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The place of Goryeo has always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. However, since the rise of the Jiannu, Goryeo's mindset began to change. In the early days when the Jiannu was making its fortune, Goryeo still provided a lot of help to the Jiannu. But later, seeing that the Jiannu was powerful, Goryeo gradually alienated its relationship with the Ming Dynasty.
During the time when Huang Long was the general, it was not easy for Huang Long to get some help from Goryeo, which made Huang Long feel a little resentful. Therefore, when Tang Tong wanted to attack Goryeo, Huang Long also supported it. After all, as a military general, he would not be like those old men, talking about bullshit about winning people over with virtue all day long.
Tang Tong knew the importance of Pi Island, a strategic location, but at present, Tang Tong's strength was not enough to occupy this place to threaten the Jiannu. After occupying this place, a large amount of financial and material resources would be needed to support the army's war with the Jiannu, which would be very unfavorable for Tang Tong's development.
However, places like Pi Island cannot be left to people like Kong Youde. Historically, after people like Kong Youde defected to the Jiannu, the Ming Dynasty completely lost control of the areas outside the Great Wall, and Goryeo completely fell into the arms of the Jiannu.
When Zhang Niujiao came back and told Tang Tong about Huang Long's greed, Tang Tong just smiled and told Zhang Niujiao that except for the maximum cash of 50,000 taels, he could agree to all the other conditions of Huang Long.
Although Zhang Niujiao didn't hear what Tang Tong said, he could tell from Tang Tong's eyes that his Lord Tang was murderous and had obviously made up his mind to deal with the people from Pi Island.
On the way to the Dianpi Island, Zhang Niujiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart that one should not be too greedy. No matter how much one greedily takes, one must live to enjoy it. That Huang Long should never have made his own Lord Tang angry. Although he allowed the Huang man to take advantage of him now, he was afraid that in the end, all his efforts would just be making wedding dresses for others.
Zhang Niujiao met Huang Long again and met a series of Huang Long's requirements. Huang Long now had about 7,000 men under his command, and Zhang Niujiao only agreed to a deposit of 50,000 taels of silver. Later, Zhang Niujiao readily agreed to other conditions that Huang Long asked for. First, each soldier under Huang Long would receive a monthly salary of 15 taels of silver, which was ten times the amount given by the court and three times the salary of Tang Tong's men. All the things looted by Huang Long's men belonged to Huang Long, and all the military rations were also provided by Tang Tong. All the heads of the Jiannu soldiers cut off would also be divided equally among Huang Long.
Such conditions were obviously very unreasonable. After signing the agreement, Huang Long couldn't help but smugly laugh at Lord Tang and Zhang Niujiao in his heart, saying they were fools. Even people like Kong Youde and Li Jiuchen thought that Lord Tang was a fool who had never seen the world. At the same time, they also regretted why they didn't plunder Japan in the first place. Japan seemed to be too rich. Looking at Lord Tang's wealthy appearance now, they also knew that the silver in Japan was too easy to rob.
However, Goryeo is not Japan. Huang Long, Kong Youde and others do not understand the situation in Japan, but Huang Long and others know the situation in Goryeo very well. Although there are some valuable goods such as Korean ginseng in this place, there is not much silver. At most, the women in Goryeo are fair and tender, and there is really nothing else to rob.
Huang Long and others' idea was to ask for more military pay and food from Tang Tong. As for the heads of the Jiannu, Huang Long, Kong Youde and others thought that it was just empty talk. You know, the Ming army fought with the Jiannu for such a long time, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops could not chop off a few heads of the Jiannu. They talked about the Ningyuan victory, saying that nearly 20,000 Jiannu were killed, but in fact only a few dozen people were killed. You know, the Jiannu had only about 70,000 troops. If they really killed 20,000 Jiannu, they would be seriously injured and would not have the ability to plunder the capital directly.
Huang Long, Kong Youde and others were very clear about these situations, so when Zhang Niujiao mentioned the head of the Jiannu, Huang Long secretly laughed at the ignorance of this Lord Tang. He had made up his mind that after robbing Goryeo, he would come back and fight the Jiannu. Only a fool would do that.
After both parties signed the agreement with their own motives, Huang Long and Tang Tong also met. After everyone spoke in official language to each other, they were not interested in saying anything more. Then Tang Tong and his party set foot on the land of Goryeo.
Goryeo was the Joseon Dynasty at that time, and its capital was called Hanyang or Hanjing. It was not easy to attack this country by land, but for the navy, Hanyang was an undefended place. Tang Tong and his men chose to land not far from Hanyang, and tens of thousands of troops directly set out for the capital of Goryeo.
