Chapter seven hundred and forty-eight country destruction
On August 18, Zhong Feng led the Northern Expedition to attack Nanhan Mountain City.
After defeating a North Korean night attack force in Fengcheng, Liaodong on August 5th, the hundreds of thousands of North Korean troops were defeated and fled in panic. Zhong Feng commanded the cavalry to chase and kill them. However, there were not enough cavalry, and only more than 20,000 deserters were captured and killed. In the end,
Down, Fifty-three thousand Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Fengcheng.
Although the North Korean army originally numbered 170,000 people, and more than 50,000 people were beheaded, which was less than one-third of the North Korean army, the non-combat losses of the defeated troops during their escape were also very high. The North Korean defeated troops collapsed in Liaodong Province.
To escape back to North Korea, they had to climb mountains and ridges, and they had nothing to eat along the way.
Zhong Feng estimated that half of the North Korean servants would starve to death on the road.
Therefore, in the battle of Fengcheng, Zhong Feng can be said to have defeated the 170,000 North Korean army. No matter how evil-minded the two groups of North Korean nobles are, they may not be able to assemble another army capable of fighting.
After Zhong Feng mopped up the defeated troops near Fengcheng for ten days, he led 12,000 Northern Expedition troops across the sea to attack Seoul.
Li Zhi's current navy has fifty ships and twelve ironclads. If it takes a short distance, each ship can carry four hundred people, and Zhong Feng's troops and baggage can be transported to Seoul in two trips. So it only takes
After three days, Zhong Feng reached Seoul, not far from the sea.
However, when he arrived in Seoul, Zhong Feng found that the North Korean king Li Zhu had escaped. Li Zhu took civil and military officials and members of the royal family and fled to Namhan Mountain City and hid in the mountains to defend themselves.
The so-called Namhansan Fortress is a castle built by the Joseon royal family on "Namhansan Mountain" fifty miles southeast of Seoul. The mountain fortress is located on the top of a mountain 500 meters above sea level. The perimeter of the entire city is high and dangerous, while the middle is low and easy to defend. The perimeter of the mountain fortress
Eighteen miles away, the city is divided into an inner and outer city. The outer city wall is two feet and three feet high and has a rectangular shape from east to west. There are 4 gates and 6 secret doors. The garrison tower for commanding soldiers is located on the high ground inside the city.
The mountain city was a place where the Korean royal family took refuge. When the Manchus attacked North Korea, the Korean king hid in the mountain city of Nanhan and finally received a conditional surrender. This time, facing Zhong Feng's elite tiger warriors, Li Jian was prepared to do the same thing, hoping that
Can save the lives of members of the North Korean royal family.
Of course, North Korea's monarchs and ministers all know that this hope is very slim.
In the palace of Namhan Mountain Castle, Li Zhu and his eldest son Li Su had a fierce quarrel.
Li Bo slammed the table angrily and shouted to King Li Zhu: "If my father had listened to me earlier and agreed to Li Zhi when he asked for fifteen million taels of silver, how could we have reached this point today? Now I am in North Korea.
Facing the disaster of annihilation, I am afraid that the country will be destroyed and the species will be destroyed, all because of your self-righteousness!"
All the officials and royal members in the palace looked at the King of Korea.
King Li Zhuo has an unshirkable responsibility for North Korea to reach this stage. He stood up to fight Li Zhi twice, but he was full of self-righteousness and arrogance, completely unaware that Tianjin's soldiers and horses were far more powerful than this era.
Strength. Especially in this second battle with the Jiangbei Army, Li Zhu pushed North Korea, which was already in danger, into the abyss.
When Li Zhu heard his son's words, he sighed deeply and sat on the throne without saying a word.
The crown prince Li Bo waved his sleeves angrily and said loudly: "Now North Korea is over, it's all over!"
