On August 5, Li Xing's 30,000-strong army attacked the Dadu Protectorate of Yongbyon, Pyongan Province. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 120,000-strong army of Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province in the north of Korea has been assembled here and is ready to meet Yi Xing.

Compared with Li Xing's siege of the city and the slaughter here, the 120,000 troops of the DPRK can be said to be waiting for work - although the soldiers and horses of Hamgyong Province came from the northeast, the Korean soldiers and horses were marching in the country, and the difficulty of movement was not comparable with Li Xing's counterattack on the enemy.

But even so, the balance of war tilted to Li Xing's side without any suspense.

The Koreans repeatedly joined the Qing army against the Ming army. In the military operations of the Tartars entering and plundering, Korean soldiers and horses participated many times, and North Korea also sent soldiers and horses to help in the Jinzhou War. Therefore, the North Koreans naturally know the strength of the Tiger Ben Army. The Koreans felt that they were unable to resist the artillery fire of the Tiger Army, so they lined up all their soldiers and horses on the back of the hill, hoping to use the mountain to avoid the shells and bullets of the Tiger Army.

On the hilly terrain west of Yongbyon Dadufu, the Koreans' soldiers and horses covered the back of the mountains, but none of them showed their heads to fight against the Tiger Army.

Li Xing led his army to stand on the east side of the hills, looking at the hills with a telescope, and not a single Korean soldier could see them. If it weren't for the scouts who kept coming back to report the location of the Korean army, Li Xingzhen would have thought that there was no enemy on the other side.

Li Xing glanced at Li Laosi and asked, "Fourth, how can we crack the North Koreans' formation like this?" ”

Li Laosi groaned and said: "You can't attack from the front, otherwise the soldiers will not be able to shoot the North Korean soldiers when they are blocked by the mountain." If you sprint head-on like this, rushing up will be hand-to-hand combat. If we fail to take advantage of our weapons, the casualties will be enormous. ”

Li Xing nodded and said: "Sun Tzu Yun: Although the enemy has a high base and a deep ditch, those who have to fight with me will be saved if they attack it." ”

"We set up a small circular formation to bypass from the side and attack the Yongbyon Metropolitan Protectorate in the rear of the North Koreans, and the food and grass of the North Koreans are in the city, I don't believe that the North Koreans will watch Yongbyon Province being captured by us, and continue to play hide and seek with us behind the mountain."

Li Laosi thought about it, nodded, and agreed with Li Xing's tactics.

The 30,000 soldiers of the Tiger Army were divided into fifteen circles, protected the grain and grass wagons in the middle, and began to circle to the south.

At first, the Koreans followed the Tiger Army to the south, always guarding behind the mountain. But a little further south, the hills and mountains were gone, and the Koreans encountered a wide mountain pass that could not be defended.

For the safety of the troops, the North Koreans could only stop north of the pass.

Li Xing and Li Laosi walked ten miles to the south, passing through the hills and mountains where the Koreans lined up from this wide mountain pass, and then from the valley behind the hills to the north. The mountains where the Koreans were hiding were covered with many woods and shrubs, which were not suitable for the use of firearms by the Tiger Army. Ignoring the Korean soldiers on the hills, the Tiger Army attacked the capital city of Yongbyon Province directly.

When the Tiger Army reached the middle of the valley behind the mountain, only ten miles away from the capital city of Yongbyon Province, the Korean soldiers and horses on the hill could not sit still. They abandoned the hills and mountains where they were hiding, and had no choice but to attack the Tiger Army.

The Tiger Army made a big circle, and finally forced the North Korean army to fight a decisive battle with them on the flat land of the valley.

Li Laosi immediately passed down the order to let fifteen small Retrofitting Formations change formations and set up a large Retrofitting Formation in the valley. Four hundred cannons were pushed off the gun carriage and lined up on the four sides of the Gyroform.

Li Xing raised his binoculars and saw clearly the appearance of the main force of North Korea. After a month of attacking the hinterland of Korea, Li Xing saw the regular army of North Korea for the first time.

