Chapter 934: A World Without Buddhas (13)

After offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, the Ming army officially set off.

The king of North Korea, Li Yan, who had always been very useless, became proud and said that he would personally send Lu Li and Yang Gao to the expedition.

Everyone gladly obeyed.

All the generals rode forward on horseback and left Seoul mightily. While they were talking, envoy Yang Jinglue, who was a civil servant, suddenly left the main road and galloped towards a small road covered with solid ice and snow.

Seeing this, all the generals headed by Lu Li followed, and the black-maned horse was even thinking about whether to surpass it easily to show its extraordinaryness.

But after thinking about it, Yang Gao is after all the big backer of his master on the front line, so it's better to keep a low profile if he can't be offended.

Seeing that the generals were leaving, Li Yan didn't want to be outdone, as if he knew that he had been completely underestimated and had to restore his image, so he followed closely.

All the soldiers were at a loss.

The entourage and ministers behind the Korean king were at a loss.

They can't catch up at all.

After chasing each other, after traveling for about a hundred miles, Yang Hao suddenly turned his head, looked at Li Yan who was closely behind, and said happily:

"Wang can work with you!"

"……"Land from.

When it comes to loading forks, who can compare with literati.

After this little episode passed, nearly 30,000 Ming soldiers leaped over Wuling with high morale, and arrived at Wenqing County at the foot of the mountain three days later.

This place was the end point of the first stage of the rampage between Yukinaga Konishi and Masaki Kato when the Japanese Invasion of Imjin began.

Since the departure, Ma Gui, who has always been silent, seems to remember that he is an admiral, and made a request to General Li Chao:

"Our division's land routes are well-prepared, and the lone sailors have repeatedly failed to arrive."

Obviously, the Ming army needed support from Li Chao's navy, and they had to go to the waters near Ulsan to join their side.

This is a very strange request.

Because, Lu Li has already clearly reported his experience at sea, including after killing Mr. Laidao Tong, Li Sunshin's strength ushered in a decline instead——

The actor leaves.

Even if there is a gift from the general, how much strength can be recovered in just two months?

Even if Yi sun-shin is a veritable god of war who can turn decay into magic, he cannot bypass Suncheon, Geoje, and Busan, the important ports where Japanese navy sailors gather, and attack Ulsan on the east side.

His eyes turned to Quan Li.

After all, he is the general of the Lee Dynasty, able to command Yi Sun-shin, and also knows the inside information.

Under Lu Li's gaze, Quan Li was calm and said without hesitation, "Yes."

The Navy has a banner named: Yi Sun-shin.

There is also an iconic figure in the army. It is the veteran Quan Li. He once led his troops to defeat the Japanese army in the mountain city of Haengju.

However, can the Navy really rely on it?

The actor is not optimistic.

Even Lu Li, who had met and cooperated with Li Sunshin himself, was not optimistic.

As for the truth...

Quan Li knew that this request was impossible to fulfill, but in order to make the main force of the Ming army continue to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese, the old boy bit the bullet and agreed.

In fact, the actors have a deep understanding of the next battle against Ulsan. Throughout the entire process of the Battle of Ulsan, there is no record of Li Chao's navy assisting the battle.

However, the historical materials of their own country, out of self-whitening, portrayed an old man who bit the bullet and slapped his chest to entrap the Ming army into a general who eagerly cooperated with the Ming army...

Yang Hao and Ma Gui underestimated Li Chaoren's integrity and their careful thinking, and continued to lead the army to the south after getting the guarantee.

On the way, Lu Li made a speech.

However, the masters living in the temple are commanding by remote control and demanding that the first-line Ming army launch an attack on the Japanese immediately.

To a certain extent, the two are ready to be deceived, and feel that the danger brought by it is within the acceptable range.

However, be careful sailing for thousands of years.

Ma Gui has a Jiangwo under his command, and gave himself a Chinese name: Lu Yuwen.

A native devil.

People are smart and mercenary.

Ever since, Magui promised to give him a hundred taels of gold, and sent him to sneak into Ulsan with a few scouts disguised as Japanese.

In the evening of the next day, the Japanese traitor Lu Yuwen set off.

Lu Li and the others continued to wait for the army and the arrival of subsequent reinforcements.

ten days later.

The number of the Ming army reached nearly 40,000, and all of them arrived in Gyeongju, which is the closest city to Ulsan. Arriving here means entering a war zone.

The ministries rested in the city for a while, and the next night, Lu Yuwen returned with a big gift!

hand-painted map!

Lu Li was pleasantly surprised when he saw it, because it was a detailed map of the defense of Ulsan.

The main force of the Japanese army in Ulsan was not in Ulsan City, but on the island on the north side.

This place is surrounded by dangerous places, surrounded by Pyeongsan-dong, Sangan-dong, Gangyo-dong, and Bangujeong in the north, and faces Ulsan City across the Taehwa River in the south.

