Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 525 Recovering Guangning City

Daming bet a large amount of silver dollars into North Korea's financial and economic market through loans and trade, and controlled North Korea's finance invisibly.

However, the King of Korea and his civil and military officials did not realize the seriousness of this problem, and still sold a large amount of basic production materials such as grain to Daming at a low price in exchange for some industrial products that were already regarded as waste for Daming.

In this way, the inflation rate caused by excessive industrial development in Daming has dropped a lot, and the financial burden has not increased due to the war.

As a result, the income of the people increased but the cost of living did not increase significantly, which greatly improved the quality of life and happiness of the people of Ming Dynasty.

However, the price of the increased happiness of the people in Ming Dynasty was transferred to the people in North Korea.

Because of the reduction of domestic food in North Korea and the entry of a large number of luxury goods, the price of goods in North Korea has risen and the sense of happiness has declined.

Many North Koreans had to work six or seven hours a day in the factory built here for the Ming Dynasty merchants in Gyeongju Prefecture to eat a full meal.

However, countries with the most advanced productivity and core technology can exploit countries weaker than themselves. This is the only reasonable law in the world, and it is an unavoidable phenomenon.

Therefore, what Zhu Youjian can guarantee is to make Daming better and better.

The Northern Expedition continued.

After the news of the recovery of Liaoyang and Shenyang by the Second Guards Army came back to Nanjing.

In addition, the Ming court effectively transferred the pressure of inflation to the Manchu and Korean regions.

This made the people more and more confident in Zhu Youjian's Ming court.

The value of the Northern Expedition voucher continued to rise, and the people across the country concentrated their surplus wealth in the imperial court regardless of the consequences.

Therefore, Ming can use larger-scale investment to carry out the Northern Expedition.

Tens of millions of civilian husbands alone were requisitioned, which means that for every soldier who participated in the Northern Expedition, ten civilian husbands were serving him.

This is only in terms of manpower, not to mention financial resources and other aspects.

Since North Korea sent more than 5 soldiers and horses out of North Korea's Uiju to enter the Liaodong area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards has indeed become even more powerful in Liaodong.

Qin Zuoming formally ordered the North Korean troops to be divided into two divisions and act as vanguards to attack Guangning and Fushun respectively with the two corps of the Second Guards Army.

The Second Corps of the Second Guards Army and the Guan Hongming Department of the First Korean Column officially left Liaoyang City on May [-]rd and entered Guangningwei on May [-]th.

Guangning City was an important base for the Ming Dynasty to defend against the Qing Dynasty.

And the Qing Dynasty also deployed heavy troops here.

After all, there are only three fortresses, Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, and Guangning, from Liaodong Town to Beijing.

However, Guangning Guard is considered to be the largest guard in the Liaoxi Corridor, with countless defensive cities and walls.

Therefore, the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards and the First North Korean Column totaled [-] soldiers and horses. It is not easy to regain Guangningwei.

Moreover, the Second Army of the Great Ming Guards wanted to regain the entire territory of Guangningwei and block the dead end of the Qing army, so they had to pull out these strongholds one by one like pulling out nails.

However, the role of the main siege task has changed from the Guards to the Korean Army.

North Korea's soldiers and horses will naturally be sent to their heads as cannon fodder, in order to achieve the purpose of reducing the casualties of the Guards.

After all, the training cost of an ordinary guard soldier is very high, but North Korea's soldiers and horses are naturally different. Even if they are sacrificed, they are only a few silver dollars in compensation.

And the North Korean army has no complaints about this.

Because the Second Army of the Guards gave generous rewards to the officers and soldiers of the North Korean army who took on the task of siege the city. As long as the North Korean soldiers were willing to work hard, the Guards were not stingy with their money at all.

Anyway, the Ming Guards now have plenty of money.

As a result, the North Korean army worked harder and harder, and after seeing that the Ming Guards would use powerful artillery and more advanced rifled guns to completely defeat the Qing army at the most critical moment, the North Korean army became even more confident. Courage, no longer afraid of the Qing army, and even broke out a strong fighting power.

Just like the powerful combat effectiveness of the Ming government army that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the original history when they perished in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the same is true for the Korean army today. I was surprised, surprised when these North Koreans were so fierce.

The Second Army of the Guards also tasted the sweetness of hiring North Korean troops as cannon fodder for themselves, and began to continue to advise the Generalissimo's Office in the hope that more North Korean troops could join the war.

North Korea naturally did not dare to refuse Daming's request, and began to send more troops to Western Liaoning as cannon fodder.

Unknowingly, Ming changed the method of the Northern Expedition again and gained more benefits because of this, because now Daming transferred the cost of the war to North Korea at the cost of a small amount of silver dollars in the western Liaoning area.

Let North Korea provide manpower and material resources for Ming to recover the western Liaoning area, and the Second Army of the Ming Guards almost reaped the rewards, providing a way to hire North Korean troops to take over the fortresses of the major passes in the western Liaoning area from North Korea.

Even, after teaching the North Korean army the task of siege and seizing castles, the Second Guards Army was able to have more energy to strengthen its rule over the Liaodong and Liaoxi regions, and gained more from this piece of land that had been ruled by the Manchu for many years. Interests.

And the king of North Korea, Li Hao, now complains about the phenomenon that his North Korean army participated in the Northern Expedition of the Ming Empire and lost a lot of North Korea's interests, but in order to maintain his rule and strengthen it, he can only sacrifice the interests of the Korean people to gain the Ming Empire. Support for his legitimate rule of North Korea.

The Ming Empire could make Li Shi sell advanced warships through the defense of the navy to make Li Shi, the powerful figures in North Korea, bigger. This is something that King Li Hao of North Korea had to be vigilant about.

In June of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, King Li Hao of North Korea dispatched [-] additional soldiers and horses to support Ming's Northern Expedition outside the customs at the order of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards also recovered the entire territory of Guangningwei on the ninth day of June, and surrounded the Ningyuan Zhongzuo with the North Korean army.

"Kill!"

With the artillery support of the Second Army of the Guards, the Korean army rushed into the Ningyuan Zhongzuo, and fought with the firearms soldiers of the Qing army with Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns without fear, and even started hand-to-hand combat. .

I don't know whether these North Korean troops are really short of money or they also have resentment towards these Qing army bannermen. They worked extraordinarily hard to kill the Qing army, even more ruthless than the guards.

In the end, Ningyuan Zhongzuo was recovered by Daming!
The Second Corps of the Second Guards Army had zero casualties, while the Korean Army lost more than 1000 people.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards continued to attack the main city of Ningyuanwei.

This time, the North Korean army was still responsible for the siege task, but because there were still many Qing troops defending Ningyuan, the Guards also sent an infantry battalion to participate, and finally took Ningyuanwei within three days.

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