458. First test of Pyongyang City

Under the clouds of war, this Spring Festival has been boring - at least for us at the top level, who are nervously arranging various resource allocations and secret personnel transfers, all of which must be done quickly and unconsciously.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, the whole battalion was given wine and food on land and at sea, so that the officers and men could have a good holiday. Ye Sizhong and I also re-landed on the second day of the Lunar New Year with the Guanning Iron Cavalry, rushed to Anzhou from the vicinity of Dingzhou at night, and will arrive in the mountains south of Anzhou and north of Gushan on the night of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Arashi wanted to land with me, but I refused, partly out of consideration for her safety, and on the other hand, I asked her to command the fleet for me, and lead half of the fleet with Adikon, and continue to intercept the logistics and reinforcements of the Japanese at sea.

Needless to mention the scene of shedding tears and saying goodbye, I haven't fought on horseback for a long time, and it is inevitable that I will be unstable when I get on the horse again, and I was ridiculed by Ye Sizhong, which made me really angry.

But by the time the team marched to the foot of Anzhou City, I was once again familiar with the essence of horse warfare, and I was much more comfortable with it. Stationed in Anzhou City, Li Rusong, who had already occupied this place earlier, took over and did the final rectification.

It has snowed for a few times in a row, and cold weapons are good to say, firearms like the three-eyed gun need strict and meticulous maintenance before they can go to the battlefield, and weapons are the second life of soldiers, so everyone naturally does not mention it very carefully.

When I arrived in the city, I soon received a message from the intelligence group led by Mo. In this place where there is a big palm of rain in the country at every turn, it is really not difficult to grasp the dynamics, and Mo has done a good job.

From then on, the news of the Pyongyang front line was transmitted to my ears in an endless stream, and I gradually formed a relatively complete control of the battlefield situation and situation.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Li Rusong led a large army from North Pyongan Province and headed south to Pyongyang.

Since it was in the name of taking over peacefully and stopping the war, Li Rusong's department naturally played and blew and walked through the streets and alleys, showing a relaxed and happy appearance as much as possible.

We can release spies, and so can the Japanese robbers, and they will only be more professional than what we do, so to deceive the enemy, we must first deceive ourselves, and even many soldiers think that they really want to accept Pyongyang peacefully, especially the thousands of monks and soldiers in Goryeo, of course, the overall state of the other Goryeo soldiers is similar, they are all about to die, and they are sullen and happy.

Governor Konishi was also actively preparing in Pyongyang, and all the people in the city were requisitioned and busy making preparations. As for what they are doing, it goes without saying that they will definitely not be preparing for a party to welcome Li Rusong.

On the evening of the fifth day of the first lunar month, Li Rusong's vanguard arrived 10 miles north of Pyongyang City, and did not enter the city directly, but took advantage of the darkness of night to drive piles on the spot and make rice, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up army.

The governor of Konishi in the city was also born as a drama spirit, and when he saw that the Ming army had already arrived, he immediately sent an envoy to invite Li Rusong to the city to complete the handover ceremony.

This Hongmen banquet even knows everything about a three-year-old child, how could Li Rusong be fooled, so he smiled and refused on the grounds that today is not a good day and an auspicious day, and it is impossible for Konishi Yukichang to overlord the bow, right?

That night, Li Rusong's subordinates did not rest for a minute, deep trenches and high bases, and made every effort to prepare for the battle.

At the same time, taking advantage of the night, he sent Wu Weizhong, a guerrilla general in Jizhou, and Zha Dashou, deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, to lead an army of more than 3,000 people to attack the Japanese garrison on Peony Peak.

This Wu Weizhong is a fierce general of Qi Jiguang and Qi Dudu's old department, and he is the best at attacking fortifications in danger, and he is an extremely sharp knife. After receiving the order, he didn't say much, and took Zha Dashou, who was originally Li Chengliang's general, and led the army to Peony Peak.

