The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 276 Forced Surrender and Breakthrough

In Zhu Chengxuan's mind, 5 catties of river fish were worth at most three or four hundred copper coins.

If converted to silver, it would be about two hundred and sixty or seventy taels.

Let alone three of these precious dates, even one would be too many.

Zhu Chengxuan nodded hurriedly and said with a smile, "General, rest assured, I will send you 10 catties of big fish before dark."

When Li Jingxiao heard that it was 10 jin, he knew he had given too much.

However, I was in a very good mood at the moment, so I didn't care about these things.

Moreover, cultivating good relations with local powers might be helpful in the future.

Nodding to Zhu Chengxuan, the old man bowed respectfully.

It turned into a gust of wind and fell into the Han River.

As soon as the old man left, Hu Xian'er pouted and muttered, "He's biased. He's so nice to outsiders, but he's so stingy with me and Cui Niang."

Li Jingxiao turned around and glared at the vixen. After thinking for a moment, he simply gave each of them three spirit dates.

Even Erfu and the others who were with him received one each.

Le De Erfu and the others thanked him profusely.

He also bowed to Hu Xian'er.

Hu Xian'er chuckled and gave Liu Cuitong a smug snort.

Liu Cuitong didn't argue with her.

But Liu Cuitong's nonchalant attitude made Hu Xian'er snort in dissatisfaction.

Li Jingxiao ignored the two female demons fighting each other.

As long as they don't fight, it's fine.

After observing for a while, I confirmed that the battlefield situation was no longer a problem.

Only then did he lead the two female demons and his guards, riding across the river back to Longshan Warehouse.

Upon entering the main tent, one could see that Kwon Ji-ri had already removed her armor and was dressed in magnificent Goryeo attire.

Accompanied by four beautiful Goryeo maids, they all knelt down on the ground.

She said in a sweet voice, "Congratulations on your victory, Your Highness."

Li Jingxiao smiled and nodded, while Hu Xian'er, who followed him in, couldn't help but give him a disdainful look.

He thought to himself that this Eastern Yi barbarian woman was really good at scheming.

None of his five thousand men moved; they simply guarded Longshan Warehouse.

They appear to be acting as guards, but in reality, they are preserving their strength.

She dressed herself up in a flamboyant way, and it was obvious at a glance that she wanted to seduce an adult.

As long as the master is satisfied, this Dongyi woman will naturally receive credit.

They received even more benefits than the soldiers who fought on the front lines.

However, what Li Jingxiao thought was beyond the influence of Hu Xian'er and Liu Cuitong.

In Kwon Ji-ri's eyes, if you really want to be picky, the two of them are actually the ones who came later.

If we really want to get involved with the women around Li Jingxiao, that's Qin Keqing and Yuan Chun's business.

So Hu Xian'er only thought for a moment before deciding to join.

Soon, the sound of opera singing filled the large tent.

Fortunately, Li Jingxiao knew the silencing spell.

No matter how fierce the battle inside the tent was, no sound could be heard outside.

In the afternoon, Li Jingxiao, feeling refreshed, stood on the command platform outside the main tent, listening to the commanders returning with their troops to report on their battle results and spoils.

Suddenly my ears twitched.

Before long, Pang Zhijie, the eldest grandson of Shoushan, came quickly forward, covered in blood.

With a thud, his face filled with ecstatic joy.

He knelt down, then rose and cupped his hands, saying, "General, this humble general and Commander Chen Hongsheng have led our troops to capture the capital of Goryeo."

Commander Chen was at this time leading his soldiers and a hundred men under my command, guarding the capital.

"Please, Commander, send reinforcements as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Li Jingxiao suddenly stood up.

The others were equally surprised, and then looked at Pang Zhijie with great envy.

The credit for recapturing Wangjing can definitely be considered the greatest achievement after entering Goryeo.

As for Li Jingxiao's achievements, they are unique and no one can compare with him.

Moreover, as the commander-in-chief, Yi Kyung-hyo's contribution to the recapture of the Goryeo capital was naturally even greater.

That's why the generals in the main tent were incredibly envious of Pang Zhijie.

He thought to himself that this kid was incredibly lucky.

At this moment, Li Jingxiao had no time to care about what the generals thought.

Previously, there were generals who planned to lead cavalry to pursue the fleeing Japanese pirates and take the opportunity to rush into the capital.

The more than 1 Japanese pirates who remained in the city watched helplessly as their comrades outside the city were slaughtered by the cavalry of the Great Zhou, but they refused to open the gates.

Unexpectedly, while many generals from the Great Zhou, Goryeo, and Jurchen regions gave up, Chen Hongsheng kept his eyes on Wang Jing.

At that time, Lee Kyung-hyo was playing cards with two female demons, Kwon Ji-ri, and four beautiful Goryeo maids.

There's no time to use clairvoyance to check on Wang Jing's situation.

He hurriedly asked Pang Zhijie, "How exactly did they break into the capital?"

Pang Zhijie chuckled and gave an explanation.

Lee Kyung-hyo laughed heartily, while the others were green with envy.

