Chapter 107: North to Silla

Xuan Qi finally had time to calm down and think about things. And Xuan Qi also learned some things from the people who fled Tamsui City.

Just three days ago, suddenly countless sea boats entered the Tamsui River. At first, the people on the dock didn't care, because the first few ships were neatly dressed as officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire. As the ship docked, countless soldiers rushed down, but they began to slaughter the crowd on the dock.

Hundreds of people began to scatter and flee, countless officers and soldiers began to rush to Tamsui City, and ordinary people could not escape the pursuit of officers and soldiers at all. The officers and soldiers marched all the way until they rushed into the city and were noticed by the guards on the city walls. Countless people began to flee in all directions, and from a distance from the bottom of the mountain, they saw countless Silla soldiers and Japanese ronins behind the officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire.

The 40,000 defenders of Tamsui City and the 3,000 guards of the City Lord's Mansion tried their best, but they still couldn't stop the attack of the coalition forces. The coalition forces did not bother with the scattered fleeing civilians, but instead slaughtered everyone who remained in the city. The two sides fought for more than a dozen hours before the battle ended.

Xuan Qi naturally knew that the officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire were the officers and soldiers under Li Chengye, and he was not surprised that the Silla army was involved, but he didn't expect that there were Japanese ronins among them.

Xuan Qi, who had already gone berserk, ordered the South Vietnamese to stop the attack on the Tianzhu army, and the South Vietnamese naval army set off on the same day. At the same time, Li Xing, who received the news of the slaughter of Tamsui City, also ordered the national naval army to begin to assemble towards Liaodong Bay and the mouth of the Yangtze River, and he personally led an army of 500,000 to march towards Liaodong in the ice and snow.

By mid-February, the number of sailors assembled in Liaodong Bay had reached 300,000, and the number of sailors at the mouth of the Yangtze River had reached 500,000. Almost all the country's naval armies have gathered in the two places, and the major wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River have sent all the sea ships to help transport the naval forces in the inland areas.

And Xuanqi simply summoned all the disciples of Xuanmen, including Chu Lin, Li Xinchen, Ji Ying, Luo Wen, Luo Lin, Yiyan, Zhanlong, Qin Jingqiu and others. The disciples of Xuanmen are not only strong in martial arts, but also good at espionage, assassination and other things, which will naturally be of great help to Xuanqi's conquest of Silla and Japan.

Hearing that the army of the Celestial Empire was assembled, the lord of Silla, Park Joo-ho, and the lord of Japan, Kamishikawa, hurriedly sent envoys to the Celestial Empire to sue for peace. As soon as the Silla ambassador Kim Sang-gyun arrived in Liaodong, he was stopped by Li Xing's army. No matter how Jin Xiangjun explained, Li Xing also ignored it, and in the future, all 17 people were decapitated.

Li Xing finally began to understand why Xuan Qi was so obsessed with slaughtering the alien races that invaded the Celestial Empire, and did not hurt these alien races with wolf ambitions, and the other party would come back at any time. His sister and brother-in-law, as well as tens of thousands of brothers and sisters in Tamsui City who had been with him day and night, all died at the hands of these aliens, which made Li Xing begin to change his mind.

When the Japanese envoy Koizumi Yu entered the Shandong Peninsula, he was held by Li Gan, the king of Qi. Li Gan knew the anger of Li Xing and Xuan Qi, so he sent a ship to send Koizumi You and his party to Liaodong Bay. Before Li Xing saw Koizumi You, he ordered the general of the navy Ru Qibin to behead Koizumi Yu and his party for public display.

Such a tough Li Xing made both Silla and Japan really scared, and they also began to recruit soldiers to prepare for the attack of the Celestial Empire's army.

In order to prevent the enemy from escaping, Li Xing ordered an army of 500,000 to start advancing eastward and occupy the north bank of the Yalu River. At the same time, Li Xing also informed the Bohai Kingdom east of the Yalu River that if any Silla people escaped from the border of the Bohai Kingdom, the army would definitely not let the Bohai Kingdom go. Such a threat made the Bohai Kingdom extremely angry, and Dai Jin, who had suffered Li Xing's loss and had also heard of Xuanqi's "butcher" name, was dissuaded many times, and then it calmed down. Dai Jin personally led an army of 300,000 troops to the border of Chen Bing to strictly prevent the entry of Silla.

And the sailors of Liaodong Bay and the Yangtze River estuary also began to set off. The Liaodong naval army marched along the coast of Silla, but did not attack, but burned all the ships along the coast that could go to sea, leaving not a single one.

Genqi also led the navy army, set out from the mouth of the Yangtze River, crossed the East China Sea, and went north along the Ryukyu Kingdom, quickly sweeping the islands of Yaku, Seed and other islands between Ryukyu and Kyushu Island. At the same time, the Lotus Pirates were fully dispatched and began to sweep the large and small islands in the East China Sea, as long as there were Silla people or Japanese ronin on the island, the whole island would be slaughtered.

As soon as the news broke, the pirates entrenched on the various islands began to check the Silla and Japanese on the islands, and personally tied them up and sent them to Guan Pingjiang. In accordance with Xuan Qi's order, Guan Pingjiang beheaded all the people he sent to show the public, and the entire East China Sea was in a bloody storm.

In the face of the arrival of Xuanqi's army, the Japanese lord Kamishikawa ordered to start investigating the Japanese ronin's attack on Tamsui City, hoping to find out the main people involved and calm Xuanqi's anger. Sure enough, it was quickly found out that the leading Japanese ronin was Tokugawa Hideo of the Tokugawa family, one of the three major families in Japan, but Tokugawa Hideo had already fled from home and disappeared.

Looking at the two hundred and fifty-two Japanese ronins sent by Kamishikawa, Xuan Qi did not get the exact news of Xia Xuejing and others after interrogation, and immediately ordered all of them to be pushed out and beheaded. At the same time, Xuanqi unceremoniously asked the envoy to inform Kamishikawa to find Tokugawa Hideo as soon as possible, otherwise the Celestial Empire army would begin to exterminate Japan. In fact, Xuan Qi's soldiers forced Kyushu Island, just by the way, and the focus would still be on Silla, because Xia Xuejing and others were very likely to fall into the hands of Li Chengye and Hua Yingchun, and nothing was more important than saving their relatives.

It was the beginning of March, and most of the snow and ice on the land of Silla had melted, allowing the army to attack smoothly. Xuan Qi no longer stayed on Kyushu Island, and quickly went north with 500,000 sailors. The army arrived on Jeju Island three days later and surrounded the entire island from all sides. 200,000 sailors landed on Jeju Island and swept across the island. According to Hyun Qi's order, the entire Jeju Island, only 20,000 or 30,000 ordinary people and 2,000 defenders, were almost slaughtered, allowing the ordinary people of Silla to see the methods of "butchers" for the first time.

When the news came back to Silla, Park Joo-ho, the lord of Silla, was sitting on pins and needles, but he didn't expect Hyun Qi to really live up to his reputation and act so decisively. Park Joo-ho also began to regret listening to the words of the doctors Rui Chengguo and Lee Sung-ye, and sent troops to attack Tamsui City. Originally, the matter of sending troops to the Celestial Empire had just calmed down, but now it had stabbed this hornet's nest again.

In desperation, Park Joo-ho had no choice but to gather the whole country and start forcibly conscripting troops at the same time, together with the army under Lee Sung-ye, a total of 1.8 million, hoping to resist the attack of Li Xing and Hyunqi's army with the advantage of military strength and the high water of Silla Mountain.