Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Chapter 608: Surrender without a fight (2)

Yue Fei stayed in Xianxing Mansion for only one day, and then continued to lead the Song Army southward.

Cui Siquan, guard of Xianxing Mansion, also followed Yue Fei.

In the middle of the night, on the remote road, the sound of the horse galloping constantly came out.

There were dozens of dark shadows faintly in front, and Yue Fei led the people towards these dozens of dark shadows.

Soon there was a screaming sound in front of me, and I saw that these dozens of shadows were running faster!

However, no matter how fast they were, they couldn't keep up with the speed of the war horse. After less than a quarter of an hour, these dozens of dark shadows were surrounded by Song Jun.

These are dozens of Korean people, including men, women, old people and children. All of them are pale, and they carry large bags and small bags on their bodies. They seem to be salutes!

Gradually, these dozens of Korean people knelt down, and they kept kowtow towards the surrounding Song army.

"Ask them, where are they going?" Yue Fei said.

Cui Siquan stayed beside Yue Fei, and immediately asked these Korean people in Korean.

"General, they said they are going to hide in the mountains ahead to avoid the chaos of war." Cui Siquan said after a while.

"Tell them, don’t go to the mountains ahead! My Da Song army is as disciplined as a mountain, and will never kill the people indiscriminately, nor will they rob the people of their property! Let them continue to live in their hometown, the war will end soon, we will First implement a tax exemption policy of one to three years in Goryeo, everything will only be better than before, not worse than before!" Yue Fei said.

Cui Siquan told these Korean people what Yue Fei had said, and the faces of these Korean people showed incredible expressions.

After Cui Siquan finished speaking, Yue Fei continued to lead the army forward.

All the Song Army cavalry bypassed these Korean citizens. They did not **** the salute from the Korean citizens, and absolutely no one abused a woman. After the Song Army passed by, these Koreans talked a lot.

"This is Da Song's army? They seem to be a little different from our Goryeo army!"

"I heard that once a war breaks out, the people like us will suffer the most. By then, we will be ruined, but we have encountered so many troops, and we are still standing here!"

"What to do? Are we going to the mountains?"

"Let's go back and take a look. If the village is still there and it has not been looted, we will not go to the mountains."

The people of Korea talked a lot here, and Cui Siquan followed Yue Fei, flattering: "Your army is really the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and Cui admires it!"

Yue Fei smiled, and said: "My Majesty Song wants a complete Goryeo, not a broken Goryeo! After this battle, Goryeo only died of some soldiers, just lost the former king and court, ordinary People's lives will not be affected too much!"

The Song army occupied Goryeo only to change the superstructure of Goryeo, not to clean ordinary Koreans.

Goryeo is different from the Jurchen and Mongolian ethnic groups. It is also a farming culture and Confucian civilization. As long as the policies are right, it can be smoothly integrated into the Song Dynasty and increase its power. The best way to conquer a country is to use culture and civilization to assimilate it, rather than conquering it by force as in later Mongolia.

As Yue Fei headed south, he encountered many Koreans who had fled. Whenever he met these people, Yue Fei would send people to persuade them to return to their hometown.

On June 28th, Song Jun came to Yongxing City.

Yongxing City is an important port on the east coast of North Korea. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, North Korea was a vassal state of China. At that time, Yongxing City was once one of the military ports of the Beiyang Navy! Ding Ruchang, admiral of the Beiyang Navy, once led Beiyang warships such as Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Weiyuan to be stationed here to confront the Japanese!

Now this is just a small city, the entire city has only three thousand garrisons.

With the arrival of Yue Fei's 20,000 cavalrymen, Yongxing City Gate had already been closed.

The three thousand garrisons in Yongxing City stood on the wall. Many of them shivered. The weapons in their hands were also of different styles. Some even had weapons such as wooden sticks in their hands.

Yue Fei did not order to attack the city immediately, but ordered people to persuade him to surrender.

Only a quarter of an hour later, the gate of Yongxing city opened, and the magistrate of Yongxing city knelt in front of Yue Fei with a flattering smile on his face.

Originally, the magistrate of Yongxing City wanted to surrender out of the city a long time ago, but he was a literati and felt that he should be reserved for a while, so he waited until Song Jun persuaded him to surrender.

Seeing this flattering smile, Yue Fei couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.

