After taking the north gate, Lin Tailai's personal guard Biao camp only had a thousand men, and the officers and soldiers of General Yang Shen's camp were exhausted in the tug-of-war at the city gate.
Therefore, Lin Tailai did not dare to rush into the city rashly at this time. After all, excluding the 2,000 people annihilated tonight, there should be about 10,000 Japanese soldiers left in the city.
For the time being, they could only guard at the North City Gate. Soon Wu Weizhong and Ye Bangrong annihilated the Japanese soldiers who left the city to attack at night, and then came to the North City Gate with their own troops to support them.
Lin Jinglue asked the injured Yang Shanshan to lead his troops back to the camp, and left another thousand soldiers and horses in the camp to guard the camp.
The remaining five thousand soldiers and horses entered the city together. They did not go to clear out the Japanese soldiers in the city first, but rushed straight towards the south gate along the North-South Street.
After the fighting broke out at the North City Gate, the commotion also alerted Ma Gui, the commander-in-chief of the Second Corps in the southern camp.
But Ma Zongbing did not dare to act rashly for a while. How could he know that it was not a plan by the Japanese army to deliberately create noise to lure them out of the camp?
Moreover, there was no notification from the North Camp, which made General Ma unsure.
So on the one hand, Ma Gui ordered each column to prepare for battle, and on the other hand, he sent several groups of scout horses to the north for reconnaissance.
More than half an hour later, two groups of scouts reported back, saying that General Yang was fighting with the Japanese soldiers for the north gate. The battle was very fierce, and General Yang had personally led the charge towards the gate.
Hearing the news, Ma Gui was shocked and speechless for a while!
First, I was shocked that the Beiying side did not even say hello and secretly attacked the city in the early morning!
Lin Jinglue had previously promised that Nancheng would be the main direction of attack, while Beicheng would only serve as a support!
During the day, everything was fine in Beiying, and Mr. Lin had been acting as a coordinator, allowing him to relax his vigilance.
As a result, at night, Beiying began to attack!
Second, they were shocked that the Beiying had actually begun to attack the city gate, which was much easier than climbing the city wall.
After being shocked, General Ma couldn't sit still anymore, and quickly gave orders to each column, leaving only 2,000 people to look after the house, and the remaining 13,000 people immediately went out to attack the city!
It was already too late to go around to the North City, so we immediately started to seize the time to attack the South City!
When General Ma rushed to the bottom of the south city, it was already dawn and the light was still very dark. He could only vaguely see some defenders on the city wall.
When the sergeant was pushing the pallet cart and the hook-and-ladder cart forward, suddenly a torch was lit on top of the city, and a tall and majestic figure appeared in the light of the fire.
Then the man shouted towards the outside of the city: "Lin Tailai, the Minister of Economics and Strategy of the Ming Dynasty, is here, you don't have to be busy!
Start clearing the wood and rocks blocking the south gate immediately. Wait a moment and enter the city directly through the city gate!"
Ma Gui: "."
He was wrong, he was really wrong. He shouldn't have laughed at Li Rusong before.
It turns out that the rival of "Xima" is not "Dongli", but Lin Junmen.
Not long after, the entrance to the south city gate was also cleared, and the 5,000 soldiers from the north camp and the 13,000 soldiers from the south camp joined forces.
Excluding the garrison and casualties, all available troops are here.
Ma Gui entered the city from the south gate and met Lin Jinglue, his expression was not very good.
Lin Jinglue asked: "Lao Ma, it only took one day to attack the city, but we were able to break into the city at the cost of relatively small casualties. Why are you still unhappy?
It’s not like I won’t give you credit, as long as the city is destroyed, everyone will have credit.”
Ma Gui replied: "Junmen vowed at the beginning that I would be the main attacker in the south city, and you, Junmen, would support the attack in the north city."
Lin Tailai sighed and explained helplessly: "The Honbuin originally only wanted to respond with a bluff, but the Japanese soldiers took the initiative to go out of the city to attack the Honbuin at night!
Therefore, the headquarters has no choice but to ignore the fleeting fighter opportunity, right?
So we could only seize the opportunity to counterattack, and then our headquarters accidentally climbed in first, breached the north gate and entered the city, and opened the south gate to welcome you into the city."
If brothers Li Rusong and Li Rubai were here, they would definitely feel that this scene seems familiar.
Ma Gui was speechless for a long time, because Lin Jinglue's words were so reasonable that there was really no way to refute them.
Who can blame this? Could it be that the Japanese soldiers were blinded by lard and insisted on leaving the city to attack Beiying at night, but instead exposed their flaws?
Even if it were him, General Ma, who encountered such a flaw, there would be no reason to let it go.
And although Lin Jinglue spoke of "climbing first" in an understatement, it is true that not just anyone can succeed in climbing first.
It can even be said that a warrior with the quality of "getting there first" is already one of a thousand.
