Han Hai Tang Ergui

Zhang Ting once said that this era is an excellent era, which is actually very reasonable.

Because in this timeline, it is not that any country is declining, but the whole world is declining together.So much so that Khitan's force is considered a powerful force.

At such a point in time, whoever rises first can easily complete hegemony.

Similarly, the Korean peninsula has not escaped this vicious circle. They have now declined to the entire peninsula, and there are no tens of thousands of armored soldiers. Even Pyongyang, the former capital of Goguryeo, has lost its defense.

The fact that Pyongyang lost its defense does not mean that Pyongyang has lost its city walls, but that Pyongyang's own defense conditions are very weak, which is somewhat similar to Kaifeng in the Central Plains.

The two cities are located in places where transportation extends in all directions and are surrounded by great plains. Even if there are a few mountains, they are only tens of meters high and can only be called hills.

However, Pyongyang is better than Kaifeng to some extent.

Kaifeng has absolutely no mountains and fortresses that can shield it, but because Pyongyang is located on a small plain and the peninsula is mountainous, it is still a barrier that two and a half can rely on.

One is Xuanzhou, which blocked the enemy from the coastline, which is the Xuanchuan of the later North Korea.The other is Anbei Mansion, which is sandwiched by two mountains in the north.

The remaining half is Anshu Town in the south of Anbei Prefecture. The reason why it is half is because Anshu Town is also the geographical advantage of Anzhou in the later North Korea, which is only slightly stronger than Pyongyang.

At this time, the strength of Wang's Koryo was still very weak, with a population of only about 100 million, and the relationship between the wealthy family and the king had not yet been completed.

Therefore, although Pyongyang bears the name of Xijing, its important defensive barriers, Xuanzhou and Anbeifu, have insufficient defense forces.

In history, in the war between Liao and Koryo 50 years later, the defense line north of Pyongyang in Koryo was relatively stable.

Although the Liao Kingdom captured Pyongyang and looted Kaijing in the second Liaoli War.

But soon because the lone army went deep, they were attacked by the North Koreans everywhere. When they fought hard to take down these two places, they were severely damaged. In the end, they could only win the battle and had to swallow their anger.

But at this time, the strength of Wang's Koryo has not recovered, Xuanzhou and Anbei Prefecture are almost blown down, and the whole of Pyongyang immediately loses its defenses. If Anshu Town is breached again, there is basically no danger to defend .

Xijing, who was deeply trusted by Wang Zhao, stayed behind at Xinkang. After receiving the news, he was extremely frightened, and immediately sent his subordinate generals to lead [-] troops to reinforce Anshu Town.

But don't tell me that just after leaving the city for more than [-] miles, there was a battle report from the front, and the Liao army had captured Anshu Town.

Xinkang was shocked, and while urgently asking for help from the imperial court in Kaijing, he evacuated the entire north bank of the Datong River, burned the food and cloth that could not be taken away, killed all cattle, horses and other livestock, and scuttled all the boats in the river into the river. .

But up to this moment, Goryeo is still confused about whether it is the Khitan Liao Kingdom, the legendary Tuyuhun Liao Kingdom, or the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains who came to attack them.

On April [-]th, Murong Xinchang personally led the army to more than [-] miles north of Pyongyang, and began to send troops to cross the Wei River (Datong River).

At this time, Pyongyang is still very different from the North Korean city of Pyongyang in later generations.

The city of Pyongyang in North Korea occupies a vast area, and the Daedong River passes through the city.

But at this time, Pyongyang is still more than ten miles away from the south bank of the Datong River, and it does not occupy a large area.

And between the Datong River and Pyongyang City, there is an earth wall that spans tens of miles. The earth wall is not high, but it can also prevent the cavalry from passing through quickly.

This is the Great Wall of Weishui built during the Silla period to prevent the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty from advancing rapidly.

When it was first built, the defensive power was actually very good. The city wall of the Weishui Great Wall is very close to the south bank of the Datong River, and the Great Wall was built after the river bank was dug low and soil was transported here.

This made it so that even if the enemy troops crossed the Datong River, they would immediately encounter a city wall that was five or six meters high including the foundation.

Coupled with the narrow river beach, the army could not spread out and the cavalry could not run. At this time, only dozens of archers were needed to hold a large section of the city wall to stop the enemy.

