The Korean monarchs and ministers argued falsely, and Magui attacked Ulsan for the second time

After Ding Yingtai impeached the Korean collaborator, the DPRK also defended the Wanli Emperor and convened a court meeting to argue with Ding Yingtai. Ding Yingtai said: "What else is there to ask now? According to the record in the "Haidong Chronicle", North Korea has long been a traffic thief, offering mutual markets, and there are Japanese households living in the Miura area, what is not true? ”

Liu Chenglong, the leader of the council, defended: "In that year, Jihai defeated the Japanese state in the east, so that the Japanese state was sent to the court, and in order to show grace, the Japanese embassy was set up in Miura to settle the Japanese envoys and allow them to live and trade for generations. We are also always worried about the changes in the Japanese state, and in order to seek knowledge and protect the community, we wrote the book "Haidong Chronicles". Now, more than 150 years have passed since the DPRK and the Japanese state severed diplomatic relations, and after the Japanese rebellion in the Miura area 88 years ago, all the Japanese households in the Miura region have been expelled. ”

Ding Yingtai asked again: "If the Korean people study the Three Classics, they know the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, and they should be respectful of the Heavenly Dynasty. And the small characters are divided into Yongle, Xuande, Jingtai, and Chenghua years under the Wa State era? This is clearly the meaning of respecting the Japanese country! ”

Liu Chenglong argued: "The Haidong Chronicle is only a book written by the people to explore the affairs of the Japanese state, and when describing the lineage of the kings of the Japanese Kingdom, it is natural to mention the year of the Japanese kings. The Korean ministers also subsequently accused Ding Yingtai of impeachment.

Ding Yingtai sneered: "It's really clever words, and for the convenience of comparison, you will write a small book of the year number of the Celestial Dynasty?" Nonsense! What is the explanation for the blasphemy of claiming ancestors in the book? The ancestral and ancestral temple numbers can only be used in the Celestial Empire, and the king of Joseon only posthumously gives the nickname. The first three generations of kings of North Korea have been posthumously given the nicknames Kangxian, Gongding, and Zhuangxian, but North Korea actually privately used the temple name to call King Kangxian Taejo, King Gongding as Taejong, and King Zhuangxian as Sejong, do you want me to point them out one by one? Offend the kingdom and encroach on provocation! Your Highness, what do you explain? ”

The king of Joseon, Li Hao, was at a loss and was speechless for a while. Ding Yingtai said: "Since you can't explain, then you can wait for the emperor to condemn the crime, and you can continue to defend yourself and ask the emperor to make a holy judgment." Ding Yingtai left after saying this, and the Korean monarch was deeply frightened and did not know how to respond.

On the other side, after the arrival of the new Jing Luo Wan Shide, he immediately discussed the military with Xing Jue. Xing Jue said: "Our army now has sufficient troops, and has an advantage over the enemy, and on land, except for Busan, it has compressed the Japanese in the three districts of Suncheon, Sacheon, and Ulsan, and gradually encroached upon, but these places are easy to defend and difficult to attack. I intend to divide the army into four routes, and each road will have a general. The central route was led by Li Rumei to capture Jinju and Sacheon, the eastern route was led by Magui to capture Ulsan, the western route was led by Yoo Ling and Kwon Li to capture Suncheon, and the water route was led by Chen Lin and the Korean naval army to approach island by island, and the sea route responded to the land attack, and the troops of the four routes finally completed the siege in Busan. What do you think of this deployment? ”

Wan Shide said: "I have no objection to what the superintendent said, and it should be arranged as such. I privately think that the generals who assist all walks of life are also extremely important, and they can make Wu Weizhong, Mao Guoqi and other auxiliary middle roads, deputy commander-in-chief Wang Shengfu East Road, deputy commander-in-chief Wu Guangfu West Road, and Deng Zilong auxiliary waterway. Each of the three land routes led 30,000 troops, and the western route also had 10,000 Korean soldiers to help, and you and I led 10,000 troops in case of emergency, and 100,000 heavenly soldiers would be able to wipe out the Japanese invaders. ”

Li Rumei said: "There will be a request in the end, and I hope that the superintendent, the manager, and the admiral will forgive the sins." My brother Li Rusong died in a battle on May 8, and my father was bedridden because of the bad news, and my father asked the emperor to ask me and my brother Ruwu to rush back immediately, and I was afraid that it would be difficult to take up the post of general in the middle road. The Great War is imminent, so it is difficult. I hope forgive my sins. ”

Wan Shide was immediately relieved: "There is no need to be so, Liaodong Li's family, all the children are the pillars of the country, Li Rusong's great achievements are relied on by the world, it is really sad to die on the battlefield today, you and your brother have a deep relationship, naturally you can't bear it easily, and Ning Yuanbo is ten times more painful, even so, you and Brother Ling can be on call first, and when the will is passed to the army, your two brothers will return to Liaodong, there is no need to worry here." Li Rumei thanked her.

