Regarding the ultimatum of the Ming army, Li Yao pretended to be frightened.

Seeing that Li Yao was frightened, Zhang Ning pretended to be arrogant and beat Li Yao hard. As a result, Li Yao wanted to shoot the case several times, and almost couldn't pretend.

Fortunately, he endured it in the end, and Li Yao was also strange in his heart, the last time they met, Zhang Ning accepted a bribe from a woman from the North Korean side, and he sued him in a letter to the son of tomorrow.

But now Zhang Ning seems to be completely unaffected, but is becoming more and more arrogant, which is really evil.

Li Yao pleaded guilty and admitted his mistake again, so it was easy to send Zhang Ning away.

Li Yao's current strategy is: I will admit my mistake if I want to admit it, and I will ask for it if I ask for it, but you want to make actual concessions, I'm sorry, no.

After leaving Seoul, Zhang Ning immediately returned to a suave state.

The two sides are deceiving each other, Li Yao wants to paralyze the Ming army, lead the Ming army to take the initiative to attack Seoul, so as to expose the flaw, and then break it with surprise soldiers.

Zhang Ning wanted to fool Li Yao, and then the Ming army pretended to be a trick, and then took the opportunity to deceive him.

After returning to Pyongyang, Zhang Ning reported to Jiang Yuan and Fang Ying about the negotiation with Li Yao, and then wanted to continue to give advice.

Jiang Yuan and Fang Ying signaled that Zhang Ning could go out.

Zhang Ning is a humble position, and it is not good to rely on it, but he still instructed: "Jiang Shilang, Nanhe Hou, according to the lower officials, North Korea is going to use the 30,000 Liaodong troops captured at the beginning as a meat shield, you two should make some preparations early."

In addition, before Xiaguan set off from the capital, there was already reliable news that Japan was about to send troops to aid Korea.

Once the army is dispatched, but it cannot attack Kaesong and Seoul for a long time, I am afraid that it will be attacked by the Japanese army.

Seogami repeatedly stressed that once the Japanese army landed in Busan, it would be possible to reach Pyongyang in two months. ”

Jiang Yuan nodded, indicating that he understood.

Waiting for Zhang Ning to withdraw, Jiang Yuan asked Fang Ying, "What does Nanhe Hou think?" ”

Fang Ying shook her head: "I don't know much about Japan, but I heard that there are also many contradictions within Japan, their competition for the position of emperor, the position of general, and the competition for the position of the governor within the major names is becoming more and more fierce, I really don't believe that they can mobilize 100,000 troops to aid North Korea." ”

Jiang Yuan also shook his head.

Here's the problem, whether the emperor wrote a letter to warn or sent an envoy to remind him, Jiang Yuan and Fang Ying just didn't believe that Japan could send a large army to aid Korea.

Anyway, in the eyes of normal people, Japan does not have such national strength and is not so united.

And how easy is it to gather 100,000 troops and cross the sea to fight? It is simply impossible to fight Pyongyang for two months.

So Fang Ying put forward a strategy: "We still follow Li Chengyu's suggestion at the beginning, send a large army between Kaesong and Seoul, and then send the main force to storm Seoul."

As long as Seoul falls, the overall situation can be determined.

We now have enough troops to dig multiple trenches directly and surround Kaesong.

In this way, as long as the Kaesong army does not come out to make trouble, with the empty garrison of Seoul, it can be captured in three months at most.

Even if Japan did send troops to help, it would take half a year to reach Seoul.

By the time they reached the city, the daylilies were cold. ”

Jiang Yuan nodded vigorously, and both of them felt very good. With an army of 200,000 in hand, it is not easy to besiege two cities.

After deciding on the strategy, the two went their separate ways, and Fang Ying led the Laojing camp to attack Seoul. Jiang Yuan commanded the upper guards and was responsible for the siege of Kaesong.

On the North Korean side, there are also adjustments. Kaesong retained 5,000 elites and 10,000 auxiliaries, and the remaining elites had secretly marched into Seoul after defeating Li Chengyu last year.

