Chapter 32: The Kingdom of Han

The Houjin regime is a bandit group based on force, and the reason why he has been able to maintain cohesion is that he has won almost every major war over the years. Whether it is the Liaoxi Army or the Dongjiang Army, or whether it is the Hudun Rabbit on the grassland. Or the Koreans between the white mountains and black waters, they were all defeated in front of the Jurchen soldiers.

However, the first battle of Pyongyang shattered the myth that "the Jurchens are invincible", greatly encouraged those around them who had enmity with the Later Jin, and boosted their fighting spirit to resist. Mao Wenlong captured a few fleeing Houjin soldiers on the Yalu River, and after inquiring about the affairs under Pyongyang, he was full of disbelief, "The soldiers and horses of the Black Dragon King are so majestic?" ”

He originally didn't have a very good attitude towards Chen Cheng and them, but after being hit by the Houjin soldiers, he pulled down his face and went to the Black Dragon King for help. Later, he received a lot of armor, weapons and food, and only then did he have a good impression of Chen Cheng and them. But now the goodwill has turned into awe.

He knew how strong the Houjin army was, and on the plains, even if he had more troops than the other side, he would definitely not be able to defeat them. was able to defeat the Houjin soldiers repeatedly, and that was also because of the bonus of the mountains. That's it, there are also many defeats and few victories. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command died in battle, but did he cut off 3,000 Jurchen heads?

Although Mao Wenlong didn't believe in the nonsense that the pirates' cannons were eroded for dozens of miles, he already regarded the Black Dragon King as an opponent of the same level as him. At this time, Mao Wenlong's mind became lively, and he took the initiative to send someone to North Korea to ask if the previous agreement was still counting.

Chen Cheng still had a certain respect for the Dongjiang Army and Mao Wenlong, and directly gave Mao Wenlong the north of Ping'an Road and Hamgyong Road, and asked him to go to Tuntian to raise troops. Not only that, Chen Cheng also gave Mao Wenlong the more than 2,000 Tartar heads he had cut down, and asked him to take them to the Ming Dynasty for rewards.

In addition to this, Chen Cheng also gave thousands of North Koreans to Mao Wenlong. Those Koreans all had the status of nobles, and when the Houjin soldiers attacked, they raised troops to help the Jurchens fight, wanting to suppress the nascent Black Dragon King regime. These returnee regiments carried out counter-offensives everywhere and killed many innocent people.

When Hongtai lost the battle on the front line and the Dongjiang Army was in trouble behind, so he hurriedly withdrew his troops, and these nobles who raised troops were liquidated. Although they are numerous, how can they be more numerous than the Red Guards everywhere? Besides, no matter how much they can fight, they will definitely not be able to beat the cannons.

Before each battle, Chen Cheng would take out a cannon and fire a shot, and then the nobles' private soldiers would collapse, and the next thing was to chase the north. Soon, the rebellion on the border of Korea was suppressed, and Lin Mengchu launched another wave of purges, cutting off tens of thousands of heads.

When Mao Wenlong's godson Mao Yongshi came to Seoul as an envoy, he happened to encounter a beheading meeting. first cut off the heads of hundreds of prestigious nobles, and then dragged the former Korean king Yi Liang to the execution ground. Chen Cheng originally wanted to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but Li Liang, the emperor, was useless at all.

There were many nobles below who started up under his banner, but they didn't recognize any of the edicts issued by Li Liang. Chen Cheng also simply discussed with Lin Mengchu, and pulled the Korean emperor out and beheaded him.

Hearing that it was the king of Korea who was going to be killed, Mao Yongshi was very shocked. He had been shocked once when he saw the basket of Jiannu heads before, and he was shocked again when hundreds of nobles were simply cut off their heads, but the previous two shocks combined were not as good as this one.

Li Liang was the king of Korea on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but on the 3,000-mile territory of Korea, he claimed to be the emperor. Such a noble big man, he will kill if he says kill? Mao Yongshi really didn't know that Chen Cheng's gang had such courage.

Li Liang, who was dressed in the emperor's clothes, wanted to cry without tears, and was dragged to the execution ground, still howling: "You can't kill me, I am a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and I am a slave of the Heavenly Mandate Khan!" ”

But who cares about him? Oh, that's not right, the Koreans and Japanese who watched the killing on the side, and some Ming Dynasty people were all elated. Hundreds of heads were cut off before, which already made everyone very satisfied, and now there is another drama of killing the emperor, which makes everyone even more excited.

"Kill him!"

"Kill this dog emperor!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

If it weren't for the soldiers on the side to maintain order, I'm afraid that someone would have rushed forward. Rao was so, and this frenzied atmosphere also frightened Li Liang, who collapsed on the high platform and howled vigorously. Two big men came over and pressed him to the decapitation table. The wooden shelf jammed his head, and now the prelude was complete.

When the huge and heavy torture instrument was pulled up, the people below began to cheer. Li Kun's feet kicked hard, and his lower body was already wet. The executioner on the side untied the cable, and the severed head knife fell with a roar.

"Click!"

