Since surrendering to the Ming army, Azig has actually been living in fear.
Although Li Xianzhong accepted their surrender, he was not sure about the Ming Emperor's attitude.
Fortunately, news came from the capital that Emperor Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty finally accepted his surrender.
Removing the Khan number is not a matter at all. Originally, he was a self-proclaimed Khan.
Azig originally thought that the nine thousand men and horses under his command would be incorporated into the "Imperial Association Army" to fight for Li Xianzhong.
Unexpectedly, Li Xianzhong still gave himself a piece of territory.
Soon after, he was officially named the commander of Jianzhou Zuowei Capital.
Don't underestimate this capital commander. Although Azige's territory is not large now and there are not many tribesmen, it at least shows that the Ming Dynasty has accepted the continued existence of the Jianzhou Jurchens, and they do not need to be exterminated.
But now the situation in Azigh is not optimistic.
The appearance of his mother-in-law Abahai caused the remaining 9,000 soldiers of Xianglan Banner to follow him and surrender.
However, many people's family members are in Daishan in North Korea, and it is inevitable that people's minds will change over time.
If the Ming navy had not blocked the Yalu and Tumen rivers and built beacon towers along the rivers, many people might have sneaked to North Korea.
What Azig wants to do most now is to go to North Korea on the other side and seize Daishan's territory.
Azig said: "Benbeile just didn't understand what Li Xianzhong meant. He named me the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, and included the two Korean roads into the Jianzhou Left Guard. Didn't this clearly imply that I would send troops to regain the Jianzhou Left Guard? , but he didn’t agree to my request to cross the river to conquer Daishan?”
Fan Wencai said: "It seems that Ming Dynasty still has some scruples about us, fearing that once we cross the river, we will directly join forces with Daishan."
"With the strength of the Ming army, it is very easy to eliminate Daishan in North Korea, but Li Xianzhong has never done so. It is obvious that he had the intention of 'supporting the bandits'."
Azig thought about it carefully and realized that this was indeed the case.
Because the Ming army was not only stationed in Liaodong, but also many Ming troops were stationed in North Korea. If Li Xianzhong had the intention to eat Daishan, he might have captured Pyongyang long ago.
He said: "Now we are placed in this cold and barren place. If things go on like this, our hearts will definitely become disorganized. I wonder if Mr. Fan can find a way to make the Ming army attack Daishan?"
Of course, Fan Wencai knew Azig's little thoughts very well. Now he couldn't stay in this place at all, so he naturally wanted to replace Daishan.
However, the men, horses and territory in Daishan's hands were several times that of Azig. It was impossible to overthrow Daishan without the help of the Ming army.
He said: "If the current situation remains unchanged, I don't think the Ming army has any intention of sending troops to North Korea. For the current plan, the Ming army will not send troops unless there is a huge situation in North Korea."
"Only a sudden change in the political situation in North Korea will make it possible for the Ming army to change its original strategy and realize Lord Baylor's ambition to unify Jianzhou Zuowei!"
"Fan is not talented. He is willing to cross the river to meet Daishan and provoke him to send troops south to attack North Korea. Only in this way can we have the possibility of fishing in troubled waters!"
Azig was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "No wonder the Great Khan often said that Mr. Fan is the reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming. Now he all depends on Mr. Fan!"
After Fan Wencai met with the concubine Abahai, he proposed to the Ming army to go to North Korea to persuade him to surrender.
Soon Li Xianzhong approved Fan Wencai's trip to North Korea and sent a ship to send him across the Yalu River.
Since the Ming army attacked Kuandian, the blockade of the Yalu River has become the norm.
In addition to regular patrols by patrol boats, the Ming army also destroyed all docks in North Korea.
Not to mention warships, not even fishing boats can cross the river unless people with excellent water skills swim directly across the Yalu River.
If it were still possible in summer, but it was freezing cold now, jumping into the river would basically be courting death.
Soon Fan Wencai arrived at Yizhou City under the cover of Ming army warships.
The garrison of Uiju originally thought that the Ming army was going to cross the river. When he saw that it was Fan Wencai, he was amnesty and hurriedly sent him all the way to Pyongyang.
Ever since Huang Taiji died in Hetuala, Daishan had a premonition that Li Xianzhong was going to take action against the Jurchens in Jianzhou.
It is a pity that Azige did not listen to his own good advice and insisted on standing on his own in Kuandian Liubao, but his way back was cut off by the Ming army.
