Fall In Love with the Technology Tree - Chapter 113

    White mountains and black water, rime. Ice crystals depict a dreamlike world on the coniferous forest.

    In the winter of 185 AD, Liaodong was a forgotten land. Compared with the massive Wuhuan rebellion in western Liaoning, and the re-emerging Qiang invasion in Liangzhou, Koguryo in Liaodong seemed so quiet, and the document submitted to Luoyang was just a short sentence: “Hundreds of Goguryeo invaded Xuanguo. [1] He was retired by Liaodong hero Lu Bu, and the old joint name of the hometown should be named Prefect of Xuan Dou.”

    A civilian who is not a filial piety wants to become a prefect? A few decades ago, it would have been a dream come true.

    But who is in charge of Luoyang now? It’s Dong Zhuo. Don’t look at the arrogance of this little emperor who bullied the little emperor in the courtroom, but he also knew that people outside would not accept him. In the small county of Xuan Dou, a land of bitter cold in the frontier, it would be good if someone was willing to help him to work, but also pick and choose?

    Of course, what Dong Zhuo didn’t know was that before the ink of the prefect’s appointment letter was dry, the number of eagles from the Cao family who arrived in Xuandu County exceeded 20,000. Soft armor, helmets, steel knives, steel spears, saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes[2] are all covered in darkness from a distance, but when you look up close, you will find that even the horses are peaceful and quiet.

    The silence is full of cold killing intent.

    Lü Bu, dressed in black and red armor, rode on a pure black high-headed horse, his full voice echoed in the cold wind.

    “We have been fighting with Goguryeo who came to Koubian every year, and now it has been four or five years. You are all good men selected from various townships and teams, and you have at least five aliens on your hands. of blood, each of them participated in at least three encounters and patrolled countless.

    “But, are you satisfied?

    “Wives, children and children are afraid every winter, is this okay?

    “When you are old, you are still a village hero, and your head is beheaded accidentally. Is this the home that a hero should have?

    Lu Bu glanced at Zhang Jianyi’s face: “I am not reconciled, you, neither! That’s why we are here. The second son said that the only way to wipe out foreign enemies and let their princes and nobles be Ashes will be wiped out, and their people will change their surnames and change their ethnic groups, and then there will be no future troubles!”

      Brothers, we have prepared enough food and grass, go to the inner city [3], cut off the head of King Juli and present it to the lord! Kill!”

    “Kill! Kill! Kill!” The sound of killing on the battlefield was loud, but after three uniform shouts, the silence returned. Starting with the vanguard, the two riders went out of the camp side by side. The cavalry was followed by the infantry and catapults of the central army, and at the end was even followed by the noble tribes who were attached to the Cao family and the migrant farmers who were preparing to divide the new land.

    Xigema, Xuandu County, this city on the border is like a gate, releasing a black torrent, and also releasing a bloodthirsty beast.

    And on the high city wall of Sigema, a slender figure wrapped in a white rabbit velvet cloak watched them leave.

    “They’ve all seen blood, and it’s spoiled if they don’t fight a war. Even if they lose 10,000 people, those who survive will make money.”

    Duan Jiong’s beard was completely white, and he was sitting on a small stool drinking with thick wolfskin knee pads wrapped around his legs. The wine is sweet potato wine produced in Liudao, and it is not too sweet, but Duan Jiong is not satisfied. “You don’t have enough flavor in this wine. Change it to something… Yes, burn a knife.”

    “No.” Ah Sheng held Old Man Duan’s hand, “You always give Lv Bu the Queen, and you will be leaving tomorrow, but I dare not let you get drunk.”

    Duan Jiong sneered: “Second Young Master is really cautious. In Koguryo, a small country with a maximum of 2,000 people can fight and cry. Now the troops you send are in terms of equipment, Food and grass, soldiers, and generals are all ten times larger than before, so what is there to worry about?”

    “Winning is a completely different concept from conquering the whole territory.” Ah Sheng said seriously, her lips were red from freezing due to the long-term blowing.

