Wanli 1592

Chapter 125 The Encounter at Bishou Hall

However, Nagamasa Kuroda also understands that Seoul must be defended. If Seoul is not defended, then all the land occupied by the Japanese army in Chungcheong-do, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, and the land occupied by the Japanese army will be taken back by the Ming army. They can only stick to it. In the Busan area at the southernmost tip of Gyeongsang-do, the Wafortress community built there was struggling to resist, and there was basically no hope of continuing to fight back.

At that time, unless Taiko really brought Dongguo Daimyo's [-] reserve team, it was a question of whether they could go back.

Therefore, Seoul must stick to it, and must not give up until the last moment. Otherwise, what you give up is the result of the blood and sweat of the entire Japanese invader.

This point, including the Ukita Hide family, all the high-level Japanese army are very clear, so they directly handed over the defense from the edge of the Linjin River to the Lishixian area to the resourceful Kuroda Nagamasa, and behind Kuroda Nagamasa, the famous The wise general Kobayakawa Takakage is integrating the rest of the troops to support Kuroda Nagamasa.

Currently assembled in Seoul are the three senior Japanese generals Kuroda Nagamasa, Mori Yoshinari and Kobayakawa Takakage. The army includes 8000 soldiers from the Kuroda Nagamasa Third Army, 4000 Mori Yoshinari Fourth Army and 1 Kobayakawa Takakage. Adding in the 1 troops of the Eighth Army under the command of the Ukita Hide family, and the 1 reinforcements sent from Fukushima Masamori, Chungcheong Province, the entire Seoul has gathered a large army of 4000 people, with a total strength exceeding that of the Ming Dynasty. military.

But if this is the case, they are still not sure, and they are quite a bit trembling.

When the Ming army bombarded the river bank, Kuroda Nagamasa and 8000 people from his headquarters were deploying defenses in the area around the Bichi Pavilion, and he himself was resting. Suddenly, he heard the faint rumble of thunder, which made Kuroda Nagamasa a little uneasy. Clothes stood up and walked outside the military tent, and found that many people had noticed the faint rumbling thunder.

He immediately sent someone to check the news. About half an hour later, when the sky was bright, the person who went to check the news brought back Shimadzu Yoshihiro who was still in shock and panicked. In his impression, this expression should not appear on this person. The man's face, however, actually appeared now, which filled Kuroda Nagamasa's heart with haze.

"What's going on? Why don't you continue to stick to the river bank? Why did you appear here?!"

Kuroda Nagamasa angrily reprimanded Shimadzu Yoshihiro.

Yoshihiro Shimadzu was not directly under Kuroda Nagamasa, so he was naturally not afraid of him. Instead, he yelled at Kuroda Nagamasa: "Why didn't you tell me that the Ming army was equipped with so many stone torches? As soon as the battle started, their artillery fire covered our entire area. In the position, my iron gunner was killed before he could fire his gun, and it came one after another. Before the artillery fire on this side was finished, the second round of artillery fire on the other side came. I didn't even have time to react! How do you say I fight?!"

Kuroda Nagamasa was stunned. At this moment, he remembered what the three escaped Xiaonishi soldiers who he brought back to Seoul said about the extremely fierce artillery of the Ming army, which completely beat up Xiaonishi's troops. In the end, the entire army was wiped out. The Japanese army without heavy fire support could not confront the fully armed Ming army with light and heavy firepower and complete attacks from far and near.

Because they have only three main weapons - long knives, iron cannons, and spears. They don't even have many bows and crossbows. They can only rely on captured Korean crossbowmen as puppet troops to support the battle. The army either released water or pretended to be dead. They did not work hard at all, so the Japanese army was quite passive.

However, in the face of this situation, the Japanese army still does not plan to make any changes. On the one hand, there are insufficient resources, and on the other hand, there is no technology, because the Koreans have not mastered artillery technology at the moment. Daming’s artillery technology is unique in East Asia. In this case, you can only be beaten passively, or use the terrain to play close combat with the Ming army, and the Peter Ming army artillery cannot be effective.

This requires the Japanese army and the Ming army to fight together. However, according to those people, the Ming army is not afraid of close combat. Those fierce southern soldiers rushed up in piles with strange weapons. Even the mighty warriors are no match for them, not to mention the neat army formation, sharp spears, poking holes one after another, just thinking about it makes people feel cold from the skin to the heart.

So after figuring out this joint, Shimadzu Yoshihiro ran away directly, completely and completely, and his subordinates also didn't want it. Of course, after a while, those subordinates who didn't die followed, in order to prevent these guys from running around Going back to disturb the morale of the army, Kuroda Nagamasa directly intercepted all these routs, gathered them up and reorganized them into the army, and sent his subordinate Kuroda Kazusei to lead [-] troops to investigate what was going on.

In addition, he did not forget to send someone to the rear to inform Kobayakawa Longjing that the Ming army had broken through the Linjin River defense line and carried a large number of artillery. The firepower is amazing. Our army needs to take precautions as soon as possible. He also suggested avoiding field battles with the Ming army and taking advantage of it as much as possible Fight on terrain or simply retreat to the city and stick to it.

Kuroda Nagamasa had no choice but to send Shimadzu Yoshihiro to Seoul to wait for his disposal. He sat in the Bijo Hall by himself on the mountain and tried his best to delay the time.

Zha Dashou led 2000 cavalry troops all the way to the south according to the route designated by Xiao Ruxun, and the goal was directly at the Bishou Pavilion. According to Xiao Ruxun, as long as they broke through the Bishou Pavilion, and then went south, there would be a flat river, which was suitable for cavalry operations. Li Rusong's cavalry lost a lot in the First World War. Only [-] cavalry were left to ensure their combat effectiveness. The remaining [-] cavalry were on their way, and they were expected to arrive in ten days. The current cavalry was relatively fragile.

But precisely because of this, Li Rusong asked everyone in the internal meeting not to relax, not to be timid, and to bravely rush forward and fight when encountering the enemy, playing the momentum of Liaodong soldiers, and told those southern barbarians to take a good look at what is real boy!Zha Dashou is a hard-core Liaodong faction and Li Rusong's confidant, he always does this kind of thing.

So this time not only to find the way, but also to take advantage of the advantages. The only pity is that the heads of Japanese pirates are not as valuable as the heads of Mongolia and Jurchen. The Ming Dynasty stipulates that the heads of Mongolia are the most valuable, followed by Jurchen, followed by Southern Japanese and Southwestern natives. In short, the heads of the Japanese pirates are in the third row, obviously not as valuable as the Mongolian heads, but no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. No one will question this.

Zha Dashou knew that Li Rusong's anger was not only from outsiders, but also from his own people. Those Liaodong military leaders kept asking for this and that, and regarded Li's house as a free cash machine, thinking that as long as they worked hard, they would get everything. I can get it, and I don't care about the actual difficulties faced by the Li family. This is part of the reason why Li Chengliang has come to where he is today.

Therefore, he was very aware of the situation of the person he was loyal to, and Zha Dashou decided to fight for his master no matter what.

Zha Dashou led the people to gallop all the way, and within a short distance, they ran to the Japanese defense area near Bichi Pavilion. Someone came to report from the front and encountered a Japanese pirate patrol team. There were about 500 people, most of whom were infantry. , holding a firearm, and asked Cha Dashou whether to fight or retreat.

retreat?Sorry, Li Rusong doesn't have this word in his dictionary, but Zha Dashou's dictionary only has the word "forward".

"Destroy them!"

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