The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 140
The military system of North Korea also followed the Ming Dynasty, and the guard system that combined soldiers and farmers was adopted in the early stage.

There are five guards for the army in the center, and one guard for each road.

As a result, one can imagine that with the passage of time, the Five Guards system has been corrupted, and the soldiers have no combat power. In the Wanli period, they were killed by Japan and howled like ghosts and wolves.

Later, it was the Ming Dynasty who sent troops, and it took a huge price to defeat Japan and save North Korea.

After this battle, Daming completely exhausted his vitality.

North Korea also learned a lesson, and also followed the Ming Dynasty to learn the recruitment system.

In the early stage, soldiers were trained according to Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book", and Daming's future was hired to be in charge, and the combat effectiveness was once very good.

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 are indeed as Hong Chengchou guessed.

As the news of the siege of Seoul spread throughout North Korea, various departments also organized troops to rescue them.

Chungcheong Province, Gyeongsang Province, and Jeolla Province in the south have a total of 10 people, but apart from [-] professional soldiers, the rest are farmers who have just put down their hoes, similar to the military households in the Daming Guard.

Obviously, although North Korea also adopted the recruitment system, it also did not completely abolish the guard system.

Gangwon Province in the west and Huanghai Province in the northwest also raised [-] troops each, while Ping'an Road and Ning'an Road in the north did not send out the king's army because of the need to guard against the reinforcements of the slaves.

The 10,000+ army was divided into three sides and marched to Seoul. As a result, the [-] cavalry who were killed by Jiannu were crying ghosts and howling wolves, and they had no power to fight back.

If it weren't for Doduo who wanted to capture more prisoners, 10,000+ people would have to be killed. In the end, except for a small number of people who fled back to various ways, the rest either became captives, or became dead souls under the knife, and the meat was chopped off by the horse.

A total of [-] captives were captured, and all the officers among these captives were singled out and all beheaded. Then the former Korean servant army served as low-level officers, Han soldiers served as mid-level officers, and the Eight Banners served as high-ranking officers.

For several days in a row, Duoduo and Hong Chengchou were reorganizing these captives, and at the same time began to build siege equipment.

At this time, in the city, all the dignitaries and dignitaries of North Korea were almost like a pot of porridge, mainly divided into two factions.

One faction insisted on negotiating with the Tartars, as long as the Tartars were willing to withdraw their troops, everything was easy to discuss, and some even proposed to hand over Qian Qianyi and completely submit to the Qing Dynasty in the future.

The other faction insisted on defending to the death.

In their view, Ming's Heavenly Army should be attacking Liaodong at this time, and the Tartars outside the city will soon receive news to withdraw their troops. It is really stupid to negotiate and surrender now.

For a while, Li Yu was also hesitant, not knowing whether to stick to it or to negotiate and surrender.

Qian Qianyi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but he had no choice but to keep cheering and encouraging Li Ji, saying repeatedly that the hundreds of thousands of troops of Ming Dynasty were definitely attacking Liaodong at this moment.

However, three days later, the Jiannu outside the city not only did not retreat, but instead made a siege posture, causing more people to fall to the surrender faction.

After all, in the previous two times, the Tatars only asked for some money and beauties before retreating, and they only asked for offerings every year. Since the opponent finally broke through the city and killed and looted randomly, it is better to surrender directly.

So when Duoduo sent an envoy to offer the terms of surrender, although the amount of compensation was a bit scary, Li Jing still agreed and ordered Qian Qianyi to be tied up and handed over to Jiannu.

In fact, Li Yu didn't want to do this, but wanted to let Qian Qianyi leave. However, Duoduo and Hong Chengchou both knew about the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty to North Korea. One of the conditions was to hand over the envoys of the Ming Dynasty.

But what Hong Chengchou never expected was that the envoy sent by Daming turned out to be Qian Qianyi, a great Confucian in Donglin.

"Oh my goodness, isn't this Mr. Yu Shan? I really never expected it. It's a sin to see Mr. Yu Shan here. Let go quickly..."

Hong Chengchou was also taken aback when he saw Qian Qianyi who was tied up all over the place, and hurried forward to untie him.

My heart is happy.

This Qian Qianyi's reputation in the scholastic circle is much greater than his. If he also surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he would be able to remove the hat of the number one traitor on his head.

"Mr. Hong, who is this?" Duoduo obviously had never heard of Qian Qianyi, and seeing Hong Chengchou's eagerness, he couldn't help asking.

"My lord, Mr. Yu Shan is a former minister of the Ministry of Rites of the false Ming Dynasty. Last year, he was reinstated by the little emperor and promoted to the second assistant of the cabinet in one fell swoop..."

Hong Chengchou hurriedly introduced, Duoduo's eyes lit up, he was overjoyed immediately, and he looked up to the sky and burst out laughing.

At this time, Qian Qianyi's rope was also untied, he tidied up his official uniform, looked at Hong Chengchou and snorted coldly: "Hong Chengchou, if you want to kill or shave, please listen to me, but I want Qian Qianyi to be as humble as you, Surrendering to slaves is absolutely impossible!"

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and held his neck proudly, as if sacrificing his life and waiting for death with his eyes closed.

But those who are careful will find that Qian Qianyi's legs are trembling slightly.

Duoduo was furious, and was about to go forward to concoct it, but Hong Chengchou stopped him and said, "My lord, you can kill a scholar, but you can't be humiliated. It's better to send Mr. Yushan back to Shengjing and hand it over to the regent!"

"Okay, then listen to sir."

Duoduo was also afraid that Brother Fourteen would blame him if he killed this guy, so he nodded.

When Qian Qianyi heard that he was going to be sent to Shengjing, he also heaved a sigh of relief, only feeling a chill down his back.

Qian Qianyi was suppressed, and the king of North Korea, Li Ji, reluctantly led a group of civil and military officials and all the soldiers out of the city to line up.

Since North Korea has surrendered twice and rebelled, Duoduo 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 shouts and nine knocks.

People are knives, I am fish.

Li Ji and the other North Korean dignitaries also had to obey. They all just wanted to send these plague gods away as soon as possible, and they didn't care about being insulted.

"I will kill them all."

The [-] to [-] Koreans kneeling on the ground were not waiting for the imperial decree, but countless butcher knives and horseshoes.

Following Duduo's order, the tragic massacre began. All the high-level officials in North Korea, including Li Zhen, were massacred with tens of thousands of people.

All the men, young and old in the city were also slaughtered, leaving no one behind. Only 10,000+ women aged ten to forty were left, tied up and sent to Liaodong as slaves.

The tragic massacre lasted for three full days before Duduo began to divide his troops to capture various provinces in North Korea.

The heads of those who were also killed were rolling, and those who did not shave their heads and change their clothes would be beheaded.

Ordinary peasant households in Siye don't need to shave their heads, and as long as they surrender, they pay half of the grain every year, and they don't commit any crimes. The massacres mainly target the cities and the upper class in North Korea.

(End of this chapter)