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Chapter 613 Imjin Japanese Invasion ([-]) Battle of Chungju

During the period when everyone logged in, Konishi Governor and Kato Kiyomasa did not stop to rest. On the 26th, Konishi Governor and others led the troops from Liangshan and continued to march northward to Miyang.

From Liangshan to Miryang, it is necessary to walk through a narrow mountain road. Pu Jin, the envoy of Miryang Prefecture, planned to send troops to garrison the valley to prevent the Japanese army from attacking.

This information was detected by the Japanese sentry. Governor Konishi ordered some Japanese troops to go around the mountains and then attack. As a result, the North Korean soldiers fled in fright when they saw the Japanese army attacking behind them.

After Park Jin's defeat, he lamented that Miryang City was too small to defend, and ordered the burning of Miryang City so that the Japanese army would not leave anything behind, and finally the Japanese army occupied a scorched city.

It was also in Miyang City that Kato Kiyomasa's envoys caught up with Governor Konishi, and upon getting the news, Governor Konishi immediately ordered people everywhere to catch the fleeing refugees.

The irony is that at that time Zong Yizhi had just ordered the monks to issue a notice: order the scattered people to return to the house quickly, while the men plowed the fields and the seedlings, and the women picked mulberry and silkworms.Soldiers, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are all in peace with their careers. If our soldiers break the law and interfere with your business, they will be punished.

Kiyomasa Kato of the Second Army Corps heard the news that Chief Konishi was attacking Miryang from Liangshan, so he decided to change his route to go north. He took Yanyang, attacked Gyeongju, went north to Yongchuan, Xinning, and finally arrived in Andong.

Since Governor Konishi had made a bad name for the Japanese army before, Kato Kiyomasa had a smooth journey all the way north this time, and the guards fled everywhere he went.

Kato Kiyomasa also knew that Hideyoshi would rule North Korea in the future, and it was unrealistic to kill or capture all North Koreans, so he only ordered the soldiers to search the wealthy households in the city first, and then search the common people, and stop after 1/10 of them were captured .

But in many cases, it is easy to open the mouth of a soldier's looting, and it is not easy to shut him up. Therefore, in many cases, the number of people who have been harmed is more than a thousand, and Kato Kiyomasa often needs to personally suppress it.

The captured people were placed in the city by Kato Kiyomasa. After hearing that the Fourth Army had captured Ulsan on the east coast, he sent people to send all the captives here.

Hanabang Masako was attacking Ulsan, meaning that he felt that he needed a port in Gyeongsang-do to transfer the spoils caught in Gyeongsang-do, and Busanpo was the base camp of the Japanese army, so he marched to Ulsan after he came out of Busan, intending to take Ulsan. Turn eastward.

As a result, after taking Ulsan, they received more than [-] Korean people sent by Kato Kiyomasa from Yongchuan, Gyeongju and other places, plus the population plundered by the Fourth Army itself in Ulsan, Hanfangzheng fortunately began to transfer people to Ezo non-stop.

From Ulsan to Ezo, it is impossible to go back and forth without 30 days. It is very difficult to transport more than [-] people in a short time.

Fortunately, the 3000 people who had previously scheduled the long boat were successfully sent to the navy of Jeju Island and returned to Ulsan, and began to divert some of the population to Iyo for transportation.

Hanabang Masako's unit stayed in Ulsan for 2 days and continued to go north, successively taking down the coastal cities of Changqi, Yingil, Sinhae, and Cheongha.

The east coast of Gyeongsang-do is still a plain and hilly area from Fushan to Qinghe, and further north is the alpine valley area. Fortunately, Hanabang is not interested in digging into the mountains, so he ordered people to turn east to pursue Kato Kiyomasa's team.

While in Nagoya, Hideyoshi received the first-hand battle report from the front, and thanked Busan envoy Zheng Bo and Dongnae envoy Song Sang-hyun for their heroic performance, which allowed Hideyoshi to confirm North Korea's resistance to him.

