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"Everyone obeys my orders and follows General Ben into the wooden village to hide!"

Seeing that Li Ning led 3,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to kill like a bamboo, Kato Kiyomasa was not stupid, and he personally went into battle with a nagina knife in his hand and fought desperately, while gathering the remnants of the defeated army and retreating to the wooden village built by the Koreans before.

Kato Kiyomasa: Young name Tiger no Suke, Eiroku was born in Owari Aichi in the second year, his mother is Hideyoshi's biological mother Naka's sister, after his father Kiyotada died when he was three years old, his mother thought about his future in the Tiger no Suke when he was five years old, and sent Tiger no Suke to Hideyoshi, a relative of the Oda family, as a waiter, because Hideyoshi's main room Ning Ning did not come out, so he sent Hideyoshi to serve as a waiter as a child, and other children such as Tiger and Ichimatsu were loved as their own children, and their mother's love was invested in them, Therefore, in the future, Kato Kiyomasa and others also respected Ning Ning as their biological mother. In the fourth year of Tensho, he was named "Kiyomasa", and officially became a retainer of Hideyoshi and received a territory of 170 koku, and then in the 9th year of Tensho, he assisted the Sugihara family to capture Bichu Guanzan Castle and was rewarded with 50 taels of gold. The following year, after Nobunaga's death in the Honnoji Rebellion, Hashiba Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie fought a decisive battle in Shidake in order to fight for the world left by Nobunaga, in this battle Kato Kiyomasa and Kato Yoshiaki Kato, Fukushima Masanori, Yosaharu Kazaka, Katagiri Kazumoto, etc., who were also Hideyoshi's boys, fought together, Kato Kiyomasa also sought the head of the Shibata family general Yamaji Shogun, and after the war, Kato Kiyomasa was listed as one of the "Seven Guns of Shidake". He added 5,000 stones, and received 20 men and 500 iron cannons.

Later, in the Kyushu Raid, he killed Shimazu's fierce general Shinna Tadamoto. Later, Hideyoshi ordered him to commit suicide in Amagasaki by causing a rebellion due to Sasa Narimasa's poor management of the territory, and on the same day, he divided Higo into two and let Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga govern it separately, and gave Kato Kiyomasa a territory of 250,000 koku to him, and let him use Kumamoto as the residence to govern half of Higo Province.

There were as many as 52 local tyrants in Higo Province, and as soon as the former lord Sasa Narimasa took office, he forcibly confiscated the territory of the 52 local tyrants, and the local tyrants were already dissatisfied with the local prestige of the Seimasa, so they were even more disgruntled, so the Kuma City Lord Kumabe Shinnaga raised troops to resist Seimasa. At one time, fifty-two wealthy families rebelled together, with a total number of 20,000. And Sasa Narumasa could only mobilize thousands of people, so later Hideyoshi sent Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga to lead the army into Hibi to quell the rebellion.

Kato Kiyomasa suddenly became a daimyo with 250,000 koku of Higo from a 5,000-stone ordinary banner, and he worshiped the head of the official, but he did not get carried away because of this, but was even more cautious and cautious, in addition to promoting the original retainers, he also selected more than a dozen talented elites from the more than 300 remaining ministers of Chengzheng. In order to be able to smoothly govern the territory, Kato Kiyomasa not only selects talents, but also patrols the territory every day. Reduced taxes. It took only three months for the fat queen to settle down.

On the 5th day of the first month of the first year of Genroku, the Japanese army assembled on a large scale in Kyushu and was about to cross the sea to attack Korea at the command of Hideyoshi, and Kato Kiyomasa crossed the sea as the vanguard to fight. Hideyoshi gave Kato Kiyomasa the battle banner of the 'Minami Myoho-renge-kyo' given by Nobunaga when he attacked Harima, and Kiyomasa was inexplicably moved and vowed to repay Hideyoshi's great favor with death. On 12 April, under the leadership of Yoshitomo Zong, Konishi crossed the sea from Tsushima to start the first drum of the war of aggression against Korea.

