In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 567: Comprehensive Preparation for War (Recommended Mingjing New Book)
In recent years, Goryeo and Japan have traded with the Song Dynasty, and the business has grown bigger and bigger. The relationship between Japan and the Song Dynasty is also very good. Hojo Tokiyomi also respects Zhao Yurui's Song Dynasty very much and sends envoys to pay tribute every year.

Unexpectedly, the Song army suddenly attacked Goryeo.

Because there were so many people present at the time, some people had not seen the letter.

"What is the reason for the Song people to start a war?" As the famous person in the opposition, Shi Guang would definitely be the last one to read the letter, so he asked anxiously.

"The Song people said that one of their ships was sunk by the Koreans near Ganghwa Island, killing and injuring hundreds of people, and losing 180,000 strings of cash."

"After investigation, it was found that it was a subordinate of a Goryeo prince who pretended to be a pirate and demanded that Goryeo hand over the person, but Goryeo flatly denied it."

"Is this the reason for going to war?" Mingliu Shiguang certainly didn't believe it: "It's impossible for the Koreans not to hand over the people. I think the Song people did it on purpose."

If the Song people really caught the Koreans, they would definitely be willing to hand over the prince.

Not only did Mingliu Shiguang think so, many civil and military officials at the scene also thought so. The Song people were just looking for an excuse to start a war.

Hojo Tokiyori sat cross-legged with a serious expression, recalling the events of the past few years in his mind.

In recent years, Japan has been quite respectful to the Song Dynasty. The two countries have frequent trade and have never had any friction. However, Japanese merchant ships would also go to Southeast Asia. They also knew that the Song army was fighting everywhere in Southeast Asia and conquered many countries. Even Champa and Annan were conquered by the Song army.

It seems that the Song army simply wants to expand its territory madly?
"The Song army used the same excuse to start wars against Annan, Champa, etc., either soldiers were missing or cargo ships were sunk." Hojo Shigemitsu said in a deep voice: "This is their common routine. The Song people no longer intend to do business with Goryeo. They want to conquer Goryeo."

"If we let them conquer Goryeo, the next target will be Japan?" Mingliu Shiguang immediately shouted.

"The whole country must be mobilized immediately and fully prepared for war."

"The Song navy is powerful and their firearms are sharp. We must not act recklessly."

There was soon a quarrel off the field, and the shogunate was divided into three factions. Most people demanded full preparations for war to guard against the invasion of the Song army.

Another group believes that we cannot give the Song people an excuse and we should just wait and see.

The most shocking thing was Mingliu Shiguang, who actually proposed to send troops to Goryeo to help Goryeo resist the Song army.

You should know that the relationship between Goryeo and the Japanese was not good. When the Mongols attacked Goryeo, the Japanese did not care.

But Mingliu Shiguang believed that the Song people posed a much greater threat than the Mongols. If they conquered Goryeo, they would soon use Goryeo as a springboard to attack Japan.

Celebrity Time was still prescient.

After the Mongols conquered Goryeo, they asked the Goryeo people to build warships.

Unfortunately, the Koreans did not work seriously and their warships were not durable.

If we say that the Mongol expedition to Japan failed, it would be more accurate to say that it was the Goryeo craftsmen who helped rather than the kamikaze.

There were three groups of people arguing at the scene, and Celebrity Time received the least support, with most people still leaning towards national preparations.

"Stop arguing." Hojo Shigemitsu shouted, barely able to stabilize the situation.

This letter from Jiuzhou forced celebrities like Shi Guang, who had originally planned to rebel, to temporarily put aside their grudges and fight against the foreign enemy in an all-out manner.

After discussion throughout the Kamakura shogunate that day, they finally called back the former shogun Fujiwara no Yoritsune, who had become a monk.

Faced with external enemies, both sides put aside their past grudges and had no choice but to sit together.

After discussion, it was finally decided to adopt the opinion of the majority, which was to prepare for war in an all-round way.

All countries were required to prepare food and fodder, train soldiers and horses, build warships and weapons, and prepare for war in an all-round way.

At the same time, Kyushu Dazaifu also received the news and began to reduce trade with the Song army, and strictly prohibited the people from trading copper, iron, wood and other items to the Song people.

Before, Japan's iron, copper, and wood were mainly exported to the Song Dynasty. These things could be used in wars. Hojo Tokiyori immediately made a decisive decision and banned the trade.

He was a man of strong character, and his son Hojo Tokimune was also like him. During Hojo Tokimune's time, he firmly resisted Mongolia, refused Kublai Khan's tribute and diplomatic relations, and defeated the Mongol invasions twice.

The same was true of Hojo Tokiyori. Since he had decided to prepare for war, he did not hide it, but he did not impose a comprehensive ban. He only banned some war supplies from entering the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the Kamakura shogunate's reaction soon reached Lin'an, but Zhao Yurui ignored them.

