Wanli 1592

Chapter 1057 Guo Zaiyou died in battle

On the fifth day of October, Guo Zaiyou led more than [-] troops to Huangzhou, rested the army here, and then sent sentries forward to search for important information.

The news received was not optimistic.

Because of the invasion of these Jurchen bandits, turmoil has occurred in the north of Huangzhou, and there has been a large-scale fleeing of the people in Pyongyang. , Without hesitation, he chose to flee his homeland.

The situation was not very good, the fighting power of the Jurchen bandits was beyond imagination, and Guo Zaiyou also had doubts about their purpose.

If it was just looting, why would they attack a big city?

Ordinary rogues mainly robbed villages and towns, and then ran away after looting. Not only did this group of thugs go all the way south, they also robbed cities, and they were able to break through some cities, which really made him feel very vigilant and puzzled.

He began to suspect that these Jurchen thugs might not have come to rob.

At the same time, he also had worries.

Seven years ago, a war that almost subjugated the country destroyed more than [-] years of hard work of the Korean people. The weakness of the small country and the narrowness of the land were highlighted vividly. Not only the loss was fast, but the recovery was slow. After the regular army was completely destroyed, the current North Korea Most of the government troops were adapted from the civilian army of the year.

While the national strength has been greatly attenuated, the military strength has also been greatly reduced.

Not to mention the army, whether it was in the past or the present, it is very weak.

During the war, although they received some help from the original Southern soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, under the guidance of Wu Weizhong, they conducted Qi Jiguang-style training for the North Korean army, and taught them some tactics and tactics of the Southern soldiers, such as the tactics born out of the mandarin duck formation, as well as firearms. Training, but it didn't last long.

Xiao Ruxun decided to launch an attack on the mainland of the Wa Kingdom, and all the military instructors of Ming Dynasty went to the Wa Kingdom to garrison, and the army's training was interrupted.

The navy was originally very impressive, and even the emperor of the Ming Dynasty admired Li Sunshin, the general of the navy, but Li Sunchen was forced to dismiss him during the political struggle four years ago, died of illness three years ago, and the navy gradually fell into disrepair.

The kings and ministers of North Korea feel that Wa has been occupied and controlled by Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to worry about Wa now, so there is no need to spend so much military expenditure to maintain a huge navy.

They also have the same opinion about the army. They use the name of developing people's livelihood to cut military expenditures and take away all the aid from Ming Dynasty.

It is said that it is to develop the people's livelihood, but I don't know what to do. The people's livelihood has not seen any development, but the army has really weakened.

As a result, the army and navy, which were still recovering at the end of the war, declined one after another, and the army, which was originally quite spiritual, became a rabble again.

Even the cavalry of the Six Towns, which could be regarded as elite in Hamgyong-do, is gone, and the current strength of the Korean army is not even as good as before the war.

The kings and ministers of North Korea always thought that Ming would protect them, and they had no real feeling for the army at all. They valued culture more than military, and this was even more so after Daming sent troops to aid them.

Although at the beginning of the year Daqin's overthrow of Ming Dynasty brought a certain crisis to North Korea, but soon North Korea and Daqin re-established their status as monarchs and ministers, once again got the umbrella, the crisis alert was lifted, and North Korea's monarchs and ministers could continue to be happy of the struggle.

So although Guo Zaiyou was dissatisfied, he was born in a wealthy family and knew that the current political trend was no longer biased towards the military.

He originally thought that there would be no more major turmoil, but he was soon slapped in the face.

As far as Guo Zaiyou's "Wang Jing Elite" is said to be elite, but the spirit is not as good as the militia army that Guo Zaiyou pulled up back then. The weapons are also messy. There are Ming-style bird guns and Ming-style cold weapons. , and spears and spears.

Guo Zaiyou had never led Wang Jing's army before, but this army obviously didn't have much combat effectiveness.

At first he thought it was a group of rogues and didn't pay attention, but now that he knew the combat effectiveness of these Jurchen rogues, Guo Zaiyou became a little nervous, so he urgently carried out a certain degree of training for this army.

I don't know if I don't have training, but I don't know how unfamiliar the tactics and tactics of this group of seemingly well-dressed troops have been until after the whole training. It is probably because they have never trained seriously after the war.

Guo Zaiyou, who was very helpless to those two classes of ministers in the capital, could only give emergency special training, stop the army in Huangzhou, and did not continue to advance.

But the news from the front line is very bad. It is said that Shun’an, north of Pyongyang, has also been harassed by the Jurchen barbarians. Now a large number of people are running to the south with their families. In the past few days, Guo Zaiyou found more and more people. Migrating to the south, the face is full of panic.

Things got a little unexpected.

What is the origin of these Jurchens?
What do you plan to do?
Looking at this posture, it doesn't look like a rogue at all!
Guo Zaiyou continued to collect information carefully, and collected important information such as that most of these Jurchen rogues were cavalry, powerful in combat, well-organized in their actions, and at least two thousand in number.

But before Guo Zaiyou continued to collect information and prepare, letters of help from Shun'an and Pyongyang came over, passing through Huangzhou, and they were going to Seoul. Guo Zaiyou saw it and began to struggle in his heart.

It just so happened that the imperial court sent someone to inquire about Guo Zaiyou's military situation. The envoy arrived in Huangzhou and saw the scenes of refugees fleeing. He was shocked and immediately asked Guo Zaiyou what was going on. Pyongyang will not be allowed to lose.

Guo Zaiyou knew that he could not refute such an order. The envoy had the king's order on him, so he could not resist.

After thinking about it again and again, Guo Zaiyou still decided to lead his troops and set off from Huangzhou to Pyongyang. At the same time, please ask the special envoy to return to Seoul immediately to report to the court. He said that those Jurchen rogues are very fierce, not like ordinary rogues, and their purpose is not clear. Please The imperial court immediately prepared the army for emergencies.

Guo Zaiyou led the army forward, marched for a day, and arrived in Zhonghe in the south of Pyongyang. It was here that the refugees brought the news of the fall of Sunan and the crisis in Pyongyang, and they were shocked.

He didn't have time to verify the authenticity of the matter, because Pyongyang was so important, so he ignored the exhaustion of the army, and immediately led his troops to rush towards Pyongyang, planning to reach Pyongyang first anyway.

When he led his troops to a place twelve miles south of Pyongyang, where he could already see the city wall of Pyongyang from a distance, he encountered Nurhachi's long-prepared attack.

Three thousand Jurchen cavalry mobilized to divide and surround Guo Zaiyou's army on the flat terrain in the south of Pyongyang, attacking him like chopping melons and vegetables. Although Guo Zaiyou panicked, he calmed down quickly and commanded the army to fight back desperately.

Despite exhausting all means, including shooting with guns and stabbing with spears, the lack of training and formation of the North Korean army quickly disintegrated. Guo Zaiyou fought hard and was besieged by more than a dozen Jurchen cavalry. Although the guards around him fought desperately, Still the whole army was wiped out, and Guo Zaiyou himself died in battle.

Until he died in battle, he didn't know that Shun'an and Pyongyang were not breached at all, and even the siege was just a smoke bomb, and Nurhachi didn't even plan to attack these two cities.

All of this is a smoke bomb released by Nurhachi, just to attract him to come, get into the ambush circle of the Jurchens, and gather around for help.

(End of this chapter)