Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 834

In the sixth year of Shaoming, on the eleventh day of the sixth month, Murong Xinchang crossed Haizhou and personally rushed to the small town surrounding Wang Zhao, the king of the Wang family.

Before that, the 200 troops of Wang's Koryo and tens of thousands of civilians had collapsed. The more than [-] miles from Pyongyang to Haizhou were full of soldiers and civilians who died on both sides of the road.

Goryeo's [-]-strong army, except for the [-]-odd Jiang Gongzhen who was besieged in Haizhou and the [-]-odd cavalry around Wang Zhao, was almost wiped out.

And before they finished, more than [-] defenders of Pyongyang City were also wiped out.

In this battle, Wang's Koryo suffered extremely heavy losses. At least one-tenth of the country's population, and one-fifth of the males, even if they did not die, it would be very difficult for them to return to their hometown.

Because these captured soldiers and civilian husbands will be the best cannon fodder to attack the Japanese country, and their wives and daughters will become the best spoils of war.

As for the lost civilians and generals, Xinkang, who stayed behind in Pyongyang, was killed; Hong Shun, a soldier of the left army in the camp, was captured by civilians and dedicated to the Zhou army; Jing was cut off.

Hundreds of other military officers, large and small, were killed in battle, and more than a thousand martial arts squads were completely killed or injured, which basically wiped out all the military forces of Wang's Korea.

Before Murong Nobunaga arrived, apart from Chen Sirang and Gao Song who led [-] Jingqi Xingye to seize Kaijing, almost [-] troops surrounded the town with water.

It's not that they can't capture this small town, but they are waiting for the arrival of Nobunaga Murong, and they want to dedicate this most glorious moment to their king.

As soon as Murong Xinchang's white robe and white horse appeared, the [-] warriors around the town erupted in loud cheers. The officers and soldiers tapped the armor on their chests with their hands or short knives, and everyone's eyes were full of hope.

And the source of this hope is the large and small plains from Pyongyang all the way down. The water network here is dense and the irrigation facilities have been repaired. It can be called a fertile field for hundreds of miles. Compared with Liao, the population is quite dense.

Nearly 40 of these soldiers and their families will follow Nobunaga Murong. If half of them stay in Korea, it will be 20, or more than 3 households.

Among them, [-] households became rich peasant landlords similar to fubing, and the remaining few thousand households could become feudal lords.

Although Koryo is smaller than the Central Plains and has limited good places, it is not a big problem to accommodate the 20 of them. It is enough for a small number of people to be lords, and most of them have quite a lot of land.

Murong Xinchang knew that these people were waiting for him, looking at him, what they were looking for, and what they were thinking in their hearts, so he was unambiguous, so he rode his horse and shouted in front of the battle: "Take Kaijing, divide the fields, divide the land, Meritorious ministers are given fiefs and slaves!"

"Long live! Long live! Long live!" In an instant, everyone cheered.

Then Murong Xinda waved his hand, and [-] troops attacked from all sides. Countless soldiers in heavy armor rushed into this small town with only fences.

Not long after, the cheers sounded again, more than a dozen warriors dragged a man in a white robe with no blood on his face in front of Murong Xinchang, they all shouted together, and pushed him down on his knees. on the ground.

"Pu Yinggui, come and recognize him!" Murong Nobunaga's younger brother Murong Xinzhen shouted.

A middle-aged man with a wound on his face and a frightened expression came over to take a look, and cried out loudly, "My lord, I'm sorry for you!"

"Fuck you!" Murong Xinzhen kicked Pu Yinggui to the ground, "You Baekje surrender also want to pretend to be a loyal minister? Answer quickly, yes or no?"

Pu Yinggui fell to the ground and cried loudly, "Yes! He is Wang Zhao, the king of Korea, Wang Zhao!"

After a while, Hong Shun, who was presented by Liu Yibao and his cousin, was also escorted over.

He was more direct than Pu Yinggui. When he saw Wang Zhao being pressed into the muddy ground, he immediately started crying loudly.

The surrounding soldiers started laughing in unison amidst the loud cries.