If the enemy attacked from the north, they had to cross the island first before they could capture Ulsan.

In addition, the Japanese general guarding this place is really surprising. It is the old opponent Kato Kiyomasa.

He was originally a well-known master architect in the Japanese country, and the Nago (ancient) house, which was the base camp of the invasion of other countries in the early days, was built by him.

Since leaving Seoul in a panic, in order to prevent the Ming army from attacking and repair his body, Kato, who had just arrived here, began to build Wacheng.

Backed by the mountain wall, there is only one waterway leading to the Taihe River.

According to the accompanying scouts, this Japanese city was built in full reference to the Japanese style. The city is all built with stones, and there are one pill, two pills and three pills in the city, with continuous twists and turns.

Outside the city, it was the priests who controlled the leylines, and the layers of rock walls surrounding the city surrounded the entire island mountain with three inner floors and outer three floors.

Not only that, there are eight camps outside, including Banguting, Taihe Jiangshuiying, etc., which can echo each other.

"My lords, according to my observations, there are only two ways for Daoshan Wacheng to communicate with the outside world."

"One is to go to Yanyang by land, and then to Busan, and the other is to travel from the Taehwa River to Xishengpu by water."

As expected, he was a Japanese traitor, and after receiving the money, he devoted himself to doing things for Daming. According to him, before they arrived, Kato Kiyomasa himself was in Xishengpu, preparing and supervising the transportation of various materials.

The supervisors in the city were Kato Yasama, Naoshima Naomo, and Ota Kazukichi. The three commanded the defenders and Li Chao's slaves to build it desperately.

After seeing Lu Yuwen's information and confirming it with the accompanying scouts, Yang Hao and Ma Gui were overjoyed.

Before the war officially started, they found out the details of the Japanese people. Is there any suspense in this battle?

After some discussion, Yang Gao readily picked up a Langhao brush stained with red ink and drew three lines on the map of mountains and rivers.

It is required that the ministries must not shirk each other, and must launch attacks in accordance with this strategy.

The first line points directly to Dosan. Li Fangchun, Gao Ce, and Peng Youde's three associations are subdivided into three roads. It is necessary to firmly trap this mountain city in front of Ulsan!

The second line is Wu Weizhong, who missed the defense of Seoul, and is now excluded from the grand strategy. He will lead soldiers from the south of Ming Dynasty to Liangshan to intercept the Maoli Xiuyuan tribe who may come for reinforcements.

The third line fell on the Taihe River. The guerrilla general Lu Jizhong led 2,000 soldiers and horses to block the river with general cannons and tiger squat cannons to prevent the Japanese from traveling by water.

In order to ensure everything is safe, Yang Gao also sent Dong Zhengyi's troops to Nanyuan, which Lu Li had lost before, to put pressure on the Japanese army stationed in Suncheon.

Lu Li was caught in the first line, looking very low-key, after all, it was a battle at the level of a large army——

Unlike the Southern Army, the Liaodong Army and Xuan Dajun were assigned to fight tough battles so that they could make more contributions.

The cavalry marched mightily towards Daoshan City.

Steady and steady, calm and calm.

Unfortunately, he was not the first to eat meat.

The world is impermanent, and Wu Weizhong, who has been excluded from the circle from beginning to end, led 3,000 southern troops, mainly Zhejiang soldiers, and marched towards Liangshan.

However...the team set off late at night, and in the early morning, they ran into the Japanese army in a small town called Yanyang.

The Battle of Daoshan, recorded in the annals of history, actually started with an encounter.

However, it is also reasonable.

Similar to the status of Namwon at the beginning, Yanyang is the throat from Ulsan to the cities in the south, and should not be discarded easily.

The Japanese who the general Wu Weizhong encountered were the son of Asano Nagamasa, the confidant of the old monkey Hideyoshi, and the supervisor, Ota Kazukichi.

Due to the construction of Daoshan City, a large number of slaves and supervisors are needed. They came here as supervisors and escorted a small number of slaves.

On this day, I happened to be resting in Yanyang City, preparing to march quickly the next morning and enter Daoshan City.

Although most of the troops lived in the city, in order to raise their vigilance, five hundred warriors were arranged to camp and rest by the river in the north of the city.

"Huh? Japanese."

How did Wu Weizhong know that these bandits were just going to Daoshan to work as supervisors, subconsciously thought that the reinforcements had received the news and rushed to support, and immediately ordered the whole army to start fighting.

There are few soldiers in the South.

Coupled with the North-South dispute, they have always been excluded from the inner circle, but in terms of combat effectiveness, why do we need to say more?

This group of elites wearing red war robes in the snow immediately crossed the river to chase them down. To meet their so-called Amaterasu.

