On June 11, the sixth year of Shaoming Dynasty, Murong Nobunaga passed through Haizhou and rushed to the small town surrounding Wang Zhao, the king of Goryeo of the Wang family.
Prior to this, Wang's Goryeo army of 70,000 and tens of thousands of civilians had collapsed. The more than 200 miles from Pyongyang to Haeju were full of soldiers and civilians lying dead on both sides of the road.
Goryeo's 70,000-strong army was almost completely wiped out, with the exception of more than 3,000 Jiang Gongzhen who was besieged in Haizhou and more than 1,000 cavalry around Wang Zhao.
Before they were finished, the more than 6,000 defenders of Pyongyang City were also wiped out.
In this battle, Wang's Goryeo suffered extremely heavy losses. At least nearly one-tenth of the country's population, and one-fifth of the men, even if they survived, would find it difficult to return to their hometown.
Because these captured soldiers and husbands will be the best cannon fodder for attacking the Japanese country, and their wives and daughters will become the best trophies.
In terms of civil servants and generals who were lost, Xin Kang, who stayed in Pyongyang, was killed. Hong Shun, the soldier and horse commander of the left army, was captured by civilians and sacrificed to the Zhou army. Pu Yinggui, the soldier and horse commander of the right army, knelt down at Mercy Ridge to surrender. Yu, the soldier and horse commander of the vanguard army,
Jing was beheaded by the formation.
Hundreds of other officers, big and small, were killed in the battle, and more than a thousand martial arts squads suffered all casualties. This basically wiped out all the Wang family's military force in Korea.
Before Murong Nobunaga arrived, except for Chen Sirang and Gao Song, who led three thousand elite knights to seize Kaijing in the Starry Night, almost 20,000 troops surrounded the small town.
It wasn't that they couldn't capture this town, but they were specifically waiting for Murong Nobunaga's arrival to dedicate this most glorious moment to their king.
As soon as Murong Xin's white robe and white horse appeared, the 20,000 warriors around the town suddenly burst into loud cheers. The officers and soldiers beat the armor on their chests with their hands or daggers. Everyone's eyes were full of hope.
The source of this hope is the large and small plains all the way down from Pyongyang. The water network here is dense and the irrigation facilities have been repaired. It can be called fertile land for hundreds of miles. It is even quite densely populated compared to Liaodi.
Nearly 400,000 of these soldiers, generals and family members will follow Murong Nobunaga. If half of them stay in Goryeo, that would be 200,000 people, or about 30,000 households.
Among them, 30,000 households became rich peasant landlords like fubing, and the remaining several thousand households could become feudal lords of various sizes.
Although Goryeo is smaller than the Central Plains and has limited good places, it is not a big problem to accommodate the 200,000 people there. It is enough for a small number of people to become lords and most of them own quite a lot of land.
Murong Nobunaga knew why these people were waiting for him, looking at him, and what they were thinking, so he rode his horse in front of the formation and shouted: "Capture Kaijing, divide the fields and divide the land.
Meritorious ministers will be granted fiefdom and slaves!"
"Long live! Long live! Long live!" In an instant, the mountains shouted long live, and everyone cheered.
Then Murong Xinchang waved his hand, and 20,000 troops attacked from all sides. Countless warriors wearing heavy armor rushed into this small town with only a fence. The Koreans could not stop them at all, and they did not dare to stop them anymore.
Not long after, cheers rang out again. More than a dozen warriors dragged a man in white robes with no blood on his face to Murong Nobunaga. Then they all shouted and pushed him to his knees.
On the ground.
"Pu Yinggui, come here and recognize me!" Murong Nobunaga's younger brother Murong Xinzhen shouted loudly.
A middle-aged man with a scar on his face and a frightened expression came over and took a look, and burst into tears, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry for you!"
"Fuck you!" Murong Xinzhen kicked Pu Yinggui to the ground, "You, a surrendered minister of Baekje, also want to pretend to be a loyal minister? Answer quickly, yes or no?"
Pu Yinggui fell to the ground and cried loudly, "Yes! He is Wang So, the King of Goryeo!"
After a while, Hong Shun, who was presented by Liu Yibao and his cousin, was also escorted over.
He was more direct than Park Young-Kyu. When he saw Wang Zhao being pressed into the muddy ground, he immediately started crying loudly.
