On the river, there are tall sail warships everywhere, which stems from Li Kui's stubbornness, in fact, Li Kui's top shipbuilder Meng Kang found that the shipbuilding technology of the Great Song Dynasty was used to give full play to it, and the warships created were easier to overtake and named the treasure ship. The only downside is that it is a bit slower than a sailboat.

After the sailor used it, he always thought that the treasure ship was better to use. Li Kui finally had to admit his mistake, he found that it was not that Western things were necessarily better, but that the West had always been the victor in modern times.

From the Age of Discovery, to the Colonial Age, and then to the Industrial Age, the West has been victorious.

This has led people all over the world to believe that everything in the modern development of the West is the right path and direction.

In fact, whether it is a sail warship or a treasure ship, after the advent of power ships, they can be reduced to obsolete means of transportation.

It's a pity that Li Kui didn't have time to study the power device of the steam engine at all.

Not to mention the internal combustion engine or anything like that.

Fortunately, regardless of whether his fleet is defective or not, but in this era, such a warship can already dominate the entire ocean, and a small Goryeo is not a problem at all. The Song people kept going ashore, and they didn't even use the means of temptation, obviously they didn't look at each other in their eyes.

Li Kui was on the battleship and gave an order: "Send someone to order the Goryeo people to surrender." ”

The Koreans in the city didn't think twice at all:

"Refuse, tell the Song people that we will never surrender."

"Drive the Song people out!"

The first persuasion failed, Li Kui did not have business, but ordered Liu Chengzhi to send a second group of persuaders, but his tone was a little heavier: "Tell the Goryeo people in the city, surrender, or perish!" ”

This time, the confidence of the Goryeo people in the city skyrocketed, and they probably felt that the Song people had no choice but to use fraud to gain their allegiance. This kind of cheapness, the Goryeo people themselves took advantage of it, how could the Song people get such a big benefit?

The soldiers who persuaded them to surrender were beheaded at the head of the city, swearing the determination of the Goryeo people in the city.

In particular, Li Dingtao, the commander of the garrison in the city, confidently said to the new king he supported: "King, the Song people are nothing more than that!" ”

For those in power in Goryeo, surrender was impossible, and if they did not surrender, they were still high rulers, local families. Who knows that after surrendering to the Song people, their wealth and glory can still be guaranteed?

In the face of the almost provocative behavior of the Koreans, Li Kui was not angry and began to further persecute him. But what made him strange was that the Koreans only seemed to know that they were cowering in the city, and had no intention of going out of the city to fight. This abnormal behavior made Li Kui pay enough attention to the Koreans.

How did he know that the Goryeo people in the city, except for a very small number of soldiers who were Goryeo standing army, the other soldiers were temporarily recruited farmers and civilians in the city, and they had no combat experience at all. Gathered together, like ducks driven together, chirping non-stop.

After a short period of temptation, Li Kui finally believed in the fact that the Koreans did not dare to leave the city.

He ordered all those who could go ashore to fight prepare for landing operations. He is a reasonable person, and after two persuasions, he felt that he was benevolent and righteous, and then he would die more Koreans, definitely not because of his cruelty, but because the Koreans did not open their eyes and looked for their own death.

"Disembark and line up."

"Check if the gunpowder is wet."

As more and more soldiers land ashore, a big battle will begin.

Like the Great Song Dynasty, Goryeo also entered the agricultural era long ago, and the biggest feature of this era is that both the army and the country are caught in a defensive posture. It is not as aggressive as the grassland peoples, and the war is hard power.

Taken together, it is a city, armaments, and supplies.

And these three aspects are not advantageous in Goryeo Nanjing.

It may be strange to say that Goryeo Nanjing, but where is this?

In later generations, this place was called Seoul, and later it was renamed Seoul. There is also the current Goryeo Tokyo Castle, which was later called Busan.

