Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 624: Fang Ying marches to besiege Seoul. One hundred thousand Japanese troops cross the sea to aid Korea.
Li Yao pretended to be horrified by the Ming army's ultimatum.

Seeing Li Yao's shock, Zhang Ning pretended to be arrogant and gave Li Yao a severe scolding.As a result, Li Yao wanted to start a crime several times, but she almost couldn't pretend anymore.

Fortunately, he finally endured it, and Li Yao was also surprised. The last time they met, Zhang Ning accepted a bribe from a woman from North Korea, and she complained in a letter to the Emperor of Heaven.

But now Zhang Ning seems not to be affected at all, but instead becomes more and more arrogant, which is really evil.

Li Yao apologized and admitted her mistake, and finally sent Zhang Ning away.

Li Yao's current strategy is: If I am asked to admit my mistake, I will admit my mistake, and if I am asked to apologize, I will apologize, but you have to make actual concessions. Sorry, no.

After leaving Seoul, Zhang Ning immediately returned to his gentle state.

The two sides just deceived each other. Li Yao wanted to paralyze the Ming army and lead the Ming army to take the initiative to attack Seoul, thereby exposing flaws and then defeating it with surprise troops.

Zhang Ning wanted to fool Li Yao, and then the Ming army pretended to fall into the trap, and then took the opportunity to fake defeat.

After returning to Pyongyang, Zhang Ning reported the negotiation process with Li Yao to Jiang Yuan and Fang Yingchen, and then wanted to continue making suggestions.

Jiang Yuan and Fang Ying signaled to Zhang Ning that he could go out.

Zhang Ning was in a humble position, so he couldn't insist on leaving, but he still gave instructions beforehand: "Shilang Jiang, Marquis of Nanhe, according to the lower official's speculation, North Korea will use the [-] Liaodong troops captured as human shields. , you two should make some preparations early.

In addition, before Xianguan set off from the capital, there was reliable news that Japan was about to send troops to aid Korea.

Once the army is dispatched and Kaicheng and Seoul cannot be captured for a long time, they may be surprised by the Japanese army.

The Holy Father has repeatedly emphasized that once the Japanese army lands in Busan, it will take two months to reach Pyongyang. "

Jiang Yuan nodded, indicating that he understood.

After Zhang Ning withdrew, Jiang Yuan asked Fang Ying, "What do Nan Hehou think?"

Fang Ying shook her head: "I don't know much about Japan, but I heard that Japan is also full of internal conflicts. Their competition for the position of the emperor, the position of the general, and the competition for the position of the governor of the house among the famous people is getting more and more intense. I really don't know. I believe they can mobilize [-] troops to aid North Korea."

Jiang Yuan also shook his head.

The problem lies here. Whether the emperor writes a warning letter or sends an envoy to remind them, Jiang Yuan and Fang Ying just don't believe that Japan can send a large army to aid Korea.

Anyway, in the eyes of normal people, Japan does not have such national strength, nor is it so united.

And how easy is it to assemble a hundred thousand troops and fight across the sea?To reach Pyongyang in two months is simply a fantasy.

So Fang Ying proposed a strategy: "We should follow Li Chengyu's original suggestion and send a large army between Kaicheng and Seoul, and then send the main force to attack Seoul.

As long as Seoul falls, the overall situation will be determined.

We now have enough troops to dig multiple trenches and surround Kaicheng.

In this way, as long as the Kaesong Army does not come out to cause trouble, Seoul can be captured in three months at most with such an empty defense.

Even if Japan really sends troops to help, it will take half a year to reach Seoul.

By the time they reached the city, the day lilies were cold. "

Jiang Yuan nodded vigorously, and both of them felt that it was good.With an army of 20 in hand, it would be easy to lay siege to two cities.

After deciding on the strategy, the two of them split up and Fang Ying led the Lao Jing camp to attack Seoul.Jiang Yuan commanded the Shangzhi Guards and was responsible for the siege of Kaicheng.

