Chapter 952 Afterglow of the Empire (8)

Get up wherever you fall.

The last time they attacked Ulsan, the Ming army was defeated.

But this time, Ma Gui did not attack alone. The other two Ming armies pinned the Japanese pirates in their respective defense areas, and Lu Li and Li Sunshin's sailors watched over them. Therefore, this battle was considered a fair duel.

As the vanguard, Ma Guirang Jiesheng, Yang Dengshan, and Pogui took Wang Guodong to Ulsan to attack first.

Then, other troops were deployed in Xinning, Yixing, Zuoshuiying, Gyeongju and other places, firstly to prevent Japanese sneak attacks, and secondly to recruit local refugees.

Pan Ming was in the vanguard.

According to the letter, the generals crossed the island mountains that had been turned into ruins and basins, and rushed straight to Ulsan. counterattack.

At first, Naoshima Naoshige, who was stationed in the city, heard about it and immediately ordered: "Strengthen the defense, and you will not die!"

The Kwantung general, who did not believe in evil, heard that the army was coming and was provoking outside the city. He immediately opened his tiger's eyes, burst into anger, put on his armor, raised his troops, and killed him.

Lu Li guessed that the other party should know that this was a trap, but because of unfamiliarity with the situation and self-confidence, they took the initiative to drill into it.

Later...they were besieged and defeated.

In fact, his guess was not wrong, and there is another reason:

Internal friction.

If it were the general of the Western Kingdom, Naoshima Naoshige would not be able to watch him helplessly, but the Kanto heroes who naturally tend to the Tokugawa family are different.

In the future, if the guarantee is not uniform, we will meet each other in battle. Now we can cheat as much as we can.

After a small victory, Ma Gui, who found out that the Japanese army also had reinforcements, was a little hesitant, but the morale of the performers was high.

In the early days, the leading vanguard officers were all cavalry and lacked siege equipment. Seeing that Nabe Island was alive and well, they dared not leave the city, and they were huddled in Ulsan City.

After all, having had such a tragic experience in Dosan, the Japanese tried their best to repair Ulsan City, making it more difficult to attack than the former.

Several famous generals, including the actor, met to discuss and decided to build a siege vehicle while surrounding the city.

According to Naoshima Naoshima's understanding of the Ming army, he thought that they would face off for ten days and a half months, but he obviously underestimated the madness of the actors.

In fact, Jie Sheng and the others revisited the old place, feeling very sad, and planned to make a siege gesture first, to wear down the spirit of the Japanese people a little bit——

Every morning, the various ministries circled Ulsan City like doing radio gymnastics, and whenever the mood came, they would push the siege equipment up to destroy the mentality of the Japanese defenders.

However, the actors collectively pretended not to understand, and the first feint turned into a formal attack, a quick attack!

Qualified generals have to take the lead, but how can they work so hard so early?

This offensive...

Seeing this, Naoshima Naoshima was terrified.

Even so, he still died at the hands of his son-killing enemy Pan Ming, and the two died together.

Katsushige Nabeshima.

Naoshima Naoshima.

Kuroda Nagamasa.

In addition, there are small bosses at all levels and hundreds of low-level warriors.

Sitting on the chair, doing the math for his best friend, Lu Li felt very stable.

"Is it a happy funeral?"

Suddenly, an inappropriate word popped into my mind.

Looking at the calm and joyful Chief Soldier, Chen Lin couldn't help being curious, and said in his heart:

Could it be that there is another good news?

Or, which route needs naval reinforcements?

During this period of time, all the ministries have been familiar with the tactics of Japanese pirate sailors, but there are only small battles, Chen Lin really wants to fight a big battle!

Sensing that the deputy was looking at him curiously, waiting for the next article, Lu Li had no choice but to say casually:

"The East Route Army has made some progress, and the leader of the bandits, Naomi Naoshima, was killed."

I definitely can't tell the truth——

[Pan Ming has received a lunch box, I am happy for him]

Only the cosplayers can be absolutely ashamed of death. Of course, there is an important prerequisite to complete the goals set in advance.

If not achieved...

Anyway, Lu Li really wanted to come back, and his strength had been nearly half crippled, not to mention daimyo-level regiment commanders, even some well-known generals of the Japanese army, it was difficult to complete a solo kill.

However, since there is still a heavy burden on our shoulders, we must not be negative, let's see if there is any suitable goal, and then pull another big fish to back it up.

From the beginning to the end, Lu Li never thought of another possibility:

He will live till the end.

After all, since the mid-term exam, it has been a long time since I experienced this kind of experience, either suddenly died suddenly, or ended in a daze.

the other side.

The Eastern Route Army was at a stalemate, and with the arrival of support from the Kanto side, only Naoshima Naoshige was a remarkable feat.

And the situation of the Central Army...

Coach Dong Yiyuan galloped through the starry night, ordered his soldiers to take a rest in a small town called Sanjia, and continued to lead the army early the next morning. He had already reached Nanjiang and was approaching Jinzhou.

