Uiju Castle.
Kim Myung-won, the pastoral envoy to Yiju in North Korea, had only been transferred to Yiju for three months and did not know much about Yiju as a whole.
And because it was a severe cold, he had no intention of reorganizing his troops, nor did he think about what the Ming Dynasty, which had always only cared about the Jurchens and Mongolia, would do to North Korea.
Therefore, when the Ming army arrived here, Jin Mingyuan was still eating wine around the fire and teasing one or two concubines.
Just wait until the next day, when the sky is just turning white.
The soldiers guarding the city discovered that thousands of people were riding outside the city gate.
Looking through the swirling heavy snow, it looked like a giant iron dragon stretching across the distant wilderness, slowly moving towards Yiju Castle.
The soldiers guarding the city hurriedly reported the situation.
Jin Mingyuan learned the news soon after.
But when Jin Mingyuan arrived, the Ming army's cavalry outside the city had already begun to speed up.
The galloping war horses trampled on the snowy fields, causing white beads to fly.
Suddenly the snow and fog filled the air.
Not long after, the cavalry at the front could clearly see their bared teeth and the flying braids on the back of their heads, like tigers descending the mountain. And when the soldiers were in a panic and were at a loss, these cavalry had already begun to take advantage of their horses. Bow and arrow.
These cavalrymen who rushed forward were all Jurchens hired by the Ming army generals, so they all wore braids.
And their mission is also to play the role of cannon fodder.
The Jurchens are a people of fishing and hunting, and they are good at riding and shooting. Nowadays, the tribes are dispersed. Many Jurchens are almost the same as savages. They eat and wear very simple things and are easy to be bribed and hired.
Therefore, the generals of the Ming army would buy some Jurchens as slaves and fight for themselves.
What's more, the Wanli New Deal has made the Ming Dynasty now rich in financial resources. Not only does the frontier generals have no shortage of pay, but the rewards for meritorious service are also constantly lacking, and additional rewards will be given. There is enough financial resources to buy these soldiers who only need a full meal. Jurchens bought into slavery.
For the Jurchens, fighting for the Ming army is better than fighting wild beasts, not to mention that once the battle is won, the loot will be rich.
Therefore, in the early days of Wanli, the Jurchens were very willing to serve as pawns for the Ming army, even if they braved the wind and snow to attack Yizhou.
Bang bang!
After Jin Mingyuan arrived at Uiju Castle, he hurriedly commanded the North Korean defenders to fire muskets at the charging cavalry, and shouted: "Let go! Let go!"
However, the North Korean defenders neglected training, and because the Ming army appeared too suddenly, they panicked and fired their guns randomly, without order, and some even fired them into the sky.
Whizzing!
At this time, the Jurchens who were rushing at the front had already drawn their heavy bows and fired arrows in succession, hitting several Korean soldiers immediately.
The soldiers guarding the city became even more panicked, and some simply collapsed with their heads in their hands.
boom!
boom!
boom!
At this time, the main cavalry of the Ming army led by General Yang Huan also came over the snow and fired three cannons.
Jin Mingyuan also saw the rows of sun and moon flags and red and blue cloth armor of the Ming army fluttering under the snow, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground: "It turned out to be the heavenly army!"
Just when Jin Mingyuan was horrified, there was a sudden explosion from the gunpowder depot in the city, and flames were sprayed everywhere. At the same time, fires broke out in various forage yards.
Jin Mingyuan was stunned on the spot: "What's going on?"
"The heavenly army is attacking! Kneel down and refuse to kill!"
"The heavenly army is attacking! Kneel down and refuse to kill!"
At that time, Wan Bangfu, a member of the Jin Yiwei team, was holding torches and lighting fires everywhere, shouting loudly, and rushed directly to the city gate. He ordered Neiying Han Lian and other hundreds of Liaodong Han people who had gathered here first: "Capture the city!"
The Ming Dynasty was peaceful for many years and the population surged.
The number of Han people in Liaodong has also increased a lot, but because the imperial government's finances began to be in a serious deficit before the Wanli Dynasty, most of the Han people with military household registration in Liaodong would flee elsewhere, and many Han people would flee to North Korea to make a living.
Therefore, Jin Yiwei carefully organized an internal response in Yizhou City and was able to find many Han people as internal responses.
In short, everything depends on financial resources.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has strong financial resources, let alone letting the Yi Ding attack Yizhou in North Korea for the Ming Dynasty, it is also possible to let the Han people living in North Korea fight for the Ming Dynasty again.
