Chapter 135: Burning Busan

At dawn, Li Wei was boarding Danluo Island on a boat. The war ended in just one hour. More than 500 surrendered Japanese warriors and more than 1,000 women and children were all captured. However, no one died in the Ming army. He easily captured the large island with a radius of hundreds of miles at the cost of injuring more than a dozen people.

Li Wei was surrounded by hundreds of soldiers and arrived in a castle. The castle was built on a flat ground halfway up the mountain, covering an area of ​​dozens of acres, and was close to the cliffs. This place was originally Wang Xian of the Danluo Kingdom, and later it was the ruling center of Danluo Island. At this moment, more than 1,800 Japanese women, children and elderly people were detained in this castle.

Although the castle is very spacious, it seems very crowded after squeezing into two thousand women and children. In the small square in the middle of the castle, hundreds of women and their children were sitting. No one talked. Each woman held her children tightly in her arms, staring at Li Wei in fear. Around them were hundreds of Ming soldiers, holding spears in their hands, staring at these women and children indifferently.

"Sir, most of these prisoners are women and children. What should we do?" Qianhu Sima Tong scratched his head and asked, these people made him feel embarrassed.

Li Weizheng snorted coldly and said, "The way to deal with them is very simple. First, kill them all and throw them into the sea..."

"My sir, must not!" Before Li Weizheng finished speaking, Lu Siyuan hurriedly stopped him behind him, "If sir, killing them, it will definitely cause the emperor's anger."

"I haven't finished my words yet, why are you anxious?" Li Weizheng glanced at him and continued: "The second solution is to exchange the ten seized goods with women and children. These people are useless to us, but they are useful to the Danei family. Then all the young and strong men are taken back to Weihaiwei and presented them to the emperor as spoils to fight against Japanese pirates in the future."

"Affect the instructions of the lord!" Sima Tong bowed and ran to the castle.

Li Wei looked at Lu Siyuan with a smile, walked through a corridor, and came to a tightly guarded room. The room was empty, with only a chair, and there was a person tied to the chair. It was the Japanese leader, Eiyoshi Ouchi. He was captured alive by the Ming army because he failed to commit suicide. When he saw Li Wei coming in, his eyes were full of resentment.

Li Wei had no expression on his face and waved his hand and said, "Lose his rope!"

Two soldiers came over to loosen their tie for Eiyi Ouchi. Eiyi Ouchi moved his wrists gently and looked at Li Weizheng vigilantly. Li Weizheng turned around and said to Zhou Ming: "Tell him, I plan to hand him over to the Southern Dynasties of Japan."

Zhou Ming translated Li Weizheng's words to him, and an incredible expression appeared in Ouchi Eiyoshi's eyes. Li Weizheng smiled faintly and said, "I heard that the Ouchi family was originally a minister of the Southern Dynasties, but they surrendered to the Northern Dynasties four years ago, but our Ming Dynasty supported the Southern Dynasties. I will persuade Prince Liangcheng of the Southern Dynasties to support you as the new head of the Dauchi family."

After listening to Zhou Ming's translation, Eiyoshi Ouchi said viciously: "You are using me!"

Li Wei was sneering and looked at him disdainfully, "What do you think you are? You are my captive. I can kill you at any time or hand you over to the Goryeo. I am giving you a chance. If you don't want it, then forget it."

After saying that, Li Wei was turning around and leaving, leaving a cold word, "Kill him!"

He walked out the door and suddenly heard Eiyoshi Ouchi shouting loudly in the room. Then Zhou Ming translated his meaning in the room, "Sir, he said he is willing to go to the Southern Dynasties."

Li Wei was stopping, and a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He immediately ordered: "Shima Qianhu led a thousand troops to station on Danluo Island to organize the funeral. The rest of the troops set off immediately and follow me to Busan, Goryeo."

Two hours later, ten warships were left to guard the island, and the remaining fifty warships turned around toward the northeast. Li Wei was busy all night, and he was really tired, so he walked towards his bedroom. When he reached the door, he suddenly found that the two personal soldiers had a strange smile.

"What's the matter?" Li Weizheng asked.

"Nothing is wrong, please rest early, sir!"

Li Weizheng nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, go to bed early!"

