Wanli Youming

Chapter 146

Chapter 146

Yizhou City.

Jin Mingyuan, the shepherd envoy of Uiju in North Korea, has only been transferred to Uiju for only three months, and he still doesn't know much about the whole Uiju.

And because it was a severe cold, he was even less interested in reorganizing his military equipment, and he never thought about what the Ming Dynasty, who had always only cared about Jurchen and Mongolia, would do to North Korea.

Therefore, when the Ming army arrived here, Jin Mingyuan was still eating wine around the stove, joking with one or two concubines.

Just wait until the next day, when the sky just turns pale.

The court soldiers guarding the city found that there were thousands of horsemen outside the city gate.

Looking at it through the heavy snow, it looks like a giant iron dragon lying across the distant field, and it is gradually moving towards Yizhou City.

The defenders of the city hurriedly reported the situation to them.

And Jin Mingyuan learned the news not long after.

Only when Jin Mingyuan arrived, the iron cavalry of the Ming army outside the city had already begun to speed up.

The galloping horses trampled on the snow field, causing white beads to splash.

All of a sudden, the snow and fog filled the air.

Not long after, the cavalry rushing to the front could clearly see their bared teeth and the flying braids behind their heads, like a tiger descending the mountain, and when the court soldiers were in a hurry and at a loss, these cavalry had already begun to take off their horses immediately. Bow and nock.

These cavalrymen who rushed to the front were Jurchens hired by the generals of the Ming army, so they all wore braids.

And their task is to play the role of cannon fodder.

The Jurchens are a fishing and hunting people, they are good at riding and shooting, and now the tribes are scattered, many Jurchens are almost the same as the savages, their food and clothing are very simple, and they are easy to be bought and hired.

Therefore, the generals of the Ming army would buy some Jurchens as slaves to fight for themselves.

What's more, the Wanli New Deal has made Daming financially strong now, not to mention that the frontier generals are not short of pay, and the rewards for meritorious service have never been short, and additional rewards will be added, so they have enough financial resources to buy these The Jurchens who were bought into slavery.

For the Jurchens, fighting for the Ming army is better than fighting wild beasts, not to mention that once the battle is won, the spoils will be huge.

Therefore, in the early days of Wanli, the Jurchens were very willing to be the pawns of the Ming army, even if they are now braving the wind and snow to attack Yizhou.

Boom!

After Jin Mingyuan arrived at Yizhou City, he hurriedly commanded the North Korean defenders to fire guns at the cavalry rushing towards them, and shouted: "Let it go! Let it go!"

However, the North Korean defenders were negligent in training, and because the Ming army appeared too suddenly, they put the guns in a panic, without order, and even released them into the sky.

Whizzing!

At this time, the Jurchen who rushed to the front had already dismounted and formed a formation. He drew his heavy bow and shot up arrows in succession, hitting several North Korean soldiers immediately.

The court soldiers guarding the city became even more flustered, and some collapsed directly with their heads in their hands.

boom!

boom!

boom!

At this time, the main cavalry of the Ming army led by general Yang Huan also came riding on white snow, and fired three cannons.

Jin Mingyuan also saw the rows of sun and moon banners and red and blue cloth masks of the Ming army fluttering under the snow, and immediately collapsed to the ground: "It turned out to be the Heavenly Army!"

And just when Jin Mingyuan was terrified, there was a sudden explosion sound from the gunpowder depot in the city, and flames were sprayed everywhere, and at the same time, fires ignited in various forage fields.

Jin Mingyuan was stunned on the spot: "What's going on?"

"The heavenly army is attacking! Kneel down and don't kill!"

"The heavenly army is attacking! Kneel down and don't kill!"

At that time, Jin Yiwei's secret agent, Wan Bangfu, was holding a torch to light the fire, shouting loudly, and ran directly to the city gate, and gave instructions to hundreds of Liaodong Han people, including Neiying Han Lian, who had gathered here first: "Seize the city!"

After many years of peace in Ming Dynasty, the population surged.

The number of Han people in Liaodong has also increased a lot, but because the imperial government’s finances began to be in a serious deficit before the Wanli Dynasty, most of the Han people with military household registration in Liaodong fled to other places, and many Han people fled to North Korea to seek a living.

Therefore, Jinyiwei organized internal responses in Uiju city and was able to find many Han Chinese as internal responses.

In short, it's all about financial resources.

Now that Daming has strong financial resources, let alone letting Yi Ding attack North Korean Uiju for Daming, it is also possible to let the Han people residing in North Korea fight for Daming again.

