Chapter 62: Sky Ridge
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After the weather cleared, he could not wait for the friendly signal released by the Seoul side, nor the condolences of the labor army from the Hongyuan side, Wei Gonggong could only regretfully say to his subordinates and the Korean civil and military forces in Jingcheng: He must prove to the Korean reactionaries who dare to defy the authority of the Celestial Empire with practical actions that the sanctity of the Ming Emperor and his envoys cannot be questioned!
Considering that this war was different from crossing the river to enter the country, it was necessary to be benevolent and righteous, so the father-in-law of Wei personally wrote a letter declaring war and ordered people to send it to Hongyuan.
The book says:
"We came to North Korea to inspect on behalf of the sky, but for more than a month, we have been repeatedly despised by the Er Domain, and we have even fought against each other, which is really chilling to our hearts. In the former, there was a mirror city to protect the palace to make Yuan not understand our true intentions, so he caused trouble in vain, disturbed the peace of the vassals, and finally caused the imperial army to rise up and hang its head in the capital city.
Today, there is peace and rebellion in the shadow of the town, doing the things of the brothers, repenting, fueling the ambition of the thieves of the vassal against the Ming, completely ignoring the grace of our Ming reconstruction, ignoring the bloody sacrifice of our Ming soldiers, and strengthening the armament of our Ming envoys and imperial army soldiers to provoke disputes.
For the sake of the long-term relationship between the two countries, we have repeatedly forbeared, and the rebels have no spirit of concession, nor do they have the sincerity to plead guilty, and they have postponed the resolution of the situation in vain.
Recently, Hongyuan has been increasingly strengthened, trying to make us subordinate. In the long run, the efforts of our Ming Empire for the stability of the Er vassal for more than 200 years are bound to come to naught. And the existence of the empire will also be on the verge of contempt for the small.
Therefore, for the majesty of the Ming Empire, for the livelihood of the Ming Emperor's pro-army soldiers, and for the honor of the Ming Dynasty, we can only resolutely rise up and smash all obstacles!
Today, I will tell you that you are safe and traitors, and on the day the city is broken, all the jade will be burned! ”
The declaration of war was signed by the Ming Emperor's pro-army commander and ministers.
On the day the war was issued, the father-in-law personally led a large army out of Anchuan, overcoming many difficulties along the way, temporarily building four pontoon bridges, demolishing several villages, and enforcing thousands of people to ensure that the official road soaked by the flood could barely pass through the carriages and horses.
In the process, the efforts of the Korean people are enormous, and the sacrifices are enormous!
For this reason, Gonggong Wei specially met with the representatives of the Korean people and said to them: "Today, the people have suffered some losses and suffered some hardships, but soon they will get more benefits and greater happiness!" ”
Where do more benefits, greater happiness come from?
From Hong Yuan!
Gonggong Wei solemnly promised the Korean people who accompanied the Korean army and sacrificed along the way that as long as the heavenly soldiers took Hongyuan and punished those Korean officials who were disrespectful to the Celestial Empire, they would definitely take out the assets of these corrupt officials and distribute them to the people, and promised to open a warehouse in Hongyuan to release grain.
"Long live Daming! Angel Chitose! ”
The excited Park Zhengtai immediately led the people to cheer, but was reprimanded by Wei Gonggong again afterwards, and he couldn't go beyond it. However, the name "Chitose" quickly spread throughout North Korea after this call, resulting in the "false king" incident in the future.
The imperial army is not afraid of difficult expeditions, and thousands of rivers and mountains are just waiting for leisure.
Inspired by the example of Gonggong Wei and the pioneers, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Emperor's army and the officers and soldiers of the Korean brigade carried forward the spirit of fearlessness, and actively advanced at the speed of marching sixteen miles a day, and finally saw a mountain after climbing a not high mountain on the third day, after climbing a not high peak, Wolf Forest Mountain.
From a distance, the elevation of the mountain is more than 1,000 meters, and the official road is built along this mountain, stretching out in the east-west direction in the middle of the mountain.