The two personal soldiers agreed and quietly retreated. Li Wei was pushing the cabin open, but seemed to hear the sound of water in his cabin. He was stunned for a moment, but when he walked into the cabin, he was stunned. There was a woman in his cabin. To be precise, a young woman was bathing in his cabin. She was about twenty-four or five years old, with a charming appearance and extremely white and greasy skin. She was sitting in a large wooden basin leisurely combed her long black waterfall hair. In the hazy water vapor, her white and greasy body was very mature and plump.

"Who are you?" Li Weizheng's throat was a little dry. In the face of the most primitive temptation, a conditioned reflex changed somewhere in his body, but he still restrained his desires and asked calmly.

The woman in the bathtub obviously didn't expect him to come back at this time. She was so scared that she screamed, jumped up and hid behind the curtain. The cold wind sensation made her tremble. Li Wei was turning around and walking outside, "I'll wait for you for a while, put on your clothes!"

After a night of hard work, all the officers and soldiers on the treasure ship were exhausted and went back to the cabin to sleep. It was deserted outside the cabin door, and there was no one. Li Wei was pushing open the window, and a cold sea breeze blew in his face. The heat in his heart calmed down slightly, but the fair and plump body of the woman in his mind could not be removed. He knew that this was the arrangement of his subordinates. He wanted to find his personal soldiers to send the woman away, but...

Li Weizheng was very conflicted inside, and his desire for women made it difficult for him to make this decision. In the end, he gritted his teeth, closed the window, quietly pushed the door open and walked in.

The room was cleaned up, filled with water vapor and a unique fragrance of women. The woman was bent down and putting her clothes behind the curtain. Her plump and round buttocks were highlighted on the curtain. Li Wei was sitting down and staring at the wonderful arc on the curtain without any concealment. She had packed the room before putting on the clothes. It can be seen that she was not forced by her subordinates, but she actually came to her room voluntarily. Li Wei was trying to convince herself.

"I'm fine!" She lifted the curtain and walked out, but saw Li Weizheng at first sight. She was so scared that she lowered her head and did not dare to move. She only wore a thin cotton long skirt, which seemed to be wearing nothing inside, outlining the undulating curves of her body. Her hair was soaked like a waterfall on her shoulders. She lowered her head and stood pitifully against the bulkhead.

Li Wei waved to her and ordered her to come over. The woman slowly walked over and stood in front of him. Li Wei stretched out her toes and picked her skirt open, looked inside and asked, "You can speak Chinese?"

"You know a little bit." Women's Chinese is not very standard. "My father yearns for the Ming Dynasty culture very much. Some people have taught Chinese since we were young."

Li Wei was pulling her in front of him, and his hand was already put into her skirt. He rubbed her body roughly with a little moonlight, and asked her again, "What's your name?"

"My name is Danei Yaoji." The woman's body was so stimulating that she was trembling all over. She couldn't help but collapse on Li Weizheng's body.

"Bigune", Li Weizheng's hand suddenly stopped, pushed her away, and said coldly: "Who are you from Daune?"

Yao Ji's eyes shot out angry eyes. She gritted her teeth and said word by word: "I am the wife of the demon Eiyi Ouchi."

She knelt down, put her hands on Li Wei's legs, and said to him pleaded: "I volunteered to get on your boat. As long as I can leave him, you can do whatever you want me to do!"

Li Wei was staring into her eyes. After a while, he asked slowly, "What are your conditions?"

Yao Ji lowered her head, she bit her lip gently, and whispered: "If you are willing to send me back to Kitakyushu, I will be grateful."

Li Wei was lifting her chin with his hand and looking at the Japanese woman full of mature taste. He suddenly smiled ambiguously and said, "Okay! We'll make a deal, you take off your clothes and go to bed to wait for me."

It takes about three days to get from Danluo Island to Busan Port. That morning, the Ming fleet arrived at the Port of Busan Port of Goryeo. Busan Port has been one of the most important ports of Goryeo since ancient times. It is especially responsible for the heavy responsibility of trade with Japan and is also the most important city in South Goryeo. At present, the highest military and political commander in Busan is Li Fangyuan, the fifth son of Li Chenggui. He was named General Zhennan by Li Chenggui.

