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Standing on the deck, the blue sea and blue sky, seagulls circling, and the land in the distance has appeared. Li Chao was very shameless and worry-free and named the opposite side Lushun.

"Brother-in-law, this place has a name. In the Han Dynasty, it belonged to the county of Yushi, and the name of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was Shimajin. The brother-in-law Zheng An ruined the atmosphere very uninterestingly, and came over to show off his knowledge.

After all, Liaodong has always belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty during the Han and Jin dynasties, and it was only more than 200 years ago that the Goguryeo people completely occupied Liaodong.

"How could I not know this? It's just that now we represent the Tang Empire and come to recover the homeland of the Han and Wei dynasties, and everything here is a new beginning in the future, and this time our journey is so smooth, this is the blessing of God and the blessing of the emperor. Therefore, I decided that this place will be called Lushun in the future. ”

Lao Cheng came out wearing big beach pants and a vest, and followed Li Chao for a while, and the old rascal became more and more comfortable and lazy. I think the robe is tied, and I also learn to dress up like Li Chao. In fact, the days on the ship are quite lonely and boring, and it is indeed much more comfortable to wear a short taxi.

"Lushun, that's a good name. In the future, it will be called Lushun! Lao Cheng voted for Li Chao.

Li Chao looked into the distance, also full of smiles.

Nominally, this piece of land, which is still in the hands of the Goguryeo people, belongs to his Li family.

Located at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, Lushun is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the south and southeast, across the sea from the Huaibei Peninsula, and across the sea from the Samhan Peninsula. The west and northwest are bordered by the Bohai Sea, and the Hebei thistle is a strip of water.

The east and northeast are connected by land.

This pearl at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula has a longitudinal distance of more than 50 miles from north to south, a horizontal distance of more than 60 miles from east to west, and a coast of 320 miles.

In terms of topography, the whole territory of this tip belongs to the coastal hilly area composed of the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain, high in the east and low in the west, with an average altitude of only more than 100 meters, and the terrain is six hills, half water, three points and half fields.

It is mostly mountainous and hilly, and rarely plain and lowland.

The coast is tortuous, and there are many harbors.

"This place is really good, it's cheap for your old Li family." Cheng Yanjin said with some envy.

Li Chao got cheap and sold well, "This place is still in the hands of the Goguryeo people." ”

But in his heart, he was very happy.

Lushun is only a part of his fiefdom in southern Liaoning, but as far as he knows, there is not only an excellent Port Arthur here, but also a lot of cultivated land, which is enough to reclaim 100,000 acres of fields. With these fields, it was enough for the fiefdom to be self-sufficient. Besides, this is a port connecting the Huaibei Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, and once Liaodong is recovered in the future, this place will prosper rapidly, and it is not surprising that it will become the second largest port in the north after Dengzhou.

After all, from the land through the Liaoxi Corridor to Liaodong, it is not as fast as taking a boat directly from the Huaibei Peninsula. Relying on supplies here, and then going to the mouth of the Liaohe River, the materials were transported to the inland of Liaodong through the Liaohe River, which was an important mode of transportation in the Northeast in later generations.

"I can't see you being hypocritical, with such a good fiefdom, what are you afraid of. The Goguryeo people are an egg, just grab it back. Even if the court does not send troops, if I have this fiefdom, I will fight it back. ”

Goguryeo also had an important stronghold fortress in southern Liaoning.

Just in the north, on the big black mountain in the north of Jinzhou District, Dalian, this fortress is called Beisha City. It is the most important mountain city of Goguryeo at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, with 5,000 troops stationed all year round.

This mountain city was built after the Goguryeo people captured Liaodong in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the stone wall was built along the mountain and stretched for ten miles.

The canyon in the city is winding, and the cliffs outside the city are surrounded by cliffs, and they are encamped in the city, which can be attacked and defended.

"Beisha City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and we can't take it with our people." Li Chao said with a smile, he still knows his tactics, that is, pirate tactics, or sea guerrillas, come over and shoot in the air, and then change places. Relying on the advantage of the ship, they can come and go freely on the sea, and the coastline that stretches for thousands of miles has become the direction of their arbitrary attack.

It can make the Goguryeo people unable to defend themselves, but if they go to attack the fortified mountain fortress as a death, they are really looking for death. Especially a top mountain city such as Beisha City, with 5,000 troops stationed, this is a military fortress, and Datang has a city with 5,000 troops.

Besides, the mountain city is simply a mountain encircled, and the real one is the gate, and ten thousand people can't open it.

"Beisha City is just like that, when Rong Guogong once crossed the sea to attack, captured this city, and beheaded more than 1,000. Shubao also participated in this battle back then. Cheng bites Jin Dao.

Later, in the last years of Zhenguan, when Li Shimin personally conquered Liaodong, Zhang Liang also led the army to break through Beisha City, captured thousands, and pulled out more than 8,000 men and women and returned.

