The headquarters of the Protectorate of Korea, Haeju, and Anxi.
There were five such protective palaces in Goryeo's heyday.
Now there are only four. In the territory that the Ming Dynasty has annexed, there is Anzhou between Pyongyang and Baozhou. It is the headquarters of the Anbei Protectorate of Goryeo. It was blown up when the Jin soldiers went south. The Ming Dynasty took advantage of the situation and took Anzhou.
The state gave tight control.
The administrative divisions of Goryeo are extremely complex. Since the transfer envoys were abandoned, "Tao" has gradually been reduced to a geographical concept.
The first-level administrative divisions are: Sijing, Wuduhu, and Bazhoumu.
Well, "Xuzhoumu" is actually the name of a place.
When "zhoumu" is used as an official name, it is an informal name. Just like in the Ming Dynasty, the prefect or prefect was called "prefect".
The official name of the leader of Goryeo's "Xuzhou Mudu" is "Xuzhou Mudu Magistrate".
This position is both permanent and non-permanent. It is often held concurrently by the central ministers or even by the prime minister himself. He rarely performs his duties when he lives in the capital. If he is sent out, he is often responsible for military duties and is a frontier official who has control over military and political affairs.
The top leader of Haizhou is a third-rank official, with the official title of "Anxi Protectorate Governor's Envoy".
There was a military coup some time ago, and the Cui family of Haizhou took the opportunity to launch an attack and drove away the envoy appointed by Ren Yuanhou.
Then, they introduced a tribesman named Cui Daoxiu and asked himself to serve as the Anxi Governor of Haizhou. To put it bluntly, it was the Cui family of Haizhou who took over the military and political power of Haizhou, and Zheng Zhongfu actually directly agreed to this separatist regime.
Since it is a separatist regime, the imperial court is not responsible for raising soldiers and officials.
The Cui family of Haizhou needs to be responsible for the salary of Haizhou officials and the food and salary of soldiers.
Most areas in Goryeo have become like this.
That is, the military government actually controls the capital, and the aristocratic families actually control the local areas. Those local officials pay a symbolic amount of tax to the central government, and the rest is distributed among themselves.
The officials and soldiers who escaped from Huangzhou are still dozens of miles away from Haizhou City, and the Ming army has already crossed the sea!
The Ming army boarded ships at the mouth of the Datong River. The first batch of two thousand soldiers and civilians went south with their baggage, and landed at Haizhou Port in a swaggering manner.
Cui Daoxiu, the guardian envoy of Anxi Province, was frightened to death when he saw this.
His thinking still stayed in the past, thinking that even if the Ming army came to attack, they would first attack Huangzhou and then go all the way south to Haizhou.
How can anyone take a sea ship to bypass Huangzhou and come directly to Haizhou?
Most of the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate are stationed around the city. At this moment, some are farming and some are working, and there is no defense at all.
"Amitabha!"
As the top leader of Haizhou, Cui Doxiu could not help but proclaim the name of Buddha when he saw this situation.
Daoxiu is his dharma name!
This guy is the son of Deputy Prime Minister Cui Hongjae. Since his father, brothers, uncles, and cousins were all killed, the Cui family really couldn't find anyone who could take charge of the overall situation, so they asked Cui Doxiu to return to secular life urgently and take control of the place.
Cui Daoxiu ordered: "While the enemy troops have not yet reached the shore, quickly gather the soldiers to defend the city!"
It is difficult to gather troops quickly because there is no one to find.
The Korean defenders could only ring the bell frantically as a warning, hoping that the soldiers would gather in the city when they heard the bell.
After hearing the sound of the bell, many Goryeo soldiers did not immediately go to the city to defend themselves. Instead, they hurried home with their hoes on their shoulders. They either hid at home or fled for their lives with their wives and children.
The Ming army lookout on the mast of the ship held up his telescope and shouted: "There are many Koreans outside the city, carrying weapons and running towards the city wall. They should be enemy troops stationed outside the city. Most of them have no time to get their armor.