It really doesn't matter what the name is. Importantly, although this city is one of the four capitals of Goryeo, in fact, the garrison and defense are not very good. The center of Goryeo's defense has always been to the north of its territory, rather than to the southern part of Goryeo's city of Nanjing.

It is also strange to say that the oriental countries of this era like to play the trick of multi-capitals. For example, the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty: Tokyo (Kaifeng), Xijing Henan Mansion (Luoyang), Beijing Daimyo Mansion (Handan), Nanjing Yingtianfu (Shangqiu). With the exception of the last capital, several of the others are historic cities, and all of them have a history of having a capital.

In fact, Shangqiu is not bad, but compared with several other cities, the scale is much worse. But the victory lies in the profound heritage, especially the key is that this is the hometown of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

It is the land of dragons.

The status is equivalent to the Fengyang Mansion of the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Fengyang Mansion, Daming would not have taken Fengyang Mansion as a companion capital, and even built the largest city wall in Daming at one time.

Compared with the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao State had five capitals. But it was not like the Great Song Dynasty, because the population was too large, and the status of several cities had to be improved. Because the territory of the Liao State was too large, it had to set up five capitals.

In Goryeo, a small country with a small population and a small population, it became ridiculous that it was divided into four national capitals.

Several capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, even if it is several capitals of the Liao Kingdom, even if Li Kui has mastered firearms and cannons, but in the face of the city wall that exceeds five zhang at every turn, the foundation of the city wall has even reached more than three zhang, such a city wall, not to mention the black powder cannon in Li Kui's hand, even if it is a heavy artillery in later generations, it cannot collapse these earthen city walls.

This is simply not something that can be reversed by the superiority of weapons.

Even in the face of several cities in Liao, not to mention Zhuozhou and Yanzhou, even if it is Yizhou and Tongzhou, such cities, the walls of these cities can ignore the threat of cannons. The only thing that can be bullied is the city gates.

Can Goryeo's Nanjing?

Forget it, this city loves to laugh more than the county seat, and it is very strange that the Koreans are five big and three thick and short, but they just like that kind of delicate feeling.

As a result, the walls have the appearance of cutting corners.

So much so that even Li Kui had the illusion of attacking such a city, like attacking the county seat. In addition to the fact that the scale of the city is indeed not small, the city walls, towers, female walls, and ravines for defense are not enough in number, or even none.

Soldiers were constantly pulling heavy equipment ashore, and a small number of horses were driven ashore.

From the construction of the camp to the formation of the battle formation, there was no attack.

Even Gongsun Sheng, who followed Li Kui to fight in the south and the north, was puzzled and muttered: "Is this Goryeo just watching our army stand in formation, and don't even have the slightest idea of attacking?" ”

Wu Yong followed Li Kui for a short time, and said a little puzzled: "Shouldn't it be like this?" ”

It was so smooth to open the capital, so smooth that Wu Yong once thought that it would be so easy to fight. But Gongsun Sheng said with a smile: "Otherwise, the army is pressing, especially close to the city wall, this is the time when the two sides are most fiercely contested." Once the defenders retreat into the city, they will be beaten. This is when the casualties on both sides of the war are at their heaviest. ”

"But look at the good brother, the Koreans are hiding on the city wall, watching our army advance little by little. Unless they don't understand the art of war, or the other side only has a rabble in their hands, and once they leave the city, they are in danger of collapse. Speaking of this, Gongsun Sheng said proudly: "Our army can decide the outcome of this battle in three days." ”

"The commander has an order, and the whole army is ready."

"Artillery goes aiming!"

One order after another was issued, and Gongsun Sheng and Wu Yong were cranky.

And the first few guns are twelve-pound artillery, that is, the shells weigh twelve catties. Such artillery is not the heaviest artillery under Li Kui, and heavier artillery is also available on battleships.

