Konishi Yukinaga, whose head was wrapped like a dumpling, felt like the sky was falling.

He expected that the Ming army would focus on attacking the city gate, so he ordered his men to pile up stones to block the city gate openings in advance.

But who would have thought that they would not go through the door but directly break the wall?

Such a solid city wall... at least stronger than Japan's dry stone city wall, how could it be easily pierced by holes like a paper wall?

But thinking of His Excellency's earnest expectations, he quickly forced himself to calm down, sent people to regroup the retreating troops, occupied strategic positions in the city, and prepared for street fighting.

"The Japanese pirates are really stubborn. This is not about defending our country, so why are we fighting a street battle?" Unfortunately, he didn't know that the person opposite him was Qi Jiguang, an expert on fighting the Japanese pirates, who had already expected that they would do this.

And Qi Jiguang also knew that the entire Pyongyang city was made of wood with thatched roofs...

His experience from fighting the Japanese pirates for many years is that you should not be led by the nose by the enemy. Because the Japanese are very careful and meticulous in their tactical details, if you fall into their rhythm, you will probably be restricted everywhere.

So what should we do? You fight yours, I fight mine. As long as we take them by surprise and attack them when they are unprepared, the Japanese invaders' poor adaptability will be fully exposed.

So he ordered the whole army to demolish the houses. Each soldier carried a bundle of firewood and a bundle of wood and threw them wherever the Japanese invaders were stationed.

Then, suddenly, a fire broke out, and it was the kind with chemical fuel added... A raging fire shot up into the sky, and the soldiers of the expeditionary army hurriedly added firewood.

You guys can have street fighting, we'll just be responsible for the barbecue, and occasionally set off a few fireworks to spice things up. Let's see who can hold on first.

In Pyongyang, fires were everywhere, the air was filled with the smell of burning meat, and the screams of the Japanese pirates. It was estimated that the possibility of not being able to hold on was greater.

The snipers were not idle either. These big boys were obsessed with the childish game of comparing numbers. It looked like they would have to break 100 to win the championship today...

However, the tenacity of the Japanese invaders was beyond imagination, and not a single one of them surrendered.

Of course, it may also be that the soldiers did not understand what they were saying. After all, Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not ask his men to learn Chinese, so did he also ask Chinese soldiers to learn how to say "surrender" in Japanese?

Because we don’t speak the same language, I can only interpret the Japanese’s words as insults… He dares to insult me, is it okay for me to shoot him?

As a result, the soldiers set fire all night long, and suddenly discovered at dawn that the Japanese invaders on high ground had not fired for a long time...

After the fire was out, people were sent in to take a look. Wow, everything was unrecognizable and had turned black.

Those hundreds of twisted, tangled human-shaped charcoal bodies in various poses should be the Japanese pirates who were burned to death.

There were hundreds of bodies in each stronghold, and there were dozens of strongholds burned to ashes throughout the city.

It is recorded in history that "the burnt stench reached the sky and the foul smell could be smelled for ten miles."

In those strongholds that had not yet caught fire, the Japanese invaders finally collapsed. No matter how fearless they were, they couldn't just watch people burn to death...

They fled out of Pyongyang one after another.

Now only the East City was still in their hands, so the Japanese troops ran towards the east gate.

This is normal, as the saying goes, "When besieging a city, there must be a gap." But why did Qi Jiguang leave the east side open?

We will know when the Japanese pirates escape, because outside the city is the Taedong River...

There is also the 1st Cavalry Division that has been waiting for a long time.

Seeing the Japanese invaders pouring out, Li Ning drew his saber and shouted loudly:

"Cavalry Division, attack!"

"Cavalry Division, attack!"

Thousands of Liaodong cavalry responded loudly, urged their horses forward, and charged forward in billowing clouds of dust.

Konishi Yukinaga still wanted to fight back, but the formation he had managed to organize was thrown into chaos by a barrage of lance fire.

The cavalrymen hung their lances on the saddles, drew their sharp sabers, and began to hack and butt their way into the slaughter.

The Japanese invaders were completely unable to resist and had no choice but to continue fleeing. The only thing they regretted was that their parents gave them legs that were too short.

However, they were deliberately driven to the river by the Liaodong cavalry, and they could only jump into the river like dumplings...

The Taedong River in July is surging. Is it possible for people to swim across it?

In the end, only Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa climbed to the other side of the river with the help of ninjas who knew swimming ninjutsu.

The rest of the Japanese invaders were not so lucky. They were swept away by the rolling river and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

When the last Japanese pirate was driven into the river, the cavalry divisions cheered, holding up their bloody sabers.

Then they saw a strange sight: the water in the upper reaches of the Taedong River turned red, and then many corpses of Japanese invaders floated down...