And those who possess the qualities of Lin Jinglue who can climb over walls wearing eighty kilograms of heavy armor and wield dozens of kilograms of maces for long periods of time, there may only be only a few people in the history of the novel, not counting the novels. They are simply "first to ascend to the Holy Body".
"No matter how unconvinced you are, there is nothing you can do.
According to Ma Gui's private comparison, in ancient times, powerful generals like Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde were probably not worthy of attention in front of Lin Junmen. The lower limit of Lin Junmen's strength may be Lu Bu, and the upper limit may be Xiang Yu.
While Ma Zongbing was thinking wildly, he heard Lin Jinglue say impatiently: "Okay, okay, now we just broke the door, we haven't captured the whole city yet, you don't have time to waste your time here on entangled and fussy!
"
The old military leader Ma Gui said without temper: "Please order from the military sect!"
Lin Tailai then ordered: "The officers and soldiers of Beiying participated in the night battle and were a little weak in physical strength, so they were responsible for guarding the city gates and street entrances, blocking and intercepting escaping Japanese soldiers.
And your 13,000 officers and soldiers in the southern camp will be responsible for sweeping up and destroying Japanese soldiers in the city!"
Ma Gui heard the order and said: "Yes!"
Lin Tailai then asked: "Japanese soldiers have a habit. After the city gate is broken, they will still rely on streets, courtyards, and earthen forts to fight to the end. So your southern camp should not think that it is just cleaning up, your task is still very heavy!
According to my estimate, there should be eight to nine thousand Japanese soldiers in the city now, and they have become frightened and scattered everywhere. Your southern camp has enough troops."
Nine columns followed Magui into the city. Although Hamhung City was known as the largest city in Northeast Korea, its area was only that small. Nine columns were definitely enough.
Ma Gui received the order from Lin Jinglue and was about to turn around and leave when he was suddenly stopped by Lin Jinglue.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Tailai reminded Ma Gui: "Refer to the experience of Pyongyang City and learn more from advanced experience."
Ma Gui didn't understand for a moment, what advanced experience does Pyongyang City have?
Lin Tailai hinted: “After Pyongyang broke through, the casualties of the officers and soldiers were extremely small, and the Japanese soldiers were cleared out at the minimum cost.
Our officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty traveled thousands of miles and fought in foreign countries. Every soldier is so precious. If you can sacrifice one less, you will lose one less."
General Ma suddenly realized that the "Pyongyang City Experience" mentioned by the military was that when faced with Japanese soldiers fighting in the streets based on courtyard walls and earthen fortresses, they should use more fire attacks and less manpower to attack.
I heard that after the city of Pyongyang was captured, the city was filled with charcoal and large blocks were burned down.
The smell in the city made even Li Rusong unwilling to live in the city. He would rather live in a tent ten miles outside the city.
Ma Gui couldn't help but ask: "A certain person who is familiar with the Three Kingdoms, even after Zhuge Wuhou burned the vine-armed soldiers, he also lamented that it would harm the peace of heaven and his life. Isn't the army afraid of God's punishment?"
Lin Tailai snorted coldly and said forcefully: "I am doing justice for heaven and carrying out heaven's punishment! If the gods dare to torture me for this, then I will kill the gods together!"
Ma Gui: "."
Suddenly, he felt that he and Lin Junmen were not the same species at all. Is this the true face of the banished immortal in the sky?
After sending the spiritually baptized Ma Gui to work, Lin Tailai took off his heavy armor and rested on the city gate tower.
By winning first and then scoring, he has completed his work and leaves the rest to others.
He, Lin Tailai, is essentially a kind man, but there are many scenes that are so cruel that he cannot bear to see with his own eyes.
I was eating to replenish my strength when suddenly a smell of burnt smell floated over with the morning wind. It was the kind of smell that was enough in Pyongyang.
"Zong Sang!" Lin Tailai put down the food in his hand, "How can anyone eat this!"
At this time, an old Suzhou guy took the opportunity to come over and said: "We are sitting here, many brothers want to make some suggestions. Can you stop using maces?"
"What's wrong? Do you look scared?" Lin Tailai asked angrily.
The old man from Suzhou said: "You don't need the military merit of the head to sit in the palace, so let your brother pick up the head to get some merit.
But if you use a mace to crush your head every now and then, and your brothers watch in vain but don’t have any heads to pick up, it’s really a big loss.”
Lin Tailai: "."
Do you think I don’t want to use normal weapons to look cool?
But in the often one-on-many combat environment of the city, the mace is indeed the most convenient. It can hit hard, break armor, crush skulls, spikes, etc. It is all-powerful.
While Lin was discussing the trade-off between practicality and handsomeness with his old man, Lieutenant Commander Dayun ran up and reported: "General Ma has encountered an obstacle. He can't make the decision. Please ask the army to come over and take command!"
Lin Tailai was puzzled. Why couldn't he be the master of burning all the way? So what if the whole city was set on fire?
Why is this Ma Gui so unable to handle things? He is much worse than Li Rusong in this regard!
