Fang Ying was still a little puzzled, and she couldn't imagine how low the combat power of the Liaodong Army could be.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan continued to explain: "Back then, he also attacked on a large scale first, and he led more than 10,000 people to attack Liaodong.

As a result, Wang Ao, who was the commander of Liaodong military affairs, led an army of 30,000 to retreat in the city of Guangning, and sat back and watched tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians being taken away without spending money and leaving without being moved, and they did not dare to fight.

In the end, it was the saint who came forward and asked these soldiers and civilians to come back from Totobuhua.

Since then, when it comes to the Liaodong Army, the saint has mocked them a lot.

Yang Hong of Shanxi was called the Xuanfu Festival Envoy by the Holy Lord, but fortunately, Wang Ao was a Wenchen, otherwise he would have been named the Liaodong Festival Envoy by the Holy Lord. ”

Fang Ying, who was drinking tea, almost choked when she heard this.

Fang Ying had been fighting in the south for a long time and knew very little about the center of the imperial court. At first glance, when I heard the titles of Xuanfu Jiedu Envoy and Liaodong Jiedu Envoy, I couldn't help but feel novel and funny.

As a newly promoted noble, Fang Ying has never thought about doing this aspect of the festival.

After relieving himself, Fang Ying asked again: "How is the situation in North Korea?" ”

Jiang Yuan shook his head: "I have already sent an envoy to negotiate with the Lord of Shouyang, but it is useless, he has already launched a coup d'état, and it is impossible to turn back when he has come to this point."

The Korean Pyongan Province, which we are facing on the right guard of Dingliao, has already assembled an army of 30,000. The Lord of Shouyang also recruited another 30,000 elites to prepare to attack the defender Li Chengyu of Hamgyong Province.

Hamgyong Province is close to the Jurchen Ministry, and Li Chengyu has already received the support of the Jurchen Ministry, proclaiming himself the Dajin Emperor, actively preparing for war, and preparing to compete with the Shouyang Maharaja.

My plan was to first defeat the 30,000 Korean troops in Pyongan Province, and then flank the 30,000 elites newly recruited by the Lord of Shouyang with Li Chengyu.

After defeating these 60,000 Korean troops, we garrisoned Anju, and let Li Chengyu and Shouyang Dajun, as well as Geumseong Dajun and others who were loyal to the Korean king, slowly fight the civil war.

When they are almost consumed, it will be time for Japan to enter the game. ”

"In other words, I need to immediately lead my army to attack through Pyongan Road and attack Hamgyong Province?

But I have brought only 10,000 cavalry, and 20,000 troops and baggage are left behind.

Without a battalion of heavy infantry and firearms, how can I fight 30,000 men with 10,000 cavalry. ”

Jiang Yuan asked, "How long will it take for the army behind to arrive?" ”

"At least half a month, it will take you to reach the right guard of Dingliao. To enter the hinterland of Ping'an Road, it will take at least half a month.

I don't know how long it will take to break through Pyongan Road and enter Hamgyong Road.

What is the level of combat power of the North Korean army, I need to fight to know. ”

Jiang Yuan shook his head: "That's not good, once the Shouyang Grand Monarch designs to solve Li Chengyu, and then uses all the 60,000 troops to defend the border, we won't be able to enter it."

When the time comes, if it is a hard fight, it becomes a siege and a siege, destroying the established strategy, and the Holy Lord will not let us go. ”

Fang Ying asked, "Then what do you want to do?" ”

Jiang Yuan replied with a resolute face: "Attack immediately, although the 30,000 troops in Liaodong have poor combat strength, they have all the armor and firearms, and with your 10,000 elite cavalry to suppress the formation, it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Fang Ying couldn't come up with a more creative strategy, so she agreed to try it. When the fight starts, even if the situation is really not good, North Korea should not dare to fight the Ming army to the death.

So the army repaired for three days, and then poured out of the nest and drove into the territory of Korea.

At first, it went very well, with the army encircling Anju along the narrow plains by the sea and threatening Pyongyang to the south.

The place name of North Korea is characterized by the fact that Hamgyong Province is due to the presence of Hamhung and Gyongseong in its jurisdiction, and Pyongan Province is due to the presence of Pyongyang and Anju in its jurisdiction.

The Maharaja of Shouyang staged a sudden coup d'état, executed the auxiliary minister, and put the king of Joseon under house arrest. Therefore, the defenders of Anju and Pyongyang only cared about retreating into the city, and had no intention of going out of the city to fight.

