Chapter 768: Conquest of Korea (3)
Lu Shunde knew that this was Jin Binghua's agreed code, and hurriedly asked the staff officer beside him to write it down. However, Lu Shunde's face turned dark, and he said, "Why don't I remember what the national abbot said about this?" Who knows if you're trying to lure us into the city and set up an ambush in advance? Someone, tie him up! ”
Jin Binghua's face changed, he was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "General, the younger one is the nephew of the national abbot, who came to inform the general on the order of the national abbot, how dare he make a crooked idea to ambush?" Besides, if it was really an ambush, Guozhang would not have transferred the soldiers of the fort on the Manju Mountain Fortress at the mouth of the Han River and the soldiers of the Xingzhou Mountain Fortress on the halfway of the Han River in advance. If it weren't for Guozhang forcibly letting the two battalions of soldiers guarding the fort withdraw, these two forts would hold the Han River and be condescending, but I am afraid that although the heavenly soldiers led by the general are mighty, they will also be a little troublesome. It can be seen from this that the general, our national ruler is bent on thinking about the heavenly soldiers and is loyal to the heavenly empire! ”
Jin Binghua's cry made Lu Shunde a little embarrassed. After all, he was just deceiving others, and he didn't think that people had done so much, in order to welcome the heavenly soldiers into the capital smoothly, he not only sent troops to open the city gate as an inner guard, but also transferred the soldiers guarding the forts along the way, and let himself enter completely unguarded. This, this has been done without much better.
Lu Shunde still thinks it's strange, this is so far along the Han River, there are forts at two ferries, after all, it is the waterway artery leading to the capital of the country, and there are originally two fort cities on the slopes of the riverbank, fortunately, the secret service department contacted the national abbot and removed the guards who were in danger of defense, otherwise, although so many warships are not afraid of one or two of his forts, they will always suffer losses. If you are unlucky and you sink two or three warships and lose hundreds of people, you will lose a lot!
Lu Shunde couldn't help but be scared for a while!
It is no wonder that the Korean soldiers at the two ferry batteries fled as soon as they saw their fleets, it turned out that this was the case, and it was the lord of the country who ordered them to escape.
Lu Shunde waved his hand and said, "That's good, Ben will believe you!" By the way, what else do you have to explain? The army of the Celestial Empire is tens of thousands, and it is not easy to march all the way to this point, do you have any arrangements for a reward? ”
"This." Jin Binghua's face darkened, but when he saw Lu Shunde's eyes glaring, he hurriedly said: "There is an arrangement, there is an arrangement!" The prince sealed off the palace, and the gold, silver and grain in the palace could be sent by the general to fetch it at that time. As for the other explanations of the national abbot, he only said that if the new Korea could keep the army, the sea would depend on the protection of the Celestial Empire, and our Korea would pay a lot of military salaries every year. ”
Lu Shunde secretly said that this is not a special gift of money? I was about to say yes, but I thought that it would be up to His Majesty to decide, so I smiled and said nothing.
Let Jin Binghua be led aside to rest, Lu Shunde was not at ease, and sent people to quietly go ashore to search along both sides of the Han River, and sure enough, he found a fort fortress hidden in the middle of the mountains and forests three miles behind, which was the mountain city of Xingzhou, and nothing else was found, but more than ten Korean soldiers and a few mountain people were captured. Lu Shunde sent people to guard the dangerous places all the way, and the forts everywhere were even more controlled.
By about 10 p.m., the troop carriers that followed behind arrived. Lu Shunde immediately ordered the whole army to land.
On the shore, Kim Byung-hwa argued with his deputy. But it turned out that Jin Binghua led his subordinates to lead the Celestial Empire army to the capital according to Lu Shunde's request, and said to his deputy that 3,000 people had entered the city. However, the deputy said that 3,000 people were too many, and in case it was not good for the Li dynasty, only 500 people, so the two quarreled.
Kim Byung-hwa's deputy was a North Korean general, who insisted on refusing, and seemed to be a soldier loyal to the Lee dynasty. And most of his subordinates listened to him, so although Jin Binghua was the chief officer, there was still no way.
