On 1 April, Wu Xing, the chief general of the right-hand army and the chief officer of Liaoyang Town, led 230,000 officers and men of the Ming Army to cross the river by boat, and the first wave to cross the river to pioneer the army were more than 40,000 soldiers of the Yulin Battalion led by Huang Fuming, the chief officer of Haixi Town, and 30,000 soldiers of Xuanfu Town led by Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu.

As early as when the army on the right began to assemble, Yang Guozhu, the chief officer of Xuanfu Town, was eager to try, and led his 30,000 soldiers to march day and night, wanting to rush to Zhenjiang Fort as soon as possible, so as to take the lead when entering the Korean battle.

This time, after the main general Wu Xing ordered the army to cross the river, Yang Guozhu also tried his best to ask for battle, and even did not hesitate to argue with Gao Hongguang, the chief military officer of Taining Town, and Ai Nengqi, the chief military officer of Tashan Town, just to seize the position of the vanguard of the army.

Wu Xing saw that Yang Guozhu was eager to fight, and the soldiers of Xuanfu Town were also a slightly strong army in the Ming Dynasty, so he nodded and agreed.

In fact, there is another reason why the main general Wu Xing let Huang Fuming, the chief military officer of Haixi Town, and Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, lead the soldiers of his subordinates to take the lead, instead of dispatching the more powerful Taining Town Chief Military Officer Gao Hongguang, the chief military officer of Tashan Town, Ai Nengqi, and the chief military officer of Liaonan Li Dingguo, that is, to hide the strength of the army at the beginning of the war, at least not to expose the strength of the army before the army encounters the Japanese army!

Soon, nearly 80,000 soldiers of the Ming army in Yulin Camp and Xuanfu Town had all boarded the ships. Immediately afterwards, more than 1,000 ships of all kinds lifted anchor and hoisted their sails to the sound of war drums in the Ming army formation on the west bank of the Yalu River, and headed towards the east bank.

At this time, traces of the Korean army had appeared on the east bank of the Yalu River, and there were about 30,000 soldiers and horses under the banner.

After Wu Xing found out, he sent an order to the troops of Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu on the fleet, ordering them to prepare for the beach landing and occupy the beachhead on the east bank of the Yalu River at all costs.

In an instant, the war drums of the Ming army became extremely intense, and the fleet that had already sailed to the center of the Yalu River also waved its flag in response.

Huang Fuming, the chief soldier of Haixi Town, and Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, who were directing the army to cross the river on the flagship of the fleet, were full of fighting spirit at this time, and after a brief discussion, they ordered the ships carrying the musketeers and Huzun cannons at the front of the fleet to prepare to meet the enemy, and lined up on the river in front of the fleet, ready to bombard the Korean army that was urgently deploying on the east bank of the Yalu River.

In the blink of an eye, with the help of the Yalu River, the Ming fleet had sailed to a place less than a mile away from the east bank.

Suddenly, bursts of black smoke rose from the formation of more than 30,000 Korean troops on the east bank, accompanied by the roar of one after another, without the slightest neatness, and a splash was stirred up on the river in front of the Ming fleet.

Seeing this, Huang Fu sneered and said, "Hmph! The North Korean soldiers were so vulgar that our troops opened fire on their own before they could get into range. ”

Yang Guozhu was also relieved, and said with a smile: "Before the war, Wu Zongzhen had already made it clear that the only thing that the North Korean army could pose a threat to our army was these musketeers, and now the Korean musketeers on the east bank are already an untrained rabble, and our army will definitely be able to win this battle!" ”

Therefore, Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu ordered the whole army to attack, and dozens of ships with a long snake formation in front of the fleet accelerated forward, and soon sailed to the shallow water.

At this time, the 20 Huzun cannons on the ship opened fire first, and the fierce artillery fire instantly enveloped the beachhead on the east bank, and the chaotic Korean soldiers scattered and fled, with many casualties.

Immediately afterwards, more than 1,000 elite birdmen on the ship also began to shoot, aiming at the dense crowd of Korean troops and starting round after round of salvos, as if they were harvesting wheat, and they easily routed the 30,000 Korean troops that had just been assembled on the east coast.

Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu, who were commanding the battle on the flagship, were stunned and couldn't believe it when they saw this, and the two had already ordered the melee soldiers of hundreds of ships to be assembled and prepared to rush to the beach and land under the cover of the birds, and they were all mentally prepared to suffer heavy sacrifices, after all, there were more than 30,000 Korean troops on the east bank to occupy favorable terrain for defense.

However, neither Huang Fuming nor Yang Guozhu expected that tens of thousands of Korean troops would collapse at the touch of a button, and they would disperse after several rounds of firearm strikes.

Therefore, Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu suspiciously ordered the whole army to go ashore immediately, and defend on the spot, and wait until the iron cavalry soldiers of Yulin Battalion and Xuanfu Town came ashore before pursuing.

A full hour passed, and Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu led all the soldiers of Yulin Camp and Xuanfu Town to land, and nearly 80,000 soldiers lined up on the east bank of the Yalu River to stand by.

After a brief discussion with Yang Guozhu, Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu decided that You Dagui, the general of the Yulin Battalion, would lead more than 7,000 iron cavalry soldiers under his command to pursue to the east and carry out a tentative attack in order to test the reality of the Korean army.

At the same time, the two led the main forces of Yulin Camp and Xuanfu Town to advance slowly, all the way to the east.

In the afternoon, Wu Xing, the commander of the army on the right, received an urgent report from Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu, and learned that the 30,000 Korean army was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and the armies of Yulin Camp and Xuanfu Town had successfully broken through the defense line on the east bank and pursued to the east.

