336. New battlefields
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Updated: 2O12-11-O4
On May 20, the 35th year of Kangxi, after fleeing from Gyeongju, the king of the dynasty who received the report and succeeded in success, led the harem and some ministers to return to Cheongju, the right province of Chungcheong. Li Zhuo, who was tired from the long journey, simply accepted the worship of the officials below the Qingzhou pastoral level, and then ate a little local snack and fell asleep.
Who knows, the accompanying Li Cao Zhenglang Cui Yingzhi deceived the opening of the north gate of Qingzhou City in the name of being ordered to go north, and Cui Yingzhi, who had been waiting under the city, Cui Yingzhi's subordinate brother, Qingzhou soldiers and horses Yu Hou Cui Xian, took the opportunity to rush in, first killed the city gate guards, and then made a loud noise all the way, and went straight to Li Yan's palace.
At this time, there were more than 1,000 guards around Li Yan, such as Yixingwei, Longxiangwei, Hubenwei, Zhongzuowei, Praetorian Battalion, Inner Praetorian Guard, Yulin Guard, and Hu Guard Hall, and their strength was far greater than that of the rebels. However, when these imperial guards heard the news and went out to quell the chaos, they were stopped by Cui Yingzhi, who was standing at the forefront of the rebel army. Cui Yingzhi asked them if they wanted to stay in Seoul's family and knew their tragic situation under the iron hooves of the Qing army. After being taught a lesson by Cui Yingzhi's righteous and stern words, these soldiers who were also ruined and ruined turned against each other while crying bitterly. As a result, the multiplied rebel army surrounded the palace overnight, hunting down and killing the ministers who agreed to the peace agreement and the local officials who were skilled in scraping, and Cheongju was filled with a terrifying atmosphere of the approaching end of the world.
After dawn, Li Zhuo was forced by the momentum of the rebels and sent a message to his inner servants, willing to pass the throne to his eldest son Li Yun, who was only nine years old, and abdicate himself as the king of Taishang. Just when most of the rebels thought that this could be the end, Cui Yingzhi once again stepped forward and pointed out that Li Yun was nothing more than a puppet of Li Yong, and that in the future, Li Yun might purge the rebel armies in the future as the king of Taishang.
At this time, Choi Yingzhi threw out a long-planned plan to support Li Zhuo's cousin, Yiyuan Jun Li Yi, as the king, and then declared himself a vassal to Ming Zheng, using Ming Zheng's power to resist the Qing army and seize the lost part of Korea.
Of course, the rebels did not show interest in Choi Young-zhi's long-term plans, but they were confused by Choi Young-zhi's description of the dragon's efforts to support the establishment of foreign domains and succession to the throne. At that moment, he defeated the small resistance in the palace, captured Li Zhuo's father and son, killed the powerful Zhang Xi concubine, and forced Li Zhuo to surrender to the throne of Yiyuanjun.
The news of the Cheongju turmoil reached Seoul as soon as possible, and the important Korean ministers below Yoo Sang-yun, who had led the council, were shocked. Many Korean ministers advocated immediately sending troops to suppress the rebellious army, and feared that the lives of Li Zhuo's father and son would be injured.
Among them, Cui Xiding, Zuo Yizheng, Shen Qi, Sheren Xu You and other manpower owners are chaotic orders, which were ordered by Li Zhuo against his will under the coercion of the rebellious army, and should not be accepted; However, the right-wing politician Li Wei, the Licao judgement Li She, and the soldier Cao Shen judge Mao Jiusi believed that the Qing army had just retreated, and the country was in ruins, and that there should be no more cannibalism at this time, so they advocated pushing the boat down the river and letting Li Ji succeed to the throne in order to calm the turbulent Korean people; Dasi Xian Kim Changji tried to reconcile the differences between the two parties, but was attacked by both sides in unison, and he was so angry that he let go; On the one hand, the Li clan has many relatives, and once Li Yi is arrested, the rebels can completely push another person to succeed him, on the other hand, Li has a good son-in-law, and after the Qing army has just wantonly taken over the peninsula, North Korea will never want to recruit a strong enemy.
Just when all parties were holding on to each other's opinions and unable to convince each other, there was a sudden report that the rebellious army in Cheongju had kidnapped Li Zhuo's father and son and marched to Seoul. At this time, the princes of Seoul couldn't sit still, so they hurriedly summoned and hurriedly ordered the Seoul troops to attack and intercept.
However, the defenders of Seoul were devastated when the Qing army entered the city, and at this time the reorganization was not yet complete, and the troops of nearly 1,000 men barely managed to muster were no match for the completely chaotic army. In this way, on the day of May 30, the two armies met at the Half Moon in Suwon-gun, Gyeonggi Province. The two sides only exchanged a burst of bird fire, and the officers and soldiers easily dropped three wounded and dispersed, and even some joined the rebels on the spot, so the momentum of the rebels became even bigger.
Seeing that the momentum of the rebels seemed unstoppable, the two teams in Seoul sent people to threaten the rebels, saying that if they continued to march, they would attack the families of the rebels in Seoul, and finally temporarily frightened this group of daring soldiers. However, temporarily stabilizing the opponent could not solve the most critical problem, so after thinking about it, including the leader Yoo Sang-yun, they were inclined to accept the rebels' opinions and embrace Yi Ji as the new king of Joseon.
At this point, in addition to the considerable loss of Li Yu's father and son, it should be said that it will be a comedy ending. However, there were still courtiers loyal to Li Zhuo who were unwilling to accept this ending, so they started to think about it.
