After a moment, Pu Shengzhong, the Minister of Rites, walked in hurriedly and bowed and saluted: "See Special Envoy Hu!"
Although Goryeo had a language, it had no writing, and the writing was still in Chinese. Therefore, their aristocrats all learned Chinese from childhood, were able to use Chinese proficiently, and could speak fluent Chinese.
There is no problem in language communication.
"Young Master Park is exempt from the gift!"
A soldier took the other party's letter and handed it to Hu Yun. Hu Yun read the letter and couldn't help but sneered and gave them a pole. They really climbed up and were willing to negotiate. Do they still have the qualifications to negotiate now?
Hu Yundan said calmly: "I'm afraid you have misunderstood me. I am not talking about negotiating the fate of Yong's army. I am talking about us sitting together to discuss the future of Goryeo. You yourself know that Goryeo is devastated, and even the young and strong men are dying."
They are all dead, and the country will perish. Without the help of the Yong Dynasty, this land will soon turn into a wasteland, which makes people sigh!"
Pu Shengzhong was confused and said quickly: "I didn't understand what the special envoy meant. Can you explain it clearly?"
Hu Yun smiled and said: "First show your sincerity, open the city gate, and let the Yong army enter the city. The Yong army is not as cruel as the Japanese army. It will not harm the people. It will also provide relief to the people at the bottom. Let the people in the city settle down first."
, let’s sit together again to discuss the future of Goryeo.”
Park Shengzhong opened his mouth wide. He finally understood, "What do the special envoys mean, let us surrender?"
"If you want to understand it this way, I can't help it. In fact, we did not invade Goryeo, but we came to save the people of Goryeo who were about to be massacred by the Japanese army, and to save the King of Goryeo who was about to be destroyed by Japan. It was just for a
People who are about to starve to death are not qualified to be picky about food, do you understand?"
"I understand, I'll report it to some adults!"
"Go! The city gate must be opened before noon, let me see the sincerity, it will be good for their family!"
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Park Shengzhong hurried back to the city, but the three prime ministers were still waiting for him in the court hall!
After listening to Park Shengzhong's report, the three of them were all stunned. Li Ziqian looked up to the sky and cried, "God is going to destroy Korea!"
Tuo Junjing and Jin Fushi were also lost and didn't know what to do.
Pu Shengzhong said anxiously: "The other party requires us to open the city before noon, otherwise it will be regarded as a refusal. It will be noon soon. Should I open the city or not?"
Li Ziqian gritted his teeth and said, "If I don't open the city, what can I do?"
Tuo Junjing and Jin Fushi were both silent. It was difficult for any of them to speak at this time. Anyone who spoke to persuade would be a traitor to the country. They did not want to bear this reputation.
Li Ziqian shouted: "Order the entire army to go to the city. We will fight to the death to the last man!"
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"Boom! Boom!" There were two explosions, the suspension bridge suddenly fell, and smoke and dust filled the air.
The soldiers on the top of the city were stunned and no one knew what to do. They had not received an order to fight against the Yong army, and the other side did not attack the city on a large scale, leaving them at a loss.
Of course, Liu Qiong would not just sit back and watch. During the other party's discussion, he had already sent soldiers to nail a 240-pound iron fire thunder to the city gate, and also solved the obstruction of the suspension bridge.
In order to confuse the soldiers in the city, Liu Qiong asked people to set up a table in front of the city gate, with incense, wax paper candles and three animal offerings on it.
This is a cognitive difference. The Korean soldiers believed that siege ladders must be erected to attack the city, and the soldiers rushed up in large numbers. They had never seen or heard that firearms could be used to siege the city.
They didn't know what the other party was doing. When they saw the other party setting up an offering table, incense, candles and three animals, they thought the other party was preparing some ceremony to enter the city and sacrifice to the gods first.
It was already past noon, and at this time, the siren on the city wall blared loudly, 'Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!'
Countless soldiers rushed to the top of the city, full of murderous intent, and were waiting sternly.
Hu Yun shook his head and said, "If you give them face, don't blame yourself for being rude."
He immediately ordered: "Attack the city!"
Liu Qiong shouted, "Launch!"
Dozens of rockets were fired at the city gate at the same time. The city gate was filled with kerosene, and the fire suddenly burned, igniting the fire thunder.
Within a moment, there was a "boom!" and a shocking explosion.
