Chapter 22: The Golden Sun

The ship was rising and falling with the waves, the fire in the cabin had been extinguished, and in the darkness, the sound of the search could be heard. Then, a slick body slipped into the cup. Chen Cheng sighed, hugged Lin Mengchu in his arms, and said, "Why bother? ”

"I want it!"

Either because of the killing during the day, or because they were in a different world, many things naturally happened to the two people who were in love. The next day, after packing up, Chen Cheng sailed around the islands on the side and headed for the Korean Peninsula to the east.

In the middle of winter, dripping water turns into ice. But at this time, the Houjin army suddenly attacked...... Well, it's not a sudden, either. The Houjin army raided the Tieshan Dongjiang Army, which was called a surprise attack, and now it turned around and attacked the Koreans, which can only be regarded as a strong attack. The North Korean army, as it did decades ago and hundreds of years later, collapsed at the touch of a foreign enemy, and even if it was protected by thick walls, it could not stop the advance of the Houjin army.

Anju and Dingzhou fell one after another, and Pyongyang was broken after only one day, and Amin led his troops to kill Wang Jing. Li Liang, who came to power by mutiny, had no choice but to demote the Jurchens and become a vassal of the Later Jin. This is because Huang Taiji doesn't want Amin's power to expand, so there will be such a result.

Otherwise, just Amin and Yue Tuo and others would have been able to wipe out North Korea. Amin is the son of Nurhachi's younger brother Shulhaqi, his father was killed for rebelling against Nurhachi, he inherited his father's soldiers and forces, and was named one of the four great beylers.

After Nurhachi's death, the position of the Great Khan could not fall to him, so he had long wanted to stand on his own. This time he easily laid down half of North Korea, and Amin had the intention of occupying North Korea and becoming king. The people here are so weak, just relying on his blue flag can beat the North Korean army, why do you want to grab a handful and leave, can't you stay here for a long time?

For hundreds of thousands of years, most of the emperors and kings here in Korea were conquerors from the north, and the founding emperor of Lee Korea was the son of a thousand households in the Yuan Dynasty, and he became the emperor of these three thousand miles of rivers and mountains, so why can't he Amin?

But Hong Tai saw Amin's careful thinking at a glance, and directly ordered him to return to Shenyang with his troops. Amin is only one of the four major Baylors, and there is only one blue flag and thirty-three Niu Lu under his command, but he has no capital to resist Huang Taiji. And Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai are brothers, but they will not be on Amin's side.

Therefore, in the end, Amin could only spare the life of the Joseon king Li Liang. And at this time, Mao Wenlong received reinforcements from Denglai, marched north, fought with the Houjin army in the area of Bottle Mountain and Huangzhou, and defeated the arrogant Amin in field battles many times. Amin simply pulled the corpse to the mountain and burned it to the sky.

Hong Tai, who had already returned to Shenyang, was anxious when he heard that Mao Wenlong had cut off Amin's retreat. It's best for Amin to die, but there are tens of thousands of troops who go out with Amin, if they all kneel, then he, Tiancong Khan, doesn't have to do it, just wait for death.

Not to mention the annihilation of the entire army, even if it is a loss of 10,000 children, it is not something that the Jurchens can afford to lose now. Fortunately, Ao Wenlong's cavalry was very small, and although Amin lost one after another in field battles, he was not in danger of being wiped out. Huang Taiji urgently sent additional food and salary troops to reinforce Amin, but was ambushed by Mao Wenlong in Qiongshan, losing hundreds of soldiers and most of the grain and grass.

Amin and 30,000 other soldiers and horses could not break through the interception of Mao Wenlong's troops, so they could only make a detour and escape back to Shenyang from the northern upper reaches of the Yalu River. In this battle, Mao Wenlong's troops experienced a bitter battle, losing first and then winning, while the Jurchens drove high and went low, and they were almost blocked in North Korea and couldn't go back.

The most embarrassing thing is the Koreans, who have killed or wounded fifty or sixty thousand troops, and have been captured by tens of thousands, and even the emperor has become a slave of the Jurchens, where is there any face to speak of?

When the Dongjiang Army was in a bitter battle, the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen were like quails in the western corridor of Liaoning, and they did not dare to go out to fight the Jurchens at all, and they did not know what they had practiced with millions of military salaries every year.

Just when the Korean Peninsula was in chaos and the Dongjiang Army and the Houjin Army were fighting, Chen Cheng took Lin Mengchu to the land of Korea. This was originally the homeland of the Han family, but like Vietnam, it has been exiled for hundreds of years.

On the avenue, Chen Cheng asked Lin Mengchu to put the steel armor on the outside of the down jacket, and then put a cotton coat on the outside for her, and instructed: "This short sword is only used for self-defense, if you encounter the enemy, you still have to use a pistol!" ”

"Got it!"

After becoming a woman, Lin Mengchu's complexion was even better, as if she had eaten ginseng fruit. She glanced at Chen Cheng and said, "Who doesn't know that a gun is more powerful than a sword?" ”

Chen Cheng said seriously: "The cavalry of the Jurchens is very powerful, there are only two of us now, we must be cautious." ”

As he spoke, a group of routs came on the road. These Korean soldiers ran out of Pyongyang, the king ran away, and the morale of the soldiers and horses in the city was so low that they broke up on their own the second day after the Jurchen soldiers came to the city. Seeing people on the road, the soldiers' eyes showed a fierce light.