Therefore, Wu Xing immediately ordered the whole army to march east to cross the river at once, and by the end of the night, the 230,000 troops on the right had successfully crossed the river.

At this time, Wu Xing received the latest urgent report from Yulin Camp and Xuanfu Town, and the soldiers of the two towns had pursued forty miles to the east, captured more than 10,000 levels along the way, captured more than a dozen large and small villages and towns, and occupied a castle at the entrance to the Hot Spring Plain.

Because it was already night, Huang Fuming and Yang Guozhu relied on this nameless fortress to set up a large camp, preparing to break through the hot spring plain for the main army, and then force Pyongyang City to defend the bridgehead.

After Wu Xing received this news, he couldn't help frowning, and said secretly in his heart: "That anti-king Li Liang used to garrison 120,000 troops along the Yalu River in the west of Ping'an Road, and 100,000 troops along the Yalu River in the east of Ping'an Road, and now our army has successfully crossed the river, but only about 30,000 rabble, and the more than 200,000 troops are gone, which is really strange!" ”

As a result, Wu Xing had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Then the anti-king Li Liang must have known that defending along the Yalu River was doing useless work and wasting troops, so he completely reduced his troops?"

Thinking of this, Wu Xing's face was a little ugly, and he muttered: "In this way, the soldiers of Yulin Battalion and Xuanfu Town will face a fierce counterattack by the North Korean army!" ”

"Someone! Summoned the order to go to the Chinese army to discuss the matter! ”

That night, the commander-in-chief Wu Xing urgently summoned the commanders of each battalion and urgently made a countermeasure according to the changes in the strength of the Korean army.

Wu Xing still divided the main army into two divisions, one was led by Li Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of Liaoning, and together with Ai Nengqi, the commander-in-chief of Tashan Town, he waved his army to the north, leading the army to attack the east of Pyongan Province and the south and north of Nyong'an Province to attract the strength of the Korean army.

The main general Wu Xing led the remaining soldiers and horses of the towns to the east overnight, and joined the soldiers of Yulin Camp and Xuanfu Town, who were guarding the nameless fortress in the Hot Spring Plain, and marched into Pyongyang City together.

That night, the 150,000 soldiers of the main army on the right side set out in the moonlight, and the soldiers attacked in two directions, and soon disappeared into the night.

Almost at the same time, thousands of miles away from the Ming army, in the city of Wangxian, the king of Joseon, Li Liang, was drinking and talking with a group of Japanese generals.

These Japanese generals were all sent by the Japanese shogunate Tokugawa Iemitsu to Korea to lead the army to participate in the war, and this time they were invited to a banquet by the Korean king Li Kun, just to discuss how to deal with the powerful Ming tiger wolf.

There were a total of seven Japanese generals present, namely Honda Tadakatsu, known as "Japan's Zhang Fei" and "The First Fierce General of the Warring States", Yasumasa Kamihara, known as the "Resolute General", Naomasa Ii, known as "Akakii Yi", Masanari Naito, known as "Tokaido's No. 1 Strongest Bow", Hattori Hanzo, known as "Ghost Hanzo", and Watanabe Hanzo, known as "Gun Hanzo". And among these Japanese generals, there is also a person named Sakai Tadaji, who is known as the "veteran hero of the Tokugawa world" and is the leading commander appointed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

These Japanese generals were all very arrogant, not only to the two Korean ministers who accompanied them, but also to the Korean king Yi Liang.

In the eyes of these Japanese generals, the Japanese army was the real strongman, who came to defeat the Ming army and take over the whole of Korea, of course, this intention could not be known to the Koreans. These Korean nobles are only temporarily in the same camp as the Japanese army, and sooner or later they will be slaughtered!

Looking at those rude Japanese generals, the Korean king Yi Ji secretly regretted in his heart, and he already had the idea of driving these Japanese back.

After these Japanese led their troops to land, they first demanded a huge amount of money and food supplies from the Korean king Yi Liang, and then took advantage of the situation to occupy various dangerous strongholds outside Wangxian City, and controlled the entire Wangxian City under the Japanese army. Immediately afterwards, the commander of the Japanese army, Sakai Tadaji, directly broke into the Korean Imperial Palace, and in front of the Korean king Yi Kun, overturned the previous strategy of the Korean state to fully defend the Yalu River, and replaced the Korean state's own strategy with the strategy of concentrating troops for a decisive battle formulated by Japan and Japan, which made the Korean king Yi Kun feel very angry.

"Don't North Koreans even have the full strength to decide their own life and death?"

After Sakai Tadaji left, the king of Joseon, Li Liang, roared angrily, but when he thought of the 300,000 powerful Japanese troops stationed outside the city, Li Liang shook his head helplessly, looking like he wanted to cry without tears.

At this time at the banquet, Li Liang continued to toast with a smile on his face, and said words of thanking General Tokugawa for sending troops for his righteousness, but in fact, he had already scolded the Japanese in front of him in his heart.

At this time, Sakai Tadaji asked, "Now the Ming army should have crossed the Yalu River, right?" ”

Li Liang paused for a moment, forcibly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and said: "That's right, the Ming army should have crossed the river, according to the news from the front, now the forward of the Ming army has marched towards Pyongyang City!" Moreover, the Ming army has been able to change to the general's expectations and prepare to divide the troops. ”

I saw Sakai Tadaji sneered and said: "Since this is the case, then please ask Your Highness to give an order to gather all the soldiers and horses of the Korean State to rush to Pyongyang City and fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army under the city." General Ben will lead 300,000 Japanese soldiers to return to the rear of the Ming army from Ping'an Dongdao, cut off the retreat of the Ming army, and annihilate more than 200,000 Ming troops in Ping'an Road! ”