Six miles away from the capital of Goryeo, Zhu Di led a large army and marched along a mountain road.
A group of sentry riders wearing leather armor quickly ran over from a distance.
"Your Majesty, the King of Goryeo suddenly closed the city gate... At the same time, some cavalry sprang out from the city gates around King Jing of Goryeo and scattered in all directions. The general and others were incompetent and failed to stop them!"
"It doesn't matter!"
Zhu Di was not angry but happy, "Then Wang You, the King of Goryeo, is really blocked by us in the King of Goryeo's capital. Send the order and march slowly. There is no need to rush.
As for the cavalry that sprang out, they were just messengers sent by King Wangyou of Goryeo to notify King Qin of the garrison in various prefectures and cities. "
Hearing this, Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and others around him couldn't help but feel anxious.
"Your Highness, we must fight quickly, otherwise our army will be in danger when the garrisons from the surrounding Goryeo cities arrive!"
Zhu Di said: "Don't worry, the army will rest for a while, and then they will bury pots and cook in front of the King of Korea's capital, and then attack the King of Korea's capital at night!"
"Follow the order!"
Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and others all nodded slightly.
Zhu Di then ordered the sentinels on the side: "Please quickly investigate the capital city of the King of Goryeo for us."
"I will obey the order!"
The sentry captain responded and hurried forward.
An hour later.
Wang Jing of Goryeo appeared in front of Zhu Di, Guo An and others.
Goryeo is very mountainous.
Wangjing of Goryeo was once the fiefdom of the Songak Wang family. After King Taejo of Goryeo established his family and established the Goryeo Kingdom, he built the Goryeo Palace and Imperial City in the style of the Tang Dynasty based on Songak Mountain.
However, because this area is mountainous, we could only rely on Songak Mountain to build a rectangular Goryeo Palace City with a length of 373 meters from east to west and 725 meters from north to south.
Outside the Goryeo Palace, there is another imperial city that is more than a thousand meters long from east to west and more than a thousand meters long from north to south. Even the northeast wall of the imperial city has been built to the foot of Songak Mountain, which can be regarded as overlapping with the walls of the palace city. .
Outside the palace city and the imperial city, there is a city wall with a circumference of more than forty miles. The northern and western parts of these walls have even been built to the ridges of Songak Mountain and Centipede Mountain.
Surrounding Goryeo Wangjing, there are endless mountains in the west, southwest, south and southeast of the city.
It can be said that if Goryeo Wangjing has enough troops, it will be a powerful military fortress.
However, since there is only one outer city wall, if it is really surrounded by a large army, the defense is still somewhat inadequate.
In particular, as long as the enemy forces occupy the mountains outside the south of the city, or occupy Songak Mountain, the royal palace and imperial city of Goryeo will be trampled under the enemy's feet and can be breached at any time.
Hundreds of years ago, when the Liao Kingdom attacked Goryeo, Yelu Longxu led his troops to directly destroy the country and capture Kaicheng. If the King of Goryeo hadn't run so fast, Goryeo would have perished.
However, although the country of Goryeo is small, it is like an invincible little strong, very resistant to beating.
For hundreds of years, neither the Liao nor the Yuan Dynasty destroyed it.
Even in the Yuan Dynasty, Goryeo fought seven or eight times in a row before it became a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty, but it was not destroyed.
However, at this time, the Goryeo royal family also began to build the Goryeo Royal Palace again, requisitioning 300,000 civilians and building the Goryeo Outer City, which was about 120 miles long.
Therefore, the King of Goryeo was impregnable.
In particular, a group of Goryeo generals regained their confidence after standing on the city wall on the ridge and clearly seeing that the army of Zhu Di, King of Yan of the Ming Dynasty, only numbered more than 10,000.
Their garrison in the royal capital of Goryeo, plus the garrison in the imperial city and palace city, totaled more than 50,000 people.
Even some generals were eager to send troops out to defeat the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.
And in the open wasteland two miles outside Koryo City.
In Zhu Di's army, smoke has begun to curl up. Many Yanshan guards are already holding a steamed bun in one hand, and a bunch of people are gathered around a big pot, eating vegetables.
After meal.
On a hilltop, Zhu Di held up a clairvoyant eye in his hand and looked at the Goryeo city wall in the distance. He asked Guo An at the side: "Guo Qing, do you think those Goryeo soldiers and generals will sneak out and take advantage of the situation?" Attack my army camp while my army is eating?"
On the side, Guo An also held a clairvoyant eye and could see the facial expressions of the Goryeo soldiers on the distant city wall.
"Wei Chen doesn't know, but Wei Chen can already see that the Korean soldiers on the opposite city wall are very angry!"
"Um?"
Suddenly, Zhu Di's expression condensed and he pointed at a tower.
"Guo Qing, look at the group of people on the wall of Goryeo. Are they the King of Goryeo?"
"King Wangyou of Goryeo?"
Guo An was startled and quickly looked in the direction of Zhu Di's finger.
Sure enough, on the largest city gate tower closest to the gate of the Goryeo Palace, there were a group of generals and a group of officials, surrounding a person and looking towards them.
"Your Highness, it should be the King of Goryeo, Wang You!"
Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, "Guo Qing, if our army launches an attack at this moment, can we kill the Goryeo King Wang You?"
Guo An shook his head slightly, "Your Highness, the range of the firearms of my army is insufficient, and by the time my army rushed over, the group of Goryeo generals had already protected Wang Yu and retreated...
Moreover, Wei Chen felt that a living King of Korea should be more useful than a dead one! "
"Um!"
