The Kobayakawa soldiers surrounded Shihyeon, and all armies responded to the aid of the battle

A few days later, the news of asking for merit to the soldiers of the Ming army came out, and it turned out that there were people who went to the city first, and the first credit went to Yang Yuan of the Northern Army. Before the battle of Pyongyang, Li Rusong ordered the fighter to be cut in order to prevent the head from being cut and the fighter plane was delayed, but the order was not strictly implemented, and the southern army was in front of the northern army in the back, which led to the fact that after the war, the southerners were the first to fight, and the northerners had more heads. The first ascension was attributed to the Northern Army, which was diametrically opposed to the previous promises to the Southern Army, and the generals of the Southern Army, such as Qi Jin, Wu Weizhong, and Luo Shangzhi, accused Li Rusong of favoring the Northern Army and lying about his military exploits. The soldiers of the southern army were often resentful, and they quarreled with the northern army from time to time.

Therefore, Song Yingchang asked Li Rusong: "Obviously, the southern soldiers took the lead in the city to capture the flag, how could Zu Chengxun not know?" The bloody battles of the city gates and even the Peony Peak are all the southern soldiers charging forward, fighting desperately, why do the exploits of the northern soldiers report all the merits? Li Rusong explained: "After a little Rong Bing, according to the last general, the first to break the city should be Yang Yuan's artillery hole to open the Seven Star Gate, as for the southern soldiers to go to the city first, it is indeed a thing, but the advanced city is actually the northern army, the details of the opinions are different, each has its own opinion, the end of the general has to remember that each has the merit of the city, and the first credit is attributed to Yang Yuan." And the Ming Dynasty recorded merit with the first level, and now the first level is mostly obtained by the Northern Army, and the last general has to do so, please observe it slightly. ”

Song Yingchang ordered: "Before the war, you had made a strict order to cut off the head, but the military order could not be implemented, but it led to this situation, you as a commander lost face and was caught in it. Li Rusong persuaded: "After the strategy, the last general should be careful that there are many northern armies in the whole army, if the re-determination of merit may cause resentment in the northern army, most of the generals at all levels of the northern army belong to generals' families, and it is easy to affect the frontier officers, can you suspend your actions?" ”

Song Yingchang saw Li Rusong talking about the influence of the northern army, so he replied: "The southern army is not a small number of troops, and the southern soldiers are well aware of the tactics and habits of the Japanese invaders, so this battle is indispensable. The northern and southern armies are deeply relied on by the emperor, but the southern army has also trained the northern army, and many of the senior members of the DPRK and China have trusted the southern soldiers. Li Rusong took the order.

The king of North Korea, Li Hao, held a celebration banquet to reward the Ming army, Liu Chenglong attended to congratulate, Li Rusong asked Liu Chenglong to bow to him and toast to the north, Liu Chenglong was stunned, Li Dexin accused: "What kind of etiquette is this, the north toast is the courtier's gift to the monarch, what does the admiral mean?!" ”

The deputy general Zhang Shijue got up and said: "The Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of Korea, and our Ming army has traveled thousands of miles to expel the Japanese Kou for you, where can you compare to your monarch!" Li Dexin replied: "No matter how meritorious the envoy of the kingdom is, he cannot be compared with the monarch, and can only occupy the eastern position, and your demands are in contempt for the Joseon royal family and the imperial court!" ”

Zu Chengxun sneered: "Who saved the royal family and the imperial court that were about to perish? If I don't send reinforcements, will this despised royal family and court still exist? Li Rusong's face was happy, and he asked Liu Chenglong if he could toast with a domineering appearance? Liu Chenglong said: "I am willing to give my life to the people who helped North Korea repel the Japanese invaders, and it is naturally not a problem to toast from the north." ”

After that, Liu Chenglong untied his clothes, showed people in white clothes and said to Li Rusong: "You can't go against the courtesies of the monarch and your subordinates, and it is difficult to toast north as a minister of North Korea, so I have to thank the kindness of the country as a Korean people." Liu Chenglong was about to kneel down and toast, Li Rusong saw that he was about to fall into injustice, and hurriedly helped Liu Chenglong up and said with a smile: "This will be just a joke, and I am impressed by the loyalty of the master." Please get up and take your seats. ”

Liu Chenglong got up and read: "Raise troops to Jianggan at night in order to say that the three Koreas are not safe." Tomorrow's Sunday hangs the festival report, and Weichen releases the wine glass at night. The murderous spirit is still strong in spring, and the demon atmosphere is cold. Talking and laughing dare to say that it is not a chance to win, and often remember crossing the saddle in dreams. Li Rusong was quite surprised, because what Liu Chenglong read was the poem that Li Rusong gave him the inscription fan. Liu Chenglong said: "The admiral mentioned in the poem is always ready to go out in his dreams, and how can he forget his first determination and only care about feasting and drinking in the past few days. ”

