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  Chapter 322 320 [Charge and Surrender]

   "General, I found it." Meng Huai'en came with a thick booklet in his arms.

  Hu Dinggui said happily: "Sir, you have worked hard and made great achievements. Please sit down."

  Meng Huai'en presented the brochure, and Hu Dinggui handed it to the people around him.

  The person next to him is Wang Yaochen, a mission officer in the army, who is equivalent to the political commissar arranged for Hu Dinggui.

   "It's actually Chinese characters?" Wang Yaochen was a little surprised when he got the brochure.

  Meng Huaien said: "The official documents and registers of the North Korean government are all written in Chinese characters."

  This is the general household registration book of the entire Jeju Island. There are several types of household registration, including military households, civilian households, artisan households, and so on.

Wang Yaochen said with a smile: "There are quite a lot of people. There are 8,849 households, totaling nearly 50,000 people. Among them, there are 2,500 military households, similar to the Weisuo system in the Ming Dynasty, but there are very few people who grow grain. Most of them live by herding cattle and horses." .”

  The territory of Jeju Island is really not small, about one nineteenth of the area of ​​Hainan Island.

  North Korea's deposed lord Li Hun was called to discuss matters together.

   Li Hun is a very complicated king, maybe violent, but definitely not stupid.

  When Japan invaded North Korea, the king of North Korea chose to run away and threw his second son Li Hui out to fight against Japan.

  Seventeen-year-old Li Hun, although he was kicked out of the shelves, his performance was notable. He was ordered to act as an agent of state affairs, and personally went to the front to appease the army, gathered the army and volunteers, and notified the army of the whole country to King Qin, and only then did Korea have the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese War.

  The reason why this product was abolished was purely caused by party struggle.

  In order to facilitate understanding, let's make a very inappropriate metaphor. It's as if Chongzhen, who was still just a prince, led troops into the palace with the Donglin Party and overthrew Emperor Tianqi and the Eunuch Party.

   "General, there are many criminals exiled on Jeju Island, and they have long been dissatisfied with the puppet king of North Korea," Li Hun said, "As long as Xiao Wang stands up, the people will surely respond."

   "Okay, let's do it!" Hu Dinggui laughed.

  Li Hun is very well controlled, his eyes are almost completely blind, and he can only see things at close range. It was because he couldn't see that he got the situation wrong before, until he heard Hu Dinggui's words, Fang felt that it was not the King Qin's army from North Korea.

  After discussing with Wang Yaochen, Hu Dinggui and Wang Yaochen found silk clothes to put on Li Hui, at least to look like a king.

  More than a dozen captured North Korean officials were brought here to meet them.

   "You bastard, you won't be loyal to the North Korean king!" Meng Huai'en yelled in Korean.

   These officials were afraid of being killed, so they hurriedly kowtowed to Li Hun: "Kowtow to His Royal Highness!"

  Ask for the information, and all the more than a dozen North Korean officials were sealed off to make a wish. Two of them were awarded Dajing County Supervisor and Jingyi County Supervisor, which are equivalent to the two county magistrates on Jeju Island.

  As for Hu Dinggui, he was named Jeju Shepherd and the highest military and political officer of Jeju Island.

   Immediately, these North Korean officials, escorted by Datong soldiers, went to the surrounding people's settlements to preach the policy: as long as they are loyal to the lord Li Hui, all tribute taxes will be reduced by 10%.

  Hearing about Li Hui's "return", many exiles in recent years came to see their allegiance one after another, and they wanted to follow and return to their homeland.

  In addition to the three major cities on the island (Jeju Mucheng, Dajing County, and Jingyi County), there are twelve settlements, which can be understood as some villages.

  Li Hengzhong rode straight to Dajing County, ordered the county supervisor to summon the army immediately, and at the same time sent an order to gather troops to Jingyi County.

  In a few days, more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 5,000 infantry were mobilized.

  The 9,000 army counterattacked, and the cavalry accounted for about 40%.

   "General, the false shepherd is here!" North Korean officials panicked and came to report.

  Hu Dinggui and Wang Yaochen immediately gathered troops and led the North Korean servants to occupy the city to meet them.

  At this time, the enemy's troops increased again. After returning to Li Hui, two or three nearby villages saw Li Hengzhong's strength, so they immediately defected and defected to the past.

  Although Li Hui was blind and couldn't see, he could still hear the momentum of the cavalry. He panicked and said, "The general has battleships, why don't we avoid them first, and return to this island after gathering more troops!"

"Shut up!"

   Hu Dinggui looked at the nearly ten thousand enemy troops in the distance, and sighed: "It's a pity that there are so many war horses."

   Fighting is sure to win. The North Korean army only has a small amount of leather armor, bows and arrows, most of which are no different from ordinary farmers and herdsmen.

   It sounds like there are thousands of cavalry, but in fact most of them are herders on horseback.

   "Siege!" Li Heng shouted.

  More than 5,000 Jeju Island infantry, carrying all kinds of weapons, rushed towards Jeju Pastoral City.

  Wang Yaochen reminded: "Let the North Korean soldiers retreat, otherwise it will ruin the big event!"

  Hu Dinggui looked back and saw that the hundreds of North Korean servants had been so frightened that their faces turned pale.

  Hu Dinggui quickly said to Li Hui: "Master, take your soldiers and return to the city center immediately!"

   Li Hun felt relieved when he heard the interpreter, and asked his servants to help him lead the troops to retreat.

  The city wall of Jeju Pastoral City is made of wood, just a circle of wooden fences.

  Hu Dinggui had a thousand soldiers in his hand, and borrowed hundreds of sailors from the Zheng family to disperse them to defend various critical points.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  The Zheng family sailors fired first, but due to the distance, they only killed and wounded a few enemies.

