320 [Charge and Surrender]
"General, I found it." Meng Huaien came with a thick booklet in his arms.
Hu Dinggui said happily: "Mr. has worked hard, please take a seat." ”
Meng Huaien handed the booklet to the people around him.
The person next to him is called Wang Yaochen, a military missionary officer, equivalent to the political commissar arranged for Hu Dinggui.
"It's actually a kanji?" Wang Yaochen was a little surprised when he got the booklet.
Meng Huaien said: "The official documents and registers of the North Korean government are all written in Chinese characters. ”
This is the general register of the entire Jeju Island, and there are several types of household registrations, including military households, civilian households, and artisan households.
Wang Yaochen said with a smile: "There are quite a lot of people, a total of 8,849 households, a total of nearly 50,000 people. Among them, there are 2,500 military households, similar to the Ming Dynasty's guard system, but there are very few people who grow grain, and most of them live by grazing cattle and horses. ”
Jeju Island is not small, about one-nineteenth of the area of Hainan Island.
Li Hui, the deposed lord of North Korea, was called over to discuss together.
Li Hui is a very complex king, maybe violent, but definitely not stupid.
When Japan invaded Korea, the king of Korea chose to run away and threw his second son Li Hui out to resist the Japanese.
Seventeen-year-old Li Hui, although he was driven to the shelves, his performance was remarkable. He was appointed to act as an agent for state affairs, personally rushed to the front line to raise the army, collected the army and volunteers, and notified the national army King Qinwang, and then Korea had an anti-Japanese commander-in-chief.
The reason why this item was scrapped was purely broken was caused by party disputes.
For the sake of understanding, let's use a very inappropriate analogy. It's like, Chongzhen, who is just the prince, led the troops into the palace with the Donglin Party and overthrew the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the Eunuch Party.
"General, there are many exiled sinners on Jeju Island, and they have long been dissatisfied with the Korean puppet king," Li Hui said, "As long as Xiao Wang stands up, the people will respond." ”
"Okay, that's it!" Hu Dinggui said with a smile.
Li Hui is very well controlled, his eyes are almost completely blind, and he can only see vaguely at close range. It was because he couldn't see it that he had made a mistake about the situation before, until he heard Hu Dinggui speak, Fang Jue was not the Qinwang army from North Korea.
Hu Dinggui discussed with Wang Yaochen and found silk clothes for Li Hui to put on, at least to look like a king.
More than a dozen captured North Korean officials were brought over to meet with them.
"Bastard, you still don't pledge your allegiance when you see the lord of North Korea!" Meng Huaien shouted in Korean.
These officials were afraid of being killed, so they hurriedly kowtowed to Li Hui: "Knock to see His Royal Highness!" ”
After asking for information, all of these more than a dozen North Korean officials were made official vows. Two of them were awarded the Daejeong County Supervisor and the Jeongui County Supervisor, which is equivalent to the two county ordinances on Jeju Island.
As for Hu Dinggui, he was appointed as the pastor of Jeju and was in charge of the highest military administration on Jeju Island.
Immediately, these Korean officials, escorted by the soldiers of Datong, went to the surrounding people's settlements to preach the policy: as long as they are loyal to the lord Li Hui, the tribute tax will be reduced by 10%.
Hearing that Li Hui had "reinstated", many exiles in recent years have come to meet their allegiance, and they want to follow them back to their homeland.
In addition to the three major euphemas (Jeju Museong, Daejeong, and Jeeui), there are 12 settlements on the island, which can be understood as some villages.
Li Hengzhong rode straight to Dajing County, ordered the county supervisor to immediately gather the army, and at the same time sent an order to Jingyi County to gather troops.
In a few days, more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 5,000 infantry were gathered.
The 9,000-strong army counterattacked, and the cavalry accounted for about 40%.
"General, the pseudo-shepherd is here!" North Korean officials panicked and came to report it.
Hu Dinggui and Wang Yaochen immediately gathered troops and led the Korean servant army to meet the attack.
At this time, the enemy's strength increased again, and two or three nearby villages, after returning to Li Hui, saw that Li Hengzhong's troops were strong, and immediately defected and took refuge in the past.
Although Li Hui was blind and couldn't see, he could also hear the sound of the cavalry, and said in a panic: "The general has a warship, it is better to avoid its edge first, and wait for more troops to be gathered before returning to this island!" ”
"Shut up!"
Hu Dinggui looked at the thousands of enemy troops in the distance and sighed: "It's a pity that there are so many war horses. ”
The North Korean army only had a small amount of leather armor, bows and arrows, and most of them were no different from ordinary farmers and herdsmen.
Speaking of several thousand cavalry, in fact, most of them were horseback herdsmen.
"Siege!" Li Heng shouted.
More than 5,000 Jeju Island infantry, carrying a variety of weapons, rushed towards Jeju Museong.
Wang Yaochen reminded: "Let the Korean soldiers retreat, otherwise it will be a big deal!" ”
Hu Dinggui looked back and saw that the hundreds of Korean servant troops had really been frightened, and it was estimated that they would turn against each other and surrender as soon as they opened it.
Hu Dinggui hurriedly said to Li Hui: "Lord, immediately take your soldiers and retreat to the center of the city!" ”
When Li Hui heard the translation, he was relieved and asked his servants to support him and lead the troops to retreat.
The walls of Jeju Museong are made of wood, just a circle of wooden fences.
Hu Dinggui had a thousand troops in his hands, and borrowed hundreds of sailors from the Zheng family to disperse to defend various key points.
"Bang bang bang!"
The sailors of the Zheng family fired first, but because the distance was too long, only a few enemies were killed and wounded.
Hu Dinggui's 1,000 soldiers, 500 of whom were firecrackers.
