Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2555 Chen Qingzhiping North Korea, Wang Mang kills Li Chenggui

Chapter 2551: Chen Qingzhiping North Korea, Wang Mang kills Li Chenggui

The reason why Wang Mang chose Sanhan was that the Sanhan Peninsula was far away from the Central Plains. Da Qin's hand could not reach here in the short term, so he could develop in peace here.

In addition, the three Han countries are extremely backward. With the ability of him and his subordinates, it is completely possible to unify the three Han countries in a short period of time, and then join forces with Yuanqing to deal with Daqin in the north.

But Wang Mang guessed the beginning, but not the end.

The Three Koreas are indeed behind, and Goguryeo is also behind, but they are not left behind, and they are very resilient.

Wang Mang's road to unify the three Koreas started from the southern part of the Three Koreas Peninsula. He destroyed more than a dozen countries such as Chenhan, Mahan, Baekje, Buyeo, and Silla. He was invincible until he faced Goguryeo. met a real opponent.

During the Li Yuanhao period, Goguryeo was able to block the invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty many times in its heyday, which shows that Goguryeo is still very capable of fighting.

However, it was precisely because of the many wars with the Manchu Qing Dynasty that the background of Goguryeo was wiped clean, so Wang Mang was able to destroy Goguryeo as a foreigner.

The Goguryeo that Wang Mang encountered was weakened by the Manchus and weakened to the extreme.

But the hundred-footed worm is dead and not stiff. Although Goguryeo cannot develop externally, it still has the ability to protect itself internally.

If Wang Mang attacked forcibly, he would definitely pay a huge price, and the Manchu Qing had always regarded the Three Hans as forbidden, and would never sit by and watch Wang Mang occupy the Three Hans.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Mang wasted several years in a stalemate with Goguryeo.

It was not until the last Manchu Qing civil strife that Dorgon transferred back all the Manchu troops in Sanhan in order to repel Aguda, which allowed Wang Mang to find an opportunity to completely annex Goguryeo.

With the threat of Ah Gu Da in front of him, Dorgon was too busy to take care of himself, and naturally he could not take care of San Han, but even without the constraints of the Qing Dynasty, it was still not easy for Wang Mang to annex Goguryeo.

First of all, Goguryeo has many mountains, and most of the cities are mountain cities, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. This is the main reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not return many times.

Secondly, the people of Goguryeo are all in love with the Li family, and if they face the danger of subjugation, the whole people may even be soldiers.

Lastly, and most importantly, if the Manchu Qing civil war ended and he intervened in the situation of the Three Hans again, and Wang Mang failed to destroy the Three Hans, wouldn't he make a wedding dress for the Manchus?

Because of these three points, Wang Mang began to hesitate whether he should risk everything and forcibly destroy the country of Goguryeo.

Wang Mang thought about it for a long time, and it was difficult to make a decision. It was his father-in-law Huo Guang who woke him up and strengthened his determination to annex Goguryeo at any cost.

In order to destroy Goguryeo in the First World War, Wang Mang carried out an extreme military expansion across the country. He recruited a full 15 troops and [-] civilians. Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang each led an army.

At that time, Goguryeo had only [-] troops in the whole country, and it went to war every year, and the people in the country were very war-weary.

With the lineup of Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang, coupled with the fierce war weariness in Goguryeo, it stands to reason that this battle should be smooth, but the fact is exactly the opposite.

Regardless of Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang's cleverness, Koguryeo, who is sitting on a mountain city with a favorable location, can't defend with just one move, leaving them helpless.

This move is also applicable to all the famous generals, so even if Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang are dispatched, the speed of Wang Mang's attack on Goguryeo is relatively slow.

It was not until half a year later that Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang paid the price of [-] to [-] troops to finally complete the reunion in Seoul, the capital of Goguryeo.

Although Wang Mang was extremely distressed for his sacrifice in this battle, he could not back down at this time. By reorganizing prisoners of war and recruiting new soldiers, he collected another fifty thousand for the two of them to send to the front line.

But the real tug of war has just begun.

Li Chengyu, the king of Goguryeo, died in the hands of the former Northern Han general Zhao Zhao in a duel battle with Chen Qingzhi long before Wang Mang and the two armies joined forces in Seoul.

