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After the "Imjin War", in order to prevent the Japanese from invading Korea again, the DPRK army stationed heavy troops along the southern coast, and the south has always been the focus of attention in the DPRK. However, since the "Dingmao Rebellion" and the "Bingzi Rebellion" occurred one after another, Pyongyang and Seoul were occupied by the Manchurians one after another, and the Japanese state implemented a policy of seclusion, the focus of the defense of the Korean army has completely shifted from the south to the north.

As an important coastal defense town in the south of Seoul, the Incheon Metropolitan Protectorate did not have many garrisons. The warships of the Taiping Army's naval division, which anchored from the Dongjiang River, densely covered the waters of Incheon, landed in a big way before the defenders could react, and wiped out more than 2,000 Korean soldiers in Inchon almost without much effort, and then went straight to Seoul with the Korean surrender as the lead.

The news of the loss of Inchon and the massive advance of the Ming army into the capital shocked the whole of Korea, and Seoul was once again in danger of being lost.

Not only did the Korean king Li Di not understand how the Ming army, which had already fallen to the country, could suddenly come to Korea, but the civil and military ministers of North Korea were also unable to explain this matter to the king.

Visiting Kim Dae-quan, who was captured by the Ming army, was released by the Ming army and returned to Seoul, and he brought a letter of persuasion from the Ming army to the Korean king Yi Di.

More and more news converged on Seoul, and the Korean monarchs and ministers, who were very confused about the war in the Ming and Qing dynasties, finally figured out what was happening in China.

For a time, both the court and the people blamed the Korean king Li Di, accusing the young king of bringing great disasters to North Korea. If the king had not been coerced by the Qing envoys to send troops to help the Qing Dynasty defeat the Ming Dynasty, how could the Ming Dynasty's army reach Korea.

Li Di also blamed himself, but the Ming army had already advanced towards Seoul, and he could not even flee from Seoul in the same hurry as his father and ancestors.

Li Li thought of resisting, but the Ming army advanced rapidly, and landed from Incheon, and in a short time, the border troops on the northern border had no way to rush back to Wangcheng to resist the Ming army, and when the situation in China became clear, the voices of the Ming faction in Korea became even louder.

In the end, under the persuasion of pro-Ming officials such as Zheng Taihe, the minister of the Parliament, and Shen Zhiyuan, the minister of the left parliament, Li Di decided to negotiate peace with the Ming army and re-recognized the Ming as the suzerain as a vassal state.

Jin Daquan once again set out from Seoul and rushed to the Ming army camp without stopping, and he brought Zhou Shixiang a letter from the Joseon king Yi Di, in which Li Di asked the Ming army to forgive his crimes in a completely vassal posture.

Shen Zhiyuan, the minister of the Left Parliament, also arrived from Seoul and formally handed over the Korean surrender to Zhou Shixiang.

The "lightning speed" of the Koreans made Zhou Shixiang, who was still preparing to fight in Seoul, a little confused, because he thought that Korea was also a complete country, and that it had fought more than a dozen battles with the Japanese and the Manchurians, and that he would definitely not be a subject to the Manchurians if he was really exhausted. This time, he didn't even have the will to resist, and it was a bit unexpected to hear that the whole country was going to surrender when he heard that the Ming army was coming.

In advance, the Metropolitan Governor's judgment on North Korea was that the country would at least cobble together tens of thousands of horses and horses to resist for a while. Even the Joseon king Yi Di would flee from Seoul like his father and ask for help from the Qing Dynasty, although it was impossible for the Manchus to send reinforcements to Korea, and it was impossible for the Han River to stop the footsteps of the army, but if it dragged on in Korea for one more day, the Taiping army's own food and grass crisis would also be aggravated. If the Korean king Li Di died and did not surrender, the Taiping army could only grab a handful of them in Korea and withdraw, otherwise they would fall into the quagmire of fighting on both sides and lacking food on both sides.

Well, now that North Korea says it will surrender, and even the army doesn't have to make a trip to Seoul. Zhou Shixiang was ecstatic, and Shen Zhiyuan, the leftist politician of North Korea, spoke Chinese extremely fluently, and his inner closeness to the Ming Dynasty made his impression of North Korea change greatly.

The Minister of Parliament, Zheng Taihe, sent an all-pro-Ming envoy from Seoul, and they had persuaded the bewildered King Li Li to not only unconditionally support the restoration of the Ming army, but also to assist the Ming army in its combat operations against the Manchurians in Liaodong.

This really made Zhou Shixiang not know what to say. Paying money, food and people, North Korea is now not only a surrendered country, but also the most determined ally of the Ming Dynasty.

"The entry of the northern captives into the customs in the year of Jiashen, and the southward migration of the Celestial Empire, is the pain of my Korean country!"

When Shen Zhiyuan mentioned Emperor Chongzhen, who hanged himself in the coal mountain, he cried until his tears dried up. The pro-Ming officials from Seoul also behaved sideways, and Zhou Shixiang could see that these North Korean officials really had true feelings for Daming, and none of them were pretentious.

Before the formal peace treaty began to be negotiated, a large amount of grain, grass, wine and meat were collected from Seoul and sent to Incheon to reward the Great Tomorrow Army. The Korean people also rushed to serve the Heavenly Army, and everyone was proud of their ability to serve the Heavenly Army.

The scenes of military and civilian fishing and water conditions near Incheon only made the Taiping soldiers think that they were still in the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the language barrier and the need for translation, the Taiping army was really at home in Korea. The food is all transported by North Koreans from all directions, and they don't have to bother at all. There is another good thing that makes the soldiers of the Taiping Army overjoyed in Korea, that is, the women here have the habit of exposing their breasts, whether they are girls or women, they all expose the double peaks on their chests, which is an eye-opener for them.

While unconditionally comforting the Great Ming Army, the officials of the DPRK from the central government to the local government also tried their best to solve the physiological problems of the soldiers of the Heavenly Soldiers. Many Korean women were recruited by the government for a small fee in exchange for volunteering to serve the Heavenly Soldiers. As a result, on the fourth day of the Taiping army's landing in Incheon, hundreds of "acacia centers" sprung up along the line from Inchon to Seoul.

The political situation in North Korea also evolved rapidly, with more than half of the pro-Qing officials deposed and exiled, and the soldier Cao Yinghae, who had advocated sending troops to help the Qing Dynasty, was imprisoned and executed, and the rest became staunch pro-Ming factions. Before the official departure of the Korean king Li Di to Incheon to meet His Royal Highness the King of Qi of the Ming Dynasty, he even worshiped the emperors of the Ming Dynasty like his father Li Hao.

In less than six days, all the people from the king to the people of Korea became "traitors", which is an unprecedented scene.

Li Di came to Incheon on July 3 and met with Zhou Shixiang as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. The whole process was in charge of the officials of the Korean courtesy, and many of the etiquettes were not even known to Zhou Shixiang and his staff.

In the end, Zhou Shixiang saved some face for Li Di, and did not accept the other party's surrender, but the two sides redrafted the national letter. After 26 years, Korea once again became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

On July 7, Zhou Shixiang personally led the New Third Army to take a naval warship to Juehua Island. On the Korean side, more than 20,000 northern border troops also crossed the Yalu River from Yiju and Changcheng, attacked the Manchurians in Ningguta, Hetuala, Fushun Pass and other places, and then marched to Shengjing from the north.

At the strong request of the Korean king Li Di, Zhou Shixiang personally wrote four big characters to him, writing "China and North Korea are one family".