Moreover, they are in chaotic and chaotic groups, mingling with the people who have taken refuge in the city!"
Zhe Yanzhi ordered: "Fire artillery everywhere outside the city wall to drive away the enemy troops and people! The ships carrying the cavalry will dock first. As long as five cavalry can be gathered, don't wait for friendly troops and immediately charge outside the city to kill them."
"Boom boom boom!"
A series of cannon shots rang out, and the southern city wall near the sea became the main target of the bombardment.
Many Goryeo soldiers and civilians who fled outside Nancheng were frightened by the shells and ran in all directions. Among the Fuguo residents there, some were hiding in their homes and shivering, while others rushed out of their homes and fled further away for their lives.
The first batch of Ming Dynasty cavalry to land did not wait for the subsequent friendly troops to disembark, and regardless of whether the horses were adapted, they gathered five people and immediately rushed out on horseback.
They rushed towards crowded places, specifically picking out those who had weapons in their hands and killing them.
Even wooden sticks were regarded as weapons by the Ming cavalry. When they saw them, they immediately rushed to chop them to death, and soon dispersed a large number of Goryeo soldiers and civilians.
The ships of the Ming army no longer fired cannons, but more and more cavalry landed and charged.
"Close the city gate, close the city gate, don't let the Ming army rush in!" Cui Daoxiu shouted in fear.
The Ming army arrived too quickly by sea-going ship and were only discovered by Korean fishermen as they approached the bay.
As the most important military base in the west of Goryeo, at least half of the garrison was unable to enter the city in time.
Sun Gui, the commander of the capital, said: "The governor must open the city gates on the east, west, north and west and send out troops to meet the soldiers entering the city. Otherwise, when the enemy troops completely land and most of our soldiers are outside the city, Haizhou will no longer be able to defend it.
Got it!"
Cui Daoxiu asked: "What should we do if the spies break into the city among the civilians?"
Sun Gui said: "The soldiers who go out of the city to meet up are also responsible for intercepting civilians, and no civilians are allowed to approach the city gate!"
Cui Daoxiu thought for a while: "Okay, send troops immediately."
The city gates on three sides not facing the sea were opened one after another, and bells and gongs were ringing frantically on the city towers.
The Korean defenders went out in groups and built anti-horse fortifications on the inside of the moat bridge. Only the Koreans with weapons in their hands could pass through the gap between the anti-horses. Civilians who approached would be shot away randomly.
But he saw five Ming Dynasty knights chasing him, chasing the Korean soldiers who wanted to enter the city and rushed onto the bridge.
In panic, the Korean soldiers jumped into the moat one after another.
The Goryeo officer who was guarding the rear of Juma's fortifications said to his soldiers: "Don't be afraid, don't run away. We have more than two hundred people and they only have five. Shoot arrows, shoot arrows!"
But they saw the five Ming Dynasty knights each shooting an arrow on the bridge, then dismounted and rushed towards the Goryeo army.
The bows and arrows of Goryeo soldiers hit the cotton armor of the Ming Dynasty's knights and the light vests of the Ming Dynasty's war horses, and they were almost unable to cause effective damage.
And the five Ming Dynasty knights, carrying four-meter long spears, rushed to Juma on foot and engaged the enemy in close combat across the fortifications.
Five people took the initiative to kill more than 200 people!
The more than two hundred Korean soldiers did not even dare to cross the enemy's horses, but only dared to hide behind the fortifications and fight.
The equipment gap between the two sides is too big.
The armor of Goryeo's top generals is not much different from the Liao style. They both evolved from the Tang Dynasty. Not only are they not crude, but they are very sophisticated. However, the number of this kind of armor is very small.
The normal Goryeo armor is leather wallet iron armor.
They made the leather into the shape of armor pieces, and then strung them together to form armor pieces. They also used some iron armor pieces in key parts. In this way, the production cost was reduced, daily maintenance was easier, and it looked dignified when worn.