However, the current situation in North Korea is not optimistic either.
Although a large number of Jianzhou people moved to North Korea, most of them were old, weak, women and children.
In fact, the troops currently under Daishan's command are only the original two red flags plus a yellow flag.
The five flags of true yellow, pure white, true blue, bordered blue, and bordered white were either destroyed by the Ming army or surrendered to the Ming army. The Eight Banners basically existed openly.
So Daishan reorganized the Eight Banners at the suggestion of He Heli.
All the flags of the original eight flags were placed under the two red flags and the yellow flag, and these three flags were called the upper three flags.
The Zhenghong Banner that Daishan personally commanded had 10,000 soldiers, the eldest son Yuetuo's Xianghong Banner had 9,000 soldiers, and the second son Shuotuo's Xianghuang Banner had also been expanded to 8,000 soldiers.
In addition, a North Korean Eight Banners of 10,000 people was established to serve as his own servant army.
At present, the population of Ping'an and Hamgyong provinces in North Korea is about one million, the population of the Eight Banners (including the Jurchen descendants of North Korea, as well as Han soldiers and their families) is about 400,000, and the Koreans are 600,000.
Soon Fan Wencai arrived at Daishan's palace.
This was originally the marshal's residence in Pyongyang, but was converted into his own bedroom by Daishan.
Daishan didn't have a good impression of Fan Wencai because he and Huang Taiji wore the same pair of trousers before, which often embarrassed him in front of Nurhachi.
Therefore, Daishan did not formally meet with Fan Wencai.
Accompanied by his own think tank He Heli, his eldest son Yue Tuo, Ao Bai and Ye Bilong, he summoned Fan Wencai.
When Fan Wencai saw Dai Shanhou, he knelt down and worshiped, and said: "My slave Fan Wencai came here to pay homage to the Great Khan under the command of Er Beil Azig!"
Daishan didn't have a good look on Fan Wencai. He said: "I don't dare to call myself the Great Khan in front of you. Hasn't Azig already deposed this Khan and made himself the Great Khan?"
"But it seems that his big sweat was beaten by the Ming court again, and now he has been appointed as the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guards!"
After Daishan finished speaking, several people present burst into laughter!
Daishan's attitude was already expected by Fan Wencai. He said: "It was a helpless act for Erbeile to be forced to surrender. These things were not his original intention."
"Slave, here is a letter written by Concubine Abahai to the Great Khan. After reading it, the Great Khan should understand!"
After saying this, Fan Wencai took out Abahai's autographed letter!
In the letter, Abahai told the story of Huang Taiji’s plot to frame the mother and son abducted by someone and then framed the blame on Daishan. He also told how he was unfortunately abducted by Ming army spies, and how Dorgon and Duoduo were brutally killed by the Ming Dynasty. The tragic experience of being poisoned by the army and being forced to serve Li Xianzhong!
Daishan had an affair with Abahai, and he still had feelings for his mother-in-law. When he thought that Abahai was forced to serve Li Xianzhong, he suddenly became furious.
He scolded: "Li Xianzhong is really shameless. Not only did he dig up his father's ashes, he also forced the concubine to commit herself to him. I am incompatible with him!"
Then he asked: "How is the concubine now?"
Seeing Daishan's furious look, Fan Wencai knew that he still missed Abahai.
Fan Wencai said aggrievedly: "The Ming army placed us in a bitter cold place east of Changbai Mountain. The army was short of clothes and food. The Ming army also kept making things difficult for us. We had no choice but to ask Li Xianzhong for help."
"Li Xianzhong always asked the concubine to go to his tent to discuss borrowing food. After a long time, the concubine could only borrow a few days of rations."
At this time, Daishan was completely angry. He clenched his fists tightly, the veins on his forehead popped out, and he cursed loudly: "Li Xianzhong is really a beast!"
"Since you are living such a miserable life there, why don't you come to North Korea and seek refuge with me?"
Fan Wencai said: "Er Beile was forced to surrender to the Ming army in order to find an opportunity to come to North Korea to join the Great Khan. However, the Ming army was very guarded against us. Er Beile repeatedly asked for battle, but was rejected by Li Xianzhong."
"This slave also had the opportunity to come here in the name of coming to North Korea to persuade the Great Khan to surrender."
