When Su Yonglin received this letter, Su Jue's military preparations in Liaodong were more than 90% complete, and he was basically ready to launch a war.
So when Su Yonglin saw what was written in this letter [Korea is definitely not afraid of Ming's war blackmail], he immediately felt that Yelang's arrogance would always happen.
If a small country is not knocked stupid by a wave of trends, I am afraid that people really do not know their actual situation, and they really do not understand why they are small countries and why big countries are big countries.
Is the difference between big countries and small countries so insignificant to these people?
Do they really not know that a big country can crush them to death with just a move of its fingers?
So Su Yonglin sneered and tore up the letter in front of the Korean envoy.
"Is Goryeo afraid of the Ming Dynasty? Go back and tell those generals that if you are a small country but do not feel humble, if you are small but do not fear the strong, if you are rude and insult your big neighbors, if you are greedy but do not know how to make friends, you will die."
The Korean envoy was trembling and his face was pale.
"Your Majesty...has he decided to use troops against Goryeo?"
Su Yonglin nodded.
"Fighting the unruly and slaying the rebels, the master of the Ming Dynasty is the master of the king! The master of justice!"
The Korean envoy sighed and suppressed the fear in his heart.
"The rebels have made mistakes and deserve to be killed, but why do the people deserve it? Your Majesty raises an army in anger. Wherever the army goes, it will destroy all living beings. How can he be regarded as a teacher of the king? A teacher of justice?"
"The military discipline of the Ming Dynasty's army is unparalleled in the world. This is what I am most proud of. What I can guarantee is that wherever the Ming Dynasty's army goes, they will only kill traitors and not harm the people at all."
Su Yonglin sighed slowly and said: "From now on, the hard days of the people of Goryeo will be over. The Ming Dynasty will let them live like human beings. You guys, don't be bothered by such things. It seems that the people of Goryeo are happy and healthy under your rule, which is really shameless."
Are the hard times over?
The Korean envoy was very puzzled by this.
Did the Ming Dynasty plan to kill all the two million people in Goryeo?
He was horrified, but he didn't dare to ask any more. He was worried that he would be killed if he continued to ask.
Su Yonglin has never been a murderous person, so the Korean envoy left Zhongdu safely and was able to return to Kaicheng to report the news.
But his actions no longer made sense.
On February 13, the 10th year of Hongwu's reign, he had just arrived in Kaicheng to report the news to Li Yifang. The vanguard of the 13th Army of the 5th Corps of the Ming Army had already broken into the Anbei Protectorate on the northern boundary of Goryeo, and its troops were pointing directly at Anzhou. Very sharp.
When Li Yifang learned about the fall of Anju, Goryeo's Xijing and Pyongyang were already struggling to hold on under the heavy siege of the Ming army, and were crumbling in the face of the fierce artillery of the Ming army.
He panicked and organized the resistance and sent military generals to discuss response strategies, and decided to send generals Li Yiyi and Pu Cunwei to lead an army of 30,000 to the north to resist urgently. Then he integrated more soldiers to go north to support and strive to withstand the Ming army's attack in the northern border area. .
At the same time, he ordered the border general Zhao Weichong to lead his border defense troops to attack the Ming army from the east, threatening the supply lines on their sides and rear.
He felt that this arrangement should be considered a more appropriate arrangement.
As long as they withstand the impact of the Ming army in the northern border, and then Zhao Weichong leads the army to sneak attack on the Ming army's rear nest in the east border and cut off the Ming army's logistics supply line in one fell swoop, then no matter how capable the Ming army is, it will inevitably capsize in the sewer.
He confidently planned a defensive counterattack belonging to Goryeo, but he did not know that the main force of the 14th Army of the Ming Army launched the attack from Zhao Weichong's defense area - he did not receive any news.
Of course, you really can't blame him.
The Ming army attacked in two directions, one to the north and the other to the east. The first stage of the tactical goal was to eat up all the border guards in northern Goryeo.
However, unlike the slight resistance from the northern border defenders, Zhao Weichong did not resist at all.
