Chapter 917 Jishan Great Victory (1)

It is impossible for the army to rush forward in one go.

After much deliberation, Toyotomi Hideyoshi chose:

Kuroda Army.

In fact, since the Battle of Namwon, the ethos within the Japanese army has changed. Before, they were all vying to be the vanguard and compete for more credit.

But now, he was pushing and giving way, for fear of encountering some troublesome monsters, or for fear of some deadly new tricks that the Ming army would come up with.

Xiaoxi's house has been abandoned.

This is especially true for the Shimadzu family. There were two outstanding patriarchs who were supposed to prosper from generation to generation. In the end, including the heirs, they all died on the battlefield.

Who wants to follow in his footsteps?

But I can't stand Master Hideyoshi's tough assignment.

Kuroda Nagamasa, the commander of the Third Army, didn't want to be ordered to cut seppuku, and Taiko had promised many attractive conditions, so he simply took a gamble.

Occupy Gongzhou, cross the Jinjiang River, and approach Tian'an.

In fact, this place is not unfamiliar to Kuroda Nagamasa. He had been here as early as the Renchen year, which was the initial stage of the first invasion of the peninsula.

At that time, Governor Konishi and Kiyomasa Kato competed for each other and staged an extremely fast hurricane on the peninsula, conquering cities and looting countless lands, while Kuroda followed behind, fighting steadily.

The line of march is exactly:

Tianan-Suwon this one.

Therefore, the old monkey Hideyoshi carefully considered and ordered Kuroda Nagamasa.

"Revisiting the old place."

Looking at the map of mountains and rivers, a sigh sounded.

As a legion commander, Kuroda's professional ability is naturally not bad. He concluded that the Ming army would not defend Tian'an City, after all, the opponent did not have an advantage in terms of strength.

Of course, this inference has two premises.

1. During our attack on Namwon, no second Ming army crossed the Yalu River, and did not provide support to Seoul.

2. Responsible for espionage and espionage, the information is accurate, and no one is confused and misjudged the situation.

It has to be said that the psychological shadow Lu Li left on the Japanese was too great, and Kuroda was afraid that he would bump into him again on the march.

After thinking about it for a while, a small group of troops was separated out, saying that they were launching a feint attack to detect the enemy's situation. After all, if you really want to fight against the Ming people, this person is no different from sending them to death.

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As for Jie Sheng's side, he had already completed the tactical arrangement, he only allocated a small part of his troops to defend Tian'an, and the rest were distributed among the mountains and forests.

Jishan is a good place to lay an ambush!

The generals scouted a circle of terrain, and together they made the following arrangements:

The foothills of Jishan Mountain were called Jinwuping, and the battlefield was chosen to be north of Jinwuping. He divided the troops into three guilds, the left and right guilds ambushed in the nearby Liupu and Lingtong respectively, and the last guild blocked the road.

To the south of Jinwuping is a big river called Gongxi, which is ten miles wide at its narrowest point. Unless the Japanese pirates want to try the taste of half-crossing, otherwise, they can only enter Jinwuping through the bridge above.

Once the Japanese cross the bridge, they only need to blow up the bridge to form a situation of catching a turtle in a urn.

"The strength of the army is limited, and it is useless to concentrate it. It is better to disperse it to strengthen the momentum."

Jie Sheng stood on the mountain peak and lamented that he had never fought such an aggrieved battle in half his life.

At the same time, more and more puzzled.

What method did the Nanyuan defender use to persist for so long?

The same question came to mind again.

After thinking for a long time, I didn't find the answer.

And Jie Sheng couldn't be distracted, because the Japanese scouts fumbled for two or three hours, and finally returned to the camp to report the situation.

On the outskirts of Jishan, the army begins to move!

Kuroda Nagamasa, who was ready to go, set up the main camp at the Quangikan on the south side.

An institution similar to the [Ting] in the Qin and Han Dynasties, except that the place is bigger.

If it were in the past, seeing through the enemy's tactical arrangements, he would never take the small town of Tian'an seriously, just skip it and leave it to the rear team Mao Lixiuyuan to solve it, while he led the army northward.

However, the battle of Nanyuan left a huge psychological shadow on the Japanese. No matter what, let's occupy a city first.

When introducing, it is also good to find a fig leaf.

Based on this safe idea, Kuroda Nagamasa dispatched three generals of the well-known Kuroda Twenty-Four Horsemen under his command-Kuroda Shusuke, Kuriyama Shiroemon, and Mao Yazhushui.

The three generals led 2,000 troops and arrived at Jinwuping early to launch a tentative attack.

The vanguard army deliberately changed their own robes and put on white military uniforms, which were taken off from soldiers of Li Chao, which can play a miraculous effect at special moments.

soon.

The Xie Ming army who was in charge of blocking the middle noticed the abnormality, looked it over carefully, thought it was the alliance retreating from the direction of Quanzhou, and didn't care.

Kuriyama Shiro and the others were also taken aback by the sudden appearance of the Ming army.

To fight, or not to fight?

