"What do the bold North Koreans think would dare to go to war with us?"

"It took me three days and three nights to figure it out, maybe they're tired of it, like that said—hmm...... The old birthday star eats arsenic, and he is tired and crooked?"

"Hahahaha......"

North Korea, Gangwon Province, outside the city of Wonju Capital, the second standard of the second brigade of the first town of the Xia Army.

After learning of the Koreans' intention to go to war, the officers and men of the second standard began to enter a state of emergency combat readiness, and the patrols that had been dispersed were withdrawn to their stations, and the number of patrol posts was doubled.

Li Shun, the subordinate sentry officer of the first standard, listened to the jokes of his soldiers, only leaned against the cold wooden wall, and did not interject, his eyes were observed in the darkness outside the camp, for fear of letting go of the slightest abnormality, the North Koreans could attack at any time, and he, as the largest officer present, had to be vigilant.

At this moment, he vaguely heard a few faint sounds outside the wooden walls of the camp, which sounded like the movement of animals running on the grass, and when he listened carefully, it seemed as if he had misheard.

"Hey, stop chatting, there's going to be movement."

Li Shun shouted to the soldiers, his voice fell, and the laughter suddenly quieted down, and the soldiers all subconsciously clenched the Type II rifle in their hands and looked at the darkness outside.

They stared into the darkness for a moment, but heard no new movement, and one soldier whispered, "Sergeant Major, there's no movement."

"Be vigilant."

Li Shun didn't reply, he still looked outside with a serious face, and one of his soldiers leaned out boldly and looked under the wooden wall, but the next second he leaned out, an arrow suddenly pierced his neck, and the soldier's eyes widened suddenly, and before he could scream, the whole person fell from the wooden wall more than four meters high.

This change stunned the surrounding soldiers, and Li Shun was the first to react, he raised his rifle and shouted, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Li Shun's shout pierced the silence of the night, and it was like the button of a mysterious mechanism, his voice fell, and dense torches suddenly lit up from outside the wooden wall, accompanied by the sound of sharp archery breaking through the air, and the black arrows merged with the night, whistling and flying towards Xia Jun.

Li Shun hurriedly pulled the soldiers around him to hide behind the female wall, and ordered the rest of the soldiers to follow to find cover, but a few soldiers were still a little slow to react, and they were directly shot into hedgehogs by arrows falling from the sky.

Li Shun's eyes followed the dense rain of arrows falling in the dark night, and the arrows flew into the camp like raindrops, shooting the soldiers who ran out of the tent when they heard the news, and he saw several soldiers running out of the tent quickly, and before they could run a few meters, they were shot by the falling arrows and fell to the ground.

The cloth tent could not stop the arrows from falling, and some of the arrows penetrated the roof of the tent and shot into it, and in a scream, blood splattered out, staining the cloth of the tent red.

"Kill!"

"Attack the camp, kill one Xia Jun, reward eight taels of silver, kill five people and give ten acres of fertile land!"

"Roar! Roar! Roar! 「

Thousands of Koreans rushed out of the darkness and flocked to the Xia military camp, setting up ladders prepared in advance against the wooden walls, gritting steel knives with their teeth and struggling to climb up.

"Stop them!"

"Reload! Reload your ammunition!"

On the wooden wall, the Xia officers let out heart-rending shouts, and the line infantry relied on the cover of the women's wall to reload their Type II rifles, or used the rifles equipped with bayonets as spears, leaning out and stabbing the enemy who was climbing down the ladder.

"Raise your gun, let it go!"

Bang bang bang –

Yi Soon shouted, and under his leadership, the soldiers leaned out one after another, pointed their rifles at the enemy below, and opened fire, and one after another the North Koreans screamed and fell to the ground amid the rumbling gunfire.

"Quick, quick, get reinforcements up the wall! Hurry up!"

"Ge Laozi, grenadiers, grenadiers! Fast! you

Throw the grenade at Lao Tzu!"

As the wooden walls became noisy, more and more soldiers ran out of the camp and hurried up the walls to join the battle, and the tall grenadiers with grenades at their waists obeyed the officers' orders, lit grenades, and threw them at the crowded North Koreans outside the wooden walls.

The grenade fell like hail, and immediately smashed the North Korean people below to the head and bleed, a North Korean officer and soldier struggled to climb up, but was hit in the head by the grenade, the severe pain made him subconsciously let go of the hand holding the ladder, and the whole person also fell down, smashed into the crowd.

