The general of the Japanese army that invaded this time was Matsudaira Nobutsuna, the chief minister of the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna, alias Wisdom Izu, was known for his strategy, and six or seven years ago he had just put down the Shimabara Rebellion, a great uprising of peasants, ronin, and Christians in the Wa Kingdom.

This time, the shogunate Tokugawa Iemitsu sent Matsudaira Nobutsuna to be the chief general of the Japanese army, which fully proves that the Japanese attach great importance to the invasion, and it can also be seen that Fanghara severed trade with the Japanese and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese who were poor in land and poor in the people.

The composition of the Japanese army was 10,000 troops from the Musashi Domain of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, 5,000 troops from the Shimazu clan, the lord of the Satsuma Domain in Kyushu, and 5,000 troops from Tadayuki Kuroda, the lord of the Fukuoka Domain. In addition, this army of Japanese soldiers is a mixed army of 20,000 regular Japanese soldiers escorting 30,000 ronin samurai.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna, as the general who invaded the Ming Dynasty, stayed behind to watch Haiwei command the overall situation, and sent to attack Zhenhaiwei was 5,000 people from Kuroda Tadayuki of the Fukuoka Domain, plus 15,000 ronin samurai; The attack on Kanayama was 5,000 men from the Shimazu clan, the lord of the Satsuma domain, plus 15,000 ronin samurai.

Fang Yuan's army was confronted by 15,000 Japanese soldiers led by Tadayuki Kuroda, the lord of the Fukuoka Domain. Kuroda Tadayuki only left 5,000 Japanese soldiers to stay in Zhenhaiwei, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers were all brought out to plunder.

Kuroda Tadayuki's grandfather, Kuroda Kanwei, was a major minister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the culprit of the invasion of Korea, and his father, Kuroda Nagamasa, also participated in the War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea.

Kuroda Tadayuki took the initiative to invite soldiers to come this time, firstly to loot money and beautiful women, and secondly, to come to the name of his father, who was defeated on the Korean battlefield.

His father, Kuroda Nagamasa, was in Korea, and in the face of the glory of the warriors lost by the Ming army, this time he Kuroda Tadayuki himself would take it back!

Fang Yuan and the Japanese have both the hatred of the historical complex and the hatred of the actual aggression, and they don't even bother to write the basic war books, and the only thing that pays tribute to these Japanese soldiers is artillery and firearms!

Because Zheng Sen went to the Wa Kingdom to move the rescue troops, in order to move Tokugawa Iemitsu, the benefits of this invasion far outweighed the risks, and deliberately concealed the terrifying combat power of the Xuanjia Army.

The leader of the Japanese soldiers, Kuroda Tadayuki, was ignorant of the Ming Dynasty and the other party, and he thought that the Xuanjia Army was the level of the Ming Army, and the 15,000 Japanese soldiers dispatched this time were enough to destroy the Ming Army in a battle. As long as the reinforcements of this Ming army can be defeated, the Suzhou Mansion, where money, jewelry, silk and satin are piled up, and beautiful women are like clouds, will become a paradise for the Japanese soldiers to wreak havoc.

Since Fang Yuan and Kuroda Tadayuki both had an urgent desire for a decisive battle, they set up a decisive battle formation on the great plain under Taicang City.

The sixth day of December in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen

The big war begins!

Kuroda Tadashi first sent 3,000 ronin samurai as cannon fodder and rushed straight to the front of the Xuanjia Army, the artillery position.

"Boom, boom!"

At least eighty pieces of artillery were fired together, and the sound of the cannons was deafening, and the earth trembled.

One by one, large or small lead bullets smashed into the positions of the desperate charging Japanese soldiers, smashing flesh and blood, corpses all over the field, and screams rose to the sky.

The ronin samurai are still rushing forward with their lives, because if they retreat, they will be punished by more severe military law. This group of ronin warriors fought with three or four hundred casualties, and had rushed to within two hundred paces of the artillery position.

