Brocade tears

After Pyongyang escaped from danger, the second echelon stayed in the north of Pyongyang for the past few days and was fighting an intelligence war to help Pyongyang. The second echelon has expanded to more than 300 people, and all the scouts and guards in the rear have been transferred to the front line. Now the task is The point is to cut off all sources of intelligence from the Japanese army, so that the other party will not be aware of the pressure of the Ming army.Recently, Luo Xun was temporarily unable to spare manpower to help complete the plan to trap Zhang Yunxiu.As envoys, Shen Weijing and Yin Genshou, who were in Jinyiwei, had basically lost their role, and were sent back to the rear by Luo Xun.Li Laosan, who died unfortunately, was buried under Mudan Peak by everyone.

It was the twelfth lunar month, and Li Rusong's army in the rear had already assembled, crossed the Yalu River, and continued to march closer to Pyongyang.Shen Weijing, Yin Genshou and others who were retreating from the front happened to join the main force.The second echelon received news not long after that Li Rusong heard that Shen Weijing had reached peace talks with the Japanese army leader Konishi without authorization, and even promised to reopen the survey and cooperation trade. He was furious and arrested Shen Weijing on the spot.Afterwards, he was persuaded by the generals around him to give up, and keep Shen Weijing, so that he can still use it for peace talks with the Japanese people in the future.

The king of Joseon, Li Zan, returned to North Korea with Wu Weizhong’s army, and settled in Uiju. At first, Shen Weijing and Yin Geunshou went to Uiju first, met with the king of Joseon, Li Zan, and reported on the affairs of Pyongyang.After Li Rusong's army arrived in Yizhou, the king of Joseon personally greeted Li Rusong in the suburbs of Yizhou.Li Rusong expressed his determination to exterminate the Japanese pirates, which greatly comforted Li Yan, the king of Joseon. He couldn't help but praise Li Rusong, and expressed his loyalty to the Ming court: "So he covered the fierce front and lived in a corner. Now, thanks to the emperor's favor, he sent a general Big soldiers, just ask for it, and the kings and ministers of the small state will die again." After that, Shen Weijing was taken down, which can be regarded as showing the Ming court's determination to help North Korea in front of the King of Joseon, so that he can feel at ease.

Li Rusong's army went all the way south, and joined the 8000 Korean troops led by Li Yi and Shun'an soldier Jin Yingrui at Shun'an, the headquarters of the Korean army [-] miles north of Pyongyang.At the same time, [-] monks and soldiers led by the "General Director of the Eight Ways" assembled in the nearby Faxing Temple, waiting for the order to set off.By this time, the total strength of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces preparing to attack Pyongyang had reached about [-].They were equipped with bows and arrows, swords and light artillery, but almost none of the arquebus that the Japanese ashigaru had.However, the overwhelming advantage of light artillery against the matchlock guns of the Japanese army still exists.

The results of Jin Yiwei's reconnaissance and blocking warfare on the front line gradually emerged.President Konishi was rescued by Zong Yizhi from the clock tower and regained control of Pyongyang City.Yazu Yasuke and Hosokawa Shihei, who took him away, were considered traitors to the Ming Dynasty, and the account for taking him away was put together on Jin Yiwei's head.President Xiaoxi had to admit that, as the strongest special force in the Ming Dynasty, Jin Yiwei still had some skills.It's a pity that their number is too small to reverse the current situation.It doesn't matter if they escape, anyway, the Ming Dynasty people are just like the North Koreans, they are idiots, plus they spent too many troops on the Northwest battlefield earlier, Xiao Xi didn't believe that they could organize any army to fight against him An elite force equipped with tens of thousands of matchlock guns.

Although he had suffered a dark loss under the abominable Jin Yiwei's hands, President Xiaoxi made an inventory, and apart from the death of a few soldiers, he did not have much loss.He was obviously deceived by Zong Yizhi, thinking that he still had a psychological advantage against the Ming Dynasty people. The Ming Dynasty people were arrested and imprisoned by him this time. He was terrified. Seeing the size of the Japanese army in the city, he retreated. up.Although the loss of Wang Daoming made him very dissatisfied, Shimadzu Suijiu held it in his hands anyway, and this was his biggest gain from trading with the Ming Dynasty people.When the hostages were exchanged by the Ming Dynasty, Chen Nuo would soon send envoys to negotiate, and was even willing to cede North Korea's territory. This was undoubtedly a huge temptation for Governor Xiaonishi.So much so that Governor Xiaonishi didn't even send troops out to investigate at all, but handed over the rebuilding of the intelligence network to Zong Yizhi, and sent 20 people to the north to meet the Ming Dynasty envoys, and he sat in the city waiting for the Ming Dynasty envoys to come to his door.