The Ming army agreed that the big fish Toyotomi Hideyoshi was hidden here, so Dong Yiyuan was very active and cautious.

Even a veteran who is used to storms, facing such a temptation, still has some difficulty holding back, because capturing or even beheading the old monkey alive, the rewards he gets are no worse than Qi Jiguang!

Prudence comes from reason.

As an existence that coerced the Three Kingdoms, how could he be captured so easily?

According to the observations of the scouts, the old devil's main camp is most likely located in the city of Sacheon near the sea, and Jinzhou is the northern gate of this place.

There is Kunyang on the left, and Yongchun on the right. These two villages form the horns of each other, and together with Jinzhou, they become the outer line of defense for Sacheon.

Not only that, Sacheon City itself has two cities, Jinhai and Gucheng, as guards, and an unknown number of people are stationed there.

In addition, next to the old city of Sacheon, there is also a Dongyang warehouse, which stores a large amount of food, grass and supplies, and is also guarded by heavy soldiers.

in short.

The limited space from Jinzhou to Sacheon was filled with camps. There were eight large camps on the surface, and they were connected to each other.

If it is said that Ulsan City, which is as solid as gold, wins by quality, then the goal that the Central Route Army must face is to have both quantity and quality.

Even if we take a step back, the quality is not good, just this fortified city in the open and in the dark is a pity, and tens of thousands of lives must be used to fill it.

"Jinzhou is next to the Nanjiang River. To defend the city, you must guard the river. The Japanese are not stupid. They built a whole row of small camps between Jinzhou City and the Nanjiang River along the trend of the river."

"This battle is backed by Wangjin Peak, and the terrain is very dangerous. If we want to attack Jinzhou, we must first pull out this row of fences along the river!"

Inside the camp, the atmosphere was extremely serious.

The generals from all over the world are staring at the map of mountains and rivers, listening carefully to the analysis.

The Central Route Army is the most powerful. If this first battle cannot be won, or if it is delayed for too long, it will cause a lot of bad effects.

Mao Guoqi, the general of the Zhejiang Army who had a brilliant performance in Daoshan before, was assigned to the Central Route Army, where he can flex his muscles.

At this moment, he carefully analyzed the situation, and said to coach Dong Yiyuan in a statement of facts:

"If you want to conquer Sacheon, you must first conquer Jinzhou; if you want to conquer Jinzhou, you must first defeat the Nanjiang camp; if you want to conquer the Nanjiang camp, you must first defeat the Wangjinfeng camp."

"This is the key point in the defense of the Japanese army. Once it is broken, the others can be broken in a row."

With capable people under his command, the coach doesn't have to worry about everything. Dong Yiyuan directly asked him what method he wanted to use to break through Wangjinfeng's camp.

There was an inexplicable smile on Mao Guoqi's face, and he said mysteriously: "The mountain man has his own tricks."

You must know that war depends not only on soldiers, generals, and logistics, but also on an indispensable but obscure role:

spy.

In the past, the Imjin Japanese Invasion could be suppressed, and patriotic spies were indispensable in it.

Who said that those who stand in the light are called heroes?

As early as when the Japanese used the power of the whole country to prepare for the invasion of China, Daming had already vaguely known about it.

Xu Sanguan, a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province in the Ming Dynasty, made a living by doing business. As a result, he once fell into Japanese hands in the South China Sea and was sold to the Satsuma clan after several twists and turns.

Because of his own medical skills, by chance, he saved the descendants of Shimadzu Yoshihisa's family. Since then, he has been highly valued, and has been rewarded with beautiful women, money, and even a son.

But this gentleman is naturally warm-hearted and patriotic. Although he is out of danger, every time he sees his compatriots being bullied by the Japanese, he grits his teeth with hatred and thinks about what to do for them every day.

Before Hideyoshi unified the Japanese kingdom and attacked Kyushu, Shimadzu Yoshihisa saw that he could not resist the might of the soldiers, so he put on cassock and surrendered. When he went to see Hideyoshi, Xu Sanguan, as a retainer, also accompanied him.

When the surrender was settled, he suddenly stood up, changed the subject, and told about his experience, hoping that Hideyoshi would punish those pirates severely in the future.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi appreciates this kind of courage very much, just as the old monkey also intends to clean up the environment for his country's maritime merchants, he simply made a favor, issued an order to ban the Japanese pirates, and sent troops to exterminate the pirates.

And this matter also made Shimadzu pay more attention to Xu Sanguan, thinking that he has great courage.

After entering the Wanli nineteenth year, Xu Sanguan, who had a higher status, found that the Satsuma domain had become extremely noisy, and there were a large number of foreign warriors and ashigaru, which appeared in Honshu and Shikoku.

His keen sense of smell made him realize that something was wrong, because the Wa country had been unified formally, and there was no reason for a large-scale war to break out.

There is only one way to use troops overseas!

But the Japanese archipelago is isolated overseas, and the nearest enemy is North Korea, and the Li Dynasty is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, once attacked, Ming Dynasty is bound to take action.

