North Korea's military system also followed the Ming Dynasty, and in the early days it also adopted the garrison system of integrating soldiers and peasants.
There are five pro-army guards in the center and one guard in each lane.
The result can be imagined. With the passage of time, the Five Guards system also became eroded, and the soldiers had no fighting power. By the Wanli period, those who were killed by the Japanese were crying like ghosts and wolves howling.
Later, the Ming Dynasty sent troops and spent a great price to defeat Japan and save Korea.
The Ming Dynasty also completely exhausted its energy after this battle.
North Korea also learned its lesson and followed the Ming Dynasty in learning the military recruitment system.
In the early stage, the troops were trained according to Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Ji Xiao", and the future of the Ming Dynasty was hired to take charge. The combat effectiveness was also very good for a time.
But later, due to financial constraints, it gradually began to become decadent again, almost the same as the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that North Korea is simply a small replica of the Ming Dynasty.
And things were indeed as Hong Chengchou guessed.
As news of the siege of Seoul spread throughout North Korea, various factions organized troops to go to the rescue.
The Chungcheong Province, Gyeongsang Province, and Jeolla Province in the south have a total of 100,000 people, but except for 20,000 professional soldiers, the rest are farmers who have just laid down their hoes, similar to the military households of the Ming Dynasty Guards.
Obviously, although North Korea also adopted a recruitment system, it also did not completely abolish the guard system.
Jiangyuan Province in the west and Hwanghae Province in the northwest also gathered 30,000 troops each. Ping'an Province and Ning'an Province in the north did not send King Qin's army because they had to guard against reinforcements from Jiannu.
More than 100,000 troops divided into three sides and marched to Seoul in a mighty manner. However, the 30,000 cavalrymen who established the slaves were killed with howling ghosts and wolves, without the ability to fight back.
If Duduo had not wanted to capture more prisoners, hundreds of thousands of people would have been killed. In the end, except for a small number of people who escaped back to their respective roads, the rest either became prisoners, or became souls killed by swords and flesh chopped off by horses.
A total of 80,000 prisoners were captured. The officers among these prisoners were all selected and killed, and then the former Korean servants served as low-level officers, the Han soldiers served as mid-level officers, and the Eight Banners served as senior officers.
For several days, Duduo and Hong Chengchou were reorganizing these prisoners and began to build siege equipment.
At this time, in the city, all the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of North Korea were stirred into a pot of porridge, and they were mainly divided into two factions.
One group insisted on negotiating with the Tatars. As long as the Tatars were willing to retreat, everything could be discussed. Some even proposed to hand over Qian Qianyi and completely surrender to the Qing Dynasty in the future.
The other faction, on the other hand, insists on holding on.
In their opinion, the Ming Dynasty's Heavenly Army should be attacking Liaodong at this time, and the Tatars outside the city would soon receive the news to withdraw their troops. It would be too stupid to negotiate a surrender now.
For a while, Li Jie was also indecisive, not knowing whether to hold on or negotiate and surrender.
Qian Qianyi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but he could only continue to encourage Li Zhu, saying repeatedly that the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of troops were definitely attacking Liaodong at this moment.
However, three days later, the Jiannu outside the city not only did not retreat, but instead adopted a posture of attacking the city, causing more people to turn to the capitulationists.
After all, the first two times, the Tatars just asked for some money and beautiful women before retreating, and they only asked for annual tributes. In the end, if the enemy captured the city and killed and looted indiscriminately, it would be better to surrender directly.
So when Duduo sent an envoy and offered terms of surrender, although the amount of compensation was a bit scary, Li Zhu still agreed and ordered Qian Qianyi to be kidnapped and handed over to Jiannu.
In fact, Li Zhu did not want to do this, but wanted to let Qian Qianyi leave. However, both Duduo and Hong Chengchou knew that the Ming Dynasty sent an envoy to North Korea, and one of the conditions was to hand over the Ming envoy.
But what Hong Chengchou never expected was that the envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty turned out to be Qian Qianyi, a great scholar from Donglin.
"Oh my god, isn't this Mr. Yushan? I never expected to see Mr. Yushan here. It's really a sin. Let go quickly..."
Hong Chengchou was shocked when he saw Qian Qianyi tied up with five flowers, and hurriedly stepped forward to untie him.
But my heart was filled with joy.
Qian Qianyi's reputation among scholars was much greater than his own. If he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he would be freed from his reputation as the number one traitor.
"Mr. Hong, who is this?" Duduo obviously had never heard of Qian Qianyi, so he couldn't help but ask when he saw Hong Chengchou was so eager.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Yu Shan is the former Minister of Rites of the Fake Ming Dynasty. Last year, he was resurrected by the little emperor and promoted to the position of Second Assistant to the Cabinet..."
Hong Chengchou hurriedly introduced him. Duduo's eyes lit up and he was overjoyed. He looked up to the sky and burst into laughter.
At this time, Qian Qianyi's rope was also untied, he straightened his official uniform, looked at Hong Chengchou and snorted coldly: "Hong Chengchou, you want to kill or scrape, you have to do whatever you want, but you want me, Qian Qianyi, to be as humble as you.
It is absolutely impossible to live an ignoble existence and surrender to the slave thieves!"
After saying that, he closed his eyes and raised his neck proudly, as if he was sacrificing himself, closing his eyes and waiting for death.
But those who are careful will find that Qian Qianyi's legs are trembling slightly.
Duduo was furious and was about to step forward to deal with it, but Hong Chengchou stopped him and said: "Your Majesty, a scholar cannot be killed but cannot be humiliated. It is better to send Mr. Yushan back to Shengjing and hand him over to the regent!"
"Okay, then just listen to sir."
Duduo was also afraid that Brother Fourteen would be blamed if he killed this guy, so he nodded.
When Qian Qianyi heard that he was being sent to Shengjing, he felt relieved and felt a chill on his back.
Qian Qianyi was suppressed, and North Korean King Li Zhu reluctantly led a group of civil and military officials and all the soldiers out of the city to line up.
Since North Korea had surrendered twice and rebelled again, Dodo proposed that a grand surrender ceremony must be held this time.
All officials and soldiers in the city must go out of the city and kneel to listen to the canonization of the Qing Emperor, and then perform three calls and nine kowtows.
People are knives and servants, and I am fish and meat.
Li Zhu and a group of North Korean dignitaries had no choice but to obey. They all just wanted to send these plague gods away as soon as possible, and they no longer cared about being insulted.
"Kill them all for me."
The 70,000 to 80,000 Koreans kneeling on the ground were not waiting for an imperial decree, but for countless butcher's knives and horseshoes.
With Duduo's order, the tragic massacre began. All the top officials in North Korea, including Li Jian, and tens of thousands of people were slaughtered.
All the men, young and old in the city were also killed, leaving no one alive. Only hundreds of thousands of women aged ten to forty were left, who were tied up and sent to Liaodong as slaves.
The brutal massacre lasted for three full days before Duduo began to divide his troops to capture various Korean roads.
There were also a lot of killings, including big landowners, officials and generals, and anyone who would not shave their heads to change their clothes would be killed.
Ordinary farmers in the four fields did not need to shave their heads, and as long as they submitted and paid half of the grain every year, they would commit no crime in autumn. The massacre was mainly aimed at the city and the upper class of North Korea.