Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 304 If you come for three winters, I will give you a city of snow

With the status of nominal leader, Zheng Jiadong easily entered the camp of his old friend.

He walked along with a swagger and full of energy, as if he was twenty years younger. The private soldiers behind him also held their heads high, as if no one was worth their attention.

If they were not familiar faces to the friendly forces, everyone would have thought that they were a team of envoys from the Celestial Empire. Their noble and arrogant air was really intimidating.

However, Zheng Jiadong is not an "angel" after all, and his private soldiers cannot enter the command tent.

He didn't bother about it. After the soldiers lifted the curtain, he walked in alone.

He walked in and took a closer look. He saw several nobles pondering over the simple sea chart on the table, discussing whether to settle in Jeju Island for a few months or take a boat directly to the Celestial Empire to file a complaint.

The "airborne troops" of the Heavenly Soldiers have already charged right at our faces, and you haven't decided on a direction yet?!

"Everyone..."

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Zheng Jiadong with a smile on his face, looking relaxed, as if there were no heavenly soldiers approaching, but rather the aristocratic army was about to win a great victory.

Seeing his expression, everyone thought that this "old superior" had thought of some good way to survive, and quickly gathered around him to ask him questions.

Zheng Jiadong swallowed the words back when they came to his lips, looking like he was asking for a beating as if he was going to keep you in suspense.

"Could it be that Mr. Zheng has already prepared a large ship for sailing?"

When everyone heard this, they widened their eyes and stared at Lao Zheng with expectant eyes.

Seeing that his old friends had misunderstood him, Zheng Jiadong raised two fingers to the sky, sneered and shook his head, "No, no. I won't go out to sea, and I don't need to stay and fight to the death..."

"What kind of a life is that?"

"surrender."

"Surrender?" everyone said in unison.

"Master Tianbing asked me to pass on a message to you—there's an old saying in the Central Plains: He who knows the current situation is a hero. Those who surrender will be spared.

If you can make military achievements with the Heavenly Army, His Majesty may be pleased and allow you to keep six or seven knots of land.

Hey, don’t think it’s too little. It’s already very merciful of the heavenly soldiers to spare the life of the descending person.

I have successfully overcome the difficulties. I came here to tell you because you are all old friends. Please think about your future..."

Zheng Jiadong glanced at the exit of the tent and was ready to run away at any time.

However, his friend did not scold him for his arrogant attitude, nor did he rebuke him, saying that you, a hairy old man, had betrayed "our aristocratic cause."

Instead, they blamed him for not bringing his brothers along, which meant that if he went now, he would be the second to surrender, which was not as significant as the first surrender!
Zheng Jiadong was immediately shocked and pointed at his old friends, "So you guys want to surrender too?"

The old friends all looked as if it was a matter of course. "Several mountain cities were taken by the Heavenly Soldiers in a matter of days. Only a madman would continue to fight them! Besides, the Heavenly Soldiers have already flown down from the sky. Where else can we escape to?"

"We all thought that even if we surrendered, we would be executed by the Heavenly Soldiers. We were afraid that bad luck would cause us to be chosen as part of the execution."

"Alas, if I had known earlier that surrendering would save my life, I wouldn't have let you get ahead! I'm afraid if I go now, I won't be able to keep the land..."

Zheng Jiadong was somewhat displeased when he heard this. He blew his beard and glared, "I'm also taking the risk of losing my head. Being the first to surrender is my reward for being so bold!"

"do not talk!"

A group of old friends hurried out of the tent, calling loudly for their followers to bring their mounts over.

At this moment, almost all the airborne heavenly soldiers have landed, more than half of them have landed outside the city, and only a small number have landed in the streets inside the city.

Instead of entering the city to look for the scattered heavenly soldiers, it is better to meet the heavenly soldiers who are gradually gathering outside the city, so that more heavenly soldiers can witness their surrender.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Jiadong and they just stepped out of the camp, and found hundreds of people running out of other camps.

One, two, three, just as they were exchanging information with Lao Zheng, several teams rushed out of the camp!
"Damn it! A moment of negligence led to such a huge mistake!"

The old friends slapped their thighs anxiously and cursed themselves for hesitating. They should have taken a gamble and surrendered. If they won, they could save their lives, and if they lost, they could still ride away on horseback.

Not only will they not be able to get the second batch, they may even lose the throne of the sixth batch.

When this person is unlucky, he can't even eat hot shit.

With the first brave man taking the risk, the others rushed to the heavenly soldiers.

Thousands of "rebels" from all over the place knelt before the heavenly soldiers one after another. Sometimes a group of fifty heavenly soldiers had to accept thousands of "rebels" in succession.

Even if each of them spitted enough to cover the heavenly soldiers all over, they did not dare to show any hostility towards them.

With tears and snot, they denounced the rebels as hateful, saying that they were all pitiful creatures who had succumbed to the tyranny of the rebels and had long been looking forward to the heavenly soldiers coming to save them.

Although none of them had received professional training, their sincere expressions were even more exquisite than the acting skills of the best actors, and their words were more exaggerated than the others.

Some say that when the heavenly soldiers successfully drove out the Tartars, they petitioned the king, requesting double their reward for their hard work. Unexpectedly, the king was so stingy that he refused to pay even a mere 700,000 taels. Later, when the new king overthrew the "false king," they all applauded.

Even if the new monarch promulgated the "Great Harmony Law", they felt that it was a good thing that would benefit the country and the people. In this way, people from all over the country could breathe a sigh of relief and make up for the losses caused by the Tartar invasion.

