The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 354 The show is on
King Lee Sun of the vassal state of Joseon wants to submit to the Ming Dynasty with his court officials and family members!

On June 15th, Guimao, on this day in history, the Ming Dynasty directly sent troops to support its vassal state, Korea.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty also sent troops. At about noon in the morning, one hundred naval centipede ships carrying two thousand well-equipped border soldiers arrived at the riverside dock outside Yizhou City.

However, they were not the vanguard troops supporting the vassal state of Korea.

What they meant was all the troops that the Ming Dynasty could send at this moment!

Wanli had already said that he could only send some troops to guard Yizhou City and see if he could hold it. If he couldn't, he would have to retreat first.

These border troops came to take over the defense of Yizhou City.

The vassal state of Joseon, King Lee Sun, had already been waiting eagerly at the riverside pier with his court officials and family members.

As soon as the two thousand border troops of the Ming Dynasty landed, he couldn't wait to take a few of his concubines and children onto a centipede boat.

He didn't care about defense or not, he just wanted to run away.

To put it bluntly, he fled from Wangjing to Yizhou just to save his life.

The problem is that it is not safe to escape to Yizhou. Once the Japanese pirates come, they will be finished.

He hasn't had a good night's sleep in the past two months. He is worried every day, fearing that the Japanese pirates will come and kill him at any time.

Fortunately, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty agreed to let them surrender, and now they are finally safe.

As for whether the Japanese pirates could take over the Ming Dynasty, he didn't believe it.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was probably mentally ill, and seriously ill.

How could a small country like Japan take over the Ming Dynasty?

The moment he boarded the centipede ship of the Ming Dynasty Navy, he finally felt at ease. He even smiled rarely and took the little princess from his favorite concubine's arms to tease her.

As for the court officials of the vassal state of Korea, their feelings were somewhat complicated.

Most of the Easterners had regretful expressions on their faces, while most of the Westerners had their eyes rolling around.

They don't want to give up the power in their hands.

The Easterners are better off. They all think they can come back and continue to be in power after waiting for a year or two.

Westerners had much more complicated ideas. Most of them did not want to submit to the Ming Dynasty because after the Japanese pirates occupied this place, they could still become high-ranking officials and make a lot of money.

If you go to Ming Dynasty, you will get nothing.

They even believed that the Ming Dynasty would never be able to drive out the Japanese pirates. They were pro-Japanese because they believed in the strength of the Japanese pirates.

If the Ming Dynasty cannot drive away the Japanese pirates, they will suffer a great loss.

Originally, even if the Japanese pirates occupied this place, they could make a lot of money, but now they have to go to the Ming Dynasty to eat and wait for death.

The difference is too big.

The problem is, they can't help but go.

Because the Dongren were in power at the time, it seemed that Kim Young-nam had a secret discussion with King Lee Sun and Prime Minister Ryu Seong-ryong after he came back.

After King Lee Sun finished his secret meeting with the two Easterners, there was something wrong with the way he looked at them. There was even a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

If they don't follow King Lee Sun to surrender, they will most likely be beheaded!
As a result of this incident, they never expected that the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty would agree to let them submit.

They had no choice but to order someone to quickly deliver the message to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to see if Toyotomi Hideyoshi could do anything about it.

In short, after a bustling crowd, thousands of men, women, young and old finally left.

This is when the fun begins.

Luo Shangzhi summoned the vassal generals responsible for defending the city to the northern gate tower. After watching the fleet of King Yi Sun's surrender gradually sail away, he solemnly asked, "Are you sure you can hold on to Yizhou City?"

We must be sure to hold on. Can His Majesty the King run away and surrender?
The general shook his head and said, "We can't hold on. Please send more troops."

If you can't hold on, then get out! There must be a Japanese pirate accomplice among you!
Luo Shangzhi shook his head slightly and said, "Our Emperor has not asked us to defend Yizhou City to the death, and we don't have many troops to deploy.

If you think that Yizhou City cannot be defended, I can send a ship to take you to Jeolla Province. I heard that your General Quan and General Li have gathered a lot of troops there and have defended most of the cities and ports there. You can go there and help them defend it. "

what?
The general hesitated and said, "Wouldn't it be a good idea for us to just abandon the city like this?"

