Chapter 9: The Breaking of the City
The southern city was breached.
The soldiers of the Ming army climbed the city wall of the southern city, and the gate of the southern city had been blocked by the Japanese army, and if you wanted to enter the city, you could only climb up through the ladder.
The Korean servants and soldiers are retreating one after another, perhaps Li Rusong's "the one who ascends the city first, the reward is five thousand taels of silver" is too exciting, the Ming soldiers and soldiers rushed to climb the city wall, although many people have seen that Luo Shangzhi climbed the city wall first, but they can't stop the big guy from being happy!
The walls of North Korea were built very narrowly, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army wanted to enter the city, but the city walls were soon crowded with people, and they were almost unable to turn around. The soldiers who went up to the city angrily yelled at the people who were climbing the ladder: "Don't come up, you want to squeeze people to death!"
The soldiers who heard the curse on the ladder hesitated to go up, and were scolded by the soldiers who were climbing up below: "Hurry up, don't listen to their nonsense, they are afraid that we will go to the city and take away the silver rewarded by the admiral, after all, it is so chaotic, the ghost knows who went to the city first, and when the time comes, everyone who will go to the city will have a share of the reward, less than five thousand taels, and five taels can always be shared." ”
Thinking that this was really the case, they didn't listen to the curses of their comrades on the city wall, and hurriedly climbed up the city wall. When the one in the back climbed up to take a look, Mom, there were all heads at a glance, and there was nowhere to go.
At this time, if the Japanese army divides their troops to recapture Xicheng, it is estimated that the Ming soldiers who are squeezed on the city wall and can't turn around will have to become lambs to be slaughtered.
Luo Shangzhi was covered in blood and his face was fierce, shouting for killing, and the Ming soldiers who followed him to kill the two dogs of North Korea were also killed.
At this time, he killed the Korean servants, and then looked back at those comrades who just wanted to grab the silver and squeeze it into a pot of porridge, Luo Shangzhi was angry, and brandished the Pu knife to drive those soldiers across the city ladder into the city to kill the enemy, don't crowd on the city wall.
But at this time, no one registered for military merits, and the soldiers crowded on the city wall were greedy for the five thousand taels of silver that Li Rusong promised to reward, and even some ruffians in the Liaodong army shouted that he was the first to climb the city wall, which immediately attracted ridicule and curses from his comrades.
Luo Shangzhi was about to be blown up by such a hopeless bear soldier, he brandished his sword and slapped the heads of those soldiers and scolded loudly: "Idiot! Idiot! Stupid hat! Whether Admiral Li's silver can be cashed out, when it will be issued is still a problem, now that the southern city has been broken, the silver of the Japanese army is your silver, and the Japanese are burning, killing and looting are all evil, I don't know how much silver is hidden in this Pyongyang city, you stupid soldiers don't go in first, do you have to wait for your comrades who are attacking several other gates to enter?"
Luo Shangzhi's scolding finally woke up these stupid men, yes, I didn't see half a hair of the reward promised by Admiral Li, but the silver that was snatched from the Japanese soldiers in the city was real, and I couldn't find it out at all if I put some of it in my pocket, it was better than stupidly waiting for Admiral Li's reward.
The Ming soldiers who understood it coaxed Yan to run along the city ladder towards the city, and began to smash the door from house to house to chase the scattered Japanese soldiers and the two Korean dogs, and of course, the most important thing was to collect silver.
Luo Shangzhi had just fought too fiercely, and at this time he was already a little out of strength, he slowly sat down against the wall of the city tower, and shouted to Wu Lu, who was also fighting so much that he lost his strength: "Carefree, bring water to Lao Tzu..."
Wu Lu, who was panting and was about to throw the water bladder to Luo Shangzhi, suddenly opened his eyes, pointed behind Luo Shangzhi and shouted: "General Luo!
As soon as Luo Shangzhi turned around, it was immediately dark in front of him, and the entire brick wall of the city tower collapsed with a bang, just smashing Luo Shangzhi inside.
The smoke and dust rose up, and no one noticed that in the corner of the collapsed tower, a black shadow flashed.
