Chapter Eighty-Eight: Fan Wen's Clever Tongue, Li Xianzhong Drives the Tiger and Devours the Wolf (Seeking to Chase the Monthly Pass)
Since surrendering to the Ming army, Azig has actually been living a life of fear.
Although Li Xianzhong accepted their surrender, he was not sure at all about the attitude of the Ming Emperor.
Fortunately, news came from Jingshi, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty finally accepted his surrender.
Removing the Khan is not a matter at all, and he is the Great Khan who is self-appointed.
Originally, Azig thought that the 9,000 men and horses under his command would be incorporated into the "Imperial Cooperative Army" to fight for Li Xianzhong.
Unexpectedly, Li Xianzhong still gave himself a piece of land.
Soon after, he was officially canonized as the commander of the left guard capital of Jianzhou.
Don't underestimate this commander, although the territory of Azig is not big now, and there are not many troops, but at least it shows that the Ming Dynasty has accepted the continued existence of the Jianzhou Jurchens, and they don't have to be exterminated.
But things are not so good for Azig right now.
The appearance of the mother concubine Abahai made the remaining 9,000 soldiers with the blue flag follow her to surrender.
However, many people's family members are in Daiseon in North Korea, and it is inevitable that people's minds will change over time.
If it weren't for the fact that the sailors of the Ming army had blocked the Yalu River and the Tumen River and built beacon towers along the river, I am afraid that many people would have secretly fled to North Korea.
What Azig wants to do most now is to go to North Korea on the other side of the river and grab Daishan's territory.
Azig said: "Ben Beile just didn't understand what Li Xianzhong meant, he made me the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, and included the two Korean provinces into the Jianzhou Left Guard. Doesn't this clearly imply that I sent troops to recover the left guard of Jianzhou, but I asked to cross the river to seek Daishan, but he did not allow it? β
Fan Wenhuan said: "It seems that Daming still has some scruples about us, afraid that once we cross the river, we will directly join forces with the generation." β
"It is very easy to eliminate Daishan in Korea with the strength of the Ming army, but Li Xianzhong has never done so, it is obvious that he has the meaning of 'raising a kou'."
When Azig thought about it, it was indeed the case.
Because the Ming army was not only stationed in Liaodong, but also many Ming troops stationed in Korea, if Li Xianzhong had the intention to eat Daishan, I am afraid that Pyongyang would have been captured long ago.
He said: "Now that we are arranged in this bitter cold place where birds don't, in the long run, it will definitely be disheartened, I don't know if Mr. Fan has a way to make the Ming army attack Dai Shan?" β
Fan Wenhuan is naturally clear about Azig's careful thoughts, and now he can't stay in this place at all, so he naturally wants to replace Dai Shan.
However, the men and horses and territory in Dai Shan's hands are several times that of Azig, and it is impossible to bring down Dai Shan without the help of the Ming army.
He said: "If the current situation remains unchanged, I don't think the Ming army has any intention of sending troops to Korea. For the sake of today, if you want the Ming army to send troops, unless there is a huge situation in Korea. β
"Only the sudden change in the political situation in North Korea can make it possible for the Ming army to change its original strategy and realize the ambition of Bei Le Ye to unify the left guard of the state!"
"Fan is not talented, he is willing to cross the river to see Dai Shan, and provoke him to send troops south to attack North Korea, so that we can fish in troubled waters!"
Azig was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "No wonder the Great Khan often said that Mr. Fan is the reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming, and now it all depends on Mr. Fan!" β
After Fan Wenyu met with the eldest concubine Abahai, he proposed to the Ming army to go to Korea to persuade him to surrender to Daishan.
Soon Li Xianzhong approved Fan Wenhuan to go to North Korea and sent ships to send him across the Yalu River.
Ever since the Ming army attacked Kuandian, the blockade of the Yalu River has become the norm.
In addition to regular patrols by patrol boats, the Ming army destroyed all the docks on the North Korean side.
Not to mention warships, even fishing boats should not think of crossing the river, unless someone with excellent water ability swims directly across the Yalu River.
If it was still possible in summer, now that it is freezing cold, jumping into the river is basically looking for death.
Soon Fan Wenyu came to Yizhou City under the cover of the Ming warships.
The defenders of Uiju originally thought that the Ming army was going to cross the river, but when they saw that it was Fan Wenyu, they were amnestied and hurriedly sent him all the way to Pyongyang.
