Since the 19th year of Tensho in Japan, this country has become a huge construction site. Shipyards can be seen everywhere along the coast. New ships slide into the sea every day. Sparks are flying in the iron cannon workshop, and countless craftsmen are working beside the sweltering stoves. Sweating like rain, they made fire guns and iron cannons.
Today, several years later.
It is mid-August in the second year of the Qingchō year of Emperor Goyōsei of Japan.
South coast of the peninsula.
The troops lined up in a long queue, and the soldiers held high the coat of arms of their families, as if they had emerged from the shadow of the last defeat.
This group of short but fierce Japanese came from different micro-countries, and behind them was a convoy of luggage that stretched as far as the eye could see.
A large part of the grain and grass in the baggage came from the surrounding North Korean people. After all, July and August are the ripening seasons for rice in southern North Korea.
As for what the Korean people they invaded eat, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his army commanders have already thought of a solution.
During the first invasion, Hideyoshi envisioned incorporating North Korea into his own empire and avoiding unnecessary destruction as much as possible. Therefore, he ordered the soldiers to treat local civilians as kindly as possible if conditions allowed, and to show them Japan's broad mind.
But which nation with blood is willing to be enslaved?
Rebels swarmed into action.
During this invasion, Hideyoshi understood that more cruel and bloody methods must be used to conquer and enslave the Koreans.
He ordered the commanders of the major armies under his command:
No matter men, women, old or young, religious or not, all soldiers on the battlefield, including mountain people, even the poorest and most humble people, were killed and their heads were sent back to Japan!
Any conscientious soldier would instinctively reject this order, but the inhumane island beasts carried it out very well.
Ukita's left army took the lead in collecting food and grass. They killed the common people because the dead did not need food rations, and then advanced inland according to the plan. The goal was:
Nanyuan.
This place is located in the middle of South Jeolla Province. Its location is extremely important. As long as they control it, they can reach Jeonju in the north, Suncheon in the south, and Gwangju in the west. They can advance and retreat freely. Moreover, if they want to occupy Jeolla Province, they must tightly control this place. In hand!
A storm is about to break out.
Lu Li, who was at the center of the storm, had already foreseen it. It took him twenty-four days, galloping through the starry night without any delay, and he and his three thousand Liaodong cavalry finally arrived at Nanyuan, this crucial frontier post.
"Reincarnation Paradise"
At this moment, there were two letters in front of him.
One is a letter of request from local civil and military officials in Nanyuan. They hope that the Ming Dynasty's vanguard army can avoid the Japanese army's sharp edges, act in accordance with North Korea's latest defense strategy, and defend the mountain fortresses instead of the city.
According to the wishes of this group of people, Lu Li had to move to a place called "Jiaolong Mountain City" to fight guerrillas against the Japanese pirates.
Lu Li dismissed this.
As early as last month, when he first arrived in Nanyuan, this group of people persuaded him like this, but Governor Xing Jie’s order was:
Defend Nanyuan and do not take a step back. Violation of the law will result in military action!
Because of this, Lu Li spent a month to strengthen Nanyuan's defense, heightening the city wall that was already a hundred feet high, and digging a trench as large as a river around it, which was filled with sharp blades, so that invading enemies would have to It takes a huge price to overcome it.
The second letter was a blank piece of paper.
As early as the preparation stage, Lu Li sent a messenger to tell General Ma Gui, who was still at the rear, that the Japanese army's main attack direction was not as originally guessed, but Nanyuan, and he hoped to receive reinforcements as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, this attempt to use the advantage of foresight to change the situation ended in failure.
The reply was a blank piece of paper.
Lu Li firmly believed that the general did not see his secret message at all, but was intercepted by someone midway.
Because when he led the Liaodong vanguard army to go on an expedition, General Ma Gui made it clear:
There is a rush to take off. Nan sued Quanzhou, Quanzhou sued Gongzhou, and Gongzhou sued Jingcheng. This time they rushed to help.
According to this regulation, Lu Li sent his elite troops to Quanzhou behind Nanyuan to inform the guerrilla general Chen Yuzhong and let him continue to report.
result……
As his name suggests, this guy didn't report it to the police at all. He just replied with a blank piece of paper. He was really stupid.
