On the 5th day of October, Guo Zaiyou led more than 3,000 troops to Huangzhou, where he rested and recuperated, and then sent sentinels to the front to search for important information.

The news is not encouraging.

Because of the invasion of this group of Jurchen rogues, there has been turmoil in the north of Huangzhou, and there has been a large-scale exodus of people in Pyongyang, and the people have fled to the south, probably because the painful memories of seven years ago make them unforgettable, this time, they chose to flee their homeland without hesitation.

The situation is not very good, the combat power of that Jurchen rogue is beyond imagination, and Guo Zaiyou also has doubts about their purpose.

If it's just looting, how can it be targeted at the big cities?

Ordinary rogues mainly rob towns and villages, and run away after robbing, not to mention that this group of bandits went all the way to the south, but also looted cities, and even attacked some cities, which really made him feel very vigilant and puzzled.

He began to suspect that these Jurchen bandits were not here to rob.

At the same time, he was worried.

Seven years ago, a war that almost destroyed the country destroyed the hard work of the Koreans for more than 100 years, and the weakness of the small country and the narrow land was vividly highlighted, not only the loss was fast, but also the recovery was slow, and after the complete destruction of the regular army, most of the current North Korean government army was reorganized from the civilian army of that year.

At the same time as the national strength has been greatly weakened, the military strength has also been greatly reduced.

Not to mention the Army, both in the past and now, it is very weak.

During the war, although he received some help from the original Ming Southern Army, under the guidance of Wu Weizhong, he carried out Qi Jiguang-style training for the Korean army, and taught some southern soldiers tactical tactics, such as tactics born from the Mandarin Duck Formation, as well as firearms training, but it did not last long.

Xiao Ruxun decided to launch an attack on the Japanese mainland, and all the military instructors of the Ming Dynasty went to the Japanese to garrison, and the army's training was interrupted.

The sailor was originally very impressive, and the sailor general Li Sunsin even admired the Ming Emperor, but four years ago, Li Sunsin was forced to dismiss in the political struggle, and died of illness three years ago, and the sailor was gradually abandoned.

The Korean monarchs and ministers felt that the Wa Kingdom had been occupied and controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and now they did not have to worry about the Wa State at all, so there was no need to spend so much military expenditure to maintain a huge naval division.

They also have the same view of the army, using the name of developing people's livelihood to cut military spending and take away all the aid given by the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that it is to develop the people's livelihood, but I don't know what I have done, and the people's livelihood has not seen any development, but the army has really weakened.

As a result, the army and naval divisions, which had had some upward momentum at the end of the war, declined one after another, and the army, which was still quite spiritual, once again became a rabble.

Even the cavalry of the Six Towns, which could be counted as elite in Hamgyong Province, is gone, and the strength of the North Korean army is not even as strong as before the war.

The Korean monarchs and ministers always thought that the Ming would protect them, and they had no practical feeling about the army at all, and the emphasis on literature over military force was even greater than that of the Ming Dynasty, even more so after the Ming sent troops to help.

Although the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty by the Great Qin at the beginning of the year brought a certain crisis to North Korea, it was soon established that the North Korea and the Great Qin had once again established the status of monarchs and ministers, and once again got a protective umbrella, and the crisis alarm was lifted, and the Korean monarchs and ministers could continue to fight happily again.

So although Guo Zaiyou is dissatisfied, he also knows that the current political wind is no longer biased towards the military.

He originally thought that there would be no more major turmoil, but he was quickly slapped in the face.

At present, Guo Zaiyou's "Wang Jing Elite" is said to be elite, but the spirit is not as good as the people's army that Guo Zaiyou pulled up back then, and the weapons are also messy, with Ming standard bird guns, Ming Southern Soldiers-style cold weapons, and spears and spears.

Guo Zaiyou did not lead Wang Jing's army, but this army obviously had little combat effectiveness.

Originally, he didn't care about thinking that it was a group of rogues, but now that he knew the combat effectiveness of this group of Jurchen rogues, Guo Zaiyou began to be a little nervous, so he urgently trained this army to a certain extent.

I don't know if I don't train properly, but after the whole training, I know to what extent the tactics and tactics of this group of troops who look to be well-dressed have become unfamiliar, probably because there has been no serious training since the war.

Guo Zaiyou, who was very helpless to the ministers of the two classes in the capital, could only urgently conduct special training, stopped the army in Huangzhou, and did not continue to advance.

However, the news from the front line was very bad, saying that Shun'an, north of Pyongyang, had also been attacked by the Jurchen barbarians, and now a large number of people were dragging their families to the south.

Things got a little unexpected.

What is the origin of these Jurchens?

What's the plan?

Looking at this posture, it doesn't look like a rogue at all!

Guo Zaiyou continued to carefully collect intelligence, and collected important information such as that this group of Jurchen Liukou was mostly cavalry, with strong combat effectiveness, very orderly actions, and at least more than 2,000 people.

But before Guo Zaiyou could continue to collect intelligence and prepare, a letter of help from Shunan and Pyongyang was sent, passing through Huangzhou, to be sent to Seoul.

Coincidentally, the imperial court sent people to inquire about Guo Zaiyou's military situation, and the envoy arrived in Huangzhou and saw the scene of the refugees fleeing, and was shocked, and immediately asked Guo Zaiyou what was going on, and after listening to Guo Zaiyou's explanation, he immediately ordered Guo Zaiyou to go north to Pyongyang, and Pyongyang would never be allowed to lose.

Guo Zaiyou knew that he could not refute such an order, the envoy had a king's order, and he could not resist.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Guo Zaiyou still decided to lead his troops to set off from Huangzhou to Pyongyang, and at the same time asked the envoy to immediately return to Seoul to report to the imperial court, saying that those Jurchen rogues were very fierce, not like ordinary rogues, and the purpose was not clear, and asked the court to immediately prepare the army in case of emergency.

Guo Zaiyou led his army forward, marched for a day, and arrived at Chunghe in the south of Pyongyang, where he was shocked to hear that the displaced people had brought the news of the fall of Shun'an and the crisis in Pyongyang.

He did not have time to verify the truth of the matter, because Pyongyang was so important, so he immediately led his troops to advance in the direction of Pyongyang, despite the exhaustion of the army, intending to arrive in Pyongyang first anyway.

Twelve miles south of Pyongyang, where he could already see the walls of Pyongyang in the distance, he encountered an attack that Nurhachi had been preparing for a long time.

Three thousand Jurchen cavalry made a big move, divided and surrounded Guo Zaiyou's army on the flat terrain in the south of Pyongyang, and attacked him like chopping melons and vegetables.

Despite all the methods, birds and spears, but the lack of training and formation of the Korean army was quickly dispersed, Guo Zaiyou fought hard, was besieged by more than a dozen Jurchen cavalry, although the guards around him fought desperately, or the whole army was annihilated, Guo Zaiyou himself died in battle.

Until he died in battle, he did not know that in fact, Thuanan and Pyongyang had not been breached at all, and even the siege was just a smoke bomb, and Nurhachi did not even intend to attack these two cities.

All of this was a smoke bomb released by Nurhachi, just to attract him to come, to get into the Jurchen ambush circle, and to surround the point to send reinforcements.