After the boat left Longjiang Pier, Li Bao remembered and cried, as if someone had taken away his most precious thing. Li Chen knelt on the boat, kowtowed three times in the direction of the Ming Palace, and stood up without saying anything.
Hao Changshou felt a little pain in his head when he looked at the two princes with different personalities.
Li Zhen was uneducated, arrogant and greedy. He was really not the material to be a king. It would be okay to depose the crown prince. But the problem is that Li Fangyuan himself abolished Li Bao and chose Li Bin, and Zhu Yunwen abolished Li Bao and chose Li Bin. These are two different things.
After all, Li Zhen was not Zhu Yunwen's son. As the father, Li Fangyuan also wanted to save face. He was deposed as the crown prince and the king with just one sentence. How would this be written in the history books of Korea and what would the world think of it?
Hao Changshou lamented repeatedly, but there was nothing he could do. Now it depends on Li Fangyuan's decision.
Li Fangyuan is indeed faced with a decision, whether to stick to Seoul with all his strength, or to draw the power of Seoul back to Songjing and fully protect Songjing.
Yuanzhou fell and Lizhou fell. Li Shufan, Li Congmao, Zheng Jin and others were all killed. Li Fangyuan lost a large number of experienced military commanders.
Now, the Japanese army is gathering the main force to march towards Seoul. In less than ten days, Seoul will be completely surrounded. It's too late to withdraw now, but if it's later, there's really no chance.
Facing the ministers who advocated retreat, Helun shouted loudly: "The so-called preservation of strength is just greed for life and fear of death! Without Seoul, the Japanese will surround Songjing. What do you think when the time comes, do we still have to withdraw from Songjing?" Jing, is it impossible to take refuge in Jianju? Your Majesty, Seoul must be defended. As long as Seoul is defended for half a month, the Japanese army will inevitably collapse due to lack of logistics! They are making every effort, and we must also sink the ship!"
Pu Liang stood up and objected: "Your Majesty, there are 120,000 troops in Seoul, but Songjing only has 80,000. This has mobilized the entire country's troops! If Seoul is lost, hundreds of thousands of troops will be lost, and Songjing will not be able to defend it. If you stay here, you may lose the foundation of national restoration! For the current plan, more than half of Seoul’s military strength should be deployed to supplement Songjing.”
Li Yu stood up and angrily scolded Pu Liang: "The 120,000 troops in Seoul are worthy, but you have to know that they are facing more than 200,000 Japanese troops! Once 60,000 troops are mobilized, do you expect to use 60,000 to stop them? Wolf Japanese Army?"
Pu Liang said confidently: "The art of war is to encircle it at ten times and attack it at five times. The maximum number of Japanese troops under Seoul is 220,000. There are 60,000 defenders in the city. Five times the number is 300,000. How can the Japanese army attack the city if they don’t have 300,000 soldiers?”
"Let your mother go!"
Li Yu was so anxious that he jumped to his feet and cursed.
You are really a fucking genius, and you go to the battlefield to count, and you don’t fight if you don’t count five times the number?
The Art of War and the Art of War are just guiding ideas, not rules and regulations!
You, a guy who can only spit, know what war is, but you dare to talk wildly about war. Just because you have read a book on the Art of War, you think you can strategize all over the world, and in the blink of an eye, the enemy can listen to you and be wiped out?
Pu Liang's face turned pale, and he looked at Li Yu, He Lun and others and asked, "May I ask where Songjing will go if Seoul is lost? If even hundreds of thousands of troops cannot defend it, what courage will the soldiers of Songjing have to defend the city? If the king chooses to stick to Songjing, he must mobilize troops to return to support. If he does not stick to Songjing, he should make preparations in advance and evacuate the people to the Ming Dynasty for refuge!"
"Otherwise the city of Seoul will be gone, and the people will not be able to escape. The only people who can survive then will probably be the Dukes of Gongun and the king's family who are above the court. I would like to request an order for the people. If we don't send troops to reinforce the pine Jing, please allow the people to retreat first!"
Li Mao looked a little ugly and said angrily: "If the people are allowed to evacuate, who will help Songjing defend the city? At this critical moment of life and death, Songjiang must unite and no one can leave!"
Pu Liang took a step forward and shouted: "Should we use sergeants or civilians to defend the city? Even if the king decrees that all men participate in the defense, the old, weak, women and children must be evacuated first! The city can be destroyed, but the country cannot be destroyed , the clan must not be destroyed!”
"If all the people leave, who will the soldiers who defend the city fight for? Without the courage to fight and the belief in fighting, can this city still be defended?"
Helun asked back.
Pu Liang said solemnly: "Without his family, the sergeant can let go and fight!"
"enough!
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Li Fangyuan looked at the noisy hall, stood up and said: "I ordered that all the men in the city between eighteen and fifty-five be summoned to join the army and intensify training. The old, weak, women and children should be evacuated from Songjing first and sent to the Yalu River border. As for Seoul , the army cannot withdraw and must defend. Send a document to the general in charge of Seoul, saying that you must defend at all costs!"
Two shifts took orders. ap.
Jianzhou.
Meng brother Timur sat on his horse and advanced slowly.
Agu looked at his absent-minded father, looked around, and saw that they were all his own people, so he asked: "Father, do we really want to obey the Ming Dynasty and conquer the Japanese?"
Meng Brother Timur raised his head and looked at the dense forest and trail in the distance: "Do we have any other options?"
