The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 594 Watching and helping each other
Azig and Kong Youde, who basically completed the task of destroying North Korea, immediately took action after receiving the order from their master.

Azig's Eight Banners Army and Mongolian Army were still the Chinese Army, and the forward was still led by "Marshal Du" Kong Youde.

In early August, the traitor generals Geng Zhongming, Ma Guangyuan, Shi Tingzhu, Zu Zerun, Zhang Cunren and others drove the Koryo servant army to launch an attack on the Yizhou territory occupied by Dongjiang Town.

Marshal Mao died unjustly, and Dongjiang Town fell apart. Two years later, the Wuqiao Mutiny occurred, which spread to half of Shandong. Misfortunes never come singly.

With the assistance of the "Red Banner Army", Dongjiang Town, which has just slowly recovered from the chaos, has adopted a strategy of keeping a low profile and biding its time under the leadership of Huang Long and Jin Sheng in the past two years.

Jiannu defeated North Korea completely, and the leader of North Korea, Li Ji, sent envoys to ask Dongjiang Town for support many times, and even some Korean civil servants and military generals rushed out of the Jiannu defense area to come to Yizhou for help.

The three brothers Shen Shikui, Mao Chenglu, Shang Keyi, Li Weiluan, Xiang Zuolin and other generals all knew that after the Jin army won North Korea, they would deal with Dongjiang Town. They watch over and help each other.

Huang Long and Jin Sheng saw that their subordinates were not keen on helping North Korea at all, so of course they would not rush the ducks to the shelves. They chose to stick to Yizhou to manage the farmland, and dug a lot of trenches.

The good method of digging criss-cross trenches to defend the soil is now understood by everyone in Dongjiang Town, because the effect of Dongping Hou digging trenches to encircle Jinzhou is obvious to all.

Trading with Dongjiang Town is the task of "Sun Moon Shipping", even if the profit is not high or even unprofitable, it must be done.

At the end of last year, before the port of Phi Island was frozen, the "Sun Moon Shipping" merchant ship, under the escort of the Udwater and the Venlo, brought in [-] shi of Japanese polished rice and tea, cotton cloth for mink fur, Korean ginseng, wood, Dongzhu, etc. Wait for the goods.

Huang Kezao and Shen Ming traveled to Dongjiang Town many times, and each time they had a chat with Huang Long and other major generals.

The generals of Dongjiang Town knew that Huang Kezao and Shen Ming were Dongpinghou's confidantes and held real power in their hands, so they did not despise them at all because of their youth and low official positions.

Besides, everyone in Ming Dynasty knows that the average age of the generals of the "Red Banner Army" is in their twenties, and the average age of the soldiers is no more than 20 years old. It is a new army full of vigor.

Huang Kezao was originally a book boy of Bai Yangcui. He not only knew how to read, but also read and listened to a lot of the Four Books and Five Classics. He followed Huang Han for five or six years and learned a lot of new knowledge. He often traveled across the oceans to experience nature. Not the same.

Shen Ming is the best-scoring student among Huang Han's first batch of four personal soldiers, and he is also quite caring. He realizes that his mentor has great ambitions, and he will surely be able to skyrocket to [-] miles in the future.

Huang Kezao and Shen Ming could chat not only with Huang Long, Shang Keyi and other generals, but also with Jin Sheng and other civil officials.

Drinking and chatting inevitably talked about the situation in North Korea. Shen Ming and Huang Kezao seemingly inadvertently revealed that it would be best for Jiannu to beat the Koreans to subjugate the country and exterminate their species.

In the future, the Dongjiang soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" may be able to take down half of the original Korean land. Even if the Han River is used to rule the river, it will be more enjoyable than occupying hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Yizhou.

Jin Sheng is a scholar-bureaucrat who has read poetry and books. He is familiar with the history of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla.

The "Red Banner Army" and Dongjiang Town jointly have the strength to take down half of North Korea's territory for reclamation, but doing so is not only unfair to the name, but will also be charged with provoking border affairs.

