Prime Minister Bizen

At dawn on the 20th, while the Ming army was still cooking, Li Rusong had already summoned the generals of the Sanxie, and after handing over the siege task, the Ming army began to prepare for the siege.

Jizhen guerrilla Wu Weizhong, the deputy general Zha Dashou was in charge of dealing with the Japanese army on Mudanfeng, the former general Yang Yuan, the right general Zhang Shijue was in charge of attacking the Qixing gate, the left general Li Rubai was in charge of attacking the ordinary gate, and the deputy general Zu Chengxun, guerrilla Luo Shangzhi and North Korean Ping'an Taoist envoy Li Yi were in charge of attacking Hanwu Gate.

In addition, the Korean general Cao Haoyi was stationed on the south side of the Datong River to cut off the retreat route of the Japanese army fleeing south.

After the deployment, Li Rusong announced in the army: The first climber will be rewarded with 300 taels, and he will be awarded the command of the capital.At the same time, it was announced that the war does not require heads, but only orders from Pyongyang.

Such a reward may not be high in the eyes of future generations, and it is completely influenced by film and television literature.You must know that the Du Commander is an adjutant of the Du Commander, with a rank of three ranks, who is in charge of farming, training, and secretary affairs with the Du Commander Tongzhi.

And 300 taels of silver is already equivalent to a commander's salary for one year, and it is the salary of an ordinary soldier for a lifetime.

As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a generous reward. Following Li Rusong's order to all the troops, the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted.

The first to fire were the Shenwei General Cannon and the Hongyi Cannon deployed in the rear. Their range exceeded 1 kilometer and they could shoot directly from the Ming army camp to the head of Pyongyang City.

In fact, this kind of heavy artillery was in a fixed position at the time, without hydraulic brakes or even gun wheels, and it took a long time to prepare for each shot.

But the power is really great. A shell from the Hongyi cannon hit the parapet of Pyongyang City, directly smashing the parapet, and even smashed the upper body of the Japanese who was bending the bow to store power.

Not long after Chief Xiaoxi retreated, Zong Yizhi on Peony Peak also received the news, leading the army to retreat through Lingluo Island to the east bank.

This is the last stronghold of the Japanese army, a stone mountain in Pyongyang, behind which is the last gate of the Japanese army, Datong Gate.

Moreover, the general physical fitness of the Ming army is stronger than that of the Japanese army, as easy as a giant beating a child.

The tiger crouching guns on the opposite side no longer fired shotguns, and the Japanese army also bravely used iron cannons and bows to shoot at the Ming army below the city, and some North Korean servants held stones and threw stones at the Ming army with ladders underneath, or The countryside poured boiling water to stop the Ming army's offensive.

When a small number of Ming troops climbed to the end of the ladder, another Japanese army waited for a long time with long spears. When they leaned out, two or three long spears pierced them, and the dead Ming soldiers fell powerlessly to the bottom of the city.

Who knew that the Ming army taught the Japanese army a hard lesson, letting them know what it means to fire a thousand guns, what caliber is justice, and what technology is the key to victory.

The Ming army, armed with a bird gun similar to the Japanese iron cannon, hid behind the iron shield and started shooting each other with the Japanese army at the head of the city using firearms.

General Li Rumei suggested to his elder brother Ming Jin to withdraw troops and bombard Pyongyang city again with artillery, but he repelled him coldly.

However, if this is the case, most of the Japanese army still need to face the close hand-to-hand combat of the Ming army.

At this time, they will find that the armor on the Ming army is very strong. Except for the cotton armor, many northern soldiers, especially the Xuanda soldiers, wear iron armor. It is difficult for Japanese samurai swords to leave marks on it, let alone Killed the Ming army.

At this time, the sharpshooters of the Ming army in the second team would bend their bows and set their arrows, and specifically name the Japanese soldiers who leaned out of the city.

The Japanese army broke out extremely strong fighting power in order to survive, and the Ming army could not take the Lianguang Pavilion until the evening.Li Rusong knew that the soldiers were exhausted after a day of hard work, so he had no choice but to temporarily order the troops to withdraw and prepare to fight again tomorrow.

Although the battle had just begun, the surrounding area of ​​Pingcheng seemed to be surrounded by thunder. Cannons shook the mountains, and gunpowder smoke filled tens of miles, obscuring the sight of both sides.

He discussed with Matsuura Zhenxin and said, "The reinforcements are not coming. Now that we have reached this point, how can we defeat the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? It is better to escape first than to die."

It wasn't that the Japanese army had to make such a senseless sacrifice, so what's the point of losing Mudanfeng at Qixingmen?
It really has such a meaning. Mudanfeng is the mountain peak on the north side of Pyongyang, and Lingluo Island is on the side.