However, a few days later, a soldier sent by Xiaoxi ran back desperately and reported the tragedy of 20 people to Xiaoxi. They were besieged and killed by the Ming army not far from Pyongyang, and only he broke through and came back to report.

Ming army is calling!

On that day, the Xiaoxi Army in Pyongyang City fell into hell.It was too late to escape, and he couldn't escape, otherwise Xiao Xi would not be able to gain a foothold among the vassal lords of the Japanese army.They can only prepare for the battle in the city.Xiaoxi still has a fluke mentality. He doesn't think the Ming army can conquer Pyongyang.He still wants to hold on to defeat the Ming army, and then force the Ming army to come to peace talks.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, nearly 6 anti-Japanese allied forces arrived in the north of Pyongyang and set up camp on the frozen ground.The morale of the army was high, and the soldiers eagerly hoped to attack the city in one fell swoop by relying on overwhelming force superiority, and teach the Japanese pirates a lesson.Seeing crowds of people moving around the city and thousands of horses roaring, Xiao Xijun couldn't help feeling waves of despair.Since entering the dynasty, they have been invincible all the way, never experienced a defeat, let alone such a well-organized enemy army.They subconsciously felt that this would be an extremely painful battle to defend the city, and the Japanese army had a very small chance of winning.

Now that things are going on, I have to bite the bullet, and I still have to fill up the appearance.In order to defeat the morale of the Ming army, Chief Xiaoxi ordered the soldiers on the top of the city to unleash iron cannons, blow the conch horn, beat the war drums, and make as loud a noise as possible.What responded to the Japanese army was the same sound of war drums and the roar of the soldiers in the coalition army.

As early as more than ten days ago, a considerable part of the captured North Korean civilians in the city took advantage of the chaos caused by the first echelon to resist the Japanese army and fled in large numbers. In the past few days, Jin Yiwei, who has been fighting on the front line, has received a considerable part The North Korean people who fled.In the past few days, it seems that the Japanese army also knew that a war was about to take place. It would be a burden to keep these North Korean civilians in the city, and it was a waste of rations, so they simply drove them all away.Now, the Ming army has erected a white flag at a conspicuous place outside Pyongyang, writing a letter saying "North Korean soldiers and civilians who surrender themselves to the flag will not die." For the North Koreans who are still nearby, this is the last chance to escape.

The next day, the battle broke out, and the first thing Li Rusong wanted to take was Peony Peak in the north of the city.On the Peony Peak, there is a Yongming Temple surrounded by city walls, which is now occupied by Matsuura Shinnobu under the command of Konishi Governor with [-] troops, and has established a stable fortress.If you want to fight Pyongyang, you have to take this Yongming Temple first.

The main force Li Rusong sent to attack Mudanfeng was monk soldiers led by Master Xiu Jing, because Xiu Jing's monk soldiers and Korean soldiers had more experience in mountain warfare than the Ming army, and they had the necessary patriotism to attack the enemies who occupied their homeland. and willpower.In addition, in order to cooperate with the monk soldiers in fighting, Li Rusong dispatched a thousand cavalry under Zha Dashou's command to rush back and forth at the foot of the mountain to surround and strangle the escaped enemies.

The quiet monks did not disappoint Li Rusong. The monks fought with the enemy for two days and nights, paying the price of losing 600 people. They successfully broke through the Mudanfeng Yongming Temple and wiped out most of the enemies.The Chadashou cavalry at the foot of the mountain and the infantry of Wu Weizhong who came to support them completely broke Matsuura Jinshin's self-confidence, and he had to lead the remnant soldiers to flee back to Pyongyang.Zha Dashou's department and Wu Weizhong's department tried to intercept, but because the other party ran too fast, they were unable to react in time, and in the end they never chased after him.

After taking Mudanfeng, the large-scale attack on Pyongyang finally officially began.During the two days of attacking Mudanfeng, the main force of the Ming army was not idle. They braved the interference of the enemy's continuous artillery fire on the top of the city, and began to fill the tunnel traps laid before the city wall and remove obstacles.The artillery bombardment brought by the Ming army also made the fortifications arranged by the Japanese army invisible in an instant.Although the iron cannon fired on the city wall caused some interference, under the protection of the thickened iron shield, the repair work was still successfully completed.In order to save shells, the Japanese army in the city could not attack all the time, so they had to let the Ming army fill in the fortifications.