At this time, He Heli said: "Li Xianzhong agreed to Erbeile's surrender for the purpose of raising the bandits' self-respect. If he really wanted to eliminate us, he would have taken action long ago!"
Fan Wencai said: "Li Xianzhong has now been granted the title of Duke of Liao by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. In order to claim credit and reward, he has re-established Nuergandusi. Even Ye He's tribe has been turned into a subordinate of Nuergandusi. Ye He has two guards on his left and right."
"Now that the two Koreas have been included in the Jianzhou Zuowei, Li Xianzhong may have taken a fancy to the two lands of Korea and does not want to return them to North Korea!"
At this time, Yue Tuo also said: "If the Ming army wanted to drive us out of North Korea, they would have taken action long ago. I think they not only wanted to annex Ping'an and Hamgyong Province in North Korea, but even Hwanghae Road has now become The territory of the Ming army."
Fan Wencai said: "What Sanbeile said is absolutely true. According to the slave's speculation, Li Xianzhong probably wants to use our hands to occupy North Korea for a long time!"
No one expected that Li Xianzhong's ambition was so great.
Dai Shan said: "But when Ben Khan attacked Jiangyuan Province in North Korea last time, the Ming army took action to stop us!"
Fan Wencai said: "If the Ming army really took action to stop it, it would have occupied Ping'an Road long ago. The slave also analyzed the last battle. When the Great Khan attacked Jiangyuan Road, the Ming army only sent troops to Pyongyang in a symbolic way. They actually sent troops in After the Great Khan attacked Wang Jing."
"Obviously the Ming army can acquiesce in our occupation of North Korea's territory, but it does not allow us to destroy the Li Dynasty in North Korea."
At this time, Shi Shan and others did not speak. It was obvious that they were thinking about Fan Wencai's words.
Fan Wencai pointed to the map of North Korea and said: "Actually, Ping'an and Hamgyong Province are now very desolate and not as wealthy as the southern ones."
"When the Great Khan sends troops to march south, Li Xianzhong will definitely recruit Erbeile to attack North Korea. Then we will have a chance to make a move."
"This is also the purpose of this slave's mission to North Korea."
Yue Tuo said: "Father, I think what Mr. Fan said is very reasonable. If we didn't attack the Gyeonggi Province Ming Army last time, they definitely wouldn't have stopped us at all."
"The Ming army has always sent troops just to show off under Pyongyang City. They have never really carried out an siege, and they have never entered Hamgyong Road."
"Even if the Ming army sent troops to intervene, at most we would just go out and grab supplies, and there wouldn't be much loss."
He Heli also said: "What Sanbeile said makes sense!"
Oboi said: "With the strength of the North Korean army, I'm afraid the Ming army has not yet reacted. We have already reached Busan!"
Fan Wencai said: "In the long run, it is very necessary for the Great Khan to occupy Busan. It is not far from Japan. Even if one day the Ming army wants to completely drive us out of North Korea, we still have a way out!"
Daishan thought deeply for a moment, and he felt that what Fan Wencai said made sense. Sooner or later, Li Xianzhong would attack them. Pyongyang's current position is actually very bad. It is under attack from two sides by the Ming army.
If Li Xianzhong really wants to hit himself, I'm afraid he won't even be able to escape!
He said: "Everyone go back and prepare. The red flag will be left to guard Ping'an and Xianjing Road, the red flag and the yellow flag will be guarded, and the eight Korean flags will be ready for the southern expedition in five days."
Then Daishan said to Fan Wencai: "Mr. Fan is very resourceful. Since he finally escaped from the tiger's mouth, why not just stay with Ben Khan?"
Fan Wencai said: "Fan thanked the Khan for his kindness, but now that Erbeile and the concubine are still under the surveillance of the Ming army, Fan is really worried. If Fan leaves and does not come back, I'm afraid that Li Xianzhong will be killed again." It’s going to embarrass their mother and son.”
"Fan is just waiting for the good news from the Great Khan. If everything goes well, I'm afraid it won't be long before we can meet in North Korea!"
At this time, everyone present was full of respect for Fan Wencai!
Daishan personally sent him out of Pyongyang.
At this time, there were a total of 8,000 Ming troops stationed in the Ming Dynasty, including 5,000 land divisions and 3,000 naval divisions.
Of the 5,000 land divisions, 4,500 were stationed in Hwanghae Province, and 500 were stationed in Hanyang, the royal capital of Korea.
