Joseon, with the "anyway" of the two provinces in the north, the situation of the imperial court has become even worse.

Not to mention the common people who rose up because of the forced conscription, the Xia army stationed in the northern Erdao immediately began to assemble and march southward without any worries.

The Xia army's heartbeat made the whole Korean people feel frightened again, and the Korean officers and troops in Hwanghae-do wanted to stop it, but they were attacked by the Xia army stationed here and the Korean people who rose up.

Dongfang Yang, the acting general soldier of the first town who personally led the army south, also drafted a document and ordered people to post it in various places, demanding that the local Korean government surrender to the Xia army, so as to reduce their guilt - if they surrendered voluntarily before the Xia army came, they would not be guilty of their previous crimes, but if they did not surrender until the Xia army hit the front, sorry, what crime should you have been, it is still what crime.

Under the tough offensive of the Xia army and the opening of the way, almost most of the officers and troops in Korea collapsed without a fight, and took the initiative to open the city gates and surrender to the Xia army—just like the repetition of the Imjin War a few years ago, only this time from the north to the south, and it was their former suzerain, the Xia Dynasty, who launched the attack.

In less than a month, Dongfang Yang led his army into Gyeonggi Province, played a triumphant song, and drove towards Seoul, the capital of North Korea.

By this time, the princess Jin was already a master of the six gods, and she couldn't make up her mind at all, so she could only let go of all the military and political power to her uncle and father, and Jin Youming and Jin Xixuan had different ideas.

Jin Youming was unwilling to give up the capital Seoul so easily, he believed that he should hold on to Seoul and rely on the big city of Seoul to resist the offensive of the Xia army, so that even if the outer city wall was breached by the Xia army, they could rely on the complex terrain in the city to engage in fierce street battles with the Xia army, so as to slow down the offensive of the Xia army.

Jin Xixuan advocated the retreat of Namhansan Fortress, he believed that Namhansan Fortress was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not conquer Namhansan Fortress twice, so he could only force the defenders to surrender, so he should retreat to Namhansan Fortress and order the officials and soldiers across the country to repel the Xia army.

Princess Kim once retreated to Namhansanseong together, and she vividly remembered the despair of being surrounded by the Qing army, although she didn't say it explicitly, she was actually reluctant to retreat to Namhansanseong.

However, Kim Seok-chan was appointed by her as the training supervisor of the capital and held the most elite army in North Korea, and his voice in the court was greatly improved.

At his insistence, the imperial court finally agreed to Kim Seok-kwan's idea, and the training capital supervised the royal family to retreat to the mountain fortress of Namhan, and they transported a large amount of grain and grass from Seoul to the mountains in order to prepare for a long siege.

Although Kim Woo-myung opposed the retreat to Namhansan Fortress, he had no choice but to leave Seoul with the imperial court when the forbidden troops were all withdrawn to Namhansan Fortress.

On the twenty-fifth day of August in the fifteenth year of Wu'an, the first town of the Xia army came to the city of Seoul, and after the Korean forbidden army withdrew into the South Hansan City, the remaining defenders in Seoul lost their restraint and fled for their lives, so the Xia army saw a city with the gates wide open and undefended.

Dongfang Yang was not in a hurry to enter the city, although he despised the weakness of the Koreans, but for the sake of prudence, he still sent a pioneer into the city to investigate, and only after the vanguard was sure that the city was safe, he led a large army into the city.

However, after the Xia army entered the city, they were actually welcomed by the Korean people in the city, and the people could almost be described as eating pot pulp and welcoming the king, they were not afraid of the Xia army, and they came out of their respective homes and cheered on both sides of the street to welcome the Xia army into the city.

Dongfang Yang looked at this scene, although he knew that the people in all parts of North Korea had risen up one after another because of the forced conscription of the imperial court and the call for the "Qing Jun Side" issued by the Northern Second Province, he did not expect that even the people in Seoul, the capital of North Korea, would welcome Xia Jun so much.

This made him have to feel that the Joseon Dynasty was really unpopular, and even the common people in the capital opposed their rule and welcomed the enemy, so what was the need for such a country to continue?

Subsequently, the Xia army entered the city, controlled the entire Seoul, and learned from the people of Seoul that Joseon was small

The imperial court fled to Namhansanseong, which was also a traditional art of the Joseon monarchs, and in case of trouble, they retreated to Namhansanseong, or went directly to the territory of the northern suzerain.

