Pyongyang in the first month of the New Year was covered by heavy snow in previous years, but this year it was unusually cloudless, which also made Governor Konishi very depressed.

If there is a heavy snowfall, or heavy rain, it will give the own army in Pyongyang an infinite advantage. After all, the Ming army was in the wilderness, and the Japanese were in the city, so they had a hardware advantage.

But Tiangong arranged it like this, President Konishi was helpless, but Li Rusong was overjoyed.

Just last night, after the small force he sent out to sneak attack the Ming army was defeated and rebelled, an unexpected blow followed!

On the day of the third watch, the patrolling Japanese suddenly heard a strange noise, and the Ming army outside the city actually took advantage of the night to shoot arrows into the city!

However, with the exception of a small number of casualties in the first round of fire, as the patrols informed the units, almost no more pirates were injured by bows and arrows.

Seeing this situation, the Japanese generals, including Governor Konishi, all secretly laughed, these ridiculous Tang army were so naïve, thinking that such an attack could bring panic in the city?

However, what they didn't expect was that the disaster had just come!

The arrows that were fired into the city were tied to different packages, large and small, and due to the cloudy night, the Japanese did not notice these details, but unexpectedly, these small packages brought great panic to the city!

Before they knew it, these small packages began to emit strange smoke and smell!

According to the soldiers who were later captured, the smell was like the smell of Chinese medicine boiled in the house, but it was much stronger and more pungent!

In the middle of the night, the Japanese defenders stationed in the city began to vomit, dizzy, and faint on a large scale! This situation spread more and more, and by the time of the fourth watch, nearly half of the widows had already had this strange symptom!

Some of the sharp-eyed pirates discovered the source of the problem and immediately ran to pick up the arrows and throw them out of the city, but when their hands and feet came into contact with the arrows, they began to itch and fester, and pus flowed violently!

Moreover, these symptoms are contagious, and in less than the middle of the night, almost all the people in the city were infected with this terrible disease!

What the hell is this? The Japanese invaders, including Konishi Yukinaga, were terrified, they were nested in the small Dongying, and they had no idea what preparations and improvements the Ming Dynasty had made in terms of strategy and tactics, armaments and weapons!

This thing is called "poisonous fire", and it was passed on from the Mo family during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It was first recorded in the "Zuo Biography" that this thing was used when the Qin army fought with the Jin army.

At that time, most of the ingredients for poisonous fire were traditional Chinese medicines such as Qiangguan, miscanthus, black beak, and Yuanye, and the medicinal effect was not too strong.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, this weapon of mass destruction had developed to a certain extent, and many strange weapons appeared, such as human dung, which was a good ingredient, and was also used at any time - using the disgusting smell, coupled with chaff, bean leaves, mugwort leaves and other ingredients, so that the enemy army was miserable.

In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, this "cute little thing" evolved again, and the Dongdong used by Li Rusong was a super "poisonous fire" composed of nearly 30 ingredients such as iron foot arsenic, wolf venom, dry dung, and sulfur! ”

In addition to the "poisonous fire", there is also a lovely Dongdong called "Soul Chasing Mist", this weapon is also widely equipped in the Ming Army, the formula will not be detailed, all in all, the biggest effect of this Soul Chasing Mist is to make it difficult to breathe, until suffocation!

Corrupted by such poisonous fire and soul-chasing mist, the widows in the city are miserable! Due to the towering walls on all sides, the city is not airtight at all, these poisonous fires gather in the city and do not disperse, and batches of Japanese robbers begin to be infected, and there is no other way but to climb to the top of the city to blow the wind and absorb oxygen!

In this way, the Japanese in the city tossed and turned all night, and when it was dawn, everyone's eyes were covered with thick bloodshots!

However, what made them even more desperate was that with the arrival of the morning light on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Rusong, the commander of the Ming army, burned incense to worship heaven and earth, and then the general attack of the Ming and Goryeo coalition forces on Pyongyang City began in an all-round way!

The Japanese in the city were very anxious when they saw that the Ming army in the west of the city had begun to cross the river on a large scale. But it was far beyond the range of the iron cannon, and it was not at all within the range of what they could hit.

There are also generals who propose to Konishi Governor that the troops can be attacked halfway, is it to send troops out of the city and attack the Ming army that crosses the river?

Governor Konishi glanced back at the bloodshot soldier, and finally shook his head slowly.

