During the Hongwu Dynasty, the King of Goryeo saw that the Ming Dynasty had set up Tieling Guards on the border, and his sense of crisis increased sharply. He ordered Li Chenggui to be the general and sent troops to invade Liaodong.
After Li Chenggui learned about this, everyone was dumbfounded. He asked me to lead troops to fight against the Ming Dynasty? Why don't you go?
The terrain of North Korea is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can resist tenaciously every invasion. But if you send troops abroad, wouldn't it be a bit unreasonable?
However, as a minister, Li Chenggui had to symbolically lead his troops towards Liaodong. Halfway through the march, he applied to the King of Korea to withdraw his troops because of the flooding of the river. The King of Korea refused, and later he cited the shortage of food and grass.
He once again applied to withdraw his troops, but was once again rejected righteously by the King of Goryeo.
Li Chenggui thought to himself, what is the difference between attacking the Ming Dynasty and asking me to die. If I go to attack the Ming Dynasty, I will die, but I may not have a chance of survival if I return to the country to rebel. So, I might as well rebel!
So, Li Chenggui, who was halfway through the march, led his troops back to Gaijing on Wahwa Island, launched a mutiny, overthrew the rule of King Goryeo, and established the Joseon Dynasty, also known as the "Yi Dynasty". The newly appointed King of Joseon, Li Chenggui, worked non-stop
Then he bowed his head to the Ming Dynasty.
However, Li Chenggui, the founder of the Joseon Dynasty who was a rebel, did not fare well. After he rebelled, his fifth son Li Bangyuan also learned to rebel. He originally just wanted to give it a try, but he did not expect that the rebellion actually succeeded.
Relying on two great victories in the Prince's Rebellion, Li Fangyuan pushed his father off the throne and became the monarch of the Li Dynasty.
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Kaijing, Prince's Mansion
Rows of white pigeons flew across the sky, and one of them fluttered twice and landed in the courtyard.
"The Li Dynasty is such a small place, but there are a lot of hidden agendas in it." Zhu Gaojie said contemptuously, "What you just said are just words on the table. In my opinion, I am afraid that the eldest son, Li Zhen, is more loyal than him."
The arrival of Lord Ning, Li Chen, has made it even more difficult to control. Li Bao's mother's family is the Min family, the most powerful family in the Li Dynasty. King Li Chenggui of North Korea is afraid of the eldest son, Li Bao."
"Jin Yiwei, such a strange word."
If you want to mobilize the 300,000 Liaodong Army at arm's length, it is most suitable to command operations in Liaodong itself. What's more, the navy is still in Lushunkou in southeastern Liaoning. If you want to mobilize Lushunkou as soon as possible,
It is necessary to issue orders in Liaodong.
"Sharpening a knife is as good as chopping wood. The faster the knife is sharpened, the cleaner it will be when killing people." In the commander's mansion, Zhu Gaojie took out a document from his desk, read it and threw it to Lu Chaoyang.
Zhu Gaojie pondered for a moment and asked: "Has the Jinyiwei's spy network in Li Dynasty been activated?"
Any document on this desk is top-secret military information, affecting every move in the Northeast and affecting the life and death of the sergeants.
"That's true, but the Lord of Zhongning, Li Chen, is not a simple person. His father-in-law is Shen Wen, the minister of the Li Dynasty. However, compared to the crown prince, Li Bao, the Lord of Zhongning, Li Chen, is easier to control..."
Zhu Gaojie said calmly, "Back then, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times and was defeated in three battles, which destroyed the foundation of the Sui Dynasty. I am not Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. If I lead troops to attack North Korea, I have the most powerful navy.
There are hundreds of thousands of Liaodong elites. Even though the terrain of North Korea is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if I really want to attack by force, how can the Li Dynasty stop me? However, attacking by force is the last resort. To deal with such a well-defended battle, the best way is to attack from the inside.
The best policy."
As for how to fight a war, Lu Chaoyang is not good at this aspect. He is engaged in spy work, not a general fighting a war. If he were to make suggestions, I am afraid he would say: I have three strategies, namely, the next strategy, the next strategy, and the next strategy.
Take the next step...
Most of the birds in North Korea are pigeons, especially in Gyeonggi Province, where pigeons are infested and no one will pay attention to such an inconspicuous pigeon.
Song Jiucheng murmured to himself, "I thought that after Taizu's death, we imperial guards would have been forgotten by the imperial court."
Lu Chaoyang cupped his hands in admiration and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"
Although his plan was to capture North Korea and Japan within ten months, after arriving in the Northeast, Zhu Gaojie did not immediately reorganize his troops, but took his time collecting intelligence in Guangning.
"This matter is simple or difficult, but it is not too difficult. The King of Joseon and the King of Chungnyeong are on the same line. The King of Joseon needs to rely on the King of Chungnyeong to maintain his power, and the King of Chungnyeong
It depends on the King of Joseon to be qualified to inherit the throne. It is like cutting flesh with a dull knife. They have to slowly kill the crown prince Li Bao. This process may be very slow. It is impossible every three to five years. But we
Can’t wait that long.”
"Isn't what Jinyiwei is best at attacking the enemy from the inside?"
Lu Chaoyang's voice paused, as if he asked with enlightenment, "My lord, do you think we can start from here?"
After Lu Chaoyang took the document, he sealed it, painted it, put it in an iron box and locked it.
Using one's own shortcomings to attack another's strong points is what a fool does.
