Prime Minister Bizen

Shenla's defeat in Chungju really shocked Joseon King Li Yan because of the news of the destruction of the 8000 imperial troops under his command. You must know that at that time the Imperial Army of Joseon Wangjing had a total of only 2 people, and most of them chose two classes of aristocratic children who were skilled in horse bows and horses. The army's sharp soldiers acted.

But when this military system was passed on to Li Yan, it was already corrupted. The two classes of nobles in other prefectures may still have a little tradition of armed forces because they have to face Japanese pirates and Jurchen, but the two classes in Kinki have nothing else to do except prostitutes. Not anymore.

The so-called Forbidden Army has already become the department where the royal family favored the courtiers to feed the sons of the emperor. The 8000 people handed over to Shen Lie were already the most capable troops that Li Yan could gather, and now they are all lost to the enemy.

Knowing that Wang Jing was no longer defendable, Li Yan adopted the suggestion of Liu Chenglong, the chief inspector of the capital, and assigned the two princes Lin Haijun and Shunhe Lord to Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province to recruit troops, and the prince Gwanghae followed King Li Yan to the north. At the same time, he sent people to Beijing to ask Daming's father for help.

In the early morning of April 10th, the king of Joseon, Li Yan, fled with Gwanghae-jun and his concubines. Behind them were all the civil and military officials and common people of Joseon who followed in the heavy rain, crying bitterly.

In the evening, the king of Joseon, Li Zan, came to the Imjin River. When most of the accompanying people had crossed the Imjin River, the King of Joseon looked at the exhausted servants and officials on the left and right, and ordered the people in the near river to move their houses and give the house to the servants of the officials to rest. .

In order to prevent the Japanese army from chasing from the south of the Yangtze River, regardless of the tens of thousands of people following behind who had never crossed the river, they directly ordered the boat to be scuttled.

After the North Korean king Li Yan and the officials fled, Wang Jing was completely out of control. Before the arrival of the Japanese army, the North Koreans themselves robbed each other a wave.

A large number of North Korean hooligans rushed into the interior to search for treasures, and the entire Wangjing was in chaos. In the end, they even burned the Zhangliyuan, Xingcao and other yamen, and released many prisoners.

The Joseon King Lee Chan, who was far away in Jiangbei, heard the news that Wangjing was on fire. He thought that the Japanese army had chased Wangjing, and he was afraid to ask his left and right for opinions.

Chengzhengyuan Du Chengzhi Li Hengfu (equivalent to Yaxiang) replied, "You can stay in Yizhou for a while. If you are too weak and you are trapped in all directions, you can go to sue the Celestial Dynasty."

Judging from Li Hengfu's description, the North Korean court had a very pessimistic view of the war situation, and they had already thought of abandoning the country and fleeing within a month of the war.

But Zuo Yizheng (Left Prime Minister) Yin Doushou opposed the inclusion of Daming. He advocated that "Northern Daoist Ma Jingqiang, Xianxing and Jingcheng are both natural dangers, and they can go beyond Lingbei."

Then he asked for the opinion of Liu Chenglong, who had previously suggested North Hunting. Liu Chenglong believed that "if you take one step away from the east, North Korea is not mine."

In fact, Li Yan, the king of Joseon, was attached to himself, so he hinted at Liu Chenglong with words, but Liu Chenglong insisted that he could not cross the river.

Due to the endless debate among the ministers of North Korea about the next step, the king of North Korea, Li Yan, was also unsure about paying attention. At that time, news came that the fire in Wangjing was caused by the rebellion of bandits, and it was not the Japanese army, so he rested and crossed the Yalu River. The idea of ​​taking people to Pyongyang for a rest.

When Li Yan left the Linjin River, he appointed Marshal Jin Mingyuan to lead more than 20 generals and more than 1000 soldiers to garrison the north bank of the Linjin River.

Konishi defeated the Chungju garrison on April 4, and entered Chungju, which was currently guarded by soldiers, on April 8. Li Zongzhang, the pastor of Zhongzhou, died in battle.

The two quarreled over who would take over Wang Jing first. It turned out that it was because Hideyoshi had promised the two of them before that they would take the lead alternately. Kato Kiyomasa was very dissatisfied that all the military merits were taken away by him.