So Lin Tailai had no choice but to interrupt his rest, get up and rush over with his guards.
After holding my nose and walking through three or four streets, I saw Ma Gui again.
In front of Magui, we saw Japanese soldiers building an earthen fort along the street. Behind the earthen fort seemed to be a wide gate.
Looking at it from a high place, you can see that the gate is of high standard. If you look closely, it has five bays. The walls on both sides of the gate are much taller than ordinary walls.
Inside the courtyard, you can vaguely see pavilions, palaces, and a large number of cypress trees.
Lin Tailai asked in confusion: "Namoshima Naoshima and the remaining soldiers are here to defend?
What’s there to hesitate about? Aren’t they all wooden buildings? It’s easy to set fire to them, right?”
Ma Gui said with a grimace: "I asked a few Koreans what the Hamheung Palace is here."
Lin Tailai is not said to be involved in the history of Korea, but he can also be said to be completely ignorant. Why has Korea failed to produce an outstanding historical strategy game nearly a hundred years later?
"What is Hamhung Palace?" Lin Tailai asked again in confusion.
Magui answered in detail: "The ancestor of the current Lee Dynasty of Joseon, named Lee Seonggui, was born here. He also lived here most of the time before he became the king of Joseon.
Now this place is called Hamhung Palace, and it is a place used to worship Li Taizu and his ancestors in the past dynasties."
After hearing this, Lin Tailai finally understood. No wonder Ma Gui felt that he couldn't bear it. This was not a technical issue but a political issue.
It turns out that this large courtyard was the place where the "python" flew in the Li Dynasty of today's Korea, and it also worshiped the founder of the Li Dynasty, as well as earlier ancestors.
The political status of Korea, if you find an analogy in the Ming Dynasty, might be similar to the shrines of the Xiaoling Tomb, the Imperial Tomb, and the Zu Tomb combined?
Faced with a place like this, we really need to think more about the political consequences.
At this time, on the upper floor in front of the main hall of Hamheung Main Palace, Nabeshima Naomo, the Japanese army guard, was talking to his son Nabeshima Katsushige.
Shengmao said: "Father is indeed very resourceful. We stayed here and the Ming army did stop attacking."
Naoshima Naoshima sighed: "The situation is over. A little bit of ingenuity is still vulnerable in the face of absolute strength.
I really regret taking you to conquer North Korea now, but I am even more worried about leaving you alone in the country, but it is useless to say anything now."
Katsushige asked: "What should we do now?"
Nabeshima Naoshima was silent for a moment and replied: "I will commit suicide here, and then you can surrender to the Ming army on the grounds of preserving your father's body!"
We huddled in the Hamhung Palace and asked the Ming army to surrender. All we wanted was to give you a chance to surrender.
Otherwise, the Ming army would set fires arbitrarily all the way, and it would be difficult to even make a serious surrender."
Shengmao cried and said: "Father! Why is it like this? A son just follows his father!"
Naoshima Naoshima closed his eyes and said: "If you commit suicide, our Nabeshima family will be completely cut off!
And there is no point in me surrendering. It will only be humiliating, which is far worse than committing suicide.
When you surrender in order to preserve your father's body, you can at least preserve a little reputation of filial piety. As for the future, you can only rely on yourself.
If you can still return to China, for the sake of committing suicide for your father, maybe there will be someone who can take care of you.
This is the best ending solution a father can come up with in the current desperate situation."
Shengmao knelt down in front of his father and cried loudly.
Nabeshima Naoshima scolded: "Don't cry! Go downstairs first! Then come up and collect your father's body!"
People in the Ming Dynasty also pay attention to etiquette and justice. If you bring your father's body and ask for surrender, they will accept it!"
Shengmao stood up, but before he could go downstairs, a rocket suddenly shot in and ignited the wooden railing.
Nabeshima Naoshima's eyes widened, and he stood up subconsciously. Looking outside, he saw rockets shooting into the compound one after another, and the door in front of him had been set on fire.
It was obvious that the Ming army had no regard for where this place was, and started setting fires again in order to minimize the cost, with no intention of leaving anyone alive.
Shengmao, who hadn't gone downstairs yet, cried again, this time he really cried.
Baga! What a beast! Naoshima Naoshige was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood. Why did the Ming army not respect martial ethics at all?
This is the residence and ancestral temple of the founder of the Li Dynasty. As an ally of the Ming Dynasty, do you also set fire to it so unscrupulously?
As a person from Greater China, even if the two armies are fighting, can't we abide by the Confucian etiquette rules?
Can't we give Nabeshima and his son a chance to show their loyalty and filial piety?
Looking at the Hamheung Palace in flames, Ma Gui anxiously asked Lin Jinglue: "Are you okay?"
Lin Tailai let out a long sigh, "Our army did not stop the vicious Japanese soldiers from setting fire to the Li Chao Xianxing Palace. The headquarters will be impeached and criticized again, and may even be severely reprimanded by the emperor."
Don't let the self-defeating themes come to your door in vain.