Chapter 8: The Siege of Seoul
In 1637, the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing Dynasty asked Korea to send troops to assist it in attacking the Ming Dynasty. The DPRK then sent a naval army with Lin Qingye as the marshal. It's just that what the Koreans didn't expect was that Lin Qingye was angry about the failure of Bingzi's indiscriminate Korea, and secretly sent an envoy to the Ming army and revealed all the Qing army's offensive plans to the Ming army. This resulted in a victory for the Ming army, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties.
Three years later, in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Lin Qingye once again supported the Qing Dynasty as the marshal of the Korean support army. This time, he sent a monk to the Ming army again to reveal the plans of the Qing army. In this battle, the Korean army did not really clash with the Ming army, and basically fought against the Qing army. He returned to Seoul the following year. Despite this, at this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already suspected his identity, and after a complaint, Lin Qingye was dismissed and lost power. However, it didn't take long for Lin Qingye to get a new official position and continue to fight in the cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and helping the Ming.
Until last year, that is, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, a traitor from Lin Qingye's subordinates surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, revealing the relationship between Lin Qingye and the Ming army.
For this reason, the Qing people immediately sent an envoy to North Korea to force North Korea to hand over Lin Qingye and escort him to Beijing.
Fortunately, with the help of the Korean Chinese pro-Ming lineage, Lin Qingye escaped from Hwanghae-do and entered a Buddhist temple, cutting his hair as a monk as makeup. Seeing that the limelight had passed a little, he fled to the Ming Dynasty again this year.
Originally, in history, it was already the next year when Lin Qingye arrived in the Ming Dynasty, when Li Zicheng had just captured Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide and martyrdom, and Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the customs.
Seeing this great change, Lin Qingye did not decline, but fought side by side with the Ming general Ma Tenggao. Later, the army was defeated, Ma Tenggao was captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Lin Qingye lost the opportunity to resist the Qing Dynasty again, planned to escape and was betrayed by his subordinates and captured by the Qing army, and sent to Beijing. Although the North Korean general Shen Jiyuan launched a coup d'Γ©tat after learning about it. The Joseon king, Yi Liang, was forced to ask the Qing Dynasty to release Lin Qingye and return to China.
For the sake of North Korea's ally, or for this general who was a North Korean official but was extremely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, Lin Qingye returned to North Korea after some twists and turns.
It's a pity that the leader of the Luo Party, the North Korean Prime Minister Kim Zidian, sent assassins to assassinate Lin Qingye on his way back to China. So far. Lin Qingye died, and it was not until more than 50 years later that Joseon Suzong posthumously awarded Lin Qingye the title of loyalty, which affirmed Lin Qingye's achievements.
It is only 16 years since Chongzhen was established, and there is still a year before Lin Qingye is assassinated next year.
At this point, under Zhu Cihong's change, the Qing army seems to have no chance to attack the Daming Pass. Lin Qingye was also planning to flee to the Ming Dynasty at this moment, and when he saw the Ming army landing in Incheon, he was immediately overjoyed, and bowed his head.
Zhu Cihong also knew about the past of this legendary figure from Zhang Zhen's mouth at this moment, and even sent Lin Qingye back to Seoul.
Although Li Liang is not a wise and wise king, Lin Qingye is capable. The prestige is a little but very clear. At this moment, after listening to Lin Qingye's departure, he suddenly felt a big peace of mind: "Okay, the widow knows, act quickly!" β
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Jin Qinghui stood outside Gyeongbokgung Palace, silently leading the soldiers on the left and right to patrol the palace.
Behind him, his nephew Jin Zaiyong called softly: "Ah Zhixi, it seems that the king doesn't like our Jin family anymore." That day, what the Ming envoy Ni Yuanlu said anyway seemed to have shaken the king's faith, ah, the west...... We ......"
Jin Qinghui paused and turned around. looked at Kim Jae-yong's immature and concerned face, and said, "Don't worry." The prime minister has already gone to see Chahara, the messenger of the Qing people. The Manchus would not sit idly by and watch North Korea alone. β
"Manchus? Chahara ...... The man-eating demon-like man-eating man. Ah, they are difficult for us Koreans to rely on! Kim Jae-yong was uneasy.
Jin Qinghui didn't reply again, but looked at the quiet palace and said, "Those things that are too far away are useless, guard the palace and take Smecta." Otherwise......"
Kim Jae-yong waited for a long time, but Kim Kyung-hui did not say the rest of the words.
See here. Kim Jae-yong was silent for a long time, but he couldn't help but lower his head and continued to lead the palace guards to start patrolling. In the past few days, Jin Qinghui has markedly increased the frequency and scope of patrols. Even, Jin Qinghui didn't rest all night last night. Early in the morning, he inspected the defense with red eyes, as if this was the only way to reassure the silent North Korean man.
