Chapter 18 Chapter 17 I saw it

While Yuan Huang and others were busy day and night to pave the way to Pyongyang, Li Rusong also started to leave. He lingered in Yizhou for three days, left on the 28th, spent a Spring Festival on the marching road, and arrived in Anzhou on the third day of the first lunar month in the 21st month of Wanli. He joined the vanguard of the Ming army waiting here and completed the follow-up The final assembly of 43,000 troops.At the same time, the Korean army also assembled more than 10,000 people, including a large number of rebels, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army in Shun'an. As a result, the Chinese and North Korean coalition forces totaled more than 50,000 people, put on a posture, and started a formal counterattack.Before the counter-offensive, Li Rusong specially set up a large banner against the Imperial Association Army and the people in the Japanese-occupied areas who surrendered to Japan, and wrote: "The Korean soldiers and civilians who surrender to this banner will not die." To show his incomparable self-confidence.

At that time, Liu Chenglong happened to be in Anzhou, and when he heard that Li Rusong was coming, he went to the Ming army barracks in the south of the city overnight to pay New Year's greetings.Li Rusong was quite polite to this mainstay of North Korea, and brought him a chair, which flattered Liu Chenglong. The purpose of Liu Rusong's trip here is to let Li Rusong understand the situation of Pyongyang's city defense, so that he won't be ambushed like Zu Chengxun came last time.He took out a map of Pyongyang from his sleeve, and introduced to Li Rusong the composition and topographical distribution of the entire surrounding area of ​​Pyongyang. Li Rusong listened carefully, and occasionally drew a picture on the map with a Chinese ink pen.

What Liu Chenglong was most worried about was the iron guns of the Japanese army. When he reminded Li Rusong to pay attention to the power of the iron guns, Admiral Li pointed to the firearms warehouse in the barracks with disdain: "The Japanese devils just use some broken guns. It came with a cannon. A cannon can blast five or six miles, do you think the Japanese can get it?" Before leaving, Li Rusong fetched a fan and said, "It's not easy for you to work for so long, so let me give you a poem." With a wave of the pen, ink dripped on the fan, and it turned out to be a poem of seven rhythms:

Raising troops to cross the river at night, in order to say that the three South Koreas are not in peace. On the Lord's day of the Ming Dynasty, the festival report is hung, and the ministers release the wine cup at night to have fun. In spring, the murderous spirit is still strong, and the spirit of going away from the demon is already cold. Talking and laughing out loud is not a chance of winning, and it is often discussed in dreams to straddle the saddle. In all fairness, as a general, Li Rusong wrote this poem quite well.Liu Chenglong took the fan back to Anzhou City, pondered it over and over again, his face was solemn, he didn't know if he was moved by the ambition in the poem, or he was worried that he would meet another person with great ambition and incompetence.

Let's say that Liu Chenglong was pondering over Li Rusong's poetic talent, when suddenly an urgent report came from outside, saying that Admiral Li had left Anzhou suddenly.Liu Rulong was startled suddenly - he had made an appointment with Li Rusong, and they would go to Suning together on the fourth day of junior high school to meet Marshal Jin Mingyuan.Why did he change his mind after only a short while?Could it be that there is an emergency military situation? He poked his head out to see that the main force of the Ming army was still there.After further inquiry, it turned out that it was not the Ming army that set off, but Li Rusong himself brought his younger brother Li Rubai and the eighteen servants, and left Anzhou in a hurry, heading for Suning. As for why he went, no one knew.

The reason why Li Rusong left was simple, the fish bit the bait. As early as in Liaodong, Li Rusong used Li Yingshi's strategy to send Shen Weijing a dog's life, intending to use it on the Korean battlefield to deal with President Xiaoxi.Now that the army is approaching Pyongyang, it is time to show the winner. Long before he arrived in Anzhou, Li Rusong sent Zha Dashou, the vanguard deputy commander, to Shun'an to contact the Japanese.After Zha Da received Shun'an, he asked a junior school under him named Jin Zigui to dress up as a messenger and go straight to the city of Pyongyang.The Japanese garrison asked Jin Zigui what he was here for, and Jin Zigui replied with great pomp: "The Celestial Dynasty has agreed to your terms of peace talks. Shen Guerrilla and Admiral Li will arrive immediately with the canonized documents. I will stand in the front."