Finally, under the mediation of Matsuura Shinnobu and Nabeshima Naoshige, the strategy of Konishi traveling long via Lizhou and Kato Kiyomasa going north via Takeyama was established.

In the end, the two sides entered Wangjing on the 14th and 15th respectively. At that time, the two groups of nobles in the Wangjing had already fled, leaving only helpless civilians here to pray for the forgiveness of the invaders.

At the same time, Li Kuang, who was far away in Jeolla-do, did not know the news of Wang Jing's disappearance. He led 10000 soldiers in the Jeolla-do government, 2500 sailors, 2000 government officials in Jeonju and surrounding counties, and others from the province. The 2000 family servants recruited by the aristocratic families in Jeolla Province, together with the temporarily recruited farmers, made up a 2 army and marched north from Jeonju.

On April 4th, the army crossed the Jinjiang River via Longan and entered Chungcheong Road, then turned to Nishan to march northwest. Cen, a town at the bottom of the basin separated by a fan on the east side of Nishan Mountain, became the north-south economic artery Daejeon Special after the train was opened in later generations. City, but right now it is just a small county town in the middle of a mountain.

On the north side of Nishan Mountain, there is a valley leading directly to Jeonju, an important town of Chungcheong Province, where the prison camp of Chungcheong Province is located.

Since Shen Li and President Xiaoxi only used the troops in the Cheongju Garrison Battalion at the Chungju Convention and Exhibition, the 3000 battalion soldiers in the Jeonju Supervising Battalion are still in the camp.

Li Wei entered Gongju on the 12th, and it took a little time to integrate this part of the force, but in the end he finally assembled the army, which was said to be [-], and planned to continue northward to King Jingqin.

At the same time, the news of Li Kangbing leaving Jeolla Province was obtained by the Xiu family's spies. Hanabang Zhengxing took 4500 people from the headquarters and 5800 people from Toyotomi Xiuzhen's surrounding daimyos out of Jinshan and entered Geumsan County and Zhenshan in Jeolla Province. county.

These two small counties were originally small counties located in the valley of the Cheling Mountains. The number of households in the county was less than a thousand, and the population was more than ten thousand. The so-called city walls were a little higher than the courtyard walls. invasion.

On April 4th, Li Wei set off from Gongju and continued northward to Wangjing. Fortunately, Huafang Zheng also crossed the mountains and came out from Zhenshan to attack the Lianshan under Cheling Mountain.

Since Li Kuang took away most of the yamen and government soldiers in the northern part of Jeolla Province, Lianshan had no defense force at all. The county magistrate Hong Xianxiu abandoned the city, and Lianshan fell immediately.

On the afternoon of April 4th, while passing through Onyang (now southwest of Cheonan City), north of Jeonju, Li Wei suddenly saw a mighty army of refugees coming from the south.

The soldiers around were shocked and asked them the reason. It was the news that the Japanese invaders had entered Gyeonggi-do and the king had fled from the north.

The news brought by these fleeing people to the south shocked King Qin's army to the north. At first Li Wei didn't believe it, so he ordered people to kill several soldiers and refugees who spread rumors.

Li Wei said that there are more than 2 government soldiers in Gyeonggi Province, more than 2 imperial troops, and thousands of imperial guards. It is absolutely impossible to be easily defeated by thousands of Japanese pirates.Until now he has not figured out the real number of Japanese landings.

But these soldiers were gathered by Li Wei in a short period of time, and the morale was not high after the long journey for several days, and now he was "confuse" by the intelligence from the north, and he knew that it was impossible to continue going north.

He stationed his troops in Wenyang to confirm the news, but an official who escaped from Wangjing cried to him that night, "The king has long been hunting north, and now Wangjing has been broken by the Japanese invaders, and the people in the city have lost ten lives." what!"

Of course, the description of Wang Jing’s common people is exaggerated by this official. In fact, after Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa entered the city, Konishi has been restraining the soldiers, and there has been a tragic massacre of the city.

In fact, following Li Yan's escape to the north, most of the high-ranking officials and nobles in Wang Jing had already fled with his followers, and other rich and good people also left the city one after another to avoid disaster. Before Xiao Xixing entered the city, the population in Wang Jing had already Less than 3% of the past.