Huang Long was a general, half a rank higher than Tang Tong, so naturally he would not be under Tang Tong's control. Although the military pay and rations were all paid by Tang Tong, he had already made up his mind that he would not attack the city, and he would not be stupid enough to let Tang Tong be his gun, so after occupying the territory of Hanyang, Huang Long took his men to plunder everywhere.
Tang Tong just sneered a few times after hearing about Huang Long's plan. Tang Tong's subordinates saw Tang Tong's expression and knew that their Lord Tang was very angry. The unlucky day of General Huang was probably not far away.
Although Kong Youde and Huang Long had grudges against each other, they still agreed with the looting. The 7,000 troops were divided into dozens of groups and began to wreak havoc on the territory of Goryeo. For a while, the Goryeo area was in turmoil.
The King of Goryeo, King Injo of Joseon, was also a bachelor. He sent peace envoys as soon as possible and negotiated the issue of the concession with Tang Tong in a friendly atmosphere that even Tang Tong himself could not believe. The two sides signed a concession agreement at the fastest speed, the main content of which was similar to that in Japan.
Tang Tong knew in his heart that he could not swallow Goryeo with his current strength, so he adopted the method of concession. This method was acceptable to Li Renzu, because Tang Tong did not ask Goryeo for this and that like the Jiannu did. He only asked Li Renzu for a piece of land of about one square hectare near the sea, and he paid rent for it. Compared with the Jiannu, it was much more merciful. The only harsh thing was that Tang Tong had half of the power over Goryeo's mineral resources.
In addition, there is another clause in the agreement that Tang Tong will assist Goryeo in quelling the banditry, and the first one to be dealt with is Huang Long and his men who are looting everywhere. Li Renzu deeply agrees with this clause. In Li Renzu's view, although this is an internal conflict among Tang Tong and his men, if the Ming Dynasty's General Huang really lets him seize Tang Long, Goryeo will be in trouble. Since Tang Tong said that Huang Long and his men are bandits, and Tang Tong and his men have much more troops in Tang Long, then he should help Tang Tong and his men quell these bandits.
Tang Tong confiscated all of Huang Long and his men's warships as soon as possible. As a result, if Huang Long and his men wanted to return to Tang, they could only go by land. Afterwards, Tang Tong and the Goryeo coalition forces began to clear out Huang Long and his men's troops scattered near Hanyang City. In fact, it could not be considered a clearing out, but just driving Huang Long and his men to the north of Goryeo.
Under Tang Tong's strong command, the vanguard was the 10,000-strong Goryeo army, in the middle were Tang Tong's several thousand men, and behind them were the Japanese auxiliary troops. The task of these Japanese auxiliary troops was to plunder wherever they passed, under the pretext of raising military supplies, and along the way they recruited more and more young and strong Goryeo people to serve as porters.
However, when Huang Long learned that Tang Tong had suddenly turned against him and seized all his boats, he jumped up and down and cursed Tang Tong for his treachery, and shouted that he would report Tang Tong's betrayal to the emperor. However, now that he had no boats, Huang Long and his men could not leave Goryeo for the time being, and they could not defeat Tang Tong.
Huang Long also organized several counterattacks against Tang Tong, but under the pressure of Tang Tong's men's guns, the combat effectiveness of the Goryeo army also increased a lot, causing Huang Long to return empty-handed several times. What's more infuriating is that Tang Tong also recruited a lot of people to surrender.
Kong Youde had always been at odds with Huang Long, so naturally he had to consider himself and fled first with his men. Under such circumstances, Huang Long had no choice but to flee to the north of Goryeo with the rest of his men.
There are many mountains in Goryeo. During the escape process, many of Huang Long and Kong Youde's subordinates left the team and ran into the mountains and forests. Some people simply surrendered to Tang Tong. The things they had looted were thrown away along the way and finally became Tang Tong's property.
Huang Long's soldiers were not as strong as Kong Youde's. After running for more than ten days, they finally couldn't run anymore. The remaining people simply surrendered to Tang Tong. As for Huang Long, at Tang Tong's suggestion, the Koreans killed him to vent their anger.
Seeing that they were almost at the border of Goryeo, Tang Tong stopped playing tricks with Kong Youde and his men and chased them with several thousand of his men. After a round of musket fire, Kong Youde's men surrendered obediently. Kong Youde and Li Jiuchen were killed by Tang Tong, but Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi had already escaped separately on the road with their respective confidants.
At this point, the Ming Dynasty's northern navy was destroyed at the hands of Tang Tong.
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