Chapter 591: The Nature of the Wako
When the Korean king and others were pressed to Seoul, a large number of Korean prisoners who had been accumulated in Seoul had also begun to be escorted north to the Ming Dynasty, and eventually, all the Korean prisoners and Korean kings would be pressed to the Ming Dynasty.
"Where did the pirates flee?" Huang Degong asked the scout who had just returned from inquiring about the news.
Although from the beginning, the main target of Huang Degong and others was the defeat of the Korean army, and they ignored the Japanese who escaped from Jiuyunling for the time being, Huang Degong sent scouts to monitor the Japanese invaders from afar from the beginning.
Now that the Korean rout has been completely resolved, and even the Korean king has been captured, it is time to free up his hands to deal with the fleeing Japanese invaders.
"Back to the army commander, the Japanese have fled to the border of Gyeongju Prefecture!" After the scout answered the direction and specific location of the rout, he was a little reluctant to speak, as if he had not finished speaking.
Huang Degong didn't frown, and asked, "Why are you spitting and spitting, and what are the things that haven't been reported?" ”
"Captain Hui, the Japanese have also killed a lot of innocent North Korean people along the way!" The scout said.
"Needless to say!" Huang Degong waved his hand, not interested in paying attention to these.
It is not strange that the Japanese were defeated, fled all the way, and caused some killings to the Korean people, he Huang Degong is not a saint, and the Ming Dynasty also came to destroy North Korea, there is no need to do that kind of memorial arch.
"Yes, Commander!" The scout didn't continue, but there was still a strange look on his face.
Huang Degong ignored the killing of the Japanese and focused only on the fact that the Japanese had fled to the border of Gyeongju Prefecture.
Gyeongju Province is located at the southernmost tip of North Korea, close to the sea, and the Japanese invaders landed in Pusan, Gyeongju Province, and now they have fled to Gyeongju Province.
Hmph, the Korean Strait has long been blocked by the Ming East China Sea Fleet, and you still want to escape back to the Wa Kingdom? I want to be beautiful! Since these Japanese invaders dared to intervene in the Ming Dynasty's war of annihilation against Korea, and also sent 150,000 troops to land in Korea and unite with North Korea against the Ming Dynasty, then all the 150,000 Japanese troops will remain in Korea.
When the 150,000 Japanese army landed, 40,000 were killed and wounded in the battle of Jiuyunling, and when they were later defeated, although the Ming army did not deliberately pursue, they did not let go of the face to face, and also annihilated and captured nearly 20,000 prisoners, which means that there were still more than 90,000 people left in the Tokugawa family gang.
More than 90,000 Japanese invaders, this is definitely a large force, at least much stronger than the 100,000 Korean defeated soldiers who followed the Korean king, so in order to wipe out these more than 90,000 Japanese invaders, Huang Degong decided to throw off the Third Army, most of the 18th Army, and 30,000 troops to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the Japanese soldiers such as Tokugawa Jiagang.
"Commander Yan, Seoul and the captives will teach you!" Huang Degong said to Yan Yingyuan.
Yan Yingyuan nodded, and watched Huang Degong and the other 30,000 troops gallop away.
Watching Huang Degong and the other 30,000 troops gradually move away, Feng Houdun next to Yan Yingyuan sighed, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that our Fourth Army landed from the sea and didn't carry the war horses belonging to the Fourth Army, otherwise we could also go after and kill the Japanese Invaders." ”
Compared with guarding prisoners in Seoul, Feng Houdun naturally preferred to go to the battlefield to fight and kill the enemy.
Yan Yingyuan glanced at Feng Houdun and said, "If you are really so idle, I can let you take 1,500 soldiers of the Fourth Army to sweep away all the Korean cities that are still resisting within a radius of 300 miles from Seoul." ”
Although the king of Joseon surrendered and issued an order to surrender, there are always some cities that are still resisting because of various interests, or even if it is not for interests, and because the Ming army has been clearing the rout and unable to free up their hands to receive it, so except for Huang Degong and others who fought all the way from the Yalu River to Seoul in the hands of the Ming army, most of the cities in North Korea are still in the hands of the Koreans.
"Really! Thank you, big brother! Feng Houdun laughed.
Although fifteen hundred men were too few, Feng Houdun still had no pressure to attack the Korean cities that were almost defenseless, and in short, it was better to fight than to sit idle and take care of the prisoners.
Immediately, Feng Houdun also ordered 1,500 soldiers of the Fourth Army to leave Seoul and sweep through the cities of Korea.
The war horses were very fast, and Huang Degong and other 30,000 iron horsemen ran nearly 200 miles in only three hours.
"Newspaper"
"There is a strange situation in a North Korean county ahead!" A scout suddenly galloped in from the front and reported to Huang Degong what he had discovered.
Huang Degong frowned, he originally planned to bypass that county town and run all the way south, but a strange situation suddenly appeared, which made him puzzled and led his army to the North Korean county town to have a look.
When he came to the North Korean county town that the scout said, Huang Degong couldn't help but gasp.