Song Jiucheng, who served as an aide in the Crown Prince's Mansion, leaned down and reached out to hold the wings of the white dove. It turned out that there was a scarlet paper wrapped around the paws of the white dove, which was the same color as the paws. It was difficult to find it without looking carefully.
The Li Dynasty was nominally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The king of Joseon was at the same level as the county king, and the crown prince of the Li Dynasty was actually the crown prince of the Joseon Dynasty.
"Is the person who inherits Taizu's will actually the son of King Yan?" Song Jiucheng closed his eyes softly, "No matter whether it is Jianwen, Yongle, or King Qi, we, the hidden stakes of the Jinyi Guards, are loyal.
The emperor of Ming Dynasty has always been the emperor of Ming Dynasty. Except that the emperor of Ming Dynasty has to be named Zhu, nothing else matters."
"It's understandable, I'm not in a hurry." Zhu Gaojie said with emotion, "After all, this is the chessboard from twenty years ago. Twenty years, even if a sharp knife has been buried in the soil for twenty years, if you want to smooth it out,
It will take a long time for the iron to rust, not to mention the secret hand that my grandfather left behind twenty years ago. Most of it can still be used now, I am already surprised."
Zhu Gaojie said slowly: "In the Li Dynasty, King Li Fangyuan of Korea, Prince Li Bao, and Prince Zhongning Li Chen have reached a strange triangular equilibrium. In the face of absolute advantage, none of them are willing to break this equilibrium.
What we have to do is to insert ourselves into them, make them chaotic, ignite the coal mines under the Li Dynasty Kingdom, and let the fire of civil strife sweep through the dynasty."
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This Taizu does not refer to the North Korean Taizu Li Chenggui.
"If you don't take action, you won't take action. If you do, it will kill him."
But the Ming Taizu, Zhu Yuanzhang!
Song Jiucheng always remembered that in addition to his identity as a staff member of the Li Dynasty Prince's Mansion, he also had another identity.
——Jin Yiwei.
Song Jiucheng opened the note, which was filled with densely packed encrypted text. After reading it, he swallowed the note with a different expression and stood up as if nothing had happened.
Zhu Gaojie closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said: "I heard that Li Fangyuan, the king of Korea in the Li Dynasty, was very fond of his third son, Prince Zhongning, Li Fan?"
In today's Northeast, Zhu Gaojie alone represents the highest level. Lu Chaoyang, Liu Rong, and Zheng He represent the Jinyiwei, Liaodong Army, and Navy respectively, and obey Zhu Gaojia's orders.
"What we have to do is to speed up this process and force the crown prince of North Korea, Li Bao, to fight to the death at all costs!"
Lu Chaoyang said: "Yes, the prince of Li Dynasty is Li Bao, the eldest son of the king of Joseon. However, he is uneducated and hangs around with sycophants all day long. The king of Joseon admonished him many times, but he never repented. Li Chen, on the other hand, is studious and tireless.
He is famous both inside and outside the court, in sharp contrast to his eldest brother. The King of Joseon already loves Li Sun, so he may have wanted to change his son."
"The current Li Dynasty can be said to be a kingdom built on coal mines." Zhu Gaojie calculated, "It only takes one fire to ignite the raging flames of the Li Dynasty until the Li Dynasty is reduced to ashes. However, this fire, we
We need to plan carefully, and you also know that we cannot keep the navy stationed at Lushunkou secret for too long. The Koreans are not fools. Unless they have to, they will definitely unite to fight against the common enemy, which is us."
His branch of Jinyiwei had served as officials in North Korea for three generations. If they had not been reactivated now, their identities would have been hidden until they were forgotten by everyone.
His ancestors were from Liaodong, and later moved to North Korea. Three generations of his ancestors served as officials in the Goryeo Dynasty and the Li Dynasty. Now Song Jiucheng came to the Prince's Mansion as an aide, which can be said to have made a huge leap to the sky.
The national war is not just about whose army is more elite, it is a frontal battlefield, but Zhu Gaojiao does not want to fight the Li Dynasty on a frontal battlefield. Defensive warfare is the natural advantage of the Li Dynasty, and once Zhu Gaojiao declares war, he seems to be stuck in a quagmire, or destroyed.
To defeat the Li Dynasty, or die in the Northeast, winning the war is actually not too difficult, and destroying the country is also possible, but the losses will exceed the budget. For Zhu Gaojie, who is well versed in maneuvering, this is a loss-making business.
After Zhu Gaojie came to Liaodong, he seemed to have become the supreme commander of the northeastern region of the Ming Dynasty. However, he did not set up his headquarters in the more familiar Jianzhou, but stayed in Guangning Mansion in Liaodong.
Lu Chaoyang replied: "Most of them have started to operate, but our hidden piles in North Korea have been gathering dust for twenty years. After the change of dynasties, some hidden piles have even been completely buried. It will take a certain amount of time to fully activate them."
In fact, from now on, the war between Ming Dynasty and North Korea has already begun, but it is not on the frontal battlefield, but on the battlefield behind enemy lines.
Zhu Gaojie was always meticulous in everything he did and never did anything meaningless. He brought Lu Chaoyang to the Northeast just to maximize the strength of the Jin Yiwei and completely defeat the Li Dynasty on the battlefield behind enemy lines!
Jinyiwei is the protagonist of this battle to destroy the country.
Zhu Gaojie was like a top-notch chess player, manipulating the pieces behind the scenes and constantly advancing the attack, while his opponent, who knew nothing about it, was slowly being pulled away bit by bit and swallowed into his belly.
He is reviewing Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's layout in the Northeast, and he is even better!