The explosion was deafening, the earth was shaking, bricks, stones and sawdust flew into the sky, the entire city collapsed with the walls on both sides, dust was flying, and thick smoke filled the air.
Tens of thousands of Yong soldiers blocked their ears and squatted on the ground.
When the smoke cleared, the city gate and the walls on both sides had disappeared, turning into bricks and stones all over the ground.
Liu Qiong immediately ordered: "As the army enters the city, those who surrender will be spared death, and those who resist will not be killed!"
Tens of thousands of troops surged into Kaijing. The Korean soldiers were already frightened and knelt down to surrender.
Hu Yun ordered not to disturb the people, and the army accepted the surrender of the other court.
Li Ziqian did not expect that the city would be captured in the blink of an eye, which made him regretful and completely despairing. In order to save his life, he did not care about his dignity and personally led all his officials to surrender to Yong's army.
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The 60,000 Japanese troops withdrew eastward and built a pontoon bridge upstream to move southward. They had to fight their way back to Jincheng before they could hope to obtain supplies and retreat back to Japan.
Fujiwara Tadamichi did not know that the Yong warships had completely destroyed their ships, and he still held on to a glimmer of hope that he could withdraw to Japan.
The 60,000-strong army marched through the mountains and entered the hilly areas soon after crossing the Imjin River.
At noon, they entered a valley with mountains on both sides and full of tall pine trees. The valley was more than twenty miles long. After passing through this valley, they entered the plains.
All the baggage had been thrown away, and the soldiers were traveling lightly, but each of them only carried enough rice balls to last for two days. Everyone felt anxious and uneasy, wondering if they could return to their hometown?
Suddenly, the team stopped moving forward, and the front troops began to make a noise.
Fujiwara Tadamichi hurriedly asked: "What's going on ahead?"
"Marshal, it seems the road is broken!"
"Why is the road broken?"
Fujiwara Tadamichi felt uneasy, and looked anxiously towards the mountains on both sides, and faintly noticed a figure flickering on the mountain.
"Not good! There's an ambush."
Fujiwara Tadamichi was taken aback and hurriedly shouted: "Retreat! Retreat!"
But it was too late. Thousands of burning iron fire thunders rolled down from the mountains on both sides, rolled down in the valley, and exploded in a series.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Gunpowder smoke filled the air, iron fragments flew everywhere, and tens of thousands of soldiers in the valley were howling like ghosts. Many soldiers were blown up, but this was just the beginning.
Immediately afterwards, countless kerosene barrels rolled down from the mountain, as well as large logs, which were smashed and crushed. The Japanese army rushed to escape, and there was chaos.
Thousands of rockets shot down, kerosene was ignited, and the valley more than ten miles long turned into a sea of fire. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers desperately fled to the mountains for their lives, but soon, the mountains were also ignited by the fire, and the rosin fueled the combustion, which was extremely burning.
Swiftly, almost in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen big trees were set on fire.
Half an hour later, the entire valley turned into a sea of fire, filled with thick smoke, making it impossible to breathe, and eventually suffocated to death.
Gao Ding looked at the raging fire dozens of miles away. The fire was so fierce that it ignited more than a dozen mountains within a radius of thirty miles. It was night, but the fire turned the sky red.
He was really worried about whether the thousands of soldiers led by Yue Yun could withdraw.
At this time, a soldier came to report, "Report to the capital, General Yue is back!"
Gao Ding was overjoyed and asked quickly: "Where is he?"
After a moment, Yue Yun rode forward, clasped his fists and said, "I have led my troops to withdraw. Fortunately, I have lived up to my command!"
"Okay! How many soldiers did we lose?"
"Reporting to the general, more than a hundred brothers were injured, but no one was killed. They all withdrew."
Gao Ding asked again: "Where is the other party!"
"The humble official ordered that both the front and rear valley entrances be blocked with huge trees, and a fire was lit. Everyone was in the valley and unable to escape."
Gao Ding nodded, "This is God's will!"
A few days later, a heavy rain extinguished the spreading fire, and trees for dozens of miles were almost burned out.
The Yong army then went to clean up the battlefield. The valley seemed to have turned into a hell on earth. Layers of corpses were piled up in the valley, all burned to coke. No one in the 60,000-strong army, including the commander Fujiwara Tadamichi, could escape.
Burned to death in the valley.
At this point, the entire 150,000 Japanese army that invaded Goryeo was destroyed.