Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 633 Invading North Korea
The Ming Empire had long wanted to clean up North Korea.

Now North Korea itself wants to come to the door, and wants to use force to achieve its goal of occupying Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei.

Therefore, it just gave Daming a reason to send troops to North Korea.

As the governor of the Northeast, Yan Yingyuan did not wait for the military order from the Generalissimo's Office first, but first mobilized the two main forces that had already been rested to start the war against North Korea.

For the mighty Ming Empire, what the Korean army did in Jiulian City has already made the Ming Empire intolerable.

The Ming Empire is no longer the tolerant and cowardly empire that the people on the border were bullied and killed by foreign captives as long as the foreign captives retreated, but an empire that tolerated no provocation.

Northeast Governor Yan Yingyuan has held a press conference in front of the people of the entire Northeast region, expressing that he will use the massacre of North Korea's Pyongyang City and the Li family to hate the people of Jiulian City for being killed and humiliated.

The 30 troops of the Ming Empire gradually gathered on the Korean border.

Although the railway has not yet been repaired to the northeast, this does not hinder the speed of the Ming Empire's advance to North Korea.

The [-] iron cavalry had already entered North Korea first, and the [-] iron cavalry were all using the latest Ming cavalry-style rifles. No army could match the Ming iron cavalry in terms of mobility and destructive power.

In order to achieve the goal of occupying the area from Tielingwei to Kangzhouwei, North Korea has been sending more troops to Hamgyong Province and North Pyongan Province for many years, and now it has even increased to a total of more than 60 troops. North Dao added 57 cities and thousands of miles of walls.

Now as soon as the [-] cavalry of the Ming Dynasty broke into North Korea, they were blocked by [-] Korean soldiers led by North Korean general Li Ze.

The [-] North Korean soldiers relied on the pass wall and Yizhou City to hold on here, and even mobilized [-] troops from other places to wipe out the [-] Ming cavalry in this area.

On the other hand, the [-] iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty directly passed the Guanqiang and Uiju City, took a small road and broke into North Hamgyong Road, and shot directly when they encountered Korean soldiers along the way, and the Korean soldiers were completely unable to resist. Their flintlock Naturally, it was not as powerful as Daming's rifled guns. Basically, after a single encounter, the Ming cavalry could use intensive firepower to defeat all the North Korean infantry.

And these North Korean infantry can only retreat in the city.

The [-] cavalrymen of the Ming Dynasty plowed the entire North Pyongan Province and North Hamgyong Province of North Korea, forcing all the North Korean troops to retreat into the city. At this time, the main force of the Ming Guards who had already entered the North Korean territory was like pulling out nails. The cities of the North Korean army were pulled out one by one.

Gao Jie led the main force of the Sixth Guards Army to the city of Yizhou.

And because the Korean troops from all over the country had fled into the city, there were 12 Korean troops in Uiju City at this time, and four lines of defense were set up, each with tens of thousands of Korean troops.

However, Gao Jie didn't care about the fact that the North Korean army in the city had tens of thousands of troops for his Sixth Army.

Because North Korea’s firearms are all purchased from Daming, even if they have developed them themselves, according to Jin Yiwei’s information, they have not reached the level that Daming can manufacture rifled guns, and they are still stuck in the era of flintlock guns.

Therefore, Gao Jie, including the entire Sixth Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards, has full confidence in breaking through Uiju City and annihilating 12 Korean troops.

However, during that period of time, the weather was not good, and it rained continuously, and the moat outside the entire Yizhou city swelled a lot, making it impossible for the Sixth Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards to break into Yizhou city through a frontal attack. The wall broke into Uiju.

On this wall, the North Korean army can just condescendingly rely on the wall to block the Sixth Army of the Guards.