After grumbling at the blank paper for a while, Lu Li sighed helplessly that the trend of history is irreversible.
Even if he, a top student, enters this world and exchanges the Emperor Qi that has not been used for a long time for the low-level Dragon and Tiger Qi, he will only get a general soldier position, let alone others.
All I can say is that, worthy of being a final exam, the difficulty is probably unimaginable.
"If the situation is irreversible, I, Mr. Lu, may be escorted back to the mainland, and everyone in front of the vegetable market will be executed, haha."
Looking at the white paper again, Lu Li couldn't help but sneer.
In the original history, Yang Yuanke, the commander-in-chief stationed in Nanyuan, really dedicated himself to the country. He led 3,000 Ming troops to fight against 50,000 Japanese invaders. Faced with Ukita Hideie's personal attack, he held on for several days and was finally captured by the south gate.
At that time, there were enemies both inside and outside, and the number of people was hundreds of times greater than our own. The Ming army was unable to recover. General Yang, who was killing the enemy at the west gate, could only lead his remaining soldiers to break out of the siege.
Before that, he repeatedly reminded Chen Yuzhong, the prefecture's garrison general, that the main force of Japanese pirates was attacking Nanyuan and needed support, but he only replied with two sentences:
The enemy's situation is unpredictable, and I'm afraid that we may lose sight of the other.
It’s hard to leave the place of faith.
By the time this idiot came to his senses, Nanyuan had already fallen and the Japanese invaders were about to invade Quanzhou City, but he immediately fled without saying a word.
Before escaping, they didn't even burn the grain storehouse or armory, all of which gave the enemy an advantage.
Chen Yuzhong abandoned Quanzhou and fled to Gongzhou, further back, where he hunkered down with the guerrilla general Niu Boying, waiting for reinforcements to rescue him.
At the front line, General Yang of the Nanyuan garrison, who was guilty of non-war crimes, had a lot of troops. He fought bloody battles to break through and killed countless Japanese pirates. He was hit by two cannons and had numerous stab wounds on his chest, front and back. He was carried into Seoul by his own soldiers.
The North Korean King Li Huo held his arm and kept crying. The king never expected that the commander-in-chief who drank a glass of wine from him at the farewell banquet would actually fight for the country to this point.
However, during the farewell between Li Hao and the Korean monarchs, Yang Yuan, who was sent back to his hometown to recuperate, was actually arrested and thrown into prison on the charge of abandoning the city and escaping.
Three thousand against fifty thousand, he personally guarded the west gate and held it for three days. As a result, the south gate was breached and he had to leave. But the end result was that everyone in the gate was beheaded and his corpses were abandoned in the vegetable market!
Chen Yuzhong, who really deserves to die, has three major crimes:
Ignoring the battle situation in Nanyuan and refusing to report it, the Ming army, the main force in the rear area, responded slowly;
Hesitant to move forward, the front line was so critical, and as the whole state's garrison, he never took the initiative to respond.
He did nothing, fled without fighting, abandoned the city, and sent food, grass and baggage to the enemy.
It is true that the former is defeated, but the powerful enemy is in front and the pig teammates are behind. No matter who it is, it will end like this. It will not be better, but worse.
The latter is a fugitive general with a disgusting attitude.
But the result was exactly the opposite.
Chen Yuzhong was only beaten with a hundred military sticks to avoid death and being sent to the army.
General Yang was imprisoned. A year later, he and Shen Weijing, the traitor he had caught with his own hands, were taken to the middle of the downtown area and beheaded. His wife, children, and children were also implicated!
In the end, only the King of Joseon was so sad that he set up a memorial tablet for Yang Yuan and enshrined it in the Wuyeolsa Shrine, so that the Liaodong general who fought the Japanese pirates to the death would not become a lonely ghost.
Now, Lu Li has replaced General Yang.
He couldn't accept this cruel way of death!
Do you think you should die if you have no support in the court?
Bleeding and tears.
But he can only become a scapegoat!
Therefore, looking at Chen Yuzhong's blank reply, Lu Li felt anger welling up in his heart.
Until the messenger rushed into the camp and reported with a trembling voice:
"Master General! The enemy has arrived at Tunshan Ridge!"