Li Fangyuan was about 27 or 28 years old. He was not tall and had a gentle appearance, but he was the most sinister and vicious among Li Chenggui's eight sons. In the purge of the Goryeo royal family last year, he took the initiative to attack and attack more than 100 Goryeo royal family members. He then sent people to assassinate Zheng Mengzhou, the most respected scholar in Goryeo Kingdom. The thief called for catching the thief and took the opportunity to slaughter more than 300 households and refused to recognize the former Goryeo minister who refused to recognize Li Chenggui's rule, causing Kaijing to fall into a bloody storm. Wang Shunji escaped from Goryeo under this background.

Since the beginning of the year, Li Chenggui has stabilized the situation in Beijing and sent several of his sons to various parts of the country to gain military and political power, thus controlling the entire Goryeo. Li Fangyuan was sent to Busan by his father.

Before leaving, Li Chenggui repeatedly reminded Li Fangyuan that the ships berthed in the Port of Busan were not allowed to be touched. After seizing Goryeo's power, Li Chenggui's most worried thing was that the Ming Dynasty refused to admit it. After all, the Ming Dynasty was the culprit of Goryeo, and Li Chenggui was extremely afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would characterize him as a rebel minister. Therefore, he was cautious and did not dare to offend the Ming Dynasty at all.

In contrast to his father's respect for the Ming Dynasty, Li Fangyuan believed that Goryeo should have the same equal status as the Ming Dynasty, and was a country of brothers rather than a country of father and son. His view represents the thoughts of some Goryeo people, especially young people. They even hope that Goryeo could say no to the Ming Dynasty like Japan and never recognize the status of the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader.

Li Fangyuan's idea was the first thing he did after coming to Busan, detaining all the Ming Dynasty crew members on the Ming cargo ship, and sending the Goryeo people to control the fifty large ships. Once the conditions were ripe, he would collect the fifty large ships and their supplies for Goryeo. However, he was still a little afraid of his father and did not dare to do it too obviously, so he quietly drove the fifty cargo ships away from the harbor and hid in a nearby bay.

Early that morning, Li Fangyuan suddenly received news that a Ming fleet was sailing towards Busan Port. Li Fangyuan was shocked. He ran to the harbor's viewing platform and looked into the sea far away. Sure enough, a Ming fleet composed of dozens of warships was sailing towards the port. He immediately ordered: "Order three warships to intercept the Ming ships. Warships are not allowed to enter the port without permission."

The three warships set sail immediately and rushed towards the mighty fleet of Ming Dynasty.

The Shandong Navy's warship was less than three miles away from Busan. Li Wei was standing at the bow of the ship, looking for the Ming cargo ships everywhere. The Busan port was already visible, but he saw only a few scattered warships and cargo ships with Koryo flags, varying in size, and he could not find a huge fleet of fifty merchant ships loaded with cargo ships. In other words, the Ming cargo ships are no longer Busan port.

Li Weizheng frowned. No matter how Goryeo arranged these cargo ships, they had to get the consent of the Ming court, but in fact he had not received such news at all, that is, Goryeo moved the Ming cargo ship without authorization.

Although he was a little annoyed, Li Weizheng did not show it. When he saw three Goryeo boats coming towards him, he immediately ordered the fleet to slow down.

The treasure ship slowly stopped moving forward. Finally, the huge fleet stopped on the sea surface, and the three Goryeo warships gradually slowed down and stopped in front of the treasure ship like a hill. The soft ladder on the treasure ship was thrown down. Three Goryeo officials climbed onto the lucky ship along the soft ladder. The three officials were all civil officials. One of the older officials could speak Chinese. He stepped forward and saluted Li Weizheng and said, "I wonder why the Ming Dynasty brigade of warships came to Busan for the sake of?"

As soon as he said this, all the Ming generals present changed their faces. They asked knowingly that the 50 Ming cargo ships were in Busan, not for why they came. Li Wei was taking out the ship transfer order issued by the Ministry of War, and flashed in front of them, "We are ordered to retrieve the 50 Ming cargo ships and the cargo on the ship. If you don't want the military ship to enter the port, then we can wait outside the port. I hope that within two hours, my Ming cargo ship will come to meet us."

