"Get moving, get moving!"

In Seoul, the Korean officers and soldiers of the Imperial Barracks Hall and the Imperial Hall ran out of the barracks with their weapons in the continuous sound of military drums, and lined up in a neat queue in the wide school grounds.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, I heard that there is going to be a war."

"War? With whom to go to war? If there is an enemy around us, haven't the Wako been completely defeated?"

In the queue, the soldiers were talking, and they looked at the officers who were standing on the stage of the exercise in full armor, and there was a vague sense of unease in their hearts that they were approaching the start of the battle.

After all the soldiers were assembled, the commanders of each battalion trotted in front of the training general, saluted and said in unison, "General, all battalions are assembled!"

The training general (the actual commander of the training superintendent) nodded, and with his majestic gaze he scanned the crowd, and everywhere he looked, the soldiers closed their mouths and bowed their heads to meet him.

Then, the training general retracted his gaze, turned around and walked to the stage, saluted to the people above, and said in a loud voice: "All the lords, the seven thousand soldiers of the Imperial Barracks Hall and the Imperial Guard Hall have all arrived, please all of them are being sent to review!"

Jin Xixuan, who was appointed by the princess Jin to be promoted to the capital, nodded, he took a step forward, glanced at the soldiers, and then said: "Soldiers, the Xia people covet the territory of North Korea, seek provocation and kidnap the king, and want to annex North Korea and depose the king.

The high-sounding words made the soldiers below listen to it but did not react at all, and the general managers and generals who were mixed in the crowd saw this and hurriedly took the lead in shouting, which made the soldiers shout sparsely.

Jin Xixuan watched the reaction of the soldiers, the corners of his mouth twitched, knowing that it was completely in vain to use the country's righteousness to motivate these Qiu Ba, so he immediately changed his routine and said: "The middle temple Niangniang Yizhi, all those who perform well in the war and kill the enemy bravely will be rewarded, and those who kill one Xia soldier will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and two people will be added to the first rank, and five people will be knighted, and they will be given a feud!"

As soon as his words fell, the soldiers below immediately became short of breath, this reward is too rich, regardless of whether the court can do it or not, at least there is a hope.

The so-called heavy reward must have a brave man, under the encouragement of the reward, the soldiers suddenly raised the will to fight, long live the mountain, if they happened to have Xia Jun in front of them, they would definitely rush up without hesitation, skinning and splitting the body.

Kim Seok-chan looked at the soldiers of Shanhu Banzai with satisfaction, although the means of encouraging the soldiers were not so good, but this was just a fly in the ointment, and the two promoters behind him hurriedly complimented Kim Seok-chan, calling him a rare handsome talent in North Korea, if he had been born decades earlier, the famous general Yi Sun-sin in the Imjin War could not match.

Although these words were pure sycophants, they still made Jin Xixuan listen very useful, he laughed, reached out and stroked his beard, and said, "This little thing is not enough to worry about, how dare I compare with Li Zhongwu Gong? You're just tormenting the old man."

Not only was the training capital prison assembled, but at the behest of the princess Kim, the will to raise troops was sent to the eight provinces of Korea through various channels, and the soldiers and horses of each province were required to raise troops to attack the Xia army stationed in each province.

At the same time, the local tycoons who had decided to participate in the army also recruited troops, and the naval troops stationed in the military ports along the coast also began to assemble.

Jeolla Province Navy Left Battalion, Navy Commander Lee An looked at the imperial court order sent from Seoul, and frowned.

Before this, Li An had actually heard some rumors, he heard the news that the imperial court was preparing to fight the Xia army by force through the mouths of the officials he had befriended, and Li An heard about it, his first reaction was to oppose it, as a Korean general who assisted the Xia Dynasty sailors in defeating the Japanese navy in the war against Japan, he knew better than anyone the strength of the Xia army.

The strength of the Xia army is not only specialized, whether it is on land or water, the combat effectiveness of the Xia army far exceeds that of any country in East Asia, even if it is compared with one alone, it is also invincible.

