In later generations, South Hamgyong Province in North Korea was the territory of the Jurchen of Holadian.

More than 20 years ago, the Jurchens of the Wanyan Department rose, and the Jurchens of Haoladian joined one after another.

The king of Goryeo (Wang's grandfather) was furious and sent troops to recruit the Jurchens.

Well...... Goryeo was defeated and relied on lobbying and bribery in exchange for a Jurchen truce.

When Wang Gou's father succeeded to the throne and received the support of the Liao State, he sent troops to attack the Jurchens again.

In this battle, Goryeo won a complete victory, seized the land of the Jurchens in Haoladian, and built nine cities, including Xianzhou, Yingzhou, Xiongzhou, and Jizhou. (i.e., the Northeast Nine Cities.) ）

Immediately after the civil strife in Goryeo, he was forced to withdraw his troops and return to China to quell the rebellion.

By the way, the Jurchens also picked up the nine cities built by Goryeo in vain......

This incident was regarded as a great shame by the Goryeo monarchs and ministers, who had already expanded their territory, but due to civil strife, they turned victory into defeat, and were counterattacked by the Jurchen army into the country.

There are also nine cities that they have built with all their labor and money!

Now, Wang Gou and the Xijing faction announced that they would go on a northern expedition, and they immediately won the support of the Xijing clans, border generals, local clans, and middle and low-level officials.

"Public opinion has fallen to the Northern Expedition, and it can no longer be suppressed." Li Zhiqi sighed.

This person is the cousin of the eliminated minister Li Ziqian, one of the ministers fell, and the two concubines were deposed, but the Li family is still standing.

Jin Fuyi said with compassion: "As long as the front line is defeated, Your Majesty will be able to be stable." ”

Guozhang Ren Yuanhou exclaimed: "This ...... It's not good. ”

Jin Fushi, the leader of the Kaijing faction, said: "The Xijing nobles have merged with the border warriors, and if this battle is won, not only will the Xijing nobles be difficult to suppress, but those warriors will also be arrogant." At such a critical juncture, extraordinary measures must be used! ”

What is the extraordinary means?

Betray the front-line army.

Delaying the transportation of grain and grass; Outside, provide intelligence to the Kingdom of Jin.

In that year, Wang Gou's father defeated the Jurchens and expanded the territory to build nine cities in the northeast, and the king's prestige overshadowed all the nobles.

The Goryeo nobles also played this trick, first provoking civil strife and asking the front line to withdraw troops to quell the rebellion. At the same time, he passed the news to the Jurchens, connived at the Jurchens to rebel into the territory of Goryeo, and then proposed to return the newly occupied land.

Even, they even beat the Jurchen generals and killed them on the grounds of provocation!

"You're not going to do anything to Your Majesty, are you?" Ren Yuanhou is the national abbot, he does not care about his son-in-law, but cares about his identity as the national abbot.

Jin Fushi said: "The eldest son of the king is almost one year old, and he should be made the crown prince!" ”

Ren Yuanhou no longer objected, it didn't matter if his son-in-law died or not, as long as he could ensure that his grandson succeeded to the throne.

Of course, it's best if the son-in-law doesn't die.

After all, his grandson is not yet one year old, and if he dies, he will lose a lot of money.

After thinking about it, Ren Yuanhou added: "Your Majesty is still too young, and in case the front line is defeated, he has also learned a lesson." When the time comes, let Your Majesty study more, and I will marry another daughter to Your Majesty. ”

This is a proposal to put the king under house arrest and then have more children to ensure that the next king is still the grandson of the Ren family.

Jin Fushi nodded and said, "This old man is the words of the country." ”

The two parties make a deal.

Li Zhidi ran to interject: "The Ming country is powerful, and it cannot be ignored." ”

The Kim Fushi clan is a descendant of the Silla royal family.

His father and Park In-yang sent an envoy to the Song Kingdom, and their poems were printed in Tokyo, earning Goryeo the reputation of "Little China".

Jin Fushi himself is also familiar with Confucian classics, and he is emotionally longing for China.

However, the expression of Goryeo's complete surrender to the state of Kim was written by Kim Fushi himself. He was able to firmly rank first among the ministers in Goryeo, and there was also the factor of Jin Guo's support.

Jin Guo can support himself, why can't Ming Guo?

Jin Fushi smiled and said: "Prepare the sea ships and messengers, once the front line is defeated, we will invite Your Majesty back to Kaijing." Then let the envoy immediately cross the sea, present a letter of state to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and ask the Ming to canonize the king and send troops to rescue Goryeo! ”

"Good strategy!" Everyone applauded.

first colluded with the Jin people to cripple the king's army, then put the king under house arrest to establish the crown prince, easily overthrew the Xijing faction and the warrior group, and finally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty to gain the support of the Celestial Empire.