The rest of the generals surveyed the terrain around Pyongyang overnight and made clear the direction and position of their attack.

The Japanese in the city were very nervous about the arrival of Li Rusong's subordinates, and were afraid that the situation of their fake handover would be exposed, so they strictly forbade the soldiers in the city to leave the city and wanted to block the news channel.

But in order to let his big boss Yushiba Hideyoshi know the situation and arrange reinforcements to come as soon as possible, he sent three squads of cavalry in a row, galloping all the way to the southeast and reporting the news.

Unexpectedly, these three teams of cavalry, without exception, crashed into the ambush circle set up by me and Ye Sizhong at the crossing of the Datong River, one was not more, one was not less, all of them were captured or killed, in short, just as President Konishi expected, the news was well kept and was not leaked.

But some situations always show up at unexpected times and in unexpected ways.

On the morning of the sixth day of the first lunar month, Songpu Zhenxin, the general of the Japanese Bandits stationed on Peony Peak, received a report from his subordinates that the cavalry of unknown forces had been found on Peony Peak, and it was suspected that it was the army of the Ming Dynasty!

Matsuura Jinshin immediately ordered to use iron cannons to shoot at the incoming enemy! Unexpectedly, this hit happened to hit Wu Weizhong's strategy!

The reason why he did not directly attack the defenders on the hill, but wandered around the perimeter, on the one hand, was to lure the other side to attack him first, and find a reasonable reason for his own development - after all, the two sides still had a temporary armistice agreement in front, and it was not reasonable to fire the first shot.

On the other hand, he also wanted to touch the reality of the defenders on the mountain, if he rashly attacked, the opposite side suddenly used some killer moves, but he was afraid that he would not be able to eat and walk around.

But now, everything is unfolding according to the script, Matsuura Zhenxin's team fired a salvo of iron cannons, and the fire was fierce, Wu Weizhong immediately ordered the team to retreat beyond the firing range, watched the Japanese shoot from a distance, and made various abusive and provocative postures to attract the Japanese to attack.

Matsuura Zhenxin was furious, and without saying a word, he ordered to go out of the village to attack the attacking enemy! As soon as Wu Weizhong saw that he really came out, he ordered thousands of soldiers to change from the front team to the rear team, and the back team to the front team, throwing down dozens of shields and other weapons to retreat towards the way they came.

As soon as Matsuura Zhenxin saw that the enemy was intimidated, he yelled and led the army to chase after him. So the Ming army ran all the way, and the Japanese chased all the way, and gradually reached the narrow place of the mountain road!

Songpu Zhenxin, who was chasing the rise, didn't care so much, and broke in with the team, but he heard a gong in front of him, and thousands of arrows were fired on both sides of the mountain gorge! Wu Weizhong's department, who fled in front, also turned around again and killed back towards Songpu Zhenxin!

The three-way attack, Matsuura Zhenxin in the narrow area suddenly couldn't bear it anymore and began to retreat again and again! Along the way, the corpses were left behind, and they were pursued by the Ming cavalry behind them, and the bows and arrows and muskets on both sides were splashed with bullets and arrows as if they didn't want money, and finally left nearly seven or eight hundred corpses.

The movement on the Peony Peak immediately gave Li Ru a sigh of relief, and he accused Governor Konishi of not keeping his promise and violating the armistice agreement without authorization, and in order to defend himself, he decided to crusade against Governor Konishi's headquarters in Pyongyang City!

Governor Konishi really has a bitterness that he can't say, he hates Matsuura Zhenxin for giving the other party the truth, but he deeply understands Matsuura Zhenxin - if he changes his own defense of Peony Peak, if the enemy comes to harass and wanders back and forth eighty meters away from Bai'er, won't he order to shoot like Matsuura Zhenxin?

Definitely, heart-to-heart, but the result is still infuriating! But anger turned to anger, but he couldn't change anything, he could only watch as the Ming army under the city erected a banner and launched a psychological offensive towards the city.

