Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 271 The Liao army rebelled and defeated Duan Yuyan!
Li Chengliang's heartfelt words.

As the deputy commander-in-chief, Yin Zhengmao was not moved, but his hair stood on end.

People can express their thoughts without scruples only in one situation, that is, when they are in absolute control.

Li Chengliang is sure to defeat him.

However, Yin Zhengmao was actually a deputy commander-in-chief and a deputy general, with the same rank as Li Chengliang, so he was not frightened by Li Chengliang's power. He was very sober and said, "I will call you the commander-in-chief for the time being and advise you to turn back from your wrong path. Our Liao army has always longed for peace, and the 50,000 iron-blooded soldiers swore their allegiance to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. If we rebel, as long as the emperor issues an edict, the whole army will obey the order and disband, and then you and your family will die without a burial place."

"Yangshi, I have thought about this much more clearly and far-reachingly than you. What I am doing is a desperate fight."

Li Chengliang stood up, stared at Yin Zhengmao and said, "Your Majesty is far more cruel than any other emperor in history. Even Emperor Taizu Gao cannot compare to you. According to the harsh laws of the emperor, anyone who embezzles more than one million taels of silver will be executed. Yang Shi, the words loyalty and filial piety cannot save you, nor your family!"

"I'm sorry, I can't do that!" Yin Zhengmao said without hesitation.

The ancestor of the Yin family was Yin Xun, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Yin family's ancestral home was in Danyang, Nanzhili. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt, and with the rise of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, after destroying the Western Xia and Jin Dynasties, it headed straight for the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the first year of Deyou, Yin Xun, as a general, followed Prime Minister Jia Sidao from Lin'an to Wuhu to resist the enemy. However, the Yuan army was too powerful, so Yin Xun retreated to She County, Huizhou Prefecture along the original route. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yin family followed Yin Xun to She County.

Throughout the Yuan Dynasty, no member of the Yin family ever served the Yuan court. They would rather their family be ruined than betray China.

Different road non-phase plan.

When Yin Zhengmao arrived at the main tent, he was immediately stopped by several vicious lieutenants. Li Chengliang was behind him and sighed, "In this case, Yangshi may not be able to leave."

As Li Chengliang finished speaking, two captains came up and skillfully twisted Yin Zhengmao's arms backwards. In the blink of an eye, he was tied up tightly.

The captured Yin Zhengmao did not panic, but said calmly: "It's not that easy for you to arrest me without the imperial edict!"

Again.

The Liaodong Army was not ruled by Li Chengliang alone.

Even though Li Chengliang was the commander-in-chief and the highest-ranking general here, he could not easily take down the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy generals.

"Search!" Li Chengliang ignored him and pointed at Yin Zhengmao and ordered the captain.

Just search and you will understand.

A letter was "found" on Yin Zhengmao. A lieutenant brought it to Li Chengliang. Li Chengliang took it without opening it. He looked at Yin Zhengmao with a smile and said, "You have had secret dealings with the Jianzhou Jurchens, betrayed the Ming Dynasty, provided them with food and weapons, and helped the Jurchens evade suppression and raise their own people. I'm afraid that such a crime is enough to kill you a hundred times. Even if I behead you now, no one will object, and they will even say that I did a good job!"

In this world, no one hates the Jianzhou Jurchens, a group of heartless people, more than the Liaodong Army. Kill the traitors, just kill them.

frame!

This is a blatant frame-up!

Yin Zhengmao's eyes were bloodshot and he wanted to curse Li Chengliang, the villain, but the leading lieutenant general, Li Chengliang's younger brother Li Chengcai, took out the prepared black cloth and blocked Yin Zhengmao's mouth.

Regardless of what he said or how much he quarreled, Li Chengliang had no intention of killing Yin Zhengmao. He thought that he would be useful in the future. He said, "Let him rest well after he is sent to the foster home."

Li Chengcai took the order and dragged the struggling Yin Zhengmao into the back tent. No matter how hard Yin Zhengmao tried, the knot was a pig's hoof and even a pig couldn't break free, let alone him.

After dealing with Yin Zhengmao, Li Chengliang and Li Chengcai brought their personal troops to the side tent.