The dozen or so warriors who captured Wang Zhao loudly told Murong Nobunaga about their achievements amid laughter.

This scene made Murong Nobunaga involuntarily think of 14 years ago, when he followed his adoptive father Zhang Yu into Guanzhong to quell the chaos, he fought with Li Cunhui to capture and kill the thief general Sun Xiaoguo.

"A Sige's first capture is the highest achievement, and he is bestowed with a surname. The rest of the warriors are bestowed with land, houses, and titles, and they are all rewarded!"

"Wait, thank you King!" The cheers grew louder, but amidst the cheers, there was another discordant voice.

"I swear to my death that I will not surrender, I will swear to my death that I will not surrender, Huangzhou Huangfu has no general who bows to his knees!" It turned out that Huangfu Zhao was also escorted over.

Previously, Murong Xin had always loved talent, and he had already asked someone to persuade him to surrender, but it seemed that it was not very successful. The four soldiers twisted his arms, and he kept shouting and struggling.

In fact, it's not entirely a matter of love for talents. The Huangfu family is a relatively special existence among Koreans.

They are somewhat different from other Koreans who pretended to be surnames, because the general surnames are mostly fake surnames such as Wang, Li, Liu, and Zhao, or Jin, Park, etc. based on transliteration.

Few people take the time to impersonate a surname like Huangfu. Few people in China can easily trace their surnames with such a double surname.

There is no insurance for surnames like Wang, Liu, and Li who give their surnames and pretend to be in the South China Sea and North Sea.

Therefore, the Huangfu clan of the peninsula is indeed a Han Huangfu clan who lived in Liaodong during the Han Dynasty, mixed with the local aborigines, and finally moved south to the Korean Peninsula. It has a relatively clear inheritance and belongs to an ethnic group that is more convenient to bring back.

At the same time, Huangzhou, where the Huangfu family lives and lives, is not far from Pyongyang, and it has been basically controlled. But at the same time, most of the best of their family are in power around Kaijing.

What kind of family does this family belong to? As a rich family, the strength is not very strong, but it is supported by dragons and phoenixes among a few people. Naturally, it is a very good partner to cooperate with.

And historically, most of the Huangfu family in the peninsula returned to the north of the Yalu River at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Most of the descendants lived in Yanbian and Changchun, and very few stayed in the peninsula.

But here, Huangfu Zhao was yelling, Murong Xin really couldn't stand it anymore, so he walked over and yelled loudly:

"The thief slave still dares to roar, but I know that your parents, wife, children and clan are all in my hands. If you dare to say that half of them will not surrender, I will kill your whole family."

Huangfu Zhao's aching feet were pinched, and his momentum immediately went down.

In history, Fang Xiaoru died with his brothers for justice in his heart, let his wife and two sons hang themselves early, and his two daughters jumped the Qinhuai River to die early, very few.

So although Huangfuzhao wanted to die to be a loyal minister, he couldn't let his parents, wife and children die with him, so he could only desperately look up at Murong Nobunaga.

"I heard that the King of Liao is also a loyal minister and filial son of the sage Shaoming, please make it happen!"

Murong Xinchang let out a long sigh, and walked forward in person, "You Gaoli Huangfu family is also a descendant of the Han Dynasty. A certain soldier came here today to restore the old state of the Han family and punish the Wang family who falsely claimed to be Gaoli. Why don't you just submit to me? To serve the country of the ancestors?"

Huangfuzhao shook his head slowly, "Huangfu's family can return to the country of their ancestors, but Zhao was promoted by the previous king and ate the salary of the king's family, how can he still be a second minister, please let the king do it!"

Murong Xin thought for a long time, this Huangfu sign is definitely not lying, he is indeed begging for death, he should fulfill this reputation of loyalty, so he waved his hand, "Huangfu Jiming, this is a loyal member of your family, you can do it !"

As soon as the words fell, a 17-year-old hero came forward from the crowd. This man was slender, good at riding and shooting, and had courage. He was also regarded as a brave general in the early Northern Song Dynasty in history.