Luo Shangzhi's pro-soldiers are about to go crazy, and if the main general dies in battle, their future will inevitably be ruined. What's even worse is that if the main generals are not killed in battle, but they are poorly guarded, they are actually crushed to death by a collapsed wall, and no one will sympathize with them if they commit suicide by wiping their necks.
"You guys who have been blinded by lard, if Luo Shen is going to have a good one, Lao Tzu will chop you up and feed the dogs first. Yang Peng howled and cried while moving away the bricks and stones smashed on Luo Shangzhi's body, and at the same time did not forget to scold the Ming soldiers who kept climbing the wall. Obviously, Yang Peng thought that it was the soldiers who were full of silver who had crushed the wall.
If the first general to climb the city of Pyongyang was crushed to death by the collapsing wall, it would be too much of a bag.
The soldiers cleaned up the bricks and stones, and finally pulled Luo Shangzhi out of the ruins, and sniffed, fortunately, there was still breathing.
While shouting for the military doctor, everyone drove the soldiers to make way, carried the unconscious Luo Shangzhi down the city, and found a house in the city to settle properly.
At the same time, the North City battlefield.
Wu Weizhong led the Qi family army in the third attack, and finally temporarily occupied a corner of the north city, but before the soldiers could shout, Wu Weizhong had a severe pain in his chest, a lead hit his chest, his chest was wet and red, with violent breathing, blood began to erupt from his mouth and nose, his eyes widened, and he did not forget to raise his knife to the enemy before fainting, signaling the soldiers to continue to kill the enemy.
In the shadows of the city tower dozens of zhang away, Pei Lingyun was playing with the bird gun of the Japanese army, and the corpses of the Japanese army were already lying around him.
She took a closer look at the bird's gun, and found this mortal weapon very interesting, collected a few more bags of lead gunpowder, threw them into the storage bag, and then disappeared again.
Compared with the south city and the north city, the west city is still in a state of stalemate. Yang Yuan, the main general who attacked Xiaoximen, was wounded by the Japanese army, and the general Ding Jinglu was killed on the spot. And Li Rubai, the main general who attacked Daximen, was shot in the head by the Japanese army, but fortunately, because the helmet was thick enough, he escaped a catastrophe and did not die on the spot.
Li Rusong was also not happy, the war horse under his crotch was knocked over by the Japanese army, and he could only change horses to fight again.
But no matter what, at this time, the Ming soldiers who attacked Pyongyang from the south gate had already started street battles with the Japanese soldiers in the city, and the news of the destruction of the southern city greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army.
At this moment, the heavy equipment of the Ming army, the large artillery and the general's cannon were finally debugged, aiming at the Qixingmen of Xicheng, and with a loud bang, the Qixingmen was blasted open.
With one shot, the city of Pyongyang was finally broken.
The red-eyed Ming soldiers rushed into the city, and the Japanese army was unwilling to lose, Konishi Yukinaga gathered his forces and began to occupy the dominant terrain, such as the Lianguang Pavilion with higher terrain, Fengyue Tower and the Peony Terrace in the north city, intending to continue to fight street battles with the Ming army, only waiting for reinforcements to arrive and blossom in the middle.
After the Ming army cleared the scattered Japanese soldiers in the city, it began to focus on besieging the Japanese army on these highlands, and there were more than 10,000 Japanese troops in the city at this time, and it was estimated that a large number of comrades would have to die in battle if they wanted to be completely annihilated.
After Li Rusong entered the city, he hurriedly checked the battle situation, and immediately decided to focus on the siege, and ordered the soldiers to collect wood and flammable materials and prepare for a fire attack.
Pei Lingjun flew over a house in Pyongyang City just in time to see a group of Ming troops besieging and killing a group of strangely dressed Japanese people.
I didn't care, but when I saw that a Japanese man led by him was actually driving a spirit insect to resist the enemy, he couldn't help but sigh lightly, and as soon as he turned around, he stood on the roof of the house.
I saw that there were already more than a dozen corpses of Japanese people lying on the ground, all of them were heavy with feather arrows, and there were also several corpses of Ming soldiers, but their faces were blurred with flesh and blood, but they were bitten to death by the spirit worm.
