Chapter 409: Raiding Seoul
Among all, Jimu followed Zhou Xian for the longest time and knew his personality the best. He knew that Zhou Xian said this, and must have his own plans, and then said, "Military, what are you going to do next? Just give your instructions."
Zhou Xian glanced at the other people in the hall, Gao Yi and Tan Shimai, and Li Xiong quickly bowed and replied: "Everything is willing to be transferred by the military."
Zhou Xian stood up and said lightly: "I finally came overseas once, and if you want to play, you can play the big one. Li Xiong, you lead thirty strong men and set off now and sneak into Seoul as a smuggling merchant in the Ming Dynasty. Tomorrow night, once you get the signal from our army, you will lead your troops to set fire in the city and cause riots as much as possible. Gao Yi, Tan Shimai, you two will immediately summon all the soldiers in the army who can ride horses and set off until the second half of the night tonight. At that time, all the soldiers will be replaced with light clothes, bringing only one day's rations, a knife, a bow, and fifteen arrows. Let's go to raid Seoul."
Zhou Xian got five hundred horses from Ying'erdai, but except for the two hundred cavalry led by Jimu, there were only more than 300 horse riders in the remaining two thousand-man teams. Some of those who were not very skilled were eliminated, and a total of 420 soldiers were selected. Gao Yi stayed behind during the peace talks, and Zhou Xian and Jimu led the team to Seoul.
In fact, after listening to Kim Sang-hyun's introduction, Zhou Xian came up with this plan. From his words, Zhou Xian learned that in Seoul, there were only a little more than 2,000 regular soldiers in Seoul, and the rest were some yamen runners and miscellaneous soldiers. Although there were many soldiers stationed around Seoul, they were all stationed in isolated cities. If you only lead a small number of soldiers and deliberately bypass those cities, you can successfully reach the foot of Seoul. With Li Xiong who had been infiltrated into the city in advance, Zhou Xian was at least 70% sure that his plan could be successful.
Although the risks are high, once successful, the profit will be greater. The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly and it is impossible to get into the city every time, but Zhou Xian feels that this is a risk.
In the afternoon, Kim Sang-heng went to Jinchuan and asked a local county magistrate to open the city gate and welcome the Ming army into the city. Kim Sang-hen had a high status in North Korea. The county magistrate did not dare to violate the order. He just said that he would send people to the Kaesong defenders to report the situation, but was stopped by Zhou Xian strongly.
At the third update, the soldiers had a full meal, and Zhou Xian and Jimu led 420 cavalrymen to leave first. Gao Yi also dressed in armor and led most of the soldiers to beat the Ming Dynasty flag, and escorted all the Qing army prisoners to head towards Seoul with great fanfare. Moreover, the cart on the front side of the queue was loaded with the heads of the Qing army who had died in battle before. From a distance, it gave people a particularly gruesome feeling.
Tan Shimai led less than 200 remaining soldiers to stay in Jinchuan, resettle casualties and clean up the spoils they received.
Seeing that Zhou Xian and Gao Yi left twice in succession, Kim Sang-hen muttered in his heart and pointed at Tan Shimai indirectly. At the beginning, Tan Shimai only casually tried to get careless with him. When it was clear and he saw that Zhou Xian's agreed time had arrived, he revealed Zhou Xian's general plan to Kim Sang-hen.
After hearing this, Kim Sang-hyun was both anxious and angry. What was anxious was that he was worried that Zhou Xian would cause chaos in Seoul, and that he would become a criminal in North Korea. What was annoying was that he felt that Zhou Xian had completely played with him or used him as a tool. He hurriedly called a younger North Korean official and asked him to take the letter he had written to go to Hung Hae-do to find Lin Qingye who was fleeing there, and asked him to return to Seoul immediately, while he himself rushed to Seoul.
Tan Shimai did not stop anything Kim Sang-heon did at all, and even prepared a carriage for him and took him to Seoul. He also arranged several of his closest subordinates to ask them to protect Kim Sang-heon's safety. This was also what Zhou Xian had specifically told him at the beginning.
Many scouts sent around the big city and walked along the path. On the road, they would occasionally encounter some Korean people, but the 420 cavalrymen were wearing Korean clothes outside, which did not arouse their great alertness. Moreover, in the hearts of ordinary people, it would be better to have less things than to have more things. Few people would actually report to officials because they saw some slightly abnormal situations. Moreover, even if they reported it, they would upload it layer by layer, and it would not be known how long it would take. Zhou Xian only needed one day and night, and he was confident that he could successfully reach Seoul.
At about half past the night, after walking around countless ways, Zhou Xian successfully arrived next to a dense forest about five miles away from the east gate of Seoul. Compared with the majestic and majestic city of Beijing, the Seoul in front of him can only be described as small and exquisite. It is less than two meters high and only ten miles in a radius, which is worse than the county town in the Ming Dynasty. The highest point in the city is the Korean Palace in the middle. If you can still see its hazy image from afar on a sunny night, you can still see its hazy images from afar with the moonlight.
In Seoul City, there is a layout of northern soldiers and southern officials. In North City, the capital guards stationed in North City, more than half of the defenders in the city are stationed there. The south City is mainly a residential area for officials at all levels. The east and west cities mainly live in merchants, people, and all kinds of people from all walks of life, and there are very few guards. Zhou Xian chose outside the East Gate because there was a dense forest there that could hide soldiers.
Not long after we arrived, the sky suddenly drizzled. Later, the wind became heavier and heavier, and the rain became denser. The rain continued in autumn and winter, and penetrated into the body, as cold as frost. The soldiers who had been running around for almost a day and night leaned together, shivering all over, but no one made a sound. The horse's hooves were wrapped in rags, and the horse's mouth was chewing, and they could not make a sound. There was no sound around except the rustling sound of the fallen leaves blowing from the autumn wind.
Jimu quietly walked to Zhou Xian and whispered: "Military Gate, it's getting late, is it time to act?"
Zhou Xian nodded slightly and said, "Go! It will rain today, and the city walls will be a little slippery. Let brothers be careful to climb up and not be discovered by the guards on the city."
Jimu said: "Don't worry, the military gate is a two-meter-high city wall, climbing up is easy. Such rain will make the guards slack and will be more beneficial to us."
Zhou Xian saw Ji Mu disappear from sight with a dozen people, turned back and patted Du Xun who was sleeping curled up against a tree.
Du Xun was shocked and saw that it was Zhou Xian, and panicked and said, "Zhou... Zhou Junmen." These days, he was completely frightened and was always worried that Zhou Xian would harm him. Because no matter where the latter went, he always liked to bring him with him.
Zhou Xian smiled faintly and said, "Eunuch Du, it's time to enter the city. If you succeed, you must recite the momentum of my Ming Dynasty tonight!"
Chapter completed!