Since Huang Taiji died in Hetuala, Dai Shan had a premonition that Li Xianzhong was going to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens.
It's a pity that Azig didn't listen to his good words and insisted on standing on his own in Kuandian Liubao, and was directly cut off by the Ming army.
However, the current situation in North Korea is not optimistic.
Although a large number of Jianzhou people have moved to North Korea, most of them are old, weak, women and children.
In fact, at present, the soldiers and horses under Dai Shan's command are only the original two red flags plus one yellow flag.
The five flags of yellow, white, blue, blue and white were either wiped out by the Ming army or defected to the Ming army, and the eight banners were basically extinct.
So Dai Shan restructured the Eight Banners at the suggestion of He Heli.
All the flags of the original eight flags were classified under the two red flags and the yellow flags, and these three flags were called the upper three flags.
Dai Shan personally led the Zhenghong Banner with 10,000 soldiers, the eldest son Yuetuo's inlaid red flag was 9,000, and the second son Shuotuo's inlaid yellow flag was also expanded to 8,000 people.
In addition, a 10,000-strong Korean Eight Banners was established to be used as its own servant army.
At present, the population of Pyongan and Hamgyong provinces in North Korea is about one million, the population of Baqi (including the descendants of the Jurchens of North Korea, as well as the Han army and their families) is about 400,000, and the number of Koreans is 600,000.
Soon Fan Wenyu came to Dai Shan's palace.
It was originally the Marshal's Mansion in Pyongyang, but it was converted into his own dormitory by Daiseon.
Dai Shan's impression of Fan Wenhuan was not good, because he wore a pair of pants with Huang Taiji before, and he embarrassed himself in front of Nurhachi.
Therefore, Dai Shan did not meet Fan Wenhuan very formally.
It's just that accompanied by his own think tank He Heli, as well as his eldest son Yue Tuo, as well as Ao Bai and Ji Bilong, he summoned Fan Wenyu.
When Fan Wenyu saw Dai Shanhou, he directly bowed down and said, "The slave Fan Wenyu came to meet the Great Khan with the second Bel Azig!" β
Dai Shan didn't have a good face to Fan Wenyu, he said: "Ben Khan doesn't dare to call himself the Great Khan in front of you, hasn't Azig already abolished Ben Khan and established himself as the Great Khan?" β
"But his Great Khan seems to have been masturbated by the Ming Court again, and now he has been reappointed as the commander of the left guard of Jianzhou!"
After Dai Shan finished speaking, several people present burst into laughter!
Dai Shan's attitude was already expected by Fan Wenyu, and he said: "Erbeile was forced to surrender to the Ming is also a helpless move, and these things are not from his original intention. β
"The slave has a letter written by the concubine Abahai to the Great Khan, and the Great Khan should understand it after reading it!"
After speaking, Fan Wenyu took out Abahai's handwritten letter!
In the letter, Abahai told about the conspiracy of Huang Taiji to take the opportunity to blame Dai Shan after the three of them were taken captive, and told about the tragic experience of being taken away by the Ming army spies, Dolgon and Duoduo were brutally poisoned by the Ming army, and he was forced to commit himself to serving Li Xianzhong!
Dai Shan had an affair with Abahai, and he still had a lot of feelings for his mother, and when he thought of Abahai being forced to serve Li Xianzhong, he was immediately furious.
scolded: "Li Xianzhong's child is really shameless, not only dug up the ashes of his father Khan, but also forced the concubine to commit to him, and Ben Khan Ding is incompatible with him!" β
Then he asked, "How is the concubine now?" β
Seeing Dai Shan's angry look, Fan Wenhuan knew that he still missed Abahai.
Fan Wenyu said aggrievedly: "The Ming army arranged us in the bitter cold land on the eastern side of Changbai Mountain, and the army lacked food and clothing. The Ming army also continued to make things difficult for us, and we had no food so we had no choice but to ask Li Xianzhong for help. β
"Li Xianzhong asked the concubine to go to his account in person every time to discuss the matter of borrowing grain, and after a long time, the concubine could only borrow a few days' rations."
At this time, Dai Shan was already completely angry, he clenched his fists tightly, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and scolded loudly: "Li Xianzhong is really a brute!" β
"Since you are living so miserably over there, why don't you come to North Korea to join Ben Khan?"
Fan Wenyu said: "Erbeile was forced to surrender to the Ming army in order to find an opportunity to come to Korea to join the Great Khan. However, the Ming army was very strict against us, and Erbeile repeatedly asked for battle, but Li Xianzhong refused. β
"The minions also had the opportunity to come here in the name of coming to Korea to persuade the Great Khan to surrender."