He felt a deep sense of powerlessness, as if he had fallen into some kind of rhythm that the enemy wanted most, and all he could do was to keep dancing to this rhythm, and the ending was ...... Maybe a failure, or even death!

But he had no way out, Pyongyang was an important town in front given to him by Lord Hashiba Hideyoshi, and as a descendant, he had to desperately defend this place. If you lose it, I'm afraid that your life won't be too easy in the future.

Cheering up, Governor Konishi ordered his soldiers to raise the five-color flag again, and moved all the supplies in the city to the city, preparing to defend the city in an all-round way.

However, to the great puzzlement of the Japanese invaders, including Konishi Yukinaga, the Ming army stopped after crossing the river, five or six hundred meters away from the city.

Are they arranging their troops? Since the city is going to be attacked, what is the point of arranging troops at such a distance?

Is it to prevent a backlash in the city? That's too cautious, isn't it?

However, as time went by, when the morning breeze was blowing, Konishi Yukichang vaguely saw something terrible appear on the forward position of the Ming army!

Although that kind of thing is different in size, it has a general name, and it is called a cannon!

The Japanese in the city saw that Li Rusong, the main general of the Ming army under the city, led more than 100 cavalry to ride a prancing horse 300 steps away from the city, only to see him raise his sword and shout, and then heard a cannon fire from the Chinese army, and then the artillery battalions fired 10,000 cannons!

The cannon roared, like thunder. The castle towers shook, and the mountains shook. The widows at the head of the city saw a light in front of them, and then they heard the piercing sound of the wind whistling towards them!

Smoke rose from the castle heads on the west and north sides of Pyongyang, and after several rounds of artillery fire, the screams were incessant, and a large number of Japanese robbers were killed and wounded, and they rolled down the city and fell into meatloaf in wailing!

Immediately, the rockets outside the city began to shoot indiscriminately into the city, which was under the cover of artillery, and the archers of the Ming army approached forward and launched an attack on the city!

Of course, these rockets are not just rockets, but high-end gadgets mixed with poisonous fire and soul-chasing smoke! Under this round of rocket attacks, the entire city of Pyongyang was filled with smoke and flames, and no one was visible within a short distance. The shouts and artillery fire are endless, and only the heavily protected inner city is still safe!

Just when the Japanese were dizzy and didn't know why, Li Rusong ordered the whole army to launch a general offensive in order to take Pyongyang City in one fell swoop!

When the armies heard the trumpet, they gradually saw the horses flying, and the dust raised was like white mist. Under the sun, the helmets of the Ming army were shining silver, dazzling and dazzling, which made the Japanese in the city chill for a while.

According to the tactical arrangement, Yang Yuan and Zhang Shijue, the right co-governor of the Ming Dynasty, attacked the Qixingmen; Li Rubai, the assistant governor of the left, and Li Fangchun, the general of the staff, attacked the ordinary door; Goryeo soldiers envoy Li Yi, defense envoy Jin Yingrui and others attacked Lumen; Deputy General Soldier Zu Chengxun and guerrilla Luo Shangzhi attacked Hanbeimen.

According to this arrangement, the west, north, and south sides of Pyongyang City were all surrounded and attacked, and only the two gates on the east side of the Taedong River were left unattacked. This is also deeply in line with the method of "encircling three and missing one" in the art of war, so as to avoid the enemy's life being cut off and fighting to the death!

At this time, a fierce westerly wind hung outside the city, blowing all the smoke and poisonous smoke into the city. After seeing that they had dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders, the soldiers of the Ming army attacked like a tide with antidote pills in their mouths, rushing to the city one after another!

Li Rusong ordered that the whole army should assault, and it was not allowed to cut off the head to repay the merits, as long as one of them won a complete victory. The three armies received the order and fought hard to storm the city!

Seeing that the Ming army was attacking the city in an all-round way, the German Japanese in the city knew that if they did not fight to the death, today next year would be their own death day, so they stood up and walked up to the city under the vigorous shouting of the governor of Konishi, and lay down behind the city wall.

Seeing that the enemy army rose to the death, the Ming Dynasty and the Goryeo coalition army besieging the city suddenly stagnated, and some timid soldiers who were afraid of death were frightened by the arquebuses of the Japanese invaders, threw down their weapons and began to turn around and flee!

