Nurhaci met with resistance.
To the north of Rui Xing, about ten miles away from the city, they encountered a group of regular soldiers and civilians mixed together. The leader was a man in an official uniform, holding a saber in his hand. He didn't even wear any armor. He was a complete weakling who was armed and risking his life to fight.
But the courage of this weakling was not as good as many fully-armed elite troops.
There were not many of them, just over a hundred people, seven or eight muskets, five crossbows, more than thirty spears, and the rest were all sabers.
There were no cavalry, only infantrymen. They were stationed on a small hill and prepared some rolling logs and stones. It seemed that they were going to fight Nurhaci head-on.
When Nurhaci got the news, he felt it was very novel. He didn't meet any decent resistance along the way. All the regular Korean soldiers either fled at the sight of him or surrendered. It seemed that they didn't even have the courage to fight. They didn't even have the strength to wave their weapons.
This situation made Nurhaci laugh. He thought that the battle seven years ago had broken the courage of the North Koreans.
It was no big deal. He just needed to send an infantryman to kill them. Ruixing was not an important place. If there were supplies, he could take them. He didn't continue south. There were a lot of refugees with their families and supplies in the south. That was Nurhaci's real target.
They went all the way south, and the Qin Army couldn't catch up.
Eat the dust!
Nurhaci ordered a team of five hundred people to swarm up and kill the motley crew.
As a result, the first wave of more than five hundred people was beaten back.
They were beaten back by the motley crew of more than a hundred people.
Nurhaci was a little surprised. He rode his horse to see and ordered his men to attack them, but they were beaten back again.
More than fifty people were killed in two attacks.
The group of people seemed to be very tenacious. Although it seemed that many people had died, they didn't retreat. It seemed that they were all going to die here.
Fei Yingdong couldn't help but look at them.
"There are such warriors in North Korea?"
Nurhaci thought of the old monk who followed Xiao Ruxun's army without batting an eyelid and the monk army he led.
"That's the weirdest thing, isn't it? No matter what, North Korea is still a country. If they don't even have a single person who dares to fight, then I wonder what North Korea was founded on. We've underestimated these people. Pass down my order! Gather 1,000 men and kill them all! "
"A thousand? There are at most fifty of them! "
Fei Yingdong couldn't help but be surprised.
"Treat warriors the way you treat warriors. They are worthy of my treatment."
Nurhaci insisted on his orders, so a thousand Jianzhou soldiers rushed up the hill. Although the Koreans resisted with all their might and fought bravely, they were still annihilated.
Nurhaci personally climbed the hill to see the dead Koreans and ordered them to be buried on the hill.
The battle, which lasted less than two hours, ended quickly. Nurhachi was very dissatisfied with the result, so he reprimanded the soldiers who underestimated the enemy and continued to lead the team forward.
But at this moment, another piece of bad news came.
One was that the Qin Army had appeared in the Ningbian region. A group of Qin Army troops had arrived in Ningbian, but their numbers were unknown.
The second was that Er Yidu could not hold on any longer.
The first one was easy to understand. After so long, the Qin Army should have caught up with them. But according to the current situation, Nurhachi was not worried. As long as they continued to go south, there was still a road ahead, and they could continue to go.
But Er Yidu could not hold on any longer, which made Nurhachi very anxious. Three of his five great warriors had died. If Er Yidu could not hold on any longer, then only Fei Yingdong would be left. The loss would be heavy.
Er Yidu had fallen into a coma, and his face was pale. The doctors in Jianzhou said that if they could not find a skilled doctor, it would be too late. But where could Nurhachi find a doctor in this damn place? On the way south, he did not pay attention and only focused on killing people. Only now did he realize that Er Yidu was still injured, and it was quite serious.
The situation was not good. Nurhachi immediately sent an order to the entire intelligence network, asking them to find a doctor among the refugees.
But it seemed that even God was against Nurhachi. Not long after the order was sent, when the main army arrived at Ruixing to rest, Er Yidu also died.
Er Yidu's death was a great blow to Nurhachi. He was silent for a whole day. Although he was still leading the army south, he was silent. Fei Yingdong was in charge of the military orders, and Nurhachi did not give a single order.
When the army attacked Huangzhou, they also encountered a small wave of resistance. This time, Nurhachi did not hold back. Regardless of the dissuasion, he personally led 500 soldiers to slaughter the resistance of more than 100 people. He cut off all their heads and let the cavalrymen hang them on the backs of their horses as a deterrent.
There was no resistance in Huangzhou, but there were still a lot of people who stayed. Nurhachi ordered his soldiers to loot and kill to vent the pain and despair in his heart. His mood of destruction fell on Huangzhou. Almost all the Korean people in Huangzhou who did not escape were slaughtered by Nurhachi's soldiers.
The remaining troops in Jianzhou progressed very smoothly. The resistance of the Koreans was negligible, to the extent that there was no resistance at all. On the 12th day of the tenth month of the first year of Longwu, Li Zhi led his army out of the royal capital of Han and fled in the direction of Chungju, accompanied by more than 20,000 troops.
Unexpectedly, Li Zhi only left an army of 2,000 to guard Han, with no intention of protecting his capital at all.
Not only that, but he also symbolically sent Quan Li, the meritorious general in the Jichen War, to lead 5,000 troops north to suppress the bandits. He was ordered to command the troops of five provinces, which could mobilize the troops of Pingan, Yellow Sea, Jingji, Hamgyong, and Gangwon provinces.
But two of these five provinces had collapsed, and Gyeonggi Province was also on the verge of collapse. Hamgyong Province was too far away, and almost only the troops of Gangwon Province could be mobilized.
Quan Li himself was also extremely unwilling to stay behind. He had only led the army to victory once or twice in the Jichen War and was promoted to the position of commander-in-chief of the nation's military. He was set up as a role model, but he knew his own limits, especially in a situation where he had very few troops. Was he going to wipe out a hundred thousand Jurchen bandits?
What kind of joke was that?
Quan Li almost ran away. He was already in his sixties and had no intention of continuing to fight in the army. He just wanted to retire at home. But in the end, he was pulled out as a model figure and asked to display the bravery of the Korean soldiers.
Quan Li wanted to use his sword on those civil officials who supported his decision to send troops north to suppress the bandits.
But since things had come to this, he had no other choice. Under the supervision of the imperial court's military inspector, he led his troops and horses slowly to the north. When he reached the Jade Hoof Hall area, the place where the Ming army defeated the Wokou pirates, he stopped and did not move.
Quan Li was no longer worried in the face of the military supervisor's coercion.
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