Chapter 583: Decisive Battle of Nine Cloud Ridge (1)
Although the battlefield of the decisive battle was Jiuyunling, which was ten miles away from Seoul City, because it would be a battlefield where more than 600,000 people were fighting, the battlefield was very large, beyond the scope of ten miles, stretching from Jiuyunling to Seoul.
More than 20 miles away from Seoul, after an hour's march, Huang Degong, Shang Kexi and other 40,000 Ming troops have marched here, and they can enter the decisive battle area of Jiuyunling in less than ten miles.
"Newspaper"
"The front is close to Jiuyun Ridge, and the Korean army and the Japanese army, a total of 600,000 troops, are arrayed to meet our army!" The spies are quick to report.
Huang Degong nodded and ordered the army to pause its march.
"Bring the map of Jiuyunling!" Huang Degong commanded.
Soon, the guards found out the map of Jiuyunling and handed it over to Huang Degong.
Huang Degong and Shang Kexi dismounted, surveyed the map of Jiuyunling, and selected the direction in which they would attack.
"This is the high slope on the north side of Jiuyun Ridge, and it is also the highest place in Jiuyun Ridge, take this high slope first, build an artillery camp position on the high slope, and bombard most of the Jiuyun Ridge battlefield!" Huang Degong pointed to a place on the map and said.
Shang Kexi nodded and agreed with Huang Degong's decision.
After deciding on the direction of the primary attack, Huang Degong put away the map of Jiuyunling and continued to mount his horse and march in the direction of Jiuyunling.
About half an hour later, Jiuyunling appeared in Huang Degong's line of sight.
The vast Jiuyun Ridge is full of battle flags of the Korean army and the Japanese invaders fluttering, the camp of the Korean army and the Japanese army seems to be endless, and the entire Jiuyun Ridge stretches for more than ten miles, and it seems to be full of the figures of the Koreans and the Japanese invaders, and the black pressure is one after another.
"Dismount and form a formation!" Huang Degong calmly ordered.
The soldiers of the Third Army and the Eighteenth Army all dismounted, and in the current magnificent battlefield, as an attacker with an absolute inferiority in numbers, cavalry combat greatly limited the use of guns and artillery of the Third Army and the Eighteenth Army, and on the contrary, it was easier to defeat the huge Korean army and the Japanese army in foot combat.
The soldiers of the Third and Eighteenth Corps quickly formed an attack formation.
In Jiuyunling, the king of Joseon and the commander of the Japanese army, Tokugawa Jiagang, also received the news of the arrival of the Ming army in Jiuyunling.
"Is it true that the Ming army only came with an army of 40,000 men?" Tokugawa asked in disbelief.
"Yes, the spies only saw that the Ming army came with 40,000 people!" The scout general replied.
After receiving the reconfirmation of the scout generals, the king of Joseon and Tokugawa Iegang couldn't help frowning at the same time.
The king of Joseon was extremely angry, the Ming army was really arrogant, and they did not take their Korea too seriously, not only the king of Joseon, but also all the Korean generals and officials present had a kind of shame in their hearts.
Originally, they always thought that a large part of the reason why the Ming army temporarily stopped attacking in Pyongyang may be waiting for reinforcements, but they didn't expect that this was not the case, the Ming army knew that all the forces they had concentrated in Korea, and even the strong men of the whole country had gathered in Seoul, with more than 500,000 horses and horses, and 150,000 Japanese troops, these 6.7 million troops, the Ming army still dared to kill 40,000 troops to Seoul.
Tokugawa Jiagang was a little sarcastic, and also felt that the Ming army was too big, so he once thought that the head of the commander of the Ming army was not kicked by a donkey, could it be that the Ming army really thought that with only 40,000 horses, it could defeat the 650,000 allied forces of Japan and Korea in Jiuyunling?
You know, this is more than sixteen times the number of troops, even if a large part of North Korea is a rabble composed of strong men, but after all, there are a sea of people, even if one person can drown only 40,000 Ming troops with a mouthful of spit.
Tokugawa Iegang has always been very conceited and arrogant, but compared with the commander of the Ming army at this moment, he knows that he is greatly inferior, at least if it were him, he would never lead a mere 40,000 horses to fight with an enemy army 16 times his size.
Tokugawa Jiagang looked disdainful, the Ming army was so big, maybe he looked down on the Koreans, in fact, he also looked down on the Koreans, but Jiuyunling was not only Koreans, but also their 150,000 samurai in Great Japan, even if it was only their 150,000 samurai in Great Japan, it was nearly four times that of the Ming army, so he was already completely sure to defeat the Ming army.
After hundreds of thousands of Korean soldiers knew that the Ming army actually only came 40,000 people, their hearts were suddenly relieved, and their fear of the Ming army suddenly decreased a lot.
"Prepare to face the Ming army!" Tokugawa Ieoka said to the king of Joseon.
Although Tokugawa Iyogang was already thinking about how to deal a fatal blow to North Korea in the back and annex Korea after defeating the Ming army, it was still the first priority to defeat the Ming army first.
The king of Joseon nodded, and climbed a high slope with Tokugawa Iegang that overlooked half of the battlefield of Jiuunling.
The camp of the Ming army.
"According to the original plan, first capture the high slope on the north side of Jiuyun Ridge!" Huang Degong calmly ordered.
The position of the Ming army at this time was located on the northwest side of Jiuyun Ridge, not far from the high slope on the north side, only less than 700 meters away.
"This time, let my Eighteenth Army take the lead." Shang Kexi said.
"Yes." Huang Degong nodded, not caring about such a thing.
At this moment, the Third Army and the Eighteenth Army had already lined up their attack formations, just waiting for Huang Degong's order.
"Attack!" Huang Degong did not hesitate and immediately ordered an attack.
"Kill!" Shang Kexi led the Eighteenth Army to attack first, rushing to the high slope on the north side of Jiuyun Ridge, intending to occupy this place as quickly as possible.
At the moment when the Battle of Jiuunling had just begun, more than 100 huge ships appeared on the horizon of the Yellow Sea, 40 miles away in the eastern suburbs of Seoul, scaring the North Korean fishermen who were fishing on the beach.
"Grandpa, what a big ship!" A 10-year-old North Korean child pointed to the huge shadow of a black ship on the sea and said excitedly to his grandfather.
The child's grandfather was mending the fishing nets, following the child's gaze, immediately looked frightened, he had been fishing here all his life, and had never seen so many huge sea ships at one time, he knew very well that this was definitely not their North Korean ship, and they North Korea had never heard of so many sea ships, these eighty percent were enemies, and the one who came was not good.
"Go, go! Can't stay here! The old North Korean fisherman threw down his fishing net and pulled his grandson to flee the area.