Li Yao transferred back 10,000 elites from the army that went to quell the rebellion of the Great King of Jincheng and the Great King of Anping.

So far, there are 20,000 elite heavy infantry, 30,000 other soldiers, and nearly 50,000 miscellaneous auxiliaries in Seoul.

An army of 100,000 guarded Seoul, and the grain and grass in the city were enough to support more than two years.

As for the DPRK situation, after half a year of repeated purges, the opposition forces could no longer pose a threat to Li Jian for a while.

The Li Ji regime, which was in danger last year, has now stabilized temporarily. It can be said that if you don't die if you fight a snake, there will be trouble.

……

However, Zhu Qiyu, as the son of the great tomorrow, is really destiny.

Coincidentally, in March, the Muromachi shogunate of Japan took over the head of Hatakeyama Motokuni, and his life ended.

Because Ashikaga Yoshimasa was supported by the governor Hatakeyama Mokuni and others, he was elected as a Japanese general at the age of eight.

Therefore, in the past 12 years, Hatakeyama Mochikuni and Hosokawa Katsumoto have taken turns as governors and actually held power, while Ashikaga Yoshimasa has not yet been in power.

Hatakeyama has a very high state of state, a very high prestige, and a great family power.

The current manager, the twenty-five-year-old Hosokawa Katsumoto, had many contradictions with Hatakeyama Mokuni, and when he saw that he couldn't bear it anymore, Hatakeyama Mochikuni died.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who has always been quiet and forbearing, finally couldn't hold back.

After the death of Hatakeyama Motokoku, his younger brother's sister-in-law, Hatakeyama Masahisa, and his own concubine, Hatakeyama Yoshishi, competed for the position of family governor, and infighting was on the verge of breaking out.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa supported Hatakeyama Yoshimasa, and Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Munequan supported Hatakeyama Masahisa.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa wanted to establish his authority and regain real power by interfering in the succession of the three governors and four positions.

Originally, there should have been a good infighting.

But as soon as Zhu Qiyu intervened like this, the situation became completely different.

These Japanese bigwigs came up with a new trick: to send troops to aid Korea.

Especially the Hatakeyama clan, with them as the main force, go to North Korea to fight a dozen.

Let Hatakeyama Masahisa and Hatakeyama Yoshishi each lead an army, and whoever fights well and has high military achievements will be the next governor of the Hatakeyama clan.

As soon as this proposal came out, it was immediately approved by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the governor Hosokawa Katsumoto.

In this way, no matter what the outcome of the war is, it is certain that the strength of the Hatakeyama clan will be greatly weakened. Whether it is Ashikaga Yoshimasa or Hosokawa Katsumoto, they will benefit from it.

The Hatakeyama clan was naturally unhappy, but the opposition was ineffective. Without Hatakeyama holding the country, the whole family could not form a joint force, and the right to speak in the shogunate plummeted.

Hatakeyama Masahisa and Hatakeyama Yoshishi are just two hairy boys, who cares if you oppose it or not, it's good if you can save your life.

Of course, neither Ashikaga Yoshimasa nor Hosokawa Katsumoto will be too straightforward and undignified.

With three management and four positions, these seven families have produced a lot of troops, and even the generals themselves have sent out 3,000 to serve the public.

Uesugi Kentada, the leader of the Kanto region, also sent out 10,000 people.

Only the Kamakura Duke, Ashikaga Nari, forcefully refused the request to send troops.

Fortunately, no one was too entangled with the Ashikaga Nari clan, anyway, everyone had gathered 100,000 troops and 1,000 warships, and landed in Busan in three batches, starting the war with the Ming Dynasty.

After entering Korea, the Japanese army was divided into two, and Hosokawa Katsuwon led the Eastern Army to attack Gyeongsang-do, where Geumseong Daejun was seated.

Yamana Soquan led the Western Army and attacked Jeolla Province, where Anpyeong Daejun was seated.

(End of chapter)