Chapter Fifty-Six: Throwing Stones and Asking for Directions

Ye Shen said: "Li Chenggui's troops are chasing after each other, I counterattacked several times, but I just can't get rid of them, and Li Chenggui's cavalry is divided into several groups, chasing very rhythmically, wave after wave, endlessly, and my department is sleepy and lacking horses, especially horses." People can still persevere, but horses can't. At that time, I thought I was going to die in Goryeo. However, General Ha suddenly came with his troops, and the Goryeo cavalry retreated. ”

"General Ha wanted to make a great contribution, so he and Li Chenggui confronted each other in the southwest of Pingcheng for several days and fought more than a dozen times. But Li Chenggui does have some skills. The cavalry under his subordinates hedged against General Ha's subordinates and did not fall behind. He himself was also a great general, and once, General Ha personally went into battle and almost broke the Goryeo army. But as soon as Lee Sung-gye appeared, the three armies of Goryeo shouted and their courage doubled. In the end, we had no choice but to return to nothing. ”

Even though Ye Shen has a lot of resentment towards Li Chenggui in his heart, he has to admit at this moment that in the war, Li Chenggui is also a heroic figure, and compared with some famous generals of the Ming Dynasty, he is naturally very inferior. However, he and Harbin are not spent, and they can't talk about famous generals at the moment.

In the end, I also got some news that Li Chenggui is now leading the three armies and sitting in Pyeongseong, and the strategy of the Goryeo court seems to be to take Pyeongseong as the core and arrange a defense line along the Datong River. The coach of this line of defense is Li Chenggui. ”

He Xi took the map, was silent for a while, and said, "Do you think Li Chenggui will defect?" ”

Ye Shen's eyes widened and said, "Absolutely impossible, Li Chenggui is a minister of the pillar of the imperial court, how could he defect?" Goryeo can fight, it is estimated that he is the only one? ”

He Xi secretly said in his heart: "I still haven't learned a lesson." Too naïve in a lot of things. But He Xi also knows that people's growth is not all at once. There are a few things that need to be experienced. There are a lot of things that I don't understand. He Xi said: "Okay. You go down and rest, take the medicine well, maybe after a while, it's time to use you. ”

Ye Shen struggled to get up and said, "The last general has rough skin and thick meat, this is nothing, isn't this already enough." Before the words were finished, Ye Shen said "silk" in his mouth. pulled the wound.

After He Xi sent Ye Shen away, he immediately ordered to find someone from the local Goryeo clan in Xicheng and bring a letter to Li Chenggui.

He Xi immediately wrote a letter.

said bluntly that Goryeo was not good, so that Li Chenggui turned against him, and the court was full of rewards.

He believed that the Goryeo clan must have a confrontational mood towards the Ming court at this moment. It is not the same as the small people of Goryeo. The small people of Goryeo have been squeezed to the extreme at the moment, and they don't care who is in power at all. But the Goryeo clan was a handful of people at the top of Goryeo's power. Similar to the gate valve clan of the Wei and Jin dynasties. They have too much power.

As soon as Da Ming comes, let them give up, how is it possible?

Many times, it is difficult to reach the soul without a knife.

Therefore, it is good that this letter can reach Li Chenggui's hands. Just to test Li Chenggui's true intentions, he doesn't believe that Li Chenggui is a loyal minister of Goryeo, the kind of loyal minister who can live and then die.

If you can't get there, that's fine.

He also wanted to test the chaos of the Goryeo court.

His handwritten letter is likely to be the beginning of a turmoil in the Goryeo court. And the rumors of this king of Goryeo are also quite unbearable, let's see if he can complete the achievement of self-destruction of the Great Wall. As for Li Chenggui? He Xi didn't care. Life or death. Both.

Goryeo is the most important thing.

It's a way to ask for directions.

Anyway, with He Xi's original intention, he laid down Xicheng and made this place a base camp, although there is still a period of time before winter, but He Xi's desire to continue to move east is not so deep, unless there is a great opportunity.

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Li Chenggui didn't know at this moment that He Xi's vicious plan to throw stones and ask for directions had already come to him.

He was now discussing the situation in front of him with his first adviser, Chung Daochuan.

