Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 206
Goryeo King's capital, six miles to the southwest, Zhu Di led a large army and marched along a mighty mountain road.

A group of sentry cavalry wearing leather armor quickly ran over from a distance.

"His Royal Highness, the gates of King Koryo's capital suddenly closed... At the same time, some cavalry also sprang out from the gates around King's capital of Koryo, and scattered away. The general and others were incompetent and failed to stop them!"

"It's okay!"

Instead of being angry, Zhu Di was delighted, "The king of Korea, Wang Xuan, was really blocked by us in the capital of Korea, so pass the order and march slowly, there is no need to worry.

As for the cavalry who sprang out, they were just messengers sent by the king of Koryo, Wang Yu, to notify the garrison of King Qin in various states and cities. "

Hearing this, Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and others around couldn't help but panic.

"Your Highness, we must fight quickly, otherwise our army will be in danger when the garrisons from the surrounding Koryo cities arrive!"

Zhu Di said: "Don't worry, the army will rest for a while, and then they will bury the pot and cook in front of the Koryo king's capital, and attack the Koryo king's capital at night!"

"Follow the order!"

Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and the others nodded slightly.

Zhu Di then directed to the sentry cavalry at the side: "You wait for us to investigate the capital of King Goryeo."

"The end will obey orders!"

The captain of the sentry cavalry responded and hurried forward.

An hour later.

King Goryeo appeared in front of Zhu Di, Guo An and others.

Goryeo is mountainous.

The Koryo Wangjing was once the fiefdom of the Songyak Wang family. After the Koryo King Taizu Wang Jianqi established the Koryo Kingdom, he built the Koryo palace and imperial city full of Tang Dynasty style relying on Songyak Mountain.

However, due to the mountains in this area, we can only rely on Songyue Mountain to build a rectangular Koryo Palace City with a length of 370 meters from east to west and 720 meters from north to south.

Outside the palace city of Koryo, there is another imperial city with a length of more than 1000 meters from east to west and more than 1000 meters from north to south. Even the northeast city wall of the imperial city has been repaired to the foot of Songyue Mountain, which can be regarded as overlapping with the city wall of Miyagi.

Outside the palace city and the imperial city, there is another city wall with a circumference of more than 40 miles. The north and west of these walls have even reached the ridges of Songyue Mountain and Centipede Mountain.

Surrounding the Koryo capital, the west, southwest, south, and southeast of the city are also surrounded by endless mountains.

It can be said that if King Goryeo had enough troops, it would be a powerful military fortress.

However, because there is only one outer city wall, if it is really going to be surrounded by a large army, the defense is still somewhat insufficient.

In particular, as long as the enemy army occupies the high mountains outside the city, or occupies Songyue Mountain, the imperial palace and imperial city of Koryo will be trampled under the feet of the enemy army and can be broken at any time.

Hundreds of years ago, when the Liao Kingdom attacked Goryeo, Yelu Longxu led his troops to directly destroy and capture Kaesong. If the King of Koryo at that time hadn't run fast, Goryeo would have perished directly.

However, although Koryo is small, it is like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, very resistant to beating.

For hundreds of years, neither the Liao Dynasty nor the Yuan Dynasty destroyed it.

Even in the Yuan Dynasty, Koryo became a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty after fighting seven or eight times in a row, but it was not destroyed.

However, at this point, the Koryo royal family also began to build the Koryo royal capital again, requisitioning 30 civilians to build the Koryo Outer City, which is about 120 miles long.

Therefore, Koryo Wangjing is impenetrable.

In particular, the generals of Goryeo, standing on the city wall on the ridge, saw exactly the army of Ming Yan King Zhu Di, who only had more than 1 people, and regained their confidence.

Their garrison in the capital of Koryo, plus the garrisons in the imperial city and Miyagi, has more than 5 people.

Even some generals were eager to try and send troops out to defeat the army of King Yan of Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.

And in the open wasteland two miles away from Koryo City.

In Zhu Di's army, the clouds and smoke had already begun to rise, and many Yanshan guards were already holding a steamed bun in one hand, and a group of people gathered in front of a cauldron, eating vegetables.

After dinner.

On a hilltop, Zhu Di held a clairvoyance in his hand, looked towards the wall of the Koryo city in the distance, and asked Guo An beside him: "Guo Qing, do you think those Koryo soldiers will sneak out and take advantage of it?" Let my army eat to attack my army camp?"

On the side, Guo An is also holding a clairvoyance, and he can see the facial expressions of the Goryeo soldiers on the city wall in the distance.

"I don't know, but I can already see that the Koryo soldiers on the opposite wall will be very angry!"

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Zhu Di's expression froze, and he pointed to a castle road.

"Guo Qing, take a quick look at the group of people on the wall of the Goryeo City, are they the King of Goryeo, Wang Xuan?"

"King of Korea, Wang Xuan?"

Guo An was taken aback, and quickly looked in the direction of Zhu Di's finger.

Sure enough, on the largest gate tower closest to the gate of the Goryeo Palace, there was a group of generals and officials, who were crowding around a person, looking towards them.

"Your Highness, it should be the King of Korea, Wang Xuan!"

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, "Guo Qing, if our army launches an attack at this moment, can we kill the King of Korea, Wang Xuan?"

Guo An shook his head slightly, "Your Highness, the range of our army's firearms is insufficient, and when our army rushed over, the group of Korean generals had already protected Wang Xuan and retreated...

