The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 365
Tang Yin came out of Yin Bishang's camp smoothly, and led 100 people to the camp [-] miles north of the city to join the Chinese army.

But before he had gone far, he saw the light of torches in the distance. It was obvious that Xu Jing had begun to follow his orders and was advancing in the direction of Hanyang City as agreed.

As for Cheng Jun's situation, Tang Yin was not worried. After all, Cheng Jun only had two or three hundred envoys, and none of them were elite soldiers. It would not be difficult for Xu Jing to deal with it.

"Master Envoy, someone from General Park is here."

Tang Yin stopped his horse at a high place, and saw three fast horses heading north along the road.

Tang Yin immediately sent people to intercept him, but he saw the people sent by Pu Yuanzong come to salute Tang Yin: "On mission, Marshal Park has already greeted the guards of the city gate, and recruited Bianxiu, Cui Han and other generals from the training academy , and more than 300 of their retinues, together with the previous 100 people, have already gone to the direction of Changdeok Palace. It is said that the king is resting in Changdeok Palace tonight."

"Why is he in such a hurry?"

Tang Yin was very angry.

I brought more than 1000 people here, but you still think it's too few, but after you went to the city gate, you pulled a group of old troops and recruits, and 400 people dared to attack North Korea's Li Palace?

Tang Yin knew that Changdeok Palace was one of the three major palaces in North Korea, Gyeongbokgung Palace was mostly used for government affairs, and Changdeok Palace was more like the emperor's other courtyard.

"Come back with me, join forces and attack the city!"

Tang Yin suddenly realized that Pu Yuanzong might turn against the water temporarily, or it might not match his intentions. Now that Pu Yuanzong is released, it is a bit like going back to the mountain, so now he has to go to the 1000 people to meet him. Have a chance to win Hanyang City.

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Tang Yin struggled to meet up with Xu Jing's troops.

"It's Mr. Tang." Liu Gui rode in front, and when he realized that it was not the North Korean soldiers and horses, but Tang Yin's 100 people, he hurried forward to greet him.

After Tang Yin came over, he saw Cheng Jun being tied up beside Xu Jing's horse.

Cheng Jun asked sharply: "Do you want to use these people to shake our Korean kingship? Don't overestimate yourself! Even if it is the suzerain of the Ming Dynasty, it has no right to interfere in our Korean internal affairs."

"To shut up!"

Xu Jing seemed very impatient, obviously he had had enough of Cheng Jun's shouting along the way.

Tang Yin asked: "Why don't you just cover his mouth?"

"Yes?" Xu Jingren was still a little confused.

It was also because he had never had any experience in "rebellion", let alone leading troops, but it was also because Cheng Jun's shouts and shouts were all in Korean, so Xu Jing didn't understand him, so he thought he was making comparisons.

But now he realized that Cheng Jun was trying to get the North Korean soldiers who followed Xu Jing to "set things right."

"Thanks to Bohu for your reminder, otherwise I would have missed a major event." Xu Jing looked ashamed.

Tang Yin frowned, reminding you to keep Cheng Jun's mouth shut, what is this serious about?

His eyes also fell on Hanyang City, which was more than ten miles away. At this time, Hanyang City was still quiet, and it didn't look like there was a chance to attack the city.

He is also thinking, Park Yuanzong will not die in the city because of haste, right?

Once the city gate is closed, it will be difficult to enter the city.

Tang Yindao: "Let the soldiers of Ming Dynasty go first, the soldiers of North Korea follow behind, and the cavalry follow...into the city in two batches. If we are late, we will be discovered by the king of North Korea. If we want to enter the city again, we have to bomb the city gate."

"Yes, yes, hurry up, hurry up!" Xu Jing didn't look like a coach at all.

In other words, even Tang Yin didn't look like a coach.

But fortunately, the Ming and Korean troops they brought with them admired Tang Yin's deeds of guarding Duobi City for more than three months. They also followed Tang Yin to have a full meal and had the opportunity to "make meritorious deeds". Follow Tang Yin to fight for his life.

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Tang Yin took 200 Ming cavalry, plus more than 400 cavalry from the Korean side, and the [-]-man team hurried towards the west gate of Hanyang City.

That was the agreed direction to enter the city.

Before reaching the gate of the city, he saw soldiers and horses approaching from the opposite side, and Tang Yin wanted something bad.

But still let the soldiers and horses prepare on the spot, and use firecrackers and artillery to resist the invading North Korean soldiers and horses.

But after getting close, it was the other party who sent an envoy for peace.

