Brocade tears

What happened to the more than 100 Jurchen cavalry troops?Wang Xu rode his horse and chased after them, feeling as if he was in a fog, and a strange feeling came to his mind.

It is not impossible to say that the Jurchens appeared near the North Korean capital.But right now the Japanese pirates are invading North Korea, and it's too late for the Jurchens to hide, so how could they get involved?Even if they wanted to go south to plunder, the North Korean people were devastated, and if there was a little bit of broken rice left over, they would be taken by the Japanese army. What could the Jurchens plunder?If there is a conflict with the Japanese army, it will be burned.

Unless... these Jurchens have long been collaborating with the Japanese army, and even the people of the Japanese country know the existence of the Ten Thousand Beasts and Hundred Flowers Picture.Then this group of Jurchens stabbed the Wa people in the back today, obviously this is Zhang Yunxiu's poisonous plan, he just wanted to use the Wa people to arrest Li Sui'er.

Damn... Didn't Luo Qianhu and Guo Tou make all the preparations?Why did he still follow the other party's way.Is Zhang Yunxiu's mind too smart, or are our people too stupid to be as good as others?Wang Xu was cursing in her heart, but she had no choice but to ride her horse and give chase.He didn't dare to chase too closely, lest he be attacked by the Jurchen in front of him. He is alone now, and he is really outnumbered, so he can only prioritize his own preservation.

But the strange thing is that the group of Jurchens apparently noticed that Wang Xu was following them, but they didn't turn around to attack him. Aren't they afraid that Wang Xu would find out where they were hiding and send someone to surround them?Wang Xu's flying eagle has been following him high in the sky above his head, as long as he blows the whistle, the flying eagle will only send a message for a moment.

The group of Jurchens headed north, but towards the west, still headed towards the upper reaches of the Linjin River.Twenty miles further along this direction, there is a village called "Wenshanyi".This village is located in the canyon depression between the mountains along the river in the west and the high mountains in the north. There is a gap in the northwest corner of the village, that is, the corner between the West Mountain and the North Mountain, which leads directly to the Linjin River.

Wang Xu followed them to the barren fields south of Wenshan Township. The Jurchens suddenly turned around and attacked him. They shot arrows at Wang Xu. Chase.The Jurchens didn't come up to kill them all, it seemed that forcing Wang Xu back was their goal.

These Jurchens seem to be going to the Wenshan town ahead to rest.It's just that the terrain of Wenshan City is too... not conducive to escape. There are only two ways to go out of the river in the northwest and retreat to the southeast. It is equivalent to being imprisoned here, unable to escape at all.Unless they climbed over the mountains in the north and fled into the deep mountains, that would be a nightmare for the cavalry, and they would probably be surrounded and chased by infantry familiar with the mountains soon.

It's not that the Jurchens don't understand the impact of terrain on the battle situation. It's a matter of life and death. How could they choose such a place as their foothold?

Confused, Wang Xu watched the Jurchens' team enter the village. He waited until the distance was almost widened before continuing to ride forward.No matter what, he couldn't let these Jurchens out of his field of vision.While waiting, he blew his whistle to call the flying eagle in the sky to land, quickly wrote a letter and put it in the eagle claw mailbox, and then threw the flying eagle away.

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Just when the logistics barracks was raided, Li Rusong led a cavalry regiment of more than 3000 soldiers, and a fierce battle broke out with the Japanese army in Bichi Hall.

Li Rusong thought of the strategy of using the weak to overcome the many in a relatively short period of time, and quickly sent an order to Zha Dashou's department.Since most of Li Rusong's headquarters were generals who accompanied him in battle all the year round, and had the strongest combat effectiveness, Li Rusong decided to personally lead an assault on the 3000 men of Awaya Jingxiong's troops deployed in the west of Lishiling.The Zha Da Shou Department rushed from the north to the south, attacking the Japanese army at the entrance of Xinyuandian, attracting the opponent's troops, and containing the enemy.

Most of Li Rusong's troops came fiercely, and the cavalry charged forward, rolling up a large cloud of snow crystals and dust.After approaching the shooting range of Jingxiong Awaya, the troops of the Shenji Battalion assigned to the vanguard and subordinate to the deputy Qianhu Zhang Mi took the lead in deploying the powerful crossbow specially developed by the Shenji Battalion, and shot at the enemy with the Shenji arrows .Although the Japanese army was prepared for the ferocious Ming army, they were organized enough to shoot at each other with matchlock guns.But the opponent's crossbow reloaded extremely fast, with extremely powerful arrows and strong penetrating power, which was clearly better than the slow reloading and poorly aimed arquebus.In addition, the Ming army took advantage of the momentum to charge with cavalry, and the team was dispersed immediately. The Japanese army of Keiyu Awaya's department was an infantry regiment composed of ashigaru.

