Fan Wenyu's suggestion made the people of Jianzhou see hope again, but before conquering Korea, it was necessary to pull out the nail of Kuandianbao.

At this time, more than 3,000 people had been killed in the Han Army Banner, and it was time for the Eight Banners to go out.

The two red flags and the blue flag were already preparing to go to Korea at this time, and the heavy task of attacking the city naturally fell on the head of Huang Taiji's white flag!

In the previous battles, the casualties of Zhengbai Banner were relatively small, and the combat strength was still relatively intact.

Moreover, Huang Taiji found that those people captured from the "savage tribe" in the Heilongjiang River basin were very skilled in archery.

So he used the oxen composed of these "wild men" to fire arrows against the white pole soldiers in the city.

Hunters by nature, these "wildlings" are skillful with arrows, and their strong physique allows them to shoot the city's white-pole soldiers with ease from a distance of ninety paces.

Soon Ma Xianglin felt that something was wrong, more and more white pole soldiers were shot by the prisoners under the city, and the location of the arrows was often the face and throat, which could not be protected by the armor.

Although the white pole guns of the white pole soldiers are sharp, their armor is not good, neither piercing armor nor cloth armor, and their defense is very limited.

Ma Xianglin shouted: "Everyone pay attention to the city wall, the archers of the Tartars are very powerful, don't be secretly calculated by them!" ”

But at this moment, a sharp arrow cut through the sky like lightning and went straight to Ma Xianglin's front door.

Ma Xianglin was caught off guard, and suddenly felt a pain in his eyes, as if he had been poked by a red-hot iron rod, and couldn't help but scream.

His hands clutched his left eye, blood oozing from between his fingers, staining his palms red. His body trembled with pain, and his face was as pale as paper.

The arrow pierced deep into his eye socket, and the sight frightened the people of the city.

Ma Xianglin is the son of the famous female general Qin Liangyu of the Ming Dynasty and the stone pillar Xuanfu Ma Qiancheng, heroic and chic, able to write and write, wear silver armor, ride a white horse, often ride alone to charge into battle, and take the head of the enemy general.

In the army, they are called "Zhao Zilong" and "Xiao Ma Chao".

However, Ma Xianglin soon cut off the shaft of the feather arrow with his saber, and although his vision was greatly affected now, he must not retreat at this time.

Otherwise, the morale of the white pole soldiers will definitely plummet.

Finding that Ma Xianglin was injured, his uncle Qin Bangping also hurried over to help command the white pole soldiers to fight with the white flag in the city.

Ma Xianglin was even wounded, and the white-pole gun in his hand stabbed several Eight Banner soldiers in a row.

The surrounding white pole soldiers seemed to have been infected by Ma Xianglin, and their morale was greatly boosted in an instant, and they burst out with amazing combat power, driving down the white flag that had already been faintly gaining a foothold in the city.

Huang Taiji was still very excited when he saw the Ming army general in the city hit the arrow, but he didn't expect that soon the Ming general stood up again and threw himself into the fight.

The siege war pays attention to one blow, and if this wave is not won, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult after that.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and Huang Taiji had no choice but to withdraw his troops, leaving only some archers to take the opportunity to shoot the white pole soldiers in the city.

When he heard that the white pole soldiers were riding on foot outside the city last night, he didn't think so.

But today's battle in the city made him see it really well, even the elite white swing tooth in the white flag actually didn't have an advantage when facing the white pole soldiers, and the ordinary eight banners were not their opponents.

If it weren't for the bows and arrows of those "savage archers" under the city, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to attack the city.

In just over half an hour, more than 800 people were killed in Zhengbaiqi.

Now there are still nearly 2,000 Ming troops in the city, and even if he can break through Kuandian Fort if he continues to fight like this, there will be very little left of his white flag.

It is unacceptable to lose thousands of elite Eight Banner soldiers, whether it is Huang Taiji or Nurhachi.

At present, attacking North Korea is the top priority, and at this time, Shi Shan and others have already driven their men and horses to the Yalu River, and they can send troops as soon as Hetuala's grain, grass and ordnance arrive.

Next, Huang Taiji could only be forced to change his strategy, from a strong attack to a siege, relying on the advantage that the range of his bow and arrow was stronger than that of the Ming army, and he used cold arrows to shoot the growing Ming army every day.

Qi Jin and the others spent two more days on the Lonely Fox Ridge, and only after confirming that the Tartars had withdrawn from the siege did they dare to march towards the Yahu Pass.