The army stayed in Yongxing City for only half a day, and then continued to move south.

The Song Army attacked all the way, and attacked all the way!

In more than half a month, officials and generals from Hamhung, Yongxing, Wonsan, Gangneung, Yeongju, Daejeon, Gwangju and other places surrendered one after another! All the way south, Yue Fei encountered almost no resistance!

This made Yue Fei feel surprised. He didn't understand why the Koreans didn't resist?

In fact, this is just like the scene in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty. The city of Xiangyang was broken and the Mongols went south. In the Southern Song Dynasty, countless officials at all levels who read sages and sages full of benevolence and morality went down to the yuan. Even countless local officials such as the propaganda and futuristic envoy of Beijing and Hubei, who was in charge of the generals, surrendered, and the whole Jiangnan collapsed almost like dominoes.

At that time, the Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing of the Southern Song Dynasty called the King Qin of the world army! There are still more than 600,000 troops in the south of the Yangtze River. In the end, there are only 20,000 people who are the king of Qin. Among them, 10,000 are the peasant volunteers led by Wen Tianxiang, and the remaining more than 500,000 troops all surrendered without a fight!

After Kublai’s conquered the world, he was also surprised at this phenomenon. He asked those Da Song officials who voluntarily surrendered and asked them why they chose to surrender so easily. All Da Song officials were speechless.

The situation in Korea today is exactly the same as in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty!

Goryeo originally had a history of more than 200 years since the founding of the country, and it is almost at the end of the dynasty! In history, about thirty years later, the Wang family of Goryeo changed drastically, the military commander regent, and the King of Goryeo almost became a puppet! The Goryeo country itself is already full of contradictions. After receiving the news that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were defeated in Liaodong and the Great Wall, no one in Goryeo would like to continue to fight against the Song Dynasty.

Yue Fei couldn't understand this question. He just felt that the Koreans had no spine and looked down upon this nation in his heart!

Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Wang Gui and others led the army all the way south, and they did not encounter much resistance! Many times, the Song army has not yet arrived, and the main officials of the city ahead have already gone to greet them. Sometimes even local officials, generals, and gentry all come out to greet each other.

By the time of July 19, only one month after the Great Wall was broken, almost all of Goryeo fell, leaving only one place-Inju!

When Wu Jie went south, the prefect of Renzhou had also opened the gates and surrendered. Wu Jie still ordered the prefect of Renzhou to temporarily manage Renzhou, and then continued to lead his troops to the south.

He didn't know that Jincan, the great scholar of Goryeo, had formed a rebel army in the countryside of Inju. Soon after, Jincan led ten thousand rebels to conquer Inju and killed the prefect of Inju, where he declared resistance to the Song army.

It has reached the 20th of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the autumn leaves are gradually turning yellow, the autumn wind is blowing, and the weather has turned cooler.

At dusk, Jin Can, with white hair, stood on the wall of Renzhou City, looking towards Kaijing.

His disciple, the middle-aged Confucian student, still followed him.

"How is the state of the country now?" Jin Can said.

"Teacher, Daejeon, Gwangju, Daegu and other places have already surrendered to the Song army, and the whole of Goryeo seems to be only us!" said the middle-aged scholar.

"How could this be?" Jin Can's body trembled slightly, her face full of sadness.

"Teacher, we only have 10,000 people, and we are all untrained farmers. How are we the opponents of the hundreds of thousands of Song Army?" the middle-aged Confucian student said.

Jin Can frowned slightly and said nothing.

"Teacher, your Majesty has been captured by the Song army, and all places have surrendered. I heard that the Song army is an army of benevolence and righteousness. They did not commit any crimes in the autumn. This is completely different from the Khitans and Jurchens! Why should we resist?" Young Confucian and Taoism.

"It is precisely because everyone is like you that the country will fall and perish! I would rather die than surrender!" Jin Can gritted his teeth.

"Hey!" The middle-aged scholar sighed softly.

In the early morning of July 23rd, Song troops came here one after another, and the faces of the 10,000 Goryeo rebels in Renzhou City showed horrified expressions.

However, Song Jun did not attack the city right away. On July 24, Wu Jie and Yue Fei came here together!

There is only one city in Goryeo resisting, and they want to see who is in charge of this city.

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