After Wang Mang defeated Huo Guang as his adoptive father and married Huo Guang's daughter Huo Shuixian, in the name of Huo Guang and avenging Liu Che, he recruited those northern Han remnants who were still loyal to Liu Che.

When they learned that Prime Minister Huo Guang, Governor Xue Gang and others were now in Sanhan, and that Wang Mang and Daqin were mortal enemies, many remnants of the Northern Han Dynasty chose to defect.

Among them are: Qian Zhao, Xu Miao, Tian Shou, Liu Fang, Sun Li, and Wei Xiang, a hero of the Qilin Pavilion.

Wei Xiang and Zhao Chongguo Han Zeng are all Daqin who pretended to surrender. They hope that one day the Dahan forces will be restored, and they can also help.

But Da Qin seemed to have noticed their intentions long ago, and after finding out the evidence of Zhao Chongguo's fraudulent surrender, he directly sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Wei Xiang and Han Zeng survived due to lack of evidence, but because their suspicions could not be eliminated, and they had political stains, they were destined to not be promoted and reused in this life.

Han Zeng was unwilling to do so, and desperately wanted to express himself on the battlefield, but the sneak attack was not effective, and he was killed instead.

Wei Xiang was a civil official. Without Han Zeng's staunchness, he saw that there was no hope of promotion, and he was unable to prevent Da Qin from replacing Da Han. In desperation, he resigned from office and went into hiding. He did not come out again until he received Huo Guang's invitation.

Even if Wang Mang subdues Huo Guang, Xue Gang and others, there is still a huge shortage of talents under him. It was not until Qian Zhao, Xu Miao, Wei and others joined the remnants of the Northern Han Dynasty that this situation was completely resolved.

It has to be said that Wang Mang's decision to forcibly rescue Huo Guang, Xue Gang and others at the risk of falling out with Zhang Liang was obviously very correct.

These few people alone have attracted a group of Northern Han remnants, completely solving the situation that Wang Mang's subordinates are not enough.

Qian Zhao even killed Li Chengyu, the king of Goguryeo, in the first battle, but the real trouble was still to come.

After Li Chengyu's death in battle, Li Chengyu, the founding monarch of the Joseon Dynasty, who was born with a different ethnicity, was implanted as Li Chengyu's younger brother, and he inherited the position of his elder brother Li Chengyu and became the successor to Li Yuanhao and Li Chengyu the next King of Goguryeo.

As the founding monarch of North Korea, Li Chenggui's ability is much stronger than Li Chengyu's, and his ability is even more highlighted when facing the danger of subjugation.

In the face of the fierce offensive of Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang, Li Chenggui resolutely chose all people to be soldiers, and used the slogan of 'fight to the last soldier and one soldier', and implemented various measures conducive to defense, which caused great damage to Wang Mang's army. Trouble.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Mang's army's attack speed was so slow, and it was not until half a year later that they joined forces in Seoul, and they paid a heavy price.

Li Chenggui saw that he could not stop Wang Mang's troops from approaching Seoul, so he hoarded a lot of food and grass in Seoul in advance, gathered half of his troops to fight here, and made preparations to defend Seoul for a long time.

Li Chenggui made a promise to both Aguda and Dorgon that as long as the Manchu Qing sent troops to aid, he would become a vassal of the Manchu Qing.

At that time, the Qing civil war was still going on.

Dorgon was defeated in a row by the hands of Agu, and he was too busy to take care of himself, and he had no energy to support Goguryeo. Naturally, he refused decisively.

Ah Gu Da defeated Dorgon in a row, and he was about to end the Qing Dynasty together.

Seeing that both Dorgon and Aguda refused to support, Li Chenggui did not despair. He sent messengers to Daqin to ask for help, while commanding the entire city's military and civilians to defend Seoul.

Goguryeo monarchs and people were single-minded and swearing to resist, even if Chen Qingzhi and Xue Gang, two famous generals, joined forces to attack Seoul for three months, they still failed to capture the city, but lost more than [-] troops.

Seeing that the casualties were too great, Wang Mang couldn't hold it any longer, so he decisively stopped the frontline offensive, and instead let Xue Gang lead the army to siege the city, and let Chen Qingzhi lead a partial division to attack the rest of the country. .

