Chapter 139 God's Soldier descends from heaven
After thinking about it, Li Shangzhen's suggestion was recognized by those present. Park Tae-fu immediately asked, "I wonder if Mr. Li thinks it is better to go south or north?"
"Of course, it's going north!" Li Shangzhen replied without thinking: "After leaving the royal city, we can go north to Pyongyang. Pyongyang was originally the old capital of our North Korea. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, Japan invaded our country. In order to avoid the Japanese army's edge, our dynasty moved the capital to Pyongyang. Furthermore, there is an Anhe Palace in Pyongyang, where the prince can be placed. If the royal city changes, the prince can ascend the throne at Anhe Palace."
"This is OK." Park Tae-fu nodded in agreement. If there is one other capital in North Korea that can be the capital, then Pyongyang will naturally belong to it. In addition, Pyongyang is in the north of Seoul, and the distance between them is not close, and it is not far away.
Once the Shao Lun School and the Prince of Wang moved to Pingrong, not only can Pyongyang be relied on its political status and historical significance to still occupy the righteousness, but also can control Pyongyang and take over all the northern parts of North Korea and compete with the old Lun School in Seoul.
So after careful consideration, I felt that Li Shangzhen proposed that Pyongyang-based is indeed the best choice. As for other issues, these people also knew it in their hearts, but they just didn't say it out.
After going to Pyongyang, in addition to the above mentioned, if necessary, the Shaolun Sect is more selective than the south. You should know that North Korea is a peninsula, and the south is the sea. Although the south is more prosperous than the north, once it goes south, it is equivalent to blocking one's own retreat. If the Shaolun Sect cannot resist the Laolun Sect's advance, then will they retreat all the way south and finally retreat to the sea?
This is obviously a dead end, but the north is different. If you occupy Pyongyang, the Shaolun faction has a choice whether you advance or retreat. Moreover, North Korea is Liaodong to the north. Although Liaodong is occupied by the Qing Dynasty, it is true that they can join forces with the Qing Dynasty to protect themselves and fight against the Laolun faction's attack.
But if you think about it, you can do it privately, but you must never say it directly. After all, North Korea is now a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, while the Qing Dynasty is the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
Time was tight, so Shao Lun sent people to discuss the decision and immediately started to take action and prepare to withdraw from the royal city to Pyongyang. But no one expected that at this moment, news suddenly came from the south that due to civil strife in North Korea, the Ming Dynasty in Jeju took action.
Ten days ago, the Ming Dynasty landed in Busan and then advanced northward. Now it has reached the vicinity of Suwon, the capital of Gyeonggi Province, and is about to approach the royal city.
The news came to shock the leaders of the two factions. No one had heard of the Ming Dynasty's troops before, and in a blink of an eye, the Ming Dynasty's heavenly soldiers had reached a position less than a hundred miles away from the royal city. Could it be that the Ming army flew directly from the Yuehai of Jeju? How could there be such a speed?
You should know that when Toyotomi Hideyoshi used the whole country to invade North Korea, it was also unstoppable from the landing battle to Seoul, but it took nineteen days. Now, it took only ten days for the Ming army to fight to Suwon, less than a hundred miles away from Seoul, from the day of landing. This speed was simply shocking.
What's even more terrible is that it was not until the Ming army arrived near Suwon, and the two factions in Seoul had just learned that if the Suwon defenders had not seen the Ming army coming south in a fierce manner, they were so scared that they hurriedly sent people to ask for help from Seoul, they might have woken up as if they had been dreamt when the Ming army attacked Seoul.
In fact, not only these North Korean officials couldn't understand, but even Zhu Yigui, who led his troops north to Suwon, was extremely surprised.
The Battle of North Korea can be said to be the easiest battle that Zhu Yigui has ever fought in his life. How could this even be considered a war?
As they advanced northward, Zhu Yigui encountered no trouble at all, and even had very little resistance. In addition, along the way, no matter how big or small the prefectures, the Korean soldiers fled in sight. The Korean people did not think that the Ming Dynasty was invading North Korea at all. On the contrary, in their opinion, the Ming Dynasty, as their parents' country, sent troops to save North Korea.
Because of this, the process of heading north is almost as easy as usual. In addition to the support and support of North Korea, Zhu Yigui not only did not worry about any logistics issues, but also incorporated many local Korean troops along the way.
In addition, when ordinary Korean young men saw the arrival of the Ming army, they even enthusiastically wanted to join the Ming army, which made Zhu Yigui's army more and more. From the beginning, he led more and more people, when he arrived in Suwon, Zhu Yigui actually had an army of nearly 100,000.
Among these 100,000 troops, there were more than 4,000 Ming troops, and more than 45,000 newly-organized Korean troops. The two units combined had more than 50,000 people. In addition, nearly 40,000 Korean soldiers and so on, the entire team looked so dark that they could hardly see the head. There were flags everywhere, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
At the beginning, Zhu Yigui was worried that he had few people, but now he was worried that he had too many people. Fortunately, Zhu Yigui brought many subordinates when he sent troops, including Huang Dian and Wu Wai, who were loyal and reliable, and had practical command experience.
