Yuan Zhao, who had just stayed on Changle Plateau for a few days, hurriedly returned to Chang'an with the attendants who passed the decree, and he didn't even have time to understand the whole process of the defeat of Liaodong, and the rest was listened to right away.

He did not expect that in just a few months, the situation in Liaodong had deteriorated to such an extent. So far, the only water army brigade of the Han Dynasty, after crossing the sea to fight, fell into an ambush on the Datong River in Zhenfan Kingdom, all the warships were burned and gathered, and the whole army was annihilated!

Nearly 10,000 sailors and more than 10,000 infantry troops on the ship, or burned to death on the ship, or because they were cut off the back road was surrounded by the Zhenban army, and finally died in the battle by the Datong River, except for a very small number of seriously wounded and captured, more than 20,000 Han troops who attacked Zhenban from the waterway all ended up in such a tragic ......end.

And the other road from Liaodong land route more than 10,000 Han troops, all the way to the heart of the hinterland, shocked to hear the news of the destruction of the waterway army, knowing that the plan of the two ways to attack has failed, the leading general hurriedly organized the whole army to retreat, but it was too late, I don't know when the thousands of Hun cavalry suddenly appeared on the battlefield to block their retreat, and all the way the feint defeat of the real army suddenly turned around and attacked, before and after the attack, the Han army was defeated, nearly half of the dead and wounded, and the rest of the people fought desperately out of the encirclement under the leadership of the main general, Retreat to a nearby mountain, where he defended the danger, and his life and death are still unknown.

The wind was cold, and Yuan Zhao's heart was even colder. To his surprise, the neighbor in the northeast has such a strong combat power now? I was still a little careless, and when I heard about this before going to the Western Regions, I didn't ask about it in detail, so that I felt such irreparable regrets. He felt guilty for the dead soldiers.

Whether it is Zhenfan or Dongying, thousands of years have only caused trouble to China. Yuan Zhao sometimes thinks about it, and it feels very strange, it is said that the first ancestors of the people in these places were all exiled from the Central Plains of China for various reasons, how could they develop such a wild nature of wolves? Is it really what soil grows what seedlings?

Thinking of the tragic death of more than 20,000 Han athletes, and thinking of some long-cherished debts in his memory, a thought popped up in his heart, and it became more and more determined, and when he saw the towering city wall of Chang'an City in front of him, he had completely made up his mind. Since sooner or later there will be a tiger legacy, let's completely eradicate the hidden seeds for the peace of future generations!

In the Xuanshu Pavilion of Weiyang Palace, Yuan Zhao finally saw all the information about the beginning and end of the imperial court's Eastern Crusade, and the situation was even more serious than he imagined. Emperor Liu Che sat there with a gloomy face, not knowing whether he regretted his rashness or grief for the dead soldiers. And Han Yan on the side didn't know what was wrong this time, she lost the pride she had in the past, Yuan Zhao glanced at him when he came in, and saw that the legs of this pale pampered minister were trembling a little.

Ignoring Han Yan's abnormality, Yuan Zhao looked at all the information in his hand again from the beginning, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, because of his participation, the process of many things has been accelerated, and the development of the Han Dynasty in recent years has been too smooth and too fast, so that from the emperor to the courtiers, there is a kind of arrogance in their hearts. This kind of emotion is also infected to the soldiers who go on the expedition, making them have the illusion that they really think that the Han army will be invincible and invincible wherever they go, and the enemy will be invincible!

Twenty thousand Han soldiers died in this way, dying on the battlefield in a foreign country, and the news has not yet spread, only a few important ministers of the court know. This was the most painful defeat since the pacification of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion. And it was defeated at the hands of a small country, what kind of feeling Emperor Liu Che felt in his heart, you don't need to guess.

Shinban has been a territory of the Central Plains since ancient times, and its history can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty. After King Wu of Zhou raised troops to destroy Yin, he sealed the prince of the Yin Dynasty Jizi in Zhenfan, Jizi was a virtuous person, he taught the local indigenous etiquette, farming, mulberry picking and various rules, and established a good social order.

Later, during the Warring States Period, the Yan State sent troops to occupy Zhenban, and set up officials there to build border fortresses. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed Yan, Zhenban belonged to an area outside the border of Liaodong County, and later after the great chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, it lost the management of the imperial court and fell into chaos, becoming a gathering place for outcasts and outlaws. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu and his ministers thought that it was too far away from Chang'an, like a piece of chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and it was a pity to abandon it. Therefore, the border fortress of Liaodong County was built, which was bounded by the dam water and was under the jurisdiction of King Yan.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, Lu Juan, the king of Yan, rebelled, and fled to the Xiongnu after being defeated. His general Wei Man led the remnants of the defeated army to rush out of the border fortress, cross the dam, and occupy this place between the upper and lower fortresses set up during the Qin Dynasty, and gradually conquered the local natives gathered here and the Han people who fled here from Yan and Qi by force, and Wei Man established himself as king here, and built the capital Wang Weicheng (today's Pyongyang).

