Prime Minister Bizen

The support from Fukushima Masamori's headquarters is tantamount to adding a booster to Tachibana Muneshige and Harada Tong who are struggling to support.

You must know that Harada Tongzeng has become so difficult that the auxiliary forces of both sides have also thrown into the battle. These people are not wearing light clothes. Will be killed by a knife.

When Zu Dashou saw the arrival of the Japanese reinforcements, they came from his own line of defense, and immediately felt bad.

Looking at a large number of Japanese troops coming over mightily from the north, it is impossible to count how many people supported them.

Zu Chengxun, who had been caught in a bitter battle in Pyongyang, naturally didn't want to be carried in such a place where no shit, so he immediately approached Zha Dashou and Li Ning to discuss.

Everyone unanimously decided to break out to the south. After all, there were only a few Japanese troops in the south, and most of them were weak chickens that they had caught up with.

As mentioned earlier, Harada Tozeng even dispatched all the flag bearers and box bearers, and the battle situation was already extremely dangerous.

Now facing the large-scale charge of the Ming army, he could no longer support it, and was rushed out of a hole by the Ming army and headed south to the Yangzhou Plain.

It doesn't matter this charge, Yosuke Ito, Ryotaro Kuriyama and other important ministers under Harada Tosou's command were still fighting one-on-one with the Ming army, and suddenly felt a chill in the neck, but the Ming army did not have "Bushido" from behind. his life.

Immediately, a soldier of the horse army stretched out his hand to pull his colleague who had just lost his horse and fought on his horse, and the Ming army rode their horse southward in an attempt to break out of the encirclement.

The canyon in Nacheon is no different than the Pocheon canyon that was built earlier. The widest part of the valley road on both sides of Nacheon is only a few meters, and the narrowest place is only a few meters, but it is the main road in the south of Hwanghae-do and Gyeonggi-do entering Hamgyong-do.

Another deputy commander, Sun Shoulian, shouted loudly on the other side, "The sun, the moon, the mountains and rivers will last forever, and the great Ming will last forever! Follow me to defeat the enemy!"

This is not the most important thing. Of the more than 1 Kobayakawa Army, less than 7000 people withdrew from Paju after the war, and the Tosa Corps under the command of Motocho Yoshikawa under his command had 3200 soldiers, and only 2000 remained after the war. Yu people.

In addition, the main samurai and officers have not been replaced, and the original retainers of the Hachisuka family are still managing. From this, it can be seen that Hideyoshi's change of the Hachisuka family is actually out of anger , still gave the Hachisuka family a chance to recover.

He asked in a low voice to the left and right, "Do we still have a chance of winning this battle?"

Someone suggested, "I heard that the Japanese army on the opposite side is only more than [-] people, and the others are just some Korean rebels who have been coerced. Why don't we go to Hamgyong-do and Guangfu Chaoyou two roads (Hamgyong-do, Gangwon-do)? It is a great achievement." .”

After listening to the report of Kajima Masaki, Masuda Nagayuki and others who went to support, Inada Uemoto, the elder of the Hachisuka family, couldn't help but gasped, thinking: "This Ming army is more difficult than the North Korean army. Hit too much!"

Tachibana Zongshige asked about the big "Korean War", and his left and right understood the Xiaoyaoshan battle. In their understanding, the Ming army was surrounded by the north and the south, and the defeat was only a matter of time.

A family general who had lost his horse was wearing Ming-made cotton armor and charged at the Japanese army with a long lance in his hand. There were three Japanese Ashgaru corpses strung on the long lance, forcibly opening a gap for his colleagues. .

Now that my troops are less than 1/3 of the opponent's, how do you give Zhang Shijue the confidence to start a siege of Baochuan? If the siege of Baochuan is again, Yangzhou reinforcements come from behind, what should I do on my side?
Angry, he directly ordered people to take Zha Dashou, Zu Chengxun and other generals into custody, and wait for the meeting with General Li Rusong before discussing.

Li Ning, the deputy commander in chief, didn't finish his sentence, but it was said by Cha Dashou. He stood among the crowd protected by his generals, and shouted to the left and right, "Today we are deeply trapped in the enemy's line, and we should move forward bravely. Death is lifeless. Don't let Nan Bing make fun of us!"

You must know that this is an ambush in the Ming army, and the Japanese army has an absolute superiority in strength, and the ratio of casualties caused by long-range firepower suppression shows that the Ming army is fierce.

Correspondingly, the relationship between the general and the general is deeply bound.Under normal circumstances, the family will fight to the death for the head of the family. If there is a situation where the head of the family dies in battle and the family will live, it will be difficult for such a family to find another family.

Kobayakawa Hidebao is the only heir of the Kobayakawa family, and his death also declared that the Kobayakawa family once again became extinct.

However, such a casualty ratio also officially declared that the Chikugo National Corps of Tachibana Muneshige and Harada Tozengsu had officially lost their combat effectiveness.