"Fuck, what's going on?" The soldiers rubbed their eyes and looked at the hairy little short legs and the hair that looked like it had been gnawed by a dog. It was undoubtedly the Japanese invaders.

"What else can happen?" Li Ning looked towards the north and said, "The Third Division has also started fighting."

~~

Pyeongseong, located in the upper reaches of the Taedong River, is the only way from Hamgyong Province in the northeast to Pyongyang.

The 8,000 soldiers of the Third Division were facing a siege of nearly 50,000 troops from the Third, Fourth and Fifth Armies of the Japanese invaders.

Upon receiving the news that the Ming army was going to attack Pyongyang, Kuroda Nagamasa, Shimazu Yoshihiro, and Fukushima Masanori, who were slaughtering the Haixi Jurchens, quickly withdrew their troops for fear that Pyongyang would be lost and their retreat would be cut off.

At this time they had two choices: either go directly south along the east coast of North Korea and escape back to Seoul.

Or they could move diagonally southwest along the Taedong River to Pyongyang to support the First and Second Armies.

The person in charge of these three corps was the commander of the Third Army, Kuroda Nagamasa.

According to the intelligence gathered by the group, he is known as the "Master of Military Strategy" in Japan. Considering the shamelessness of Japanese nicknames, this nickname is quite modest.

He is actually a second-generation. His father is one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's two major military advisors, the famous Kuroda Kanbei, known as the most intelligent man in Japan...

Besides, his father described him as indecisive.

No one knows a son better than his father. Whether to go to Pyongyang or not really troubled Kuroda Taijun. She was hesitant and undecided.

It was not until they learned through spies and ninjas that the Ming army had less than 10,000 troops in Pingcheng, preventing them from rescuing Pyongyang.

Kuroda Nagamasa finally made up his mind to use three armies with a total of 50,000 troops to defeat these 8,000 people.

That way, whether Pyongyang is saved or not, His Excellency will have an explanation.

The 50,000-strong army then rushed all the way to the southwest, and finally surrounded the 8,000 Chinese troops on the plains along the Taedong River, south of Pingcheng.

Little did he know that the Japanese expeditionary army's staff had already predicted his prediction. They knew that if there were too many troops blocking the enemy in Pingcheng, he would be scared and run away.

So only one division was deployed to lure him into the trap.

One division against three armies, eight thousand against fifty thousand, the advantage is on my side!

The Japanese obviously didn't know that a few months ago, in the Ming Dynasty, a guy named Zheng Yiluan, with his 8,000 soldiers, destroyed the three major camps of the Ming Dynasty.

The Third Division of the First Army of the Children's Soldiers is composed entirely of regular troops. Although they are not as elite as the Internal Security Brigade, they are definitely much stronger than the Security Brigade and the militia.

The three Japanese armies were obviously not comparable to the three battalions. Not only were their troops half as many, they also had no artillery and very few cavalry...

This moment is just like that moment.

This moment is not as good as that moment.

Artillery fire roared, smoke billowed, grenades, shrapnel, and shotgun shells continued to explode over the heads of the Japanese invaders on all sides!

Moreover, the First Army was a field army. Unlike the light infantry like the Internal Security Detachment, they also carried hand-cranked revolving cannons.

Da da da da da, the devils were frightened to death...

The war drums were beating, white smoke filled the air, and the soldiers in red uniforms kept raising their guns, firing, reloading, raising their guns, and firing.

Why did the army choose to wear red uniforms? It's not that Zhao Hao imitated the big lobster soldiers.

Because the Qi family army wore red uniforms and were always the most handsome guys on the battlefield.

Of course, it is easier to be besieged. But being low-key is the choice of the weak. The king on the battlefield is never afraid of being besieged. And it is equivalent to opening a group of ridicule, and it saves the effort of pulling monsters.

Under the volleys of fire from the soldiers of the Third Division, the Japanese soldiers, who were also equipped with muskets, fell down row after row like wheat being cut. They didn't even have a chance to show off their "invincible" three-stage attack.

The battle lasted for nearly two hours. The three Japanese armies took turns to fight, but only ended up with corpses strewn all over the ground...

When it was Kuroda-san's turn to lead the Third Army, he saw that more than half of his troops had been lost, and they had not even had the chance to fire a single shot.

How can we fight this war? They just set off to Imas without even saying hello...

When Fukushima Masanori saw this, he also slipped away with his troops.

In fact, the "Demon Stone Manzi" Shimazu Yoshihiro also wanted to escape, but the Third Division of the People's Liberation Army, for some unknown reason, targeted his Fourth Army and pursued him relentlessly, forcing his troops to jump into the river one after another. Shimazu Yoshihiro was left with less than 3,000 men and fled the battlefield in a panic.

