After this issue was settled, Zhu Fangyuan stopped staying at the mouth of the Tumen River and set off back to Seoul. The annihilation of the fleet was not only a problem of half the navy being missing, but there were also many follow-up things to do.
Zhu Yunzhen originally planned to talk with him about organizing an attack on the Jurchen tribe immediately. The weather is already cold and the river has frozen, but luckily it has not snowed yet. Although the temperature is a little lower, as long as the clothes are warm and the food is enough, it will be at least better than the previous one.
It's suitable for fighting when it's hot in summer.
And fighting is not difficult. They have cannons. In winter, when the rivers are frozen, it is relatively easy to move around with small cannons. They can blow up any kind of village. In addition, there are many Jurchens and Mongols who have taken refuge with them, including the Ainu people.
People can take advantage of it, and they may not be afraid of the Jurchen savages who want to be exterminated in the mountains and forests; besides, most people have cat winter in winter, so they will think that there are still people who are full and want to beat them.
But how could Zhu Fangyuan be in the mood to join forces with him to annihilate the Jurchen tribe at this time? He didn't know that the navy had suffered heavy losses when they first discussed it, but he was still interested. Now that the fleet sent out has been completely wiped out, it will cost a lot of money to appease the wealthy families and support the soldiers.
How could he be willing to spend money to invade the Jurchen tribe?
After Zhu Fangyuan refused, Zhu Yunzhen said viciously: "If you Koreans don't want to do it, we will do it ourselves."
He had already made arrangements before he came to negotiate, and he was about to lead the troops to fight in person, but Xu Zengshou stopped him with his life.
Xu Zengshou said: "Your Highness, we are not fighting the Jurchens from the front, but making a sneak attack. The roads along the way are not easy to walk. There will be many places on both sides of the road where a few people can ambush. Your Highness, you can go there in person."
It’s too dangerous to fight.”
This kind of ambush by a few people on the roadside will not have a big impact on the combat effectiveness of the army; but if Zhu Yunzhen is killed, it will be irreparable.
Li Qing, Qin Sen and others also urged that Zhu Yunxuan finally had to give up the plan of leading the troops himself. He appointed Xu Zengshou as the chief general and Qin Sen as the deputy general, leading a thousand regular troops, 500 Jurchens, 100 Mongolians, and Ayi.
We need 200 men and three small cannons with a range of about one mile to attack a Jurchen tribe with more than 2,000 people and 400 to 500 strong men. If there is no snow after the elimination of this Jurchen tribe, we can attack another Jurchen tribe and
It's a tribe of about the same size.
On the morning of November 16th, they set out from Fangchuan Village west of Beichuan and officially began their campaign against the Haidong Jurchens.
When it was getting late that day, Xu Zengshou saw that it was getting late, announced that he would stop marching, and chose a fairly flat place to set up camp.
With his order, each military general organized his troops to set up camp. For a time, the felling of trees and the erection of tents became more lively than during the march.
Chang An wielded an ax and chopped down a big tree, and together with Zhao Xing, they pulled the tree to the camp to set up camp. When he turned around, he saw a man who, although quite strong, was much fairer than them, was also with others.
Pulling the wood, he said with a smile: "Mr. Liu, why are you pulling the wood yourself like us ordinary soldiers? Why can't an official like you sit comfortably in the tent?"
Chang An and Zhao Xing were two servants who were expelled from the Chang Mansion eight years ago because they almost made a mistake. (Chapter 75) The two of them were exiled to Kaiyuan City at that time, and Zhu Song enlarged the number of the three guards of the King of England.
The two of them were recruited into the army. They fought a few battles with the local Jurchen tribe and made some achievements, and were promoted to the general banner and the small banner. Later, they were taken in by Qin Sen as his own soldiers, and Qin Sen came.
Yongming also brought them here.
The personal life of high-ranking officials is naturally better than that of ordinary households, but when they go out to march and fight, Qin Sen lets them set up camp in order to show that he treats everyone equally.
The person they called Mr. Liu was Liu Yuquan, the former magistrate of Shangyuan County who was exiled to Liaodong for misinterpreting the law (Chapter 276). After he was exiled to Liaodong, he was very popular in the local area because he had endured hardship and was an educated man.
One of the experiences of being appointed as the British King's left guard was also brought to Yongming by Qin Sen. Because he could ride a horse and endure hardships, he was brought here to help manage logistics and manage prisoners in this war.
Liu Yuquan knew that they were just making a joke, so he smiled and said: "I'm not an official figure, so what's the point of pulling wood? When I get promoted in the future, I won't come even if you beat me to death.
Work."
The two joked with each other a few more times, then arrived at the camp and split the wood as required to build a stronghold.
After the camp was set up, it was time for dinner. Each person had a bowl of hot broth and hurriedly swallowed it with pancakes. Some of the rabbits, birds or pheasants the Jurchens caught while traveling in the mountains and forests were given to them to cook meat.
Some of the soup was left to be grilled and eaten by myself. Of course, the leading Jurchen leader was very discerning and gave some to Xu Zengshou, Qin Sen and others.