However, Laihu'er and Zhang Liang both led thousands of troops to attack. Moreover, when Yang Guang and Li Shimin both led their armies to conquer in Liaodong, they came to attack. Not only did the city of Beisha have no reinforcements, but it also divided its troops to support the north, which will be fallen.

Li Chao looked back at the fleet behind him.

This fleet looks quite large, with a total of sixteen large ships, as well as more than 100 soft-sailed and hard-sailed merchant ships of all sizes. There are also quite a few people, more than 3,000 people in total.

It's huge, but it's impossible to attack the city of Beisha.

But the good news is that Li Chao doesn't need to fight Beisha City, which is still north of Dalian, more than 100 miles away from Lushunkou.

At the mouth of Lushun, the Goguryeo people are still called Shimajin, and they built a water village in the military port in later generations, with several boats and two or three hundred soldiers. Further inland are the villages of the Goguryeo people.

Li Chao did not plan to land from somewhere else, but went straight to the mouth of Lushun.

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At the Port of Arthur, the coastline was in sight, the ships were already mobilized, the gunners opened the gun windows and completed the loading. And the marines, also under the orders of the officers, were fully equipped.

Only a few officers in Li Chao's Marine Corps were officers of the imperial court, and the rest were basically recruiters. Most of them were teenagers, so Li Chao gave them muskets and crossbows. Playing with knives and bows is not suitable for these young people who have never seen blood.

Muskets and crossbows are easy to operate and do not require much training, especially for physical strength and archery, which are not as demanding as swords.

Many pirates with a good reputation, such as the Red Viper, were hired by Li Chao. Some of them became sailors on ships, others became marines.

In the Marine Corps, Li Chao asked them to take on the role of non-commissioned officers and let them bring new recruits. Although these people don't have a good reputation, they are experienced after all.

The recruits were nervous, the officers were calm, and the pirate dealers-turned-non-commissioned officers were a little bit of a fool.

"There's a boat coming out on the other side."

Li Chao raised his clairvoyance to look, and sure enough, there was a ship coming out of Port Arthur, but there was only one boat, and it didn't look like it was coming to meet the battle at all.

Du Hongying looked at Li Chao's doubts, felt a little funny, and said on the side, "They are here to welcome us into the port, and they are to guide the boat." ”

"Greet us?"

"They thought we were passing merchant ships." Du Hongying said.

Li Chao suddenly understood, although the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo were enemies, but for the merchants, there was no enemy who was not an enemy, and the Tang Dynasty was still an enemy with the Turks, but the merchants did not go deep into the grassland to trade.

Lushun, which is closest to Dengzhou Port, used to be a very lively trading port, and many Tang Dynasty merchant ships passed through here and would enter the port, one to sell some goods, and the other to supply fresh water and food.

The Goguryeo people welcomed Tang ships, and they also levied some taxes on merchant ships, usually directly according to the size of the ship.

"Shimazin has become more and more prosperous in the past two years, and there were not many people here before. However, after the rise of Dengju Port in the past two years, it also became lively, and many Goguryeo merchants came here to wait for the Tang ships to dock, and they brought their own goods to trade the Tang people's commercial goods. ”

Li Chao smiled.

"Hearing you say that, I want to change my mind and don't want to land and rob here. This is obviously a place of mutual market, and we sell things directly here, which is more profitable than grabbing things here. ”

Cheng Biting Jin said, "We can rob this place first, and then occupy this place to build a border market, and let the Goguryeo people trade it." We can sell things and collect taxes, don't we make more money? ”

Li Chao burst out laughing.

"Don't say it, it's a pretty good idea. But if the Goguryeo people in Beisha City come over at that time, we may not be able to beat them. ”

"I think I've beaten it. We have our back to the port, we can attack and retreat, we can defend, the supply will not be broken, and reinforcements will be available at any time. How do the Goguryeo people fight us? If we open up the mutual market, I believe that these Goguryeo people are also willing. After all, they must be involved in the exchange. ”

Lao Cheng is a veteran, of course, he knows very well that many times, the border army will rely on their convenience to do some smuggling. The border will smuggle, but it is very profitable. And it's often not the interest of one or two people, it will involve a lot of people.

"I'll think about what you said, but let's take him down first."

What came out of the harbor was a small dinghy with a hard sail, which could only accommodate twenty or thirty people, and this ship was indeed here to guide the fleet into the harbor. The Goguryeo officers on the ship couldn't even close their mouths when they laughed.

With the arrival of such a large merchant fleet, they can make a lot of money. Ship taxes, supplies, and even the ability to buy a lot of Tang merchandise, which they then sold to other Goguryeo merchants, was extremely profitable.

"The merchant ships of the Tang Kingdom are really getting bigger and bigger, more and more, and this time there are more than 100 ships in the fleet, this should be going to Pyongyang, right?"

"This is the largest Tang fleet after our Goguryeo and Tang wars last year, and I guess it went to Pyongyang."

The Goguryeo people on board waved the flag to the fleet and signaled to follow into the harbor.

Li Chao stood on the deck and said with a smile, "Such a warm invitation, how can you be embarrassed to refuse, follow into the port." ”