After Li Fangyuan fled to Gyeongju, the Ming army occupied the coastal areas and major cities, among which Qu Neng stationed a small number of troops in the nearby county towns in Seoul; Sheng Yong was in Jeolla, and sent heavy troops in Jeonju, Naju, Gwangju and other places, while Sheng Yong himself sat in Naju, waiting for the winter to pass, and then conquered Li Fangyuan.

However, the North Korean army is actually not weak, and the momentum of Sheng Yong's early days is actually the result of North Korea's self-esteem and lawlessness, coupled with the defeat of the naval division.

During the Goryeo period, the kings of Goryeo were all concubines of the Yuan Dynasty, and their heirs needed to grow up in the way of the Mongols in most of the capitals before they could return to Hanjing to succeed to the throne, coupled with the lesson of being completely defeated by the Mongol Yuan, the Goryeo people were very obsessed with the fighting methods of the Mongol Yuan, so Goryeo established a large number of archers, plus in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Turban Army attacked the Korean Peninsula twice, which dealt a heavy blow to the Goryeo regime. The instability of the political regime has led to the rise of the people, and these people have organized their own township soldiers in order to protect their homes and land, and to a certain extent, Li Chenggui also started in this way.

Li Chenggui was born in the Yuan Dynasty's Shuangcheng Governor's Office, which was later known as South Hamgyong Province, and his father was the Yuan Dynasty's Thousand Households and Daru Huachi Li Zichun, the father and son surrendered to Goryeo when Goryeo took advantage of the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty to recover the Shuangcheng Governor's Office, and later Li Chenggui repeatedly made military exploits in the battle against the Red Turban Army and was gradually promoted.

In the twenty-first year of Hongwu (1388), Li Chenggui, who was ordered to attack Liaodong, returned from Weihua Island (an island in the heart of the Yalu River), forced Wang Yu to abdicate, and set up another Wang Chang, gradually gaining power.

In view of the chaos in the last years of Goryeo, Li Chenggui did two things, one was to abolish the private army and implement the government military system, of course, his own private army was a regular army and could not be canceled; The other is to redistribute the land, burn the former company land, and divide the land according to the merits of the heroes, in addition, all of them are owned by the state, and the people can rent seeds, and the difficulty of implementing these two things can be imagined, but Li Chenggui has done it, which is quite remarkable.

It's simple and crude, but it's also effective, why? The army farms its own fields, prepares its own weapons, and fights according to the orders of the state, without spending a penny on the state; The state's land lease is actually equivalent to paying taxes, which are only used for the normal expenses of government officials.

However, this method brings a problem, that is, the government military system is naturally not suitable for agricultural peoples. In fact, the government military system was born out of the nomadic people's "out of the soldiers, into the people", but the nomads usually herd for a living, the skills required are similar to the war, need to guard against horse thieves, guard against wolves, but also need to travel long distances, etc., so every herdsman is a qualified warrior, they come out to be a soldier has no problem; The peasants, on the other hand, have nothing to do with fighting wars, such as weeding and catching insects, fertilizing and harvesting, shedding husks and drying them, and so on.

Although there are problems with the government military system, in the early days of establishment, the combat effectiveness was still quite strong, and Li Chenggui and Li Fangyuan were both ambitious people, so the combat strength of the army was still considerable.

So when Sheng Yong went south, Li Fangyuan could control about 200,000 troops in his hands, but it was a pity that he lost more than 100,000 in Shaliwon City and Haizhou, so when Sheng Yong's troops came to Kaesong and Seoul, Li Fangyuan did not have many troops in his hands, and most of the rest of the army was in the southern provinces, such as Chungcheong, Jeolla, Gyeongsang, etc., so Li Fangyuan could only flee in a hurry, and after he escaped from Seoul, he was supposed to flee to Jeolla, where the land was fertile and densely populated, and a large number of soldiers could be recruited. But he didn't expect the Ming Dynasty to send troops to land in Jeolla Province and quickly occupy Jeonju and Naju, so he had to turn around and flee to Gyeongju to survive.

Because of Li Fanggan, the prefectures, cities, and counties in North Korea can be said to be decided, but now that Li Fanggan is dead, everything is different.

There is a famous saying in later generations, "We have seen the world wrong, but we say that the world has deceived us!" This phrase is famous because it happens so often. When Li Fanggan was there, although all parts of North Korea knew that the Ming Dynasty had bad intentions, they all had hope in case of emergency, and they all wanted to wait and see how the situation was; But now that Li Fang is dead, many people wake up from a dream and find that they have been deceived by the world, and small-scale rebels have begun to appear in various places, attacking scattered and lonely Ming troops, and assassinating North Korean officials who have surrendered to Ming......

And this situation immediately developed to a climax after the Ming Dynasty announced that it would set up a political envoy in North Korea.

After Qu Neng left Seoul, he immediately sent Mahamu and Arutai to sweep everywhere and deliver the decrees of the political envoys, and for different places, the decrees of the political envoys were also different, some remained in their original posts, some were transferred to other posts, and some returned to Seoul to report on their work, and the reactions in various places were also different, some such as Yangpyeongjun swore to resist to the death; Some such as Xu Bao of Shuizhou killed lobbyists and pledged allegiance to the Ming Dynasty; There are also some city governors who hang up their seals and go away, and they don't know what happened; Others raised the banner of rebellion, but did not defend the city as in the power road, but led the rebels on horseback and started a guerrilla attack; Of course, there are also many places that have accepted the decree of the political envoy and continue to work as usual.