North Korean general Li Ze said confidently to his generals: "In the entire area of ​​the Yalu River, our North Korea occupies a high terrain, while their Ming army occupies a low terrain. It is difficult for them to attack us, but if we want to Attacking them is like going down the river. Now it's raining heavily and the river's water is soaring. They can't directly attack Yizhou City, they can only climb the mountain road and break in through the closed wall. When the time comes, we will give them a husband at the closed wall Don't open the gate."

The Sixth Army of the Guards was indeed planning to break into Uiju from the pass wall, but the Guards did not intend to use soldiers' lives to fill up the mountain roads to forcefully invade Uiju City, but planned to use the latest Chongzhen 36 made by the Daming Ordnance Institute. Type mortar attack, to achieve the goal of destroying the North Korean army's pass wall before breaking in.

Mortars are no longer difficult for Daming to manufacture. After all, curved fire guns are more concerned with the application of the empire to dynamics. Today, after Daming successfully manufactures mortars, it will naturally be able to successfully manufacture mortars for mountainous areas. Shotgun.

As soon as the rain stopped, the mortar battalion directly under the Sixth Army of the Guards immediately carried twenty mortars into the forest.

The North Korean soldiers on the wall couldn’t help laughing when they saw the Ming Guards turning around the cylindrical iron frames in the distance. One of the North Korean officers even ordered: “What are these Han people doing? , They can't summon the mountain god with some formation, quickly ask someone to prepare black dog blood, and sprinkle it on the wall!"

So, some North Korean soldiers sprinkled the prepared black dog blood on the closed wall. After the sprinkle, the North Korean officer shouted: "Brothers, we have finished spilling the black dog blood, no matter what tricks the Han people use It’s useless, everyone cheer up, and kill every Han who comes over later, and then each Han will be rewarded with a silver dollar for each head!”

……

At this time, the teams of the Mortar Battalion of the Guards came to Shen Maoshi, the Commander of the Mortar Battalion, and said, "Report to the Commander, the No. [-] position is ready!"

"The second seat is ready!"

"The third position is ready!"

……

"put!"

Shen Maoshi said that not long after, twenty mortars sprayed mortar shells, and in an instant, there was a shocking explosion in the North Korean wall, and the North Korean who ordered to sprinkle the blood of black dogs on the wall The officer was blown out on the spot, and the half-mile long wall was blown down in more than a dozen places.

"Come on!"

The First Infantry Battalion, which was in charge of the assault mission, began to rush over, preparing to break in through the gaps in the wall that had collapsed. There will be a series of bullets fired until people are beaten into a sieve.

The Ming Army's operations were very regulated. When the First Infantry Battalion rushed in, all the teams cooperated. Half of the soldiers were in charge of entering and half of the soldiers squatted on the ground to shoot, so as to achieve the purpose of using firepower to cover and assault their comrades.

……

"Oh my god, the blood of the black dog is useless. The wall will collapse as soon as it is said." Another North Korean officer was about to run away, but before he could stand up, he saw the North Korean soldier who had stood up first. After being beaten to the ground by the Ming army at the bottom of the mountain, he hastily shrank back, hiding in the corner and not daring to raise his head.

The same is true for other North Korean officers and soldiers. They really don't know how to fight this battle, so they can only hide behind the wall obediently.

The infantrymen of the Guards had rushed up at this time, risking danger and began to climb up the mountain with their limbs, and finally reached outside the pass wall smoothly.

When the Guards infantry appeared inside the closed wall, they discovered that there were still many North Korean soldiers squatting inside the closed wall. The Ming soldiers who broke into the closed wall were so frightened that they immediately took out their guns and pointed at a Korean soldier in front of them. Just fired a shot.

But this was not enough. The infantrymen of the Guards kept shooting, because they didn't know why these North Korean soldiers were ambushing inside the wall. The only thing they could do now was to annihilate the enemy directly when they encountered them.

On the contrary, the North Korean officers and soldiers were so frightened that they didn't dare to move even more. Even when they saw their comrades beside them fall down, they just trembled with more fear: "Forgive, spare!"

(End of this chapter)