"Wood spider?" Pei Lingyun naturally recognized that it was a spirit insect raised by Wan Fayi, these people were obviously the disciples recruited by Wan Fayi, but the strange thing was that except for the young man who drove the wood spider as the leader, the rest of them didn't even have a sense of qi and were obviously still mortals.
At this time, Shibata Mori, who was confronting the Ming army, secretly complained, he never thought that the city of Pyongyang would be broken in half a day, and he had not even contacted the cultivators of the Ming army's camp before the Ming army entered the city. I was going to make it clear to the Ming soldiers that they were not Japanese soldiers, and when the Ming soldiers who killed the red eyes were still screened, they decided to cut off his head as a military merit just by listening to his Japanese language.
Although the more than thirty disciples are the owners of the spiritual root, their cultivation time is still short, and they don't even have a sense of qi, at this time they are almost no different from mortals, at most, they can raise a formation flag or something when they arrange the formation.
As soon as they saw each other, more than 30 disciples were shot and slashed by the Ming army, and the rest began to flee for their lives.
Shibata Mori was a first-level cultivator in the Qi cultivation period who had cultivated Qi Sense, and he vaguely sensed that a powerful spiritual power had fallen nearby. When I looked up, I saw a mysterious black-robed man on the roof of the house, and it turned out to be an unknown monk with unfathomable cultivation.
Shibata Sen instantly understood that this monk was the cultivator of the Ming Army camp mentioned by Grand Master Jiawei, and he immediately shouted: "The immortal spares his life, the villain is willing to serve the immortal, and he is willing to be a slave, he really doesn't want to be the enemy of the immortal!"
Thinking that he was speaking the Japanese language, the black-robed people didn't necessarily understand it, and they said it again in Korean dialect, Shibata Mori didn't understand the official dialect of the Ming Kingdom, otherwise he would say it again in the official dialect of the Ming Kingdom.
The Ming soldiers also noticed the black-robed man on the roof, and when an archer was aiming at the black-robed man and was about to shoot an arrow, he was hurriedly stopped by the centurion.
After all, the centurion had seen this black-robed man in the camp, and knew that this person was under Li Rusong's tent, and he was often with some arrogant Jurchen soldiers. Intuitively, he felt that this person was very dangerous, and he felt that he belonged to the same alien with the same magic as the Wa people who drove the strange insects.
"This man has been handed over to me, guard the gate, and do not let the idlers in. The black-robed man's figure immediately shook, and a phantom flashed in the air, grabbed the wooden spider that spit out spider silk with the intention of trapping people, and was dragged into the mansion together with Shibata Mori, and the door of the house was immediately slammed shut.
The remaining dozens of Ming soldiers were staring at the black-robed man's magical powers, and the centurion immediately decided to let the first chief take ten soldiers to guard the house, and the rest of the people continued to hunt and hunt down the fleeing widows, and collect more property by the way.
In the house, Shibata Mori fell to the ground in horror, took out the fragments of the spirit stone hidden in his pocket, and held his hands high to signal to buy his life.
Pei Lingyun took out a piece of jade slip from the storage bag and pressed it on Shibata Sen's forehead, a huge pain like a soul being poked exploded in his head, and he immediately fainted, and the fragments of the spirit stone in his hand also fell to the ground.
I don't know how long it took, Shibata Mori woke up leisurely, and saw the black-robed man in front of him looking at the captured wooden spider.
Pei Lingyun knew that Shibata Sen had woken up, and she said indifferently: "Who are you, how could you kindly give you a wood spider and help you recognize the Lord with the essence blood?"
Pei Lingyun spoke to Shibata Sen in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and Shibata Sen actually understood it without any obstacles, just now the jade slip entered the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty into his Zhihai, and he was able to listen to the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty in a short time, which is also amazing.
Shibata Mori hurriedly replied in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty: "Back to Shangxian, the villain is the personal disciple of Master Jiawei, and he was ordered to bring the junior brothers and sisters who have not yet possessed the sense of qi to be stationed here to accept the spirit stone fragments of Konishi Xingchang. ”
"Wan Fayi's personal disciple is at your level?" Pei Lingyun sneered: "Where is he now?"
