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  Chapter 323 321【Rebel】

  The enemy's firepower is fierce, and Jeju Mucheng will definitely not be able to take it back.

  Li Hengzhong could only order the withdrawal of troops, hoping to lure the enemy out and rely on cavalry to win in field battles.

   Just as the entire team was withdrawing, someone suddenly shouted: "Kill the factory supervisor!"

  I saw many ragged cavalrymen (actually herdsmen), who seemed to have made a private appointment a long time ago, launched a rebellion by surprise, and killed the cavalry generals who were wearing good clothes.

   Herdsmen hate officials, and they are often exploited.

  This is an island where criminals are exiled. How can officials be sympathetic to the people? It's not squeezed to death!

  More than a dozen factory supervisors from various grasslands in Jeju Island, who were temporarily serving as cavalry generals, were killed by the herdsmen around them in a daze.

  These guys, usually domineering, are finally getting retribution now.

   "Don't kill me, I will surrender!"

  Jingyi County Superintendent Pu Sheng yelled in a hurry, trying to escape on horseback, but was chased by the herdsmen around him and stabbed to death.

  Jin Guorui, the supervisor of Dajing County, ran very fast, and fled to Li Hengzhong in a blink of an eye: "Master Mushi, Muzi on the island has rebelled, and he must be suppressed quickly!"

   "I'm not blind, I don't need you to remind me!"

  Li Hengzhong was shocked and angry, and quickly summoned his personal guards, a total of more than two hundred cavalry, and immediately rushed towards the rebels.

  More than 3,200 herdsmen all chose to defect, and Li Hengzhong was left with only 200 people in an instant.

  But these two hundred cavalrymen were chasing and killing more than three thousand herdsmen.

  The scene is extremely weird.

  More than 3,000 herdsmen on horseback did not dare to fight at all. They were chased and moved closer to the city wall, hoping to obtain the protection of Datong soldiers.

   "The enemy is...infighting?" Hu Dinggui asked confusedly.

  Liu Ze crawled over and leaned against the wall of the village, and said in the official language of Ming Dynasty: "General Rong, if you can't take down Jeju Pastoral City quickly, or if you lose the battle, Li Hengzhong will be killed by the herdsmen and surrender."

  Hu Dinggui smiled and asked: "Why?"

Liu Ze replied: "Jeju's navy has been lost, and no one on the island can escape. Everyone can surrender, but Li Hengzhong cannot surrender. He belongs to the Korean clan, and he has been guarding Gwanghaejun (Li Hui) for a long time. Gwanghaejun controls After Jeju Island, Li Hengzhong would have to die even if he surrendered. Moreover, the North Korean government exploited the herdsmen too much, and the herdsmen wanted to rebel a long time ago."

   "It's no wonder that he ordered the siege without his life," Hu Dinggui said with a smile, "Are you Han?"

   Liu Ze replied: "I was born in a Korean Confucian family, and my grandfather traveled to Daming for several years to study."

  Hu Dinggui said: "You are very good, you can be my personal interpreter."

   "Thank you, General!" Liu Ze hurriedly kowtowed.

  More than 3,000 herdsmen turned against each other, rushed to the vicinity of the city wall, got off their horses and knelt down one after another, and sent envoys to chatter for a long time.

   Liu Ze translated: "General Rong, this person said that they are all shepherds on the island. They were forced to sacrifice their lives for Li Hengzhong. They were exploited by the North Korean leader in the past. From now on, they request to belong to the Ming Shang Kingdom."

  Hu Dinggui asked: "What is the situation on the island?"

Liu Ze's thinking is very quick, and he explained briefly: "Jeju Island was originally a horse breeding land in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian criminals were continuously exiled to raise horses. In the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu also exiled the descendants of Yuanliang King, Chen Youliang and Ming Yuzhen. Come here. These people are very powerful. They gradually gathered wealth and moved away from Jeju Island. After the Imjin Japanese Invasion, North Korea was full of unclaimed wasteland. The descendants include Han Chinese, Koreans, and Mongols, and they have long been mixed blood and cannot distinguish ethnicity."

   "Who owns the pasture and farmland?" Hu Dinggui asked again.

Liu Ze replied: "It belongs to the lord of Korea. The residents of the island are half farming and half grazing. Every year, they pay tribute to the lord with cattle and horses, and hand over land taxes to the island government. There are three cities and twelve townships on the island, all of which are under the management of the government. The government can take back pastures and farmland at will.”

  Hu Dinggui turned around and discussed with Wang Yaochen for a while, and said to Liu Ze: "Tell them, as long as they are loyal, the tribute will be reduced by 10%, and their previous crimes will not be pursued."

