Chapter 114: Besieging and Annihilating the Japanese People Who Invaded Goguryeo (3
Mao Wenlong's advance troops had arrived around Seoul, they quietly lurked, and at night began to act in detachments, the target was the * warehouses and granaries of the Japanese people, and burned more than a dozen grain warehouses and five * warehouses in one night, burned all the grain and ammunition, and then slept during the day. The action for three consecutive days has made the Japanese people suffer, and the food is gone, so they can go to the nearby people's homes to rob it, * no more, that * or called a fire gun, not even a wooden stick, but for the Ming army special forces that are close to the modern era, they have no law at all.
Annoyed and angry, Yanagi Zongju finally sent the fire to the common people of Goguryeo, and he ordered his subordinates to arrest the common people, each with a pocket filled with soil, and began to pave the road from a place half a mile away from the city wall. The Goguryeo army could no longer resist the Japanese soldiers who were not enough to attack, and Seoul was finally broken by the Japanese people, and the Japanese soldiers who entered the city were furious and began to massacre Seoul, and the population of Seoul of more than 200,000 people was lost in one day, and the royal family members of Goguryeo were not left behind, all of them were killed, and the entire Seoul became a hell on earth.
When he saw the Japanese people paving the way to attack the city, Song Xiance judged that the siege of Hancheng was overnight, and immediately passed the news to Xiong Tingbi, who urged the men and horses to march quickly to Seoul. On the night when the Japanese soldiers entered the city, a semi-arc artillery position was established from the north, and nearly 2,000 mortars were concentrated, aiming at various important positions in Seoul.
After a day of indulgence, the Japanese soldiers finally had a good night's sleep, but unexpectedly encountered a nightmare after dawn, just when the Japanese soldiers were about to get up for breakfast, Xiong Tingbi gave the order to attack, two thousand mortars roared, and the overwhelming shells smashed into all corners of Seoul, and for a time Seoul became a hell on earth again, but this time it was the Japanese soldiers who were in hell. Yanagi Zongju was comfortably served by two Korean women last night, and the sweet dream had just been finished, and before he had time to eat breakfast, he was blown up by the overwhelming artillery fire, and ordered the troops to retreat in a panic, and there was only one way to retreat, that is, the dirt road that attacked the city yesterday.
The Japanese soldiers withdrew from Seoul under artillery fire, the soldiers who died in the city were piled up into a hill, the retreating dirt road became a bloody road, and less than 20,000 of the Japanese soldiers who entered the city could escape, and when these retreating soldiers fled back to the barracks in the south of the city, they rushed the soldiers in the barracks, and the 80,000 Ming troops bluffed and chased after them. The 500,000 Japanese soldiers were able to stabilize their positions only after they withdrew for a hundred miles, and the number of people was not even 300,000, and the artillery and guns were basically lost, and even the Japanese knives and ribs could not guarantee one per person.
According to Song Xiance's strategy, the Ming army did not chase too closely, in order to prevent the Japanese people from counterattacking, so they formed a large encirclement with a weak pine in front and a solid back, and mobilized the common people of Goguryeo in front to clear the wilderness, attacking from time to time, slowly approaching the back, bombarding it with mortars, and slowly torturing it like a fish.
The troops in front must be Mao Wenlong's mountain cavalry battalion, and these soldiers are very good at fighting this kind of sneak attack warfare, and they are divided into dozens of hundreds of households to attack in turn, and the Japanese people who are disturbed are restless. At Zhu Youzhen's strong request, Mao Wenlong also asked him to take his own personal guards to attack, Song Xiance was a little uneasy, after all, there were still more Japanese people, so he went with him, and he could help Zhu Youzhen if necessary.
After more than ten days of chasing battles, Yanagi Zongju finally found that the number of the Ming army was not much, so he slowed down, planning to slowly consume the Ming army with the Ming army, and began to deploy the Ming army that was harassing in front, in order to ensure that there was the ability to counterattack, he began to gather and restrain the troops, and wantonly robbed the people's food, ready to fight with the Ming army. Song Xiance saw the conspiracy of Liu Sheng Zongju, so he increased the troops that went out to attack to thousands of households, plus the mobility of the mountain foot cavalry camp was very good, and the Japanese people set up several ambushes, which did not play much role in these fierce soldiers, but lost a lot of soldiers themselves.
