The commander of the First Army was promoted by Cao Wenyao, commander of the Guards Division, and Wu Fuming took over as the commander of the division.

After the reorganization order was issued, the number of officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army under the First Army reached more than 36,000, and the Japanese army in front of the shogunate was about 80,000.

The Japanese attack on Nara did not go well, thousands of casualties, and the Ming ** team landed in Osaka, its tactics were novel, the guns were sharp, and the traditional tactics of the Japanese army were difficult to defeat the enemy, so they had to shrink their forces and retreat to the Kyoto line, thus forcing the Ming ** team to stretch the logistics supply line, looking for fighters in order to annihilate the Ming ** team that might be alone in depth.

The shogunate's 206 feudal domains were large and small, except for more than 20 "rebel domains" such as Satsuma Shimazu and Hizen Arima, and the rest of the feudal domains had received orders from the shogunate to transfer troops.

The strong of these large and small feudal states can send thousands of troops, and the weak ones are only hundreds or even dozens. Compared with Huang Ming, it is generally as Wei Gonggong said, the county magistrate tree flag, the town mayor blows the trumpet, and the village chief comes to fight.

The feudal domains of Kyoto and the vicinity of Edo, that is, the family feudal states of the Tokugawa family, had already raised troops, and because their fiefdoms were near, they were able to move quickly and mobilize about 30,000 feudal troops to help in the war.

Most of the feudal states that had been entitled, loyal to the Quartet with Tokugawa Ieyasu, responded to the shogunate's call, but because the "rebel domains" such as Satsuma and Hizen cut off north-south communications, they were unable to assemble in Kyoto for a while.

More of the feudal states were the daimyo who surrendered to the shogunate during the war, and these people were unable to gain the trust of the shogunate, and their fiefdoms were generally in remote areas, so these feudal states almost did not support the shogunate. The rhetoric of "defeatism" prevails in its territory.

Even if they finally chose to send troops to support the shogunate, they would face the obstruction of the fallen shogunate army and the "rebel domain" in the territory, and they would not be able to help the shogunate fight against the Ming ** team.

Tokugawa Hidetada was also deeply aware of this, so he did not severely urge those distant feudal clans after issuing the order to transfer troops.

At this time, the fact that the Yuan Clans were able not to openly oppose the Zhengyi General was the greatest victory for Xiuzhong.

The Battle of Nara was not well known to the Imperial Court in Kyoto, and even if the young emperor was his son-in-law who insisted on marrying his daughter, Hidetada still had no intention of revealing the slightest war movement to Gomizuo.

The successive reinforcements of the near domain strengthened Xiuzhong's confidence in the decisive battle in Kyoto, but after setting the retreat plan, Xiuzhong stubbornly held the face of the general who could not retreat easily, and imagined that he could resist the Ming ** team for a few more days and buy time for the reinforcements of the feudal army in various places, so he refused to order the general retreat.

Even on the 26th, Hidetada personally commanded the Banner, the general's Guards Samurai Corps, to launch a 10,000-man offensive against Nara's Ming Army, and after paying the lives of more than 100 Guards samurai, Hidetada had to order the withdrawal of troops.

On the 29th, Xiuzhong finally ordered the entire front to retreat.

However, Xiuzhong's death delayed the retreat, resulting in a great chaos in the Japanese troops that should have retreated immediately on the front line, and some Japanese troops received the retreat too late, in order to avoid being surrounded by the Ming army, some Japanese generals ordered their subordinates to organize their own retreat.

When the final retreat was made, because the order of retreat of the various troops was not explained, more than 80,000 soldiers of the central army of the shogunate crowded on the two roads leading to Kyoto, and not only did the retreat become congested, but also suffered a strong blow from the Ming ** team, which was unspeakably miserable.

The Great Retreat soon turned into a Great Rout.

The 5th Infantry Wing of the Guards Division, which was stationed east of Nara and along the line of Shumachi, decisively seized the fighters and followed the retreating Japanese troops without the order of the division, and advanced deep into Kyoto.