Then, a few seconds later, the grenade that hit him in the head exploded, and the shrapnel that exploded killed and injured many North Koreans around him, blood splattered and screams were endless.

The Koreans did not only attack the wooden wall, but also lifted the heavy log at the gate of the camp and slammed it against the closed wooden door, which creaked like a scream every time the log hit.

The line infantry did not step forward to use their flesh and blood to help block the wooden gate that had been hit, but lined up three tight lines behind the wooden gate, and in order to deal the biggest blow to the Koreans rushing from the wooden gate, they even moved the 12-pounder infantry gun in the camp, the black hole of the cannon was aimed at the wooden door, ready to fire at any time.

Boom –

The wooden door was still being slammed, sawdust was flying, and the line infantry could even faintly see the hideous North Koreans behind the cracks in the slammed door.

Boom –

With a loud bang, the weak wooden door was finally overwhelmed, and it was forcibly knocked open under the combined impact of the North Koreans, and the bolt between the two doors broke, and then, the North Koreans shouted excitedly, pouring into the wooden door like a tide!

"Fire!"

I don't know who shouted, and the gunner standing behind the infantry gun immediately pulled the lead, and under the action of the flintlock device, the gunpowder was ignited, and the dense grape shells loaded in the barrel of the gun burst out!

Tau –

In the dazzling light of the fire, thousands of tiny iron beads erupted from the muzzle of the cannon and covered the front in the shape of a fan, and the North Koreans within the range of grapeshell were instantly blasted into a puddle of rotten flesh, and the tiny iron beads penetrated the skin and flesh, directly turning them into a terrible sieve.

In an instant, the front and back of the wooden gate became a no-man's land, no one could survive the close-range grapenail bombardment from the artillery, and the whole scene was like a catastrophic flesh mill, full of severed limbs and broken flesh.

Under the grapefire bombardment of the 12-pounder infantry guns, the attacking Koreans quickly lost their fighting spirit and were routed backwards, and although the officers and soldiers who were still attacking and the dead soldiers raised by the Hao clan did not see the tragic situation of the attacking troops under the bombardment of grapeballs, the deafening sound of the artillery still made them feel fearful in their hearts.

Seeing that someone had taken the initiative to retreat, they hesitated, but also stopped their attack, and poured back into the darkness like a low tide.

It was not only the Xia army in Gangwon Province that was attacked, but also the Xia army in Hwanghae-do, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, Sanggyeong-do, and Gyeonggi Province were attacked, except for the Korean generals in Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province who refused to enter the war and did not attack the Xia army.

However, except for the Xia army in Gyeonggi Province, the rest of the Xia army was able to calmly deal with the attack from the Koreans - as mentioned several times before, the weakness of the Korean officers and troops was obvious to all, and even if they followed the Xia army's ass and won the war against Japan, their combat effectiveness did not improve substantially.

The Korean officers and troops besieging the Xia army stationed in Gyeonggi Province were different, and the training capital led by Kim Seok-chan had more than 7,000 forbidden troops under the jurisdiction of the Royal Camp Office and the Imperial Palace, which was the strongest fighting force in the Korean Kingdom.

This army was compiled and trained in accordance with the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" edited by Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time hired Ming army generals as instructors, and those who performed well were accepted as forbidden troops.

Its army is also divided into gunners, killers, and archers, called the "three-hand army", and the weaponry is naturally the standard weapons of the North Korean official army, in addition to the imitation of the captured bird guns from the Japanese army, it is a rocket with gunpowder tied to the arrow shaft - the latter will explode after hitting the target, so as to increase

The power of the arrows.

The 2nd Brigade of the 1st Town, stationed dozens of miles north of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, was attacked by the Korean officers and soldiers, whose main combat force was the training of the metropolitan prison, who first bombarded the Xia camp with gunners and then launched a fierce attack from all sides.

The Xia army, on the other hand, relied on a sturdy wooden wall to counterattack, and the Type II rifles they used were far more accurate and long-range than the bird guns and rockets used by the North Korean officers and soldiers, and before the North Korean officers and soldiers entered their range, the light infantry in the Xia army had already begun to crack and snipe at the officers and soldiers of the North Korean officers.

Although the development of firearms by the Korean officials and soldiers was slow due to the restrictions of the Ming Dynasty, they were good at learning, and when they started the war with the Japanese invaders, they imitated the baked jade used by the Japanese and threw the baked jade to destroy the wooden walls in the war with the Xia army.