The surrounding soldiers began to laugh in unison amid the loud crying.
The dozen or so warriors who captured Wang Zhao loudly told Murong Nobunaga about their achievements amid laughter.
This scene reminded Murong Nobunaga of how he and Li Cunhui fought to capture and kill the thief general Sun Xiaoguo fourteen years ago when he followed his adoptive father Zhang Zhao into Guanzhong to quell the chaos.
"Asge was the first to capture and capture him, and as a result, he was given a surname and a title. The rest of the warriors were rewarded for their merit, and they were given fields, houses, and titles. All of them will be rewarded!"
"Wait, thank you, Your Majesty!" The cheers became louder, but among these cheers, there was also a discordant voice.
"I will not surrender to the death, I will not surrender to the death, Huangzhou Huangfu clan has no generals who will kneel down!" It turned out that Huangfu Zhao was also escorted over.
Previously, Murong Nobunaga Aicai had already sent someone to persuade him to surrender in advance, but it seemed that it was not very successful. The four soldiers twisted his arms and kept shouting and struggling.
In fact, it's not all about love of talent. The Huangfu family is a relatively special existence among the Korean people.
They are somewhat different from other Korean people who pretend to have surnames, because most of them pretend to be big surnames like Wang, Li, Liu, Zhao, or Jin, Park, etc. based on their transliteration.
Few people are free to pretend to have a surname like Huangfu. It is difficult for people in China to trace their genealogy with this kind of compound surname. If a Korean person pretends to have a surname like this, they will probably be slapped in the face.
How can there be any insurance for people with surnames like Wang, Liu, and Li who are given surnames and pretended to be Tiannanhai and Beihai?
Therefore, the Huangfu family of the Peninsula is indeed a Han Chinese Huangfu family who came to Liaodong to survive during the Han Dynasty, mixed with the local indigenous people, and finally moved south to the Korean Peninsula. They have a relatively clear inheritance and are an ethnic group that is easier to bring back.
At the same time, Huangzhou, where the Huangfu family settled down, was not far from Pyongyang and had been basically controlled. However, at the same time, most of the leaders of their family were in power around Kaijing.
What kind of family does this belong to? As a wealthy family, but its strength is not very strong, but it relies on the support of a few people, so it is naturally a good partner to cooperate with.
And historically, most of the Huangfu family in the Peninsula returned to the north of the Yalu River in the late Qing Dynasty. Most of their descendants lived in Yanbian and Changchun. Very few stayed in the Peninsula. It was considered a return to a certain extent and they were their own people.
But here, Huangfu Zhao was yelling, and Murong Xin couldn't stand listening anymore, so he immediately walked over and yelled:
"The traitor slave still dares to roar, but I know that your parents, wife, children, and clan members are all in my hands. If you dare to say anything more than surrender, I will kill your whole family."
Huangfu Zhao was pinched in the painful foot, and his momentum suddenly went down.
In history, there are very few people like Fang Xiaoru who died with his brothers for the sake of justice in their hearts, allowing his first wife and two sons to hang themselves in advance, and their two daughters to die by crossing the Qinhuai River in advance.
Therefore, although Huangfu Zhao wanted to die and become a loyal minister, he could not make up his mind to let his parents, wife and children die with him. He could only raise his head desperately and look at Murong Nobunaga.
"I heard that the King of Liao is also a loyal minister and filial son of the sage Shaoming. Please give me your thanks!"
Murong Xin let out a long sigh and walked forward in person, "You, the Huangfu family of Goryeo, are also descendants of the Han. I have brought a large number of troops here to restore the old power of the Han family and punish the Wang family who falsely called Goryeo. Why don't you surrender?
To serve the country of our ancestors?”
Huangfu Zhao slowly shook his head, "The Huangfu family can return to the country of their ancestors, but Zhao was promoted by the late king and deprived of the Wang family's salary. How can he still be a second minister? I ask your Majesty to make it happen!"
Murong Nobun thought for a long time, this Huangfu Zhao was definitely not lying, he was indeed seeking death. He should fulfill his reputation of loyalty, so he waved his hand, "Huangfu Jiming, this is a loyal member of your family, do it."
