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When he walked out of Nanpu to get on the road, the villagers around him had gathered, and there were actually two or three thousand people gathered. And along the way, the Korean people were coming to join us! There were even established Korean rebels coming to support the Ming army, making the team bigger!
Along the way, Liu Pei's army was strongly welcomed by the North Koreans! Many people even set up incense tables on the roadside, burned incense and prayed to welcome the royal army!
Because the people who can set up incense tables are basically large local households, they can more or less provide some supplies to work hard on the army. At the same time, they also sent their sons and nephews to join the army, and organized villagers to help Liu Pei transport supplies.
In the second half of the marching, all the supplies except artillery and ammunition were transported by the North Koreans. The surprised soldiers did not do much at all!
Twenty thousand people disembarked, and with loading and unloading supplies, artillery was not an easy job, so Pyongyang had already received news. Then they closed the city gates and waited for the Ming army to attack the city. Therefore, when Liu Pei and his friends arrived in Pyongyang, they saw the entire city looking ready.
When Liu Pei sets up a camp outside Pyongyang City, the chaos in the world will begin!
When I heard that the King's Army was coming, the Korean people around Pyongyang came and voluntarily provided various assistance to the King's Army. These poor people came to Liu Pei's camp with their only food, to reward the King's Army and voluntarily provide labor for Wang Chi!
The surrounding North Korean rebels were even more moved. Even the North Korean official army fighting with the rebels in the surrounding area turned against each other and reported to Liu Pei's camp. They asked the royal army to lead them to conquer Pyongyang, expel the Qing army, and return the Li family's throne!
What's even more bizarre is that several official troops and the North Korean rebels actually fought when they met on the road! When they finally realized that the other party was going to surrender to the royal army, they actually shook hands and made peace!
At this time, Haoge, who was guarding the city of Pyongyang! Originally, Haoge shouldn't have come to North Korea, but some time ago, after Huang Taiji's death, the battles within the Qing army were very powerful for the throne!
But when the final result was released, the battle ended with Dorgon's concession and Fulin's little baby ascending the throne. However, in order to ensure Fulin's successful ascendance to the throne, he was sent to Liaodong as a balance
Going to guard the Korean Peninsula. This completely cut off Haoge's desire to become emperor. As a result, Haoge was sent to death!
At this time, Haoge stood on the head of the city, his heart felt as cold as if he had soaked in ice water! Because the camp outside the city was becoming more and more powerful with the speed visible to the naked eye!
This is not surprising at all. In fact, Liu Pei’s camp with 20,000 people is not too big. But he couldn’t resist the Korean people coming everywhere to join the royal army. There were many rebels and Korean government troops!
These people have never been disciplined, and even the North Korean government troops are not much stronger! So the camp they set up is simply casual! There are not many people, but they occupy a large piece of land. This is the main reason why Liu Pei's camp becomes larger and larger! But at least in form, it looks extremely terrifying!
At this time, Hauge had already arranged the defense of Pyongyang City. He also planned to organize local North Koreans to participate in the defense, but was dissuaded by one person! This person was Park Dong-sung, who was captured in Shandong!
After Park Dong-sen was captured, he was asked by Liu Jiang. After a good lesson, he signed a letter of loyalty, which was considered to be on the Liu Jiang's ship.
However, Liu Jiang did not treat him badly. Not only did he bring a group of confidants back to North Korea, he also gave him a large sum of gold and silver so that he could bribe the Qing army and save him from his death penalty!
When Park Dong-sung first came back, he happened to have Haoge arrived in North Korea. He posted it on the order! He gave gold and silver and beautiful women, and he was flattered and finally became a celebrity around Haoge. He also recognized Haoge as his master!
Park Dongsheng said: "Master, you must not use locals to participate in defending the city! You can tell if you look outside the city, how many people are joining the Ming army! If you use the city people to defend the city, the city gate may be opened one night!"
When Haoge heard this, he felt it made sense and said, "But what should we do if we lack the strength to defend the city?"
The Qing army's strength to defend the city is indeed insufficient. Although the Qing army released 20,000 people in North Korea, many of these 20,000 people have been sent out to wipe out the rebel army, and only more than 8,000 people are actually guarding the city. It is really not enough to defend Pyongyang City!
Park Dongsheng said: "Master, if you don't have enough people, you can only use our Qing Dynasty soldiers to defend the city! At most, slaves will pick some more people, probably
If you can raise one or two thousand people, no matter how many slaves there are, they cannot guarantee their loyalty!"
Haoge stomped his feet and said, "It's okay to have more than a thousand people! You can always help a lot! Go and gather people!"
Park Dong-sung turned around and was about to leave, but was pulled back by Haoge. Haoge asked, "Have all the people from the Li family gathered? Are the guards tightly?"
Park Dongsheng nodded and said, "Don't worry, master, you are all concentrated in the back hall of the palace! Ensure that no one in the Li family from the main team to the side branches will be left behind! The slave specially arranged for his master's personal soldiers to take the guard!"
Haoge said with satisfaction after hearing this: "What a slave! You are doing your job well! When you look back and return to Liaodong, I will carry the flag for you!"
Park Dong-sung was overjoyed when he heard this and nodded repeatedly! Then he took Hauge's arrow to greet people.
As for Liu Pei's discovery that more and more people came, he had a bad idea. Of course, it would be better for his own soldiers to sacrifice less! So he simply dismantled part of his army into a small team, and then assigned a large number of Koreans to each team!
When the war begins, the musket soldiers will be used as the arrow for attack, and the other battles will be left to the North Koreans!
As Liu Pei expected, during the period when he was waiting, the news of the arrival of the King's Army spread farther and farther, resulting in a constant stream of Koreans coming!
In just four days, a team of 70,000 to 80,000 people had gathered under the city of Pyongyang, sieging Pyongyang City to the point of being siege!
Now Liu Pei feels that the time is almost over and it’s time to attack! If you drag on it, the Qing army outside may return to aid after receiving the news. The Qing army has not returned to aid because they are too scattered and are gathering. When they are gathering, it’s time to return to aid!
At that time, although you have a large number of people, most of them are ordinary people. At that time, you will be in chaos after being stormed by the Qing army, and it will be bad if you wrap yourself in! So Liu Bei decided to formally attack the city.
Just a few days ago, Liu Pei mobilized artillery and kept bombarding the city wall. The southern wall of Pyongyang City was now covered with cracks, and it was about to collapse with another force!
Chapter completed!