At this time, He Heli said: "Li Xianzhong's promise to Erbeiler's surrender is probably also for the purpose of raising self-respect, if he really wants to destroy us, he will do it a long time ago!" β
Fan Wenyu said: "Li Xianzhong has now been named the Duke of Liao by the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and in order to invite merit and reward, he has re-established the Nuer Gandu Division. Even Ye He's department has been turned into Ye He's left and right guards under the Nuer Gandu Division. β
"Now that the two provinces of North Korea have also been included in the Jianzhou Left Guard, Li Xianzhong is probably taking a fancy to the two provinces of North Korea and does not want to return them to North Korea!"
At this time, Yue Tuo also said: "If the Ming army wanted to drive us out of Korea, I am afraid that it would have done it a long time ago, and I think it is not only trying to annex the two provinces of Pingan and Hamgyong in North Korea, and even the Huanghae Road has now become the territory of the Ming army." β
Fan Wenyu said: "What Sanbeile said is extremely true, according to the speculation of the slaves, Li Xianzhong probably wants to use our hands to occupy North Korea for a long time!" β
Everyone didn't expect Li Xianzhong's ambition to be so big.
Dai Shan said: "But the last time Ben Khan attacked Gangwon Province in Korea, the Ming army intervened to stop us!" β
Fan Wenyu said: "If the Ming army really stopped it, it would have occupied Ping'an Road a long time ago." The minions also analyzed the last battle, when the Great Khan attacked Gangwon Province, the Ming army only symbolically sent troops to Pyongyang. Their actual troops came after the Great Khan attacked Wangjing. β
"It is clear that the Ming army can acquiesce to our occupation of Korean territory, but it will not allow us to destroy the Korean Yi Dynasty."
At this time, Shi Shan and the others did not speak, and it was obvious that they were thinking about Fan Wenyu's words.
Pham Van pointed to the map of North Korea and said: "Actually, the two provinces of Pyongan and Hamgyong are now very barren, and they are not as rich as those in the south. β
"The Great Khan sent troops to the south, and Li Xianzhong will definitely recruit Erbeile to attack North Korea at that time, and then we will have a chance to do it anyway."
"This is also the purpose of the minion's mission to North Korea this time."
Yue Tuo said: "Father Khan, I think what Mr. Fan said is very reasonable, if we don't attack the Gyeonggi Daoming army last time, we will definitely not stop us at all." β
"The Ming army has always sent troops to pretend to be under Pyongyang City, and they have never really attacked the city, and they have never entered Hamgyong Province."
"Even if the Ming army intervened, we would at most go out and grab supplies, and there would be no big loss."
He Heli also said: "What Sanbeiler said is reasonable! β
Ao Bai said: "As far as the combat strength of the North Korean army is concerned, I'm afraid the Ming army hasn't reacted yet, and we have already killed Busan!" β
"In the long run, it is necessary for the Great Khan to occupy Busan. It is not far from Japan, and even if the Ming army wants to drive us out of Korea one day, we will still have a way out! β
Dai Shan pondered for a while, he felt that what Fan Wenhuan said was very reasonable, and sooner or later Li Xianzhong would attack them. At present, Pyongyang is actually in a very bad position, and it is under the attack of the Ming army on both sides.
Li Xianzhong really wants to beat himself, I'm afraid he won't even be able to run!
He said, "Let's go back and get ready." The red flag stayed in Ping'an and Hamgyong, and the red flag was inlaid with the yellow flag and the eight flags of North Korea were prepared for the southern expedition five days later. β
Then Dai Shan said to Fan Wenyu again: "Mr. Fan is resourceful, since he finally got out of the tiger's mouth, why don't you just stay by Ben Khan's side?" β
Fan Wenyu said: "Fan is grateful for the kindness of the Great Khan, but now that Erbeile and the concubine are still under the surveillance of the Ming army, Fan is really not at ease. If Fan Mou doesn't return, I'm afraid that Li Xianzhong's wife will embarrass their mother and son again. β
"Fan is waiting for the good news of the Great Khan, if everything goes well, I'm afraid it won't be long before we can meet in North Korea!"
At this time, everyone present was full of respect for Fan Wenyu!
Daishan even personally sent him out of Pyongyang City.