But in the case of North Korea being established as a slave and subjugated, it is another matter.

The "Red Banner Army" and Dongjiang Town's conquest of North Korea became a war against North Korea. When the division is famous, it is entirely possible to ask for a high-profile attack on North Korea and the Jin Army to grab the territory.

After the Jin army killed blood in North Korea, more than half of the population on this land had been lost. After the defeat of the Ming army, the Jin army won the territory and naturally it would not be returned to the Koreans.

At that time, it would be a good way to exile all the captured rogues to North Korea.

Jin Sheng knew Huang Han's attitude towards building slaves and conquering North Korea. He also knew that Dongjiang Town did not have the strength to launch a war, so he had to choose to advance and retreat with the friendly "Red Banner Army".

Huang Long and a group of military generals did not have a good impression of the North Korean monarch and ministers. Seeing that Jiannu had beaten the North Korean king and fled to Jianghua Island in the past few months, everyone gloated at his misfortune.

When Jin Sheng and the generals of Dongjiang Town learned that Huang Han coveted the North Korean land, everyone was inexplicably excited. They tried to harvest and store some food as much as possible to deal with the complicated battle situation in the future.

During this period, Huang Long and Jin Sheng accepted some Korean civil and military generals who refused to surrender and become slaves to exile in Yizhou or Phi Island, organized and trained the defeated soldiers they brought, and established a Korean Volunteer Army.

At the same time, Uiju and Zhenjiang Fort were actively preparing for war, preparing to deal with the massive attack that Jiannu would inevitably launch after the conquest of North Korea.

In the past two years, Dongjiang Town has received a relatively higher proportion of Liao's salary. The number of people approved by the imperial court has reached 18. In addition, the business of timber and mountain products is good, and there are hundreds of thousands of grains of wheat harvested in Yizhou's farmland. Now there are soldiers and civilians. [-], of which Koryo sticks reached [-]%.

Without exception, these North Koreans were all ruined by Jiannu and the Houjin Army, and they had a bloody feud with the Houjin Army.

Many of them are the surviving civil servants and nobles of North Korea. These people should be the elites of this country, a group of national heroes who refuse to follow the crowd and choose to fight to the death.

Since the soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town were psychologically prepared and the construction of the defense line was strengthened, the advance of the Jin army to Yizhou in the middle and late August of the seventh year of Chongzhen was not smooth.

It was that Dongjiang Town refused to give up the farmland that had already begun to harvest immediately. The [-] Dongjiang soldiers and the [-] Korean volunteers fought against the Jiannu, Tartars, traitors, and Koryo servants using the completed trench defense system layer by layer.

It's not that Huanglong and Jinsheng didn't plan to fight in chaos, nor were they blind enough to think that they could hold Uiju by themselves.

They had already received a letter from Dongping Hou, and when they discovered that the enemy was attacking aggressively, they immediately retreated to the islands. Huang Yong, who had received the news, had already led a huge fleet to the mouth of the Yalu River to meet the Dongjiang soldiers.

The small and medium-sized warships of the "Red Banner Army" water battalion that could enter the Yalu River did not sit on the hills and watch the tigers fight. They went up the river to shell the post-Jin army that appeared in the range.

Although the artillery fire on the warship caused limited casualties to the enemy, the rumbling sound of the artillery boosted the morale of the Dongjiang soldiers and the Korean Volunteer Army, and severely dampened the morale of the Hou Jin army.

The Dongjiang soldiers and the North Korean Volunteer Army fought to the death because they were hungry and scared a few years ago. Seeing that the 50 million shi of wheat that could be harvested had matured, they were reluctant to give up.

The [-] soldiers fought repeatedly for the trenches of the Jin army and the Goryeo servant army. The battlefield was full of gunpowder, and both sides actually fired at each other with hot weapons and arquebus guns.

(End of this chapter)