Although Liu Bei regarded the Liaodong region as a special zone, and actually gave Gongsun Du a lot of power to act cheaply, this power was not long-term, but a short-term expedient measure.

In general, he still wants to bring the military operations in Liaodong into the system controlled by the Privy Council.

At that time, the Privy Council did not establish a system of control over Liaodong.

Liu Bei was dissatisfied with this.

However, at that time, his main focus was on the Dutian decree, and he didn't have much energy to deal with Gongsun Chan for the time being.

So he put the matter aside, planning to deal with it coldly, let Gongsun Du's brain calm down a little, take a good look at the difference in strength between himself and the Third Reich, and don't do funny things.

As a result, he didn't expect Gongsun Du to be a little sick.

Liu Bei wanted to talk about it, he actually sent two performances in a row, nominally to greet Liu Bei, but in fact, he still had to discuss with Liu Bei about making him a general and assassinating the history of Pingzhou, and he felt that he would not give up until he reached his goal, which made Liu Bei very annoyed.

He didn't know if the people in the Gongsun family in Liaodong were a little sick, and the melon seeds in their heads were not very clear, first Gongsun Zhan, and then Gongsun Du, is there really something wrong with the head?

The main reason why they are so arrogant in another timeline should be that Dong Zhuo's rebellion destroyed the prestige of the central court, but now this prestige is well maintained by Liu Bei, and there is no collapse of the central authority.

Even the central authority was higher than during the Second Empire.

So what the hell do they mean by that?

Don't you see a strong monarch of a great unified dynasty ruling the world?

Who gave Gongsun Du and Liu Bei the courage to take the initiative to reach out for power?

Liu Bei couldn't figure it out, but he didn't continue to think about it soon, and after a while, coupled with the delay caused by the time required to get from Luoyang to Liaodong, the chaos caused by the Dutian Decree was quickly suppressed, and it did not affect the overall stability of the Third Reich.

For such a situation, Liu Bei didn't know if the Liaodong region was clear, but since Gongsun Du had launched provocations against him one after another, he naturally couldn't continue to tolerate the existence of this situation.

So Liu Bei gave an order to lead the move, and asked the pull to prepare and prepare to start.

He is the person in charge of the Northeast Military Region, commanding the forces of the three armies and is responsible for the military security of the northeast region, and of course, it also includes the security of the entire grassland.

However, because of Liu Bei's previous shocking military operation, more than 700,000 people on the entire grassland were swept away by Liu Bei, and the remaining people were all frightened and fled westward, so there was a vacuum period in the entire grassland, and in this vacuum period, there was obviously not so much room for play.

During the garrison in Liaodong, he took people to the grassland many times to inspect, looking for traces of Xianbei people everywhere, hoping to find some and fight a few beautiful battles, but apparently because Liu Bei fought too much before, there were only a few scattered small tribes left on the grassland, adding up to only 2,000 people.

Stationed for several years, he made a total of three moves, and his combat achievements were limited, which made him very unhappy.

But Liu Bei asked him to garrison Liaodong, obviously not only to guard against the grassland in that vacuum period, but also for a more reason, that is, to guard against Gongsun Du.

Because the road to the Liaodong region was very difficult in this era, the Liaodong Corridor in the Ming and Qing dynasties did not appear in this era, and the passable roads are still a vast ocean now, and they cannot provide a road for stable action at all.

At this moment, the road from Liaoxi County to Liaodong County is very difficult, and there are generally only two options.

Or, go to Liaoze, cross the difficult and muddy Liaoze, and reach the other side of victory.

Either way, you have to choose to take a detour from the prairie, bypass Liaoze and finally reach the land of Liaodong, all in all, these two roads are not reliable roads.

But under Liu Bei's instructions, a third path was opened.

Sea route.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula were already connected by sea, but the number of times this situation occurred was not too much, and the danger was great, and it also relied on the season and the marine monsoon, and the slightest carelessness was buried at the bottom of the sea.

After the successful construction of the Yangzhou spire-bottom ship and the successful sea trial, Liu Bei instructed to build a concrete-bottom seagoing ship in Youzhou.

The Third Reich's style of culet-bottomed sea-going ships was mainly similar to the Galen, the main ship of the sailing era, characterized by relatively narrow sails and boats, and reduced the height of the deck building, even the tall deck building of traditional Chinese ships to the hull, and the keel length was generally three times the width of the ship.

This kind of ship is actually very suitable for naval warfare, especially long-distance naval warfare, and was even born to facilitate naval warfare.

But at this moment, sea ships that lack long-range attack equipment do not have the ability to fight long-range naval warfare, but such ships are also suitable for transporting troops and loading cargo, and their carrying capacity can generally reach 600 tons.

