For the next few days, the Ming army remained stationed north of Seoul and did not pursue north.

Su Fu wrote a letter on the second day after the banquet, which told about the exploits of the first battle, as well as what he had seen and heard in Korea, and he hoped that the imperial court could send some more troops into the court, and the Qing army in the north of Korea was one purpose, and the other purpose was to directly attack the so-called Longxing land of the Qing court, and attack from the north and south.

The recital left Korea with Chen Zhaojun's First Fleet, and the ship's guns unloaded from the ship were also reloaded and left together.

After the fleet left, there was only Su Fu and his expeditionary brigade of more than 4,000 people in North Korea, and in addition to the 16 rocket launchers, there were also 23 captured Hongyi cannons.

Although he understood how terrifying the power of rocket artillery was, Su Fu was not bold enough to rashly march to the north, but waited for the arrival of the Qinwang army from all over Korea before making plans.

However, the slow mobilization efficiency of the Korean officers and troops was still beyond Su Fu's expectations, and more than a month passed before the officers and troops of various provinces gathered in Seoul one after another.

In the past month or so, many refugees displaced by the war have also returned to their hometowns one after another after hearing that Seoul has been restored, and they can't help but kneel on the ground and weep bitterly as they look at the ruined homes.

But they didn't have time to continue their grief, and by order of the government, they had to devote themselves to the labor of rebuilding Seoul, rebuilding their homes brick by brick.

By the time the Korean officers and troops gathered in Seoul, the Qing army retreating north had already set up a defensive line in Pyongan Province in northern Korea to prevent the Ming army and the Korean coalition army from directly attacking Guanwai.

Emperor Shunzhi also understood the importance of Korea to the Qing Dynasty, which had now retreated its focus to the Guanwai Dynasty, and he appointed Ao Bai as the "Minister of Military Affairs and Food Affairs of the Prime Minister stationed in Korea", with the same position as the governor-general, and allowed Ao Bai to recruit troops and horses in Korea and form a garrison.

After receiving the appointment, Ao Bai personally sat in Pyongyang, the capital of Pyongan West Province, and at the same time recruited Korean servants in the local area, not to mention the general anti-Qing in North Korea, but under the offensive of big sticks and dates, there were still many Koreans who joined the Qing army and took up arms to fight for the Qing army.

In addition to reusing Aobai, at the suggestion of Fan Wencheng, Shunzhi also decided to take Korean orthodoxy into his hands, and he forcibly canonized the Linping Grand Monarch Li ?? As the new monarch of Joseon, the capital was Pyongyang, and he competed with Yi Hao of Seoul for legitimacy.

Lin Ping Maharaja Lee?? It was Li Hao's younger brother, and he did not want to become a puppet of the Qing court, but after the sharp blade was on his neck, he still chose to follow his heart, and was unwilling to be escorted to Pyongyang, and ascended the throne as the monarch of Korea under the announcement of the Qing court envoy.

Plum?? The news of the proclamation of the king in Pyongyang soon spread throughout the eight provinces of North Korea, which immediately caused an uproar, and the North Korean soldiers and civilians everywhere were angrily denouncing Li ?? betrayed the country for glory and was willing to be a puppet of the Tartars, and Li Hao was even more angry.

Although he knew that his younger brother was not willing to be the king, but now that it had become a fact, he could only issue a document announcing the conquest of Li?? Puppet court.

Of course, because the Qing army was still there, Li Hao only dared to use the mouth cannon and did not dare to send troops easily, he invited Su Fu into the palace several times, and hoped that Su Fu could lead the Northern Expedition in various euphemistic ways, and said that the Korean officers and troops would do their best to cooperate with the Northern Expedition. But Su Fu is so easy to be fooled, he knows very well that the North Korean official army is very unreliable, and Li Hao said that he tried his best to cooperate, not unify and be transferred by him, so Su Fu was even more worried that North Korea would betray his teammates.