Since the firing range of Frangji and Invincible General's guns is too close, within the shooting range of the Japanese iron guns in Pyongyang City, they are still on standby at the back.

But do you think everything will be fine by hiding on the female wall?
From time to time, the Ming army's Hongyi cannons and Shenwei Dajun cannons smashed the female wall on the city of Pyongyang, and even the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the female wall were killed.

The Ming army took this opportunity to board the Qixingmen gate tower and control the most important city gate on the north side of North Korea. The Ming army filed in through Qixingmen one by one, and began brutal street fighting with the Japanese army.

His heroic performance boosted the morale of the Zhejiang soldiers. The soldiers waved their flags and shouted for him, and followed Luo Shangzhi to the city.

The siege of the central city of Pyongyang was more brutal than that of the outer city. Without the help of cannons, the Ming army could only launch the most primitive battle against the Japanese army.

As for the Korean soldiers, the Ming army could not compete for their heads at all. Even the severed heads were taken away by the Ming army. Instead, they did not participate in the melee between the North and South soldiers to save their lives.

After discussing for a while, the two decided to take the 36th plan, and took the sergeant out of Datong gate late at night that night.

With 2 hours of artillery firepower preparations, the Ming army, who had been waiting 100 steps below the city, rushed to Pyongyang City following Li Rusong's order.

Governor Xiaonishi and Zhenxin Matsuura soon realized that the fight could not continue, and immediately ordered people to retreat to the central city for defense. Only Changqing and others in the outer city were still in the hands of the Japanese army.

The generals were still alive and dead on the south side, and the danger faced by ordinary soldiers was even greater. After only ten minutes of close attack on the city, a layer of corpses had already been piled up under the city of Pyongyang.

Inspired by the last street battle, this time the Japanese army effectively used the buildings in Pyongyang to set up obstacles to block the attack of the Ming army.There are also ashigaru and samurai who hid in buildings specially, and used spears, iron cannons, bows and arrows through the gaps to kill the Ming army who took the road of tower defense.

Behind them are long-range infantrymen of the Ming army wearing red battle jackets, only the upper body is riveted with iron and iron sheets. They pushed the tiger squatting cannon, the captive cannon and other artillery to the shooting range and began to shoot at Pyongyang City.

As the first batch of sergeants, they held an iron round shield in their hands, most of them held Ming-style waist knives, and some held hand axes, one-handed hammers and other weapons.

Moreover, they disregarded Li Rusong's order not to have a leader. The North and South soldiers and North Korean soldiers still fought in Pyongyang because of the issue of fighting for the leader. In the end, dozens of Ming soldiers died at the hands of their companions. .

Whether it is the Battle of Pyongyang recorded in history or the Battle of Pyongyang experienced in this life, it is not like the three or two sentences that everyone thinks: the Japanese army was defeated under the suppression of the powerful artillery of the Ming army.

Behind the runners are the long-range infantry of the Ming army holding three-eyed guns and bows, and on the side of the ordinary gate of the main battlefield, there are 2000 soldiers from the Shenji Battalion holding guns and bird guns to help out.

Although the Shenji Battalion in the Ming Dynasty may not have practiced for a long time, Emperor Wanli ordered Shi Xing to prepare the Shenji Battalion half a year in advance, and the effect was still there. With the blunderbuss, he could fight back and forth with the Japanese army at the top of the city.

"Meridian Fuguo Yaobian" records: "The lead of the bird gun flies like rain, and all those who fall in it fall to death, and there are even those who wear a single lead and wear it twice."

With the front sight of the bird gun, it is no longer a weapon like the three-eyed gun that depends entirely on faith and density.

In the front row are elite Ming soldiers in thick cotton armor, whose armor hangs from shoulders to feet;
The arms of the soldiers are covered with iron ring armour, and the legs also have knee pads and greaves made of hard leather;
He was wearing a steel helmet, and the hem of the helmet's cotton armor was also inlaid with this iron piece, which protected the entire neck of the person, looking like a robot from a distance.

The shotgun fired by a Tiger Crouching Cannon is equivalent to the effect of 30 to 50 iron cannon salvos. These projectiles hit the top of the city, suppressing the Japanese army so that they could not even raise their heads.

Now that the Ming army has captured Pyongyang, there is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices.

They thought that this battle would eventually evolve into a long-range mutual shooting of the Heat, and in the end no one could win and the other would end in a flat manner.