This small amount of troops is really difficult to cope with the changes in the entire North Korea.
However, it was not suitable for a large-scale increase of troops in North Korea at this time, so Li Xianzhong asked Mao Wenlong to lead the supplemented 3,000 Liaodong cavalry to secretly land near the port of Incheon.
On February 10, the third year of the Apocalypse, the main force of Xianghong Banner and Xianghuang Banner went south from Deokyuan in Hamgyong Province to attack Gangwon Province.
Just two days later, Obai captured the important town of Huaiyang where two thousand Korean troops were stationed.
After the news came, the whole country of North Korea was shocked.
The last time the Tatars invaded Gangwon Province, the North Korean leader Kim Jae-deon transferred all the main forces of the royal city to Gangwon Province in order to resist the Tatars. As a result, he did not have many troops in Hanyang City, but the Western Party member Jin Yu took advantage of the opportunity. Launched a coup and ousted him from power.
No matter what I say this time, he won't be fooled again.
Instead of sending a large army to support Jiangyuan Province, Jin Zidian ordered the troops of King Qin from other provinces to gather towards the royal city of Hanyang.
The King of Joseon, Lee Joon, quickly questioned Kim Zidian's strategy. He said: "The leader does not support Gangwon Province. What if the Tatars don't come to Wangjing?"
Jin Zidian said: "The Tatars are mostly cavalry who come and go like the wind. If they make a false shot and attack Gyeonggi Road, then we will definitely cause Wang Jing to be in a hurry like last time."
"My lord, choose the lesser of two evils!"
North Korea's King Li Ju was also helpless about this. The North Korean army was no match for the Tatars at all, and now North Korea could only rely on the Ming army stationed in North Korea.
The Ming Dynasty, the once selfless suzerain country, no longer exists. Although North Korea spends a lot of money and food every year to support the Ming army, it can only prevent North Korea from being further invaded by the Tatars.
He also once wanted the Ming Army to regain Pyongyang for North Korea, but he simply couldn't afford the price offered by the Ming Army.
Li Jian was not stupid. He understood that the Ming army deliberately did not drive away the Tatars so that they could continue to draw blood from North Korea.
But there was nothing he could do about it.
North Korea currently has food problems and it is difficult to be self-sufficient. For this reason, he watched helplessly as the Ming army took North Koreans away as laborers.
North Koreans also know that the so-called labor is just to be slaves, but after all, it is a way to survive, which is much better than starving to death.
How many more than hundreds of thousands of North Korean people have starved to death in the past two years?
But he, the King of Joseon, could do nothing about it.
Soon Kong Youde guaranteed that the Ming troops stationed in North Korea would launch an attack on Pyongyang and would ensure the safety of the royal city.
At this time, the Xianghongqi led by Yue Tuo captured Yichuan and then captured Cheorwon at the junction of Gangwon Province and Gyeonggi Province.
With the fall of Cheorwon, people in Hanyang City, the royal capital of Joseon, were even more panicked.
Fortunately, Jin Zidian, the leader of the political affairs, ordered all the North Korean troops to rush to help Wang Jing a few days ago. North Korea is not big, and now some Qin Wang troops have arrived near Hanyang one after another.
There are still many soldiers and horses in the royal city now.
And they successfully eliminated some Tatar sentries and prevented the Tatars from entering Gyeonggi Province.
However, the good times did not last long. After capturing Huaiyang, the Xianghuang Banner led by Obai attacked non-stop southward and soon captured Xiangyang, an important town in Jiangyuan Province.
One day later, Jiangling, south of Xiangyang, was captured.
Now even Jin Zidian couldn't sit still. It was not because he made a mistake in judgment and gathered heavy troops near the royal city, which caused the Tatars to march straight in.
But the Tatars' goal this time is obviously to go south.
Once the Tatars break through Gangwon Province, they will enter Gyeongsang Province.
Andong, the home base of the "Andong Kim Family", is located in the north of Gyeongsang-do.
Jin Zidian has been greedy for money in the two years since he has been in charge of political affairs.
All the money and food accumulated by the Andong Jin family over the generations are in Andong.
To be honest, even if Wang Jing loses his Anton, he can’t lose it!
He knew that even if he sent troops to Anton now, it would probably be of no avail.
Even if they could make it in time, they still wouldn't be able to defeat the Tatars.
The desperate Jin Zidian had no choice but to find Kong Youde in Hanyang.
