Wanli Youming

Chapter 149 Kneeling to Meet the Heavenly Army

Chapter 149 Kneeling to Meet the Heavenly Army

"It's all fed by silver."

Li Chengliang replied calmly.

Then, Li Chengliang looked at Nan Bing who was rushing towards Fengyue Tower meaningfully again, and said:

"So, we northerners don't have to worry about this matter, and the southerners themselves will not allow the southern soldiers to exist forever, even the imperial court will not!"

"After all, the imperial court is not always as rich as it is now!"

"Report victory to the imperial court, Pyongyang has fallen, and the army is about to question Seoul to show the king's prestige!"

Then, Li Chengliang said another word, and then, with a knife, he thumped down the city wall and walked towards Fengyue Tower.

At this time, the southern soldiers had captured Fengyue Tower.

Ping'an Road Observer Zheng Che and all the North Korean officials and generals in Pyongyang, except for the one who committed suicide in advance, were all captured by the Ming army at this time.

When Li Chengliang came, Wu Weizhong greeted him with Zheng Che and other North Korean officials who were under escort, and pointed to Zheng Che and said to Li Chengliang: "Uncle Ning Yuan, this person is Zheng Guan."

Li Chengliang nodded, looked at Zheng Che, and asked: "Zheng Guan, is it your order to reject the Heavenly Army from entering Pyongyang City, or is it your order from the king?"

Zheng Che didn't answer in a hurry, and after thinking for a while, he said with a solemn expression: "It's my personal order, and it has nothing to do with the king's order, and it has nothing to do with the soldiers and civilians in the city. If I wanted to welcome the heavenly army, I disobeyed the king's order, deliberately obstructed the heavenly army, and falsely passed on the king's order, forcing the soldiers and civilians in the city to guard the city. The crime of rebelling against the heavenly dynasty is all my fault! Please don't take the anger of the heavenly army on the king. Do not vent your anger on the soldiers and civilians in the city."

"He is a loyal person!"

Li Chengliang smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then you are the only one to blame!"

As he spoke, Li Chengliang ordered his servants to detain Zheng Che.

After the order, Li Chengliang and the interrogating army rested in Pyongyang for five days, and then came towards Huangzhou.

Yin Yuancheng, the pastoral envoy of Huangzhou, knew that Pyongyang had fallen, and knew that the heavenly army was unstoppable, so he simply knelt down ten miles outside the city to meet him, and organized the people to eat pots of pulp.

Therefore, the Ming army went down to Huangzhou without a fight, and came to the outskirts of Seoul.

The reason why the Korean monarch Li Yan refused Daming’s request to garrison troops was because he knew that once Daming garrisoned troops in Korea, it meant that he was no longer the supreme ruler of this land, and the Ming court officials stationed here were the real ones. The supreme ruler of the country, and his royal power will undoubtedly be greatly limited.

No one would willingly want to have an extra master on their head.

The same goes for Li Yan.

In addition, Daming has always been kinder than powerful to foreign domains in the past. For example, North Korea has repeatedly encroached on Daming's territory in the Northeast, and Daming basically did not blame it.

Therefore, Li Yan never thought about the consequences of rejecting Daming, the suzerain country.

Coincidentally, several generations of monarchs in North Korea now intend to support Shilin to replace the power of the noble court and achieve their own greater royal power. Therefore, most of the people in power in the court are Shilin. It’s also a good party struggle. For the benefit of their own party, they all curry favor with the North Korean king, so they all catered to Li Yan’s original intention and advocated rejecting the Ming Dynasty’s request to garrison troops.

Of course, the fundamental reason is that the North Korean monarchs and ministers did not feel that they had always been kinder than powerful, and that Daming, who had not even been accounted for for taking the territory of the Celestial Dynasty as his own, would do something to North Korea because he refused the request to garrison troops.

But what the North Korean monarchs and ministers would not have thought was that the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun they met was not a man who only knew how to squeeze the people of his own country, but was magnanimous to foreign vassals for the appearance of all nations coming to the court, and even used his own people's anointing to do generosity The traditional emperor of things.

Moreover, after rejecting Daming, Li Yan didn't even have the slightest worry that the Ming court would blame him.

Because the suzerainty of Ming Dynasty gave Li Yan and other North Korean monarchs and ministers the impression that they were not very aggressive, but that the bottom line involving the legality of royal succession, such as regicide and usurpation, was more sensitive in their own country, and they would not care about others.

Therefore, before Li Yan learned that the Ming army had entered the court, he only paid attention to the disaster situation in Anzhou, and specifically asked Shen Douhe, the envoy of the Anzhou Protectorate who was recalled from Anzhou: "Is the drought in Anzhou serious?"

