Historically, the North Korean Party controlled the political situation based on its emphasis on the main war theory during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion and the fact that Chung In-hong and others took the lead in mobilizing volunteers in Gyeongsang Province to save the country, thus dominating the post-war political situation. However, political differences also created antagonism among Northerners.
After Hong Ruzhen was recommended as the Chief Secretary in the 27th year of Wanli, Nan Yigong, who was serving as an official at the time, Cao Zhenglang, objected, and the Bei Ren Party split into Dabei and Xiaobei.
At that time, the clique led by Li Shanhai and Hong Ruzhen was Dabei, and its camp included Qi Zixian, Li Erzhan, Zheng Renhong, Xu Jun, Han Zuanan, Li Ming, Li Xing, Bai Daheng, Ju Yigang, Hong Shi, Liu Mengyin, etc. people. While Nan Yigong and Jin Xinguo led Xiaobei, including Liu Yongqing, Liu Xifen, Li Qingquan, Li Weixiao, Li Rongyuan, Cheng Junlei and others.
After Daebuk and Sobuk split, most of the northerners expelled Sobuk, and in the last years of Seonjo's reign, they supported Gwanghaegun and took power. However, there was a rift between Li Shanhai, the leader of the political affairs, and Hong Ruzhen, the military commander, and they were divided into "Gubei" with Li Shanhai as the center and "Roubei" with Hong Ruzhen and Li Erzhan as the center. Later, the "Zhongbei" was born to oppose the abdication of King Yongchang and Princess Renmu.
"Zhongbei" is headed by Liu Mengyin and includes Qi Zixian, Zheng Changyan, Li Qingquan, Li Ming, Park Chengzong, etc. On the other hand, Xiaobei lost power after Lord Gwanghae ascended to power because he supported Lord Yongchang. Xiaobei leaders Nan Yigong and Liu Yongqing also had a rift and split the party. The clique centered on the former was called "Qing Xiaobei" or "Southern Party", and the clique centered on the latter was called "Zhuo Xiaobei" or "Liu Party".
In short, the subsequent split of the Northern People's Party caused many variables in the original history, but for the time being, there is no need to go into detail. Because at present, Li Shanhai can barely maintain the superficial unity of the Northern People's Party, and for Gao Pragmatic, this is enough. As for the future...
In the future, as long as it is successful, no matter what you are in the north, the northern people and the west, and what the big north and the northern bone northern meat are, it is just a handful of local forces. It is impossible to put it under the huge system of the entire Daming. What's more, Gao Pragmatic doesn't intend to leave them all on the Korean Peninsula.
All in all, the current situation in North Korea has taken a huge turn because Ri Shanhai suddenly replaced Liu Chenglong as the leader. Li Shanhai is not the Thousand-Armed Guanyin. Of course, he cannot monopolize power alone and will definitely need a lot of helpers.
Therefore, in less than a month when Ma Gui went south to Hanyang, the Joseon court, which was closely protected by the Ming army, began to frequently replace officials. A large number of officials who had been idle or even exiled were reactivated, re- or suddenly promoted to various positions. above key positions.
These positions include not only important central positions, but also important local positions, not only civilian positions, but also military attache positions. There are even some positions that cannot be fulfilled for the time being - for example, some positions are located in occupied areas that have not yet been recovered, and many of them have been moved forward. Wholesale of black gauze hats.
This will of course arouse strong dissatisfaction between the Westerners’ Party and the Southerners’ Party. However, the Westerners Party currently has no say. After all, their original right to speak mainly came from their position as the center of the imperial court. If the center of North Korea wants to say anything, it first depends on the attitude of the Ming army. Even the North Korean King Li He himself cannot act according to his own wishes.
However, the situation of the Southern People's Party is slightly different. As mentioned before, in addition to the central civilian power, the Southern People's Party also controls some military power. Although the North Korean army showed off its hips during the war, no matter how hard it was, the army is an army. It is always an armed force with a formal name and can be used as a political bargaining chip at certain moments.
The Southern Party currently possesses more or less military force, but what is really useful among them is not the roughly 30,000 to 40,000 Korean land divisions they have at their disposal, but the Korean naval forces in Yi Sun-shin's hands. division.
The North Korean Navy was almost completely wiped out in the Battle of Chicheonryang. When Yi Sun-shin came back after being rescued by Yoo Seong-ryong with great pains, he found that the remaining remnants of the Navy were no longer enough to fight the Japanese Navy, and could only fight piecemeal. Engaged in a naval battle of Mingliang.
Yi Sun-shin suffered no losses in this battle, but the total assets of the Korean navy were reduced to only twelve warships. It can be said that as long as the Japanese navy was no longer careless, Yi Sun-shin would be dancing on the edge of a knife even when dealing with them, and as long as If it fails once, the Korean Navy will become a historical term.
