Myeongnim Dapbu明臨荅夫
1Myeongnim Dapbu wins at Jwawon
明臨荅夫，高句麗人也。新大王時，為國相。漢玄菟郡大守太守耿臨，發大兵欲攻我，王問群臣戰守孰便。衆議曰：「漢兵，恃衆輕我，若不出戰，彼以我為怯，數來，且我國山險而路隘，此所謂一夫當關，萬夫莫當者也。漢兵雖衆，無如我何，請出師禦之。」荅夫曰：「不然，漢國大民衆，今以强兵遠鬪，其鋒不可當也。而又兵衆者宜戰，兵小少者宜守，兵家之常也。今，漢人千里轉糧，不能持久，若我深溝高壘，淸野以待之，彼必不過旬月，饑困而歸。我以勁卒迫之，可以得志。」王然之，嬰城固守。漢人攻之不克，士卒饑餓引還。荅夫帥師數千騎，追之，戰於坐原，漢軍大敗，匹馬不反。王大悅，賜答夫坐原及質山，為食邑。十五年秋九月卒，年百十三歲。王自臨慟，罷朝七日，以禮葬於質山，置守墓二十家。
Myeongnim Dapbu was a man of Goguryeo. In the time of King Sindae he became chief minister of state.
Geng Lin, the governor of Xuantu commandery in Han, brought out a great army and meant to attack Goguryeo, and the king asked his ministers which was better, to fight or to hold.
The company took counsel and said, "The Han troops trust in their numbers and think little of us. If we do not go out and fight, they will take us for cowards and will come again and again. Besides, our country has steep mountains and narrow roads. This is what is meant by saying that when one man holds the pass ten thousand cannot force it. The Han troops are many, but they can do nothing against us, so we ask that the army go out and hold them off."
Dapbu said, "It is not so. Han is a great country with many people, and now they have come far with strong troops to fight, and the edge of their attack cannot be met. Moreover, it is the constant rule of soldiering that those with many troops should fight and those with few should hold. Now the men of Han are carrying grain a thousand li, and they cannot keep it up for long. If we dig our ditches deep and raise our ramparts high, and clear the fields bare and wait for them, they will surely not last out a month, but will grow hungry and worn and go home. If we press them then with hardened troops, we can get what we want."
The king thought this right, and held the walls and kept them firmly. The men of Han attacked and could not win, and their soldiers went hungry, and they drew off and turned back. Dapbu led several thousand horsemen after them and fought at Jwawon, and the Han army was badly beaten, and not a single horse went home. The king was greatly pleased and gave Dapbu Jwawon and Jilsan to be held as his fief.
In the ninth month, in autumn, of the fifteenth year he died, at the age of a hundred and thirteen. The king went in person and grieved for him, and held no court for seven days, and buried him with proper rites at Jilsan, and set twenty households there to guard the tomb.
Interlinear notes 1
大守太守
The source text has 大守太守; it is taken as an error for 太守. ― translator