When Shen Weijing left Pyongyang last time, he told President Xiaonishi that Li Rusong would come for the canonization on January 7th, and now the time is just right.President Xiaoxi didn't doubt at all, he couldn't close his mouth with joy.His assistant, Monk Xuansu, was also circling around happily, writing a poem full of thoughts, insisting on writing a Chinese poem dedicated to the beloved Shen Guerrilla. The poem goes: Fusang rests and conquers China, and the four seas and nine states are the same family. The joy suddenly disappears and the snow outside the world, the universe and the spring morning are peaceful and peaceful.

This poem is not as good as Li Rusong, but better than the Koreans.The poet expresses his yearning for peace and disgust for war through four lines of praise that are almost vernacular, and the joy is vivid on the paper.It's really a good song. The whole city of Pyongyang was jubilant, as if the Spring Festival that just passed was back again.During the celebration, Jin Zigui secretly took out a good dagger while no one was paying attention, and told the nearby Japanese that he wanted to change some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, but no one wanted to change it with him.From this, Jin Zigui learned that the supply of grain and grass in Pyongyang City had reached a certain level of distress.

After the celebration, President Xiaoxi remembered the business and asked Jin Zigui, "When will Shen Guerrilla arrive?" Jin Zigui replied, "Shen Guerrilla is old, and he accidentally broke his leg while riding a horse. He came here in a sedan chair. So it's a little slow. When President Xiaoxi heard this, he became anxious, this is such a wrong to Mr. Shen!No, this is not the way of hospitality, we have to pick it up.He immediately pointed out a small leader, took twenty-three soldiers, and Zhang Dashan, the interpreter who received Shen Weijing last time, organized a welcoming team and went out to meet him.

When the welcome team came to Shun'an, Zha Dashou and Li Ning, another Liaodong general, had been waiting for a long time.Zhang Dashan asked where Shen Guerrilla was?Zha Dashou said with a smile that he still has some way to go, and it's cold now, let's sit down and have a drink together. The little boss didn't know what to do, and led more than 20 people to push and change cups, drinking happily.When the wine was in full swing, Li Ning suddenly turned his face aside, threw a cup as a sign, and a large number of Ming troops rushed into the tent immediately. Speaking of the individual combat ability of the Japanese pirates, it is really powerful.This group of people blushed from drinking, and they were suddenly attacked. At this point, they still refused to be caught without a fight, and instead drew their swords to resist.The Ming army only knew that these little devils were easy to catch, but they encountered unexpected resistance, and they were a little dazed for a while.

As a result, after a fierce and brief fight, fifteen devils were killed, and the Japanese team leader Takeuchi Yoshihei, the traitor translator Zhang Dashan, and another devil soldier were captured alive. The remaining five devils fled in the chaos. waste!Li Rusong was furious when he heard the result: With such a superior force and a perfect trap, it is so incompetent to let the enemy escape five times!When these escaped Japanese pirates return to Pyongyang, they must tell President Xiaonishi about this. Wouldn't it make his earnest city plan go bankrupt! He vented his anger on Li Ning. If his younger brother Li Rubai hadn't tried hard to persuade him, Li Ning might not be able to keep his head. Li Rusong was not reconciled to the failure of this task of luring the enemy. He asked the army from Anzhou to rush to Shun'an as soon as possible, and at the same time called Shen Weijing over, and asked him to go to Pyongyang City to explain to Chief Xiaoxi. Hearing Li Rusong's request, Shen Weijing trembled in fright: Your lord, you beheaded 15 people, and it caused such a big incident, you still let me enter Pyongyang city?This is almost the same as sending to death.But when he saw Li Rusong's gloomy eyes, he closed his mouth very wisely. Shen Weijing knew very well before that he was a chess piece that could be discarded at any time, if it was useful, it would be left on the chessboard, and if it was useless, it would be thrown out immediately.If he did not agree to go to Pyongyang at this time, Li Rusong would hack himself to death without hesitation.Shen Weijing had no choice but to reluctantly go on the road again without hesitation. He arrived at Pyongyang city step by step. Of course, after seeing him, Chief Xiaoxi couldn't have a good face, and asked sharply what was going on.Don't look at Shen Weijing who was restrained when facing Li Rusong, but when facing the Japanese, he immediately returned to his true nature of a liar, with sharp teeth and sharp mouth. Shen Weijing's explanation shifted the responsibility to the traitor translator Zhang Dashan, insisting that the translator was to blame.When the two armies are at war, everyone is highly nervous, and sometimes it is too common