"Back to Shangxian, Grand Master Jiawei had already left Pyongyang in the early hours of yesterday morning with the remaining twelve personal disciples and the other seventy-two disciples with a sense of qi. Shibata Mori laughed at himself again: "As for the villain being able to become the personal disciple of Master Jiawei, it is all because the villain has fallen under Master Jiawei early on, and he has been running errands for Master Jiawei over the years, so he can be a big disciple, but in fact, most of the villain's junior brothers and sisters have already surpassed the villain..."
"Wan Fayi left you here, even if he gave you a wood spider for self-preservation, but he has obviously abandoned you. Pei Lingyun said lightly: "Look at you, since you already have a sense of qi, and you have the cultivation of the first level of qi cultivation period, you can be my slave." ”
Shibata Mori looked overjoyed, and hurriedly fell to the ground and shouted loudly to his master. And his heart is secretly ruthless, in order to be able to step into the cultivation realm, even if he is willing to be a slave, when the cultivation is completed, all the things he has lost, including his dignity, he will have to recover them one by one.
Shibata Sen suddenly thought of those junior brothers and sisters who had fled in all directions, and hurriedly begged Pei Lingjun to save them. Pei Lingyun frowned, and called the head of the door, asking him to gather all the colorful clothes who had not died just now.
After a kill by the Ming army just now and the follow-up pursuit, only seven of Shibata Sen's junior brothers and sisters were still alive, and these seven people were too young to be about eleven or twelve years old, and the Ming soldiers couldn't bear to do it, so they spared their lives.
Pei Lingyun investigated their spiritual root attributes one by one, six of the seven people were four-attribute spiritual roots, and the remaining one was a three-attribute spiritual root, and their qualifications were too poor, even in the cultivation realm, they might not be able to refine their qi senses for a year and a half. So he stopped recruiting these people, after all, these are all disciples of Wanfayi, and after three years of merging with Wanfayi, aren't they helping Wanfayi teach his apprentices?
Seeing that Pei Lingyun had no intention of recruiting these juniors and sisters, Shibata Mori didn't dare to mention it again, but just instructed them a few words, let them change their clothes and mess their hair, just treat them as fatherless and motherless orphans, no matter what, they have to live first, and then find a chance to cultivate.
In the end, Shibata Mori followed Pei Lingjun closely and went to another house in the city.
Pyongyang City was in chaos at this time, and the Ming army of the brigade began to be stationed, but fortunately, the Ming army attacked the city quickly, and broke through Pyongyang City in less than half a day, and the Korean residents in the city were not driven to defend the city by the Japanese army. Therefore, the Ming army did not do anything to these Korean civilians, but trivial things continued.
For example, they seized the houses of civilians to house the wounded, drove North Korean civilians to chop wood and boil water, unload military weapons, and clean up the corpses on the battlefield.
Some Korean officials and gentry who had originally surrendered to the Japanese army turned to cry and cry at the Ming army, shouting that the Heavenly Dynasty had finally rescued them from the Japanese slaves, and they sent food and silver to reward the Ming army, not mentioning that most of the Korean servants who defended the city were provided by them for the Japanese army.
At this time, the house where Luo Shangzhi, who was seriously injured, was the home of the Korean gentry, and a group of Korean old and young knelt down in the courtyard and watched the Ming soldiers go in and out. Luo Shangzhi's ribs were crushed several times, but the military doctor never found it, so he had no choice but to let the North Koreans who could speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty lead the North Korean doctor to treat Luo Shangzhi's injuries first, and in any case to save General Luo's life.
Wu Lu remembered that he was going around in the courtyard, and he was afraid that Luo Shen would unfortunately die, and he would also be unlucky.
Just when Wu Lu's heart was uncertain, another bad news came, his uncle Wu Weizhong was unfortunately injured by the Japanese army bird gun when he attacked Beicheng, and he was hit by a lead in the chest, and his life was in danger.
When Wu Lu heard the bad news, his face turned pale, and the steel knife he had been holding in his hand fell to the ground suddenly.
If Wu Weizhong unfortunately dies in battle, then his Wu family will really be finished.