"This Qin Rigang is really ......" Feng Yunshan sneered, almost saying the words of the unbeatable Xiaoqiang in the future. If it was in the original plan, Feng Yunshan was really ready to let Qin Rigang and the Li Dynasty fight dog-eat-dog for a while, but now, the situation is different.

Two months ago, after learning of a massive Muslim uprising in India, he knew that his-stirring plan had succeeded!

Indian soldiers and members of the Secret Service Division, who had been arranged long ago, were sent to India to spread rumors and prompt the Indian uprising to break out in advance. Moreover, those few-stirring sticks, I don't know how muddy the waters of the Indian states will be?

Feng Yunshan thought that the British would inevitably not be able to come to China to interfere with him because of the influence of the Indian riots, and he asked Li Kaifang to lead the army into Burma to contact Burma to confront the British army that invaded southern Burma, so that at least in the short term, the British army would not be able to send large-scale warships to China to show off its force as it has historically done.

Naturally, this opportunity, of course, Feng Yunshan has to seize it. Take advantage of the absence of foreign enemies to seize the annexation of North Korea!

"Hmph, if you want to talk about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it won't be his turn Qin Rigang. Moreover, most of the old brothers of the kingdom of heaven have already returned to me. That's it, Zuo Aiqing, Mao Aiqing, the two of you will let the General Staff quickly draw up a battle plan, and I will occupy Korea within half a year. Turn this Manchu vassal state, which does not know the times, into two provinces of our Chinese Empire! Feng Yunshan commanded a little domineeringly.

For North Korea, Feng Yunshan had long wanted to annex it directly, so he didn't want to engage in any vassal state. This country, which has seriously affected China in both history and later generations, is the most real thing to eat directly into the stomach. Moreover, this time can be said to be the most favorable time. Li Chao is weak, his troops are not obvious, and it is really difficult to swallow it before he was replaced. At the beginning, Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty attacked three times, but he failed to occupy this country, and only the barbaric Mongols conquered Korea.

In order to avoid the emergence of the first Korean nation in the universe in later generations, Feng Yunshan decided to follow the example of the Mongols and directly occupy it.

Feng Yunshan had even thought about it and assimilated the population of North Korea step by step. And the whole of North Korea is directly based on the old method of Annam, divided into two, directly bounded by the Han River, so that the future Seoul can no longer appear in the world, but is divided into Chaonan Province and Chaobei Province.

Zuo Zongtang and Mao Qi hurriedly agreed, and Mao Qi was even more happy, there was a battle, he was the happiest, only by fighting can his value be reflected.

"Can your General Staff get some information about North Korea?" Feng Yunshan asked casually. Since the DPRK is going to be attacked, I don't know what to do with the intelligence collection sent to the DPRK by the General Staff and the Special Service Department in the early stage.

"Back to Your Majesty, the 25th king of the Lee dynasty is now ruling Li Yu, who is only 25 years old and has been on the throne for 7 years, but his cousin Anton Kim is in power, and the head of the Kim family, Kim Zuogen, is in charge of the Korean court, and the national politics are dark, and his cousin Kim Wengen married his daughter to Li Yu to become the head of the country, and began to compete with Kim Zuogen for the power of the head of the Kim family. Not long ago, there was a rebellion by the people of Wonsan City. Zuo Zongtang told the North Korean information he learned one by one, "Your Majesty, according to the report of the Special Service Department, this North Korea has a population of about 6 million, due to the weakening of the country, although its standing army has 150,000 people, but most of them are local garrisons with no combat power, except for the 80,000 troops of the Jin family and other local wealthy families and the central soldiers of the Li Dynasty, the rest are no different from the peasants. Of the 80,000 troops, the Central Army has only 30,000 or 40,000, and the rest are all soldiers from various families who do not obey orders. This is also the reason why it is difficult for the Korean Li clan to encircle and suppress even the remnants of Qin Rigang. There are 30,000 soldiers in the Jin family, although they can be regarded as elite, but they only care about the interests of the Jin family. Therefore, if His Majesty can seal the bounty family and order it to surrender, the Korean Li Dynasty can get it at his fingertips! Of course, this is also harmful, which is to leave the big hidden danger of the Kim family. ”

Hearing Zuo Zongtang's report, Feng Yunshan felt a little relieved. It seems that Zuo Zongtang has a relatively good understanding of the situation in North Korea.

