Chapter 386: The Curtain of the Korean War
Zhengde in the palace to make the big sand table is very smooth, the terrain of each state capital is shown on this sand table covering an area of 100 acres, and Zhengde also ordered people to plant sweet potatoes and corn in the position of some state capitals, these state capitals are this year to promote the planting of sweet potatoes and corn, although now it seems to account for only a small part of the Ming Prefecture, but now the name of sweet potatoes and corn has spread all over the Ming Dynasty, I believe that by this time next year, he can plant the entire sand table full of corn and sweet potatoes.
This big sand table was originally just a game of Zhengde for a while, no one took it seriously, and even many ministers saw this sand table when they entered the palace, and found that North Korea was also displayed on the sand table, which made many people think that it was the favor of His Majesty the Emperor to North Korea, after all, North Korea has been very loyal to the Ming Dynasty over the years, and it is a very qualified subject country, but it was not until later that North Korea requested that it be attached, and these ministers who saw this sand table felt that something was wrong, but they could not produce any evidence.
In addition, what no one knows is that at the same time as the production of the big sand table in the palace was completed, Zhengde sent Jinyi Wei to send a secret letter to Zhou Chong, in which Zhengde scolded the North Koreans and told Zhou Chong that he must give the Koreans some color to see, so that they can know the fate of Lu Dao deceiving the suzerain.
For Zhengde's anger, Zhou Zhong smiled indifferently after understanding the cause and effect, the cause of this incident is nothing more than a fake map, North Korea, as a subject country, is very deferential on the surface, and even pays tribute to the Ming Dynasty on the map of his own country, but no one expected that North Korea's superficial obedience is all fake, and the map of tribute is also fake. Moreover, this fake map was also paid tribute during the time of Emperor Xiaozong. So Zhengdeok felt that North Korea was cheating on his father. This made him extremely disgusted with North Korea, so he wanted Zhou Zhong to give North Korea a little color.
In fact, Zhou Chong felt that North Korea had done nothing wrong, after all, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, maps have always been the most important military secrets of a country, such as Liu Bang's capture of Xianyang in history, the first thing he did was to find maps and documents all over the country, not those gold and silver treasures, and later Liu Bang was able to defeat Xiang Yu and achieve a great cause. The maps and documents also contributed to that.
It is precisely because the map is so important, so North Korea will naturally not hand it over easily, as for the tribute to give the map of the whole country to the Ming Dynasty, it is just a means to show loyalty, and the North Koreans also know very well that after this map is given to the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will not be used at all, and it will only be moldy in the treasury of the Ministry of Rites, so they are not worried about this fake map being debunked at all, in fact, it is true. The Koreans gave the map to the Ming Dynasty as early as the time of Hyojong, but more than 20 years have passed. No one has ever looked at the fake map, and from this point of view, the North Koreans who decided to give the fake map to the Ming must have been a talent.
But what the Koreans never expected was that Daming would appear such an unreliable emperor as Zhengde, in order to build a huge sand table in the palace, and thought of Zhou Chong's plan for North Korea, as a result, on a whim, he actually planned to add North Korea in advance, so as not to modify it later, so that the map was also used, and the fake map was finally discovered, and it also provoked Zhengde to be furious, and ordered Zhou Zhong to teach the North Koreans a lesson, Let them pay the price for deceiving their fathers.
Although Zhou Chong has been cheating North Korea, but now that Zhengde asked himself to give the North Koreans a little color in the letter, then he could not refuse whether it was public or private, so after Li Anliang and others returned to North Korea and handed over the power of the Heian Army to the people sent by Zhou Chong, the situation in the entire North Korea immediately entered a turbulent situation.
This time Zhou Zhong was sent to take over the Ping An Army named Liu Tao, that is, the most famous captain in the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce before, he was also sent by Zhou Zhong to India, picked up Chilava these European craftsmen, and later Zhou Zhong became the governor of the four seas, his subordinates were extremely lacking in talents, so he simply transferred a group of people from the Chamber of Commerce to supplement the governor's mansion, Liu Tao is one of the most outstanding ones.
Of course, Liu Tao is not going to take over the Ping An Army alone, he went with him to divide into two sets of civil and military teams, needless to say, the civilian officials are naturally to manage the territory laid by the Ping An Army, as for the generals, there are more than 20 of them, more than 20 of them will be sent to the Ping An Army, from top to bottom to completely take over the military affairs of the Ping An Army, in addition, this time Zhou Zhong in order to completely control the Ping An Army, but also in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Ping An Army, he also specially sent an army of 2,000 people, among the two thousand people, 1,500 musketeers, In addition, there are 500 artillery troops, and it is believed that with this sharp firearms unit, the other forces of North Korea will be defeated by them.
