So, in mid-April, with the help of the troops led by Li Zicheng, Oda Jiro conquered the Matsue family of the Hoi Island, killed more than 2,000 samurai soldiers of the Matsue family, and successfully occupied their city.

In early May, Oda Jiro launched a raid on North Korea under the name of Matsumae, Matsushima, and plundered more than 3,000 people and left in a swagger.

In late May, Oda Jiro and his army crossed the sea on a boat and attacked North Korea again, and this time they directly plundered 80,000 people!

Shocked Li Chao.

Fuso’s invasion of the peninsula has been around for a long time, and there is no need for any reason. Hitting you is going to hit you.

If Emperor Wanli had not rescued him, Fusang would have destroyed the peninsula under the leadership of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Now, Fusang has launched a large-scale invasion again, which makes Li Nai feel very frightened.

Less than two years after the Jurchens ransacked, they did not have enough military and economic strength to fight.

So they first thought of asking for help from the sect leader and the powerful Ming Empire.

Cui Mingji served as an envoy again and went to the Ming Empire of Ping'an Road West Road to rent land, visited Mao Wenlong, and asked for assistance.

At this time, Mao Wenlong was preparing for war. After the last attack on Zhenjiang Fort, he led his army to seize two cities occupied by the Later Jin Dynasty, and obtained more than 100,000 Han people and thousands of Jurchens and Mongolian slaves.

But such a result is much worse than that of Yuan Keli and Cao Wenzhao.

Yuan Keli led the Denglai Navy and had pushed the front line to Gaizhou, Xuancheng, and joined forces with Zhenjiangbao to form a peninsula defense line, regaining a large area of ​​land on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Moreover, its navy fleet completely controlled the waters of Liaodong Bay, and the Jurchen forces along the coast were completely removed.

In the western part of Liao, Cao Wenzhao and Mao Yuanyi jointly marched, first attacking the Korqin tribe and then seizing the Daling River area. The troops advanced deep into the Pingbao area of ​​the western part of Liaohe River.

In this way, it is connected with Gaizhou, which has greatly compressed the sphere of influence of the original Later Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty's current Qing Dynasty, and has lost nearly 20% of its living space.

What’s important is that their Mongolian allies, now only some small tribes in Gingbeifang, and the largest ally, the Korqin tribe, have all been destroyed.

If the main force of the Korqin tribe had not sacrificed his life to protect their leader and retreated, he might have captured Huang Taiji's favorite concubine and Da Yu'er's family.

Now the power of the Later Jin Dynasty is much worse than before. After Huang Taiji's defeat in the battle of Xifengkou in person, he has never confronted the Ming Dynasty head-on.

We have always adopted a relatively conservative strategy.

However, according to the Ming Dynasty's "no night stop" investigation, the Qing Dynasty was actively preparing for the war, and the passive defensive strategy was just to reduce consumption, and it was likely that it also had the idea of ​​deliberately showing the enemy as weak.

Mao Wenlong felt that it was better to start first.

Especially in view of the current situation, Cao Wenzhao and others are all determined to fight for the recovery of Liaodong military merits, and time is not allowed to continue waiting.

After this period of development, his Dongjiang Army combat units expanded to 45,000.

Among them, 15,000 were light cavalrymen, and 30,000 were musketeers equipped with Ming-style firearms.

These people are real, none of them are empty-handed, and they are all soldiers who have grown up after high-intensity training and several battles.

Although they are not necessarily elite soldiers, they also have patriotic ideas and their belief in being officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. They are far higher than the previous Dongjiang Army's individual combat quality, and their comprehensive combat quality is extremely powerful.

Kong Youde and others had long thought of sending troops to continue attacking the heartland of Liaodong, but Mao Wenlong kept pressing on him. He still felt that it was not the time. He could not truly destroy the Qing Dynasty with his troops alone.

At this time, he had 15,000 main troops, plus 20,000 auxiliary troops, and a total of 65,000. He felt that it was time to fight the decisive battle.

But at this time, Cui Mingji brought King Li Chao's help to Zhenjiang Fort.

"Mao Shuai! Fusang was dissatisfied with Wang Hua and was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. He suddenly invaded our country, destroying our city and plundering a large number of people and property. It was indeed a robbery. In this way, please ask the Supreme People of the Celestial Kingdom to punish it!"

Cui Mingji cried while talking, which made Mao Wenlong feel a little upset for a moment.

If this matter is reported to the capital, according to the style of the people of the church, and the concerns about the face of the sect leader, the court will definitely send troops to suppress it, then he will definitely be the one who will do the matter at that time.

In this way, his plan to attack Liaodong was ruined, and the huge contribution to regaining Liaodong was likely to fall on others.

I have been patient for so long and saved several months for the sake of now.

But I never thought of encountering such a trouble.

He really doesn't want to care, but the North Korean envoy has arrived and can't be regarded as not seeing it.

If he acts arbitrarily at the national level, someone in the court may give him a few words of slander, which will not benefit from the benefits, but will make him feel uncomfortable.

"This matter needs to be investigated clearly. I will give you a reply in two days." Mao Wenlong said.

He didn't know whether there was a reply, but it was really necessary to do it in two days, and he couldn't make a decision for a while, so he could only delay it.

Without an accurate reply, Cui Mingji was reluctant to leave directly. Now that Fusang is coming in full force, he cannot bring the royal army of the Celestial Kingdom to Seoul. It is estimated that the Fusang people will enter Seoul.

He also knelt directly in front of Mao Wenlong, hugged Mao Wenlong's thighs, and cried: "Mao Shuai! Please send troops as soon as possible! Otherwise, I, Li Dynasty, will not know how many people will be slaughtered by Japanese pirates! After the royal army of the Celestial Kingdom arrived in Seoul, we can naturally confirm the authenticity of the matter. If the Shang Kingdom thinks it is a deception of the small country, the small country is willing to accept all punishments!

The small country is weak, and the Japanese pirates are like jackals, so I can’t wait anymore!”

Mao Wenlong was stunned when he saw this. Cui Mingji was a third-rank official of the Li Dynasty. Now he was kneeling on the ground like a shrew, holding his thigh and not letting go. It was really unexpected.

Just when Mao Wenlong was stunned, a personal guard suddenly came to the door. After receiving Mao Wenlong's eyes, he came to his ear and whispered a message.

Mao Wenlong waved his hand to let him retreat after hearing this, and then said to Cui Mingji: "I need to discuss with my colleagues about the way to deal with this matter and quickly report it to me, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Please wait here for a while, and I will definitely give you an answer today."

This was also a promise. Cui Mingji knew that it was very likely to arouse Mao Wenlong's disgust, so he stopped immediately when he was ready and said gratefully: "Thanks to Mao Shuai for his help. The whole country will definitely be grateful to Mao Shuai!"

Mao Wenlong stopped talking when he heard this, but just smiled at him, then turned around and left here and came to another room.
Chapter completed!