The banging gunfire was endless, mixed with sporadic artillery roars, the Japanese fell in pieces, and some people in the Ming army were shot and fell to the ground from time to time, and a small number of Japanese people riding horses to the front of the battle will also bring some casualties to the Ming army.

Shaoji Puten, Shimazu and others watched the battle situation in front of them, and their hearts became heavier and heavier.

This is a war they have never experienced, and they never imagined that Huaxia's firearms have developed to such a point!

I didn't expect that one day the battlefield would become what it is now, there is no sword and sword, only the rain of bullets and gunsmoke!

The Ming army in front of him was almost all based on firearms, rarely using swords, at this time lined up in a dense phalanx, firing with muskets, most of their Japanese soldiers were killed in the middle of the way, and they couldn't even touch the corners of the enemy's clothes, and they couldn't shake these phalanxes at all!

Seeing that his own casualties had expanded dramatically, but the casualties on the Ming army's side were few, Shao Er Puteng's heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

"Do you have a good way to win?"

Shaoer Puteng asked Shimazu Yoshihisa and the others next to him with a hopeful face.

Shimazu Yoshihisa and Otomo Sobayashi and others were silent.

They are also the first to come into contact with this kind of firearms army, and there is no good way to deal with it for a while, if they can still rely on the terrain of the mountains and forests to carry out sneak attacks or something before the battle, now that everyone has faced each other head-on, these means have no chance to be used.

Seeing that they did not speak, Shoji Puten had to hold on to the last glimmer of hope and pray that the messenger sent to Dazaifu would bring back good news.

The battle on Li Wei's side is fierce, and Tang and Hu Hai are also fighting here, although the battlefield here on the pontoon bridge is not as large as Li Wei's, but the tragedy is even worse.

The battle continued into the evening, when the messenger who had been given high hopes by the young two Puten finally returned.

"My lord, Dazaifu has been breached by the Ming army!"

In the expectant eyes of everyone, the cavalry gasped sharply, and told the news he heard in detail, including the collapse of the city wall, the blockade of 30,000 troops in the city, and the few who broke through the siege also suffered heavy casualties, and could not support them at all.

Hearing this news, the hearts of Shaoer Puten and the others were completely cold!

"What can I do?"

As the young two Puten who explored Kyushu, he was already panicking.

With the power of the Illumination Army, they have no chance of winning at all, can this Kyushu only be handed over to the Ming Army?

At this time, even the Ouchi clan and the Takagi clan, who had conflicts with the Shaoji clan, were all pale.

They are all Kyushu daimyos, and their territories are all here, and in the face of the foreign enemy of the Ming army, they are both prosperous and loss-oriented.

In fact, Shaoji Puteng's Kyushu exploration topic does not have any real power, even if the shogunate supports it, it is useless, this time the guardian daimyo of all parties can work together to gather so many soldiers and horses, all out of self-interest considerations.

But now, they have gathered so many soldiers and horses, and they have almost tried their best, but they still can't defeat the Ming army, how can this be good?

"It's really not good, let's retreat first, we can temporarily avoid the edge of the Ming army, and then ask the shogunate for help, and then with the help of the shogunate, we will be able to drive the Ming people out of our Kyushu!"

Takanbu Takagi proposed.

As a newly rising daimyō, their Takagi clan cannot be compared with these old daimyos, and if the loss is too great this time, maybe this rising trend will die.

However, hearing his words, everyone in the Shimazu clan, the Otomo clan, and the Ouchi clan all frowned, and even the young two Puteng, the Kyushu exploration topic assigned by the shogunate, showed a look of embarrassment.

The situation of the Wa Kingdom is very complicated, for these famous lords of Kyushu, the Ming people are foreign enemies, and the shogunate and the emperor are the same, although nominally they have defected to the shogunate, but in fact they are independent of the situation, this situation is a kind of feudal relationship, just like Zhou Tianzi and the other countries, the Ming and the vassal states, they do not want the emperor or the shogunate to interfere too much in the affairs of Kyushu.

