The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 571 Alternative siege warfare
As a vassal state of Tianshun, Goryeo basically copied Tianshun's model in its yamen settings, laws and regulations, including the palace buildings and various settings of the royal palace.

Under normal circumstances, there are morning mornings every day.

Despite the chaos last night, today's morning court was held as usual.

However, there is only one topic of discussion today, which is how to deal with the current threat.

Seongjong was the third king of the Lee Dynasty.

In fact, including his ancestors, they were all willing to call themselves emperors.

But because only the emperors of the Middle Earth can be called emperors, as vassal states, they only need to be called kings.

If you call yourself the emperor without authorization, you are cheating, and you are looking for death.

In just half a month, except for the capital, almost the entire territory of Koryo was occupied by this Beihai volunteer army who came out of nowhere, which made Chengzong feel very depressed.

Only then did he realize that his kingdom was so vulnerable.

Now the enemy has approached the city, and it is at the critical moment of life and death.He very much hopes that someone can stand up and help him resolve the current crisis.

However, looking at the silent ministers below, Chengzong was disappointed.

"Wen Chengge, what is your best strategy to defeat the enemy?"

Wen Chengge is the general of the Huben Army, and he is currently in charge of guarding Seoul.

"Back to the king, there is no good strategy at present, but to stick to it."

In fact, Wen Chengge didn't think that sticking to the wall would succeed at all. What he thought in his heart was that negotiating with the other party as soon as possible was a good strategy.

However, he dared not say it directly.Otherwise, you may be attacked by others immediately.

"Can you hold on?"

"Although it is difficult, we must fight until the last soldier."

"What exactly does Jia Min want to do? Whom does he want to fight? After fighting in Middle Earth, why did he come here to beat us?"

"This man acts perversely and does not follow common sense. His notice says that he can beat whoever he wants, whoever refuses to accept it, whoever gets in his way, and whoever he finds displeased. This shows that People are manic and abnormal, which is very reasonable and can be inferred."

"We neither disobeyed him nor blocked his way, so why did he dislike us?"

"My lord, Jia Min's intention is that when he attacks Shengjing, we will attack him from behind."

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Shen Mingshan, came out and expressed his own opinions.

"Yes, Your Majesty, that's all."

"That's right, Your Majesty, Jia Min must have meant that."

Others came out to join in.

In fact, many people have already seen this point, but no one is willing to say it directly.Now that we are in a hurry, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials has told the truth.

"Officials, since you see it this way, do you think you have a good plan to retreat from the enemy?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not speak."

"Forgive your innocence, speak."

"I believe that the current enemy army is strong, and peace talks should be the main focus."

"Peace talks? How to talk to him? Do you know what he wants?"

"We have no enmity with Jia Min. He came from a long distance this time only for money. I thought that if he wanted to attack the city, with his firearms, he would be able to enter the city. He didn't enter the city. Just don’t make plans.”

"That's right, let's go on."

"I think that Jia Min's refusal to make such a move is just for several purposes. One is to prevent us from becoming enemies with him, and the other is to ask for property. As long as these two purposes are satisfied, he will definitely retreat."

"Minister Shen Mingshan said so, dear friends, what do you think?"

"Shangshu Shen is right."

"Wen Chengge, what do you think?"

"Shangshu Shen's words are justified. It's a shame to talk about peace like this."

"There is no need to worry about decent things. Now that the former Princess Chang'an is here, we can take the opportunity to contact them in the name of paying their respects to the princess."

"Your Majesty, Chang'an is now the princess of the former dynasty. If we approach her, if the Tianshun court finds out and investigates it, it will be difficult to explain."

Minister of Rites raised his own doubts.

His question was actually very reasonable, and now, no one said anything.

There was no result in the court meeting, so Chengzong had no choice but to ask Wen Chengge to strengthen his defense, and the court was dismissed hastily.

Jia Min was not in a hurry here, and took advantage of this time to reorganize the soldiers and horses brought by Chang'an and the soldiers and horses brought by Liu Fang, Chen Ruiwen, and Ma Shangde.

The mode of adaptation is based on the establishment of the Beihai Volunteer Army.Subsequently, officers were reappointed.

As for the equipment, since the firearms brought by the volunteers were limited, there was no way to equip them, so they had to make do with their own.

If an army wants to improve its training level and change its tactics, it will not be effective in a short time.Therefore, Jia Min did not expect them to reach the fighting level of the volunteer army in a short time.

Jia Min continued to use yesterday's tactics, bombarding and harassing the city intermittently.

However, today the focus is shifted from the east gate to the north gate.The Tatar cavalry rushed into the city from the north gate from time to time, and went in to harass them.

Then the target was transferred to Simon.

At night, Wei Ruoshui led some people to sneak into the city.Either set it on fire, or kill a few officials and officers.

This kind of thing is Wei Ruoshui's housekeeping skill, and he is very familiar with it.In and out of the city, it has been like walking on the ground.

In their eyes, Seoul is almost an undefended city, and those seemingly well-prepared defensive positions are actually full of loopholes.

In this way, for three consecutive days, Chengzong finally lost his composure.Regardless of the objections of some ministers and the pursuit of the Tianshun court, they sent Minister of the Ministry of Officials Shen Mingshan and General Huben Wen Chengge out to meet Princess Chang'an.

They said they were meeting Princess Chang'an, but they were actually here to negotiate.

Jia Min didn't want to see them and was too lazy to bargain with them, so he went to the south.Check out the various substances scavenged there.

