Although Xu Guangguo kept making memorials, the development of the situation was similar to that of Lu Wanqiu and others. When Xu Guangguo spoke, the others immediately started to make noise.

The key is that in this family’s opinion, Xu Guangguo’s label is too obvious, his words are too inclined to be too convincing, and his persuasiveness is not so effective.

From top to bottom, you can see where Xu Guangguo's intention was, and it was nothing more than asking Wang Tong to come out to lead the troops again. This is absolutely impossible. When Wang Tong was the commander of the Jinyiwei in the capital, the capital was overwhelmed by him and he couldn't breathe. The ministers heard something strange, so his knife was raised.

If he was asked to go to North Korea this time and make great contributions, what should we do next? Although it may not be a disaster for destroying the family, such a person is always uncomfortable.

It's strange to say that from getting the news that the urn invaded Korea and then invaded the Ming Dynasty to the present, no one in the Ming Dynasty had ever considered failure. The military affairs were changing, and the victory and defeat were irregular. No one dared to be sure of saying that, but this was the case this time.

Even though Zu Chengi's thousands of cavalry entered Pyongyang, the losses were extremely heavy after the middle of the dying, and both sides felt that North Korea would be a great achievement.

It is naturally hard to say how the process is now, but the victory of this national war will definitely belong to the Ming Dynasty. No one in the capital now says that, and no one writes it publicly on paper. However, all the poetry theory is based on this. Whoever is the commander can obtain this great achievement and who will take the initiative in the future.

Since the fifth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty also had minor twists and turns in foreign wars, but the mainstream was victory after victory. The great troubles of the Ming Dynasty outside the West could mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to capture powerful enemies, and they were defeated one by one to destroy the country.

Against this background of victory, everyone has a judgment on the upcoming battle of bullying in North Korea, where the Ming Dynasty will win and the Ming Dynasty will win.

Xu Guangguo said this, but there were officials from the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, and the censors who went to Liaoning to handle the work. They all submitted memorials and debates that after that defeat, the Li family worked hard to govern, trained their troops diligently, and their combat effectiveness was even better than the past. However, these remarks were related to the recent defeat of Zu Chengi, and they were not so convincing.

Therefore, the capital's remarks were quite derogatory to Zu Chengi, and they all said that this person was not good at using troops. He was also focused on making money and doing business on weekdays. His subordinates were not considered as military troops at all.

In particular, the Liaoning Inspector was very convincing about the Li family's remarks. The inspector had the responsibility to spy on and collect local remarks. His evaluation of the Li family was relatively authoritative, saying that the Li family knew shame and then bravely, and they were united in their own hearts and did not lose their training.

Of course, the key point is not the Li family in western Liaoning. It only needs to be explained that the Li family in western Liaoning can still use soldiers and fight. The key issue is to praise Li Rusong, the general of Xuanfu.

Li Rusong, who is in Xuanfu, does have many highlights worth talking about. For example, the big and big victory that began in the early years of Wanli, he participated in all the battles he participated in, and he devoted his life to the top and the whole family. This is not bad, because Li Rusong participated in all the battles of all sizes issued by the imperial guards and the merchant gang armed forces. Moreover, he won a lot of results, which was a real achievement, and he was also lucky. The Li family did not join several major failures.

Such generals have enough qualifications and achievements. Moreover, the relationship between Li Rusong and Wang Tong and other imperial guards is not bad. Everyone cooperates a lot, so it is very suitable for him to be released as a candidate.

After Li Rusong, the general of Xuanfu, was pushed out as a candidate to lead the troops, there were not many voices of opposition from the court and the country, and even a few people in the court who had a neutral position could not say anything.

Li Rusong also wrote a memorial to Emperor Wanli, saying that the current situation is to seek stability on the border between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, and to mobilize troops to slowly and slowly, but the defense must be done first, and the initiative should be arranged for secret spies to North Korea to learn about as much situation as possible.

Wang Tong also expressed this opinion, so Emperor Wanli also thought that Li Rusong was really suitable and was considered a mature and steadfast general.

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Despite the debate, the Ministry of War still paid enough attention to the situation on North Korea. Han Gang's troops, who had been stationed on the capital, were transferred to Yongping Prefecture to station half of the troops of the Huwei Army's Imperial Army, and Jizhen and Jingzhang each drew 4,000 elite troops to accompany them.

This is a cautious response. If there is any sudden change in the situation in Liaoning, the most elite force of the imperial guards will respond immediately.

Governor Xu Guangguo was given greater power to **. In fact, Xu Guangguo now said that it was the governor of the three towns of Liaoning. In order to make him cheap, Xu Guangguo had the power to command and dispatch the three generals, but the orders needed to be reported to the capital at any time, which was considered a procedure.