But no matter how effective the defenses are, the key lies in the people.

Murong Xinchang's [-] troops came overwhelmingly, whether it was heavily armored infantry or cavalry, there were fewer Han people than in the past, and the Andong Tang army, which had more vassal soldiers from Mohe and other clans, had a much higher combat effectiveness.

And long before departure, Murong Nobunaga predicted that the Koreans would scuttle the ships on the Datong River, so he had already brought enough wood to build ships directly on the Datong River.

On April [-]th, the boats for crossing the river and the materials for the construction of the pontoon bridge were all ready. Murong Xinchang ordered the training governor to make a gesture of forcing the crossing.

He personally led two thousand elite soldiers from Xiaoguowei and more than a thousand beggars from Zhao Siwan, walked upstream more than ten miles to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, and then went straight down the river.

Although the Koryo garrison was prepared, Murong Nobunaga's Xiaoguowei soldiers moved too fast. When Koryo Xijing stayed behind and Xinkang mobilized the Xijing garrison to stop, Murong Nobunaga had already crossed Datong with [-] to [-] elite soldiers. River.

Xinkang led an infantry army of [-] horses to arrive. Seeing that Murong Xinchang had few people and most of them were not in armor, he was overjoyed.

Murong Xinchang glanced at Zhao Siwan, Zhao Siwan immediately stopped the armor and only wore an iron helmet, then roared wildly with the rattan plate in his hand, and took the lead to rush to the high place.

Most of these beggars are bandits. If they were in the Central Plains, they would have been beheaded a long time ago. The only way to survive now is to be rewarded for their meritorious service and get rid of their status as beggars, and then they were sealed off to live in Korea and Japan.

What's more, they have Zhao Siwan, a mentally ill general, who doesn't love money, power, or even life. What he pursues is to become the bravest person in the world.

Among the beggars, Zhao Siwan didn't even practice the military law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but played the old Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru's Cai thief.

In other armies, if you violate military discipline, you are usually beaten with military sticks, and at worst you will be beheaded, but among the beggars who imitated Cai thief, there is a high probability that you will be pickled with salt and used as military rations.

Today is a good brother, we drink human gall and eat meat together, but if you dare to hesitate on the battlefield, then good brothers can only keep you in their hearts.

So seeing Zhao Siwan rushing out, these soldiers, hill sheds, water bandits, and rangers formed beggars, howled sharply, like a male dog in heat, and followed Zhao Siwan without the slightest hesitation and rushed out, even terrified. Falling behind, he was invited to the dinner table by his good brothers after the war.

The Koryo archers were still shooting arrows. They had no idea that these people, who were naked from the upper body, would jump up a hundred-step slope in just a few leaps.

Many beggars were shot and fell to the ground, but the rest of them rushed forward as if they didn't feel anything.

Zhao Siwan only wore a pair of shorts with a small nose. After rushing into the hands of the Korean archers, he and his relatives shouted loudly. The two of them simultaneously pulled out a long horizontal knife nearly four feet long from each other's waist, and then held the knife in both hands and swung it round. Then start chopping.

It's a pity that these archers have no armor at all, blood splatters when they cut down, Zhao Siwan fights more and more fiercely, like a ghost in hell.

Xinkang was about to order all the infantry to come forward to meet him, but he heard footsteps like thunder. It turned out that some of the Xiaoguo Guards under Murong Nobunaga's command had already put on their armor.

Xinkang saw that the formation on the opposite side was like a solid wall, without the coordination of the sound of the golden drum, but could press forward extremely tightly, and immediately knew that he would never be able to beat it.

He used to be a brave general under Wang Jian's command, and he had extremely rich experience in battle, so he quickly ordered the five hundred Qingqi under his command to step forward.

Not to attack, but to delay the actions of the soldiers on the opposite side, and he turned around with most of the infantry and started running towards Pyongyang City.

As for the hundreds of former soldiers who were entangled by Qi Huo Lang, he gave up immediately.

Murong Nobunaga looked at Xinkang with admiration. Under such circumstances, being able to run so smoothly was considered very decisive and insightful.

"Here's an order to dig open the water and soil walls, and order Xiangxun, Murong Yanchao, and Yuan Yanchao to plunder everywhere to collect grain and grass, recruit people's husbands, and enclose the city of Pyongyang to a certain family."