One of his heads fell into the basket in front of him, "Oooo "The people on the side are satisfied, and what an exciting thing it is to kill an emperor! That's enough for them to blow for years. Mr. Lu Xun has long said that Koreans are very fond of seeing the head killed, let alone killing an emperor?

Mao Yongshi felt that his scalp was numb, he was an emperor anyway, and his head fell off like this? His three views have been seriously impacted. But a bigger impact followed, Lin Mengchu took a loudspeaker, stood on the head of the city, and shouted below: "Hey, hey, can you hear it?" ”

Electronic sounds echoed through Seoul, and the voice of one person suppressed the voices of thousands of people.

"Rejoice, soldiers! Rejoice, people! Now, I declare that the history of Lee's Joseon is over, and it is now the time of me, Lin Mengchu! From now on, you can no longer call me the Black Dragon King, but you should call me His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Mao Yongshi and a few Ming people looked at each other, but the surrounding Koreans and Japanese cheered together, "Long live!" Banzai! ”

"Onboard! Onboard! ”

"Can a woman be an emperor? No, how did you become an emperor? ”

Why can't you be an emperor? The Son of Heaven is the one who is strong and strong. Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu have killed more than 100,000 people before and after, and the high-level royal family and the big nobles who refuse to cooperate honestly have all been killed cleanly, why can't they claim to be emperors?

Lin Mengchu was still using an electric horn to make nonsense, "From now on, our country name is Han, and everyone is not Korean, but Han!" The name of the era is Hongwu ........."

"It's messy, it's too messy!"

Mao Yongshi shouted: "This is the era name of Emperor Taizu!" ”

But although his voice is loud, how can it compare to the sound of a loudspeaker?

In the first year of Chongzhen, the young Zhu Youzhen had been the emperor for half a year. Soon after coming to power, he cleaned up Wei Zhongxian, and then abolished Jinyiwei, which attracted praise from the ministers of the DPRK and China, believing that this was a generation of virtuous monarchs who would definitely lead the Ming Dynasty to glory. He himself is also very proud, thinking that it is not difficult to be an emperor, his brother Emperor Tianqi really can't be an emperor, this Ming Dynasty, after all, it still depends on me!

Soon, there was good news from Dongjiang Town, Tieshan won a great victory, beheading 3,000 people, and there were more than 2,000 Jiannu Jurchens alone. This victory can almost catch up with the era of Xiong Tingbi, and Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed, but under the reminder (slander) of some ministers in the court, he still asked Mao Wenlong to send the head to Liaozhen first for Inspector Yuan to check.

At this time, Mao Wenlong had already fallen out with Yuan Chonghuan, how could he send the head to Liaoxi? He insisted that the civil officials of Denglai go to Phi Dao, saying that he was afraid that his military merits would be coveted. This map cannon is a bit big, aren't the ministers in the court all upright men and gentlemen? How could you embezzle that little bit of your military exploits?

The two sides bickered for months before finally coming up with a compromise. The inspection is still the inspection, but you don't give Mao Wenlong a reward, aren't you Mao Wenlong? The big guy wants you to look good!

After getting such a result, Mao Dashuai of Dongjiang Town was so angry that he scolded.

Emperor Chongzhen turned a blind eye to the contradiction between Dongjiang Town and Liao Town, and was full of excitement because of the victory of Tieshan. But then, things changed. According to the report of the officials who went to Donggang Town to inspect the head, Korea has been occupied by a gang of Japanese pirates, and the original king of Joseon, Yi Liang, has been beheaded along with the Yi clan.

Moreover, these daring pirates also established a new country, and the bandit leader Lin Mengchu claimed to be Emperor Hongwu, and the country name was Han, which was equivalent to throwing a few big ear scrapers on Zhu Youzhen's face. What else is there to say about this? Immediately, immediately, send troops to recruit the traitors!

Under the strict order of the emperor, the Denglai Naval Division, Dongjiang Town, and Liao Town dispatched 50,000 troops together, riding warships, and went straight to Hancheng. The distance between Shandong and the Korean Peninsula is very close, and the exchange of warships is only a matter of a few days. The army is gathered here, and the Han State has long been prepared for battle.

In fact, the name Hongwu or something was to provoke the Ming Dynasty and let them send troops to attack Korea, otherwise, they would not have found a good excuse to take the initiative to provoke a war. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Chen Cheng and his team built steam warships on Jeju Island, and now they are all in September of the first year of Chongzhen, and after two years, there are four steam warships, all of which have a displacement of more than 800 tons, and each warship has twelve cannons deployed on it.

The power of these cannons far exceeds that of the Hongyi cannons, both in terms of range and accuracy, they can hang the red-coated cannons and fight. The news of the dispatch of the Denglai Navy Division had long been spread all over the sky, and when the Ming army attacked across the sea, the Han Army Navy Division met it head-on.

The fleet of the Ming army obscured the sky and the sun, but there were only one or two dozen armed merchant ships that could be used for battle, and the artillery on them was basically nothing. In addition to four battleships of 800 tons, the Han army also had eight cruisers armed with small-caliber cannons, as well as some auxiliary ships.

Before the engagement, the commanders on both sides were confident that the battle would be won. The soldiers of the Han army are very confident, and most of the soldiers of the Ming army are very confident, but there are also not so confident.