However, Kuroda Nagamasa also understood that Seoul must not be defended, and if Seoul was not defended, then the land occupied by the Japanese army with a lot of effort and resources would be recovered by the Ming army in the next Gangwon Province, Gyeonggi Province, Chungcheong Province, and Jeolla Province, and they could only hold on to the Busan area at the southernmost tip of Gyeongsang Province. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At that time, unless Taiko really brought the 100,000 reserves of the Eastern Daimyo with them, it was a question of whether they could go back.

Therefore, Seoul must be defended to the death, and must not give up until the last moment, otherwise what will be given up is the result of the blood and sweat of the entire Japanese army invading Korea.

This was well known to the top of the Japanese military, including Ukita Hideya, so they directly handed over the defense of the area from the Imjin River to the Tonseokhyeon area to the resourceful Kuroda Nagamasa, and behind Kuroda Nagamasa, the famous wise general Kobayakawa Takakei was integrating the rest of the troops to prepare to support Kuroda Nagamasa.

At present, the three senior generals of the Japanese army, Kuroda Nagamasa, Mori Yoshinari and Kobayakawa Takakei, who have gathered in Seoul, have 8,000 men from Kuroda Nagamasa's Third Army, 14,000 men from Mori Yoshimasa's Fourth Army Corps, and 12,000 men from Kobayakawa Takakei, plus 10,000 men from the Eighth Army under the command of Ukita Hideya himself, and 10,000 reinforcements sent from Fukushima Masanori in Chungcheong Province, the entire Seoul has gathered a large force of 54,000 people, and the total strength exceeds that of the Ming army.

But Rao is like this, they are still not sure, and they are quite a little trembling.

When the Ming army shelled the riverbank, Kuroda Nagamasa and the 8,000 people of the headquarters were deploying in the area of the Bihokan, and he himself was resting, suddenly, he heard a faint rumbling thunder, which made Kuroda Nagamasa a little uneasy, stood up and walked outside the military tent with his clothes on, and found that many people noticed the faint rumbling thunder.

He immediately sent someone to check the news, and about half an hour later, when the sky was bright, the person who went to check the news brought back Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was in a panic and panicked, in his impression, this expression should not have appeared on this man's face, but now it did appear, which made Kuroda Nagamasa's heart full of gloom.

"What the hell is going on? Why don't you continue to hold on to the riverbank? Why is it here?! ”

Kuroda Nagamasa angrily rebuked Yoshihiro Shimazu.

Shimazu Yoshihiro is not Kuroda Nagamasa's direct subordinate, so he is naturally not afraid of him, but roars at Kuroda Nagamasa: "Why don't you tell me that the Ming army is equipped with so many stone torches?" As soon as the battle began, their artillery fire covered our entire position, and my iron gunners were killed before they could release their guns, and they came again and again, and the artillery fire on this side was not finished, and the second round of artillery fire on that side came, and I didn't even have time to react! How do you say I fight?! ”

Kuroda Nagamasa was stunned, at this time, he remembered what the three soldiers of Konishi Yukicho who fled back to Seoul that he had brought back said that the Ming army's artillery was extremely ferocious, and the Konishi Yukicho's headquarters were all over the ground to find teeth, and finally the whole army was directly annihilated, and the Japanese army without heavy firepower could not confront the Ming army with full armed light and heavy firepower and complete attack power from far and near.

Because they only have three main weapons - long knives, iron cannons and spears, and they don't even have many bows and crossbows, they can only rely on captured Korean crossbowmen as puppet troops to support the battle, but once the Korean archers encounter the Ming army, they either release water or pretend to be dead, and they can't work at all, so the Japanese army is quite passive.

But in the face of this situation, the Japanese army still does not plan to make any changes, on the one hand, there is a lack of resources, on the other hand, there is no technology, because the Koreans have not mastered the artillery technology at the moment, the Ming artillery technology is unique in East Asia, the Japanese army is faced with this situation, can only be passively beaten, or use the terrain to play close combat with the Ming army, Peter Ming army artillery can not play an effective role.

This requires the Japanese army and the Ming army to kill together, but according to those people, the Ming army is not scared in close combat, those fierce southern soldiers with strange weapons, a pile of rushing up, even the strong samurai are not their opponents, not to mention the neat military formation, the bright spear, poke a hole and poke a hole, think about it makes people cold from the skin to the heart.

So after figuring out this joint, Shimazu Yoshihiro ran directly, ran simply and thoroughly, and his subordinates didn't want it, of course, after a while, those subordinates who didn't die followed, in order to prevent these guys from running back to trouble the army, Kuroda Nagamasa directly intercepted all these routs, gathered them up and reorganized them into the army, and sent his subordinate Kuroda Issei to lead five hundred troops forward to find out what the situation was.

In addition, he did not forget to send people to the rear to inform Kobayakawa Takakei that the Ming army had broken through the defense line of the Imjin River, and carried a large number of artillery pieces, and the firepower was amazing, and our army needed to take precautions as soon as possible, and also suggested that it should avoid field battles with the Ming army, try to use the advantageous terrain to fight, or simply retreat to the city to hold on.

Kuroda Nagamasa had no choice but to send someone to escort him to Seoul to wait for disposal, and he himself sat in the Bihokan and stuck to the mountains, trying his best to delay time.

Zha Dashou took the three hundred cavalry team to the south according to the route designated by Xiao Ruxun, the target was directly aimed at the Bihu Pavilion, according to Xiao Ruxun, as long as the Biho Pavilion was broken, and then down to the south is a horse Pingchuan, suitable for cavalry combat, the last battle Li Rusong's cavalry team losses were a bit serious, only more than two thousand can still guarantee combat effectiveness, the remaining four thousand cavalry is on the way to come, it is expected to take ten days to arrive, the current cavalry team is relatively fragile.

But it is precisely because of this that Li Rusong asked everyone in the internal meeting not to relax, not to be timid, and to bravely rush forward and fight fiercely when encountering the enemy, and to show the momentum of Liaodong soldiers, so that those southern barbarians can take a good look at what a real man is! Zha Dashou is a hardcore Liaodong department and Li Rusong's cronies, and he always does this kind of thing.

So this time not only to explore the way, but also to take advantage of the cheap, the only pity is that the head of the Japanese is not as valuable as the head of the Mongolian and Jurchen, the Ming Dynasty stipulates that the Mongolian head is the most valuable, the Jurchen is second, the southern Japanese again, the southwest aborigines again, the head of the Japanese is ranked in the third column, obviously not as valuable as the Mongolian head, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, no one will question this.

Zha Dashou knew how much anger Li Rusong suffered not only from outsiders, but also from his own people, those military leaders in Liaodong wanted this and that, and regarded the Li family as a free ATM, thinking that as long as they worked hard, they could get anything, and they didn't care about the practical difficulties faced by the Li family.

Therefore, he was very aware of the situation of the people to whom he was loyal, and decided to fight for his master no matter what.

Zha Dashou led people to gallop all the way, and in a short distance it didn't take long to run to the Japanese army's defense area near the Biho Pavilion, and someone came to report in front of him that he encountered a patrol of about 500 Japanese pirates, mostly foot soldiers, armed with firearms, and asked Zha Dashou whether he was fighting or retreating.

Withdraw? I'm sorry, Li Rusong's dictionary doesn't have this word, and Cha Dashou's dictionary only has the word "forward".

"Destroy them!"

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