    Old man Duan silently admired the beauty for a while, then raised his hand and tapped her forehead: “The little girl has been pondering some strange thoughts all day, and I don’t know what’s so good about this poor mountain and bad water, not to occupy.”

    A Sheng laughed. She is already thirty years old, but the corners of her mouth are slightly raised, showing a hint of shyness, and there is a little pride in her shyness. “Ah Xiu, bring a map.”

    Duan Jiong stopped sitting on the small bench, and got up half straight to look at the map. No matter how many times he saw it, he was shocked by the surveying and mapping skills of the Cao family. Administrative maps, military traffic maps, contour topographic maps, climate and agricultural distribution maps… Even how many fields are owned by large and small families in Liaodong and how many hidden households are hidden on the map are clearly displayed on the map, just wait until the time is right. slaughter.

    I heard that Cao Sheng had planned for more than 20 years in order to support the “Tubu”, which means that she was under the age of ten. This kind of incredible scheming and planning was the reason why Duan Jiong didn’t dare to underestimate her.

    And today, Duan Jiong has seen a new map: the distribution map of mineral resources.

    “Old Duan, please see, with Xigaima as the center, north to Gaoxian, south to Xiangping and extremely east, there are hundreds of millions of coal and iron mines underground. Not to mention the south It’s a long way to transport the iron wares here, and the profits from the coal mines alone are worth fighting for this battle.”

    Duan Jiong opened his eyes and asked, shaking his beard, “Isn’t the second son for the farmland of Goguryeo and Dongjuwo?”

    “Of course I also want fertile black land. But I have a manor in the south that ripens three times a year, and what is lacking now is minerals.” , “In order for the people not to freeze to death in winter, I will ask Duan Lao to do everything.”

    Youzhou West Liaoning has a Gongsun Zan, who is inseparable with Xianbei and Wuhuan. If you want to go all out to capture Goguryeo without worrying about Xianbei sneaking from behind, now is the best chance.

    The New Year is over in the blink of an eye, and the army has not returned. However, a steady stream of captives, cattle, sheep, and furs were brought back from the front line, which stimulated more wealthy families in Xuandu County and Liaodong County to take advantage of the situation. As for how many of them were secretly tricked by the espionage department and failed to come back, that is another matter.

    Lu Bu had already cleared half of the population of Goguryeo, and the Cao army even captured the inner city. This is a 700-meter-square stone city, about the size of Qiao County. In this era, it was considered a rich and gorgeous city. Of course, it couldn’t be compared to Luoyang City’s monsters that were three or four kilometers long and wide.

    The capture of the inner city made the Cao family extremely rich, especially the granary of the inner city, which was enough for the soldiers outside to have a full year.

     King Gurye fled to a nearby mountain with his elite and cronies. There is a mountain city built on the mountain, which is used to save lives in case the inner city is attacked. The terrain of the mountain city was dangerous, and it was not cost-effective for the cavalry to attack, so Duan Jiong stopped Lu Bu, who was hot-blooded, and let the army camp at the foot of the mountain for Chinese New Year.

    Winter is the season for logging. After the capture of Goguryeo, how many counties to build, how many roads to build, and how much wood to use, the students who have already made plans have done a lot of calculations. Soldiers and civilians hunted while cutting down trees. Before the mountain city was knocked down, half of the rivers and mountains in Goguryeo were piled up with timber for construction. Just waiting for the thaw in the spring, they began to build a new Tuntian village.

    Of course, Lu Bu was not idle either.

    When the fire barrier is cleared, the catapults in the camp will smash the burning objects on the mountain city. There are no more than 2,000 people in the mountain town, and they can be killed by putting out the fire.

    The King of Goguryeo couldn’t bear it, and sent the eighth letter of surrender since the war started, which was torn up by Duan old man as usual.

    On the first day of the second lunar month, the desperate King of Goguryeo brought his remnants down from the mountain. The team wearing leather jackets and holding wooden shields was like moths struggling desperately under the cold steel arrows.

    Duan Jiong pushed Lu Bu: “Go, Lord Prefect. This is the first country you destroyed.”