Li Chenggui said worriedly; "Now there are troops from all over the city in Pingcheng, 150,000, but I have inspected them one by one, and they are all rabble. Many of them were newly recruited slaves and maids in the fields, and they couldn't afford to fight at all. More important is grain and grass. Kaijing said that the grain and grass had already been transported here. But I looked, the shortage was at least 30%. The rest is also stale rice. Soldiers can't do it, neither can grain and grass, and in this situation, the king is still ordering conscription. He didn't know at all that there were not many soldiers but fine, and now he could see only tens of thousands of my old troops. In this situation, it is unlikely that the Ming army will attack this year, but the situation next year is unthinkable. ”

Li Chenggui did not say it, but it was already obvious to hint.

Not to mention the gap in national strength between the Ming Dynasty and Goryeo. With just two monarchs, the gap is too great. One was to start from scratch and establish the great Ming Dynasty. One is a child who has not dried up. A soldier who is like a god, for thousands of years, as an emperor who can fight, only under Tang Taizong, of course, for this ranking, Zhu Yuanzhang is not convinced. It's just that you can't reason with the good deeds of later generations, for the other one, you don't understand what war is, how can it be considered war?

I just think that the more people, the better.

Zheng Daochuan groaned and said: "In the current situation, the only way to make peace with the Ming army is to negotiate peace. is the only way to survive. And the king will reign for one day, and he will not be able to. Now it is rumored inside and outside Kaijing that the king is not the son of the first king. ”

Smart people don't have to speak too thoroughly.

Zheng Daochuan said this, Li Chenggui immediately understood the meaning, his face was a little complicated, and said, "It's come to this point? ”

To what extent? Someone is brewing to change the king of Goryeo.

This is not a person's idea, after all, the situation in front of you is clear. Da Ming has already sent troops, but it is not the harassment of thousands of people before. Many nobles in Goryeo had lost confidence in defeating the Ming army. Of course, they are not Li Chenggui. I can't understand so many details on the battlefield, but the big picture is not misjudged.

When the king of Goryeo went against the expectations of all the Goryeo nobles and killed, he was killed.

Now that the king of Goryeo is not the son of the previous king, this rumor is a harbinger. It doesn't matter whether Wang Yu, the king of Goryeo, is the son of the first king Wang Qi or not. Importantly, they could not tolerate Wang Yu leading Goryeo into the abyss.

In fact, Li Chenggui's ability to stand on behalf of Goryeo and establish the dynasty is also related to this trend. In history, Li Chenggui did not engage with the Ming Dynasty at all, and after the withdrawal of Goryeo, the Ming Dynasty did not know. Therefore, Li Chenggui was able to calmly return to the army, and with the help of the army in his hand, he won the victory in one fell swoop. Then they will raise puppets and eventually become kings.

Now the situation is different.

Although Li Chenggui defeated an attack by the Ming army, in Li Chenggui's view, it was not a victory at all.

What is the purpose of Ha Thorn Buhua breaking into Goryeo? Covering Goryeo's reinforcements to Xicheng and isolating Xicheng was the time when the Ming army attacked Xicheng without external interference.

Has this strategic goal been achieved?

Naturally, it was achieved.

During the siege of Xicheng by the Ming Dynasty, from the southeast, there was not a single reinforcement.

It's just that the Koreans themselves claim victory to boost morale.

Zheng said: "Maybe it won't be like this, but someone is interested in passing the news on to me. The meaning of this, my lord------"

Li Chenggui said: "So, someone wants to invite me into the game? ”

Zheng Chuandao said: "Exactly, now half of the imperial court's troops are in the hands of adults, and adults play a pivotal role in Goryeo, and nothing can be done without the nodding of adults." Therefore, he had this idea, so he naturally wanted to say hello to the adults. ”

Li Chenggui was a little dazed for a moment.

It's not that he doesn't understand the minds of those people, it's just that most of his mind is on fighting against the Ming Dynasty, and now he suddenly turned to the fly camp in Kaijing, he thinks that some people are stupid and cute, yes, he also thinks that the current king has dragged the whole of Goryeo into the abyss.

A hundred kills are not enough.

But they didn't seem to have thought about it, would it be useful to kill Wang Yu?

When the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to crusade against Goryeo to form the Zhengdong General's Mansion, Goryeo was already in the abyss, and the difference between killing Wang Yu and not killing Wang Yu was not big. Goryeo's vitality was a victory on the battlefield, not a coup d'état.

"What do you think I should do?" Li Chenggui said confusedly.