Chapter 48: The Great Victory of Xingzhou
After General Li Rusong's defeat at the Biho Pavilion, he had no intention of continuing to fight on the battlefield in Korea.
At this moment, the 9,000 North Korean officers and troops mobilized by Lord Yoo Sung-ryong (Zhao Kun) in Xingzhou have also successfully arrived in Xingzhou, North Korea.
After making comprehensive military preparations, it was thought that the Ming official army would attack the Korean official army in the capital Hanyang at any time.
But at this moment, he was going to be completely disappointed, because General Li Rusong at this moment had already led his troops to withdraw to Pyongyang after Kato Kiyomasa sent troops from Hamgyong Province.
And after Liu Chenglong (Zhao Kun) found Lord Song Yingchang Jinglue, he continued to be fruitless until His Royal Highness Xuanzu wanted to find Lord Jinglue.
At this moment, Song Yingchang was having a brief meeting with Li Rusong, and Song Yingchang seemed to have reached a tacit understanding with Shen Weijing at this moment.
According to the decree of His Majesty the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to make every effort to help Korea drive all the Japanese out of Korean territory.
At this moment, Lord Jingliu is obviously avoiding the Koreans, and at this moment, Song Yingchang ordered Li Rusong to reorganize the armament.
The North Koreans themselves will fight a very asymmetrical war in Xingzhou, and the North Korean officers and soldiers at this moment will also face the invasion team with more than 30,000 Japanese invaders alone.
At this time, the team of Japanese pirates was led by Ukita Hideya, Konishi Yukinaga and other bandit leaders, and Koshu was also fully prepared.
They were waiting for the Japanese soldiers to attack, and the Korean officers and troops in Luckju were personally led by General Kwon Ryok Joseon.
So, in the early morning of February 12, 1593, under the leadership of Utakihideya, the Japanese army was disparity in the strength of the two sides.
The army of more than 30,000 Japanese invaders approached Xingzhou, and its military scale was huge.
There is a great courage to never return Xingzhou, and at this moment, there are only a few soldiers and civilians guarding the mountain city in Xingzhou.
But at this moment, General Kwon Li decided to defend against the risk to protect this bridgehead that could recover the capital Hanyang.
And after the lazy sun gradually rose that day, the army of more than 30,000 would-be pirates was illuminated by the morning light.
has already killed Xingzhou as a mountain city, those Japanese robbers with red and white battle flags on their backs.
Most of them wore very strange masks, and the North Korean soldiers and civilians were all frightened when they saw this.
Fortunately, the Korean officer and general Kwon Li commanded well, so that the hearts of the army and the people gradually calmed down.
At this moment, General Kwon Li is also fifty-five years old, and he is indeed one of the few Korean generals who can fight against the Japanese invaders.
And after the comprehensive construction of fortifications, all the weapons and equipment were prepared, and the hearts of the military and the people were tightened.
And while the Japanese army was arranged, General Quan Li let the soldiers and civilians defending the city have enough to eat.
Later, at about 6 o'clock, the Japanese army began its first siege of the city, and because of the large number of Japanese soldiers, they could only be arranged in a row of ten people at a time.
This also fell into the strategy of General Kwon Li, and the Korean military and civilians used bow and crossbow rockets, rocket vehicles, catapults, artillery, etc. in the battle to fight against the Japanese invaders.
Due to his condescending role, the Japanese army met head-on, and Konishi Yukicho wanted to wash away the defeat of Pyongyang.
He personally led the team to charge many times, thinking that the North Korean soldiers and civilians were vulnerable.
However, the facts tell President Konishi that the North Korean military and civilians at this moment are no longer the cowardly North Koreans they once were.
Just after the North Korean soldiers and civilians attacked with artillery for a while, they saw that all the Japanese soldiers who were charging at the front were blown away by artillery fire.
In the following contact, because the distance was too close, the artillery lost its original role, so the North Korean soldiers and civilians switched to shooting with bows and arrows.
As the bows and arrows shot out in beautiful arcs, many of the Japanese soldiers who charged in front fell to the ground.
