Chapter 946 Afterglow of the Empire (2)

As a small China, Li Chaoren's mouth is not bad at all, and he is very good at debating falsehoods.

Not long after.

A letter of credence from the Li Dynasty was directly handed over to Emperor Wanli, saying bluntly: Yang Gao is an incomparable talent. With him coming to the peninsula, the whole battle situation has changed. Everyone admires and respects him.

Although the Battle of Ulsan ended in failure, victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists, a small defeat is nothing at all, let alone killing the Japanese daimyo Kato Kiyomasa...

In short, don't replace Yang Gao. He is capable and loyal. Once he leaves the front line, he will inevitably cause panic in the army and make it difficult to launch a general offensive.

At the same time, the censor of the supervising army also decided to say a few fair words, the defeat was true, but there was absolutely no collusion with the Japanese, it was just to deceive them.

With many efforts, the emperor's attitude has changed, and Yang Gao's decision to stay or go has become more delicate.

Ding Yingtai became angry when he saw that the plan was messed up. He happened to go back to the peninsula to monitor, and he immediately used his villain's strengths:

snare charges.

This old dog is also a treacherous official who was born in the world, and he is stronger than Lai Junchen and his like in the Wu Zhou period. In the memorial, it is said: In Dingzhou, I exchanged a book with the people of the Li Dynasty with cloth, called "The Story of the East Sea", and the author was named Shen Shuzhou. It records a large number of secrets that happened in the 20th year of Wanli.

It mentioned that Li Chao had secretly summoned the Japanese pirates before the war, and agreed that the two countries would send troops together to seize the old land of Koryo in Liaodong.

Moreover, the officials of the Li Dynasty secretly traded with the Japanese country many times during the war, and transported various grains and weapons to Kyushu Island one after another.

All kinds of pretentious lies followed one after another, and it was also claimed that in this book, whenever the name of the Wa country was mentioned, it would be deliberately enlarged several times. Once the name of the next year was written, it would immediately be as small as a tadpole. There must be ulterior motives.

It is rare for an old dog to be so frenzied. When the king of Joseon, Li Yan, heard the news, he was afraid and angry, worried that he would put himself in it in order to save Yang Gao.

There is no need for Li Chao to send a mission to the capital to express his determination and loyalty. Emperor Wanli is not a fool. Knowing that Ding Yingtai is biting people, he immediately issued an order to appease King Li Chao:

Erguo is loyal and obedient throughout the world, so there is no need to be confused by people's words.

Then, another reassurance.

The last of the great army has been assembled and will soon be well.

Seeing that the false accusation failed, Ding Yingtai continued to fabricate accusations, but before he had time to issue them, he was killed by a demon because he strayed into a deep mountain.

The Ming Dynasty demanded a thorough investigation to hunt down the demons.

However, a catastrophe died, whether it was Li Chao or the Ming army stationed in the dynasty, it was too late to be happy, and they were too lazy to investigate.

As time goes on, no one pays attention to this matter. After all, it is just a military painting and has nothing to do with the overall situation of the peninsula.

Only the cosplayers vaguely guessed that it was most likely Lu Li's handwriting. He sent his subordinate monster to slap a buzzing fly to death.

After all, Ding Yingtai was protected by the luck of the Ming Dynasty, and ordinary monsters couldn't kill him at all, while the other party was walking in the countryside, the probability of bumping into the unrivaled monster was almost negligible, it was impossible for someone to be so unlucky, especially at this juncture.

In this way, after more than three months of training, Lu Li, who only met a few people occasionally, finally left the camp and met everyone.

Seeing that he was not in good condition, many cosplayers secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If the opponent continued to kill, everyone would be really hit hard.

From the retreat of troops during the Spring Festival to the present, and to the next three months, the Ming army has not attacked. First, they fought with each other to keep the economic envoy Yang Gao, and then to accumulate strength.

Halfway through, a big event happened.

Li Rusong is dead.

Since the Imjin Japanese Insurrection was temporarily quelled through negotiations, there have been voices in the court accusing him of cooperating with the Japanese and traitorous to the country, and Li Rusong also kept a low profile as an official.

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Dong Yiyuan, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, resigned. Countless eyes were on this fat job. Various memorials floated into the cabinet like snowflakes.

However, the emperor didn't even look at it, and directly ordered Li Rusong. This made many people unwilling and continued to intensify efforts to discredit Li Rusong, but Wanli didn't respond at all, and his love was beyond words.

Under such circumstances, Li Rusong was naturally grateful and devoted himself to the country.

And in April of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, when the situation on the peninsula came to a standstill, the barbarians invaded the border, and Li Rusong personally led his troops to encircle and suppress.

He still had an old temper, he rushed forward on a light horse, charged forward, and finally died in an ambush at the age of fifty.

When the news reached Seoul, Li Yan sighed regretfully. Although the two had gotten along very badly before, the other party's contribution to recapturing Sandu for Li Chao cannot be discredited.

Ever since, the king sent a special envoy to Liaodong to express his condolences, and set up a ranking for sacrifices in Seoul.

At the same time, Li Rusong's death affected the Liaodong Army.

When Zu Chengxun heard that the old chief was killed in battle, he was very sad. He immediately said that he wanted to go back to Liaodong, and he was lucky enough to pass. Yang Gao, who was not resigned, immediately refused, because the general offensive was about to start.

Lu Li, who played the role, didn't have any big reactions, but wrote a letter to express his condolences and sighed at the same time.

Li Rumei, Li Rusong's younger brother, reacted the most.

Before Ding Laogou died, apart from attacking Yang Hao and Ge Lao, Li Rumei was the one who scolded him the most. He could scold him however unpleasantly or disgustingly. People who didn't know saw it and thought Li Rumei had insulted his mother.

But Wanli chose not to move Li Rumei.

First of all, Li Rusong had just died in battle.

Secondly, Emperor Wanli admired Li Rumei very much, and even wanted to promote him to be the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Army.

This move was strongly opposed by the ministers. After all, the special envoy had verified that Li Rumei really connived at the soldiers under his command to plunder foreign people a while ago. If he is not punished, it is a mighty grace of God, and he must not be promoted.

But there is a clever trick: tear down the house and open the windows.

The room is too dark, and someone proposed to open a skylight here, and everyone would definitely not allow it, but if you propose to remove the roof, they will come to mediate and are willing to open the window.

Since the ministers have opposed Li Rumei's appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Army, Wanli will let him inherit Li Rusong's position as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and add another burden——

Prepare the general officer of the Japanese army.

The function is simple and straightforward. It is to guard against the Japanese invaders while serving as the commander in chief in Liaodong. Now the Japanese are gathering on the peninsula, so they can only come from this direction. The power is very heavy, and it is completely a promotion.

In this way, Li Rusong can rest in peace under Jiuquan, and the emperor treats their Li family well.

As the long period of peace passed and the war was about to break out, Lu Li still hadn't fully healed, with 100% of his strength less than 60%.

the other side.

Hideyoshi ushered in the Kwantung Allied Forces, with a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, complete with water and land, but he was seriously ill, and he was already in limbo that could be seen with the naked eye.

For a long time, his dreams were not occupied by iron horses and firecrackers, but the cherry blossoms in Daigo Temple.

The cherry blossoms in my hometown, and...