Kyushu is the Kyushu of Kyushu people, and this is their common idea.

After Takagi Takanobu proposed the idea, the scene was silent, but the sound of Ming gunfire kept urging them to make a decision.

"Hey, guys, that's all that's it for now." Shao Er Puten sighed.

Although Shimazu Yoshihisa and others were reluctant in their hearts, they couldn't find any other way now.

"In that case, let's retreat quickly!"

Ouchi Yoshixing said directly.

The other daimyo also nodded in agreement.

Since they are going to invite the shogunate to come out, then they not only have to guard against the Ming army, but also against the shogunate, and now retreat as soon as possible to preserve their strength is the most important thing, and when the Ming army is driven away, they will have to fight against the shogunate.

Shaoer Puten also understood their thoughts, and no longer hesitated at the moment, and immediately ordered to stop the attack and wait for the opportunity to retreat.

With the retreat of the Japanese people, the combat pressure on Li Wei's side was suddenly relaxed.

"The Japanese are about to withdraw, the whole army will change formations and move forward!"

Li Wei immediately shouted.

The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and now is the time to beat the water dogs, so he naturally won't let it go!

Shi Jun immediately led the cavalry to follow the Japanese to kill, and Lu Tang also organized a large army to change formations and slowly advance forward.

After the Japanese ran away, the gunfire of the Ming army also thinned out, but the artillery with a longer range followed closely and intensified, causing damage to the Japanese again.

Shaoer Puten, Shimazu Yoshihisa and others are dripping blood when they see it, these are all samurai raised by themselves, and one less one dies.

In this battle, they can be described as suffering heavy losses!

Li Wei ordered the large army to pursue at the end of the ranks, and the Japanese retreated from the battle while trying in vain to break through from both sides.

However, they soon discovered that the Ming army's muskets were not vegetarians, and even if they avoided the artillery, the musket fire could still cause them great damage.

Seeing this, Shaoer Puten and others were even more anxious, now they were in front of an invincible army of firearms with muskets and artillery, and behind them was a pontoon bridge held by the Ming army, this ambush not only failed to annihilate the Ming army, but made them themselves fall into the danger of being attacked from front to back!

Seeing that nothing could be done, Shaoer Puteng and Otomo Zonglin and others had to divide their troops and flee to the mountain.

Tang He didn't dare to let the army flee to the mountains, but they didn't take this into account, first, they were familiar with the terrain, and even if they escaped, they could quickly gather people again, anyway, the land was in the hands of their famous lords, and if these people wanted to live, they had to come back to them to ask for food, not to mention that these warriors still had families.

It's just that if they escape like this, it will probably take a lot of time to gather these generals again, and it is estimated that they will not be able to go to the Ming army to fight again in the short term.

The Japanese army fled separately under the leadership of their respective masters, and Li Wei's army continued to advance, and finally came to the pontoon bridge when there was not much left for the Japanese to escape.

Hu Hai was covered in blood, his hair was scattered, and he greeted him with a big smile: "Haha, I knew you kid could do it!" ”

Hu Hai opened his arms and wanted to give Li Wei a warm hug.

Li Wei glanced at him, the corners of his mouth twitching.

But thinking that he had cheated this guy this time, he couldn't help but dodge.

Hu Hai hugged him warmly and patted him, slapped his originally clean clothes with a bloody handprint, and then said with a smile:

"Fortunately, you arrived in time, if it were a little later, we would have broken the bridge and fled for our lives!"

Li Wei laughed unnaturally and did not answer.

Tang He, Sheng Yong and others also rushed over, compared to the calm and relaxed of the soldiers on Li Wei's side, they can be described as miserable, their bodies and faces are covered with blood, and some are seriously injured, and He Fu, who was in charge of the previous break, has already died here.

This time, when they were attacked by a sneak attack, they held out for two days and waited for Li Wei's reinforcements, which was really very difficult.