After Lu Shunde learned what had happened, he directly sent someone to kill the North Korean general and dozens of his cronies, and then said to the shocked Jin Binghua: "Lord Jin, it's just a trivial matter, why do you have to talk about it for a long time?" ”
Jin Binghua's face turned pale with fright, and he trembled: "Yes! Be! Great General please! ”
Lu Shunde ordered 3,000 sailors to stay behind to protect the ferry and warships, and more than 20,000 infantry followed behind, opening a distance of one mile, and he personally led more than 2,000 soldiers, led by Jin Binghua and others, to the capital with flags and torches.
At this time, the capital of North Korea was still a very small city, with a population of only more than 100,000, far less than the size of Seoul in later generations, and it did not extend to the south bank of the Han River to become the Jiangnan District of Uncle Bird's famous horse riding dance, and the capital at this time was still three miles away from the Xijiang River, a branch of the Han River.
Not long after, the captives arrived at a place about a mile outside the south gate of the capital. On the city tower, the lights were already bright, and the gongs of the alarm were loud.
Jin Binghua walked to the city gate and yelled: "Who is the city gate guard?" Messy! This official is the envoy of the king's own envoy, and he is ordered to guide the lords of the Celestial Empire! General Lu of the Celestial Empire led all the generals to come to our court to declare the grace of His Majesty, and open the city gate quickly! ”
A lieutenant general on the tower of the city saw the mighty Celestial Empire army, and hesitated a little, although he knew that the Celestial Empire's mission would be greeted today, but he did not say that it would require a few thousand people. In addition, it is late at night, and there are tens of thousands of people mixed with chaotic soldiers, which is a matter of raiding the family and exterminating the clan. He just wanted to refuse, but a general in the city went up to the city tower with his own soldiers, and it was Jin Bingxue, the commander of the Wuwei Battalion, the city gate guard.
He saw Jin Binghua under the city tower, the latter nodded at him, Jin Bingxue looked up again, and saw five bonfires lit in the distance, lined up, and understood that this was what the national lord had explained. He slapped the lieutenant general and scolded: "Bastard, didn't you see that it was the envoy of the Celestial Empire?" How noble the envoy of the Celestial Empire is, the number of thousands of followers is still a few. What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up to open the city gate for Lao Tzu and invite the heavenly envoy to enter the city! If you delay the great affairs of the king and the king, can you afford to bear the sin? ”
After saying that, it was a few kicks and drove dozens of subordinates down the city tower. The lieutenant general wanted to speak and stopped, thinking that the main general mentioned that it was the king and the king, so he could only say nothing.
Under the city, the heavy southern gate of the capital creaked open. The torches at the gates were lit, and the fire was bright. With a wave of his hand, Lu Shunde calmly followed Jin Binghua into the city gate.
After entering the city, Lu Shunde saw a general in armor, leading more than 100 soldiers to stand on both sides of the city gate, respectfully welcoming him.
Jin Binghua, who greeted him, hurriedly introduced: "You haven't seen General Lu of the Celestial Empire?" ”
So, those sergeants, under the leadership of the general, all bowed and saluted: "The small one sees the big general!" ”
Lu Shunde turned a deaf ear and continued to walk forward, waiting for the soldiers of the captive army with him to surround all these Korean soldiers, and then shouted coldly: "No courtesy!" ”
Turning his head to the envoy Jin Binghua, he said: "Lord Jin, in order to ensure the safety of the soldiers of the Celestial Empire, this city gate is temporarily garrisoned by the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. Let your people be temporarily wronged, and let them go home tomorrow when it is dawn. After speaking, Lu Shunde shouted violently: "Action, tie it up!" ”
Suddenly, the soldiers of the captive army shouted in response, and all the more than 100 Korean soldiers were captured. Several of the sergeants still wanted to resist, but were directly beheaded on the spot by the soldiers of the capture army.
Jin Binghua muttered, his face was bloodless, he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word, he was wondering if he would be killed on the spot if he said a few more words, but he didn't dare to try, so he could only be silent, anyway, everything was on the hands of Lord Guozhang, and he was just an errand runner.
And Jin Bingxue was even more stunned. He was also detained by two soldiers of the Celestial Empire with his backhand, not to mention, there was a sharp blade against his throat at the side of his neck, he didn't dare to move at all, for fear of being cut in his throat, he just suppressed his voice and said: "The adults of the Celestial Empire, if you have something to discuss, don't kill me, the small one is the person of the national ruler, your own people!" ”