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Geodo居道

Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) 三國史記 · Kim Busik and others · 1145 (Goryeo, 23rd year of King Injong) · 1 passages · 106 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) Biographies The oldest surviving history of Korea. It is made up of the annals of Silla, Goguryeo and Baekje, together with the treatises, the tables and the biographies. Kim Busik set his own judgments here and there in passages marked as his comment, so what the compiler doubted and what he rebuked stands there still.

1Geodo wipes out two states with a horse game

居道，失其族姓，不知何所人也，仕脫解尼師今，為干。時，于尸山國、居柒山國，介居隣境，頗為國患。居道為邊官，潛懷幷吞之志，每年一度，集群馬於張吐之野，使兵士騎之，馳走以為戱樂，時人稱為馬技。兩國人，習見之，以為新羅常事，不以為怪。於是，起兵馬，擊其不意，以滅二國。

Of Geodo the clan and the surname are not known, nor what place he was from. He served Talhae Isageum and was given the rank of gan.

At that time the state of Usisan and the state of Geochilsan lay wedged along the border, and they were a great trouble to the country. Geodo was a border officer, and he secretly held a purpose of swallowing them up. Once every year he gathered a herd of horses on the plain of Jangto, had the soldiers mount them, and made them gallop as a sport. The people of that time called it magi (馬技). The people of the two states grew used to the sight, took it for a common thing of Silla, and did not think it strange. Then he raised his troops and horses, struck where they did not look for it, and wiped out the two states.

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