Not only that, but their army was also using the magic arrows obtained from the Ming Dynasty and copied them, and when attacking the second brigade station, several magic arrows equipped by the North Korean officers and soldiers launched fierce fire at the Xia army.

The flaming rocket flew towards the Xia camp with a sharp and piercing whistling sound, shooting the Xia soldiers on the wooden wall, or sticking to the surface of the wooden wall, and after a few seconds, it produced a small crackling explosion, and the aftermath of the explosion even ignited the wooden wall.

Even so, the North Korean officers and troops were still unable to break through the Xia army's defensive line, and in the continuous gunfire of the North Koreans, the North Koreans finally paid heavy casualties, leaving their corpses on the ground and retreating in a hurry.

……

The raid on which the Joseon court had high hopes did not play the role they wanted, but instead damaged many soldiers and horses, and also exposed the problem of the separation between the northern two provinces and the imperial court in this matter.

This made the high-level of the imperial court a little panicked for a while, they decisively changed their tactics, trying to use the means of long-term siege, trapped the Xia army in the camp, and on the other hand, they also began to recruit troops in the country, relying on the tactics of crowds to win - it is said to be conscription, but in fact it should be called Lazhuang Ding.

With North Korea's poor administrative ability and discipline, it was inevitable that the conscription would not go smoothly, and not only did it quickly evolve into a strong ding, but the officials in charge even took the opportunity to extort and rob the common people, and squeezed out the last of their wealth from the already impoverished people.

For a time, the Korean people were in mourning, the people's wives were separated, the family was broken and the death of people was endless, and the anger against the court was brewing in the hearts of many people, and they began to look forward to the arrival of the Xia army more and more, in their opinion, as long as the Xia army could fight, they would no longer have to suffer from the oppression of the court, and even be able to live the same good life as the people of the Xia Dynasty.

On the other hand, after resisting the first wave of the offensive of the North Korean official army, the Xia army quickly responded, and Dongfang Yang, the acting general of the first town stationed in Pyongyang Prefecture, left the city before the battle, entered the military camp outside the city, and organized troops and horses to advance to Pyongyang City.

Pyongyang Province as the capital of the West Province of Pyongyang, although the army here did not take the initiative to attack the Xia army, but they would not directly surrender the city, after sending a messenger to persuade surrender to no avail, Dongfang Yang immediately ordered the deployment of artillery, launched an artillery bombardment of the city.

With the rumbling of artillery, the defenders of Pyongyang almost collapsed before fighting, and they were only shelled by a few shells, so they took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender to the Xia army outside the city.

After Pyongyang was captured by the Xia army, Dongfang Yang learned that none of the troops in the north had joined the war against the Xia, so he sent a message to the two provinces, demanding that the two provinces be attached to the Xia army, and as long as they took the initiative to join the Xia army, they would not be held accountable for not reporting what they knew.

After the text spread, it immediately caused an uproar in the northern Erdao, and the high-level leaders of the Erdao were afraid of the strength of the Xia Dynasty, but they were also restricted by Confucianism, and did not dare to betray the sovereign too blatantly.

However, as we all know, the moral bottom line of the literati is very flexible, and they can easily find a reason to justify themselves - they defend themselves that the Great Summer Dynasty is their parent state, and now the monarch is unable to manage the government, and there are female cadres in the court who are obstructed, and they should kill their relatives in righteousness, stand on the side of their parents, and correct the mistakes of the court.

Behold, this reason is so righteous and justified that even they almost believe it!

In any case, after giving such a reason, they openly declared

The cloth general was attached to the parent state of Daxia, and gave a sprinkling letter asking for Jin - they claimed that the whole reason why Korea has fallen to such a point now is because the Kim clan is in turmoil in the court, and the ministers are in charge, and if they want to save Korea, they should join forces with Daxia to "clear the king's side".

As soon as the Northern Erdao document came out, the whole of Korea shook again, and the Korean people, who had already caused a lot of dissatisfaction because of the forced conscription by the imperial court, were agitated one after another, and they gathered in the streets, shouted the slogan "Greet the heavenly soldiers, clean the king's side", picked up all kinds of tools that could barely be called weapons, and waved them at the heads of the small officials in charge of recruitment.

North Korea, plunged into civil strife!