"It's just five hundred Japanese, how can it be enjoyable?" Wu Weizhong was full of regret.

Almost at the same time, the battle by the river alarmed Asano Yukunaga, who was resting in the city, he got up from a powdered woman and went up to the tower to have a look:

A group of red-clothed Ming soldiers were playing their subordinates like monkeys, and immediately shouted, don't point at a young man in his early twenties who is in a high position relying on the protection of his parents, he can put the overall situation first.

Feeling humiliated, he immediately grabbed a sword and ordered the city gates to be opened to fight, breaking the so-called myth of the Ming army.

Although the overseer Ota Kazukichi was mature and prudent, showing that the enemy was outnumbered and it would be better to defend the city, but the second generation Asano Yukichi was not willing to listen and led his own guards to rush out.

"If you don't break the Ming army, you will never turn around!"

After uttering a harsh word, the guy rode away angrily.

Wu Weizhong saw a Japanese general in flashy armor rushing out of the city. He immediately knew that there was a big fish and ordered the soldiers to surround him.

With bloody courage and fantasy, he came out of the city, but after a while, Asano began to regret, but Mr. Wu has never eaten meat, so how could he let this kid go?

Qianqi was between him and Yanyang City.

The escape route is cut off, what should I do?

Asano made a decisive decision and fled towards Daoshan. Just as the Ming army did not know the specific deployment of the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese did not know that Daoshan was being surrounded by the army.

"Chase!"

The southern soldiers who were supposed to march forward were so excited that they turned around and chased after the little devil.

The samurai of the family became fewer and fewer, and Asano Yukunaga fought and fled. The Ming army slashed dozens of knives all over his body, bleeding profusely.

Seeing that death was approaching, a general named Kameda decided to sacrifice himself and blew himself up to stop the pursuit of the Ming army. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Asano found a loophole in the encirclement and rushed to Daoshan Castle to call for help.

Kato Yasumasa, who was guarding the outermost line of defense, saw that it was the son of Lord Taiko's close minister. He quickly dropped a rope, crawled and dragged him into Daoshan Castle.

Seeing that a piece of meat flew away, the southern soldiers cursed, and under Wu Weizhong's comfort, they withdrew their troops and returned to Yanyang to continue the mission of blocking aid.

The second generation Asano Yukinaga was lucky enough to save a dog's life, and immediately regained his anger, and immediately asked:

"Why are there so many Ming troops?"

Yasuo Kato sighed helplessly.

Nearly 20,000 warriors and nearly 100,000 slaves were busy building the city. This morning, I suddenly saw a large number of Ming troops moving here. None of the people who went out to hunt came back.

Two hundred miles away, the encirclement was roughly formed.

Lu Li, who had just added 2,000 cavalry, led the monsters into a group and moved in the predetermined direction.

As they moved forward, the various ministries began to stick close to each other, gathered in one place, and completely surrounded the city built on the mountain.

Of course, besiege rather than attack.

Just like the Japanese besieging Nanyuan, the Ming army set up a magnificent formation, but they just set up camp slowly.

On the second day, he fell behind halfway and did not follow the army to the front line. Yang Gao heard that the encirclement was completely formed, and immediately took the interpreter and General Li Chao to the front line.

Before that, the commanding authority was in the hands of the Admiral Ma Gui, and he left Lu Li useless, or in other words, the generals of the entire Liaodong system were useless, so he summoned his favorite generals in a small area.

The city will be attacked tomorrow, who will charge?

Yang Dengshan, Bai Sai, and Pogui were very enthusiastic, because the Kato Army's performance in the battle of Seoul was too unbearable, and everyone wanted to squeeze the persimmons.

In the end, Yang and Po, who had been pioneers before, were persuaded by Ma Gui and gave up the opportunity to Bai Sai, and they looked for opportunities later.

The Liaodong army was not used in the first battle, and Li Rumei was quite critical. He led the army across the Yalu River and rushed to help Seoul, but nothing caught up. Now that it is entering the counterattack stage, it still does not use itself? !

If this battle is still commanded by my brother...

Two thousand cavalry, five hundred monsters.

Lu Li took his time and watched Pan Ming, Zhou Tian, ​​Du Quan and others go up to earn their military exploits. He didn't feel any sense of imbalance. After all, it wasn't that they didn't have to fight. Instead, he was curious:

What new tricks will Kato Kiyomasa, the underdog, have?

With this in mind, he started grilling again, nothing to do, it's better to relax.

The flags were all displayed brightly.

The word [Lu] flutters in the wind.

In this case, even if the Japanese had the guts to abandon the city and make a breakthrough, they did not dare to choose to start here.

Moreover, the mountain city built by Kato and Nabeshima is solid and solid. To be fair, Lu Li feels that it is no worse than Nanyuan, and there is a lot to be achieved by defending the city.

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