The news that the Korean Strait was blockaded by the Ming warships set off quite a stir among the 150,000 Japanese troops who landed in Korea.

"Click! Bagaya Road"

Tokugawa Ieoka, the commander of the Japanese army and the son of Tokugawa Iemitsu, angrily pulled out his katana and split the wooden table in front of him in half.

The strait is blocked, the loss of warships is secondary, the most important thing is to affect the morale of the landing army, which will cause panic, and at present it is only the landing of the army, and a large amount of supplies have not yet been transported.

Before sending troops, Joseon had asked the Japanese to bring some grain and grass of their own, and Tokugawa Iemitsu agreed, but now, less than 10 ships were transported, and even the consumption of 150,000 troops in a day was not enough.

Although it is possible to ask Korea for military rations, if the Japanese have no military rations themselves and rely entirely on the Koreans to give them, it will be too easy for the Koreans to slap their necks, and it will be extremely unfavorable to the plan to annex Korea after defeating the Ming army.

Although Tokugawa Jiagang was unwilling, he had no choice but to turn to the Koreans for help.

In the council hall of the Joseon royal palace, the Tokugawa family was sent away, and the faces of the Joseon king and many Korean officials were a little unpleasant.

"Your Majesty, it is extremely difficult for my Korean treasury to supply our own 580,000 troops with grain and grass, and it will be able to support it for a month at most, and if the war is not over, it will not be able to support it, and now with the 150,000 army of the Japanese Kou, I am afraid it will support it for a maximum of twenty-two days!" A North Korean official said.

"It is said that it can last for twenty-two days, but the Japanese are not our Korean army, we can reduce some supplies in our own army, but the Japanese will definitely not do this, we will definitely need sufficient supplies, according to this algorithm, it would be good to be able to support eighteen days." A North Korean official said with a sigh.

This means that for the soldiers of the North Korean army, the DPRK can save two meals a day and one meal in three days, but since the Japanese are reinforcements who ask for help, three meals is certain, so that the consumption of 150,000 Japanese troops is at least as much as the consumption of more than 200,000 Korean troops, which greatly increases the pressure on North Korea.

After all, North Korea's national strength is weak, and it is already a miracle in the limit to barely gather such a large army, and it is impossible to completely supply grain and grass.

The King of Joseon looked sad, but he could not think of anything.

"Your Majesty, this may not be a bad thing." Suddenly, a North Korean official stood up and said.

"Oh, how do you say?" The king of Joseon and other North Korean officials looked at the man.

"Your Majesty, the Japanese did not bring their own grain and grass, so they needed our North Korea to supply, so after defeating the Ming Dynasty, even if the Japanese wanted to make any small moves, they would be choked by our necks, and they would be supplied with grain and grass, and they would be restricted, which may not be a good thing for my North Korea." The North Korean official explained.

Indeed, in the eyes of the North Koreans, they are no different from jackals, extremely dangerous, and if there is really no way, North Korea will not ask for help from the wolves and lure the wolves into the house.

Compared with the defeat at the hands of the Ming Dynasty and the destruction of the country, North Korea is also worried that after the victory over the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese will not change their minds, which will be another big war.

Hearing the official say this, the king of North Korea was obviously stunned, and then his eyebrows slowly relaxed, yes, although the supply of grain and grass is more tight, it is good to be able to choke the neck of the Japanese and let the Japanese put out their thoughts that they should not have, and concentrate on helping North Korea fight against the Ming Dynasty.

Pyongyang City.

"Commander, the 150,000 Japanese who landed in Korea have all gathered on the front line of Seoul and are deployed with the North Koreans!" A scout who had heard the news came back to report.

Huang Degong nodded, and the news of the blockade of the Korean Strait by the Navy's East China Sea Fleet had also arrived, and the Japanese who landed in Korea were already turtles in the urn, and the emperor's decree clearly instructed them to attack Seoul on time on 1 August, and at that time, the Fourth Army would also land from the sea to support, and the Korean army and the Japanese army would be defeated.

Tomorrow is August 1st.

"Order, the whole army is ready, start early tomorrow morning, and attack Seoul!" Huang Degong ordered!