At this time, Li Xianzhong couldn't withstand Yan Mingtai's repeated urgings, so he had to lead the elite cavalry under his command to the Yahu Pass.

In fact, he already knew the news of the Qi family's army's bloody battle in Guhuling, but the news from the Intelligence Department was that the Qi family's army had been wiped out.

He didn't expect to see Qi Jin and others, and he was still a little happy.

However, of the nearly 3,000-strong breakthrough team, only 8 survived in the end, and there was not much difference from the annihilation of the entire army.

Fortunately, Qi Jin still told everyone about the situation of Kuandian Fort, and the current food in Kuandian Fort should be enough for the white pole soldiers to eat for two months, if you count the loss of some troops defending the city, it is not a big problem to hold on for three months.

This also made it unnecessary for the Ming army to rush out of the customs to rescue.

In this battle, the Ming army suffered heavy losses, the Ming army guarding Kuandian lost nearly 10,000 people, and He Shixian's troops in charge of the rescue lost 16,000 people.

When he attacked Hetuara in March, he had already lost most of the elite of the Nine Sides transferred to Liaodong, and this time Yuan Yingtai almost lost the elite and Qijia troops of the Xuanwei Division in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty.

Rao is a big business of the Ming family, and he can't afford to toss like this!

After receiving the battle report from Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi, the secretary of the military department, could no longer sit still.

He rushed to Wenyuan Pavilion overnight and found Fang Congzhe, the head of the cabinet who was on duty.

When Fang Congzhe saw Xiong Tingbi's late-night visit, he knew that there must be the latest battle report in Liaodong, and most of them were defeated.

Even though he was already mentally prepared, he still gasped after seeing Xiong Tingbi hand over the battle report.

scolded angrily: "This Yuan Yingtai is really not enough to succeed and more than to lose, a good hand of cards is actually played like this?" ”

A few days ago, Yuan Yingtai also wrote a letter asking the household department to collect this year's "Liao salary" as soon as possible, so that he could use troops against Jianzhou to recover Hetuara in one fell swoop.

As a result, the elite of Liaodong was lost in just a few days.

This matter is really a bit ironic, at the beginning, Fang Congzhe was worried that Li Xianzhong would become bigger repeatedly, and asked Yuan Yingtai not to give him the opportunity to get military merits as much as possible.

This is good, now almost all the other elites in Liaodong have been lost, and only Li Xianzhong's "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" remains.

Now they don't want to do it.

It's a real shot in the foot.

Xiong Tingbi said: "Elder Fang Ge, these Southwest Xuanwei Divisions that have been damaged this time are the core forces loyal to the Ming Dynasty, once their forces are greatly weakened, they will be unable to suppress the surrounding forces that are plotting against the Ming Dynasty, if this matter is not properly handled, it will even cause turmoil in the southwestern provinces of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Fang Congzhe suddenly felt exhausted, so he said: "Kumamoto reminds that the cabinet will implement the pension cabinet for these southwest toasts as soon as possible, so as not to cause turmoil in the southwest. ”

He understood that the affairs of the southwest could be solved with silver and some canonization, and the situation in Liaodong was a headache.

Now there is a mine supervisor sent by His Majesty in Liaodong, and he will definitely know about it once there is a disturbance, so Yuan Yingtai must take it.

It's just that who will take over the Liaodong Economic Strategy is afraid that the Donglin Party will have some entanglement with itself again.

Xiong Tingbi seemed to see Fang Shoufu's thoughts, and said: "Actually, we want to control the military and political power in Liaodong, and we don't have to stick to winning the Liaodong Economic Strategy. ”

"Liaodong Economic Strategy was originally a temporary position, and after winning Yuan Yingtai, we can temporarily not fill the vacancy. In this way, Yan Mingtai could use his position as the governor of Liaodong to preside over the military and political affairs of Liaodong. ”

Fang Congzhe thought about it, although there was still Li Rubai, the deputy envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, but his health has not been good recently, and after attending Li Shizhong's funeral, he stayed in the capital directly to recuperate.

Even if they pushed Yan Mingtai to the position of Liaodong Economic Strategy, with His Majesty's balanced political skills, most of them would put the position of Liaodong Governor to a Donglin Party member.

It is better to let Liaodong Economic Strategy temporarily vacant, anyway, His Majesty's attitude towards filling the vacancy has always been to delay if it can be delayed, and if it can be filled, it will not be filled.

