Chapter 389: The Korean Journey
"Yes!"
The fat man was so anxious that his face was covered with sweat drops the size of beans, "According to the news from the people we arranged in the City Lord's Mansion, the camp we placed four or five miles outside Yushan City has been burned to ashes, and many charred corpses have been found in the entire military camp. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and they also, but also saw a lot of Ming soldiers......"
"Da Ming's soldiers, are you sure you didn't deliver the wrong message?"
As soon as he heard this, Han Dongdao's face turned green, Da Ming's soldiers, these guys can't really be Da Ming, right?
"Yes, that's what the secret letter says!" The fat man wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, only to feel that Han Dongdao in front of him exuded a terrifying momentum.
Han Dongdao stared at the broken arm on his right side for a long time, and then said with a gloomy face: "Quickly pass Li Dongxu and Cui Zhenxu...... When you come to the General's Mansion, you will say that the old man has something important to discuss! ”
"Yes, General!" The fat man remembered the names that Han Dongdao said in his heart, and hurriedly arranged for his subordinates to invite them.
In just half a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen of Han Dongdao's subordinates hurried over the city.
"Yo, Brother Dongxu, it's rare."
"Brother Genxu, I didn't drink all yesterday, but we are still together tonight?"
"Why are you here? Could it be that the general invited you here?"
More than a dozen Korean ministers, dressed in the unique costumes of the Korean Kingdom, all tall, short, fat and thin, chatted with each other in the main hall of the General's Palace.
"Oh, you're all here?" At this time, Han Dongdao walked out of the back hall.
"I've seen General Han!"
Everyone in the main hall stood up in unison and saluted Han Dongdao.
"Oh, excuse me." Han Dongdao waved his hand and went straight to the point: "The reason why I invited you here today is because Yushan City was captured by the Protector Sect and the Ming Army!"
"What?"
"Yu, Yushan City was captured by the Baowang and the Ming army?"
"Impossible, why did the Ming army come to our North Korea?"
Han Dongdao's words were like dropping a stone on the surface of a calm lake, causing layers of ripples.
"Okay, don't make any more noise, I called you here to discuss this matter, not to let you come here to make noise!"
Han Dongdao slapped the table fiercely and said, "Since the Ming army has already intervened, it shows that they are on the side of the royalist faction, and they are all our enemies!"
Hearing Han Dongdao's words, the expressions on the faces of the other adults were different:
Some are angry, some are excited, some are regretful, and some are happy...... And so on!
After all, it was he Han Dongdao who took the initiative to provoke Da Ming, and now that Da Ming has retaliated, he has begun to grit his teeth.
"General, why don't we start shrinking our forces?" The short-bearded middle-aged man who spoke was Li Dongxu, the commander of the Seoul Palace.
"In our Korean kingdom, there are only 80,000 soldiers that the old man can mobilize at will, 20,000 were stationed in Yusan City before, 30,000 were also arranged in Seoul, and the remaining 30,000 people were scattered and arranged to maintain law and order in other small cities."
Han Dongdao frowned and said, "According to the news that came, the Ming side sent an army of 50,000 over, plus the army of the Baowang faction, we are afraid that it will be dangerous this time!"
"It's a big deal to fight with them!" A young man with a meaty face and as strong as a cow said with a furious expression.
"Xiaolong, what nonsense are you talking about?" A chubby middle-aged man first scolded the man, and then said apologetically to Han Dongdao: "General, the dog speaks unruly, please don't mind, general."
"Liyao, what Xiaolong said is not unreasonable!" Han Dongdao said thoughtfully: "This time, the Ming army has a total of 50,000, and the number of the Protector Sect is smaller than ours, and most of them have to guard the city, so only the soldiers of Yushan City can be mobilized." In this way, it is only comparable to our strength. According to the old man, we simply gathered the soldiers and generals back, at least we have a fight! ”
"The general is right!"
"We all listen to the general!"
Whether it was sincere or false, at least for now the generals agreed.
Han Dongdao nodded and said, "Okay, the old man asked his subordinates to bring the map, and let's talk about the details."
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As the saying goes, time is running out, just when Han Dongdao and they were discussing how to deploy troops and block the Baowang faction and the Ming Dynasty army, Zhu Song and they were not idle.
A sprinkling essay on rebellion was drafted by Yang Rong, photocopied thousands or even tens of thousands of copies, and was sent to all parts of North Korea.
For a time, the entire Korean kingdom was in an uproar, and the mood of the officials in various places and the chief and adjutant of the city was different, but more of them panicked.
No matter how you say it, Han Dongdao is also a member of the Korean Kingdom, although he did rebellious things and imprisoned King Li Fangyuan, but in the final analysis, it is also their own family affair of the Korean Kingdom.
At present, the Ming court sent 50,000 troops to the Korean Kingdom, nominally to help the Korean Qing monarch and exterminate the rebellious Han Dongdao, but in fact, what kind of ghost idea was played, these officials from all over the Korean Kingdom could not figure it out.
Of course, Zhu Neng and Zhu Song didn't care what the officials of the Korean Kingdom thought, and on the third day after the publication of the rebellion report, the Ming army and the 5,000 troops sent by the king were launched at the same time.
With Song Joong Ki and their army following, coupled with the huge number of Ming troops with 50,000 people, the other small cities of the Korean Kingdom did not dare to stop them at all.
Therefore, on the route from Yushan City to Seoul, Zhu Neng and the others basically did not encounter any obstacles.
In a short period of seven days, with the help of the royalist faction, those who could be persuaded to surrender did not use force, and the initiative to surrender was naturally welcomed by the sandwich.
It's just that the 5,000 Korean soldiers who originally encountered outside Yushan City have not increased but decreased since they left Yushan City, and the current 15,000 Korean soldiers have been mobilized in various cities, and the original 5,000 soldiers of Yushan City have been left in the surrendered cities, and while guarding the cities, they play the role of supervising the generals of each city and the lords of each city.
As the news of the loss of cities in various parts of Korea returned to Seoul, all the civil and military officials below became nervous, starting from Han Dong-do.
The cities under the command of Han Dongdao have also started the recruitment process in various places under his command while the speed of recruitment and deployment of inherent soldiers has accelerated.
On the eighth day, the Ming army finally came to the Seoul range, and the army of the royalist faction expanded to 25,000 people, and the Ming army combined, a total of 75,000 people!