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Chapter 502: Siege of Seoul (Third update)
"Your Majesty, we must evacuate Seoul. As the follow-up troops from Taiwan have not yet arrived, I am willing to lead the army to escort Your Majesty to break out. []
(Free download of full text e-book) "At this time, Li Jue, who has been taking the lead, stood up and said.
"Your Majesty, you must not do this! Once your Majesty leaves the royal city, all of us in North Korea will lose their will to resist. This is a strategy to subjugate the country!" As soon as Li Jue's words came out, Kim Zidian, a great Korean Confucian scholar who supported Li Jue's rise to power, was Stand up against it now.
"Master Jin, the Taiwanese army is very good at siege, and its artillery is a powerful siege weapon. If we continue to stay in the royal city, when Taiwan's follow-up army arrives, we will be completely surrounded, and we will not be able to escape even if we want to.
Only when Your Majesty breaks out and leaves, can we in North Korea continue to organize the people to resist, and will it be possible to drive the Taiwanese out of North Korea! "
Li Jue now wants to strangle this brainless bastard Jin Zidian to death. If facing Hou Jin, or even facing Japan, relying on Seoul's solid city defense, we can adopt the strategy of defending the city. But for Taiwan, this is just courting death.
Although Li Jue has never been reused because he was jealous of Li Zhu, he has been actively collecting intelligence on Taiwan since Taiwan sent troops to Liaodong. Especially after Taiwan eliminated the Quartet Allied Forces, he was even more active in analyzing everything in Taiwan.
By analyzing the news from many Jin cities after Taiwan was captured, Li Jue found that Pingcheng's adherence to this rule was of no use in front of Taiwan.
At the same time, he also found that the Taiwanese army was so unsuited to facing the rolling mountains of North Korea that when they faced the North Korean rebels who relied on the terrain to harass, their attack power was reduced by at least half.
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This made him try his best to persuade Li Shu to give the rebels in various places formal recognition and material support. However, he never thought about Li Shu's defense against the people, so his proposal was rejected by Li Shu.
"No, now Taiwan is surrounding our country, North Korea, with tens of thousands of elite troops in the north, and the other three facing the sea, all blocked by the Taiwan Navy. Where can we escape? Once the royal city is broken, North Korea will inevitably fall into a leaderless situation.
When the time comes, how will armies from all over the country organize unified resistance? And when they saw tens of thousands of Taiwanese cavalry coming outside the city, they immediately fled the royal city. This was a major blow to the morale of the resistance in North Korea. Therefore, Your Majesty, you must not leave the royal city lightly! "Jin Zidian said impassionedly.
In fact, Jin Zidian was also the main combatant. The difference was that his starting point for considering the problem was not from a military perspective at all, but from the perspective of people's morale.
Sometimes this way of thinking is indeed useful, but at this time, it is very inappropriate. After all, the strength of Taiwan's army is there, and it is impossible to withstand the power of guns and artillery just by relying on the people's support.
To be honest, Li Zhu wanted to run away, but what Jin Zidian said did make sense. And if you escape from the royal city, where can you go? Do you want him, a Korean king, to crawl into a ravine?
Li Zhu¡¯s hesitation made the North Korean court agitated. At this time, there was no distinction between main battle and peace. The focus of the debate became whether to hold on to the royal city.
Seeing the quarrel in the court and Li Ju's hesitation, Li Jue was anxious to death. If we don't make a decision, we won't have the chance to escape after the Taiwanese army arrives. Li Jue felt that these people should be frightened.
"Your Majesty, regardless of whether to evacuate the royal city or not, please allow me to lead the army to conduct a surprise attack before the Taiwanese have a foothold. Perhaps then, Your Majesty will be able to make a decision." Li Jue's words immediately caused the people in the court to respond. A moment of silence.
No one expected that Li Jue would propose going out of the city to fight, which made everyone nervous. Yes, the combat effectiveness of the Taiwanese army is unmatched by the North Korean army. Can the Royal City really be defended by holding on to it?
At this time, Li Zhu also woke up. If the royal city is destroyed, there will be no hope of resistance from the military and civilians.
"Stop arguing, I have made up my mind to withdraw from the royal city and go to Yuanzhou. Li Jue, I order you to lead an army of 80,000 to escort the royal family to break out!"
But it is not easy for the royal family to evacuate Seoul. The huge industry cannot be moved away just by moving. And Li Zhu was reluctant to stay. So everything had to be packed up. When they were done packing up and preparing to retreat with thousands of carts, another 20,000 infantrymen arrived in Seoul.
Li Jue was extremely disappointed with Li Ju. At this life-and-death moment, he still thought about those useless belongings and wasted the opportunity to escape Seoul.
However, he had no way to do this. He could only organize his troops and prepare for retreat, while urging the royal family and important ministers to speed up.
When everyone was ready to retreat, Li Jue suddenly ordered the four gates to be opened wide, and at the same time asked the defenders guarding the four gates to rush out to fight the Taiwanese army, in order to confuse the Taiwanese army. And he led 80,000 troops to gather at the North Gate to wait for the situation outside to change.
Faced with Li Jue's strategy, the Taiwanese army besieging Seoul was indeed caught off guard. Their first reaction was to attack the North Korean defenders who rushed out from the four gates at the same time. And this is the effect Li Jue wants.
"Commander Shi, something is wrong! No matter when we go out to fight in the city, there must be a focus! The Koreans are fighting us from four directions at the same time. I always feel that something is wrong!"
Lu Leilei quickly ran to Shi Long's side and expressed his doubts.
Hearing what Lu Leilei said, Shi Long suddenly woke up. Looking at the number of Koreans rushing out from the four gates, Shi Long realized that no matter which direction, there were less than ten thousand people. It is simply not enough to see so many people wanting to go to war with Taiwan.
"No, the Koreans are trying to escape. Commander Lu, we must immediately tell the field division still at the south gate and ask them to move northwest immediately. We must not let the Korean king escape, otherwise this operation will be regarded as Failed."
It was only at this time that Shi Long realized that the other party was trying to break out of the encirclement and said immediately.
"What about the direction of the east gate?"
Lu Leilei also understood that something was wrong, but among the four city gates, except for the south gate, where the possibility of the Koreans breaking through was extremely low, the other three directions were all possible!
¡°We can¡¯t worry about so much now. We can only let the brothers desperately block several other directions and wait for reinforcements!¡±
Shi Long knew that now was not the time to waste time thinking carefully. He could only make a quick decision. Even if he was wrong, he could only let the brothers in that direction fight to the death and wait for reinforcements.
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