Chapter 404: English-Orde
Du Xun leaned dejectedly on a stone stake, closed his eyes and slept soundly, with deep fatigue on his face. Even though his sleeves were casually placed on the ground, with the withered yellow color of soil and straw, he had no time to worry about it now because he was too tired. It took him more than half a month to get to the territory of Denlai from the capital. He had originally hoped to have a good rest, but Zhou Xianqiang was pulled onto the boat. He had been swaying on the boat for nearly a month, and it was difficult for him to stand up well, let alone have a good rest.
When he learned about Zhou Xian's purpose, he was even more shocked and angry. But at this time it was like boarding a pirate ship, and it was too late to regret it. He was even afraid that Zhou Xian would throw him directly into the sea halfway, and there would be no corpse at that time. What frightened him was that after he tried to make friends with gold and silver to guard his soldiers, he found that although the latter was polite, no one dared to accept it. Zhou Xian's control over the soldiers under his command reached a point that surprised him. At this moment, except for the two little eunuchs who could trust, the rest were Zhou Xian's people. If he wanted to be unfavorable to him, then he was really the meat placed on the chopping board and there was no room for resistance.
Du Xun was unpredictable in Zhou Xian's attitude, so he could only hold his tail and obey him as much as possible. After drifting on the sea for more than half a month, Huang Fei chose the shore of the town on the west side of the Huanghai Road in North Korea. It was sparsely populated and dense forests were distributed. It was an excellent place to easily land without being easily discovered. Moreover, all the soldiers took advantage of the night to move all the supplies overnight after scouts explored the surrounding area. After Huang Fei transported the soldiers ashore, he led the fleet to leave the coast to hide traces on the island that he had originally looked forward to, and everything was done without knowing it.
Du Xun's wish was of course to go to the island with Huang Fei, but Zhou Xian did not give him a chance to choose and must take him to the mainland of North Korea. In the next few days, the entire army kept lying on the day and night, and as fast as possible along the path. Although the leaves withered in this season, it was not easy to hide traces. Fortunately, North Korea was sparsely populated, and Zhou Xian also sent a number of scouts to continue to move forward to explore the surrounding situation, and the journey went very smoothly.
After eight days of rapid progress, under the leadership of a Korean assigned by Li Xiong, the entire army arrived in a valley about thirty miles away from Jinchuan. Jinchuan was only about 200 miles away from Seoul. It was the only place to return from Seoul to Liaodong and the best place to set up an ambush. When everything was ready, the next step was to wait slowly.
But the only problem is that the whereabouts of the North Koreans and the Qing army cannot be discovered. Therefore, if that happens, not only will the enemy be ambushed, but even the self-army will be surrounded. Zhou Xian ordered all soldiers to be forbidden from entering and leaving the valley casually and killing them against orders; while Li Xiong led a team of scouts in the North Korean clothes to Seoul to investigate the situation of the Qing envoys. At the same time, many patrol soldiers were set up within ten miles of the valley to continuously patrol to prevent ordinary Koreans from approaching the valley.
Gao Yi looked sad and complained to Zhou Xian: "Military, we have captured dozens of Koreans. If this continues, sooner or later, the local government will find something wrong."
Zhou Xian had a straw in his mouth and thought for a while, "Jinchuan is just an ordinary small place with only 200 soldiers stationed. The nearest garrison is nearly a hundred miles away from here, and there are only 1,000 soldiers there. Even if the local government finds something wrong, there will not be too many soldiers to be sent, and they will not report them to the Kaicheng official army as soon as possible. This means that we still have enough time. What you have to do now is, whether it is the people of North Korea or the soldiers sent by the government, once they get close, they will capture them on the spot, and delay the time of discovery as much as possible."
Gao Yi said helplessly: "Then you have to ask Jimu to cooperate with me in case you can't catch up with some escaped people at that time."
Zhou Xian said: "You go and tell him! How many horsemen are needed, and he will transfer them to you."
The autumn wind blew up and fell leaves. After Zhou Xian and 2,200 soldiers ate cold food for five days, Ying'erdai finally led his troops to set off from Seoul. This time he gained a lot, questioned the King of Korea, obtained tens of thousands of gold, silver and treasures worth tens of thousands of yuan, and forced the King of Korea Lee Yoon to hand over several leaders of the Chihe Sect headed by Kim Sang-heon. Although Lin Qingye got the news and fled early, what kind of big waves can a general who escaped from the court without a single soldier?
Ying'erdai turned his head and looked at Kim Sang-hen, who was sitting in prison with a calm expression on his face, and some admiration surged in his heart. He had worked in North Korea for many years, and only three people really paid attention to him. One was Choi Mingji, the current North Korean chief minister, who was a fish. In the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, he continued to deal with each other and tried his best to maintain North Korea's interests. The other was Lin Qingye, who was the first person to resist firmly and achieve some small victory when Huang Taiji led his troops to invade North Korea in the past.
The last one is Kim Sang-hen in front of him. His elder brother is Kim Sang-yong. When the Qing army broke into Ganghwa Island, he committed suicide to avoid being humiliated. Both of them were the Western Korean Party of Korea and the toughest anti-Qing faction. To be honest, Kim Sang-hen is average in ability. The reason why he is valued by Ying-Orde is because his solar term is known as the Korean Wen Tianxiang. In order to appease the people of North Korea, Ying-Orde will not easily touch him for such people. This time, with the victory of the Battle of Songjin, forcing Lee Nai to hand over Kim Sang-hen is also considered an unexpected surprise.
Ying'erdai knew that even if he was escorted back to Liaodong, he could not be killed, and he could only be worshipped like a Bodhisattva. With the current strength of the Qing Dynasty, it was easy to conquer North Korea, but it was difficult to directly rule them. If it aroused fierce resistance from the Korean people, it would damage the interests of the Qing Dynasty. Li Wu was weak and he would rule him. He would beat him from time to time, so that North Korea would continue to contribute to the Qing Dynasty's attack and destroy the Ming Dynasty. This was the most beneficial strategy to the Qing Dynasty.
This time, Kim Sang-heng was escorted back and prompted Lin Qingye to escape, which was equivalent to completely breaking the backbone of North Korea's Ming faction. The remaining shrimp soldiers and crab generals did not play any major role. In order to achieve this mission to North Korea, Ying'erdie's lips curled up his smug smile on his cheeks.
A cavalry rushed back in the distance, arrived in front of Ying'erdai and jumped down, knelt down on one knee and said, "General, more than 300 soldiers were found in front of him, and they were under the banner of the Ming Dynasty."
"What?" Ying'erdai's face changed slightly. This is the hinterland of North Korea. How could there be a Ming army? He looked at the cavalry and said, "You can see clearly."
"I can't make a mistake, my clothes, flags, and weapons are all from the Ming army."
Chapter completed!