"It's been twelve hours since the last news of the prime minister's general came, why hasn't there been any news yet?" Only in his heart, Jin Qinghui dared to ask himself in his heart.
After going around again, seeing that Li Yong was not even enthusiastic about dealing with government affairs in Gyeongbokgung Palace, Jin Qinghui finally felt abnormal, and called Jin Zaiyong and said: "Zai Yong, you take off your armor and go to find the eunuch Li Yongbao in the palace to change into eunuch clothes and go to find Jin Xiang immediately, go quickly!" β
Kim Kyung-hui's expression was anxious, and even Kim Jae-yong became nervous. I saw him take off his clothes and armor and run out with capable movements, and entered an inconspicuous small firewood room. Then with the help of a eunuch, he changed his clothes and secretly rushed out of the palace.
An hour has passed, and according to the usual walk, it is enough for Kim Jae-yong to pass the word back and forth. Jin Qinghui suppressed his anxiety and looked at Gyeongbokgung Palace, and sure enough, there was no movement inside. But compared to such quietness, he could not be calm.
Another hour passed, and Jin Qinghui could feel that his heart was twisted. While he was waiting for a quarter of an hour, suddenly, Jin Qinghui led a group of people to a remote palace gate.
There, Kim Jae-yong was sweating profusely, and ran to Kim Kyung-hui as desperately as he could: "Ah, west, dangerous!" β
Puff ......
Suddenly, Kim Jae-jae fell to the ground with wide eyes.
Jin Qinghui suddenly pulled out the long knife in his hand, and behind him, a group of guards drew their swords and held shields.
Kim Jae-yong fell to the ground, and behind his skull, a long arrow trembled slightly.
When he fell, a thin man with a bare head and a stubble of green hair lowered his arrow. I saw that he was wearing a vermilion velvet gold and silver armor, shining brightly. People can recognize the person at a glance.
"Lin Qingye!" Jin Qinghui roared angrily: "You're here!" Sure enough, the rebels will come! All ready, clear out the anti-thieves! β
Behind him, several soldiers jerked out a flare from their bosoms and rose into the sky.
Almost synchronized with Jin Qinghui's movements was a sound of neat footsteps, behind Lin Qingye. Shen Qiyuan strode out and said, "Rush into the palace!" β
Subsequently, a group of Korean soldiers dressed in different clothes and apparently unaffiliated with each other stormed the palace. They are obviously not an army with a unified banner, but everyone is capable, and at first glance they are strong soldiers.
Jin Qinghui immediately recognized it: "It's the private soldiers of those princes and wealthy families in Beijing!" β
Even. Jin Qinghui also saw Yang Wenbao, the son of Yang Hui, a wealthy merchant of the Ming Dynasty, who was famous in Seoul. At this moment, Yang Wenbao was wearing armor and striding over, and behind him, a group of Ming people were excited and proud.
They rushed into a country with their soldiers and horses, and they were about to push for a coup d'Γ©tat! What a risk and what a staggering profit.
But Jin Qinghui couldn't care about this, he stared at Lin Qingye and shouted: "Take my spear!" β
One of the guards tossed a quaint and thick spear away, and the spear took its hands. Jin Qinghui walked with a tiger step, looked at Lin Qingye, and was murderous.
Lin Qingye was also fearless: "Back then, I was able to kill the Manchu Hulu generals to ask for a mallet, but today, are you still afraid of a Hulu lackey!" Come on, Kim Kyung-hui! β
Jin Qinghui no longer spoke, but strode towards Lin Qingye.
Lin Qingye also slowly accelerated.
The distance between the two quickly narrowed, a hundred steps. Sixty steps, thirty steps. Getting closer.
Jin Qinghui only felt that he was unprecedentedly excited and excited, and his state was adjusted to the best, and he understood the assassination and killing moves in his eyes, and just waited for the two sides to make contact, and after thirty rounds of fighting, he shot Lin Qingye's spear and cut the heart of this traitorous rebel.
Only, when the distance was close to less than twenty steps.
Boom......
A gunshot rang out. Jin Qinghui's body staggered suddenly, a ball of blood burst out in his abdomen, and the accumulated strength sprayed out like a flood, and his body was sore, and he gradually became weak. I saw him turn his head desperately and look at the figure on his right.
He blinked desperately. With all his strength, he finally saw a curling smoke rising.
Yang Wenbao gasped, put down the flintlock pistol in his hand, looked at the heads of Jin Qinghui and Lin Qingye together, and said, "We don't have so much time to fight. Storm the royal palace and protect the king of Joseon! β
"Yes!" Behind him, a group of private soldiers spoke Chinese with a strange accent.
Lin Qingye looked at Jin Qinghui, who was staring wide-eyed, slowly closed his eyes, and then said, "Protect the king!" β
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Chahara and Kim finally finalized how to deploy their troops, but when Chahara gave the order to let the Dragonbone Dae enter Seoul, they finally received news from Kim Jae-yong from the palace.
