Waves washed up onto the beach one after another, washing away the gravel, broken bones and shells from the sand. It is located in the western part of Hakata Port, and the sea is shallow, and there is no decent pier nearby, so it is not an ideal landing place.

However, at this time, the sea was already full of endless fleets, and many sand boats had washed up on the beach and ran aground on the beach. The officers and men of the Ming Army's land division continued to go ashore one after another. The coast was busy, with all kinds of baggage and goods everywhere, and the place where the barracks ditch and wall fortifications were built was also dusty.

After the general landed safely, he felt a little dizzy, rubbing his temples while looking at a map in his hand.

"Do you think this picture is wrong?" Ping An asked without raising his head.

Pei Youzhen, the soldier next to him, listened to it and said cautiously: "It's roughly the same, it shouldn't be too far wrong." ”

Ping An nodded, and continued to ponder the picture, looking very interested.

At this moment, the main general Sheng Yong and the right deputy general Liu Sheng also came over. There was also a military general who was not familiar with him talking and pointing to the scene on the construction site.

The group gradually approached, and Sheng Yong's voice said: "Immediately send scouts to explore the military terrain on all sides." ”

At this time, the sun has risen in mid-sky, and the weather is fine today, and the air is clear. To the north is the endless sea, and the rest of the ground is flat; On the distant horizon, the hazy shadow of the mountain can be faintly seen.

But from the perspective of the battlefield, for the Ming army that had just arrived, this land was still shrouded in fog; After all, the Chinese military understands the military situation and cannot just rely on its eyes to look close.

Ping An casually took over the conversation and asked, "What do you think is the most direct way to find out about the military situation?" ”

Sheng Yong turned a deaf ear and didn't gossip about peace at all.

Liu Sheng said: "Dare not send scouts to ride and scatter to search?" ”

Ping An shook his head and said, "The most neat way is to capture the prisoners." ”

Liu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's a good way to catch a prisoner." ”

Ping'an said: "I'll go and catch a thousand children and eight hundred people now." ”

Most of the people around him looked surprised, and when they saw Ping'an's relaxed and casual expression, some people might think he was joking. Pei Youzhen finally asked tentatively: "Xiaguan saw that there was a village nearby, did General Ping mean to arrest the villagers?" ”

"Haha......" Ping An couldn't help laughing, pointing at Pei Youzhen and said, "I looked away, I didn't expect Pei Shilang's brain to be so flexible." ”

Pei Youzhen said with a bitter face: "General Ping won't be serious, right?" ”

Ping'an said: "I mean, I usually look at you very wooden, but I didn't expect that you could tell jokes so funny, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

Pei Youzhen: "......"

Heian pointed to the map and said, "This place in the northwest is called Shima-gun?" When the Yuan army landed from this seaside? How do I look like a dead person...... If the picture is correct. ”

Liu Sheng leaned over and looked at it for a while, and said: "Surrounded by the sea on three sides, the south is open land, and the terrain is like a small peninsula, and the defenders are really easy to be cut off. But there are enemy troops over there? ”

Ping'an said: "The Yuan army also occupied Tsushima and Iki first, and then landed from this bay, this road is really the experience of the predecessors." According to the ideal, the Japanese army is afraid that it will arrange some men and horses in advance on the ancient battlefield? ”

Liu Sheng nodded lightly: "Makes sense." ”

Another military general said: "Let's immediately send an attendant to the northwest to inquire about the military situation." ”

Ping'an said: "Wait for the scouts to find someone and run back and forth, let's gather people and horses to come over, I'm afraid that the enemy army will have already slipped away." Now that we've landed from here, who's going to stay there and die? The sooner this happens, the better, and I will now go and gather some disembarking cavalry, and set out at once, cutting off the enemy's rear first. ”

The general advised: "At present, we are not very clear about the deployment of the enemy's troops. General Ping took the horses who were scraped together and attacked rashly, fearing that there would be a mistake. ”

Ping An sneered: "Who taught you to fight a war?" ”

The general said embarrassedly: "General Ping can choose a military general to lead the troops, and he doesn't have to go into battle in person." ”

Ping'an said: "You have said it, now that we have just come ashore, we can only gather some horsemen from side to side, and I am not worried about ordinary people." Life and death are life, wealth is in the sky. ”

Liu Sheng said: "General Ping also used to read the Analects. ”

Sheng Yong, who had not spoken, said: "The general agrees with General Ping's suggestion. ”

Ping An hugged his fists and said: "The last general will be ordered." With that, he immediately turned around, took the reins of the guard from not far away, and turned his horse vigorously. After a while he turned back and said, "Have my big tent be erected." ”

The Ming army could only land on the shore by sand boats with small loads, and there were not many horsemen who came up, and as scouts, they left some cavalry. Ping'an gathered hundreds of horsemen one after another, and set off in a hurry.

It is one of the few plains in Japan. But because of this, there is a lot of arable land, there are many paddy fields along the way, and the roads are also very narrow. After dividing the ranks a little, Ping An ordered the troops to disperse the march so as not to slow down the speed of the horses. At the same time, he also sent some scouts, who traveled lightly and walked forward to look for traces of the enemy.

Ping An led his troops all the way to the west. From morning to afternoon, the scouts received some information about the terrain and rivers, and the cavalry brigade also waded through two small rivers.

