Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1064 Counterattack Seoul
After the Manchu Qing conquered Seoul, he established a son of Lord Gwanghae as the King of Joseon, proclaimed himself a vassal and paid tribute to the Manchu Qing, and ruled the five lands in the west.

However, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, was in exile on Jeju Island and had been in contact with the old Ministry of Eight Provinces. Lin Qingye himself was often active in Eight Provinces, so the rule of the puppet Korea was not very strong.

Except in Gyeonggi-do, which is relatively stable because of the presence of the Qing army, the Korean puppet troops in the other four provinces can basically only shrink in the city.If the soldiers went out of the city, they had to be in groups, and they dared not go out alone, for fear of meeting the North Korean rebels.

North Korea's Pingan Daoyizhou City was garrisoned by a North Korean puppet army of more than a thousand people to maintain smooth communication between North Korea and the Qing Dynasty.

The guard in the city was called Cui Bingzi, who was originally an officer under Lin Qingye. He was captured by the Qing army when the coalition army retreated. Soon after, he changed his court and pledged his allegiance to the current puppet king of Joseon.

One day, Cui Bingzi was drinking in the barracks, when an officer came in suddenly, saw him, clasped his fists and said, "General, the brothers who went out to collect food didn't come back, maybe something happened!"

Cui Bingzi was immediately furious when he heard the words. As the end of the year was approaching, the higher-ups explained that the Qing army masters in Seoul were going to celebrate the New Year, so this year's taxes must be increased.Every road has a share to be completed, and Uiju, which reminds Bingzi, also has targets.Although the poor in North Korea are poor, but the Qing army masters are going to celebrate the New Year, he has no choice but to send people down to search.

Because of this incident, the people near Yizhou often made troubles, and he tolerated ordinary troubles, but if he dared to attack the grain requisition team, Bingzi became angry.

"What? Where did it happen?" Urging Bingzi to put down the wine glass, he immediately became furious, "They've turned their backs!"

"It's the team that went to the Pingyuan store in the east of the city to collect food. It was supposed to come back yesterday afternoon, but there is still no news this morning! The humble job must have been detained by the unscrupulous people."

Cui Bingzi raised his brows, "Go get some soldiers and horses, and follow me to the Pingyuan store to see what these unscrupulous people want to do!"

The gate of Yizhou opened, urging Bingzi to take the lead, and more than 1000 puppet troops behind, holding flags and three-pronged guns, rushed forward quickly.

The team rushed all the way, and Cui Bingzi didn't send a spy to scout the way ahead. After running for a while, seeing that they were approaching Pingyuandian, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of them blocking the way.

Three thousand North Korean troops lined up on the road. Their equipment was no different from that of the Ming army. The armor and weapons were all the Ming army's standard. If you didn't look at the flag that said Ming Dynasty belonged to you, you wouldn't know it was the Korean army.

The 3000 men and horses lined up in turn, with musketeers in the middle, sword shields and pikemen on both sides.

When the two armies met, the North Korean army immediately went up to meet them without saying a word, and the trumpets and drums sounded together.The swords, shields and spears on the two wings immediately outflanked from the left and right. Before Cui Bingzi could react, he was defeated.

After several rounds of firing by the North Korean army, the puppet army that hit them was directly defeated.

On the hillside, Xie Qian watched the puppet army and the well-organized North Korean army, and turned to Xia Wanchun and said, "Xia Shilang, how are you?"

Xia Wanchun smiled slightly, "There are some tricks, you can compete with my court soldiers!"

In Nikan's mansion in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, North Korea, soldiers kept coming in and out, and everyone's faces showed anxiety.

At this time, Nikan was sitting in the festival hall with a gloomy face, and soldiers kept coming in to report.

"Report to the prince, the whole territory of Quanluo Dao has fallen!"

"Report to the lord, Kaesong was attacked by enemy soldiers, please ask the lord for help!"

"My lord, Yizhou has been captured by the enemy!"

"Report to the prince, the whole state is in a hurry..."