for soldiers to meet each other because of a mistranslation of a sentence. Anyway, the five escaped devils didn't understand Chinese, and they drank too much that night, and couldn't explain how they turned against the Ming army.What is going on is not a matter of Shen Weijing's two lips touching. After listening to Shen Guerrilla's justification, Xiaoxi said a word full of guilt: "This must be a common mistake." After hearing this sentence, Shen Weijing breathed a sigh of relief. He probably thought in his heart at that time, I survived another level and lived an extra day. The misunderstanding was cleared up, and President Xiaoxi brought up the issue of canonization again.Shen Weijing was calmer now, and said that he was afraid of accidents, so in order to clear up the misunderstanding, he came to Pyongyang urgently alone, and the guard of honor for canonization was behind, so you can send someone to pick me up. This time, President Xiaonishi sent Naito Ruan—the man who was killed by Gui Yuexiang in Korean folklore—to follow Shen Weijing to meet him.Shen Weijing brought Naito Ru'an to Shun'an and had an audience with Li Rusong.Li Rusong didn't expect that Shen Weijing could do things so beautifully, and still be able to coax the Japanese around after killing fifteen devils by himself, thinking that this opportunity must not be let go. So Li Rusong comforted Naito Ru'an a lot, about the friendship between China and Japan, about the conferring of kings and knights, in short, how to put it nicely, and made Naito Ru'an confused.In the end, Li Rusong said that the canonization envoy would arrive on the sixth day of the lunar new year, and asked Naito Ruan to go back and tell Chief Konishi to wash his neck and wait for the conferment.Naito nodded repeatedly, and went back to Pyongyang City to announce the good news. Seeing him at the side, Shen Weijing sighed in his heart: Admiral Li is really a man of genius, he knows himself without a teacher, and he can fool me better than me.Don't mention it now. Speaking of which, the devils on this side were fooled by Li Rusong and Shen Weijing and were only waiting to be recruited, while the Ming army on the other side was all ready to stop. The North Korean army originally assembled more than 10,000 people, but Li Rusong was not at ease about their combat effectiveness, and there was not enough food and grass, so he only selected 3,000 people to follow the Ming army. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Li Rusong's army and 3,000 North Korean troops gathered in Shun'an, and nearly 50,000 people stared at Pyongyang.At this time, Chief Xiaonishi's troops in Pyongyang City had dropped from 18,000 at its peak to 15,000, and some of them were North Korean puppet troops.There are about 1,000 other troops stationed in the east of Zhonghe and Huangzhou. At this time, the supreme commander of the Japanese army didn't know that the enemy several times his size had already invaded the country, and he was still dreaming of it. President Xiaoxi got up very early that day, and last night he was so excited that he couldn't sleep, he couldn't help but think of the two lines of Du Fu's poem: "There is a seal in the Ming Dynasty, how about the night." Early in the morning, he put the most gorgeous The Japanese-style dress was turned out from the bottom of the box, and she put it on her body, went up to the Fengyue Tower, and stretched her neck to look out—by the way, this building is the place where Gui Yuexiang and Xiao Xifei "perish together" in the legend. The leader attaches so much importance to it, so naturally his subordinates cannot lag behind. A group of Japanese pirates, big and small, also put on the most gorgeous kimonos, rushed to the streets of Pyongyang, holding bouquets of flowers, and prepared to line the road to welcome the Great Angel.The taste of the Japanese is different from that of China. On the one hand, they advocate simplicity and elegance, but on the other hand, they especially like to be fancy. They think that the more flowers are more formal, so the welcome team looks around, and everyone is dressed like the countryside before liberation. The little daughter-in-law, the flowers are red, the willows are green, and the powder is full of flowers, which makes people dizzying. Li Rusong also made careful preparations for how to "recruit" and "canonize" the Japanese.He divided the Ming cavalry into several battalions and wandered outside the city.Once the disguised canonization team opened the ordinary gate, they quickly approached and occupied the city gate.The army immediately entered the city, expanded the results of the battle, and took Pyongyang in one fell swoop. The idea was good, but one small detail was missed. The Japanese army was indeed not mentally prepared for Li Rusong's arrival, but as a strong army fought by Japan in the century-old Warring States Period, they were not inactive.In the past few months, the Japanese army has worked tirelessly to cultivate the land outside the outer city of North Korea, planting all of them with antlers, and putting a lot of repelling horses in important areas, this is to prevent the enemy cavalry