The next day, August 1, 580,000 Korean troops and 150,000 Japanese troops were preparing for battle on the front line of Seoul, waiting for the Ming army to attack Seoul.

On the same day, Huang Dequan led the Third Army, the Eighteenth Army, and 20,000 garrisons, a total of 60,000 troops, out of Pyongyang, and went straight to Huangzhou and Kaesong between Pyongyang and Seoul.

At that time, Huang Dequan led 40,000 Ming troops from Pyongyang to the city of Huangzhou.

At noon, the city of Huangzhou was broken, and Huang Degong left 8,000 garrisons to garrison the city of Huangzhou, and then led the rest of the army and went straight to Kaichengfu.

At the time of the unitary, the Ming army was killed under the Kaesong Palace.

Kaesong is the last barrier of Seoul, the capital of North Korea, and the king of Joseon did not intend to abandon Kaesong, but sent 80,000 troops to guard Kaesong, preparing to stop the Ming army in Kaesong for a while, and strike a blow to the Ming army.

"Boom Boom"

Artillery fire was incessant in Kaesong, a large number of houses were blown down, and soldiers and civilians were killed.

Under the powerful artillery fire of the Ming army, the Korean soldiers guarding Kaesong Province suffered heavy casualties and low morale, and they shrank in the corners of the wall one by one, trembling, without any intention of fighting.

At the end of the night, as the gate of Kaesong Mansion was blown open, a large number of stones blocking the back of the gate were blown away, and the Ming army attacked Kaesong Mansion.

"Kill"

Under the command of Huang Degong, the Ming army cleared out the Korean soldiers in the city before the early morning, killing 20,000 Korean soldiers and capturing 60,000.

Huang Degong ordered the Ming army to rest overnight in Kaesong Province and attack Seoul in the early morning of the next day.

The next day, August 2nd.

Huang Degong left all the ordinary garrison soldiers who followed him in Kaesong, and led the 3rd Army and the 18th Army to kill 40,000 troops to Seoul.

The Battle of Seoul will be a big battlefield of 700,000 people, and the tens of thousands of standing troops who originally followed the Third Army and the Eighteenth Army into Korea, Huang Degong did not plan to take them to Seoul to participate in the war, but let them all stay in Pyongyang, and the Battle of Seoul had the Third Army, the Eighteenth Army, and the Fourth Army that was ready to support from the sea, and it was enough for the three regular armies and 60,000 Ming regular troops to participate.

Seoul, the royal palace of Joseon.

Huangzhou and Kaesong all fell within one day, especially the 80,000 troops of Kaesong could not stop the Ming army from attacking for half a day, and the Ming army was about to attack under Seoul with a momentum like a bamboo, and this result made the faces of the Korean king and Korean officials extremely ugly.

At that time, the Tokugawa Iegang and other Japanese generals who were present looked disdainful, and they had already known the news that the Ming army only had tens of thousands of troops, although they had not fought with the Ming army for decades, but the Ming army's achievements could not frighten them, but made them think that the Koreans were weak, and they were more confident in annexing Korea after defeating the Ming army.

It was not that the king of Joseon did not fail to see the contempt in the eyes of the Japanese invaders, but he did not have time to think about this, the Ming army was about to march under the city of Seoul, and it was the first thing to discuss how to resist the Ming army.

Immediately, the Joseon monarch and Tokugawa Iegang and other Japanese generals launched urgent discussions.

In the end, the Joseon king and Tokugawa Iegao decided to let the whole army fight a decisive battle with the Ming army outside the city of Seoul.

After all, although Seoul not only has 600,000 troops gathered, it is impossible to directly place the battlefield in Seoul, so in order to facilitate the deployment and operation, the decisive battle will be held at Jiuunling, ten miles outside Seoul.

Located on the road from Kaesong Province to Seoul, Jiuunling Mountain is a wide terrain suitable for hundreds of thousands of troops to deploy, which is a good place for a decisive battle.

As Huang Degong and other Ming troops approached more and more, the battle clouds in Seoul were thick, and the war was about to break out!