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As soon as he finished speaking, a seventeen-year-old brave general came forward from the crowd. This man was slender, good at riding and shooting, and had courage. Historically, he was considered a brave general in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
"Ordinary swords are not enough to carry the blood of loyal ministers. Please give me a sword, Your Majesty!" Huangfu Jiming took off his cloth-covered iron armor, exposed his right arm, and half-kneeled to ask Murong Nobunaga for the sword.
Murong Nobunaga heard this and took off the long dagger he carried with him, "This knife is called Zhui Guang. It was given by the Emperor. It has Buddha nature and can lead people to bliss!"
At this time, the soldier who was originally escorting Huangfu Zhao also let go of his hand. Huangfu Zhao straightened his clothes and armor covered with mud and bowed to Wang Zhao, "Your Majesty, I am loyal to you!"
Wang Zhaoxue's white face trembled a few times, but he couldn't say a word in extreme fear.
Then Huangfu Zhao bowed to Murong Nobunaga again, "Thank you so much, Your Majesty!"
Murong Nobunaga nodded, and Huangfu Jiming stepped forward with a chasing light in hand and loudly said to Huangfu Zhao: "A certain society will send a letter to the Huangfu clan's ancestral hall in Jingzhou, letting them know that the Huangfu family also has loyal people in Haidong."
After saying that, Huangfu Jiming stepped forward, touched Huangfu Zhao's chest, determined the position, and gave it a gentle tap, hitting his heart!
Blood spurted out immediately, and Huangfu Zhao twitched a few times like lightning, and lost all consciousness in a very fast time. The whole process was almost untortured.
Murong Nobunaga looked at Huangfu Zhao who was being supported by Huangfu Jiming, and a cruel look flashed across his face.
"I ordered people to build a monument at this moment to commemorate it. However, all the property of the Huangfu family in Huangzhou were confiscated. The men were sent to serve in the army, and all the widowed and unmarried women were given to meritorious men."
If you want to be a loyal minister, you can do it, and if you want the reputation of a loyal minister, Murong Nobunaga can make it happen, but if you want the reputation of a loyal minister and want your people to continue to live a good life, that's not possible.
Otherwise, with everyone coming and going all the way south, there would be no place to accommodate my King Murong’s confidants.
And if there were too many loyal ministers, wouldn't it make my King Murong's southern expedition seem less just?
"Your Majesty is wise!" The surrounding generals cheered with satisfaction.
In this way, they not only fulfilled the reputation of a loyal minister, but also respected Huangfu Zhao who wanted to die just to be loyal. On the other hand, it also prevented some cunning people from imitating him.
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In Haizhou, Murong Nobunaga did not turn back and led the army directly to Kaijing. He only sent Murong Xinzhen and Xiang Xun to hold Wang Zhao's armor and seal to display to the defenders at the gate of Haizhou City.
Jiang Gongzhen could see it clearly from the top of the city. She felt extremely sad and at the same time lost all hope for the future of Korea.
The Heavenly Soldiers are so fierce and exhaustive, so why are they struggling?
Jiang Gongzhen pulled her son over and sighed: "I am a bitch. It was King Gaozu who promoted me here without being humble. I really can't turn my back. Otherwise, how can I meet King Gaozu in Huangquan?"
Jiang Gongzhen's original surname was Gong, but this surname was not a real surname that could be passed down. It was a surname borrowed by the indigenous people with low status in the peninsula from the Silla to Goryeo era.
For example, Gong Yi, the king of Taifeng Kingdom who was overthrown by Wang Jian, had no choice but to take the surname Gong because his mother was of very low birth and was not approved by the Silla royal family to have the surname Jin. That's why Jiang Gongzhen said she was a bitch.
Of course, in history, Jiang Gongzhen’s youngest son Jiang Hanzan defeated the Liao army in the Battle of Guizhou and preserved the Goryeo Empire. Later, he was regarded as a national hero by the people of the peninsula. In the history books of Lee’s Joseon Dynasty, Jiang Hanzan was named
The family compiled a very clear genealogy, which is the same as the rich family's genealogy, but it is not trustworthy.
However, although Jiang Gongzhen said so, he was not as strong-willed as Huangfu Zhao, and he also understood better than Huangfu Zhao.
It is easy for a person to be a loyal minister, but it requires the help of the family to bear the price, so these words are not so firm.
