Eunuch Wei wanted to cross the river, and all the notices issued to North Korea were written. As the direct troops of the father-in-law, it was impossible for the Navy to violate the order, so he immediately mobilized to organize warships of all sizes and civilian ships to implement the order of the father-in-law to cross the river.

However, the river in the eyes of this father-in-law was actually not the Yalu River, but the Ah Ye Ku River, which is the Tumen River in his previous life. This river originated in the Ming Dynasty, flowed through the Protectorate of Mirror City, and finally went north to the Far East, and injected into the Sea of ​​Japan on the border between Russia and North Korea in later generations.

Aye Ku River was originally an inland river in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty set up many guards on both sides of the river to recruit Jurchens. Later, the Li family of Korea continued to expand its territory north through suppression and expelling Jurchens, and eventually turned the south bank of the Aye Ku River into North Korean territory, with the jurisdiction of the Jingcheng Protectorate, and six counties (counties) including Huining, Funing, Zhongcheng, Wencheng, Qingyuan, and Qingxing.

Therefore, after Nurhaci rose, he often instructed the Jurchen soldiers to cross the river to attack the Koreans, because in the view of Jianzhou, these places were originally belonged to them.

"Korea is a small country, with less than one-tenth of the Celestial Empire. Seoul has only tens of thousands of soldiers. Most of the places are temporarily recruited miscellaneous soldiers composed of young and strong men. These miscellaneous soldiers are defeated without any training. Not to mention the heavenly soldiers, even the Jurchens can fight them and flee..."

The concerns of the North Korean official Kim, who wrote to Seoul, who was arrested and imprisoned, finally appeared. The North Koreans under the former Jianzhou Jurchen ruled all the virtual and realities of the "mother country" and tried their best to induce the Ming army to cross the border to invade.

Just as Jin saw in the Kuandi area, during the Ming army's large and small military operations, the captured Koreans acted as accomplices. They either led the way for the Ming army, acted as auxiliary laborers, or directly put on armor to serve the Ming army. The Ming army's killing scared the Koreans. In order not to be killed like the Jurchens, the Koreans rushed to work hard for the Ming army...

About one hundred Koreans were formed into a squadron, responsible for the guide and vanguard of the Imperial Army after crossing the river. Their captain was Jin Guonan, who was the clan of the former Xiaodian Jianzhou Jialaezhen Jin Deqing. The Jin and Han surnames are two major surnames of the Koreans in Jianzhou, equivalent to the Zhang and Li surnames of the Han people.

With the explanation of South of Jin Dynasty's currying favor, Eunuch Wei roughly understood the reality of the Jingcheng Protectorate.

Strictly speaking, this so-called Mirror City Protectorate should be North Korea's "Tao", and its area may be only a mansion in the Ming Dynasty. It is just like a palm-sized place, but North Korea has set up it in the name of the Protectorate, which has ruined the title of "Protectorate" for no reason.

I think of the Protectorate in my Han Dynasty, which one is not a behemoth that exists in several countries or even dozens of countries in the territory of thousands of miles!

It seems that bragging is always a feature of North Korea.

My father-in-law smiled knowingly.

From the actual situation, the main purpose of North Korea's establishment of the Mirror City Protectorate is probably to deal with the Jurchens. After all, the Mirror City is located in the northernmost part of the Joseon Dynasty. For Korea, the Jurchen ethnic groups are equivalent to the nomadic peoples in the northern border of the Han Dynasty, so this so-called Protectorate exists.

However, no matter whether you are a Taoist or a Protectorate, what your father-in-law cares most is how many soldiers there are.

As a result, he was very excited.

The Protectorate of Jingcheng does not have the "Central Army" of North Korea. The Protectorate of the Protectorate and the North Korean troops in each county are all taking turns to serve in the local areas, which is equivalent to the "reserve" of militias. Or in other words, it is equivalent to the bow capture and patrol in the Ming Dynasty.

After "mobilization", the troops that the Mirror City Protectorate could be recruited should be between 8,000 and 13,000, but the regular rotation means that no more than 3,000 people would be able to "work".

It's also a terrible sight in weapons and equipment.

Basically, the Korean soldiers in Jingcheng used cold weapons such as spears, and firearms such as bird guns, and there were no firearms such as bird guns.

