Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Despicable and Shameless Koreans

Looking at the surging North Korean soldiers, Chen Cheng first bombarded the passage in the mountains with artillery, blocking the way, and then bombarded those North Koreans as fast as he could. At the time of the first shell bombardment, the officers and men of the DPRK were already confused, they had only come to fight the pirates, but they did not think of fighting the enemy to the death.

Shells continued to explode through the crowd, and many people were blown into meat sauce. All the people panicked, howling and running wildly about the road they came and went. Although the road was somewhat blocked, it was still possible to climb over it after throwing away weapons and armor. The generals who led the team were blown to pieces at the first shelling, and the soldiers were not restrained at all, completely lost their formation, and only knew how to run back desperately.

Chen Cheng let his subordinates reload twice, and each time the cannon was fired, Lin Mengchu was asked to do it, so her level rose rapidly, and now she is in her twenties. The power of artillery is far from being comparable to that of bows and swords.

After firing two more shots, Chen Cheng put away the cannon, and then ordered: "Everyone follow me, don't run away!" Choi Sung-so, raise my battle flag! ”

"Yes!"

A flaming red battle flag was erected, and more than ninety neatly draped soldiers rushed down the hill. They killed the enemy who dared to resist along the way, captured three to five hundred prisoners, and then fought all the way to the city of Pyongyang. The main force in the city had just collapsed, and all that was left were crooked melons and cracked dates, trembling on the walls and looking at the pirates outside the city.

After capturing hundreds of prisoners of war, Chen Cheng no longer looked so shabby. There were less than a hundred people before, even if the armor was distinct, but the number of people was too small after all, and at this time, with hundreds of people, it looked completely different.

Chen Cheng picked a loud voice to go up to persuade him to surrender, and the man shouted when he went up: "Bah! And the people inside listened, and the king of my house said, and when the gates of the city were opened, each of them had a reward. If not, we're in! ”

Although there are only a few hundred people outside, Pyongyang has only been ravaged by the Jurchens not long ago, and just now it has suffered another big defeat, and even the main general has been killed, and it is a time of fear. When he heard this, he didn't dare to tell the difference, but he begged at the head of the city: "King, you can only say what you want, and you can't attack the city!" ”

If the city is not broken, the big deal is that the people outside have been looted, and the officials can still continue to be officials, and the big deal is that they will be reprimanded. Anyway, we North Koreans are used to it, and we have always been lying down and letting the grass go. When the Japanese came, we were terrified, and when the Jurchens came, they fled from the wind.

No matter how much you are forced to get out of the city by pirates and pirates, it is nothing. But if the city is broken, there will be many people's black gauze hats, and whether their heads will be cut off depends on whether the backers behind them are hard or not.

Therefore, the officials in Pyongyang did not dare to open the door or provoke the Japanese pirates, and they had already determined that these pirates were so fierce that they must be Japanese pirates. As for why the Japanese invaded the West Road of Ping'an, that is a mystery.

Of course, Chen Cheng didn't care about the life or death of the North Korean officials, and when he saw that the people inside refused to open the door, he pulled out the Italian cannon. As soon as the cannon went down, the city gate was suddenly opened, and the defenders at the head of the city immediately ran away, and then Chen Cheng rushed into Pyongyang City with hundreds of paces, and made a Feng woman again.

This time, they robbed the city for two days, and Chen Cheng cleaned up the official office and warehouse, and even put away the walls and roof. Three days later, the Korean soldiers from Wang Jing arrived, and when the generals entered the city, they couldn't help but be furious and scolded: "Damn the widows! ”

Not only did the thieves rob the city clean, but they also demolished many houses. What's more, even the city wall has been demolished, revealing a big gap.

Chen Cheng led his soldiers and horses to retreat to the seaside, and placed the people who were willing to follow His Excellency the Black Dragon King on the island near the mouth of the Datong River. Some of the people were afraid of the power of the government, and after robbing things, they ran away, and only about 300 people were left who were desperate to follow the thieves.

After leaving Cui Chengxiu to guard Xi Island, Chen Cheng drove his boat around the nearby sea, and when he saw a merchant ship, he went up to rob it, no matter which one it was. He also robbed the ships of the DPRK, and the ships of the Ming Dynasty were also robbed. He also took the initiative to look for the North Korean warships, and when they found them, there was a "boom boom", which sank a lot of North Korean naval warships.

Just when the pirates with the black dragon flag were making waves on the Bohai Sea, the young Emperor of the Apocalypse grabbed his brother's hand, half helpless, half hopeful and said: "Come, my brother should be Yao Shun!" ”

In this way, the Emperor of the Apocalypse died, and Emperor Chongzhen came up. Younger than the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Emperor Chongzhen was worried about the war in Liaodong and wanted to do something, and then began his path of death. first abolished Jinyiwei, and then listened to Yuan Chonghuan's fooling, and was greatly moved by the plan of "five years of Pingliao".

Of course, we all know that in five years, Pingliao and Pingde Jiannu have been killed in Beijing. But in all fairness, Yuan Chonghuan was not the top among a group of Wenchen in the late Ming Dynasty, but he was not the worst, but he still had the courage to stick to the city.