The generals of the Kaijing Forbidden Army who were brought to Haizhou by him were all human beings. When Jiang Gongzhen said this, they immediately knelt down and begged.
Are you kidding me? Jiang Gongzhen, who was the great general of the Goryeo Kingdom, the right servant of the Chancellor of the Academy, the general, the deputy commander of the camp, and the military envoy of the camp, had such a big head!
Such a big head can take any scapegoat!
With Jiang Gongzhen on their side, couldn't they just say that their superiors had surrendered and they had no choice but to bow down?
This feeling of guilt is much lower and the reputation is much better, so Jiang Gongzhen will never be allowed to commit suicide.
This Jiang Gongzhen was grabbed by a group of generals and kept trying to persuade him. His eldest son did not understand the twists and turns involved. Perhaps he was afraid that Jiang Gongzhen's loyalty would anger the Zhou people outside the city, so he also hugged Jiang Gongzhen.
"If my father is loyal to the king, what will Yin Chuan do? He is only two years old!"
Yinchuan is the diminutive of Jiang Hanzan. This famous Goryeo official with good abilities but even greater bragging rights is only two years old this year. He is the youngest son of Jiang Gongzhen when he was fifty-three years old. Therefore, he is extremely loved by Jiang Gongzhen.
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Now when Jiang Gongzhen heard the eldest son mention Jiang Hanzan, all the strength in Jiang Gongzhen's body seemed to have disappeared. When he opened his mouth, he felt bitter. Unless he committed suicide now, he would have to bear the blame or not.
Memorized.
When the generals saw that Jiang Gongzhen was speechless, they immediately surrounded him and opened the city gate, exposing his upper body and asking for surrender.
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The history of Kaijing City is not long. Before Wang's reign, it was just an ordinary city.
But in the last years of the Taifeng Kingdom, King Taifeng Gongyi ordered the local wealthy king of Kaicheng County to build the city.
Later, Wang Jian replaced Gong Yi and established Wang's Korea, merged Songyue, and Kaicheng. The two nearby cities became Kaijing as the capital, just like Xiangyang and Fancheng in the Central Plains were later collectively called Xiangfan.
So the current Kaijing City is not one city, but two cities.
The two cities are surrounded by Songak Mountain and Centipede Mountain, and are separated by the Imjin River.
Therefore, Kaijing City is quite easy to defend but difficult to attack. If you want to attack the city, you must remove the defenders deployed on Songak Mountain and Centipede Mountain.
At the same time, there is also a water city on the Imjin River. There is a river fleet that can be very convenient for the two cities to support each other. It can also cut off the connection between the two cities after either Songak or Kaesong is captured, so that the other city that has not been captured can continue
resistance.
However, this is an ideal state. When Wang Jian wanted to compete with Baekje and Silla for hegemony on the peninsula, Kaijing was indeed such an almost invincible city.
But in Wang Zhao's hands, there was no strong enemy outside the closed peninsula, and Kaijing's defense dropped by more than ten levels.
Moreover, since the Goryeo Royal Palace, Shouchang Palace, etc. are all in Songakseong, Goryeo’s population and economy are not enough to support such a large city, which has led to the rapid decline of Kaesong. It has been difficult for the two cities to support each other in defense.
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At the same time, most of the navy on the Imjin River was taken away by Wang Zhao and was basically unable to carry out its original mission.
In Songyue City, the fifty-seven-year-old founding hero of Goryeo, Huangfu Tigong, was sweating all over as he looked at the large army that appeared outside the city. There were quite a lot of them, a total of 20,000.
With the support of fishermen from Shaocheng County, that is, Incheon, the Dazhou fleet easily passed through the Ganghwa Strait, which was full of underwater reefs, on the day of high tide.
Zhe Deyuan commanded more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry, and Zhao Kuangyin personally led 7,000 naval troops to raid Shaocheng County first, and then rushed directly to the foot of Kaijing City.
Although they did not have siege equipment, they did not have many defensive troops in Kaijing, and they did not even maintain the suspension bridge of the moat.
Zhao Kuangyin personally wore a helmet and whipped armor and attacked fiercely for several days. The defenses of Songyue City in Kaijing were crumbling. If Huangfu Tigong hadn't mobilized the entire city's ministers, guards from wealthy families and even slaves to defend the city, it would have been captured long ago.
