The Bohaido Corps has landed in large numbers in the coastal areas of North Korea, and many Korean rebels have also responded. Daishan was tired of dealing with it, so he had to send envoys to the Shun Dynasty to ask for peace, hoping to become a vassal under the Dashun tributary system.
country.
This time when he sent the envoy Dashun, Daishan even used the name of North Korea and claimed to be the name of the leader of North Korea, Jin Fulin.
He claimed that the Jurchens in Jianzhou originated from Korea, and now they are just returning their ancestral property and not competing with China.
As long as the Sun Dynasty can recognize the legal status of Kim's North Korea, Daishan is willing to draw the Daedong River as the boundary with the Sun Dynasty and cede all the land and household registration of Hamgyong Road and Ping'an Road along the northern edge of North Korea to the great powers.
Liu Fangliang did not express his position on the Qing's envoys sent to sue for peace, but he sent troops to escort the envoys to Beijing and stopped his offensive in northern Korea.
Although most sections of the Yalu River were frozen due to weather reasons, which was no longer suitable for the Shun Army to easily move south and enter North Korea in large numbers, it did show that some Shun Army generals believed that the terms of the peace negotiations could be negotiated.
At this time, the Dashun Army had gone through several months of continuous offensives since the autumn and winter of last year, although it never fought a fierce battle with the Qing Army.
However, due to the long distance, steep terrain, and freezing weather, more than half of the Shun army's military supplies of food and fodder had been consumed.
Under this situation, Liu Fangliang requested to suspend the movement of the army, rest and reorganize the troops of the Shun army, and use the opportunity of peace talks to consolidate his rule over the states and counties in Liaodong, which can be regarded as a pertinent move.
The Qing envoys, after dilly-dallying for a while, did not arrive in Kaifeng until more than May of the fifth year of Tianfa. At this time, the Qing army was mobilized intensively, and Daishan tried his best to cobble together about 50,000 elite troops to hold on.
Mountainous area in northern Korea.
The Eight Banners Army of Manchuria, which used to have iron cavalry and was good at field battles, now faces the aggressive offensive of the Dashun Army, and can only choose to retreat and take advantage of the dangerous terrain in the mountainous areas of northern Korea to build mountain cities for solid defense.
The large number of mountain cities in northern North Korea indeed caused certain difficulties for the Shun army's advance.
During the peace talks between the Shun and Qing Dynasties, Gu Kecheng also lost no time in launching some offensives along Ping'an Road in North Korea.
However, although the Shun Army has been able to occupy an absolute advantage on the field battlefield, once it fell into a siege of a large number of mountain cities, the unfavorable supply conditions for fighting in a foreign country were exposed.
North Korea's local resources are difficult to support and supply Shunjun's large-scale offensive.
Moreover, both Liu Fangliang and Gu Kecheng had received secret orders from the emperor. In order to rule the Korean region for a long time in the future, the Shun army should continue to maintain strict discipline after entering the Korean territory, and should not levy or expropriate military supplies from the Korean people.
This requirement also greatly restricted the Shun Army's ability to collect grain on the front line.
Under such circumstances, Gu Kecheng could only look at the mountain city and sigh.
The Korean War fell into a stalemate and silence for several months.
The Dashun court also fell into a long dispute and wrangling over the peace terms proposed by the Qing envoys.
Li Laiheng himself had taken over the entire territory of Liaodong, and after Dashun's army occupied Mao Lianwei, depriving the Qing army of high-quality war horses, and completely cutting off the Qing Dynasty's communication channels with the hinterland of Northeast China, he had no intention of stepping up the crusade against North Korea.
On the contrary, now that the strength of the Qing army has been greatly weakened, it is actually impossible to pose any threat to the Shun Dynasty.
In order to consolidate the rule of the Manchus in Korea, Jin Fulin, the good emperor and minister of the Jin Dynasty, must continue to implement the series of tyranny that harmed the people.
This will create extremely good prerequisites for the Dashun Army to regain the old lands of the four Lelang counties in the future in the image of the king's division.
Therefore, Li Laiheng did not rush to order the army to enter North Korea. He was actually very satisfied with the conditions proposed by the Qing Dynasty for the cession of Ping An and Xianjing.
As long as the Shun Army firmly controls the Kanbei and Kansai regions of the Korean Peninsula, no matter how the Manchus make trouble in Pyongyang and Seoul, they will never make any big waves, let alone challenge the Shun Army's hegemony in Northeast Asia.