"Every sword is not enough to bear the blood of loyal ministers, please give me the sword!" Huangfu Jiming took off his cloth and iron armor, exposed his right arm, and half knelt down to ask Murong Xinchang for the sword.

Murong Nobunaga heard the words and untied the long dagger he was carrying, "This knife is called Chasing Light, it was bestowed by the Son of Heaven, it has Buddha nature, and can transport people to bliss!"

At this time, the soldiers who were escorting Huangfuzhao also let go of their hands. Huangfuzhao tidied up his armor covered in mud, and bowed to Wang Zhao, "Your Majesty, I am loyal!"

Wang Zhaoxue's white face trembled a few times, but he couldn't say a word in extreme fear.

Afterwards, Huangfuzhao bowed to Murong Xinchang again, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for making this happen!"

Murong Xinchang nodded, and Huangfu Jiming stepped forward with a chasing light in his hand, and said loudly to Huangfu Zhao: "Someone will send a letter to the Jingzhou Huangfu's Ancestral Hall to let them know that Huangfu's family also has loyal people in Haidong."

After finishing speaking, Huangfu Jiming stepped forward, touched Huangfu Zhao's chest, confirmed the position, and gently slammed it right in the heart!

Blood spewed out immediately, and Huangfuzhao twitched a few times like lightning, and lost all consciousness in an extremely fast time, and he was almost untortured throughout the whole process.

Murong Xinchang looked at Huangfu Zhao who was supported by Huangfu Jiming, and a fierce look flashed across his face.

"I ordered people to build a temple at this moment to commemorate it. However, all the property of Huangfu's family in Huangzhou was confiscated, and the men were sent to serve before they were sent to the army. All widows and unmarried women were allotted to meritorious men."

If you want to be a loyal minister, you can, and if you want the reputation of a loyal minister, Murong Nobunaga can also fulfill it, but if you want the reputation of a loyal minister and want the clansmen to continue to live a good life, that's not enough.

Otherwise, everyone will come all the way to the south, where is the place to put my confidantes of King Murong.

And if there are more loyal ministers, wouldn't it appear that I, King Murong Nanzheng, are not so righteous.

"Your Majesty is wise!" The surrounding generals cheered with satisfaction.

This way of handling not only fulfilled the reputation of loyal ministers, but they still respected Huangfu Zhao who wanted to die only for his loyalty. On the other hand, it also prevented some cunning people from imitating the example.

. . . .

In Haizhou, Murong Xinchang did not turn around, and directly led the army to Kaijing. He only sent Murong Xinzhen and Xiang Xun to hold Wang Zhaoyi armor and seal to show to the defenders under the city of Haizhou.

Jiang Gongzhen saw it clearly from the top of the city, feeling extremely sad in her heart, and at the same time lost all hope for the future of Koryo.

Dachaotian soldiers are so fierce and have no plans, why are they still struggling.

Jiang Gongzhen pulled her son over, sighed and said: "I am a bitch, it is King Gaozu who has not been promoted to this point with humbleness, and I really can't turn my back on it, otherwise how can we meet King Gaozu in Huangquan?"

Jiang Gongzhen was originally surnamed Gong, but this Gong is not a surname that can really be passed down, but a surname borrowed by aboriginals with very low status who had no surnames on the peninsula from Silla to the Goryeo period.

For example, Gong Yi, the king of Taifeng Kingdom who was overthrown by Wang Jian, was not allowed to be named Jin by the Silla royal family because of his mother's extremely low family background.

Of course, in history, Jiang Gongzhen’s youngest son, Jiang Hanzan, defeated the Liao army in the Guizhou War and kept the Goryeo Kingdom. Later, he was regarded as a national hero by the people of the peninsula. Jia compiled a very clear genealogy, which is the same as Jia Fu's genealogy, and it is not credible.

However, although Jiang Gongzhen said so, he was not as strong as Huangfuzhao, and he also understood better than Huangfuzhao.

It is easy for a person to be a loyal minister, but he needs the help of his family to resist the price, so what he said is not so rigid.