In fact, Wanli had already received the news of the defeat of Liaodong, and the battle report from Fang Congzhe was already the third.

Ma Yun, the supervisor of Liaodong mines, immediately attacked Kuandian and the news of He Shixian's defeat spread to the capital.

Then Li Xianzhong bypassed the military headquarters and sent a more detailed battle report, the one sent by Li Xianzhong was very detailed, and there were very detailed records of the troops dispatched by Jianyu, the course of the battle, and the casualties on both sides.

In order to make Wanli understand the situation more clearly, he even attached a map of the Kuandian area, as well as the deployment of Ming troops in Liaodong.

This made Wanli know for the first time the situation in Liaodong, which cost him countless silver.

A few days later, Mao Yuanyi made a sand table in the eastern Liaodong region according to Li Xianzhong's instructions and sent someone to the Qianqing Palace.

Wanli was originally very concerned about military affairs, and when he really saw the terrain near Hetuala, he realized how difficult it was to break through it.

And Li Xianzhong's mining in Hongtou Mountain is undoubtedly slashing meat on Jianzhou, which is far less easy than he said.

has been an emperor for 47 years, in fact, the Liaodong he can see is only the Liaodong on the fold.

At this moment, he even had the urge to hand over Liaodong to Li Xianzhong, but reason still told him that he couldn't do it for the time being.

Therefore, when Fang Congzhe sent the Liaodong battle report, Wanli already knew the situation in Liaodong well.

The cabinet's war report did not deceive itself, but it was vague about the course of the battle and the strength of the opponent.

Yuan Yingtai, the economic strategy of Liaodong, must be mainly responsible for this defeat, and Wanli immediately issued an order to dismiss him from his post and escort the Jingshi to be questioned.

As for the candidates for Liaodong's economic strategy, the cabinet did not recommend to fill the vacancies for the time being, but only said that Yan Mingtai, governor of Liaodong, could temporarily take charge of Liaodong's military and political affairs.

General Xiong Tingbi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, personally went to Liaodong to preside over the defense.

For this, Wanli can be regarded as agreeing with Fang Congzhe.

It's just that the pacification of the Southwest Propaganda Division became a headache for Wanli.

After Fang Congzhe's reminder, Wanli also realized that if he didn't appease the southwest well, it was likely that there would be chaos, a Liaodong had already given him a headache, and he really wanted to pick on the southwest if it was chaotic again.

But now that the cabinet has no silver, Fang Congzhe did not dare to ask for silver directly from himself, but asked to borrow 300,000 taels from his own internal funds to the household department, and after this year's "Liao salary" is collected, the household department will allocate 300,000 taels of silver to the internal treasury.

In the final analysis, this is also a disaster caused by the defeat of Liaodong, and it is understandable to use "Liaoyu" to fill this hole.

However, asking Wanli to advance silver would cost him his life, so he remembered Li Xianzhong.

Although he had just gotten a copper mine from Li Xianzhong, now apart from this Ning Yuanbo, he really couldn't think of anyone else who could make money for him.

Soon, Xiong Tingbi selected 3,000 Beijing camps from the Beijing division to go north to Liaodong, preparing to take Yuan Yingtai back to Beijing to punish the crime.

But before they arrived in Liaoyang, the news came that Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong Jinglu, had hanged himself in the house.

Obviously, this was the Donglin Party who sent Yuan Yingtai news in advance, causing him to commit suicide in fear of crime.

However, Yuan Yingtai's life and death are not so important, anyway, the Donglin Party's power in Liaodong has been cleared.

Xiong Tingbi quickly arrived at the Raven Pass.

At present, there are more than 16,000 Ming troops in Yahu Pass, and there are nearly 20,000 people with 3,000 people brought by Xiong Tingbi.

Among the Ming army, there are about 6,000 remnants of the Xuanwei Division in the southwest, and these soldiers are now demoralized, and they must be useless.

Thinking about it, only the 5,500 cavalry under Li Xianzhong could be used to attack.

However, for the relief of the siege of Kuandian, Li Xianzhong said that he could not do anything.

According to intelligence, the Tartars besieged Kuandian this time, and a total of more than 62,000 people were dispatched.

There are at least 50,000 more.

Even if he led the troops out of the customs, he couldn't carry the Tartars to relieve the siege for the white pole soldiers.

As for attacking Hetuala, it is also unrealistic to "encircle Wei and save Zhao".

