The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 271
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In March of the 17th year of Jian'an, when the spring breeze was blowing gently across the Central Plains and thousands of trees and flowers were blooming, the Korean Peninsula was still in winter and the north wind was bitter, and the water surface remained between freezing and non-freezing.

In a natural harbor in the southern part of the peninsula, there are countless warships hundreds of feet long docked. On board, a large number of soldiers are braving the severe cold for drills.

On the hillside behind the harbor, a military camp was built. More than 1 soldiers were permanently stationed in the camp, and the two leading generals were both nearly fifty years old.

The one with gray hair and no beard on the left hand is called Yang Yi, and the one with white beard and black hair on the right hand is Jian Liu Yi.


Both of them were close friends who followed Gongsun Du in the early days. After Gongsun Du died, they followed Gongsun Kang to the peninsula. It has been nearly ten years now.

At this moment, the two of them were lazily leaning against the shelter from the wind and facing the sun, their gazes were far away looking to the west, full of longing.

That direction is the direction of their hometown, Liaodong County.

Yang Yi sighed, and said: "General Liu, the lord's transfer order has been issued, ordering us to lead the elite troops to the north immediately, I don't know which country we want to attack again."

Liu Yi also sighed: "No matter which country I want to attack, I only hope that after the unification of the peninsula, the fallen leaves will return to their roots and settle down in Liaodong. People in Liaodong are living a very good life now..."

Yang Yi nodded: "Yeah, I don't know when and when this war will start. I'm almost fifty years old, and I don't know if this old bone can survive until the day I return to my homeland."

Having said that, the two immediately fell silent and looked into the distance silently.

The military base in front of me was specially set up by Gongsun Kang after he defeated the Three Koreas. It is also the nearest sea port to Yingkou County (Dalian) in Liaodong County.

Before the arrival of Gongsun Kang, the situation on the Korean peninsula was very similar to the situation in the Han Dynasty. In the north, the Goguryeo family dominated, and in the south, there were three pillars, and the three South Koreas were independent.

Mahan is a local aborigine, conservative; Bianhan and Chenhan are people from the pre-Qin period. Because of the severe corvée at the end of Qin Dynasty, a large number of northern pre-Qin survivors fled to the Korean peninsula, forming the two kingdoms of Bianhan and Chenhan.

Mahan is the largest, occupying the southern part of the peninsula to the north, occupying an absolute dominant position in the three Koreas, ruling the entire three Koreas in name, its area is larger than that of Byeonhan and Jinhan combined, and its population is also twice that of the two countries combined. times as many, about 50.

There are also frequent frictions between the three countries. The main conflict is that Mahan bullies the weak and often bullies Bianhan and Chenhan.


Before Gongsun Kang fled to the peninsula, he knew the situation on the peninsula well.

Therefore, as soon as they arrived on the peninsula, they immediately established a stronghold in Linhai, and united with Bianhan and Jinhan to eliminate the tribal leader appointed by Mahan, and a war broke out with Mahan.

In this battle, Ma Han's main force was defeated by the tripartite alliance.

After the war, Gongsun Kang successfully gained a firm foothold in the southern part of the peninsula, and had a large base, which was connected with Daifang County in the northern part of the peninsula.

Although Gongsun Kang couldn't beat the Central Plains army, he was more than enough to deal with Sanhan.

In the seven or eight years since he came to the peninsula, Gongsun Kang used the strategies he learned from the Great Han Dynasty, combined vertically and horizontally, completely wiped out the country of Mahan, and successfully unified the southern part of the peninsula.

Gongsun Kang knew that he was not the opponent of Wei Jun, so he had no plans to raise troops to counterattack Liaodong.Building a harbor and setting up a military base in the southern harbor is just an idea and a hope for the soldiers under his command.

After all, he brought these soldiers from Liaodong. It is hard to leave their homeland and they are homesick. These need to be properly arranged.

Otherwise, the army will not be easy to lead.

Therefore, this military base has evolved into a commercial wharf, which is full of soldiers and goods from time to time. It travels to and from Yingkou in Liaodong once a month to conduct commercial trade with the State of Wei. Drinks, tea, etc.

By the way, let the soldiers go back to their hometown and take a look around to relieve their homesickness.

After unifying the southern part of the peninsula, in order to continue to develop northward, they plotted against Goguryeo in the northern part of the peninsula.Gongsun Kang made great efforts to rule and mobilize his troops, and gradually eroded the territory in the northern part of the peninsula.

But in this way, it will be on par with Dong Xianbei.