Zhu Youzhen's luck was a bit back, when he led more than 100 people to attack the Japanese grain grabbing team, he encountered an ambush. At that time, he saw a team of Japanese soldiers carrying grain walking towards a village, so he led the team to follow quietly, and the village was on fire for a while, crying, Zhu Youzhen led the troops to rush over, and when he eliminated this grain grabbing team, he found that he was surrounded. Zhu Youzhen calmly looked at the surrounding terrain, and chose to attack the weakest place, fortunately, these personal soldiers were all cavalry, and they were all elite soldiers, and it didn't take much effort to break through the encirclement. However, after breaking through one layer, I found that there was another layer of encirclement, and after rushing through three layers of encirclement one after another, some people finally became sleepy. At this time, the soldiers of the Japanese people surrounded him again, and just when Zhu Youzhen was about to fight to the death, a thousand households led by Song Xiance arrived, and a charge came to Zhu Youzhen, and finally rescued Zhu Youzhen.
When he finally saved enough dry food for three days, Liu Sheng Zongju concentrated more than 100,000 soldiers and began a counterattack against Xiong Tingbi in the rear. On the front of nearly 20 miles north of the Jeonju Road, the Japanese launched the first counterattack, and the result was naturally tragic, and the Japanese who lacked artillery and muskets could only rely on the pig-struggling assault charge, but in the face of the Ming army's hand-cranked machine guns and firing rifles that could be fired quickly, coupled with mortar bombardment, they basically could not reach the distance of 30 zhang in front of the position. After three consecutive days of counterattack, after losing the lives of nearly 100,000 soldiers, Yagyu Zongju completely lost the confidence to fight, and after confessing that the soldiers surrendered, he committed suicide by cutting his abdomen, and at the same time committed suicide by Tadamasa, Kamihara Yasumori, and Sakai Ieji, they felt so sorry for the Tokugawa family, and they could only repay each other with death, or to apologize for their crimes with death, but it was because of their suicide that they left a greater aftermath.
After receiving the notice of surrender of the Japanese people, Xiong Tingbi instructed to stop the attack, and waited for the Japanese to come to contact, but there was no news for a long time, and thought that the Japanese people had changed their fortunes. Xiong Tingbi asked them to wait in line for dinner, and when they counted the number of people, there were nearly 200,000 people, and the other 300,000 people died in the previous war.
The war caused by the palace rebellion in Goguryeo finally ended, and the entire royal family was slaughtered by the Japanese people, and the people who were distant relatives of the royal family who lived in Jeonju Province tried to inherit the throne, and after Song Xiance used a trick to prove that they had no right to inherit and were suspected of impostoring, and after all of them were killed, no one dared to ask for the succession of Goguryeo king. Wars are always cruel, and in this war of aggression against Goguryeo, the Japanese lost more than 500,000 young and middle-aged people, and Goguryeo lost half of the entire population in the south, leaving behind countless orphans and widows. Xiong Tingbi was appointed governor of Goguryeo to deal with the aftermath of Goguryeo, and the captive Japanese remained in Goguryeo as laborers for the time being, allowing them to help the locals build houses and roads, and wait until next year to arrange other work. When the navy returned home, the 80,000-strong army remained in the area, allowing them to marry and have children with those local women, up to three wives. Ramubu and Dolgon's clansmen were also allowed to go south, and they were allowed to intermarry with the locals, but each person could only marry a local woman at most, and there was no restriction on their own people.
After the loss of 500,000 troops in Goguryeo, the power of the Tokugawa shogunate was greatly hit, especially the death of the three most meritorious and powerful ministers, Tadamasa, Kamihara Yasumori, and Sakai Ieji, which allowed the other descendants of their family to compete for control, and the Toyotomi family, which had just been overthrown, was about to move, and the political arena of the Wa Kingdom began to be chaotic again. got the news from the secret agent of Jinyiwei, and Zhu Youxiao began the secret arrangement.
Niu Jinxing went out again, his goal was the Wa Kingdom, and he came to the Wa Kingdom with a large number of local products, first selling some goods in Kyoto, and then starting to wander around other cities in the Wa Kingdom, using those exquisite utensils to make friends with the upper daimyo and military generals of the Wa Kingdom, especially those five powerful ministers of the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era In addition to the other four of the Tokugawa family, especially the grandson of the Maeda Toshiya, the result is needless to say, the Wa Kingdom appeared on the three islands a few years later, and several shogunates were established, They all began to buy firing pistols and two-kick small cannons from the Ming Dynasty, which opened a new Warring States era.