The Korean soldiers on the city of Uiju did not find a single Ming army before the Ming shelling.

It was only when the Korean general Li Zeye had just taken his subordinates out of the main city that he saw a group of Korean officers and soldiers fleeing back in a hurry.

"What part are you from, how did you retreat, and you are still so depressed!"

North Korean General Li Ze looked surprised and asked a little angrily.

"General, we didn't hold the wall around the mountain range, the Ming army has a very strange artillery, which can spare the mountains and forests in front of us and hit the inside of our wall, our brothers have been killed and injured countless times, and the Ming army rushed up directly, and the means are very cruel, the guns do not spare people's lives, it is estimated that tens of thousands of Ming troops are coming to this side!"

After the North Korean officer finished speaking, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and when he looked down, he realized that he had been pierced through the lower abdomen by a sword from the North Korean general Li Ze in front of him, and he couldn't help but show a look of shock, and then fell to the ground in pain:

"The general forgives the sin!"

"If you retreat without a fight, how can you spare them lightly and execute them on the spot to boost the morale of the army!"

This North Korean general Li Ze is a person who is quite strict in governing the army, but no matter how strict he is in governing the army, he has to face the fate of being crushed by the Ming army.

However, at this time, the North Korean general Li Ze still did not realize that he was about to be abused by the Ming Army, and now he just felt that the difficulty of the war had escalated, and said to his generals:

"The Ming army seems to have more powerful firearms, allowing them to break through our wall, but this does not mean that they can easily defeat us, from the beginning of the Ming Wanli period, the Ming army has been known for its artillery might, and we can't rely on defending the city;

Now it is necessary to divide the 120,000 heavy troops in the city into two parts, one part gathers 60,000 heavy soldiers, and goes out of the city to form a gun array, 20,000 pikemen hold shields to stop their cavalry charge, and 30,000 firearms soldiers form a three-section column to form a dense fire network to stop the Ming infantry;

In addition, 60,000 heavy soldiers need to immediately disperse into various squares in the city to prepare for street battles with the Ming army, and at the same time order the 80,000 soldiers and horses scattered on the wall and the main gate to immediately assemble here from the left and right flanks, and attack the main force of the Ming army here! ”

As soon as the North Korean general Li Ze finished speaking, the howitzer shells of the Ming Army had already begun to fall under the city of Uiju.

As described above, the entire city of Uiju was as if it had suffered a strong earthquake, and under the nose of the North Korean general Li Ze, the walls and towers of the entire city of Uiju directly collapsed, and the Korean officers and soldiers on the city wall seemed to be blown away by a loud noise, only to fall to the ground as some bloody things, and flying sand and stones splashed in the thick smoke.

"General, let's go!"

North Korean general Li Ze was dragged dozens of steps away by his own generals before he was not affected by the air waves.

But when he got up from the rubble, he saw that his entire city wall of Uiju was already in ruins, and the corpses of Korean officers and soldiers hung like bacon baked in winter, and some were crawling on the ground with half of their bodies screaming.

"How so, how can this be?"

North Korean General Li Ze muttered to himself as if he was distracted, and he couldn't help but look back and see that there was no Ming army.

"How powerful is the artillery of the Ming army, and why haven't our scouts within five miles found it?"

However, the Korean general Li Ze is quite anxious and wise, after a short period of distraction, he realized that once the Ming army fired artillery, it would definitely launch a large-scale charge, as a person familiar with the history books and military books, he was very familiar with the Ming army's combat mode since Wanli.

Therefore, the North Korean general Li Ze immediately shouted loudly:

"Quick, immediately follow the previous order of this official, mobilize the 60,000 heavy troops in the school field here, organize the camp, and stop the charge of the Ming army, Vice General Park, you immediately enter the city to organize the remaining soldiers and horses to organize street battles in the city!" Fast! ”

The North Korean general Li Ze pulled out his sword as he spoke, pointing at his subordinates, obviously as long as his subordinates did not obey his orders, he would kill them directly, so this deputy general Park had to rush to the city of Uiju with his own soldiers, and Li Ze was also busy ordering his own soldiers to gather his heavy troops.

But.

The North Korean general Li Ze ignored the fact that the current artillery of the Ming Dynasty can be fired continuously, even at an astonishing speed of one fire a minute, so when the North Korean general had just finished giving the order, when his subordinate Vice General Park had just climbed the collapsed wall of Yiju City with his own soldiers, ten grenades exploded.

This adjutant general Park also happened to be blown up, and the whole person was swept up by a violent wave of qi on the spot, but only his head could be seen, and his limbs had already flown in other directions, and his own soldiers were not spared, and some were even blown into debris.

The North Korean general Li Ze was temporarily deaf by the sound of another violent explosion, but after regaining his senses, the North Korean general Li Ze still insisted on gathering heavy troops outside the city of Uiju and sent people to organize street battles in the city again.

……

Gao Jie, the chief officer of the Sixth Army of the Ming Guards Army, is already a veteran of the sixtieth Army, but in fact, he has just graduated from the general class of the Ming Army Military Academy, with the emergence of new weapons one after another, the mode of war has changed, and the requirements for generals have also changed.

But because of this, Gao Jie commanded the infantry coordinated army, and he was not as unfamiliar as before, and even because of the deepening of cultural education and military theory education, coupled with the accumulation of decades of experience in warfare, he is no longer the ordinary peasant army general of Chongzhen 17 years ago.

After discovering through the telescope that a large number of troops still appeared in the city of Uiju after the explosion and that the order was still quite orderly, Gao Jie had already guessed the purpose of the North Korean general Li Ze, and laughed:

"This person is a general, not the kind of coward who is scared to run away when he hears the sound of artillery, instruct him, the howitzer advances five hundred steps, forms two battle columns, staggers to attack the key rent-reducing houses in the city, fires a round, and destroys the purpose of organizing street battles, and the Korean soldiers outside the city are annihilated by the machine gun battalion and the infantry battalion of the First Corps!"

As soon as Gao Jie's order was given, the combat staff officer of the army immediately rushed to the howitzer battalion and brought a map of the key buildings in Uiju City to provide the most suitable bombing point for the howitzer battalion.

About half an hour later, the Guards howitzers fired a third round of artillery fire.

The Sixth Guards Army's machine gun battalion and six infantry battalions also formed a formation and advanced towards Uiju City.

The Daming Machine Gun Battalion is a camp composed of Daming hand-cranked machine guns, light field guns, portable short guns and submachine guns, with the aim of achieving the purpose of short-range intensive firepower.

The cannon battalion generally walked in front of the infantry.

Among them, the number of submachine guns is relatively small, strictly above, the submachine gun of the Ming Dynasty is not a submachine gun, because his size is still relatively large, strictly speaking, it is a short-handled machine gun, which can be carried by a sturdy soldier alone, but the number of bursts and the accuracy of the range are far less than the rifle or even the hand-cranked machine gun, but it can kill more intensively than the rifle in a single assault.

But its technical difficulty is still very great, the Ming Dynasty now produces no more than a hundred guns a year, and until now, only the military-level and the Praetorian Guard battalion guarding the emperor are equipped with some of these guns, even the only machine gun battalion of the Sixth Army of the Guards is only fifty.

However, he was more than enough to meet the needs of a large number of Korean soldiers.

(End of chapter)