With Gao Pragmatic's action, especially when he chose not to go directly to Pyongyang but to go to southern North Korea and land in Sichuan, the situation on the entire battlefield suddenly changed rapidly, and there was no longer the carefree procrastination before.
First, Liu Wei conquered Jinzhou and threatened Busan, and the chieftain soldiers recovered Jeolla Province in separate routes. Then the main force of the Japanese army in Hanyang was forced to go south, and Ma Gui led the Ming army and the Korean army to regain Hanyang.
Immediately afterwards, Nurhaci captured Chongjin and Dong Yiyuan captured Wonsan. The two armies marched from north to south towards Hamhung, intending to make a thunderous blow to the Japanese Nabeshima Shengmao Department in Hamhung.
Unexpectedly, a gunpowder depot exploded when the high-level military officials of the two armies held a military meeting, and Nabeshima Katsushige decisively launched a surprise attack. In the chaos, Nurhaci broke out of the formation, Dong Yiyuan was defeated and retreated, returning to Yuanshan again. And Nabeshima Katsushige also gave up on Hamhung, which had long since become a dead place. Taking advantage of Dong Yiyuan's opportunity to lick his wounds in Wonsan Castle, he quietly bypassed Wonsan and fled south quickly.
After learning of this huge change, Magui, the Tairawa admiral, immediately ordered Marshal Quanli of North Korea to lead the main force of 30,000 North Korean officers and soldiers to march eastward to intercept Nabeshima Katsushige. Quan Li received the order and sent troops eastward two days later.
However, Quan Li's troops seemed to be quite unsatisfactory. He marched for two days and stopped for one day. At the same time, he kept going to the Hanyang court. He complained that the army only had three days of rations and did not dare to walk more. He repeatedly asked Hanyang to ensure its military food supply, ensure that transportation routes were unobstructed, and that manpower and animal power must also be effectively guaranteed, etc.
At this time, Ma Gui had already left Hanyang and personally led the main army south to support. However, Ma Gui did not choose to take the Chungju line that the Japanese army chose when they moved south, but instead took the Cheongju line that was further west.
Judging from this situation, his intention to go to southern Korea is obvious. It is not to participate in the siege of Busan, but to go straight to Jinju and Sichuan. Of course, there is another possibility of taking this route, that is, if Jinzhou and Sichuan are not in danger in the end, Ma Gui can also divide his troops halfway to recover various parts of Chungcheong Province.
Although Ma Gui left Hanyang, he still left Hanyang with 6,000 Ming troops as city defense troops, whose defenders were Fushun guerrilla general Zhang Wanbang with the rank of general.
Zhang Wanbang has already joined Gao Pragmatic's sect a long time ago, and first came to prominence (along with his father) when playing against Anda's eldest son Xin Ai Huang Taiji. In the Battle of Liaonan, he served as the defense guard of Dongchang Fort at the beginning of the war, and performed well. Later, his unit was also the core force of the hard-top Chaohua unit's offensive in the battle that led to the defeat of Chaohua. .
It can be said that Zhang Wanbang's department was the first unit to perfectly demonstrate the highly pragmatic gun platoon formation, and the bayonet hollow phalanx that was subsequently changed was also well trained in his department. If Xiao Ruxun became famous for defending fortified cities, then Zhang Wanbang became famous for field defense.
After the Battle of Liaonan, everyone in the Ming Dynasty believed that Zhang Wanbang's troops could at least withstand an enemy attack with four to five times the strength of the army in defense, even if the enemy army was Mongolian cavalry.
Precisely because of his reputation as a good defender, although this time it was not a field defense but a city defense, Ma Gui looked around at his subordinates and found that only Zhang Wanbang was the most famous for his good defense, so he sent him to the city. The task of guarding Hanyang was given to him.
However, Zhang Wanbang's headquarters only has 4,000 people (4,038 people) - as a direct descendant of Gao Jingshi, who was transferred to Liaodong by the Xuanda Department, the troops under his command were actually organized according to Gao Jingshi's establishment for the Imperial Guard. His 4,000 People are actually equivalent to a confederate of the Imperial Guard.
[Note: There are currently six towns in the Imperial Guard. Each town has two regiments of infantry, one battalion each of cavalry and artillery, and one battalion each of engineers and baggage troops. Civil servants temporarily recruited will not be counted. ]
Ma Gui left 6,000 people in Hanyang, and Zhang Wanbang's headquarters only had 4,000, so naturally there were still 2,000 left. These two people are more interesting. They are actually Mongolian cavalry sent by Tumote and Ordos to support the battle. However, 1,800 of them were sent by Tumote. The two hundred cavalry sent by Ordos can only be said to be basically equivalent to Just show your attitude. (So hereafter they are called Tumut Mongolian cavalry.)
