Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

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

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

In the middle of the night, on the remote path, the sound of galloping war horses could be heard continuously.

Dozens of shadows loomed in front of him, and Yue Fei led his people towards these dozens of shadows.

Soon there was a screaming sound from the front, and I saw these dozens of black shadows running even faster!

However, no matter how fast their speed was, they could not keep up with the speed of the war horses. After less than a quarter of an hour, these dozens of black shadows were surrounded by Song Jun.

These are dozens of Korean people, men and women, old people and children, all of them are pale, and they are carrying big and small bags on their backs, as if they are all saluting!

Gradually, these dozens of Korean people knelt down, and they kowtowed to the surrounding Song soldiers.

"Ask them, where is this going?" Yue Fei said.

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

"General, they said they were 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! Our Song army is as disciplined as a mountain, and we will never kill people indiscriminately, nor will we rob people of their property! Let them continue to live in their hometown, the war will end soon, and we will In Korea, implement a one-to-three-year tax-free policy first, and everything will only be better than before, not worse!" Yue Fei said.

Cui Siquan told these Korean people what Yue Fei 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 Goryeo people. They did not snatch the salute from the Goryeo people, and absolutely no one abused women. After the Song Army passed by, these Goryeo people 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, we ordinary people will suffer the most. It is certain that our families will be destroyed by then, but we have encountered so many troops, and we are still standing here well!"

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

"Let's go back and have a look. If the village is still there and hasn't been looted, then we won't go to the mountains."

The common people of Koryo talked about it here, Cui Siquan followed Yue Fei, flattering him: "Your army is really a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, Cui admires it!"

Yue Fei smiled and said: "What my Majesty Song wants is a complete Goryeo, not a broken Goryeo! After this battle, Goryeo just lost some soldiers, and just lost the former king and court. People's lives will not be greatly affected!"

The Song army's occupation of Goryeo was only to change the superstructure of Goryeo, not to cleanse ordinary Goryeo people.

Goryeo is different from Jurchen, Mongol and other ethnic groups. It also has farming culture and Confucian civilization. As long as the policies are appropriate, it can be smoothly integrated into the Great Song Dynasty and increase the power of the Great Song Dynasty. The best way to conquer a country is to assimilate it with culture and civilization, rather than just conquering by force like the later Mongolia.

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All the way to the south, Yue Fei met many Koreans who had fled. Whenever he met these people, Yue Fei would send people to persuade them to let these Koreans return to their hometown.

On June 28, 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 still a vassal state of China. At that time, Yongxing City was one of the military ports of the Beiyang Navy! Admiral Ding Ruchang of the Beiyang Navy once led Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Weiyuan and other Beiyang warships to station here to confront the Japanese!

Now this is just a small city, and the entire city has only 3,000 garrisons.

Yue Fei's 20,000 cavalry arrived, and the gate of Yongxing City had already been closed.

The 3,000 garrisons in Yongxing City stood on the city wall, many of them were trembling, and the weapons in their hands were also of different styles, and some even held 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 under the city.

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 had wanted to leave the city and surrender a long time ago, but he was a literati and felt that he should be reserved anyway, so he did not come out until the Song Army persuaded him to surrender.

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

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

The Song army attacked all the way up, and all the moves were surrendered!

For more than half a month, officials and generals in Xianxing, Yongxing, Wonsan, Jiangling, Rongzhou, Daejeon, Gwangju and other places surrendered one after another! All the way south, Yue Fei met almost no resistance!

This surprised Yue Fei, 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. Countless officials at all levels who read sage books and were full of benevolence and morality all over the Southern Song Dynasty surrendered their yuan one after another. Even countless local officials, including Jinghu Xuanfu envoy and Hubei Zhizhi envoy, who were in charge of the general Fu, surrendered one after another, and the entire south of the Yangtze River almost collapsed like dominoes.

At that time, the Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing of the Southern Song Dynasty called the army of the world to serve the king! There are still more than 600,000 troops in the south of the Yangtze River, and only 20,000 are the last to serve the king, of which 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 Khan conquered the world, he was also surprised by this phenomenon. He asked those Song officials who voluntarily surrendered why they chose to surrender so easily, but none of the Song officials could speak.

The situation in Goryeo today is exactly the same as in the late Southern Song Dynasty!

Originally, the founding of Goryeo had a history of more than 200 years, and it was almost the end of the dynasty! In history, about thirty years later, the Wang clan of Koryo underwent drastic changes, and the generals regented, and the king of Koryo almost became a puppet! The Koryo 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, none of the officials in Koryo is willing to continue to fight against the Song Dynasty.

Yue Fei couldn't understand this question, he just felt that the Koreans had no backbone, and looked down on this nation from the bottom of their hearts!

Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Wang Gui and others led the army all the way south, and did not encounter much resistance! In many cases, before the Song army arrived, the main officials of the city in front had already gone to greet them, and sometimes even local officials, generals, and gentry all came out to greet them.

On July 19th, only one month before the Great Wall was broken, almost all of Koryo was surrendered, leaving only one place - Renzhou!

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When Wu Jie went south, the prefect of Renzhou had already opened the city gate and surrendered. Wu Jie still ordered the prefect of Renzhou to temporarily manage Renzhou, and then continued to lead troops southward.

He didn't know that Jin Can, a Confucian in Korea, formed a rebel army in the countryside of Renzhou. Soon after, Jin Can led 10,000 rebels to conquer Renzhou, killed the prefect of Renzhou, and declared resistance to the Song army here.

It's the 20th day 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, the white-haired Jincan stood on the city wall of Renzhou, overlooking the direction of Kaijing.

His disciple, the middle-aged Confucian scholar, was still by his side.

"What's the state of the country now?" Jin Can said.

"Teacher, Daejeon, Gwangju, Daegu and other places have surrendered to the Song army, and it seems that we are the only ones left in the whole of Koryo!" said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"How could this be?" Jin Can's body trembled slightly, with sadness on his face.

"Teacher, we only have 10,000 people, and all of them are untrained farmers. How can we be the opponent of hundreds of thousands of Song soldiers?" The middle-aged Confucian scholar said.

Jin Can frowned slightly, without saying a word.

"Teacher, Your Majesty has been captured by the Song Army, and all the places have surrendered. I heard that the Song Army is an army of benevolence and righteousness. Wherever they go, they will never commit any crime. This is completely different from the Khitan and Jurchens! Why do we still resist?" Nian Confucianism.

"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 Confucian scholar sighed softly.

In the early morning of July 23, Song troops came here one after another, and the 10,000 Korean rebels in Renzhou City all showed terrified expressions on their faces.

However, the Song army did not immediately attack the city. On July 24th, Wu Jie and Yue Fei came here hand in hand!

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