Chen Cheng couldn't help but be stunned, he could speak English, Japanese, French, and German, but he really didn't have much research on Korean. The DPRK and the ROK have made no achievements in scientific research, and there are a lot of cults, so there is no need to learn the Korean dialect at all.

But now it seems that whether it is useful or not, it is still beneficial to learn one more foreign language, at least it is more convenient to capture prisoners, isn't it? He turned to Lin Mengchu and asked, "Do you speak Korean?" ”

Lin Mengchu shook his head and said, "I can only speak English." ”

"Bastard! He despises me so much, Lord Kim! The North Korean officer led by him popped out a few words of Chinese and said viciously: "Untouchables, quickly hand over your clothes!" ”

Chen Cheng lowered his head and looked at the 1.6-meter-tall North Korean, and asked curiously: "Just looking at my body, you should know that it is not easy to provoke, but you dare to be so arrogant, what is the reason for this?" ”

The North Korean officer was stunned and shouted: "We have more than a hundred people, are we still afraid that you will not succeed?" ”

Chen Cheng laughed, holding a pistol in his left hand and a horizontal knife in his right hand, and shouted, "Then you can try it!" ”

Forced by his momentum, the North Korean officer took a few steps back, and then said angrily: "Above, kill them for me!" ”

When the defeated soldiers faced the ferocious Jurchens, they only had to hug their heads and run away, but when they suppressed the civilians, they were extremely brave. Now there are only two people on the other side, even if one of them is very tall, so what? There are many of us, and we have an absolute advantage!

A few short soldiers came up with spears, and Chen Cheng raised his left hand, "Bang!" "One shot knocked down one, and when the rest of the North Koreans saw it, their arrogance was immediately gone. The soldiers in the back broke up in all directions. Anyway, they were originally routed, and it would not be a big deal to break and flee again.

When the North Korean officer led by heard the gunshot, he saw his soldiers fall down with their heads up, and they were stunned for a moment, and then turned around and ran. These Korean soldiers can also bully the common people in peacetime, they couldn't beat the Japanese before, but now they can't beat the Jurchens, and they can only run away when they encounter bandits.

Chen Cheng put away his pistol, stepped forward and took a few steps, and took the North Korean officer in his hand.

"Spare your life, the king spare your life!"

The North Korean officer surnamed Kim was lifted in mid-air, not daring to move, and begged repeatedly: "The king spares his life, the villain is willing to make you a cow and a horse." ”

"Very well, for the sake of your knowledge of current affairs, you are now my subordinate. What's your name? ”

The officer was put down, frightened for a moment, and muttered, "The villain's name is Jin ........"

"Forget it, no matter what you used to call it, you will be called Golden Sun now!"

"Huh?" The North Korean officer was stunned, and then nodded busily: "Yes, yes, the villain is called Jin Sun!" ”

Lin Mengchu also shot two people just now, and at this time he walked over, looked at the golden sun who was full of flattery with some disgust, and said, "Do you want this kind of person too?" ”

When Jin Sun heard this, his head couldn't help shrinking, and he said tremblingly: "This female king ......"

Lin Mengchu scolded: "Shut up! ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said; "Anyway, he can speak Chinese, so just take it first."

Jin Sun was overjoyed and said: "The villain is also from two classes of nobles, but later his family fell into the middle of the road, so he had to donate money to find an errand in the army, not only can speak Chinese, but also read and write!" ”

He secretly said in his heart: It's so dangerous, if you don't know how to speak Chinese, wouldn't you be killed by the fire gun now?

North Korea also has firecrackers, and some of them are relatively elite. It can't be compared with the Jurchens and the elite of the Ming army, but at least it is stronger than those military households in the Ming Dynasty. Jin Sun has been in the army for a long time, and he is no stranger to firearms. Although I had never seen such a short firecracker, I could still tell the difference.

Chen Cheng said: "Golden Sun, let me ask you, why are you so embarrassed?" Did you lose the battle? ”

Jin Sun's face immediately became bitter, "The Jurchens broke the city, and we had no choice but to escape." ”

"City? Is it Pyongyang? ”

"Yes, Pyongyang."

"How many troops are the Jurchens?"

Jin Sun mentioned the Jurchens with fear on his face, "There are many, at least 100,000 people!" ”

".......", Chen Cheng shook his head and said, "Then let's go and see how the Jurchens fight." ”

"Huh? Don't, my lord, the Jurchens are ........"

Chen Cheng took out the pistol and shook it in front of Jin Sun's head, who immediately closed his mouth. They went along the avenue to Pyongyang, caught more than a dozen defeated soldiers along the way, and also picked up several horses, so Chen Cheng let Lin Mengchu sit on horseback, and selected a person who could speak Chinese as his own personal soldier, and threw all the other crooked melons and cracked dates to Jin Sun.

With such a dozen people and two or three horses, Jin Tianyang immediately trembled again, and he loudly frightened the North Koreans with his whip and knife handle, leading them up against the fleeing crowd.