Of course, no matter what choice is made, when the Ming army arrives, order will return to normal, the prefecture and county will have governors, the people will have to rely on, and at the same time, there will be a different number of Ming troops left in the city to maintain law and order.

The day after Zhang Lun arrived in Shuizhou, Qu Neng arrived, and after Qu Neng arrived, he did not continue to march into the army, but waited for news from Mahamu and Arutai before making the next decision.

Because of the frenzied sweep of Mahamu and Arutai, the Seoul Province, the former Gyeonggi Province, quickly returned to calm, and the rebels either fled to the mountains or to Chungju and Cheongju.

The Ming army's control in Chungcheong-do was quite tight, and the Ming army, the Guiyi army, the Jurchen army, and the Mongol army were combined, with the Ming army as the commander, the Guiyi army in charge of local security, and the Jurchen army and the Mongol army in charge of sweeping, prohibiting a grain of rice and a grain of salt from flowing into Gyeongju.

There is not much of a problem with this model itself, but it does go wrong, and the reason is not complicated.

Sheng Yong wiped out nearly 150,000 Korean troops in Shaliwonseong, Haeju, Kaesong, and Seoul, but not so many were really killed, in addition to selecting 25,000 strong and strong people to form the Wuwei Guiyi Army, more than 70,000 people were sent back to their hometowns, and the resettlement of so many people was also very easy, because they were government soldiers, so they just had to return to their hometowns.

This is actually the reason why Sheng Yong despises the combat power of the North Korean army, and Zhu Yunwen also underestimates the enemy, in his impression, the combat power of the North Korean army is scum, but he forgot that it was at the end of the Li Dynasty, and now is the beginning of the Li Dynasty.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, the Ming army in Jeolla Province has begun to measure the land and prepare for the tuntian, so North Korea began to spread rumors, for example, the Ming army will not leave when it comes, and will rob our land, and we will all starve to death; Others explain that there is a shortage of eunuchs in the imperial palace, and all our Koreans should be castrated and sent to the palace; There is also the Ming Emperor's absurdity, the Japanese royal hundred women, and it is not the same, up to the eighty-year-old lady, down to the eight-year-old girl, all want, now the Ming Emperor has been plagued by the Ming Emperor, so to North Korea to scourge, we North Korea out of beauty, do you see that the emperor of Dayuan does not want our beauty every year?

These rumors are actually vulnerable, but there are not many people who have seen the Jeolla Daoming army, they have only seen the local flying and domineering Ming army, and even the Mongols and Jurchens have climbed on the head of the Koreans, and the Mongols are counted, what are the Jurchens? This has angered many North Koreans; As for the matter of eunuchs and beauties, everyone would rather believe that they have it than believe that they don't, and this thing is not all made up, didn't the prince Li Chenggui send beauties and eunuchs two years ago? How sad are their parents?

And there is a rumor, why Li Fangyuan was slandered and rebelled, it was because he sent the beauty of King Yan, not to Emperor Jianwen, Emperor Jianwen destroyed Queen Yan, snatched the beauty over, I liked it very much, so I asked Li Fangyuan, but Li Fangyuan was unwilling to disturb the people, and then he was targeted, and finally there was no way, sent Cheng Shixuan to send the beauty, but I didn't expect this Cheng Shixuan to take refuge in Li Fanggan, and sent the beauty in the name of Li Fanggan, and as a result, the Ming Emperor sent Li Fanggan to be the king of Joseon......

As for the cause of Li Fanggan's death, there is also a theory that Li Fanggan wanted to draft for the Ming Emperor in North Korea, but he ended up filling his own pockets and was secretly executed by the Ming Emperor's anger, and had to put the murderer on Li Fangyuan's head......

These rumors have intensified, and many versions have evolved, with a lot of modifiers added, and the descriptions are colorful, such as Emperor Ming's insatiable greed, Li Fanggan's groveling, Li Fangyuan's righteousness Ling Ran, etc., which make people more and more convinced, and the influence is getting bigger and bigger.

There were too many rumors, and slowly some people believed them.

Chungju, Cheongju, and Shangzhou actually all had heavy troops, and the Ming army, Jurchen, and Mongol in each place were more than 10,000 people, while the Guiyi army had 10,000 people, and some only had 5,000 people, which was logically enough to suppress it.

But something happened.

Li Fanggan died on the night of March 8, and fifteen days later, on March 23, the Chungju Guiyi Army rebelled, and the commander Yao Xuan was killed in battle.

On March 24, Cheongju rebelled, and the Ming army commander Han Yang led the remnants to retreat to Quanzhou, where he escaped with Zhang Hantian's cavalry, and Cheongju also fell into the hands of Li Fangyuan.

On April 11, the day before Zhu Yunwen's holy decree arrived in Korea, Sangju rebelled, and although Tan Xiong had been prepared, he was defeated by the joint sneak attack of the Jurchens and Li Fangyuan's subordinate Kim Nam-xuan, and was killed on the spot, and the rest fled into the mountains with unknown whereabouts.

In this way, Li Fangyuan easily recovered most of his strength, possessing Gyeongju, Sangju, Chungju, and Cheongju, and cut off the land connection between Sheng Yong in Jeolla Province and Qu Neng in Seoul, and relying on Sheng Yong's own strength, it was not enough to quickly defeat Li Fangyuan, so he had to order Qu Neng to go south to rescue.

Qu Neng left 5,000 men in Shuizhou to assist Xu Bao in defense, and led the army to the south and attacked Qingzhou!