The battle of the Eastern Expedition to Korea can be said to have mobilized the elite troops of the country and united the forces of the entire Korea, but it was defeated by Yang Ho at once. After learning the news, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty sighed for this, and some officials impeached Yang Ho in a big way.

After hearing the report, Zhu Yijun was also furious, and immediately agreed to Zhong Nan's proposal: remove Yang Hao from his position as an envoy. The emperor originally planned to escort Yang Hao back to China immediately and wait for the trial, but Zhao Zhigao, the first assistant, pleaded hard and finally had to give up.

The reason why Zhao Zhigao interceded for Yang Hao was that he was entrusted by his cabinet colleague Shen Zhengyi; Second, because Zhong Nan's House of Representatives has recently become more and more intensifying in the cabinet.

And the reason why Shen always wants to help Yang Hao is because the two belong to the same faction, and most of Yang Hao's previous promotions are the result of Shen Zheng's operation, and he really doesn't want his little brother to lose his life.

The position of the envoy is quite important, and if Yang Ho is removed, he will have to be reappointed. Xing Jue and others originally planned to recommend Wan Shide, the governor of Jizhou, but the emperor designated Zhong Nan to take over the post of envoy to the Eastern Expedition.

Since Yang Hao was recommended by Xing Jue, and the cabinet had just interceded for this person, it was impossible to get out of it. It was because of the new appointment of the emperor, and it was difficult for everyone to obstruct it, so Zhong Nan successfully sat in the position of the envoy.

Although Xing Jue was still the governor of the Eastern Expedition to Korea, he had no real power, and the emperor gave Zhong Nan full responsibility for all matters related to the Eastern Expedition. It seems that after the war is over, Xing Jue's position as Shangshu is likely to be unstable.

Zhong Nan didn't care about the battles in the court, and after receiving the appointment, he immediately devoted himself to the work of the envoy.

In February, Zhong Nan recruited the Jiangxi navy and used the sea as a route to transport troops as a long-term plan. At the same time, Chen Ling rushed to Korea for reinforcements with troops from Liangguang, Liu Ling with troops from Sichuan, and Deng Zilong with troops from Zhejiang and Nanjing. There were more than 50,000 people from all walks of life, and they arrived at the Korean battlefield together with the new envoy Zhong Nan.

Chen Luan, the word Chaojue, the number Longya, is a native of Wengyuan County, Shaozhou, Guangdong. Looking at his resume, you can see that he is an interesting character.

In the forty-first year of Jiajing, tens of thousands of civilians in Chaozhou, Yingde and other places revolted, Chen Luan made meritorious contributions to quelling the chaos, served as the commander, and was later promoted to the garrison of Guangdong. After that, he went on to exterminate the bandits Lai Yuanjue and the remnants of Lingdong.

In the early years of Wanli, Chen Lan successively pacified the rebels of Deng Shenglong, a high-ranking official, and Zhong Yuequan, a thief from Jieyang, so he was promoted to the commander of the capital and the secretary of the Guangdong capital.

In the second year of Wanli, the thief Zhu Liangbao rose up in Chaozhou Mansion, Li Chengli failed to quell the rebellion, and the governor Yin Zhengmao temporarily granted Chen Ling the post of general, and asked him to command a force to quell the rebellion. Who knew that Chen Lan actually defeated Zhu Liangbao by magic, and then he was awarded the Zhaoqing guerrilla general and transferred to Gaozhou as a general.

In the fourth year of Wanli, Chen Lan was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief and acting as a general of Dong'an because of his meritorious service in following the governor Lingyunyi to conquer the Yao people of Luobian Mountain. Soon after, the remnants of the bandits killed the officials and the people, and Chen was again ordered to put down the rebellion.

After the initial settlement of Dong'an, Chen Lan built a large number of buildings, built temples, and enslaved his subordinates, and extorted money from them. This led to a rebellion among the soldiers and the looting of the state capital, which was reported to the imperial court by the governor of the imperial court, and the emperor issued an edict to deprive Chen of his official position.

After the Dong'an riots were quelled, Chen Ling was reappointed as the deputy chief soldier of Wolf Mountain, and was soon dismissed again. After the dismissal, although many people cherished Chen Lan's talents, no one dared to recommend him.

During the First Korean War, Chen Lan was promoted to the general of the Seventh Battalion of Shenji because of his familiarity with the Japanese Invaders.

Later, Chen Luan was ordered to lead the armies of Jizhou, Liaoyang, Baoding, and Shandong to resist the Japanese and defend coastal defense, and his position was the deputy chief soldier of Nanao Town. When the imperial court was preparing to negotiate peace with the Japanese state, Chen Lan was sent to help defend Zhangzhou, Chaozhou and other places.

We can find that Chen Lan's career as an official is basically the keywords of promotion, dismissal, and reinstatement. In fact, there is another key word that is also inseparable from him, that is, bribery.

It is said that the first thing Chen Lan does when he goes to a place is to visit and bribe his boss. Although this trick has been tried and tested repeatedly, it also has a greater risk, otherwise it would not have been dismissed several times.

But to tell the truth, Chen Lan is indeed a good hand at fighting. Whether it is against the rebel army or against the regular army, he has a super high victory rate.

After arriving in North Korea, Zhong Nan immediately convened a meeting of generals such as Ma Gui, Chen Lan, and Liu Ling.

"Generals here, I am here to cooperate with you, and I will not interfere with your command."

