The arrangement of the Northern Army was already very complete. However, the Northern Army generals still did not attack directly. They actually sent out their men and shouted at the door to ask the Japanese pirate commander to come out for negotiations. When the island country saw the 50,000 troops from the Central Plains, they were actually a little panicked. After all, they
There were less than 20,000 people. The commander of the Japanese pirates, Guardsman Konishi Yukinaga, saw that Zhongyuan offered to negotiate. He thought that Zhongyuan did not want to pay the price for North Korea. After thinking about it, he actually accepted the negotiation request and led the team himself.
, open the city gate and prepare for negotiation.
As a result, as soon as the city gate was opened, thousands of cavalrymen of the Northern Army suddenly launched an attack. The Northern Army simply paralyzed the Pyongyang defender Konishi Gyouchang through false peace talks, and wanted to capture a city gate unexpectedly.
The commander urgently closed the city gate. Fortunately, the island nation was also prepared and closed the city gate very quickly. The Northern Army withdrew after a tentative attack on Beicheng.
If the attack fails, the island country will never be fooled again. The Northern Army can only launch an attack. After the cavalry withdrew, the siege equipment carried by the Northern Army showed its power. In order to move faster, the Northern Army did not carry too many siege equipment.
Siege equipment, but there are still some catapults.
The official battle was extremely fierce. The Northern Army mainly attacked the west gate, pretended to attack the North Gate, attacked the South Gate, and released the East Gate. In the early battles, due to the island country’s intelligence errors, they were unprepared for the siege equipment of the Central Plains, and the Northern Army used catapults.
, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese pirates.
The weakness of the Japanese pirates is that they do not have any long-range weapons except bows and arrows, and the range of bows and arrows is completely unable to reach the catapults. It can be said that the catapults of the northern army of the island country have no way to do anything. As the first legion under Toyotomi Hideyoshi,
This garrison was also equipped with a lot of bows and arrows. Although they were scattered, dozens of people gathered to use them, obviously forming a dense formation. The island country did not realize how powerful the catapults in the Central Plains were, and they did not evade them.
They were knocked down one by one, and the bows and arrows in their hands could not reach the Northern Army, so they suffered a lot in the initial fire attack. But when the Northern Army began to board the city, the Japanese pirates relied on the cover of the Pyongyang City wall and the fortresses outside the city to use their bows and arrows.
, shurikens and other means, they continuously shot at the Ming army and poured hot water from the ladder, which caused a lot of trouble to the Northern army.
However, under the supervision of the Northern Army generals and stimulated by bounties, the Northern Army still fought hard to attack. The strength gap was already obvious, and the number of Japanese pirates was at a disadvantage, and they could not withstand the Northern Army's attack. Soon, Pyongyang's outer strongholds were eliminated one after another.
, was surrounded on three sides, north, west and south, and the southern city had fallen, but at this time the Japanese pirates were still fighting to the death. Faced with this situation, the chief general of the northern army directly ordered all catapults to concentrate on attacking the city gate.
After a round of attacks, with a loud noise, the Seven Star Gate was blown open.
The island country's army retreated into the city and wanted to rely on the buildings in the city to fight street battles with the northern army. However, the northern army had experienced hundreds of battles and naturally had officers who were proficient in street fighting. Faced with the island country's approach, the northern army directly ordered that as long as Japanese pirates were found, no Japanese pirates could be killed.
A forceful attack, a direct fire attack. Anyway, North Korea is not the Central Plains, so it will be burned.
Facing the steady attack from the north, Governor Konishi, seeing that the situation was over, led his troops to break out eastward. The Northern Army did not deploy any troops in the east, but only sent Korean soldiers to attack there. It was obvious that that was the place left for the Japanese pirates to break through.
As for why a gap was specially left, this is the brilliance of the northern army general. The military manual states that the method of using troops is: do not face the high hills, do not turn against the hills on the back, do not pretend to the north, do not attack the sharp soldiers, and do not feed the bait soldiers.
When returning to the army, do not contain it, surround the army in a noble building, and do not press the enemy. This is the way to use troops. The other way around is: against the enemy who occupies high ground and has his back on the hills, do not attack from the front; against the enemy who is pretending to be defeated, do not follow and pursue him.
; Do not attack the enemy's elite troops by force; do not be gluttonous with the enemy's decoy troops; do not intercept the troops retreating to the mainland; leave gaps for the surrounded enemy troops; do not overly force the enemy in desperate situations.
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When the enemy is forced into a desperate situation, everyone will rise up to resist. Facing the resistance of a group of people who are bound to die is far worse than chasing a group of broken soldiers who have lost their morale and fled in panic.
However, there is a big river not far from the east gate, which is why the Northern Army let go of this place. The panicked remnants of the Japanese pirate first regiment rushed here, completely unable to cross the river, and the Northern Army cavalry had already reached them.
The chaotic Japanese pirates had no way to organize an effective defense. In the end, less than 5,000 islanders who were very good at swimming escaped by swimming across the river, relying on their old fate. The others were all killed.
The Northern Army killed them by the river.
In this battle, Konishi Yukinacho's first regiment, which had 18,000 men, lost more than 10,000 men. Several thousand of them were beheaded by the Ming army during the siege, and several thousand more were intercepted and killed by the Ming army during the breakout. The rest
Countless people were injured, escaped, drowned, were captured, or died in the rebellion. In this battle of Pyongyang, the Northern Army avenged its previous humiliation and fully demonstrated the military talent of the Northern Army generals.
Pyongyang was a great victory, the first Japanese pirate regiment was crippled, and soon the whole of Pyongyang was occupied by the Northern Army. After the occupation, the Northern Army immediately began to search everywhere in Pyongyang. North Korea also sent some troops, and its purpose was probably guessed by Zeng Yi.
They just wanted to wait for the Northern Army to capture Pyongyang and quickly occupy Pyongyang. However, the North Korean soldiers were sent to the east gate by the Northern Army. They were killed by the Japanese pirates who broke out, killing more than half of the troops. The remaining ones
He was also temporarily incorporated into the Northern Army and followed the Northern cavalry to clean up the Japanese pirates who broke out.
At this time, there were almost no Koreans in Pyongyang. The Northern Army did not hold back at all, and started looting arrogantly. The wealth that the island countries had collected and had no time to take away all went into the pockets of the Northern Army. Zeng Yi and his pro-army Duwei Mansion, or Ming
Or secretly, he monitored the Northern Army throughout the process and estimated the approximate amount of wealth seized. This was also the secret mission received by the pro-military governor's office to see the Northern Army in order to prevent large-scale corruption. Of course, the court also knew this.
On the battlefield, there is no way to avoid corruption. The court will not say anything about soldiers secretly hiding some good things they have found. The court only needs a big head.
When the North Koreans returned to Pyongyang, Pyongyang had been ruined. Seeing Pyongyang like this, the leader of the North Korean Army couldn't help it and found the general of the Northern Army. The Northern Army directly blamed the matter on the Japanese pirates.
, saying that this was entirely caused by the retreat of Japanese pirates and was specially sabotaged. (To be continued)