People in the main tent were playing chess, and people in the side tent were drinking. When the general and the lieutenant general arrived, the officers in the tents stood up and saluted.

Li Chengliang said: "Read it!"

Li Chengcai opened the letter and read out the contents. Everyone was shocked. The four officers who were close to Yin Zhengmao immediately questioned him. "I don't believe that you can accuse General Yin of colluding with the enemy based on a letter whose authenticity is unknown!"

Hear the words.

The officers in the tent also became more suspicious.

Facing the doubt, Li Chengliang said calmly: "Li Ping, Huang Sheng, Zhang Fei, Liu Cang, I intercepted the intelligence about the secret communication with the enemy tribe, and there is also evidence of your evil intentions. Left and right, take them down!"

"Yes."

Before the four men had time to figure out what was going on, the general's personal soldiers rushed up, captured two of them one at a time, and tied them up tightly according to the treatment given to Yin Zhengmao.

The officer who raised the question, Li Ping, suddenly jumped up and asked, twisting his neck, "You said we were secretly communicating with the enemy and plotting something bad. What evidence do you have? It's not that easy to kill people just based on your words!"

"Search them!"

The order was given.

The royal guards soon found evidence from Li Ping and the other three that they had contacts with Wang Gao and Nurhaci, leaders of the Jianzhou Jurchens.

Li Chengliang laughed grimly and asked, "With something like this in your arms, what else do you have to say?"

"It's not ours, that thing is not ours." Li Ping shouted loudly: "Even if it is ours, who would carry these things with them?"

"Humph!"

Li Chengliang sneered, and the energy came out of his Dantian, making him look even more ferocious. He drew the sword from his waist and walked to Li Ping and said, "You thief, you are about to die, but you still want to quibble!"

As he said that, he thrust his sword horizontally, and the long sword went straight through Li Ping's waist and hips. He screamed and fell to the ground.

Then he suddenly pulled out the bloody sword and stabbed Huang Sheng, Zhang Fei, and Liu Cang in succession. He wiped the sword back and forth on the sole of his boot with ease and inserted it into the sheath calmly. "Take away the bodies. The letter has the location of the Jianzhou Jurchens. Everyone, surround the Falun Temple immediately!"

Seeing how ferocious he was, all the generals in the tent dared not speak a word to argue with him, and they just waited to go to Falun Temple to meet him.

If the remnants of the Jurchens were hiding there, it would prove that what the general said was true, and that it was a fact that Yin Zhengmao, Li Ping and others were in secret contact with the enemy.

The cage that holds the wild beast will naturally be where the hunter says it is.

When 50,000 Liaodong troops surrounded Falun Temple, Wang Gao and Nurhaci immediately realized that they had been deceived.

The Liaodong Army was suppressing the enemy, while the Jurchen Army was protecting their leaders Wang Gao and Nurhaci to break out. Under Li Chengliang's deliberate arrangement, the encirclement in the east was broken. Li Chengliang personally led 40,000 troops in pursuit and killing, leaving 10,000 troops to clean up the battlefield.

During the pursuit, Wang Gao was caught up and died.

Nurhaci was left alone running all the way, and before he knew it, he had crossed mountains, rivers, and rivers. When he crossed the green river, Nurhaci breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Chengliang also breathed a sigh of relief.

The peninsula is not big.

The Yalu River is only 800 miles away from Seoul, the capital of the Goryeo Kingdom, which is equivalent to the distance from the capital of the Ming Dynasty to Datong Town. "Pass the order down, Nurhaci is in Pyongyang, chase him, and kill him if he is blocked along the way!"

Li Chengliang declared war on the Goryeo Kingdom without declaring war, claiming that the Kingdom was hiding the remnants of the Jurchens.

...the capital city.

The cabinet, the six ministries, and all the offices were in motion. A steady stream of news came from the northeast, a mixture of true and false, it was dizzying.

First, Li Chengliang, commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, reported to the court that Yin Zhengmao, deputy commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, and four of his officers had colluded with the Jurchens. The evidence was irrefutable, so Yin Zhengmao was captured by Li Chengliang, and Li Ping and four others were beheaded in public.