I thought it was iron armor.
This kind of armor made of iron pieces mixed with leather pieces was called "Jiezhou" in Goryeo.
Even the generals of Goryeo's Sixth Army all wore uniforms. The more pieces of iron, the better they were, and the more pieces of leather, the poorer the quality.
As for Goryeo's low-level generals, officers and elite soldiers, they all wore leather armor.
Ordinary soldiers don't even have leather armor!
When they saw the cotton armor of the Ming Dynasty Cavalry, they thought it was all cloth armor, so they were quite brave at the beginning of the battle - at least they did not run away from the battle.
But something didn't feel right when I hit him. There was something wrong with the force of the spear when it poked at the cotton armor!
On the Ming Dynasty's side, as long as it hits the enemy, it will almost be bloody.
On the Goryeo defenders' side, they couldn't break through the defense even if they poked for a long time.
The Goryeo general who was in charge of leading the troops was actually extraordinarily brave. He shouted: "There are only five enemies, cross the horse and surround them to death!"
This guy personally led the team and rushed out of the gap between the horses.
The five Ming Dynasty knights fought and retreated until they came to the center of the moat bridge. The bridge was not wide, so the five of them lined up to block it. No matter how many Korean soldiers there were, it was useless. At most, a dozen people could be put into battle at the same time.
After fighting for a while on the bridge, none of the five Ming Dynasty knights was injured. They didn't even suffer any external injuries. They were just stabbed in pain by the enemy.
On the Korean side, there were seven or eight casualties.
If Goryeo hadn't been protected by shieldmen in the front row, they would have been defeated by the Ming Dynasty's knights long ago!
"Woooooo~~~"
Outside the moat, the horn sounded.
More than thirty riders came over to help one after another, and two to three hundred riders rushed towards other moat bridges on this city wall.
Feeling the hoofbeats of the reinforcements approaching, the five Ming Dynasty knights on the bridge immediately seized the opportunity to counterattack.
"kill!"
They all rushed forward with their spears raised, regardless of the enemy's weapons. When they got closer, they abandoned their spears and drew out their secondary weapons.
They are all blunt weapons and can be smashed when picked up.
The Goryeo officer in charge of leading the team had his head smashed directly by a bone.
"Run away!"
The Korean soldiers were immediately defeated. It was already difficult for them to fight five of them, and more than thirty cavalry came from behind. How could there be any hope of victory?
Five Ming Dynasty knights took the opportunity to pursue and kill them. When they arrived at Juma's place, they did not take credit for it, but moved away from Juma to clear the way for the friendly troops.
Subsequent Ming Dynasty knights filed in, and someone on the top of Goryeo City shouted: "Close the city gate, close the city gate!"
This group of defeated Goryeo soldiers were fleeing towards the city, and watched as the city gates closed little by little.
All city gates are being closed one after another.
All the Goryeo soldiers who came out of the city to fight were abandoned by their friendly forces.
Well, it’s not really like giving up.
Many baskets hung down from the city wall, and at the same time arrows were fired at the pursuers.
However, the number of baskets was limited, so the Korean soldiers, who were eager to escape, fought among themselves to grab the baskets.
The fighting gradually ceased.
The first batch of troops under Zhe Yanzhi have all landed, and Haizhou City has been surrounded.
The so-called siege is to send cavalry to patrol around the city in turns, and no contact is allowed inside and outside the city.
There was no siege for the time being, so the soldiers camped on the shore and went to unload the baggage on the ships. Those sea ships had to return to the mouth of the Datong River to pick up the second batch of Ming troops.
Orihiko wants to lay siege to the city for reinforcements!
This is the west gate of Gaijing, the capital of Goryeo. Once Haeju fell, Gaijing would be exposed to the eyes of Ming Dynasty soldiers.
If Zheng Zhongfu did not send troops to rescue him, he would have no choice but to move the capital or take the king to "hunt eastward", otherwise the capital may be surrounded at any time.