As a result, Yi Sun-shin had no choice but to retreat to Gogeum Island. While guarding the island, he moved tens of thousands of families to live on the island and began to rebuild warships and restore strength. When Yi Shanhae replaced Liu Chenglong as the chief political officer, Yi Sun-shin also built nine new warships, restoring the size of the North Korean Navy's warships to twenty-one.
The twenty-one warships are naturally a bit miserable compared to the Ming Dynasty's Japanese fleet, but for North Korea, they are still a force that cannot be underestimated, because Yi Sunsin was retreating the navy from Jeolla Province. At that time, all the artillery that could be collected from various places along the coast were moved away - 80% of which were given to North Korea by the Ming army during the "clearance of inventory" during the Battle of Imchen, which was less than the Ming army and more than the Japanese army.
With 30,000 to 40,000 land divisions, plus Yi Sun-shin's navy, the Southerners believe that as long as this force is used well, it can still play some role. If they can come up with some clever strategies, they may be able to create some kind of force. "The power of setting the tripod".
The Southern People's Party believes that the reason why the current situation between North Korea and China has undergone such a huge change is mainly due to Li Shanhai's instigation of the top brass of the Ming Army - yes, they do use this rhetoric to each other.
Why do you say this? Because if you don't say this, it means you have to admit that all of this was done by Daming on his own initiative, so what are they still struggling with? It’s over!
North Korea has been practicing "biggerism" for two hundred years (that is, a small country serves a big country to preserve its own strategy due to the huge disparity in strength), boasting the power of the celestial dynasty and the heavenly soldiers as if they were living gods, and now this situation The facts of the war also proved that the Chinese dynasty and its heavenly soldiers were indeed a hundred times more powerful than North Korea.
Under such circumstances, if the Southern People's Party bluntly admits that Ming Dynasty wants to completely control North Korea, is it really a joke? Therefore, we cannot admit this and can only insist that these things were done by Li Shanhai, who deceived and instigated the top brass of the Ming Army for his own selfish purposes.
According to the Southern People's Party, the whole thing was that Li Shanhai controlled the court through the hands of the Ming army, and then completely handed over military command to the Ming army, completely marginalizing North Korea in this war. In doing so, Li Shanhai obviously only cared about his own desire for power and ignored the interests of North Korea. Therefore, as an upright minister, the Southern People's Party must unite as one - Qing Jun!
However, although the matter of Qing Jun's side was said with enough justice, it was still very difficult to operate after all. The biggest trouble was that Ma Gui left 30,000 Ming troops to "protect the Korean royal family."
These are thirty thousand heavenly soldiers!
In the year of Renchen, the two Japanese legions of Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa had only 40,000 people in total, but they defeated the Korean army, which was said to have an army of 200,000, and retreated all the way to the Yalu River. As a result, the Ming Dynasty later sent 40,000 to 50,000 troops and easily fought back Hanyang. However, Admiral Li Rusong's few thousand men obviously rushed too fast and fell into siege, but in the end they withstood nearly ten times the Japanese attack. Finally, you can retreat smoothly.
Therefore, the Japanese army is better than the Korean army, and the Ming army is better than the Japanese army. So to calculate, it is obviously impossible to expect 30,000 to 40,000 Korean troops to defeat the Ming army on the "Qingjun side", even if Yi Sun-shin's navy can go ashore.
What's more, the Southern People's Party can't find any reason to attack the Ming army! They were originally the sovereign state, and now they came to help North Korea fight against the Japanese pirates. If the Southerners led their troops to attack the Ming army, wouldn't they be playing themselves as traitors?
Therefore, the Qing emperor cannot act recklessly, he can only act wisely, and he must first adhere to a basic principle, that is, he can only target Li Shanhai and his Beiren Party, and must not involve the Ming army, so as not to lose his reputation as a righteous person and become a Rebellious ministers and traitors will be infamous for thousands of years.
As the leader of the Southern People's Party at this time, Liu Chenglong was quite resistant to doing such a thing, and he really saw no chance of success. Obviously, the only way to "outwit the Ming army without involving it" is to divert the tiger away from the mountain and let the Ming army voluntarily withdraw from the royal family. Otherwise, the Southern Party will have no way at all.
However, since the Ming army took the initiative to retain 30,000 troops to "protect" the Korean royal family, how could they easily withdraw? Liu Chenglong believed that the chance was slim, so he could only try his best to suppress the violent commotion of the defeated Southerners, and persuade them to calm down and make a decision before taking action. After all, once this kind of thing fails, there will be no room for recovery.
This situation lasted until Wang Jia returned to Beijing. At this time, the strength of the Ming army in Hanyang increased again, returning to about 60,000 - Li Rumei only took cavalry with him, and Ma Gui still had about 30,000 with him.
It stands to reason that at this time there is no chance for the Southern People's Party, so they can only give up their fantasies completely. However, a turning point happened at this time, and there was not just one turning point, but two!