"It's General Park's man." Park Yuanzong's deputy told him.

Tang Yin didn't go forward, but let the North Koreans go over to receive this group of people, only to find out when they approached, there were only five or sixty people in total.

"Why didn't you follow Pu Yuanzong to attack Changdeok Palace?" Tang Yin felt that the soldiers were in chaos, and now he also wanted to know the situation in the city.

Someone on the other side said something, and here the interpreter brought the words to Tang Yin: "General Park led people to Changdeok Palace, but he was killed by Ren Shihong's men halfway, and now Ren Shihong's men are counterattacking. The 50 of them were originally It was guarding the city gate, but when they found out that something was wrong, they abandoned the city and fled.”

Tang Yin cursed inwardly.

This Park Yuanzong is really more than successful.

Let you guard the city gate first, and cooperate with a thousand soldiers to enter the city. You have to be brave. We all know that there are as many as 500 to [-] defenders in the city. You can get things done with [-] people?

"Enter the city!" Tang Yin didn't intend to back down.

Xu Jingdao: "Bohu, forget it, you may not even be able to keep the city gate!"

Tang Yin said angrily: "Fire me when you get to the gate of the city! If you can't enter the gate, blow it in, or let you come to eat dry food?"

At the critical moment, Tang Yin stabilized the morale of the army.

A group of more than 400 people continued to kill in the direction of the west gate. When they reached the gate of the city, they found that the gate was open and it was quiet inside.

It was Park Yuanzong who summoned all the people at the gate of the city to the training academy, and then attacked Changdeok Palace, and those stationed at the gate ran out of the city. The west gate of Hanyang City in North Korea seemed to be undefended.

This also made Tang Yin very speechless.

Is this how your North Korean capital is defended?Even if the city gate is lost, the other garrison troops don't know that they came to occupy the city gate?
"Guard the city gate!"

Tang Yin didn't care if it was an ambush or not, anyway, the city gate is right there now, and the frontline troops are more than 40 cavalrymen from Daming, who entered with twelve cannons. Twelve light guns were set up, and no one fired two rounds first.

"Boom boom boom..."

It is better to say that it was firing cannons to open the way than it was to boost the morale of the army. When the 24 cannons went down, there were flames everywhere on the top of the city, but no living thing was hit.

However, this is a great encouragement to the people who will follow up in the city.

After Tang Yin entered the city and made sure to occupy the west gate of Hanyang City, he was notified: "My lord, there are troops defending the city, led by Lord Shen Shouqin, but they heard the sound of cannons After that, it has retreated."

Tang Yin didn't expect that he would let people enter the city and fire a few shots, accidentally hitting and frightening away Li Deli's general Shen Shouqin.

"How many people?" Xu Jing asked beside him.

The reporter said humanely: "Sir Shen Shouqin led at least two or three thousand soldiers and horses, and now they are all on the way to Changdeok Palace. It seems that they want to stop General Park!"

It's Ren Shihong, and he is cautious and diligent. There are at least three or four thousand people on both sides.

And Pu Yuanzong only brought three or four hundred people...

Tang Yin needs to quickly judge the situation now, but he feels that his head is a mess.

Whether to fight or withdraw... This is a proposition.

If you withdraw, how will you deal with Zhang Zhou when you go back?

If you continue to call...

Even if the 700 men and horses all enter the city later, he only has a man in the early [-]s at full strength. Just fighting with Shen Shouqin and Ren Shihong's men, it is almost like fighting three or even five, with advanced weapons... that is only limited to him Two hundred personal guards of the Ming Dynasty.

"If I had known earlier, how great would it be to bring the 4000 people who stayed behind and so many artillery pieces?" Xu Jing on the side was clearly reminding Tang Yin that now we are beyond our power, so let's run away.

Even Tang Yin was hesitant, and even inclined to withdraw from the city, and wait for Xu Tu to wait.

Another messenger arrived: "There are 800 soldiers and civilians in the city, with farm tools, etc., and they have cooperated with General Park to gain a firm foothold near the three streets of Changdeokgung Palace!"

"what?"

Tang Yin frowned.

Park Yuanzong's 400 men went to complete the offensive and defensive battle with Ren Shihong and Shen Shouqin's 4000 men. It's fine if they lose, but ordinary people in the city also joined the battle?A group of people carrying hoes or something, the total number is less than 1000 people, and they can stand firm?
The North Korean defenders are nothing more than that.

Not to mention Tang Yin, even Xu Jing and others became more confident when they heard about it.