    So Lu Bu slapped his horse forward and waved his left hand: “Let it go!”

    The overwhelming arrows scatter towards the team, and in the end, only the blood red in front of the camp gate is left, slowly freezing on the snow.

    Lu Bu put down his left hand, returned to the tent with little interest, and threw a wine jar to Old Man Duan. He didn’t drink it himself, so he could only look at Old Man Duan for a while. “Hurry up and withdraw your troops, I want to drink, I want to sleep with women.”

    Duan Jiong glanced at him: “What? Not happy? Not happy that I stopped you from attacking the mountain city?”

    “What mountain city did the cavalry attack?!” Lu Bu waved his hand irritably, “I’m too tender.”

    “Then what are you upset about?”

      Seeds and farmers are ready. Now, she may even have finished writing the field roster for soldiers and orphans! She…”

    “Second Young Master is the hero. Even if she is not skilled in the military, she is also the hero. Can you be an overhead prefect under such a person and treat you badly?”

    Lu Xiaobu bowed his head aggrievedly: “Don’t treat me badly. I just think I’m useless.”

    He has 20,000 elites, but he can seize power. But after taking the power, who will draw him a map, who will raise the soldiers orphans for him, who will ensure the law and order for him, who will supply him with soldiers and war horses? Even if celebrities from all over Liaodong came to assist him, Lu Bu felt that there was a pit ahead, a bitter life without Dalian roast chicken, Qingzhou fine wine and Nandao rice.

    He has been spoiled by Ah Sheng’s system. Every general who goes out longs for a stable rear.

     A raging fire ignited in the mountain city of Koguryo, burning the once gorgeous paintings into coke. It announced the end of an era and the beginning of an era.

    The author has something to say: Note [1]: Xuan Dou County, north of Liaodong County. To the east is Goguryeo and to the west is Xianbei. Due to the invasion of Goguryeo, the area has become smaller and smaller. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the county seat of Xuan Dou was in the area of ​​Fushun, Liaoning Province today. Xuan Dou County is also the hometown of Gongsun Du. It is precisely because Gongsun Du left Youzhou that the Cao family was able to occupy Xuan Dou in an open and fair manner. The Gongsun clan is a big family in Youzhou, and they are all present in Liaoxi (now Beijing), Liaodong (now Shenyang), and Xuan Dou.

    Note [2]: In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, saddles and stirrups were not popularized, but their prototypes had already appeared. These two inventions greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the cavalry units, so Duan Jiong praised the equipment ten times as before. It was the first time that Ah Sheng equipped the army with saddles and stirrups on a large scale after Dong Zhuo’s turmoil, because at this time the Eastern Han Dynasty had no time to take care of Liaodong.

    Note [3]: Domestic City, the capital of Goguryeo at that time, is located in what is now Ji’an City, Jilin Province.

    Note [4]: ​​Highlight. “Goguryeo” is not the same as “Koryo”. The Kingdom of Goguryeo was established in the Western Han Dynasty. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Central Plains dynasties in the late Western Han Dynasty and the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it continued to occupy the northeastern part of the empire and became large, and reached its peak in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The basic plate of Goguryeo is in Jilin Province and Liaoning Province in today’s northeast, and its heyday included the northern part of the Korean Peninsula (now Korea).

    The Goryeo Dynasty was a kingdom established after the unification of the three Koreas, basically located in the central and southern part of the Korean Peninsula (now South Korea), beginning with the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and ending in the Ming Dynasty, which was replaced by the Lee Dynasty Korea, It is the direct ancestor of today’s North Korea and South Korea.

    The names are similar, but the era, race, region and language are completely different. However, some Koreans insist that they are descendants of Goguryeo, probably because… Goguryeo was stronger and had just gone head-to-head with the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Goguryeo has always been the younger brother…

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    I feel that I have written the war part too briefly, but I am afraid that readers will not like to see the massacre of Lu Xiaobu beheading and Duan Jiong. But Ah Sheng, the protagonist, didn’t go to the front line, so he was very worried.