Li Rusong explained: "The general has not forgotten, but he was disturbed by the military rations, tens of thousands of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty need a lot of military rations, and the rear grain trucks have not yet arrived. If we can't win it in one fell swoop, we will definitely hold each other, and then the problem of military rations will be even more imminent. I heard that North Korea has no food to collect, do you know that you can do it? Liu Chenglong promised to block his life and complete the preparation of food.

However, it was difficult for the local Joseon to collect enough grain for the Ming army, so Liu Chenglong discussed with Gwanghaejun and Zheng Zhuo to collect reserve grain supplies from various academies and relatives of the king. Gwanghae-kun also believes that the seowon and the clan are the most favored, and this national disaster is also the time for the clan to repay the favor. In addition, Liu Chenglong suggested that those who are willing to contribute food should be given empty name posts, that is, appointment certificates for those who have made meritorious contributions or contributed money and property. Guang Haijun thought that this was a betrayal of the official mantle and did not agree. Liu Chenglong persuaded bitterly: "The official position obtained is only the lowest level and has no real power, and those who have contributed to the country must be compensated accordingly." Guang Haijun thought about it again and again, so he had to play first.

After the Joseon King Li Hao received the report, Jin Guiren was worried that the clan relatives had done their best for the royal family, and if they collected grain again, they would lose their clan relatives and asked Li Hao how to reply? Seeing that Li Hao was ready to approve the partition of the court, I don't know what the reason was? Li Hao said: "Let the prince go to the clan to collect grain, the clan will oppose the fruitless will be centrifuged to the prince, and the upper performance will be changed to the dynasty to worship the spiritual seat." The other three capitals are about to be recovered, and the widows can also prepare for the return of the capital, and then abolish the division of the dynasty on the grounds of preparation for the return of the capital and the appeal of the clan, and the two dynasties will be unified. Then the affairs of the state will be ruled by the widows. The golden nobleman said no more.

Sure enough, the matter of requisitioning grain caused strong opposition from the clansmen, and after Guanghaijun forced the clansmen to hand over the grain, the clansmen went up one after another, and Li Hao took the opportunity to issue a royal decree to the branch dynasty to merge the two dynasties in Dingzhou. Gwanghae-jun was extremely dissatisfied with this: "Until now, I have taken the place of the Lord to lead the rebel army and the official army to fight against the Japanese and gain the hearts of the people. What the Lord cannot do is done by the division of the dynasty led by me, the son of the world, and the people's hearts are divided into dynasties and not in the great dynasty, so how can they follow the Lord? ”

Zheng Zhuo persuaded: "Your Majesty, please calm down, Your Majesty and the Fen Dynasty just did what they had to do." Your Majesty is to overcome the national crisis and lead the division of the dynasty, not to compete with the Lord for the hearts of the people, aren't you afraid? I am afraid that the Lord will abolish the division of the dynasty and then abolish your throne. Guanghaijun suddenly realized, and hurriedly said that Fang Cai's words were excited and nonsense, Zheng Zhuo said: "The people's hearts have been turned to the palace, and the palace should not be greedy anymore, please obey the king's orders." In time, opportunities will come. ”

Guang Haijun smiled: "I am neither a sister-in-law nor the eldest son, and I have never been loved by the Lord, so it is even more difficult to be canonized by the Ming Dynasty, how can the opportunity come to me." Gwanghae-kun's frustration was all on his face. After that, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, led the great dynasty to Dingzhou and merged with the sub-dynasty, and promoted Liu Chenglong to the three provincial envoys.

In order to prepare for the recovery of Hanyang, on the 26th of January, Li Rusong ordered Zha Dashou and Zu Chengxun to lead 3,000 troops, and reconnoiter in the direction of Hanyang with Gao Yanbo, the Korean defense envoy. And the Japanese army also sent by Kato Kotai, Maeno Nagayasu led by more than 150 people of the exploration team, the two armies encountered immediately into the battle, the Ming cavalry immediately decided to charge the Japanese army, the Ming army on the horse held a three-eyed gun and the Japanese army fired, both sides had each other dead and wounded, but the two armies were too close, the Ming army iron cavalry could easily rush into the Japanese formation, Kato Kotai reorganized the formation to launch a counterattack, the Ming general Zu Chengxun also led the troops to take the lead in the melee with the Japanese army, the Japanese army suffered more than 100 casualties, Kato Kotai fled back to Hanyang.