The evidence of the crime has been transmitted to the capital.

Afterwards, Li Chengliang led his army to besiege Falun Temple. The Jurchens were destroyed, and their leader Wang Gao was beheaded. Only less than a hundred people, including Nurhaci, escaped.

Wang Gao's head has been sent to the capital.

Nurhaci and dozens of other Jurchens fled into Goryeo, and Li Chengliang led an army of 40,000 to pursue them.

Li Chengliang reported that Goryeo had ignored the authority of its overlord and refused to hand over Nurhaci and others, which made him furious. The entire army was furious and captured ten cities including Lianke and Gaimu from Goryeo.

Later, upon hearing that Nurhaci and others were escorted by the Goryeo Kingdom to the secondary capital Pyongyang, Li Chengliang immediately abandoned Anshi, first took Ugut City, and then went straight to Pyongyang.

It is only three hundred miles from the Yalu River to Pyongyang.

Faced with the 40,000 Liaodong troops who were fully equipped with sufficient wages, food, firearms and powerful crossbows, the unprepared Goryeo Kingdom lost Pyongyang.

Li Chengliang, who did not find Nurhaci and others in Pyongyang, continued to lead his troops southward and headed straight for Seoul, the capital of the Goryeo Kingdom.

The land was blocked, and the envoys sent by the Kingdom of Goryeo could only travel by sea day and night to the Ming Dynasty, enter the capital, and protest to the Ming Dynasty, questioning why the Ming Dynasty declared war on the Kingdom of Goryeo without declaring war. The court said it knew nothing about this.

Rumor has it that Li Chengliang and the Liaodong army rebelled.

After appeasing the Goryeo envoys, the cabinet immediately went to Okheol Palace to meet the emperor.

Inside Yuxi Palace.

Ambergris still exists, and it certainly has the effect of calming the mind and soul, but at this moment, it cannot calm the soul of any of the elders.

The eunuch Lu Fang, who was in charge of the Imperial Household Department on duty, brought an embroidered cushion for Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, Hu Zongxian, Li Chunfang and Wang Chonggu to sit on.

Lu Fang also took out the maps of the northeast of the Ming Dynasty and the Kingdom of Goryeo and placed them on the empty space in front of the elders.

Zhu Houcong walked out of the temple, and Zhang, Gao, Hu, Li, and Wang bowed to him.

Zhu Houcong walked to the map. The place in front of his feet was exactly the location of Liaodong Town of the Ming Dynasty. He motioned the ministers to stand up and asked, "Where is Yu Dayou?"

In the previous memorials of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, Yu Dayou mixed into the baggage train that was delivering cattle and sheep to the Liaodong Army and headed from the grassland to the northeast.

It can be said that Yu Dayou was the senior official of the Ming Dynasty closest to Li Chengliang.

"Your Majesty, according to the date, Yu Dayou should have arrived in Liaodong Town by now. With Yu Dayou around, there will be no chaos in Liaodong Town." Hu Zongxian stepped forward and answered.

A man's reputation is like a general's prestige.

In the Southeast War and the Northern Expedition, Yu Dayou killed the most Japanese pirates and northern barbarian cavalry, even Qi Jiguang could not compare to him.

Even if Yu Dayou entered Liaodong alone, he was able to stabilize Liaodong Town. This is the power of the great general of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, according to intelligence from the Jinyiwei, Dongchang and other sources, the Liaodong Army did not rebel. The 10,000 Liaodong Army that stayed in Liaodong to clean up the battlefield and the 40,000 Liaodong Army that attacked the Goryeo Kingdom were all acting in accordance with Li Chengliang's military orders, and in their hearts they believed that they were clearing out the remnants of the Jurchens for the Ming Dynasty.

As for killing the Goryeo royal army, it was just a matter of convenience. The other reason was that the Goryeo Kingdom was believed to be hiding enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to teach the Goryeo Kingdom a lesson with an iron fist.

If nothing unexpected happens, wherever Yu Dayou goes, the Liaodong Army will wake up.