Seeing this situation, more soldiers rushed to the Datong River in a swarm. After all, if they could cross the river calmly, who would want to bypass the Changqin Gate occupied by the enemy soldiers and cross the river via Lingluo Island?
The movement of the Japanese army fleeing at night was a bit loud. Li Rusong was awakened from his sleep by his own soldiers. When he came to Pyongyang City, he found that a large number of Japanese troops had already crossed the river.

Then Zu Chengxun and Li Ning led the northern soldiers of the Ming army and the North Korean army followed by the Zhejiang soldiers and entered the city.After entering the city, both the Japanese army and the Korean servants killed everyone they saw, and after the killing, all soldiers, civilians, young and old, were killed by the northern soldiers.

Although there were no Franc machine guns and invincible general guns to help out, the shotguns fired by the tiger squatting guns with a range of 200 to 300 meters had already caused the Japanese troops in the city to suffer.

The previous attack on the mountain burned the forest vegetation on the mountain, and now the Peony Peak is bare. The Ming army can only use the most primitive method of attacking the mountain, relying solely on manpower to attack.

The battle ended at 9:[-] a.m., when the leader of the Zhejiang army, Luo Shangzhi, the general and commander of the Shenji Battalion, the Lord Hanwumen, the first time he climbed the city, he was injured by flying stones and fell down. No retreat.

After finally paying the price of more than a thousand people, Zhongcheng was taken, and the Japanese army retreated to the Lianguang Pavilion in the city to garrison.

With the beating of war drums beating on the walls in the south, west, north and south, mixed with the shouts of people, the Ming army lined up neatly and began to attack Pyongyang.

In the last Pyongyang street battle, Zu Chengxun used explosives to blow open the Qixingmen gate. Liaodong cavalry entered from Qixingmen, and were finally defeated by the Japanese army on the ground and on the city wall.

Borrowing from the records of "Meridian Fuguo Yaobian", it is "The big city is broken, our soldiers gather four times, the clouds are surging, the thunder is thundering, the horses are galloping, the soldiers are close to each other, and the thieves are all destroyed. Rockets, birds and guns fly, Those who hit it will be burned, and those who touch it will die."

This time the city wall was in the hands of the Ming army, and the Japanese army could not climb up and shoot, but the Japanese army still showed a strong will to fight.

Konishi Xingchang and Matsuura Zhenxin, who had been fighting hard for a day, counted the soldiers and found that there were only a few thousand troops in the city. Excluding the troops that Soyoshi Tomo brought to Mudanfeng, the remaining number of the entire First Army was less than 8000, and more than half of them were damaged in battle.

However, some soldiers who had been frightened for a long time, disobeyed the restraints and went out directly from the Datong Gate and ran directly to the east bank of the Datong River, and finally ran to the surface of the Datong River.

Of course, Li Rusong had a reason to stop the pursuit. He could see clearly from the top of the city that the ice was not firm, and some Japanese soldiers fell into the Datong River because the ice could not bear their weight and were drowned alive.

However, the Japanese army seemed to have some experience in defense, which made the two men unable to attack Mudanfeng for a long time, and even the army showed signs of instability.

Obviously Matsuura Shinnobu didn't want to die here. After a day of hard work, the Japanese army had already lost more than half of the battle, and they were all holding on with one breath.A large number of iron cannons, projectiles, and gunpowder have long been lost and damaged, and the food around them is less than 3000 shi, and the city of Pyongyang is no longer enough to defend.

But soon the Ming army took out a rocket with a dragon head, which was called a fire dragon, propelled by gunpowder, and ignited the surrounding area after the kerosene contained in it fell to the ground.

Coupled with the delay in the arrival of reinforcements, he had the idea of ​​retreating.

War is always cruel. In the "Meridian Fuguo Yaobian", it is recorded that Li Rusong went forward on his horse, personally beheaded several deserters who had retreated from above, and encouraged morale with heavy rewards, and the Ming army attacked again.

The shattered female wall was splashed with rubble, causing more or less damage to the surrounding Japanese soldiers and servants.

In order to prevent the tiger squatting cannons from killing friendly troops, the shelling of the tiger squatting cannons is stopped, but the Shenwei Dajun Cannon and the Hongyi Cannon are not affected, because their firing intervals are longer, and some tiger squatting cannons with larger calibers are also replaced with solid ones. Bomb, continue to suppress the city.

Just when the west wind was blowing, the Japanese soldiers on the Mudan Peak had nothing to stand on. They struggled along the Datong River and fled back to the city of Pyongyang from the Changqing Gate on the east side under the fire of the North Korean navy in the Datong River. .

You must know that the First Army of Chief Konishi used to be the vanguard of the Japanese army's conquest of North Korea. After many battles, the remaining soldiers were only about 1, but now the remaining soldiers are 3000+ and the Ming army has won more than 8000 people.