First, news came from southern Korea that the main force of Japanese pirates heading south suddenly disappeared after being followed all the way to Daegu and Changnyeong.
It is said that because Li Rumei's tribe wanted to cross the Nakdong River, the weather was unfavorable, and a heavy rain hit, which delayed the time. Liu Wei also waited on the west bank of the Nakdong River before the Japanese pirates entered the west.
During this period, the main force of the Japanese pirates who had been under their surveillance suddenly disappeared. Li Rumei and Liu Wei were so anxious that they sent out sentries to investigate, but unfortunately to no avail, the nearly 100,000 Japanese pirates disappeared without any reason.
Li Rumei and Liu Wei immediately judged that the Japanese pirates had only two possible options. One was to take the opportunity to quickly withdraw to Busan or to set up defenses near Busan, preparing to rely on their relatively sufficient troops to defend the southeastern corner of North Korea and wait for the situation to change.
The second is to find a way to bypass the defense lines of the two armies and make a sneak attack on Jinzhou or Sichuan - it is more likely to directly attack Sichuan.
Even a veteran general like Ma Gui couldn't help but feel his head pounding when he heard such military reports. The former possibility means that there are insufficient troops on the front line - Li Rumei's troops have almost all cavalry. There is no doubt that they can defeat the Japanese army in field battles. It would be too ridiculous to use them to attack the city where the Japanese pirates are defending. Li Rumei herself is sure of it. Wouldn't do such a stupid thing.
But if Li Rumei only besieged the city from a distance, I'm afraid it wouldn't be an option. After all, Busan is the bridgehead for the Japanese invasion of Korea, and food should not be too expensive in the short term. So the siege shouldn't last until the Year of the Monkey?
Liu Wei's troops did have the ability to attack cities, but not all of Liu's army came for this eastern expedition. The number of people who came was said to be 30,000, but only 15,000 were from his headquarters. If the Japanese army gathers around Busan, their strength may be more than 100,000. It is obviously not a good idea to use 15,000 people to attack Busan where 100,000 troops are defending the city.
There are also 15,000 chieftains left. It is said that they are good in field operations and defending the city, but when it comes to attacking the city... they may not even have a few cannons (this news is wrong, in fact Gao Pragmatic gave them some, But Ma Gui doesn’t know this at the moment), is it all about human lives?
Considering that the Marquis had always cherished the chieftain soldiers, Ma Gui felt that this was unlikely to happen. So to put it simply, if the Japanese army does retreat to Busan, then the siege forces on the front line will be far from enough. Reinforcements must be sent from Hanyang, especially the Southern Army Qi Jin, Wu Weizhong, Mao Guoqi and other troops must be transferred there to strengthen their firepower.
So what if the Japanese army going south did not go to Busan, but planned to attack Sichuan? Ma Gui didn't even dare to think about it - Mr. Marquis was in Sichuan. If something happened to Mr. Hou, he, Ma Gui, would really die and not be able to apologize!
Regardless of whether it was too late to lead his army south, Ma Gui did not dare to remain indifferent after hearing such news. Even as a direct general who had been in the military for many years, Gao Pragmatic not only had to send troops south, he also had to personally lead the troops to "rescue" him!
Ma Gui, who had some cold hands and feet, almost immediately decided to lead his army southward and headed straight for Sichuan. But at this time, another not-so-good news came from Hamhung.
What happened was that Dong Yiyuan's department, which was previously sent to the front line of Wonsan to cut off the Japanese army's connection with the south in Hamgyong Province, after successfully conquering Wonsan, went north according to the scheduled plan, and joined the Jurchen coalition to attack Hamhung.
Originally, this battle should not be a big problem no matter how you look at it. After all, the Japanese army on the Hamhung side only has 5,000 people. It is a partial army separated from the Fourth Army of the Japanese Army Naoshima Naoshima, but the person leading the army is More importantly, Nabeshima Naoshima's son Nabeshima Katsushige - he has been confirmed by Nabeshima Naoshima as the successor of the next family governor.
At this time, Dong Yiyuan's troops had about 20,000 people, and the Jurchen Allied Forces were said to have about 20,000 people. The combined strength of both sides was four times that of Nabeshima Katsushige's troops. In terms of combat effectiveness, they were definitely not inferior to the latter, even Nabeshima. Shengmao chose Congcheng, and the artillery under Dong Yiyuan's command was enough for him to have a good drink.
However, those who are good at swimming are drowned. The turning point in this battle actually came from the artillery, or to be more precise, it came from the gunpowder.
On the second day of the siege, Dong Yiyuan and Nurhachi met together. The two sides were discussing how to distribute the siege tasks in Dong Yiyuan's army. Who knew that a big explosion suddenly occurred in the temporary gunpowder depot in the army!
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