Liaodong Town is safe, and the Liaodong Army in Liaodong Town is also safe. However, as time goes by, the Liaodong Army that invades the Goryeo Kingdom may be bewitched by Li Chengliang.

According to the Goryeo envoys, the 40,000 Liaodong troops led by Li Chengliang killed anyone they saw on Goryeo territory. Every time they captured a city, they looted the city treasury and then distributed the property to all the Liaodong troops, even the dead, who received a share to send back to their families in the country.

You know, Pyongyang, which Li Chengliang had just captured, has always held an important strategic position in Goryeo history.

When the Goryeo Kingdom was first established 700 years ago, it was announced that "Although the ancient capital of Pyongyang has been abandoned for a long time, its foundation still exists, but it is overgrown with thorns... It is advisable to relocate people to settle there in order to consolidate the frontier and benefit future generations." Therefore, "people from Yan, Bai, Huang, Hai, and Feng states were relocated to settle there and establish a Grand Protectorate," which started Goryeo's management of the Pyongyang area.

Seven hundred years ago, the Goryeo Dynasty designated Pyongyang as "Western Capital".

After hundreds of years of construction, it has become quite prosperous. Willow trees are planted all over Pyongyang, earning it the reputation of "Liujing". Therefore, the famous Goryeo poet Zheng Zhichang sang the praises of Pyongyang's scenery: "The purple alleys are blown by the spring breeze and the drizzle, the light dust does not move, and the willow branches are slanted." This poem was also circulated in the Ming Dynasty.

Pyongyang occupies the peninsula's rich land and wealth, with "rich land and abundant silver production", which is beyond the reach of even the capital Seoul.

The huge Pyongyang treasury was looted by Li Chengliang, and the money and treasures were worth more than tens of millions. If they were divided among the 40,000 people, everyone would get several hundred taels of silver.

Blood and money are the two things that can most arouse the animal nature in people's hearts.

If this continues, those 40,000 people will probably become Li Chengliang's diehard fans.

Once Li Chengliang captured Seoul again, it would be unknown which one would be recognized, the emperor's decree or Li Chengliang's order.

However, King Yi Ho of Goryeo gathered 150,000 Goryeo troops, set out from Seoul, and headed north to fight a decisive battle with Li Chengliang. It is still unknown who will win or lose, but the war will definitely continue for some time, and there is not much time left for the Ming Dynasty to operate.

Hu Zongxian and Wang Chonggu made a comprehensive assessment and concluded that the Goryeo king's army could not defeat Li Chengliang's army.

The new weapons developed by the Jinyiwei were simply a crushing force in traditional cold weapon warfare.

"Where is the Kitahara Construction Corps?"

"Your Majesty, it's roughly here." Wang Chonggu pointed to the edge of Liaodong Town.

Yu Dayou originally drove cattle and sheep to Liaodong, but after receiving the news, he left the main force and accelerated his journey to Liaodong.

During this period of time, the Beiyuan Construction Corps traveled a considerable distance from west to east.

"Propagate my order. Li Chengliang rebelled and led the Liao army to invade Goryeo. This was not authorized by the imperial court. All his actions have nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. I and the Ming Dynasty will help the Goryeo Dynasty eliminate the traitors. Remember to tell this to the Goryeo envoys."

"Also, order Yu Dayou to lead the remaining troops of Liaodong Town into the Kingdom of Goryeo, capture the ten cities of Lianke and Gaimu held by Li Chengliang, attack Anshi, cut off the rear of Li Chengliang's army, and wait for the arrival of the North Plains Construction Corps before heading south to eliminate the rebellion."

Two decrees were issued in succession.

The first edict denied Li Chengliang's actions and said they had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.

But why does the second purpose sound so much like taking advantage of someone's misfortune?

Li Chengliang let Yu Dayou take over the Goryeo city that he had captured, and he also wanted to take over Anshi of Goryeo during the chaos. In this way, the entire peninsula plain would be open to the Ming Dynasty.

Regardless of how the battle between Li Chengliang's army and the Goryeo king's army plays out, Yu Dayou and the North Plains Construction Corps, who are taking advantage of Li Chengliang, will probably not leave the peninsula easily...

(End of this chapter)