But now their most loyal suzerain, the Ming Dynasty, has been extinct for decades, and even if they want to escape, they have nowhere to escape, so they can only retreat to Namhansan Mountain City.

In addition, Dongfang Yang also learned from the mouth of the little officials who did not follow the evacuation that Song Shilie, the Westerner Party, was unwilling to follow the imperial court to evacuate Seoul, and he was unwilling to accept the reality of becoming a slave to the country, and had hanged himself at home before the Xia army entered the city.

In addition to Song Shilie, there were several people who hanged themselves together, but there were not many of them, and when the country was in danger, it was those lowly officials who chose to die with the imperial court, which is really ironic.

After occupying Seoul, the Xia army did not rush to attack Namhansan Fortress, but blocked the road to Namhansan in a hurry, and used those officials who did not flee as assistants to restore order in Seoul.

A few days later, the Xia army finally marched into Namhansan, built a siege camp that stretched for miles outside Namhansan Fortress, surrounded the entire mountain fortress, and built an artillery position on the hill opposite Namhansan, which could directly hit the interior of Namhansan Fortress.

The movements of the Xia army were not deliberately hidden, so the Korean defenders in the mountain fortress of Namhan quickly discovered the movements of the Xia army and reported it to the capital for the first time.

Hearing the news, Jin Xixuan hurriedly walked to the city wall, he looked at the opposite hill from a distance, and could vaguely see the military flags on the mountain shaking, and the trees were cut down and fell.

His gaze followed the mountain again, and around Namhan Mountain was the summer camp that stretched for several miles, and the white camp tents dotted at the foot of the mountain, and the trees near the camp were also cut down to prevent the defenders from attacking.

The camp of the Xia army did not seem to be worried about being shelled directly from the hill by the North Korean official army, and its camp was directly within the range of the artillery - but unfortunately, the mountain fortress of Namhan was not equipped with a city fire cannon, and the army was equipped with bird guns that obviously could not reach the foot of the mountain.

Speaking of which, after the chaos in Namhansan, some ministers in the DPRK and China had learned a lesson and proposed to deploy anti-Japanese artillery in Namhansan Fortress to prevent the embarrassing situation of having no artillery to defend after retreating to Namhansan Fortress next time.

However, King Hyojong directly vetoed the minister's proposal, he thought that with the deployment of the suzerain's army in Korea, there was no need to worry about being forced by the enemy to retreat to the mountain fortress of Namhan, and his remarks were also agreed by many ministers at that time, after all, the combat effectiveness of the Xia army, which was still the Chu army at that time, was obvious to all, which made the Korean monarchs and ministers feel an unprecedented sense of security.

But who would have thought that today, more than ten years later, they were once again forced by the enemy to retreat to the mountain city of Nanhan, and it was not their great enemy at that time, the Manchu Qing, who forced them to retreat here, but the suzerainty of Daxia, which they once trusted.

If the great king of filial piety, Quanxia, knew and saw the current scene, I don't know if he would regret trusting the Xia Dynasty too much at the beginning, or regret that he had no way to teach his son and let the heir cause such a monstrous disaster.

Jin Xixuan didn't know the answer, he only knew that if the Qinwang army in various places didn't give their way, then they could only guard this mountain city until they died of old age.

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A few days later, on the third day of the ninth lunar month, the Xia army began to launch an artillery bombardment of Namhansan Fortress.

There were a total of 32 12-pounder infantry guns and 32 12-pounder infantry howitzers erected on the hill in the first town, and with the order of the acting commander-in-chief, the commander of each artillery battalion personally held the order flag, standing in the middle of the position, and with his gestures, the artillerymen put black powder and shells into the barrels in turn, and then compacted them with pounding pipes.

After a busy time, all the guns were loaded, and as the command of the command was heavy, and the gun rope with the flintlock device was pulled, dozens of deafening cannon sounds rang out, and the formation generated by the simultaneous shelling of 64 guns almost made the entire mountain tremble.

The sound of the cannon that could almost tear the sky also reached Namhansan Fortress, and the soldiers standing behind the female wall watched in horror as the black shadows whistled and flew in the direction where they were, and some of them even froze in place on the spot, their mouths wide open, and they did not react for a long time

Come here.

And some experienced veterans hurriedly pulled the people around them, and hid behind the female wall, and in the next second they hid, they only heard a sharp sound of breaking the air like a grim smile, and the terrible cannonballs smashed into the mountain city like raindrops, and suddenly set off a bloody storm in the mountain city.