However, the ministers of the DPRK and many loyal people believed that after the recapture of Liaodong, the morale of the Qing army was low, the morale of the army was disintegrated, and the opportunity to restore the Korean state had fully emerged.
At such a great opportunity, wouldn't it be a mistake for the country if we did not immediately send troops south to recover North Korea?
After all, Li Laiheng's own ideas could not be put on the stage, and they were not in line with Dashun's purpose of establishing a country based on benevolence and righteousness.
This historical event will inevitably become a sensitive part of Shun history in later generations.
In the end, Li Laiheng directly instructed Fang Yiren to negotiate peace with the Qing envoys. Fang Yiren tried his best to publicize the reason that the Shun army could no longer continue fighting on the grounds that many soldiers died of illness and freezing during the battle to collect Liao.
At this time, Fang Yiren said that in the battle to capture the Liao army, "Fifty thousand people died in Liao territory, and twice as many were injured; the number of mules and horses froze to death, and the number of dead from illness was 200,000; the country's ten years of accumulation accumulated
, once it is dispersed, it will no longer be possible to fight." This sentence became a major piece of evidence for conscientious republican historians to criticize Li Laiheng in later generations.
Regarding the battle to capture Liao, how many casualties did the Shun army suffer?
It has always been a hot topic of discussion in the Shunshi circle in later generations. Some people came up with the data of 50,000 dead soldiers and 100,000 casualties of the Shun Army based on Fang Yiren's memorial at that time. Some people came up with the data based on the documents of the Military Government.
The total number of casualties of the Shun Army was less than 20,000.
Among the people, due to the vigorous propaganda of Republican historians, the data that the Dashun Northern Expeditionary Army suffered 300,000 casualties out of a total strength of 500,000 troops in the Battle of Liao is most deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At the level of mass media, the historical events of "Reconquering Liao" and "Conquering the East" relied on the particularly developed drama culture during the Shun Dynasty, and many romantic dramas were born, such as Five Tigers Conquered the East and Six Elders Survived the Qing Dynasty.
The most famous among them is undoubtedly the series "Young General Hong Jinglai".
This series was created by Korean literati and takes as the protagonist Hong Kyung-rae, a local Korean marshal who led the anti-Qing rebel army at that time.
Just because North Korea had become a province under the rule of the Shun Dynasty at this time, Hong Jinglai in the play became the illegitimate son of Gu Kecheng, the famous founding general of the Shun Dynasty.
The stories of General Hong mainly show various anecdotes about the Shun army's expedition against the Qing Dynasty and the rescue of the Korean people. Due to Hong Jinglai's perverse temperament, a large number of famous scenes and lines were created in the play.
"You Donglu, just stay here and watch me invite Da Shuntian soldiers to send you to the sky one by one" and "Damn it, why did North Korea become like this"? Later, it was even used by the republicans and became
Part of anti-imperialist literature.
Judging from the situation in the fifth year of Tianfa, North Korea's elite scholar-bureaucrats were undoubtedly disappointed with Shun Dynasty again.
Because in the autumn of this year, the Shun Dynasty finally reached a formal peace agreement with the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty ceded North Korea's Ping'an Road and Hamjing Road to Dashun, and Dashun recognized the status of the Qing Dynasty as a vassal state and officially enthroned Jin Fulin as the king of Korea.
king.
As soon as this incident came out, the whole country was in an uproar, especially the scholars in Liaodong and North Korea were furious. On the day when it was rumored that the peace agreement was reached, a group of imperial students rushed into the imperial palace and destroyed the Fang family.
And because not long later, the emperor violated the terms of the peace treaty and used troops again against the Qing Dynasty, so the result of the peace negotiation was recorded in the official history as the Qing envoys who bribed the Grand Master with large sums of money to achieve it through benevolence.
Three years later, when Dashun resumed its military campaign against North Korea, Fang Yiren was dismissed from the position for assuming the responsibility for peace negotiations. The era of Shunchu's party dominating the court was completely over.
It was not until Fang Yiren later regained his credit for inducing Zheng Sen to surrender to the Shun Dynasty that the Fang Party became active in the political arena of Dashun again.
It was also because Fang Yiren took the blame for being the emperor that his grandson later made a lot of twists and turns on this period of history when he was compiling "Shizu Shilu", which caused more debates among later historians...