The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 577

Li Jing summoned the messenger, and the messenger said: "Ding Yi, the Ming general, has brought [-] troops into the country, and is looking for an opportunity to surround the Qing soldiers. Please, my king, be sure to stand firm and not surrender, let alone leak out."

Li Zhen was overjoyed, this time he finally got excited.

He also no longer mentioned the matter of retreating to Ganghwa Island, and made up his mind to defend Namhan Mountain City to the death.

On March [-], the following Qing soldiers came in bursts, and soon surrounded Nanhan Mountain City like an iron barrel.

And Ding Yi also knew at this time that Li Yu was in Nanhan Mountain City, which was closer than Seoul, so it was naturally better.

However, the sentry cavalry of the Qing Dynasty patrolled everywhere, and Yuetuo's three thousand fine cavalry specially surrounded the spot to fight for reinforcements, looking for reinforcements from North Korea.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were hidden deep in Anguling, and they were very careful.

Fortunately, there was a swamp in the south of Anguling, which was not conducive for cavalry to enter and leave. He took the whole army and hid in the valley between Dongying Peak and Yudou Peak.

Unless the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty went to the mountain to climb the peak, they would only see his soldiers and horses.

The sentry cavalry of the Qing soldiers and the soldiers and horses of Yue Tuo were all cavalry, basically they could not climb mountains, and they only wandered around the mountain city of Nanhan.

Moreover, at this time, most of the soldiers and horses in North Korea were in the east, and the main defense directions of the Qing troops were also in the northeast and southeast, and Anguling in the northwest was not taken seriously.

Not long after Li Jing retreated to Namhan Mountain City, North Korean Metropolitan Superintendent Shin Kyung-ki led an army from Seoul, and the defense of Namhan Mountain City was strengthened. Li Shu, general of the army, guarded the northern city, and Li Shibai, the imperial envoy, guarded the western city.The total strength of North Korea is about 1 people, including the local army led by Han Biyuan, the pastoral envoy of Lizhou, Cao Minghou, the envoy of Icheon Prefecture, Han Huiyi, the governor of Yanggen County, and Pu Huan, the supervisor of Topping County. There are more than [-] officials, more than [-] clan and medical staff, more than [-] officials, and more than [-] servants.

The vanguard of the Qing army arrived at the foot of Nanhan Mountain City on March [-] and stationed outside the south gate.On March [-]th, Yuan Doo-pyo, the general of the north gate of North Korea, ordered the recruiting army to go to battle, and reported the killing of six Houjin soldiers.

On March 20th, General Rong envoy Gu Hong reported that he recruited troops to kill [-] enemy soldiers, and officer Li Chengyi made great achievements in killing the enemy.On March [-]th, Li Qizhu, the general of the Imperial Battalion, led his troops to attack and killed more than ten enemies. After that, the North Korean army attacked continuously, and sporadic killings were reported.

At this time, the besieged Qing army began to plunder everywhere, hijacked the North Korean people to build fortifications, planned for a long-term siege, and began to encircle and fight for aid. The North Korean side gradually fell into trouble.

In fact, in the original history, North Korea did not have no chance of defeating the Qing army.Because the Qing army went deep alone, it was extremely difficult to supply, and Huang Taiji did not occupy a stable city, so it was easy to be cut off by the North Korean army.

Therefore, the expectation of the Qing army is a quick battle, and it does not want to invade North Korea's territory.They first sent Ying Erdai and others to send a letter to North Korea, demanding North Korea's unconditional surrender.

At this time, Cui Mingji, who was going to the Qing camp to negotiate a peace, also returned to Li Jing, brought the Qing army's peace negotiation conditions, and asked North Korea to send the king's younger brother and ministers as hostages. Shu Shen Ji went to the Qing camp as a hostage for a minister. Unexpectedly, the Qing people also demanded that the prince must be sent out to prove the sincerity of North Korea. For this reason, Huang Taiji also killed Pu Lanying, who had been mediating between North Korea and the Qing people for a long time.

Li Ji sent Hong Ruifeng and Jin Ronguo to continue negotiating with the Qing people.

At the same time, after receiving the order of King Qin from the king and ministers of Li Ji, the various officers and troops of North Korea immediately started to act, but they happened to fall into the plan of the Qing soldiers to encircle and fight for aid.

The Qing soldiers began to surround the Daling River just like they did when they surrounded the Daling River.

First, Anzhou guard general Liu Lin and patrol envoy Hong Minglan moved to the rear of the Qing army, but encountered the Qing army's Hauge troops near Jinhua, and the Hauge troops swarmed up. Hong Minglan's army was vulnerable and defeated in an instant , Hong himself died bravely in battle, and Liu Lin who fought with him could not resist and retreated.

Zhao Tinghu, the governor of Gangwon Province, and Quan Jingji, the general of the Chuncheon Battalion, led the army in Lundan Mountain. First, they fought many victories, and once saw hope.

Xianjing Dao Supervisor Min Zhenghui led reinforcements into Jinhua, and then stationed in Yanggenweiyuan, Gyeongsangdo left soldier Xu Wan, and right soldier Min Dong led troops to Shuangling, where they were also defeated by the Qing army and Xu Wan was killed.Min Min threw himself into the fire and died.