And under such a defense, the Japanese soldiers have never been able to approach, and the military fortifications arranged by the Korean soldiers and civilians at this moment.
As a result, seeing that the Japanese army was gradually losing and rapidly reducing its strength, Governor Konishi had no choice but to issue a military order for the entire army to retreat.
In this way, the first attack ended with the defeat of the Japanese army.
At this moment, when the leader of the Japanese army and bandits was still unwilling, the leader of the Japanese bandits decided to attack with the whole army to completely defeat the military and people of Korea.
So under the command of Ukita Hideya, all the Japanese regrouped at the foot of the mountain to prepare for the final attack on the Korean soldiers and civilians on the mountain.
Therefore, at this moment, the Japanese soldiers are already determined to die and come to fight with the soldiers and civilians of North Korea.
Because the Utaki Hideya was supervising the battle behind the siege team with his soldiers, once there were really retreating Japanese soldiers, they would be killed directly.
So at this moment, after arranging the formation, the Japanese began a full-scale attack.
At this moment, the advantage of the Bird Gun of the Wolf is not shown at all, because the Bird Gun of the Wolf can play a role within a hundred steps.
However, at this moment, the mountain is far away from the location of the Japanese pirates, and North Korean artillery and rocket vehicles are being able to carry out long-range attacks against the Japanese pirates.
So the Japanese began to charge valiantly as they did for the first time, and the North Korean army still used advanced artillery and rocket vehicles.
A full-scale blow was inflicted on the invading Japanese soldiers, after which the long-range weapons were no longer effective due to the large number of Japanese troops.
Therefore, at close range, you can only use rockets and crossbow arrows to attack and return fire against the pirates.
At close range, the advantage of the Bird Gun was revealed, and at this moment, the Japanese used the Bird Gun to directly break through the first line of defense of the Korean defenders.
And in the ensuing attack, it gradually kills to the center point of the defense, and after the first line of defense is completely lost.
The bows and arrows and rocket weapons of the North Korean military and civilians are gradually running out, so at this moment the North Korean military and civilians have re-entered a new mode of defense.
At this time, the Korean soldiers and civilians began to fight with swords, stones, and Japanese robbers, and began a positional battle of white-knuckle warfare.
So at the time of the white-knuckle battle, Kwon Li, the general of the Korean official army, accidentally discovered that the leader of the Japanese bandits, Utakihide, was directing the Japanese army to attack on the battlefield.
Artillery and live ammunition were fired in the direction of Utakihide's house, and the rapid fire of the artillery and live ammunition followed.
It hit the location of Utakihideya at this moment, and Utakihideya was seriously injured at this moment and could not participate in the battle.
After Utakihide, who was unable to command the battle, was helped up by Yukinaga Konishi.
A confusing retreat order was issued, and the Japanese who were about to be victorious, so after the order was issued, all the Japanese invaders carried out a comprehensive retreat as soon as possible.
And in the Xingzhou battlefield defense area after the retreat, there were corpses of soldiers and civilians and Japanese robbers who died in battle.
All kinds of weapons were scattered everywhere, and the battle for the defense of the fortress of Koju also ended with 9,000 Korean defenders.
The glorious victory ended, and the great victory of Gyungju became the three great victories in the history of Korea, along with the great victory in the naval battle of Haksan Island and the great victory of Jinju.
The victory of Xingzhou was carried out in the case of the Korean army fighting alone, and the Ming official army at this moment retreated to Kaesong after the defeat in the battle of Bihokan.
After the victory in Xingju, all the Japanese soldiers retreated to Hanyang, and did not dare to come out again to attack the Korean city.
Cowering in Hanyang, the capital of North Korea, all day long, the Japanese who did not dare to attack again.
At this moment, we also saw the seriousness of the problem, and the Japanese who had basically failed at sea completely lost the supply line of life at sea.
On the road, the gate to Jeolla Road could not be opened, and even the gateway city of Jinju could not be opened.
Therefore, at this moment, the head of the Japanese bandits, Konishi, has the intention of talking with North Korea and the Ming Dynasty.
In the next Ming-Japanese talks, whether or not there will be any results will depend on the content and results of the talks.