In the early morning of the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Rusong burned incense and asked for a lottery, hoping that the next battle would be beneficial to his side.On this day, the clouds opened and the sun dawned. With the sound of the attack horn, the Ming army launched an attack on the city gates on the north, west, and south sides of Pyongyang at the same time.The army stepped forward step by step, and the horseshoes smashed the ice on the road, raising the broken ice crystals, and floating into the air like mist, shining in the sun.When they were approaching the city wall, they saw the Japanese army standing in a row along the city wall, ready to fight.They planted a lot of colorful flags on the city wall, and tied the spears/spears and swords together, with the tip of the gun and the blade facing outward, as a strategy for defending the city.This looked like a bluff after the donkey had run out of skills, and the Ming army couldn't help laughing secretly.

The Ming army slowly spread out around the city wall. Yang Yuan's central army was in charge of attacking the north, Zhang Shijue's right army was in charge of attacking the west, Li Rubai's left army was in charge of attacking the southeast, and Li Yi and Jin Yingrui's North Korean army was in charge of attacking the southwest.Only the east wall is next to the Datong River, which has become the only way of no return for the Japanese army.

Amidst a bang of artillery fire, all the troops began to attack the city with loud shouts.A large number of archers from the Ming army and the Korean army fired ignited rockets into the city. The densely packed arrows easily crossed the city wall and entered the city of Pyongyang like shooting stars, and quickly ignited the thatched roofs and wooden buildings in the city.The cannon bombarded the city gate, and the sound of slamming vibrations continued to echo throughout the battlefield.It's a pity that the accuracy of artillery fire is too low, and it can only be used as an assist in the siege for a while. If you accidentally fire the artillery, it may even hit your own army.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the soldiers rushed to the city wall carrying the siege equipment and quickly built a ladder.Immediately afterwards, they braved lead bullets, arrows and stones thrown from above, climbed up the ladder one after another, and finally climbed over the densely covered spear points and blades on the city wall. Although it was extremely difficult, these soldiers looked It was like killing red eyes, one after another, continuous.

The Japanese army had never seen such a fierce offensive, and in order to save their lives, they inspired hysterical courage and strength, desperately blocking the attack of the coalition forces.An hour after the start of the siege, the offensive momentum of the coalition forces gradually weakened, and casualties began to increase sharply.Li Rusong, who was in command of the Chinese army, saw that the battle situation had changed, and immediately rushed forward, grabbed a Ming soldier who was trying to escape, beheaded him, and circulated the head to each siege point. 5000 taels of silver!"

Inspired by the bounty, the coalition forces organized an offensive again.Unfortunately, Wu Weizhong, the leading general of the Ming army, was shot in the chest, and his deputy was wounded in the foot by a stone.However, the siege troops did not waver. During the arduous tug-of-war of climbing the city, the Ming army finally found a breakthrough. A few soldiers tenaciously climbed to the city wall, fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, and occupied a foothold.The follow-up Ming army took advantage of this breakthrough to quickly follow up and rushed to the top of the city in large numbers.Almost at the same time, the Seven Stars Gate, which was constantly bombarded by artillery, was finally opened, and the towers of the city gate were blown down, and the Ming and North Korean troops rushed in.

The Japanese army had long anticipated the arrival of this moment and made preparations in advance.They gave up holding on to the outer wall and retreated to the last line of defense-the Yeongwangjeong cave built using Pyongyang's gable wall in the narrow northern corner of the city.This is their trump card, the most terrifying siege trap prepared for the Ming army.

The northern part of Pyongyang City is exactly the area that Jinyiwei has not fully investigated. Jinyiwei only heard from the North Koreans that there is an inner city fortification in the city, and they have reported it, but Li Rusong and other generals did not take it seriously, thinking that it was just An existence similar to an urn city.So when the Ming army swarmed in, they were immediately trapped in the uneven inner city caves. People, horses, and military flags were crowded together, and they couldn't use it at once, and they immediately lost ground.The soldiers of the Xiaoxi Army immediately put the iron cannons on the hundreds of shooting holes that had been dug in the cave, and began to shoot at the coalition forces below the cave.Eventually it turned into a massacre, with buckshot arrows roaring at the swarming coalition soldiers, killing hundreds instantly and many more seriously wounded.Seeing this, the troops who tried to enter the city later retreated in a hurry, exited the Seven Star Gate in panic, and retreated outside the city.

The first stop of the Pyongyang campaign came to an end, and Li Rusong called for gold to withdraw his troops.This battle achieved a preliminary plan to break through the city wall of Pyongyang, but the cost of casualties exceeded expectations, and it failed to cause a decisive defeat of the Japanese army in the city.Li Rusong decided to change the way of attack to avoid greater casualties.