Pingyanli.

In the middle of the night, the temporary command post of the Japanese Expeditionary Force was still brightly lit. When the news of the Qing army's defeat at Kaejo first reached Hirayani, neither Maeda Toshitsune nor Date Tadamune believed it. But when more and more routs appeared, and in the end, Azig, the prince of the Great Qing Dynasty who could escape with his life, also appeared in front of them with his head down, they had to believe it.

The atmosphere in the entire Hirayan was suddenly tense, but now that the lights were dark, Maeda Toshitsune and Date Tadamune didn't know what to do. The back road has been cut off, the Qing army in front has been defeated, and it is a foreign battle, and the future is very slim......

It was late at night, and Maeda Toshitsune had already rested, but Date Tadamune couldn't sleep at all, and he sat quietly in the courtyard alone.

Because the "teammate" Manchu Qing is really unreliable, in addition to contempt and contempt, the two have already made a decision - just wait for tomorrow when the sky is bright to give it a go and counterattack Kaecheng.

Maybe Maeda Toshitsune has a big heart, but Date Tadamune suffers from gains and losses. Date Tadamune sat cross-legged under the eaves, and two guards sat beside Date Tadamune, one on the left and one on the right.

Date Tadamune sighed faintly and looked up at the waning moon in the sky. That moon is like a scimitar, how unpleasant it is to look at.

The Japanese expeditionary force had just arrived in Korea a few days ago, and it had caught up with the great rout of the Qing army.

"Yaga ——!" Date Tadamune scolded angrily, and his heart was really resentful. Originally, the total number of Japanese-Qing coalition troops in this battle exceeded 120,000, and against a mere 40,000 regimental mountain army, no matter how you look at it, the chances of victory are very great. It's a pity that the rear road of the Japanese army was cut off first. All the grain and grass were burned, and then the Qing army was defeated. Now only the 70,000 Japanese troops who have run out of food are left, and this battle cannot be fought at all.

I can only give it a go tomorrow. Maybe there will be a miracle?

Date Tadamune is different from Maeda Toshitsune, although he is younger, he is a nimble brain. At this moment, he quietly stroked the paper fan in his hand, and his brain was running rapidly.

This fan was handed down by his grandfather, Date Masamune, and is regarded as a "family treasure", and touching the fan, Date Tadamune seems to be reminded of his grandfather, who died more than ten years ago.

His grandfather, Date Masamune, suffered from smallpox as a child, although his life was later saved. but he was blind in one eye, and he was a one-eyed dragon. It was this one-eyed dragon grandfather who, with his victories in wars again and again, made the weak Date family the number one force in Northeast Japan.

Unfortunately, Northeast Japan is still too barren to compare its population with Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. When Date Masamune wanted to unify Japan, he found that the right time, place, and people were not on his side. In order to preserve the family business, he submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and later Tokugawa Ieyasu against his will. Date Masamune once regretfully said: I wish to be born twenty years early and achieve the hegemony of Oda Nobunaga. It's a pity that Masamune, who wanted to do something during the Warring States period, was born at the wrong time.

The corners of Date Tada's eyes were a little moist - his grandfather had told him repeatedly before he died. It is not easy to maintain the family business, so we must be cautious and cautious everywhere.

Unexpectedly, it has only been ten years since my grandfather's death, and the Date family is about to disappear?

He was buried here, and all the elite soldiers in the territory were also buried together. Tokugawa Iemitsu's Kametsu grandson will definitely confiscate the Date family's territory!

Unwilling, unwilling!

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In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese soldiers in Pingyan had just buried the pot to make rice. After preparing a full meal, he went to Kaesong to fight to the death with the Tuansan army. But at this moment, an unexpected thing happened.

A scout at the lookout of a Japanese military camp shouted in mournful Japanese: "Enemy attack——! ”

This sound was like an earth-shattering sound. Tens of thousands of people immediately panicked. At this moment, a large number of regimental mountain troops appeared in the east and west directions of Pingyanli at the same time. The Japanese army was blocked in Pingyan.

Pingyan-ri is surrounded by lofty mountains in the north and south, and there are only roads on the east and west sides, which means that the Japanese army is surrounded by the front and rear.

However, it is obvious that the number of people on the east road of the Tuanshan Army is not large, that is, more than 20,000 people of Lu Xiangsheng of the Shandong Army, and after urgent discussions between Maeda Toshitsune and Date Tadamune, it was decided to break through from the east.

However, just as the Japanese army was preparing to break through, the situation in front of them was beyond their imagination!

The regimental mountain army on the east and west sides stopped at a distance of about two miles, and a large number of people wearing colorful clothes and obviously not soldiers dug with shovels and dug large and small pits.

Every time those men dug a pit, several soldiers of the regimental mountain army jumped into the pit—

The Japanese Expeditionary Force has more than 70,000 people, and not to mention its combat effectiveness, only one-third of the firecrackers are less than one-third, and it is obviously an army with a mixture of hot and cold weapons.

And the Japanese army's hand-to-hand combat ability is probably not bad, after all, they have just fought a war in China for decades, and there are many veterans, so they can't fight hand-to-hand with this kind of enemy.

After Zhang Li knew the composition of the enemy's forces, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional. This Nima is even greater than the difference in the weapons of the Japanese army back then, and this kind of enemy wastes even a regiment of soldiers from the mountain army to charge up is redundant.

The so-called "hanging beating", according to the understanding of tension, is not only to hang up and play - but also to hang the distance!

Therefore, the current strategy of the Tuanshan Army is to requisition a large number of Korean migrant workers and let them be responsible for digging pits, while the gunners of the Tuanshan Army are all hiding in foxholes, waiting for the Japanese army to rush ......

The Japanese tried to rush twice, but found that the casualties were too great, and the various firearms of the Tuanshan Army made them cry and call their mothers, but they could not cause any casualties to the enemy, so they had to retreat and find another way.

In any case, the Japanese army has a large number of people, and if it concentrates on attacking a weak link of the Tuanshan Army, there may still be a chance to break through the encirclement-

It's a pity, how can tension give them any chance?!

After working overtime in the past few days of transportation, the artillery of the Tuanshan Army has been transported out of Songyue Mountain, and a large number of horse-drawn wagons have dragged dense artillery to the front of the formation.

Not only did there be artillery in the direction of Kaesong, but even Lu Xiangsheng's Shandong army had a large number of artillery - Chen Zhengcao dismantled all the medium howitzers on the warship and brought them here.

It didn't take long for the sound of heavy artillery fire to resound in every corner of Pingyan! The Japanese troops were suddenly bombed and howled, and all of them retreated into the camp, not daring to come out again.

Although the Japanese army's large camp was only built temporarily, a circle of deer barricades was built with giant trees outside, which could still resist artillery fire.

Zhang Zhang did not let the Tuanshan Army launch a general attack, but only blocked the Japanese front and back, and then shelled from afar. In Zhang Li's heart, these Japanese troops have a more important role...... (To be continued.) )