Chapter 35 Goryeo Storm
Meng brother Timur pressed down on the pine box containing the armor, gritted his teeth and said, "I won't be respectful."
Ye Chen said: "Okay, from now on the leader will be one of our own. I won't talk nonsense. The leader can produce as many people as he wants."
Meng brother Timur said; "Three thousand. Three thousand are strong men. They just don't have many weapons. If the Ming Dynasty gives more weapons, I can summon more people."
When Ye Chen heard this, he knew that Meng Brother Timur was being careless.
That's not entirely true.
Mengge Timur's tribe did not have three thousand strong men. A tribe with 3,000 strong men would have at least 10,000 to 20,000 men. Now Mengge Timur's tribe is far from this point. But all the Jurchen tribes gathered in the upper reaches of the Yalu River can collectively produce three thousand strong men, which is even more than enough.
So what does Meng Brother Timur say about this number that is neither too high nor too low?
He wants to be a second-tier dealer, or can be understood as a general project contractor, taking orders from the Ming Dynasty, and then rely on this order to gather other Jurchen tribes under his command. Even annexed.
Moreover, the weapons of each Jurchen tribe are very poor, but they are definitely not without weapons. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was great chaos and order collapsed. I don’t know how many weapons were built and finally disappeared. Moreover, in places with no order like the Northeast, force is the only way to rely on.
Even in the south, people were beaten to death while trying to grab water. And where the wolves were looking around, the Jurchens said they had no weapons at all, which was a joke.
It’s nothing more than gathering Ming’s wool.
But Ye Chen didn't care.
Now the situation is urgent. Don't care about this little loss. The biggest impact of He Xi's arrival on the Ming Dynasty was in the military aspect, which was quite wealthy. Don't care about weapon wear and tear at all. The millions of troops, excluding those large artillery pieces, are not enough for the Taiping Iron Works to produce in a year.
As for weapons these days, especially armor, as long as they are well maintained, they will last for hundreds of years without any problems.
So in the past few years, starting from Nanjing, a lot of weapons have been accumulated in the warehouses of various local departments and guards. Even a few years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order that originally encouraged each guard station to build weapons, but now it has banned each guard station from making weapons. A large number of local health workers were recruited to Nanjing to work on the expansion project of the Taiping Iron Works.
Only then did He Xi see the grand scene.
I don't care at all about these things in front of me.
Ye Chen said, "Okay, I still have three hundred sets of armor in the camp. There are more than a thousand swords and guns each. I will give them to you. However, I want you to prepare immediately and follow me to fight in three days. The weapons will be given to you before the battle." "
Meng brother Timur said: "Three days?"
Ye Chen looked at Meng Brother Timur and said, "Only three days."
Meng brother Timur looked at Ye Chen and immediately understood that Ye Chen was not a fool. The reason why I am willing to give him such a big advantage. Just because there is a request.
Meng brother Timur felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and said, "Three days, just three days."
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Meng brother Timur was quite trustworthy. Three days later, he came to Yizhou Qianhusuo with more than 3,000 strong men.
Uiju Cheonho is a castle on the east bank of the Yalu River. It is unknown when it was built. After Ye Chen came here, he repaired and built a wooden wall outside. Only then did it reach its current scale. It is not far away from Uiju in Goryeo, only ten or twenty miles.
And Goryeo Yiju was Ye Chen's main enemy during this period of time.
In fact, no one on either side of the Yalu River is better than the other in terms of population.
The reason is simple, caused by the war.
Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there have been several battles here. First, the Red Scarf Army marched eastward and directly attacked the Goryeo capital, but was defeated later. Both sides of the Yalu River, no, all the way from the Yalu River to the capital of Goryeo were poisoned. The situation in Liaodong was so miserable because the Red Scarf Army was fighting with the Yuan Army at that time.
Then, I have to say, Gao Liqi’s family. The queen of Emperor Yuan Shun came from the Gao Li Qi family. They relied on their relationship with Emperor Yuan Shun to usurp the power of the King of Koryo. The previous King of Koryo, Wang Qi, had been patient. When he heard about Tuotuo's defeat, he knew that the Yuan Dynasty could not spare the power to invade Koryo. Overjoyed, the Gao Liqi family was exterminated.
