Defeating the Ming army before being defeated. Isn't this kind of gambling-style battle the favorite of the Japanese? Besides, they have the advantage in military strength - this time the "joint battle" was held outside Pyongyang.
There are almost 70,000 Japanese troops, and almost all the main generals of the nine armies are there, except for Konishi Governor who led a part of the troops to be stationed in Pyongyang.
At this time, the Ming army had less than 30,000 people, and Yang Hao and other generals led other troops to detour dozens of miles away. Qi Jiguang was not panic at all. He was also observing the cavalry attacking the Japanese rear guards who were desperately blocking them, and commanded the cavalry.
General Ma Feng, who was promoted from the third battalion, did not let the cavalry continue to attack. Instead, he wandered around the outside to apply pressure and look for gaps in the Japanese army.
Qi Jiguang nodded, "It's okay." The cavalry fulfilled his pre-war request very well, which was to drive the main force of the Japanese army to attack his infantry and artillery brigade. After that, it would serve as a hammer and the infantry as an anvil to completely crush the main force of the Japanese army.
The Japanese charge was also a mixed one, with riflemen and iron artillery teams intersecting. However, when the distance was still five or six hundred meters away, the Ming army opened fire. This time they brought forty-eight six-pounders, and several of them were dropped at once.
Ten artillery shells fired a series of bloody alleys - at this distance, the power of the artillery shells is not that exaggerated. If you are lucky, you will be able to kill and wound three or five people.
But it was very uncomfortable to continue fighting like this. Fortunately, the Ming army stalled after a few rounds of fighting. So far, only more than a hundred Japanese troops have fallen on the front line. Their morale is still there and they are advancing under the shouts of the reserve captains. "It's really true."
Colorful." Looking through the monocular telescope, Qi Jiguang could see that many Japanese generals had strange and huge decorations on their heads, which also made him a little amazed.
Of course he knew the effect, but he was still very surprised by the style of the Japanese little devils. The Japanese army was approaching a hundred meters, and all the field artillery had been loaded with shotshells and ready. The Japanese iron artillery opened fire, and Ming Ming
The army has shields, and the hit rate of lead bullets fired from a hundred meters away can be said to be tragic.
At a distance of fifty meters, Qi Jiguang ordered to raise his guns and prepare to fire. At this time, there were about three thousand musketeers in the Ming army. They used the flintlock guns that Bai Lang took out - which would be gradually changed to a needle-punched rear-loader in the future.
For guns, after the problem of flash caps has been solved, it is actually because the flints obtained by the Ming Dynasty are not very good at producing fire.
Following the whistles of frontline officers, muskets and field artillery fired simultaneously.
This blow was deeply remembered by everyone. Many people will never forget the scene of this day until their death. When the Japanese survivors returned to Japan in the future, they recorded this joint attack of artillery and musketeers in various notes.
, "The country collapsed!" was their unified tone. Even Qi Jiguang had never seen such an attack like a landslide and the earth was shattering. The huge sound lasted for several seconds, and the entire battlefield was completely covered by smoke.
The Ming soldiers in front could not see what was going on on the other side. Anyway, the officers did not stop and they continued to load the ammunition in a mechanized manner and fired one after another. The artillerymen also kept loading shotguns or shells and firing until the barrels were heated and needed to be cooled down.
until.
The Japanese troops never emerged from the smoke.
On the battlefield, the Ming army ceased fire one after another. The musketeers retreated and installed their bayonets. The spearmen and sword and shield soldiers pushed forward, carefully trying to advance the battle line. What could be seen were the cavalry attacking from the sides and rear.
, they cheered and quickly sent cavalry to the Chinese army to send messages.
The Ming cavalry had discovered the total collapse of the entire Japanese front. After the smoke covering the front line was blown away by the wind, Qi Jiguang, who was standing on the high ground behind, could also see clearly - this was an unprecedented miserable battlefield. The Ming army's shelling just now followed
The musketeers fired in turns, and the blow to the brave Japanese forwards was extremely terrifying. From forty to fifty meters away to about a hundred meters away, mutilated dead people lay everywhere.
Qi Jiguang is a veteran of wars. He estimated at a glance that in this round of strikes, at least 3,000 Japanese troops were killed or seriously injured on the entire front. At the very least, they had completely lost their will to fight, because the Japanese troops behind them had already begun to fight.
They fled, just like ants who exploded their nest.
In the attack just now, I don’t know how many “famous generals” of Japan’s Warring States Period died in the front line, but it is true that many of the flags fell directly. Even the flag of Ukita Hideie’s general general has stopped moving.
, showing signs of running back. At this time, the Ming army's cavalry had reorganized and began a full-scale assault.
The Ming army in front of them also began to advance amidst the sound of drums, vowing to crush the entire Japanese army with one blow.
By the time Bailang received the document reporting the victory of Babaili Lubu, the cleaning of the battlefield had been completed for three days, and Pyongyang had been recaptured. The more than 80,000 Japanese troops entrenched around Pyongyang were completely defeated in the "Pyongyang Battle", and the Ming army
After regaining Pyongyang, they pursued for dozens of miles and captured Konishi Yukinaga, Fukushima Masanori, and more than 17,000 people below Mori Terumoto. Killed Kato Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, and Kobayakawa Takakage with more than 24,000 people, and the rest were
Escape.
With just one thunder blow, the Japanese attack on Korea was almost over. You must know that the casualties reported by Qi Jiguang were only more than a thousand people, including more than 600 cavalry losses and more than a thousand infantry losses. This is also
It was a great victory for Korea, and the remaining Japanese troops were abandoning the previously occupied Korean states and counties in large numbers, retreating south to shrink their forces, and even seemed to be escaping back to Japan by boat.
"Alas, this is a happy killing for Marquis Qi!" Bai Lang sighed, and North Korean officials and civilians reported victory one after another, and Yang Hao also reported victory, repelling the Japanese army and killing thousands of people, and chased behind the Japanese army.
The heads of escaping Japanese soldiers beheaded by North Korean officials and civilians were constantly collected.
The monkey should be angry to death
The casualties were too tragic. More than half of the 160,000-strong army that conquered the imperial court was lost in one battle, and many good generals were lost. Now he was afraid that he would not even be able to suppress Japan, and Bailang ordered the captured Japanese troops at all levels to be
The daimyo general sent them to the capital, "The values of these people in Shinno are not low. I want to see what kind of monkey they are."
Bailang felt that for a monkey trick, he had to force Old Turtle to lead the army into North Korea to stabilize the situation - and then it would be great if he was killed by the Ming army. As for the conquest of Japan, Bailang had no such idea. He was only prepared to let the navy kill Japan first.
It was enough for the naval forces to bombard Japanese ports and force the founding of the country. It would be disgusting to actually send troops to fight against the terrain of Japan.
With so many various cities in their country, the cost of suppressing the entire Japan is very high, so it would be more appropriate to resort to economic plunder.