Although the Third Reich was not able to build a large ship capable of carrying 600 tons, a small Galen ship that was reduced by one size could still be built, which was completely sufficient to match the cargo capacity of this era.

By the time Liu Bei was ready to make a move on the three counties of Liaodong, more than 20 of these small Galen ship-style standard ships had been successfully built in Yangzhou, and they had already set off for Rinan County, ready to be delivered to the first ocean-going team in Rinan County.

In Youzhou, eleven such ships have been successfully built, and experienced seafarers who travel back and forth between Liaodong and the Shandong Peninsula have been found as guides, and many secret drills have been conducted.

For this operation, Liu Bei's intention was to let Zhao lead the elite troops to secretly arrive in the Liaodong region by boat, and then quickly attack the location of Gongsun Du with cavalry, directly take Gongsun Du, capture the thief and capture the king first, take down Gongsun Du and his command, and then take out the holy decree and directly forcibly take over the soldiers of the three counties of Liaodong.

The more than 10,000 soldiers trained by Gongsun Du in the three counties of Liaodong are indeed a strong force, Liu Bei did not want this army to become a victim of political struggle, he felt that this army could play a great role.

Therefore, he decided to implement the decapitation tactic, take the lead in attacking and taking Gongsun Du, protect this army, and let the lead move divide and disintegrate this army and completely digest it.

As for the success rate of this operation, the lead said that it is still very large.

The activities of the main East Park agents in the three counties of Liaodong were relatively successful.

Many business travelers in the three counties of Liaodong were disguised as agents of the East Garden, and they traveled back and forth to Youzhou and Qingzhou, bringing a lot of goods at the same time, and also getting acquainted with many officials in the eastern Liaodong region.

There is also an agent in the East Garden who joined Gongsun Du's army, held a relatively important position in Gongsun Du's army, and made contributions in the previous battles, and had a large number of soldiers under his command.

Even Gongsun Du's family has Dongyuan secret agents as servants, and they are always sending news from Gongsun's family to Luoyang, so that Dongyuan can control what Gongsun's family is doing at all times.

Even Gongsun Du's family has Dongyuan secret agents as servants, and they are always sending news from Gongsun's family to Luoyang, so that Dongyuan can control what Gongsun's family is doing at all times.

If Gongsun Du is still constantly testing where Liu Bei's bottom line is, then Liu Bei can even know whether Gongsun Du is wearing a crotch step or not, so if you want to say that this special operation cannot be successful, the main problem will definitely appear in the lead.

The East Park agent has already helped him do everything he can, and at the intelligence level, Gongsun Du has been infiltrated into a sieve.

Therefore, at the final implementation level, he felt that if he couldn't succeed, he probably wouldn't have the face to do the position of the head of the Northeast Military Region.

At the beginning of March of the third year of the reign of Sadakan, when the Nichinam Prefecture was preparing for the first ocean voyage, the plan began to be executed.

Before the execution, Liu Bei generously sent a message to the Liaodong side, saying that he was going to send a 30,000-strong army to Liaodong County, and he would join forces with Gongsun Du to completely solve the troubles on the borders of Buyeo, Goguryeo, Dongwofu, and Sanhan, and completely solve the problems of Liaodong, so as to achieve the goal of obtaining peace.

The route he offered to Gongsun Du was that the army would cross the grassland, bypass Liaoze, and finally reach Liaodong County.

Of course, Liu Bei did not lie, the main force of the Northeast Military Region was indeed going to reach Liaodong County through the grassland.

Because the number of standard sea ships is not enough, if you want to transport all the main forces of the Northeast Military Region to Liaodong County, you don't know how much time it will take to rely on those eleven ships, so Liu Bei wants to let the large army take the grassland route, which is already completely safe, and he asks Gongsun Du to provide food security along the way of the army's advance.

After the elite troops of Gongsun Du himself were eliminated, they would directly reorganize their forces in the local area, and after the arrival of the main force of the army, they could take advantage of the situation to carry out the complete elimination of local forces such as Buyeo, Goguryeo, Dongwofu, and Samhan, and sweep away the troubles in the Liaodong region.

At the same time, a large number of prisoners of war can also be obtained for construction purposes in various places.

Of course, for the success of this military operation, and in order to appease the emotions of those troops in the Central Military Region, Liu Bei finally sent out the two cavalry armies of the Xiao Cavalry Army and the Leopard Cavalry Army.

After Xiahou Yuan and Pang De learned the news, they were overjoyed and immediately prepared their whole army, as long as Liu Bei gave an order, they would set off immediately, and they would arrive in Liaodong as quickly as possible to assist in the attack.

