The Ming Empire wanted to clean up Korea for a long time.

Now the DPRK itself wants to come to the door, and it also wants to use force to achieve its goal of occupying Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei.

Therefore, it just gave the Ming a reason to send troops to North Korea.

As the governor of the northeast, Yan Yingyuan did not wait for the military order of the Generalissimo of the Central Committee at all, but first mobilized the two main forces that had already been rested to launch a war against Korea.

For the powerful Ming Empire, what the Korean army did in the area of Jiulian City has made the Ming Empire intolerable.

The Ming Empire is no longer the tolerant and cowardly empire where the border people were bullied and killed by foreign captives, and as long as the foreign captives retreat, they no longer care, but an empire that does not tolerate the slightest provocation.

The governor of Northeast China, Yan Yingyuan, had already held a press conference in front of the people of the entire Northeast region, saying that he would slaughter the city of Pyongyang in North Korea and the royal family of the Lee clan would be hated for the killing and humiliation of the people of Jiulian City.

The 300,000 troops of the Ming Empire gathered on the Korean border one after another.

Although the railway had not yet been built to the northeast, this did not hinder the speed of the Ming Empire's advance into Korea.

20,000 iron cavalry has entered the territory of North Korea first, these 20,000 iron cavalry are all using the latest cavalry-style rifled guns of the Ming Dynasty, and the mobility and destructive power of the army can match the Ming iron cavalry.

In order to achieve its goal of occupying the area from Tieryeongwei to Kangjuwei, the DPRK has been sending additional troops in the vicinity of Hamgyong Province and North Pyongan Province for many years, and now it has even increased to a total of more than 600,000 troops, repairing 57 additional cities and closing walls for thousands of miles in North Pyongan Province and North Hamgyong Province.

Now, as soon as the 20,000 iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty broke into the territory of Korea, they encountered the obstruction of 70,000 Korean soldiers led by the Korean general Li Ze.

These 70,000 Korean soldiers relied on the wall and Yiju City to hold here, and even mobilized 100,000 troops from other places to prepare to annihilate 20,000 iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty in this area.

And the Ming 20,000 iron cavalry directly spared the wall and the city of Yizhou, and broke into the North Hamgyong Province by copying the trail, and shot directly when they met the North Korean soldiers along the way, and the North Korean soldiers were completely unable to resist, their flintlock pistols were naturally not as powerful as the rifled guns of the Ming Dynasty.

And these Korean infantry could only retreat inside the city.

The 20,000 iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty ploughed the entire North Pyongan Province and North Hamgyong Province of North Korea, forcing all the North Korean troops to retreat into the city, and the main force of the Ming Guards Army, which had entered the territory of North Korea, pulled out the cities of these North Korean troops one by one like pulling nails.

Gao Jie led the main force of the Sixth Army of the Guards Army to the city of Yiju.

And because the Korean troops from all over the country fled into the city, there were 120,000 Korean troops in the city of Uiju at this time, and four defense lines were set up, each of which had tens of thousands of Korean troops.

However, Gao Jie didn't care about the fact that the Korean army in the city had tens of thousands of his Sixth Army.

Because North Korea's firearms were all purchased from the Ming Dynasty, even if they developed them themselves, according to Jinyiwei's intelligence, they did not reach the level that the Ming Dynasty could manufacture rifled guns, and they still stayed in the era of flintlock pistols.

Therefore, Gao Jie, including the officers and men of the Sixth Army of the entire Ming Guards, was full of confidence in breaking through the city of Yiju and annihilating the 120,000 Korean army.

But during that time, the weather was not beautiful, and it continued to rain heavily, and the moat outside the entire city of Yizhou rose a lot, making the Sixth Army of the Ming Guards break into the city of Yizhou through a frontal attack.

And on this wall, the North Korean army can condescendingly rely on the wall to block the Sixth Army of the Guards.