Liu Tao used to be the best captain in the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and he managed a huge fleet in an orderly manner, but now although the object of management has changed, there is actually no essential difference, so after he arrived at the Ping An Army, he quickly took care of the Ping An Army up and down very clearly, and for the army, he was firmly in his hands, as for those diehards who jumped out when he controlled the army, he was ruthlessly cleaned up, but for the sake of Li Anliang's face, he did not kill anyone, Just deprived those diehards of their power and threw them to the rear and left them to fend for themselves.
After taking control of the power of the Hean Army, the temperature in Korea also began to rise, and at this time, the grain brought by Zhou Zhong from Nanyang was also sent to the Hean Army, and as a result, on a sunny morning, the already refreshed Hean Army finally began to show its fangs and began to write a new chapter in Korea.
Liu Tao selected the first target of the Heian Army as Li Long who was shrinking in Gyeonggi Province, after all, the other party is still the nominal king of Korea, and all the rebels take the elimination of Li Long as their own responsibility, as long as Li Long is destroyed, then their Ping An Army will be very powerful, and then all the Korean people will be grateful to the Ping An Army, and then they will carry this prestige and officially issue an order to surrender to the various rebels in Korea, if anyone dares to disobey, then they can justifiably send troops to fight.
At the beginning of March, Liu Tao finally decided to send the Ping An Army to take the initiative to crusade against Li Long, this army is centered on 3,000 firearms soldiers, and there are also 30,000 elites of the Ping An Army, ostensibly with Li Anliang as the commander, but in fact it is commanded by the general sent by Zhou Chong, Li Anliang can only make some suggestions to the army at most, as for whether it can be adopted, it is not necessarily.
The Pyongan Army broke Li Long's defensive circle on the periphery of Gyeonggi Province with great speed and speed, attacked the city all the way, and soon hit the northwest of Seoul, that is, near Panmunjom in later generations, but at this time Li Long finally reacted, organized a large army to defend near Panmunjom, and prepared to fight to the death with the Pyongan Army, and even in order to boost the morale of the army, Li Long also came to the army in person to supervise the battle, because he knew that if he failed in this battle, then their Li clan would also end their rule over Korea for hundreds of years.
Regarding the battle between the Ping'an Army and Li Long, Qi Yanming and other rebels all chose to wait and see, this is because they all know that Li Long's strength is not at all something that they can defeat alone, so everyone, including Qi Yanming, believes that this time it is Li Anliang who is dizzy, otherwise he will not fight Li Long in a decisive battle with a lonely army.
But in other words, Qi Yanming and other leaders of the rebels were very eager to see the showdown between the Ping An Army and Li Long, although they thought that the Ping An Army could not win, but at least it could consume Li Long's strength, which was definitely a good news for them, so the rebels from all walks of life not only dragged the Ping An Army back, but even the Jiangyuan Army, which was relatively close to the Ping An Army, even sent some military rations to show their support for the Ping An Army.
For the performance of several other rebels, Li Anliang and Liu Tao and others in the Ping'an Army sneered in their hearts, they had not used the core of the 3,000 firearms troops in the previous battles, in order to use this army in the final decisive battle, so they had absolute confidence to defeat Li Long's Korean King Army, but after clearing Li Long's biggest obstacle, the next step was to pacify the rebels led by the Chungqing Army.
At the end of March, the Heian Army and Li Long's King's Army fought a decisive battle near Panmunjom, but this decisive battle was doomed to Li Long's tragedy from the beginning, in order to boost the morale of his army, he not only personally supervised the army in the rear, but also promised all his soldiers that as long as the Heian Army could be defeated, all the spoils of war would go to the soldiers personally, and even if the Heian Army could be defeated in the future, the entire army would be deprived of military discipline for three days.
Although the Korean officers and soldiers did not have a good impression of the king of Yi Long, their families were all in Gyeonggi Province, and they did not dare to rebel at all, and now they heard that Li Long had promised such a rich reward, which finally ignited everyone's bestiality and clamored to slaughter all the rebels in one fell swoop.
But it is a pity that all this Li Long did was in vain, when all the Korean officers and soldiers launched an attack on the Pyongan Army with high morale, they did not expect that a roar like thunder suddenly sounded in the Pyongan Army on the opposite side, and then hundreds of steel projectiles fell from the sky, and countless officers and soldiers who rushed to the front were smashed into flesh by these projectiles, and hundreds of flesh and blood passages appeared in the entire army of officers and soldiers.
Although the DPRK also learned to use firearms from the Central Plains, and the domestic army was also equipped with some very primitive artillery, they never thought that there would be someone in this world who would fire hundreds of artillery pieces together, so their formation was also very close, and as a result, when the artillery was fired, countless North Korean officers and soldiers died tragically under the artillery, and with the opening of the artillery, the war that decided the fate of North Korea finally began. (To be continued......)