Therefore, he also used various euphemistic words to refuse Li Hao's request, saying that the Ming army was difficult to support alone, and did not dare to move arbitrarily, and needed to wait for the will of His Royal Highness the Prison State to send it before making the next move.

waited for the good news that the Chu army defeated the Qin army and integrated the Southern Ming court, but did not wait for the will of the imperial court.

Unbeknownst to him, Chen Zhaojun and his fleet were hit by a violent typhoon on their way back to Nanjing, and the fleet was blown directly to the Ryukyu Islands (Ryukyu Kingdom), where they were delayed for several months and lost some of their ships before finally returning to Nanjing at the end of October.

After Chen Zhaojun returned to Nanjing, he entered the palace as soon as possible and handed Su Fu's recital to Su Yan for inspection, and accepted Su Yan's inquiry.

Through the performance table and Chen Zhaojun's answer, Su Yan quickly figured out the situation in North Korea, he did not make a decision immediately, but Gu Yanwu, the left attendant of the Xuanjun Department, entered the palace and wanted to hear Gu Yanwu's opinion.

Gu Yanwu is also very powerful, he saw that Su Fu already had the intention of sending troops from North Korea outside the Guanguan, and agreed to increase the number of troops in North Korea, he took into account the performance of the Korean officers and troops in the past when the Imchen Rebellion dragged their feet, and proposed to increase the number of Ming troops in Korea to 10,000, and give Su Fu the highest authority to dispatch the Ming army and the Korean officers and troops.

As soon as Su Yan heard that Gu Yanwu had thought it out so thoroughly, he immediately agreed, and ordered Gu Yanwu to transfer a first-class brigade from the garrisons in various provinces to prepare for the expedition.

Considering that Su Fu would go directly to the customs in the future, he also incorporated the Rajipu Zaminda heavy armored cavalry, which had been trained out of a battalion that had not been transferred to the front line, into the expedition sequence, and the heavy weapons were four teams of 16 12-pounder infantry howitzers.

In addition, he also directly appointed Su Fu as the prime minister of the DPRK local military affairs and the minister of food and salary, and conferred the title of the right attendant of the military department, referred to as the governor of Korea.

Su Fu's position as governor of North Korea can not only mobilize the Ming army, but also directly command the North Korean army and raise food and wages in North Korea, and it is no exaggeration to say that his power is almost equal to that of the Korean monarch Yi Hao.

However, considering that Su Fu was still young and was afraid that he would not be able to take on such a big responsibility alone, Su Yan decided to transfer a few low-level officials from the Ministry of War to North Korea as his staff officers.

The ocean voyage of more than 6,000 people is naturally a big expense, although Su Yan is a little distressed, he can only pinch his nose and recognize it.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Qing court from having the spare strength to send more troops and horses to Korea, Su Yan officially ordered the Northern Expedition to be launched.

At the beginning of November, Su Yan issued several edicts from Nanjing, and in the first edict, he appointed Zhang Huangyan as the governor of Shandong, the prime minister of Shandong's military and political affairs, and ordered him to make every effort to recover the entire territory of Shandong.

In the second edict, he appointed Zhang Mingzhen as the governor of Henan, the prime minister of Henan's military and political affairs, and led the army to the Northern Expedition to recover the lost territory in Henan.

The third edict ordered Liu Tichun, the governor of Sichuan, to break the thirteen families of Kuidong to invade eastern Sichuan and recover Chongqing.

The fourth edict changed Su Dingyuan, the governor of Huguang, to the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and entered Sichuan from Yunnan.

As soon as the four edicts came out, the Ming troops in various places began to mobilize, and Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu who stayed in southern Sichuan, saw this, for fear that the Ming army would be beaten together with him, so he hurriedly wrote a letter to express his willingness to surrender, and made way for Su Dingyuan's soldiers and horses, so that they could attack Sichuan.

After Su Yan received Liu Wenxiu's letter, after some careful consideration, he took away his title of Shu and demoted him to the Duke of Shu on the grounds that Liu Wenxiu "has not made an inch of merit, how can he be the king", and ordered him to leave his headquarters in Sichuan and take his family to Nanjing to meet him.

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