The generals of the Kaijing Forbidden Army who were brought to Haizhou by him were all good people. Hearing what Jiang Gongzhen said, they immediately knelt down and begged.

What are you kidding, Jiang Gongzhen, who is the Da Kuang of the Goryeo State, the inspector You Pushe, the general, the deputy commander of the battalion, and the military envoy of the battalion, has such a big head!

What kind of scapegoat with such a big head can be taken down!

With Jiang Gongzhen standing up, couldn't they say that their boss had surrendered, and they had no choice but to bow their knees.

The guilt is much lower and the reputation is much better, so Jiang Gongzhen will never be allowed to commit suicide.

This Jiang Gongzhen was persuaded by a group of generals, his eldest son didn't understand the twists and turns, or maybe he was afraid that Jiang Gongzhen's loyalty would anger the Zhou people outside the city, so he also hugged Jiang Gongzhen His thigh begged: "If father is loyal to the king, what will Yin Chuan do? He is only two years old!"

Yin Chuan is Jiang Hanzan's little character, this famous Koryo official with good ability but more bragging, only two years old this year, is the youngest son of Jiang Gongzhen at the age of 53, so he is very much loved by Jiang Gongzhen.

Now when the eldest son mentioned Jiang Hanzan, Jiang Gongzhen's whole body's strength seemed to have disappeared. When she opened her mouth, she only felt bitter. back.

When the generals saw that Jiang Gongzhen was silent, they immediately surrounded him and opened the city gate, revealing their upper body to open the door and beg for surrender.

. . . .

The history of Kaijing City is not long. Before Wang's Koryo, it was just an ordinary city.

But in the last years of the Taifeng Kingdom, King Gong of Taifeng ordered the local rich king of Kaesong County to build the city.

Later, Wang Jian replaced Gong Yi and established Wang's Koryo, and merged Songyue and Kaesong, two nearby cities, into Kaijing as the capital, just like Xiangyang and Fancheng in the Central Plains were later collectively called Xiangfan.

So the current Kaijing City is not one city, but two cities.

These two cities are surrounded by Mt. Songak and Mt. Centipede, separated by the Imjin River.

Therefore, Kaijing City is quite easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to attack the city, you must remove the defenders deployed on Songyue Mountain and Centipede Mountain.

At the same time, there is a water city on the Linjin River, and the inland river fleet makes it very convenient for the two cities to support each other. It can also cut off the connection between the two cities after Songyak and Kaesong are captured, so that the other city that has not been captured can continue to fight. resistance.

However, this is an ideal state. When Wang Jian wanted to compete with Baekje and Silla for the hegemony of the peninsula, Kaijing was indeed such a city that could almost be called invincible.

But in Wang Zhao's hands, there is no strong enemy outside the closed peninsula, and Kaijing's defense has dropped by more than ten levels.

And because the Goryeo royal palace, Shouchang Palace, etc. are located in Songak City, the population and economy of Goryeo are not enough to support such a large city, which led to the rapid decline of Kaesong. It is already difficult for the two cities to support each other in terms of defense. .

At the same time, most of the sailors on the Linjin River were taken away by Wang Zhao, and they were basically unable to perform their original tasks.

Opening Songyue City, the 57-year-old Koryo founding hero Huangfu Tigong watched the army appearing outside the city sweating.

With the support of Shaocheng County, that is, the fishermen of Incheon, the Dazhou fleet easily passed the Jianghua Strait full of hidden reefs on the day of high tide.

Zhe Deyuan had more than [-] horsemen under his command, and Zhao Kuangyin led [-] sailors to raid Shaocheng County first, and then rushed directly to Kaijing City.

Although they didn't have siege equipment, Kaijing didn't have many defensive troops, and they didn't even maintain the suspension bridge of the moat.

Zhao Kuangyin personally put on his helmet and smashed his armor and stormed for several days, and the defense of Songyue City in Kaijing was crumbling. If Huangfu Tigong hadn't mobilized all the guards, guards and even servants of the nobles in the city to defend the city, it might have been captured long ago.