Moreover, Wei Chen felt that a living King of Korea should be more useful than a dead one! "

"Ok!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, and directed to Zhu Liang, a thousand households beside him, "Li Wang, hurry up and take a group of soldiers with iron horns, and let me shout to the king of Korea, Wang Xuan, to tell him to hurry up." Come out and surrender, and take out the 22 taels of silver he owes the king...

Otherwise, if the war breaks out, the King’s capital of Koryo will surely be in ruins, and tens of thousands of people in Koryo will not be displaced and tens of thousands of soldiers will die because of some money..."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

A trace of excitement flashed in Li Wang's eyes.

Isn't it just to scold the king of Goryeo, Wang Yu, and then stir up dissension a little bit, so that the people and soldiers in the whole capital of Goryeo know why His Royal Highness King Yan led troops to attack Goryeo?
He is the best at this kind of thing.

Hearing this, Guo An's eyes lit up, and he slightly cupped his hands towards Zhu Di.

"Your Highness is wise, the way to use troops is to attack the heart first, and attack the city as the bottom; the heart is the top, and the military is the bottom...

However, the soldiers under Li Baihu are all my Ming soldiers, they cannot speak Goryeo, and those ordinary Goryeo soldiers and common people can't understand my Ming language either.

Of the thirty scholars brought by Weichen, five of them could speak some simple Goryeo, so they could use the loudspeakers to announce to the dignitaries, soldiers, and common people in the capital of Goryeo, the news of the King of Goryeo, Wang Yu shameless crime...

In addition, there are Mongols in my army, why don't you ask them if there are any people who can speak Goryeo, they surround several city gates together, shouting at the Goryeo city gate, the voice is louder, and the Goryeo The more soldiers and people there are...

In this way, the king of Korea, Wang Yu, might become ashamed from anger and do some unwise things! "

Both Zhu Di and Li Wang looked at Guo An with admiration.

"It's still Guo Qing's tricks that are dark enough!"

He originally just wanted to declare war on the King of Korea and the generals of the soldiers of Korea, but now Guo An's operation, when declaring war on the King of Korea, is still accusing the King of Korea's shameless behavior to all the people of Korea in the capital of the King of Korea .

It is impossible for any king to bear this kind of thing!
Zhu Di said to Li Wang, "Quickly ask, and see if there are any Mongolians who can speak Goryeo!"

"Yes!"

Li Wang hurriedly ran out.

Zhu Di ordered to the left and right personal guards again: "Go and ask the commanders of the army, thousands of households, hundreds of households, and the general banner, who else can speak Goryeo... and then send the thirty scholars brought by Guo Changshi bring."

"Here!"

Several guards responded and ran out quickly.

Soon, Li Wang came over with two Mongolians.

At the same time, the guards who had just left also came over with the thirty scholars.

As for Yanshan Weizhong, none of them could speak Goryeo.

Zhu Di scolded with an unhappy face, "A group of bullies who only know how to fight and kill, they can't even speak Korean!"

In fact, in Daming, except for some translators at Honglu Temple, very few people could speak Goryeo, Mongolian, and Japanese.

Especially the Korean language. The Korean people have been studying the Central Plains culture and reading Confucian books for nearly a thousand years, and now they are wearing Ming costumes all over the country.

Therefore, the officials and dignitaries of Goryeo basically all speak Ming dialect.

Naturally, Ming people do not need to know Goryeo.

Zhu Di never thought about this kind of thing, nor did Chen Shou, Zhang Xing and others.

Fortunately, Guo An was already prepared.

Otherwise, they would need to use those two Mongols even to shout a word, and the entire Yanshan Guard would lose face.

Afterwards, Guo An told the two Mongols and five scholars what he was going to say.

The five scholars agreed again and again.

As for the two Mongols, as early as on the warship, they saw how Yanshanwei used firearms to beat up the Korean navy, and they all nodded again and again when they recalled the fear of being dominated by bombs in Liaodong.

However, I am worried that these two Mongolians are simple-minded and cannot remember.

Guo An also put the two Mongols in a group with a scholar, and imitated the scholar's words to angrily denounce the king of Goryeo, Wang Xuan.

Divided into three groups.

There are three people in the gate tower where the king of Koryo, Wang Yu, is located.

In addition, there are two people in the two city gate towers in the distance.

At the same time, Zhu Di was also asked to send three teams of thousands of people to protect these three groups from a distance.

Needless to say, Guo An, Zhu Di will not let the Koreans hurt these seven precious bumps who can speak the Korean language.

At the same time, the entire army was ordered to prepare for a major war.

It would be even better if the King of Korea, Wang Xuan, could be stunned by scolding and send troops out to attack them.

And this time.

Wang Xuan, who was standing on the top of the city gate, was about to go back to the palace.

Even after walking down the city gate, they heard a commotion upstairs above the city gate.

Soon, a school lieutenant hurried down and reported to Wang Xuan.

"My lord, the Ming army on the other side has sent envoys towards the city gate of my king's capital!"

"Envoy?"

"Could it be that you are here to fight?"

Wang Xuan and all the Korean officials and dignitaries around him couldn't help but look curious.

"Let's go, Zhu Qing, follow me up to have a look!"

After speaking, Wang Xuan walked up.

On the upper floor of the city gate, Wang Xuan just poked his head out.

Downstairs of the city gate, three hundred steps away from the gate tower, two Ming scholars and a burly Mongol, speaking unproficient Korean, were directly facing two Yanshan guards carrying An iron horn the size of a washbasin shouted.

Although the distance was a bit far, everyone above the city gate could hear clearly.

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(End of this chapter)