The Japanese warriors, who were supposed to go forward bravely, became timid, fearing that the whole army would be wiped out.

Even though the Ming army on the avenue has only one association, there are seven or eight hundred people.

"Iron Cannon, get ready."

"put!"

The unconfident Japanese chose to shoot instead of charging, and started the hand-to-hand combat that they were best at and most proud of in the past.

Boom! bang bang!

The firing sound of the iron cannon is different from that of the three-eyed blunderbuss. It is very crisp and very recognizable!

The Ming army suddenly woke up, this is not the North Korean army, it's like a fake real Japanese!

what to do?

Right boom!

Following Jiesheng's order, the Ming army in the middle road began to fight back with the general cannon, tiger squatting cannon, and three-eyed blunderbuss.

Not long ago, cannons of various calibers pre-installed on the mountainside also began to bombard the avenue.

Originally, the two thousand Japanese were still immersed in the joy of a successful sneak attack, and they kept firing individual iron cannons, trying to detect the reality of the Ming army.

This time, they were caught off guard by the intensive firepower, and immediately, the formation was in chaos.

It is undeniable that the Ming army does not have an advantage in terms of numbers, but the shells are definitely enough!

Under the suppression of the heavy firepower that covered the sky and the sun, the Japanese people gradually turned off their fire. The warriors hid behind solid rocks and shivered.

Two thousand people?

It's worth showing off.

After a bit of calculation, Jie Sheng, who had hacked the Japanese with an axe, decided to attack with the whole army.

On the avenue, before the gunpowder smoke cleared away, the sound of horseshoes sounded like a drumbeat, coming from far and near.

Go all out!

After the heavy firepower was suppressed, the cavalry came out.

The Japanese army looked up in horror, only to find hundreds of cavalry rushing from both sides.

The frightening speed, coupled with the powerful assault force, disrupted the formation of the Japanese in an instant, and the leader was Jiesheng, the general of the Ming army.

Come on guys!

The general who yells such words is the most useless, it should be:

Brothers, follow me!

This point, whether it is the Liaodong Army, the Xuanda Army, or even the Southern Army, has been implemented. After all, it will be the courage of soldiers.

I only saw that Sheng Yiqi stood up, showed his weapon, and took the lead in starting a hand-to-hand battle with the Japanese pirates.

It is worth mentioning that Xuanda's weapon preparation is completely different from the Liaodong Army that the devils are most familiar with. Liaodong soldiers like to use knives as hand-to-hand weapons, and they are stationed in grasslands and deserts. They are best at iron whips, sticks, and shooting stars. Hammer and other weapons.

Under the hard smash.

Red and white things fly together.

The samurai sword was sharp, but it was extremely brittle, and some of the materials were slightly inferior, and they were directly shredded on the spot.

on the battlefield.

A meteor hammer flew over.

He easily broke off a warrior's sword, and hit a head with his remaining strength still intact.

In an instant, the Japanese flew upside down with his tongue sticking out, his head shrunken out of shape, as if he couldn't survive.

Facing the Ming army's assault, the Kuroda army was far from unprepared, but they did not expect it to be so fierce.

Two thousand warriors were besieged on the road, unable to advance or retreat.

Kuroda's twenty-four riders have a great reputation in Japan, and the three generals who lead the team are all among them.

And inside them, there is another classification, Kuroda Shusuke and Kuriyama Shiroemon, who are also known as: Kuroda Eight Tigers.

But no matter whether it was a horse or a tiger, they were all dumbfounded at this time, thanks to Mao Mao's quick reaction, when Kuroda and Lishan blocked Jiesheng and other generals, he grabbed the flag and jumped onto the huge rock , shaking desperately.

At this point, a clear signal was finally given to the troops. In addition, the soldiers of the Kuroda Army who were divided into pieces by the cavalry were not bad.

Great war, it can't be called at all.

To be precise, it can only be called:

contact war.

As for the results, they are not satisfactory.

The vanguard of the Japanese army, ordinary warriors and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, about six or seven hundred people, but the main general was not damaged, so he was born carrying a tiger down the mountain. When he rushed down at the beginning, he instantly killed a hundred generals .

But in this battle, Daming won cleanly and neatly, so it should be celebrated.

After the three generals of the Japanese army withdrew from Jishan with the defeated soldiers, they began to summarize the defeat.

The owner of the Mao house is the oldest in qualifications, and he has made great achievements in commanding the army to retreat, so his words are extremely weighty:

"I have participated in so many battles in my life that I can't even count them, and the one with the largest number of participants is Lord Nobunaga vs. Lord Katsurai, that is, the Battle of Nagashino."

"The Ming army we encountered just now is obviously more numerous than the battle of Changxiao!"

The Battle of Nagashino was a contest between the 35,000 Oda Army and the 15,000 Takeda Army, with a total strength of 50,000.

So, there were 50,000 Ming troops guarding Jishan?

This is not talking nonsense with your eyes open!

