During the Hongwu Dynasty, the King of Goryeo saw that the Ming Dynasty had set up Tieling Guards on the border, and his sense of crisis increased sharply. He ordered Li Chenggui to be the general and sent troops to invade Liaodong.
After Li Chenggui learned about this, everyone was dumbfounded. He asked me to lead troops to fight against the Ming Dynasty? Why don't you go?
The terrain of North Korea is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can resist tenaciously every invasion. But if you send troops abroad, wouldn't it be a bit unreasonable?
But as a minister, Li Chenggui had to symbolically lead his troops towards Liaodong. Halfway through the march, he applied to the King of Korea to withdraw his troops because of the flooding of the river. The King of Korea refused, and later he cited the shortage of food and grass. He once again applied to withdraw his troops, but was once again rejected righteously by the King of Goryeo.
Li Chenggui thought to himself, what's the difference between attacking the Ming Dynasty and asking me to die? If I go to attack the Ming Dynasty, I will die and I will not survive. If I return to the country to rebel, I may still have a way to survive. That's right, I might as well rebel!
So, Li Chenggui, who was halfway through the march, led his troops back to Gaijing on Wahwa Island, launched a mutiny, overthrew the rule of King Goryeo, and established the Joseon Dynasty, also known as the "Yi Dynasty". The newly appointed King of Joseon, Li Chenggui, worked non-stop Then he bowed his head to the Ming Dynasty.
However, Li Chenggui, the founder of the Joseon Dynasty who was a rebel, did not fare well. After he rebelled, his fifth son Li Bangyuan also learned to rebel. He originally just wanted to give it a try, but he did not expect that the rebellion actually succeeded.
Relying on the two great victories in the Prince Rebellion, Li Fangyuan pushed his father off the throne and became the monarch of the Li Dynasty.
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Opening the capital, Prince's Mansion
Rows of white pigeons flew across the sky, and one of them fluttered twice and landed in the courtyard.
Song Jiucheng, who served as an aide in the Crown Prince's Mansion, leaned down and reached out to hold the wings of the white dove. It turned out that there was a scarlet paper wrapped around the paws of the white dove, which was the same color as the paws. It was difficult to spot without looking carefully.
Most of the birds in North Korea are pigeons, especially in Gyeonggi Province, where pigeons are infested and no one will pay attention to such an inconspicuous pigeon.
Song Jiucheng opened the note, which was filled with densely packed encrypted text. After reading it, he swallowed the note with a different expression and stood up as if nothing had happened.
His ancestors were from Liaodong and later moved to North Korea. Three generations of his ancestors and grandchildren served as officials in the Goryeo Dynasty and the Li Dynasty respectively. Now Song Jiucheng came to the Prince's Mansion to serve as an aide, which can be said to have made a leap to the sky.
The Li Dynasty was nominally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The king of Joseon was at the same level as the county king, and the crown prince of the Li Dynasty was actually the crown prince of the Joseon Dynasty.
"Jin Yiwei, such a strange word."
Song Jiucheng murmured to himself, "I thought that after the death of Taizu, us royal guards would have been forgotten by the imperial court."
This Taizu does not refer to the North Korean Taizu Li Chenggui.
But the Ming Taizu, Zhu Yuanzhang!
Song Jiucheng always remembered that in addition to his identity as a staff member of the Li Dynasty Prince's Mansion, he also had another identity.
——Jin Yiwei.
His branch of Jinyiwei had served as officials in North Korea for three generations. If they had not been reactivated now, their identity would have been hidden until they were forgotten by everyone.
"The person who inherits Taizu's will is actually the son of King Yan." Song Jiucheng closed his eyes lightly, "No matter whether it is Jianwen, Yongle, or King Qi, we, the hidden stakes of the Jinyi Guards, are loyal The emperor of Ming Dynasty has always been the emperor of Ming Dynasty. Except that the emperor of Ming Dynasty has to be named Zhu, nothing else matters."
…
After Zhu Gaojie came to Liaodong, he seemed to have become the highest commander in the northeastern region of the Ming Dynasty. However, he did not set up his headquarters in the more familiar Jianzhou, but stayed in Guangning Mansion in Liaodong.
If you want to mobilize the 300,000 Liaodong Army with one arm, it is most suitable to conduct operations in Liaodong itself. What's more, the navy is still in Lushunkou in southeastern Liaoning. If you want to mobilize Lushunkou as soon as possible, An order must be issued in Liaodong.
In today's Northeast, Zhu Gaojie alone represents the highest level. Lu Chaoyang, Liu Rong, and Zheng He represent the Jinyiwei, Liaodong Army, and Navy respectively, and obey Zhu Gaojia's orders.
Although his plan was to capture North Korea and Japan within ten months, after arriving in the Northeast, Zhu Gaojie did not immediately reorganize his troops, but took his time collecting intelligence in Guangning.
"Sharpening a knife is as good as chopping wood. The faster the knife is sharpened, the cleaner it will be when killing people."
In the commander's mansion, Zhu Gaojie took out a document from his desk, read it and threw it to Lu Chaoyang.
After Lu Chaoyang took the document, he sealed it with paint, put it in an iron box and locked it.
Any document on this desk is top-secret military information, affecting every move in the Northeast and the life and death of the sergeants.
Zhu Gaojie pondered for a moment and asked, "Have all the Jin Yiwei's intelligence networks in Li Dynasty been activated?"
Lu Chaoyang replied: "Most of them have started to operate, but our hidden piles in North Korea have been gathering dust for twenty years. After the change of dynasties, some hidden piles have even been completely buried. It will take a certain amount of time to fully activate them."
