King Jing of Goryeo, six miles southwest of the city, Zhu Di led a large army and marched along a mountain road.

A group of sentry riders in leather armor quickly ran from a distance.

"His Royal Highness, King Gyeong of Goryeo suddenly closed the city gates...... At the same time, some cavalry also sprang out from the gates around the city gate of the king of Goryeo, scattering in all directions, and the last general and others were incompetent and failed to stop it! ”

"It's okay!"

Zhu Di was not angry but happy, "Then the Goryeo King Wang Yu was really blocked by us in the Goryeo Wangjing, so there is no need to rush to go down and slow down the army."

As for the cavalry that came out, they were just heralds sent by the king of Goryeo to inform the garrisons of various state cities. ”

Hearing this, Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and others around couldn't help but be anxious.

"Your Highness, we must fight quickly, otherwise when the garrisons of the surrounding Goryeo cities come, our army will be in danger!"

Zhu Di said: "Don't worry, the army will rest for a while, bury the pot in front of the Goryeo Wangjing and cook in front of it, and attack the Goryeo Wangjing at night!" ”

"Obey!"

Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and the others all nodded slightly.

Zhu Di instructed the sentry on the side again: "Wait as soon as possible, let us explore the capital pool of the king of Goryeo." ”

"The last general obeys!"

The captain of the sentry cavalry answered, and hurriedly walked forward.

An hour later.

Goryeo Wang Jing appeared in front of Zhu Di and Guo An and others.

Goryeo Mountain.

The Goryeo Wangjing was once the fief of the Songak royal family, and after King Taejo of Goryeo established the Goryeo Kingdom, he relied on Songak Mountain to build the Goryeo Palace and Imperial City in the style of the Tang Dynasty.

However, due to the mountainous nature of this area, the rectangular Goryeo Palace Fortress was built with a length of 373 meters from east to west and 725 meters from north to south by relying on Songak Mountain.

Outside the Goryeo Palace, there is another imperial city that is more than 1,000 meters long from east to west and more than 1,000 meters from north to south, and even the northeast wall of the imperial city has been built to the foot of Songaksan Mountain, which can be regarded as overlapping with the wall of the palace city.

In addition to the palace and the imperial city, there is a city wall with a circumference of more than 40 li, and the northern and western parts of these walls have even been built to the ridges of Mt. Matsutake and Mt. Centipede.

Surrounded by Goryeo Wanggyeong, the west, southwest, south, and southeast of the city are also surrounded by endless mountain ranges.

It can be said that if the Goryeo royal capital had enough troops, it would be a powerful military fortress.

However, because there is only one outer city wall, it is really surrounded by a large army, and the defense is still somewhat insufficient.

In particular, if the enemy army occupies the high mountain outside the south of the city, or occupies Songak Mountain, the Goryeo royal palace and the imperial fortress will be trampled under the feet of the enemy army, and they can be breached at any time.

A few hundred years ago, when the Liao State attacked Goryeo, Yelu Longxu led his troops to directly destroy the withering and decaying, and captured Kaesong.

However, although the country of Goryeo is small, it is like a small power that cannot be killed, and it is very resistant to beating.

For hundreds of years, neither the Liao nor the Yuan Dynasty destroyed it.

Even if it was the Yuan Dynasty, it fought seven or eight times in a row before Goryeo became a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty, but it was not destroyed.

However, at this point, the Goryeo royal family also began to build the Goryeo royal palace again, requisitioning 300,000 people to build the outer fortress of Goryeo about 120 miles long.

Therefore, the king of Goryeo was impregnable.

In particular, the generals of Goryeo, standing on the wall of the ridge, saw exactly the army of Zhu Di, the king of Yan of the Ming Dynasty, only more than 10,000 people, and regained their self-confidence.

Their garrison in the capital of Goryeo, plus the garrisons of the imperial city and the palace city, had more than 50,000 people.

Even, some generals were eager to try and wanted to send troops out to defeat the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.

And on the open wasteland two miles away from Goryeo City.

In Zhu Di's army, the clouds and smoke have begun to curl, and many Yan Shanwei are already holding a steamed bun in one hand, and a bunch of people are gathered in front of a big pot, eating vegetables.

Meal.

On a hilltop, Zhu Di held a clairvoyant in his hand, looked at the Goryeo city wall in the distance, and asked Guo An on the side: "Guo Qing, do you think those Goryeo generals will sneak out and attack our army's camp while our army is eating?" ”

On the side, Guo An also held a clairvoyant, and he could see the facial expressions of the Goryeo generals on the city wall in the distance.

"Weichen doesn't know, but Weichen can already see that the Goryeo soldiers on the opposite wall are very angry!"

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Zhu Di's expression froze, and he pointed to a city building.

"Guo Qing, take a quick look at the group of people on the Goryeo city wall, is it Wang Yu, the king of Goryeo?"

"King Wang Yu of Goryeo?"

Guo An was stunned, and hurriedly looked in the direction of Zhu Di's finger.

Sure enough, on the largest gate tower closest to the gate of the Goryeo royal palace, there was a group of generals and a group of officials, who were hugging a person and looking at them.

"Your Highness, it should be the king of Goryeo!"

Zhu Di's eyes narrowed slightly, "Guo Qing, if our army attacks at this moment, can we kill the Goryeo king Wang Yu?" ”

Guo An shook his head slightly, "Your Highness, the range of our army's firearms is insufficient, and by the time our army rushed over, that group of Goryeo generals had already escorted Wang Yu to withdraw......

