Chapter 374: Where does the confidence come from?
"Is the Champion Marquis planning to continue sending troops south?"
On this day, outside the Changqing Gate of Pyongyang City, when they saw the Ming army crossing the river eastward along the rebuilt pontoon bridge, the leader Cui Xingyuan, Zuo Yizheng Yin Dooshou and others who were promoted by Li Huo's "fire line" couldn't help but feel at this moment
I felt secretly happy in my heart.
Speaking of which, Cui Xingyuan, Yin Dooshou and others were unlucky. Not long after they 'kidnapped' Li Huan's eldest son, Li Huan, and entered Xianjing Road under the banner of Fujun to fight against the Japanese, the Japanese had not yet arrived.
The sergeant rebelled and became a prisoner.
After finally escaping, they encountered Kato Kiyomasa's Japanese army and entered Hamgyeong Province, so they had no choice but to hide here and there.
Fortunately, they managed to survive the arrival of the Ming army. After meeting Li Rusong, they were escorted by Liaodong cavalry to Pyongyang.
Maybe it was a good time, but when they first arrived in Pyongyang, they found that Pyongyang had been recaptured by the Ming army.
Now, with no fear for their lives, they had other thoughts. They even planned to wait for the Ming army to move south, take control of Pyongyang, and make Li Hui king.
Then he used the threat of cutting off the Ming army's food route to force the Ming Dynasty and Wang Bing to recognize Li Hui's status as the "King of Korea".
However, what they didn't know was that when they just started discussing this matter, Wang Bing, the general manager of Beiwa, already knew about it.
There is no other way. In order to collect information about the Japanese, there are currently quite a few factory guards and spies on the entire peninsula. And how can the conspiracies of these people be hidden from the eyes of the factory guards?
Therefore, with the idea of once and for all, Wang Bing decided to take advantage of the situation. He led his troops to leave Pyongyang and gave them a stage for their final performance!
"Haha, with Qi Shuai and Ma Shuai here, if we don't hurry up, I won't even be able to get some soup!"
Seeing the hidden joy in the eyes of Cui Xingyuan, Yin Doushou and others in front of him, Wang Bing, who was smiling, couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
‘I don’t want to think about it, when has the Ming Dynasty been threatened? I think back then, the emperor was captured alive and never surrendered, so you just have a few sticks?’
"That's true! Not to mention Ma Shuai, Qi Shuai is the nemesis of Japanese pirates, hehehehe!"
In order to get Wang Bing to leave as soon as possible, these people did not hesitate to flatter Qi Jiguang, the anti-Japanese hero.
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"Third brother, are we setting up camp now? At our rate, by the time we get to Seoul, Seoul will have been captured by my grandfather and the others."
Seeing that Wang Bing ordered the entire army to camp only a hundred miles after crossing the Datong River, Qi Panzong suddenly couldn't help but look helpless.
It's just helpless. It's wartime now, and the Habayashi Guards' strict military discipline cannot tolerate his objection.
"Why are you so anxious? Didn't you realize that your grandfather and Ma Shuai were fishing? Otherwise, do you think that just Seoul can stop them?"
It turned out that since the armies of the Undefeated Army God and Magui bypassed Pyongyang, they planned to use Seoul as a base to attract all other legions except the first and second Japanese legions.
The purpose is naturally the same as when Wang Bing used Pyongyang's First Army Corps as bait, intending to have a battle to decide the outcome!
The reason why they are confident about this is that unlike Pyongyang, Seoul has nearly half of the food supplies for the Japanese. If Seoul loses, even without fighting, most of the Japanese will starve to death.
Therefore, even though he knew that Qi Jiguang and Ma Gui were trying to gather support, Ukita Hideie, the commander-in-chief, had to obey.
However, although Hideie Ukita is named the Commander-in-Chief, in fact, except for his Eighth Legion, which consists of 10,000 people, he cannot mobilize other legions at will.
Because Toyotomi Hideyoshi was worried about having hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, each legion was given independent command and action rights.
Therefore, if he wanted to save Seoul, Ukita Hide had to go from legion to legion to persuade him. This is why Qi Jiguang and Ma Gui waited in Seoul for so long.
"Then we can't walk so slowly. If we go early, we can also cheer for Grandpa and Ma Shuai, hehe!"
In the end, Qi Panzong still smiled and said with some unwillingness to give up.
"We went too early. Don't the Japanese know that Pyongyang has been lost? What if we scare them away? What's more, Pyongyang hasn't even been 'cleaned up' yet!"
After shaking his head, Wang Bing turned his head and looked in the direction of Pyongyang City.
"Lao San, you mean those people who came from Hamjing Road?"
Compared to Qi Panzong, who was a pure roughneck, Li Zunzu guessed some clues from Wang Bing's words.
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"The king is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"
In the 20th year of Wanli, on October 15th, just the third day after Wang Bing led the Yulin Guards and the Jianzhou Army to 'leave' Pyongyang, with the support of Cui Xingyuan, Yin Doushou and others, Li Hui was lightning-quickly appointed.
The Crown Prince, Gwanghaejun, was quickly elected as the 'King of Joseon'.
Then, Cui Xingyuan, Yin Dooshou and others quickly raised a "king army" of more than 5,000 people with the grain and grass equipment transferred here by the Ming army. While consolidating Li Hui's throne, they wanted to truly control Pyongyang, thus
To achieve the purpose of threatening the Ming army's food routes.
"Cui Aiqing, Yin Aiqing, if we do this, if we annoy the Ming army and come back to attack the city..."
Looking at the wounded soldiers left in the Ming army camp in Pyongyang, Li Hui couldn't help but feel worried.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, our city of Pyongyang has high walls and thick walls. The last time the Ming army attacked the city, although we don't know how many people died in the battle, we can see that they suffered heavy losses just from the number of wounded soldiers. In addition, Wang
There are still over 100,000 Japanese pirates in Beijing. Even if they can escape and return, they will not be able to continue to attack the city!"
Standing on the tower of Zhuque Gate in the inner city, looking at the Ming army camp in the outer city with at least five to six thousand wounded soldiers, Cui Xingyuan spoke with confidence.
However, what he didn't know was that in the wounded soldiers camp in the outer city at this moment, those wounded soldiers who seemed to him to have difficulty moving were also looking towards the inner city with a playful expression, and then 'wailing' from time to time.
Voice.
"Old Niu, can't you scream a little weaker? How can a wounded soldier scream so energetically like you? Be careful of those sticks seeing through it!"
In the wounded soldier camp, a Yulin Guards "wounded soldier" smiled and lectured a Jianzhou "wounded soldier" with two rat tails.
"How many times have I said, my surname is Niu Gu?, not Niu! Also, do you think you can scream like a girl? You scream like a woman screaming for bed!"
This Jianzhou soldier, who spoke Chinese eloquently, refused to suffer any loss and immediately fought back.
In this way, the two sides, who rarely communicated with each other on weekdays, had become much closer in this wounded barracks.
"You all should be careful and don't ruin the important affairs of the court and the Marquis!"
While these Yulin was quarreling and joking with the "wounded soldiers" of the Jianzhou Army, a young general who was also dressed as a Yulin guard and had bandages on his body, but whose facial features were very similar to those of the Jianzhou Army, came over.
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"Don't worry, Lao Ai, there are brothers watching over the camp gate!"
"Er Beile, how long are we going to pretend to be wounded soldiers? This slave is almost sick!"
Chapter completed!