Wanli 1592

Chapter 117 Overcoming Kaicheng

The fierce blood in Li Rusong's body boiled instantly, and he rushed forward in the lead.

The general's fearless spirit instantly drove a large number of soldiers, and this emotion instantly infected the entire Ming army formation, not to mention the Jurchens who admired the strong. Driven by Li Rusong, more than a thousand Ming soldiers bravely held their hands. The sword rushed towards the iron gunner.

In this short distance of more than 50 meters, the Ming army killed and injured at least 200 people, but they pushed away the corpses of their comrades and continued to rush forward, as if they did not know what death was.

When rushing to ten meters away, the Japanese pirate gunners on the first layer had no time to change ammunition, so they collapsed directly. Tie Gunner wanted to run backwards, but Tachibana Zongshige was unable to charge forward with Ashgaru behind him, the Japanese army's formation suddenly became chaotic, Li Rusong took the lead in rushing up, swiped a knife and knocked over a Japanese pirate.

More Ming troops swarmed in, and the not-so-spacious space was extremely crowded and chaotic, with ghosts crying and howling wolves everywhere. The anger that the Ming troops had accumulated for a long time burst out at this moment, pouring down on the Japanese pirates, and countless people had no time to draw their swords to fight. The iron gunners in the city became ghosts under the knife in a daze, corpses piled up inside and outside the east gate, and blood flowed like a river, and there were Japanese pirates who were overthrown by the Ming army everywhere.

Tachibana Muneshige saw that the situation was irreversible, and there seemed to be a large number of Ming troops approaching farther away. He knew that this battle was inevitable and that the entire army would be wiped out if the battle continued, so he first led his own guards to retreat a little. Gather all the soldiers who fled in front, re-form the iron cannon array, and start to kill Ming soldiers with fixed points, aiming at one Ming soldier to kill one, aiming at one Ming soldier to kill one, even killing one's own companions to kill Ming soldiers .

Not far away Li Rusong found out about this and was furious. It happened that a Jurchen cavalry of two or 300 men arrived. Li Rusong immediately snatched a horse and waved at the Jurchen cavalry, and the Jurchen cavalry knew what to do. , They followed Li Rusong closely, swung their knives and slashed at the lone Japanese pirates, all the way from inside the city to outside the city, heading straight for Tachibana Zongshige's iron artillery team.

Tachibana Zongshige almost didn't scare the soul out, and immediately took his retainers to flee for his life, leaving those ashigaru and iron gunners to die, but as soon as he left, the team of hundreds of people immediately collapsed and could no longer survive. In the battle, the cavalry arrived in an instant.

Under the leadership of Li Rusong, the Jurchen cavalry were even more fearless. They rushed forward and hacked. These Japanese pirates were completely wiped out by the cavalry without firing a single shot. The generals seem to be fleeing.

The general's instinct told him that that guy must be a high-ranking official. No matter in what era or country, an officer who can use gold as decorations is not a small man, and an officer who can escape surrounded by a group of people must be a big man. Li Rusong made up his mind Determined to kill this person, he led the cavalry in pursuit.

The Jurchens' horses were definitely faster and stronger than the Japanese horses. Seeing that the pursuit was almost done, Li Rusong gave the order to ride and shoot.

The Jurchen cavalry bowed their bows and set arrows one after another. Li Rusong shot the first arrow, while the rest of the Jurchen cavalry shot their arrows one after another. Hundreds of arrows chased after Tachibana Soshige. Tachibana Muneshige's sixth sense also made his hairs stand on end, making him lower his body involuntarily.

This shot saved his life, but failed to save his horse's life. As soon as he bent down, an arrow shot right in front of his eyes and the back of his mount's neck, and the horse wailed. Falling to the ground, Tachibana Somo was caught off guard and fell to the ground fiercely. At the same time, the eight generals around him also fell to the ground, and none of them survived.

When Tachibana Munemo straightened up in a daze, as far as he could see, he was surrounded by the group of Ming army cavalry chasing him.

Then he heard the group of soldiers of the Ming army say some babbling words, he didn't know Chinese, he couldn't understand anyway, all he knew was that at this moment, his life seemed to be coming to an end.

He saw a very majestic and mighty general jump off his horse and walk up to him, picking him up like a chicken, and then he didn't understand what the general said, but a " He could recognize the word "death". The pronunciation of death in Japanese is almost the same as that in Chinese.

There is also a small episode here. In order to vent his anger over the heavy casualties of his subordinates, Li Rusong directly strangled Tachibana Zongshige to death, then cut off his head with a sword, and went back with the head to ask for credit. After the first rank, Tachibana Muneshige became the saddest one among the generals of the Japanese army who invaded Korea, and was recorded in the history books for thousands of years...

Because the Japanese pirates in the city knew that they would surely die, they fought hard to resist. As a result, the main force of the Ming army was held back for half an hour before the Japanese pirates were completely wiped out. He hadn't crossed the river yet, and was directly abandoned. Li Rusong looked at the Japanese pirate army and the burning ferry across the Linjin River. He was so angry that he almost gave the order to lead the army to swim across.

The Linjin River was more than [-] meters wide. Yoshihiro Shimadzu, who was guarding the river, led his troops to fire a few shots at the Ming army on the other side in a demonstrative manner. When they found that they were out of range, they stopped firing. The two sides stared at each other across the river. Xiaoyan stared for a long time, until it rained suddenly and had to withdraw the troops at the same time. The Japanese army hurriedly retreated to Seoul, and Li Rusong also had no choice but to withdraw the troops and return to Kaesong.

The rain was heavy, and it is rare to see such a heavy rain in late autumn. This rain indirectly helped Li Rusong put out the fire in Kaesong. According to statistics, half of the buildings in Kaesong were preserved. It was really thanks to the rain, otherwise Kaesong would have been burnt to the ground. Li Rusong took the rest of the cavalry back to Kaesong to find a house to shelter from the rain. While counting the number of casualties, he reported victory to Xiao Ruxun.

The number of beheads is quite good, 68 heads were beheaded, and at least 4000 Japanese pirates were wiped out. Thousands, it is no longer possible to fight, Nurhachi still has a little luck in his heart. Fortunately, the Japanese pirates crossed the river at that time. If there is another scuffle before the crossing, Nurhachi will really feel distressed to death.

Seeing the number of casualties, Li Rusong's face was not very good. He was so proud that he didn't ask Xiao Ruxun for vehicles or infantry, so he came with the cavalry from his headquarters. As a result, 160 and nine of his servants died in battle. , more than two hundred people were injured.

More than half of the five hundred family members were killed or injured, which made Li Rusong a little heartbroken. As for Nurhachi, he didn't care. What he cared about were the Li family's private soldiers, which were the foundation of the Li family's power.

When the 2000 Japanese pirates were finally wiped out, too many people died in the battle, and the main casualties were at that time, so Li Rusong went crazy and strangled the Japanese general, but killing the Japanese general could not save more than 1000 people Li Rusong's cavalry will temporarily lose its combat effectiveness and withdraw from the frontline battle. Unless it replenishes its troops, it will not be able to complete the establishment and undertake a single task.

So while reporting the victory, Li Rusong also asked Xiao Ruxun to report to Song Yingchang that he needed to transfer another [-] Liaodong Han cavalry and [-] Jurchen iron cavalry to maintain the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, otherwise he might as well be an infantry general.

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