At this time, the Ming army stationed in the Ming Dynasty had a total of 8,000 people, including 5,000 land divisions and 3,000 naval divisions.
Of the 5,000 army divisions, 4,500 were stationed in Hwanghae-do and 500 in Hanyang, the royal city of Korea.
This amount of troops is really difficult to cope with the changes in the whole of Korea.
However, it was not suitable for a large-scale increase in troops to Korea at this time, so Li Xianzhong asked Mao Wenlong to lead the replenished 3,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to secretly land near Incheon Port.
On February 10, the third year of the Apocalypse, the main force with red and yellow flags marched south from Deokwon, Hamgyong Province, and attacked Gangwon Province.
Only two days later, Ao Bai conquered Huaiyang, an important town garrisoned by 2,000 Korean troops.
When the news came, the whole country of North Korea was shocked.
The last time the Tartars invaded Gangwon Province, Kim Zi, the Korean leader of the Korean Governor, transferred the main forces of the royal city to Gangwon Province in order to resist the Tartars, but as a result, he did not have many troops in Hanyang City, but he was ousted by Kim Young, a member of the Western Party, who took the opportunity to launch a coup d'Γ©tat.
He won't be fooled again if he says anything this time.
Instead of sending a large army to support Gangwon Province, Kim Jae-dian ordered the troops of King Qin from other provinces to assemble in the royal city of Hanyang.
The Joseon king Ri quickly questioned Kim's strategy, and he said: "If the leader does not support Gangwon Province, what if the Tatars do not come to Wangjing?" β
Jin Zidian said: "Most of the Tartars are cavalry who come and go like the wind, if they swing a shot and turn to attack Gyeonggi Province, then we will definitely cause Wang Jing to be in an emergency like last time." β
"King, the lesser of two evils!"
In this regard, the king of North Korea, Li Liang, was also very helpless, the North Korean army was not the opponent of the Tartars at all, and now North Korea could only rely on the Ming army stationed in Korea.
The once selfless suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty long ceased to exist, and although North Korea spent a lot of money and food every year to feed the Ming army, it could only keep Korea from being further invaded by the Tatars.
He also wanted the Ming army to recover Pyongyang for North Korea, but he couldn't afford the price offered by the Ming army.
Li Liang was not stupid, he understood that the Ming army deliberately did not drive away the Tartars, so that they could continue to suck blood from North Korea.
But he couldn't do anything about it.
North Korea has a current food problem, and it is difficult to provide for itself at all, so he watched the Ming army take the Koreans away as laborers.
North Koreans also know that the so-called laborers are just slaves, but after all, it is also a way to live, and it is better than starving to death.
How many hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have starved to death in the past two years?
But he, the king of Joseon, was helpless about it.
Soon Kong Youde assured that the Ming army stationed in Korea would launch an attack on Pyongyang and would definitely ensure the safety of the royal city.
At this time, the Red Banner led by Yue Tuo was after occupying Icheon, and then conquering Cheorwon, on the border between Gangwon Province and Gyeonggi Province.
With the loss of Cheorwon, the people in Hanyang, the king of Joseon, were even more panicked.
However, fortunately, the leader of the government ordered all provinces of Korea to rush to the aid of Wang Jing a few days ago, and the DPRK is not big, and now there are some Qin Wang's divisions, which have arrived near Hanyang one after another.
Nowadays, there are still a lot of soldiers and horses in the royal city.
And they succeeded in eliminating some of the Tartar sentinels and preventing the Tartars from entering Gyeonggi Province.
However, the good times did not last long, and after capturing Huaiyang, the yellow banner led by Ao Bai attacked southward non-stop, and soon captured Xiangyang, an important town in Gangwon Province.
A day later, it occupied Gangneung south of Xiangyang.
At this time, even Jin Zidian couldn't sit still, not because he made a mistake in judgment and gathered heavy troops near the royal city to cause the Tartars to drive straight in.
Rather, the Tartars' goal this time is clearly to go south.
Once the Tatars break through Gangwon-do, they will enter Gyeongsang-do.
And Andong, the old nest of the "Andong Kim family", is located in the northern part of Gyeongsang-do.
In the past two years since Jin Zidian served as the leader of the council, he has not been greedy for silver.
All the money and food accumulated by the Anton Kim family over the past generations are in Anton.
To be honest, even if Wang Jing loses his Anton, he can't lose it!
He knew that even if he sent troops to Anton now, it would probably be useless.
Even if they were in time, they wouldn't be able to beat the Tartars.
