Like most of the Korean elites, Guo Zaiyou also looked down on the Jurchens. He despised them and called them savages and barbarians.
Starting out as a civilian army, he had led the civilian army to defeat the Japanese pirates in the battle of Korea. From there, he had advanced and entered the government as an official. He believed that he had some military ability and was full of disdain for the invading Jurchens.
He was confident that he could definitely kill off the invading Jurchens and did not need the help of the Xianjing army. Besides, ever since the cavalry of the six towns was destroyed, the Xianjing army, which was known for its ability to fight, had been going downhill. It was really ridiculous.
Guo Zaiyou looked down on them a lot.
On the first day of October, when Guo Zaiyou led the army from Korea to Kaesong, he unexpectedly received an urgent military report. It turned out that three days ago, Ningbian had been broken through by the Jurchens. The city had been swept, the people had been kidnapped, and their belongings had been stolen. The entire city had been destroyed. The situation was very economic, and the number of barbarians had suddenly increased.
Guo Zaiyou was a little concerned, but he still did not increase his army. Instead, he continued to lead the army forward. Two days later, he arrived at Ruixing and received the news that Dingzhou had fallen. This news moved Guo Zaiyou. He finally realized that the enemy he was facing might not be easy to deal with.
He stopped in Ruixing and sent people to the north to investigate, but the news was getting worse and worse. One day, a village had been slaughtered, and the next, a town had been robbed. It was as if the Jurchens had gone crazy from poverty and starvation. They had madly plundered Korea.
It should be known that after the end of the war seven years ago, Korea had also been devastated by the Japanese. Not a single one of the eight paths had been unharmed.
Korea had suffered heavy losses, and no one knew how many people had been displaced. Although seven years had passed, the whole of Korea had not recovered from the losses of that year.
Although the Ming Dynasty had given them some silver, it was not enough for them to recover to their previous days. Zhu Yijun's kindness was not enough for Korea to recover.
Even if they were given a million liang of silver, it would still not be enough because most of it had been taken away by the two groups of officials.
They had worked themselves to the bone for seven years before they could finally live a few days of peace and barely fill their stomachs. Now, they were killed by the Jurchen barbarians. What was this?
Guo Zaiyou had relied on the civilian army to start his career, so he was more concerned about the lives of the people. He sympathized with the people at the bottom of the social ladder, and he was furious about this. Therefore, he gathered some of the local troops in Ruixing, and along the way, he brought along some troops from other places to assist in the defense, and marched toward Pyongyang.
At this moment, he still did not know who his enemy was. He only thought that they were crazy Jurchen barbarians who wanted to rob.
They didn't know about the war between the Jurchen and the Daqin, and Nurhachi had already crossed the river before the news reached them.
At the same time, Mao Wenlong, who had arrived at Fort Kuandian, had also set foot on North Korean soil. It had been a few days since he arrived at Fort Kuandian. The reason why he did not cross the river quickly was because of the communication problem with North Korea.
He sent someone to inform the North Korean officials of the Jurchen invasion in Gyeongju, but the North Korean officials didn't believe it at all because they didn't receive any news. As a result, when they got the news, they broke out in a cold sweat because Nurhachi directly ignored Gyeongju and went straight to Yongbyon in the south. Gyeongju escaped, but Yongbyon was destroyed.
As a result, the memories of seven years ago came to their minds, and they almost immediately thought of the horrible scenes. So they quickly asked Mao Wenlong to lead the army to cross the river to protect them.
Mao Wenlong received a military order from Ma Chong when he was building the pontoon bridge. Ma Chong asked him about the truth of the matter and said that if it was true, he could lead his 2,000 cavalry troops to cross the river first, but his main force had to ask the emperor for permission before they could cross the river. Because the situation had exceeded their expectations, many plans had to be made again.
Mao Wenlong decisively crossed the river without hesitation and then asked Gyeongju to provide him with provisions.
The North Korean officials in Gyeongju didn't dare to neglect the Daqin soldiers and immediately offered some accumulated provisions to the Daqin army. After all, there were only 2,000 cavalrymen, so they still had some provisions.
After Mao Wenlong crossed the river, Luo Rong chased after the defeated soldiers all the way to the place where they crossed the river. He defeated the rear troops of Jianzhou and found the traces of crossing the river and the destroyed pontoon bridge. He realized that the Jianzhou troops had indeed crossed the river to North Korea to survive. He couldn't help but be very worried and told the news to Ma Chong.
Ma Chong was also very worried after learning about it, but he couldn't make the decision on his own, so he asked Liao Zhong in Shenyang again.
Liao Zhong didn't know the news until Mao Wenlong led the army across the river. After learning the unexpected news, he was very surprised and immediately sent someone to report to Xiao Ruxun in the capital, asking for a solution, and then he left for Kuandian Castle to meet Ma Chong.
All in all, it felt like everything that happened seven years ago was happening again. The only thing to be happy about was that Nurhachi's main force had been annihilated, and the remaining army would be less than 5,000 people. As for the clansmen who had fled to North Korea with him, it was estimated that there wouldn't be too many of them.
Chu Ying was trying his best to gather his clansmen and then find those who had migrated away, trying to rebuild the Jianzhou Jurchen Tribe in Hetuala and become the leader.
He was very worried because his family still hadn't been found, and they weren't dead, so it was obvious that they had fled to North Korea with Nurhachi.
Even so, he couldn't participate in the next battle. He had to stabilize the hearts of the Jianzhou Jurchen Tribe in Hetuala, and at the same time, guard against the sudden attacks from Haixi and Donghai Jurchen Tribes, so that the Jianzhou Jurchen Tribe wouldn't be completely destroyed.
The next battle belonged to the Qin Army, or in other words, the next battle belonged to Mao Wenlong himself. Mao Wenlong finally got the chance to show his strength and prove his talent to the emperor.
He made a rough estimate and was sure that Nurhaci did not have a lot of troops around him, and he would not come out of the battle in Korea without any losses. One could imagine that it would not be difficult to defeat him, but he only had two thousand men with him. In order to avoid a repeat of Zu Chengxun's mistake, he carefully evaluated the difference in military strength between himself and Nurhaci.
Then he came to the conclusion that there was no way to fight head-on.
But that didn't mean that there was no way to fight head-on. Nurhachi had no way out now, and could only go all the way to the south. He didn't know how many soldiers the Daqin Celestial Army had. If he used the flag of the main force to chase after him, he would definitely speed up to the south.
In his current situation, even if the North Korean army had no fighting strength, it was still possible to exchange ten soldiers for one. As long as he drove Nurhachi all the way to the south, close to the core of the North Korean government, it would inevitably cause the North Korean army to fight back. Nurhachi only had a few thousand soldiers, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't fight against the North Korean army of tens of thousands.
Even if the North Korean army was useless and collapsed at the first attack, he could at least take away a few Jurchen Soldiers, right?
Killing them would also waste the strength of the Jurchen Soldiers, right?
At that time, he could send people to attack them.
Exhaust their strength, exhaust their vitality, exhaust their courage, and then kill them.
As for the losses of the North Koreans …
What did it have to do with him?
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