The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 573

Japan’s action this time was very fast. Even Li Luo didn’t react. The first 20000 troops landed in quanluo Road, the southernmost tip of North Korea.

Within the next half month, the remaining 80000 troops also arrived one after another, and even Tokugawa Jiaguang went there in person.

Seeing that there are 100000 troops in Japan, Li Luo and all the civil and military ministers of North Korea also know that Japan’s rescue is not just so simple, and they are nervous for a time.

Facts have proved that Li Luo and other North Korean ministers were right. After all 100000 troops landed, Tokugawa Jiaguang’s fangs finally exposed.

There was no hurry to go north at all. Instead, they divided their troops and began to attack the city, pull out the stronghold, loot and kill. For a time, the four southern states, prefectures and counties were all crying.

In just half a month, the southernmost quanluo Road, Shangqing road and Zhongqing road were taken over by the Japanese army. Li Luo and his ministers had to flee to Jiangyuan road in the West.

At this time, Li Luo’s intestines were green with regret and understood that the Japanese were more terrible than the female immortal. At this time, almost everyone missed Daming and was still a Han!

So Li Luo was ready to send envoys to the Central Plains again to ask for help. In order to show his sincerity, he not only brought a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but also sent his own sons.

Obviously, he placed all his hopes on the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Korean dynasty ruled eight roads in total. Now, Ping’an Road, Ning’an Road, Huanghai Road and Gyeonggi road in the north have been occupied by the eight banners, while quanluo Road, Shangqing road and Zhongqing road in the South have been occupied by the Japanese, leaving only the last Gangwon road. If Tokugawa Jiaguang didn’t plan to solve the female immortal first, I’m afraid he couldn’t even keep this last road.

Li Luo was caught off guard by Tokugawa Jiaguang. Hogg and a group of eight flag warriors were also caught off guard. They didn’t expect that in just one month, the Japanese captured three roads in the South and rushed to Seoul.

Although there were some accidents, Haug did not panic, because Japan had no cavalry and the South was more open than the north, so he was still confident even if he learned that 100000 troops had come to Japan this time.

In the past month, Hogg has been living and dreaming in the palace, and most of the other eight flag warriors are the same, but it doesn’t mean that the eight flag has really fallen.

At the order of Hogg, he pushed away the women in his arms one by one, mounted a war horse, carried a bow, a knife and a armour, and became a bloodthirsty wolf again.

Hogg won’t stay in Seoul and wait for the Japanese to call. Instead, he took 6000 warriors and killed them directly. There are only 1000 warriors left in Gyeonggi Province, and only 500 in Seoul.

However, there are more than 20000 captured Korean soldiers, who are distributed all over Gyeonggi to help Baqi manage the place. These Korean soldiers have long been subdued.

Similarly, the three northern roads, each of which left only a thousand warriors, firmly controlled the three roads in their hands.

What’s more outrageous is that some smaller counties, even a dozen eight flag warriors, can hold hundreds of thousands of Korean soldiers.

The reason for this is that all those who dare to resist have been killed, especially the rich officials. Those who do not submit will copy their families and destroy their families. All men will be killed, and women will be divided up by the eight flag warriors.

If you are willing to surrender, not only the family wealth and land will be safe, but also the only important place to manage.

The same is true of ordinary farmers. All the rebellious men will be killed. If people in any village dare to resist, they will kill all the men in one village. Women will be distributed to the captured soldiers, and land will be rewarded to the obedient Korean soldiers.

I have to say that the eight banners have been very skilled. Although Haug can’t compare with Huang Taiji and Dourgen, he is not the kind of reckless man like azig and mangurtai. He knows that more than 50000 people can’t rule such a big Korea in any case by relying on more than 10000 warriors of the eight banners alone, so he chose to kill him first. All the people who killed him are afraid and cold, and then use both grace and power.

Although it was simple and crude, it was this simple and crude means that enabled Haug to stably control the three roads in the north, a mere 3000 people, and enlisted more than 30000 Korean servants, countless large landlords and millions of farmers in the army in just half a year. No one dared to resist.

Even those who had rebellious thoughts during the period, as long as they looked at the skeleton as high as a mountain outside the city, they all gave up the idea of resistance and chose to be obedient.

With fewer people in the eight banners, Haug had to adopt the strategy of killing a part, wooing a small part and deterring most people. Tokugawa Jiaguang’s strategy was not so complex, because there was no shortage of people in Japan.

Therefore, we can imagine the fate of the southern three roads. All the upper class people are broken and killed, men are killed, women are divided, property and land are not divided for the time being. All the ordinary people who survive are trapped in the city, and what awaits them will be a slave like life.

The southern three roads, with a combined population of 56 million, have dropped by half in just half a month. Even if the Japanese samurai swords are sharp, they are full of gaps, so they are sharpening their swords all the way.

As soon as they entered Gyeonggi Province, the leading 20000 Japanese troops encountered 6000 cavalry from Haug. Due to the open terrain and the sudden arrival of cavalry, it was almost just a charge. The 20000 Japanese troops were beaten and collapsed. Ghosts and wolves were chased by cavalry all the way, and countless bodies were lost.

There’s no way. Although Japanese warriors dare to fight and fight, they have almost never fought with cavalry. They don’t know the strength of cavalry and how to form an array to defend cavalry. They only know to rush and kill blindly. In addition, they despise the arrogance of the enemy. They are equipped with Samurai swords, simple armor and a small amount of bows, arrows, birds and guns. There are no cavalry at all, All of them are good players in infantry warfare. When they meet cavalry, the consequences can be imagined.

Only three or four thousand of the 20000 people finally escaped, and the others died under the iron hoof of the eight banners.

Knowing that the vanguard army was defeated, only three or four thousand people escaped back. Tokugawa was surprised and angry. After asking what happened, he didn’t dare to underestimate the eight flag cavalry. The next day, he took 60000 troops to Seoul.

This time, we should be more cautious. We not only camp step by step and play steadily, but also sent a large number of sentinel agents to prevent being caught off guard by the real woman again.

Although the Japanese also have horses, they are not as good as the short legged horses in the south of China. Therefore, the Japanese are naturally short and can run on them. If the tall Central Plains people ride on them, I’m afraid both feet can touch the ground. They are much shorter than the war horses of the eight banners.

When Haug saw that the other side was steady, with a full 60000 troops, he did not dare to resist directly. After all, there were so many warriors left in the eight banners, and one died, so he had to choose to defend Seoul, and the cavalry cruised around the periphery in search of fighters.