Under the command of Wing Commander Ding Xiaogong, the 5th Infantry Wing captured Uji, an important passage between Nara and Kyoto, and the villa of the Japanese nobles during the Heian period, in two days. In order to keep warm, the 5th Infantry Wing demolished the Uji Meiseki Byodoin Temple and the Upper Shrine.

Subsequently, the 5th Infantry Wing advanced in the direction of Kyoto with great speed, and two young officers of the 2nd Brigade at the forefront of the battle were in contention to agree that whoever killed the most would-be the elder brother.

One of them is Cui Yuanji of 100 households, and the other is 100 households with hemp.

Cui Yuanji was born in the former Emperor Ming Jinzhou Guard, and Youma was born in the Iron Spear Ashigaru of the Second Army of the former Japanese invasion of Korea.

In the process of competition, Cui Yuanji first killed 36 retreating Japanese soldiers, and Youma was a little second, only 25 people were killed.

In Kikai Yoshima, southeast of Kyoto, the two were temporarily separated, and each moved with the troops. The next day, Choi Won-gil heard that Youma had surrounded a group of Japanese soldiers in an unnamed village, and took the lead in rushing in and killing six Japanese soldiers. Not to be outdone, Cui Yuanji immediately led his subordinates to search the nearby villages and killed 18 of the fallen Japanese soldiers.

Eventually, the 5th Infantry Wing halted its advance at Kami-Daigo, only a few dozen miles from Kyoto, and at this time Choi Yuanji and Arima had killed 78 and 62 Japanese soldiers respectively.

Youma quickly admitted defeat, but proposed a new competition: "Then, this time I lost, but, in the upcoming battle of Kyoto, I agreed with my brother that whoever enters Kyoto first will have the other party's loot!" ”

"I've been a hundred households for more than two years, and I haven't been able to rise, whether I can be a thousand households this time depends on the battle of Kyoto!"

Cui Yuanji laughed and took the new competitive bet.

On the Japanese side, because of the chaotic rout, thousands of casualties were caused by the chaos of the rout, and the whereabouts of about 10,000 troops were unknown.

Even, because of his bravery, Oda Nobunaga was called "the general of both flowers and fruits", by Toyotomi Hideyoshi called "Japan's first warrior in ancient and modern times", and known as "Mikawa Flying General", "Oni no Heihachi", "Japan's Zhang Fei", "Sengoku No. 1 Fierce General", Honda Tadamasa's son Honda Tadamasa also disappeared when he retreated.

Another general, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the Ieyasu era, the son of Naomasa Ii, was captured by the Ming ** team.

The capture of Naokatsu Ii was entirely accidental, as his Japanese troops were pursued by the 6th Infantry Wing of the Imperial Guards Division during their retreat, and a fierce battle ensued at Fudogawa.

Naokakatsu Ii led an elite shogunate, not only more than 1,000 banners, but also more than 4,000 royal families, equipped with a large number of iron guns and cannons, causing great casualties to the 6th Infantry Wing of the Imperial Army.

However, under the command and attack of Wing Commander Li Yanzhao without hesitation, the 6th Infantry Wing still broke through the Ii Naokuma Division. In the fierce battle, Naokatsu Ii was hit by the Imperial Army's big pole. In the chaos, his subordinates desperately tried to save Jing Yi, but in the end they couldn't.

Jing Yi Naokumu was captured by a Mongolian imperial army soldier named Pi Mazi, and after the war, Pi Mazi was promoted to the general banner for his merits.

The unauthorized pursuit of the 5th Infantry Wing set off a chain reaction in which the Guards Division and the entire 1st Army were drawn up by the actions of the 5th Infantry Wing, and then the entire line crossed Nara and advanced towards Kyoto.

Kyoto is in an emergency, Guanzhong is in an emergency, and Japan is in an emergency!