The messengers rushed back to Licheng Port day and night to report Wang Jian's reaction in detail to Gu Yunting without leaving out anything.
Gu Yunting jumped up, put his hands on his hips, and laughed: "General Song, you heard everything just now. This is Wang Jian's initiative to provoke us. He wants to use weapons to drive us out!"
"Good fellow, who dares to stop our Yunzhou army from going to a place we want to go? He is not giving face to us, Dayun, or to my mother! When we return to Kyoto, you must testify for me that I am not deliberately provoking trouble, it is really that Wang Jian deserves a beating."
Song Shoujie nodded perfunctorily. He was busy packing his things. "Okay, okay, I'll testify for you. Just tell me where we should go first."
Gu Yunting's eyes sparkled, and the sleepiness, fatigue, and boredom on his face were swept away: "Incheon!"
Incheon is not far from Beijing and is located on the seaside.
After the warship arrived in Incheon, Gu Yunting and Song Shoujie had a disagreement over what weapons to use.
Song Shoujie believed that if they wanted to enhance the prestige of Dayun, they had to be completely defeated in one fell swoop, so they should use artillery directly.
Gu Yunting believed that artillery was scarce and should be used at critical moments. There was no need to waste it on a small city like Incheon.
Song Shoujie saw Gu Yunting's deeper meaning. He planned to fight a protracted war and send a large number of troops to Dayun to prepare for the conquest of Goryeo in one fell swoop. That was why he considered whether there were enough firearms.
"Okay, you're the head coach, you have the final say."
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Kyoto, Imperial Palace.
Gu Nanxi looked at the document sent by the governor of Jizhou and fell into deep thought.
Cui Sanlun asked curiously, "Which city did Gu Yunting directly attack with gasoline bombs?"
“Incheon.”
Cui Sanlun sighed insincerely: "It's really pitiful. I wonder how the people there are doing?"
On the surface, he was asking about what happened to the Koreans, but actually he wanted to know whether Gu Yunting had defeated them.
Gu Nanxi: "It is said that the fire burned for three days and three nights. People inside could not get in, and people outside refused to come in. After Wang Jian learned the news, he sent people from Kaijing to put out the fire."
"Then what?"
Gu Nanxi rubbed his brows and said, "The memorial said that the fire was several dozen feet high. The people of Goryeo were fearless and eager to put out the fire, so they rushed in one after another."
"They put out the fire in such a hurry that they entrusted the two hundred or so Korean warships to Song Shoujie and asked him to help take care of them."
Phew.
Wang Buxi couldn't help but laughed out loud.
Who is this talented writer? He is so good at avoiding the important issues and calling a horse a zebra!
The letter described Master Dayun as a man of high character and integrity, like a white lotus that was untainted by mud.
In fact, it is highly likely that Gu Yunting not only burned Incheon, but also trapped the reinforcements sent by Goryeo.
Gu Nanxi showed the memorial to others.
The description of the fire is very detailed.
It is said that due to this huge fire, the smoke and ashes fell three hundred miles away. The fire continued to burn and the smoke covered the sky.
Even in Kaesong, the burning smell of the fire could be smelled.
What is even more surprising is that Gu Yunting also captured the fourth-rank prime minister of Goryeo.
Cui Sanlun bowed and said, "Your Majesty, since the war has already started, we will send troops to Goryeo and defeat him in one fell swoop."
Wang Buxi agreed, "That's right, General Guo Kai is still on the Yalu River. Before winter comes, he will go south from land and cooperate with the navy to attack Kaifeng directly!"
To be honest, no one thought that the incendiary bomb would be so powerful. It is indestructible when exposed to water and lasts for a long time. If you don't consider the fact that it may hurt people, it is simply a siege weapon.
If a fire is set, the whole city can be burned down.
Gu Nanxi gave the order: "Appoint the Northern General Guo Xiaoyue as the Marshal to lead the troops to the east to attack Goryeo and cooperate with the navy to fight a quick battle and make a quick decision."
"The two prime ministers are responsible for logistics."
"I obey your orders!"
The officials of the Privy Council and the professors of the Military Academy were like people who had been injected with chicken blood. They came to the Privy Council with their bedding and did not even go home.
Cui Sanlun no longer had headaches and his back pain was gone, and he was busy as a whirlwind.
The Great Zhou received a request for help from Goryeo, but was stopped by Grand Tutor Tong, who did not allow them to see the Emperor of the Great Zhou.
The Great Zhou was already in a precarious situation and it was having a hard time preserving itself. We really didn't want the Great Zhou to go to the trouble of interfering in Goryeo's affairs.
What's more, Goryeo is a lowly tribe on the border, while Dayun is of the same bloodline as the Central Plains. Can't you tell who is inside and who is outside?
Goryeo had nowhere to turn for help and had to mobilize the entire country to deal with Dayun's attack.
From then on, the war between Dayun and Goryeo officially began.
Incheon Port, wherever Gu Yunting went, the Koreans would stay away from him.
In their eyes, Gu Yunting was a demon who killed people without blinking an eye. He killed tens of thousands of Koreans with a fire.
Gu Yunting didn't care about their fearful, frightened and hateful looks. He had seen this kind of look many times.
"General Song, how much inventory do we have now?"
Song Shoujie added two teams to guard the black oil and incendiary bombs.
Now he would never look down on incendiary bombs again. In his heart, incendiary bombs and black oil were as important as firearms!
"We've used up 30% of the kerosene, but there are still a lot of incendiary bombs left, so we haven't used much."
"Save the incendiary bombs for use in field battles. Don't fight them in close combat. Don't hesitate. Inflict the greatest casualties at the lowest cost!"
Gu Yunting felt that people really needed to read more. Throughout history, the Chinese nation's favorite methods of attack were water and fire.
Both will basically cause large-scale casualties.
In Incheon, only a few flames remained, flickering in the thick smoke.
The fire was finally dying down.
Most of the Korean women they rescued from civilian ships escaped under the cover of night.
Master Dayun ignored them. In the mountains and wilderness, they would be dead if they escaped.
If they are unlucky and encounter them using fire, these women will become charred corpses like the poor animals in the mountains.
At this moment, in Kaifeng City, the eldest prince and the second prince were arguing fiercely.
The eldest prince firmly believed that Goryeo should submit to Dayun in order to escape disaster.
The second prince was so angry that his eyes turned red: "Dayun will not let Gaoli go, no matter how we kowtow and flatter, they will not let Gaoli go. Their Majesty is a warmongerer, a wolf who can never fill his stomach!"
"The more we surrender, the faster they will devour us!"
The eldest prince shouted angrily: "Didn't you see the raging fire in Incheon? Didn't you hear the wailing of those people? This time they burned Incheon, and next time they will burn our Kaesong!"
Bang!
Wang Jian stood up and slapped the eldest prince.
His eyes were full of disappointment: "You disappoint me so much. What about Dayun? They are steeds on the grassland, but they can't swim in the sea. We Gaoli will teach him a painful lesson!" (End of this chapter)
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