Of course Zheng Qing would not believe what the other party said that he would come to save Goryeo. Goryeo was not a vassal state of the Yong Dynasty, nor a vassal state of the Southern Song Dynasty. Why should they come to save it? They were probably just like Japan, who wanted to annex Goryeo while it was weak.
After a moment of silence, Zheng Qing asked: "What does Yong Jun want us to do?"
Liu Kun shook his head, "It's not what we want to do? It's your choice. If you choose to resist, then fight with each other and blood will flow all over the city. If you choose to surrender, Yong's army will not kill anyone indiscriminately."
"Then what will be our fate?" Zheng Qing asked again.
"I guess you will stay, but whether you, the city lord, is something we cannot decide, then the emperor needs to decide his fate."
"All right!"
Zheng Qing sighed, "I'll go back and report the truth to the city lord. It's not up to me to decide what he chooses. I hope you won't blame me!"
"Don't worry! I will intercede on your behalf!"
Zheng Qing bowed, said goodbye and returned to the city.
Zheng Qing was hoisted to the top of the city in a basket. Miao Qing stepped forward and asked, "What did the other party say?"
"Reporting to the city lord, the other party said that more than 100,000 Japanese troops have landed from the Jincheng area and entered Korea."
Everyone was in an uproar. The Japanese army had already entered Korea? They didn't know anything about it.
"Then what?" Miaoqing is now more concerned about her own fate.
"The other side said that if we choose to surrender, they will not kill anyone indiscriminately. If we choose war, blood will flow all over the city."
"What are they going to do with me if I surrender?"
"The other party said that it is not up to them to decide. The fate of the city lord is decided by their emperor."
Miaoqing immediately understood that this was to send him to Jingzhao. He gritted his teeth and said, "If I don't live, the whole city will be buried with me!"
"Call the entire army to prepare for a desperate battle with the enemy!"
Miaoqing chose to resist. He was betting that the opponent did not carry siege weapons and could not capture the tall and strong Pyongyang City.
.............
Gao Ding, Liu Cui and a group of generals were riding horses several miles outside the city to observe the city. It must be said that Pyongyang City was very similar to the Central Plains city. The city walls were tall and strong, with horse-faced walls, surrounded by moats and suspension bridges.
The high-definition riding whip pointed his finger and said with a smile: "They probably thought that we didn't carry siege weapons and could defend the city and reject them."
Liu Ji sneered and said: "The monk's idea is to be different. We have an army of hundreds of thousands and only a few thousand people. How can we defend the city? Don't we know how to cut wooden ladders?"
Gao Ding immediately said: "Let them have a taste of iron fire and thunder!"
............
"Winter! Winter! Winter!" Drums were beating outside the city, and the commander-in-chief Yue Yun led an army of 30,000 people to begin to assemble.
Not long after, 30,000 troops formed a large formation outside the city, with battle flags flying and spears like a forest. They were almost all cavalry.
All five thousand defenders gathered on the south wall, each holding a spear, and they were extremely nervous.
The lord of the city, Monk Miaoqing, was not at the top of the city. He hid in the Buddhist hall in his house, sat in front of the Buddha and chanted sutras desperately, praying to the Lord Buddha to bless him.
"Heavy shield troops come out!" Yue Yun shouted.
Two hundred soldiers holding large shields came out. They quickly used their large shields to form a shield wall and moved closer to the suspension bridge.
There were still a hundred steps away from the suspension bridge, and arrows were fired from the top of the city, and the dense arrows missed the shield.
But it was of no use to the shield wall. The shield wall continued to advance, and there were still twenty steps away from the suspension bridge. Two chain mines suddenly flew out from behind the shield wall, circled in the air, and instantly entangled the iron chains on the suspension bridge, and then fell down.
Slipped and fell on the suspension bridge.
"Boom! Boom!" There were two explosions, thick smoke rose, and the two thick iron chains pulling the suspension bridge flew up. The heavy suspension bridge fell and hit the bank of the moat heavily. The gate to the city wall was opened.
The soldiers guarding the city had realized that the Yong army was about to attack the city gate, and they immediately prepared a large number of rolling logs and rocks above the city gate. Once the Yong soldiers approached, the rolling logs and rocks would rain down like raindrops.