Later, Wan Shide ordered Dong Yiyuan to replace Li Rumei as the general of the middle lane and said: "This all-out attack is intended to deter the enemy, disperse and contain its forces, and make it difficult for them to fully respond. However, the city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and all roads should not rashly attack, and it is necessary to besiege the city to take advantage of it, gradually forge ahead, and block the enemy's rescue. The waterways will also come to their aid. Chen Lin needs to work closely with the North Korean navy and not bully his friends because of his superiority. ”。

Xing Jue added: "Although the enemy is weak, but the trapped beast is still fighting, all sides must be cautious, do not take the enemy lightly, the thief is cunning, in case the army is defeated, if the enemy is helping to hold on to the spot, do not give the enemy a chance to take advantage of, I and Jing Liuzi have other arrangements." "The generals commanded. At the end of September, the Ming armies began to march towards Suncheon, Jinju, and Ulsan, which were occupied by the Japanese army.

As early as July, the Japanese army received an order from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and ordered more than half of the lords, including Kobayakawa Hideaki and Ukita Hideya, to return to China with a total of more than 70,000 people to return to China for rest. The Japanese troops who were able to return home could not help but cheer, and Kuroda Rusui was also deeply disturbed, wondering what the situation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi was. The Ming army has the advantage, the Japanese army retreats to the coast, although there is no major problem in sea transportation, but it is also preparing to deal with the attack of the joint naval army of the DPRK and Ming, the remaining Japanese troops are deployed according to Kuroda Rushui, Kato Kiyomasa leads 10,000 to defend Ulsan, Shimazu Yoshihiro leads 10,000 to guard Sacheon, Konishi Yukinaga leads 10,000 to guard Sunten, and the rest of the day will be stationed in Busan to meet all places at any time. Kuroda Rushui planned and dispatched day and night, contacted back and forth, sent more military rations, and urged all parts of the country to repair the castle pill in preparation for the big war.

After learning that the Ming Dynasty was also extremely dissatisfied, Li Hao sent an order to the Chengzheng Yuan, saying that the impeachment of Joseon by Ding Yingtai was caused by his outspoken retention of Yang Ho. The Son of Heaven's decree to condemn the crime has not yet been issued, and he must be on standby for the crime just like the Duke of Zhou who was falsely accused by the villain, and he does not dare to deal with himself as a vassal king, and he is determined to stop sitting in the court to govern the government, and all government affairs in Korea will be handled by the prince for the time being.

The Joseon king will ignore the state affairs, and this decision made it very difficult for the Seongjeongyuan, and the Seongjeongwon successively asked Li Hao to retract his order, but Li Hao repeatedly did not reply. In this regard, Liu Chenglong, the leader of the government, led 100 officials of North Korea to kneel down three times in a row to ask Li Hao to re-manage the national affairs and send a defense envoy to the Ming Dynasty. And Li Hao reverted to the body of guilt, shameless to lead the country, and the ministers could be displayed in the government of the kingdom, or cry bitterly or resign from the vassal position on behalf of the widow. Li Hao insisted on the righteousness of being a minister and wanted to follow the example of Duke Zhou.

The Japanese army had not yet been expelled from Korea, so Li Dexin complained that the king of Korea acted willfully, and Liu Chenglong stopped: "Don't talk nonsense!" Do you think His Highness will be as willful as a child?! For His Highness the Lord, his identity is extremely embarrassing. Under the relationship between the clan and the vassals, His Royal Highness is the courtier of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and must always remain loyal. And His Royal Highness is the monarch of Joseon and needs the loyalty of his Korean subjects. Both are the foundations of North Korea. Therefore, a false accusation against His Highness is a false accusation against the whole of Korea. Once the Ming Dynasty determines that His Royal Highness loses his loyalty, the relationship between the two countries will disappear, and in addition to facing the possibility of crusade, His Highness's status in Korea will also face a crisis and cause civil strife, and Korea will be in danger of losing the country. And now that the rebellion has not been settled, His Royal Highness must first make some representations to His Majesty the Emperor. It would be effective to send a defence envoy again. Li Dexin suddenly realized after listening to what Liu Chenglong said.