"This..." The officials of Goryeo looked embarrassed. They were just ordered to stop the Ming army from entering the port, but had no right to agree to anything. Li Wei glanced at them and continued: "If your country needs a certain amount of ship deposit fee, I can also agree to this, but there are not only my Ming cargo ship, but also my Ming crew members on the ship. Please take my people to check the ship and crew situation first, and we will discuss ship deposit fee."

The aggressive aura of the commander of the Ming army made the Goryeo officials sweat on their faces. The three of them discussed for a while and said to Li Weizheng: "Please forgive me. My general does not know the intention of the Ming army, so he ordered us to come and ask. The problem of the Ming merchant ship cannot be solved by the officials. When I go back and report to the general, I will reply to the adult."

"Who are you generals?" Li Wei was about to leave, and when he winked, the people on both sides immediately blocked their retreat.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Goryeo officials quickly said in a panic: "The General is Li Fangyuan, the fifth son of the Regent of Goryeo, and he is appointed as the General of Zhennan."

"Okay, tell me the truth, how is my Ming cargo ship? If it is not convenient for you to answer together, let's tell us separately." Li Weizheng waved his hand, and more than a dozen personal soldiers came up to take three Goryeo officials down. After a moment, a personal soldier came forward to report what happened in the Busan Port. Li Fangyuan arrested all the Ming crew members, and the Ming cargo ship was also hidden by Li Fangyuan and disappeared.

Li Wei sneered, and he knew that the Goryeo would do this. It would be strange if they were not jealous of the fifty ships and military supplies. Obviously, they wanted to swallow this batch of goods. Li Wei was thinking for a moment and then called Lai Yongguo and told him: "Take dozens of brothers ashore to negotiate with Li Fangyuan, and follow the imperial orders to let them release the boat and release people, don't give in or threaten them. If they refuse, just come back. I just politely and then fight, and I'll just make a gesture."

Lai Yongguo clasped his fists and said in a deep voice: "I will obey the order!"

A quarter of an hour later, a small Ming army boat followed the Goryeo boat toward the port. Li Wei was standing on the bow of the boat, watching the boat get farther away, and his hand gradually tightened the hilt of the knife. He knew that maybe he would really be tearing the knives this time.

Lai Yongguo followed the Goryeo officials to ashore. The group walked to a large house and was stopped by the Goryeo soldiers. This was the yamen of the general in Zhennan, and only one person was allowed to enter. Lai Yongguo asked the soldiers to wait outside the door. He tidied up his military uniform, straightened his waist and strode into the door.

In the room, Li Fangyuan had been waiting for a long time, and the room was full of murderous intent. Hundreds of personal soldiers stood on both sides. Li Fangyuan leaned on a wide-back high chair, holding his chin, and looked coldly at the Ming Dynasty officer. Lai Yongguo walked up and bowed and bowed: "Lai Yongguo, a fifth-rank military officer in the Celestial Dynasty, came to negotiate with the cargo ship according to the order of my commander."

After saying that, he handed over the Ministry of War's ship transfer order to a Goryeo soldier. Li Fangyuan's Chinese is very good and there is no need to translate. He read the order of ship transfer, and couldn't help but sneer, then sat upright and said, "The head of your Ming Dynasty ship transfer order is written to the former King of Goryeo. He is stupid and has been overthrown by our Goryeo people. Now the Regent is in charge of the Goryeo regime. We are only loyal to him, so we cannot accept this ship transfer order. Your Ministry of War must reissue the ship transfer order before you can get the cargo ship back."

When Lai Yongguo saw that the Goryeo people wanted to act like a rogue under the pretext of adjusting the ship, he raised his voice and warned him: "This matter is related to the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Goryeo. Does General Li have the right to decide? Please think twice!"

Li Fangyuan snorted heavily, and he stared at Lai Yongguosen and said, "What qualifications does a small fifth-rank officer have to negotiate with me and bargain with me, come and call me!"

A group of soldiers rushed up from both sides and swung their sticks to beat Lai Yongguo out. Li Fangyuan knew that the Ming army would not give up. He immediately ordered: "I ordered the troops stationed in Busan to gather at the port to strictly prevent the Ming army from landing!"

Li Fangyuan slowly walked to the window, and he silently stared at the direction of the capital. After a while, he whispered to himself: "Father, I'm sorry. If we don't turn against the Ming Dynasty, we Goryeo will always be the lackeys of the Ming Dynasty."