But even if it is a twelve-pound artillery, the weight will reach almost a thousand catties. Although it can be disassembled and transported, it can be transported to the battlefield for assembly. But the weight of the main barrel is the bulk of the gun, and it is impossible to disassemble it at all. Heavier guns wanted to be transported off a warship, they needed docks and suitable installations.

It's not something that ordinary people can do.

"Push to range!"

"Fire!"

The Goryeo soldiers standing at the head of the city looked like they were watching a play before. I feel that the foreign enemy is coming, but it is just like that, they are standing on the top of the city, and if the Song people want to attack, they will have to pay a heavy price.

There are still some elites in Goryeo Nanjing City, of course, it is not appropriate to say that it is elite, it can be regarded as a standing army of Goryeo.

The most important defense of Goryeo was in the north, which needed to defend against the invasion of the Liao and Jurchens, followed by the defense of the capital city of Kaijing, which also needed to be heavily guarded. In the south, compared to the complex terrain in the north, the southern part of Goryeo, which is dominated by plains, does not need a large army to be stationed, and further south is the sea, as long as the Japanese people on the island do not attack, the southern part of Goryeo does not need an army to defend at all.

This also led to the fact that the deployment of Goryeo's armaments was heavy in the north and light on the south, but there were more than 10,000 standing troops between the two capitals in the south.

If evenly divided, the two capitals in the south of Goryeo, the standing armies of Nanjing and Tokyo, each city will have more than 5,000 troops. With the addition of a private army that can fight, there should be 10,000 people.

According to the experience of dealing with robbers, the Goryeo soldiers were already standing at the head of the city. Bundles and bundles of arrows were carried to the city. Defensive materials such as rolling stones and skulls were also prepared. Add boiling water and the like, but it looks good. If it was in the war before the advent of firearms, such a city would be difficult to fight. Siege has always been the most unfavorable environment for warfare.

In the eyes of the Koreans, or in the opinion of their generals, it was a vicious battle, and the fiercest place of the battle was definitely the city walls.

But after the cannon fired, the cannonball smashed a hole in the heavy city gate like a hammer smashing a walnut. The second cannon was followed by the third, and the hit rate of the close-range artillery bombardment was greatly increased, and the entire city gate collapsed with a bang, and until this moment, the soldiers at the head of the city were still immersed in the huge sound of artillery fire.

But before he could react, the city gate had already been broken.

"It's heavenly thunder, divine punishment!"

Li Dingtao, the commander of the Goryeo Army, saw that the soldiers at the head of the city were frightened again, and decisively led his own soldiers to rush up, and killed several soldiers who had turned their heads and were about to escape, cut off their heads and raised them high: "Those who dare to retreat will be killed!" ”

The chaos at the head of Goryeo City had just subsided, and finally someone discovered the problem of the city gate, and the Song people with bright armor outside the city could already be seen from inside the city. There were also neat banners, and panicked emotions stirred up in the city. The soldiers didn't dare to run, but they didn't dare to look at the Song army in fear.

In fact, there is no need to instigate, the generals in the city are already panicking.

"Grab your weapons and go to the city!"

"Those who retreat will be killed!"

"Crossbowmen ready!"

……

Even if they stood at the head of the city, facing the Song people who were more than one hundred and fifty steps away, the Goryeo people still had no way at all. The bow and crossbow could not hit the Song army at all.

The only ones that could hit the Song army were the two bed crossbows on the head of the city, which were very old defensive weapons. The Koreans had been oscillating between rebellion and submission to the Central Plains Dynasty, and naturally they had also learned the means of defense of the Central Plains city.

The bed crossbow is one of them.

But the two bed crossbows didn't even play a role before they were targeted by the Song army's artillery. Among the Song army, the commander Li Kui did not say anything, and the other generals at all levels, except for a few Chao Gai, did not know how to deploy defensive weapons at all, and everyone else was very familiar with the defensive weapons of the city.

Without waiting for Li Kui to speak, Luda commanded the artillery: "Aim at the vacancy on the edge of the city tower and open fire!" "At the head of the city, only the open space on the edge of the tower can have enough space to set up a bed crossbow. The city walls are much cramped, and it is inconvenient to assume bed crossbows.