It’s not that North Korea does not have firearm troops, they have many, and there are many. The Koreans call musketeers "Good Hands". They are the main force of the North Korean army and are also elite, with a population of about 30,000. However, these "Good Hands" are under the command of the Ball Gun Hall under the Imperial Guard Battalion and are mainly stationed in Seoul. There are also some elite good hands in the southern sections to guard against Japan.

The Ionchen War scared North Korea. For more than ten years, North Korea's military has almost always been tilted to the south. In the north, only a small number of "Central Army" stationed on Ping'an Road.

In fact, it was not until the Battle of Sarhu that the Later Jin officially rose and became a major enemy in North Korea that North Korea tilted its military preparations from the south to the north.

At this moment, there are very few Korean troops in Ping An Dao and Hamkyung Protectorate. No wonder Eunuch Wei was excited to rub his hands.

He is a man who is accustomed to pinch soft persimmons.

In addition, the official system of North Korea is similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. Both literati governed the army, but they also created an additional system of separation of soldiers and generals, that is, no fixed generals or soldiers, and soldiers all took turns to serve. The Song Dynasty in China also established a system of separation of soldiers and generals, so there is no need to say much about the consequences.

After figuring out the truth and reality of the opposite side, Eunuch Wei was really confident and was the first to cross the river by boat.

In addition to the ceremonial eunuch of the father-in-law, the maritime eunuch, who crossed the river together, there were two thousand officers and soldiers. They were divided into 300 horse teams and 1,700 infantry teams. There were also more than a dozen Jinyiwei from Yizhou, and the team led by a small flag under Tian Gang, named Qiying.

My father-in-law had many ceremonies, with more than thirty flags alone, but this time, he only had a long banner, which was the eunuch who ordered the emperor to personally serve as the eunuch.

After crossing the river, my father-in-law ordered people to send the notice to the nearest North Korea Jongning County, and at the same time ordered the imperial officers and soldiers to harass the Korean people.

"The people of the Chaofu are also the people of my emperor. Since our imperial army is the personal army of the emperor, we should strictly enforce military discipline and not disturb the people. Only in this way can the people of the Chaofu know the benevolence of my emperor and understand the righteousness of my imperial army..."

Under the constraints of the generals, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army were obeying the orders of Eunuch Wei, marched wildly, and did not catch any chickens and dogs along the way, and were full of heavenly soldiers.

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In Korea, those who cannot know Chinese characters will definitely not be officials, and the official uniforms worn by officials are all imitated by the Ming Dynasty. If the Gentiles rashly enter North Korea for no reason, they will only think that they have entered the Ming Dynasty.

Park Jung-tae, the governor of Zhongcheng County, was a fourth-rank official. If he was in the Ming Dynasty, he could be sent to the court as a governor. If he was a Beijing official, he could also go to court to discuss matters. However, in North Korea, he was not a member of the fourth-rank official.

It is probably because the Korean government imitated the Ming Dynasty's official system and was divided into nine ranks and eighteen levels, but officials under the third rank were called lower-rank officials, and only those above the third rank were called upper-rank officials.

In this third-rank hall, the watershed between the North Korean officials. The lower part is not in the flow, and the upper part is only in the flow. And the lower part is not even considered, and it can only be called the sanxia official, with a very low status. The seventh rank in the Ming Dynasty could be a county magistrate, but North Korea could only be a county magistrate from the fifth rank. At most, it was a county professor, which was equivalent to the existence of an official.

The first person to receive reports from villagers that the Mingtian soldiers entered the country was Liu Xianzhong, the magistrate of Nanyang County under Park Jung-tae. Liu Xianzhong was the grandson of the clan of the late North Korean minister, Liu Chenglong. He had served as a clerk in the Lee Sun-sen naval army. Later, with family support, he was able to take office as the magistrate of Nanyang County.

After receiving the news of the Ming army, Liu Xianzhong felt something was wrong. How could the Celestial Dynasty send troops to the court for no reason? This was inconsistent with etiquette, so he refused to send people to welcome him. He ordered the city gate to close the city, summoned villagers to guard the city, and sent people to investigate. He quickly went to the county to report the news, and asked the county magistrate to send troops to resist immediately to prevent the fall of Nanyang.

Park Zhengtai, the governor of Zhongcheng County, was furious and scolded Liu Xianzhong from left and right, saying, "Nanyang is a mess! China is a parent, North Korea and Japan are both sons, but my country is a filial son and a Japanese thief! Now that the parents are here, how can the filial son be kept in the door and not welcome him!"
Chapter completed!