Shen Douhe didn't dare to tell Li Yan the truth, because he knew that Li Yan was just asking, and he didn't really care about the situation in Anzhou. , was said to be ineffective in governance, so he replied with a smile: "Anzhou can still support it!"

Li Yan nodded after hearing this, and laughed: "It's so good, it seems that God has not blamed the lonely and unvirtuous."

"Report! Uncle Ning Yuan of the Celestial Dynasty, Li Chengliang, led an army to question the crime, and now he has captured Yizhou and Anzhou!"

And at this moment, Bing Cao sent an urgent message.

Li Yan and Junchen froze on the spot after hearing this.

After a long time, Li Yan came back to his senses and hurriedly asked the ministers to discuss how to solve the matter.

Today's North Korea is in a period of fierce party disputes, so the ministers' opinions are not unified, so they quarreled and quarreled, chattering and messing up.

Some people said that they would immediately summon soldiers and horses from all over the country to serve the king.

Some also said that they would immediately contact the heavenly army to negotiate peace.

It is even more hopeful that the king will move to Ganghwado immediately.

Therefore, until the news that the Ming army captured Pyongyang came, the imperial court had not yet reached a consensus, and only issued an order to Zheng Che who was guarding Pyongyang that he must defend it.

Because the Ming army has not received any soft signals from North Korea, it has been marching towards Seoul.

The 27th day of the twelfth lunar month in the seventh year of Wanli.

The New Year is approaching, and there are winter plums in the wild.

On this day, the Ming army officially arrived in the outer city of Seoul, smelling the faint fragrance of flowers and resting for the New Year.

And on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the Liaodong navy also repelled the Korean navy, and transported the heavy artillery by sea to the outside of Seoul, and with the assistance of the land Ming army, organized the Korean civilians to arrive outside Seoul.

"General Wu, try the heavy bronze cannon cast by Mr. Ni's order. By the way, it will also break the courage of the Korean monarchs and officials in Seoul! It will save them from being unable to make up their minds and unwilling to confess to the court!"

Li Chengliang gave Wu Weizhong instructions at this time.

Wu Weizhong said yes, and on the morning of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, he organized gunners to control, and Zhu Yijun asked Qi Changguo to shell the bronze heavy cannon cast by Qi Changguo to bombard Seoul.

There are ten [-]-jin heavy artillery pieces with two ears, a thin mouth and a thick tail, so it didn't take long before they started bombarding Seoul.

boom!

When the first bombardment began, the ground trembled violently, and the whole city of Seoul trembled with fright, causing snow to fall on the city like a snow curtain.

boom!

Following another bombardment, not only snow fell like rain on the city walls of Seoul, but also bricks began to fall like hail. The city's dignitaries and ordinary people were so frightened that they hid in their houses, not daring to come out.

And not long after, a big hole appeared in the city wall.

However, the Ming army just lined up outside and did not rush in.

The defenders in Seoul, North Korea were naturally too frightened, so they rushed to inform Li Yan.

boom!

And the king Li Yan in the main hall also had to make up his mind after hearing the shelling, and said to Lu Shoushen, the leader of the government: "I didn't expect that the Celestial Dynasty would be so strong one day and not as lenient as before, so I borrowed your head to use it." Bar."

Lu Shoushen knelt down with tears in his eyes, prostrated himself in the tunnel and said, "Yes!"

So, on the afternoon of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Da Ti Xue Li Er came out with Lu Shoushen's head in his capacity as a Korean consolation envoy, knelt on the snow, and raised Lu Shoushen's head and shouted: :

"The treacherous official Lu Shoushen deceived the public, separated His Highness from His Majesty's father and son, deliberately plotted chaos, and then pretended to reject the order of the Celestial Dynasty to garrison troops. Now, His Royal Highness has known about him, and he will be killed. I will offer his head to the Celestial Army. I hope that the heaven will send mercy to forgive His Highness for failing to comply with the order!"

After Li Chengliang learned about it, he asked someone to tell the news to Yu Youding, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, an official sent by the Ministry of Rites.

Yu Youding came directly on the big boat of the Liaodong Navy, so he met Li Chengliang and others when he arrived in Seoul, and also saw Zheng Che who was escorted.

After hearing that Zheng Che admitted that he had disobeyed the king's order and refused the heavenly army to enter the city, Yu Youding didn't doubt it. He only reprimanded Zheng Che's disobedience from the perspective of philosophy, and then saw Li Er at this time. Then, he also directly asked:

"This hall is the minister appointed by His Majesty to inquire about His Highness's crimes. How about your Highness?"

"Back to the angel, His Highness is kneeling at the gate of the palace to greet you."

Li Er replied.

"Get up and take us to see him."

(End of this chapter)