Once successful, Goryeo will be the world of the Kaegyeong aristocracy!

These guys learned the party struggle of the Song Dynasty thoroughly, but they regarded the interests of the country as nothing.

The king of Goryeo was still gathering troops to collect food, and a messenger from Goryeo had gone to the country of Jin to inform the Jin people to quickly mobilize an army, and it was best to set up an ambush to annihilate the Goryeo army.

At the same time, Jin Fushi wrote a letter of state, sent envoys to stand by in the port, and when the time was ripe, he went to the Ming Dynasty.

The Kaijing faction is a bunch of worms, and how much better is the Xijing faction?

The Miaoqing monks and Zheng Zhichang deliberately exaggerated the results of the Ming army, and lied that there were not many Jurchen elites left, just to persuade the king to send troops. Historically, the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin State, and they even told the king that the Song army had won a great victory, and they planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin State to destroy the Song Dynasty to raise an army to the Northern Expedition.

In May of the third year of Hongwu, the Goryeo Kingdom raised 18,000 troops, and before the grain and grass were ready, they marched by land and water to kill the lazy road to the Jin State.

Wang Gou is full of confidence and has the certainty of victory.

My father sent troops more than ten years ago, and he was able to break the Jurchen territory and expand the territory and build nine cities in the northeast. Why can't you be a son?

He didn't want to think that what Goryeo defeated back then was just the Lazy Jurchen who didn't have much leather armor. Even the Jurchens of Wanyan were not in enough armor at that time, how could they compare to the current Jurchen strong soldiers?

Wang Gou insisted on personally leading the troops to the front, and the monk Miaoqing was afraid of accidents and repeatedly advised him not to take risks.

So, Wang Gou stopped at Yuanshan and waited for the news of the victory of the soldiers.

To tell the truth, if the Kaijing faction did not report to the Jin State, Goryeo might have been able to win the battle at the beginning of the Northern Expedition.

Because the Jurchen tribes in these places are relatively weak, and they were sent a large number of troops to the south last year, how can they prevent it when the troops are empty?

Zhao Kuang, a warrior from the Xijing faction, was appointed by Wang Gou as the general of the army, and led the land and water army to take Xianzhou (Xianxing).

In the city of Xianzhou, Ali has been waiting for several days.

There were only 18,000 Goryeo soldiers, and when Ali received the news, he only brought back 200 horsemen and 800 light horsemen.

A thousand cavalry of the Golden Kingdom is enough to win in battle!

By the way, the main population of the Jurchen tribes on the Lazy Road is the Bohai tribe, and the Jurchen tribe is in the minority.

A large number of Bohai people could not bear the brutal rule of the Liao State and fled here to survive. They gradually merged with the local Jurchens, and in addition to farming and hunting, they were also good at fishing and pirates.

These people often plundered the eastern coast of Goryeo and even crossed the sea to Japan to plunder in offshore fishing boats.

Historically, the Jin soldiers who defeated the Song Dynasty's naval army in Liangshanbo were the main force of the Jurchen (and the Bohai soldiers here). The Jin soldiers who were defeated by Han Shizhong in Huang Tiandang were also dominated by the Jin soldiers of the Lazy Road.

They are the troops most familiar with water warfare in the entire Jin country - after all, they are pirates.

Due to the fact that the Deng Lai Ming army crossed the sea from time to time to harass, the Jin State is now also building a naval division, and Ali was sent to the Yalu River estuary to train troops before. He rushed back to Xianzhou from the mouth of the Yalu River.

The vicinity of Xianzhou is mostly mountainous, but 150 miles to the southwest, it is a coastal low plain and hills.

These coastal plains, most of which belonged to Goryeo, were often raided by Jurchen pirates. The local gentry and common people supported the Northern Expedition of the King of Goryeo, and they enthusiastically served as soldiers or grain carriers.

The Heart of the Army is available!

Zhao Kuang sent 500 horsemen as a pioneer and soon arrived outside Xianzhou City.

But I saw that there was no defense here, there were not many soldiers defending the city, and there were Jurchen people fleeing into the mountains along the way.

After receiving the news from the vanguard, Zhao Kuang led his troops to speed up, intending to take advantage of the defenselessness of the Jin State and take Xianzhou City by surprise in one fell swoop.

The army was still seven miles away from the city, and suddenly three hundred Jin Kingdom light cavalry came to kill.