The vanguard led by Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga quickly annexed more than half of the Korean territory, but the large number of reinforcements that Korea sought from the Ming Dynasty put the originally numerically superior Japanese army into a bitter battle, and the naval army led by Kato Yoshiaki and Yoshiharu Kazaka was defeated by the Korean naval general Yi Sunsin with tortoiseshell boats, and the two sides showed five or five waves.

Since then, Kato Kiyomasa has basically been hiding in the rear, and has become almost an idler with nothing to do, except for killing North Korean civilians or suppressing the local rebel army in North Korea. The old Tokugawa tortoise saw that Kato Kiyomasa was eager to make meritorious contributions, and happily sent personal favors to Kato Kiyomasa as the vanguard to reinforce Pyongyang.

Poor Kato Kiyomasa was originally full of ambition and was ready to use the Korean puppet army as a bait to defeat the vanguard of the Ming army in one fell swoop, but he never expected to put himself in it and fall into the siege of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

Holding a naginata, Kato Kiyomasa rushed left and right under the protection of hundreds of samurai raised by hundreds of families, desperately trying to save the main force of the mud bombardment army from the layers of siege of the Ming army.

"Wow!" With a beast-like howl coming out of his mouth, Kato Kiyomasa relied on his martial arts to directly fight with the oncoming Liaodong Iron Cavalry, wielding the nagina knife in his hand and slashing at Li Ning's head.

As one of the seven guns of Mt. Kato, Kato Kiyomasa also has his own uniqueness. He knew very well that the cavalry offensive of the Ming army was fierce, and the number of cavalry on his side was seriously insufficient, so he could not stop the cavalry of the Ming army at all, so it was better to retreat into the wooden village and wait for reinforcements. After all, Fukushima Masanori is a brother who has kowtowed to himself, and he knows that he is surrounded, and he will definitely lead the army to reinforcements, and when the time comes, he will definitely be able to defeat the Ming army.

"As long as this guy is killed, the Ming army will definitely be in chaos because of the loss of the leading general!" Kato Kiyomasa, who noticed Li Ning very early, thought in his heart that he would attack Li Ning desperately, and he would first lay down a victory in one fell swoop.

"The old devil really treats himself as a dish, and he dares to do it with your grandfather and me?" With a cold smile, Li Ning waved the heavy three-eyed fire gun with one hand and smashed it towards Kato Kiyomasa's naginata.

"Dang!" With a loud bang, Li Ning directly smashed away Kato Kiyomasa's blow with almost all his strength, and the weapon in the latter's hand was almost out of his hand, looking at Li Ning with a shocked face.

The naginata is a type of Japanese long-handled weapon. It can also be written as a long knife or an eyebrow knife. The handle is long, the blade is wide, and it is a weapon with a large arc in the hat part. From the Nara period to the Heian period, it was used as a weapon used by monks and soldiers to protect temples, and it performed well. From the end of the Kamakura period to the Muromachi period, it became the main weapon on the battlefield. At the time of the Onin Rebellion, it was replaced by a gun because it was not suitable for intensive combat.

Kato Kiyomasa has been practicing swordsmanship since he was a child, although he cannot be said to be excellent in martial arts. But in the mud bombardment, he is also invincible all over the world, and he has always been arrogant, and he never thought that today he would be smashed away by a Ming army general with a blow.

Here Kato Kiyomasa and Li Ning are fighting on a par, and the soldiers under him are not so powerful:

The devil's army is composed of a large number of cannon fodder ashigaru and a small number of samurai, who are usually on the front line in battle, using the spears in their hands to whip back and forth and stab forward to resist the impact of the opponent's main force, providing fighters for the samurai behind.

But the devil country is poor, and these ashigaru are no more than a simple piece of tattered armor made of bamboo or animal skin, and the weapon is nothing more than bamboo with an iron spear head. This rudimentary weapon is no match for the Ming army at all.