Ang Lee knows this precisely and will try his best

Opposing war with the Xia Dynasty, he persuaded the officials who informed him, hoping that the latter would bring his ideas to the court, but the other party instead advised him not to reveal his thoughts at this time.

He warned Li An that it was the idea of various factions in the court to start a war against the Xia Dynasty, and if he wanted to keep his official position and small life, he should not be this "loyal minister", otherwise, even if he was the grandson of the famous general Yi Sunsin, he would not be able to keep his official career.

Ang Lee did not inherit the spirit of his grandfather, and after some thought, he still chose to follow his friend's advice and shut his mouth and remained silent.

Now that the order was really in his hands, he was a little confused for a while - he didn't know whether he should follow the orders of the imperial court or react passively to preserve the strength of his naval army.

"Lord Commander, should we rally and prepare for war? As soon as you give the order, the brothers will set sail for Busan!" At this point, his deputy asked.

That's right, the imperial court's order was for their naval division to send troops to attack the Xia army's military port in Busan, in addition to the Jeolla Provincial naval force, the Gyeongsang Provincial naval army where Busan is located will also cooperate with them - as long as the Busan Xia military port can be destroyed, the Korean naval army can further seize the sea control of the Korean Strait, even if the Xia army stationed in Japan gets the news that it wants to regain the sea supremacy, it will take a long time for the Beiyang naval division to start from the Yokohama base.

However, the Koreans seem to have overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Korean officers and soldiers, and they completely forgot - or rather selectively forgot - the three months of the Imjin War when most of the country was lost, and the past when they were hung and beaten by the Qing army in two random chaos, and they were optimistic that their officers and troops would be able to wipe out the first town in Korea.

The battle on land was none of Ang Lee's business, and after hearing the deputy's inquiry, he was silent for a moment and said, "Let the brethren assemble, the military orders are like a mountain, and we must follow the instructions of the imperial court."

"Yes." The adjutant saluted, agreed, and then turned away, announcing the order of the commander to his sailors.

Soon, the soldiers in the naval barracks were assembled, and the drums and gongs in the port shook the sky, and the sailors ran out of the barracks and boarded the warships, and they looked blankly at the officers who read the order, not knowing what they were going to do in the port of Pusan—they were not prepared to disclose the news of the war to their soldiers before arriving in Busan, in order to prevent anyone from revealing the news or jumping ship as deserters.

However, although the people above did not disclose the news, how can there be an impermeable wall in this world, and after the fleet left the military port and headed for the route to the port of Busan, the news of the war with the Xia army spread among the fleet.

Most of the soldiers in the navy army had the experience of fighting side by side with the Xia army, so they naturally understood the strength of the Xia army, and after determining that this news was true, the sailors began to panic, and they began to concentrate on the deck to make trouble, demanding a definite answer from above.

Li An was not ready to come forward at first, he didn't expect the news to be leaked out so quickly, and he was immediately furious, asking the ship's owners to spread the news, hoping to calm down the incident through cold treatment.

However, the development of events did not subside as Li Ang thought, and instead of calming down, the sailors became more cheerful, and more of them gathered on the deck to demand an explanation from the commanders, and the matter intensified, so that the fleet came to a standstill, and stopped on the surface of the sea and did not continue to advance.

In this case, Li An had no choice but to come forward, and he admitted to the sailors that the war with the Xia army was true - there was no way to hide it, even if it could be concealed for a while, when the port of Busan was ordered to attack the military port, the sailors would definitely think that they had been deceived and betrayed, so it would be more than worth the loss to make a bigger turmoil.

Rather than this, it is better to take advantage of the situation to show the sailors a showdown, admit the truth of this news, and as for whether to move forward, it depends on the choice of the sailors.

As Li An expected, after he came forward to admit it, the sailors directly exploded, and the crowd was in an uproar, and they demanded that the fleet turn around and return to the sea, refusing to start a war with the powerful Xia army.

Seeing this, some of the sailors who could still obey the order were worried that they would turn into mutiny, so they subconsciously pulled out their sabers at their waists, or generals

The black hole pointed its guns at the assembled sailors, and their movements stimulated the latter, and the sailors thought that they were preparing to suppress them by force, and they also took up arms.