Li Rusong was furious when he saw this, and stepped forward with a knife on his horse, and swung a knife at a deserter!

The knife falls, and the blood splatters! Li Rusong carried the head of the deserter to inspect the front of the formation, and shouted sharply: "Whoever ascends the city first will be rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver." Those who retreat, court-martial! ”

The three armies were immediately solemn, and the soldiers with two hearts had to attack the city tower with all their might!

The Ming army attacked bravely under the encouragement of the commander Li Rusong, or leaned back and opened fire, or climbed the ladder to cut down the guards of the city, and the battle was extremely tragic!

When the battle was at its most intense, Li Rusong jumped off his horse and ran forward to prepare to go to the city in person.

At this point in the battle, it is more about endurance and will. The Japanese at the head of the city began to lose their foothold under the attack of the Ming army, so they desperately called for reinforcements!

However, everyone in the city was injured under the poisonous battle last night, and those who could walk had already gone to the city, so where could they go to find reinforcements? Governor Konishi wanted to pull the Goryeo people in Pyongyang to defend the city, but he was met with fierce resistance from the people in the city!

Seeing that this road did not work, Governor Konishi could only transfer troops from other places!

The west and north of the city are covered by artillery fire, and the Ming army is attacking very fiercely, and there is a shortage of people. Only the second gate in the south, it seems that the siege is the Goryeo army, weak and not under much pressure, so Konishi Yukinaga immediately sent people to the south gate and transferred the main force to the northwest gate to guard the city, leaving only a few hundred people in the south to defend these "Goryeo soft eggs".

As a result, there was a problem with this transfer of troops, and among the attackers in the south of the city, Zu Chengxun was a fierce general who was one in a thousand. Seeing that the enemy had been fooled into transferring the main force away, he ordered the Goryeo army to take the lead, and then led his troops to follow.

When the Japanese invaders saw the Goryeo army below attacking the city in the city, many people even began to laugh and insult the "sheep who don't know whether they are alive or dead" in the language of Dongying, but when these soldiers approached, they suddenly took off their Goryeo military uniforms, revealing the armor of the Ming Dynasty inside, which immediately made the Japanese in the city tremble!

The Japanese were shocked, and when they knew the plan, they immediately shouted loudly. Ask the other city gates to divide their troops to reinforce the south gate. But in this short time difference, the Ming army led by Zu Chengxun has already attacked the city tower!

Among them, Luo Shangzhi, the deputy chief soldier of the Shenji Battalion, nicknamed "Luo Qianjin", played a great role in his bravery! I saw him facing the rain of bullets and bullets of the Japanese Kou, holding a shield in one hand, a halberd in the other hand Walking like flying, brave and abnormal, and the brave and undaunted to climb the ladder to attack the city tower with a blanket gate, the Japanese Kou saw that he was fierce, and threw a boulder at him!

Two of the boulders hit his abdomen, waist and legs, but Luo Shangzhi still fought non-stop, led several Zhejiang soldiers behind him to forcibly go to the city, removed the flag of the Japanese Kou, planted the banner of the Ming Army at the head of the city, and the south gate was recovered!

Seeing this, the Japanese screamed and rushed to capture the flag, and Luo Shangzhi leaned against the city wall to resist the enemy, and the bloody battle did not retreat. The soldiers of the Ming army followed, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became. Finally unable to resist, they packed up the remnants and retreated into the city.

The attacking troops in the west of the city made a contribution at the same time! Since the main forces of both sides were concentrated near the West Gate, the battle was the most intense! It can be described as a battle cloud, and the blood is soaring into the sky! But according to the recollections of the people involved, the former of the Celestial Empire army lay down and the latter came, and the corpses were exhausted, and there was no rest!

Li Rubai's helmet was hit, and he charged forward wearing a broken helmet! The Ming army fell batch after batch in the gunfire of the Japanese invaders, but they still went forward one after another!

With the passage of time, under the desperate efforts of Yang Yuan and Li Rubai Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the ordinary gate, that is, the big west gate of Pyongyang City, was shattered!

At the same time, Zhang Shijue, the general of the Ming Dynasty, smashed the Qixing Gate in the west of the city with a cannon, and the city of Pyongyang was recovered on several sides!

Seeing that the city wall had been lost, the Japanese had to retreat from the city and retreat into the city to prepare for street fighting!

Pyongyang Raiders, the first step, done!