuantu and attacked Huali City. The prefect Cai Feng was young and the generals and soldiers who pursued him, but the army was defeated.

In the spring of the first year of Jianguang (121), Feng Huan, the governor of Youzhou, Yao Guang, the prefect of Xuantu, and Cai Sheng, the prefect of Liaodong (formerly prefect of Xuantu), joined forces with the troops of Yuguo to attack him, captured and killed the commander of Yiqiu, and obtained thousands of troops, horses, and property.

The palace was unwilling to fail, so he sent his son to lead more than 2,000 people to surrender. Yao Guang and others believed it and guarded it to slack. As a result, they seized the danger and blocked the army. They secretly sent 3,000 people to attack Xuantu and Liaodong, burned the city walls, and killed and injured more than 2,000 people.

Feng Huan was furious and wrote a letter to the court, while sending more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Guangyang, Yuyang, Youbeiping, and Zhuo County to rescue him. However, he rushed thousands of miles to help, and it was difficult to save nearby fires from far away. By the time he arrived in Liaodong, the lord had already left...

The two Han prefects could not even play with a Barbarian King, which was really speechless.

After this battle, the palace became even more arrogant and repeatedly invaded Liaodong.

The Liaodong prefect Cai Feng, in April of the summer of that year, when the Jin and the Xianbei invaded Liaodong again, the light cavalry chased and died heroically.

When Ma Han saw this, he couldn't help but sigh that although this predecessor half a century ago was not a qualified general, the courage that the great man showed was not afraid of war, but it had to be admired.

After the death of the Goguryeo Palace, his son Bogu succeeded to the throne, which is the current Goguryeo King. Under the words and deeds of Lao Wang, this new king was even more aggressive. During the reign of Emperor Shun and Huan, he invaded Liaodong several times, attacked Xin'an, lived in the village, and attacked Xi'anping. He killed the Dao Fang Ling and plundered the wife of the Prefect Lelang.

This guy is more fierce than his father. He actually attacked all the three border counties of the Han Dynasty, Liaodong, Xuantu and Lelang, which bordered his country, one by one, and even the prefect's family dared to attack.

"The Three Kingdoms? Biography of Goguryeo" commented on the Goguryeo people that "the human nature is fierce and eager to be criticized", and their words are indeed true.

In the second year of Jianning of Emperor Ling, the prefect of Xuantu, Geng, was invaded and beheaded Goguryeo and beheaded hundreds of enemies. At this time, Bo Gu was old and had no ambitions, so he asked to surrender. He was under Xuantu.

When Gongsun Du replaced Geng Lin as the prefect of Xuantu, Bo Gu keenly felt that the new prefect was a ruthless person, so he became more obedient. He even sent Goguryeo Dajia (a royal family member) to the best place, and the chief clerk Ranren and others to assist Gongsun Du in attacking the rich bandits entrenched on the border between Liaodong and Goguryeo and defeated him.

After Gongsun Du seized Liaodong, the vassal states of Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuantu and Lelang were all their vassal states, and the aggressive momentum made Bo Gu dare not act rashly. So, why did he suddenly attack Xuantu now? Is it because Ma Han had just killed Gongsun Du, and the people of Liaodong were not stable, so there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Or was there any other reason?

Ma Han had dealt with Baqi and was sure that he was a very aggressive guy, who was in line with his ancestors and fathers. If such a arrogant, rough and aggressive guy had enough interests to drive him, he would really do something bold and arrogant about plucking his hair at the mouth. The question is, what kind of interests did it mean to lure this foolish dog into the border of the Han Dynasty?

It is obvious that the intelligence is still lagging and insufficient. However, this is no wonder Hawkeye. After all, their focus has never been on a small country in the border area. When the incident happened suddenly, it is already very good to be able to do this.

The last secret document attached by Eagle Eye attracted the attention of Ma Han. It was about Baqi's whereabouts of Xiangping when Gongsun Du was called Hou. The one who visited the most frequently was Yang Yi.

"Yang Zi Xiu..." Ma Han bent his fingers and gently knocked on the desk, remembering the secret report that he had received when he was still in Fuli Camp that there were copper-faced people in Yangfu at night.

Yang Yi, Baqi, and the bronze-faced man. What is the connection between these three? Unfortunately, what Wu Zhui captured was only the entourage of the bronze-faced man. The king fled, otherwise he would have gained something.

The secret document also mentioned that when Baqi returned to Goguryeo, he passed by Xuantu. After visiting the prefect Gongsun Xian, he visited an important figure in the Yang clan, Yang She, the former head of Xuantu County. During his tenure, Yang She had always had dissatisfaction with the prefect Gongsun Xian, and his relationship was once extremely tense.

Who is Gongsun Xian? The former prefect of Xuantu, Gongsun Fu, was the one who recreated Gongsun Du. It can be said that without Gongsun Fu, there would be no later Gongsun Du. With such a layer of iron-clad relationship, Xuantu County has always been in the hands of the Gongsun Fu family. This is naturally inevitable to conflict with the expansion of another great family, Yang family...

In the wide lobby, there was only Ma Han sitting upright in the hall. The sound of bamboo slitting when it was turning, and twenty-four giant tallow candles illuminated his glittering eyes...

The next day, it was still in the lobby, and Ma Han was still sitting upright. Under the steps, two rows of long-standing cases lined up to the gate. More than ten civil and military generals of the Liaodong Group were kneeling on both sides. Jingling prefect announced a major decision.

"My intention has been decided, and I will raise 5,000 troops to the next day. The Wumeng Captain Le Jin generals two thousand white wolf infantry and cavalry, and the Sima Xiahoulan of another unit will lead three thousand Hu cavalry, and follow me to help Xigaiping and conquer Goguryeo!"

As soon as this statement is said, some people are excited, and some are shocked. Those who are excited are naturally generals who can make achievements in war, but those who are shocked are—

Yang Yi kneeled without moving, his upper body was straightened, his sleeves closed, and he bowed deeply to Ma Han: "Lord, no, the county is now stable, Hu Nu is a little at ease, and the four directions are first settled, which is a rare opportunity to stabilize the situation in Liaodong. Why do you need to fight a despise country on one side and continue to fight?"

Ma Han narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at food like a sleeping tiger: "Zi Xiu thought he should not send troops?"

Yang Yi calmly replied: "Since ancient times, he has been a military plan. Yi has a clan uncle who was once the magistrate of Xuantu County. The day before yesterday said that he could not spend a single soldier and a soldier to withdraw his troops." After Yang Yi finished speaking, he was waiting for Ma Han to ask him who the clan uncle was and what good strategies to withdraw his troops.

Unexpectedly, Ma Han didn't follow his rhythm at all and asked him a question: "Retreat the troops? Oh, what about after retreating? Let's just forget it?"

Yang Yi's mind was empty, and he finally turned around and barely kept up with Ma Han's rhythm. He hurriedly said, "Of course, he sent an envoy to reprimand him, and asked King Goguryeo to apologize..."

"Apologize? If apologize is useful, what else should the army do?" Ma Han suddenly had a tiger's eye, and his brilliance suddenly appeared, and he knocked on the desk, "I don't have time to play a game of cat and mouse with Goguryeo. Either I don't fight or fight, and I will fight to the old nest - I will personally raise the army and flatten the domestic city!" (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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