Chapter 45: Recovering Pyongyang

Under the command of General Li Rusong, on January 8, 1593, the 70,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and the 10,000 soldiers of the Joseon and the Ming Dynasty entered the city of Pyongyang as soon as possible.

At that time, General Li Rusong personally supervised the battle, and the Japanese in Pyongyang also made active preparations.

And there were birds, bows and arrows, artillery, stones and boiling water, in order to resist the attack of the Ming army.

At this time, the soldiers were about to have the intention of retreating, and Li Rusong at that time hacked to death the first soldier who retreated.

As soon as all the Ming officers and soldiers saw the general supervising the battle, they kept rushing to the city of Pyongyang to attack.

At this moment, the battlefield underwent a decisive change, first in the northwest of Pyongyang in the direction of Peony Peak, just after a cannon shot, a large number of Ming troops entered Peony Peak.

caused countless casualties among the Japanese soldiers, resulting in the Peony Peak being broken by the Ming army.

The generals who led this Ming army to attack Peony Peak were Zu Chengxun and Wu Weizhong, who was also a ZJ person aged 60.

He personally led the ZJ 3,000 soldiers to come to Korea to follow General Li Rusong to fight against the Japanese invaders.

On the southwestern side of Pyongyang, the camouflaged North Korean army attacked, and the lazy North Korean soldiers began after a signal.

began to change out of the Korean official uniform and attack under the leadership of Zu Chengxun, and when the Japanese came to their senses, they had already killed the Japanese in the castle.

The Ming army in the west was attacking the city of Pyongyang, and not far from the gate of Pyongyang, they began to bombard Pyongyang fiercely.

There were many more heavy artillery in the Ming military camp than the Japanese Kou, so the west gate was blown open after a heavy artillery attack.

And Li Rusong's younger brother Li Rubai was leading the Ming army to fight at the West Gate, and immediately rushed into the West Gate and began to fight with the Japanese Kou.

And when attacking Xiaoximen, that Wu Weizhong and General Li Rusong commanded the Ming army to attack. Therefore, the west gate was broken by the Ming official army, and all the gates were broken by the Ming army.

So began a general offensive against the city of Pyongyang, and at the moment, there were only more than 20,000 Japanese Yukicho Konishi who could only wait for the fate of death.

At this moment, all gates have been broken by the combined forces of the Ming and the DPRK, and the combined forces of the DPRK and the Ming Dynasty have gradually entered the city of Pyongyang.

In the city of Pyongyang, the Ming officers and North Korean soldiers fought a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese invaders, and the Ming had lost more than 7,000 people in the attack on Pyongyang.

The losses on the Japanese side were even greater, with more than 10,000 killed in the battle, and the supporting generals of the Japanese withdrew when they saw that the tide was turning.

At this moment, General Li Rusong decided to spare the life of Governor Konishi, while Lord Liu Chenglong (Zhao Kun) objected.

Therefore, the Ming official army deliberately left a gap on the way of the retreat of the Japanese invaders, and Lord Liu Chenglong (Zhao Kun) arranged for the Korean troops to ambush the retreat of the Japanese invaders.

On January 9, 1593, the Ming army and the Korean army under the command of Li Rusong finally entered the long-lost city of Pyongyang.

The people of Pyongyang, North Korea, spontaneously went to the city gate to greet General Li Rusong, and entered the city of Pyongyang, North Korea, amid the sound of the mountain shouting long live.

On January 9, 1593, after four days of fighting, the Ming and Korean forces finally succeeded in recapturing the city of Pyongyang.

This was also seven months after the Japanese occupied the city of Pyongyang, and after the outbreak of the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, the Korean army was helpless and knew only about retreating.

Through this success, the city of Pyongyang was conquered, and not only the Pyongan Province area that had been under the jurisdiction of the Japanese invaders was regained.

At the same time, it also reversed the previous defeat and became a new opportunity.

On the night of the breaching of Pyongyang, Governor Konishi led the remaining 6,000 or so Japanese invaders.

After exiting the city of Pyongyang, they were ambushed by Li Rusong's troops, and this ambush battle resulted in thousands of Japanese casualties.

Therefore, in the battle of Pyongyang City Reconquest, a total of more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were annihilated, and these were the most elite military forces of the Japanese invaders.

This battle greatly boosted the morale of the Ming official army and the Korean army, and at this moment, Konishi Yukichang still had more than thousands of soldiers left, and he was at the place of Wang Shizi Guanghaijun, who was in the place of Ping'an Dao.

After receiving the news of the reconquest of Pyongyang, he confidently decided to regain all the lost territory.

And at this moment, His Royal Highness Seonjo always felt that the Korean army led by Li Rusong was much stronger than the Korean army led by Kim Myung Won and Li Yi.

So after the city of Pyongyang was recovered, Seonjo of Korea asked the ministers to pay tribute and special products from the eight provinces of Korea.

The reward was given to the Ming officers and generals Li Rusong who participated in the battle, but the Korean ministers at this moment had the intention of objecting.

However, despite public opinion, Seonjo still asked the Korean volunteers to send those special products and tributes to General Li Rusong.

After the battle to recover Pyongyang, the Ming official army pressed on the Japanese invaders step by step.

At this time, the Japanese had already retreated to the area south of the Taedong River, and retreated to the area around Hanyang, the capital of Korea.

And the strength of the Ming army occupied all the provinces and cities in the entire northern part of Korea, and when the two armies faced each other.

Li Rusong's conceit put him in a difficult situation, because Li Rusong had just heard the news that the Japanese were going to withdraw from the Korean capital Hanyang, so he personally led his army to attack the capital Hanyang.

However, thirty kilometers away from the capital Hanyang, after thousands of Ming troops were ambushed by 20,000 Japanese soldiers.

And this battle also caused one of Li Rusong's generals to die in order to protect Li Rusong, and later the siege was not lifted until after the arrival of follow-up Ming reinforcements.

And this battle was no less exciting than the battle of Pyongyang, after which Li Rusong retreated to Kaesong.

And those damn Japanese robbers also cowered in Hanyang, the capital of North Korea, and they definitely didn't dare to come out and continue to fight with Li Rusong.

This led to a confrontation between the two armies, and problems and troubles arose on both sides, because Li Rusong had gone through the Battle of Bihuoguan.

Due to the complete defeat of the naval forces in the rear, the Japanese were unable to march north.

At this moment, when Li Rusong learned that the last military rations of the Japanese were hoarded in Longshan, he sent the Ming army to Longshan and burned the Japanese military rations with countless torches.

Therefore, the Japanese who had no military rations at once could only negotiate with Li Rusong, the commander of the Ming official army, and the Japanese said at this moment that they would withdraw from Hanyang, the capital of North Korea.

Later, it did force the Japanese to withdraw from the Korean capital of Hanyang, but the Ming army was also far from its own supply line.

When there was a war near the Yalu River, it was very close to the supply line of the Ming Dynasty.

But once it entered the southern hinterland of North Korea, it was far away from the Ming supply line.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty also had to rest at this time, and then the two sides negotiated a truce.

But the truce of the Japanese is for the sake of fighting again, while the truce of the Ming is a complete rest.

At this moment, the Ming army and the Korean army have also achieved an unprecedented victory, so when General Li Rusong hears that the Japanese are going to withdraw from Hanyang, how will he react depends on General Li Rusong's choice.