"Angel, over this skyscraper is Hongyuan!"
Dressed in a flying fish suit, Xuan Yu, the commander of the original water army who served as the head of the brigade, hurriedly came from the front with his personal entourage and reported the news that the Tanma had just come from the front, and the Hongyuan army was found under the Motian Ridge.
"Ferris Ridge?"
The father-in-law looked at it and glanced at Park Zhengtai beside him, who nodded affirmatively, and the father-in-law suddenly waved his hand: "Take Motianling!" ”
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The terrain of Motianling is extremely important, it is the traffic artery from Hongyuan to Jingcheng, when the Imjin War, the Japanese Kato Department captured Hongyuan from Hamhung, and then tried to cross the Motianling and go deep into Jingcheng, but was stubbornly resisted by Han Kecheng, the North Provincial Soldier of the North Korean Army, after paying more than 300 casualties, Kato Kiyomasa's Second Army successfully occupied Motianling, and achieved a great victory of annihilating thousands of Korean troops, and then captured the Korean prince Linhaejun and Shunhejun in Hoeryeong.
Although Katobe's Japanese army did not completely occupy the Jingcheng Prefecture, he himself led 5,000 Japanese troops to cross the Tumen River, that is, the great river where Duke Wei entered Korea from Jianzhou, and became the only Japanese general to invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty in this war, and fought with the Jianzhou Jurchen Nurhaci. More than 100 captured Japanese soldiers and the Japanese deserters were organized into two cattle records by Nurhachi and participated in the war against the Ming Dynasty.
In view of the importance of Motianling, Hongyuan's chief general Liu Xi ordered Han Gui, the deputy general of Hongyuan, to lead Li Rui, the envoy of soldiers and horses, Pu Zhengyong, the commander of Hongyuan's soldiers and horses, Wu Zhongshuo, the commander of soldiers and horses, and Cui Rongshi, the commander of Xianxing County, to lead more than 5,000 soldiers from Hongyuan and Xianxing counties to seize Motianling.
Liu Xifen personally banned the rest of the soldiers and horses with the 2000 Northern Forbidden Army as the main force, and selected suitable fighters to encircle and annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop.
In order to ensure victory in this battle, the North Korean army carried a lot of firearms, including more than a dozen Tiger Squat cannons. After the military order was issued, Han Gui immediately urged the generals to act, but due to the uneven quality of the county soldiers, it was difficult to assemble in place in a short time. Therefore, Han Gui first led more than 100 elite soldiers up the mountain with the generals, wanting to observe the movements of the enemy.
As Hongyuan's soldier and horse control envoy, Han Gui did not have a clairvoyant mirror as a sharp weapon to look at the enemy, so he and everyone found a high place on the mountain to peek at the enemy from a distance.
I saw flags fluttering on the road in the distance, the line was very long, and the front was full of foot soldiers, because it was far away, it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the Ming army or the puppet army of Mirror City in front.
"Whether it's the Ming army or the puppet soldiers, General Cui, are you sure that the soldiers and horses of Xianxing County are holding the front line?" Han Gui looked at the Xianxing County soldiers and horses control envoy Cui Zarong beside him.
Cui Rongshi, who was dressed in armor, heard this, and said confidently: "General Han can rest assured, he can fight again, and my son of Xianxing has also worked with the Japanese people, and he also climbed Pyongyang back then!" Twenty years ago, Cui Rongshi led hundreds of Xianxing troops to follow the Ming army to regain Pyongyang.