Because of the blockage of the Bounded Domain City now, he can't return directly from Hetuara to Fushun Pass. Once Li Xianzhong goes deep into Hetuala, Nurhachi only needs to return to the army to "close the door and beat the dog" against him.

In the end, Li Xianzhong's suggestion was to temporarily abandon Kuandian Fort, and then wait and see what happened, and then solve the siege of Kuandian when there were variables.

Although Xiong Tingbi could not accept the abandonment of Kuandian Fort from the bottom of his heart, even if he forced Li Xianzhong out of the current situation, he would not be able to relieve the siege of Kuandian.

At the moment, the white pole soldiers can only ask for more blessings for themselves!

Of course, Li Xianzhong is not untargeted, after all, this plan of "leading the water to the south" was planned by him.

In fact, the relationship between the Koreans and the Jurchens was not good, and after the Jin State was driven out of Liaodong by the Mongols, the Eastern Xia Kingdom established by the Jurchen nobleman Puxian Wannu conquered Goryeo for a long time.

Goryeo was conquered almost every year.

After the Eastern Xia Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongols, the Goryeo Kingdom also sent troops to attack the scattered Jurchen tribes, and once occupied some areas on the south bank of the Yalu River.

Of course, due to the problem of combat strength, although Goryeo is a complete country, it is still impossible to deal with those Jurchen tribes, and only 2 years later, the Goryeo people were beaten back by the Jurchens.

The two sides fight almost every year.

The Koreans, with their superior military strength, barely let the Jurchens enter Pyongyang.

However, most of the eight provinces of Korea, Pyongan Province, which is located in the north, and most of Hamgyeong, have not been Korean territory in history, but belong to the Jurchen homeland.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the Joseon and Central Plains regimes had always been bounded by the Datong River, and they simply did not have the ability to advance to the Yalu River.

After overthrowing Goryeo in 1392, the Joseon founded by Yi Sung-gye directly submitted to the Ming Dynasty, and even the name Joseon was given by Emperor Taejo himself, and it was included in the list of "countries not to be conquered".

Then North Korea took the opportunity to invade the Ming land on the south bank of the Yalu River.

At that time, the main energy of the Ming Dynasty was to deal with the Mongol strength, and there was no time to care about Korea.

Therefore, Emperor Taizu ordered the relocation of 30,000 Wei and Tieling Wei to Liaodong, which was equivalent to giving up the land around the Yalu River and Tumen River.

However, the Ming Dynasty's abandonment does not mean that North Korea has the ability to eat it.

The land was still home to a large number of Jurchen tribes, and the Jurchen tribes (one of the ancestors of the Jianzhou Jurchens) organized the Jurchen tribes in the Tumen River to successfully resist the northern invasion of the Li dynasty.

However, after the migration of the Duoli tribe to the Suzi River Valley, the "Ten Virgin Jurchens" in the Tumen River area were leaderless and were gradually annexed by the Li Dynasty.

In the end, the DPRK sent an envoy to distort the boundary between Liaojin and Korea, falsely claiming that the land occupied by the "Ten Virgins" in the Tumen River was the homeland of Goryeo.

"Yongle Emperor" Zhu Di did not investigate carefully, so he assigned the land of the "Ten Jurchens" to North Korea.

In this way, under the confused handling of the two generations of emperors Hongwu and Yongle, North Korea pushed its border from the Datong River to the line of today's Yalu River and Tumen River, and greatly expanded its territory.

And it was precisely this internal migration of the Jurchen tribes that caused today's Jianzhou Jurchen disaster in Liaodong.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Jurchens had a feud with North Korea.

Moreover, a considerable number of North Koreans in the north of Korea are actually descendants of the "Ten Virgins".

Since this was more than 200 years ago, and the main contradiction between the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty was the same as the Ming Dynasty, they had almost forgotten this period of history.

But now that the Jurchens are scarce, it just so happened that Fan Wenyu proposed to invade North Korea, and this matter was remembered by Huang Taiji.

He hastened to tell Nurhachi about it.

It turned out that there was still this grievance between Jianju and North Korea, and a large area of territory in the north of Korea today is the homeland of the Jurchens, and the descendants of many Maidens and Jinren have directly become Koreans.

Since ancient times, the expedition has been famous for its emphasis on sending troops, and it is really appropriate for Jianzhou to use this excuse to send troops.

Take back the land that once belonged to you, save your former compatriots, and take advantage of everything you go.

Of course, the conquest of Korea is also a major event, and to say that Korea is a small country is only a relatively large one.