Out of worry, Xu Sanguan used his position to secretly conduct a detailed investigation, only to find that he had underestimated the devil's ambitions, and the little Japanese country had dreamed of devouring Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, out of that patriotic heart, he, who had already lived a life of rich clothes and fine food, resolutely decided to put his head on his belt and started to do intelligence work spontaneously.

Gradually, the ranks expanded.

A Hokkien man named Guo Guoan joined in. This gentleman had similar experience as Xu Sanguan. He was kidnapped and sold to a foreign country, but with his talent and agility, he became a junior officer in the Satsuma Domain and commanded a group of Japanese warriors.

The two joined forces to describe the Wa country in terms of military affairs, history, life, etc., with more than 5,000 words in eloquence, which gave Da Ming a reference for this strange small country.

Moreover, they also correctly calculated the exact time of the Japanese invasion, and sent the most trusted people back to the country.

But there is no shortage of traitors in any era.

When Xu Sanguan ran around to collect information on the Japanese, he kept the little devil behind his back and acted extremely cautiously, but out of trust, he didn't hide it from his own people.

A group of fellow villagers who also came from China stabbed knives in the back and reported to Hideyoshi's confidant Asano Nagamasa in order to get a reward.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi heard this, he was furious. He only wanted to conquer Daming, but someone jumped out to do bad things, and he had even done favors to the other party. He immediately shouted that he would punish this ungrateful bastard severely.

During the interrogation period, Xu Sanguan endured all kinds of tortures and insisted that this matter was all planned by himself, and he did not reveal the names of any partners.

And Hideyoshi, the old monkey, also thought of the method of cooking. At that time, Toyotomi's family newly cast a few extra large iron pots, and ordered Xu Sanguan to be thrown into it to boil to death.

Thanks to Yoshishima Shimadzu's longing for the past, he contacted another big man-Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Hideyoshi's most troublesome and most fancy daimyo, he has never been defeated by Hideyoshi on the battlefield, sitting on the Kanto two million shi, there is no lack of strong generals under his command, and many vassals.

Under Tokugawa's rescue, Xu Sanguan survived, but after a symbolic warning, he was released to Satsuma.

After the return, the Shimadzu family still valued him very much and treated him with courtesy as in the past, but he once again risked his life and took advantage of his status to send one of his most trusted apprentices to a dedicated merchant ship to Daming.

Before parting, he and his apprentice wept together, knowing each other that they would never meet again in this life, so Xu Sanguan wrote a farewell poem:

Difficult domain Ping meets several times a week, and once they are separated, they will make a tour together.

Diligently instruct the loyalty to the emperor, and exhort and exterminate the enemy with all his heart.

Knowing that you belonged to Su Zijing, how could you return to Li Lingqiu?

If Shuangtai asks about things in the dust, only the people of Dao Si are still worried about their suffering.

There are no fancy rhetoric, but all sincerity, permeated with Xu Sanguan's love for the motherland. He used Su Wu to describe himself, even if he was trapped in a barbarian land, he still did not change his integrity.

Throughout his life, he has not received any commendation from the Ming Dynasty, nor has he been awarded any official position by the court. All his contributions are spontaneous, out of love for his own blood and simple feelings for the motherland.

This kind of patriotism made Ming officials feel ashamed, and those Chinese who stabbed knives in the back are even more unworthy to be compared with them.

Xu Sanguan, a commoner, suffered many hardships and finally lived a comfortable life in a foreign country. When he realized that the national disaster was approaching, he risked his life to make a contribution without asking for anything in return.

This is something that should not be forgotten.

And his apprentice, Zhu Junwang, whose ancestral home was in Fuzhou, carried information and lay on the bottom of the cabin to avoid being traced, and did not climb out for 40 days.

As soon as the ship docked, Zhu Junwang immediately went to the local military officer Zhang Ruji and submitted the report to the Ming officials, regardless of his physical weakness.

It introduces in detail Hideyoshi's plan to invade the peninsula and invade Daming, shows the marching route map, total force, and the attitude of the Japanese feudal clans to this battle, and provides strategies on how to fight against the Japanese pirates.

The imperial court praised: the prophecy of today's events is exactly as stated in the deed volume.

Li Chaoren also echoed: there are many tests on the use of soldiers by Japanese thieves.

The latter even asked the Ming envoy after the war broke out, whether this Mr. Xu had any follow-up updates.

And Xu Sanguan, Guo Guoan and others have always been active in the Japanese camp, staged scenes of thrilling spy wars that took place in the sixteenth century.

In the Central Route Army, the general of the Zhe army, Mao Guoqi, relied on the people of Ming Dynasty who were headed by the two, who were far away from overseas and had their own achievements.

For various reasons, these people, like duckweed, had no choice but to become Japanese. They did not set foot on their homeland for the rest of their lives, but they did not dare to forget that they were born in Ming Dynasty, and they were willing to risk their lives to contribute to their homeland through various channels.