It turns out it wasn't Chen Hongsheng and Pang Zhijie who actually had the ability to break in.

Instead, the Japanese pirates in the city suddenly became chaotic for some unknown reason.

Not only did they arrest and kill some of the generals, they also opened the city gates to welcome Chen Hongsheng and Pang Zhijie into the city.

Damn, this luck is absolutely incredible.

After laughing, Li Jingxiao said "good" several times.

He originally intended to recruit the lower-level Japanese pirates to help him conquer Japan.

Now things are really messed up. The more than 1 Japanese pirates in the city killed their own generals, and now they have no chance to turn back.

There's only one path left to take.

Li Jingxiao paced back and forth in the tent for a while before suddenly saying, "Issue the order: from this moment on, do your best to capture them alive."

Tell the Japanese soldiers in Wangjing that each one who surrenders voluntarily will be rewarded with 5 taels of silver.

Furthermore, I hereby declare that everyone who conquers Kyushu will be automatically rewarded with a stipend of 10 koku.

Moreover, they also enjoyed the same reward of exchanging a head for 10 acres of land for killing an enemy.

Furthermore, generals and samurai who led the surrender were rewarded with at least 100 koku of land according to their merits.

The highest reward is a stipend of 3 shi (a unit of grain).

The monkeys created a new system of land use.

6尺3寸的平方为1步，30步为一亩，10亩大概991.7平方米。

上田10亩记为1.5石，中田10亩为1.3石，下田10亩为1.1石

A stipend of 10 koku is equivalent to the annual income of some low-income samurai.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao had always calculated the reward of 10 mu of land per person using the land system of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

One mu (approximately 0.16 acres) is about 614.4 square meters.

One person's head was equivalent to 6.2 koku of Japanese salary.

If this reward were awarded, these 10,000 Japanese soldiers would definitely become Li Jingxiao's most loyal henchmen.

By evening, Zhu Chengxuan, the Water God, had prepared 100,000 catties of river fish.

After sending a message to Li Jingxiao, Li Jingxiao ordered Erfu to lead the men of the Left Garrison Command with 400 packhorses.

It was received downstream of the Han River near Longshan Warehouse.

10 catties of river fish, plus thousands of bamboo baskets.

As soon as the 400 packhorses entered Longshan Warehouse, the soldiers started discussing among themselves upon seeing the fresh river fish they were carrying.

Li Jingxiao directly ordered Zhao Junming, Han Mengzhuo, and three Jurchen commanders to lead 5 cavalrymen and 50 pack horses, along with 1.25 catties of river fish, to the capital.

The more than one hundred Japanese pirate representatives were immediately relieved when they saw the river fish and provisions. As long as they had food and could survive, everything was worthwhile.

After Zhao Junming announced Li Jingxiao's decision.

Before long, the entire royal city was filled with the cheers of the Japanese pirates.

This meant that these lower-ranking samurai and foot soldiers suddenly enjoyed the privilege of being a minor daimyo in a village.

Even the chance to become the lord of a city.

As for Li Jingxiao, it was Japanese territory anyway.

If you can't win, all the talk is just nonsense.

If they conquer it, these people will acquire the land.

In the future, they will inevitably continue to fight against the forces on the Japanese mainland.

The war could be reignited in an instant.

Moreover, regardless of the dynasty, the distribution of land would inevitably stimulate the soldiers' fighting spirit and morale to the greatest extent.

Meanwhile, at Longshan Warehouse, half of the 8.75 jin of river fish were made into dried fish.

The other half was distributed directly to the soldiers.

Incidentally, Li Jingxiao also took out 500 sheep and 100 cattle from his inventory, which he had collected on the grassland, to reward the army.

Immediately, cheers also erupted from the soldiers at Longshan Warehouse.

The only downside was that there was no alcohol to drink.

Li Jingxiao could indeed purchase large quantities of alcohol from the game, but he wouldn't be foolish enough to do so.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao had no shortage of spirit dates, so he simply made an agreement with Zhu Chengxuan, the Water God.

10 catties of fish, whether river fish or sea fish, can be exchanged for 2 spirit dates or 300 taels of silver.

As the Water Lord, Zhu Chengxuan had no interest in gold and silver.

But he would be willing to trade even just 10 catties of a single jujube for the precious ones.

10 jin is actually only 200 tons.

The fishing tools of that era were very primitive, and the river was indeed full of various kinds of river fish.

Li Jingxiao wanted sea fish, so Zhu Chengxuan naturally became more enthusiastic.

He could even go to the mouth of the Han River and wait for the autumn salmon to return in spring and autumn.

Li Jingxiao didn't care what he did; where there were fish, there were magic dates.

In the future, smoked fish or salted dried fish will be used as supplementary food for the attack on Japan.

Because of their religious beliefs, the Japanese basically only eat fish and not wild animals from the mountains.

Therefore, eating fish is considered an extremely good or even the best treatment for them.
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The following day, Li Jingxiao led his army into the royal city.