  Liu Ze immediately told the news, and the cavalry rushed back, and soon the herdsmen burst into cheers.

  Surrender means surrender, but they dare not fight. More than 3,000 herdsmen shrank outside the city.

  Li Hengzhong and Jin Guorui, both in full armor, rode the two best horses on the island. There are more than 200 cavalry under their command, all of them are wearing leather armor, and each has a horse bow.

  The more than 3,000 herdsmen who surrendered, not to mention wearing armor, even their clothes were worn out.

   Not even swords, most of them are equipped with spears.

  Some spears are ground with stones, and even the iron spearheads are not enough.

   A group of beggars riding horses.

   "Open the door, counterattack!"

  Hu Dinggui left 500 soldiers behind, let Wang Yaochen and Zheng's sailors guard the city, and led 500 gunfire soldiers out of the city to fight.

  The balance of combat forces between the two sides has reversed.

   On Hu Dinggui's side, there are 500 Datong soldiers, 4,000 North Korean surrendered infantry, and 3,000 North Korean surrendered cavalry. It can also be said that there were 7,000 farmers and herdsmen who surrendered, and the youngest was only 13 years old, holding a wooden stick in his hand.

  There are more than 200 regular cavalry on Li Hengzhong's side.

  Li Hengzhong was desperate at the moment. If he hadn't been trapped on the island, he would not have chosen to fight today, and would have fled thousands of miles away with his personal guards.

  As Liu Ze said, everyone else can surrender, but Li Hengzhong's surrender is also death.

How to do?

  Run chant!

   How far you can run, and how many days you can live.

  More than two hundred cavalry immediately fled, Hu Dinggui could only watch from a distance, and said to the surrendered herdsmen: "Catch up and annihilate the enemy!"

  The herdsmen are numerous and powerful, but they lack a unified command. The acquaintances gather together and divide into more than ten groups to fight separately. They were used to being oppressed, and they fought cautiously, not daring to go after them with all their strength.

   "Shhhhhh!"

  More than two hundred cavalry began to shoot arrows, and they shot crookedly. It seemed that the bows and arrows were lack of maintenance.

  The rain of arrows only caused one herdsman to be injured, and none of them even fell off the horse.

  But the herdsmen were so frightened that they reined in their horses and stopped. They watched Li Hengzhong lead his troops to retreat, and came back to report to Hu Dinggui: "The enemy cavalry is too powerful. We were all killed and retreated, so we couldn't continue to pursue."

   "Do you **** think I'm blind?"

  Hu Dinggui really wanted to reprimand, if these were his soldiers, they would all be dragged to the board!

   But think about it again, if the herdsmen are so brave, they are the ones being attacked now, how could they choose to surrender in a daze?

  Li Hengzhong returned to Dajing County with his cavalry, not daring to come out to fight, but stayed in the city, waiting for the king of North Korea to send troops to rescue him.

   "How to fight?" Hu Dinggui asked Wang Yaochen.

  Wang Yaochen said: "If we don't fight for the time being, let's train our own cavalry. The two hundred or so enemy cavalry will not be able to stir up a storm."

Hu Dinggui nodded and said: "I also plan to train cavalry by myself. This is the task assigned by the general town. I will practice five hundred cavalry first, and I don't expect to kill the enemy on horseback. I just need to be able to chase the enemy on horseback. Chase the enemy on horseback, dismount and release the gun. Mounted musketeers."

Wang Yaochen said: "It seems that these thousands of Datong soldiers will stay in Jeju Island for a long time. When I write a letter back, I ask the general town to take the soldiers' wives and children and redistribute the land on Jeju Island for the soldiers and their families. This Jeju Island Half farming and half pasturing, there are also a lot of farmland. If you bring your family members, you can also learn to raise horses."

  The two discussed for a long time, and it was probably like this.

  Put Li Hun out as a puppet, first appoint Koreans to manage the city, and let the farmers and herdsmen self-govern the pastures and farmland. When the family members of Datong soldiers come, they will set aside a piece of land as a Han Chinese settlement, and at the same time open a school, so that the children of farmers and herdsmen on the island can also attend classes.

  After the agreement, Hu Dinggui forcibly left 500 good horses—in fact, they were all pony horses with a shoulder height of 1.2 meters. The Korean war horses were very degraded.

  Hu Dinggui agreed with these herdsmen that there would be no need to pay tribute to horses in the next year, but only 400 horses and 50 cattle each year. Compared with North Korea's policy, the annual discount is much lower, 33 horses and 10 cattle are less tributed, and the herdsmen are very happy.

  The 500 horses left behind are considered to be pre-requisitioned in advance and can be deducted later.

  After the herdsmen were dismissed, the farmers were also dismissed, which also reduced the amount of land tax.

