According to the disciples and Ming Jun beside him, when Xiao Ruxun's drums of victory sounded, according to the battlefield custom, the soldiers would stop fighting and sit down to rest and recover their strength. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Master Xiu Jing was the same, put down his iron rod, sat cross-legged, holding the Buddha beads in his hand, at first everyone thought that Master Xiu Jing was too tired and needed a better rest, so no one bothered him, and when everyone was almost resting and ready to get up to clean the battlefield, some disciples went to support Master Xiu Jing, only to find that Master Xiu Jing had passed away.

Master Xiu Jing in order to defeat the Japanese Kou, at the age of seventy-two years to support more than two hours of high-intensity combat, squeezed out his last trace of energy, the oil ran out of lamps, in the battle to hold on to a breath of breath did not let go, after the victory of the battle, the heart was relieved, swallowed in one breath, the master then passed away, as a monk to do martyrdom, martyrdom.

Looking at Master Xiujing's serene face as if he was asleep, the generals of the Ming army led by Xiao Ruxun saluted him, and through the disciples of Master Xiujing, he told Master Xiu Jing's arrangements for his posthumous affairs before the war, Xiao Ruxun held a cremation ceremony for Master Xiu Jing on the battlefield, and then returned Master Xiujing's relics to his disciples, and after the restoration of North Korea, he also wrote a memorial text to comfort Master Xiujing's soul in heaven.

After the farewell ceremony of Master Xiu Jing and his comrades who died in battle, Xiao Ruxun ordered all the troops to regroup, set up camp on the spot, bury the pot and cook food, rest all night, and ordered the general Chen Xie to lead 2,000 men and horses to escort more than 28,000 Japanese prisoners back to the camp in Kaesong for a short rest, and then send them to Pyongyang.

Anyway, it is also a labor force that needs to eat, so there is no need to use it in vain, let them repair Pyongyang first, don't make white rice, and wait for the end of the front-line war, after His Majesty the Emperor Ming, bring them back to Daming to be coolies.

Details Xiao Ruxun also wrote a letter for Chen Xie to bring to Song Yingchang, who was presiding over the overall situation in Pyongyang, asking Song Yingchang to make proper use of this batch of valuable labor, but not to abuse it casually, if they are all killed, they will not be able to squeeze more surplus value.

Xiao Ruxun's opinion is that if you can press for a few years, you can press them for a few years, try to squeeze out their labor, don't waste it, anyway, a porridge and a meal are not too food-consuming, and helping the North Koreans repair the city is also so that the North Koreans can produce food, our military food is only one month.

However, Xiao Ruxun also underestimated Song Yingchang a little, it was not in vain to go through Liaodong for so long, before the time was in a hurry, he raised 80,000 stone grain and grass for Xiao Ruxun to make military food, now there is plenty of time, the front line is in good condition, the court response is good, and the grain is also given relatively quickly, so Song Yingchang now has 150,000 stone grain and grass in his hands, which is enough for Xiao Ruxun to use for four months.

And the 1,000 Liaodong Han cavalry and 3,000 Jurchen cavalry commanded by Zu Chengxun were only three days away from Kaesong.

After dinner, all the troops were resting, Li Rusong came to Xiao Ruxun's big tent and proposed the idea of attacking Seoul at night, Xiao Ruxun shook his head and vetoed it.

"Seoul is not Pyongyang, nor Kaesong, it is the headquarters of the Japanese since the landing, and the garrison is not comparable to Pyongyang Kaesong, although the main force was annihilated by me, but at least there are tens of thousands of troops to hold on, if the Japanese do not run, it is not difficult for our army to take Seoul, but it must be established under the condition of sufficient firepower.

In the previous battle, the reserve of gunpowder and cannonballs was beaten, and the consumption of the arquebus was also very large, and now there are only thirty or fifty artillery pieces that can still be used, and there are still a thousand arquebuses. ”

Li Rusong said: "But the main force of the Japanese in Seoul has been exterminated, the Japanese have been afraid, and it is very likely that they will not defend Seoul and directly lead the army to escape, if we attack again tomorrow morning, there will only be an empty city left in Seoul, and we will not get anything. ”

Xiao Ruxun smiled and said: "The governor understands what General Li meant, but the armies have been fighting for days and days, exhausted, and forcibly driven, not to mention whether they can catch up with the Japanese invaders, even if they catch up, will the Japanese invaders be defenseless?" The Japanese are not stupid, what we can think of, the Japanese may not be unexpected, with my tired army to attack the enemy's recuperating division, although the Japanese are afraid of my Ming Dynasty, they do not dare to fight, and the remaining cavalry under General Li can not create greater results. ”

Li Rusong's face was stunned, knowing that the Jurchen cavalry and Han cavalry under his command were intact and less than a thousand people together, and even Nurhachi was injured in the previous high-intensity battle, not to mention the remaining cavalry, and without mobility, in the plain, the pursuit of the infantry was obviously unreasonable, not to mention, the grain and grass carried by the army were only enough to use for two days, and the scheduled supplies were still a day's journey from Kaesong, and the army could not continue to advance.

"It's not a bad thing for the Japanese to withdraw their troops, at least Seoul has been taken, then North Korea's Gangwon Province and Gyeonggi Province are also equivalent to taking it, and only Gyeongsang-do and Jeolla Province are left in the hands of the Japanese Invaders, of which Jeolla Province and the Korean Navy Division Yi Sunsin and the Army Kwon Chestol Department are resisting, and the Chungcheong-do Japanese are sandwiched between the two sides, and they will definitely not dare to stay for a long time, and they will definitely withdraw, so the Chungcheong-do soldiers can take it without blood.

As long as our army continues to march, the Japanese will not dare to stay in Jeolla Province for a long time, I heard that the Japanese invaders landed in Korea from Pusan, Gyeongsang-do, so Busan should be the last stronghold of the Japanese invaders, and with the response of the Japanese sailors, they can attack and retreat and defend, which is not in my favor.

If we want to completely annihilate this group of Japanese invaders, they will no longer have the strength to invade Korea, and they must have a naval division to cooperate in the battle, and the Korean naval division only has a subordinate of Yi Sunsin, and it is okay to attack and harass, and it is impossible to cut off the retreat of the Japanese pirates, so the governor is striving for the imperial court to send a naval division to cut off the retreat of the Japanese pirates, so we cannot force the Japanese to be too hasty. ”

Xiao Ruxun pointed to Seoul.

"After the governor decided to take Seoul, our army rested for a few days, and after the arrival of the 4,000 cavalry and supplies of General Lee, we marched again, took Chungju, entered Gyeongsang-do, captured Sangju, and stationed troops in Sangju City, and then sent troops to respond to the Korean army in Jeolla Province to recover Jeolla Province, and threaten the Japanese in the south of Gyeongsang-do on both sides, forming a two-sided strategy to trap the Japanese forces in the Pusan area, which is the safest strategy."

Having said that, Li Rusong has nothing to say.

After Li Rusong left, Yuan Huang looked at Li Rusong's back, smiled, and said in a low voice: "Li Rusong seems to be at least a little convinced of you, which is a good thing." ”

"It doesn't matter how Li Rusong views me, it can't affect the overall situation."

Xiao Ruxun shook his head and said with a smile: "Li Rusong is a relatively pure soldier, he acts in a military style, and he has received military education since he was a child, he is different from his father, Li Chengliang not only has a hand in the military, but also has the ability to form a gang to build a mountain and raise self-respect, the core of the Li family is Li Chengliang, not Li Rusong." ”