Nobunaga Murong ordered loudly that he was not going to continue going south, but to consolidate the occupied area north of Pyongyang.

Because there are many Jurchen and Bohai people in these mountains and forests that can be used, but there are fewer Koreans.

The most important thing is that he turned his head to look at Fa Yan, Walo and others, disciples of Master Cixian who were crossing the river with the army in the distance. It is time for them to act.

. . . . .

Gyeonggi, Kaijing.

That is, Kaesong near the north-south dividing line of the peninsula in later generations. At this time, Seoul, the loyal city of the cosmos country in later generations, was still a small village. The core city of Ganghwa Bay's generation is the current Kaijing.

In the Kaijing palace, King Wang Zhao of Koryo received an urgent report from Xinkang staying behind in Xijing. He was in a daze. He urgently summoned Hanlin scholar Wang Rong to inquire about the situation.

Because this Wang Rong was originally from the Wuyue Kingdom, he was sent by Qian Yuanguan to Koryo to mediate the struggle between Wang Jian and the later Baekje Wang Zhenxuan.

It turned out that Wang Jian had already defeated Zhen Xuan and annexed Baekje after arriving on the peninsula.

Although he could not complete the mission, Wang Jian saw that Wang Rong was talented, so he left him on the peninsula.

However, Wang Jian didn't pay much attention to these Han people living on the peninsula, because what he wanted to do was rebuild Goguryeo.

When he came to Wang Zhao, he didn't have much interest in rebuilding Goguryeo. How to disintegrate the domestic tycoons was the most urgent thing for Wang Zhao at the moment.

Therefore, those who had little contact with the local tycoons came to vote for the Han, and their status began to become more important.

The country of Wang's Korea is actually a bit similar to the Eastern Han Dynasty. From the day of its establishment, Wang's Korea has gone astray.

Because Wang Jian himself relied on the election of powerful people from all over the country to use a bloodless coup to overthrow Gong Yi as the king.

This kind of country established without much bloodshed conflicts generally has inherent defects.

The same goes for the royal family of Koryo. Although Wang Jian completed the basic unification of the peninsula, the domestic power structure is that although the royal family occupies the moral high ground and has considerable central power, they cannot make a promise.

Because in the local area, with the meritorious service of electing Wang Jian as king and conquering Baekje later, the Liu family of Zhenzhou, the Liu family of Chungju, the Huangbo family of Huangzhou, the Ping family of Gyeongju, the Yu family of Pingzhou, and the Gyeongju family gradually formed. There are more than [-] wealthy families such as the Lin family and the Shanzhou Li family.

It is conceivable that Wang's Koryo only covers half of the Korean peninsula, and there are more than [-] wealthy families.

The best of them work in the central government, and their nephews control the local area. They have legal private ministries and a large number of servants, and control all local officials except for the chief officials such as Zhizhou, county officials and county magistrates.

For example, the Liu family in Zhenzhou, the most brilliant among them, in Zhenzhou, there are only more than [-] households with more than [-] people in the imperial household registration atlas, and the field mu converted into mu is only a mere [-] mu, which is less than one-fifth of the actual population. , one-twentieth of an acre of land.

The rest of these are naturally in the hands of the Liu family. It can be said that the King of Korea in Kaijing wants to issue any order to Zhenzhou. Basically can not mobilize any manpower and material resources.

In history, in order to dismantle the scene of domestic tyranny and separatism, Wang Zhao exhausted all kinds of methods to control the situation a little.

And his two main cards are to use the Han people to conduct imperial examinations to destroy the privileges of the tyrants to hold official positions, and to use Buddhism to incite the people to oppose the exploitation of the tyrants.

So it is natural to look at Wang Rong and others, and people like Wang Rong who come to vote for Han people also cherish this opportunity very much.

But it is a pity that although Wang Rong is a Wuyue Han, it was already ten years ago when he came from Han.

At that time, Zhang Teng and Yelu Deguang were still fighting for the Central Plains. Within a few years, Zhang Teng consciously blocked news from Korea, so Wang Rong didn't know much more than Wang Zhao.