Boom, boom, boom

The landing point of the cannonballs was not accurate, but it could not hold up the large number, and in an instant, the Goryeo soldiers who were preparing to set up bed crossbows were overturned on their backs, and bed crossbows, which were easily smashed, were also scattered on the head of the city.

Woowoo woo –

The horn of the attack sounded.

The Song army finally began to prepare for the attack, the speed was not fast, and the Goryeo people even wondered why the siege weapons of the Song army, such as the ladder, were not placed at the front of the attacking team, but let some stragglers carry baskets on their backs and gradually approach the city wall under the protection of shield soldiers.

The battlefield performance of the grenade has always made Li Kui marvel at its practicality of good quality and low price.

This weapon is easier to use than artillery within a certain range. And the price is low, and the soldier is very simple to train, it only takes a few days to complete the entire training process.

Unlike artillery, muskets, loading and unloading ammunition, cleaning the chamber and chamber, aiming ...... A series of problems plagued the commanding officers. This is also something that can't be helped, most of the Song army is illiterate. Not only the Song army, but most of the armies of this era, it is almost unique that soldiers can be literate.

And the higher the level of education of the soldier in the operation of muskets and artillery, especially artillery, the better the combat effectiveness shown in training and actual combat.

Fortunately, the lack of insight can be supplemented by training.

At the moment when the grenade fell from the sky at the head of the city with green smoke, there was also the moment when the Song army kept shooting the Goryeo soldiers at the head of the city.

At the moment when the explosions like rolling thunder sounded one after another at the head of the city, Liu Chengzhi's puppet army had already howled and rushed to the city wall, and the moment they reached the city, the hand-to-hand white-knuckle battle began.

Although most of the courage of the Goryeo people was consumed, in the face of the Song people, they had no way to retreat.

Especially in the face of Liu Chengzhi's puppet army, the anger in their hearts has nowhere to vent. It doesn't matter if they were bullied by the Song people, these shameless puppet soldiers saddened the dignity of the Goryeo people, and they actually slaughtered their fellow clans after taking refuge in the Song people, which was unbearable.

But even so, the better-equipped puppet army soon established an advantage in the city.

As more and more soldiers entered the city through the city gates, the fall of Goryeo Nanjing was only a matter of time.

"You can't kill anymore, we've surrendered! Surrender! ”

After fighting for half a day, Liu Chengzhi was tired, but he also felt something strange, it seemed that the slaughter of the Song army had not stopped. The Goryeo people who were blocked inside the city gate resisted and were killed, and if they did not resist, they were also in danger of being killed, and more and more Goryeo people were forced to fight the Song army with rudimentary weapons that could not even be called weapons at all.

The sky smelled of blood, but the fight wasn't over.

Outside the city, Wu Yong glanced at the situation in the city and whispered to Li Kui: "Liu Chengzhi has too many people. ”

"Don't worry!" Li Kui is not the kind of person who is easily swayed, he is small-minded, he doesn't trust people very much, and he is seriously suspicious. But if others want to rely on one or two slanderous words to sway his thoughts, there is no door.

This guy has completely taken refuge in Li Kui, and he is determined to serve Li Kui. It's easy to say, if Wu Yong doesn't follow Li Kui in this life, can he become prime minister?

Not to mention the prime minister, even if it is the county order, he doesn't have a chance.

Wu Yong wanted to be an official in the Great Song Dynasty, but Yin Bu had no hope, and his family had no relatives who were officials. Unless he is admitted to the Jinshi.

But how difficult is it for the civilians of the Great Song Dynasty to enter the army?

It's very unkind to him anyway.