When he was in Daegu, Zhu Yigui sent his subordinates to command the incorporation and reorganization of the Korean army. After leaving Daegu, as the number of people continued to increase, Zhu Yigui gritted his teeth and decided that in addition to continuing to leave 2,000 elite Ming army to be the central army, nearly half of the Ming army were temporarily promoted and organized into the Korean army, and then organized the command structure from the grassroots to the middle level of the army, and then organized the troops into four divisions, commanded by the previous two regiment commanders, Huang Dian and Wu Wai.
Among them, Huang Dian was the highest military rank, not only led the first division, but was also appointed by Zhu Yigui as deputy commander-in-chief to assist him in commanding and fighting the entire army.
This kind of combat method, including such means of leading troops, would not be able to do it if it were Zhang Fei and other Ming generals, because the origins of these generals were restricted from what they usually learned.
But Zhu Yigui is different. Who is he? He is the famous duck king!
The reason why he is called the duck king is because Zhu Yigui had the ability to lay ducks at the time. No matter how many ducks or whether these ducks were raised in his hands, it would not take much time for him to let them go.
In Zhu Yigui's hands, all the ducks were like arm envoys. Under his command, they dared not go west, and they dared not sway outside when they entered the nest. This is the only way for Zhu Yigui to have this skill in the whole world, and it is precisely because of this that he can be called the duck king.
When the Fujian uprising occurred, Zhu Yigui led a group of mud legs who had never fought before. He used his training ducks to squeeze the loose sand and beat the Qing army to complain. Even the famous generals of the Qing army, such as Lan Li, Nian Gengyao and others, suffered losses under his command.
At present, Zhu Yigui is not a duck who doesn't understand human words, nor is it the mud legs he led back then. Although the Korean soldiers are rotten, soldiers are soldiers after all, and they are stronger than ordinary people no matter how they are. In addition, Zhu Yigui's outstanding organizational ability and command talent can pinch these people together and form such a large army.
Arriving at Suwon and facing this city, Zhu Yigui launched an attack without thinking.
The defenders of Suwon were already scared when they saw Zhu Yigui's army coming. While hurriedly sending him to Wangcheng for help, the defenders rushed to try to gather their strength in their hands to resist the Ming army's attack.
However, not only him, but his subordinates came to such a large army, especially where the Ming army had the will to resist? Apart from closing the city gate in a hurry, climbing up to the top of the city with a "dung fork", looking out of the city with a look of earth, the army's legs trembling, they had no courage to fight with the Ming army.
Zhu Yigui used the Folang machine cannon he carried and then made his Korean soldiers attack the city. When the sound of artillery fire sounded, countless shells flew up to the city, causing the people around him to fly across the city, and the last trace of courage disappeared from the generals who were guarding the city. They exclaimed, throwing down their weapons and running away in a hurry, how could they care about defending the city?
After only a dozen people were lost, Zhu Yigui's troops climbed to the top of the city and occupied the gate of Suwon City behind the city.
It took Zhu Yigui less than an hour from the start of the attack to the army's attack on Suwon. Such an easy war really made Zhu Yigui unable to lift himself up.
"Master, Suwon has taken it down. Please come to the city!" Huang Dian ran back from the front and reported to Zhu Yiguihui.
Zhu Yigui narrowed his eyes and looked at the sky. It was almost noon and immediately said: "Save thousands of people down, and the troops will go directly through Suwon City and march towards Seoul! I will have dinner in Hancheng today!"
"Get orders!" Huang Dian responded without thinking, then turned around and ordered the troops to depart.
Then, Zhu Yigui's army left a part in Suwon, and the rest of the main forces went directly across the city and continued to march towards Seoul not far from the north at an extremely fast speed.
When Zhu Yigui arrived in Seoul, it was the afternoon of that day. At this time, Seoul had not even heard of the loss of Suwon. Because the two factions fought in Seoul, the troops guarding the city did not care about the guard outside the city. Therefore, when Zhu Yigui's vanguard arrived in Seoul, Seoul was not even closed, and a group of soldiers guarding the city did not know what was going on like sleepwalking.
Seeing this, the Ming army attacked the city gate without thinking. The soldiers guarding the city were stunned and did not even react at all when they saw the Ming army appear suddenly.
Before they could react, the Ming army arrived in front of them. Looking at the hideous faces of the Ming army, the soldiers were so scared that they shouted and turned around and ran away, not even caring about the city gate.
When Zhu Yigui entered Seoul, the two factions were still discussing behind closed doors. Faced with the sudden change, some people on both sides even proposed to temporarily stop the fight between them and unite to deal with the matter in front of them first.
But before they could discuss a result, a noise came from outside, and then someone stumbled to show that the army had entered Seoul. When everyone heard this news, they were stunned and felt that the sky was hanging and their eyes turned black.
Chapter completed!