But there is one thing Wang Rong is very sure of, "Your Majesty, the Tuyuhun people have long been divided. When I was in Wuyue, I heard that Shao Mingzi's family lived in Dunhuang and lived with a group of Tuyuhun people for a long time. It can almost be regarded as a family.

Moreover, Zhang Zhou's defeat of Khitan was only a matter of the past few years, and it is impossible to completely fall out so quickly.

Taking ten thousand steps back, if the Tuyuhun people and the Emperor Zhou had a complete falling out, it would be impossible for them to occupy Khitan firmly and establish the Liao Kingdom.

The minister judged that there are only two situations when the northern invaders attack.

Either the Tuyuhun people did fall out with the imperial court, but they still maintained their face. They were expelled here, not some Liao army.

Either this is Zhou's court army, coming to conquer. "

Wang Zhaoting was very irritated. It would be better if the Tuyuhun people were expelled to the south. At worst, he would temporarily give up his plan to weaken the power of the nobles.

The Tuyuhun thieves on the left and right are also a tribe, with a maximum of 30 or [-] Jurchens under their control, and only tens of thousands of them can fight, so the threat is not too great.

If they are the army of the Central Plains court to conquer, it will be troublesome, Wang Zhao said involuntarily:
"I, Goryeo, have been serving the Central Plains since King Taizu. I sent envoys to pay tribute during the Tang and Jin dynasties. When the Great Zhou was established, I sent several envoys before and after.

I really can't figure out why the Great Dynasty wants to conquer my wild land in Haidong. "

Wang Rong swallowed his saliva, and said cautiously: "In the past when the great ancestor was the great king, the minister had advised him that the word "Gaoli" was really inappropriate.

The land of Haidong originally belonged to Jizi, and it was also known as the Three Hans in ancient times. Whether it is a descendant of Jizi who went to the Central Plains to ask for the title of the country, or called himself Dahan, it was better than using Goryeo.

If it is true that the great dynasty sends troops to crusade, it is only possible that the country's name violates the taboo. "

Wang Zhao walked back and forth irritably for two steps, and then said to Wang Rong: "The war has started now, and it is useless to talk about other things, and we will know the truth soon after thinking about it.

If it is true that the word "Gao Li" has violated the taboo of the court, I will use a bachelor as an envoy to go to Luoyang to distinguish one from the other. "

Wang Zhao had no other choice. No matter whether he could repel the big dynasty's crusade or not, it was always unnecessary to be beaten up because of a country's name.

Wang Rong hurriedly nodded yes, but he suddenly remembered something, "Your Majesty, Buddhism in Liao is prosperous. Although Murong Nobunaga prevented people from our country from going to Liaodong to the Central Plains, he could not control the monks from the two places. Therefore, the monks of Daming Temple The eminent monk, Sribhara, may know the inside story."

Wang Zhao nodded slowly. At this time, he has not yet started to rely heavily on Buddhism, because it is a very risky thing to use religion to deal with powerful people. Not to mention whether powerful people are weakened or weak, religion will still be overemphasized.

But now this kind of situation can't be taken into consideration anymore, Wang Zhao immediately ordered someone to recruit Shi Riboluo to come.

With a hooked nose, white skin, and curly purple hair, this is a monk who clearly has the characteristics of the Indian Aryans.

In other words, the monks in Tianzhu at this time still have a sense that the building is about to collapse, and they want to turn the tide.

Buddhism was defeated by Brahmanism in Tianzhu, and it was powerless to fight back. Even in such a large temple as Nalanda Temple, there are not many high-ranking officials who come to pay homage to Buddha.

But in order to save the fate of Buddhism's imminent extinction, the Tianzhu monks broke out a strong fighting power during this period of time. Of course, this fighting power was not at home, but abroad.

Although there are no statistics, there should be 100 Tianzhu monks who have traveled from Tianzhu to various places in the past [-] years, mainly preaching in the Central Plains, Qingtang and Southeast Asia.

For example, Master Cixian and his disciple Varo and others, and for another example, the hook-nosed Srivaro in front of him, facing the questioning Wang Zhao, he smiled lightly and said:
"Last month, the poor monk reminded Liu Zhengkuang that the Tuyuhun people from the Liao region intended to go south, and Zheng Kuang thought the poor monk was talking nonsense and ignored them.