The Ming army took advantage of the victory to pursue, but because Li Rusong did not know the previous situation and was not familiar with the terrain, he fell into a trap.The hills on both sides of the pass are also bowl-shaped. When the Ming army moved forward, the left flank was exposed to the hills of Xinyuandian and the protrusion of Lishiling. Charged down the mountain and attacked Li Rusong's left wing.Zha Dashou, who originally attracted and restrained the enemy troops at the entrance of the Xinyuandian, had few people and was really powerless, and the attack range could not cover the position where Inoue Jingzhen was stationed.As a result, Li Rusong's department received a sudden shock.Taking this opportunity, Jingxiong Awaya, who was defeated on Lishiling, also led his army to counterattack, and Li Rusong was caught in several times of Japanese attack.

Because the Japanese army always suspected that there were more Ming troops coming from the rear, the commander-in-chief Takakage Kobayakawa ordered 5000 people from Hidebo Kobayakawa, Motoyasu Mori, and Hiroshi Chikushi to go out from the right side of the hill in Xinindian and stand against the Zhada Shou Leading the artillery of the army to shoot, they rushed forward and rushed towards Wang Kexian.Takakage Kobayakawa's headquarters replaced Keio Awaya's department, and Munemo Tachibana's department replaced Kesada Inoue's department, maintaining the suppression of Li Rusong's vanguard.Taking advantage of the momentum, Awaya Jingxiong and Inoue Jingzhen went northward, approaching a position about [-] feet away from the suburbs of Gaoyang, and detoured to the western pass of Bichiguan, trying to outflank the Ming army.Li Rusong's original plan to outflank the Japanese army was aborted, but was suppressed by the Japanese army with their superior numbers, and they forcibly circled back and outflanked the Japanese army.

Seeing the strength of the Japanese army, Li Rusong personally went to the rear and retreated to Wangkexian.The Japanese army's suspicions were not groundless. At this time, there was indeed a support force from the Ming army, which was Yang Yuan's department, which came immediately after the Shenji Battalion and Liaodong [-] support troops.

The 6000 members of Yang Yuan's department were like timely charcoal, which solved Li Rusong's urgent needs.Li Rusong immediately ordered Marshal Yang's army to block the pass between Wangkexian and Gaoyang to prevent the Japanese army from continuing to go north.At this time, Ukita Hideka's striker Togawa Tatsuan also led his army to Lishiling, and there was a huge crowd.Seeing that the reinforcements from the Japanese army continued to arrive, the [-] Ming army and the [-] Japanese army were crowded in the narrow valley. The Japanese army could not take advantage of the iron artillery, and the Ming army cavalry could not charge, so they could only dismount and fight on foot.The outcome is basically determined by the fight of the sword.The sabers of the Ming army were short and straight, with strong steel, and were used for piercing and piercing armor; while the Japanese swords of the Japanese army were long, curved, and more flexible, and were used for chopping and swinging.When the two sides confronted each other, the weapons of the Ming army were at a disadvantage.

The fierce hand-to-hand combat lasted until nearly noon, and the Japanese army, which had an advantage in strength and weapons, had already begun to force Li Rusong's troops to retreat.The weather was still bright in the morning, but it was covered with dark clouds near noon, and then there was a sudden heavy rain in the sky, which made the battle even more difficult.Li Rusong realized that once he was forced to withdraw from the canyon, the Japanese army's matchlock guns would take advantage.In addition, the Japanese army still had roundabout troops on both sides to encircle his rear flanks. Li Rusong knew that he had lost the battle and could no longer love to fight.This battle was fought until the evening, and night was about to fall. Facing the retreating Ming army in embarrassment, Takakage Kobayakawa did not continue to pursue.

In this battle, the Japanese army captured six thousand heads of the Ming army.Li Rusong was wounded and almost died under the guns of the Japanese army.

