Kai Fu Han

Chapter 366 Peace Talk
"If Goryeo's city wall cannot stop our attack, we will definitely break the city before King Qin's army gathers." Liu Xinyuan was very confident when he said this.

But Liu Xinqi didn't want to really break through the capital. If he broke through the capital, facing a messy Goryeo, it would definitely affect the Xinghan League's trade income, and it would also divert a lot of energy from the Xinghan League to slowly manage and conquer this foreign land. Land, the gain outweighs the loss.

The most important thing is that if the Xinghan Alliance defeated Goryeo, or even occupied the capital of Goryeo and opened the capital, it would definitely trigger a warning from Zhao and Jin, and would also make Japan lose its lips and teeth, and it would have too many negative consequences in the future.

The Xinghan League currently does not have the ability to face so many enemies at the same time.

"When the time comes, it will be best to force Goryeo to form an alliance with us." Liu Xinqi said.

Zhenzhou is only more than 30 miles away from Kaijing. The army set out at Chenshi, and Shenshi arrived five miles outside the west gate of Kaijing, and then began to set up camp.

April [-]th, the first night in Beijing.

Goryeo organized 300 dead soldiers to go out of the city to attack the camp. As soon as these dead soldiers left the city, they were discovered by the night sentry, and then the attack on the camp turned into a hard attack.

When the three hundred dead soldiers rushed to the front of the camp staring at the muskets, there were only a few dozen people left, and they were easily wiped out by Ruishi.

In the middle of the night, no Goryeo troops came out to harass the Xinghan League camp in Kaijing. It must have been that the Xinghan League quickly eliminated the [-] dead soldiers in the night attack, which was also very shocking to the defenders in the city.

April [-]th.

The [-]st Battalion of the [-]th Field Regiment and [-] Marines formed an array outside the South Gate of Goryeo.

Goryeo did not send troops out of the city to fight in the field. Instead, they placed heavy troops on the city wall, probably planning to defend the city and wait for King Qin's reinforcements.

Due to the previous battle outside Zhenzhou City, some war horses were captured, and then a large number of poor horses were captured in the camp.Liu Xinqi went north to open Beijing this time, carrying twenty tiger squat cannons.

Now the twenty tiger squat cannons are all lined up, one mile away from the south gate of Kaijing.

Kaegyeong Fortress was built between Yeseong River and Imjin River. A moat was dug and water from the two rivers was diverted into the moat.The moat is very wide, more than five feet, but in front of the moat gate is not a suspension bridge, but a stone bridge.

There is still five feet of land between the moat and the city wall.

This made it impossible for the siege army to stand outside the moat and use bows and arrows to shoot the Korean defenders on the wall ten feet away.

But this time they met the Xinghan League, a hot weapon army, destined to make the moat a decoration.

Amidst the roar of artillery, the Kaijing City Gate was blasted, and the south gate gate tower was plowed over and over again with bullets. Liu Xinqi saw with his own eyes that many generals who were supervising the battle at the city gate were killed by artillery. I don’t know if any of them were. The commander of the Kaijing garrison.

Liu Xinqi did not take the opportunity to attack the city.

2000 people are really too small for the hundreds of thousands of Koryo soldiers and civilians in the city.

At this moment, Liu Xinqi finally understood why the great powers chose colonization rather than direct occupation at the end of the [-]th century and the beginning of the [-]th century.

On the one hand, it is beyond our reach, and on the other hand, our own national population is too small.

After Ming Jin withdrew his troops, he watched the Goryeo army hurriedly clean up the mess, blocking the city gate with earth and rocks, cleaning up the ruins of the gate tower, and re-establishing defense. "Why don't you take the opportunity to attack the city?" Gao Yuan asked puzzledly.

"What if we attack the city? Loot it and then withdraw?" Liu Xinqi asked.

If this is done, the Xinghan League and Goryeo will become mortal enemies, and they will never be able to trade normally with Goryeo again.

"You arrange for people to go to the Lichengjiang port in the west, load our transport ships and goods on board, and evacuate them to the sea. Now I am not sure how Goryeo will respond in the future." Liu Xinqi arranged.

"Yes."

Allocated to Gaoyuan's [-] Marine Corps, the Xinghan Allied Forces located in the south of Kaijing City were reduced again.

If it weren't for the nearly two thousand auxiliary troops, the camp with only more than 1000 people would be very thin. No matter how high the combat power was, it would not be able to put pressure on the Kaijing defenders.

Now Liu Xinqi has transported most of the Koryo army camp tents he had seized before, and set up a large battalion commander. From the outside, it looks like it can hold tens of thousands of people.

In the middle of the night on April [-], Liu Xinqi asked the troops of the Xinghan League to leave the camp while it was dark and walk south. After dawn, they entered the camp again in a grand manner.

Then at Sishi, Liu Xinqi once again welcomed the envoys of King Goryeo.

"If the alliance leader is willing to retreat, our king promises to pay your alliance 30 taels of silver, [-] dan of grain, [-] catties of Korean ginseng, and [-] noble ladies."

It is estimated that Koryo already knew that the Xinghan League had taken away its own merchant ship last night, so this time it did not mention the return of the merchant ship.

"This is far from the conditions I proposed. I didn't enter the city yesterday. The King of Goryeo must have seen my sincerity. If you hadn't seized our merchant ships first, I would definitely not have mobilized troops and started a war."

The Goryeo envoy looked aggrieved. At this stage of the matter, everyone in Goryeo already knew that the dispute was caused by the Xinghan Alliance through the hands of the Wang family. However, it was indeed the second generation of their own side who wanted to get rich and couldn't complain. people.

"Korea is a small country with few people, many mountains and little land, and the people are poor. They really can't come up with the figures mentioned by the leader. Moreover, the land was opened up by the blood of their ancestors, so they dare not cede it." Instead, continue negotiating.

"I am not asking you to cede the territory, but to lease it. Lend a place so that we can station hundreds of troops to ensure that the trade between the Xinghan Alliance and your country can proceed normally, and to ensure that this kind of bad seizure will not happen again. Ship incident." Liu Xinqi replied.

The two talked back and forth, and the Goryeo envoy had appeals, so he was very tolerant.Liu Xinqi has a purpose, so he is also patient.

In the end, Liu Xinqi retreated until he only asked for 40 taels of silver, and the leased islands were reduced to only Ganghwa Island.

However, the Goryeo envoys knew very well that they could not allow others to sleep next to the couch, and how could other forces garrison their troops next to the Goryeo capital.Otherwise, wouldn't it mean that the Xinghan League would put a knife on his neck at all times?So I have always insisted on not renting the island in Daying.

"It seems that you are still lucky and think that this incident that humiliates our Xinghan League can be easily overcome. Have you ever calculated that so many warships and so many soldiers come from Dengzhou, thousands of miles away, and it costs a lot of money to come here? How much? How much did we lose in the Battle of Zhenzhou and the Battle of Ganghwa? We suffered these losses for no reason, how can we easily spend them with some money." Liu Xinqi saw that they could not reach an agreement, and understood that the envoy had been allowed by the King of Goryeo this time. He stopped wasting time, stood up, pretended to be angry, and directly sent the envoy out of the camp.

After noon, the soldiers of the Xinghan League assembled again, with the Goryeo auxiliary army behind, and more than 3000 people stood in front of the south gate of Goryeo.

Liu Xinqi looked at the south gate blocked by earth and rocks, and saw the Korean defenders on the city wall who had regained some morale. He planned to destroy their will to resist at once this time.

(End of this chapter)