"It's understandable, I'm not in a hurry." Zhu Gaojie said with emotion, "After all, this is the chessboard from twenty years ago. Twenty years, even if a sharp knife has been buried in the soil for twenty years, if you want to smooth the top It will take a long time for the iron to rust, not to mention that most of the hidden hands left behind by my grandfather twenty years ago can still be used now, I am already surprised. "
Zhu Gaojie closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then said: "I heard that Li Fangyuan, the king of North Korea in the Li Dynasty, liked his third son, Lord Zhongning Li Chen very much?"
Lu Chaoyang said: "Yes, the crown prince of the Li Dynasty is Li Bao, the eldest son of the King of Joseon. However, he is uneducated and hangs out with sycophants all day long. The King of Joseon admonished him many times, but he never repented. Li Chen, on the other hand, is studious and tireless. He is famous both inside and outside the court, in sharp contrast to his eldest brother. The King of Joseon already loves Li Sun, so he may have wanted to change his son."
"The Li Dynasty is such a small place, but there are a lot of hidden tricks in it." Zhu Gaojie said contemptuously, "What you just said are just words on the table. In my opinion, I am afraid that the prince Li Zhen is more loyal than The arrival of Lord Ning, Li Chen, has made it even more difficult to control. Li Bao's mother's family is the Min family, the most powerful family in the Li Dynasty. King Li Chenggui of North Korea is afraid of the eldest son, Li Bao."
"That's true, but the Lord of Zhongning, Li Chen, is not a simple person. His father-in-law is Shen Wen, the minister of the Li Dynasty. However, compared to the crown prince, Li Bao, the Lord of Zhongning, Li Chen, is easier to control..."
Lu Chaoyang's voice paused, as if he asked with enlightenment, "My lord, do you think we can start from here?"
"Isn't what Jinyiwei is best at attacking the enemy from the inside?"
Zhu Gaojie said calmly, "Back then, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times and was defeated in three battles, which destroyed the foundation of the Sui Dynasty. I am not Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. If I lead troops to attack North Korea, which has the most powerful navy, There are hundreds of thousands of Liaodong elites. Even though the terrain of North Korea is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if I really want to attack by force, how can the Li Dynasty stop me? However, attacking by force is the last resort. To deal with such a well-defended battle, the best way is to attack from the inside. The best policy."
Lu Chaoyang cupped his hands in admiration and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"
When it comes to how to fight a war, Lu Chaoyang is not good at it. He is a spy, not a general fighting a war. If he were to make suggestions, he would probably say: I, Lu Chaoyang, have three strategies, namely, lower strategy, lower lower strategy, lower lower strategy...
"The current Li Dynasty can be said to be a kingdom built on coal mines." Zhu Gaojie calculated, "It only takes one fire to ignite the raging flames of the Li Dynasty until the Li Dynasty is reduced to ashes. However, this fire, we We need to plan carefully, and you also know that we cannot hide the fact that we stationed the navy in Lushunkou for too long. The Koreans are not fools. Unless they have to, they will definitely unite to fight against the common enemy, which is us."
"If you don't take action, you won't take action. If you do, it will kill him."
Zhu Gaojie said slowly: "In the Li Dynasty, King Li Fangyuan of Joseon, Prince Li Bao, and Prince Zhongning Li Chen have reached a strange triangular equilibrium. In the face of absolute advantage, none of them are willing to break this equilibrium. And what we have to do is to get in between them, make them chaotic, ignite the coal mines under the Li Dynasty’s kingdom, and let the fire of civil strife sweep through the dynasty.”
"This matter may be said to be simple or difficult, but it is not too difficult. The King of Joseon and the King of Chungnyeong are on the same line. The King of Joseon must rely on the King of Chungnyeong to maintain his power, and the King of Chungnyeong must maintain his power. It depends on the King of Joseon to be qualified to inherit the throne. Just like cutting flesh with a dull knife, they have to slowly wear out the crown prince Li Bao. This process may be very slow, every three to five years is impossible, but we Can’t wait that long.”
"What we have to do is to speed up this process and force the North Korean Crown Prince Li Bao to fight to the death at all costs!"
The national war was not just about whose army was more elite, it was a frontal battlefield, but Zhu Gaojie didn't want to fight Li Chao on a frontal battlefield. Defensive warfare is the natural advantage of the Li Dynasty, but once Zhu Gaojie announced the war, he seemed to be stuck in a quagmire. He would either destroy the Li Dynasty or die in the northeast. Winning the war is not too difficult. It is also possible to destroy the country, but the losses will exceed Budget, for Zhu Gaojie, who is well versed in maneuvering, this is a loss-making business.
Using one's own shortcomings to attack another's strong points is what a fool does.
In fact, from now on, the war between Ming Dynasty and North Korea has already begun, but it is not on the frontal battlefield, but on the battlefield behind enemy lines.
Zhu Gaojie was always meticulous in everything he did and never did anything meaningless. He brought Lu Chaoyang to the Northeast just to maximize the strength of the Jin Yiwei and completely defeat the Li Dynasty on the battlefield behind enemy lines!
Jin Yiwei is the protagonist in this battle to destroy the country.
Zhu Gaojie was like a super-level chess player, controlling the chess pieces behind the scenes and constantly advancing the attack, while his opponent knew nothing about it and was slowly being pulled away bit by bit and swallowed into his belly.
He is reviewing Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's layout in the Northeast, and he is even better!
(End of chapter)