Tang He raised his eyes to look at the artillery that emitted gunsmoke, as well as the soldiers who were still chasing the Japanese with muskets, and his heart was not only shocked.

It seems that he is thinking too much, and they don't expect them to help fight and cooperate at all, with the power they just had, they can win the battle against these 100,000 Japanese soldiers alone, it is nothing more than more losses.

Sheng Yong and the others came to Li Wei, nodded at him with a rare smile, and there was no complaint in their hearts.

From their point of view, this battle was thanks to Li Wei's timely reinforcements, otherwise their best result would have been to destroy the pontoon bridge and flee to the east side of the Chikugo River.

However, Li Wei knew what was going on in his heart, and at this time he could only pretend to be calm and greet each other.

It was getting late, the soldiers hastily cleaned up the battlefield, and the army set up camp in a safe area, carefully guarding against the counterattack of the Japanese people.

In the large camp of the army, Li Wei and Tang He gathered together again and informed each other of their current situation.

"The day before yesterday, after we came here, we were immediately ambushed by the Japanese people, and finally barely stood still, and the Japanese people suddenly came seventy or eighty thousand horses, and we could only force the pontoon bridge in a hurry, relying on the pontoon bridge to barely hold on until now, 40,000 horses, now there are only more than 20,000 left, He Fu and a few other generals are righteous."

Hu Hai opened his mouth to tell about what happened to them, and when he mentioned the sacrificed generals and the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, his face couldn't help but feel a little lost.

The same is true for Sheng Yong and others, this time they suffered a big loss, if Li Wei hadn't come in time to win back a game, they would have really lost a lot.

Tang He looked at everyone and took the initiative to take the blame: "The responsibility for this time lies with me, I failed to find out the enemy's movements and rushed to march, so I fell into the enemy's ambush, and when I return to Beijing, I will take the initiative to ask Your Majesty for guilt." ”

After Tang He's words were finished, Hu Hai, Sheng Yong and the others fell silent.

The loss this time was too great, and they couldn't ignore it, and the bones of those soldiers were all laid out outside.

Li Wei's face was ugly, he opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't know how to speak.

Tang He glanced at him and changed the subject: "How is the situation over there?" ”

"Oh, it's okay on my side, Dazaifu has been taken, although the defenders have not been eliminated yet, but the city has been controlled, and it is not too late to clean them up after we return to the division."

Li Wei said softly.

Later, Lu Tang, Shi Jun and other generals told him the details of the siege that day, as well as Lin Xian's affairs.

When Hu Hai, Sheng Yong and the others heard about Lin Xian, they understood why they were ambushed, and they were angry at the moment.

"This bastard is a fool, where is he now? Lao Tzu is going to skin him! Sheng Yong roared angrily.

Hu Hai and the others were also indignant, shouting that they wanted to settle accounts with him.

But Tang He suddenly understood something in his heart, but he didn't say much.

His Majesty understands the importance that His Majesty attaches to this Li Wei, and even if he has any opinions in his heart, he will only secretly report to His Majesty, and His Majesty will decide by himself.

Everyone scolded Lin Xian angrily, but Li Wei definitely couldn't let them slaughter him directly, this person had to be escorted back to Beijing and handed over to His Majesty for disposal.

As for Lu Tang and Chen Su and the others, there is no need to worry, anyway, Lu Tang is the Lin Xian who was captured that day, as for what he discovered a long time ago, no one else knows except themselves.

After scolding Lin Xian, Hu Hai and the others thanked Li Wei for his practice of returning to his teacher immediately without entering the city, and even Sheng Yong and others, who had always looked down on him before, couldn't help but change their attitude towards him too much, and they no longer dared to take this newly promoted Jiangdu Marquis lightly.

"Your Majesty is still discerning, the Marquis of Jiang Du has made outstanding achievements at a young age, and his achievements in the future are limitless!"

Tang He said with some emotion, and there was a faint feeling of heroic twilight in his tone.

