Uiju City, North Korea.

At this time, the Korean soldiers in the city were led by a chief commander named Choi Donghao, with a total of more than 14,000 people, so many troops stationed in a Uiju city were relatively abundant.

However, among the more than 14,000 people, only more than 800 people were the original Longxiang guards, and the remaining 13,000 or 4,000 people were all strong men forcibly recruited from all over the country.

There was also very little grain and grass in the city, only enough to sustain more than twenty days. Although the rear will transport a batch of grain and grass every few days, it is not clear to everyone how much it can be transported.

On this day, Cui Donghao, the leader, suddenly received news that the three pontoon bridges on the Yalu River were densely packed with soldiers and horses of the Ming army who were crossing the river, and Cui Donghao was immediately frightened and jumped up and shouted: "Immediately mobilize all the soldiers and horses to defend the city!" ”

Soon, Cui Donghao also came to the city wall, standing on the north city wall, you can see the Yalu River a few miles away, as if you really saw three long black lines across the entire river, which made Cui Donghao's heart heavy.

"Immediately send people to Dingzhou and Anju for help, and ask for help from Pyongyang City!"

Dingzhou City and Anzhou City are both state cities in Ping'an Province, which are higher in level than the capital city of Yizhou, and the troops in the city are naturally a lot more, with 40,000 or 50,000 troops in both cities.

And Pyongyang City, which is the city of Pyongan Province, has gathered nearly 100,000 troops.

Now deployed in Pyongan Province more than 200,000 North Korean soldiers and horses, mainly concentrated in Uiju, Anju, Jeongju, Pyongyang a few places, under the deployment of the North Korean general Park Zixun, the rest of the cities in Pyongan Province have basically been abandoned, the Ming army is willing to occupy it, as long as the North Korean soldiers and horses concentrate their forces, the key cities will be held.

In this way, the North Korean army can rely on its superiority in strength to make it impossible for the Ming army to quickly divide and encircle and annihilate, but to continue to divide troops to occupy various cities, so as to delay the progress of the war and delay the war as much as possible until after the winter of this year.

Only by doing so can the Korean state have the slightest possibility of defeating the Ming army!

Of course, if Park Zixun knew that Liu Yan would not attack the city at all, and was only ready to attack and kill all the way to Seoul, weaken the national strength and military strength of North Korea to the greatest extent, and force Li Liang to sign an alliance under the city, then Park Zixun would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood and die directly!

On that day, the more than 14,000 Korean soldiers in the city were all mobilized, and the city walls were full, and the only dozen or so Korean small-caliber artillery guns on the city head were also deployed, ready to open fire at any time.

But it didn't take long for Cui Donghao to see an unforgettable scene in his life, and the dense Ming army in the north appeared in his field of vision, like an endless red vast ocean!

Moreover, the Ming army was majestic, almost all the soldiers of the Ming army were wearing excellent armor, and those fierce cavalry brought great impact and shock to Cui Donghao and the Korean soldiers in the city.

"If you can't keep it, you can't keep it!"

At this time, Choi Donghao kept shouting in his heart, his feet could barely stand, and the North Korean soldiers around him were all as white as dirt, and the morale of the army fell to the bottom almost instantly.

After a while, Cui Donghao plucked up his courage and said loudly: "Prepare for battle, defend Yizhou and do not retreat!" ”

Although Cui Donghao also wants to escape from this place, the general Park Zixun has already issued a death order: no one is allowed to escape from the battle, otherwise the three clans will be wiped out!

For this harsh order, others can ignore it, after all, now that hundreds of thousands of elites of the Ming Dynasty have been killed, everyone knows that North Korea is not an opponent, and defeat is only a matter of time.

But Cui Donghao didn't dare to do this, because his family and clansmen were in Seoul, and after his side escaped, the family still in Seoul would definitely be liquidated by Park Zixun.

At this time, the surrounding Korean soldiers barely cheered up when they heard the order, and then began to prepare to defend the city.

At the same time, Liu Yan led more than 400,000 soldiers of various armies to arrive at the city of Yizhou, and immediately ordered the Third Army of the National Defense Army to begin the siege of the city.

The officers and men of the rest of the armies were deployed several miles away in Uiju, on the one hand to prevent the surrounding Korean soldiers and horses from rushing to support, and on the other hand, resting on the spot and waiting for orders.

Zhang Yize, the chief military officer, was in the army, and the officers and men of the Third Army of the National Defense Army were rapidly deploying to surround the city of Yiju, and the artillery attached to each department was also deployed outside the city, aiming at the head of the city to prepare for bombardment.

"Report!"

"Qiqi General Town, the soldiers of each department can be deployed in half an hour!"

Zhang Yi nodded, and then said to Ye Bushu, who came to report the military situation: "Got it." In addition, I will pass it on, and I will be called the prince of Hanoi in the future! ”

"Yes."

Shi Niuzhong, the deputy chief soldier next to him, laughed and said, "Hanoi County Prince! I advise you to keep a low profile, it is only right to call the military rank in the army, but don't let the elder know and blame you for the county prince of Hanoi. ”

Zhang Yi was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "It makes sense, it makes sense, then forget it." ”

The night man also smiled, and then rode back.

In less than half an hour, the officers and men of the Third Army of the Wehrmacht were ready to attack the city.

In this attack on Korea, the various departments of the Ming army built a large number of siege equipment in a few months, and there were more than 3,000 ladders alone.

The fact that the army marched with so many siege equipment is enough to show that Liu Yan does not pay attention to the speed of the army's advance, just to let the Koreans see in fear how their carefully deployed defense line was broken through by the elite of the Ming army one by one, and this despair is enough to completely destroy the will of the Koreans to resist.