"Rush to the rescue!" Tang Yin ordered.

The gatekeeper of the Joseon Dynasty was surnamed Yin, Tang Yin didn't know the exact name and asked, "Then, how many troops are left to guard the city gate, my lord?"

Tang Yin said: "Stay a fart!"

When the fire was imminent, Tang Yin was already swearing.

Xu Jing reminded: "This is our way of retreat. If we don't keep people, how will the follow-up people enter the city?"

Just as he was talking, there was a report from behind: "The people outside the city are less than two miles away from the city gate..."

"Don't wait!" Tang Yin said, "If you don't rush to help, Pu Yuanzong may be invincible! The whole army rushes to help! Kill!"

"kill!"

The Ming and North Korean coalition forces who entered the city with Tang Yin were also very confused at this time.

They haven't seen a decent resistance yet, and they don't know why North Korea's capital is so slack in defense. However, apart from Ming soldiers in the coalition forces, they are North Korean frontier troops. This is still the case today, anyway, let them attack the palace now, they just follow along.

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Before the arrival of Tang Yin's rush to help, the people led by Pu Yuanzong had indeed reached the point where they could not support each other.

When he learned that Li was in Changdeokgung that day, and that the defense of Changdeokgung was not as strong as that of Gyeongbokgung, he thought of taking Changdeokgung with lightning speed and deposing Li. All power rests with North Korea.

While following Tang Yin to do great things, he still wants to do things alone.

He thought that he would be able to attack Changdeok Palace, and the people in the city would support him... This is because Li expanded the palace in the past two years and forcibly occupied the women, which caused complaints from the people in the city.

But the defenders in the city, especially the generals of the old honor faction such as Ren Shihong and Shen Shouqin, were not vegetarians either.

However, the defenders such as Ren Shihong and Shen Shouqin were obviously "beaten" by Park Yuanzong.

They don't know how many rebels are there, and they don't even know who leads them. They only know that the west gate of the city has been captured for no reason, and it is said that the envoys of the Ming Dynasty outside the city are also leading troops into the city... ...the cannon fire is heard again...

At this time, Park Yuanzong's troops have not been completely annihilated, and it is also because the defenders do not know the situation on the other side. At the critical moment, they only want to garrison Gyeongbokgung Palace and Changdeok Palace first to ensure that the palace is not lost. A few people from all walks of life brought back the lost west gate of the city.

Also confused were the defenders of the other gates in the city, as well as the garrison troops in the city, and even the garrison troops outside the city didn't understand the situation.

It's literally...

Tang Yin and Pu Yuanzong didn't have many troops, but because they entered the city very smoothly, and formed a state of attacking Changdeok Palace, all parties dared not move without knowing the situation of the battle.

He was also afraid of being held accountable by Li afterwards.

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But over time.

Ren Shihong, who was stationed at Changdeok Palace and set up checkpoints to stop Park Yuanzong, was the first to discover that the rebels were just a group of "paper tigers". There were less than 1000 people in the team, and many of them were ordinary people with hoes. None of them are complete.

Immediately, Ren Shihong ordered a counterattack.

At this time, Shen Shouqin's vanguard has just come over and completed the encirclement of Pu Yuanzong's troops.

But at this moment, the sound of "boom boom boom" came again.

It is also because in the past year, Daming's artillery, especially the flowering artillery, was too famous. Ren Shihong's troops had almost cornered Pu Yuanzong's group, but after hearing the sound of the artillery, they didn't even know where the artillery was going. No one fought, but they all had to retreat.

Because their task was not to destroy Park Yuanzong's rebels, but to stick to Changdeok Palace and Gyeongbokgung Palace.

"Bang bang bang..."

Immediately, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty opened the way with firecrackers, and Tang Yin personally led the cavalry through the streets and alleys, and killed Pu Yuanzong's position.

When Tang Yin arrived, Ren Shihong's troops had already retreated for a block, and Shen Shouqin's reinforcements also changed their course.

When Tang Yin arrived at the camp, he found corpses lying everywhere... When he saw Pu Yuanzong in the past, he found that Pu Yuanzong was covered in blood.

"There are... less than 200 people left..."

The 200 people he mentioned were not the nearly [-] regular troops he led, but the city residents who rebelled with him. However, many of the city residents fled temporarily or found places to hide when they saw that the wind was not in the right direction.

But in this battle, at least 600 people died on Pu Yuanzong's side.

Tang Yin said: "Attack Changdeok Palace."