The regular army soldiers in North Korea are very generally equipped, and most of the soldiers wear cotton armor. Those cotton armors were not like the heavy cotton armor of the Qing army, but a veritable thin layer of cotton. Li Xing took a closer look in the binoculars and felt that the cotton armor was not so much a nail as a thick cotton jacket.

Such a thick padded jacket may reduce the lethality of bows and swords, but it cannot stop bullets and shells at all.

Of course, there are also soldiers who are better equipped. Li Xing saw some cavalrymen wearing cotton armor nailed with copper nails. Some of the copper nails on the cotton armor are denser, and some are sparse. These copper spikes reduce the slash damage of the sword. Of course, copper nails mean nothing to bullets and shells.

There are even some school officers and a very small number of elites wearing full-body fish scale iron armor, and there seems to be a layer of cotton armor under the fish scale armor, which looks very thick. These elites wore iron helmets with long red tassels, and they were very energetic. However, there are only more than 1,000 elites in such equipment, which is not enough to change the shape of the war.

The infantry of the DPRK were armed with three-strand forks. This three-strand fork is similar to the tiger gun of the Ming army, but it has three heads. Li Xing did not understand why the North Koreans liked this weapon so much, he had never heard of anyone in any place using the three-strand fork as their main battle weapon.

The Chinese army of the Koreans was in the middle of the 120,000-strong army, and quickly pressed over with the pace of the army. Li Xingzheng was carefully observing with a telescope, but he heard a secret guard next to him say: "Second general, that big flag is the banner of Li Wei, the son of Zhaoxian of North Korea." ”

The so-called prince is the heir to the throne of Joseon. Since the banner of the prince appeared in the Chinese army, it is obvious that the Korean army on the opposite side was commanded by the prince of Korea.

But the son of the world is useless, even if the king of Joseon comes, he can't win the tiger army.

The Koreans, in order to protect their Yongbyon base camp, hurriedly rushed into the range of the Tiger Army.

The Koreans also had cannons, the technology seems to have been learned from the Ming Dynasty, and most of them were equipped with old-fashioned general cannons, as well as some Furlong machine guns. However, unlike the lightweight Furlong cannon of the Ming Dynasty, the North Koreans, who lacked heavy artillery, cast the Furlong machine very heavy, and it looked like it was several thousand catties.

The 120,000-strong Korean army probably had more than 100 artillery pieces of various types. As soon as these cannons entered the five miles of the Tiger Army, they were met with a head-on attack from the eighteen-pounder cannons.

Both the general cannon and the Fran cannon have a short range, and they are no match for the long guns of the Tiger Army. The ground between the valleys is not completely flat, and solid bullets cannot ricochet. The Tiger Army chose flowering shells to hit the artillery on the opposite side. The sizzling flowering bullets of the arquebuses shot straight into the artillery ranks of the North Koreans, and exploded one after another.

For a moment, only the roar of artillery and shells could be heard in the valley. A hundred shells exploded at once, and it is not known how many artillery and surrounding infantry were killed.

The artillery camp of the DPRK turned into a living hell, except for explosions that exploded, severed limbs, flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Several phalanxes next to the artillery were also unlucky, and from time to time they were bombarded by shells that missed the shots. As soon as the shells landed, the North Korean soldiers scattered and fled as if they had seen ghosts. The neat queue was not in a circle, and the soldiers ran like a swarm of worms from valley to valley.

The smell of blood rose from the corpses and minced flesh, and little by little it permeated the battlefield, and the screams of the wounded soldiers became the only sound besides the roar, dominating the battlefield.

The distance was too far for the North Korean artillery to fight back, and the artillery fire on this side was too fierce. After only three rounds, the artillery of the DPRK collapsed. Where there were still artillerymen who dared to move forward, and the artillerymen who were still alive screamed as if they were crazy, and fled to the sides and rear in a panic.

Li Xing smiled and was about to order the artillery to change targets, but saw that an infantry phalanx next to the artillery also collapsed.

It was probably blown up a dozen times by a misfired shell, and the morale of the thousands of Korean infantry was also broken. The collapse of the artillery caused panic among these infantrymen, and they no longer obeyed orders, but turned into routs, fleeing in other directions one by one.