Chapter 253: The Battle of Kaesong Begins

After sufficient rest, the Ming army was strong, and it took only seven days to take Anju and Pyongyang.

The follow-up troops quickly sent people to take over Longchuan, Xuanchuan and other places.

Although the local Korean officials greeted Wang Shi with tears in their eyes, King Ding beheaded all these officials on the grounds that they had surrendered to Jianguo and aided in the implementation of the Hauge national policy.

Then, following the example of the agrarian revolution in North China, he sent people to confiscate government property, collect the private wealth and land of officials and local tyrants and gentry, and distribute them to the nearby Korean people to reassure the people.

The Korean people shaved off their rat tails one after another, and lived in the county seat with the title deed issued by the king of the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Sangui ignored the great unity and liberation of the rear, he was bent on going south, and attacked Huangzhou with non-stop raids, and then took Pingshan, and beat the newly built white flag of North Korea to Kaesong.

The momentum experienced by Haoge was perfectly staged by Wu Sangui.

If Haoge knew Wu Sangui's experience, he would definitely say, you are stealing my script!

The only difference is that after Hauge's pass, there was a wail, and after Wu Sangui, there was a celebration.

The people of North Korea never expected that the Great Tomorrow Master would come at such a good time.

Just when Jianyu had just finished doing evil things, and at the juncture when the Korean people had just fallen into a dire situation, the Great Tomorrow Master appeared beside the people like a god, killed all the Tartars, and divided the fields, so that the Korean people could see a good life within reach.

Until Wu Sangui surrounded Kaecheng, Haoge, who was 100 miles away, wore a dragon robe and stood in the renamed Chongzheng Palace, listening to the news of Wu Sangui's attack.

"Are North Korea's white flags and white flags rubbish? was slaughtered, and he couldn't get back a single piece of news! ”

Turg was also angry, but he was more worried about Nguiju's Suppilon.

Now that the Ming army has attacked Kaesong, then Yiju will inevitably be broken.

Suppilon, was he killed in battle? Or did he escape?

Hauge didn't have time to think about the life and death of Curb Pilon, he immediately ordered a large army to be assembled and wanted to fight with the Ming army with real swords and guns.

"Long live, the Ming army is strong, and our army is better defensive!" Turg discouraged.

"The Ming army's firearms are sharp, didn't Li Shutai's scouts see that the wall of Shengjing City was flattened overnight, and Hanyang's wall can't be prevented at all."

Hauge is very sensible, and he is also very aware of the current strength of the Ming army, "Now, we can only give full play to the advantages of the Great Qing Iron Cavalry and defeat the Ming army in the field!" ”

Turg was silent, he really didn't believe that the tall and sturdy walls of Shengjing were destroyed by the Ming army in one day, he preferred to believe that Dolgon had sacrificed the city.

Hauge didn't think so, but he had seen those two huge explosions during the raid on the city, and he was still acceptable to the collapse of the city walls.

It's just that he doesn't think that the Ming army is for attacking the city, but for leveling the walls of the Shengjing city, so that it will be easier to control the high-level of the Qing Dynasty. In the same way, the Qing Dynasty did not allow the Joseon to repair and strengthen the Hanyang wall.

Turg put away his doubts and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Minion, let's prepare!" ”

Haoge was full of confidence, and he believed that even if his main force of the Eight Banners could not crush the Ming army like it did against the North Korean soldiers, it would be able to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army without much effort, so that the Ming army would not dare to enter the Korean war easily.

Buy yourself a year and a half of recuperation.

Soon, the 8,000 Jurchen soldiers who enjoyed happiness in Hanyang City were assembled, and Gyeonggi Province evacuated soldiers and pawns from all over the country, and even the people were strong, and more than 50,000 people were gathered together, plus more than 1,000 days of help from Shang Keg, a full 60,000 troops followed Hauge to the northwest.

After the army, Hauge used 30,000 Korean people to escort the baggage for the army.

Li Liang was also taken in the army, he looked at the Korean people and horses accompanying him, and felt that he had been in power for many years, and he couldn't mobilize so many people at one time, and he didn't want to be done by Haoge, who had just arrived.

On the other side, Wu Sangui, who had just captured Kaesong, got the news that Haoge had sent troops.

Looking at the low walls of Kaesong and the vast snow outside the city, my heart rose to hesitate for the first time since entering the court.

Hauge's real combat power is only his main force in the blue flag. However, the total number of invading enemies exceeded 4 times that of their own.

If you fight in the field, it is really not advantageous, the outcome is unpredictable, if you defend the city, such a low city wall is difficult to resist Haoge's attack, and more importantly, as the defender, Wu Sangui has almost no hope of defeating Haoge at one time.

For the sake of safety, and for the sake of waiting for the army of the king, Wu Sangui decided to stick to the city and use the terrain to confront Haoge.

Kaesong and Hanyang were separated by more than 100 miles, and Haoge traveled for half a day, and after walking 50 miles, he began to camp at noon, firstly, to prevent the soldiers from getting tired, but also to prevent Wu Sangui from sneaking up at night.

On the second day, Hauge traveled for another half day, and then reached 10 miles south of Kaesong, and set up camp in the snowfield.

Wu Sangui in Kaecheng had already discovered Haoge's action, ordered not to attack, actively prepared supplies, and held the city.

Haoge led people to gallop close to Kaesong, looked at the big banner of Wu characters fluttering at the head of Kaesong, and knew that Wu Sangui was in the city.

He thought of the shame of Shanhaiguan, and his eyes were full of anger, "I, I will definitely capture Wu Sangui alive and light the sky lantern!" ”

Turge, Li Shutai, Shang Kexi and others followed behind him, and successively used the monoculars of Li Liang to pay tribute to view the city.

"Wu Sangui, ah......" Shang Kexi muttered.

Li Shutai's eyes were disillusioned, and in Liaodong, he was chased by Wu Sangui and ran from Shengjing to Fushun, and then fled from Fushun to Tieling. In the end, he made a sharp turn to the south halfway, and after several twists and turns, he returned to Liaoyang.

But before his ass was hot, he was forced to burn the city and flee east by Wu Sangui, who was following him.

"Long live, the minister will capture Wu Sangui alive!" Li Shutai said viciously.

Haoge nodded with satisfaction, "Prince Yan has ambition, and the generals of the Great Qing Dynasty should be like this!" This Wu Sangui shrank into the city, thinking that he could defend the city and weaken the strength of my Qing cavalry, but he didn't know that the city wall was only 2 meters high, and the Qing warriors could easily climb the city wall on horseback. ”

With a smile on his face, Hauge pointed forward with a horsewhip, "Within three days, take Kaesong!" ”

Li Shutai and the others all nodded.

An hour later, the construction of the large camp was basically completed, and only some small works remained, which were handed over to the Korean people to do.

Seeing that it was still early, Haoge said to Shang Kexi: "Prince Zhi, you take the Tianzhu Army and 20,000 Korean soldiers to meet Wu Sangui first." ”

"Huh!" Shang Kexi took the order and left.

"Prince Yan, you bring a mortar and come forward to help."

"Huh."

Li Shutai quickly went to prepare, he knew that the so-called help was to fire a small number of artillery shells to deter the Ming army and improve morale.

After all, the cannonballs in his hand are limited, and he has not succeeded in copying them, so at this time, he can't use one less than one in the tentative war.

Soon, shouts of killing sounded in front of the city, and 20,000 Korean soldiers rushed towards the Ming army under the supervision of the Tianzhu army.