Chapter 554: The Expedition

Of course no one will pay attention to him, who makes the vermicelli so delicious?

The basin is clean, touching the stomach, sitting on their respective chairs and savoring. At this time, everyone remembered that they didn't ask the name of the dish.

"What's this dish called?" Sun Jing had an idea in his heart, if he got out of the army when he was old, he would go back to his hometown to open a restaurant. Now learn a little more stunts from Chef Lanting, and business will definitely be booming by then.

Lan Ting looked at the soup left in the basin, and said in his heart, you pigs, don't leave me at all!

"Pork stewed vermicelli!" the boy sat down, took a bowl of rice, then scooped a spoonful of soup and ate it with bibimbap.

It's not difficult to hear the name, it's not difficult to see the process of Lan Ting's cooking, and the most difficult thing is that I don't know how to make potatoes into vermicelli. Lan Ting has already said before, this is an ancestral stunt, and it seems that outsiders can't learn it.

Qi Chu saw Lan Ting soaking rice in broth, and he ate with relish. Only then did I remember that in the early years in Changbai Mountain, when the senior brother Yan Han made pork stewed vermicelli for them to eat, he also used broth to soak rice.

He still remembers the taste of the broth soaked rice, the hot rice mixed with the broth, it was called a fragrant one!

Qi Chu also served a bowl of rice, soaked it in broth, and ate it seriously, recalling the taste of the year.

Although everyone is full, they are not afraid of too many good dishes. Seeing that Qi Chu and Lan Ting both used broth to soak rice, they thought that the taste was definitely not bad. So they each filled a bowl and ate a few bites, and it was delicious!

The day was quite happy, the next day the army went out, Li Yiqi returned to Yuan Jun's side, General Park and his more than 1,000 soldiers and horses stayed behind, Sun Jing lost his official position and became an idler, so he waved goodbye to Qi Chu and the army.

At noon, the army was sent away, and the whole camp was deserted. Although General Park was not reused, he still did his duty and arranged for his subordinates to patrol the inside and outside of the camp in shifts day and night.

Lord Chen and Qi Chu were playing chess, and there were no real chessboards and chess pieces. It's just that the chessboard is drawn with branches on the ground, Qi Chu draws a circle in black, and Master Chen draws a fork in white, and the two of them have a lot of fun.

General Park came back from outside and swept away the snow on his body, "It's extremely cold this winter, and I'm freezing to death." He walked to the brazier, squatted down to roast his hands, then looked sideways at Qi and Chu, and asked, "Brother Qi, do you say that this time the army can return triumphantly?"

"The reason for the defeat in the previous battle was that the Japanese had invulnerable dead soldiers, and the last two times the dead soldiers didn't appear, and I guess this time it won't appear. "The last time Qi Chu saw Dongfang Yuxuan, although he didn't say the purpose of helping the Woko, Qi Chu faintly felt that the Jade-faced Man called the ghost warrior to get some benefits from the Wokou, but in the end, the Wokou repented, so the Jade-Faced Man stopped helping them.

Without the invulnerable ghost warriors, the Japanese were defeated twice in a row, and their momentum was low. And the Ming Dynasty coalition army only went to the land route to attack, and the tactics of outflanking by waterway, as long as Yang Hao and Yuan were not fools, this battle could be won.

It seems that the second invasion of Korea by the Japanese invaders will be disappointed again.

As Qi Chu expected, the Ming three-way army was unimpeded all the way, especially the first army of the Xie Fang advanced rapidly, first arrived in front of Kato Kiyomasa's camp, the two sides fought, and the Japanese were defeated, leaving the camp and fleeing for their lives.

Seeing that the enemy didn't even want the nest, Xie Fang laughed and laughed that the Japanese had no guts, and this battle was fought happily. I led the troops to stand in the Japanese camp, and I was finally able to sleep well tonight.

Xie Fang ordered his subordinates to take people to inspect the camp, and got the news that the camp was empty, except for tents, there was not even a quilt.

Xie Fang thought it was strange, could it be that the Japanese knew that we were coming, so they had already packed their bags and prepared to retreat in advance? But after thinking about it, it was not right, if they really wanted to retreat, why didn't they dare to retreat before they came? Why did they have to fight and retreat in defeat?

He didn't think of Kato Kiyomasa's real plan, not to really fight with the Ming army, although there were also casualties, but to preserve strength, delay time, gradually retreat, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

At this time, Kato Kiyomasa and his army withdrew to the place that had been found in advance, and it was already evening, but in order not to be discovered, they could not burn the fire and cook, so everyone nibbled on hard dry food and drank water with ice ballast.

"General, why don't I warm it up for you?" the guard was hard to swallow, thinking that the general must have never eaten anything like this.

"No need, I share weal and woe with my brothers, how can I let you suffer and I enjoy happiness?" Kato Kiyomasa asked for a bite of ice-like steamed buns, but only bit a tooth mark, and got a toothache. Take a sip of water, and it's a heart-piercing feeling.

He looked in the direction of the original camp with a hateful gaze. Suddenly, I heard the guards beside me say: "General, if we retreat like this, can we really delay the time and wait for reinforcements?"

At this time, the whole army was not confident that it would be able to win the final victory, and the words of the commander were crucial.

Perhaps Kato Kiyomasa also felt that there was little hope in his heart, but he still said categorically: "It will definitely be possible! General Toyotomi will not give up on us, reinforcements are already on the way, as long as we hold on, as soon as the reinforcements arrive, we will kill the enemy without leaving a piece of armor!"

The guards were finally less worried, "General, I'll add an extra team of people to keep vigil at night, so as not to attack the enemy at night." ”

Kato Kiyomasa nodded, and when the guards were gone, and he was the only one left, he turned his head to look in the direction of his country, showing a look of expectation and longing, and whispered to himself: "Kuroda Jun, you must come quickly!"

Early the next morning, the solution gathered its army and ordered the Japanese camp to be burned and prepared to pursue the victory. The army searched all the way, and finally found the place where the enemy army had landed, the two sides fought again, and the Ming army won again.

Kato Kiyomasa fought and retreated, never winning, but retained his strength to the greatest extent, and seven days later he was close to the island mountain castle.

On the other side, the other two armies of the Ming Dynasty were a little slower than the Xie Fang army, and when they arrived at the Japanese camp, they found that only burned ashes were left on the ground. Ma Guijun and Li Rumei's army converged here and continued to pursue, but there were traces of fighting along the way, and it seemed that the solution was victorious.

Ma Gui was happy for Xie Fang in his heart, but Li Rumei was jealous.

That night, he found Yang Ho.

"Ziqing, what's the matter with me so late?" Yang Hao walked up to Li Rumei with a smile, Ziqing was his cousin.

Li Rumei turned around and took a look, making sure that there was no one outside the tent, hurriedly walked in, and grabbed Yang Hao's hand, "Brother Jingfu, you have to help me this time!"

Yang Hao had a very good personal relationship with him, otherwise how could he merge Sun Jing's hundreds of people under Li Rumei's command.

"Ziqing, don't worry, let's sit down and say. Yang Hao led him to sit down, heated a pot of wine, poured a glass and pushed it in front of Li Rumei, "Drink a cup to warm up." ”

Li Rumei raised her head and did it, but sighed: "Brother Jingfu, Xie Fang is running ahead of us." ”

Yang Hao has been immersed in officialdom for a long time, and he can hear that there is something in his words, "Ziqing is afraid that the solution will exterminate the Japanese and rob you of your first credit?"