The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 393 Ganghwa Island Alliance

Go back in time some.

The first wave of Zhang Jing's cavalry charge almost split Zhao Yanhu's cavalry into two groups.

But at this moment, the cavalry on the south side of North Korea rushed out from behind Zhang Jing.

At this time, the situation went downhill rapidly, and Zhang Jing's mind was also spinning wildly.

Some subordinates asked Zhang Jing to run quickly, and the gap had already been opened, so they blocked it.

Some subordinates said to rush out together.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Jing immediately thought of what to do?
Even if they rushed away from Zhao Yanhu's cavalry, the nearly five thousand cavalry from North Korea would chase after them. If they just ran, they would definitely not be able to escape, and the entire army would still be wiped out in the end.

"Hurry up, go back to the pier." Zhang Jing's first thought was to go back to the pier, and guard the terrain and supplies by the pier first.

Although the generals were puzzled, no one dared to object.

Zhang Jing immediately called Yuan Youcai: "We'll fight a bloody road for you, you take twenty riders and charge out, find a way to find your lord, we'll guard at the pier."

"No." Yuan Youcai agreed without hesitation.

"Kill." Zhang Jing immediately ordered, and all the cavalry first fought a bloody path for Yuan Youcai, and then returned their carbine guns one by one, and charged towards the pier.

Yuan Youcai fled in embarrassment with his men, and when he broke out of the siege, there were only Baqi beside him.

Fortunately, the Korean soldiers tried their best to encircle and suppress most of the Ming people, but no one paid any attention to them.

He ran all the way and fled back to Xinling. At first, he was afraid that Ding Yi would be surrounded by North Korean soldiers, but he found many defeated North Korean soldiers along the way. Sometimes the defeated soldiers were in groups of dozens.

Yuan Youcai was overjoyed, and immediately knew that Lord Ding had won the battle.

When Ding Yi saw Yuan Youcai, he immediately ordered five thousand soldiers to throw big shields and run to rescue Zhang Jing with only spears and guns.

The successor soldiers and horses quickly followed up.

At this time, he didn't care about the surrendering army, so he sent more than 2000 people to watch the surrendering army, and the other soldiers and horses were divided into two groups, rushing to rescue Zhang Jing.

He also signaled to Huailai that if the surrendered soldiers want to run away, just leave it alone and let them go.

Unexpectedly, when he rescued Zhang Jing and came back, the North Korean troops stayed where they were, and no one resisted.

In the Battle of Xinling, the Dongjiang Army won a complete victory. Except for Zhao Yanhu who ran away with more than 4000 cavalry, the North Korean infantry of more than 5 was almost wiped out.

Thousands of Korean soldiers were killed or injured, more than 1 escaped, and more than 3 were captured alive by Ding Yi.

Ding Yile couldn't even close his mouth.

This is not only money, but also a bargaining chip in negotiations with North Korea.

He quickly controlled the surrendered troops separately.

Officers at all levels were pulled out first and detained separately.

The sergeants surrounded every thousand people, all barefoot, surrounded by rough rocks on the ground, so they couldn't run fast even if they wanted to.

Dongjiang can win this battle because of good weapons and equipment and good fighting, and good luck.

For example, Ruan Siqing, he led the fleet on Jianghua Island, and Ding Yi ordered him to guard Jianghua Island and look for opportunities to defeat the North Korean Navy.

He walked around Ganghwa Island for a day and didn't meet the North Korean navy, so he grabbed the North Korean officials on Ganghwa Island and asked them to lead the way to the Han River.

From Jianghua Island to the Han River, it took a long circle, and his fleet took two days to reach Jianghan.

I didn't expect to be lucky, just bumped into Jiang Jinxin, and as soon as the cannon was fired, Jiang ran away, Zhao Yanhu saw it, and ran away, which saved Zhang Jingyi's life.

After this battle was won, Ding Yi waited for the North Koreans to come to negotiate.

He was still stationed at the foot of Xinling Mountain, and called Liu Lin and Xu Yuan to have dinner and chat together every day.

Xu Yuan suffered a little injury, but luckily the injury was not serious, but he was very dissatisfied with Ding Yi, but Ding Yi asked the army doctor to look at his injury, and was eager to treat him politely, so he was not easy to get angry.

After coming and going, the two generals and Ding Yi are still familiar with each other.

Both of them were unconvinced, and kept saying that Ding Yi's cannons were powerful, and the firecrackers were powerful.

Ding Yi said, I just want to cooperate with you North Korea to fight for gold together. I can sell my cannons and firecrackers. It is your king who wants to start a war with me.

Liu Lin was furious, you came to discuss business, why did you occupy my Ganghwa Island?

Ding Yi said, if I don't occupy Jianghua Island, will your country leader talk to me?
Liu and Xu were speechless.

So I waited for a few days until the morning of April 4, when the North Korean special envoy Li Xianzhou came to Ding Yi's camp.

Before coming here, all the civil and military officials of North Korea and the king Li Yu thought that they would definitely sign an even more humiliating historical covenant just like they did with Houjin back then.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ding Yi's conditions were opened, the North Korean special envoy Li Xianzhou was very surprised, but he was not satisfied with the last few conditions.