Lai Yongguo returned to the treasure ship with anger. Seeing that his face was bruised and his head was broken and bleeding, he knew that he was not good at going to the army, he urgently ordered the military doctor to bandage him and treat him. After a moment, Lai Yongguo, who bandaged the wound, stepped forward to report: "Sir, I have shown Li Fangyuan the order to transfer the ship, but he said that Goryeo had changed his master and did not recognize the agreement reached by the former king and our Ming Dynasty. He asked us to go back and change the order to transfer the ship to Li Chenggui. This is clearly an excuse to pay responsibilities. If we bring a new order to transfer the ship, they will find other excuses to shirk, and they will even say that the ship was sunk by the storm. Lord, I have seen through the intention of the Goryeo people, but I don't want to return the ship and supplies to my Ming Dynasty."

Lai Yongguo's answer was expected by Li Weizheng, but this was Li Fangyuan's personal meaning or Li Chenggui's meaning, which is worth discussing. If Li Chenggui's meaning is, it means that the upcoming Joseon Dynasty will be completely divided from the Ming Dynasty. But if it is Li Fangyuan's personal meaning, he doesn't have to consider the consequences and let it go.

Li Weizheng pondered for a moment and said nothing. He initially judged that this should be Li Fangyuan's personal meaning. After all, Li Chenggui has always been a pro-Ming faction in the Goryeo Dynasty. As a politician, he would not have turned against the Ming Dynasty for only fifty ships of cargo. However, Li Weizheng didn't know that seven years later, Li Fangyuan launched a coup again, seized the throne of his father Li Chenggui, became the king of Korea, and finally imprisoned his father and died.

Li Wei was thinking for a long time and finally ordered: "Order all warships to retreat five miles and prepare for combat!"

The Ming army's fleet began to turn back slowly and sailed to the sea outside Busan. When Lu Siyuan heard that Li Wei was preparing to attack the Port of Busan, he hurriedly ran over and advised: "Sir, I suggest you don't have any material ships and go back to the capital directly. In this way, you can explain the intention of occupying Danluo Island to the emperor. Goryeo's responsibilities are first, so we must not do it. The emperor must agree. In this way, we exchange fifty ships of cargo for Danluo Island, and the responsibility on the adult will be shirked away."

"No!" Li Weizheng flatly rejected Lu Siyuan's suggestion. He stared at the Busan Port and said slowly: "Danluo Island and cargo must not be linked. These are two completely different things. If Li Chenggui tied his son to Beijing to apologize, and then returned to our Ming Dynasty cargo ships and personnel, and gave compensation. In this case, the emperor can only take back the cargo ships and then return Danluo Island to Goryeo. Otherwise, our Ming Dynasty will fall into injustice. This is something the emperor will never do. At that time, everything will return to the origin. Wouldn't we be busy in vain? Moreover, the emperor's plan to support the Japanese Southern Dynasties has been disrupted. I must not be passive in this matter."

Fifty Ming army warships had already set up their formations outside Busan. With the command of the treasure ship's flag, fifty warships advanced to Busan Port again. The port was already in chaos. Nearly 15,000 Goryeo troops rushed into the port, guarding various dangerous positions, strictly preventing the Ming army from landing, and more than a dozen warships lined up to fight the attack of the Ming army fleet.

The Ming army's warships were getting closer and closer. About three miles from Busan Port, the navy of the two armies encountered. "Boom!" Three Goryeo's main warships fired their artillery first, and the shells fell in front of the Ming army's warships. The bow of the front warship was hit by the shells and penetrated a big hole. They blocked the Ming army's offensive momentum. At this time, the fifteen Ming army blessed ships that rushed to the front turned rudder and ran to the right, lined up on the sea. Then more than a dozen warships fired cannons at the same time, and the white smoke flew into the air, deafening, hundreds of

The shells roared at the Goryeo ships. They were worthy of being the most elite warships in the Ming Dynasty. The walls were strong, especially the artillery power, with long barrels and large calibers. The shells were lead bombs weighing five kilograms. Their range and sharpness were far greater than the artillery of the Goryeo warships. After only one round of artillery, the Goryeo warships lost nearly half. The seven warships were smashed to pieces, the masts were broken, and the hull was smashed several large holes. The sea water was frantically pouring into the cabin and was sinking rapidly. The sea surface was full of Goryeo sailors who were floating in water for help.

