Chapter 33: The Battle Fails
Just when the Korean officers and troops were preparing to confront the Japanese on the south bank of the Imjin River, Governor Konishi, who was a Japanese invader, suggested that they surrender and retreat.
Then, on the road of retreat, the Korean officers and troops were mercilessly encircled and intercepted, and then the North Korean officers and troops who were holding on to the Imjin River were eliminated.
At this moment, however, the Korean generals believed that the retreat of the Japanese was entirely due to the imminent attack on Hanyang by Li Huan's more than 50,000 soldiers.
Therefore, at this moment, the Korean defenders, under the leadership of a blind and arrogant defender general, crossed the Imjin River without authorization to the other side to pursue the retreating Japanese invaders.
And the pursuit at this moment happened to fall into Kato Kiyomasa's trick, and Kato Kiyomasa wished that the North Korean officials and troops would come to pursue it.
So at this moment, Kato Kiyomasa ordered all the more than 20,000 Japanese who had retreated, and the rear team was changed to the front team to attack the Korean official army.
So under the attack of Kato Kiyomasa, this North Korean general who only knows the theoretical knowledge of books. He was about to lead the 13,000-strong Korean army into the graves that Kato Kiyomasa and the other Japanese had already dug up.
In the battle against the Japanese led by Kato Kiyomasa, the Korean officers and soldiers showed incomparably heroic fighting spirit.
However, on the battlefield, we must not only have the spirit of being a warrior, but also have advanced weapons and superb military combat technology.
However, the Korean officers and soldiers and the generals who defended the city lacked these two points, which led to frequent defeats in wars.
And the North Korean officers and soldiers, who should not have pursued in the Battle of Imjin River, had to carry out a merciless pursuit under the command of Han Yingin.
It is rare for Han Yingyin, a civilian official, to lead the North Korean official army into the death zone.
Maybe Han Yingyin was bought by the Japanese and it is not known, but history does not have the word maybe.
Now, from the history of North Korea, it can only be said that Han Yong-in, a civil official, relied on the supreme power given by His Royal Highness Seonjo.
The DPRK officers and troops were mobilized to fight unconventional operations without authorization, because the situation at that time was that the DPRK officers and troops should not take the initiative to pursue the Japanese invaders.
Instead, we should stick to the natural barrier of the Imjin River, but history will really play a joke on the Korean court and the Joseon Seonjo.
Even under the command of Han Yingyin, the North Korean officers and troops still pursued the retreating Japanese in an all-round way, and they were afraid that they would not be able to pursue them one step later.
Therefore, the defeat in the Battle of Imjin River was caused by the Korean officers and soldiers who went to pursue the Japanese after discovering the plan.
It was too late, Kato Kiyomasa also began to encircle and suppress the North Korean official army, because there were special soldiers in the Japanese ranks.
And these special soldiers are armed with advanced bird guns, and when a sergeant holds a bird gun, he cannot see the advantage of bird guns.
However, when a group of sergeants held the bird guns, it was absolutely clear that the bird guns were the most advanced weapons in the world at that time.
And with the help of Bird Gun, most of the Korean officers and soldiers of the sergeants soon entered the encirclement laid by Kato Kiyomasa.
Just after being completely surrounded by Kato Kiyomasa's troops, the North Korean officers and troops also made stubborn breakthroughs several times.
But in the end, they were all defeated by Kato Kiyomasa's troops, so in the process of difficult resistance, the Korean officers and troops gradually lost their combat effectiveness.
And Kato Kiyomasa gradually lost his patience with the North Korean officers and troops, and after tightening and shrinking the encirclement at the moment, he annihilated the North Korean officers and troops who came to pursue.
And after annihilating the Korean officers and troops who came to pursue, the guards of Imjin River still resisted after the general situation was gone.
However, the resistance was very small, and in the end, the 13,000 Korean troops were annihilated by Kato Kiyomasa's 23,000 Japanese troops.
At this point, the Imjin River in North Korea was also in a state of loss, and after capturing the Imjin River, Kato Kiyomasa still wanted to continue the pursuit to the north.
