Chapter 280 The Sword Points at Japan (Thirty-eight) Something unexpected happened
The original control of the political situation by the Northerners Party in history was based on its emphasis on the theory of war during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion and the fact that Chung In-hong and others took the lead in launching volunteers in Gyeongsang Province to save the country, thus dominating the post-war political situation. However, the Northerners Party
Confrontations also arise due to political differences.
After Hong Ruzhen was recommended as the Chief Secretary in the 27th year of Wanli, Nan Yigong, who was serving as an official at the time, Cao Zhenglang, opposed it, and the Bei Ren Party split into Dabei and Xiaobei.
At that time, the clique led by Li Shanhai and Hong Ruzhen was Dabei, and its camp included Qi Zixian, Li Erzhan, Zheng Renhong, Xu Jun, Han Zuanan, Li Ming, Li Xing, Bai Daheng, Ju Yigang, Hong Shi, Liu Mengyin, etc.
While Nan Yigong and Jin Xinguo were led by Xiaobei, including Liu Yongqing, Liu Xifen, Li Qingquan, Li Weixiao, Li Rongyuan, Cheng Junlei and others.
After the split between Daebuk and Sobuk, most of the northerners expelled Sobuk, and in the last years of Seonjo's reign, they took power by supporting Gwanghaejun. However, at that time, there was a rift between Li Shanhae, the chief councilor, and Hong Ruzhen, the military commander.
It then divided into the "Gubei" centered on Li Shanhai and the "Rubbei" centered on Hong Ruzhen and Li Erzhan. Later, the "Zhongbei" was born to oppose the abdication of King Yongchang and Concubine Renmu.
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"Zhongbei" is headed by Liu Mengyin, including Qi Zixian, Zheng Changyan, Li Qingquan, Li Ming, Park Chengzong, etc. On the other hand, Xiaobei lost power after King Gwanghae ascended to power because he supported King Yongchang. Xiaobei's leader Nan Yi Gonghe
Liu Yongqing also had a rift and split the party. The clique with the former as the center was called "Qing Xiaobei" or "Southern Party", and the clique with the latter as the center was called "Zhuo Xiaobei" or "Liu Party".
In short, the subsequent split of the Northern People's Party caused many changes in the original history, but for the time being, there is no need to go into detail. This is because the current Li Shanhai can barely maintain the superficial unity of the Northern People's Party, and for Gao Pragmatic
, this is enough, as for the future...
In the future, as long as the internalization is successful, it doesn't matter who you are from the north, the south, or the west, whether you are big or small, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north, you are from the north.
Gao Pragmatic doesn't plan to leave them all on the Korean Peninsula yet.
All in all, the current situation in North Korea has undergone a huge turn because Li Shanhai suddenly replaced Liu Chenglong as the leader. Li Shanhai is not the Thousand-Armed Goddess of Mercy. Of course, it is impossible for one person to monopolize power, and he will definitely need a lot of helpers.
Therefore, in less than a month when Ma Gui went south to Hanyang, the Joseon court, which was closely protected by the Ming army, began to frequently change officials. A large number of officials who had been idle or even exiled were reactivated, re- or suddenly promoted to various positions.
above key positions.
These positions include not only important central positions, but also important local positions, not only civilian positions, but also military attache positions. There are even some positions that cannot be fulfilled for the time being - for example, some positions are located in occupied areas that have not yet been recovered, and many of them have been moved forward.
Wholesale of black gauze hats.
This will of course cause strong dissatisfaction between the Westerners' Party and the Southerners' Party. However, the Westerners' Party currently has no say. After all, their original right to speak mainly came from their position as the center of the imperial court. What does the North Korean center have to say at present?
, then it depends first of all on the attitude of the Ming army. Even the King of Joseon, Li Huan, could not act according to his own wishes.
However, the situation of the Southern People's Party is slightly different. As mentioned before, in addition to the central civilian power, the Southern People's Party also controls some military forces. Although the Korean army performed poorly during the war, no matter how
How do you pull your hips? The army is an army. It is always an armed force with a formal name. It can be used as a political bargaining chip at certain moments.
The amount of force currently in the hands of the Southern People's Party can be said to be too much or too little, but what is really useful among them is not the roughly 30,000 to 40,000 Korean land divisions they have at their disposal, but the Korean navy in the hands of Yi Sun-shin.
division.
The North Korean Navy was almost completely wiped out in the Battle of Chicheonryang. When Yi Sun-shin re-emerged under the painstaking rescue of Ryu Seong-ryong, he found that the remaining remnants of the Navy were no longer enough to fight the Japanese Navy, and could only fight piecemeal.
Engaged in a naval battle of Mingliang.
Yi Sun-shin suffered no losses in this battle, but the total assets of the Korean navy were reduced to only twelve warships. It can be said that as long as the Japanese navy was no longer careless, Yi Sun-shin would be dancing on the edge of a knife even when dealing with them, and as long as
If it fails once, the Korean Navy will become a historical term.