However, the news brought by this official still greatly shocked Li Wei. The news that Wang Jing's officials entered the city looking for Li Wei could not be blocked. When he entered Li Wei's office, there were already curious officials around. Look around for news.

Soon the news that Wang Jing fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders began to spread in the camp, and the remaining morale of the soldiers was gone.

Li Ke wanted to restrain his soldiers again, and went north to garrison in Zhongzhou, so as to cut off the Japanese army's backup, and waited for the northern king's division to defeat the lone Japanese invaders and make peace with him.

But he overestimated the number of soldiers and officers under his command.

It was not easy to wait for Wenyang to open the city at dawn. As soon as the soldiers lined up and left the city, some government soldiers escaped from the formation.

At first some generals restrained the soldiers, trying to kill a few deserters to warn them, but to no avail, some sergeants even took out their blades and faced their officers.

The officer knew that the sergeant at this moment was beyond his control. If he forcibly suppressed them, he might die under the random knife of his subordinates. Soon even the officer himself joined the ranks of deserters.

The government soldiers who went out of the city first and were supported by Li Wei were defeated first, not to mention the navy, Ya Ding, Jia Ding and Feng Xing behind.

The navy thought to himself that I didn't fight for the land soldiers, why should I work my life on the land, and I went out from the west gate without notifying Li Wei.

Jia Ding was originally the front tooth of the second class in Jeolla Province. It is okay to let them drive the people away with sticks. It is a hundred people who are unwilling to let them go north to fight Japanese pirates. It's war.

Now that the government soldiers have all run away, there is no one to restrain them. They even followed the government soldiers and fled from the north gate.

It's not that no one blocked it. At the beginning, some generals loyal to Li Wei led their soldiers to stand guard at the door, but the soldiers who wanted to come out in multiple ways drew their swords at each other.

The special Ximen garrison was directly picked and killed in front of the gate by the commander of the navy. More than 50 soldiers guarding the gate did not die in the hands of the Japanese invaders, but were actually killed by their fellow sailors.

As for the temporarily recruited farmers, those who could escape also fled, and those who could not escape followed Li Wei's ass and asked what to do one by one.

Who would have thought that Li Wei, who dispatched 2 troops from Quanzhou, would have fewer people after meeting with the Quanzhou Supervisory Army. In the end, Li Wei also knew that it was impossible to go north, and it was not easy to gather the soldiers and civilians around him. More than 4000 people were gathered to go south, and the ridiculous thing is that nearly 2000 of them were soldiers from the Chungcheong Taoist prison camp in Gongju.

At the same time, Huafang Zhengxing and Fengchen Xiuzhen had gone north to take down Nishan. Li Wei knew that Nishan was important, so he left 500 yamen and 500 conscripted farmers and soldiers to garrison here.

However, these troops were not at all the opponents of Hanabang Masayuki and his group of professional soldiers. After only one face-to-face charge, the Japanese army only paid the price of 2 dead and 15 injured, and then took Nishan.

The distance between Nishan and Gongju is very short, and the news of Nishan being captured will spread to Gongju soon.

Hanafang Zhengxing and Toyotomi Xiuzhen together plan to encircle Gongju quickly that night, and then use the light of dawn to take Gongju quickly.

There are more than 3000 prison camp soldiers in Gongzhou, which have already been integrated and taken away by Li Wei, but as the southern hub, Li Wei left 500 prison camp soldiers and 500 yamen to garrison.

The combat effectiveness of these people is much higher than that of Nishan before. After all, the prison camp soldiers in North Korea are somewhat similar to the Forbidden Army, and the armor penetration rate of the general Forbidden Army dispatched abroad is very high.

However, no matter how elite the troops were, they were not even prepared for the Japanese invaders to come from behind them. Gongju was captured within an hour when their guard was relaxed. The Japanese army killed more than 1 people and injured 80 people and beheaded more than 300 people. class.

While Hanafang Masayuki and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were cleaning up the spoils of the war, they suddenly heard the news of a rout from the north.

The two planned to go out of the city to fight, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi's master Xuesong (Masayuki Sanada) suggested to use Gongzhou Wengcheng to let people in before disposal.