Later, Liu Chenglong and Yi Doushou were summoned by Li Hao, and Li Hao cried: "The reason why I was hesitant to ask for rescue from the Ming army was that I was worried that the private use of the temple number would be discovered, but now not only the temple number has been discovered, but also has been slandered, how can the widow be good?" ”

Liu Chenglong said: "Your Highness, please be sure to strengthen your sacred heart, most of the things that Ding Yingtai slandered can be explained to His Majesty the Emperor, and there is not too much trouble." The most important thing for us in Ding Yingtai's impeachment recital is the year name and the temple name, and we must try to explain them. ”

Li Hao said: "The widow has seen this "Haidong Chronicle", in fact, what Ding Yingtai said is true, but the problem of the size of the year name writing is just a commentary convention. As for the exchange of markets with the Japanese state, it is also an imitation of the policy of the Celestial Empire, which can indeed be explained according to what the prime minister said. Only the temple number is extremely difficult to hide, and the widow heard that Admiral Li Rusong had asked the right minister about this matter before, and the right minister called this a manifestation of the courtier's honorific title of monarch's father, and I don't know whether it was prevaricating in the past. But the most puzzling thing is where did Ding Yingtai get this "Haidong Chronicle"? Did anyone lose his conscience and secretly handed over this book to Ding Yingtai to cure the widow to death. If so, this is treason! The widow must find out who did it! ”

Liu Chenglong offered advice: "Your Highness, the defense is the most important thing now, and the minister suggested that the temple number should not be mentioned in the defense recital." The minister guessed that Ding Yingtai had submitted the "Haidong Chronicles" to the Ministry of Rites and the palace, so now he must immediately collect the original copies of the "Haidong Chronicles" and compare them one by one, and settle them one by one, so that he can calmly deal with them when arguing against them. In addition, many literate scholars should write arguments and choose from them. ”

Yi Doushou has a different opinion on this: "The minister thinks that it may not be feasible to conceal the temple number as the minister said, and my country's temple number is known to the Celestial Empire, and there are not a few books such as "The Victory of the Land" and "Summary of Examination Affairs" that flow into the Celestial Empire. Ding Yingtai would have made a big fuss about the temple number, how could His Majesty the Emperor and the hundred officials of the Celestial Dynasty not know, if they deliberately concealed it and did not answer, Ding Yingtai would definitely think that we had no words, and it was better to play back according to the truth. And the rest of the ministers have no objections. The Joseon monarchs and ministers reached an agreement and ordered the people of the whole country to submit a petition for selection. In the end, Li Hao chose the essay written by Gongcao and Li Tinggui.

Li Hao hoped that Liu Chenglong would serve as the defense envoy, but Liu Chenglong was reluctant, and instead recommended Li Hengfu as Chen Zuozheng's envoy, Gongcao Senju Li Tinggui as the deputy envoy, and Siyi Huang Ruyi organized a delegation for the pleadings to prepare for entering Beijing to defend and mediate.

Li Hao summoned Li Hengfu and Li Tinggui for relevant Q&A? Yi Tinggui replied: "The minister thinks that it is necessary to state the position and attitude of the DPRK towards the Japanese state in the matters of transportation and thieves, offering mutual markets, recruiting Japanese land, and self-inflicted suffering. The Wa Kingdom has always been a border trouble for Korea, so there is a Jihai Crusade. The DPRK has always regarded the Japanese as a country of birds and beasts that is inferior to the Yidi, but it was only for the sake of life that they exchanged envoys with each other, and the purpose of the envoys was also to listen to the information of the Japanese and to be ready to eliminate the troubles of the Japanese at all times. The minister will stay the course. ”

Li Hengfu Chen Zuo: "Secondly, we should clarify the origin of the Miura Wakoto, after the establishment of the Wakan, it was only to facilitate trade and fishing between the two sides, and the behavior of the Wako was carried out under strict control at that time. And after the pacification of the Miura War, Miura no longer has a Japanese household, which was nearly a hundred years ago, how could North Korea recruit Japanese to commit the Celestial Empire? It can be seen from this that Ding Yingtai only used a few words on this matter and ignored history, which is actually a deliberate slander. ”