The Song army launched a full-scale invasion of Goryeo, intending to completely conquer Goryeo before attacking Japan.

Goryeo is mountainous and has a vast territory. It would take at least two or three years to completely conquer Goryeo and consolidate his rule, so he was not in a hurry to take action against Japan and did not want to start wars on multiple fronts.

Maintaining simple trade between the two sides also gave Japan two or three years to prepare for war.

Zhao Yurui was also willing to give them time. The more elite troops Hojo Tokiyori gathered, the better it would be for Zhao Yurui.

The Song army could then defeat the shogunate's elite troops in one fell swoop, and conquering the entire country of Japan would become easier.
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June of the sixteenth year of Yuanzhen.

The Song army was unstoppable and successively captured Xijing and other places by land. On the second day of June, the army by land and sea met outside Kaijing city and surrounded Kaijing.

Goryeo Choi Yi's health was also getting worse at this time. After all, historically he died the next year.

The Goryeo court was not united, some wanted to seek peace, while others wanted to fight to the death.

The Song army was not in a hurry to attack the city. After encircling Kaesong, they surrounded the area and attacked the reinforcements, waiting for reinforcements from all over Goryeo.

Because Goryeo has many mountains and a large territory, the Song army saved the trouble of conquering it one by one. They learned the strategy of the Later Jin Dynasty to conquer Mongolia, surrounded Kaesong, waited for reinforcements to arrive, and fought all the way. After all the Goryeo reinforcements were defeated, Kaesong would naturally surrender.

The Song army had a powerful navy and had strongholds in Goryeo such as Tiezhou, so its logistics were much stronger than those of the Later Jin Dynasty and they had no shortage of food at all.

In order to rule effectively in the future, he did not follow the example of the Later Jin Dynasty and plunder everywhere, but specifically targeted the nobles and the powerful and won the hearts of the people.

The fourth day of June.

A large number of troops slowly entered Tiezhou from Tongzhou.

The long line stretched as far as the eye could see, stretching for more than ten miles.

These were the Korean nobles, family members of officials and nobles, and some surrendered soldiers captured by the Song army in various places.

The Song army killed most of the local tyrants, and their families and some surrendered soldiers moved westward.

Some will go mining, and some will participate in the construction of Far East City.

It is still very far from here to Far East City. After these people go to the Far East, they will basically stay in the Far East and become local immigrants, contributing to increasing the local population for the Song people.

This was one of Zhao and Rui's important strategies, to forcibly relocate the Koreans and Japanese to the Far East and occupy this rich land forever.

The team stretched for more than ten miles. The front ones reached Tiezhou, and the back ones were still in Tongzhou.

At this time, outside Tongzhou City, a group of surrendered soldiers were gathered together.

There were about two thousand surrendered soldiers, tied into a line in groups of ten, with a Song soldier every few dozen steps on both sides, and several civilian laborers holding spears to help watch them.

The Song army used only one hundred soldiers and three hundred local laborers to manage the more than two thousand surrendered soldiers.

The surrendered soldiers did not dare to move because the Song army was very brutal and would shoot if they saw anything wrong.

The flintlock rifle was so powerful that the Goryeo soldiers were afraid of it.

Park Young-hoon was also inside at this time.

He had returned home in February with a large sum of money.

But later, the Song army recruited civilians to help escort surrendered soldiers and prisoners, and Park Young-hoon signed up again.

This time they were recruited as a vassal army, and regardless of whether they had been trained or not, each of them was given a simple spear, which mainly served as a deterrent.

The Song army was short of manpower, so they asked them to come to help.

At this time, Park Young-hoon was already a traitor to Goryeo.

But there was no way. He had already become famous in Tongzhou City last time. No matter whether he helped the Song people or not, the Koreans would regard him as a traitor. But Park Young-hoon did not think he was a traitor.

Unlike the Mongols, the Song people did not kill civilians indiscriminately. They mainly targeted landlords and officials, and distributed land to the people. Therefore, Park Young-hoon believed that he was contributing to the country and seeking benefits for the people.

"Park Young-hoon." A Song soldier suddenly shouted.

"Yes, I'm here." Park Young-hoon responded in fluent Chinese and quickly trotted over.

"Everyone here is from Tongzhou. You lead the team to register their home addresses. Those who are willing to bring their families can do so."

Park Young-hoon was stunned.

Song Jun continued, "Tell them that if they don't bring their families, they may not see their families for the next ten years."

"If you bring your family, we will provide food for them and ensure that their whole family will not go hungry."

Park Young-hoon thought to himself that the Song army was really good and treated the surrendered soldiers so well.

"Understood, I'll go right away."

Then Park Young-hoon took people to count and found that this wave of surrendered soldiers from Tongzhou would go to Far East City with their families.

