I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 405 Raid on Liaodong
The North Zhili War broke out, and the Ming army in North Korea was not idle either.

Hu Shiying, the magistrate of Tamluo County, led a group of soldiers and came to Seoul by boat in person.

After hearing the news, King Li Bin of North Korea hurriedly led his officials to kneel down and greet him: "Meet the envoy of the Heavenly Kingdom!"

Hu Shiying didn't waste any more words and directly spread out the emperor's imperial edict and read it out.

The general content is that the Ming Emperor wants to rebuild Dongjiang Town in Pidao, Liaodong. Now he needs North Korea to provide [-] shi of military rations first. If he doesn't ask for it in vain, the emperor will pay for the rations according to the market price.

Li Yan's face turned bitter: "Angel Rong, the country of North Korea is weak and the people are poor. Last year, they were plundered by the Tatars. The people's livelihood has not been restored yet. We really can't produce food to supply the heavenly soldiers!"

Hu Shiying didn't even say polite words, and was furious on the spot: "No food? Not to mention that our Ming Dynasty and North Korea had an agreement before. Every year North Korea sells 15 shi of grain to my Daming Dynasty, and even last year's food is not paid. And I The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are specially here to protect your Korean vassal country from being invaded by the Tatars. Now they are just trying to get some food, so they are just trying to push back and forth. Furthermore, this is the imperial edict of the Holy Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The so-called golden words, could it be that the King of Korea wants to Did I break my promise to the emperor?"

Pu Wenxiu hurriedly knelt down and shouted: "Angel, calm down!"

This series of words is really too much of a label.

The key is that what is said in principle is indeed correct. North Korea has indeed made an agreement with the Ming Dynasty to sell 15 shi of grain every year.

But shouldn’t this be delivered monthly?

It costs [-] stone grains at once, and it looks like there will be more later, plus last year's grains have not been paid in full.

This is an attempt to kill North Korea!

Seeing that Li Bin had been silent, Hu Shiying seemed to be hesitating and weighing, and then coldly snorted: "Since the King of Joseon does not want to give it, I will go back immediately, and leave the rest to General Wang and the others to talk to the King!"

These words frightened Li Bin, and he quickly shouted: "Angels stay! Angels... no, North Korea immediately went down to collect the food that the Emperor of China wanted. They will never miss the important event of His Majesty the Emperor of China."

Hu Shiying then turned his anger into a smile and said: "The King of Korea is indeed my loyal king of the Ming Dynasty!"

North Korea's people's livelihood has not yet recovered, and people cannot get food out of their mouths.But the people had no food, and the landlords still had some surplus food, or even a lot.

Today's North Korea is just like the late Ming Dynasty. The court halls are filled with representatives of local nobles. There is no room for advancement for the common people at the bottom. The country's wealth and land are almost entirely in the hands of the powerful nobles.

While the Korean people were angry and rebelling because of excessive taxation and lack of food, their nobles and powerful nobles were indulging in lust.

food?There are so many landlords!

A few days later, at Hu Shiying's urging, North Korea first raised a batch of grain and grass.

The two parties conducted transactions on Ganghwa Island because it was very close to Seoul.

Li Bin saw with his own eyes the huge naval ships of the Ming Army, especially the continuously extending gun barrels, which were densely packed with at least dozens of cannons.

At this time, Li Bin had no thoughts at all. The emperor of China even had such a huge ship, so what else could he say?

The giant ship Li Bin saw was the [-]-ton Manila galleon that the Ming army had previously captured in Luzon. There was also a [-]-ton ship left on Luzon Island as the main frigate.

After the Ming Dynasty ships completed the transaction on Jianghua Island, they immediately carried food and headed to Pi Island. After taking control of Pi Island, they immediately crossed the sea and marched into Jinzhou (Jinzhou District, Dalian).

The establishment of Dongjiang Town in Pi Dao was just a pretext, just to get Pi Dao back from North Korea.