Agu was a little uneasy: "But father, what should we do if the Ming Dynasty takes us as the vanguard and deliberately wears down our tribe's strength? Our tribe is not strong to begin with, but the Ming Dynasty is still worried. This recruitment is clearly to let the We are the pioneers."
"I know, so tell me, what should we do?"
Meng brother Timur naturally knows the plans of Zhang Fu, Yang Wen, Sheng Yong and others. This is even Zhu Yunwen's plan, but what can the weak Onduo do?
Resist the Ming Dynasty, resist Zhu Yunwen?
What a joke.
Today's Northeast is no longer the Northeast in the early years. The Ming Dynasty's military power has grown rapidly with the increase in the number of guard posts. It has also relocated two to three million people, plus a group of military family members. It is no longer a Jurchen country. A nomadic land and hunting place, but the granary and city of the Ming Dynasty!
In this case, Odor did not have any capital or strength to resist.
Laerxun knelt on his horse and said seriously: "Now the only way to keep the Odo tribe is to obey the Ming Dynasty and fight against the Japanese army. Even if we die on the battlefield, the Odo tribe will continue. Agu, for the tribe, personal life and death are not important."
Agu was unwilling to give in.
The fate of Odor has never been in his own hands. In the past, he succumbed to the Yuan court, then sought help from Goryeo and North Korea, and later made friends with Zhu Yuanzhang and surrendered to Zhu Yunwen.
Meng brother Timur glanced at Agu, raised his hand holding the riding crop and pointed forward: "We are ministers of the Ming Dynasty now, so we should do what ministers should do. Listen to the king's orders and act for the king! As for other things, don't think about it. , If you think too much, more people will die."
"You should know that Ahachu mobilized almost 80% of the men in the ethnic group to support the Ming Dynasty. This is telling Emperor Jianwen that he is a true surrender. After this battle, the Huli reform tribe will be truly accepted by the Ming Dynasty. We want We do the same thing as Ahachu. No matter where Zhang Fu tells us to fight, we should obey unconditionally!"
Agu said seriously: "I know, kid."
Meng Ge Timur said solemnly: "Don't try to challenge Ming until Ming's internal collapse."
Oduoli's troops rushed to the south of Jianzhou and fifty miles north of the Yalu River.
This is the main camp of the Liaodong and Northeastern Guards.
Zhang Fu didn't want to stay in the capital of Liaodong. It was hundreds of miles away, and the transmission of intelligence and actions were always slow, so he simply placed his camp directly on the front line, assembled 50,000 elite troops, and was stationed on the Yalu River.
The follow-up troops are slowly moving out, and the logistics are on the way.
Within the big tent.
Zhang Fu looked at the map and remained silent.
Sheng Yong gnawed on the sheep bones and said angrily: "Yuanzhou has been lost, Lizhou has been lost, will these people fight? Will they defend the city, or will they not defend the city? They did not delay even one day, and they fought like this Go down, and within half a month, the Japanese army will be able to kill Songjing!"
Yang Wen chuckled: "It doesn't matter if you don't fight for many years, but you can't not train, prepare for war, or prepare for war for many years. This is what Li Fangyuan suffered. Over the years, he has been too recuperative and completely forgotten about worries. How can the army not have combat power? Can you withstand the Japanese army’s bite?”
Hua Ju sharpened his sword: "It's not just that Li Fangyuan's army is weak, but also the Japanese army is strong. Thinking back to the Yangjiang Shipyard, the Japanese army also had the upper hand in the battle with the Yangjiang Army sergeants. If it weren't for firearms, they would have suffered big losses. .If we do it
When fighting, reduce close combat. "
Mao Zheng leaned back in his chair and said leisurely: "There are a large number of firearms and crossbows. We have no need for close combat."
Zhang Fu looked at the lax generals and did not blame him, but said seriously: "The emperor said, if possible, capture some prisoners and take them back. The Japanese soldiers who can be transferred to Korea are all in good physical shape and can run away." Road, if you have the strength, it's best to use it for mining. Li Fang doesn't need to think about it, he will definitely not be able to stop the Japanese army. What we need to consider now is how to capture more prisoners instead of killing more Japanese soldiers."
Sheng Yong, Yang Wen and others did not speak.
In the past, when wars were fought, people were promoted and made rich, but now when wars are fought, people are made rich by selling prisoners.
The financial resources of the Ministry of Revenue are limited, and private mines and mines under the government have a great demand for captives. It is indeed possible to make more money by getting more captives to exchange for money than by beheading people.
However, the Japanese troops were like wolves and tigers, charging and killing fiercely. It might not be easy to capture them.
Zhang Fu looked at the generals: "The biggest problem of the Japanese army is logistics. Without adequate logistics, it means that they can only kill and rob all the way. What we have to do is to prevent them from killing, robbing, and advancing. There’s no way to retreat.”
Sheng Yong dropped the bone in his hand: "General, do you mean to trap Japanese troops somewhere and then starve them until they have no power to resist?"
Zhang Fu nodded slightly: "That's right. In this way, they will definitely fight back with all their strength, and what you will get is military merit. When they are unable to fight back, what you will get are prisoners and money."
Sheng Yong and Yang Wen laughed.
As expected of the man who sold Annan, this guy wanted to sell all the two to three hundred thousand Japanese. Unfortunately, Zhang Fu set his sights on Mishima, Japan. He wanted to sell the entire Japan...