As a result, Yi Sun-shin had no choice but to retreat to Gugejin Island. While guarding the island, he moved tens of thousands of refugee households to farm on the island and began to rebuild warships and restore his strength. When Yi Shan-hai replaced Liu Cheng-ryong as the consul general, Yi Sun-shin's side
Nine new warships were also built, restoring the size of the Korean Navy's warships to twenty-one.
The twenty-one warships are naturally a bit miserable compared with the Ming Dynasty's Japanese fleet, but for North Korea, they are still a force that cannot be underestimated, because Yi Sunsin was retreating the navy from Jeolla Province.
At that time, all the artillery that could be collected from various places along the coast were moved away - 80% of which were sent to North Korea by the Ming army during the "clearance of inventory" during the Battle of Imchen, which was less than the Ming army and more than the Japanese army.
With 30,000 to 40,000 land divisions, plus Yi Sun-shin's navy, the Southerners believe that as long as this force is used well, it can still play some role, and even if they can come up with some clever strategies, they may be able to create some kind of
"The power of Dingding".
The Southern People's Party believes that the reason why the current situation between North Korea and China has undergone such a huge change is mainly due to Li Shanhai's instigation of the top brass of the Ming Army - yes, they do use this rhetoric to each other.
Why do you say this? Because if you don’t say this, it means that you must admit that all this was done by Ming Dynasty on his own initiative. Then what are they still struggling for? It’s over!
North Korea has been practicing "biggerism" for two hundred years (that is, a small country serves a big country to preserve its own strategy due to the huge disparity in strength), boasting the power of the celestial dynasty and the heavenly soldiers as if they were living gods, and now this
The actual facts of this war also proved that the heavenly army of China was indeed a hundred times stronger than North Korea.
Under such circumstances, if the Southern People’s Party bluntly admits that Ming Dynasty wants to completely control North Korea, what nonsense is it? So it cannot admit this and can only insist that these things were done by Li Shanhai.
It was done by deceiving and instigating the top brass of the Ming Army for selfish reasons.
According to the Southern People's Party, the whole thing was that Li Shanhai controlled the court through the hands of the Ming army, and then completely handed over military command to the Ming army, completely marginalizing North Korea in this war. Li Shanhai obviously only cared about himself in doing this.
The desire for power is in vain for the interests of North Korea. Therefore, as upright ministers, the Southerners Party must unite as one - Qingjun side!
However, although the matter of Qing Jun's side was said with enough righteousness, it was still very difficult to operate after all. The biggest trouble was that Ma Gui left 30,000 Ming troops to "protect the Korean royal family."
These are thirty thousand heavenly soldiers!
In the year of Renchen, the Japanese army of Konishi Yukinacho and Kato Kiyomasa had only 40,000 troops in total, but they defeated the Korean army, which was said to have an army of 200,000, and retreated all the way to the Yalu River. As a result, the Ming Dynasty later sent 40,000 to 50,000 troops.
They fought back to Hanyang easily, but Admiral Li Rusong's thousands of men obviously rushed too fast and fell into siege, but in the end they withstood nearly ten times the Japanese attack, and were able to retreat smoothly in the end.
Therefore, the Japanese army is better than the Korean army, and the Ming army is better than the Japanese army. So to calculate, it is obviously impossible to expect 30,000 to 40,000 Korean troops to defeat the Ming army and "side Qingjun", even if Yi Sun-shin's navy can go ashore.
What's more, the Southerners can't find a reason to attack the Ming army! They were originally the suzerain country, and now they are here to help North Korea fight against the Japanese pirates. If the Southerners lead their troops to attack the Ming army, they are not playing themselves into reverses.
Thief?
Therefore, the Qing emperor cannot act recklessly, he can only act wisely, and he must first adhere to a basic principle, that is, he can only target Li Shanhai and his Beiren Party, and must not involve the Ming army, so as not to lose his reputation as a righteous person and become a
Rebellious ministers and traitors will have a legacy of infamy for thousands of years.
As the leader of the Southern People's Party at this time, Liu Chenglong was quite resistant to doing such a thing, and he really couldn't see the chance of success. Obviously, the only way to "outwit the Ming army without involving the Ming army" was to
The best way is to mobilize the tiger away from the mountain and let the Ming army take the initiative to withdraw from the royal family. Otherwise, the Southern Party will have no way at all.
However, since the Ming army took the initiative to retain 30,000 troops to "protect" the Korean royal family, how could they easily withdraw? Liu Chenglong believed that the chance was slim, so he could only try his best to suppress the violent commotion of the defeated Southerners and persuade them to calm down.
You have to make a decision before taking action. After all, once this kind of thing fails, there will be no room for recovery.
This situation lasted until Wang Jia returned to Beijing. At this time, the strength of the Ming army in Hanyang increased again, returning to about 60,000 - Li Rumei only took cavalry with him, and Ma Gui still had about 30,000 with him.