The two sides just played each other. A large number of ashigaru spears were cut off by the sharp blades of the Ming army. Holding half a bamboo pole in his hand did not have any combat effectiveness at all, he was killed on the spot by the Ming army like chopping melons and vegetables. Even if their weapons were lucky enough to stab the Ming army, it would be difficult to kill the other party, and at most it would hurt the other party. But not enough to be fatal.

And those samurai. Although equipped with a katana. However, in the face of a large corps of soldiers, individual bravery basically could not play any role. The flintlock firearms and archers of the Ming army took advantage of the ashigaru rout. The samurai didn't have time to rush forward, and the constant firing quickly caused heavy casualties to the samurai who had lost the cover of the ashigaru.

"Ahh A samurai in bright armor became a live target, and dozens of Ming archers concentrated their firepower and frantically poured on him, shooting him directly into a hedgehog.

More samurai had no choice but to swing their swords and slash Ashigaru in their way, forcibly paving a path with the corpses of their companions, and rushing forward to fight Luo Shangzhi's infantry hand-to-hand. The addition of these guys has finally stabilized the tide of the battle for the time being.

A devil warrior viciously brandished a katana, directly cut off the heads of the two spears that stabbed in front of him, and then grabbed the barrel of the gun, and split the Ming soldiers on the opposite side into two along the barrel. Before this guy could be proud, flint firebolts and arrows from all directions directly blasted the latter's head to pieces.

On the other side, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry also joined the battle group, and they worked in groups of three or five, first blasting the devil's head with a flintlock firearm. After the first shot is fired, the thick-backed machete behind the back is pulled out and chopped, and the well-forged thick-backed machete does not fall behind in the slash with the katana, often cutting the katana directly, and splitting the stunned devil samurai in half.

In this way, the devil warrior troops, which could barely support it, suddenly collapsed, a large number of warriors were killed by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and a small number of devil warriors who were still stubbornly resisting were surrounded and killed by Luo Shangzhi's infantry using crowd tactics.

And the ashigaru troops, who had already been killed, had completely lost their role at this time, either holding their heads and running away or dropping their weapons and kneeling to surrender. And the Korean puppet army had already dropped their weapons one by one when they saw the Ming cavalry coming, and fled with the help of the familiar terrain.

As the Liaodong Iron Cavalry joined the battle, they divided and surrounded Kato Kiyomasa's troops like wolves and tigers, except for a few Kato Kiyomasa's generals, samurai and retainers who were still fighting to the death. Most of the Ashigaru troops had completely lost confidence, they discarded their weapons one by one, turned around and ran away in a panic with their heads in their hands, ignoring the Ming army roaring behind them, and only thinking about escaping from this terrible place.

"Alas! The tide is over! With a long sigh in his heart, Kato Kiyomasa knew that he had no way to turn the tide this time, and it was the key to flee quickly.

desperately slashed at Li Ning a few times, Kato Kiyomasa took advantage of Li Ning's busy parrying opportunity to turn the horse's head and flee for his life.

"The old devil is gone!" Li Ning is a stunned person, it is not easy to let go of Kato Kiyomasa, the old devil who is fighting is actually going to run, it is absolutely intolerable. Directly with a stick, he smashed it Kato Kiyomasa's back.

"Ahh The unsuspecting Kato Kiyomasa took a solid blow, directly spurted out a mouthful of blood and rolled off the horse, and was grabbed into the saddle and tied up by the whistling Ming soldiers.

Without the devil troops under the command of Kato Kiyomasa, they were like scattered sand, and they could no longer organize an effective defense. In the end, they gave up the battle, and one by one they turned around and ran away, and a few lucky people escaped the siege of the Ming army and fled into the mountains nearby, but most of them were not so lucky, and their heads were cut off and became the trophies of the Ming army. (To be continued......)