Because everyone simply doesn't understand who they are fighting for, for the king of Korea? But the king has been placed under house arrest and has become a puppet completely; Fighting for the Lord of Shouyang? is also known as unjust, why should you work for traitors.

So the situation became very embarrassing: the Liaodong Army outside the city was unwilling to work for the great emperor, so it could not capture Anju and Pyongyang for a while.

The Korean defenders in the city were unwilling to die for the lord of Shouyang, so as long as the city was not captured, nothing else mattered.

Anzhou and Xianxing are continuous mountains, and the Ming army did not dare to bypass Anzhou to support Xianxing.

Half a month later, on the fourth day of the fourth month of April, the Lord of Shouyang in Seoul had received the news that Anju and Pyongyang were besieged by the Ming army, and urgently summoned his cronies to discuss countermeasures.

Since the king of Joseon, Li Hongwei, has become an outright puppet, the prince of Shouyang manipulated Li Hongwei to give an order and added a long title to himself:

Led government affairs, and judged officials, soldiers and two Cao, and both internal and external soldiers and horses, Shouyang Maharaja Li Yao.

At the same time, he also named himself and 43 people, including Zheng Lintoe, Quan Wei, Han Minghun and Yang Ting, as heroes of the Jingjing.

Now Zheng Lintoe, Quan Wei and other heroes of the Jingjing disaster gathered in the Shouyang Dajun's Mansion, all with solemn faces, no one expected that the Ming Dynasty would quickly send troops to intervene, and it looked like they were going to play for real.

Quan Yan was the first to complain: "Last year, I advised the Maharaja not to go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. You have to go.

After returning, he also said that the Great Tomorrow had acquiesced in the coup.

But now, 40,000 troops have arrived in the city.

We don't fight, we don't fight. What do you say should be done? ”

Lord Shouyang shook his head helplessly: "I haven't seen the Son of Heaven himself, but I just asked the Son of Heaven about his close ministers, and I understood the meaning, that is, Da Ming really has no intention of interfering in the domestic affairs of North Korea." ”

Han Minghun relieved the siege for the Lord of Shouyang and said: "The matter has come to this point, no matter how much you complain, it will be useless, let's think about how to deal with it." ”

Quan Yu didn't chase and fight anymore, after all, everyone is now in the same boat, and everyone has to die if the boat sinks, so he put forward a suggestion:

"Otherwise, we will send another envoy to Beijing to apologize. Let's just say that it is the traitorous Emperor Furen and Jin Zongrui who bullied the lord's dictatorship, and we raised troops to defend the king.

Now that the rebel minister has been sentenced to the throne, he has returned to the king, and I ask the great emperor to recognize the legitimacy of our appeasement.

The current royal family of the Ming Dynasty also relied on Jing Nan to ascend to the throne, so according to the previous experience, the Son of Heaven would not delve into it.

Besides, the previous emperors of the three dynasties of Hongxi, Xuande, and Orthodoxy were not interested in North Korea, and now this Emperor Jingtai is overkill, as long as it is Xuande and orthodox, he will instinctively go against it.

Emperor Xuande was accustomed to retreating from foreign vassals, and Emperor Jingtai showed toughness everywhere.

So let's talk softer, lower our posture, and make Emperor Jingtai happy, he has gained face, and he should have withdrawn. ”

Most of the important ministers present agreed with Quan Wei's statement, but unexpectedly, the Lord of Shouyang shook his head firmly: "No, no, no, we ordered the 30,000 elites to be recruited and assembled, starting from Kaesong, pretending to go to Hamxing via Anbian."

But in fact, turning to Pyongyang halfway, he took the Ming army by surprise.

The Ming army is tired from afar, and once it is successfully attacked by me, it will inevitably be defeated and flee. I took the opportunity to annihilate the Ming army, and then attacked Hamgyong Province with victory and killed Li Chengyu.

Only in this way can we fight for a way out.

I know something about Emperor Jingtai, he never does useless work with a false head and brain, since the Ming army is here, he will definitely not go back after shopping.

This is called inviting God more easily than sending God. ”

Everyone exclaimed: "Maharaja, are you crazy, once the 40,000 Ming army is annihilated, the Ming Emperor will inevitably be annoyed and angry, so as to send the real main elite to come, how should we end up then?" ”

(End of chapter)