Seeing that Cui Rongshi was confident, and the morale of the more than 1,600 Xianxing soldiers he brought seemed to be good, Han Gui couldn't help but be happy, but thinking that the reason why the capital of Jingcheng fell so quickly was that in addition to not knowing the details of the Ming army at the beginning and the dispersion of troops, what was more important was that the combat effectiveness of the Ming people was indeed strong, so he reminded Cui Rongshi: "The general's courage is commendable, but you must be careful, you must not underestimate the enemy." ”
After finishing speaking, he raised his hand and pointed his horsewhip at the enemy troops who were coming towards Motianling in the distance, "After the battle, the general's headquarters will try to attack the puppet soldiers in Mirror City first. ”
Cui Rongshi nodded and agreed, he was not stupid, how could he really lead his troops to attack the Ming army.
Park Zhengyong, Marquis of Hongyuan's soldiers and horses, who didn't speak much after going up the mountain, suddenly said: "General Choi, this time we must show the prestige of our Koreans no matter what, so that those Ming people know that our North Korea also has brave generals and strong troops!" ”
Cui Rongshi frowned when he heard this, because he had quarreled with Park Zhengyong a few days ago, because the other party withheld the grain for the soldiers of Xianxing County for private sale, and even scolded them in front of General Liu that the soldiers of Xianxing were rice buckets, so angry that Cui Rongshi scuffled with him on the spot.
Now that the other party is saying this kind of thing, it makes Choi Yong-seok sound very awkward, he glanced at Park Jung-yong, trying to observe his true intentions from the other party's expression. However, Park Jung-yong's face was very sincere, and his words were moving, making it impossible to find out whether he was sincere or implicitly sarcastic.
The Ping'an Dao soldiers and horses were restrained with Wu Zhongshuo to see Cui Rongshi's appearance, and hurriedly stepped forward, saying that the enemy army had appeared, and the soldiers should hurry up the mountain, but they could not let the enemy soldiers rob the skyscraper.
Han Guishen thought so, and quickly ordered the generals to go down the mountain to urge his subordinates to go up the mountain, and then led his guards to inspect the terrain and deploy troops.
Before that time, Park Jung-yong's troops were the first to go up the mountain, followed by Choi Yong-seok's Hamheung-jun soldiers and the rest of the county-level soldiers. On the other side of the mountain, the Ming army's horses and the North Korean army's horses have begun to fight fiercely, and the sound of guns can be heard from a distance from time to time.
Judging from the sound of the gun, it should be the unique three-eyed gun of the Ming army, which can be equipped with cavalry. However, the terrain of Motianling was not suitable for cavalry combat at all, so Han Gui judged that this was the use of a small group of exploration horses by the Ming army.
As time passed, the Ming army sent more Tanma to suppress the Korean Tanma, but because the North Korean army had seized Motianling, the intelligence of the Ming army had become unimportant to the Korean generals.
Han Gui deployed more than a dozen tiger squat cannons on the mountainside, which was a necessary place for the official road. Speaking of which, these tiger squat cannons were left to the North Korean army by the Ming army back then, and the 2,000 northern forbidden troops under the main general Liu Xifen were trained by the Ming generals, and they were called "Xiao Qi's army" in North Korea.
After the various units entered the predetermined location one after another, and after completing the preparations for the battle, Han Gui's heart began to let go, and he ordered someone to inform Liu Xifen, the chief general on the other side of the mountain, that it was estimated that with the speed of the enemy's action, it was very likely that he would not attack Motianling today, because it was getting dark.
Liu Xifen also believed that the Ming army would not launch a night battle, the terrain of Motianling was very complicated, some places were extremely steep, the Ming army was not familiar with the terrain, and it was difficult for the brigade to deploy, if a night battle was launched, the losses would be huge.
The Ming army could not start a night battle, but the Korean army could. Liu Xifen ordered Han Gui to send a small force of troops and horses to disrupt the attack after the Ming army arrived at Motianling, so that the Ming army could not camp and exhaust them as much as possible.
Han Gui also had this intention, but what he never expected was that after the Ming army arrived at the foot of Motianling, they found that the mountain had been occupied by the Korean army, so they immediately retreated to the rear for three miles, and then ordered a large number of soldiers to dig deep ditches. The North Korean soldiers tried to attack, but they were all repelled by the prepared Ming troops.
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