~~

The Japanese expeditionary army annihilated the Japanese First and Second Armies in a battle at Pyongyang. In a sniper battle at Pingcheng, two armies were crippled and one was completely annihilated...

In just two days, the Japanese invaders lost one-third of their troops, and the three most powerful armies were annihilated.

On the other side, Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa fled to Kaesong in a panic. Only then did they calm down a little and quickly reported to the Prime Minister for emergency help.

Of course, in order to reduce his guilt and get His Majesty to send troops as soon as possible, Konishi-san, who came from a mercenary background, exaggerated the strength of the Chinese army in a very Japanese way, saying that he and Kato-san were attacked by 200,000 Ming troops.

In fact, he wanted to say 500,000, but was stopped by Kato Kiyomasa, who told him that this would scare His Excellency so much that he would not dare to send troops...

"Yoshi." Xiao Xi gave Kato a thumbs up: "Kato Ei...Akira!"

The two guys never thought about persuading the monkeys to withdraw quickly.

If they withdrew their troops at this time, they would be the culprits of the defeat and would have to commit disembowelment to apologize.

Although cesarean section is honorable, who would want to die if they can live?

On the other hand, after retaking Pyongyang, Qi Jiguang did not stop and immediately dispatched troops to continue the pursuit!

Considering that the Japanese army still had more than 100,000 troops and had shown tenacity in previous battles, and that the terrain in Korea was complex, some staff officers suggested taking a steady approach.

But Qi Jiguang knew the Japanese too well and said, just chase them!

So in the following days, the staff officers learned what it meant that the Japanese invaders were terrified at the mention of our name!

At this time, Japanese invaders in various places had received the news that the one who defeated Konishi Yukinaga and Kuroda Nagamasa was Qi Jiguang, who chopped the Japanese invaders like cutting vegetables.

So they all turned south at the same time, and rushed to be the first, fearing that they would fall behind and become the scapegoat for others.

In just three days, all the Japanese troops in Huangzhou, Pingshan, Zhonghe and other places fled, leaving the Chinese army no chance to gain military merit.

Konishi-san, Kato-san and Kuroda-san who had just escaped decided to trade space for time and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

He set fire to Kaesong and fled with his 20,000 troops. As long as I run fast, you can forget about taking my head!

Therefore, it took the expeditionary army against Japan only nine days to recapture the 22 prefectures of Korea from Pyongyang to Kaesong, which was faster than the speed at which the Koreans lost them!

The Japanese army collapsed across the board and retreated to Seoul.

Qi Jiguang then slowed down the pace and ordered the troops to rest for a while in Kaesong.

One is to eliminate fatigue, and the other is to wait for the enemies to gather together so that we don’t have to run around like catching mice.

The most important thing is to lure Toyotomi Hideyoshi's other 150,000 troops across the sea.

If we take Seoul in one go, what if the monkeys withdraw their troops?

~~

In fact, he was worrying too much. After Toyotomi Hidenaga passed away, there was no one in Japan who could persuade the monkey.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was like a gambler who had lost his temper. He would never leave the gambling table until he lost his last chip.

After receiving Konishi Yukinaga's letter asking for help, Monkey became furious and quickly ordered the follow-up troops to set off five days later.

He didn't care about taking credit for anything, and he ordered Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Gamo Ujisato, and Date Masamune to lead their troops to Nagoya as a reserve.

On August 12, the winds were high and the waves were rough in the Tsushima Strait, which was not a good day for going out to sea. However, under the constant urging of His Majesty the Taiko, a huge Japanese fleet consisting of 700 Ataka ships, Seki ships, and thousands of transport ships, carrying 150,000 reinforcements, left Nagoya.

After bypassing Tsushima Island from the north, it only takes another 120 miles to reach Busan.

But that was the other side where most Japanese ships could not capsize...

Because the giant steel ships of the Seventh Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy have been waiting in the Tsushima Strait for a long time.

How would you describe this battle?

The Japanese Navy did not even have the ironclad ships that Kuki Yoshitaka had back then, and still had no artillery, and was still at the same level as it was during the Battle of Kanmon Strait more than 20 years ago.

What was the level of the Coast Guard Fleet at that time? They didn’t even have a single galleon, but they still beat the Japanese navy to tears.

What is the current level of the Seventh Fleet? The world's seventh-ranked navy.

What? Who are the first six? They are the First Fleet to the Sixth Fleet of the People's Liberation Army Navy...

If I had to describe it, it would probably be like throwing a shot put into a basket of eggs.

What else is there besides broken egg shells and yellow and white egg liquid all over the floor?

"Boring." The one-sided massacre quickly made Commander Rong Sheng lose interest. He put down the telescope and said, "Save some ammunition. We still have to go to Nagoya to visit His Excellency."

The implication is that if you can just hit it directly, don't fire...

ps. There is one last chapter left, I will write it tomorrow.