After the last round of artillery bombardment of the Xuanjia Army, the artillery positions began to move back, and the shield array of the Xuanjia infantry battalion moved forward to the front row, forming a long dragon shield phalanx.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry formed a five-stage strike formation, raised their guns and began to aim, and when the Japanese soldiers rushed to within one hundred and fifty paces, the first salvo began to erupt tongues of fire!

"Crackle!"

After the heavy gunfire, the Japanese soldiers fell at least a hundred people.

When the Japanese soldiers rushed to within 100 paces, the five rounds of fire shots of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry had just ended, and they drew their bows and arrows and began to wound the enemy with bows and arrows.

The fierce Japanese soldiers withstood two rounds of arrows and rained arrows, and finally rushed to the shield array, but they were blocked by the shield array, and they could not break through with desperate slashing with their Japanese knives.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry behind the shield array began to continue to scatter and annihilate with fire guns and bows and arrows, and the Japanese soldiers also fought back with fire guns and bows and arrows.

Because the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry has explosion-proof equipment to protect the body, the casualties are much smaller than those of the Japanese soldiers who only have bamboo armor to protect the body, and the casualty ratio of both sides is at least 1:15 or more.

The two sides exchanged several rounds of fire, and after losing more than half of their men and horses, the Japanese soldiers could no longer withstand the rapid firepower of the Xuanjia Army, and the fighting spirit that was not afraid of death before disappeared without a trace, and began to flee backwards.

Chigutai ordered the four thousand Xuanjia iron horses to mount their horses, and the shield array also changed, allowing the four thousand iron horsemen to rush out and begin to chase and kill the fleeing Japanese soldiers.

The Xuanjia army pursued and killed all the way, slashing, shooting, and trampling on the horses, and this group of Japanese soldiers was killed before they escaped three hundred steps, and only dozens of people were quick to flee to the main formation, but directly into the woods, and barely escaped a catastrophe.

Tadayuki Kuroda, who was watching the battle in this camp, was stunned, he never dreamed that the firepower of the Xuanjia Army would be so strong before the decisive battle. First artillery, then five muskets, then bows and arrows, and finally cavalry charged, and none of the 3,000 charging soldiers made it back to their base alive.

The huge gap between the two sides in the positional battle made Kuroda Tadashiyuki almost desperate, and 3,000 people died in one hour, which was almost unimaginable defeat in the history of the Japanese National War and Civil War.

Until this moment, Kuroda Tadayuki finally understood why his father Kuroda Nagamasa returned to the Korean battlefield. He is not better than his father Kuroda Nagamasa, and the so-called regaining the honor of the Kuroda family as a warrior is a fool's dream.

Field warfare is the strength of the Ming army, and if it continues to fight, it will be defeated, and the 15,000 Japanese soldiers led by it may be wiped out at any time. The only way to save your life is to flee back to Zhenhaiwei to fight in the streets, so as to give full play to the melee advantage of the Japanese soldiers.

Kuroda Tadayuki immediately hung up the exemption card and ordered the whole army to withdraw. At this moment, the whole army retreated to Zhenhaiwei, which would inevitably attract the tail of the Ming army's iron cavalry to chase and kill, and only after nightfall did they secretly retreat.

Fang Yuan saw through some of Kuroda Tadayuki's tricks at a glance, the retreating Japanese soldiers must be prepared, and if they pursue at this time, they will inevitably suffer greater losses. Since Kuroda Tadayuki wanted to escape overnight, he intercepted him halfway and caught him off guard.

Two days later, after surviving the halfway interception of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and then chasing and killing all the way, Kuroda Tadayuki fled back to the Zhenhai Acropolis with only 6,000 remnants of the army, and began to defend the city.

The Japanese soldiers only attacked in less than ten days, but they lost a total of 9,000 Japanese soldiers, which can be said to be a disastrous defeat.

After Kuroda Tadayuki fled back to Zhenhaiwei, Fang Yuan's pursuers also chased Zhenhaiwei and surrounded Zhenhaiwei.

The Japanese soldiers are good at close combat, and the street fighting of defense is their forte, and forcibly sending troops to attack Zhenhaiwei is definitely more than worth the loss.