Although it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to use the gun, the shooting distance and shooting power are really large, and it can suppress the defenders of the western city wall from a distance.

If the Ming army came to attack again tomorrow, the Japanese army would definitely be destroyed.

This was Li Rusong's special arrangement, in order to reduce the damage caused by the Japanese iron artillery.

Long before the arrival of the Ming army, the Japanese army used the building stones in the city to build a stone city, and now it is using this stone city to garrison.

Mudanfeng was the first to be taken down. The Ming army relied on iron shields to block the Japanese iron cannons on the mountain. The Japanese aimed the iron cannons at the Ming army's legs, or threw stones down to block them. blocked by it.

The Japanese army wanted to keep the Changqings in order to leave a way out for themselves. The Japanese army who had retreated from Mudanfeng before, under the leadership of Zongyizhi, took advantage of the weakening of the fire and went out of the city to kill them again. After finally paying the lives of more than 300 people It was only then that Mudanfeng was taken back again.

The 2.5-meter-long lifting gun is similar to the Spanish arquebus. It needs to be fired on a special bracket and cooperate to clean the gun chamber. Therefore, a lifting gun group requires 2 to 3 people.

As heavy artillery, the number of Shenwei Dajun Cannon and Hongyi Cannon is still too small, and they can only exist as intimidating firepower. They cannot break down the 10-meter-wide Pyongyang City Wall in a short time. If you want to win Pyongyang City, you will eventually have to rely on manpower. Finish.

This means that the number of people who drowned in the Datong River last night was at most hundreds, so the number of heads captured by the Ming army and the number of heads of the Japanese army will not match.

At the moment when the North Korean navy blocked the Taedong River, if the Japanese army wanted to retreat, they could only go back to the south bank through Lingluo Island, and the Mudan Peak was condescending, which could directly cut off the Japanese army's retreat.

It is possible that Xiao Xixing's long life should not be lost. Today, the surface of the Datong River is actually frozen, and people can walk directly on it calmly.

Under Li Rusong's command, the Ming army's artillery preparations lasted for a full two hours. Those elites of the front army under the city held shields and carried ladders and waited for orders for two hours, which shows that the Ming army has strict military discipline.

So far, after the second battle of Pyongyang, the Ming army retrieved more than 6000 heads after the battle, burned more than 5000 dead bodies, and more than a thousand people drowned in the Datong River last night.

Moreover, the generals of the Ming army basically took the lead. Li Fangchun, who participated in Zunhua, was shot in the throat by an arrowhead and died. Li Rusong’s younger brother Li Ruwu was shot through his left arm by an iron cannon. Concentrate on the chest, thanks to the inner side of the iron pocket and the thick cotton armor, the two people are not in danger of life.

Shortly after the fall of Hanmao Gate, Qixing Gate also continued to win. It turned out that General Shenwei hit the gate tower with a cannon, knocked it down, and overwhelmed the Japanese army, and the Japanese army defended the city for a while.

Hearing that Peony Peak was lost again, Li Rusong was furious and ordered Wu Weizhong and Zha Dashou to attack Mudanfeng again.

Originally, they wanted to walk along Pyongyang City to Mudanfeng, pass Lingluo Island and cross the Daedong River.

According to such records, the Japanese army should have only a few thousand people who fled, but after Chief Konishi went to Huangzhou to gather the defeated army, there were still more than 9000 people, and the actual battle loss was about 4000.

There are also some former troops lined up in columns carrying long ladders, holding their shields and following the large troops forward.

He was surprised that the Datong River, which was still surging yesterday, was frozen overnight. He felt that this was God's plan to let the Japanese army leave, so when any of his subordinates wanted to step on the ice to pursue them, he stopped them.

In fact, the biggest impact on the defense of the Japanese army was the shotguns fired by the tiger squatting guns.

Even if you count the 3000 servants, there is still a gap of thousands of people. It can be seen that the Ming army once again killed good men and pretended to be meritorious in Pyongyang.

The battle losses of the Japanese army corresponded to those of the Ming army.

After the war, 1575 officers and soldiers were killed, 2185 officers and soldiers were wounded, and 722 mules and horses were shot to death in the battle, which was actually equivalent to the casualties of the Japanese army.

In conversion, the Battle of Pyongyang directly caused the main force of the Ming army to lose 1/15, and there are still hundreds of North Korean cities waiting to be recovered.

Li Rusong was obviously unwilling to accept such a casualty ratio, and it was no wonder that Li Rusong later said to Liu Chenglong, "Our soldiers killed and injured more than [-] people in order to save you."