Chapter 920 Jishan Great Victory (4)

Kuroda Nagamasa, who was in charge of leading the battle, began to complain in letters after taking Tianan City.

Why is the Ming army ten times larger than itself.

I would rather die and die for the country than take Jishan.

It is a pity that Hideyoshi did not see the heroic scene of the soldiers of the Kuroda family paving the north passage of Jishan with their blood, and only listened to the scouting report——

Patriarch Kuroda only sent a small army to harass the Ming army occasionally, and he didn't even send the family generals, making it clear that he wanted to preserve his strength.

As for the number of Jishan defenders, it is not as exaggerated as exaggerated in the letter, but the number should be more than 5,000, not more than 10,000.

This made Hideyoshi very angry.

Take a compromise number, even if there are 7,500 Ming troops guarding Mount Ji, and the Kuroda family happens to have more than 7,000 people, don't they dare to start a one-on-one battle?

Where is the arrogance of the imperial soldiers!

However, Hideyoshi scolded him in his heart, and in the end, considering the overall situation, he still did not order Kuroda Nagamasa to cut his belly. Instead, he sent an envoy to reprimand him severely, and told him that Hidemoto Mori's department would arrive within a day.

If Jishan cannot be taken in three days, the two of them will cut seppuku together.

This is already the greatest patience of the old monkey.

And Kuroda Nagamasa is also aware of the facts, and he is full of helplessness. In the year of Renchen, the Third Army under his command had 25,000 people. After experiencing war losses, and the Shimadzu family, which should have been under his own jurisdiction, formed an independent army. In the year of Ding You, the total force has dropped to less than 10,000.

Among them, when they fought against Nanyuan, they borrowed troops from the Left Route Army, and lost nearly 500 people. Qiuyue Zhongchang, the great name of the small country under his command, died in battle. In the contact war not long ago, he lost hundreds more.

Now, in addition to his team of nearly 6,000 people, he still has three daimyos from small countries, Takahashi Takahashi, Ito Yubing, and Sagara Yoifa, and their troops have less than 2,000 people.

The fiefdom is small, and it is not easy to gather such a force. If the whole army is wiped out, how can the land and population be passed on to the successors of the younger generations?

I'm afraid it has been divided up by the group of people in China.

Therefore, the three of them are more resistant to contributing than Kuroda Nagamasa, who is also a daimyo.

On the contrary, the Maori Xiuyuan Department is the real hard bone, no, it should be a mountain recognized by the Japanese army.

As the commander-in-chief of the Right Route Army, he is on the same level as Ukita Hideka, and has more seniority. His team has a total of 30,000 people, and he did not participate in the battle of Nanyuan——

Only sent his army commander Kato Kiyomasa and a few mixed troops to help out.

Because of this, the morale of the Maori tribe is fairly high, and there are so many people, let alone five thousand Ming people, even if there are really twenty thousand troops in Jishan, he dares to touch them.

That being the case...

Kuroda gave up the opportunity to perform meritorious service, willing to act as a green leaf, and made up his mind to entangle the pressure of the Ming army on the flanks, and never overcome difficulties.

After all, if you can't win Jishan in three days, everyone will have to cut seppuku together, and his Kuroda family is not as prominent as the Mori family...

If the Commander-in-Chief is willing to accompany him to die like this, with the spirit of Bushido, then death is not unacceptable.

This makes Mao Li Xiuyuan helpless, but it is understandable——

The Renchen War has proved that it is impossible to defeat Ming Dynasty strategically.

The main purpose of this war is to plunder wealth and population. In fact, it is a goal of last resort. That is, fame and fortune are not what everyone desires in their hearts, but the situation forces them to send troops to deal with Master Hideyoshi.

"It's enough to fight in Jeolla, Chungcheong, and Gyeongsang. Why continue to go north?"

Sitting on his horseback, Mao Li looked at Mount Ji, and sighed in his heart, how many people would die in this battle.

"I'm afraid there are only a few lunatics headed by Kato who still have delusions."

"Well, it would be great if the Taige didn't come. After a few victories in the above-mentioned three ways, we can discuss and retreat."

In this way, the legion commanders don't have to take too many risks, and they can tell Hideyoshi that everyone has regained the face you lost last time.

Gazing at the huge Jishan Mountain that couldn't be seen, Mao Li, the commander-in-chief of the Right Route Army, complained for a while, and then forcibly cut off these distracting thoughts.

If he couldn't get here for three days, he would have to accompany Kuroda to cut seppuku, which is unacceptable.

Moreover, the idea of ​​the Kuroda family not to bleed in this battle can only be wishful thinking.

After some coercion and negotiation, Kuroda, the commander of the Third Army, agreed to take out 3,000 troops from his own team to lead the battle. Under his command, Takahashi, Ito, and Sagara sent 200 troops each, making a total of 3,600 elite troops.

In this case, Maori would not sit on the sidelines, and also sent troops, and all of them were under the command of Kuroda.

Five thousand mighty Japanese troops with iron cannons and samurai swords hanging from their waists went to battle, which made Anwen's Xie breathe a sigh of relief within two days.

Only fight to the death!

In the previous encounter, the method that Master Mao Shui came up with worked. He used iron cannons and large tubes to attract the attention of a Ming army. step back.

This is the first stage.

In the second stage, Jiesheng decided to fight back and sent a small group of troops to directly blow up the bridge leading to Jinwuping in the south, blocking 5,000 Japanese here and bombarding them condescendingly.

Bullets rained down.

Give full play to the advantages of the Ming army's heavy firepower.

During the period, there were close-range confrontations, even if the old thief Kuroda wanted to preserve his strength, he had to go all out.

Finally, in the middle of the night, the entire foothills sank tens of meters and became a depression. The smell of blood rose to the sky, and strange creatures were bred. Only then did the troops retreat, and the next wave of offensive was brewing.

In this official battle, among the four generals of the Xuan University, Qu Gui was defeated by three ranks alone, Yang Dengshan was defeated by two ranks, and General Jie Sheng was defeated by two ranks.

The head of the Ming army leader who saw it and cut it off was naturally not an unknown person. The twenty-four cavalry that the Kuroda family was proud of had become seventeen cavalry.

Regarding this confrontation, the lead author who was in charge of writing Kuroda's family records spared no effort to praise how courageous and brave Kuroda's generals were, and ridiculed that the Ming army did not have the spirit of bushido and could only rely on generals and tiger crouching cannons.

About 5,000 people...

Unlike the literati who compiled family histories, Kuroda did not drift away. Instead, he estimated the total strength of the Ming army pragmatically, and then asked Maori for help.

One to one.

This battle cannot be fought.

[The Japanese were startled, not daring to fight to the death]

That night, a brief report about the battle left Jishan, escorted by a Taoist, and sent to Seoul by escapism.

But everyone is not optimistic.

At noon the next day, the battle report about night and morning appeared in Lu Li's hands.

[The next day at Pingming, the thieves and soldiers unleashed a series of cannons, Zhang He's wings advanced, and he swung his white knives with murderous aura. The heavenly soldiers rose up in response to the cannon, and under the iron whip, the bandits were caught off guard. After a short battle, the bandits were defeated and fled. 】

Battle reports are not memorials.

The simpler and closer to reality, the better.

Therefore, the actors such as Lu Li looked at the words above and gradually became optimistic. After all, they all agreed that as long as Jiesheng can stay for five to six days, the battle in Seoul will be fought.