When he learned that the Ming army was attacking, he was shocked and frightened to death, so he ran away with his men, all the way south, without a trace, and he was called the Flying General of Goryeo.
He had always had a bad relationship with Li Yifang, and he had no intention of doing anything that a "loyal minister" would do for his regime. It would have been a good idea to just run away, at least without surrendering.
As soon as he ran away, his generals and top soldiers also ran very fast one after another, throwing away the defense area and military supplies directly to the Ming army.
As a result, the eastern border area on the northern border of Goryeo was easily occupied by the Ming army. There was almost no strong resistance, and no one provided information to the Kaesong court. Li Yifang did not know that the eastern border was controlled by the Ming army. .
The so-called "Thousand-mile Great Wall" built by Goryeo to prevent the invasion of northern enemies did not bring any obstacles to the Ming army. The Ming army easily crossed the Thousand-mile Great Wall and entered the Goryeo border.
After Su Jue personally led the main force of the Thirteenth Army to break through Anzhou, he used artillery to bombard Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo. Three days later, he broke through Pyongyang, killed the resisting generals, broke into the city and occupied Pyongyang, and then continued southward, moving like the wind.
On February 23, the 10th year of Hongwu, ten days after the Ming army launched its military operation, the main force of the Thirteenth Army, 30,000 men led by Su Jue, encountered the 30,000 Korean reinforcements led by Li Yidong and Pu Cunwei thirty miles south of Pyongyang. people and start a field battle.
In this battle, the Ming army made the Korean field troops feel what "crushing" meant for the first time.
The Ming army used cavalry and general artillery to destroy the Korean military formation from a distance, and then used muskets to attack the Korean military formation at close range. They beat the Korean military formation facing the enemy into tatters and lost completely.
In the end, five thousand cavalry circled back and took a retreat. None of the 30,000 Korean field troops escaped and were completely wiped out by the Ming army.
It's not their fault. It's really difficult for a normal big-headed soldier who has never seen a brutal firearm to face a musket, and it's even harder to face a big iron ball flying from a distance and carrying a scorching air current.
The former can blow their heads off, and the latter can smash them into a pulp, making them almost defenseless.
Facing the Ming army that used such sharp weapons, it is not unforgivable that the Goryeo Field Army fell into a disastrous defeat.
In this battle, both Li Yidong and Pu Cunwei, the generals Li Yifang relied on, were killed.
The former was beaten to death by cavalry generals and cannons, while the latter was surrounded by Ming cavalry and fought hard. He was hit on the head with a hammer, fell to the ground and died.
Su Jue fought a large-scale battle for the first time in a long time, and he was still not satisfied, so he continued to move south, aiming directly at Kaicheng, the capital of Goryeo.
When Li Yidong and Pu Cunwei were wiped out, Li Yifang had just prepared an army of 20,000. He planned to prepare another 20,000 troops, thinking that this would have a greater chance of winning.
As a result, on February 15th, he learned that the previous 30,000-strong army had been wiped out and that the Ming army was heading south towards Kaicheng.
As soon as the news came out, the whole of Kaicheng was panicked, shocked, and scared to death.
For a while, no one thought about going north. They either fled south as quickly as possible, or stayed in Kaesong and prepared to surrender.
Zheng Zhongfu and others had been running for three or five days. They did not expect that the Ming army was so fast, so after learning that the Ming army was starting a war, they hurriedly packed up their things and fled. The only ones left in the city were the resistance generals and generals. The civil servants who were lucky enough to survive under the butcher's knife.
The current situation makes the generals of the resistance faction feel regretful. There are many people who have abandoned the city and fled. However, the civil servants are secretly happy. They feel that as soon as the soldiers of tomorrow arrive, they will be free and can regain their former power and status. .
Everything will eventually return to where it started.
Li Yifang, who was at the center of the storm, regretted his mistake at this time. Realizing that it was impossible to win against the Ming army, Li Yifang made emergency arrangements and pretended to defend Kaicheng, but in fact he was ready to escape.
On the night of February 16, Li Yifang was ready to escape, but at the critical moment, he suddenly felt a strong sense of unwillingness.
