Sinuiju was easily taken, and about three hours later, all 100,000 troops had landed.

Next, there was the delivery of various military supplies, as well as the war horses of the Third and Eighteenth armies.

The next day, Huang Degong ordered his troops to attack the depths of Korea in two ways, the first to Yongbyon and the second to Xuanfu. Both Yongbyon and Xuanfu were important towns in Pyongan Province in Korea, and the acquisition of two territories would allow them to fully occupy Pyongan Province in North Korea and provide a stable rear for the army to continue to penetrate into North Korea.

After taking Pyongan Province, the two armies will eventually meet in Pyongyang, the second largest city in North Korea.

On July 4, the First Route Army led by Huang Degong personally broke through four cities in a row and then approached the city of Xuanfu. On the same day, the Second Route Army led by Shang Kexi also broke through several cities in a row, and then marched under the city of Yongbian Province.

"Boom Boom"

Xuanfu, artillery fire continued, and a large number of North Korean soldiers were torn apart by shells.

Many weak-willed North Korean soldiers scurried around, screaming in fear.

Surrounded by three missing one, Huang Degong used the usual tricks of the Manchurians at the beginning, only surrounded three city gates of Xuanfu City, leaving only one south city gate not to surround, under the fierce shelling, the Korean soldiers on the city wall and in the city suffered heavy casualties.

"Squeak"

Suddenly, the southern gate of Xuanfu City, which was not besieged, opened, and a large number of Korean soldiers from Xuanfu City escaped from this gate.

"Run!" Under the fear of death, there were weak generals who were afraid of death taking the lead, and the North Korean soldiers still had any thoughts of defending the city, and after rushing out of Xuanfu City one by one, they only cared about fleeing for their lives to the south.

When the commander of the Korean army in Xuanfu City heard that a general opened the southern gate of the city and led a large number of soldiers to abandon the city and flee, he was almost so angry that he spewed out a mouthful of blood.

"These bastards, the garbage of Great Korea, I'm going to kill them!" The commander of the Korean army in Xuanfu yelled angrily.

The commander of the Xuanfu Korean Army originally wanted to hold the Xuanfu City, at least to resist the Ming army for a while, but unfortunately the Ming army only began to attack, and some generals couldn't help but open the city gate and escaped, how could he not be angry!

"Newspaper"

"General, the Ming army has entered the city!"

"Xuanfu is over!" The commander of the Korean army in Xuanfu sat down in a chair.

After the capture of Xuancheng, Huang Degong sent a team of Iron Cavalry of the Third Army to pursue and kill more than 10,000 Korean soldiers who had fled from Xuancheng at the earliest.

"Run, run!" A group of tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers is fleeing on their way to Pyongyang.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came from behind.

After a while, a large number of iron cavalry of the Third Army rushed out.

"Bang!"

"Bang Bang"

"Ahh

No one could outrun a four-legged war horse, and almost in a moment, more than 10,000 Korean soldiers were outflanked and surrounded by the iron cavalry of the Third Army of the Ming Army from both sides.

"Lay down your arms, and those who surrender will not die!" The generals of the Ming Army shouted at the Korean army.

Without any hesitation, this group of North Korean soldiers originally abandoned the city and fled because they were weak and afraid of death, and naturally did not have any desperate thoughts at this time, so they immediately threw away the weapons in their hands and surrendered.

Together with the tens of thousands of Korean soldiers captured in Xuancheng, nearly 30,000 Korean soldiers have been captured by the Third Army.

On that day, Huang Degong did not stop at Xuanfu City, but continued to lead his army to Pyongyang.

On the other hand, the Second Route Army, which was mainly composed of the 18th Army led by Shang Kexi, also broke through the Korean Yongbian Province, and the results were equally brilliant, capturing nearly 30,000 Korean soldiers and also killing Pyongyang non-stop.

Pyongyang is the second largest city in North Korea, with a moat, the city is high and the river is deep, and its status in North Korea is second only to the capital Seoul, and it is guarded by 130,000 Korean soldiers.

The North Korean army general who defended Pyongyang was a general surnamed Park.

This General Park is a close confidant of the king of North Korea, one of the generals of the North Korean army, and has a very high status in the North Korean army, and he is also a rare North Korean army general who desperately resists to the end.

In the end, it is a country, and there may be many people who are weak and afraid of death, but after all, there are still some people who are really not afraid of death and war.

"Those who abandon the city and flee deserve to die, they will only flee, if all of my North Koreans are such generals and soldiers, then they will not be able to destroy the country!" General Park's face turned iron.