And at this moment, in the Hanyang area in the south, the team of 50,000 sergeants of King Li Xunqin.
After arriving at the battle area, he waited for the opportunity to fight and prepared to defeat the Japanese in Hanyang in one fell swoop.
However, at this moment, there are at least tens of thousands of Japanese pirates in Hanyang, and they are facing such a large number of Japanese pirates.
It was not easy to defeat the Japanese invaders, so they were in the middle of an attack campaign against Hanyang.
The Korean officers and troops, under the command of Yi Huan, prepared to use blitzkrieg tactics to attack the Japanese defenders who were now entrenched in Hanyang.
If the Battle of Hanyang is won, then North Korea can completely reverse the situation of losing one after another.
It is completely possible to cut the invading Japanese army into two sections, north and south, and the Japanese army under the command of Kato Kiyomasa in the north will also be encircled.
The remaining Japanese army in the south will also be surrounded by the Korean officers and troops and annihilated by the North Korean army in the case of logistical supply insecurity.
However, there is absolutely no such thing as a "if" in history, because there are as many as 50,000 North Korean officers and troops at this moment.
However, under the leadership of Li Huan, they continued to walk into the graves that had already been dug up, and these more than 50,000 North Korean officers and soldiers had a numerical advantage.
I definitely can't see any good aspects, but the people gathered all the way to join the official army, so in the Hanyang Attack Campaign, although the Korean official army fought very fiercely.
However, under the reckless command of Li Huan, it led to the fatal mistake of the North Korean officers and soldiers.
At this moment, the Korean officers and soldiers gradually fell into the trap set by the Japanese invaders, because Yi Xun, who had no actual combat experience, was definitely not the opponent of the Japanese invaders.
First of all, the generals of the Japanese were all combat generals who had developed a long time through the civil war in their own country and were extremely experienced.
Even those ordinary Japanese soldiers have been trained from long-term battles, and the Korean officers and soldiers still have any combat effectiveness after two hundred years of peace and prosperity.
In addition to the fact that there is still some strength left over to oppress ordinary North Korean people, it is useless to deal with these murderous and unblinking pirates.
I didn't look at the large number of Korean officers and soldiers, but in the eyes of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the lord of the Japanese Korko, it was just a bunch of numbers.
So in the battle of Hanyang reconquest, the Korean officers and soldiers of more than 50,000 soldiers fought very fiercely.
In exchange, it was the same ending as the Battle of Imjin River, it was a complete failure, and I don't know what the Korean officers and troops were thinking at that time?
The fact that the two major battles ended in defeat is also to blame for the fact that the Korean officers and generals were relatively light on the enemy.
After the complete failure of the two major battles of the North Korean defense of the Imjin River and the recovery of Hanyang, the Korean officers and troops still had the ability to continue to resist.
It depends on who is under the leadership of the DPRK officers and troops at this time, in fact, there are still partial victories in the DPRK at this moment.
Under the command of Guo Zaiyou, the leader of the Korean rebel army, he often cut off the life supply line of the Japanese and robbed the grain and grass plundered by the Japanese invaders.
After distributing the plundered grain and grass to the ordinary people of Korea, more people with lofty ideals in Korea joined the rebel army.
And at sea, the Korean naval army, under the leadership of General Yi Sunsin, can be said to have won every battle, as far as the Japanese naval army in this historical period is concerned.
Almost all of them were defeats, and the Japanese navy, which had not won a single victory, also regarded Yi Sunsin as a thorn in the flesh.
Yi Sunsin's navy was also cut off at sea, and the Japanese invaders' logistical supply lines were later thought of developing the role of the navy on land.
And after the defeat of the two major battles in Korea, the only way out for North Korea was to ask the Ming Dynasty for troops.
Because the Ming Dynasty, as a big country in the upper state, will not ignore the fact that North Korea will perish like this at this moment.
Therefore, at this moment, the Ming Dynasty will also mobilize troops from Liaodong to support the Korean court and His Royal Highness Seonjo, who are struggling on the line of life and death.
Since then, the people of North Korea have also had hope of survival, and the dispatch of troops by the Ming Dynasty also reflects the last of the three major expeditions of Wanli.