Chapter 897: Fall of Nanyuan (1)

"Commander, the enemy has passed the Liao River!"

On the tenth day, the calm was broken.

The scouts have bad news.

Looking from the top of Nanyuan City, Lu Li didn't need any supernatural powers. Lu Li only needed to use his naked eyes to see the billowing black smoke rising from the distance?

It was the Japanese who set fire to the mountain.

At this moment, the city was full of people who fled in from the surrounding areas. They heard that there were Ming troops stationed in the city, and the city wall was built as high and strong as a mountain.

It can only be said that the experience is too short.

Anyone with a bit of military knowledge knows that the Japanese pirates are determined to win Nanyuan City, and only by running in the opposite direction can they have hope of survival.

However, Li Chaobing envoy Li Funan did not let them go. The men were incorporated into the army, and the women were responsible for cooking and taking care of the wounded soldiers who might appear later.

As for the child, he was escorted away by a small group of soldiers. After all, he was Li Chaofu's new blood. It would be a pity if he died on the battlefield.

However, among the group of children and guards, only one soldier who came back to inform them ran away, and the rest all died in the hands of the Japanese.

The back road was cut off by Kato Kiyomasa, who surrounded him from the right. He led a mighty army to kill him, forming an encirclement trend with the left army.

Likewise, Lu Li's guess was confirmed:

Here comes the old monkey Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

As if to show off their might, the pirates put on an extremely impressive formation, pulling out three fronts.

The first front line was led by Utaki Hideka himself, from Fangchuan Yuchanyuan, across the Great Wall Bridge, to the west gate of Nanyuan.

The second line of defense was composed of the navy led by Mr. Kurishima Michi and Kato Yoshiaki. It cut off the river from the paint field, along the Yuechuan, Kuricada to Dawuquan, and connected to the Ximen front.

The third line of defense was composed of Kato Kiyomasa who rushed to help, and divided his troops to block the east, south, and north gates.

According to the technique of far-sightedness, combined with the messages from the scouts, Lu Li deduced that the Japanese's main formation was between Xiangxue Mountain and Qilin Mountain.

There are fortifications on these two mountains. When they first entered Nanyuan, the officials of the Li Dynasty persuaded themselves to move in, not to confront the Japanese head-on, but to use the mountains to fight against them.

However, at that time, Lu Li was full of confidence and didn't want to be so embarrassed, so he flatly rejected the request.

Today, all the militiamen of the Li Dynasty stationed in the two fortresses have been killed, and the Japanese pirates have built camps and raised banners outside the almost burnt city.

The horn company battalion, just erected, is continuous, layer upon layer, described in the words of the scouts:

Successive formations, continuous extension and mutual return, the moon halos a hundred times.

The reason why the scout was able to come back alive to pass on the military information was entirely because the Japanese wanted him to live.

This is obviously a deliberate show of force, and they have determined the defenders in the city, and they also know that they dare not leave the city.

One thing to say, Lu Li really didn't dare to leave the city.

If the two thousand iron cavalry were still there, plus the thousand cavalry from Quanzhou that Duke supported, seeing the arrogance of the Japanese pirates so arrogant, he must lead the army himself and go out of the city to charge a few battles.

However, the troops under his command are seriously insufficient.

One thousand Ming troops plus three thousand Li Dynasty militiamen, counting as four thousand people, four thousand to fifty thousand, is not proportional at all, and everyone knows how much combat power those militiamen have.

Originally, Tang Chuan comforted himself that he was no less than Lu Li in controlling the number of troops.

Now, he is completely desperate.

Although Lu Li's personal soldiers mixed in to improve the command structure, and monks from the Buddhist monastery gave blessings of faith, and showed a certain amount of confidence and military demeanor a while ago, but as the Japanese laid out their battles, the facts proved, what? It's called a paper tiger.

If it weren't for the Ming army mixed in and becoming the backbone of the grassroots, many militiamen are probably discussing whether they can use the credit for secretly opening the city in exchange for the lenient treatment of the Japanese.

It's ridiculous to say that they crossed the Yalu River and came to support Li Chao's Ming soldiers out of righteousness, sacrificing their lives, but as the owner of the land here, they behaved timidly and weakly.

Of course, Lu Li wouldn't kill him with a single stick, at least Li Funan, the envoy, was a tough guy, and so were those local demons.

This moment.

He is arranging the task of defending the city.

He led 300 cavalry to guard the east gate, Qian Zongqin Qin Chuan led 700 cavalry to guard the south gate, demons guarded the west gate, and Li Chao's militiamen were weak in combat effectiveness, so let them guard the north gate.

In addition, there are the most stringent military orders issued:

Clarify orders and clean up military discipline.

Those who make chaos before fighting and spread rumors, die!

But even so, Lu Li was still worried about the North Gate. He could only hope that Tang Chuan had some skills, and that the group of local monks who were responsible for appeasing the soldiers could play a more important role.

The second day after the Japanese fully laid out their positions, it was also the twelfth day after the deaths of Konishi and Shimadzu.

The five Japanese swaggered to the east gate guarded by Lu Li himself, stood on the stone bridge of the moat, raised their necks, and planned to call Lu Li, the guard, to come out and talk.

Judging by the armor and aura he was wearing, he was undoubtedly a low-level warrior, probably because he felt that the two countries were fighting each other, and his tone was full of arrogance.

what to do?

Take them to the flag.

Dealing with this group of island animals that the world despises, it must not be moral.

Therefore, taking advantage of their shouting, Lu Li asked the soldiers under his command for two three-eyed guns. He had been very proficient at playing these guns long before entering this world.

The match was ignited.

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!

Lu Li had a blunderbuss in his left hand and a blunderbuss in his right. The so-called recoil did not exist in front of his terrifying arm strength.

Amid the six bangs, five Japanese pirates fell to the ground in response, and the last one was headshot twice in a row, and his head was shattered.

Seeing this, the Japanese who were watching from a distance were instantly enraged, and a large number of warriors shouted and came to a place nearly fifty miles away from the city, firing iron cannons and yelling curses.

He didn't even need an interpreter, as Lu Li scolded these bastards very dirty.

In addition, this group of guys dared to come to test without generals in the lineup. I am afraid that they already have the will to die and are willing to become cannon fodder.

"I remember there was a thunderbolt in the arsenal."

Lu Li looked to his side.

"That's right." A hundred householders took out two round things from the purse, "Please take a look, my lord."

Zhentianlei, a new type of weapon independently developed by Li Chao, but this is what their own people said. In the eyes of Ming people, the word "independence" needs a question mark, because it is similar to Daming's thunderbolt.

It is a weapon that is wrapped by an iron sheet to carry flames and sharp hard objects, connected with lead wires, and fired through a large bowl of muzzle, a bit like the mortar widely used during World War II.

However, as a cosplayer who personally participated in World War II, Lu Li concluded that the mortars in the advanced world background are definitely not so powerful.

Because Master Lu then proved it with experiments.

I saw him pick up a large bowl of muzzle gun, and first tried to shoot it, directly blasting a ten-meter-deep earth pit dozens of miles away, and the attack range was comparable to that of a small missile.