Chapter 56: The Siege of Busan

As mentioned above, the reason why Jinju is important is that it is a major waterway transportation route in southern Goryeo.

It can be directly reached by water, and because of this, the siege equipment that Lan Yu prepared before can be quickly transported from the waterway. Of course, there is a lot of credit for this. When He Xi was building an industrial system, he inadvertently introduced the concept of standardization, and it was the standard size that was introduced. In order to build these siege equipment in Kaijing. It is then disassembled, transported to the front line, and quickly assembled. Before He Xi came, this kind of thing was probably possible by a few craftsmen. But after He Xilai, almost all graduates of engineering and science colleges can do it.

The College of Engineering and Science now has thousands of graduates. The last batch is naturally under He Xi's command. But the secondary ones are making a living all over the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, some of them were under the command of Lan Yu to do this, and once they decided to storm onslaught, the army arrived under Jinju City from Kaijing, but in about three days, all the siege equipment was put into use.

Even Lan Yu, who had fought a lot of battles, was secretly frightened by this efficiency.

Not to mention the Japanese.

The Japanese looked at the huge siege engines as if they had grown out of the ground. are all wondering if Da Ming has the help of ghosts and gods.

It's just that no matter how you think about it, the Japanese have to face the attack of the Ming Dynasty.

The Japanese are inferior to the Koreans in defending the city. The Koreans' crossbows are actually very powerful. And the exaggerated longbow of the Japanese is actually not practical at all. Fortunately, the Japanese generals were not fools and mobilized a lot of Goryeo archers. For a while, arrows rained down.

The Ming army withstood casualties and continued to attack the city day and night.

But this kind of fighting lasted for three days. Two or three thousand soldiers died under the city of Jinju. And that's when most of them are wearing armor.

Most of them fell from the city walls. Or stoned to death by rolling stones. And the Japanese casualties were not below this number in the slightest, in the face of the onslaught of the Great Ming Firearms, the excellent armor, if it were not for the Japanese having the advantage of the city wall, he would have suffered more casualties than the Ming army.

But three days later.

The gates of Jinju opened leisurely. Several old men from Goryeo, naked, performed a sheep salute. Welcome the army into the city.

Immediately, the Ming army broke into the city and searched. The Japanese have really walked cleanly.

Lan Yu rode to the city of Jinju and looked at the countless corpses under the city walls, as well as the blood stains on the city walls. He said indifferently, "Where are the widows going to see?"

The old man from Goryeo said, "Miura. Miura."

Lan Yu was not surprised by the situation in front of him, the reason why he came here with the main force was not necessarily to take Jinju, he was waiting for the other two armies to encircle the Japanese army in the rear. Lan Yu knew Ye Shen and Zhang Yi well.

They are all fierce generals.

And the attack on the horse, there is no need to open the wings. The value of Zhang Yi lies in the fact that after capturing Tsushima, he crossed the sea to attack other Japanese occupation areas.

Lan Yu is here, all he needs to do is contain the main Japanese force.

After all, this is a major transportation route. A battleground for soldiers. But no matter what kind of city, the rear all fell. There is only one lonely city, and there is no need to defend it.

The Japanese will flee, which is also expected by Lan Yu.

Among them is Busanpo, and today's Busan is not a separate city, but just a port. It is precisely because the Japanese come from the sea that they look at the port the most. For Busan is also Japan's old nest in Korea.

Lan Yu was not surprised by this, he immediately gave an order, saying, "The cavalry will immediately pursue, and chase me all the way to Miura."

"Yes." The congregation will listen to orders.

In everyone's tone, there was reverence and elation.

Reverence is naturally for blue jade. It doesn't matter what kind of person it is. As long as you can lead everyone to win the battle, the army will worship it, and the victory will bring unlimited benefits to the soldiers. How could they not be glad?

It's just that they're happy. He Xi was not happy.

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He Xi was not on the front line, but he was not in Kaijing either.

Because at the beginning of the war, He Xi discovered that Kaijing was too north. Poor support for the front, he soon moved the logistics center to the place of Seoul in later years. But the front line is developing so fast that He Xi will soon have to go to the town. Almost all the way after Lan Yu's ass.