After the death of Emperor Gaozu, the Han Dynasty began to enter a period of inaction, and had no time to take care of others, so Liaodong Taishou signed a treaty with Wei Man, Wei Man, as a foreign minister of the Han Dynasty, could govern all the people under the Saiwai, but could not cross the border to rob, and specifically pointed out that those ethnic minorities under his rule should not be prevented from coming to the Han Dynasty to make a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven. After this treaty was ratified by the emperor at the time, the Han Dynasty officially recognized Wei Man's status as the true king.

People's ambition will gradually swell, and when they have a certain strength, they will want to get greater benefits. Decades later, when today's Zhenban Wang Wei Youqu ascended the throne, Zhenban's territory had expanded to a radius of thousands of miles, ruling millions of subjects. King Zhenfan wanted to completely get rid of the constraints of the Han Dynasty, issued a strict order, prohibiting all the ethnic tribal rulers under him from contacting the Han Dynasty again, and began to gradually connive at his subordinates to enter the territory of the Han Dynasty to rob and kill, and the conflict between the two sides began to become more and more serious.

It was in this context that He Yu was ordered to come to Zhenban, trying to use the majesty of the Han Emperor to force King Zhenfan to put away his ambitions and submit to the Han Dynasty again. However, Wei Youqu, who had already secretly received the support of the Huns, would pay attention to his meaning!

After the rapid deterioration of relations between the two sides, King Wei conscripted 50,000 troops, and suddenly entered the territory of the Han Dynasty with lightning speed, and in less than ten days, more than a dozen counties in Canghai County were bloodbathed. Thousands of soldiers and civilians died under the swords of these Zhenfanren, and the Canghai county guard and the remaining Qin envoy He Yu led the remnants of the soldiers to defend the city, but they were finally breached. No one survived, and the brutal Zhenban army set fire to the city after cutting off the heads of He Yu and several Han officials.

When the monarchs and ministers in Chang'an City finally received an urgent report from 800 miles from Liaodong, they realized the seriousness of the problem. The emperor was furious, how could he swallow this evil breath, and immediately summoned the prime minister and the ministers to discuss. For such a small vassal country to dare to come to make a rebellion, after hearing the news, the ministers of civil and military affairs were all filled with righteous indignation, from the prime minister Sun Hong, the imperial historian Zhang Tang and below, everyone's opinion is the same, send troops! Go and teach the real king a good lesson, and if you don't give him some color, I really don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick.

In the eyes of the monarchs and ministers who have had the experience of pacifying Dongyue and Southwest Yi, this really small country is just similar to those places, the original battles were fought so easily, and more than 10,000 local garrisons were dispatched, and the real country dared to do so evil, so you might as well give it a bit of a ruthless taste, and after the court discussed and decided, this time the troops and horses will be dispatched to completely take back that place, and reassign it to the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers once and for all.

After all, the monarchs and ministers of the imperial court still despise Zhenfan, since they want to send troops, the elite Han army guarding the northern border pass naturally cannot be moved lightly, and several armies near Chang'an are also responsible and cannot be far away. The final decision was that His Majesty the Emperor ordered the transfer of troops from the garrisons of the vassal states, and formed a 20,000-strong Eastern Expeditionary Army with these local troops, and worshiped the Zuo General Xun Yu as the general of the Eastern Expedition, and rushed to Liaodong by land.

Then he issued another decree, ordering the Han naval army stationed in Wuhu, led by Yang Fu, the general of Lou Chuan, to go down the river to the sea, and go to Zhenban from the starry night of the waterway, forming a two-way attack. The intention is to cleanly eliminate the military forces of Weiyouqu in one go.

This southern naval army was the only naval force in the Han Dynasty. Its predecessors and the large ships it owned were all left over from the Qin Dynasty. When the initial emperor asked for immortals, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of financial and material resources to build several large fleets, the main purpose of which was to help him go to sea to visit the immortal mountains to seek immortal arts. After the Han Dynasty was converted to military use, although it was a little dilapidated, it could still be used to load soldiers for battle.

Yang Fu, the general of Lou Chuan, did not dare to slack off when he received the order, gathered all the officers and soldiers of the navy, and set off with a total of more than 20,000 troops from the garrisons of the southern vassal states, and arrived in Liaodong after more than ten days by sea. After getting in touch with the army led by Xun Yu, he began to attack the Zhenfan army.

After burning and looting in the land of the Han Dynasty and then retreating to Zhenfan, in the face of the Han army that came over, the Zhenfan general who led the troops was very weak and incompetent, and was losing and retreating everywhere, and after a few days' effort, he retreated to the south of the Datong River, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to defend the danger.

Seeing that the war was so smooth, Yang Fu, the general of Lou Chuan, who led the expedition for the first time, was proud, in order to achieve the first merit, break through the enemy's defense line by the Datong River as soon as possible, and be the first to enter Wang Weicheng and capture the real king alive, he did not wait until Xun Yu's department came as agreed, and then jointly launched a general attack.

Yang Fu ordered all the boats to go back to the river, and set up a formation of dozens of miles of waterways on the river. His plan was to use this powerful momentum to deter and thwart the opponent's determination to hold on, and then take the opportunity to force an attack. However, what he didn't expect was that those Zhenfan soldiers who were quietly lying in ambush on the wall of the river bank were looking at the fleet of the Great Han with cold eyes, watching the enemy finally enter a big trap .......