This cavalry sent by Tumote is very interesting. They are not direct descendants of Han Naji, nor are they the "legacy" of Chaterji. Of course, they are certainly not sent by Zhongjin Hatun. They are highly pragmatic students and Shunyi soldiers. Sent by Prince Erdemutu.
Because Erdemutu was sent to Gao Pragmatic's sect by Hannaji before he was "separated", he originally did not have any direct soldiers. It was not until the previous victory in the Battle of Yuan Dynasty that he obtained the title of "commanding the tribes in Mobei on behalf of King Shunyi" that he had his own territory in the actual sense, and at the same time he had the foundation to build a direct line.
Of course, as the Crown Prince of Shunyi, Han Naji could legitimately allocate his direct lineage to him, and Han Naji did so. When the Ming court confirmed that Erdemutu could "command the Mobei tribes on behalf of King Shunyi", Hannaji immediately gave him 10,000 horses as the basis for him to command the Mobei tribes.
At that time, in Mobei, because Abadai Saiyin Khan and his troops moved westward with Tumen, almost all the remaining tribes were small tribes. Fortunately, although these tribes were small, there were quite a few tribes, and Er Er After Demutu's recruitment, there were still **0,000 people.
If **0,000 people were placed in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, even if it was a county, it would only be a lower county. However, the population in Mobei is extremely small. It may have been less than a hundred thousand during the time of Abadai Saiyin Khan. The population is 200,000, so based on this calculation, he actually got half of the population of Mobei.
With a population of 10,000 people, under the organizational structure of Mongolia, it is even possible to gather 30,000 cavalry in a decisive battle. Of course, he would definitely not do this in normal times. With the 10,000 cavalry he brought as the basis of Helin's rule, enough.
However, in order to ensure stability, Erdemutu still transferred the strongest men from various ministries to form a new cavalry unit. In name, it was to enrich the royal court (representing the Helin royal court of King Shunyi), but in fact it only Less than three months after they were stationed in Helin, they changed hands and sent them to their teacher Gao pragmatically.
Erdemutu's move actually killed two birds with one stone. Firstly, as a disciple, he gave the teacher a letter of commendation, which of course can also be regarded as a gift; secondly, he sent out the capable armed forces of these small tribes, making the desert Some people in the North who may still "carry their old master" have lost the ability to make trouble.
In short, this group of Mongolian cavalry from Mobei had no relatives or friends after arriving on the Korean battlefield. They could only act according to Erdemutu's orders and completely obey the instructions of the Ming army. This made them a quite reliable force.
Of course, Ma Gui felt that Erdemutu was the disciple of the Marquis after all, and it was better for the Mongolian cavalry sent by him not to suffer losses easily, especially larger losses, so he handed it over to Zhang Wanbang who was guarding Hanyang—— There's nothing to lose by staying in Hanyang City, right?
In addition, Ma Gui felt that there was another benefit to handing over the Mongolian cavalry to Zhang Wanbang, that is, Zhang Wanbang was famous among the Mongols because he defeated Xin Ai and Chaohua twice on the frontal battlefield - Well, maybe he has a fierce reputation. In this way, there is no need to worry about these Mongolian cavalry being disobedient and causing any trouble.
Closer to home, after Quan Li furiously swore at the officials in charge of logistics and supplies in Hanyang in Shangshu, he finally seemed to have received relatively sufficient supplies and began to march south of Yuanshan in earnest. Soon he received news that Nurhachi had been ordered to go south from Hamhung and arrived near Wonsan.
Once the power is in hand, the order will be carried out. Quan Li immediately ordered Nurhaci to bypass Yuanshan and continue southward, and meet him at Gaoshan - Gaoshan is a place name, roughly halfway between Yuanshan and Huaiyang.
Two days later, Quan Li received a reply from Nurhaci. In the letter, Nurhachi stated that he had learned that the Japanese pirates Guodao Shengmao's tribe had already passed the mountains and had now reached Huaiyang. Therefore, there was no need for his troops to delay in the mountains. Go directly to Huaiyang to fight.
Quan Li was furious and repeated the military order again, asking Nurhaci to lead his troops to wait in the mountains and not to go south without authorization. At the same time, he himself also accelerated his marching speed, seemingly hoping to block Nurhachi's unauthorized way south.
Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened this time. The day after he gave the order to Nurhaci again, Dong Yiyuan sent a letter stating that he had finished his rest and officially took over the command of the East Route Army.
At the same time, Dong Yiyuan approved Nurhachi's so-called plan to go straight to Huaiyang in his letter, and asked Quan Li's troops to go straight to Huaiyang without stopping in the mountains. He also said that his own troops were also heading south and would meet up with Quan Li and Nurhaci in Huaiyang.