Zhu Di nodded slightly, and then ordered to Qianhu Zhu Liang on the side: "Li Wang, quickly lead a group of soldiers, holding an iron trumpet, and give me a message to the King of Goryeo, Wang You, and ask him to quickly Come out and surrender, and take out the two hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver he owes me...
Otherwise, if the war breaks out, the King of Goryeo will definitely be in ruins, and tens of thousands of Goryeo people will be displaced and tens of thousands of soldiers will be killed because of some money..."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Li Wang's eyes flashed with excitement.
Isn't it just to scold King Wang You of Goryeo, and then stir up discord a little, so that the people and soldiers in the King of Goryeo know why His Royal Highness King Yan wants to lead troops to attack Goryeo?
He is the best at this kind of thing.
Hearing this, Guo An's eyes lit up and he slightly arched his hands towards Zhu Di.
"Your Highness is wise in how to use military force. Attacking the heart is the top priority, and attacking the city is the bottom priority. Fighting with the heart is the top priority, and fighting with soldiers is the bottom priority...
However, the soldiers under Li Baihu are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. They cannot speak Korean, and the ordinary Korean soldiers and common people cannot understand the language of the Ming Dynasty.
Among the thirty scholars brought by Wei Chen, five of them can speak some simple Korean language, and they can use the loudspeaker to announce the death of King Wangyu of Goryeo to the dignitaries, soldiers and common people in the King's Palace of Goryeo. Shameless crime...
In addition, there are Mongolians among my army. It is better to ask them if there are any people who can speak Koryo. They surround several city gates and shout to the Koryo gate. The voice is louder and the Koryo people heard The more soldiers and people there are...
In this way, the Goryeo King Wang You might become angry and ashamed and do some unwise things! "
Zhu Di and Li Wang couldn't help but look at Guo An with admiration.
"Guo Qing's tricks are so sinister!"
He originally just wanted to declare war on the King of Korea and all the soldiers of Goryeo, but now Guo An's operation, while declaring war on the King of Goryeo, he was still accusing the King of Goryeo's shameless behavior to a group of Goryeo people in the King's palace. .
This kind of thing is impossible for any king to endure!
Zhu Di then ordered Li Wang: "Go and ask quickly to see if any of those Mongolians can speak Korean!"
"yes!"
Li Wang ran outside quickly.
Zhu Di then ordered to the guards on the left and right: "You will go and ask the commanders of the army, the thousands of households, the hundreds of households, and the general banner, who else can speak the Korean dialect... and then ask the thirty scholars led by Guo Changshi bring."
"Here!"
Several personal guards responded and ran out quickly.
Soon, Li Wang came over with two Mongolians.
At the same time, the guards who had just left also came over with the thirty scholars.
As for Yanshan Guards, no one can speak Korean.
Zhu Di cursed with an unhappy look on his face, "A bunch of tough guys who only know how to fight and kill, and they can't even speak Korean!"
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, except for some translators at Honglu Temple, few people could speak Korean, Mongolian and Japanese.
Especially the Korean language. The Korean people have been studying the Central Plains culture and reading Confucian books for nearly a thousand years. Now the whole country is wearing Ming Dynasty costumes.
Therefore, Goryeo officials and dignitaries basically spoke Ming dialect.
Naturally, Ming people do not need to understand Korean.
Zhu Di never thought about this kind of thing, nor did Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and others.
Fortunately, Guo An was already prepared.
Otherwise, even if you need to use those two Mongolians to shout something, the entire Yanshan Guard will be embarrassed.
Afterwards, Guo An told the two Mongolians and five scholars what he was going to say.
The five scholars agreed one after another.
As for the two Mongolians, on the warship, they saw how the Yanshan Guards used firearms to beat the Korean navy. They each recalled the fear of being dominated by bombs in Liaodong, and naturally they nodded again and again.
However, I am worried that these two Mongolians are simple-minded and cannot remember.
Guo An also put two Mongolians into a group with a scholar respectively, and imitated the scholar's words to angrily criticize the Goryeo king Wang You.
Divided into three groups in total.
There are three people in the city gate tower where King Wangyou of Goryeo is located.
In the other two gate towers in the distance, there are two people.
At the same time, Zhu Di was also asked to send three teams of thousands of people to protect these three groups of people from a distance.
Needless to say, Guo An said that Zhu Di would not let the Koreans harm these seven precious babies who could speak Korean.
At the same time, the entire army was ordered to prepare for a war.
It would be great if the Goryeo king Wang You could be scolded to death and send troops to attack them.
And at this time.
Wang Yu, who was standing on the city gate tower, was about to return to the palace.
Even after walking down the city gate, I heard a commotion on the city gate tower.
Soon, a school captain hurried down and reported to Wang Yu.
"Your Majesty, the Ming army across the way has sent envoys towards the gate of my capital city!"
"Envoy?"
"Is it possible that you are here to declare a challenge?"
Wang Yu and all the Goryeo officials and dignitaries beside him couldn't help but look curious.
"Let's go, gentlemen, follow me and go up and have a look!"
After saying that, Wang Yu walked up.
Upstairs at the city gate, Wang Yu just stuck his head out.
Downstairs of the city gate, three hundred steps away from the city gate tower, there were two Ming Dynasty scholars and a burly Mongolian who spoke unskilled Korean. They were directly facing two Yanshan Guard soldiers carrying them. An iron trumpet as big as a basin shouted.
Although the distance was a bit far, everyone on the city gate tower could hear it clearly.
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(End of chapter)