Seeing this, Li An hurriedly spoke out to appease the irritated sailors, ordered his soldiers to withdraw their weapons, and faced the sailors who focused their eyes on him, he pondered for a moment and said: "Brothers, I know better than you the strength of the Xia army, but this is the will of the imperial court.

"But it's clearly for us to die! We can't accept it!"

A soldier shouted.

"Yes, we can't accept it!"

The rest of the soldiers shouted loudly.

Li An expected their reaction, and his face showed a somewhat helpless look, and said, "How did I not know that this was sending us to death, but you have to think about it, our family members are still under the control of the imperial court, if we disobey the military order, what do you think will happen to our relatives who are far away from home?"

At the mention of their relatives at home, the sailors were dumbfounded, they really did not expect this, if they disobeyed the military order and refused to attack, their families were likely to be poisoned by the imperial court.

Seeing that the sailors fell silent, Li An continued: "You know the fate of disobeying military orders, but if we act according to the military orders of the imperial court, although we are killed in battle, our families can all receive pensions from the imperial court......

Before he finished speaking, a soldier soon reacted, he interrupted Li An's words, and shouted: "The Xia army is so powerful, how can the imperial court be able to resist the offensive of the Xia army, if the imperial court is destroyed, who should we pay our pension?" Do you want to let the Xia people? Thank God they didn't hold our relatives accountable!"

"Yes, yes, you can't go to war with the Xia army."

The rest of the soldiers chimed in.

"Left can't do right, isn't there a place for us in this world?" A soldier cried out in mourning.

"Go to the summer army!" Another shouted.

"You're crazy! Throw yourself into the Xia army, if the court finds out, it will definitely destroy me and wait for the whole door!" Another soldier immediately retorted.

"And where do you think we're going?" The man asked rhetorically.

"None of us vote!" I don't know who shouted: "We have ships and people, where is not our place to stay, go north, although it is cold in the north, but Xia Jun will definitely not chase there, the court does not know our whereabouts, and will not rashly do anything to our relatives, we have not offended Xia Jun, and our relatives will not be affected!"

As soon as these words came out, the sailors exploded again, but more and more people came back to it and thought that the proposal was good, and after they quarreled for a while, most of them soon agreed to go all the way north to avoid the disputes between the Xia army and Korea.

People always follow the herd, and immediately, the sailors asked the fleet to sail north, not to attack Busan as originally planned, and in order to prevent Ang Lee from refusing, they surrounded it one after another, as if if if you did not agree with us, we would be admonished.

Seeing this, Li An also knew that he had no other choice, so he had to agree with a wry smile, and ordered the fleet to cross the Korean Strait and sail towards the north in the name of the commander.

……

The news of the defection of Li An and the sailors was concealed in the vast sea, and no one knew about it, and on land, the envoys of the soldiers and horses and the defense envoys of the soldiers and horses who had received the order of the imperial court began to assemble their troops and launch an encirclement posture towards the Xia army garrison.

However, there were also some officials who opposed the war with the Xia army, they refused the order of the imperial court, and they were ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, which was exactly the case with Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Road near the border of the Xia Dynasty, and the local officials knew very well that once the war with the Xia Dynasty began, they would bear the brunt of the border with the Xia Dynasty and directly face the retaliatory attack of the Xia Dynasty.

What's more, they couldn't stop the attack of the Xia Dynasty at all, the military strength of the Northern Second Dao had already suffered heavy losses in the two indiscriminate intrusions, and the remaining military strength could not even cope with the Xia Army stationed here, so the Northern Second Dao was the first to be rotten, and some of them even chose to secretly report to the garrison Xia Army, hoping to use this as a vote to be independent in this war

Be kind.

The commanders of the Xia armies knew that they were too small to compete with the outnumbered Koreans, so they began to shrink their defensive lines, dig trenches, and strengthen their camps in preparation for the first wave of the North Korean offensive.

War between Korea, a centuries-old vassal state, and its suzerainty was on the verge of breaking out amid tensions.