Cha Da ordered the troops to rest for a while, and discussed with Zu Chengxun: "I happened to meet the Japanese reconnaissance team, it can be seen that the Japanese are also deploying defenses, and they are already beginning to prepare, and there should be a lot of Japanese soldiers stationed in Hanyang. Zu Chengxun said: "In my opinion, we should continue to reconnoiter to Hanyang and find out how many troops the Japanese have stationed in Hanyang before we can go back and report to the military gate, and if the enemy brigade attacks, our army will immediately withdraw." So the Ming army continued to advance in the direction of Hanyang.

The Japanese army in Hanyang was rewarded, and Kobayakawa Takakei immediately offered a plan: "The vanguard exploration team of the Ming army has arrived near Hanyang, and it should seize the fighters, concentrate its forces to quickly annihilate this Ming army, and then set up an ambush on the main road, and it will definitely be able to win a big victory." The advance Ming army was only 3,000, and if I went out into battle, I would not only be able to annihilate it immediately. You can also set up an ambush and hit the main force of the Ming army subsequently! ”

Kuroda Kanbei agreed: "Li Rusong will definitely send troops to investigate again when he sees that the expedition team has not returned for a long time. ”

In this regard, Kobayakawa Takakei said again: "What the officers and soldiers said is extremely true, if the Ming army is concerned and does not dare to trade and will not come out, we can avoid the real and disrupt its deployment, and the leading power is in my hands." If the Ming army is angry, it will be in an ambush in the elite, and the main force will be greatly damaged, and our army will be able to take advantage thereafter. The Ming army has been in a state of great strength since the victory over Konishi Yukinaga, and it is the time of arrogance, so we should be dismissive, and if I see that several exploration teams have not returned for a long time, I think they should immediately lead the elite to attack it, and if this is the case, it is exactly what I want. "Ukita Hideya is overjoyed.

20,000 Japanese troops poured out of Hanyang and set up an outpost in Hongjewon. Ming General Cha Dashou was deeply disturbed when he saw a large number of Japanese troops leaving the city, and before he could retreat, he first retreated to the north of Hanyang, between Tonseokhyeon and Bihokan, and built fortifications around him with artillery and chariots, and made every effort to prepare for war.

Kobayakawa Takakei organized four formations, the first formation was led by Tachibana Muneshige and Takahashi Tongzeng with 3,000 people, the second formation was led by Kobayakawa Takakei with 8,000 people, the third formation was led by Kobayakawa Hideho, Mori Motoyasu, and Chikushi Hiromon with 5,000 people, and the fourth formation was led by Yoshikawa Hiroke with 4,000 people.

On the 27th, the old man of the Tachibana family led the team to find traces of the Ming army brigade in the north of Wangjing, and immediately reported back to the team. After Tachibana Soshige led his army to arrive, due to the heavy fog, Tachibana's army began to eat breakfast and lined up to attack the Ming army. Cha Da was ordered to fire artillery fire in unison, blockading the front line with scattered bullets, the artillery range was far above the Japanese arquebus, the Japanese army was not standing on the artillery fire, the formation was scattered, Zu Chengxun took the opportunity to lead the cavalry from both wings to kill, crushing the front of the Japanese army. Cha Dashou ordered to stop the pursuit, strengthen the defense, and send someone to report to Li Rusong Pegasus.

Li Rusong saw that Cha Dashou and Zu Chengxun had not returned for a long time, and secretly shouted that it was not good. Immediately, he and his fifth brother Li Rumei led a group of generals to lead a thousand fine cavalry to set off, and the general Yang Yuan led a thousand fine cavalry to follow up, and then ordered the second brother Li Rubai to lead the main force of Liaodong to follow up. Shi Cha Dashou and Zu Chengxun struggled to support in the Biho Pavilion, the position was almost broken through several times, seeing that the ammunition was about to run out, hundreds of soldiers were killed, and many wounded, just when the position was about to collapse, Li Rusong led a thousand elite cavalry to rush to the enemy position, and the Japanese front was shaken.