Reinforcement troops from Jeolla Province and Chungcheong Province in North Korea broke into the vicinity of Namhan Mountain City, and Huang Taiji ordered Tudor and Efuyang Guli troops to meet them.The mighty Qing army defeated the North Korean army, but Kim Zidian, the commander of the North Korean army, had no choice but to withdraw from Seoul due to lack of troops and stationed near Yangling without doing anything.

The ineffective rescue of the North Korean local army made Li Zhen look forward to the arrival of the Ming army more and more.

Huang Taiji led the main force to approach Nanhan Mountain City on March 20th. He himself led the Chinese army to station in Dongguan Temple and the army in Tanchuan. The Qing army claimed to be [-]. , to demonstrate against the North Koreans.

At the same time, he ordered Gushan Ezhen Tantai and others to attack Seoul, search for Korean soldiers, and plunder property and livestock.

Five days later, he moved the imperial camp to the north bank of the Han River. On the same day, King Ershun (Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming) and Wu Zhenchaoha's Jin Yuhe arrived at Nanhan Mountain City with artillery and firearms.

Three days later, Hauge and others, who led the left-wing army to the south, arrived at the imperial camp and reported to Huang Taiji the results of the battle during this period.

On the same day, Tong Yangxing and others arrived at the Qing army camp with the last batch of gunpowder weapons and heavy equipment, including Hongyi cannons, cutting off the internal and external communication of Namhan Mountain City, and completely completed the siege of Namhan Mountain City.

At this time, all the Qing soldiers who attacked North Korea had already arrived around the mountain city of Nanhan, and the 20 soldiers and horses were called [-].

Among them, more than 2 people surrounded the mountain city of Nanhan, and Yue Tuo and Yang Guli led Jingqi Sanqian to surround and fight for aid.

At this time, Ding Yi was leading the generals to watch from the height of Jade Dou Peak in Anguling.

Yudou Peak is more than 200 meters above sea level, and it is also considered a high scenic spot in the local area.

Ding Yi stood on the top and used a telescope, and he could barely see the Nanhan Mountain City, and he could also see the Qing soldiers' positions twenty miles away.

Before that, there were sentry cavalry from North Korea who could travel between here and Namhan Mountain City, but after Namhan Mountain City was besieged, no sentry cavalry appeared again.

Everyone also guessed that the Nanhan Mountain City at this time may have been surrounded by groups.

Chen sometimes asked, when will we send troops?

Ding Yi thought for a while, and there was no rush, he would fight again when they divided their troops.

Because he knew that according to the original historical trend, Huang Taiji would divide his troops to fight Jianghua Island if he couldn't take down Nanhan Mountain City.

Now in this history, Li Zhen will only keep the promise of his own reinforcements for a longer time.

Ding Yi guessed right. After receiving the news of the arrival of the Ming army, Li Zhen was in full swing. He quickly went to the south gate of the palace and issued a teaching book, announcing that "the emperor and his ministers will guard the same city together. The peace talks are over, and there is only war. "

At the same time, he asked people to check the soldiers and food, and learned that there were nearly 3000 people in the city, and the food could last for two and a half months.

Uncharacteristically, Li Zhen decisively called for a decisive battle, which also greatly boosted the morale of the Korean army. This place is a bit different from the original history.

In the original history, at the beginning of the siege, Li Zhen sent out the city to fight against the Qing soldiers many times, and suffered heavy losses. Nearly a thousand people were beheaded before and after.

This time, Li Jing knew that the Ming army was nearby, so he was determined to hold out. He only fought a few waves in the early stage, and then he didn't come out at all, and the loss was relatively small.

Because after the siege by the Qing soldiers, they mainly focused on encircling the points to fight for aid. Like the Daling River, they first drove the Korean people looting from all around, built a wooden fence around the Namhan Mountain City, and then dug holes, which was almost the same as the Daling River. Linghe is exactly the same.

At the same time, the Qing troops were divided into four places, encircled and fought for aid, and plundered the population, food and wealth.

On March 1000, Tong Yangxing took [-] people and took away all the Korean people near Guoshan and Dingzhou, and asked them to shave their hair, and then moved to the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Tong Yangxing took them to Yizhou and stationed in Yizhou. Dorgon from the state was then diverted across the Yalu River and transported to the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

So along the way, a steady stream of Korean population was looted by Qing soldiers.

Dingzhou, Guoshan is almost empty.

Huang Taiji transported away the Korean people, left the food of the Korean people, and provided food and grass relief for him to protect the Nanhan Mountain City.

But the food he obtained by robbing must be limited, and he doesn't know how much food there is in Nanhan Mountain City.

On March [-]th, the artillery troops of the Qing army arrived. Seeing that Li Zhen had not surrendered, Huang Taiji decided to attack again.

Before the attack, twenty red cannons of the Qing soldiers fired furiously, and the shells fell into the mountain city of Nanhan like meteors. After a violent bombardment, a large group of Han troops were in front, the Jurchen soldiers were behind, and the Qing soldiers were attacking the city. .

(End of this chapter)