Hearing Xiubao mention Xing Jie, Nakamura shook his head: "As far as the foreign minister knows, the general of the Ming Army is not called Xing Jie, but a middle-aged military general named Li Rumei. ”

"Li Rumei?!" Xiubao was stunned in his heart, slowly sat back, and said to himself: "It seems that Xing Jie is ready to fight and complete his work." ”

"Dare to ask Your Highness, who is Xingjie you are talking about, and what is the origin of Li Rumei?" Nakamura and Jiuju are both fighting in Korea for the first time, and they don't know who Xing Jie, let alone Li Rumei, so they naturally want to ask one or two.

Hideho put the folding fan on the table and asked rhetorically as he tapped the table, "Do you know the Battle of Bihokan?" ”

Jiuju shook his head, but Nakamura said that he had heard of it: "The foreign minister heard from Settsu Mamoru that more than 40,000 troops of our army's two major armies fought against 9,000 Ming troops, but they failed to win, not only that, but even the Longshan granary was burned down by a fire, forcing our army to withdraw from Seoul and forced to negotiate peace with the Ming army. ”

"Yes, after this battle, our army's morale was exhausted, and it was no longer able to organize an effective counteroffensive, which can be said to be the fuse of Wenlu's defeat." Xiubao sighed: "The general of the Ming army who led the army to capture Pyongyang and then launched the Battle of Bihokan was Li Rusong, the chief military officer of Liaodong and the chief soldier of the Imperial War, Li Rusong, who you just mentioned, is his younger brother. ”

"But what does he have to do with that Xingjie?" Nakamura and Kuju have a great tendency to break the casserole and ask to the end.

"As far as I know, Xing Jue is the new secretary of the military department of the Ming Dynasty, unlike his predecessor Shi Xing, he is a firm main battle faction, and was snubbed by the imperial court because of his opposition to peace, but after Shen Weijing was defeated, Shi Xing was implicated and fell from the horse, he and the main battle faction were able to make a comeback, Li Rumei is his favorite general, you see him, it means that Xing Jie has arrived in North Korea, if this is the case, then this battle may be difficult to fight." Xiubao didn't want to talk to the two young generals, so as soon as he finished speaking, he sent the two to Qingzhou and Wenqing respectively, and informed Xiuyuan and Zhonglin of the 100,000 urgently, hoping that the two could lead the army north to attack Pyeongtaek and Dichuan, and follow the example of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao to solve the urgent need.

In fact, about Xingjie, Xiubao only told Nakamura some fur, as for his other identity, the "Governor of Jiliao" who commanded all the soldiers and horses inside and outside the city, east and west of the Liao River, Xiubao deliberately avoided mentioning it, so as not to lose morale before the battle started.

As soon as he arrived in Liaodong, he recruited 40,000 male divisions from Xuanfu (now Zhangjiakou), Datong, Yan'an, and Zhejiang, across the Yalu River, to aid the Korean and Japanese wars.

At the beginning of his journey to North Korea, he immediately made a decision to cut off the traitor Shen Weijing, causing the Japanese army to lose its ears and eyes. After that, it was revealed that Shi Xing collaborated with the enemy and misled the country, so that the imperial court put him in prison and died.

After the Battle of Nanyuan, he swore on the altar in Seoul, swearing that "there will be no difference between thieves and widows", and successively achieved great victories in Jishan and Qingshan, reversing the passive situation of the Ming army. After that, he led the three armies to launch a counteroffensive, and in the battle of Ulsan, he lured the enemy into an ambush with light cavalry, and won a surprising victory.

When the news of Hideyoshi's death came, the Japanese army crossed the sea and returned home. Xingjie ordered the North Korean coalition forces to launch a strong attack, gathered and annihilated the fleeing enemy in the sea around Luliang, won a complete victory, sank nearly 1,000 Japanese ships, and almost completely annihilated the Japanese navy, drawing a successful end to the six-year war.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there was only the mentor of "Yuan Inspector", Sun Chengzong, who was a scholar of Dongge University, Liaodong Economic Strategy, and the Secretary of the Military Department, could be compared with it.

Xiubao understands that this move to "encircle Wei and save Zhao" can only be an expedient measure, Xing Yu brought 40,000 reinforcements this time, of which 20,000 still do not know where to go, if he rashly concentrates his forces to attack Pyeongtaek in the west and Dichuan in the east, the area around Bird Ridge will be empty in defense, if 20,000 troops take advantage of the weakness to enter, the defense line hastily built by the Japanese army will collapse in an instant, and at that time, a collapse of thousands of miles, corpses will really be inevitable.

Therefore, for Pyeongtaek and Dichuan, it is better to "attack" rather than "encircle", that is, to send small troops to feint, rather than to dispatch the whole army, which can not only create a false impression for the Ming army, but also prevent the adverse impact of a long-term siege on morale and supplies, and free up enough time for the main force in the rear to consolidate and build a defensive line to deal with the general counteroffensive of the Ming army that may occur at any time.

Of course, as for whether Xing Jue will be hit by the scheme, and where the 20,000 troops will appear, this is unknown, and the top priority at present is to send troops to rescue Xiujia and the governor as soon as possible, and at the same time send ninjas to chase Xiuzhong and Gao Hu, so that they abandon Bird Ridge and go to Chenghuanli instead, so as to avoid being ambushed by the vanguard of the Ming army.

In addition to the 1,200 elites brought by Gao Hu, Xiubao's subordinates only had the 300 horses brought at the beginning and the 200 ashigaru of Komiyayama Harukatsu, with the strength of less than 2,000 people, against Li Rumei's 20,000 army? Unless Hideho and his retainers are crazy, they can't figure it out.

"Inform Kuroda Kai Mamoru of Tian'an and ask him to come and join forces at a rapid pace." Xiubao said to Nasu Ziji: "The three thousand people of Changzheng, plus the two thousand people of the main family, a total of five thousand people, even if they can't solve the siege of Fengyang, they should be able to delay the Ming army for a while." ”

At the same time, the city of Kowloon on the banks of the Fengjiang River was shrouded in fog, and the Ming army, with an absolute superiority of 16,000 people, surrounded this small city heavily, making it difficult for birds to enter.

The night before, Xiujia and the governor led the crowd to break through desperately from the south gate of Fengyang, and once wanted to flee to Chungju City, who knew that Zhongzhou at this time had already been occupied by the Ming army, and in desperation, the two had to turn around and march eastward, trying to strengthen the South Han River into Gyeongsang-do, but this was also expected by Li Rumei, he preemptively occupied the nearest ferry port to Gyeongsang-do, and sent troops to return to the rear of the Japanese army, cutting off the road back to Fengyang.

At the end of the mountain, Xiujia and the governor divided their troops into two ways, turned to the west and forcibly crossed the Fengjiang River, but Li Rumei did not give Xiujia a chance at all, and contacted the Jiangzuo Righteous Army to burn the pontoon bridge and scuttle the boats, forcing the Japanese army to cross the river, but the river was turbulent, the river was deep, and most of it was swept away before it reached the center of the river, and the Xiujia had to retreat to the right of the river, rest the army, and prepare to fight with the Ming army.

But at this time, the captain who did not find the ship led his troops to join the division, and the two armies went north along the river and captured Jiulong Mountain City in one fell swoop, and the Ming army then arrived and surrounded the Japanese army again. In this way, Xiujia and the governor sacrificed 2,000 troops but still failed to break out of the encirclement of the Ming army, and this Kowloon City was only less than ten miles away from Fengyang.