What Huangfu Tigong longed for most now was for Wang Zhaoneng, who had gone north to relieve the siege of Pyongyang in Xijing, to send troops back. But at the same time, Huangfu Tigong knew in his heart that this was an extravagant hope.
The enemy troops came from Shaocheng County on the edge of Jianghua Bay, which shows that the Northern invaders moved south by land and water.
Judging from what Huangfu Tigong knew, neither the real Northern invaders nor the former Liao Kingdom had the ability to dispatch a large-scale naval force into Jianghua Bay.
Huangfu Tigong no longer dares to think about who the visitor is. Now he can only use the king's return army to boost morale, and he doesn't know how many days it will last.
After a few days of siege, Zhe Deyuan and Zhao Kuangyin also figured out the characteristics of Kaijing's city defense.
On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, Zhao Kuangyin led an army of 10,000 men to attack Songyue Mountain. On the same day, they broke through Songyue Mountain City and killed all 700 Goryeo defenders.
After taking Songyue City, Zhao Kuangyin was able to set up a large trebuchet on Songyue Mountain and bombard Songyue City.
On the ninth day of June, Zhe Deyuan deliberately opened the south gate of Songyue City to lure the people in Kaijing City to flee. Huangfu Tigong tried his best to stop the crowds in the city who were eager to survive, but the Goryeo defenders were also exhausted and did not dare to leave the city.
Seeing that Huangfu Tiggong was not fooled, Zhe De immediately ordered his army to attack Centipede Mountain and Kaicheng. There were not many defenders on Centipede Mountain, and Kaicheng was also in dilapidated condition, so it was quickly captured.
Later, Zhe Deok ordered the navy to attack Goryeo's Imjin River Navy in small boats. This was what this "Navy Marine Corps" was best at.
The three brothers Hai Da Yu, Hai Er Crab and Hai San Xia risked their lives to get there first. With 700 men and more than 30 boats, they defeated the more than 2,000 Goryeo navy and completely controlled the Imjin River.
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On June 13, the stubborn resistance of Huangfu Tigong and others finally came to an end. Chen Sirang and Gao Song led 3,000 elite cavalry to the foot of Kaijing City.
Gao Song was originally the niece-in-law of Wang Jian, the founding king of Goryeo, and was familiar with everyone and everything in Kaijing City.
After asking Chen Sirang for instructions, he threw all the flags, drums, and armor of Wang's Goryeo Northern Expedition army to the city for display, and then pulled dozens of Goryeo Red Guard cavalry generals and sneaked around the city.
Huangfu Tigong knew Gao Song, and immediately knew that the Northern Expedition army was gone, and he fainted on the city wall.
This old fox, he no longer needs to take the blame, but there is no backbone in Songyue City. A large number of civil servants and military generals cried together at the head of the city. I don’t know who opened the city gate first. Amidst the howling, they opened the door.
The capital was completely captured.
On the one hand, Zhe Deyuan sent Chen Sirang and Gao Song each with a thousand paces to ride into the city to stabilize order, blockade the palace and official treasury, and strictly prohibited people from taking to the streets. On the other hand, Pegasus sent people to invite Murong Nobunaga.
On June 15th, good news came. Chen Hui, who had divided his troops to attack Shuizhou (Suwon), captured Shuizhou and more than ten counties and counties, beheading hundreds of people, and dozens of officials, big and small, surrendered.
On June 18, good news came again: the army captured Wang Zhao, the king of Goryeo alive.
The superior general, the army envoys in the camp, and the general Jiang Gongzhen surrendered. The vanguard soldiers and horse envoys, and the red guard cavalry general Huangfu Zhao died for his country.
Finally, on June 19th, amid the cheers of tens of thousands of soldiers, Murong Nobunaga led his army, surrounded by the gold sun and moon flag with silver and white background symbolizing Zhang Zhou's royal family and the red sun-shining flag with silver and white background symbolizing his status as a Buddhist disciple.
Twenty thousand people arrived outside Songyue City.
At this point, Murong Nobunaga, following Li Ji and Xue Rengui, more than 270 years later, once again attacked and destroyed a large country with a population of one million on this peninsula.
Completely destroy the careerists who try to summon the souls of Goguryeo!