On the ninth day of the sixth month, on the same day that the unprepared Li Ji was proclaimed king by the Joseon ministers in Dechang Palace, he had already withdrawn to the country, and only one or two Qing troops who had stayed in Jinuiju to supervise the Korean tribute had made a comeback. On the one hand, the Qing army invaded the south, and on the other hand, it sternly reprimanded the Joseon monarch as a rebel and announced that it would not recognize Li Xuan's status. Some of the Korean magistrates loyal to Li Yong also organized the troops rescued by King Qin to follow the Qing army all the way to Seoul.
At this time, Cui Yingzhi, who was afraid of Li Yu's restoration, personally strangled Li Yu's father and son in the palace, but Li Yu's three-year-old son Li Yu was rescued by the eunuch and fled north of the Han River. Choi Young-zhi, who killed Li Zhuo's father and son, knew that he had offended the anger of the people, so he ordered the Cheongju soldiers and horses to coerce Li Yu and a group of Korean ministers to flee south, and at the same time sent 100,000 people to send a letter to Jeju urgently, asking Ming Zheng to send troops.
On June 16, the Qing army marched into Seoul again without hindrance, and then was canonized as King Li Yu of Joseon by order of Kangxi.
However, after the news of the Qing court's support for Li Yu reached the south, the southern Korean officials, who regarded Li Yi as a puppet of the Qing court, instead declared their allegiance to Li Yi. At this time, Li Ji, who had fled to Jeonju, also issued an edict under the arrangement of Choi Yingzhi and others, asking all Korean officers and soldiers to rise up against the Qing army that had entered the country. As a result, the small DPRK has a situation in which one country and two masters are in a confrontation between the north and the south.
In fact, even if the officials, troops, and common people of southern Korea all supported Yi Xuan, the small court in Hunan (which called Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces in North Korea) could not resist for long in the face of the Qing court's iron cavalry. However, there are always surprises, and after receiving the news of the chaos on the Korean side, the Seogwipo Governor's Office immediately sent the report back to Yingcheon. According to Zheng Kezang's order to keep the Qing army in Korea and not let Korea become a base for the Qing army's grain, straw and tribute, the 4th Division of the Longxiang Army, which returned to Jeju to rest and complete the reorganization, was carried by the Beiyang Fleet and attacked with the whole division after receiving the third letter of help from the king of the dynasty, Li Ji. First, they made a forced landing outside Ganghwa Bay, and then used Ganghwa Island as a base, and the three brigades under the command boarded the 6th from Jemulpo and rushed straight to Seoul, cutting off the connection between Seoul and Pyongyang before the Qing army in the city could react.
The Qing army thought that the road was cut off by the Korean soldiers and civilians who finally Li Xuan, so they sent 500 people to ride over to clear it, but they encountered ten times the Zheng army, and under the first battle, except for a few riders who escaped, the rest were all annihilated. The banner soldiers who fled back to Seoul exaggerated the strength of Zheng's army, and frightened the defenders, who had only more than 1,000 men, and fled with the young Li Yi, and finally fled back to Pyongyang.
The news of the appearance of the Zheng Army Brigade in North Korea reached Kangxi's ears one by one, and Kangxi, who was facing the map of North Korea, couldn't help frowning. Although Kangxi made a windfall in the previous attack on Seoul, but the small country of North Korea is widowed, the national strength is limited, and the layers of private pockets are filled, what really fell into Kangxi's hands is only four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, among which there are many goods such as leather goods and ginseng that need to be realized, which is not enough for Kangxi to start another big war.
Kangxi, who was trapped in financial resources, had no intention of opening another battlefield in North Korea, but the status of North Korea was really important, not only could he directly threaten the land of Longxing in Liaodong, but also could cross the sea to deter Qilu and Tianjin, so he had to fight even if he didn't want to. Therefore, after some careful consideration, Kangxi had to mobilize nearly 10,000 forbidden brigades and eight banners of the Liaodong garrison into North Korea.
However, in this way, Kangxi's premeditated plot to turn Korea into a milking ground for the Qing court was completely bankrupt, and the Qing army not only could not obtain the much-needed rice from Korea, but also had to continuously put valuable grain into the Korean battlefield.
Zheng Kezang ordered aid to North Korea, although it was for self-interested reasons, but it was the only straw for the southern Korean court after the split. So, in order to further grasp this straw, Li Ji, who had returned to Seoul, couldn't wait to send Cui Yingzhi to the Zheng Jun's military camp to comfort as soon as he stayed in Dechang Palace.
"In order to save North Korea, Emperor Shenzong knocked out 8 million internal silver stocks and more than 100,000 elite border troops, so that he connived at the rise of Jiannu. As soon as he came up, Tian Tian, the general staff of the Fourth Division of the Longxiang Army, bluntly rejected the delusions of the Koreans. "So it's not enough to be a Jeju alone, so it's better for Lord Choi to show a little more sincerity."
Cui Yingzhi, who had already been promoted to Licao Counselor, rubbed his temples in distress: "Lord Shangguo, North Korea is now in ruins, and it is really powerless to support too much, and please see that the relationship between the king and King Xia is Weng is son-in-law, and be a little more tolerant." ”
"We don't ask for much." Tian was unmoved and asked. "The military rations and salaries of the Long Xiang army in the DPRK should be paid by the DPRK side." Cui Yingzhi nodded, and listened to Tian continue. "In addition, the gunpowder and bullets used, the lost weapons, horses, and the care of the soldiers must be supported by the DPRK." If you want people to work hard, this is also what you should do, so Cui Yingzhi nodded stubbornly. "Re-opening the trade between Jemulpo, Mokpo, Yeosu and Jinhae"
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