It seems that as if it had been discussed, except for Gyeonggi Province, the other four provinces were all attacked by the coalition forces of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea.

The situation in North Korea, which had been quiet for nearly two years, was suddenly broken by the coalition forces.

Listening to the beating report, Nikan only felt that he was besieged on all sides now, and that he would meet the coalition forces when he left Seoul.

When the Qing army invaded North Korea, it took less than half a month to penetrate North Korea, killing Xie Qian and fleeing into the sea. It has only been two years, how could such a situation arise.

The treasury of the Qing army was tight. After the Qing army occupied North Korea, Dorgon did not send any resources to North Korea. The 1 people in Nikan could only stay in Seoul for a long time by looting North Korea. The strength of the Qing army in North Korea did not increase.

However, the Ming Dynasty continued to send supplies to North Korea, especially when North Korea caught up with the replacement of new equipment by the towns of the Ming Dynasty. The equipment eliminated by the Ming army was sold to North Korea at a low price by the Ming Dynasty. After two years of training, his combat power has naturally improved.

The puppet army is still the vulnerable army two years ago, but the North Korean army is not what it used to be.

There are more than 2 puppet troops, but they are scattered in four directions, and their combat power is weaker than that of the North Korean army. Naturally, there will be emergency situations everywhere when fighting.

Seeing soldiers one after another entering the hall and kneeling to report, and then hurriedly exiting, the Qing general Liu Qingtai who was standing next to him became anxious.

"My lord, the enemy army is attacking everywhere, and the four roads are in a hurry, what should we do?"

Nikan had been gloomy for a long time, and when he heard so many calls for help and news of the city's fall, he was also upset and annoyed at the same time. He didn't expect the puppet army's combat power to be so poor.

Nikan has guarded North Korea for two years, and he also knows that the Ming Dynasty will help North Korea train new troops. He also wants to strengthen the combat power of the North Korean army under his command, but the Qing court cannot support him, and North Korea is too poor to support him with [-] elite troops. It's all very laborious, so don't mention anything about improving the combat power of the Korean army.

The situation in North Korea has been quiet for nearly two years. Nikan knew that there would be a war sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to come so suddenly.

He thought that the Ming army would have to train the North Koreans for at least three years to accumulate enough strength before they could counterattack Seoul, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

For a while, Nikan stood up, pacing back and forth in the lobby with his hands behind his back, frowning in thought.

The fact that Xie Qian broke the balance ahead of time must have been because the main force of the Qing Dynasty had concentrated in Beijing and was preparing to conquer Jungar, so the Ming army deliberately went to North Korea to make trouble and restrain the Qing Dynasty from advancing westward.

Thinking of this, Nikan stopped, and suddenly said: "Don't worry about the actions of the Ming army. If the outside army can withdraw to Seoul, they will withdraw to Seoul. If they can't withdraw, let them fight on the spot! We will stick to Seoul, and no soldier is allowed to leave the city!"

Liu Qingtai was worried when he heard this: "My lord, don't you care about Kaesong? Once Kaesong is occupied, Seoul will become an isolated city!"

Nikan nodded heavily, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about it, just defend Seoul, and other places don't matter. We have more than 1 elites, and we will guard Seoul tightly. When they come to attack, we only need to persist until the end of the imperial court's western expedition. Returning to aid, Xie Qian can only go to sea again, and the lost city can be easily brought back!"

The coalition forces attacked the puppet army everywhere, but Nikan in Seoul remained unmoved.

The Ming army did not draw out the Qing army in Seoul, so Xie Qian could only follow the steps to sweep the periphery of Seoul, and then gathered his troops to rush towards Seoul.

On the head of the city of Seoul, soldiers of the Qing army were carrying arrows and logs to the city. Suddenly, a large banner appeared on the field outside the city wall. Numerous soldiers followed the banner and marched in a row, marching toward the city in mighty strength. come.

"Boom boom boom..." The alarm bells in Seoul suddenly rang.

(Established a deacon group [-])

(End of this chapter)