  Liu Ze came and knelt down: "General, I have a plan."

   "Let's talk." Hu Dinggui smiled.

Liu Ze said: "You can send people to spread the news everywhere, saying that as long as you submit to Lord Guanghai (Li Hun), Li Hengzhong's personal guards will also be saved from death. Then you can confer Jin Guorui, the supervisor of Dajing County, and promise to be a high-ranking official with a generous salary. In this way, Li Hengzhong will inevitably die. No longer trusting Jin Guorui, Li Hengzhong even suspects that his own soldiers are going to rebel. If there is a countermeasure, and they cannot escape from Jeju Island, the enemy must fight among themselves."

  Hu Dinggui smiled and said: "Haha, counterintuitive tricks, I know."

  With Zhao Han's praise, Hu Dinggui has been studying. He has memorized "Datong Ji" by heart, has read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Thirty-Six Strategies", and recently read "Ji Xiao's New Book" by Qi Jiguang.

   Hu Dinggui didn't care about using counter-intuitive tricks, and trained the cavalry seriously.

  His mount is from Park Seung, with a height of 1.3 meters at the shoulder. It is a rare BMW in Jeju Island.

  Hu Dinggui also spent money to hire herdsmen to teach the soldiers how to take care of the horses. The soldiers had to eat and sleep with the horses every day. Of course, the herdsmen are responsible for feeding the night food, otherwise the soldiers would not be able to sleep well.

  After half a month of training like this, five hundred gunfire soldiers can already run around on horses.

  But it is impossible to march forward in an array, and the whole army changes direction urgently. This kind of high-end operation is even more impossible.

   Their daily training subjects are to run for a while on horseback, then quickly dismount to load ammunition, and then turn on the horse and continue to run—mounted musket infantry.

  As for the heavy cavalry, they have to bring in high-quality horse breeds, and the pony horses in Jeju Island are not good at all.

  …

  Dajing County.

   After receiving Li Hengzhong's banquet, Jin Guorui was so frightened that he immediately ran to the stables, and rode his horse towards the outside of the city.

  Twenty cavalrymen quickly chased after them, and surrounded Jin Guorui by galloping for two miles: "County supervisor, please go back, and Master Shepherd invites you to drink."

   "Slow down!"

Jin Guorui was sweating on his back, and said to the cavalrymen: "I have found out clearly, this time it is not the Ming army, but Zhao Tianwang's army. Zhao Tianwang occupies half of Daming, and the territory is as big as ten North Koreas. Even if you If you can leave Jeju Island for the first time, you are not afraid to offend Zhao Tianwang? What's more, the navy of Jeju Island is gone, and the tribute horse envoy sent by the king of North Korea will not come until around the winter solstice. By then, we will definitely lose Already!"

  The cavalry didn't speak, but they didn't move either.

Jin Guorui continued: "The enemy is using a tactic of alienation, a conspiracy. I did not betray the lord, but I was suspected by the pastor and sent you to hunt and kill me. After I die, who will be next? The enemy threatens, you You can surrender without guilt, will Li Hengzhong be suspicious of you? Like killing me today, kill the general who commanded the army?"

Seeing that the cavalry still did not respond, Jin Guorui said again: "The enemy is training cavalry every day. Li Hengzhong only has more than two hundred cavalry. How can he win? Are you going to accompany him to death? Go back with me, kill Li Hengzhong, and seek refuge. Mr. Guanghai (Li Hun)!"

   After finishing speaking, Jin Guorui rode his horse and ran towards the county seat, and the cavalry followed.

  After entering the city, Jin Guorui shouted all the way: "The bandits are here, the bandits are here!"

  Dajing county suddenly became chaotic, Li Heng came out in armor and led his troops, and asked, "The bandit army is here?"

  Jin Guorui said, "It's miles away."

  Li Heng said: "It is not convenient for cavalry to defend the city, so follow me out of the city to meet the enemy!"

  Jin Guorui sat on his horse and turned around, gesturing towards the twenty or so cavalrymen.

  The cavalrymen drew their bows and arrows in unison, and at a distance of more than ten steps, they shot towards Li Heng.

"kill!"

  Jin Guorui was afraid that he would not die, so he rode his horse and rushed forward: "Surrender to avoid death!"

  Li Hengzhong and his personal guards were caught off guard by the rain of arrows. Many people were hit by arrows in a daze, and some horses ran away after being injured. Seeing Jin Guorui leading troops to attack, the soldiers subconsciously avoided, but no one stopped him.

   With one slash, Li Heng fell off the horse.

  Jin Guorui raised his arms and shouted: "Li Hengzhong is dead, follow me to Lord Guanghai, follow me to King Zhao Tian!"

  (end of this chapter)