Therefore, he sent a letter to Konishi Governor, Kato Kiyomasa, and Kuroda Nagamasa, asking them to speed up their invasion of North Korea, capture North Korea's capital as soon as possible, and capture North Korea's king Li Yan alive.

At the same time, he ordered the previous daimyos to treat the people of North Korea well, because he intends to actually rule North Korea, so he naturally needs these people to farm for them.

Hideyoshi's order had just been delivered, and the many big names who had seen Governor Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa making a lot of money by arresting people were muttering again, not knowing what Hideyoshi's change from day to day meant.

In order to prevent being punished by Hideyoshi, they had to release the people they had just captured, but ordered them to return to their hometown to farm.

Hideyoshi's new order also made Xiujia's hot frontline business stagnant, but thanks to Hideyoshi's order, Hideyoshi did not expect that these conquest daimyos would be so popular, and they had already sent 5 to Ulsan in just a few days There are so many people, the Xiu family's fleet can't transport them at all.

Ulsan's goal was too big, and even attracted Hideyoshi's attention. He sent someone to order the front-line Hanfang Masayuki to pay attention to the influence, and Hanabang Masayuki had to order Ulsan's acquisition to temporarily stop.

It is impossible for these people who have been traded to go back, and they can’t be taken away under Hideyoshi’s eyelids. They simply organized them to repair the mountain road from Ulsan to Ninghai in the north. The people below will be fine.

On March 29th, Li Yan, the monarch in Wangjing of Joseon, finally received a report from Park Hong, who learned that the Japanese pirates had invaded on a large scale.

Although this matter has not been a secret of the Joseon court for a long time, it is still shocked by the number of Japanese troops described by Park Hong.

In an emergency, Li Yan quickly appointed Li Yi as the patrol envoy of Gyeongsang-do, Cheng Yingji as the left defense envoy of Gyeongsang-do, Zhao Jing as the right defense envoy, and Liu Keliang and Bian Ji as the garrison generals of Gyeongsang-do.

However, it is worth noting that when Li Yan appointed Li Yi, he did not give him a single soldier, and asked him to lead the Gyeongsangdo government soldiers to respond to the enemy.

Moreover, Li Yan didn't trust this group of martial arts squads. On April 1st, he appointed Liu Chenglong as the capital inspector, and Jin Yingnan as the deputy envoy, and sent them to the front to supervise the army.

At the same time, Shen Li (lá) was appointed as the patrol envoy of the capital, the supreme commander of the Korean army, and the backup of Li Yi and others.

Li Yan trusted Shen Li very much, and gave him 8000 imperial guards from Wangjing to be stationed in Zhongzhou.

Li Yi naturally didn't know that his life had been handed over to Shen Li by the king Li Yan, and he was grateful for Wang Enhaodang because he was appointed as the patrol envoy of Gyeongsang-do.

But when he arrived at Mungyeong, the border between Gyeongsang-do and Chungcheong-do, he saw that the city was empty, so he had no choice but to go south to Sangju.

Sangju Mushi saw that the Japanese army was about to approach the city, so he fled out of the city in the name of welcoming Li Yi. The soldiers in the city immediately dispersed, leaving only one judge named Quanji.

When Li Yi came to Sangju, he inspected the barracks and found that there was not a single government soldier who was very angry. He blamed this powerless little man and immediately beheaded him.

Quan Ji immediately said that he would recall the soldiers for Li Yi, and Li Yi released him.

But the fleeing soldiers were not so easy to find. Quan Ji led people to search the surrounding villages that had not been heard of, and forcibly recruited more than a thousand farmers to join the army.

There are two barracks and one prison camp in Gyeongsang-do, namely Ulsan, Jinju and Daegu, each with 5000~8000 soldiers.

The soldiers of Ulsan had already been disintegrated after the fall of Dongnae with the escape of Li Jue. Not long ago, Daegu was occupied by Governor Xiaoxi, and the soldiers were defeated. Sangju City, the second largest city in Gyeongsang-do, originally had 600 soldiers in the camp. , 1000 soldiers.