Zhao Kuang first asked the cavalry to engage in the battle, the golden cavalry fought and walked, and the Goryeo cavalry pursued bravely.

Just when you were chasing me, two hundred horsemen and five hundred light horsemen of the Jin Kingdom suddenly came out of the northwest mountainous area.

The Goryeo cavalry was cut through the waist and immediately broke down and fled.

At this time, there were only more than 900 cavalry left in the Jin Kingdom, chasing the fleeing Goryeo cavalry, and went straight to the Goryeo army.

In order to take Xianzhou in one fell swoop, Zhao Kuang ordered the whole army to march quickly, and a large number of soldiers did not wear armor, and were transported by livestock to march on the road.

Facing the Jin cavalry who were chasing and killing, Zhao Kuang shouted in panic: "Hurry up and line up!" ”

The Goryeo soldiers, who were sharp in their hands and feet, quickly found their armor and put it on, but more people were in a hurry.

Moreover, there are still a large number of militias in Goryeo, and there is no armor at all!

The four teams of Jin cavalry swept diagonally, and the Goryeo front army, which was barely formed, was frightened and began to be confused.

There were three more teams of golden cavalry, and the cavalry and archery feints rushed forward, and the formation of the former army of Goryeo was in chaos.

Then the six teams of golden cavalry rushed to kill, and the Goryeo front army collapsed directly.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhao Kuang, the chief general of Goryeo, fled immediately with his own soldiers, and the Goryeo army collapsed and was chased by the Jin cavalry for hundreds of miles.

The battle was like this, Zhao Kuang's negligence was not the main reason, and the ferocity of the Jin cavalry was not the main reason.

The real reason is that the nobles of Goryeo Kaegyong sent to leak military information to the Jin State!

As long as Goryeo takes Hamheung City by surprise, the rest is all mountainous terrain, and no matter how powerful the Jin cavalry is, it will be difficult to show it.

At the time of the expedition, 18,000 people were recruited, and more than 20,000 people were recruited.

Including the people, there are only two or three thousand people who can escape back to Wonsan alive.

Wang Gou looked at the remnants of the soldiers outside the city, and his face turned pale and trembling with fright.

Zhao Kuang, the main general who fled back, in order to shirk his responsibility, preemptively sued and said: "Your Majesty, thousands of golden soldiers and iron cavalry are coming, and our army can't resist it at all. The intelligence is wrong, the elite of the Jin Kingdom still exists, and they have not been annihilated by the Ming State at all. ”

"Nonsense!"

Monk Miaoqing was furious: "Even if the main force of the Jin soldiers still exists, how can it be possible to arrange thousands of horsemen in Xianzhou?" It must be you who exaggerate the enemy's feelings! ”

"Your Majesty, there are really thousands of riders!" Zhao Kuang knelt on the ground and cried.

The monk Miaoqing sent people to inquire about the defeated army, but the results were divided. Some of the routs said that the enemy was tens of thousands, some said that the enemy was thousands, and some even said that they did not see clearly, and they fled after the troops in front of them were defeated.

The monk Miaoqing said to Wang Go: "Your Majesty, there will be traitors leaking secrets in the country, and it is important ministers in the court who leak secrets. Otherwise, our army's Northern Expedition, the Jurchen transferred troops to Xianzhou, and it would take at least a month, how could it be possible to set up an ambush in Xianzhou? ”

Wang Gou also felt that it made sense, and was so angry that he trembled all over his body by the insects in the court.

But Zhao Kuang, who had suffered defeat, was ordered to lead his troops to defend Yuanshan City, and someone suddenly came to look for him at night.

The comer was tied up with five flowers and brought to Zhao Kuang.

"Where did you come from?" Zhao Kuang asked.

This person smiled and asked, "Is General Zhao willing to marry the Jin family?" ”

"Bang!"

Zhao Kuang slapped the table case: "It turned out to be the Jin family colluding with the Jurchen!" ”

The man asked again: "Is the general willing to marry the Kim family?" ”

Zhao Kuang became silent for a long time, and then slowly raised his head: "But the daughter of the Jin family's main sect?" ”

This person sneered contemptuously: "The Jin family is a descendant of the Silla royal family, and if the general can marry the daughter of a small sect of the Jin family, it will already be regarded as the ancestor of the virtue of manifestation." Why bother asking for the daughter of the Jin family? ”

"What do you want me to do?" Zhao Kuang asked.

This person's smile was even more proud: "Qingjun's side, eradicate the demons around Your Majesty!" ”

(End of chapter)