At this time, a huge torpedo cannon advanced towards the city gate. This was the stone cannon used in naval battles, but it was larger than the stone cannon used on warships. It was transported by the Wanshi ship.
During the Three Kingdoms and Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was used to fire large rocks, so it was called a stone cannon. Now it is used to fire iron fire thunder, so it cannot be called a stone cannon, but a fire thunder cannon.
Its principle is the same as that of a crossbow. It is ejected. It is different from the ejection of a trebuchet. The ejection of a trebuchet is farther, but the accuracy is not high. The ejection of a torpedo cannon is a flat shot, with a short range but good accuracy.
Dozens of soldiers pushed the torpedo cannon slowly towards the city gate. They were guarded by shields at the front, rear and left. Arrows rained down from the top of the city, but they still could not stop its advance.
Fifty steps away from the city gate, the fire and thunder cannon stopped. The heavy-shielded soldier in front squatted down, and then there was a loud bang! An iron fire thunder weighing a hundred kilograms flew out. There was white smoke coming out.
This iron fire thunder is a thorn thunder with several inches-long spikes on it. It can be nailed to ships and can also be nailed to wooden city gates.
The city gate of Pyongyang City is a wooden city gate. 'Bang!' thorn thunder was nailed on the city gate. In just a moment, there was a deafening bang, the city wall shook, and the soldiers on the top of the city screamed and fell. Wood chips were flying everywhere and thick smoke filled the air.
When the smoke dissipated, the city gate was blown to pieces, revealing a huge cave where you could see the scene inside the city.
Yue Yun waved his sword and shouted: "Those who surrender will be spared death, and those who resist stubbornly will not be killed!"
Thirty thousand cavalry launched and rushed into the city like a sea...
The battle to attack Pyongyang City ended in just half an hour. More than 1,000 of the 5,000 Korean soldiers were killed, and more than 3,800 other soldiers surrendered.
When the city lord Miaoqing learned that the city had fallen, he drank poison and committed suicide in despair. Yong's army then occupied Pyongyang City.
Judge Liu Kun was appointed as the temporary county magistrate, and Zheng Qing, who spoke fluent Chinese, was appointed as the county magistrate. The Yong army immediately confiscated all of Miaoqing's wealth and food, and built five greenhouses in the city for porridge relief. Relieve the poorest people in the city.
Gao Ding and Liu Ji rode horses to patrol the city. Looking at the extremely depressed city, Gao Ding sighed and said: "It's hard to imagine that this is the Xijing of Goryeo. It is so dilapidated and depressed, worse than a small county in the Central Plains. "
Liu Jie shook his head and said: "I thought it was the Jin Kingdom's disaster before, but now I know that it is completely the result of cruel oppression by their internal rulers. If you open a shop, half of the money you make from selling goods every day must be handed over to the city lord. If you can’t make back your capital, who would want to open a shop? I heard that even setting up a food stall can’t escape exploitation.”
"yes!"
Gao Ding sighed: "We actually found 80,000 shi of grain, 200,000 taels of silver, 20,000 taels of gold, and a lot of other wealth from the official residence in Miaoqing. He actually has hundreds of women. He can't wait for the people in the city to do so." It is too shameless to serve him all, but it is a great irony that he is still a monk."
Liu Ji smiled slightly and said: "I'm actually very curious, how did he escape so much wealth from the Jin people?"
Gao Ding smiled and said: "It is said that before the Jin soldiers came, he transported a lot of wealth to the mountains and hid it. Then his warehouse was filled with copper coins and some worthless and bulky things. When the Jin soldiers came to kill him, he
Didn't you notice that Kaicheng surrendered? There were no copper coins, no copperware, and no ordinary porcelain. They were probably all taken away by the Jin soldiers as treasures. I also heard about one thing. He burned a lot of low-quality large porcelain and used it.
They were painted in bright colors and filled with warehouses, pretending to be official kiln porcelain from the Song Dynasty. They were probably used to lure golden soldiers."
Liu Ji suppressed his laughter and said: "This man is very crooked. It's a pity that he didn't know that our army was coming to kill him, otherwise he would have been busy opening the kiln and lighting the fire again."
The two looked at each other and laughed loudly together.