The Goryeo Navy obviously did not expect that the Ming army warships were so sharp. The remaining seven or eight warships pulled their sails and retreated, but the two wings of the Ming army fleet had surrounded them. Amid the deafening sound of shelling, the Goryeo warship had no power to fight back and was smashed and sunk. One hour later, the last Goryeo warship disappeared from the sea.

The two thousand navy troops were wiped out, drowned nearly half of them. The remaining more than a thousand people either swam back to the shore or were captured by the Ming army. The Goryeo army on the shore witnessed the defeat of their navy. They were stunned. Suddenly, the soldiers on the shore became turbulent, and an extremely huge warship appeared on the sea in the distance, just like a castle suddenly rising on the sea, with the power to destroy everything in the world. Its appearance made everyone in the harbor, whether it was the Goryeo soldiers or ordinary merchants, suddenly felt a great fear. People automatically lowered their hands, loosened their bowstrings, and the artillery stopped loading. For a moment, the entire harbor was silent.

The Ming Dynasty treasure ship continued to move forward slowly. It was approaching the lighthouse standing on the edge of the harbor. It was a tower twenty meters high and built with big stone. It was also the landmark building of Busan Port. The treasure ship stopped three hundred steps away from the lighthouse. Suddenly, a violent sound of artillery bombing sounded. White smoke from the treasure ship flew over the treasure ship, and more than one hundred shells hit the lighthouse almost at the same time. The lighthouse shook violently, and a deep rumbling sound resounded throughout the harbor, like the thunder sounded when the clouds were dense. Almost all the Koreans were in one move, covering their ears, opening their mouths wide, and looking at the lighthouse in horror. The lighthouse collapsed under the bombardment of the Ming army's giant warship.

In a stone building on the top of the harbor, Li Yuanfang stood in front of the window, looking at the Ming Dynasty treasure ship collapsed the lighthouse in horror. His legs became weak and he fell on the chair weakly.

There were fierce cannons outside the window, and from time to time, the sound of house collapse and the screams of soldiers came.

"Report to the General, all more than a hundred merchant ships in the harbor were sunk by the Ming army. The merchants were extremely angry and prepared to go to Beijing to report the General's fault."

"General, the fort was destroyed by the Ming army, killing and injured a hundred people."

"The general is not good. The warehouse and dock were destroyed by Ming army artillery, and the materials in the warehouse were greatly damaged."

One report after another made Li Yuanfang almost collapse. The Ming army launched a massacre at the Port of Busan. Fifty warships took turns to bombard the port. The Goryeo army had killed and injured a thousand people. The rest of the troops had all evacuated the narrow port. Almost all the buildings and facilities in the entire port were razed to the ground. There was no protection at all. Li Fangyuan was preparing to escape from Busan under the protection of more than a dozen personal soldiers. At this time, a soldier ran over in panic and shouted with a letter: "General, this is a letter from the Ming army shooting ashore."

Li Fangyuan took the letter, and he opened it with trembling hands. He saw a few words written on it: 'From Goguryeo, from the Sui Dynasty, from the Tang Dynasty, from the Song Dynasty, they have been vassal states since ancient times. Occasionally, there are unruly people, such as Goguryeo and Baekje, who were all destroyed by the Celestial Empire. Seeing that Goryeo was about to perish, the Li family rose, but they did not want to be loyal to the Celestial Empire. Instead, they used the light of grains of rice to compare with the bright moon. Could it be that history has been forgotten and wanted to retake Goguryeo and Baekje? The Celestial Empire is based on benevolence and righteousness, and does not think about small mistakes. It is limited to the Ming cargo ship and crew within two hours. If you miss a moment, the Ming navy will go north to open Beijing and Seoul, and ask the king for help with artillery!'

Li Fangyuan looked at the letter blankly. After a long time, he finally sighed and ordered helplessly to his left and right: "I ordered people to release the Ming Dynasty crew members immediately and lead the Ming Dynasty navy to Crow Bay to recover fifty cargo ships!"
Chapter completed!