"Don't go." Pu Yuanzong said, "There are at least thousands of people on the opposite side. They have blocked the roads, and they can't get through."

Tang Yin said angrily: "Are you retreating?"

Park Yuanzong said: "If you wait for the four thousand reinforcements, you still have a chance."

"Impossible!" Tang Yin didn't know where the courage came from at this time, and sternly said, "If you leave the city, you will have no chance to come in again. Your errands have been completed today! The rest is to obey my orders and dispatch Attack the city!"

Xu Jing got off his horse and saw the dead bodies all over the ground. He didn't dare to go forward. He asked from a distance, "Can we still get reinforcements?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Tang Yin also seemed to be inspired, "Reinforcements! Now that we have penetrated into the city, if we can get more people to help, we will be able to capture Changdeok Palace faster."

"Report...the follow-up troops have entered the city..."

"Very good, the artillery will open the way, wait for the reinforcements to arrive, don't guard the gates of the city, only attack Changdeok Palace!"

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Tang Yin is putting all his eggs in one basket now.

There are not many people on hand, but the defenders are obviously a little timid now, it is the critical moment of the wrestling between the two sides, and Tang Yin knows that if he admits cowardice, he will lose.

As an envoy of Ming Dynasty, he has 100 soldiers of Ming Dynasty in his hand, and of course there are 4000 people left behind in the coalition formation of Huanghai Province and Gyeonggi Province. It is impossible to expect those people to attack Hanyang City, but if it is captured After that, [-] people entered the city, and order could be maintained.

The key now is to see if Changdeok Palace can be captured in one go.

"Disarm and don't kill!"

When Tang Yin led his troops out, he saw other troops rushing to help them. Obviously, this group of troops was not from Shen Shouqin or Ren Shihong.

What they were holding were just ordinary swords, not even archers, and when they heard the shouts here were in the language of Ming Dynasty, they immediately knew that they were "rebels".

Immediately, the people along the way were almost "inexplicably" incorporated.

"Bo Yin, it's me."

The people who came were not considered the defenders, but the temporarily organized rescuers. They probably acted according to the wind. If they found that the defenders had the upper hand, they would also join the defenders.

But when they came over and saw that the coalition forces had gained a firm foothold, they did not hesitate to join this side.

"Tang Shangchai, this person is the Cheng Xiyan I told you about. He is the counselor of Xingcao, and he has many former ministers as colleagues in the city!"

Park Yuanzong had no desire to fight, so he thought about running away.

Now that Cheng Xiyan arrived with "reinforcements", he felt a little more confident.

But when he knew that Cheng Xiyan had only brought three to four hundred people, he hesitated again.

"How far is it from Changdeokgung?" Tang Yinren was in North Korea, his eyes were really darkened at night.

Cheng Xiyan said: "There are still three streets! But the guards have already guarded several streets, so they can't get in!"

"Shenji Camp opens the way!"

Tang Yin didn't talk nonsense, got on his horse and continued to command the battle.

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After Ren Shihong and Shen Shouqin joined forces, the number of troops under their command has exceeded [-].

And they are all elites in the Korean Royal Army.

The so-called elites are nothing more than more bowmen, and even firecrackers. Their strategy is not to fight out, but to defend Changdeok Palace and Gyeongbokgung Palace.

It was Daming's soldiers who directly covered up and killed them.

There are still three or four hundred steps between the two sides, that is, when there are still more than 200 meters, they have not yet reached the attack range of the North Korean side.

However, there was a "boom boom boom" sound after the playback.

The shells came again.

And every time it hits the ground, a piece explodes directly.

The originally complete defensive formation was directly blasted by the artillery.

But in fact, the artillery is fired at a distance of 500 meters, which means that as long as the defenders don't kill it, there is nothing they can do about the artillery.

What's even worse...after being bombed for a round, the defenders had already regrouped and formed a battle formation, preparing to use wooden shields to resist the crossbowmen and firecrackers on Daming's side, but the firecrackers on Daming's side also Launched.

"Bang bang bang..."

200 meters away, they fired directly, and the defenders held shields in the front row, but they soon discovered... Shields are useless when facing fireball bullets.

The soldiers in front were immediately beaten into a sieve.

"kill!"

Immediately, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty rushed forward with firecrackers, cooperating with the archers of the North Korean side of the coalition army.

A seemingly complete line of defense was directly cut open.

"what!"

The battlefield is chaotic.

But there is one thing that the royalist defenders did not expect, that is, they completely underestimated the huge lethality of firearms in this kind of street fighting.

(End of this chapter)