The Jinyiwei Xisaku and the Han people who had sneaked into Yiju City were all dressed in local costumes, so the court soldiers couldn't tell them apart. And they were in a panic and didn't know how to deal with the sudden appearance of an armed force. Most of them just ran away with their heads in their hands. , and some knelt on the ground obediently because they heard the shouts of Wan Bangfu and other Jinyiwei.
Of course, even if the North Korean soldiers wanted to repel the Han armed forces who were the internal forces of the Ming army, they would not be able to do so.
Because today's North Korea is in an era of fierce party strife, military armaments have long been relaxed. Many North Korean soldiers are so short of pay that they have to sell off their weapons to survive. Most of them are old, weak, sick, and disabled. The healthy ones have fled, or have gone to work as caregivers in wealthy households. They went to the hospital. After all, the court didn't pay them, so they couldn't starve in vain. It was a good thing if they didn't rebel.
Therefore, when the court soldiers, who were mainly old, weak, sick and disabled, saw Wan Bangfu and other internal agents, even if they had no time to escape, they were killed as quickly as they were chopping melons and vegetables.
Not long after, the gate of Yizhou City was opened by Ming Dynasty officials.
The Ming army cavalry that had been wandering outside suddenly rushed in. They cut down the standing soldiers without stopping. It didn't take long for a large number of cavalry to pour in.
When Kim Myung-won, the pastoral envoy of Yiju in North Korea, was escorted to the Ming army general Yang Huan, the Ming army had already controlled the entire Yiju city and put out the fires everywhere.
And Jin Mingyuan could only accept his fate. He did not expect that the Ming army would appear quietly at the gate of Yizhou City, and they had already responded internally, so he could only kneel in front of Yang Huan:
"Heavenly army, spare your life! The ministers of the vassal state don't know how the vassal state offended the Celestial Empire;"
"Please know that the Heavenly Army is aware that I was originally a member of the Western Party. I was demoted here because of my disobedience to Li Shanhai, the powerful official of the Eastern Party. As a Westerner, like the entire Western Party, I respect China as my parents. of the country;”
"So no matter what, as long as the heavenly army is willing to spare my life, I am willing to work hard to calm my parents' anger!"
Yang Huanda sat on a chair in front of Jin Mingyuan and said: "This time our heavenly army came to the court under the order to punish the treacherous ministers around your highness, so I won't kill you! You don't need to panic , as long as you are willing to cooperate, the heavenly army will not do anything to you."
"I am willing to serve the Celestial Empire!"
Jin Mingyuan was overjoyed and kowtowed to the ground.
Therefore, with the cooperation of Jin Mingyuan, all the passes in Yizhou were opened.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty's southern soldiers under Wu Weizhong's troops passed through the highway smoothly and came to Yizhou City.
After Yang Huan saw the large number of five-square flags representing Wu Weizhong's southern troops, he rushed to Anzhou with 5,000 cavalry, leaving only Jin Mingyuan and his 3,000 cavalry to wait for Wu Weizhong in Yizhou.
At the moment, northern North Korea is experiencing a severe drought and people are starving, especially in the Anju area. However, Lee's North Korea is currently busy with party disputes. The Westerners' Party and the Easterners' Party are fighting fiercely, so they have no time to take care of disaster relief.
Therefore, after Yang Huan led his troops here, they only felt that they had entered a hell on earth.
As a result, the Anzhou defenders fled without fighting because there was not much food to defend.
Yang Huan therefore went to Anzhou without fighting. In order to avoid the plague due to famine after the spring, he also ordered the remaining cavalry to bury the bones after leaving three thousand cavalry.
As for Yang Huan himself, he led the remaining two thousand cavalry to attack Pyongyang.
At this time, Pyongyang was under strict police supervision.
Therefore, Yang Huan, who had rich combat experience, had to decide to temporarily withdraw to Anzhou. When the main force arrived, he did not rush to attack other counties.
The first day of the twelfth lunar month in the seventh year of Wanli.
Li Chengliang led the main force to also arrive in Anzhou, and left Anzhou on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, arriving and camping ten miles outside Pyongyang.
Because the main force of Li Chengliang came with enough food and fodder, he took the opportunity to release food and recruit hungry Korean people as soldiers, and ordered them to build wooden carts and various siege equipment for the Ming army.
To this end, Li Chengliang set up seven porridge factories and recruited tens of thousands of Korean people to work here.
"How despicable! They actually distributed food to the victims!"
Ping'an Road Observer Zheng Che was very angry when he saw this scene, but he had no choice but to send people to continue to rush to Seoul for help.
(End of chapter)