Here, Chang'an, Luo Xingshan, and Chen Yeqing came forward to receive Shen Mingshan and Wen Chengge.

Chen Yeqing invited the two of them and his entourage to watch his military exercises. Wen Chengge had already experienced the strength of the Beihai Volunteers in the Battle of Daejeon before, so he naturally knew that Chen Yeqing was using this to intimidate him.

But Shen Mingshan left a deep impression after seeing it with his own eyes.

Chen Yeqing proposed the conditions for the withdrawal of troops: Goryeo will not be allowed to be an enemy of the Beihai Volunteers in the future, and passing ships in Beihai will have the right to stop at Koryo's ports for supplies.

Goryeo paid 50 taels of silver to make up for the loss of Beihai's military expenditure.Hand over 500 catties of pig iron, [-] catties of cotton, [-] bolts of cloth, [-] catties of ginseng, [-] catties of saltpeter, and [-] catties of high-quality charcoal.

This is naturally the lion's big mouth, and the other party can't agree.

After three rounds of bargaining, the two parties finally reached an agreement on the terms of 10 taels of silver, [-] catties of pig iron, [-] dans of cotton, [-] bolts of cloth, [-] catties of ginseng, [-] catties of saltpeter, and [-] catties of high-quality charcoal. .

This agreement is confidential and will not be released to the public.Because there is still a decent issue of the Goryeo royal family.

Jia Min had to cooperate with the royal family to put on a play so that the royal family would have an explanation to the civil and military officials and the common people.

Another agreement followed.

This agreement was also quickly implemented.

After the other party handed over the silver and various materials, Changan, accompanied by Lichun, Zuo Linliang, Luo Xingshan and others, entered the city under the escort of a battalion of Chen Yetong.

Chengzong greeted Princess Chang'an and her party at the Thanksgiving Gate.

The Thanksgiving Gate is a building specially built by the Koryo royal family for the sovereign state of China.

Whenever the envoys or officials of the Chinese Celestial Dynasty came to Goryeo, they would be greeted at the Thanksgiving Gate, and a farewell ceremony would be held here when they left.

After the welcoming ceremony was held at the Thanksgiving Gate, Changan and Chengzong talked a few words after entering the house, and then held the farewell ceremony.

In less than 10 minutes, the welcome and farewell ceremony was completed.Then Chang'an and his party withdrew from the city.

The next day, Jia Min's armies began to withdraw.

The Koryo army in the city came out in full force, yelling all the way, pretending to chase Jia Min's army.

Wen Chengge led the Huben army and pretended to fight with Xidwa cavalry of Xi Mairui for a while, and the other Xiao cavalry battalion of the Korean army pretended to fight with General Xu's team for a while, so Jia Minjun fought and retreated, and finally The two sides disengaged.

Jia Min withdrew, and Wen Chengge immediately sent people back to the city, announcing everywhere that the Koryo army had repelled the enemies besieging the city, that the enemies had fled in embarrassment, and Seoul was saved.

King Chengzong also immediately announced to the world, saying that he was at the Gate of Gratitude and reprimanded Princess Chang'an of the previous dynasty. He thought that she had already perished and could not bear to harm her.

Now that the enemies who have committed crimes in the future have been repulsed, it is advisable for all civil and military officials to settle down and perform their duties.The common people should each secure their own houses, each develop their own careers, and each keep their duties.

Regarding the materials taken away by the Beihai Volunteer Army, there must be an explanation to the outside world.

In this regard, the royal family naturally has its own way.

The statement to the outside world is: the barbarian state of the North Sea, this time they came to pay tribute and ask for business.

The royal family sold some materials to them. In order to show their benevolence and virtue and educate the people outside the fan, the imperial court gave them some rewards.From now on, the North Sea Man State will come to pay tribute and worship from time to time.

This tribute pilgrimage means that in the future, ships from Beihai can dock at Koryo port and do business with it.

From this point of view, Goryeo still has a long-term vision, and even the future rhetoric has been prepared in advance.

Goryeo's approach is actually learned from their former suzerain, Dade.

Naturally, some people questioned this statement, which inevitably aroused some people's discussions.

In the end, the yamen dispatched people to investigate the rumors, and Chengzong fined the Minister of Rites who raised objections to this in the early court for one year, and these discussions subsided.

On Jia Min's side, they set sail from Busan with nearly 1 horses and dozens of ships of various supplies newly collected from Chang'an and Liu Fang.

A few days later, it landed in Dadonggou.Ma Shangde's [-] soldiers and horses stayed behind in Dadonggou and Anping City, and returned to Phoenix City with the rest of the soldiers and horses.

After resting in Phoenix City for two days, 80 people stayed here, and the rest of the troops set up camp and marched towards Tongyuan Fort.

There, they will start marching towards Shengjing with Shi Liu's [-]rd Regiment of the [-]rd Brigade.

Now, it is time to attack Han Tiankui.

Jia Min and Chang An stopped on the side of the road on horseback, and a continuous stream of teams passed by them one after another.

"Chang'an, now I can tell you another news."

"what news?"

"According to the itinerary, Chen Yejun should land in Songjiang at this moment. Feng Zijing should lead the Beihai Navy and enter the Yangtze River. Next, he will cut off the traffic between the south and the north of San Francisco. In a few days, Feng Ziying will land in Quanzhou and kill To San Francisco's southwest lair."

After Jia Min finished speaking, he patted his horse and left.Staying in Chang'an for a long time will not be able to recover.

(End of this chapter)