from directly assaulting the city. As a result, the cavalry units of the Ming army couldn't get too close, but they couldn't and didn't dare to get too far away, so they had to circle around the city wall not too far or too close. This time, a big problem came out. Looking west from Fengyue Building, President Xiaoxi saw a team approaching Pyongyang from a distance. The guard of honor in the team should be the envoy of the emperor mentioned by Shen Guerrilla and Admiral Li. He was overjoyed and prepared to go downstairs to meet him. But when he took a closer look, something was wrong!Near the Imperial Envoy's team, there seemed to be several other cavalry units cruising around, counting their number, it was obvious that they far exceeded the number of escort troops.Looking again, I found that the cavalry did not seem to be guards, and they did not follow the envoy closely, but wandered around the city wall.Everyone in the team had fierce eyes, and a lot of messy spears and swords were carried upside down, as if there were many cannons dragging behind their buttocks... "I'm stupid, I fell for it!" Chief Xiaoxi slapped the railing and roared loudly. At this time, no matter how stupid people are, they have realized that the Ming army did not come to canonize at all, but came to attack the city.President Xiaonishi became furious, and immediately ordered all the places in Pyongyang to stop holding welcome ceremonies, and go to the top of the city to defend the city! All of a sudden, the sound of gongs and drums was no longer a welcome drum, but an alarm.As soon as the military order was passed to the streets of Pyongyang, the Japanese troops who were originally in charge of welcoming the troops were in disarray. Everyone was originally in a "warm welcome" mentality, but suddenly they had to switch to "desperate resistance". This interface is not very easy to operate. Fortunately, the advantage of Japanese soldiers is that they are more obedient.After a short period of confusion, everyone took off their flowered clothes one after another, and hurriedly climbed up to the top of the city. Those with shields took shields, those with knives lifted knives, and set up iron cannons, bows and arrows.When the envoys of the Ming army approached the city gate, they had just had time to fire the first shot. As soon as the gunshot rang out, the fake Imperial Envoy retreated in a hurry.Li Rusong in the distance saw a group of people at the top of the city rioting with knives and guns, and also set up several simple wooden fences to prevent arrows and guns. Speaking of this strategy, it is really a good strategy, and the early stage is also very well prepared.Now that the success has fallen short, if you want to blame, you can only blame your subordinates for their poor acting skills. Li Rusong quickly recovered from his frustration.The use of troops is originally a combination of odd and right, and if odd tricks can't be used, then attack right.More than 40,000 beat 20,000, and the Ming army did not suffer in terms of numbers. He ordered the army to start implementing Plan B. It is a very learned thing to besiege a city and attack a fortified city.The shape of the city, the surrounding terrain and hydrology, the number of troops in the city, the military food reserves, the character of the commander, and even climate change, the surrounding situation, etc., will all affect the siege strategy.Every city has its unique attack method. The Ming army moved quickly. As soon as it launched, it first captured Yaoshan and Daxingshan in the west of Pyongyang and Mumishan in the east.Li Rusong moved to the top of the medicine mountain and commanded in the center. The other troops slowly spread out and surrounded the entire city of Pyongyang. Regarding how to attack the city of Pyongyang head-on, Yuan Huang, as a painting in the army, has drawn up a preliminary plan. This plan has been supplemented by Liu Chenglong in Anzhou, and it is becoming more and more complete.As for Li Rusong himself, who had just finished fighting in the siege of Ningxia, his qualifications in this regard had more say. Yuan Huang, Liu Chenglong, and Li Rusong, although they have different backgrounds, personalities, and education backgrounds, they came to the same conclusion when they made plans: To attack Pyongyang City, occupy Mudanfeng first. Mudanfeng is located at the northern tip of Pyongyang City, 95 meters above sea level, surrounded by an independent North City.This is the commanding height of the entire city of Pyongyang. There are several stone fortresses such as Eulmi Terrace and Jaesung Terrace. They are built with strips of stone, which are very strong and can withstand the most powerful artillery bombardment at that time.There are battlements on three sides of the fort, and there are shooting holes on the battlements. Archers can easily hide in the fort and shoot at the enemy attacking upwards. The terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Mudanfeng is like a patron saint overlooking the entire Pyongyang city. If you want to attack Pyongyang city, you must take it down first anyway.This lesson was paid for with the blood of