Moreover, Wechen felt that a living Goryeo king should be more useful than a dead one! ”

"Hmm!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, and then instructed Zhu Liang of the thousand households on the side: "Li Wang, quickly take a team of soldiers, hold an iron horn, and give this king to shout to the king of Goryeo, Wang Yu, and ask him to come out and surrender quickly, and take out the 220,000 taels of silver he owes to this king......

Otherwise, after a big war, the king of Goryeo will inevitably become a ruin, and tens of thousands of people in Goryeo will not be displaced and tens of thousands of soldiers will die because of some money......"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

A hint of excitement flashed in Li Wang's eyes.

Isn't it just to scold the king of Goryeo, Wang Yu, and then sow discord a little, so that the people and soldiers in the entire Goryeo king's capital know why His Royal Highness King Yan led troops to attack Goryeo?

This kind of thing, he is the best at it.

Hearing this, Guo An's eyes lit up on the side, and he bowed his hand slightly towards Zhu Di and Zhu Di.

"Your Highness is wise, the way of using soldiers, attacking the heart is the top, and the city is the bottom; Psychological warfare is the top, and military warfare is the bottom......

However, the soldiers under Li Baihu are all my Ming soldiers, they can't speak Goryeo, and those ordinary Goryeo soldiers and people can't understand my Ming language.

Of the 30 scholars brought by Wechen, five of them could speak some simple Goryeo language, and they could use a loudspeaker to announce the shameless crimes of the Goryeo king Wang Yu to the magnates and soldiers in the capital of Goryeo......

In addition, there are also Mongols in our army, so why don't you ask them, but there are people who can speak Goryeo, and they are shouting to the gates of Goryeo together, and the louder they are, the more Goryeo soldiers and people will hear......

In this way, the king of Goryeo may be angry and ashamed and do something unwise! ”

Zhu Di and Li Wang couldn't help but look at Guo An with admiration on their faces.

"It's still Guo Qing's tricks that are black enough!"

Originally, he just wanted to declare war on the king of Goryeo and the generals of Goryeo, but now Guo An's operation, when declaring war on the king of Goryeo, is still complaining about the shameless behavior of the king of Goryeo to the people of Goryeo in the king's capital.

This kind of thing is impossible for any king to endure!

Zhu Di then instructed Li Wang: "Hurry up and ask, see if there are any of those Mongols who can speak Goryeo!" ”

"Yes!"

Li Wang hurriedly ran out.

Zhu Di ordered to the left and right guards: "Then you will ask the commanders of the army, thousands of households, hundreds of households, general banners, who else can speak Goryeo...... and then bring the thirty scholars brought by Guo Changshi. ”

"Whoa!"

Several guards answered and quickly ran out.

Soon, Li Wang came over with two Mongols.

At the same time, the guards who had just gone out also came over with the thirty scholars.

As for Yanshan Weizhong, none of them can speak Goryeo.

Zhu Di scolded with an unhappy face, "A group of rammers who can only fight and kill, can't even speak Goryeo!" ”

In fact, in Daming, apart from some translators at Hongxu Temple, few people can speak Korean, Mongolian, and U Chinese.

Especially in the Goryeo language, the Goryeo people have been learning the Central Plains culture for nearly a thousand years, reading Confucian books, and now the whole country is wearing Ming costumes.

Therefore, the officials and magnates of Goryeo basically speak the Ming language.

Naturally, the Ming people don't need to know Goryeo.

Zhu Di didn't think about this kind of thing, and neither did Chen Shou and Zhang Xing and others.

Fortunately, Guo An has already been prepared.

Otherwise, even if you shout, you need to use those two Mongols, and the entire face of Yan Shanwei will be lost.

Subsequently, Guo An told the two Mongols and the five scholars about what he was about to shout.

The five scholars agreed one after another.

As for the two Mongols, as early as on the warship, they saw how Yan Shanwei beat up the Goryeo sailors with firearms, and they once again recalled the fear of being dominated by bombs in Liaodong, and naturally nodded again and again.

However, it is feared that these two Mongols are simple-minded and cannot remember.

Guo An also grouped the two Mongols in a group with a scholar, and learned the words of the scholar to angrily denounce the king of Goryeo.

It is divided into three groups.

The city gate tower where the king of Goryeo is located, three people.

In addition, the two city gate towers in the distance are two people.

At the same time, he also asked Zhu Di to send three teams of 1,000 people to protect these three groups of people from afar.

Needless to say, Zhu Di would not let the Koreans hurt these seven Goryeo-speaking baby bumps.

At the same time, the whole army was ordered to prepare for a big war.

It would be great if the king of Goryeo could be stunned and send troops out to attack them.

And at this time.

Wang Yu, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, was about to go back to the palace.

Even when he had already walked down the city gate, he heard a commotion on the tower of the city gate.

Soon, a lieutenant hurriedly ran down and reported to Wang Yuyu.

"Your Great King, the Ming army on the opposite side sent envoys to the gate of our king's capital!"

"Envoy?"

"Could it be that you're here to write a war letter?"

Wang Yu and the Goryeo officials and magnates beside him couldn't help but look curious.

"Let's go, Zhuqing will go up with this king to have a look!"

After speaking, Wang Yu walked up.

On the tower of the city gate, Wang Yu just poked his head out.

Downstairs at the city gate, three hundred steps away from the city gate tower, two Ming scholars, a burly Mongolian, speaking unproficient Goryeo, shouted directly to the two Yanshan guards in front of them carrying an iron horn the size of a basin.

Although the distance was a bit far, everyone on the city gate tower could hear it clearly.

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(End of chapter)