For this offensive, it is not just to solve Gongsun Du, Gongsun Du is just a small worry, his own strength is not worthy of his ambition at all, in fact, Liu Bei can't figure out why Gongsun Du can still have the ambition of separating one side, does he really feel that he does not have the ability to expedition to Liaodong?

It shouldn't be, Liu Bei was able to lead troops to the Northern Expedition to the grassland in a very difficult environment, and Gongsun Du also witnessed his own ability to fight, why is it still like this now?

After thinking about it, Liu Bei couldn't figure it out, so he could only blame it on Gongsun Du's own expansion.

Some people, once they are inflated, they are easy to figure out the situation, and once they don't understand the situation, they will do all kinds of unbelievable and funny things.

Trying to understand an abnormal person from the level of a normal person is impossible and meaningless.

So Liu Bei didn't have anything to spare, let the Privy Council finish the plan, and go through the process to let the Xiao cavalry and the leopard cavalry quickly attack to Liaodong to meet and lead, and then completely solve the border problem in Liaodong.

Speaking of which, whether it is Buyeo, Goguryeo, Dongwofu and other local tribes, or the strength of the three Koreas on the Korean Peninsula, they cannot be said to be very weak in this era.

According to the results obtained by the agents of the East Park in Liaodong for several years, Buyeo is first of all a relatively wealthy country, its country is mainly agricultural, animal husbandry is very developed, and the handicraft industry is also relatively developed, according to the estimates of the spies, the population of Buyeo is about 30,000 households and more than 200,000 people, so it is more appropriate to say that Buyeo has some strength.

The Goguryeo Kingdom is similar, the Goguryeo regime was established in the second year of the Western Han Dynasty by Buyeo Yu Zhumeng in the territory of Goguryeo County, Xuansu County, Western Han Dynasty, and the Buyeo State is from the same origin.

Their relationship is somewhat similar to that of a conjugated father-son relationship like Obi-Ying and the United States, although they are of the same origin, but the relationship between them is more delicate.

When Buyeo was strong, Buyeo was the father, and when the Goguryeo was strong, the Goguryeo was the father, and there was no shortage of mutual conquest, trapping, and massacres between each other, but it was the Goguryeo country that had the last laugh, which was the final end to the situation of the conjugated father and son.

The population size of Goguryeo is smaller than that of Buyeo, but it has a slight advantage over Buyeo in terms of social system and production capacity.

For example, Goguryeo now has a relatively complete tax system, and in terms of agricultural production, Goguryeo also has a relatively clear iron farm tools, and has introduced ploughing cattle, etc., so agricultural productivity is not weak.

If the two countries mobilize generally, they can each dispatch about 20,000 to 30,000 troops, and in ordinary operations, they can also dispatch more than 10,000 troops.

For the surrounding tribal forces that did not form a unified state system, these two relatively mature states still produced a strong deterrent, and both launched military operations against the Liaodong border of the Han Empire.

It was not until Gongsun Du suddenly rose to prominence that he was appointed by Liu Bei as the administrator of the three counties of Liaodong, and led the army to fight in the south and north, repeatedly fighting the invasions of Goguryeo and Buyeo, and also attacked other small tribes, forming a military advantage.

Therefore, after many expeditions, the two major forces of Goguryeo and Buyeo were afraid of Gongsun Du and did not dare to engage in military confrontation with Gongsun Du again, in fact, they recognized Gongsun Du's status above them, and expressed their willingness to obey Gongsun Du's dispatch, and if Gongsun Du wanted to conquer other tribes, they were willing to send troops to help.

As a result, Gongsun Du de de facto became the suzerain of Buyeo and Goguryeo, the king of kings, and his prestige was unmatched for a while.

However, Yigongsun Du is not satisfied with such a situation, he actually wants to destroy these two countries and get everything from them, but he lacks the strength to annex them.

It's easier to defeat them, it's easy to get them to follow orders, but it's not so easy to annex them.

Gongsun Du sighed many times that he could not annex Goguryeo and Buyeo, and he felt that if he could give him another 30,000 soldiers and horses, he would definitely be able to destroy Buyeo and Goguryeo, unify Liaodong, and become the absolute king of Liaodong.

However, the foundation of Liaodong is too thin, the population is too small, and the immigration wave in Liaodong for more than ten years caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion on the original timeline did not appear because of Liu Bei's high involvement, so the population of Liaodong at this moment is really not much.

Therefore, Gongsun Du does not have this opportunity.

In March of the third year of Zhenguan, Gongsun Du received an edict from Liu Bei, asking him to prepare grain and straw for the army along the way, and provide combat logistics for the army, and he and his army should also accept the command of Zhao Zhao and contribute their own strength to the complete pacification of Buyu and Goguryeo.

After receiving this edict, Gongsun Du was shocked and immediately convened his staff to discuss the matter.

(End of chapter)