That's it.

What makes He Xi even more unbearable is consumption. Massive consumption.

He Xi's reaction in the rear inevitably lagged a little. However, ten days before the start of the war, He Xi sent out all the firearms and gunpowder in his hands, and on the twentieth day of the war, nearly two-thirds of the cold weapons such as iron armor transported from Liaodong were transported to the front line. new

As for the stockpiles of wound medicine, alcohol, gauze, etc. Almost swept away.

He Xi knew that it was shipped up. It doesn't mean it's all gone.

What made He Xi even more uncomfortable was the silver.

More than 400,000 taels of silver were rewarded almost three days before the start of the war.

Without these more than 400,000 taels of silver, to stimulate morale, it is difficult for the Ming army to be so morale-aroused, of course, another reason for the high morale of the Ming army is to pinch soft persimmons. In the whole battle, the most tragic battle was the second attack of Jinju.

But not many people actually died in battle.

Fighting a war inevitably kills people. The soldiers of the Ming army could bear death much better than He Xi.

And although He Xi has just arrived in Goryeo, the logistics materials are handled by He Xi. He Xi was prepared more according to the experience of later generations. For example, wound medicine, alcohol, gauze, and Lang Zhong and so on. In the previous wars, there were very few. Only officers can be healed, and many of the non-commissioned officers are just waiting to die.

Under this kind of logistics, morale is naturally stimulated.

Of course, it has only been more than 20 days since the start of the fight, and many of the materials prepared by He Xi have been exhausted.

Nothing else.

What He Xi was particularly unacceptable was the loss of ordnance.

After all, as I said before, ordnance is very resistant to spoilage. He Xi also brought a lot of ordnance, including tens of thousands of armor and various weapons. In He Xi's opinion, it is enough for the blue jade department, and it will not be consumed even if it is defeated in Japan. He never imagined that it would only take long for it to be finished. That's not how the loser looks.

He Xi couldn't sit still anymore.

He decided to go to the front line to meet with Lan Yu to explain the problem.

Immediately with hundreds of cavalry escorts, along the main road, that is, through the city of Jinju, to the front.

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He Xi has not yet reached the front line.

The Ming Army's Three-Way Army has already joined forces in Busanpo.

Except for the army that crossed the mountains from Chungju, which was still stuck in the mountains and forests, facing the resistance of the Japanese army, the other armies were here. However, this detachment will soon be out of trouble. Because the Japanese army, which was defending against the Ming army, would soon find out that the Ming army was coming from behind them. Instead, they were trapped in the mountains and forests.

Nearly 80,000 troops surrounded Busanpo, or Busan City.

This city was originally a small seaside town. It's not even a county seat. It was only after the Japanese came here that they valued it and started building it. It doubled in size and stuck on a peninsula to withstand attacks from land, and behind the peninsula there was a small island, which was originally a fortification against pirates against attacks from the sea.

The last main force of the Japanese army is in this deformed city.

In fact, the main force of the Japanese army was no less than that of the Ming army in terms of numbers. Ouchi Yoshihiro was still shrewd, and under the onslaught of the Ming army, he quickly shrunk and gave up many of his troops as outcasts. Concentrate most of the army here. It's the last essence of preservation.

Of course, none of the abandoned armies belonged to the Ouchi clan. And most of the troops that were retained were from the Ouchi clan. This is not enough for outsiders.

However, that's all Ouchi Yoshihiro can do.

The strategic deployment that Lanyu has been preparing for more than half a year has been completed. Sapphire wasn't ready to fight here. Because in Lan Yu's opinion, the Japanese here are already dead chess, the sea is the world of sailors, and there is only a small land on land, and they can't go, and they can't defend it. Even if it's a kettle

As an important port for transshipment to Japan, the mountain has a large number of materials, including grain and grass. For example, Japan itself is short of grain, and requisitioning grain from Goryeo is also a proper meaning of the question.

But even if they have enough food and grass, how many years can they last? One year, two years, three years?