Although he was not as hostile to Li Wei as Huang Bin Lanyu, he didn't take this young man seriously in his heart, but after this battle, he had to re-examine this favored minister in front of His Majesty.

"That's it, I saw it when I was in Yunnan!" Hu Hai grinned.

The others didn't say anything, but they smiled and nodded in agreement.

Li Wei looked at these people in front of him, his mood was a little complicated, and he quickly changed the topic and said:

"What are we going to do next?"

Tang He paused, did not answer directly, but threw the question back: "What do you think?" ”

When Hu Hai and the others heard this, they naturally set their sights on Li Wei, and after this battle, no one dared to ignore his opinion.

In the expectant gaze of everyone, Li Wei pondered for a moment and said: "The Japanese have suffered heavy losses this time, and the army has been scattered when they retreat, and it should take some time to reorganize the counterattack, we can go back to Dazaifu first, solve the Japanese army in the city, and then take Dazaifu as the center and slowly attack all parts of Kyushu." ”

When the generals heard this, they all nodded slightly, this strategy is still relatively safe.

It's just that Tang He frowned and said: "The purpose of our expedition this time is to crusade against the Wa Kingdom, so that it will be called a tribute and restrain the people, not to conquer the city, so it seems a little inappropriate to do so." ”

Li Wei smiled: "It's okay, let's conquer the city here, these daimyo in Kyushu know that they are invincible, and they will definitely ask for help from Kyoto, if the king of Japan doesn't want to lose this land, he will inevitably send reinforcements or give in to us to negotiate peace, and then we will wait for the opportunity to deal with it." ”

Tang He Wenyan thought for a while, and then nodded.

Li Wei's face remained unchanged, but he sneered in his heart.

If he didn't expect it badly, this kind of guy like the king of Japan or the emperor, after suffering such a big defeat, would most likely directly submit to the soft negotiation, but he wouldn't agree easily, and it would be up to him to clean up these guys when the time came!

At this time, everyone had just experienced a big battle, and after a brief discussion, they separated and went back to the camp to rest, and Li Wei also left with Lu Tang, Shijun and others.

On the way back to the camp, passing by the place where the corpse was parked, Li Wei couldn't help but pause, looked at the dense corpse, and let out a long sigh.

Seeing this, Lu Tang opened his mouth to comfort: "Master Hou, this is already the best result, although our losses are not small, but the losses of the Japanese people are even greater!" ”

"Yes, as the so-called success of a general is a thousand bones, Hou Ye doesn't have to be too sentimental, we can exchange these losses for defeating the Japanese people, it is already commendable, if there is no big victory today, I am afraid that our army will only have more casualties in the future."

Shi Jun also followed and explained.

Hearing this, Li Wei glanced back at the two of them, and then turned around again, stared at the corpses and bones everywhere, and repeated Shi Jun's words leisurely: "One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang told him this sentence, he was extremely repulsive at that time, but time passed, and he inevitably became such a person after all.

In this battle, he can be said to have turned the tide, not only far surpassed Tang and Hu Hai and others, but also unexpectedly gained the gratitude of these people, and the prestige of the army has also increased to an unprecedented level.

With this army in hand, half of his goal has been achieved, and the rest is a game with the Wa Kingdom.

As long as he has a foothold in the Wa country, he will be able to gradually break away from Zhu Yuanzhang's control, and he will travel overseas in the future, and this old man will not be able to reach him.

Just looking at the corpses everywhere, he was not happy at all.

"Let's go."

Li Wei shook his head, put away his complicated thoughts, and turned around and left with Lu Tang and the others.

After returning to the camp, Li Wei left Lu Tang alone and severely reprimanded him, warning him and Chen Su not to do anything superfluous!

Originally, he only needed to do things step by step, and Zhu Yuanzhang would continue to put power in his hands, but now that such a thing suddenly happened, maybe there would be extraneous branches, if Zhu Yuanzhang became suspicious from now on and took strict precautions against him, then it would be difficult for him to leave. (End of chapter)