I saw that the city gate was open, and the streets were full of the corpses of dead North Korean civilians, and some survivors were cleaning up some of the corpses on the street.
"Devil, devil is here again, everyone run!" Seeing Huang Degong and a large number of other Ming army iron cavalry rushing into the city, the surviving Korean people immediately fled in fear, and all the figures disappeared in just a few breaths.
Stepping into the county seat, after walking about a few dozen meters, Huang Degong reined in the war horse.
"What's the matter, why did so many people die in this North Korean county, it was killed by robbers?" Huang Degong frowned, and said with some doubts in his heart.
Looking at the corpses and blood all over the ground, as well as the few survivors who had only been seen just now, Huang Degong estimated that at least eighty percent of the people in this North Korean county town had been killed, and he couldn't help but wonder if it was the mountain bandits, but it didn't look like it.
Suddenly, Huang Degong's eyes stayed on a scene not far away, a naked woman died tragically, obviously after many people had committed violence, and next to the tragic woman, there was the body of another four or five-year-old girl who also had obvious signs of violence.
"Hmph, it's cruel to not even let go of breastfeeding children!" Huang Degong said angrily.
The other Ming soldiers were also extremely angry, although they came to destroy the country, but they broke the city all the way, and never killed the Korean people indiscriminately, and the current scene is no different from the slaughter of the city.
Walking in for a distance, there were many North Korean women who were brutally killed, almost every dead North Korean woman was naked, the traces were extremely obvious, and there were still a lot of spilled grain on some roads, Huang Degong had already vaguely guessed what might happen in this North Korean county.
"Go, find the surviving North Korean people and ask them what happened!" Huang Degong said.
"Yes, Commander!" Immediately, a group of soldiers rode forward to look for it.
After a while, a surviving North Korean citizen was brought over.
After inquiry, Huang Degong finally affirmed his conjecture that this county town was the masterpiece of the group of Japanese robbers who fled, and he finally understood why the scout reported to him the whereabouts of the Japanese invaders, why did he have such a strange expression on his face when he said that the Japanese invaders had killed a lot of innocent Korean people along the way, where did this Japanese invaders just kill a lot of innocent Korean people, it was simply a slaughter of the city, no, it was even more exterminating than the slaughter of the city!
Huang Degong's guess was right, it happened about two days ago, and more than 90,000 troops including the Japanese Kou Dechuan Jiagang fled here.
Originally, the military rations were supplied by the Koreans, but as soon as Jiuyunling was defeated, the Koreans were finished, and the Japanese were defeated all the way to the south, so naturally no one provided them with military rations, and after a day of escape, the military rations they brought with them had already been exhausted.
Next, it is not difficult to guess that the nature of the hungry Japanese is exposed and they sack the North Korean county seat.
Hundreds of thousands of young and strong people in North Korea have been wiped out by the Ming army on the front line of Seoul, and the guards of the county town are only three or four hundred improvised young people, no different from the rabble, of course, they cannot resist the attack of more than 90,000 Japanese pirates, and the Japanese pirates entered the city with only one impact.
When they first rushed into the city, the Japanese still only cared about grabbing food, but because they had just been defeated, they kept fleeing all day long, and the depression in their hearts made them not want to vent all the time, so while the Japanese robbed the food, they met a beautiful North Korean woman, and some people couldn't help but start, there are one and two, all the Japanese want to vent, this woman in the North Korean county has a nightmare.
Because the county is not big, only tens of thousands of people, even if the North Korean women account for half of the only 10,000 or 20,000, which also includes the old women of the girls, and there are more than 90,000 of the widows, the ferocious widows in order to vent, even the old women of the girls are not spared, and in this process, naturally there are many North Korean men to stop, this is the current tragic situation of the county, almost all the women were killed, the men did not let go, most of them were killed, nearly ninety percent of the people killed in this county.
"Wokos are so perverted, damn it!" Huang Degong's face was iron-clad, and his characterization of the Japanese Kou had reached the point of being perverted and inhumane.
The other Ming soldiers also agreed in their hearts that the Japanese were indeed inhumane.
In fact, such a thing was also done in the Ming Dynasty, during the Jiajing period, the Japanese invaded the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, many villages and towns were broken by the Japanese Invaders are such a tragic situation, but in the end in the past hundred years, only the history books and some legends record the brutality of the Japanese and the annihilation of human nature, Huang Degong as a Ming general with outstanding military achievements, I have read a lot of books, including the introduction of the Jiajing period of the Japanese invaded the coast, at that time he was still a little unbelieving, but now the facts are in front of him, he is completely convinced, The Wako is a perverted and dehumanizing existence.
"Damn it! The order is that the whole army will march south and continue to pursue and destroy the Japanese invaders, and no one must be spared! Huang Degong ordered.
In addition to sending a soldier back and informing the Seoul side to deal with the matter here, Huang Degong immediately led the 30,000 Ming army iron cavalry all the way south, intending to catch up with the Japanese as soon as possible and annihilate them!