Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 259 Take Liaodong

Xu Rong looked at Gongsun Du in the distance, and said: "Shengji (Gongsun Du's name), it's been a long time! It's been almost ten years since we parted in Chuping years!" Speaking of this, Xu Rong carefully Looking at Gongsundu, the heroic young man back then is now old, and his temples are also gray.There is always a trace of a superior person in every gesture.

"General Xu, I haven't seen you for many years!" Gongsun Du cupped his hands, but there was no trace of respect on his face.

Xu Rong frowned.This Gongsun Du was not like this when he defected to him in the hope that he would introduce him to a good future.At that time, Gongsun Du respected him very much, unlike now.

I recommended him to Dong Zhuo, and after Dong Zhuo made him the governor of Liaodong, this guy came to me to thank him a thousand times.

Seeing Gongsundu's attitude now, Xu Rong knew that things are people and things are not things. The Gongsundu in front of him is no longer the Gongsundu of the past!

"General Xu, I haven't seen you for many years, why did you send troops to attack Liaodong!" Before Xu Rong could speak, Gongsun Du changed his voice and came to strike first.

"General Gongsun, I don't know much about the purpose of your visit. I hope that General Gongsun can rein in the precipice and return to my lord!"

"Surrender to Zhang De? Hahaha... a joke! Why should I surrender to Zhang De! Even Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu ​​didn't have such a big tone!"

From Gongsun Du's point of view, although Zhang De is powerful today, he is still inferior to Yuan Shao in those days. In the battle of Jizhou, most of the troops in Jizhou belonged to Cao Cao, and Zhang De only got Tian Yu's army from Youzhou. Those people.In addition to the losses during the war, after the First World War, Zhang De's troops did not increase much.

"General Gongsun, if you have any conditions, you can bring them up and we can discuss them!" Xu Rong said.

"Okay, as long as Zhang De promises that Liaodong will be under the management of my Gongsun family forever, without paying taxes, paying tribute, conscription or sending officials, I am willing to surrender!"

"Gongsun Du, do you really want to be the king of Liaodong?"

"Haha, Xu Rong, you're right, tell Zhang De, I won't be offended if people don't offend me! I, Gongsun Du, don't have any ambitions, but Liaodong is my territory, if others want to get involved, don't even think about it!"

In fact, it’s not that Gongsundu is arrogant. Although Gongsundu’s men are not many, they have fought against Karasuma and Fuyu for many years.

The elite Qingzhou soldiers under Zhang De may be able to compete with the Liaodong soldiers, but the Qingzhou soldiers are infantry, while the Liaodong soldiers are all cavalry. The cavalry in the cold weapon era has an innate advantage over infantry.Historically, after the death of Gongsun Du, Gongsun Kang once relied on his Liaodong soldiers to defeat Goguryeo and broke through the capital of Goguryeo, so that the whole Goguryeo did not recover until the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Xu Rong was also a cavalry general when he was under Dong Zhuo. It can be seen at a glance that all the Liaodong cavalry are elite divisions. If you look at the Central Plains, you really can't find such a powerful cavalry.Even Dong Zhuo's iron cavalry from Xiliang back then was inferior to Liaodong cavalry like Gongsun Zan.Most of the contempt in my heart was cut off immediately.

Facing the Liaodong cavalry, Xu Rong did not rashly choose to attack, but chose to confront Gongsun Du.No matter how Gongsundu challenges, even if he does not leave the camp, Gongsundu has no choice.Take a look at the tunnels dug by Xu Rong's camp and the repelling horses placed there, especially to deal with cavalry, Gongsun Du didn't dare to attack rashly.

At this time, Gan Ning's navy also arrived at Donglu Port in Liaodong, and the first [-] soldiers and horses successfully landed on the land of Liaodong.

When Gongsun Kang got up early in the morning, he was really shocked to hear that the mighty army outside the city was Zhang De's army.

The garrison troops in Liaodong were all brought to the front line by Gongsun Du. There were only 2000 troops stationed in the city, but there were [-] troops outside the city.

To Gongsun Kang's relief, Zhang De did not attack the city immediately. After 1 people arrived outside the city, they set up camp, without any intention of attacking the city.

Three days later, Gan Ning transported the second batch of 1 horses to Liaodong.Three days later, the siege equipment arrived. At this time, Gongsun Kang realized that Zhang De had been waiting for the siege equipment!
Looking at Zhang De's catapults and ballistas, Gongsun Kang knew that the city could not be defended. That night, Gongsun Kang and his younger brother Gongsun Gong led the people in the city to break through and went to Changli to join Gongsun Du.

At the beginning of the sixth year of Jian'an, Zhang De occupied Liaodong, and Gongsun Du led his troops to flee to Goguryeo!
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Occupying Liaodong did not bring much joy to Zhang De. On the contrary, Zhang De felt that a great responsibility was on his body.

To the north of Youzhou are nomadic peoples.Although these nomads are not strong enough compared to the big Han, Zhang De knows that after a few decades, after the end of the Three Kingdoms, the era of the five chaos will begin.

After decades of wars in the Three Kingdoms, the population of the Central Plains is not much, and the people in power in the Western Jin Dynasty did not rest and recuperate, but were keen on the power struggle. In China, there were as many as 300 million Xianbei people alone, and the Han people in the Central Plains did not have any population advantage over the Hu people!
The large population is the biggest advantage of the Han people.Han people are not nomads, so the survival rate of babies is much higher than that of nomads.Generally speaking, as long as there is no war, the population of Han people will always increase rapidly.

However, decades of the Three Kingdoms era had severely damaged the vitality of the Central Plains. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the population gap between the Han population and the Wuhu population was not large.The Western Jin Dynasty, which lost its population advantage, perished, and the Han people could only move to the south of the Yangtze River.

In Zhang De's view, Wuhuluanhua is just a process of national integration.After the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were no "Xianbei people", "Di people" and "Qiang people" in the Central Plains. These ethnic minorities were finally assimilated by the Han people and became members of the Han nationality.Even Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty had Xianbei blood in their bodies.

In the early years of the Sui Dynasty, after hundreds of years of ethnic integration, it was difficult to see pure Han people north of the Yangtze River.However, some people in the south of the Yangtze River looked down on Emperor Wen of Sui because of the blood of Hu people in Emperor Wen of Sui.As everyone knows, the area south of the Yangtze River was the land of Wu and Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. At that time, the Chu people could be called Chu barbarians!

Thinking of this, Zhang De smiled helplessly. Now it seems that those angry youths who shouted "Five Huss" in the [-]th century may have the blood of "Five Hus" flowing in them!

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The next few chapters will deal with the northern nomads, so clean up the backyard first!

(End of this chapter)