"Pass my order and ask Mao Wenlong to immediately take the army back to Busan by boat from the Yalu River."
When the imperial court regained the Northeast, it was not rich. In addition, the imperial court also needed to vigorously develop the Northeast.
In addition, in order to ensure that Su Polu had the absolute right to speak in North Korea, according to the plan, Mao Wenlong and his subordinates in Pidao were all assigned to Su Polu.
After arriving in North Korea, Mao Wenlong had always been concerned about the Ming Dynasty and secretly sent letters to the court to return to the Ming Dynasty.
However, for the benefit of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Dingguo personally wrote a book to Mao Wenlong, asking him to lurk well, act as Ming Dynasty's internal response, and quietly wait for Ming Dynasty's counterattack.
At the same time, the news was passed to Su Polu through Zhu Dinghai, and Mao Wenlong was made the defender of the Yalu River area.
This will take 4 years.
Over the past four years, countless Ming Dynasty spies quietly sneaked into the hinterland of North Korea from Mao Wenlong's defense line to carry out their missions.
It can be said that Mao Wenlong was indispensable for the successful drawing of the North Korean atlas.
Including at the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, the imperial court was able to face the sneak attack of Jiannu, and was able to make countermeasures in advance and launch a sneak attack. Mao Wenlong also had certain contributions.
When the imperial court ordered the recovery of North Korea, Zhu Dingguo sent an order to Mao Wenlong, ordering him to respond well.
After receiving the order, Mao Wenlong finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"General, the prince has given an order to withdraw the army to Busan by boat immediately."
"Recently, the Ming army has made some changes, and Hou Jin and the Mongols have also been making small moves. I need to make some plans. Please tell the prince that I will tidy up here. Once I am ready, I will return to Busan immediately."
Although he didn't know what Su Polu's purpose was in calling him back, how could he jump into the vortex when he was about to return to the Ming Dynasty?
If it were not uncertain, when would Ming attack?
In addition, he had never gained Su Polu's absolute trust, so all his generals were sent to Japan.
If he had no way to fully control the army in his hand, Mao Wenlong would have kicked the messenger out long ago.
"The relationship between the prince, Hou Jin, and the Mongols is not very good now. You must be careful before boarding the ship."
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I will explain it to you right now. Envoy, you have worked hard all the way. Please go to your house to rest for a while. My former friend here just brought two young ladies from Japan, and I will send them to you now. ...."
"No, no, I still need to go back and recover." The messenger politely refused.
It’s not that I don’t want it, it’s just that the tigress at home is too powerful.
...
"Go to Li Ji Restaurant in the east of the city and call Chef Zhang over. I'm in a good mood today and want to have a bite of my hometown's food." After seeing off the messenger, Mao Wenlong pointed to the soldiers beside him and ordered.
Chef Zhang of Liji Restaurant is a member of His Majesty's Imperial Guard. Normally, he would not look for him, but the current situation is urgent. Once he goes to Busan, he doesn't know when he will be able to return to the Ming Dynasty.
In order to leave this place as soon as possible, Mao Wenlong didn't care so much anymore.
Two days later, Chef Zheng sent a token and a secret letter.
After receiving the secret message, Mao Wenlong broke out in a cold sweat.
He hurriedly summoned several other generals in the fort with tokens in hand.
"I don't know, but it turns out that these people are also from the imperial court. This is General Zhu's order. Please check it out."
"No need, since your lord has the token in hand, we should obey your orders."
"Okay, let's gather our troops now..."
"General, there is movement in Su Polu's army."
Since the alliance between Hou Jin and the Mongols, the Hou Jin and Mongolian armies on the Yalu River have had an additional task, which is to monitor Mao Wenlong's team on the Yalu River.
Now that Mao Wenlong's team was shrinking its troops openly, it was natural that they could not escape the eyes of the spies.
"Send spies to investigate and find out the other party's actions very clearly. We can't let the other party escape." Hou Jin's general Aixinjueluo Feiyangguo said.
In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from crossing the Yalu River, Su Polu, Hou Jin and Mongolia gathered a large number of troops in the Yalu River.
However, as time went by, the Ming Dynasty did not take any action, and with the beginning of the Japanese war, fewer and fewer three-party coalition forces remained in the Yalu River.
As of now, most of the three parties have only 5,000 troops left.
I heard that Ming Dynasty was going to regain North Korea and sent some reinforcements. Otherwise, the 3,000 people on each side would be considered too many.
However, the troops remaining in the Yalu River were all their own elites. Now that Hou Jin had formed an alliance with Mongolia, there was a conflict with Su Polu.
The Yalu River is a strategic location, and the current garrison strength is only barely sufficient.
Once Mao Wenlong returned to Busan with his team, Hou Jin and Mongolia had to increase their forces to deal with the defense gap after Mao Wenlong left.
After Mao Wenlong returns to Busan, he will inevitably increase Busan's defense.
With this increase and decrease, the advantages brought by the alliance between Hou Jin and Mongolia will disappear.
For the benefit of Hou Jin and Mongolia, Mao Wenlong's army must not withdraw to Busan.
"Go and notify the Mongolian garrison and ask him to prepare 2,000 cavalry. Once there is any change in Mao Wenlong's troops, we will unite our troops and we must keep each other."
"Give me the order. If you see Mao Wenlong's troops, you must not launch an attack at will. Otherwise, military law will be dealt with."
Although the relationship between the three parties is tense now, they have not broken their skin after all.
But once Mao Wenlong's army gets rid of the problem and Su Polu doesn't need to speak, the king will definitely tear himself apart first.
"Sir, there is something strange happening in the Ming army."
At this moment, a spy rushed in anxiously.
"How many people from the Ming army came?"
"1,000 ghost-faced cavalry."
"What, ghost-faced cavalry, aren't these Zhu Dingguo's personal guards? Could it be that Zhu Dingguo's army has already arrived?" Aixinjueluo Feiyangguo said in horror.
Zhu Dingguo. Every Houjin man is eager to eat his flesh and blood.
It was he who slapped Hou Jin to death at his peak, and it was he who gave the order never to accept the surrender of Hou Jin and Mongolia's top leaders.
He also decided on the 800 taels of silver in his head.
In order to eliminate Zhu Dingguo, Hou Jin tried his best.
Poisoning, finding someone to frame him, assassination, etc., but he has no power against the opponent at all.
However, Hou Jin was not without gains. After the 20,000 troops were severely punished by 3,000 ghost-faced cavalry in the first two years, Hou Jin discovered it when he was investigating the news. The ghost-faced cavalry are Zhu Dingguo's personal guards.
The Ghost Faced Cavalry are not just over 3,000 people, but they are powerful in combat, and everyone is a top-notch fighter.
It is said that none of their skills are inferior to Hou Jin's Batulu.
Coupled with their high-quality armor and special fire guns.
Even in the peak period of Houjin, sending 10,000 Batulu may not necessarily bring benefits to the ghost-faced cavalry.