"As the saying goes, 'when you are outside, your military life is not affected', as long as you can be sure that your decision is correct, then you can do it boldly and boldly, and you don't have to care about my opinion."

Of course, this does not mean that you can be arbitrary, since you dare to make decisions, you will also have to bear the consequences of making mistakes. Therefore, it is still necessary to discuss the necessary issues, after all, when one person thinks about the problem, it is inevitable that there will be some omissions sometimes, and it is not a bad thing to have two more people to help you think about it. ”

"Well, I won't say much about the rest. Finally, I wish you all a triumphant return soon! ”

Everyone in the audience first looked at me, I looked at you, and finally under the leadership of Ma Gui, they all shouted hello.

After the meeting ended, each general said hello to Zhong Nan and left. Only Chen Lan deliberately dragged it out until the end before stepping forward.

"Lord Squire, this time it is thanks to your old man's support, otherwise, the lower official will have to sit on the cold bench for a while." Chen Lan saw that there was no one else in the tent, so he said in a flattering tone.

"Governor Chen, you don't have to be so polite." Zhong Nam waved his hand at the other party. As for Chen Lan's impression, he still stayed in the historical materials of later generations, remembering that the other party was a bureaucrat who loved to bribe his boss and wanted to climb up, but no one wanted to be his backer.

After a pause, Zhong Nan continued: "Actually, I can understand what you did in the past. As an official, who doesn't want to sit higher and higher, it is inevitable that they will be sent. But you don't have to be that way to work under me. ”

"Unlike other officials in the court, I have only three requirements for you: loyalty, ability, and your own principles of life; As for the rest, I don't think there's any need to bother. Chen Dudu, you said yes, right? ”

Chen Lan didn't expect Zhong Nan to talk to him openly and honestly, and the originally prepared rhetoric could only be pushed back to the beginning. However, he didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only laugh awkwardly twice.

"Governor Chen, if there is nothing else to do, you can go back to the camp first and think about what I said. In addition, this time, I also hope that your sailor can play the majesty of my Ming Dynasty! Zhong Nan was about to end the conversation.

"Don't worry, Squiro-sama. I don't dare to say anything else, as long as the Wa Guo Sailor meets our Liangguang Sailor, the keepers will let the dwarfs go and never return! Chen Lan patted his chest.

"That's good!"

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Speaking of sailors, we have to mention the famous sailor general of North Korea, Yi Sunsin.

Because Yi Sunsin had been demoted to an ordinary soldier before the start of the war, the Korean sailors suffered a great loss at the beginning of the war, and in the Battle of Checheon-liang, the sailors were almost wiped out. In desperation, Li Hao had no choice but to use Li Sunsin again.

When Yi Sun-sin arrived, he was devastated to find that the naval division he had worked so hard to manage had been ruined to the point of having only a few ships left, and he decided to set about rebuilding the Korean Navy at the Yousui Camp in Jeolla Province.

In August of the 24th year, Yi Sunsin commanded this newly rebuilt naval division to fight a decisive battle against the Japanese naval division again, and the decisive battle was held in the Mingliang Strait.

Due to the weakness of the Korean naval division, Yi Sunsin decided to set a trap for the Japanese army, and he sent people to take advantage of the low tide to set up a lot of iron cables and wooden stakes along the coast.

In October, the commander of the Japanese naval division, Fujido Takator, led more than 130 warships to set out, intending to take advantage of the high tide to attack the Mingliang Strait and annihilate the Korean naval division.

Yi Sunsin, who received the news, first disguised the civilian ships in the strait as warships to disturb the Japanese army's hearing and make them mistakenly believe that the Korean naval division had recovered. And he himself personally led the remaining fourteen warships to lure the other party deep into the Mingliang Strait.

After successfully luring the Japanese army, Yi Sunsin immediately launched a full-scale counterattack. Since it was the period of high tide, he commanded his own warships to attack the Japanese command ship with all his might, successfully annihilated the command ship and two other warships, and killed the commander of the Japanese army's naval division, Kurashima Tongzong.

Soon after, the tide began to recede, and North Korean ships took advantage of the situation to attack. However, because the Japanese warships lost their commanders, the military spirit was scattered, and they had no intention of fighting, so they had to retreat eastward with the tide. On the way to retreat, he encountered iron cables and wooden stakes buried by Yi Sunsin in advance, so he could not retreat.

When the Japanese army was in a dilemma, the Korean sailors were killed. Their morale was high, and their combat power was much higher than usual, and they were defeated and retreated.

In this battle, the North Korean side annihilated more than 30 Japanese warships and ships, killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and also killed important figures such as the opponent's general Deju Tongnian and the commander Kuraijima and his brothers, which can be said to be a great defeat of the Japanese army's naval division.

The gaze returned to the side of the Ming army.

In April 25, more than 70,000 people from Kobayakawa Hideaki and other units of the Japanese army returned to China to recuperate, and more than 64,000 people from Kato Kiyomasa, Shimazu Yoshihiro and other units defended the occupied areas in Korea.

As for the Ming army, Zhong Nan followed the advice of the generals and the military department, and finally decided to divide his forces into four routes, one general on each road. The specific deployment is as follows: Dong Yiyuan in the middle road, Magui in the east road, Liu Ling in the west road plus Marshal Kwon Li of the Korean capital, which is the three roads on land; The waterway is in charge of Chen Lan.

The four people, Zhong Nan have given the main general a higher decision-making power, and they can move with their own cameras.