Li Tinggui played again: "Regarding the matter of the era name, the minister thought that he should first explain the origin of the "Chronicles of Haidong" written by Lord Shin Shuzhou, and tried his best to downplay the status of Lord Shin Shuzhou and this book in Korea, and designated this book as just a foreign anecdote for reference only. The same annotation of the era name in the "Spring and Autumn Period" of the minister's view, so the minister will cite the "Spring and Autumn" as an example to explain that the era name of the Celestial Dynasty in the small book is only for annotation, otherwise how could the Chenghua era be used after the preface? At the same time, he reprimanded the Japanese for not serving the Celestial Empire, proclaiming himself emperor, daring to have an arrogance, and serving the country as the emperor to resist the heavenly discipline. will be able to win the heart of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Li Hengfu said: "As for the evaluation of the previous emperors of the Celestial Dynasty in the book, we think that it should be called a general discussion of the way to be treated in ancient times, but it is just a fallacy of the wording of the literati. This book is an old book from a hundred years ago, and it is very trivial, and it can neither be regarded as an official position nor show our current attitude. ”

Yi Tinggui said again: "The matter of claiming the ancestor was not deliberately done by Joseon, but a mistake that has continued since Silla and Goryeo. This is a crime of ignorance and recklessness, and it is unreasonable to impeach the DPRK for arrogance. We should recall to His Majesty the Emperor the acts of respect from top to bottom since the founding of the DPRK. ”

Li Hao was pleased: "As it should be, as you wrote in your essay, North Korean children can know the Celestial Empire with just one sentence, and Xi Zhengshuo is the first to understand the unsolved words. Li Tinggui said: "Your Highness is wise, we must not only refute all the untruths of Ding Yingtai, but also accuse Ding Yingtai of confusing right and wrong, implicating the generals of the Eastern Expedition one after another, delaying the military aircraft, and rebounding and impeaching him for the crime of misleading the country, the people, and the king." In the end, it turned out that North Korea will be obedient for generations to come. Li Hao was overjoyed, and ordered the mission to repeatedly consider the text, without any mistakes, and set off on a scheduled date.

In October, Magui led 22,000 troops to surround Ulsan again, and another 8,000 troops were divided into an ambush around the southwest to Dongnae to guard against enemy reinforcements. During this period, there was a lot of rain and little sunshine, the roads were muddy, the performance of the Ming artillery was poor, and the climatic conditions were about the same as during the First Battle of Ulsan. Ma Gui ordered the whole army to attack the city in batches, the Ming army is different from the last battle of Ulsan, a large number of artillery has been transported, although there is a fire out from time to time in the rainy situation, but the Japanese army defending the city has been greatly deterred, the two sides fought fiercely for many days, the Ming army stormed Ulsan, Kato Kiyomasa still did not take a field battle with the Ming army in this battle, the tactics of defending the city, the Ming army failed to quickly break through Ulsan for a while.

Since the last battle, the Japanese army has built the city defense more solidly, there are long encircled multiple outer fences within three miles outside the city, the Japanese arquebus fire is still intensive, every time the Ming army rushes forward, the Japanese projectiles are like rain, and the Ming army is difficult to approach. Only the artillery could hit the city walls, but it was not powerful enough when it rained. Magui Sunrise Guerrilla challenged, sometimes changing formations and sometimes feinting to retreat to lure Kato Kiyomasa out of the city to pursue, but Kato Kiyomasa was indifferent to this and couldn't defend it. Magui even scolded in person, Kato Kiyomasa still ignored it, Magui was furious, took advantage of the sunny weather to order the army to attack and cover, and sent 5,000 elite soldiers to burn the fence outside the city and retreat.

At night of the same day, Ma Gui ordered an ambush in the camp to guard against the night attack of the Japanese army, and the adjutant Li Fangchun asked: "The Japanese are all under the surveillance of our army in the city, and the admiral has already set up an ambush in the Donglai area to block the enemy's reinforcements, how can the enemy attack at night?" Ma Gui said: "Although our army has surrounded Ulsan, we still must not relax our vigilance, and today we will burn the fence outside the city, and the smoke will be thick, and the enemy will have the opportunity to attack after nightfall." And although an ambush is set up in the Donglai area, it is not able to completely block the road of the enemy's reinforcements, if the Japanese come to help from the sea, our army is difficult to defend, I don't know when the enemy's reinforcements are coming, and it is just prudent. ”

That night, as expected, the Japanese army raided at night, and after landing 5,000 reinforcements for Tachibana Muneshige, on the order of Kuroda Rusui, he did not join Kato Kiyomasa, but took advantage of the night to take the road and went straight to the Ming army camp. Ma Gui is happy,

After the Japanese army broke into the camp, he personally led the elite cavalry to counterattack the raid, the Ming army's iron cavalry were all holding ring whips, indiscriminately beating like rain and thunder, and the ambush firearms hit their rear team, the Japanese army was caught off guard, the iron artillery team was difficult to array, and the counterattack was loose and soon collapsed, Tachibana Somao saw that the Ming army had already laid an ambush and ordered the withdrawal of troops to retreat into Ulsan.