Only one sentence was written on the banner: "Those who surrender to the Goryeo army and civilians will not die." "Just one sentence, but it is better than the power of ten thousand cannons!

The 100,000 people in Pyongyang were all moved when they saw the flags, and after the Japanese invaders seized Pyongyang City, they burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil.

But now that reinforcements from the Celestial Empire have come from outside the city, and the banner of standing under the banner to avoid death, who can not be moved?

For a time, from the gentry to the common people, they were all ready to move. Many people wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese were not paying attention to climb down to the city and defect to the Ming army, but most of them were discovered by the Japanese and killed on the spot!

However, such actions aroused the anger of the people in the city, and there were endless sneak attacks against the Japanese pirates, and it was not uncommon for small groups of Japanese pirates to patrol the city, and suddenly they were attacked by a large group of Goryeo people who came out of nowhere, dragged into the house, killed and then destroyed the corpses.

This situation made Xiaoxi Xingchang anxious, and in most cases, he could only appease these people, if he really started to kill, he was afraid that the Ming army outside the city would immediately wave his army to attack the city if he knew about it!

And if he does, he is afraid that even if he wins, he will not be able to gain a foothold in Goryeo in the future—who would want a group of butchers to rule him?

The dilemma almost drove Konishi Yukicho, who for the first time regretted the instructions from above to order an attack on Goryeo.

But what's the use of regret? The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death? He could only do everything possible to appease the people in the city, and sent a large patrol team to maintain law and order, so that he gradually suppressed the restlessness in the city, but there was still an undercurrent surging behind it, and even non-governmental organizations such as the "Pyongyang Self-Help Association" appeared quietly and quietly operating in the dark.

In the midst of such suffering, Governor Konishi struggled to survive the sixth and seventh days of the Lunar New Year, and the angry Supreme Commander of the Japanese Invaders in Pyongyang decided to take some action to retaliate against the Ming army.

At the same time, he ordered his soldiers to spread five-color flags on the city, raise arquebuses and broadswords, and wave them desperately outside the city to show off their might and boost morale. But what the effect is, I'm afraid only the Japanese themselves know.

On the night of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Governor Konishi sent a team of men, about seven or eight hundred people, all of whom were elites who were good at night battles, preparing to infiltrate the Ming Dynasty army to carry out night attacks!

These guys quietly sneaked out of the ordinary gate in the west of the city, quietly crossed the ordinary river, and prepared to sneak attack the front of the Ming army.

After crossing the river, he saw that the camp of the Ming army was dark and quiet, so he only said that these careless enemies had rested in peace.

The Japanese no longer doubted him, and immediately sneaked into the Daming military camp to prepare to set fire, but unexpectedly just walked in halfway, only to hear a "bang" of a cannon, and the surrounding night was silent in the night I don't know where countless rockets flew out, and the entire camp gate was illuminated like day!

The Japanese suddenly knew that they had fallen for the scheme, so how could they dare to say more? Throw down the weapon and start to turn around and run away, only to hate his parents for giving birth to two less legs for him!

The chief officer stationed in the camp was Li Rusong's younger brother Li Rubai, who was excited to see such a formation, and personally led his troops to chase and kill the Japanese invaders!

After chasing and killing all the way, the corpses of the Japanese robbers continued from the camp to the ordinary riverside! Even if they do, many of them were shot dead in the river or on the boat. The survivors fled back to Pyongyang as if they were desperate, closed their doors, and licked the physical and mental scars left by the Ming army in horror.

The Japanese took the initiative to attack to no avail, but the next Ming army had to make a move!

On the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the trumpet cannon sounded in the camp of Li Rusong, and the three armies moved together to kill the city of Pyongyang!

The decisive battle is coming, and the city of Pyongyang, which stands majestically, is bound to set off a fierce bloody storm!