In fact, this time can be said to be the weakest period of the Korean Lee dynasty, the entire dynasty was controlled by the foreign relative Andong Kim, but other gate forces were dissatisfied with it, and the Lee dynasty closed the country, especially several peasant rebellions, which aggravated the crisis of the dynasty. The army of the Li Dynasty was seriously insufficient, otherwise, it would not have been more than 20 years later, when some radical aristocratic youths, with the support of Japan, with the idea of rapid civilization and development of Korea like Japan's "Meiji Restoration", staged a coup d'état to form a "civilized faction" to establish a new government, but the 1,500-strong army led by Yuan Shikai, the suzerain, the Manchu general, easily quelled the coup d'état. Later, Korea was also powerless to fight back with a small number of Japanese troops until it was annexed. Therefore, not occupying the DPRK at this time is simply a waste of a great opportunity.

"In that case," Feng Yunshan groaned slightly, then his eyes became resolute, and he looked at Zuo Zongtang and Mao Qi and said, "What arrangements does your General Staff have for entering North Korea?" ”

Speaking of the plan, Moltke took a step forward and replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, in fact, the General Staff has already had a backup plan for entering Korea, not only Korea's, but also the strategy of attacking Japan across the sea, Japan's strategy for marching and the entire Luzon Island, etc., have all sent troops for the record, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, it can be implemented immediately!" ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he was happy, and invited Moltke to join the General Staff, which was indeed the right choice, with him, the entire General Staff was extremely attackable.

Zuo Zongtang on the side also hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, since Lord Mao took office as deputy chief of the general staff, the General Staff has formulated expansion plans for several surrounding countries. Master Mao believed that the Han Dynasty was a great nation, and with a population of 400 million and a splendid culture of 5,000 years, the authorities should not be limited to the land strategy and the circle of East Asia, but should have a richer and broader living space, so as to match the population of the Han nationality and the economic strength of the Chinese Empire. Therefore, in the past few months, he organized the combat department to formulate the military plans of several surrounding countries, saying that he was prepared, and at first Weichen was still a little unintelligible, but he didn't expect that Lord Mao, a foreign adult, could share his worries more for His Majesty, and Weichen was ashamed! ”

Feng Yunshan was shocked in his heart, if Zuo Zongtang hadn't said it, he really didn't expect Mao Qi to have such thoughts. Sure enough, he was a natural military commander, even when he arrived in China, his mind was still full of thoughts about advancing and expanding, and it just so happened that he had the same thoughts.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but say to Mao Qi with appreciation: "Mao Aiqing took precautions and formulated these battle plans, which is deeply in line with my intentions. Mao Aiqing talked about how the North Korean invasion plan was arranged? ”

Mao Qi's face was full of joy, and when he was praised by Feng Yunshan, he laughed like a child, and said: "Your Majesty, this is a plan formulated by the entire General Staff, and it is not the work of Wechen alone, Wechen is just merging everyone's ideas together." To put it simply, we sent troops by land and sea, but we still used the sea as the main force. The army entered from Sinuiju with two infantry divisions to attract the attention of the Lee dynasty, while the Beiyang Fleet, adapted from the original B 5th Division, and the Dongyang Fleet, adapted from the 10th Division, carried two infantry divisions and directly crossed the Yellow Sea, entered from the mouth of the Han River, attacked the capital, and captured the king of the Yi Dynasty in one fell swoop. ”

Zuo Zongtang added: "Your Majesty, as soon as you reach North Korea, you will order the secret service personnel lurking in North Korea to contact the head of the Kim family, Kim Zuogen, even if you agree to some of his conditions, first appease him, make him king, let him return to the empire, become a puppet of the empire, and then arrange for a year and a half, let him take the initiative to merge Korea into the empire, so that he can pacify Korea in the shortest possible time." ”

Feng Yunshan nodded, this plan is decent, but with a two-pronged approach, according to the current situation in North Korea, there is almost no suspense. Moreover, the expedition of 40,000 or 50,000 troops, even if the Jin family refuses to surrender, will only take some twists and turns at most, and it is not surprising that with the strong forces of the empire, it is not surprising that Korea will be pacified. The only thing to worry about is not the aristocracy of the Lee dynasty and the Kim family, but the opposition of the Korean people. However, Feng Yunshan had already thought that the six million Korean peasants were worse than the people under the original Manchu rule, otherwise they would not have starved to death so often. As long as they were given policies that were beneficial to the common people, such as the distribution of land to them, these Korean peasants would not oppose it and would gladly become the subjects of the Celestial Empire.