It stands to reason that there is no chance for the Southern People's Party at this time. They can only give up their fantasies completely. However, at this time, there is a turning point, and there is not just one turning point, but two!
First, news came from southern Korea that the main force of Japanese pirates heading south was tracked all the way to Daegu and suddenly disappeared behind the Changning line.
It is said that Li Rumei's tribe wanted to cross the Nakdong River, but the weather was unfavorable, and a heavy rain hit, which delayed the time. Liu Wei also waited on the west bank of the Nakdong River before the Japanese pirates entered the west.
During this period, the main force of the Japanese pirates who had been under their surveillance suddenly disappeared. Li Rumei and Liu Wei were so anxious that they sent out sentries to investigate, but unfortunately to no avail, the nearly 100,000 Japanese pirates disappeared without any reason.
Li Rumei and Liu Wei immediately judged that the Japanese pirates had only two possible options. One was to take the opportunity to quickly withdraw to Busan or to fortify near Busan, preparing to rely on their relatively sufficient troops to defend the southeastern corner of North Korea and wait for the situation to change.
The second is to find a way to bypass the defense lines of the two armies and make a sneak attack on Jinzhou or Sichuan - most likely a direct sneak attack on Sichuan.
Even a veteran general like Ma Gui couldn't help but feel dizzy when he heard such military reports. The former possibility means that there are insufficient troops on the front line - Li Rumei's troops have almost all cavalry, so their ability to fight in the field is naturally disappointing.
There is no need to doubt the Japanese army. It would be too ridiculous to use them to attack the city where the Japanese pirates were defending. Li Rumei herself would definitely not do such a stupid thing.
But if Li Rumei only besieged the city from a distance, I'm afraid it wouldn't be an option. After all, Busan is the bridgehead for the Japanese invasion of Korea, and food shouldn't be too scarce in the short term. So the siege shouldn't last until the Year of the Monkey?
Liu Wei's troops did have the ability to attack the city, but not all of Liu's army came for this Eastern Expedition. The number of people who came was said to be 30,000, but only 15,000 were from his headquarters. If the Japanese army gathered around Busan, they might have more strength.
It is obviously not a good idea to use 15,000 people to attack Busan, which is guarding the city with 100,000 troops.
There are also 15,000 chieftains left. It is said that they are good in field battles and defending the city, but for siege... they may not even have a few cannons in their hands (this news is wrong, in fact Gao Pragmatic gave them some,
However, Ma Gui doesn’t know this at the moment), are all human lives being risked?
Considering that the Marquis has always cherished the chieftain soldiers, Ma Gui felt that this was unlikely to happen. So to put it simply, if the Japanese army did retreat to Busan, then the siege forces on the front line would be far from enough, and they would have to be dispatched from Hanyang
Reinforcements, especially Qi Jin, Wu Weizhong, Mao Guoqi and other troops from the Southern Army must be transferred to strengthen the firepower.
So what if the Japanese army going south did not go to Busan, but planned to attack Sichuan? Ma Gui didn't dare to think about it - Mr. Marquis was in Sichuan. If something happened to Mr. Hou, he, Ma Gui, would really die.
Not enough to apologize!
Regardless of whether it was too late to lead the army south, Ma Gui did not dare to remain indifferent after hearing this news. Even as a direct general of Gao Pragmatic who had been in the military for many years, he not only had to send troops south, but also had to personally lead the troops to "rescue"
"Driving" is not allowed!
Ma Gui, who had some cold hands and feet, almost immediately decided to lead his army southward and headed straight for Sichuan. But at this time, another not-so-good news came from Hamhung.
What happened was that Dong Yiyuan's department, which was previously sent to the front line of Wonsan to cut off the Japanese army's connection with the south in Hamgyong Province, after successfully conquering Wonsan, went north according to the scheduled plan, and joined the Jurchen allied forces to attack Hamhung.
Originally, this battle should not be a big problem no matter how you look at it. After all, the Japanese army in Hamhung only has 5,000 people. It is a partial army separated from the Fourth Army of the Japanese Nabeshima Naoshima. However, the person leading the army is
The more important one is Nabeshima Naoshima's son, Nabeshima Katsushige - he has been confirmed by Nabeshima Naoshima as the successor of the next family governor.
At this time, Dong Yiyuan's troops had about 20,000 people, and the Jurchen Allied Forces were said to have about 20,000 people. The combined strength of both sides was four times that of Nabeshima Katsushige's troops. In terms of combat effectiveness, they were certainly not inferior to the latter, even Nabeshima.
Shengmao chose Congcheng, and the artillery under Dong Yiyuan's command was enough for him to have a good drink.
However, those who are good at swimming are drowned. The turning point in this battle actually came from artillery, or to be more precise, gunpowder.
On the second day of the siege, Dong Yiyuan and Nurhachi met together. The two sides were discussing how to distribute the siege tasks in Dong Yiyuan's army. Who knew that a big explosion suddenly occurred in the temporary gunpowder depot in the army!
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