He returned to Seoul to show the conditions to the king and his ministers, and the previous conditions were still very promising.

Ding Yi said that in the future, Dongjiang Town and the Kingdom of Korea should be like brothers, advance and retreat together, and fight against the aggression of Houjin together.

As long as Houjin came to attack North Korea, Dongjiang Town would send troops to support it, and then Jin would attack Dongjiang without North Korea's support. (This alone makes the King of Korea and his ministers very agree.)
In addition, Dongjiang Town sends five thousand catties of saltpeter and sulfur every year.

Dongjiang Town sells artillery and firecrackers to North Korea at low prices every year.

Dongjiang and North Korea have strengthened trade, and charged high prices for your ginseng fur and food, or exchanged them for armor and weapons.

The Ming army returned all the artillery and other materials from North Korea to them.

Li Yu and the others didn't believe it when they saw this. You, Ding Yi, fought this battle desperately to help me come to North Korea?
So the latter condition is a bit bad.

North Korea supports Dongjiang with 20 stone grains every year, and the grain can be exchanged for firecrackers and cannons.

Every year, North Korea organizes to send [-] large trees with a diameter of more than [-] centimeters, which are suitable for shipbuilding, to the Dongjiang River.

In this battle, a total of 400 Korean troops were surrendered. According to the price of 50 taels per person, and the price calculated by the officer, a total of [-] taels was paid at one time.

Generally speaking, the above are all expected by the North Koreans.

Ming general Ding Yi was greedy, and he came to beat them just to ask for food and money.

But the last one aroused the anger of all the officials.

Ding Yi asked North Korea to hand over Jianghua Island for the Ming army to garrison. In the future, when Jin comes to fight, they should send troops quickly.

Ding Yi also said, we also lost a lot of people in this battle, so we won't ask you for the compensation fee, and I took away the food from Jianghua Island without hesitation.

Ding Yi’s round of negotiations did not take as long as it did in Japan, because most of his conditions were acceptable to the North Koreans.

What do North Koreans lack right now?One is the lack of gunpowder, less saltpeter and sulfur. In the past, the Ming Dynasty only gave three thousand catties a year, but this time Ding Yi gave five thousand catties a year.

The second is the lack of armor. The Korean soldiers almost did not have iron armor and chain armor, and most of them did not even have cotton armor.

Ding Yi sent supplies and exchanged cotton armor knives and guns for their ginseng and furs, which they urgently needed.

As for Ding Yi's request to cut down trees, it only needs to use a large number of common people to go to the deep mountains to cut down trees. Li Yu and others are very happy, three thousand trees are enough, and five thousand trees are enough.

And the grain is within their affordability. After all, when they supported Pidao before, it accounted for one-third of the country's grain harvest at its peak.

Right now, Ding Yi only needs 20 shi, which is completely within their tolerance.

The only thing I was a little dissatisfied with was the 50 taels of silver. Li Yu tried to discuss whether it could be less, but of course Ding Yi flatly refused.

Historically, North Korea was conquered by Hou Jin, and tens of 10 people were arrested, most of them were family members of officials and generals, and then let the rich redeem them.

North Korea paid millions of taels of silver for this, and the rich redeemed them, while those without money stayed in Houjin.

Ding Yi now asks for 50 yuan, which is considered a conscience price.

The key is the last one. Of course, it is impossible for North Korea to cede Jianghua Island.

How close is Ganghwa Island to Seoul?In the future, if Ming people want to turn their faces, it will be too dangerous.

The two sides argued for several days over this condition.

Ding Yi takes a final step back, I will rent it from you, and I will pay you silver every year, no more.

Of course the North Koreans still refused.

Ding Yi was furious, slapped the table and said that he would continue to fight.

The North Korean ministers looked at each other in blank dismay.

At this time, Jin Qingshang suddenly said: "It would be great if we gave you Jeju Island. It used to be the territory of your Ming Dynasty."

There was an uproar all around, and some North Koreans wanted to scold.

Unexpectedly, Ding Yi immediately said: "No, it's too far away, and it's lonely overseas. It's full of Koreans and Mongolians. I can't manage it."

I want Ganghwa Island, which is close and easy to manage.

North Koreans have their own thoughts.

After a day of stalemate in the negotiations, the court envoys returned to Seoul to discuss with Li Ji and others.

The next day, I came to Jianghua Island to talk with Ding Yi again.

Several court envoys kindly coaxed Ding Yi that our Jeju Island is very good, with a large area, many grasslands, and horses can be raised.

General Ding, you have so few cavalry, how can you do without a place to raise horses?
There are nearly [-] people on it, all of them will be given to you, buy one get one free.

Ding Yi was very dissatisfied, and the generals around him were also yelling, "There are so many people up there, and we need to support them. This is impossible, unless you evacuate them."

Ding Yi was furious, but I didn't say yes.

Hey, you said you wanted it, we heard it all.

Therefore, Ding Yi finally avoided the trouble and accepted Jeju Island sadly.

The two sides reached a formal agreement on the 18th and signed the famous Ganghwa Island Alliance in history.

(End of this chapter)