North Korean general Li Ze said to his generals with great confidence: "In the entire Yalu River area, our North Korea occupies a high terrain, and their Ming army occupies a low terrain, if they want to attack us, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and if we want to attack them, it is like going downstream, and now it is raining heavily, and the water of the rivers is soaring, and they can't directly attack the city of Yiju, they can only climb the mountain road and break through the wall. ”

The Sixth Army of the Guards did prepare to break through the wall into Uiju, but the Guards did not plan to use the lives of soldiers to fill the mountain road to forcibly attack the city of Uiju, but planned to attack with the latest Chongzhen 36 mortars made by the Daming Ordnance Institute to achieve the goal of destroying the wall of the Korean army before breaking through.

Mortars are no longer difficult to manufacture for today's Ming Dynasty, after all, the curved artillery is more concerned with the application of the empire to dynamics, and today's Ming Dynasty can naturally successfully manufacture mountain-specific mortars after successfully manufacturing mortars.

As soon as the rain stopped, the mortar battalion directly under the headquarters of the Sixth Army of the Guards Army immediately carried 20 mortars into the mountains and forests.

The North Korean soldiers on the wall couldn't help laughing when they saw the Ming Guards turning around in the distance against the cylindrical iron shelves, and one of the Korean officers even ordered: "What are these Han people doing, are they setting up some formation to summon the mountain gods, quickly ask people to prepare black dog blood and sprinkle it on the wall!" ”

So, some North Korean soldiers sprinkled the prepared black dog blood on the wall, and after sprinkling, the North Korean officer shouted: "Brothers, we have sprinkled the black dog blood, no matter what tricks their Han people use, it is useless, everyone cheer up, when a Han man comes, kill one, and when the time comes, each Han will be rewarded with a silver dollar!" ”

……

At this time, the teams of the mortar battalion of the Guards Army were running to the mortar battalion commander Shen Maoshi: "Report to the commander, the No. 1 position is ready!" ”

"Position 2 is ready!"

"Position 3 is ready!"

……

"Put!"

Soon after Shen Maoshi said, 20 mortars sprayed mortar shells, and in an instant, an earth-shattering explosion sounded inside the North Korean wall, and the North Korean officer who ordered to sprinkle the wall with the blood of a black dog was blown out on the spot, and the half-mile-long wall was blown down in more than a dozen places.

"Rush!"

The 1st Infantry Battalion, which was responsible for the assault mission, began to rush over, preparing to break through these gaps in the wall, and the Ming infantry were holding rifled guns while rushing and aiming at the gaps in the wall, and as soon as a Korean soldier came out, a series of bullets would come until they were beaten into a sieve.

When the first infantry battalion rushed, a team cooperated, half of the soldiers were responsible for breaking in, and half of the soldiers squatted on the ground to shoot, so as to achieve the purpose of covering the assault comrades with firepower.

……

"Damn, the blood of the black dog is useless, this wall will collapse if you say it", another North Korean officer wanted to run away as he spoke, but before he could get up, he saw that the North Korean soldier who got up first was beaten by the Ming army below the mountain as soon as he came up, and his head was cracked, so he hurriedly shrank back again, hiding in the corner of the wall and not daring to raise his head.

The same is true of other North Korean officers and soldiers, who really don't know how to fight this battle, so they can only honestly hide behind the wall.

By this time, the Guards infantry had already rushed up, risking the danger and began to climb up the hill on all fours, and finally reached the outside of the wall.

When the infantry of the Guards appeared inside the wall, they found that there were still many Korean soldiers squatting inside the wall, which frightened the Ming soldiers who broke into the wall, and immediately took out their guns and fired at the current North Korean soldiers.

But this was not enough, the Guards infantry kept shooting, and kept shooting, because they did not know why these Korean soldiers were lying in ambush inside the wall, and the only thing they could do now was to annihilate the enemy directly.

On the contrary, the North Korean officers and soldiers were even more frightened and did not dare to move, and even when they saw their comrades-in-arms falling, they only trembled with even more fear: "Spare your life, spare your life!" ”

(End of chapter)