Now, not only did Li Zhi not fall into the quagmire of the intruders and the Jiangbei Army, but he defeated two groups of North Korean servants in the night battle. In this way, Li Zhi must impose the most severe punishment on North Korea. It is conceivable that not only North Korea
If the royal family cannot be saved, I am afraid that the entire North Korea will no longer be a country, and the two groups of nobles will be completely wiped out.
Hearing Li Bo's angry roar, the North Korean officials and royal family members in the palace could not help but feel sad, and all of them covered their sleeves and started crying.
Next, North Korea will be subjugated and the two groups of nobles will be wiped out. Officials know this tragic future but have no ability to resist. How can they not cry with sadness?
The helpless cries of men rang out in the palace, which overwhelmed the Korean palace ladies holding incense cauldrons. The palace ladies finally understood that this centuries-old dynasty was coming to an end, and they were no longer willing to continue to serve the men in the palace.
.They put down their tools and ran out in a hurry, each running for his own life.
Li Bo took a breath as he looked at the palace ladies escaping in small steps.
He pointed at his perished father and shouted loudly: "The matter has come to this, and there is no point in resisting anymore. If you lead all the civil and military officials out of the city gate and surrender to General Li Zhi, you may be able to preserve the blood of the Korean clan.
Let the officials in Tianjin not go on a killing spree."
Li Zhu heard his son's angry roar and trembled on the throne, but he did not dare to go out and surrender anyway.
Everyone was crying there, but suddenly they heard a loud noise coming from outside.
Li Bo was so excited that he opened the window of the palace and looked in the direction of the city gate.
Are there any soldiers guarding the city gate? Only ten hot air balloons were seen floating in the sky above the city gate. The Tiger Army soldiers on the hot air balloons kept shooting at the North Korean forbidden troops on the city wall, causing the North Korean soldiers to run away with their heads in their hands, and were completely defeated.
Seeing such a scene, Li Bo felt as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water on him, freezing him from head to toe. Now that the soldiers on the city wall were in disarray, he didn't even have a chance to surrender, and he was about to be invaded into the mountain city.
The Huben Army cooks in one pot.
But Li Pu thought wrongly. The hot air balloon did not park at the top of the city to open the city gate. The hot air balloon seemed to be playing tricks on the North Korean soldiers. It didn't even bother to open the city gate. After dispersing the soldiers on the city gate, it went directly towards Li Pu.
The palace on my side flew over.
Li Bo watched the hot air balloon flying closer and closer in the sky, and finally flew a little in front of the palace where he was.
Li Pu secretly thought that was bad. When he looked back, he found that his father had escaped from the palace and hid somewhere. The officials and royal family members were in chaos in the palace. Then Li Pu heard a bang and a
The flaming rocket shot down from the hot air balloon and shot hard into the roof of the palace.
The rocket crashed through the roof and plunged into the ground in the middle of the hall. Li Shu glanced at the rocket and the rocket exploded. A huge shock wave shot out from the rocket. A huge rosewood chair flew up.
, hit Li Bo hard on the head, Li Bo's eyes darkened and he fainted.
The soldiers on the ten hot air balloons seemed to be using the North Korean monarchs and ministers as toys. They parked on the palace complex in the middle of the mountain city and used sniper rifles and rocket launchers to shoot at the North Korean authorities who were running around in the palace, blowing up the connected buildings.
The five palaces are riddled with holes.
Finally, North Korean officials realized that the situation was over and stopped hiding.
They captured the Korean King Li Zhu who was hiding in the dark room, tore a strip of cloth from his dragon robe, and tied his hands behind his back. Li Zhu resisted fiercely, stared, and cursed the man who tied him.
The minister is a treacherous minister. But he can't defeat four hands with two fists. How can he withstand the siege of hundreds of people?
North Korea's civil and military officials escorted Li Zhu out of the palace and knelt under the hot air balloon.
Hundreds of officials and royal family members were lying on the ground, kowtowing to the hot air balloons in the sky, without any attempt to resist. North Korea was completely dead. No matter how Li Zhi dealt with the peninsula, the North Koreans would not have the ability to resist.