If there are so many Ming soldiers in the Seoul area, what are they still guarding? The two armies are ready to face each other directly, and the entire Kuroda family is not enough to get between their teeth.

However, since Owner Mao Shui said so, there must be a deep meaning, and the book assistant surnamed Kuroda understood it, and echoed:

"There are so many enemy soldiers, we managed to get out of the ambush circle, why not retreat quickly and join our team, and take down Tian'an City first."

"good."

Li Shan is also a human being, and he waved his hand:

"I saw very clearly just now that the Ming army is equipped with divine iron shields. Our cannons can't actually do much damage. If we want to win, we need at least 20,000 troops."

The three sat together and began to make up stories.

In the final analysis, I still saw through the Patriarch's attitude.

In the eyes of all the daimyos, the expedition to the peninsula was not for occupying the land, but for Hideyoshi-sama to regain the face he lost.

How valuable is this face?

In the eyes of every daimyo, there is their own answer, but they dare not say it.

Anyway, even Kato Kiyomasa, who is the most loyal to the Taiko, would not cause the entire legion to be wiped out just for his face.

There are still many forces hiding their teeth and allowing blood in this country, so they have to preserve a certain amount of strength and maintain their own fiefdom.

However, as far as the actual situation is concerned, the three cunning Japanese generals roughly estimated in their hearts that there should be nearly 6,000 Ming people in an ambush in Jishan.

The Kuroda family only has a total of more than 7,000 people, and they do not occupy a geographical advantage. If they fight recklessly, the Kuroda family may not exist in the future.

"We should wait for the arrival of Mao Lixiuyuan's department. The two teams will gather the Iron Cannon Team and use volleys to attract the attention of Ming people, and then send a considerable number of partial divisions to break into their defense range while cutting their feet. Chop your head off."

Having told so many lies when they got together, Kuroda Book Assistant felt sorry for him, so he told half the truth.

Waiting for the Maori family is true, and the so-called tactical arrangements are all nonsense.

Kuroda Nagamasa, who Hideyoshi had placed high hopes on, led more than 5,000 samurai from his team to take Tian'an City lightly.

Are there any results?

have!

Have you achieved your strategic goals?

No!

Tianshui City is insignificant and is only used as a fig leaf. As long as Jishan is not captured for a day, it will never be possible to attack Seoul from this direction.

[The big soldiers win over the bridge, I am afraid that it will be difficult to support, it is my death]

[The enemy has ten times as many troops and I have no successors, so we must fight to the death]

Kuroda Nagamasa began to write and cry, telling Hideyoshi who was in the rear that the Ming army was ten times larger than himself, and he was ready to die heroically.

In the end, the dark poke mentioned that he fought desperately and took down a strong city from Daming's rival.

This letter is written with eloquence and emotion.

If it weren't for his family members to know about his family affairs, Kuroda Nagamasa would have almost believed the lies written by himself.

After all, this is an old tradition of the Kuroda family, no, it is a tradition of all daimyos.

All kinds of "family records", such as "Kuroda Family Records", have a remarkable feature in the description of war:

If one's own side wins the battle, it will try its best to boast about the large number of Ming troops killed and wounded, and the water... If the number of Ming troops participating in this battle is increased by ten times, it may not be enough for the devil to kill with a pen.

If the battle situation is unfavorable for one's own side, then summon the Ming army in vain, exaggerate the actual strength of the Ming army, and then turn around and boast of the bravery of their generals, who can be blah blah in such a situation.

He was nervous, and he had made up his mind to defend Jishan's life, but he never imagined that the three to four thousand troops under his command would become fifty thousand among the Japanese population!

If he has 50,000 people, plus follow-up reinforcements, let alone drive the pirates into the sea, he will directly kill the little devil's hometown...

"I'm afraid that the Japanese were killed in Nanyuan. I look at the other generation, they are depressed, and they will retreat at the touch of a touch."

"I don't know how Zongbing Lu is, alas."

The first battle at Jishan seemed to have nothing to do with Lu Li, but in fact it was closely related. Jie Sheng keenly noticed that the Japanese people's desire to fight was very low, and they lacked the vigor of Renchennian.

Just like the previous encounter, even if the two thousand Japanese were stunned by the artillery fire, they would not retreat easily. They would organize at least two or three counterattacks, and only began to consider turning when they saw that there was nothing they could do.

That's exactly what happened.

Only when the battle is ten times stronger than the enemy, will the head of the Japanese army kill the enemy enthusiastically, as if tens of thousands of troops gathered in one place, so that they will not be so afraid.

Once they are evenly matched, or have a slight disadvantage, they immediately start complaining and hesitate.

The war broke off hastily.

The Kuroda family was stationed in Tian'an City, without any action, making up their minds to wait for reinforcements;

Jie Sheng was so happy, he came here to buy more time, Li Rumei and others came within half a month at most.

However, Lu Li was obviously one step ahead of Li Rumei, and was more representative of the Liaodong Army.

"Han River."

At the mouth of the sea, a slightly excited voice sounded from a giant turtle boat.

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