Li Yi recalled Quan Ji to more than a thousand people, and it was no longer difficult for him. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Korean government soldiers was a little higher than that of the peasants.

But such a number was not enough, so he ordered to open a warehouse to release food, and use the food to recruit the surrounding strong men to join the army. He planned to start training from zero, but he did not recruit a total of several hundred soldiers until Xiao Xixing came to the city of Sangju. people.

Because the king of Joseon Li Zan did not give Li Yi a single soldier, this made Li Yi's army actually not have a fully organized army, let alone scouts.

Therefore, he did not know about the news that President Xiaoxi went north from Indong. At that time, a fugitive came from Kaining and reported to him the news that the Japanese army captured Shanshan Mountain, 20 kilometers southeast of Sangju, but Li Yi used his He was beheaded for disturbing the morale of the army.

The beheading belonged to the beheading, but Li Yi knew that the Japanese army had probably reached a position close to the left, and then he took thousands of people to garrison in the valley in the north of Sangju on the grounds that Sangju could not be defended.

At that time, some generals suggested to him that the valley was not enough to defend, but he was beheaded by him for disobedience.

When the troops were moving north, they saw someone poking their head out of the mountains and forests, and then went back. The soldiers knew that this was probably a spy of the Japanese army. No one dared to report to Li Yi.

In the end, Xiaoxi entered the unguarded Sangju City. At that time, Li Yi looked back and saw the thick smoke billowing from the Sangju defense line. Knowing that the Japanese army was approaching, he urged the soldiers to move to Xianchang as soon as possible.

After Xiaonishi occupied Sangju, he sent people to pursue Li Yi to the north, and finally caught up with him at a mountain. Li Yi had no choice but to fight against the mountain.

However, this group of Gyeongsangdo troops who have not been trained much can't even draw their bows neatly. How could they face the repeated bombardment of Japanese iron cannons at the foot of the mountain?
With the sound of Japanese guns at the foot of the mountain, Li Yi felt bad and fled on horseback. The North Korean army immediately dispersed because of the escape of the generals. The Japanese army beheaded more than 600 heads and captured more than a thousand people that day.

The news of Li Yi's defeat spread to Wang Jing, and the king of North Korea, Li Zan, was shocked. On the same day, the court discussed the idea of ​​moving the capital.

At that time, everyone in Wang Jing regarded Shenla as a life-saving straw, and Li Yan also wrote to Shenla who was far away in Zhongzhou to ask for advice.

After Shen Li heard that the Japanese army had tens of thousands of people, he also expressed his unfavorable thoughts to Wang Jing, "there are so many thieves, it is really difficult to defend. Today's affairs are overwhelming."

When Wang Jing's officials heard his statement, they were more panicked than before, and they fled Beijing with their families to seek refuge.

As one of the most trusted courtiers of King Li Yan of Joseon, although Shen Li was not very optimistic about the situation of the war, he still planned to fight for some time to make arrangements for King Li Yan of Joseon.

Therefore, he took some generals to Joling, the junction of Chungcheong-do and Gyeongsang-do, to investigate.

A general of the forbidden army who accompanied him suggested to him, "We are few and we are few, and it is difficult to fight. It is better to guard this dangerous place, and the soldiers lie down in the gorge. Wait for the thieves to enter the valley, then take the height and shoot them left and right."

Li Zongzhang, the pastoral envoy of Zhongzhou, also held the same opinion and urged Shenla to guard Niaoling. He suggested using the slope of the valley to set up more flags to confuse the enemy, and the enemy would be defeated.

However, neither of the above two suggestions was adopted by Shen Li. From the later battle of Qintai, Shen Li probably heard that the Japanese army lacked cavalry and wanted to use the 3000 northern cavalry in the imperial army to defeat the enemy. Ambush in the canyon.