What Huangfu Tigong desires most now is to send troops back from Wang Zhaoneng who went north to relieve the siege of Pyongyang Prefecture in Xijing, but at the same time, in his heart, Huangfu Tigong knows that this is an extravagant hope.

The enemy army came from Shaocheng County on the edge of Jianghua Bay, which shows that the northern bandits traveled south by land and water.

Judging from what Huangfu Tigong knew, neither the real Northern Bandits nor the former Liao Kingdom had the ability to dispatch such a large-scale navy to enter Jianghua Bay.

So Huangfu Tigong didn't dare to think about who it was, now he could only use the king's return to the army to boost morale, and he didn't know how long it would last.

A few days after the siege, Zhe Deyuan and Zhao Kuangyin also felt the characteristics of Kaijing's city defense.

On the seventh day of June, Zhao Kuangyin led an army of [-] to attack Songyue Mountain. On the same day, he broke through Songyue Mountain City and killed [-] Goryeo defenders.

After taking Songyue City, Zhao Kuangyin was able to set up large trebuchets on Songyue Mountain and bombard Songyue City.

On the ninth day of June, Zhede wished to deliberately release the south gate of Songyue City to lure the people in the capital to flee. Huangfu Tigong tried his best to stop the people in the city who were eager to survive, but the Koryo defenders were too exhausted and dared not leave the city.

Zhede hoped that Huangfu Tigong would not be fooled, and immediately ordered the army to storm Centipede Mountain and Kaesong. There were not many defenders on Centipede Mountain, and Kaesong was also quite dilapidated, and was quickly captured.

Later, Zhede ordered the navy to drive a small boat to attack the Goryeo Imjin River navy, which is what this "marine army" is best at.

Henghai Town worked hard, and the sailors Hai Dayu, Hai Erxie, and Hai Sanxia risked their lives to climb up first. With 700 people and more than [-] small boats, they defeated more than [-] Korean sailors and completely controlled the Linjin River.

On June [-]th, the stubborn Huangfu Tigong and others finally ushered in the doomsday. Chen Sirang and Gao Song rode three thousand horses to the city of Kaijing.

Gao Song was originally the niece and son-in-law of Wang Jian, the founding king of the Wang clan of Koryo, and he was familiar with all the people and things in Kaijing.

After asking Chen Sixang for instructions, he threw all kinds of banners and armors of Wang's Koryo army's northern expedition to the city for exhibition, and then dragged dozens of Koryo red guard knights and generals to the city for a walk.

Huangfu Tigong knew Gao Song, and immediately knew that the Northern Expedition Army was gone, so he passed out on the city wall.

This old fox, he is dizzy, so he doesn't have to take the blame, but Songyue City has no backbone, a large number of civil servants and military generals are crying together at the top of the city, I don't know who opened the city gate first. The capital was completely captured.

Zhe De would like to send Chen Sirang and Gao Song to lead a thousand paces into the city to stabilize the order, seal off the palace and government treasury, and strictly prohibit the people from going to the streets, and on the other hand, Pegasus sent someone to invite Murong Nobunaga to come.

On June [-]th, the news of victory came. Chen Jiao, who divided his troops to attack Shuizhou (Shuiyuan), conquered more than ten prefectures and counties including Shuizhou, beheaded hundreds of levels, and dozens of officials, large and small, surrendered.

On June [-]th, another good news came that the army captured King Wang Zhao of Koryo alive.

The general and the battalion were envoys, and the general Jiang Gongzhen surrendered.Huang Fuzhao, the vanguard soldier and horse envoy, and the red guard cavalry Zhonglang, died for the country.

On June [-]th, finally, amidst the cheers of tens of thousands of soldiers, Murong Xinchang led the army surrounded by the golden sun and moon flag with a silver and white background symbolizing Zhang Zhou's royal family and the red sun and shining banner with a silver and white background symbolizing his status as a Buddhist son. Twenty thousand arrived outside Songyue city.

So far, Murong Nobunaga, following Li Ji and Xue Rengui, has once again conquered a large country with a population of one million in this peninsula after more than 270 years.

Completely destroy the careerists who try to summon the soul of Goguryeo!
(End of this chapter)