The second main force led by Kobayakawa had not yet arrived, and only Kobayakawa Takakei and his flag were the first to arrive. Tachibana Soshige hurriedly greeted him, and Kobayakawa Takashi heard that Li Rusong had only led more than 1,000 people to arrive, and he was overjoyed: "There are only 1,000 reinforcements?" Li Rusong, the chief general of the Ming army, was so rash, God help me. Killing one Li Rusong is far better than killing more than a dozen Ming army generals, and it is better than killing more than 10,000 soldiers. The loss of the main general of the Ming army will inevitably collapse in a short period of time, and then it will be time to counterattack. The 3,000 soldiers of the Tachibana family are enough to match the 10,000 of his family, Tachibana Zongmao, you have the name of the unparalleled in the West, and the opposite side is also the unparalleled general of the Ming Dynasty, you have the courage to take the head of Li Rusong! Tachibana Soshige was happy to go, and Kobayakawa Takakei immediately personally supervised the battle and ordered the whole army to encircle, and strictly ordered his retainer Tachibana Soshige's entire army to go out and kill Li Rusong. Tachibana Soshige took the order.

The Japanese army began to encircle the Ming army, Tachibana Soshige ordered ten o'clock Lianjiu to lead 500 troops to wedge the enemy front and then retreat, luring Li Rusong to enter the field, Tachibana Somao led the main force around the right flank of the Ming army to attack, but at ten o'clock Lianjiu was ready to withdraw, the Ono Nariyuki team who was in charge of receiving it was blocked by the Ming artillery, and after a hard battle, it broke into the rendezvous and Tachibana Muneshige alternately attacked Li Rusong's department.

Ono Nariyuki is a famous golden helmet warrior under Kobayakaigawa, the horse roared out and went straight to Li Rusong, Li Rusong personally followed Li Yousheng to hurriedly escort and cover Li Rusong, Li Yousheng led the horse to counterattack in the Ono Nariyuki battle, and was pulled down by the Japanese army with a hook before two rounds and dismounted, cut into several sections. Li Rusong's fifth brother Li Rumei saw that Li Yousheng was killed in battle, so he shot Ono Chengxing with a bow and an arrow in the distance. The Japanese general Anton Changjiu saw that Ono Chengxing was killed, and he was furious and urged the war horse to rampage, slashing and killing many people in the Ming army, Li Rumei once again pierced Yang with an arrow and shot in the throat, and Anton Changjiu fell from his horse and died.

Another fierce general of the Japanese army, Xiao Chuancheng, was so heavy that he fought with the guerrilla general Li Youyi, and was killed by Li Youyi after seven or eight rounds of fighting, but Li Youyi was also accidentally pulled off his horse by a hook and pierced by more than a dozen spears. Li Rusong was also furious, patted the horse and led the army to rush the enemy again, the Japanese general Ono Ichiro came to stop and was cut off with a knife, and the Japanese general caught up with Li Rusong for a long time to fight fiercely for a while, but was shot in the left chest by Li Rumei with an arrow, and fell off the horse. After the bloody battle, Li Rusong met with Zha Dashou and Zu Chengxun to prepare for a breakthrough, and Kobayakawa Takakei saw this and ordered the front army to fight to the death, and the follow-up troops accelerated their advance.

Zu Chengxun took the lead, took the lead, successively fought in the chaos of the army to kill the Japanese general Kuno Shigekatsu, Ikebe Yongsheng, Cha Da was picked by the gun of the Japanese general Anton Xingzhen, the Japanese armor is mostly bamboo armor, compared with the Ming army iron armor protection degree is low, the Japanese iron artillery in the melee is not easy to play, and it is difficult to concentrate firepower in a few, coupled with the narrow battlefield area, most of the Japanese army is difficult to spread out immediately, only marching in batches. The Ming army is tall and big, full of momentum and holds firearms such as three-eyed guns, abduction guns, horse franc machines, and god machine arrows, and the combat power is extremely strong, and the soldiers of the Ming army are outnumbered and fight bloodily.

At the same time, Song Yingchang heard that Li Rusong might fall into an ambush, and Song Yingchang was frightened: "Li Rusong's troops are insufficient, and the lone army is surrounded as a trap set by the Japanese invaders." The enemy is prepared, and if the Japanese know that Li Rusong is close in front of them, they will be desperate to take his life. Yuan Huang replied: "What Jing Luo said is extremely true, if the admiral is captured and killed, it will be extremely unfavorable to our army in the future. Song Yingchang asked: "What is Li Rusong's department?" What are the military orders before departure? Praise painting Liu Huangshang replied: "In addition to the Liaodong Army, the chief military officer also ordered Yang Yuan and Li Rubai to follow up with the leading troops, and all the Li family's personal soldiers have been dispatched. ”

Song Yingchang ordered: "The situation is urgent and urgent, if the Japanese know that Li Rusong is there, they will definitely go out of all armies, and in addition to the reinforcements of our army, the Korean troops in various places need to block it." In addition, the reinforcements of our army must be carried out with great fanfare, so as to confuse the Japanese invaders into thinking that our army has been dispatched with all their troops, and the enemy will withdraw if they do not dare to fight a decisive battle easily, so as to save Li Rusong's life. Later, Song Yingchang was impatient and ordered the Ming army and the Korean army to rescue Li Rusong's department at all costs.