The Great Song Dynasty has been reinforcing literature and military force for more than 100 years, and the perfect imperial examination selection has also been more than 100 years. In the past 100 years, the Jinshi of the children of the poor family has increased from ninety percent to less than thirty percent today, which is the best interpretation. Even Li Kui can't be regarded as a real poor disciple. He was a Sumen disciple, and he took the exam with the help of his fellow teachers.

Li Kui participated in the imperial examination at the beginning, and there was even Huang Tingjian, who had been a Jinshi examiner and held the archives of the secretary and supervisor of the Great Song Dynasty, who took the examination papers of previous years to test him, and also gave him guesses and questions.

But who did Wu Yong give him these conveniences?

He even went to study at Ying Tianfu Academy, which was an extravagant hope.

But after following Li Kui, he found that he had come to the peak of his life. Among his colleagues, Gongsun Sheng had a long and short possibility with him, but Wu Yong planned himself as a talent for governing government affairs, and kicked Gongsun Sheng into the camp of the military advisor, and the idea immediately became clear.

For him, there is no psychological pressure at all to slander and frame the Koreans who have taken refuge in him.

As for character?

If you become an official, what kind of character do you want!

In the midst of the battle and slaughter, Liu Chengzhi looked at the people who fell to the ground and died everywhere in front of him, and he became more and more frightened in his heart, and he even wanted to shout, the Koreans are going to die! It was as if a voice sounded in my heart:

You are a sinner in Goryeo!

This is not his crankiness, but Li Kui's approach is exactly this step.

There are few people in the Song Dynasty, and for Li Kui, he can use various means to migrate from the Great Song Dynasty to the Song people, but even so, he cannot resist the numerical advantage of the native natives of Goryeo.

The more the Goryeo died, it was beneficial to his rule. That reason alone is enough.

But Liu Chengzhi's heart was afraid, guilty, and he had never even been so resentful of his incompetence. Until a Goryeo boy with a small drum in his hand, his bright eyes fell in front of him, and the wound on his back was bubbling with blood, and he couldn't live.

Liu Chengzhi picked up the small drum from the ground indifferently, and was stunned-

The crisp sound of the drums reminded him of his childhood, and the memories that seemed to have been sealed in the dust.

"General, lord!"

"The king ordered us to slaughter the city, and if we go out of the city, we will be condemned by the king!"

When Liu Chengzhi went out of the city, he even forgot that he still had a knife in his hand, and the knife was dripping with blood, the blood of his own compatriots. The whole person seemed to be enchanted and came to the vicinity of Li Kui's Chinese army.

"Lay down your arms!"

"Let him come!"

……

Liu Chengzhi looked up at Li Kui blankly, he wanted to see what Li Kui was thinking, but he was disappointed, Li Kui's eyes were cold, as if he was from hell.

"General Liu, what's the matter?"

"Liu Chengzhi implores the king to order our army to stop the massacre—"

"Why?"

"Because of this slaughter, the Koreans will die!"

"Dead?" Li Kui's cold tone didn't say much, but sneered: "But the Goryeo people in the city rejected my kindness, twice, twice. For people who don't know how to lift, I won't give a third chance, you should understand. ”

"But the king ......" Liu Chengzhi also seemed to know that it was very difficult to implore Li Kui to take back the king's order, but he was carried away by the blood, tightened the long knife in his hand, looked at Li Kui with resolute eyes, gritted his teeth and said: "I use the king's life to exchange the life of the people in the city, is it okay?" ”

The distance between Li Kui and Liu Chengzhi is only about a zhang, this distance, Liu Chengzhi really wants to assassinate, as long as he rushes forward, he will have a chance. But Liu Chengzhi, who was born as a scholar, hesitated, and when he finally made up his mind, Li Kui playfully drew his knife and slashed with Liu Chengzhi's full strength, the two faced each other, only less than a foot away, Liu Chengzhi saw the ridicule at the corner of Li Kui's mouth, and then after the throat stinged, his eyes found that he had crossed above the army, and then it was completely dark.