He gathered his musketeers, divided them into two groups to defend the fortified position, and ordered them to shoot within thirty paces.
Li Heng rode his horse forward more than ten steps, showing confidence.
He had already inquired clearly, and the Ming army that invaded Jeju Island was only more than 1,000 people. With nearly 10,000 men in his hands and a large number of cavalry, he will definitely be able to wipe out the invaders.
There were only nearly 50,000 people (excluding children) on the whole island, and nearly 10,000 were recruited by him, and all thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys were recruited by him to fight.
What kind of battle can be fought?
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
At an ultra-close distance of more than twenty paces, 125 firearms were fired, followed by another 125 firearms.
Yanagisawa is 16 years old this year, he was born in a family of Korean eunuchs, not only studied the Four Books and Five Classics, but also knew how to speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty.
Together with the male members of his family, he was exiled to Jeju Island, and the whereabouts of the female relatives of the family are unknown.
At this moment, he charged with a wooden stick.
Rushing and rushing, suddenly there was a loud bang, and then another loud bang.
Yanagisawa looked left and right, and found that there were still a few people standing beside him. The stormtrooper he was in had more than 500 people, and a gap was directly punched in the middle, and only more than 100 people remained on each side.
"Run!"
Not only did the stormtroopers collapse, but the stormtroopers next to them also fled.
They had never been in war, and they had not undergone formal military training, so how could they dare to face a volley of muskets at close range?
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
Another defensive point, another two volleys. The routed troops rushed back indiscriminately, crushing the friendly formations, and more than 5,000 Korean infantry were all routed.
Li Hengzhong led the cavalry to suppress it, drove the infantry to regroup, and angrily rebuked: "The enemy's musket, it takes time to reload. When the muskets are finished, do not run away, but take the opportunity to take down the walls! Hurry up, wait for the enemy muskets to finish, and immediately go to take the city walls! ”
After another half an hour, there were still more than 4,000 Korean infantry left, and they rushed towards the city wall again in fear.
In fact, it was more than 4,000 civilians who stormed the wooden fence with improvised weapons.
"Bang bang bang!"
There was another volley, and even the Zheng family sailors learned it.
The Zheng sailors were nervous before, but now they are very calm, putting the enemy close before firing.
More than 4,000 North Korean soldiers once again staged a rout and escape. The casualties caused by their own stampede, as well as those intercepted by the North Korean cavalry, even exceeded the losses from musket fire.
In the face of the wooden fence walled city, more than 3,000 Korean cavalry can only be used as a supervising team, and they can't ride horses to hit the wall, right?
These cavalry, instead of killing a single enemy, killed hundreds of fleeing friendly troops.
The North Korean infantry was so miserable, they rushed forward and were shot and killed by the Datong soldiers, and they fled back and were intercepted and killed by the North Korean cavalry.
Yanagisawa was forced to continue the charge, and the boy was lucky that his father and brother were all dead, but he himself was not injured. The elder brother was killed by the muskets of the Daedong army, and the father was hacked to death by the North Korean cavalry, who should he seek revenge?
Hatred is all counted on the head of the king of Joseon, and his whole family was exiled by the king!
Seeing that he was getting closer again, Yanagisawa suddenly shouted: "Listen to me, shout with me, lay down your weapons, and surrender to the Great Tomorrow soldiers!" ”
A few people around Yanagisawa hurriedly shouted together in order to survive.
One by one, more and more people shouted, and the messy weapons were thrown all over the ground, and they ran towards the city wall empty-handed.
Yanagisawa raised his hands and shouted in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty: "We surrender, don't let go." We surrender ......"
There was too much noise on the battlefield to be heard clearly at all, but Hu Dinggui had already understood their actions of throwing away their weapons.
"Don't let them go, wait for them to come. The musketeers are transferred elsewhere, and the pikemen are here to prevent accidents! Hu Dinggui immediately ordered.
These North Korean infantry rushed outside the wooden fence, and Hu Dinggui immediately ordered: "Pikemen, raise your guns!" Then he shouted to the enemy, "Squat down, don't move!" ”
When the Korean infantry tried to climb over the wooden wall, the pikemen immediately stabbed and killed more than 20 people in a row.
Yanagisawa was so frightened that he squatted on the ground and shouted: "Squat, squat, don't rush!" ”
"Bang bang bang!"
Somewhere nearby, guns were being fired again, and a large number of North Korean infantry collapsed, and Yanagisawa crouched down and begged for mercy.
Jin Guorui, the supervisor of Dajing County, rode to Li Hengzhong's side: "Lord Shepherd, you can't fight like this anymore, it's impossible to recapture the walled city." ”
Li Hengzhong said: "If you rush and kill a few more times, you will definitely be able to." It doesn't matter if all these untouchables are dead, just ask the lord to exile the prisoners to replenish them. Our naval army has been lost, and we cannot let the enemy gain a foothold, so we must take Jeju Museong in one go! ”
"I can't take it!" Jin Guorui admonished.
"If you dare to talk nonsense, I will cut you," Li Hengzhong ordered, "Rush again, those who rush into the walled city first will be exempted from tribute for six years!" ”
This time, there were only 4,000 people left to charge, and when Yanagisawa saw this, he brought the people around him with him: "Drop your weapons and surrender outside the city walls!" ”
"Drop your weapons and surrender outside the walls!"
Amid the constant shouting, several groups of stormtroopers nearby threw away their weapons and rushed over, and then crouched outside the wooden fence and begged for mercy.
Just like the spread of the virus, 4,000 North Korean infantry surrendered one after another.
Li Heng was furious: "These bastards are really all descendants of sinners, and none of them are loyal to the lord of the country!" ”