226 Loyal Ministers
"Search for me, all the troops that can be used will be scattered to me, and if you don't see the shadow of the king of Joseon, don't come back to see me!"
Taishan collapsed in front of the unchanging Huang Taiji, when he heard that there was no trace of the king of Joseon, his face finally couldn't hold back, and under the vicious tone, the soldiers and ministers below were all quiet like a cold voice.
"Wow!"
A group of fierce generals led the way, vowing to dig three feet into the ground for the entire Namhansan Fortress, and to find out the missing Korean king.
At this time, in a secluded valley five or six miles east of Namhansan Castle, a group of more than 100 people in size and dressed in ordinary clothes sneaked out, and when it was close to night, no one even dared to light the torches, but stumbled towards the east in the faint dim light.
This group of people, dressed as ordinary people, was none other than King Injo and his entourage, who had retreated from the secret passage in Namhansan Fortress, and in addition to the necessary sergeants and servants, the rest were old and important vassals such as Kim Jin.
Kim Sang-heon, Choi Myung-gil and others, who had previously persuaded King Injo to evacuate, kept their promise to King Injo, and took their strong men with them to defend their last dignity together with the last group of soldiers in Korea who resisted the Qing Dynasty.
It has been said that only when the kingdom is shattered can we know that those people are loyal and good generals, and those people are traitors at both ends of the rat.
In order to allow King Injo to escape further away with their loyalty and hope for the Korean kingdom, a group of literati led the last hundreds of Korean soldiers to defend a remote palace in the South Hansan Palace in North Korea.
This is the last palace that has not been conquered by the Qing people, and the Daqing generals of the Joseon Injo King have not been found, and they have turned their eyes to this place with hope in the face of this group of Korean soldiers who have resisted unusually determinedly.
"Colleagues, it's time to take the first step!"
In the only palace hall, a Wenchen dressed in military uniform looked at the colleagues who accompanied him on the last journey, and said this sentence with some nostalgia and relief, and fell asleep.
The deceased is Wu Daji, one of the backbones of the main battle faction, although his position is not the highest, but his behavior is admired by many colleagues.
"Brother Wu just waited one step ahead of me to explore the way, and we will arrive later!"
Jin Shangxian caressed Wu Daji's slightly narrowed eyes to make them completely closed, and then said impassionedly to his companions: "Who has not died in life since ancient times, leave Dan to take care of the sweat!" Now is the time to be loyal to you! ”
The shouts of killing outside the palace were getting closer and closer, which meant that the survival time of their group was getting shorter and shorter, and the bows and arrows that came in from time to time through the palace windows frightened a group of scholars around them, but in the end they still trembled and persevered, which showed their loyalty to the kingdom.
"Gentlemen, after this battle, I'm afraid we will have to see each other again in the next life, and I have no regrets when we meet you today!!"
"Goodbye!!"
All the gentlemen are encouraged.
A group of Korean ministers, who could not even hold their swords and bows and arrows, rushed out of the palace and rushed straight to the front line, where they joined the few hundred soldiers left on the front line to kill the enemy bravely.
"Phew!! It's an eggless thing, and it's still working with Lao Tzu, so I'm impatient! ”
The Qing Dynasty general Yanguli easily cut down a guy with fine skin and tender flesh who rushed to him in front of him with a knife and fell to the ground with unfavorable hands and feet.
Even so, the guy who slashed down on the ground couldn't parry it at this time, so he fainted on the ground, but he saved Yanguli a little effort, grabbed the fainted prisoner from the ground like a chicken, threw it in front of the guards next to him and said: "This guy is estimated to be a big official in North Korea, you have to show Lao Tzu to prison, if there is any mistake, cut Lao Tzu and don't pull out your skin!" ”
Yanguli's guards took over the target one by one, picked up the rope around him and skillfully tied it up, and after a while, the target was tied up in a big way, and he couldn't move at all.
Such a scene, also happened countless times in the last battlefield in the mountain city of Nanhan, although these Korean ministers did not hesitate to die, but after all, their net worth was there, and all of them were high-quality products with great equipment, in the eyes of the Qing soldiers who started with the robbery, how could they not know that the other party was a big fat sheep!
In this regard, more than 20 Korean ministers who stayed behind and broke off, except for the six or seven unfortunate people who followed Wu Daji, the remaining people such as Cui Mingji, Hong Yihan and others have become prisoners of the Qing Dynasty!
In the last corner of the palace hall, Jin Shangxian, who had been practicing martial arts and archery since he was a child, took the last dozen or so Korean soldiers to fight and retreat, until there was no way to retreat, and he was forced into the corner of two ships by the Qing people who were several times his own.
There is little chance of life in front of him, and Kim Sang-hun knows that if he reveals his identity, at least his life can be saved.
However, as a master of the Korean rites and scholars who was influenced by the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism since he was a child, he did not want to lose the face of the Korean civil servants in front of the Qing barbarians for his own selfishness.
"Soldiers, to be able to fight with everyone to kill the enemy, protect the family and defend the country, it is the luck of my Jin people's three lives, Jin knows the preciousness of life, after I die, everyone can leave a useful body to surrender to the Qing people, and wait until the time is ripe to set things right."
"My lord, are you killing me?"
The last remaining general in the North Korean army glared angrily at Kim Sang-heon.
"No, how difficult our country is, after this war, I am afraid that the national strength will be sharply reduced, the Jurchen barbarian wolf ambition, the cost of the great power to conquer our country, the plan must be great, so after this will be the opportunity for you to show your ambitions, unlike me and other literati, who have no power to tie the chicken, even if they have the heart to serve the country, but they have nothing to contribute to the country!"
While comforting the soldiers around him, Jin Shangxian tidied up his uniform, taking advantage of the temporary pause of the Qing people, trying to make himself look not so embarrassed.
"At that time, please also ask the monarchs to use the head of Jin Someone's Xiang as a qualification for promotion, and endure the humiliation and burden when His Royal Highness Injo comes back from killing, and revive the demeanor of my Korean Kingdom!!"
"I'm going!!"
Suddenly, Kim Sang-hun set up the broken knife in his hand and strangled him on his neck, and he was immediately drenched in blood, seeing that he was slowly losing his joy!!
(End of chapter)