Luo Shangzhi shook his head slightly and said, "You don't call this abandoning the city, you call it changing defenses. It's the same if you leave Yizhou City to us to defend. Anyway, if the Japanese pirates come with too many troops, we won't be able to hold it. I will abandon the city then, and it has nothing to do with you."

You can't say that, right?

The general still hesitated and said, "Well, our King hasn't issued an order yet."

You speak as if your king had issued an edict regarding the dozens or hundreds of cities you lost before.

Luo Shangzhi pretended to be impatient and said, "Are you going to leave or not? If you don't leave, we will leave! It's not easy to retreat across the river. I heard that the Japanese pirates also have iron cannons. I don't know how many will escape by then. If you want to defend this place, then defend it. If the Japanese pirates come, we won't help them."

If you don't care, we're dead!

The river is so wide that you can’t even swim across it!
Upon hearing this, the general nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, we will go to serve under General Jeolla Do-gwon and General Lee, and I will leave Uiju City to you."

Guess you know the truth.

Otherwise I will kill you and let someone else lead the army!

Upon hearing this, Luo Shangzhi immediately raised his hand and said, "Fire the flare."

Upon hearing this, his personal guards immediately took off their longbows, pulled out a flare arrow, lit it, and shot it towards the other side.

Soon, dozens of centipede boats came from the other side.

The defenders of Yizhou City left, leaving only the border troops of Liaodong Town.

Now you can start building the stage.

After Luo Shangzhi sent away the Korean garrison, he immediately ordered his soldiers to start digging trenches around the city.

That is the kind that is half a person deep and has half a person high soil piled in front.

They kept digging and digging until the entire area around Yizhou City was like a spider web. The Japanese pirates who rushed over would probably get lost.

Immediately afterwards, the navy centipede ship began to recruit troops here again.

However, the number of people brought over each time was not large, only about one or two hundred people.

The defense of Yizhou City seemed to be gradually getting stronger, but it also didn't seem to be getting much stronger. Anyway, outsiders couldn't tell whether they wanted to defend it or not.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a little confused when he received the news.

The vassal state of Korea, King Lee Sun, actually went to submit to the Ming Dynasty!

He really didn't expect this.

He originally wanted to keep this guy to continue asking for help from the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, it would be effortless for him to kill this guy.

If he hadn't let the Westerners leak the news in advance, this guy would have been caught by them in Wangjing.

Originally, he kept this guy because he wanted him to try his best to beg for reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty.

Now that this guy has fled to the Ming Dynasty, how can he lure the main force of the Ming army over?

Now it seems that they only have the tactic of besieging Yizhou City.

Because Yizhou City was garrisoned by the Ming army, if they surrounded and attacked it fiercely, how could the Ming army not come to rescue it?

This tactic of surrounding a point and attacking reinforcements seems to be very good.

The problem was that their ambush circle was originally near the Korean royal capital, and they had already captured the Incheon Port in Gyeonggi Province, making it more convenient for the navy warships to transport food and supplies there.

If they moved the ambush circle north to near Yizhou City, the supply line would have an additional seven or eight hundred miles of land.

This is a problem.

They cannot enter the Yalu River for the time being.

There was no other choice but to capture Tieshan Port near Yizhou City.

Fortunately, the Westerners still had many local officials to help them, and the vassal state of Korea was already their territory. As long as the Ming army dared to come, they would definitely be able to eat it up.

At Toyotomi Hideyoshi's command, the four legions that had been ambushed near the Korean capital immediately began to advance northward.

Within a few days, Japanese pirates appeared near Yizhou City, and there seemed to be quite a few of them.

Tieshan Port was soon occupied by Japanese pirates, and Yizhou City seemed to be isolated on the south bank of the Yalu River, in a precarious situation.

In fact, these were all performed by Luo Shangzhi under Wanli's command.

They can definitely defend Yizhou City. If two thousand troops are not enough, they can use three thousand. If three thousand troops are not enough, they can use four thousand. If four thousand troops are not enough, they can use five thousand.

Anyway, they would send as many defenders as the Japanese pirates sent to attack the city.

They wanted the Japanese pirates to always think that they could only barely hold Yizhou City, so as to attract more Japanese pirates.

The reason why Luo Shangzhi ordered people to dig trenches at the beginning was actually to extend the trenches to the riverbank dock outside the city. As long as they guarded the trenches there, they could send as many troops as they wanted.

(End of this chapter)