With the opening of the city gate, Yang Yuan led eighty horsemen to gallop out, and the remaining thirty people rushed to the enemy formation under the leadership of Mao Chengxian, trying to buy time for Yang Yuan.

Seeing this scene, Yang Yuan couldn't help but burst into tears, beat his chest and said: "Spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, I really deserve to die!" Although I feel guilty in my heart, I have no way to return to heaven at this point, so I can only rush forward and not let the blood of the soldiers be shed in vain.

Yang Yuan's choice to break through from the east was determined by the geographical location of Nanyuan. Although Nanyuan is located in the basin, there are mountains and rivers in the east and west, the Fuxing Mountains and the Chanjin River in the west, and the Xiaobai Mountains and the Tategawa River in the east.

The focus is on the river, the Chanjin River is one of the largest rivers in the southwest of Korea, the water surface is open, the water flow is turbulent, if the Japanese army occupies the suspension bridge, Yang Yuan has only a dead end; The Tategawa River to the east of the southern plains is different, as a tributary of the Chanjin River, the volume of water is small, and it is now winter, the river is shallow, and the war horses can wade across the river. Therefore, Yang Yuan made the right choice when he evacuated the south gate.

Since the trenches were all filled, the Ming army did not slow down at all before reaching the Nabeshima formation, but instead took advantage of the chaos in the enemy camp to try to speed up the breakthrough of the Japanese blockade. Naoshige Nabeshima is not a fool, he expected that the Ming army would take this opportunity to break through, but it rained heavily, but everything that was stained with fire was scrapped, including the iron artillery team.

There was no way, Nabeshima father and son had to hurriedly order to replace the iron cannon with a spear ashigaru, and set up a gun formation in front of the army to prevent the Ming army from attacking. But before the third row of guns was arranged, more than 80 war horses tore through the rain curtain and came to the front.

"The Ming army is here!" In the face of these rare high-headed horses in Japan, many ashigaru retreated.

"Bastard, give me all the stuff!" Naomao stood outside the tent of the Chinese army, and when he saw the deserter, he was killed with a knife, "We have 7,000 people, and I'm afraid that his dozens of horses won't succeed!" ”

"My lord, that's the cavalry of the Ming Kingdom, you forgot that you were in Pyongyang back then..."A Ashigaru said in alarm.

"Bah, how many people were there then, and how many people are now, can't you kill one in a hundred? Bastard, what's the use of keeping you! Naomao dragged the deserter's bun and aimed it at the neck is a knife, "Who dares to disturb the morale of the army again, the end will be the same as him!" ”

With Naomao's deterrence, the situation in this formation has indeed improved a lot, and while the Ming army has not yet arrived at the Chinese army, Naomao seized the time to organize the second and third groups of gun arrays, and he must let these eighty cavalry all fall into his own formation.

Compared with the panic of the Japanese army, Yang Yuan was surprisingly calm, presumably at this moment, everyone's head was engraved with the words "Death as home".

But this calm did not last long, when the two armies were eighty meters apart, Yang Yuan was shocked: "Brothers, there is a gun array in front, immediately tighten the reins, and you must not speed through!" ”

Everyone was startled at first when they heard this, and then immediately reduced their speed according to Yang Yuan's instructions, trying to minimize the damage through the gun formation. But how can this be achieved within seventy meters, just now I was desperately accelerating, how can I descend in a short period of time?

It was late, everything was late, with the neighing of the war horses and the mud splashed on the ground, more than eighty horsemen were almost all drowned in this gun array of nearly a thousand people, only four or five people did not die, picked up their guns and mounted their horses, and rushed towards the second gun array.

"General, there is a bush next to it, while the Japanese are not catching up, you can run quickly, we will help you cover." The general beside Yang Yuan calmly persuaded.

"How can this work?!" Yang Yuan looked at the only four remaining soldiers around him, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry for General Mao, how can I leave you to live." ”

"General, you are alive to avenge us." The general's words suddenly made Yang Yuan change his mind.

"Got it, Yang Yuan said goodbye!" With that, Yang Yuan turned his horse's head and ran into the bushes, and disappeared into the night after a while.

"My lord, how can we cover the general?" A young cavalryman next to him didn't seem to understand what the general meant, and asked stupidly.

"Child," the general turned his face to look at the cavalry, trying to squeeze out a smile: "Isn't it cover to lure the pirates away, and isn't it cover to rush into the enemy line to buy time?" ”

"I understand, I'm willing to follow the adults to cover the general." The young cavalryman couldn't help but let out a low sob, but his hand still held the reins tightly, and he had no intention of flinching.

After listening to this conversation, the remaining two generals nodded with satisfaction, sighed, and raised their spears to greet the second thousand-man gun formation.

The neighing of the horses, the splashing of mud, the scene of the first charge is still played out this time, if there is a real difference, it is only that the sound is quieter, the mud is less, and that's it. With the last sound of the horse, the battle of Nanyuan came to an end. As for Mao Chengxian, when Yang Yuan first arrived at the first gun formation, he was stabbed to death by several ashigaru guns, and the owl went to the first level, and like the other three gates, the West Gate was also wiped out in the end, of course, excluding Yang Yuan.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiuyuan led the officers and soldiers of the three armies to inspect the first rank, and a total of 3,190 Ming troops were annihilated in this battle, 1,100 fresh soldiers, zero Ming soldiers were captured, and 120 fresh soldiers (mostly old, weak, sick and disabled); The Japanese army lost 6,344 soldiers, mainly concentrated at the South Gate and the East Gate.

After this battle, Jeolla Road was no longer in danger, and the Japanese army went hundreds of miles north as if it were in a no-man's land. On December 23, the army captured Renshi, an important town in the south of Quanzhou, Chen Yuzhong was shocked when he heard the news, and led his 4,000 soldiers and horses to retreat north overnight, and surrendered Quanzhou to Xiuyuan.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiuyuan led the main force of the army into Jeonju City, and the generals held a military meeting in the palace, and learned that the day before, Xiuzhong had led his troops to capture Munqing, and was preparing to cross the Bird Ridge and enter Chungcheong-do. Hearing this, the generals were in an uproar and demanded that Xiuyuan leave immediately and enter Qingzhou before Xiuzhong, and must not lose the face of the Western Route Army.

At this time, Xiuyuan heard that the volunteers of Gaya Mountain City were rising everywhere, posing a threat to the grain road, so he ordered the father and son of Nabejima to lead 7,000 people to the south to quell the rebellion, and stationed in Changwon by the way; The rest of the generals continued to advance north according to the original plan, striving to reach the city of Cheongju within three days.

Hearing that the Ming army had collapsed for thousands of miles, Magui couldn't sit still, and immediately summoned Liu Chenglong, the Korean leader, and asked him to order the Korean naval army to attack immediately, cut off the Japanese army's sea grain route, and buy time for the Ming army. Liu Chenglong happily accepted the order, the battle of Nanyuan made the Ming Dynasty lose face, if the Korean naval army can achieve victory at this time, the voice of the coalition army will be further enhanced in the future, at that time, the Korean army is not just a toy in the hands of the Ming army, a loyal dog at the feet.