Although the land is barren and mountainous and lacks plains, North Korea is no smaller than Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and its population has reached tens of millions, almost the same as Japan.

For Jianzhou, it is still a small and broad, so it is natural to be fully prepared.

After taking most of the forts in the six forts of Kuandian, Jianzhou had already extended his influence to the Yalu River.

Dai Shan and others used Su Dian Fort, near the Yalu River, as their base for their expedition to Korea.

In the early morning of September 15, the 47th year of Wanli, 500 Han soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Ming army smuggled to the south bank of the Yalu River at night.

After being discovered by the Koreans in charge of patrolling, they falsely claimed that they were the defenders of Sudianbao in Kuandian, on the other side, and were attacked by Jianzhou, demanding to return to Jiuliancheng in Daming through Korea.

The Ming Dynasty is the upper country of the Celestial Empire, and although it is the territory of North Korea, they dare not be disrespectful to the soldiers of the Celestial Empire.

Soon the men were taken to Uiju County, which is located on the border.

Korea was divided into eight provinces and 23 provinces, and Uiju County was the capital of Uiju Province, and the county warden Yoon Dochang warmly entertained these "Ming troops".

Originally, they were still thinking about how to infiltrate the city of Yiju, but the Koreans actually invited these Ming soldiers directly into the city, which was really sleepy and sent pillows.

Uiju is the gateway to northern Korea.

The scale of the city is not small, the circumference reaches 9 kilometers, even in Daming this is a big city.

However, the height of the castle is not high, only 4 meters.

This kind of city height is at most the height of the Daming Guard, and even the wall of Kuandian Fort is twice as high.

There were about 1,000 soldiers and horses in the city.

After nightfall, these Han troops killed directly at the West Gate, and it didn't take long to level more than 100 defenders in the West City.

Then the Eight Banners, who were lying in ambush outside the city, took the opportunity to enter the city, and in just half an hour, they took control of the entire city of Yiju.

Except for a few defenders in the city, most of them surrendered and became prisoners.

In this way, Dai Shan crossed the Yalu River almost bloodlessly.

Although the DPRK is weak in force, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he originally thought that Mang Gurtai said that 5,000 men and horses would level North Korea.

Unexpectedly, he said a big truth.

Two days later, Dingju, Yongbyon, Anju, and Guju near Pyongan Road were all lost.

didn't even need the Eight Banners to shoot, the Han army was almost invincible.

The defenders of Dingzhou City resisted, and Dai Shan directly carried out a massacre of the city after breaking the city. As soon as this news came out, the other cities after that basically fell to the wind.

Soon after, the Eight Banners appeared under the city of Pyongyang.

The defender of Pyongyang City was none other than their old acquaintance, the previously captured Korean Marshal Kang Hong-ri.

After the Joseon king Li Hui exchanged this "king's man" with a large amount of grain, Jiang Hongli has been attacked and questioned by the pro-Ming faction in China.

The Ming Dynasty even sent an envoy to reprimand Jiang Hongli's behavior of "surrendering without a fight", and Li Hui did not dare to keep him in Wangjing under pressure, so he had to let him go to Xijing and Pyongyang first to avoid the limelight.

Dai Shan saw that the defender of North Korea was Jiang Hongli, a big straw bag, so he did not directly attack the city.

After all, Pyongyang is the West Gyong of North Korea, with a tall city and 8,000 defenders.

So Dai Shan chose to fool, and he sent someone to send a letter to Jiang Hongli.

He claimed that he had only entered North Korea to raise military rations.

As long as Jiang Hongli raised 200,000 stone military rations for him and 200,000 taels of silver, he would withdraw his troops.

As a result, Jiang Hongli actually believed it and sent a large number of soldiers to search for gold, silver and grain everywhere in the city.

In the end, Dai Shan took advantage of the fact that he opened the north gate to transport grain, gold and silver, and took the opportunity to send troops to attack the west gate from the other side.

At this time, Jiang Hongli's main forces were concentrated at the north gate to defend Daishan, but the west gate was broken by Mang Gurtai in one fell swoop.

In this way, North Korea's Seogyeong-Pyongyang was quickly captured by Jianju, and in just a few days, the entire territory of Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province in the north of Korea fell.

At this time, the grain outside the city was just ripe, and 500,000 stone were seized for grain alone, in addition to 400,000 taels of gold and silver and 300,000 animals were sent across the Yalu River by the Eight Banners.

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