The Eastern Xianbei did not dare to go south to plunder because they were afraid of the big man, that is, the current state of Wei, to find fault. Therefore, they had to move far north.After that, they went east along the low-lying part of the Changbai Mountains to the northern part of the Korean peninsula in search of rations.

That is, looking for objects to loot.

As a Xianbei, how could he not plunder?
Since Dong Xianbei now lives hundreds of miles north of Liaodong County (Jilin and Heilongjiang), the winter here is extremely long, and there is always not enough food. If they do not loot, they are in danger of starving to death.

Now, it is hard to find a fat and plunderable object-Goguryeo. The hardworking Goguryeo people are forced to provide Dong Xianbei with a lot of food every winter.

But unexpectedly, the good life of the Xianbei people has not been comfortable for a few years, and Gongsun Kang will come to destroy Goguryeo!

Once Gongsun Kang is allowed to succeed, it means that Dong Xianbei will have a difficult life in the future.

Goguryeo, a country with a loose army and a mediocre military combat effectiveness, must be much easier to deal with than the unified country integrated by Gongsun Kang, not to mention the natural danger of Changbai Mountain.

Once Gongsun Kang completely unifies the peninsula, and then builds fortresses and garrisons in places where Changbai Mountain is easily accessible, then the Eastern Xianbei people will face the dilemma of no one to rob.

Such a result is absolutely unacceptable to the Eastern Xianbei people.

Therefore, after discussing with Suli, Mijia, and Queji, they immediately decided to raise an army of [-] to drive Gongsun Kang away from the northern part of the peninsula!

Buddhas fight for a stick of incense, and people fight for a ration.For food rations, the Xianbei people decided to fight Gongsun Kang!
They can't beat the big man (Dawei), can't they still deal with a Gongsun Kang?

Gongsun Kang thought so too.

As a defeated general of the Han Empire, Dong Xianbei dared to provoke him and prevent him from dominating the peninsula, which is tolerable or unbearable!
Nothing to say, Zhanzhi!
In April of the 17th year of Jian'an (212), the [-] troops of the three Eastern Xianbei met Gongsun Kang's [-] elite soldiers at the fortress two hundred miles west of Heshenggu City.

The two sides immediately set up a posture and fought.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Xianbei cavalry receded like a tide, and countless corpses were displayed under the fortress.

Seeing the Xianbei people going away, Gongsun Kang breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered the soldiers to immediately build fortresses, strengthen the camps, and deal with the aftermath of the battlefield.


To deal with the Xianbei people, fortresses and cities are the best weapons, because the Xianbei people are not good at attacking the city, no matter how strong their cavalry is, they can only look at the city and sigh.


Yang Yi and Liu Yi watched the soldiers under their command orderly dispose of the siege equipment and corpses left outside the city by both the enemy and us. The former bowed to Gongsun Kang:

"My lord, the Xianbei people are coming very aggressively. Although they are temporarily frustrated, they will not let it go."


Liu Yi also bowed his hands to Gongsun Kang, and echoed: "My lord, you should also prevent the Xianbei people from colluding with Goguryeo and attacking our army back and forth."


Gongsun Kang shook his head and laughed loudly: "You worry too much. The Xianbei people plunder Goguryeo every year. The Goguryeo people want to eat their flesh and crush their bones. How can they join hands with them?"


Yang Yi said in a deep voice: "My lord, you must guard against this moment and that moment."


"Ok?"


Gongsun Kang frowned and asked, "Could it be that Goguryeo will really join forces with the Xianbei people?"

Liu Yi thought for a while, and said, "My lord, it's unreasonable for the Xianbei people to fight to the death and not retreat after encountering several times before the pass!"

Yang Yi also murmured: "In fact, the Xianbei people don't have to work in vain here. They can divide their troops into three groups, detour and attack my rear, and use this to lure us to fight with them and win the battle. After all, their cavalry us You can’t handle it in the wild! But they didn’t do that, which is so abnormal.”


Hearing this, Gongsun Kang fell into deep thought, and felt that something was wrong.

But after thinking about it carefully for a while, he found nothing, so he said: "Send more scouts, and go around to find out what's going on in all parties!"

For the next few days, the Xianbei people did not attack again.

This made Gongsun Kang's feeling of unhappiness even stronger.

The scouts sent out found nothing unusual.

Tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry were still stationed in the valley not far from the fortress, and they had no intention of leaving or taking a detour, as if they had made up their minds to spend their time here.

This is indeed a bit unreasonable!

(End of this chapter)