Chapter 343: North and South Korea

Yeosu Port is located on a prominent corner in the south of Jeolla Left Road, and there is actually a considerable distance from Busan Po, and Jeolla Left Province is still firmly in the hands of North Korea, coupled with the complex terrain of the coastal area, it is unlikely that the Japanese will run from Busan to Yeosu to sneak attack, this Chang Hyo is also very clear, but he insists that Yeosu Port cannot guarantee the safety of the sailors, refuses to rest in Yeosu, and then chooses the place of rest on Jeju Island.

Although the envoy of North Korea, Cui Yikuo, tried his best to ensure that Yeosu would never be attacked by the Japanese people, but Chang Xiao was stubborn, and he had no way, and Chang Xiao was a reinforcement sent by the Ming Dynasty, and Cui Yikuo did not dare to offend, so he had no choice but to agree to Chang Xiao's request, and listed the Chengshanpu area facing the end of the Tsushima Strait as the station of Chang Xiao's sailors.

After all, the original Chengshanpu port was too small to accommodate their warships, and as a result, the North Korean side organized tens of thousands of expansions of the original port, which was named "Destroy the Japanese Port" by Chang Xiao, to show his determination not to destroy the Japanese people.

Chang Xiao, who supported the south of Korea, had opened up the situation in the Tsushima Strait, but the measures of the Ming Dynasty to support the north of Korea were full of difficulties, and the key was that the Jurchens of Jianzhou Wei had the pulse of the imperial court and wanted to take the opportunity to make a big profit.

Jianzhou Wei is actually the general name of the three guards, namely Jianzhou Wei, Jianzhou Left Guard and Jianzhou Right Guard, the command of the three guards are all served by the tribal leaders of the Jurchens, and it is hereditary from father and son, but it needs the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and any activities must be reported to the Ming Dynasty, and the annual commanders of the three guards also have to go to Beijing to pay tribute, as for the internal affairs of the three guards, they are handled by themselves, and the Ming Dynasty does not pay much attention to it. Therefore, these three guards are actually equivalent to the subject country of the Ming Dynasty, with considerable freedom.

However, it is also the Ming Dynasty's extensive management of the Jianzhou Sanwei that makes the Jianzhou Wei nominally the army under the command of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it is a country within a country, ostensibly obeying the dispatch of the Ming Dynasty, but as long as the order does not give them death, then the Jianzhou Wei will find a loophole in it, anyway, the Ming Dynasty can't do anything with them.

For example, this time, the imperial court ordered Jianzhou Wei to attack the tribe of the savage Jurchens, in order to force the wild Jurchens who invaded Korea to retreat, but after Jianzhou Wei received the order. However, he refused to send troops, but complained to the court that his tribe suffered a disaster last year, and there was really no food supply for the army to fight, so he wanted to ask the court to support some military rations.

If it is the army of the Ming Dynasty, there will naturally be military rations when they go on the expedition. However, the three guards of Jianzhou did not belong to the official military establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and they brought their own grain and grass when they went out with the army. If only now they want the court to provide grain and grass. This in itself is unreasonable, and the imperial court will naturally not agree, so the two sides began to fight each other, and they did not send troops for half a month.

Daming and Jianzhou Jurchen are not in a hurry, after all, the savage Jurchen is not killing their own people, but North Korea can't stand it. If it is delayed like this, those savage Jurchens will kill all the people in the entire northern part of Korea, so the last North Korea promised to provide grain and grass to Jianzhou Wei, and Daming made a statement. It was agreed that the war profits obtained by Jianzhou Wei did not have to be handed over, which satisfied the Jianzhou Jurchens, and finally sent troops after the last day.

The coast of the East China Sea where the savage Jurchens live, so it is also called the East China Sea Jurchen, and it is also within the jurisdiction of Jianzhou Wei, but it is a pity that the strength of the savage Jurchens is not worse than that of the Jianzhou Jurchens, and their temperament is more fierce, so they have always been disobedient to discipline, and the two Jurchens plus the other Haixi Jurchen, there is a constant war between the three parties, and no one can help anyone.

Among the three Jurchens, the Savage Jurchen has the lowest degree of civilization, such as the Jianzhou Jurchen and the Haixi Jurchen are already half-farming and half-hunting peoples, and even the Haixi Jurchens can already make ironware, but the Savage Jurchens are still in the state of a nomadic people, and even food and clothing cannot be guaranteed, especially every winter, a large number of people have to starve to death, and when there is a shortage of food in spring, it is also the period when the Savage Jurchens loot outward.

Now the savage Jurchen in order to obtain food, organized a large army to kill into Korea, only some old and weak are left in the tribe, it can be said that this is the time when the savage Jurchen is the weakest, if the Jianzhou Jurchen do all the army in the clan, it is absolutely possible to annex the savage Jurchen.

But Liaodong is not only the Jianzhou Jurchen and the savage Jurchen, there is also a Haixi Jurchen, and this Jurchen has always been the enemy of the Jianzhou Jurchen. The relationship between the Haixi Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty was not very close, although the tribal leaders were also rewarded by the Ming Dynasty, but they did not accept the dispatch of the Ming Dynasty like the Jianzhou Jurchens.