He almost cried and said: "Kong Zhenfu, you must help me, I am willing to use 30% of Anton's money and food as reward!"
Kong Youde was a profiteer, so of course he knew that this was the time for him to make a fortune.
So Kong Youde made an awkward gesture and said: "Now the fastest Ming army can reach Anton is Wang Jing's 500 troops, but if this team moves, Wang Jing will be empty!"
"And I heard that the Tatars have more than 20,000 troops going south this time. Even if I send 500 troops, I may not be able to stop the Tatars?"
Jin Zidian was also anxious at this time. He said: "The gold and silver hidden by Anton is worth 1 million taels, and the food is 400,000 shi. Only Kong Zhen can raise troops, and Jin is willing to use half of it as reward!"
Jin Zidian's words really shocked Kong Youde. He didn't expect that Jin Zidian's family could save so much money and food in a poor country like North Korea.
Fifty percent is not a lot, so he said: "It's settled, I will send troops to rescue Anton right now!"
The 500 people in Hanyang are naturally not enough. According to intelligence, the Tatars are going south this time with a main force of 17,000 people with red and yellow flags.
Fortunately, Mao Wenlong had already led the Liaodong Cavalry to Incheon at this time.
After Mao Wenlong led the Liaodong cavalry to run wildly for a day, they finally arrived at Chungju, an important town in the north of Chungcheong Province in North Korea.
The good news is that the Tatars are besieging Wonju north of Chungju. There is no news yet that the Tatars have entered Gyeongsang Province.
However, in order to prevent accidents, Mao Wenlong decided to march overnight to reach Anton.
After all, this attack can get 500,000 taels of silver and 200,000 shi of grain as a reward. These things must not fall into the hands of the Tatars.
They hurriedly and slowly finally arrived at Anton.
However, it was already dark at this time, and Anton's defenders did not dare to open the door.
Mao Wenlong shouted: "We have the handwriting of the North Korean leader Kim Zidian. You can put a basket down."
After dawdling for a long time, these Koreans finally opened the city gate.
As a result, Mao Wenlong discovered that the place where the Anton Jin family hid money and food was not in the city, but in a fortress five miles away from Anton City.
Moreover, the fortress was not large in size. It was located in the mountains and could only accommodate 500 defenders.
In the end, Mao Wenlong was forced to divide his troops.
The next day, the vanguard of the Tatars surrounded the city of Anton. This was just a small city with a circumference of 4 miles, and the height of the city was only more than 3 meters.
Mao Wenlong naturally has no interest in defense.
Since the Tatars came south, they have encountered almost no decent resistance in North Korea. North Korea's military strength is not large. They almost always attack the city in one go, and some even surrender.
Even larger cities like Xiangyang and Yuanzhou can only resist for about a day at most.
Naturally, they didn't pay attention to the small town of Anton.
Soon the accompanying North Korean Eight Banners shouted: "You must surrender quickly. Open the city and surrender directly to avoid death. If you dare to resist, the city will be massacred after the city is broken. No one will be left alive."
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw Anton's city gate being opened.
The leader Niu Lu'erzhen laughed and said: "These Koreans can't help but be frightened. Sure enough, Kaicheng surrendered!"
Just as they were preparing to enter the city to plunder, they saw a large number of cavalry rushing out of the city.
Niu Lu'er was really shocked. Heavy cavalry actually appeared in the small town of Anton?
But they really didn't pay attention to North Korea's heavy cavalry.
Soon they rode forward to fight with these Korean cavalry.
Originally, they hadtily accepted the challenge and suffered a big loss in terms of the impact of the war horses. In addition, they underestimated the enemy and how could they be the opponent of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
In just a combined sprint, a large number of Tatars with yellow flags were knocked to the ground by the spears of the Liaodong cavalry.
By the time they tried to turn their horses and escape, it was already too late. In less than a stick of incense, all one thousand Tatars were wiped out!
When Ao Bai heard that a thousand vanguards with yellow flags were wiped out by the Korean army, he was immediately confused.
They fought all the way and only lost more than a hundred people in the most intense siege battle. How is it possible that the North Korean army could wipe out a thousand Xianghuang Banners at once?
At this time, a Korean in the army said: "Anton is the hometown of Kim Zidian, the leader of North Korea's political affairs. Maybe he concentrated the main force of North Korea here."
So Obai ordered the main force with yellow flags to march towards Anton.
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