Jin Zidian was the first to feel that something was wrong: "Now that the war with the Ming is going on, there are many affairs, how can the king sit in Gyeongbokgung Palace?" Wrong...... The king has always attached great importance to authority, and it will never be the interest of an idle cloud and a wild crane like Kim Jae-yong said. Come on, go and find out! β
At this time, a soldier sweating profusely and covered in blood rushed into the Jin Mansion and cried: "Mutiny! Yuan Doupyo, Li Yuanlao and Lin Qingye's gang led troops to attack the palace and were about to mutiny! β
Jin Zidian and Chaharaqi change color.
"Immediately rush to the dragon bone to enter the city!" Chahara shouted, "Give me the talisman and take the west gate first!" β
"Give it quickly!" Jin Zidian knew that he had no hesitation to retreat, he glanced at the retainers behind him, and said, "Pick up the people in the mansion and follow me to the Fifth Army Camp immediately!" β
The five military camps, that is, the training capital prison, the imperial camp hall, the janissary battalion, the Rong hall, and the guard hall are located under the western ban.
But Chahara stopped at this moment and instructed: "Pick up the most people you have mastered, and take away all the civil and military classes in the city!" When the palace could not be captured, he immediately plundered enough men and wealth to go west. In Shengjing, there is also the prince Li Yi! β
Jin Zidian's body trembled slightly, and then he slowly bowed his head bitterly: "Do it!" β
Seoul was in turmoil.
Even the Ming embassy in Korea, which was originally surrounded by private soldiers everywhere, is no longer safe. Fortunately, Ni Yuanlu's body has improved a lot, and he re-boarded the particularly famous four-**** carriage.
The carriage is built to be particularly solid, and it is a special carriage customized for Zhu Cihong with a focus on safety. Legend has it that a single trebuchet hit can also ensure that the people in the city are safe, and then leave enough time for people to turn around. It's just that the four **** carriages got on the boat, but Zhu Cihong was useless, but distributed them to Ni Yuanlu, who was going to Seoul.
This time, in the face of the chaos in Korea, the four **** carriages played a role, carrying the arrows shot along the way and rushed into the palace under the escort of the Korean soldiers and envoys on the left and right.
There, Yang Wenbao was already taking someone to answer.
When the gates of the palace were closed, Jin Zidian had just rushed into the Fifth Army Camp.
What made Jin Zidian feel fortunate was that there, a group of henchmen gathered one after another, and each of them asked about the current situation and how to deal with it with their private soldiers.
"Metallographic! The palace was in chaos, and the city was in chaos, and I heard the news that Lin Qingye led his troops to attack it. That Lin Qingye definitely didn't have such a big force, it must have been the group of people from the original party who did it. Jin Xiang, this is a coup d'Γ©tat! β
"The king is now trapped in Gyeongbokgung Palace and doesn't know what the golden phase is, the royal city has been occupied by the rebels, the golden phase, let's go in!"
"Also, Jin Xiang, the Qing people still have thousands of elite soldiers in the city, why don't you do it! Pyongyang's keel is also coming with troops, where is it now? β
"Then the Ming army is in front of Incheon, how can Seoul be in such a mess. Metallographic, how is this good? β
"Metallographic ......"
"Metallographic ......"
"Metallographic ......"
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"That's enough! Shut up, don't panic, listen to me! Jin Zizi shouted, and the retainers behind him also cooperated very well and struck the spear and knife in their hands on the ground, calming the scene.
"Take your own men and horses, go and bring the two classes of Korean civil and military forces in Jiangnan to the west, if you don't follow, act at will. Also, if those noble relatives and ministers in Qingtan Cave are disobedient, they don't need to ...... There is no need to be stingy! Jin Zidian said in a deep voice, glanced at a cadre, and said, "Act immediately, don't delay for a quarter of an hour!" β
"Nishikari Bar ......"
Crash......
The North Korean generals were surprised and in an uproar, but soon, the people with active brains saw countless opportunities in it.
For a time, various generals rushed out to prepare for a large-scale raid.
Seeing this, Jin Zidian's heart trembled, and he hurriedly led his men and horses over to suppress it, but he didn't dare to make a heavy hand, for fear of provoking this group of Qiu Ba. In the end, the so-called elastic pressure almost turned into an urge.
A few days later, a piece of news came that shook the whole city.
"The Ming army is about to arrive in Seoul!" Jin Zidian muttered, his heart trembling.
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Outside Seoul, a man with a short stature and thick eyebrows and eyes was straight, with long hair, looking at the Seoul city wall in front of him, and shouting to the familiar or unfamiliar faces in front of him, walking left and right, his shoulders did not move, his waist did not move, only his feet were moving, slightly dull but super stable.
This person is a wandering samurai recruited by Qi Yuan from Japan, Yui Zhengxue.
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