After receiving the news that the Jianzhou Jurchens were going to crusade against the savage Jurchens, the Haixi Jurchens immediately reacted, and the four major tribes mobilized their troops to concentrate at the junction with the Jianzhou Jurchens, making a posture of attacking the Jianzhou Jurchens, so that the Jianzhou Jurchens also had to mobilize a large army to defend, and only divided an army of three or four thousand people to attack the Savage Jurchens.

The reason why the Haixi Jurchens made a gesture of containing the Jianzhou Jurchens was mainly because they didn't want the Jianzhou Jurchens to annex the savage Jurchens, after all, if the savage Jurchens were annexed by the Jianzhou Jurchens, then they would definitely increase their strength, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty behind them, their strength would definitely be stronger in the future, and maybe their Haixi Jurchens would follow in the footsteps of the savage Jurchens in the future.

The Jianzhou Jurchens were also very annoyed by the containment of the Haixi Jurchens, but there was no way, and they could only use an army of three or four thousand people to sneak attack the Savage Jurchens, and after breaking through the Savage Jurchen tribe, they could only take away a small amount of booty, as for the women and children, they could only kill but not take away, and even the grain that the Savage Jurchens snatched back from North Korea could not be taken away, and they could only be set on fire at the end.

When the Korean savage Jurchen army received their nest and was raided, these savages were also furious, immediately threw down the loot they had grabbed, turned around and killed their tribe, even if the leader of the tribe wanted to stop it, after all, they were originally a very loose army, and they used the prestige of the leader to organize the warriors of the tribe together, but now the wives and children of the warriors are being slaughtered by the enemy, and they have no reason to stop the tribesmen from going back to protect their families.

The Jianzhou Jurchens finally saved the people of northern Korea from the looting of the savage Jurchens, and in just a few days, the savage Jurchens all withdrew to their own tribes, and the Korean army began to enter here, but they were faced with a scorched earth, and the original towns and villages were all looted and burned by the savages, and there was not even a single person within a hundred miles.

However, the savage Jurchen is not happy, they are all some small tribes, after the men in the tribe went to North Korea, the tribe had no defensive ability at all, and was easily broken by the Jianzhou Jurchens, countless women and children were slaughtered, and even the food they worked hard to grab was also burned, which made many savage Jurchens go crazy, regardless of taking the men in the tribe to find revenge for the Jianzhou Jurchens, but unfortunately the most difficult thing can only be sent to death in vain.

After suffering such a big loss, the savage Jurchen naturally will not give up, the tribes that invaded Korea before formed an alliance again, and launched a retaliatory war against the Jianzhou Jurchen, as a result, the two sides killed again in Liaodong It is difficult to separate, for this kind of intra-tribal war, the Ming Dynasty has always held an attitude of not helping each other, but this time the Jianzhou Jurchen caused the war because of obeying the orders of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty at most supported the Jianzhou Jurchen in materials.

The strength of the Jianzhou Jurchen and the savage Jurchen is incomparably different, the two tribes fought for more than half a year, and no one was able to win after the last one, and at this time the Haixi Jurchen began to move, it seems that they want to take advantage of the competition between the snipe and the mussels, and the fishermen make profits, but unfortunately at this time, the Jianzhou Jurchen and the savage Jurchen also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and they really couldn't fight, and the two sides temporarily stopped fighting, and each returned to the tribe to recuperate, and the Haixi Jurchen was not sure to annex any of the Jurchens in a short period of time, and the army could only be disbanded after the last time, Liaodong has once again returned to its original situation.

The savage Jurchen retreated, and the northern part of Korea naturally returned to calm, although the Korean people suffered numerous casualties, but at least the land was still there, so the North Korea used to increase the troops there, while moving the people to fill the northern region.

Compared with the northern border that was ravaged by the Jurchens, the southern Gyeongsang Left Road occupied by the Japanese people was not much better, the ferocity of the Japanese people was no worse than that of the Jurchens, and these Japanese people had a grudge against North Korea, and naturally they would not show mercy after the rebellion, most of the people in the entire Gyeongsang Left Road were killed by them, and the rest all fled to other places, fortunately, the Daming Sailor led by Chang Xiao cut off the back road of these Wa people, so that all the Wa people led by the Zong clan were trapped in North Korea, after all, the sea was blocked by the Daming Sailors, Their ship was also destroyed, and there was nowhere to escape.

However, these Japanese people are much smarter than those savage Jurchens, and in this case that the back road is cut off, the leader of the rebellion, the Zong clan, immediately shrinks his forces, and more than 40,000 people all rush to the border of Gyeongsang-left and Gyeongsang-right, making a large-scale attack.

However, the Zong clan is not so stupid, after seeing that the North Korea was not lightly frightened, he immediately sent an envoy to North Korea to sue for peace, telling the other party that if they did not let them go back, then he would lead a large army to kill the right road of Gyeongsang, and kill people when they saw them, anyway, they couldn't escape, so it was better to kill them.

For Zong's intimidation, the Koreans who had already been frightened by the ferocity of the Japanese did not dare to refuse, although they had several times the opponent's army in their hands, but they still did not have the certainty of blocking the Japanese army, so they finally agreed to Zong's conditions, agreed to the other party's peace, and sent Zong's army out of the country, but no one expected that the Daming Sailor made an unexpected move later. (To be continued......)