The first time I set foot on a foreign land, I couldn't help but feel a lot of tension.

Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally obtained the largest granary in Northeast China by conquering Korea, which supported the protracted Ming and Qing wars. In this time and space that he has traveled through, North Korea must not become a vassal of the Manchus.

This time, he made the decision to rescue North Korea, in addition to containing the Manchu forces and striving to attack the Manchu nest from North Korea to build a state, there is another very important reason, and he did not mention it to anyone.

Zhang Li walked to the Taishi chair in the tent and sat down, narrowing his eyes slightly, hoping to take a nap - he had tried to sleep on the marching bed a few times before, but he couldn't sleep at all.

However, after all, there was something hidden in his heart, and Zhang Li still couldn't sleep.

In all fairness, in later generations, Zhang Li did not have a good impression of the land under his feet. The North is militaristic, and the South is arrogant, even surpassing the island nation in the east.

The pit in the future is too big, and Zhang Li doesn't want to think about it, just thinking about the current situation.

I have to admit that at least in the Ming Dynasty, North Korea still had great respect for the Ming Dynasty, the "central power". There are reasons why the Ming army helped them resist the Japanese in the Wanli years, and there is also the thinking inertia formed hundreds of years since the Ming Taizu.

Zhang Li has always been very concerned about one thing, when he met with the North Korean envoys, he also specially read the national letters and a large number of copywriting brought by the North Korean envoys - that is, the authenticity of the Korean use of the Chongzhen era name that is widely rumored in history.

As a result, the letter written by the Korean king Li Liang to Emperor Chongzhen begins with "In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Yidi offended me".

It's just a few words. Let Zhang Zhang figure out a matter of "ripping" every day in later generations, what is the attitude of the Korean state towards the Ming and Qing dynasties?

It stands to reason. Jin Guo used the "Mandate of Heaven" era name to calculate from the founding of Nuer Hachi, and Huang Taiji previously used "Tiancong". With "Chongde" this year, the Korean state was beaten by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so it's time to use the year name of the Tartar, right?

As a result, they still used Chongzhen's era name, which made Zhang Zhang slightly moved - at least for the moment, North Korea is indeed still focused on Daming.

Why do Koreans despise "my Daqing" so much? The most important thing is to be dressed - it turns out that North Koreans don't want to have that rat tail on the back of their heads!

Historically, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Korea and Japan believed that China was dead, and Japan disparaged China as "China" from then on. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan, which considered itself the orthodoxy of China, launched wars against the Qing Dynasty such as the First Sino-Japanese War under the banner of "Rebellion". The Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties were two subordinate states that were heartily devoted to Chinese civilization. Both Japan and Korea were prejudiced against China in later generations because of the cultural degradation of their suzerains.

This situation, Zhang Li knows it well. If you don't look at the Korean and Japanese countries without colored glasses, it is actually still a pot of "my Great Qing Dynasty" - this pot is destined to never be shaken off.

The so-called hostility and contempt for each other in East Asia all come from "I am in the Qing Dynasty" - at least in the Ming Dynasty, the sticks and devils were quite honest, and the dishonest Ming would educate them to be human beings, such as the little devils who were crushed in the Wanli year.

It's a pity that it's now the eighth year of Chongzhen, and the Ming Dynasty is already crumbling - but. Now that I've come to this plane, everything has to change!

Thinking about it, Zhang Zhang finally felt a trace of sleepiness and closed his eyes unconsciously. Fall asleep.

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In the early morning of the next day, the Tuanshan army of more than 40,000 people packed up their bags early in the morning and marched to the northeast.

On the way to North Korea. Zhang Li, Gao Yuanliang and others discussed it properly, and the first stop of the Tuanshan Army in Korea was to gain a firm foothold in Cheongju City. Then attack in the direction of Seoul.

Cheongju was a very important strategic point south of Seoul, and it firmly strangled the Qing army from moving south. Occupy the road of the whole of Korea.

The road from Gunsan Port to Cheongju is not easy to walk, it is a mountainous area, and the road is rugged, which is not conducive to the transportation of the baggage of the Tuanshan Army, so the marching speed of the Tuanshan Army is really not fast.

The so-called fierce war is dangerous, and it is in a foreign country, and everything is full of unknowns. It is not uncommon in history for a commander to be killed by a cold gun, and Zhang Zhang does not like to be in the limelight, so he still sits in the carriage of the Chinese army, slowly moving forward with the large army.

The vanguard is Pan Batian and Mu at the forefront of the army, while the Chinese army is directly governed by Zhang Li, and Gao Yuanliang is sitting behind the rear army. Such a marching formation is more reasonable, no matter where the enemy situation appears in the front, middle and rear, the Tuanshan army can deal with it freely.

Zhang Li asked the Korean interpreter who accompanied the army, according to the current pace of marching, the Tuanshan army would arrive at Cheongju City in about two to three hours, and then the safety of the army would be much better after entering the city.

And at this moment, a fast horse came galloping, and all the soldiers marching on the road immediately dodged to the side, and quickly gave way to a passage. Without orders from their superiors, the soldiers of the Tuanshan Army continued to move forward unhurriedly after giving way to the road, and not many people looked at the fast horse.

Zhang Zhang had been sitting in front of the carriage window observing the mountains and rivers of North Korea, and the galloping fast horses naturally couldn't escape his eyes. Zhang Li's heart chuckled, and he couldn't help but hang - because the person on the horse was none other than the captain of the scout team, Yesheng.

Yesheng took the scout team to the front station early in the morning, it is said that there is no major situation, he will not return in person, could it be that something happened in front?

Before Zhang Li could think about it, Yesheng hit his horse and came to Zhang Li's carriage. The coachman stopped the carriage, opened the door and jumped out of the carriage.

Yesheng turned over and dismounted, and said to Zhang Li with an anxious expression: "My lord, the Tartar Zhengbai Banner and Kong Youde's Han Army Banner have reached thirty miles northwest of Qingzhou City!" ”

"What?" Zhang Li exclaimed, and in just a moment, he calmed down, and immediately asked Yesheng: "Yesheng, why did the Tartars suddenly go south?" Aren't they in Seoul? ”

Nightborn shook his head, apparently he didn't know the Tartars' plans for the march, and he only reported on everything the scouts had discovered. Zhang Zhang also realized that this was not the news that Yesheng could find out, so he changed the subject: "How many people are there in Tartar?" ”

Yesheng frowned and said: "The Zhengbai Banner is full of cavalry, about five thousand, and the two Tartars have a lot of people, about two to thirty thousand." ”

Zhang Li quickly calculated the distance in his mind, his side was still more than forty miles away from Qingzhou, and the Tartars were only thirty miles, plus the Tartars with the white flag were all cavalry......

No, we must not let the Tartars occupy Cheongju City first!

At present, the Tuanshan army is fighting in a foreign country, and there is no base camp at all, if this Cheongju city falls into the hands of the Tartars, the first battle of the Tuanshan army is to attack the city - this is definitely not the result that Zhang Li wants! (To be continued.) )