It was night, and the torrential rain in the afternoon gradually subsided. Although they won the battle, the Japanese army, who was not happy, retreated back to the burnt-to-scorched Wangjing City to rest in a mess.Earlier, there were Koreans in the city who resisted and set fires everywhere in the city, causing many buildings in Wangjing City to be burned down.And at the same time that the Japanese army withdrew, a small group of people in the city left the city and rushed towards the north.The leader covered his head and hid his hair tightly under the felt hat. Although he was wearing Han costumes, he could still see the facial features of the nomadic grassland peoples in the north.

This person is Shuerhaqi, and beside Shuerhaqi, there is a thin man wearing a bamboo hat and covering the lower half of his face.He followed Shuerhaqi closely on his horse, besides them, there were six followers left in the small group.In the darkness, the eight-member team rushed towards the north where the Japanese army and the Ming army had previously fought with nervous expressions.

About a quarter of an hour later, they rushed to the vicinity of the Bishou Pavilion, bypassed the roadblocks set up by the Ming army, and continued northward.Another quarter of an hour later, they galloped to the vicinity of Huiyin Ridge, and began to walk through Huiyin Ridge on the mountain road.Two quarters of an hour later, they crossed Huiyin Ridge and rushed to the vicinity of Paju, where they found Pan, a tributary of the Imjin River, an unswept battlefield left after the fierce battle in the morning.The corpses of the Ming army and the Japanese army are all there, but at this moment it is already a dead place filled with gunpowder smoke.

There were beasts that came out at night to gnaw on the corpses to fill their stomachs. Suddenly they heard the sound of horseshoes, and the beasts ran away in fright.The eight-man horse team continued to move forward, and soon came to the canyon where the logistics barracks were ambushed before. This is also a tragic battlefield, with corpses strewn all over the field, and the ground is covered with frozen blood, which glows strangely red under the light of the torches in their hands. Light.

"He went further north?" Shuerhaqi asked the follower who led the team.

"Yes, at that time, A Linbao and I had been observing the battle situation on the mountain. Suddenly, the Jurchens who came from nowhere unexpectedly attacked the Japanese army that was about to succeed. As a result, the Japanese army was defeated in large numbers. The carriage was robbed. I discussed it with A Linbao and asked him to keep an eye on it and leave marks along the way, and I hurried back to report it." The follower said.

"How could it be the Jurchens? Could it be the Haixi Jurchens?" Shuerhaqi frowned.

"Yes, yes, yes, I think it looks like Haixi, I can tell from the hair accessories." The follower agreed.

"No... Haixi Jurchen doesn't have the information channel to know where Li Sui'er is, let alone what Li Sui'er means, so it is absolutely impossible to come to North Korea to snatch Li Sui'er. I'm afraid... your elder brother did it." Yes, after all, you have reported all the information about us on the front line to your elder brother in detail." Unexpectedly, the thin man wearing a bamboo hat and covering the lower half of his face spoke out, refuting Shuerhaqi's guess .

Shuerhaqi said angrily: "Nonsense! My elder brother is very good, why are you robbing us?"

"It is because we are about to succeed that he has to take Li Sui'er as soon as possible. The picture is with him, and he got Li Sui'er again. What do you think... what do we need?"

Shuerhaqi's face turned pale, but then he jumped into a rage, and he drew his knife to chop the thin man wearing a bamboo hat and masking his face.

"Zhang Yunxiu! Don't talk nonsense to provoke my relationship with my brother, I will kill you with one knife!"

"Hehe, we all have seen your elder brother's attitude towards you. Before he came out, he was arguing with you about women. Is the relationship between you two really good? You caused a lot of trouble for the Jianzhou Jurchens in Beijing. , I’m afraid your elder brother hates you so much. Anyway, my ugly words are up front, and it’s up to you whether you believe it or not.” The skinny man wearing a hat and mask is Zhang Yunxiu, facing the enraged Shuerhaqi, He didn't retreat at all, and sneered calmly.

Shuerhaqi was short of breath and his chest heaved violently, but he finally suppressed his rage.He said angrily:

"Then you say, what should we do? We were going to capture Li Sui'er with the help of the Japanese army. Now we are being attacked horizontally. There are not a few people in that group, and we are not enough. but."

"Who said we're going to grab it? Let's follow the mark left by A Lin and continue to search. When we find it, I will naturally surrender without a fight." He took out a cork from his arms Holding the bamboo tube, he shook it with his fingertips, and the eyes exposed under the brim of the bamboo hat slowly narrowed into slits.