"Why?" Tadaemon asked coldly, "Do you remember the battle of the Doumanjiang River in the first year of Bunroku?" ”

"Dou Manjiang?" Zong Chuan repeated, "Ben won't know what you're talking about. ”

"It's the battle of the Tumen River in the twentieth year of Wanli." Guessing that Zong Chuan might not be familiar with the Japanese era names and the names of the Tumen River in the two countries, the interpreter hurriedly explained in Chinese.

"Understood," Zong Chuan suddenly realized: "You are talking about 'Renchen Koubian', but what does that have to do with the general you killed?" ”

"How can it be okay," Tadaemon said slowly: "When Higo Mamoru suffered less than 200 casualties, he occupied Hamgyong, Gangwon, and Gyeongsang three provinces, captured the Korean princes Linhaijun and Shunhejun, and went directly to the border of the Ming Kingdom, although the initial goal has been achieved, but in order to take advantage of the victory to pursue and implement the great cause of Taige's expedition to the Tang Dynasty, Higo Shou decided to lead the army across the Douman River to invade the Ming Realm, in order to make immortal achievements, but I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect it to be a loss of soldiers and a run away in embarrassment, right?" Zong Chuan sneered.

The interpreter didn't dare to relay it to Tadaemon as it was, but asked "tactfully", "Did the army have an accident?" ”

Tadaemon continued indignantly: "Who would have thought that it was not the Ming people who encountered it, but his grandmother's Jurchen barbarians. At first, the fat and then the defense preemptively, slaughtered five villages in a row to shake the prestige, and there was not much hindrance, did not think that the next day before dawn, it was besieged by thousands of Jurchen cavalry, our army was not familiar with the place, more than 600 casualties before it was lucky to break through, 600 people, is three times the number of casualties in North Korea before, it can be seen how terrible a nation the Jurchen is. ”

"Yes," the interpreter sobbed and said with empathy, "We Koreans were bullied by them a lot." ”

"you North Koreans!" As soon as the interpreter finished speaking, Tadaemon kicked him in the stomach, and the whole person flew out three meters away in an instant, rolled on the ground a few times and hit the pillar before stopping.

"If it weren't for you North Koreans, we wouldn't be like that!" Tadaemon roared angrily: "At the beginning, it was all because of the instigation of North Korea that they chose to enter the Ming realm from the upper reaches of the Douman River, what did you say at the time, 'There are only Jurchen weak barbarians in the upper reaches, and there are no heavy troops of the Ming army, so the breakthrough must be twice the result with half the effort', as a result, it was not met by the Ming army, but where did the 'weak barbarian' come from?" Can the 'weak barbarians' kill and wound 600 of our army? ”

The translator reluctantly propped up his upper body, rubbed his stomach, and replied with a painful expression: "The villain was not present at the time, can you blame the villain, it must be that our military and civilians have been persecuted by the Jurchens for a long time, and they want to get rid of it with the help of your country, so they deceived the adults." ”

"It's okay if you don't say it, the more I talk about it, the more angry I become." Tadaemon walked up to the interpreter, kicked him in the chest, and said fiercely, "I'm afraid you want to get rid of us with the help of the Jurchens, right?" 3,000 Korean soldiers crossed the river with us, grabbed grain and burned the village, but as soon as they saw the Jurchens coming, they fled back to Hamgyong Road without looking back, leaving us alone to fight to the death, and at this time, my brother was stabbed to death by the Jurchen chieftain with a spear. ”

With an aggrieved face, the interpreter relayed Tadaemon's words to Sotsune, and of course, all the disgraceful deeds of the deserters were omitted.

Zong Chuan pondered for a while, and said in a deep voice: "At that time, the general was serving as the commander of the Songshan Guard, assisting General Li to pass through Liaodong, and he did receive a report from the ** Hachi who was the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard at the time, but as far as I know, it was the Ula Division, one of the four Haixi Jurchens, that fought with you, not the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the commander of the battle was Buzhantai, the younger brother of Ulabelle, not the Manchurian Belle Shulutai, it seems that you killed the wrong person and avenged the wrong person." ”

"I don't care so much, as long as it's a Jurchen, I should die!" Tadaemon waved his hand and scolded: "The general of the defeated army is a fish and meat, kill if you want, kill if you want, kill if you want, don't need to reason with you, come and take these captives down, but if you find anyone trying to escape, you can kill them first." ”

"Haha." After that, he saw several samurai enter the main hall and escort the remaining eleven people to the warehouse, Tadaemon glanced at the interpreter, and walked out of the main hall with a cold snort.

At this time, the generals in the palace could not hold back the anger in their hearts, and they all came to Tsunao and persuaded him: "My lord, it is you who dragged the forward forward and made the first contribution, but Tadaemon does not take you seriously, and is arrogant, as if he is the first person to make the merit, such an act is against the way of the samurai." ”

Although Tsunazhi is also displeased, considering the current situation, he still hopes to avoid extraneous branches: "Everyone is wrong to blame Lord Ashizuka, the hatred of killing his brother is not the same as the sky, the reason why he is so reckless today must not be the original intention, but driven by the heart of revenge, so please bear with me, focus on the overall situation, don't hurt the peace, let the Ming army have a chance." ”

"We understand, everything is arranged by Lord Longship." Seeing that Gangzhi, who was the person concerned, was not angry, it was inconvenient for everyone to say anything, so they had to retreat everywhere to prevent a sneak attack by the Ming army.

At the same time, Hideho had already arrived at Yangseong, west of Chungju, with Kiji, to join up with Hidetachi and Gao Hu, who were about to cross the Bird Ridge, and his total strength was only 2,800 men.

As Nagamasa expected, although Kiji was kicked out of his house, he did not betray the master's house, but falsely claimed that his 300 men were the vanguard of the Kuroda family, and the large army would not arrive at Chenghuanli until later.

As soon as he heard "later", Xiubao understood what Changzheng's intentions were, and now the situation is very critical, and he can't afford to wait for reinforcements, rather than passively waiting for Changzheng and Xiuyuan to delay the fighter, it is better to take the initiative to attack, and there may be a glimmer of hope.

Thinking of this, Xiubao changed his initial battle plan, led the army from Chenghuanli, retreated to Zhenchuan, and sneaked along the southern foot of the Zhuling Mountains to Yangcheng, where he met Gao Hu and others who were ordered to stay here. Late that night, Xiubao held a military meeting in Yangcheng County, and decided to let Xiuzhong return to Wenqing first, and led the Central Route Army 16,000 to the north, but the northward location was not in Choling, but in the Taebaeksan Mountain at the junction of Gangwon Province and Gyeongsang Road, which is located in the southeast of Jecheon, far outside the Ming army's "Chungju-Jecheon-Danyang Triangle Defense Circle", and the most important thing is that this place is still in the hands of the Japanese army, so it will break into Gangwon Province and will not attract the attention of the Ming army.

As for the limited forces in Xiubao's hands, they were divided into three routes, the western route was led by Gaoji and Qingxing, with a force of 1,000, mainly responsible for feints to attack Chungju and delay the Ming army; The southern route was led by Gao Hu and Longqing, with a force of 800, mainly responsible for capturing Danyang, seizing the ferry, and creating conditions for Xiujia to break through; The northern route was led by Hideho himself, assisted by Ziji, Junju, Yiqing, Harukatsu and Kiji, and raided Yunling Pass.

However, this plan was opposed by all the generals except Hidebo.