After Li Kui killed Liu Chengzhi, he waved his hand and ordered: "The army enters the city!" ”

Until this time, Wu Yong and the others, who were standing behind him, secretly wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads and followed into the city. Li Kui's arrogance will definitely not accept the help of his own soldiers, even if Wu Yong and others insist, it will not help.

Li Kui's strength caught the Goryeo people by surprise, and what made Li Dingtao, the leader of the Goryeo family, unbelievable was that Li Kui actually ordered the slaughter of the city.

This is already the second capital of Goryeo to be slaughtered, but he shamefully survived and was brought to Li Kui alive: "Song people, you will never get the allegiance of the Goryeo people." ”

"Then kill all the Koreans!"

Li Kui's indifferent tone like a king of Hades made Li Dingtao tremble, but when he heard Li Kui roar at him angrily: "Start with you, you are also worthy of the surname Li?" ”

From the bottom of his heart, Li Kui did not think that Li Dingtao was worthy of the surname Li, and he decided to eradicate all people with the surname Li in Goryeo, unless the surname was changed.

A month later, the entire territory of Goryeo was defeated by Li Kui.

In the period that followed, Li Kui had no choice but to begin to quell sporadic rebellions in various places. With the implementation of the Junjeon Order, the rebellion in Goryeo became more and more unpopular. Moreover, the most people who died in this war were the people of the family and the private army of the family, but the number of civilian deaths was not very large.

But 200,000 widows still gave Li Kui a headache. So he persuaded Zhang Zhu to go to the Great Song Dynasty to recruit young people, as long as men, not women.

Half a year after leaving the capital, Zhang Zhu returned to the Great Song Dynasty with Li Kui's gift. And the news of Li Kui's establishment of the Eastern Tang Dynasty in Goryeo also spread to the Great Song Dynasty.

For a while, the court was dumbfounded. Fortunately, there is no talk of exterminating the Li family, anyway, after conquering Goryeo, Li Kui has an army of more than 100,000 troops, and Li Kui, who has more than 100,000 horses, even Zhang Ji has no possibility of defeat.

Zhang Dan, who had not seen him for nearly a year, saw that his third son not only returned to the Great Song Dynasty from Goryeo intact, but also heard from the door that his son had brought a lot of women this time, and Zhang Dian was not very happy, pointing at Zhang Zhu and saying angrily: "What benefits did Li Kui give you?" ”

Zhang Dian was too powerful at home, even if Zhang Zhu was ambitious and was blocked by the old man, he was frightened, and replied with a smile: "Father, it is a local product of Goryeo!" ”

Seeing that the old man's face was unhappy, Zhang Zhu explained: "It's the Three Treasures of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"The Three Treasures of the Tang Dynasty?"

Zhang Zhu was confused, he doubted that he was old, or did Zhang Zhu feel that his old man could no longer beat Zhang Zhu and use lies to coax him?

Zhang Zhu gestured: "Kunlun slave, Bodhisattva man, Silla maid, isn't this the Three Treasures of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"Oops, Dad, don't do it, I was wrong, I was really wrong!"

……

A year later, the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty broke through the Western Xia royal city and officially subjugated the Hexi Corridor.

And the Great Song Dynasty also had nearly 100,000 prisoners and was sent to Goryeo. Coupled with the men sent by Zhang's bewitchment, the population ratio of Han Chinese and Goryeo people was completely changed, and a relatively stable number was maintained.

As the population of the Eastern Tang Dynasty grew, Li Kui also began to plan for the Wa Kingdom.

The continent and the ocean, Li Kui finally chose the ocean. For him, although the opponent on the mainland was very strong, even the powerful Liao State was beaten in front of Li Kui, and he had no reason to be afraid and retreat. However, the population of the Eastern Tang Dynasty is insufficient, and only one of the two options can be chosen.

For Li Kui, the mainland is conservative and present, and the ocean is radical and future.

If you have to choose one of the two, Li Kui chooses the future!

(End of book)