At this moment, two horsemen galloped from the front, and Lao Yuan shouted: "Enemy! Marshal, we have discovered the enemy's ......"

Ping An raised his arm and motioned for the soldiers behind him to stop advancing. The two scouts rushed over, turned over and dismounted, and one of them hurriedly said: "Dashuai, five miles to the south, we are by a river, and we have seen a lot of enemy soldiers and horses. ”

"Calm down, sergeant." Ping'an said, "How many people are on foot, on the march or in formation, what is the situation?" ”

The scout said: "There are not four thousand, at least three or two thousand, most of them are infantry. ”

The soldiers around him suddenly made a whispering sound, and there were less than four hundred people under Ping'an's command. The military situation is clear at a glance, and the enemy's strength may be ten times that of the officer army.

"March! East. The scout thought for a moment, drew an arrow from the quiver, and swiped it on the ground, "There is a small river here, unknown name, flowing north and south. There is a wooden bridge over the river, and a small number of Japanese troops have crossed the river and are located on the east bank; Most of it is still in the West Bank. I looked at it for a while, and there were some hills and small forests on the west bank; The east bank is dry land, and there is a small village at the head of the bridge, with only a few mud houses. ”

"Very well, you are very conscientious as a scout." Ping An said, turned around and pointed to the two generals. These low-level generals didn't know Ping'an, so he said, "You take a small flag to the north of the bridge, and you take a small flag to the south." Once you find a shallow place where you can wade into the water, send someone back to report it immediately. Then the remnants crossed the river and went deep into the western hills of the river to continue exploring the terrain. ”

"The last general will wait for the order!" The two generals hugged their fists together.

Ping An raised his arm and said loudly to the rear: "Order the generals, after launching an attack, you should find an opportunity to gallop and rush into battle." Grow your brain, don't send your mother to death, anyway, the Japanese army can't catch up with us. ”

The army shouted in unison, and the atmosphere in the army became warm. Soon after they landed, there was a fight, and everyone was very excited.

"Drive!" Ping An shouted and kicked his horse forward.

The cavalry team jogged south, and it didn't take long for them to see many Japanese soldiers and horses in sight. The army ran through a large field of rice fields from all roads, and when they reached the dry land, the people gathered together and continued to march south under the banner of peace.

Soon Ping An also saw clearly, the Japanese army obviously did not have time to gather the men and horses on both sides, and the wooden bridge over the river was too narrow. In the distance, those men and horses are lining up on the east and west banks, and the main force is still on the west bank. The enemy forces on the east bank have formed several dense formations and are ready to fight. The line of sight here is very open, and the Japanese army has obviously already discovered the cavalry of the Ming army.

Ping An watched for a while while jogging on horseback.

The two armies were about 300 paces apart, and Ping An raised his iron axe and shouted, "Kill! ”

"Kill! Kill ......" The soldiers shouted for a while, and they followed Ping An very happily and rushed straight to the enemy camp.

After a while, Ping An shouted again: "Points! ”

The soldiers around him followed the momentum, repeated the military order, and shouted in unison: "Points! ”

The various units of the Ming army gradually divided into multiple columns, separated into a wide front, and continued to rush forward.

On the northern front of the Japanese army, several layers of spears were densely placed, and they were obviously very afraid of the cavalry charge. Soon, the longbows and arrows in the Japanese camp were thrown out one after another. However, the formation of the cavalry charge was very thin, and the arrows thrown indiscriminately could not resist the iron cavalry at all, except for the occasional horse that was unfortunately wounded by the arrow, and the neighing of the horse's hooves was heard in the "rumbling".

Ping An led his troops to rush to the front of the Japanese army for more than 20 steps, and immediately roared and made a detour to the right. A moment later, the sound of "crackling" strings sounded like fried beans, and the arrows of the cavalry flew into the Japanese army like locusts.

Most of the small soldiers in the Japanese army did not wear iron armor, and the spearmen did not have shields, and the bamboo pieces on their bodies could not block the flat fire of compound bows more than a dozen paces away; As soon as the Ming army's arrows were shot accurately, the enemy army screamed miserably, and the formation was turbulent.

But Ping An did not rush into battle, and continued to shoot around the Japanese camp; The various departments came and went, running horses and firing arrows everywhere. The arrows fired by both sides were flying in the air, and the "whoosh" sound in the wind was non-stop, which was very terrifying. Some of the Japanese ranks had loosened, and many of the soldiers began to flee to avoid the arrows.

Suddenly, a samurai in armor waved a long sword and shouted "Whoa-wa-la-la Many Japanese soldiers rushed towards the cavalry on Ping'an's side as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Seeing this, Ping An shouted, "Rush to its flank!" ”

A group of cavalry ran forward for a while, and then immediately made a roundabout turn and killed the Japanese army crowd running in a mess. A Japanese samurai on horseback with a long sword swooped down on Ping'an.

Ping An held an iron axe in one hand, and when he approached, he swept it with an axe. With a "clang", the heavy iron axe rebounded the long knife, and the axe was castrated, and an axe slashed at the door of the guy. The man's blood splattered, and he was instantly cut off his horse, and the dwarf, empty horse rushed past Ping An.