The solid shells fired by the infantry guns were the most unpretentious, and the solid shells smashed heavily on the ground, kicking up dust several meters high, and then bounced up by inertia, flying irregularly in front of them, cutting off the limbs and torsos of the unlucky people in front of them, until they finally lay on the ground with blood stains after losing power.

In contrast, the howitzer's flowering shells, while not as straightforward as the casualty scene caused by solid shells, are still shocking - under the shelling of howitzers, explosions all over the mountain city, and the shrapnel that flew after the explosion enveloped the surrounding North Koreans, killing and injuring many people.

The flames from the explosion even set fire to the buildings inside the mountain fortress, and amid the panicked screams of the North Koreans, the flames quickly spread and engulfed everything around them.

On the artillery position, the artillerymen of the Xia Army did not observe the results of the battle caused by themselves, but continued to skillfully clean up the remaining gunpowder slag in the gun chamber and reload it again.

Dozens of seconds later, the flag fell again, and the terrible sound of cannon rang out again, and the Koreans who fled in panic in the mountain fortress did not bother to look at the shells flying from the sky, and were full of desire to flee to a place where they thought it was safe.

In the palace of the mountain city, a close attendant rushed into the palace in a panic, he stumbled to the prince Li Yan who was snuggled next to his mother, and shouted, "Your Majesty, the lady of the middle hall, get out of here quickly and move to a safe place!"

"Where can we go?" Princess Kim's face was also unconcealably flustered, she wanted to force herself to calm down, but the expression on her face was enough to prove that her attempt had failed.

"Get out of here first, it's too dangerous here......

Before the attendant finished speaking, a solid bullet roared directly into the roof of the main hall, directly smashing a large hole in the roof, and the wooden block flew sideways, almost hitting the attendant's head, but it also startled him.

Jin and Li Yan were also taken aback, they were afraid that a wooden block would be smashed on their heads in the next second, and they didn't care about their face, so they hurriedly asked their attendants to lead the way, wanting to leave here.

Under the guidance of the attendants, they quickly walked outside the palace gate, and the hellish scene outside immediately met Li Zhuo's eyes, leaving a deep shadow in his heart.

The buildings in the mountain city were damaged under the bombardment of the Xia army, and a side hall was hit by two solid bullets one after another, and the decoration of the roof flew several meters away, directly hitting the head of an escaped servant, killing him on the spot.

The stables not far away were also patronized by shells, which smashed the stalls to which the horses were tethered, and the frightened horses let out a long neigh, dragging the broken stalls outward, knocking down several people in a row.

"Your Majesty, the Lady of the Middle Temple, let's go!"

The attendants who led the way were so anxious that their voices changed several tones, and the group hurriedly left the main hall, just after they walked a few steps, a solid bullet hit a small side hall on the left side of the hall again, leaving a huge hole in the load-bearing wall of the side hall, and then, the side hall collapsed heavily after making a squeaky sound, and the dust splashed, burying some of the attendants who did not have time to escape inside.

This disastrous shelling lasted for five full rounds, and after the five rounds of shelling, the entire mountain city almost became a hell on earth, most of the buildings in the mountain city were damaged and collapsed, and the city walls were also collapsed in many places, forming a large slope, allowing the Xia army to attack directly from the slope.

The defenders suffered heavy losses, and in addition to the defenders, the court officials and some of the people who had retreated into the mountain city were also killed and wounded, and Kim's father, Kim Youming, was almost buried in the rubble, but fortunately his attendants sacrificed his life at the last moment to withdraw him, otherwise he would have been buried with his attendants.

After the shelling, the sobs of the survivors echoed throughout the mountain city, and many of the people who survived the shelling sat in place, looking around blankly, obviously losing their minds, and more people were crying hysterically.

Vent the pent-up emotions in your heart.

Jin pulled the prince Li Zhuo to look at the world in the mountain city, the princess had no idea of continuing to hold on, recalling the experience when she was besieged by the Manchu Qing in the mountain city of Nanhan, she only felt that the Xia army was more terrible than the Qing army.

Except for the Jin family, all the survivors in the city have no will to fight, they dare not continue to hold on, this is only the first shelling is so terrible, if it comes a second time, I am afraid that all of them will die here, let alone hold on to the ethereal Qinwang army.