On August 18, Zhong Feng led the Northern Expeditionary Army to the mountain fortress of Namhan. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Previously, on the fifth day of the first month of August, after defeating the night attack team of the DPRK in Fengcheng, Liaodong, the DPRK army of more than 100,000 was crushed and fled in confusion. Zhong Feng commanded the cavalry to chase and kill, but the cavalry was insufficient, and only more than 20,000 deserters were captured. In the end, Fengcheng killed 53,000 Korean soldiers in the first battle.

Although the Korean army originally had 170,000 men, and the more than 50,000 beheaded were less than one-third of the Korean army, the non-combat losses of the defeated troops in the process of fleeing were also very high. The defeated North Korean army collapsed in Liaodong Province, and they had to cross mountains and mountains to escape back to Korea, and they had nothing to eat along the way.

Zhong Feng estimated that half of the North Korean family members would starve to death on the road.

Therefore, in the battle of Fengcheng, Zhong Feng can be said to have defeated the 170,000 Korean army. Even if the two classes of nobles in Korea have bad intentions, I am afraid that they will not be able to put together another army of soldiers and horses capable of fighting.

After ten days of routs near Fengcheng, Zhong Feng led 12,000 Northern Expeditionary troops to cross the sea and attack Seoul.

Li Zhi's current navy has 50 steamships and 12 ironclad ships. If it was a short journey, each ship could carry 400 people, and two trips could transport Zhong Feng's soldiers and horses and baggage to Seoul. So in only three days, Zhong Feng killed Seoul, which is not far from the sea.

However, when he arrived in Seoul, Zhong Feng found that the king of Joseon, Yi Liang, had fled. Li Liang fled to the mountain fortress of Namhan with civil and military officials and members of the royal family, and hid in the mountains to hold on.

Namhansan Fortress is a castle built by the Joseon royal family on the "Namhansan Mountain", fifty miles southeast of Seoul. The mountain castle is located on the top of the mountain at an altitude of 500 meters, and the entire perimeter of the castle is high and dangerous, and the middle is low and easy to defend. The circumference of the mountain city is eighteen miles, the city is divided into the inner and outer cities, the outer city wall is two feet high and three feet high, and the east and west are rectangular shapes. There are 4 gates and 6 secret gates, and the commander's guard is located on the high ground in the castle.

Sanseong was a place of refuge for the Joseon royal family. When the Manchus attacked Korea, the Joseon king hid in the mountain fortress of Namhan, and finally received conditional surrender. This time, facing Zhong Feng's elite tiger ben, Li Liang is ready to concoct the same method, hoping to save the lives of the members of the Joseon royal family.

Of course, the Korean monarchs and ministers knew that such hope was very slim.

In the palace of Namhansanseong, Li Liang and his eldest son Li Wei quarreled fiercely.

Li Wei slapped the table angrily and shouted at King Li Liang: "If my father had listened to me as soon as possible, and promised Li Zhi when he asked for fifteen million taels of silver, how could he have come to this point?" Now that our North Korea is facing the catastrophe of annihilation, I am afraid that the country will be wiped out, all because of your self-righteousness! ”

The officials and members of the royal family in the palace all looked at the king of Joseon.

North Korea has come to this point, and King Yi Ju has an unshirkable responsibility. He stood up to fight Li Zhi twice, and he was full of self-righteous arrogance, completely unaware that Tianjin's soldiers and horses were a powerful force far beyond this era. And especially in this second battle with the Jiangbei Army, Li Liang pushed the already precarious North Korea into the abyss.

When Li Qi heard his son's words, he sighed and sat on the throne without saying a word.

The prince Li Wei waved his sleeves angrily and said loudly: "Now North Korea is over, it's all over!" ”

Now, instead of falling into the quagmire of thieves and the Jiangbei army, Li Zhi defeated the two classes of the Korean army in the night battle. In this way, Ri Sik will inevitably impose the most severe punishment on North Korea. It is conceivable that not only will the Korean royal family not be able to keep it, but I am afraid that the whole of Korea will no longer be a country, and the two classes of nobles will be completely wiped out.

Hearing Li Wei's angry roar, the North Korean officials and royal family members in the palace couldn't help but grieve, and even covered their sleeves and cried one by one.

How can the officials not weep when they know about this tragic future but have no ability to resist?

A man's helpless cry sounded in the palace, which overwhelmed the Korean palace maids holding incense sticks. The palace ladies finally understood that this centuries-old dynasty was coming to an end, and they were no longer willing to continue to serve the lords in the palace. They put down their utensils and fled in a hurry, each running for his life.

Li Wei looked at the palace maids who escaped in broken steps and took a breath.

He pointed to his father who had lost his country and shouted: "The matter has come to this, and there is no point in making unnecessary resistance. You lead the civil and military officials out of the city gate and surrender to Li Zhi's general, maybe you can also keep the blood of the Korean clan and prevent the officials in Tianjin from going on a killing spree. ”

Li Liang heard his son's angry roar and trembled on the throne, but he didn't dare to go out and surrender no matter what.

The crowd was crying when they suddenly heard a loud noise outside.

Li Wei was excited, pushed open the windows of the hall, and looked in the direction of the city gate.

Where are the soldiers on the gates? I only saw ten hot air balloons floating above the city gate. The soldiers of the Tiger Army on the hot air balloon kept shooting at the Korean forbidden army on the city wall, and the North Korean soldiers were crushed and collapsed.

When Li Wei saw such a scene, it was as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water, and it was cold from head to foot. Now that the soldiers on the city wall are scattered, they don't even have a chance to surrender, and they are about to be attacked by the tiger army in the mountain city.

However, Li Wei was wrong, and the hot air balloon did not moor at the head of the city to open the city gate. The hot air balloon was like a soldier playing North Korea, and he didn't even bother to open the city gate, and after dispersing the soldiers on the city gate, he flew directly towards the palace on Li Wei's side.

Li Wei watched the hot air balloon in the sky fly closer and closer, and finally flew a little in front of the palace where he was.

Li Wei secretly said badly, and when he looked back, he found that his father had escaped from the palace and didn't know where to hide. Hundreds of officials and members of the royal family were in a mess in the palace. Then Li Wei heard a bang, and a rocket with flames shot down from the hot air balloon and into the roof of the temple.

The rocket crashed through the roof and slammed into the ground in the middle of the hall, and Li Wei glanced at the rocket, and the rocket exploded. A huge blast wave erupted from the rocket. A huge rosewood chair flew up and smashed Li Wei's head, and Li Wei's eyes went black and he fainted.

The soldiers on top of the ten hot air balloons seemed to be using the Korean monarchs and ministers as toys, and stopped on the palace complex in the middle of the mountain city, and used sniper rifles and bazookas to strafe the Korean rulers in the palaces, blowing up the five palaces that were connected together.

Eventually, North Korean officials realized that the tide was gone and they were no longer hiding.

They took out the Joseon King Yi Ju, who was hiding in the dark room, tore a strip of cloth from his dragon robe, and tied his hands behind his back. Li Qi resisted fiercely, glaring at him, cursing the minister who had kidnapped him as a traitor and traitor. However, two fists are no match for four hands, how can he be able to withstand the siege of hundreds of people?

The civil and military officials of North Korea escorted Li out of the palace and knelt under the hot air balloon.

Hundreds of officials and royal clansmen prostrate on the ground, kowtowing to the hot air balloons in the sky, without the slightest attempt to resist. North Korea is completely dead, and no matter what Lee Sik does with the peninsula in the future, the North Koreans have no ability to resist.