After taking the money and food, Yuzhu was satisfied and ordered to march to Zhongqing Road in North Korea.
Traditionally, the Kingdom of Joseon divides the country into six major regions: Gwanbuk (Hamgyeong Province, Pyongan Province); Kansai (Hwanghae Province, the south of Pyongan Province, and the west of Gangwon Province); Kantong (the area east of Taebaeksan Mountain in Gangwon Province).
part, also called Yeongdong); Giho (all of Gyeonggi-do and part of Chungcheong-do); Hunan (part of Chungcheong-do plus Jeolla-do); Yeongnam (Gyeongsang-do).
To the north of Chungcheong Province is Gyeonggi Province, which is the core and essence of the Joseon Kingdom.
After boarding the ship from Ganghwa Island and heading south, Yuzhu commanded the army and landed at Asan Bay, which just blocked the way for Li Linzuo's rebels to go north.
Asan County is the only place Chungcheong Province must pass through to attack Seoul, and its geographical location is very important.
The Imperial Army crossed the sea by boat, which took advantage of the powerful maritime mobility, saved physical strength, and shortened the length of the logistics supply line.
What's more important is that North Korea's main forbidden army of 80,000 people is in Asan.
The Kingdom of Korea implements a system of civilized military management and separation of soldiers and generals. There are no fixed generals and no fixed soldiers. It is similar to a reserve army serving in turns, rather than a regular army.
This time, the leader of the Korean Kingdom’s military expedition was Cui Xianxun, the envoy of the Three Roads.
Therefore, Lu Wu and Cui Xianxun negotiated. Cui Xianxun would lead the army in front, and the Chinese reinforcements would follow. They would go south together to wipe out Li Linzuo's rebels.
Who would have thought that Cui Xianxun, a civil servant, would give random orders and set up a so-called long snake formation, but was defeated by Li Linzuo's rebels one by one and completely defeated.
Uh-huh, Yuzhu has known for a long time that civil servants personally lead troops to fight, so the probability of being reliable is extremely low.
Well now, the only remaining capital of the Korean Kingdom has been completely lost, and it can only rely on reinforcements from the Kingdom of China.
At this time, Li Linzuo already knew that the Chinese Empire had sent reinforcements, so he led the newly victorious division, totaling 70,000 people, and quickly went north to seek a decisive battle.
Yuzhu deliberately chose to give in temporarily and lured Li Linzuo to pursue him.
As a result, near the narrow Yongren Mountain, the two armies took up positions and launched a decisive battle.
Yuzhu was very satisfied with the environment of the decisive battle.
In a nutshell, there is the sea to the east, mountains to the west, and plains to the north and south.
In this kind of terrain, once defeated, the cavalry will chase and kill them until they cry for their fathers and mothers, and the whole army will inevitably be annihilated.
In the early morning, after having a hearty meal, the soldiers of the Imperial Eastern Expedition Army lined up in order according to orders and prepared for the decisive battle.
Li Linzuo also wanted to quickly defeat the Chinese reinforcements so that he could capture Seoul as soon as possible and successfully change the dynasty.
Therefore, Li Linzuo mobilized all his troops and sent all his troops to today's decisive battle.
The soldiers of the Imperial Army still followed the old tradition, with one hundred and fifty artillery pieces in front and three rows of infantry in the rear.
However, behind the soldiers of the First Town, there were countless more horses.
After the decisive battle began, Li Linzuo took the lead in launching an attack. Only more than 10,000 cavalry were seen. They rushed up and pressed against the Imperial Army's line with an overwhelming force.
After seeing this scene, Yuzhu under Shuai couldn't help but smile, put down the monocular telescope in his hand, and said to Lu Wu: "It's nothing good!"
Lu Wu understood what the emperor meant, so he said with a smile: "The Koreans don't know how to fight at all. The tactics alone are so backward that they are at least two hundred years old."
Yuzhu nodded, and suddenly remembered the Nagashino Battle of Japan. Oda Nobunaga used fences and iron cannons (matchlock guns) to defeat the extremely powerful Takeda family's red cavalry. He was defeated and his vitality was severely damaged.
It has never recovered since then.
It was precisely because he was good at using iron cannons that fueled Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambitions that he had the courage to send a large army across the sea to attack North Korea.
However, although the Ming army that aided Korea was small in number, it possessed more than a hundred large and small artillery pieces, and they defeated the Japanese invaders and fled.
Today, Li Linzuo's rebels are facing an elite imperial army with better weapons and equipment, better training, and more combat experience than the Ming army.
To be honest, before the decisive battle even started, Yuzhu had already determined that Li Linzuo had no chance of victory.
After the decisive battle began, after Li Linzuo's elite cavalry rushed into the range of the artillery, Yuzhu decisively ordered, "Fire the artillery."
"Boom, boom, boom..." The rumbling sound of cannons kicked off the decisive battle.
The North Koreans have never seen so many artillery bombardments at almost the same time.
After the first round of shelling, more than two hundred corpses fell in the rebel cavalry.
After the second round of bombardment started, the rebel cavalry was bombarded so much that they howled in agony and scurried away with their helmets and armor abandoned.
Yuzhu took advantage of the situation to change his combat strategy and ordered the soldiers in the first town to mount their horses and pursue the victory.
This tactic has a more elegant name: reverse rolling bead curtain.
As the name suggests, it forces the rebel cavalry to defeat and tramples on the rebel infantry formation.
In order to escape for their lives, the rebel cavalry was defeated and did not dare to turn back to fight again. They rushed straight into the formation of their own infantry.
The Koreans trampled on each other, pushing each other, causing countless casualties.
As a result, people were upset and the sky was dark and the earth was dark.
At this moment, Lu Wu led more than 10,000 cavalrymen from the first town to pursue them.
Good guy, Li Linzuo’s rebels collapsed immediately.
Yuzhu seized the opportunity and decisively ordered the buglers to blow the charge horn: "Didi-did-didi-did..."
The army was defeated like a mountain, and when the Imperial Army's general offensive began, it became the straw that broke the camel's back.
In this battle, all Li Linzuo's rebels were wiped out, and even Li Linzuo himself was captured alive.
After the war, the Korean Kingdom's Central Forbidden Army and Li Linzuo's rebels were both finished.
When the triumphant squadron returned to Seoul, Yuzhu, who had already planned it, suddenly launched an attack at night and took control of the entire Seoul in one fell swoop.
The king of Joseon, Li Ye, was immediately deposed, and under the auspices of Yuzhu, the six-year-old Li Ji was made king.
Today, North Korea's main imperial army has been annihilated by the rebels. It is completely unable to resist Yuzhu's annexation plan. It can only watch the three thousand miles of splendid rivers and mountains that have been established for hundreds of years, step by step, become directly under the Chinese Empire.
Territory.
Facts have proved that as long as Yuzhu is willing to be promoted to an official position, there will never be a shortage of "traitors" in the Korean Kingdom.
Soon, under Yuzhu's effective strategy of pulling together one faction and defeating another, a new political government headed by the "chaotic traitor" Li Jicheng was successfully formed.
Li Jicheng adopted a high-pressure policy internally. Any Chinese who dissatisfied with the government would be treated as a rebel and would be beheaded if caught.
On the other hand, Li Jicheng did his best to flatter the Celestial Empire. He not only promised an annual tribute of five million taels of silver and one million dan of grain, but also gave Jianghua Island to the Chinese Empire as an advance base.