The desperate Kim Zidian can only be found, Kong Youde in Hanyang.
He almost cried and said: "Kong Zhenfu, you must help me, I am willing to use Anton Sancheng's money and food as a reward!" β
Kong Youde was born as a profiteer, and of course he knew that this was the time for him to extort money and make a fortune.
So Kong Youde made a gesture of embarrassment and said: "Now the fastest thing that the Ming army can reach Anton is Wang Jing's 500 men, but if this team moves, Wang Jing will be empty!" β
"And I heard that there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the south of the Tartars this time, even if I send 500 people, I may not be able to stop the Tartars?"
Jin Zidian was also anxious at this time, and he said: "The gold and silver that Anton has hidden are worth 1 million taels, and the grain is enough for 400,000 stones. Only Kong Zhen raised the soldiers, and Jin was willing to use half of them as a reward! β
Jin Zidian's words really frightened Kong Youde, he didn't expect that in such a poor place as North Korea, Jin Zidian's family could save so much money and food.
Fifty percent is not a lot, so he said: "If you say it, I will send troops to save Anton!" β
The 500 people in Hanyang are naturally not enough, according to the intelligence, this time the Tartars went south with the red flag and the yellow flag of the 17,000 main force.
But fortunately, at this time, Mao Wenlong had already led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to Incheon.
After Mao Wenlong led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to gallop wildly for a day, he finally came to Chungju, an important town in the north of Chungcheong Province in North Korea.
The good news is that the Tatars are besieging Wonju in the north of Chungju, and there is no news yet that the Tatars have entered Gyeongsang-do.
However, in order to prevent accidents, Mao Wenlong still decided to march overnight to reach Anton.
After all, you can get a reward of 500,000 taels of silver and 200,000 stone of grain for this attack, and these things must not fall into the hands of the Tartars.
They hurried and finally arrived at Anton.
However, it was already dark by this time, and Anton's defenders did not dare to open the door.
Mao Wenlong shouted: "We have a handwritten letter from the DPRK leader to order the political money, and you can put a basket down." β
After grinding for a long time, the North Koreans finally opened the city gate.
As a result, Mao Wenlong found that the place where Anton Jin's money and grain was hidden was not in the city, but in a fortress 5 miles away from Anton City.
And the size of that fortress was not large, it was located in the mountains and could only accommodate 500 defenders.
In the end, Mao Wenlong could only be forced to divide his troops.
The next day, the vanguard of the Tartars surrounded the city of Andong, which was only a small city with a circumference of 4 miles, and the height of the city was just over 3 meters.
Mao Wenlong naturally has no interest in defense.
Since the Tartars went south, they have hardly encountered any decent resistance in Korea, and the Korean forces are not many in the first place, and they almost always attack the city with a drum, and some even surrender in despair.
Even the larger cities of Xiangyang and Wonju will resist for about a day at most.
Naturally, they didn't pay attention to the small city of Anton.
Soon the Korean Eight Banners who accompanied him shouted: "You hurry up and surrender, directly open the city to surrender this to avoid death, if you dare to resist, after the city is broken, the city will be slaughtered, and there will be no one left alive at that time." β
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw the gates of Anton opened.
Niu Lu, who was the leader, laughed and said: "These Koreans are really scared, and sure enough, Kaesong surrendered!" β
Just as they were about to enter the city and plunder, they saw a large number of cavalry rushing out of the city.
Niu Lu was really surprised, there were heavy cavalry in the small city of Anton?
But the heavy cavalry of North Korea really didn't pay attention to it.
Soon they were on their way to engage the Korean cavalry.
Originally, they responded to the battle in a hurry, and they had already suffered a big loss in the impact of the war horse, plus the light enemy, where was the opponent of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
It was just a converging sprint, and a large number of Tartars with yellow flags were knocked to the ground by the spears of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
By the time they tried to turn their horses' heads and run away, it was too late, and in less than a stick of incense, a thousand Tartars were all wiped out!
When Ao Bai heard that the 1,000 pioneers with yellow flags were wiped out by the North Korean army, he was puzzled.
They fought all the way, and the most fierce siege battle only lost more than 100 people, and the North Korean army was able to wipe out 1,000 people with yellow flags at once, how could this be possible?
At this time, the North Koreans in the army said: "Andong is the hometown of the Korean leader of the government, and it is possible that he concentrated the main force of the DPRK here." β
So Ao Bai ordered the main force with the yellow flag to march towards Anton.
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