more than a thousand soldiers of the Ming army. When Zu Chengxun was ambushed in Pyongyang, many Ming soldiers, including Shi Ru, were shot to death by the Japanese condescendingly on Mudan Peak. At this time, there were about 2,000 defenders on Mudanfeng, belonging to the First Army Corps Matsuura Zhenxin.The Matsuura family is a well-known strong clan in Kyushu, and their soldiers are proficient in iron cannon shooting skills, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.In this war of invasion of Korea, the Matsuura family served as the main firepower output of the First Army, and it was a trump card in the hands of Chief Konishi. When the soldiers of the Matsuura family saw the signal of the enemy's attack, they immediately raised the blue and white banners and erected the big banners, as if they were not afraid of anything.They moved very quickly, and soon set up their guns, yelled at the Ming army outside the city, and fired a few shots provocatively, with arrogance. Seeing the arrogant face of the enemy on Mudan Peak, all the generals under Li Rusong's command were eager to try, and expressed their willingness to be the first to go out to teach Little Japan a lesson.Unexpectedly, Li Rusong glanced around, but it was not the general of the Liaodong faction that Li Rusong picked, but an outsider——Wu Weizhong. Wu Weizhong, courtesy name Rucheng, was born in Yiwu, Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang Province.In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang, a famous general of his generation, went to Yiwu to recruit soldiers, and selected Wu Weizhong and four thousand other Yiwu young men to become the initial team of Qi's army.From then on, he followed Qi Jiguang on the saddle and went through countless bloody battles to suppress the Japanese. He personally witnessed the Qi family army from a mob to an iron-blooded army, belonging to the direct line of the direct line. Later, Qi Jiguang went to Jizhou to build the Great Wall, and then transferred to Guangdong. Wu Weizhong followed him faithfully all the time.After Qi Jiguang died of illness in the fifteenth year of Wanli, Wu Weizhong took over the mantle of Qi's army and passed on the blood of this army.In this battle to aid Korea, Song Yingchang was afraid that the Liaodong cavalry would not be enough to cope with the situation. He listened to the persuasion of Huang Yingyang and other Zhejiang soldiers, and specially transferred Wu Weizhong, who had rich experience in fighting against the Japanese. Wu Weizhong and Luo Shangzhi, another general of the Qi family army, each brought 1,500 people, both of whom were from the authentic Qi family army.This taciturn Yiwu man inherited Qi Jiguang's way of running the army, saying less and doing more, which is incompatible with the arrogant Liaodong generals. Li Rusong sent Wu Weizhong's southern soldiers to attack Mudanfeng for three reasons: First, Mudanfeng is a high mountain, and it is difficult for cavalry to attack from their backs, so they can only rely on infantry to attack by force.Wu Weizhong's troops are the most powerful in the infantry sequence of the Ming army; second, to attack Mudanfeng, you can test the reality of the Japanese army.From the strength of their defense, it can be roughly judged whether they plan to defend Pyongyang or retreat. There is a third reason, but it is difficult for Li Rusong to express it.He wanted to use Mudanfeng as a strong bone to weaken the strength of the Southern Army——Wu Weizhong's account of his unauthorized actions was still hanging in Li Rusong's heart, and he still thought about it to this day. Regarding Li Rusong's order, Wu Weizhong didn't have any doubts, accepted the general order silently, and went back to prepare. When Qi Jiajun chooses tasks, he never asks the easiest ones, but only chooses the most difficult ones.He can die on the battlefield, but the signboard of the Qi family army cannot be lost. Wu Weizhong returned to his camp and ordered the soldiers to bring their weapons and prepare for a bloody battle.When they walked out of the camp, suddenly a group of people came from outside the camp. The costumes of this group of people are very strange, all of them have bald heads, and they still wear prayer beads around their necks, but they carry spears and big knives in their hands, which is full of sense of disobedience.The leader was a benevolent old monk, wearing patchwork clothes, with a faint smile on his face. In fact, it doesn't make much sense to compare the ranks of casualties and generals of the two armies in battle. There are two reasons: 1. The military and political systems of the two countries are different.At the end of the Warring States period in Japan, there was still a vassal system, with countless big and small vassals. A daimyo like Goto with a total of 705 people is also a daimyo. With this military system and fighting style in Japan, daimyos rarely suffer casualties even in Japan, so Ozama That's why it shocked the world so much. 2. The Ming Dynasty was a unified system. The generals were arranged from top to bottom. The rank, number of troops, and responsibilities were very clear. It