Looking at the Ming army fleeing to the south, the Japanese army no longer had the courage to continue to pursue, and fell to the ground in groups of three or four, panting heavily, as if they were the only army that survived the catastrophe.

On the other hand, the Ming army clearly left 1154 corpses on the battlefield.Afterwards, according to statistics from the Ming army, 1468 people were killed in this battle, and almost everyone was injured.The death toll ratio of the two sides reached 1:3.

The deputy chief soldier was already regarded as the absolute high-level in the army of the Ming Dynasty. There were not 100 but 80 family generals. When they saw their patriarch was killed, they burst out with great indignation and fighting power. They hugged Li Ning's body and went to the valley mouth .

Since the abolition of the Mingwei system, most of the Nine Frontier elites have been recruited. Over time, these recruits have become the family generals of the superior generals, because there are also three, six or nine grades of recruits, and the family generals are treated better than ordinary soldiers.

Before he could finish speaking, he was shot in the face by an iron cannon fired from nowhere, and fell down from the horse on his back.

Now the Ming army has reached the critical point of life and death, fighting to the death with the Japanese army in order to fight a bloody road.

Calculated in this way, the Seventh Corps with the largest number of people, after experiencing the Battle of Jinju, the Crusade of Jeolla Province, and the Battle of Paju and Xiaoyao Mountain, the combined strength of the four divisions of Kobayakawa, Yoshikawa, Tachibana, and Harada is only 1. In the early days, the battle damage has already exceeded half.

The first battle of the Youxie was only in the early 1s. After the Pyongyang and Kaesong battles, there were more than 9000 soldiers. As a result, in the battle of Xiaoyao Mountain, half of the 3000 elite pioneers were directly lost, and the total force was only in the early 7000s. What kind of attack did he have? Pocheon and Yangzhou defense lines with 2 people stationed?
The law of war says: If you double it, you will hit it, if it is five, you will attack it, and if it is ten, you will encircle it.

The situation of the Xiaoyao Mountain battle was quickly reported to Wang Jing's Kobayakawa Takakage and Toyotomi Hideji. At this moment, they had a deep understanding of the fighting power of the Daoming Army, and they had already realized that it was almost impossible to defeat the Ming Army in a field battle. thing.

It doesn't look like much, but it's enough for a frontier castle and a castle with a valley location.

Tachibana Muneshige's reaction was very quick. He had already discovered that the spears and swords of the Japanese army in front of him were not capable of piercing the armor of the Ming army in front of him. If he wanted to stay in these Ming troops, he could only use iron cannons to break the armor.

Tachibana Zongshige did not respond to him, and shook his head alone, but his eyes became firm in an instant, and he gritted his teeth and said to the left and right, "Gather all the iron cannons, and don't let these Ming soldiers run away!"

Garrisoned in Luochuan were 500 Saitama soldiers under Kosai Jiaqing's command and 300 Korean servants. Later, 300 people from Tagaya Shigekei's department were added, and the total strength was 1100.

So he responded to Tachibana Zongshige, "We should be able to withdraw our troops before the sunset."

At this moment, he didn't know that although the Battle of Xiaoyao Mountain still ended with the withdrawal of the Ming army from the battlefield, it left a deep impression on the Japanese army present.

Although Hachisuka's family affairs were changed, the Hachisuka Legion, which was the core combat force, was retained in North Korea and handed over to Toyotomi Hideji as a supplement to the Tenth Corps.

Li Ning, the deputy general, hacked to death an Ashgaru from the Harada family, and yelled at him, "What's the use of talking so much now, let's kill one."

"General!" "Proprietor!"

All the soldiers responded in unison: "Da Ming is mighty! Daming is mighty!"

Tachibana Tachibana was deeply impressed by the shouts of the Ming army. He did not expect that the Ming army could burst out with such a strong cohesion in such a desperate situation, which had never been seen in the Japanese army.

Li Rubai, who got an empty city, originally planned to keep the Koreans stationed in Shuoning and continue to go south to reconcile with his brother, but Liaodong under his command participated in Li Ning (Li Ning, the deputy commander of Xuanfu who died in front), Xuanfu guerrilla Zhang Yingzhong, General Li Fangchun and other generals in Jizhen were unwilling to return without success.

The war has been chaotic for a long time, and the weapons around many people are no longer the equipment they used when they went out with them. But at this time, they can't control so much. They just use whatever killing tools they find at hand. If they don't have them, they use fists, The stones and teeth will also take away the Japanese army, and the ferocity of the Ming army is fully exposed at this moment.

After refusing to defend Paju for 15 days, the city was still declared to be broken. Hidebo Kobayakawa, who was defending the city, was hit by a building near the side of the artillery artillery and falling stones when he was patrolling, and he was declared dead shortly afterwards.