Originally, the poor monk didn't want to talk about this matter, but after thinking about it, if there is a war, people will inevitably suffer, if they know about it and don't report it, it will be against the Buddha's teaching. "

Srivaura stopped talking at this point, and Wang Zhao certainly understood what it meant.

Naturally, these monks wanted to rob the government and powerful people of population and cultivated land. Therefore, although there were many believers among the lower class people in Korea, they were always excluded by the powerful when they preached in various places.

Previously, Sribhara came to see Wang Zhao several times, hoping that he could support the missionary work of the Sangha, but Wang Zhao had never thought about whether to use religion to deal with powerful people, so he always rewarded him, but he just didn't do anything.

Hearing that Sribhara stopped talking at this time, he immediately laughed, "Master, you should know that a certain Wang Zhao is the most devout believer in the Buddha, and the Buddha wants to show his compassion in my country of Haidong, how can I not support it?" Well. Just wait until we repel the northern invaders and get through this difficulty, and we will definitely reward you."

Upon receiving Wang Zhao's statement, Sribhara immediately chanted the Buddha's name happily, clasped his hands together and said:

"Master Khitan Cixian is my senior brother. Although he has been imprisoned by Mr. Murong Nobunaga, news has spread from his nephews."

Saying that, Sribura deliberately paused for a while, and after whetting Wang Zhao's appetite, he continued:

"That Murong Nobunaga is indeed the adopted son of the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even the founding general, with a high position and authority, but because of this, he has also recruited a group of civil servants and generals under his command.

Originally, Emperor Zhou had agreed to entrust the old land of Khitan to Nobunaga Murong, but was dissuaded by the wise ministers of the country with the story of Goguryeo.

Since then, although the father and son did not turn against each other, a rift also arose.

This time Murong Nobunaga went south this time, it was actually Zhou Tianzi's plan to drive away tigers and devour wolves, using the [-] armored soldiers under King Murong's command to swallow the kingdom of Haidong on the king.

If he can swallow my Great Korea, he will be sealed here.If not, then the poor monk will congratulate the king, thinking that the canonization and reward of the emperor will come soon. "

Wang Zhao stood up slowly, and his mind had already begun to make up quickly.

The thing is obvious, if this Murong Nobunaga can swallow himself, then he is the King of Korea.

If he can't swallow himself, if he is lucky, he may be able to return to the Central Plains to become a rich man, but it is even more likely that Zhou Tianzi wants him to die in Haidong. If he can accomplish this, as this monk said, canonization and the reward will surely come immediately.

Moreover, Wang Zhao knew in his heart that he had no choice but to go north to rescue Xijing.

Because Xijing Pyongyang was rebuilt in the hands of his father Wang Jian and stabilized in the hands of his uncle Wang Shilian.

Now the people around Pyongyang are all recruited by Wang Jian from all over the world. They do not belong to the powerful, but belong to the real subjects of him, the King of Koryo.

It can be said that the power that Wang Zhao can mobilize directly with a single order now accounts for nearly half of the country in Koryo, but half of the power is distributed around Pyongyang.

If you don't send troops to the north to rescue and lead to the fall of Pyongyang, the rest of the tycoons don't care, but he, the king, will suffer heavy losses.

Now that the situation is like this, it seems that the measures to release slaves and slaves should not be done. At this moment, we should unite all the powerful families and recruit troops to the north to rescue the siege.

. . . .

As soon as Srivihara left the palace, the surrounding disciples surrounded him, and when they saw Sriviola nodding with a smile, they were all ecstatic.

Only his personal disciple Luohana came forward, "Respected Master, since the King of Korea has agreed to our request, is it...?"

The smile on Sribura's face remained unchanged, but his tone was extremely cold, "This country in the east of the sea is thousands of miles away from home, and the country is small and the people are poor, which is not enough to bear the mercy of my Buddha.

Only Supreme Heaven is the true disciple of the Buddha. We might as well follow and serve him and spread the teachings of the Buddha throughout Tochara and Khorasan. Wouldn’t it be better! "

Rahana nodded in agreement. It was indeed what Srivija said. Goryeo is too far away. Even if it takes root here, it cannot solve the problem of the weakening of Buddhism in India.

Then it is really better to follow the Supreme Heaven and build Tochara and Khorasan, which are close to Tianzhu, into Buddhist kingdoms.