was a complete large military system. It was normal for deputy generals to participate in guerrilla warfare on the front line.However, there is no general in the Japanese army like Li Rusong who commands the whole army, and the Japanese army's N legions fight on their own. So, this comparison doesn't really make much sense.If the platforms for comparison are different, there is no unified scale, so meaningful comparisons cannot be made. The soldiers of the Ming army were very surprised: what time is this, how could there be monks coming to beg? Wu Weizhong came out in a hurry, he didn't dare to neglect this army.He knew the eminent monk who took the lead. His name was Xiu Jing, and he was also called Zen Master Qingxu. Monk soldiers are not new in China, North Korea, Japan and the Three Kingdoms.There is the Shaolin Temple in China, and the Honganji Temple in Japan, and the monks there can fight one by one.Of course, the monk soldiers in North Korea are no exception. Not only are they no exception, they are also the most powerful fighting force in the North Korean army. Although North Korea respects Confucianism, Buddhism is also quite prevalent, and there are many temples in the country.After the outbreak of the Imjin War, rebels emerged from all over North Korea. These Buddhist monks, also inspired by their patriotism, resolutely stood up and bravely faced the national calamity.At that time, the one with the greatest influence and the highest status in Shimen was the Master Xiu Jing.The old monk saw that the Japanese were going too far, so he became angry with the King Kong and stood up decisively to call on the monks to resist the invaders.His call shook the whole of Korea, and 8,000 people gathered in a few days. He was named the commander-in-chief of the Eight Paths and Sixteen Schools by the king of Korea, and became the commander-in-chief of monks and soldiers. Master Xiu Jing's army of monks is not a vegetarian when it comes to fighting, even though they are all monks.In July and August of the Renchen year, Linggui, Xiujing's disciple, cooperated with Zhao Xian, a volunteer soldier of the Joseon Dynasty, to launch the Battle of Cheongju. A solid wedge.In the ensuing second battle of Jinshan, although Zhao Xian and Linggui died in battle one after another, their powerful fighting power also scared Kobayakawa Longjing into a cold sweat. This time, he heard that the Ming army was going to attack Pyongyang. Master Xiu Jing personally led 1,500 monks and soldiers to the Faxing Temple in Shun'an to join the army and contribute to the capture of Pyongyang.Now that Wu Weizhong was ordered to attack Mudanfeng, Master Xiu Jing had admired the Ming Southern Army for a long time, so he took the initiative to invite Ying to cooperate in the battle.Li Rusong had nothing to do with this request, since it was the Korean army anyway. Both Wu Weizhong and Master Xiu Jing are soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and they are not good at words.The two of them didn't speak much, they just stood side by side peacefully, looked up at Mudan Peak for a long time, and said at the same time: Let's start. Their army inherited the traits of the commander, there was no shouting, no clamor, and the charge to Mudanfeng remained strangely silent.Wu Weizhong's troops mixed with the monks and soldiers, several people formed a group, scattered as much as possible and rushed towards the top of the mountain. The Japanese army on Mudanfeng did not show any weakness, and fought back desperately with muskets, bows and rolling stones, and the mountainside screamed for killing for a while.Mudanfeng is very steep, and it is very difficult to attack from the back.The Chinese and North Korean coalition forces rushed upwards for more than 20 meters, but they were suppressed by the firepower of Yimi Terrace and Zuosheng Terrace at the top of the peak. In addition to Yimi Terrace, the Japanese army dug many caves on the mountainside.The earth cave is a simple fortification. A very shallow trench is dug on the ground, and a wall is built with earth or stones on it.How many soldiers are hidden inside, you can't see it from a distance at all, and you will be bombarded by firearms if you get close. Except for Mudanfeng, the Japanese army built countless earthen caves all over the city of Pyongyang, which looked like clusters of beehives. Wu Weizhong's troops have been on the battlefield for a long time and know the tactics of Japanese pirates very well.After a short stay, they held up the rattan cards in their hands and rushed upwards without fear of death.The rattan plate can block bows and arrows, but it cannot block the projectiles of iron cannons.The Japanese army gathered superior firepower and fired vigorously, and soon the Ming army was defeated by the condescending attack, and retreated towards the foot of the mountain one after another.They retreated in such a panic that they didn't even bother to take up weapons, and threw their rattan tags all over the ground. The Japanese army was overjoyed when they saw this. Many soldiers thought that the rattan card was very useful, and they wanted to catch up with it after