Liu Chenglong heard that Li Rusong was surrounded, and after receiving Song Yingchang's order, he immediately ordered Marshal Jin Mingyuan and Li Yi to lead 3,000 troops to Gyeonggi Province to rescue. Liu Chenglong persuaded: "When our country is about to face destruction, the Ming army has come thousands of miles to rescue, and now the Ming army is under siege, how can we not save it, can we rescue Li Rusong is not in us but in the Ming army itself, but we in North Korea must go all out, as long as we can effectively block the Japanese reinforcements and delay." "Jin Mingyuan is commanded.

Yoo Sung-ryong also sent a message to the nearby Korean officers and rebels to draw troops to advance to Gyeonggi. After receiving the order, the Korean general Kwon Li sighed to his subordinates: "I didn't expect the Ming army to be so embarrassed, I heard that the Ming army was arrogant and arrogant after coming, but after all, the heavenly soldiers of the kingdom, as well as the request of the envoy of the capital, should still attack and rescue." In addition, I heard that the Japanese were constantly increasing their troops, and it seemed that they were determined to kill Li Rusong's head. Compared to the Ming army or the Japanese Kou, it is even more hateful, and I will never let the Japanese succeed! So Quan Li also led 3,000 troops to help.

The leader of the Gyeonggi Provincial Volunteer Army, Lee Yeon-bo, probed that the Japanese army was coming out of Hanyang one after another, and was puzzled, guessing that there must be a large-scale military operation, and planned to attack and disturb him. The subordinate speculated: "I heard that after the Ming army regained Pyongyang, the Japanese invaders suffered heavy losses, and the Japanese in all northern provinces were retreating, and they concentrated on Wang Jing one after another. Was this successive sortie to prevent the Ming army from attacking? Li Yanfu thinks it is reasonable: "Maybe it's not just to prevent an attack, it's also possible to be fighting, if so, our righteous army can't wait and see here, and we have to help kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!" ”

As he was talking, he received a message from Liu Chenglong, and Li Yanfu immediately ordered all the rebels to go out to block the Japanese and rescue Li Rusong. His subordinates advised him not to be invincible, Li Yanfu pushed him away, and taught sharply: "After the Japanese invaders, more troops will be dispatched, and the Ming army will come to the rescue of North Korea. If the Ming army is defeated because we sit idly by, we will vainly claim loyalty and be ashamed of the world. This battle must be fought to the end at the cost of your life! So Li Yanfu led the rebel army to attack.

The Japanese Ukita Hideya led the army to support, and ordered Kuroda Nagamasa to lead 5,000 troops to the front, Ishida Mitsunari, Masuda Nagamori, and Otani Yoshitsugu to lead 5,000 people to make the second formation, Kato Mitsuyasu and Maeno Nagayasu to lead 3,000 people to make the third formation, and Ukita Hideya to lead 8,000 people to the rear of the four formations. When the Japanese reinforcements left Hanyang and were blocked by the Gyeonggi rebels, Ishida Mitsunari reported to Ukita Hideya when he learned that several troops were advancing towards Gyeonggi again, and Hideya immediately ordered the third formation and half of the fourth formation to intercept it.

The Japanese reinforcements in Hanyang were blocked by the rebel army led by Li Yanfu, Kuroda Nagamasa was surprised that the rebel army would attack head-on, and immediately ordered the headquarters to face the battle, and then the second formation led by Ishida Mitsunari also followed up, and the rebels fought to the death until the entire army was almost wiped out, and Li Yanfu was rescued by his subordinates and evacuated from the battlefield. Kato Mitsuyasu and Maeno Nagayasu saw that the Korean army was attacking in three ways, and immediately set up a formation to intercept it, and it was difficult for Kim Myeong-won to advance lightly, Li Yi led the army to charge from the flank, and the Japanese melee was repulsed, Kwon Li was in a stalemate with the Japanese army's fourth formation, and the Korean army's combat strength was at a disadvantage compared to the Japanese front, and after a few moments of engagement, Korea retreated, and when the Japanese army was ready to turn around and continue to support the front, it was attacked by North Korea, so it had to continue to attack Kim Myeong-won and Kwon Li's department. And the Ming army was still in the midst of a bloody battle at this time.