Fang Yuan put out the hundred artillery pieces he was carrying, and bombarded Zhenhaiwei for a day and a night, and the entire Zhenhaiwei was already on fire. The Japanese soldiers stationed in Zhenhaiwei were not attacking or retreating because of the support and intelligence from the sea, but were ready to resist to the end.

Jingjie's side also came with good news, a big battle under the county seat of Shanghai, the Japanese soldiers led by the Shimazu clan were also repulsed, and fled back to Jinshanwei in a hurry, still learning from Kuroda Tadayuki, and desperately defending Jinshanwei.

The reason why the two Japanese soldiers fought hard to suffer casualties was because they received a military report that Zheng Sen's side was storming Huzhou Mansion.

When Fang Yuan fought fiercely with Kuroda Tadayuki, Jing Jie and the Shimazu clan, Zheng Sen, who occupied the entire Hangzhou Mansion, also captured the opportunity to take Huzhou Mansion, and immediately led the 40,000 Zheng troops supplemented by soldiers to pounce on Huzhou Mansion.

Among them, Zheng Sen led 30,000 Zheng troops to storm Huzhou City, and Zhou Quanbin led 10,000 Zheng troops to attack the most important city in Huzhou Prefecture - Anji Prefecture.

Malin's infantry battalion was only 2,000, and in the face of the strong attack of 30,000 Zheng troops, he listened to Fang Yuan's hint about Zhang Liao's battle against Xiaoyaojin, and did not blindly defend Huzhou City. Instead, he was left to die, leaving only 500 soldiers to stay in Huzhou City, and the remaining 1,500 people were ambushed outside Huzhou City, and immediately ambushed the 30,000 Zheng troops who were not stable in Zheng Sen's village at night.

The two sides fought a night outside Huzhou, and the Zheng army had to retreat twenty miles in the dark night because of the unknown friends and foes, and countless trampling on each other. Zheng Sen counted the casualties and lost 4,500 Zheng troops, of which 800 were the most elite Tiger Guards.

Malin won a great victory in Huzhou, but the soldiers of the infantry battalion who were ambushed did not return to the city, but pounced on Zhou Quanbin, who had captured Anji Prefecture, overnight.

Under the banner of Fang Yuan's commander, the Xuanjia sergeant of the Malin Department traveled a hundred miles in one day and one night, and raided Zhou Quanbin's department, which had just captured Anji Prefecture and was resting.

Zhou Quanbin was attacked by a sneak attack, he didn't know the details of the enemy at all, and thought it was Fang Yuan's army attacking, so he was so frightened that he left behind hundreds of Zheng Jun corpses, and retreated overnight to join Zheng Sen's main force of Zheng Jun.

When Ma Lin returned to Huzhou City in a big detour in Huzhou Capital, there were less than 700 of the 1,500 sergeants he led.

Zheng Sen was defeated by Fang Yuan, and he was defeated by the infamous Ma Lin in a small Huzhou Mansion, so angry that he was annoyed and angry, and no longer divided the troops, but divided more than 30,000 Zheng troops into four teams, and surrounded the four gates of Huzhou Mansion to storm more than once, and did not take the Ma Lin in Huzhou City to save the honor, and he vowed not to give up.

Zhenhaiwei, Jinshanwei, and Huzhou City are all engaged in tragic and abnormal offensive and defensive battles.

Fang Yuan has always been concerned about the battle situation in Huzhou City, and Malin has won two big victories in Huzhou and Anji Prefecture one after another, but the troops are too weak after all, and it is the end of the strong crossbow to be able to fight so far. According to his estimate, no matter how brave Ma Lin is, he will never last more than a month.

Fang Yuan was also in a dilemma, before Huzhou City fell, he had to take Zhenhaiwei before he could return to the division to rescue. However, there are more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers in Zhenhaiwei, and if they want to eat strongly, the losses are too great. The only way to solve the problem of the Japanese without blood is to cut off the sea route of the second guard, so that the Japanese army will collapse without a fight.