Although the generals and soldiers of the North Korean army who abandoned the city and fled basically could not escape the pursuit because the two regular armies of the Ming army were equipped with war horses and could quickly maneuver, there were always some people who were smart enough to break away from the brigade and choose some remote paths to escape to Pyongyang.

"Order, behead all the generals who fled to Pyongyang, to reassure the army!" General Park's eyes were full of cold light and he ordered.

In order to reunite the morale of the army and cut off the fear of war among the soldiers of Pyongyang, General Park must use ruthless methods and blood to warn everyone.

After killing a group of people, the military spirit of the North Korean soldiers in Pyongyang City has really gathered a lot, at least on the surface, there is a lot less fear of war.

"Newspaper"

"General Qiqi Pu, the Ming army is coming to the city!" A soldier of the DPRK army came to report urgently.

"Okay, the generals will follow me to defend against the Ming army!" General Park stood up, took the saber on the table, and led a group of Korean generals to the direction of the city wall.

On 6 July, after Huang Degong and others had broken through several cities in a row, their troops approached the city of Pyongyang, and in less than half an hour, the Second Route Army led by Shang Kexi also came to meet under the city of Pyongyang.

"Heh, this Pyongyang city is really not small, although it is not as big as our Ming Dynasty Nanjing and Beijing, but it is not weaker than Shenyang and Xuzhou!" Shang Kexi was next to Huang Degong, glanced at Pyongyang City, and then said to Huang Degong.

"Pyongyang is the second largest city in North Korea, and most of the capitals of the Korean kingdoms are located here, so if we capture Pyongran, and then capture Hwangju and Kaesong, we will be able to attack the capital of North Korea, Seoul!" Huang Degong said.

"In this case, I'm afraid it will take another ten days to attack Seoul." Speaking of this, Shang Kexi pondered for a moment, and suddenly said with some puzzlement: "Seoul, the capital of North Korea, is said to be not far from the sea, I don't know why the emperor didn't directly send the navy to assist the Fourth Army to directly land and attack Seoul, but let our 100,000 troops cross the Yalu River and fight all the way to the south?" ”

In fact, since crossing the Yalu River and starting to attack North Korea, Shang Kexi has not been able to figure out this matter, and today he finally couldn't help but ask.

Indeed, the Fourth Army had trained at sea for a long time, and had worked with the navy to recover Taiwan, and then captured the Indonesian Islands and other large areas in the South Sea, and had rich experience in landing operations. And the current emperor Zhu Cijiao is definitely a more talented male lord than Huang Taiji and Dolgon in the eyes of Shang Kexi, Shang Kexi feels that the emperor should not ignore such a simple method.

Huang Degong glanced at Shang Kexi, smiled, and suddenly did not intend to hide some of the majestic strategies that the emperor had told the six commanders of the Yinglong Army.

Since the day of the success of the Northern Expedition, he has always had the idea of learning from the Qin Emperor and Han Wu to open up territory for the Han people again. The emperor once said that the predecessor of the Han people was the Chinese nation of the three emperors and five emperors, before the Yellow Emperor, the Chinese nation only had a small area such as Henan, the Yellow Emperor threw the tribe to conquer the world, successively defeated and annexed dozens of tribes such as Jiuli, and opened up more than ten times the territory for the Chinese nation. Lingnan and other places were still entrenched by most of the barbarian tribes and Zhao Tuo established the Nanyue State, which was not really incorporated into the jurisdiction of the Central Dynasty. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu sent troops to destroy the Nanyue Kingdom, and swept away the hundred tribes of Lingnan, only to really incorporate a large area of Lingnan into the jurisdiction of the Central Dynasty, and later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions and set up the Western Regions Protectorate, it can be said that Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty more than doubled the territory of the Chinese nation, so that there was a later Western Jin Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song Dynasty, and the general territory of the Ming Dynasty today. Because the emperor conquered the world and expanded the territory tenfold, he had the Chinese nation, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, opened up Lingnan and the Western Regions, and submitted to dozens of countries, and the Han Dynasty shocked the world, so there was the Han nationality! ”

"Today, the Ming Dynasty has a population of more than 140 million, the soldiers are inexhaustible, the annual income is more than 100 million taels of silver, and there are weapons such as sharp guns and cannons that crush the surrounding ethnic groups, it is the unprecedented heyday of the Han people, the Ming Dynasty opened up the territory for the third time, leaving a larger territory for the descendants of the Han people!"

"What does Commander Shang think?" Huang Degong said most of the time in one breath, and looked at Shang Kexi with a smile.

Zhu Cijiao's grand strategy was not only revealed to Li Yan and a few other courtiers, but also to the original six commanders of the Ying Long Army.