Two months later, Chen Qingzhi broke through eight cities one after another at a very small price, but the civil war in the Qing Dynasty was over.

Wang Mang was worried that the Manchu Qing would send troops, so he planned to retreat, but was persuaded by Huo Guang.

Huo Guang bluntly said that Goguryeo could not be destroyed this time, and the next time will be more difficult, and the internal conflicts between the Manchu and Qing Dynasty are fierce. situation.

As Huo Guang expected, even if the civil war in the Qing Dynasty was over, Dorgon and Agu Dayin were both wary of each other, so they still did not send troops to intervene in Sanhan. After cleaning, pick up ready-made ones.

Wang Mang was overjoyed to see this, and urged Chen Qingzhi on the front line to speed up the attack, and it took him another three months to finally capture all the cities of Goguryeo except Seoul.

Chen Qingzhi had only [-] troops at the time of his expedition, but after capturing the northern part of Goguryeo, when he returned with a victorious army, he had an army of [-], and the army fought more and more.

With the return of Chen Qingzhi, the offensive and defensive battle of Seoul also started again.

Chen Qingzhi wanted to win Seoul at the least cost, so he adopted the strategy of attacking the heart and disseminated leaflets in Seoul, saying that there was only one city left in Goguryeo.

However, the people of Koguryeo have a low level of education. Basically, few people can read and write, and they don’t even know the content of the flyers. In addition, Li Chenggui’s control over Seoul is too strong, so the military and civilians spontaneously turned in the flyers.

Chen Qingzhi's plan to attack his heart failed, and he could only choose to carry out a strong attack. After another month of fierce attack, he lost nearly [-] troops, but he failed to break through Seoul.

On the other hand, the defenders in Seoul have become more tenacious in their will to resist, and even ordinary people, as well as the elderly and women, have participated in the defense of the city.

Chen Qingzhi saw that the military and civilians in Seoul were so united, and knew that the soldiers and civilians of Goguryeo did not want to destroy the country, and the casualties would only be greater if they continued to siege the city, so he dismissed the idea of ​​a strong attack and turned to siege. break.

Six months later, the civilian grain storage in Seoul was exhausted, and the people began to change their children to eat, but the city still did not surrender.

Fifteen days later, the military food and grass were also exhausted, and the military and civilians in Seoul were completely out of ammunition and food.

But Li Chenggui was still unwilling to surrender. He used the corpses of starved people to make jerky, barely holding on for another half a month.

In the seventh month, a mutiny broke out among the defenders of Seoul. The famous Goguryeo general Yang Wanchun opened the city gate and surrendered to Wang Mang, while Li Chenggui committed suicide in the palace in despair.

Wang Mang led the army to invade Seoul, and shortly after accepting the surrender, he broke his promise to enter the city and swung a slaughtering knife at the Goguryeo royal family.

Li Chenggui's son, Joseon Jeongjong Lee Soo, Joseon Taejong Lee Fangyu...

Li Yuanhao's son, Xia Yizong Li Liangzuo, Xia Huizong Li Bingchang...

As well as Li Chengwei, Li Ningming and other royal clans, all died under Wang Mang's butcher's knife.

The Xixia Li surname and the Korean Li surname, the two royal lineages, except for the female family members, were all exterminated by Wang Mang.

As for the fate of the female family members, they were equally tragic to the extreme, and they were all reduced to official prostitutes for the lieutenant general and the school to vent their desires.

Shortly after the destruction of Goguryeo, Wang Mang took Seoul as the capital, established the Joseon state, and took the throne of the Joseon king himself.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Mang issued two consecutive orders:

One is to change the name of North Korea to Hanzhou, and divide the counties according to the region;
The second is to liquidate household registration nationwide and count the total population.

When Nurhaci set up the Manchurian and Liao states in the northeast, he ignored the opposition of the three Han countries and set the Sanhan Peninsula as Hanzhou on his own, but after all, he failed to completely conquer the three Hans.

What Nurhaci failed to do, several years after his death, Wang Mang, who fled to Sanhan, did it.

Wang Mang unified Korea and became the first king of Korea.

(End of this chapter)