Chapter 43: Entering Korea

The Eight Banners who went out of the customs lived in Shengjing for a period of time, and when they first came here for a few days, the weather was getting colder and colder, and Etuhun was really not used to the cold climate outside the pass, after all, he was used to staying in the capital, and the coldest time in the capital was not as cold as Shengjing at this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but after living for a few days, Etuhun gradually got used to it.

The walls of the houses in Shengjing City are particularly thick, and the new Baoyitan Jiping is loyal, and burns the kang hot every day. Sitting on the hot kang and drinking a glass of Nanyang spirits, the whole body is hot and hot, very warm.

When I went to bed at night, I was covered with a thick quilt and a hot kang under my body, and the whole room was warm and I didn't feel cold at all.

"As long as you don't go out, it's pretty good in this house!" Etu said to himself.

However, it was impossible not to go out, and Tuhai and a few hateful generals and generals would force the bannermen to leave the warm houses every day and practice archery on horseback in the ice and snow. Etuhun was forced to leave the warm house and ride a horse and shoot arrows in the cold wind outside, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

Etu secretly cursed Dadu and Amurtu and others in his heart, and he looked forward to entering North Korea as soon as possible and plundering it in North Korea.

The Eight Banners waited in Shengjing just to wait for the Yalu River to freeze. As long as the ice is thick, the Eight Banners will rush across the Yalu River and enter North Korea.

More than half a month passed, and at the beginning of November, the Qing army spies returned to Shengjing City and reported to Tuhai that the Yalu River had been frozen and the ice was very strong, and they could cross the river on horseback.

Tuhai was overjoyed: "Immediately order the three armies, rest early tonight, and set out early tomorrow morning!" Cook on the fourth watch, set off on the fifth watch! ”

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On the other side of the Yalu River, in North Korea, several North Korean soldiers stood lazily outside the camp. The climate was unusually cold, and the North Korean soldiers wrapped their cotton armor tightly, cursing the ghost weather in their mouths.

A North Korean soldier untied the flask from his waist and took a sip of the spirits. The shoddy liquor went down to my stomach, and I felt a lot hotter on my body. Although this liquor is also a spirit from the South Seas, it is not a good liquor to be drunk, but an inferior liquor made from sweet potatoes and sugar bagasse, called sweet potato spirits. Originally, the liquor produced by the Nanyang Company was used to distill it into alcohol and disinfect the wounded soldiers on the battlefield. However, the Goryeo soldiers were poor and could not afford to drink good wine, and the climate here was cold, and the spirits were very popular, so the Koreans could only buy the inferior sweet potato spirits to drink.

"It looks like someone has crossed the river!" Suddenly, another North Korean soldier pointed at the Yalu River in horror and shouted.

On the river, a group of cavalrymen in yellow armor, about 200 people, was stepping on the frozen river and galloping towards the camp of the Koreans.

"It's the heavenly soldiers of Tianchao Shangguo!" The North Korean soldier who was drinking put down the flask and said.

The Korean soldier who spotted the Qing army said, "What are they doing here?" Didn't they say that we are a country of non-conquest? But he sent troops to come, and he must have bad intentions! ”

The two North Korean soldiers really couldn't figure out why the Qing Heavenly Soldiers were coming, and before they could understand, the Eight Banners had already appeared outside the North Korean barracks like a whirlwind. The leader of the Eight Banners soldier pointed his horse whip and shouted to the North Korean soldiers at the gate of the camp: "North Korea is a small country, and it is against my Daqingyang!" Now the emperor's decree is to abolish the Korean vassal state and make Korea attached! I, the Qing Heavenly Soldiers, have been ordered to come to conquer Korea! ”

After the Eight Banners soldier finished speaking, he shouted at the two Korean soldiers: "You wait for a small barbarian country, and when you see my Qing Heavenly Soldiers, don't you kneel?" Those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will not be killed! ”

The two North Korean soldiers were so frightened that their legs weakened, and they only felt that a large piece of wet inside their crotch was wet, and they couldn't help but bend their knees and kowtow on the snow to beg for mercy.

The brave and invincible Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers rushed into the Korean camp, and more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers rushed into the camp, and all the more than 1,000 Korean soldiers in this camp surrendered, and none of them took up arms to resist. In fact, the first batch of Eight Banners soldiers who came were not the elite Eight Banners outside the Guanxi at all, but the Eight Banners soldiers who were later transferred from the capital. These Eight Banners soldiers have been in the capital for many years, and they have no combat effectiveness, and many people can't even ride horses, but after all, they have a kind of wildness in their bones, and after leaving the customs, after a period of training, they have also learned to ride horses. Wearing bright armor, he looks a bit elite.

However, the North Koreans did not know that these Eight Banners soldiers were vulnerable, and when they saw the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers descending on North Korea, they all rushed to surrender, for fear that they would surrender late and be beheaded.

"What? Easy to shave? When the surrendered North Korean soldiers heard the news, they were stunned.

"That's right! The emperor has decreed that the status of the vassal state be abolished! Korea was incorporated into the Qing Dynasty! Since it has been incorporated into the Great Qing Dynasty, it must be executed in accordance with the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty! All North Korean soldiers and civilians must shave their hair and change their clothes! Tuhai's Goshha snorted coldly.

Next, the progress of the Qing army was not so smooth, because the shaving of hair and the ease of clothing caused fierce resistance from the Koreans.

Etuhun rode a tall horse and led his 300 White Banner Eight Banners Army to Yizhou slowly.

In the snow ahead, the Korean soldiers who were ambushed in the snow lit the fire rope, and the bird guns in their hands were aimed at the approaching Qing army. Just when the Qing army was about to enter the firing range, the sharp-eyed Zhang Asi found Mars in the snow, and he shouted anxiously: "There are North Koreans in ambush ahead!" It's a bird's hand! ”

Etuhun shouted: "Dismount, form a formation, and move forward!" ”

More than 100 Manchurian Eight Bannermen jumped off their horses and took out their bows and arrows. More than 200 Han Eight Banner soldiers formed a formation, the Han Eight Banner soldiers in front held shields, and the fifty bird gunners behind lit the fire rope.

"Damn, the Jurchens have discovered us!" The North Korean officer in ambush shouted, "Prepare for battle!" ”

The Qing army approached step by step, and when there were still 100 steps away from the North Koreans, the North Korean bird gun couldn't wait to pull the trigger, only to hear a roar of birds, and the bullets flew indiscriminately towards the Qing army crowd. However, at such a distance, the bullets fired by the North Koreans were neither accurate nor lethal, and most of the bullets missed, accidentally hitting the Eight Banners soldiers in front, but they were also blocked by the shields.

After hearing the sound of the North Koreans shooting, the Han Eight Banner bird gunners also pulled the trigger one after another, and fired at the North Koreans a hundred paces away.

More than 100 Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers stretched out their bows and set up arrows, shooting arrows from a hundred paces away. It's a pity that they are not the elite Eight Banners outside the Guanwai after all, and the arrows they shoot are soft and inaccurate, but they just performed a burst of locusts flying in the sky, and none of the arrows hit the target.