Li Yi, who fled to Zhongzhou at that time, also expressed his opinion, but Shen Li scolded him as soon as he spoke out, saying that he was a defeated general, so he dared not make any suggestions.

Perhaps it was Li Yi's crotch pulling in the battle in Sangju that made him regard this defeated general as a beacon, but his suggestion deepened Shen Li's own idea of ​​using cavalry to defeat the enemy on the plain.

But Shen Li's chosen piano stage was also a worse position, with Da Chuan arrayed behind him, intending to fight the Japanese army with his last stand.

However, the Danqin platform is backed by a large river, and in front of it is the vast paddy fields outside Chungju. Now the spring plowing in North Korea has begun. After the paddy fields are flooded, it is difficult for war horses to move, and cavalry cannot gallop at all.

On April 5th, Xingchang Xiaoxi led his troops through Wenqing and came to Niaoling. He looked at the situation on the left and right sides of the valley and thought that the North Korean army must have set up an ambush in the valley. People go to Niaoling to find out the reality.

It was not until two days later that it was confirmed that there was no ambush in Niaoling, and then led the troops to continue northward, and on the morning of the 8th, they faced Shenla's troops at the Tanqintai.

At that time, Shen Lai had 8000 of the most elite Forbidden Army in North Korea, including 3000 Northern Army cavalry. In addition, there were 8000 Chungcheong Provincial Army from Cheongju, and more than 5000 strong men gathered in the surrounding counties. The total force exceeds 2.

After a bloody battle, President Xiaoxi dispatched troops to garrison the city, guard the loot, and capture refugees. In fact, only about 12000 people came to the piano platform.

(The Korean historical material "Luanzhong Zalu" records that Shenla has 6 Korean troops under his command, while "The Court and the Field Meeting·Xunzu Ji" says that there are only 8000 people, and these two records are not credible.

Shenla has the military power to control Chungcheongdo and Gyeongsangdo. Since it is impossible for the whole country to fight the enemy with only 8000 soldiers given by the King of Joseon, and it is impossible for the entire Chungcheongdo to collect 52 soldiers, it is therefore 000 is more reasonable. )
At the beginning of the battle, Shen Li was shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. The left and right fronts of the Korean army were composed of Chungcheong Daofu soldiers and volunteer soldiers. The combat effectiveness was very weak, and the armor rate was extremely low. They were beaten to pieces.

The Japanese army slashed at the North Korean army with knives, iron cannons fired at the North Korean army, and the Korean army on the left and right flanks fell like cutting wheat, with almost no resistance in sight.

Shen Li had no choice but to order the imperial cavalry stationed on the left to charge and kill the Japanese army, but the cavalry stepped into the paddy field and couldn't walk by themselves, so they were soon surrounded by the Japanese army and killed them.

Seeing the defeat of the trump card in his hand, Shen Li panicked and tried to break through on horseback many times, but all failed, so he had to retreat to the riverside.

Seeing tens of thousands of kings of North Korea perish by the Dachuan River under his command, Shen Li was filled with grief and indignation. At that time, he was very angry when he saw his nephew trying to escape from the battle. His other jump is Jiang Quanyi.

As for my lovely Gyeongsang-do patrol envoy Li Yi, he ran away again
The battle of Chungju was defeated. According to the post-war chief inspection, more than 3000 heads of the Korean army were beheaded, and more than 2000 people were captured. They jumped into the river and drowned.

Dachuan is one of the upper reaches of the Han River. The washed body of Dachuan jumped down the river and was picked up by the people of Wangjing downstream. Wangjing knew the news of Zhongzhou's defeat.

The king of Joseon, Li Yan, originally wanted Shen Li to be stationed in Chungju, and waited until Jeolla-do inspector Li Wei went north to attack the Japanese army on both sides. However, Li Xuan had just received the news of Shen Li's defeat in Chungju as soon as Li Wei's memorial to the war was approved.

(End of this chapter)