The first order was for Goryeo generals to execute Goryeo nobles who had surrendered to the Japanese pirates.

The money and land plundered were once again distributed directly by Li Jingxiao based on military merit.

Now even the soldiers of Goryeo were eager to serve Lee Gyeong-hyo to the death.

Then Li Jingxiao sent someone to make contact with the left flank of the Japanese pirates.

If the capital city were still in the hands of the central route of the Japanese pirates, the 4 Japanese pirates on the left route might still have gritted their teeth and refused to surrender.

But now that the capital is in Li Jingxiao's hands, their escape route to the south has been blocked.

This allowed the already food-deficient and demoralized Japanese pirates to attack a large city with high walls and inner and outer fortifications.

The difficulty can be imagined.

Moreover, the left wing army had long since discarded all heavy equipment such as siege engines in order to speed up their southward march.

Lee Kyung-hyo came up with another ingenious idea: to send Goryeo and Jurchen cavalry, along with surrendered Japanese samurai, out of the city.

He shouted to the left flank army.

Shout out the benefits that Li Jingxiao announced.

The Japanese pirate commanders on the left flank wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

Their hands and feet were ice-cold, and sweat was starting to appear on their foreheads.

They knew that if they didn't surrender, hungry samurai and foot soldiers would surely surrender with their heads in hand.

However, even though they had already decided to concede defeat.

However, among the commander of the left flank army and more than a dozen other generals, some still committed seppuku.

To avoid the news of their defeat and surrender reaching Osaka Castle.

Not only would Toyotomi Hideyoshi strip them of their family name, but they would also lose their status as samurai and daimyo.

They could go from being high-ranking officials with salaries of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of shi (a unit of dry measure) to becoming prisoners.

They even executed their entire family.

Once these men were dead, the left flank army immediately surrendered.

What followed became even more numerous and complicated.

Fortunately, Lee Kyung-hyo ordered his men to bring back the Goryeo king and his courtiers who had fled to Changheung City.

Moreover, there were officials in the surrounding cities, as well as Goryeo officials and gentry who had fled to the countryside to hide.

He was soon recalled by Li Jingxiao to assist him in handling government affairs.

As the hereditary duke of the superior state of Da Zhou, Li Jingxiao's status was actually only one rank lower than that of the King of Goryeo.

In addition, he led the reinforcements from the Great Zhou and defeated 11 Japanese pirates on the right and central routes.

They also forced the surrender of 4 Japanese pirates on the left flank.

At this time, Lee Kyung-hyo's prestige in Goryeo was greater than that of anyone else.

Upon seeing him, the King of Goryeo was so excited that he immediately knelt down on the ground.

The officials, both high and low, who were with the King of Goryeo did not see anything wrong with their king bowing deeply to Yi Gyeong-hyo.

He was extremely grateful and knelt down in gratitude as well.

In the eyes of officials and common people of Goryeo, if it weren't for Yi Kyung-hyo leading troops to their aid, Goryeo might have already perished.

First Seoul was lost, then Kaesong, and finally Pyongyang—these three Goryeo capitals were successively captured.

The entire Goryeo Kingdom was in despair.

At this time, Li Jingxiao defeated 110,000 Japanese pirates, but he himself only brought 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 Liaodong soldiers.

With such a brilliant record, when the King of Goryeo led his civil and military officials into Seoul, he already called Yi Kyung-hyo the savior of Goryeo.

For the next ten days or so, they were busy with persuading people to surrender and with post-war reconstruction.

They also requisitioned large quantities of grain and fodder to prevent the army from running out of food and falling into chaos again.

Li Jingxiao also took advantage of his free time to start upgrading his Longevity Technique.

In a large mansion within the royal city, Li Jingxiao summoned over a hundred golden-armored warriors.

She was also surrounded by Hu Xian'er, Liu Cuitong, and Erfu.

He then drank a large gulp of Monkey Spirit Wine, attempting to activate the Longevity Technique.

Half an hour later, this technique broke through to the Mythical level without any hindrance - (1/20).
The pure yang energy within the body dissipated from the dantian, just as it had in the past.

It continuously nourished Li Jingxiao's physical body.

As for the ability to reverse aging, it had no effect on Li Jingxiao, who had always looked seventeen or eighteen years old.

But Li Jingxiao knew in his heart that his lifespan had increased considerably.

Once the massive amount of true energy has been absorbed by the physical body, the body's defense and strength will be significantly enhanced.

In the three-dimensional attributes, Root Bone +20 and Constitution +20.

That's equivalent to gaining 40 extra attribute points.

Based on this alone, the "Eternal Youth Skill" could already be considered a divine skill for Li Jingxiao.

The amount of true qi doubled again, and the speed of circulating qi doubled.

Li Jingxiao didn't drink the Monkey Spirit Wine this time; he simply meditated and practiced his exercises.

The true energy in the dantian can be easily cultivated back.

The amount of true qi has doubled.

Moreover, the true energy is both strong and gentle, with subtle signs of yin and yang in harmony.

Li Jingxiao was overjoyed and burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)