As early as the late Ming Dynasty, after the Manchu and Qing Dynasties destroyed Dongjiang Town, they transferred Pi Island to North Korea and changed its name to Liandao.

It has to be said that the compensation for ceding land to the Qing Dynasty can be regarded as a family inheritance.

Now that the Qing army has come out in full force in Liaodong, the entire Liaodong is now extremely empty, and there are not many troops stationed in even several major cities.

It happened that the Ming army could take advantage of the situation and regain the cities in the hinterland of Liaodong.Neither Yinsu nor the princes of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, nor even the extremely intelligent Han ministers such as Dai Duo and Li Wei, had ever thought that the Ming army would send troops to attack the Manchus during the battle in Beizhili. Liaodong's old nest.

This is purely strategic and tactical, as well as crushing national strength.

Even if someone really thought of it, what's the use?Is it possible to gather troops for defense?
Where are the soldiers?Where's the food?Where's the money?

The entire navy of the Ming Army was dispatched, carrying [-] dragon cavalry from the military camp of Tamluo County and [-] land divisions from Pyongyang City. A total of [-] troops marched towards Jinzhou City.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Han soldiers are coming!"

The Manchu Eight Banners soldiers responsible for garrisoning Jinzhou City quickly shouted a warning.

There was no need for him to warn him, because the other Eight Banners soldiers had also seen it.Warships kept docking at the coastal pier, and countless Ming troops disembarked from the warships, as well as food and luggage.

Jinzhou was established in the early Ming Dynasty, but was soon abandoned. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties successively established an inspection department here, and later downgraded it to Jinzhou Camp.

After Yinhu retreated outside the customs, he realized that Liaodong was vast and sparsely populated, so he immediately checked the household registrations, included all the unregistered Han people and Manchus around Jinzhouying, re-established the Jinzhou administrative office, and still returned it to the jurisdiction of Fuzhou.

Jinzhou City was also built in the late Ming Dynasty, and it has not been renovated for almost 100 years.

The Eight Banners soldiers in Jinzhou City even forgot to gather troops to resist, and could not gather troops to resist.

In the entire Jinzhou City, there were no more than a hundred Eight Banners soldiers, and the barely gathered population was no more than a thousand people.The Ming army came with ten thousand troops, and half of them were dragoons.

Damn it, you still have to use a hammer to defend it!

Wang Zongtan drew his sword and issued a military order: "The whole army attacks!"

Before the Ming army reached the gates of Jinzhou City, I don't know who took the lead in shouting: "It's the army of our Han emperor, and the emperor has sent troops to kill Liaodong!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"Kill the Qing dogs! Kill the Tatars!"

"..."

On the Jinzhou City side, the Eight Banners soldiers finally organized their manpower to prepare to defend the city. However, before the battle started, all the soldiers and civilians who defended the city turned against each other in a swarm.

Not only the Han people are shouting to kill the Tatars, but many Manchus are also shouting to kill the Tatars.

If these Jinzhou people were able to escape to Liaodong to colonize under the blockade of the Manchu Qing court, then not many of them were fools.

Outside the city, [-] Ming troops came to attack, but the people and troops in the entire city were only one-tenth of the others, so a fool went to defend the city and risked his life.

Those Eight Banners soldiers were so confused that they were directly surrounded and beaten to death by the people of Jinzhou who swarmed up.

Wang Zongtan came with his troops and saw the gates of the dilapidated Jinzhou City wide open, and countless ragged Jinzhou people lined the streets to welcome him.

Many people still had eagerness in their eyes. This was not because they were looking forward to Master Wang, but because the food of the people of Jinzhou had been stolen by the Manchus to serve as military rations for this entry.

Even if the Ming army did not attack Liaodong, Jinzhou City would never be able to survive the next season's grain harvest.

Wang Zongtan looked at the city gate, and then shouted: "Enter the city!"

(End of this chapter)