After all, Liu Yan doesn't want to be caught up in the "law and order war" in North Korea for a long time, and he doesn't want to see North Korea become a new generation of oil bottles in the Ming Dynasty.

In this attack on Yizhou City, Liu Yan handed over the command of the front line directly to Zhang Yi. Today's Zhang Yi has become a very outstanding general after the bloody battle of Hongluo Mountain and the southern and northern wars over the years, which is enough to take on one side.

In the Chinese army on the front line, Zhang Yizai received a report from various departments and learned that the officers and men of the Third Army of the National Defense Army had all been prepared, so he ordered all departments to start bombarding with artillery, first destroying the Korean artillery on the city as much as possible, killing and injuring the troops in the city to the greatest extent, and deterring the defenders in the city.

Rumble!

After the order was issued, in an instant, five or six hundred artillery pieces of all kinds attached to the Third Army of the Wehrmacht opened fire one after another, and the Hongyi cannon, the Franc machine gun, and the Shenji gun truck were all venting their ruthless artillery fire, and in a very short time, the city wall of Yiju City was baptized.

On the city wall, the main general Cui Donghao and more than 14,000 defenders never imagined that the Ming army only sent tens of thousands of horses to attack the city, but there were hundreds of artillery pieces attached to it, and such a "ferocious" firepower suddenly made the Koreans dumbfounded.

At this time, Cui Donghao and many of his subordinates were still immersed in the thinking level of "ant siege", "short-handed contact", and "firearm assistance", but the Ming army had risen to the "firearms age", and artillery had become a key part of killing and injuring enemy troops and winning the war before every major war.

Therefore, in this battle, the deployment of North Korean troops was very problematic, almost half of the more than 14,000 people were crowded on the city wall, and only more than 3,000 people were deployed in the city and inside the city gate, and even Choi Donghao himself was supervising the battle on the northern city wall.

As a result, the fierce artillery of the Third Army of the Wehrmacht caused huge casualties to the Korean defenders at the first time, and it was common to see a shell smashed into the crowd, and suddenly bloomed into clusters of "flesh and blood flowers".

On the city wall, there are constantly flesh and blood alleys formed by Ming army shells flying over, and one cannonball can even kill and injure more than a dozen people!

Most of the Korean soldiers in the city were ordinary people a few months ago, or even ten days ago, where had they seen such a fierce artillery fire, and they began to flee towards the city, even the generals of the Korean army, and the defense of Uiju City collapsed immediately.

And the main general Cui Donghao was also very unlucky, he was directly hit by a cannonball fired by a Hongyi cannon, and a ten-pound cannonball roared, Cui Donghao didn't even have time to scream, he was beaten into a cloud of blood mist, and there was no trace of it on the city.

At this time, Zhang Yi held up a clairvoyant mirror to observe the effect of the artillery bombardment, and saw that there were no Korean soldiers waiting for the battle on the city wall, and even the fortifications of the anti-artillery could not be seen, and these Koreans did not know how to prepare for artillery bombardment.

"Shouldn't it?"

Zhang Yi was puzzled in his heart, the North Koreans are also equipped with artillery and guns, although the quantity is not much, the quality is not good, but it is not unseen, I don't know if it is excusable to sandbags, shield carts and the like, but I don't know how to use things to strengthen the defense of the city, this is incredible.

"Headquarters, do you stop the shelling and start the attack, or just blow up the city gates?"

Zhang Yi thought for a while, then pointed to the city and said: "Don't worry, bombard for a while, wait until there is no figure in the city, and then concentrate on the firepower to blast open the city gate." ”

Shi Niuzhong nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

After about half an hour, there was not a single Korean figure on the city wall of Yiju, so Zhang Yi immediately ordered the artillery to stop the bombardment, and then mobilized Hongyi artillery to start bombarding the gates of Yiju City.

Rumble!

With just one volley, all four gates of the city were destroyed by shells, and the officers and men of the Third Army of the Wehrmacht rushed into the city like a tidal wave.

At this time, the Korean soldiers and horses in the city of Yiju have completely collapsed, even the main general has been killed, and then see the elite Ming army rushing in like a tide, the Korean soldiers in the city have knelt down and surrendered, together with the Korean people in the city, the Ming soldiers after entering the city saw a quite spectacular scene, the city is full of kneeling and kowtowing Koreans, not a standing North Korean!

Zhang Yi immediately ordered someone to report to Liu Yan for the victory, and then he also rode into the city to deploy.

Liu Yan laughed, such an important border town as Yizhou, it only took more than an hour for the officers and men of the Ming Army to take it easily, and it is estimated that the casualties of the officers and men of the Third Army of the National Defense Army will not exceed a hundred!

The Korean state was so powerful that Liu Yan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, maybe the bravery of the North Koreans had completely died with the destruction of the 240,000 Korean elites outside Shenyang.

On that day, the soldiers of the Ming army rested overnight in the city of Yizhou, and continued to march south early the next morning.

As for Yizhou City, Liu Yan directly ordered it to be abandoned, but all the defense facilities in the city were blown up with earth-shattering thunder, and all the treasury in the city was emptied.

Liu Yan did not send troops and horses to garrison, because at this time, Shi Daxuan, the chief military officer, had already led the Beiyang fleet from Phi Dao and sailed along the southern coastline of the Korean Peninsula, which could supply Liu Yan's army with money and food at any time.

And Liu Yan is not worried that the rear will be cut off by the North Korean soldiers and horses, if the North Koreans are really against the sky, cut off the retreat of the Ming army, and then cause the crisis of the Ming army, Liu Yan can also kill to the sea and join the Beiyang Fleet. After all, Liu Yan's offensive route was not far from the southern coast.

(End of chapter)