And they occupied Xianxing, the Shuangcheng General Manager's Office, which was originally the Yuan Dynasty.
But in the end, I don’t know how Yuan Ting made the decision at that time. Naha, who commanded Liaoyang Province, came out to lead the army and fought several battles with Goryeo on both sides of the Yalu River. Of course, Naha didn't know what he was doing. Most of his energy was devoted to the Ming army, so that makes sense.
However, the result of this war was that the former King of Goryeo Wang Qi knew that Yuan Ting would never forgive him. So he tried his best to please Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang also did not want Goryeo to join Yuan Ting. After Yuan Ting was defeated in the Central Plains, Ming and Goryeo quickly entered the honeymoon period.
Wang Qi rejected all Yuan court envoys, adopted the Hongwu reign name, and sent envoys to the court many times.
If Wang Qi had lived until now, with Wang Qi's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty, this battle would not be possible at all. But Wang Qi died. And he was killed. This led to a 180-degree turn in the direction of Goryeo's diplomacy.
The root cause is that Wang Qi has no son.
Wang Qi’s wife is a princess of the Yuan Dynasty. The two of them have a good relationship. It's just that the princess died early, and one body and two lives were lost. Since then, Wang Qi has had no heirs. More than ten years after the death of Princess Lu, Wang Qi finally determined that he was infertile.
So, he made a decision to find an adopted son.
At this point, there are various opinions. Some people say that he was close to his ministers, slept with him, had intercourse with men and women, and had children with women. Raised in the minister's house. Others said that he let his concubines have an affair with the minister. Many concubines would rather die than obey, but some do.
Anyway, since ancient times, there have been different opinions on pornographic news.
Anyway, the result is that he values a child. He brought the child's biological father to the palace and said he was his biological son. That is the current King of Goryeo. But it's not enough to do this, because there are still two close ministers who know about this matter.
How can outsiders know about this?
So Wang Qi decided to get rid of these two insiders.
You know, this kind of secretive thing can only be done by close confidants. And the cronies naturally have control over many things about Wang Qi. When these two cronies knew that Wang Qi was going to kill them, they decided to kill Wang Qi first.
In the seventh year of Hongwu, Wang Qi died suddenly. His ten-year-old son Wang Yu succeeded to the throne. That is the current King of Goryeo.
Of course, there are problems here, because Li Chenggui won power in the hands of the current King of Goryeo. Although a new king was established after deposing the King of Goryeo, there is no doubt that that one was a puppet.
And these things are all recorded in Korean history books.
Is it true or false? Hard to say. Anyway, the most important evidence for Li Chenggui to depose Wang Yu is, "Your Excellency is not the son of Wang's family." Just like when Zhou Bo killed the son of Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, he didn't know it well and turned into "Your Excellency is not the son of Liu's family."
All of this is true or false in Goryeo history books. It's hard to tell clearly.
However, this also needs to be made clear. Now the King of Goryeo is only in his early twenties, which is when he was young and vigorous. Historically, he forcibly attacked Liaodong, and then was called upon by Li Chenggui to turn against him, ending the rule of Goryeo. Started the North-Korea Lee Dynasty.
Now because of He Xi's influence.
He Xi's development of Liaodong, especially the banks of the Yalu River, touched the interests of Goryeo. Goryeo, which originally stood on the sidelines during the Ming Dynasty's attack on Ahachu, chose to participate. But there are also many opposing voices in Koryo Junior High School.
The battle between Daming and Aha is over. Goryeo had just completed the integration of its army, and the forwards had just arrived at the front line of the Yalu River, which was in the city of Yiju.
This has created an embarrassing situation now.
This is normal. The battle between Ming Dynasty and Anaha contains elements of a sneak attack. From the beginning of the war to the end, it only took about two months for the army to withdraw. Now Goryeo is preparing to send troops, summoning the army to arrange food and other preparations. Being able to complete it within two months is a relatively normal efficiency in this era.