Liaoning Governor Xu Guangguo transferred 4,000 cavalry from the Liaodong General Malin to southern Liaoning. Li Rupai, the general of western Liaoning, had already led the elite troops to the headquarters. Naturally, the general of southern Liaoning, Sun Shoulian, was mobilized.

In addition to these arrangements, Governor Xu

Guangguo also recruited troops. He recruited more than 2,000 troops inside and outside the wall and the merchant armed forces. In addition, his own model soldiers and generals, there were almost 4,000 people, used as the mobile power to defend the Dingliao Right Guard.

The debate about who is in charge in the court continues. Officials have a bad impression of Xu Guangguo, a governor from a juren, and this debate makes this impression even worse.

However, in the preparations of Liaoning, there is one thing that no one can deny. Xu Guangguo is indeed a capable person. In less than two years in Liaoning, he actually accumulated so much food and money. This time, the army was mobilized, and a lot of money could be raised on the spot, eliminating a lot of troubles of transferring the goods.

Time flies. In early September, the army of the hukou did not make any major moves in North Korea. In the middle of the Pekan Road in North Korea, the remaining North Korean troops even launched several counterattacks. The scale was not large, but the pursuit of the hukou army was not large, and they were inexplicably trapped in a stalemate.

The fine works and secret spies sent to North Korea also had their effect. Some local people saw that the situation did not continue to collapse, and began to take the initiative to come to the territory controlled by North Korea and report to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty finally knew how many Japanese troops were in Pyongyang City and who was the main general. Although this news was not accurate, it was much more reliable than before.

In Pyongyang is the first legion of the Luokou army. The commander of the corps is Xiaoxi, with a force of about 15,000 to 20,000. Everyone is really confused about what the commander of this legion is, but by comparison, we can also know that it is almost the title of the general of the Ming Dynasty. What a good guy, Luokou actually sent more than a dozen generals in North Korea at one time!

There is an answer to why the offensive stagnated. North Korea was defeated too quickly and the hukou army advanced too quickly. As a result, after advancing to Pyongyang City, logistics supplies could no longer keep up.

North Korea is already in poverty, and its grain is mainly stored in several big cities and several southern roads. But the hukou army was too outrageous at the beginning, burning, killing, looting, and doing arbitrary. A lot of grain was accidentally burned, and then because of the massacre and looting, there were too many corpses, and there was even the epidemic of plague.

Pyongyang City continued to go west and north, and there were no large enough cities and gathering areas to provide food, so the army could only maintain it in Pyongyang City, carrying bodies, and plundering military rations everywhere, and even urging local North Koreans to farm, hoping to obtain some supplies in local farming.

Moreover, when Zu Chengxun made a rash advance, thousands of cavalry were trapped by the rogue army in a disadvantaged terrain and suffered heavy losses. That is, the rogue army escaped, but the rogue army had such a great advantage, and the number of people and terrain, but his own casualties were more than 3,000.

The casualties were more awesome than the generals of the arched arch. Unexpectedly, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army reached this level. There were still hundreds of Ming cavalry wearing armor similar to the Southern Barbarians. This was also something that the arched archers did not expect. The Southern Barbarians mentioned by the Japanese were the Portuguese and the Spanish, and their plate armor was also circulated in the Japanese daimyo.

The combat effectiveness and equipment of the Ming army made the Kou dare not move lightly. Governor Xiaoxi wrote a letter to the base camp in Seoul, saying that everything had to wait for the army to come up before they could advance. Otherwise, if you advance at will, you would probably make the same mistake as the generals of the Ming army.

The current border between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty is in a tense and quiet state. The army is constantly gathering, but they are just stationed and deployed, and they dare not move lightly.

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The Ming Dynasty soldiers and the hunched troops were not in a hurry. The most anxious thing was that the Korean monarch and ministers were coming and going. They were in a situation where they were empty-handed, and the money, gold and silver used to walk were similar. Moreover, the reasons Zu Chengyu said after the defeat of Pyongyang made the Korean monarch and ministers shuddered.

They also understood that if they did not give a reasonable explanation, there would be really trouble. At the end of August, Liaoning Governor Xu Guangguo personally went to Yizhou to listen to the explanation of North Korean King Li Pan.

Li Pan explained the reasons for the defeat proposed by Zu Chengxun as follows: The reason why North Korea wanted to take over command from the Ming general was because North Korean officials were eager to restore the country and forgot the state of superiors and subordinates. Regarding the lack of military rations, it was because North Korea was already poor and had poor financial resources. It was really unsupplied. As for the collapse of the Korean troops, some were talking loudly with the enemy on the battlefield, and even some were shooting at the Ming army. Most of North Korea's territory was occupied by hunched bandits. Many traitors surrendered to the enemy, and perhaps some were involved in detail.

After this explanation was made into a memorial, Emperor Wanli approved the memorial, "In the future, all relevant Korean military affairs will be easy, and there is no need to know the whole country."
Chapter completed!