Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 822: Twenty Cities Captured In Half A Month, The Unstoppable Ming Army [Please Subscribe, Pl

In March of the 18th year of Hongwu's reign, the Ming Dynasty's 200,000-strong army was mobilized. In April, it reached Goryeo. In May, the 30,000-strong right side division led by Wuding Marquis Guo Ying defeated Goryeo's 150,000-strong army in one battle and captured more than 80,000 people.

Later, Wuding Marquis Guo Ying captured more than 10,000 Korean local defenders one after another while leading his army.

In the end, together with the more than 80,000 prisoners before, a hundred thousand prisoners were gathered together, and then they were escorted back to the Ming Dynasty, and then were thrown to Liaodong to develop the Liaodong black earth plain.

After hearing that the 30,000 right-wing division led by Wuding Marquis Guo Ying defeated Goryeo's 150,000-strong army in one battle, Yongcheng Marquis Xue Xiandang could no longer hold back.

Because of the annexation of Goryeo this time, although the commander of the army was Fu Youde, the Duke of Ying, they all knew that Fu Youde, the Duke of Ying, was mainly responsible for keeping them safe during this trip.

After all, Fu Youde has been named the Duke of the country, and no matter how many military achievements he has made, it is just the icing on the cake.

Therefore, Fu Youde, the Duke of Ying, would not compete with them for the first and great achievement of annexing Goryeo. This is why Fu Youde, who was the main frontal army, marched relatively slowly.

On the one hand, in addition to playing steadily, on the other hand, the opportunity to make contributions was also given to Wuding Marquis Guo Ying and Yongcheng Marquis Xue Xian.

So after seeing Wu Dinghou Guo Ying take the credit for the great victory of defeating an army of 150,000 men and capturing 100,000 men.

Xue Xian, the Marquis of Yongcheng, thought about it and finally realized that if he wanted to get a credit comparable to that of Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, he had to be the first to break through the capital of Goryeo.

There is no way, the 150,000 troops that Goryeo assembled before were really assembled by the whole country.

After being bombarded by Wuding Marquis Guo Ying and killing more than 10,000 people on the battlefield and capturing 100,000 people, the entire Goryeo army could no longer muster 100,000 troops.

During this period, the total population of Goryeo Kingdom was only about three to five million people.

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the population of Goryeo exceeded tens of millions.

Therefore, if the general support ratio of thirty to one is followed, then the number of non-productive people that Goryeo could support during this period was about 100,000 to 160,000 people.

If the people were squeezed even more harshly, such as a support ratio of 15 to 1, then the number of non-productive people that Goryeo could support during this period would range from 10,000 to 300,000 people.

The 150,000 troops that Goryeo had mobilized before had already accounted for half to more than half of the number of unemployed people.

Then take into account the number of unemployed people occupied by the Goryeo nobles themselves, as well as the number of unemployed people occupied by craftsmen, musicians, doctors and other workers.

The number of remaining soldiers in Goryeo is estimated to be only about 30,000 to 50,000 to 70,000.

And these 30, 50, 70,000 people have to include the number of soldiers left behind in various local towns in Goryeo. After all, it is impossible to mobilize all the local soldiers to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

If that really happens, the order of the towns in Goryeo will completely collapse.

Even if Ming's army was "repelled" later, Goryeo would have to vomit a lot of blood if he wanted to reorganize and restore order in these places.

Even the chaos caused by the collapse of order in these local towns and cities, once swept across, might directly lead to the change of dynasty in Goryeo.

So no matter what, in the towns in various places in Goryeo, at least a few hundred people, and as many as thousands, must be left behind to maintain the most basic order.

Therefore, after deducting the soldiers who maintain order in these local towns, the number of troops that Goryeo can still provide is more than 10,000 people.

And this force of more than 10,000 people is now staying in the capital of Goryeo, and it is also the last fighting force of Goryeo.

After learning the news from the captured Goryeo local guard, Xue Xian, the Marquis of Yongcheng, also decided not to waste time in Goryeo's fish trap.

Immediately he led 30,000 soldiers on a rapid march, breaking the city when encountering it, and killing the enemy when encountering it.

The whole process can basically be summarized as:

"Report, General, the Goryeo Castle has been discovered ahead!"

"Run it up, bombard the city with artillery, break down the gate, shoot with archers, and capture the gate with the vanguard!

About half an hour later, the city was broken, and the remaining Korean soldiers were either killed by bombs, shot to death by bows and arrows, or killed by the vanguard.

Only a few Goryeo soldiers were lucky enough to be captured because they knelt down and surrendered faster.

After that, another thousand people were left to garrison, waiting for the main army of Duke Ying Fu Youde to come and take over the city.

Then the remaining soldiers continued their rapid march, and then discovered the local city of Goryeo.

"Report, General, the Goryeo City has been discovered again ahead!"

"Continue to run up, artillery bombards the city, breaks the door, archers shoot, and the vanguard captures the door!"

Cycle through what happened in the previous city again, and then continue the rapid march.

After the whole process, basically no Goryeo city could survive for an hour.

There is no way. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the local cities in Goryeo during this period were said to be cities, but in fact they were just towns surrounded by city walls.

Most of the walls of these Goryeo local cities were only about six to nine feet high, in other words, two to three meters high.

At such a height, you can almost jump over it with a pole vault.

And even though they are said to be city walls, most of them are just earth walls.

The level of sturdiness is just that, and it might be okay to use it to protect against local thieves in Goryeo, or some local bandits.

But facing the Ming Dynasty's regular army, they still had regular armies with hot weapons such as artillery.

That's just a joke. Basically, with a few shots, you can blast a big hole in those earthen walls.

There are few troops guarding the local city, and the city wall is low and not strong.

Under such circumstances, trying to stop Yongcheng Hou Xue Xian is just a dream.

So within half a month, Yongcheng Hou Xue Xian captured twenty local cities in Goryeo.

Basically, they conquered it as soon as they saw it. If they were quick, they could conquer two cities in one day. 910

Finally, Yongcheng Hou Nanxian led 20,000 soldiers to attack the gate of Kaijing, the capital of Goryeo.

As for the other 10,000 people, they were divided and left to guard the captured Goryeo cities.

As the capital of Goryeo, the city wall in Kaijing is quite decent. It is at least two feet high and looks much stronger than the earthen walls in those places. In addition, there are more than 10,000 soldiers left behind.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to capture Korea, but not much.

If he attacks by force, as long as he is willing to accept a certain loss of Ming soldiers, he can still attack it immediately.

But the problem is that after marching all the way, the number of soldiers he actually lost was only a hundred or so.

If we attack by force, we may lose more than a thousand people. After all, it is a siege.

Just when Xue Xian, the Marquis of Yongcheng, was thinking about how to defeat the capital of Korea with as little loss as possible, an envoy from the capital of Korea was also sent over, saying that he had gifts to give to the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking that Wuding Marquis Guo Ying would not be able to make it for a while, and that the credit for conquering the capital of Goryeo was basically his own, Yongcheng Marquis Xue Xian did not mind wasting a little time to see what Goryeo said it would give to the Ming Dynasty. What is it.

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