chasing it.Unexpectedly, when they were leaning over to grab the loot, there was a sudden sound of killing in the surrounding woods. It was the Ming army and monk soldiers who killed a carbine.Caught off guard, the Japanese army panicked and strangled with the Chinese and North Korean allied forces, turning into a hand-to-hand battle.The companions on the top of the mountain did not dare to shoot without authorization, and the firepower suddenly became thinner. Without the threat of muskets and artillery, these Zhejiang soldiers are proficient in dealing with the Japanese at close quarters.Soon the situation became one-sided, and these cheap Japanese soldiers were hacked and killed one by one, and their heads were beheaded. It turned out that this was a strategy that Wu Weizhong and Xiu Jing had made before the attack. They deliberately dropped the rattan badges in order to use the greed of the Japanese army to engage in melee combat, so as to minimize the firepower of the Japanese army on the top of the mountain. After the Japanese army encountered a strong counterattack, they dared not approach any more, and they all huddled in the two fortresses and some simple fortifications.The artillery on the top of the mountain kept erupting, hitting the foothills aimlessly. Wu Weizhong and Master Xiu Jing were discussing how to attack next, when the sound of Ming Jin suddenly came from a distance, this was the signal for Li Rusong to retreat. The purpose of this attack is to test the enemy's reality.Now the number of enemies on Mudanfeng is almost the same, and dozens of additional heads have been beheaded, and they will accept it as soon as they are good.Although Wu Weizhong was straightforward, he was not foolish enough to think that he could attack Mudanfeng without the large-scale cooperation of friendly forces. Except for Wu Weizhong and Xiu Jing in Mudanfeng, small-scale battles broke out in various places near Pyongyang City.Li Rusong watched the movement in the city calmly from the Herb Mountain, just like a skilled chess player, deliberately placing pieces around, trying to see some clues from the enemy's reaction. Among them, he is most concerned about the Hanmao Gate in the south of Pyongyang.The left defense envoy of the Korean army, Jeong Hee-hyun, and the right defense envoy, Kim Kyung-seo, were in charge of this direction. According to the "Kansai Town Chronicle, Pyongyang Xuyi Ancient Records", there were 8,000 of them, but this figure is not very credible.Their real strength is at most 1,500 people. The figure of 8,000 is the total number of North Korean troops assembled on the front line, but most of the soldiers here are recruited temporarily, and not many can go to the battlefield. It is recorded in "Xuanzu Shilu": Li Rusong felt that these people's qualities were too poor, so on January 5th, he specially asked Liu Chenglong to select 3,000 people who knew a little bit about fighting, and go to Fushanyuan to gather and participate in the siege. Other troops acted as security on the periphery. Among the 3,000 people, 1,500 belonged to Master Xiu Jing's monks and soldiers, and the other 1,500 were Zheng Xixian and Jin Jingrui's North Korean regular army.Although the latter had poor will to fight, they were born in the army after all, and were a little stronger than the temporarily captured strong men. The task of the two North Korean generals was to feign an attack, but Li Rusong still overestimated the combat effectiveness of the North Korean regular army.Seeing that it was the banner of the Korean army, the Japanese army had the courage to take the initiative to attack. They went out from the Datongmen Wengcheng in the middle city on the east side, and suddenly appeared behind the Korean army.As a result, the North Korean army collapsed and suffered heavy casualties. It was not until the Liaodong Army rushed over to support that it barely stood its ground. The attack on the sixth day of the first lunar month did not have any real results. Except for a beautiful counterattack in the Battle of Mudanfeng, all other places were repelled by the Japanese army.When the generals returned to the camp, they all had doubts in their hearts.Especially Zheng Yixian and Jin Jingrui, the two generals of the court army, were even more uneasy. The other troops just failed to win, but they themselves fought a real defeat.If Admiral Li thinks they didn't get the lottery, wouldn't they be dead? But what they didn't expect was that Li Rusong didn't lose his temper. He just criticized a few words and announced the disbandment. Li Rusong was actually very happy at this moment.Although the Japanese are fierce, they have a more serious mind. There is a saying that they can fight as they want, and they never hide it.When he paid homage in Ningxia last year, he had to besiege the city for several months to understand the enemy's psychology. But today, with a slight attack, the Japanese army exposed all their strategic intentions. Li Rusong is an arrogant general, but he is also a famous general with a bright eye.Today's tentative attack allowed him to discover a fatal flaw in the Japanese army. And not one, but five.