North Korea has also made adjustments.Kaicheng retained [-] elites and [-] auxiliary troops. The remaining elites secretly marched into Seoul after defeating Li Chengyu last year.

Li Yao also transferred back [-] elite troops from the army that went to quell the rebellion of Lord Jincheng and Lord Anping.

At this point, there were 5 elite heavy infantry, [-] other combat troops, and nearly [-] miscellaneous auxiliary troops in Seoul.One hundred thousand troops guarded Seoul, and the city had enough food and grass to last more than two years.

As for the court situation, after half a year of repeated purges, the opposition forces could no longer pose a threat to Li Yao.

Li Yao's regime, which was in danger last year, has now temporarily stabilized.It can be said that if you kill a snake, there will be future troubles.

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However, Zhu Qiyu, as the emperor of tomorrow, is really destined.

As luck would have it, in March, Japan's Muromachi Shogunate took charge of Hatakeyama Mochikuni and passed away.

Because Ashikaga Yoshimasa was supported by the leader Hatakeyama Mochikuni and others, he was elected as a Japanese general at the age of eight.

Therefore, in the past 12 years, Hatakeyama Mochikuni and Hosokawa Katsumoto have taken turns as leaders and actually held power, while Ashikaga Yoshimasa has not yet taken charge.

Hatakeyama Mokoku had extremely high qualifications and prestige, and his family was extremely powerful.

The current leader, Hosokawa Katsumoto, who was only 25 years old, had many conflicts with Hatakeyama Mochikuni. When it seemed that he could no longer handle it, Hatakeyama Mochikuni died.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who had always been calm and patient, finally couldn't stand it any longer.

After the death of Hatakeyama Mochikuni, his brother's legitimate son Hatakeyama Masahisa and his own concubine Hatakeyama Yoshihiro competed for the position of governor of the family, and internal fighting was about to break out.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa supported Hatakeyama Yoshinari, while Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Munezen supported Hatakeyama Masahisa.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa wanted to establish authority and take back real power by intervening in the succession of the three governors and four governors.

Originally, there should have been a good internal fight.

But once Zhu Qiyu intervened, the situation became completely different.

These big shots in Japan thought of a new move: sending troops to aid Korea.

Especially the Hatakeyama clan, let them be the main force and go to Korea to fight.

Let Hatakeyama Masahisa and Hatakeyama Yoshitsune each lead an army. Whoever fights well and has high military exploits will be the next governor of the Hatakeyama clan.

As soon as this proposal came out, it immediately won the unanimous approval of the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the administrator Hosokawa Katsumoto.

In this way, regardless of the outcome of the war, it is certain that the Hatakeyama clan's strength will be greatly weakened.Both Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Hosokawa Katsumoto will benefit from it.

The Hatakeyama clan was naturally unhappy, but his objections were ineffective.Without Hatakeyama Mochikuni in charge, the entire family could not form a united force, and its voice in the shogunate had plummeted.

Masahisa Hatakeyama and Yoshihiro Hatakeyama are just two young boys. Who cares whether you object or not? If you can save your life, then it’s good.

Of course, neither Ashikaga Yoshimasa nor Hosokawa Katsumoto would do anything too straightforward and dishonorable.

With three offices and four offices, these seven major families have sent out many troops, and even the general himself has sent out three thousand soldiers.

Uesugi Kenchu, the leader of the Kanto region, also sent out 1 people.

Only Kamakura Duke Ashikaga Shigei firmly refused the request to send troops.

Fortunately, no one was too entangled with the Ashikaga Shige clan. Anyway, everyone had gathered a hundred thousand troops and a thousand warships, and landed in Busan in three batches, starting a war with the Ming Dynasty.

After entering Korea, the Japanese army was divided into two. Hosokawa Katsumoto led the Eastern Army to attack Gyeongsang Province where Lord Geumseong was seated.

Sanming Zongquan led the Western Army to attack Jeolla Province where King Anping was seated.

(End of this chapter)