Through this gorge is Anbyon, the most important city of Hamgyong-do. The 1 troops of Li Rubai, the Zuoxie of the Ming Army, and 2 Korean soldiers were ordered to pursue Kuroda Nagamasa in Shuoning. Ningbei went back to Hamgyong Road via Anxia and Yichuan.

Originally, there were only more than 1000 people under Harada Tongzeng's command and 2000 auxiliary ashigaru who were blocking the attack in the south, and they had already been killed.

But in the face of his main force being besieged in Pocheon Castle, Masanori Fukushima, who was still chattering non-stop, did not take any actual action. He watched Pocheon besieged for 10 days. Unanimously not to send troops to support.

The retainers of Hachisuka's family also thought the same way, and wanted to seize the opportunity to make contributions in North Korea, so as to help the main family become a daimyo again.

Therefore, after hearing that there was a battle between the Ming army and the Japanese army in the valley to the north, he led 3000 Hachisuka soldiers out of Yangzhou City to support them, and successfully blocked Zu Chengxun, Zha Dashou and others at the southern end of the valley.

There are 3000 people in the vanguard this time, of which there are 4 deputy generals, 3 generals, and 3 guerrillas. No matter how their family generals add up, there must be a small thousand. These talents are the main force of this vanguard army .

After the war, there were 5400 people under the Tachibana Muneshige and Harada Tosou's headquarters, and a total of more than 2300 people were killed and 2000 were injured. Only a few hundred long-range troops were relatively well preserved.

After the long lance could not be used, they pulled out their waist knives and others slashed them. Among the pioneers who came to support the Hachisuka family was a samurai named Kentaro Yoshikawa. As a result, he died, but found that his spear could not pierce the cotton armor on his body.

Although Fukushima is still proud and arrogant, after all, his unit has been the least damaged so far, and still maintains a relatively intact record.

Tachibana Muneshige and Harada Tozeng aside, their strength is no longer enough to go out of the city to support.

The soldier of the Ming army rushed forward while he was in a daze, and fought with Kentaro Yoshikawa. Kentaro Yoshikawa managed to pull out a rib from his waist and insert it into the opponent's body from the neck. Ming army killed.

But the Ming army has now exploded with the explosive power before dying, and broke through to the south without fear of death.

But is it so easy to escape if you go deep into the tiger's den?
Before Fukushima Masamori, the old man of Hachisuka's housekeeper, Inada Uemoto, was stationed in Yangzhou. This was a core retainer who was entrusted to Hachisuka Masakatsu by his father since he was a child, and grew up with Masakatsu.

It can be seen that as much as the mouth speaks, the body is as honest as it is.

His strong body pressed against Kentaro Yoshikawa's thin body, which made him unable to get up for a long time. Finally, with the help of other Japanese soldiers, he stood up.

The surrounding ashigaru used spears and samurai swords to slash at his body, but they couldn't break through the armor.

When Paju and Yangzhou were sticking to the pace of the Ming army going south, a big war broke out in the Luochuan Canyon not far to the north of them.

On the other hand, Zhang Shijue of the Right Association, after entering the Yangzhou Basin, first besieged Baochuan City, and saw a tired-looking vanguard army outside the city.

At this moment, the 4900 people from Ukita Kane's Division and the 1200 people from Kato Koyasu's Division who are resisting in Pocheon Castle account for 3% of the current Fukushima Masanori Division, and they are already considered the main force of the battle.

Faced with the support of this pair of fresh troops, Guerrilla Hu Luan was shocked and said, "There will be pursuers behind and there will be resistance before, and we will enter the enemy's corner!"

Now the Hachisuka family who came to support the interception said that there were 3500 soldiers, but in fact there were only more than 2000 soldiers. Facing these Ming troops, they did not have a particularly good means of armor penetration, and they were also broken after an hour of interception. A hole was opened, and the Ming army behind them filed out from here.

The Fukushima Masanori Division who came to support killed more than 1100 people and injured more than 800 people. The Hachisuka Family Division killed 363 people and injured 512 people. The Japanese army killed more than 4000 people and injured more than 3300 people. 1/4.

Hearing that the Ming army was about to make a move, the North Korean generals wished that the Ming army would take back Hamgyong and Gangwon provinces for them, so they naturally encouraged them.

The reason why Li Rubai was appointed as the chief general by his elder brother Li Rusong was because although he was greedy for wine and sex, he was still an obedient younger brother.

Originally, he wanted to refuse the invitation of his subordinates, but he was moved by his subordinates as he talked.

After all, although Li Rubai has his own big Li Rusong and his father Li Chengliang in front of him.But who wants to live in the shadow of others?
"If I can recover the two ways, maybe I will become a marquis like my father and brother!"

Thinking of this, Li Rubai couldn't hold back his emotions any longer, and ordered the whole army to march towards Tieyuan despite the dissuasion of his family generals.