   Of Hu Dinggui's thousand soldiers, five hundred of them were gunfire soldiers.

  He gathered the firecrackers and divided them into two groups to defend key points, and ordered that no shots should be fired within thirty paces.

  Li Heng rode his horse forward for more than ten steps, showing a well-thought-out plan.

  He has already found out that the Ming army that invaded Jeju Island was only more than a thousand people. With nearly ten thousand people in his hands, including a large number of cavalry, he will definitely be able to wipe out the invaders.

  There are only nearly 50,000 people (excluding children) on the whole island, and nearly 10,000 were recruited by this guy, and all thirteen and fourteen-year-old boys were recruited by him to fight.

  What kind of battle can you fight?

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  Over 20 steps at super close range, 125 firecrackers fired in salvo, and then another 125 firecrackers salvoed.

  Liu Ze is sixteen years old this year. He was born in a family of officials in North Korea. He has not only studied the Four Books and Five Classics, but also knows how to speak Ming Dynasty official dialect.

  He was exiled to Jeju Island together with the men in his family, and the whereabouts of the women in the family are unknown.

  At this moment, he charged with a wooden stick.

  Righting, there was a sudden loud noise, and then another loud noise.

  Looking around, Liu Ze found that there were only a few people standing around him. The stormtrooper he was in had more than 500 people, a gap was punched in the middle, and there were only a hundred people left on each side.

   "Run away!"

   Not only did this stormtrooper collapse, but the stormtroopers next to it also fled.

  They have never experienced war and have not received formal military training. How can they dare to face the close-range salvo of muskets?

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   Another defensive point, another two rounds of salvo. The rout soldiers ran back indiscriminately, breaking the formation of friendly troops, and more than 5,000 Korean infantry were completely routed.

Li Hengzhong took the cavalry to suppress, drove the infantry to regroup, and angrily said: "The enemy's muskets take time to reload. When the muskets are finished, don't run away, but take the opportunity to take down the city wall! Hurry up, wait for the enemy's muskets to strike." After that, immediately go and attack the city wall!"

   Another half an hour later, there were more than 4,000 Korean infantrymen left, and they rushed towards the city wall again in fear.

  In fact, it was more than 4,000 civilians who charged the wooden fence with simple weapons.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   There was another volley, and even the Zheng family sailors learned it.

  The Zheng family’s sailors were nervous before, but now they are very calm, bringing the enemy close before firing.

  More than 4,000 North Korean soldiers staged another army rout. The casualties caused by their self-stampede, as well as the casualties blocked by the North Korean cavalry, even exceeded the losses caused by musket shooting.

  Facing the Mushilan Walled City, more than 3,000 Korean cavalry can only be used as a supervisory team. They can't ride horses into the wall, right?

   These cavalry did not kill an enemy, but killed hundreds of fleeing friendly troops.

  The Korean infantry was so miserable. They rushed forward and were shot by Datong soldiers, and fled back and were intercepted by North Korean cavalry.

   Liu Ze was forced to continue charging. This kid was lucky, his father and brother were all dead, but he was not injured. The elder brother was killed by the muskets of the Datong Army, and the father was hacked to death by the North Korean cavalry. Who should we seek revenge?

   The hatred is all attributed to the King of Korea, and his whole family was exiled by the king!

   Seeing that they were approaching again, Liu Ze suddenly shouted: "You all listen to me, shout with me, put down your weapons, and surrender to the Great Tomorrow Soldiers!"

   The people around Liu Ze hurriedly shouted together in order to survive.

   One by one, more and more people shouted, weapons were thrown all over the ground, and they ran towards the city wall empty-handed.

  Liu Ze raised his hands and shouted in Ming Dynasty Mandarin: "We surrender, don't let go of the gun. We surrender..."

  There was too much noise on the battlefield, and it was impossible to hear clearly, but Hu Dinggui could already understand the action of them throwing away their weapons.

   "Don't fire the guns, wait for them to come. The gunners are transferred to other places, and the spearmen come to prevent accidents!" Hu Dinggui immediately ordered.

  The North Korean infantry rushed outside the wooden fence, and Hu Dinggui immediately ordered: "Pikeman, raise your gun!" He then shouted at the enemy, "Squat down, don't move!"

  The North Korean infantry tried to climb over the wooden wall, but the pikemen immediately stabbed and killed more than 20 people in a row.

  Liu Ze squatted down in fright and shouted: "Squat down, everyone squat down, don't rush around!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  Somewhere nearby was firing guns again, a large number of North Korean infantry collapsed, and Liu Ze squatted down to beg for mercy.

  Dajing County Superintendent Jin Guorui came to Li Hengzhong on horseback: "Master Mushi, you can't fight like this anymore. It is impossible to take back the city."

Li Hengzhong said: "It will definitely be possible to charge and kill a few more times. It doesn't matter if all these untouchables are dead, just ask the lord to exile prisoners to make up for it. Our navy has lost, and we can't let the enemy gain a firm foothold. Take the city!"

   "I can't take it down!" Jin Guorui advised.

   "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will kill you," Li Hengzhong ordered, "Rush again, and those who rush into the city first will be exempted from tribute for six years!"

   This time only 4,000 people left to charge, Liu Ze saw this and brought the people around him with him: "Drop your weapons and surrender outside the city wall!"

   "Drop your weapons and surrender outside the walls!"

  Amidst the constant shouting, several assault troops nearby threw away their weapons and rushed over, then squatted outside the wooden fence and begged for mercy.

   Just like the virus spread, all four thousand North Korean infantry surrendered one after another.

  Li Heng was furious: "These **** are indeed descendants of criminals, and none of them are loyal to the lord!"

  (end of this chapter)