But he only has such courage, and other than that, there is only ignorance and short-sightedness. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he coveted the elite soldiers and strong generals under Mao Wenlong. Those people in the Dongjiang Army, although they were poorly equipped and had insufficient food, really dared to fight hard with Jiannu. So he sent his subordinate Xu Fuju to seduce the Lushun Shou general under Mao Wenlong to defect to Liaozhen with more than 4,000 people.

At that time, Mao Wenlong had only 12,300 troops available in his hands, which directly pulled away one-third, seriously weakening the combat effectiveness of the Dongjiang Army. Afterwards, the Emperor of the Apocalypse ordered Xu Fuxuan to be killed, but Yuan Chonghuan pushed him back.

Compared with the poorly equipped but brave Dongjiang Army, the generals of Liaozhen are like quails. When Yuan Chonghuan became the governor of Jiliao and the secretary of the military department, he was impatient to kill Mao Wenlong and annexed the soldiers and horses of the Dongjiang Army. And this kind of behavior was actually recognized by Emperor Chongzhen after the fact.

However, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan was still busy making nonsense in the court, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the affairs of Liaodong.

The Kingdom of Korea first followed the Jurchens to attack Mao Wenlong's tribe and suffered a heavy defeat. As a result, Jiannu turned his face and did not recognize people, turned around and beat the Koreans to their knees and begged for mercy, extorted countless money and food, and arrested tens of thousands of people. Originally, the Joseon Dynasty thought that the matter was over, and if they casually said something good to the Ming Dynasty, they would be able to fool the matter of attacking the Ming army with Jiannu, but who knew that there was suddenly a stir again?

Pyongyang was looted again, and North Koreans were thrown on the ground and trampled on their faces over and over again. In a fit of rage, he sent a large army of land and water to suppress it, and a mighty force of more than 6,000 people drove out of Seoul in Gyeonggi-do Province and rode a warship to exterminate the Japanese invaders entrenched on the island.

"Oh, the fleet of the North Koreans is out!"

Lin Mengchu took a telescope and shouted, "Thirty, no, there are forty boats!" ”

Chen Cheng said "En" and said, "I'll drive the boat, and you will command the cannon!" ”

"Good!"

3,000 North Korean sailors rushed to Xidao together, and along the way they saw the legendary "Tututu" ghost boat, and it was really fast. Not only did it not have sails, but even the sailors who rowed the boat did not see it, and it deserved the name of "ghost ship". But even if it's a ghost ship, how can it beat so many of our ships?

"The enemy fleet is coming!"

Lin Mengchu shouted, "Can you fire now?" ”

Chen Cheng poked his head out of the cab and said, "Don't worry, wait until you get to Xi Island." ”

So the North Korean sailors chased the "ghost ship" all the way to Xidao, where two cannons had been placed, commanded by Choi Sung-so, a North Korean, and a Liaodong man named Shangyang-wu. Chen Cheng plundered in the Bohai Sea, the Koreans also robbed, the Ming Dynasty also robbed, and among the people who were kidnapped, there was this one called Shangyang Dance.

This person was originally from Liaodong, and like many people in the Dongjiang Army, his whole family was killed by Jiannu, and he was bent on killing Tartars. Originally, he didn't want to give Chen Cheng his life, but Chen Cheng assured him that he would definitely go to fight Jiannu in the future, so this person stayed, leading dozens of Ming people who were also kidnapped.

The two cannons on the island are incredibly powerful, but you need at least some knowledge of ballistics to be effective. Shang Yangwu had read some books before and knew a few words, which was similar to Cui Chengxiu. After a few days of temporary training, Chen Cheng did not ask how accurate they were, as long as they could scare and scare the sailors of the North Koreans.

Xidao is already in sight, and the general of the Korean naval division is Yoon Li Wan, the governor of Uiju, who is the nephew of Yi Sunsin, a famous Korean anti-Japanese general. After Yi Sunsin was shot and killed in battle, Li Guan, who was still very young at the time, commanded the sailors to continue the battle, and finally defeated the Japanese fleet, and became famous from then on, and then rose all the way to the position of Yiju Mansion Yin.

However, although he was a famous general who dared to fight with the Japanese sailors when he was young, he had been immersed in officialdom for so many years, and the blood courage of that year had long been lost. When the Jurchens came to fight, he, like the Korean king Yi Liang, did not dare to lead his troops into battle at all, and fled when he heard that the enemy army was coming.

The Koreans of this era, or the Koreans since they broke away from China, are both despicable and shameless, and they are even more so than the current Korean monarchs and ministers! They did not miss the kindness of the Ming Dynasty to help them defeat the Japanese army and help them restore the country decades ago, but attacked the general Mao Wenlong of the Ming Dynasty together with the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchen, is there a more despicable and shameless country in the world?

Li Guan was originally insensitive to the war, but when he heard that he was going to exterminate hundreds of Japanese robbers, most of whom were Korean people, he had the courage again, so he came with a land and water army, ready to wash and suppress it. At this time, when he saw that he had arrived at Xi Island, he ordered several boats to watch the "ghost boat", and the rest of the people went ashore to kill the thief.

The plan was good, but the first step went wrong. The ships that were separated were far away, and they were beaten into fireballs by the ghost ships. Two or three guns came down, and several ships were scrapped. Li Guan, who was sitting on the flagship, heard the roar of the cannons on the side, which was far better than before, and when he turned his head to look, he saw his own warships running one after another, turning into torches burning on the sea.