Who would have thought that such a good policy would be rejected by those arrogant and conceited rebels, and they were also coerced into rebellion by the rebels.

Fortunately, the heavenly soldiers were wise and brave, and the new emperor acted decisively. In just a few months, they dealt with the successive rebellions of the rebels, and they had the opportunity to escape from the clutches of the rebels.

In this case, the heavenly soldiers are their great benefactors!
It's just some land and money, which are the rewards that the heavenly soldiers deserve. Those of them who are guilty would never dare to feel any complaints.

Although they knew that these people's words and actions were instinctive disguises in times of crisis, the paratroopers still accepted these ridiculous statements.

Anyway, their purpose of entering the Korean War was to gain enough money and food, and at the same time strengthen the "puppet"'s rule over Korea, so as to provide the Beiwei Army with a steady stream of financial and material support in the future.

Now we are granting these surrendered troops a special gift of retaining 1% of the territory, and they will have to happily thank the heavenly soldiers for not killing them. Why not do it?

Moreover, the heavenly soldiers had tortured some rebels and also confirmed twice from the mouths of these surrendered soldiers that the aristocratic army had sent a fleet to find Zhu Youjian to file a complaint.

Although there are hundreds of "Rogues", "Lone Wolves" and "Ordinary People" players scattered in the capital area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, no trace of the noble envoys has been found so far.

Perhaps the nobles were dressed quite simply, perhaps they were still on their way across the sea.

Once Zhu Youjian learned that the Beiwei Army had sent troops to interfere in Korea without authorization, he would definitely take action against the Beiwei Army.

Players are naturally not afraid of an all-out war with the Ming court. What they are worried about is that they are still wasting time in Korea when the new copy is opened, and it would be bad if they can't catch up with the thrilling "Great Rebellion".

The priority now is to resolve the remaining rebels as quickly as possible, and leave the remaining scattered small groups of rebels to the "puppet government" to deal with.

If the puppet government can't even do this little thing independently, how can players promote the "puppet mode" in the future?
The coalition forces to suppress the rebellion were still on the way, and the heavenly soldiers who had airdropped in advance became the representatives of the Beiwei Army.

Hundreds of heavenly soldiers stood behind the formation as supervisors, with a black-rimmed battle flag held high.

More than 40,000 noble soldiers outside the city immediately switched sides and turned themselves into vassal troops of the heavenly soldiers, then pointed their swords and guns at their "former friendly forces" inside the city.

"Listen up, everyone inside! The Heavenly Soldiers have surrounded you! Laying down your weapons and leaving the city to surrender is your only chance to survive! If you leave the city and surrender, you'll have the chance to be a lifelong slave in the mines!"

Before the noble army outside the city could adjust its formation, the rebels inside the city suddenly opened the city gate and fled.

The vassal troops rushed forward without thinking, and the two sides fought fiercely outside the city. The former friendly forces now became irreconcilable enemies.

This group of vassal soldiers seemed to be full of energy, eager to show off their skills in front of the heavenly soldiers, in order to gain more military merits and keep a larger share of their private property...

They hacked and killed frantically, and pursued with all their might, almost unleashing double their original fighting power.

Even the Tartars Yi Ding who had to flee could not help but marvel at the Koreans' powerful fighting power.

Hundreds of heavenly soldiers didn't need to take any action at all. They rode on the war horses donated by the vassal army, ate dry food, played music, and watched the Koreans kill each other.

The bodies of both sides stretched out along the city gate. An "internal fight" involving equal numbers of people quickly turned into a one-sided pursuit.

The rebels fled all the way south, and the vassal army pursued them southward day and night. Several local battles broke out between the two sides within a few days.

In order to increase their escape speed, the rebels had to give up their precious money and food, hoping to lure the enemy soldiers to slow down their pursuit.

The rebels' strategy was effective at first, but the figures of the heavenly soldiers on horseback were like mountains casting shadows, which frightened the vassal army so much that they dared not stay and could only continue to pursue them at an accelerated speed.

There were only more than 30,000 vassal troops left out of the original 40,000.

Of the more than 30,000 rebels, only more than 10,000 were left when they fled to the port.

Even so, the large and small ships parked on the shore were still not enough for the rebels to go out to sea, so a second local civil war broke out in the port.

The winners boarded the boats and left, while the losers had no choice but to start cutting down trees. One by one, they jumped into the late winter sea holding logs, intending to swim to a nearby island first.

Thousands eventually boarded escape ships.

Some of them arrived in Jeju Island first and settled down for a few days, some ventured directly to Bohai Bay to meet the emperor in Beijing, and some went to Tsushima Island, intending to seek survival from the Tokugawa shogunate.

At this point, the numerous riots throughout Korea were completely quelled, and the remaining small groups of rebels could be handed over to the soldiers of the local bandit-catching battalion.

The new monarch planned to double the number of coastal bandit-hunting camps and navy, all of which would be used to suppress the remaining rebels. He also wrote a letter to the Tokugawa shogunate, warning Tokugawa not to assist these rebels, otherwise he would bear the consequences.

After this turmoil that ended in disaster, the number of people in the yangban class, which originally controlled a large amount of land, was rapidly reduced.

Except for those nobles who did not participate in any rebellion, the remaining nobles had their noble status abolished even if they survived by chance.

They either had to keep one percent of their private property and become small landlords, or have all their territory confiscated and work as miners in the mines for many years to atone for their sins.

The thrilling battle is over, and now it’s time to enjoy the loot counting session.

(End of this chapter)