It didn't take long for Park Young-hoon to find out that they were going to a place called Lake Baikal to build the Far East City.

It’s more than four thousand miles away from here.

Assuming they walked thirty miles a day, walked for five days and rested for one day, it would take them nearly five months.

It takes one year to go back and forth.

If Park Young-hoon wants to go there, it will take a year to go back and forth.

Of course, their help in escorting the troops was not free. The Song army gave each of them ten strings of money or fifteen stone of grain.

The money wasn't much, but Park Young-hoon was willing to go.

It just took too long.

He didn't know what Lake Baikal looked like at the moment. In his opinion, no matter how bad the Song people's place was, it was still better than Goryeo.

So he found the Song army officer who led the team and asked: "Do you still need to immigrate over there?"

Park Young-hoon also wants to go to Far East City.

The officer asked, "Haven't your family just moved to the vicinity of Yanzhou? Are your family members willing?"

Park Young-hoon said, I will go alone, and see if I can get some extra land there.

The officer smiled and said, Of course there are, and also for women. You are single, right?

The officer said that among the prisoners this time there are many women and relatives of former powerful officials and nobles. If you are willing to settle down in Far East City, you will not only be given land, but also a wife.

Park Young-hoon was overjoyed. He was not young anymore and was past the age to get married. If his family had not been poor, he would have been married long ago.

So when Park Young-hoon passed by Yanzhou, he discussed with his father Park Dayong and decided to immigrate to Far East City.

In this way, twenty days later, they arrived in Shenzhou (Shenyang), where they took a short rest for a day, replenished their supplies, and then continued on their journey.

At this time, Park Young-hoon found something wrong. This place was not as developed as Goryeo, and there was often no village to be seen for dozens of miles.

But once he had shot, there was no turning back, and all the women of the Song army were given to him.

These days he brings his wife with him every day. She used to be the daughter of a wealthy man. She is pretty and has good skin. Park Young-hoon is so happy that he has no choice but to bite the bullet and move on.

More than half a month later, they entered Daxing Province and arrived at Daxing City.

Daxing City was garrisoned and built by Wang Shixian and his men.

So many years have passed. Wang Shixian died of illness in Daxing City two years ago. After several years of development, the population of Daxing City including the garrison is less than 50,000.

The population here is small, but there is a post station every fifty miles and a bastion every hundred miles along the way. The Song army has invested a lot of manpower here, mainly to better control this place.

Once when Park Young-hoon and his long team passed a bastion, they could see the Song soldiers inside the bastion running in circles outside along the bastion to exercise.

Later he learned that in order to prevent the Song army from slacking off, the Song army garrison personnel had to be evaluated every year.

Shooting, running, and horse riding are all compulsory subjects.

Seeing the Song army wearing neat armor and running in sweat, Park Young-hoon wanted to join the army at that time.

There's no way. The armor of the Song army is indeed handsome, but it looks very heavy. I don't understand why the Song army would wear such heavy armor while running.

At the end of July they arrived in Daxing City and rested for another day.

Park Young-hoon was resting that day when he suddenly heard a commotion not far away.

All of them were resting outside the city, so they had a good view. They saw at a glance that a young man accompanied by a Song army officer had come up to them.

The man looked around, as if he was looking at someone.

The officer next to him kept whispering something, as if he was introducing something.

After a while, the officer walked towards Park Young-hoon.

Park Young-hoon became inexplicably excited and felt that something big was about to happen.

"Park Young-hoon, how old are you?"

"General, I am eighteen years old."

"My parents are near Yanzhou and Tiezhou, right?"

"Yes."

"Who else is at home?"

"And a younger brother and sister."

"Come here." The officer said a few words and called Park Young-hoon over and came in front of the young man.

"Mr. Xie, this Park Young-hoon is quite active, he is smart, and he has learned Chinese, so he can speak some Chinese."

Mr. Xie looked at Park Young-hoon calmly and suddenly said, "You said he reported the master in Tongzhou. He was treacherous and betrayed the master. How could I dare to use such a person?"

Park Young-hoon's face flushed red. He was ashamed and angry and said, "The landlords and tyrants oppress the people and don't treat us as human beings. What I am doing is--"

"To uphold justice for the people is not to betray the master."

"Haha." Mr. Xie laughed.

Park Young-hoon added: "General Li, I want to be a soldier in the future, please don't send me to others."

I don't want to help you. Park Young-hoon didn't know the person in front of him, but he was angry and didn't want to help him.

"Don't be so quick to refuse." The officer said with a smile, "Mr. Xie is a noble man. If you are willing to work for Mr. Xie, you may join the army in the future, or even become an official or general of the Song Dynasty."

Hiss, Park Young-hoon took a breath of cold air, looking incredulous.

"Come with me, and try it out for two years first." Mr. Xie said lightly at this time.

(End of this chapter)