This poisonous plan was quickly adopted. The rout soldiers who fled from the north had no time to think carefully about the black smoke inside and how the blood stains on the city wall were caused. Now they just want to get back the inside of the city. Only then do I feel safe.

I thought it would be troublesome to open the city gate, but I didn’t expect the city gate to be opened just like that. The government soldiers who fled from the north swarmed into the city mixed with the gentry’s servants and peasant soldiers, but they saw that the gate of the Weng City was closed. Not open for a long time.

The officers below wanted to shout to the top of the city to open the city, but what responded to him was a whole row of black iron cannons and Japanese soldiers with bows and arrows.

Only at this time did the rout soldiers in the Wengcheng realize that something was wrong. Why were the armor styles of the soldiers at the top of the city different from their own?
The clever soldier turned around and planned to escape, but how could it be so easy to squeeze out of the crowd at this moment?Even if we got to the gate, the city gate is so big, how could it be possible to squeeze out so many people?
Besides, as early as the moment the soldiers at the top of the city appeared, several jars of kerosene had been thrown down at the original gate of the city, and the flames were ignited, igniting several broken soldiers who did not squeeze in.

With Feng Chenxiuzhen's order to "fire the cannon", Wengcheng is as famous as the hundreds of iron cannons on the main city wall. The following has long been remembered as the same as canned sardines. The iron cannons and bows do not need to be aimed at all, as long as they keep firing Shooting and releasing arrows will definitely hit the target.

After a round of iron cannon firing, the iron gunner quickly handed over the iron cannon to the loader behind him, and took a loaded iron cannon from his hand to continue shooting down the city.

The rout soldiers who were hit didn't care whether their retreat was blocked or not, and they rushed outside one after another. They were called by the long-range firepower above and kept falling down. In addition, under the chaos, the soldiers trampled one after another. Purgatory in general. (Review the nomination certificate)

The soldiers outside the city who did not enter the city were not so lucky. The soldiers guarding the city followed the sound of the iron cannons in the city and wanted to open fire on the soldiers outside the city. The iron cannons and bows and arrows fired outwards. Heads, those outside the city need to aim.

The sudden change in Gongzhou City, even if the rout soldiers outside the city were stupid, they knew that Gongzhou had changed hands, but what they couldn't figure out was where these Japanese invaders came from.

Those who hadn't entered the city had no time to think, and they bypassed Gongzhou and retreated towards Nishan. There were 2000 Oyu soldiers including Yancheng Lilong and other soldiers guarding them as the second line of defense to intercept the rout.

Despite the hasty arrangement, they managed to stand on both sides of the valley before the rout arrived.

With the arrival of the defeated soldiers, the Japanese troops on both sides of the valley shot and shot arrows at the road lowering down the valley, and there were also ashigaru throwing stones down with slings to hit people.

In charge of intercepting the end of the valley was 300 members of the Shimono noble family led by Maeda Keiji.

As the saying goes, a dog jumps over a wall when it is in a hurry, and a rabbit will bite people when it is in a hurry. Often, people's fighting power when they are in a desperate situation is unlimited.

Therefore, in the past, it was necessary to undertake such a blockade task with elite soldiers and strong generals in the army, and the number of them must be much larger than that of the opponent.

It would be impossible for the 300 people close to Maeda Keiji and his hands to block thousands of routs, but first of all, this imperial army was composed of the elite of the Xiu family. 100%.

Coming here, Huafang Zhengxing and Xiuzhen really don't have any extra troops to mobilize. They want to leave most of the defeated troops in Gongju. Even if some people escape to the mountain road of Nishan, there will be only a small number of troops. Consumed by ambushes on both sides of the hills, Maeda Keiji faced not many soldiers.

But just in case, the two still ordered Maeda Keiji to be invincible. Once they found that the enemy was in a difficult situation, they would make way for them to escape.

Facts have proved that the arrangement of the two is very effective. While killing in Gongzhou City, Hanabang Zhengxing led 1000 people from the main formation, and 1500 people from Qiyu from Xiangxi Jiaqing from the north gate.

Toyotomi Xiuzhen led 2000 people from her own team and 1000 people from Sanada Nobuyuki from the south gate, and launched an offensive against the rout outside the city.