Kato Kiyomasa saw Tachibana Muneshige coming to help, and was immediately moved and hugged each other tightly, Kato Kiyomasa asked if the war outside the city was done by Tachibana Muneshige? Tachibana Muneshige said: "I'm ashamed to say that after I landed, I guessed that the Ming army was still aware of it, and it was when it was the time to attack its own camp at night, so I didn't join you first. However, he never thought that the Ming army had already taken precautions, and hurriedly withdrew into Ulsan in order to avoid excessive casualties. ”

Kato Kiyomasa expressed his deep gratitude: "It's really hard for you, I didn't expect the Ming army to be so cautious, today the fence outside the city was burned, I also took the opportunity to attack at night, as you said today, if you go out of the city to attack, you will definitely lose." Tachibana Muneshige proposed: "Since the Battle of Changhua, the art of the iron artillery team to meet the cavalry has also been popularized by our army, but in the field against the Ming cavalry, there are more defeats and fewer victories, so it seems that the tactics must be changed." ”

Kato Kiyomasa said: "This is all an afterthought, the Ming army is indeed strong in field battles, and it cannot be easily attacked." You will come to help, you and I will attack and defend Ulsan to the death, and it is better to wait for the opportunity to act. Tachibana Zongmao offered: "I have another plan, the Ming army is ambushed at the end of the day, I want to return the favor to the other way, and also set up an ambush for the Ming army." Set up a fake battalion outside the city to attract the Ming army to attack, only leave part of the troops in the battalion, the main force in the forest to take the banner, the Ming army may not be able to expect that our army will be ambushed after the immediate counter-implementation of this plan, the Ming army in order to be cautious should divide the troops to attack, even if we want to be a cage city, we also need a big victory to boost morale, I will set up an ambush, you cut off its back road. "Kiyomasa Kato acted according to the plan.

The next day it was rainy again, and the Ming army found that the Japanese reinforcements had set up a camp outside the city, and there was no baggage in the camp. Could it be that he intended to cooperate with the Japanese army in the city to defend each other? It's weird. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Wang Sheng asked: "The Japanese army is self-righteous, and it can be seen in the night attack last night, but the arrogant and brutal man, Admiral, I am willing to lead a section to explore the reality of the enemy camp." Ma Gui ordered Wang Sheng to lead 2,000 troops to attack the enemy camp, and Ma Gui led 3,000 troops to respond.

Wang Sheng led the troops straight to the enemy camp, very fast, rushed into the enemy camp and then started a battle with the Japanese army, Wang Sheng was surprised to find that the Japanese army in the camp was only more than 1,000 troops, by no means the main force of the reinforcements, knowing the plan and ordered to withdraw, Tachibana Zongmao immediately led the troops from the forest to pour out of the nest to besiege Wang Sheng, Tachibana Zongmao directly took Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng was also fearless to draw his sword to face the battle.

And Ma Gui saw Wang Sheng in ambush, immediately ordered the whole army to rescue, suddenly saw Kato Kiyomasa leading 3,000 troops from the Ming army flank to launch a surprise attack, Ma Gui was furious, back to the horse to fight, ordered the soldiers to divide into two ways, ordered Xie Sheng to block all the way, Ma Gui led all the way to rescue Wang Sheng. Ma Gui saw that the armor of the leader of the Japanese army was strange, and knew that this person should be Kato Kiyomasa, so he slapped the horse with a long knife and went straight to Kato Kiyomasa. Kato Kiyomasa was about to take the head of the enemy general, and then he danced the film sickle and Pegasus to fight, and the two horses collided, and the two fell off their horses and got up to fight. Kato's spear dance is like splitting the sea and rolling waves, hiding a killing machine. The Magui long knife also has the potential to open up mountains and divide the sea, and it is difficult to have gaps in the body protection of the dancing knife, and it is difficult to distinguish the victory or defeat between the two for dozens of rounds. And the deputy commander-in-chief Wang Sheng has been killed by Tachibana Zongmao, the Ming army is out of the encirclement, Magui also retreated with the army when he saw this, and the Japanese army stopped the pursuit and withdrew into the city. After that, Magui continued to besiege the city, and the two sides confronted each other, and the number of dead on both sides was 5,000 each. The Donglai ambush soldiers set fire to the area, cleared the Japanese stragglers, and rescued thousands of Korean prisoners.