Quan Li knew that his previous guess was indeed correct. Dong Yiyuan could not hold back at all, or could not withstand the political pressure, and had to get rid of the crime as soon as possible. Therefore, he asked all three troops to go to Huaiyang. This was to continue the siege of Guodao. Sheng Mao fought the battle of Huaiyang as the battle of Xianxing.
Quan Li immediately replied to Dong Yiyuan, saying "sincerely" that because his unit was going on a temporary expedition, the preparations of all parties were incomplete and the logistics support was not reliable, so he made a plan to temporarily stop in the mountains. The purpose of this is to wait for subsequent supplies to be in place before launching a thunderous strike against Huaiyang.
Dong Yiyuan sneered when he received the letter. Doesn’t anyone know how many kilograms your North Korean officers and soldiers have? The first time you guys were fucked up by the Japanese pirates, you said it was because you were unprepared. Well, just think of it as that.
But, after the last armistice, you guys prepared for a few more years, what was the result? As soon as the Japanese pirate army arrived, weren't you just like Renchennian, being chased away like chickens and dogs and beaten until you howled, and you lost half of your country in just three blows?
Just like that, you still have the nerve to say that you will launch a thunderous strike on Huaiyang after you resupply? Ha, how come you have the face to be called "Thunder"? It's just like farting!
Besides, Nabeshima Katsushige was in a hurry to flee south. It was impossible for him to stay in Huaiyang for a long time. The reason why he was temporarily stationed in Huaiyang was obviously because he had evacuated from Hamhing too hastily and did not carry enough food, grass and other supplies. After he finishes his plundering in Huaiyang, he will definitely run away without saying a word. Is your "Thunder Blow" intended to be used on the Korean people in Huaiyang City?
Under this judgment, Dong Yiyuan sternly rejected Quan Li's proposal, emphasizing that soldiers are valuable and quick, and Nabeshima Katsushige must be hunted down at all costs. He also said that it would be fine if the Korean army collapsed in the war. If they could not even march, If you can't make it, you might as well just dismantle it to avoid wasting military rations - anyway, the Hanyang court is very poor, so it's better to save a little.
Such a statement was naturally a huge insult to the Korean army. Quan Li turned pale in front of the generals and cursed on the spot, saying Dong Yiyuan was a defeated general himself, so why are you so crazy? The generals of the North Korean army were also filled with indignation, and one by one accused Dong Yiyuan of commanding indiscriminately regardless of the actual military situation.
Quan Li was secretly happy, knowing that the fire was coming. He said on the spot that he would not obey the order, and added fuel to the fire: "Since the heavenly soldiers think that our army will be of no help to them, what's the point of us staying here? Why don't we return to Hanyang?" , please ask the court to abolish it!"
The imperial court does not have many troops now. Quan Li's command is almost the last asset of the Korean Army Division. How can it be abolished? All the generals knew this, so they all felt confident and made noises one after another.
So, early the next morning, Quan Li's troops turned around and headed towards Hanyang again. However, at the same time, Quan Li still put on a full show. While explaining the situation to the Joseon court in Hanyang and accusing Dong Yiyuan of contempt for the friendly forces, he also sent letters to Gao Pangshi and Ma Gui at the same time, explaining the situation and accusing Dong Yiyuan. Random command.
Although Quan Li "debuted" in the martial arts, since his father had served as a councilor, it was obvious that his family was a civil servant family, so these three complaints were written in a very "reasonable" way, and those who did not know what was going on Anyone who has read it will probably think that the root cause of this incident is that Dong Yiyuan ignored the "dedication" of the Korean army and even more despised the role of the Korean army, so this happened.
In a word: All responsibility lies with Ming Dynasty. I, North Korea, and Quan Li are the undoubted victims.
Ma Gui was on the march at this time, and it was not easy for the letter to reach him. Not to mention Gao Pragmatic, he is still far away in Sachuan, the southernmost tip of North Korea. Who knows when this letter of complaint carried by the courier sent by Quan Li will arrive.
Although the letter was slow, the North Korean army's marching speed was surprisingly fast this time. They rushed back three times as fast as they marched eastward. They were worthy of being the ancestors of the team that won the marathon championship when the Volunteer Army held the Prisoner of War Camp Olympics hundreds of years later. .
Just three days later, Quanli's troops arrived at Luyuan Ridge on the eastern outskirts of Hanyang City, and at the same time sent a messenger into the city, saying that they came back to apologize and request the imperial court to abrogate. But of course these are not the key. The key is that he said that the crowd in the army was excited, and the generals asked to enter the city to plead guilty to the king in person. Therefore, he asked the Ming army Hanyang guard Zhang Wanbang and Zhang Yourong to open the city gate and let them see the king.
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