Chapter 82: The Abolition of the Ruler in Korea
Time rewinds to June of the third year of the Apocalypse, and Zhu Youxiao asked the Dongchang secret agents sent by the Song and Jin Dynasty to finally send back the information, it turned out that there was a palace coup in North Korea. Li Gui, Li Shi, Kim Zidian and others of the Westerner Party, together with Queen Inmu of Korea and the newly rising Nanren Party, met at the palace of Xuyangjun (Yi Jun), led the army to attack Gyeongyang Palace, captured the current Joseon King Li Hui, and brought him to Queen Inmu, burned his eyes with lime, exiled to Ganghwa Island, and then proclaimed Xuyang Jun Yi Liang as the king of Joseon.
If you want to say that this Korean palace is really a messy place, there have always been bad habits of harem chaos in the past dynasties, and there were similar things in the late Qing Dynasty. In the Wanli period, when the king of Korea Li Hui was still the king of Gwanghae, the Japanese invaded Korea, the king of Inmu fled west, and the king of Gwanghaejun Li Hui resisted the invasion of the Koreans, but was captured, and later with the full support of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Renmu repelled the invasion of the Japanese and restored his rule, and when the Japanese retreated, he released Li Hui, the king of Gwanghae. Originally, Li Hui was the second son, but King Renmu felt that this guy was stronger than the eldest son, so he abolished the eldest son and set up Li Hui as the next generation of Korean kings. Later, Nurhachi's strength became stronger and stronger, and the Ming Dynasty recognized his status in order to jointly deal with Nurhachi, which is justified.
Now that the orthodoxy recognized by the Ming Dynasty has been abolished, there must be a saying, otherwise other subject countries will have such a mess of palace changes, and the face of the suzerainty is very shameless. In fact, not long after Zhu Youxiao got this information, Yuan Keli, the general soldier of Laiyang, reprimanded the North Korean envoy in Laiyang.
Zhu Youxiao has a bit of a big head on how to deal with this palace incident in North Korea, because it involves the issue of face and lining, and it will also be a great headache for China to deal with these problems in later generations. For the sake of the interests and survival of their own countries, they will not care about any moral immorality. Long-distance and close-range attacks are not only the wisdom of ancient China, but also the strategy of small countries is even better than that of large countries.
Judging from the modern map, North Korea is like a chicken pecking in the shape of a big rooster in China, and South Korea is the rope that seals the chicken peck, so that China can't move its mouth if it wants to eat the silkworms in the east, and the chicken claws are Annam, which is almost rotten, do you say that it is easy for China to take off? Looking at the American graphics again, it looks like a wild duck, and the duck's feet are like Cuba, which is also a rotten foot made in the former Soviet Union. And what about the USSR? It's like a big catfish with its head covered in the sludge of Europe and its tail held by the beak of this wild duck in Alaska, can it be better? All in all, the relationship between countries is extremely complex, and it is a bit too difficult for Zhu Youxiao, a small modern secondary school graduate, to solve such a complex problem.
In order to solve the problems of the Chinese nation once and for all, Zhu Youxiao means that one point is one point to solve, and if it cannot be solved, leave it to future generations to worry. With this idea, the name of North Korea's vassal state should be removed and it should be made a part of Greater China. How to do it, it's nothing more than driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, first let Nurhachi be the vanguard, and then expel the tiger, maybe this is a good note.
You must know that in the history of China, there have been several events of the Goryeo War, not to mention that in the short-lived Sui Dynasty, there were three wars against Goryeo, and the results were all tragic. Of course, this is not because the fighting power of the Koreans was strong, but because the logistics at that time were so poor that they couldn't even get food, so how could the soldiers fight. Everyone knows that in the battle of Changjin Lake, the Ninth Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers ambushed the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army, and when the charge horn sounded, some companies almost did not move, why? People froze to death. This is a modern war, and China did not expect that the winter in Korea would be so harsh. Napoleon, who went on an expedition to Russia, and the German steel torrent in World War II were all defeated in the bitter cold weather. Zhu Youxiao didn't want to repeat these tragedies. He thought that the Jurchens lived in a colder place, and that they should be better able to adapt to this bitter cold climate than the Koreans, and that it should not be a big problem to expel hundreds of thousands of Jurchens to occupy Korea. It would be better if the Japanese people who had faced the peninsula at this time had another foot, and when they were exhausted and exhausted, the northeast would have enough soldiers and food, and then fight a Goryeo war to capture the peninsula in one fell swoop.
On June 26, the third year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao issued a decree asking Xiong Tingbi to immediately mobilize his subordinate troops to prepare for an attack on the Jurchen Nurhachi tribe, and emphasized that it was necessary to attack the Jurchen tribe from the south, north, and west directions, and compress the Jurchen tribe of the Nurhachi alliance to the Yalu River. Zhu Youxiao did not explain in his will to force the Jurchens to retreat to North Korea, or to drive them to North Korea, whether Xiong Tingbi will understand what he means, it depends on whether Xiong Tingbi has a long-term strategic vision, if so, he will continue to use it, if not, Xiong Tingbi's political career may end there, and the only thing left is to fight.
Xiong Tingbi, who received the order, immediately began to reorganize the army, and the current 100,000 troops must not be able to be dispatched all, lest it be a joke to be attacked by Nurhachi. First of all, he ordered Mao Wenlong, who was stationed in Tieling and Siping to train his troops, to prepare for an attack, this is a strange soldier, that is, Zhu Youxiao's only mountain foot cavalry battalion, let him do a good job of going out to reconnoiter the Jurchen troops, and once the reconnaissance is clear, he can send troops to attack at any time. Next, Xiong Tingbi gave Sun Chuanting an order, asking him to quickly integrate the 50,000 soldiers under his command and be ready to attack at any time.
Next, Xiong Tingbi summoned his subordinates Sun Chuanting, Mao Wenlong, Man Gui, Zhao Shujiao, He Shixian, You Shigong and others to come to Liaoyang to hold a meeting. Among these people, He Shixian and You Shigong are slightly older, followed by Zhao Shujiao, Man Gui, Mao Wenlong, and Sun Chuanting, especially the latter three are relatively young generals. Xiong Tingbi's purpose in summoning them here is nothing more than the question of who will attack and who will guard the house, because if this problem is not solved well, it will be a big trouble, except for mistakes, it will be fatal.
As soon as they heard that they were going to attack the Jurchens, He Shixian and You Shigong were the first to speak out: "The two of us have been in Liaodong for the longest time, and they also know the situation of the Jurchens best, and they are the pioneers of the original work!" ”
Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui said: "The two of us are the best at fighting, young and strong, and I am willing to be the vanguard of the governor." Mr. He, Mr. You, can you let the young people be good? ”
Mao Wenlong shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight." Fight Bibi again. ”
Xiong Tingbi's face sank, and said: "In my opinion, the two of you have been in Liaodong for the longest time, and you know the most about the temperament and tactics of the Jurchens, and are the most familiar with them. So let's three of us guard the rear for them."