Xu Zengshou practiced the teachings passed down by his father: "It doesn't matter how extravagant you are when you are not fighting. But when you are fighting, you must eat with the soldiers. The fewer the soldiers, the more important it is. Before going to bed, you must also inspect the military camp to let the soldiers who are fine
Let's all go to bed.' Of course, Xu Da also considered that his sons, who were usually well-dressed and well-fed, might not be able to withstand the long march, so he told them that they could secretly bring some bacon and candies for dinner in the evening.
But how could he dare to eat the Jurchens’ barbecue in public at this time? After accepting it, he ordered the barbecue to be cut into small pieces and later given to the soldiers who were not able to eat with everyone.
After dinner, it was already dark. The grooms went to feed the horses and sentries stood guard. Baihu, deputy Baihu and others drove their soldiers into the camp to sleep. Even the Mongols, Jurchens and Ainu people
Entered the barracks and went to sleep.
Xu Zengshou called the Jurchen leaders who were familiar with the local geography to inquire about the nearby terrain, discussed tomorrow's march route with Qin Sen and others, inspected the barracks again, and went to sleep.
Suddenly the whole camp was quiet, except for the snorting of the horses from time to time, and even the soldiers on guard made no sound. The moonlight was dark tonight, and looking from a distance, it seemed like a new village of common people had appeared here.
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Zhao Xing was awakened by suffocation. Today, for some unknown reason, it was not yet dawn when he was suffocated. Obviously, he would not be awakened until after dawn on weekdays.
He hurriedly got up to go to the toilet. Chang An, who was sleeping next to him, was awakened by his movements and said to him: "Aren't you going to go to the tub?"
Zhao Xing nodded, and Chang An immediately kicked him and said, "Young people are not allowed to use the toilet in the tent, go outside."
Zhao Xing said with a grimace: "It's such a big day outside, but your butt won't freeze off?"
Chang An kicked him again and said, "No! You are shouting in the camp and it still stinks to death! Get out quickly."
At this time, several other Qin Sen's guards were also awakened and asked Zhao Xing to go outside.
Zhao Xing cursed them in his mind and had to put on his clothes and walk out of the tent to go to the specially set up toilet.
When he left the tent, he wanted to curse, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his voice was not heard. Instead, he shouted at the north wind. He quickly closed his mouth and covered his mouth with his hand, for fear that the wind would come in again.
The soldiers on guard naturally wanted to ask him what he was going to do. It took him a long time to make gestures to let the people on guard understand and let him go with a wave of his hand.
He finally finished pooping, wiped his butt clean, quickly got dressed and walked out of the toilet to run back to the camp. There was still half an hour before he got up, so he went back to catch up on his sleep.
He turned his head and glanced at the soldiers standing guard not far from the toilet, sighed in his heart, and was about to trot back to the camp. But at this moment, he heard a roar from behind.
Zhao Xing had been in contact with the Jurchens a lot recently, and he knew it was the Jurchens yelling, but he didn't take it seriously: Jurchens outside Vladivostok would hear people yelling for various reasons from time to time, and he was used to it.
But as soon as he took a few steps, he realized: 'Mr. Qin has told them many times not to yell casually, why did he suddenly yell again now?'
He couldn't help but slow down and turned around to see what was going on. As soon as he arrived near the camp, the soldiers on guard picked up crossbows and pointed them at him and were about to ask him what he was doing. Suddenly, several arrows were shot in from outside the camp, among which
One shot hit the side of the sentry's face, and he died without even a groan.
Zhao Xing was so frightened that he immediately crawled to the ground, and several arrows flew past his head.
At this time, even a fool knew what was going on. Zhao Xing used all his strength to shout loudly: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
At this time, there were some voices coming from outside the camp in front of him, but he couldn't understand them, so he just crawled towards the sentry who was shot dead.
As soon as he touched the crossbow in the sentry's hand, he looked up and saw several barbarians wearing fur coats running outside the camp. One of them waved a big knife in his hand and slashed at the camp, but his sword hit three pieces of wood.
Not even one of them got in.
He immediately put the knife behind his back and used his hands and feet to climb in. Several other people who came here with him also climbed up.
Zhao Xing blocked the dead man in front of him, and then shot several of them to death with ten arrows. At this time, someone ran outside the camp, screamed when they saw the corpse, and shot arrows inside. Zhao Xing turned his body sideways and completely contacted the dead man's body.
The corpses were pressed against each other horizontally, and there were only a few "puff" sounds as several arrows hit the corpse.
He looked up secretly and saw a few barbarians still setting their bows and arrows, and a few others were climbing up.
He was very anxious and took out the crossbow arrows from the corpse to string them up, but it was not easy to string them up while lying on the ground. He was so anxious that he was sweating all over before loading two crossbow arrows. At this time, the person who climbed the fastest was already climbing to the bottom.
Top jumped in.
Zhao Xing shot the man to death with two swish arrows, but several barbarians who followed him had climbed to the top and jumped down, swinging their swords to chop him to death.
He let go of one knife, but the second knife immediately came to his face. Knowing that he could no longer dodge, he closed his eyes and waited for death.