Jinyiwei Jingzuo and Han people who mixed into Yizhou City were all dressed in local clothes, so the court soldiers couldn't tell the difference, and they were in a panic, and they didn't know how to deal with the sudden appearance of an armed force. Most of them just ran away with their heads in their hands , There were also those who knelt on the ground obediently because they heard the shouts of Wan Bangfu and other Jinyiwei.

Of course, even if the court soldiers now want to repel the Han armed forces that are the internal support of the Ming army, they can't do it.

Because today's North Korea is in an era of fierce party struggles, and its military equipment has long since been slack. Many Korean soldiers are so short of pay that they have to sell their weapons to survive, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. After all, the imperial court did not pay them, and they could not starve in vain. It would be considered good if they could not rebel.

Therefore, the court soldiers, mainly old, weak, sick and disabled, saw Wan Bangfu and other nephews, even if they didn't have time to escape, they were killed as quickly as they were chopped melons and vegetables, and their corpses were scattered all over the field.

Not long after, the gate of Yizhou City was opened by Daming Neiying.

The cavalry of the Ming army who had been cruising outside for a long time broke in immediately, and immediately attacked the standing court soldiers without stopping. It didn't take long for a large number of cavalry to pour in.

When Jin Mingyuan, the shepherd envoy of Uiju, North Korea, was escorted to the Ming army general Yang Huan, the Ming army had already controlled the entire Uiju city and extinguished the fires everywhere.

And Jin Mingyuan could only accept his fate, he didn't expect that the Ming army would appear quietly under the city of Yizhou, and he had already had internal response, so he could only kneel in front of Yang Huan:

"Forgive me, the heavenly army! The ministers of the vassal state don't know how the vassal state offended the heavenly dynasty;"

"However, please Tianjun know that this minister is originally a Westerner Party, and was relegated here because he disobeyed Li Shanhai, the powerful official of the Eastern Party. As a Westerner Party, like the entire Westerner Party, I respect the Celestial Dynasty like parents of the country;"

"So no matter what, as long as the Heavenly Army is willing to spare my life, I will work hard to appease the anger of my parents!"

Yang Huan sat down on a chair in front of Jin Mingyuan, and said: "This time, my heavenly army entered the court to question the treacherous ministers around your highness, so I will not kill you! You don't have to panic , as long as you are willing to cooperate, the Heavenly Army will not do anything to you."

"Willing to serve the Celestial Dynasty!"

Jin Mingyuan was overjoyed and hurriedly kowtowed to the ground.

Therefore, with the cooperation of Jin Mingyuan, all the passes in Yizhou were opened.

Therefore, the southern soldiers of the Ming Dynasty from Wu Weizhong's department passed the road smoothly and came to Yizhou City.

Yang Huan, on the other hand, saw a large number of Wufang flags representing Wu Weizhong's southern soldiers, and rushed to Anzhou with [-] cavalry, leaving only Jin Mingyuan and his [-] cavalry to wait for Wu Weizhong in Yizhou.

Right now, northern North Korea is experiencing severe drought and starvation among the people, especially in the Anju area. However, Lee's North Korea is currently busy with party struggles. The Western Party and the Eastern Party are fighting fiercely, so they have no time to take care of disaster relief.

Therefore, when Yang Huan led his troops here, he felt that he had entered a hell on earth.

The Anzhou defenders fled without a fight because there was not much food to defend.

Because of this, Yang Huan went to Anzhou without a fight, and in order to avoid the plague caused by famine after the beginning of spring, after staying [-] cavalry, he also ordered the cavalry to bury the bones.

As for Yang Huan himself, he led the remaining [-] cavalry to attack Pyongyang.

At this time, Pyongyang has heard that the police are strictly guarding it.

Therefore, Yang Huan, who had rich combat experience, had to decide to temporarily withdraw to Anzhou, and when the main force arrived, he did not rush to attack other counties.

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

Li Chengliang led the main force to Anzhou, and left Anzhou on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, and entered and camped ten miles outside Pyongyang.

Because Li Chengliang's main force came with enough grain and forage, he took the opportunity to distribute grain and recruit the hungry Korean people as soldiers, and ordered them to build wooden carts and various siege equipment for the Ming army.

For this reason, Li Chengliang set up seven porridge factories and recruited tens of thousands of Korean people to work here.

"It's despicable! To distribute food to the victims!"

Observing Ping'an Road made Zheng Che very angry when he saw this scene, but he had no choice but to send someone to continue to rush to Seoul for help.

(End of this chapter)