In order to protect themselves, the Japanese like to call their retreat a turn to the rear.
But Lu Li was not so shameless.
Shou Nanyuan failed.
But on the premise of admitting failure, Lu Li felt that this was a glorious failure.
The failure was attributed to insufficient troops, and the glory belongs to all the soldiers who participated in the defense of Nanyuan.
In the two sniper battles, the Liaodong cavalry showed extremely tenacious fighting spirit and excellent tactical qualities. They blocked 4,000 and 50,000, winning more than half a month, and the enemy was not a waste.
If you need to belittle your enemies to highlight your own achievements, that is also a kind of tragedy.
The Shimazu Corps is known as the best in Japan.
Following the example of the West, the Konishi Iron Artillery Corps ranks first in the world in individual weapons.
Wipe them all out.
Moreover, the Ming army did not defend based on danger. They were fighting head-on with the Japanese pirates in open areas such as hills, mountains, and rivers, where they were best at hand-to-hand combat and their proudest weapon warfare.
If we continue to fight like this, whether it is personal or strategic significance, it will not be very big.
As the victor, Old Monkey and his army commanders were not so happy.
In front of Nanwon is Jeonju. If you capture Namwon, you can easily capture Jeonju. If Jeonju is lost, all three Koreas will be affected.
Therefore, Nanyuan's strategic position is more important than Quanzhou. It not only interferes with the war situation on the peninsula, but also seriously affects the defense of the entire Ming Dynasty coastal area.
Once this city is captured, the southern coast of Jeolla Province will not be protected. The Japanese navy can go straight into the Yellow Sea from here and raid Jin, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places, and the voyage will be greatly shortened.
According to original history, after Emperor Wanli learned of the sudden loss of Nanyuan, he immediately issued an emergency military order, requiring coastal counties and counties to prepare for military affairs, mobilize the navy across the country to strengthen coastal defense, and beware of Japanese attacks across the Yellow Sea.
Therefore, Nanyuan is just an inconspicuous border town on the map, but it can affect the nerves of half of East Asia. All civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were disturbed by this.
Logically speaking, the old monkey should be happy that his name is being spread again, but the loss caused by this is too great for him to accept.
They even guessed in advance that the Ming army would escape from the east and west gates, and were unwilling to ambush heavy troops.
Before he figured out a way to deal with the strange flames, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was unwilling to lose any more troops. He wanted to smoothly digest the fate of the country that had already reached his lips and replenish his life span.
If Jeolla Road cannot be captured within five days, the prepared death poems will come in handy.
There was no way, the daimyo who died in battle frantically consumed their country's luck before they died, causing him, the Taige, to relapse into old injuries and find it difficult to suppress the coming of death.
It's a pity that Lu Li didn't know the inside story, otherwise he would have nailed Nan Yuan no matter what.
But apart from Hideyoshi himself, only the most trusted personal priests knew about this kind of thing. Not even the legion commanders knew about it, let alone Akito.
Two hours later.
The West Gate Suspension Bridge fell, and a group of hundreds of giant monsters and about five hundred cavalry rushed out.
The black-maned horse finally realized his long-cherished wish:
Let the master carry him once.
Because this guy was seriously injured when he was supporting the South Gate. He said that it would not be a serious matter if he died, but the talisman water and elixir could not cure him for a while. In desperation, Lu Li could only carry it on his back and pay attention to the surrounding trends at all times - —
If there is any big enemy coming, he will immediately entrust the black-maned horse to the Bull Demon and the Tiger King who wants to find Kato Kiyomasa to avenge the murder of his son.
At this point, the Tiger King no longer wants to fight alone, even if the enemy is at the south gate.
Just like Lu Li said, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet again in the future. When this happens, the situation will be different, and he will also help kill Kato.
Others may refuse to believe this tiger spirit who has lived for thousands of years, but Lu Li is different. His record is enough to dispel all doubts.
However, the expected enemy did not appear, and the group of Japanese warriors were afraid to avoid it, so they stayed far away from the monsters rushing to clear the way.
Almost at the same time.
The east, south and north gates are all broken.
The massacre begins.
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When Lu Li came to this world for the first time, he bid farewell to the civil and military forces of the Li Dynasty and headed south to Jeolla Road. Although there was a mountain road to walk, it was still a broad road.
As for Jeolla-do's main road connecting Chungcheong-do and Seoul, there is only this one, which goes all the way north from Jeonju, passes through Gongju to Cheonan, and then goes further north to Pyeongtaek, Josan, and Suwon. Then, you can see Seoul.
Tian'an is located at the center of this hub, and its strategic significance goes without saying. Once Tian'an is defeated, the Ming army's activity space will be compressed to the limit. Therefore, Ma Gui has made detailed arrangements.
I have to mention it again, everything was thanks to Commander-in-Chief Lu Li.
Ma Gui calmly dispatched four generals: Xie Sheng, Niu Boying, Yang Dengden and Pogui, and asked them to secretly go south again to garrison near Tianan.
They are all direct troops of the Ma family army!
In addition, one of the few remaining brave generals under his command, Zhuo Sai, and his soldiers were treated as a reserve team and placed in the Geyuan and Jiechuan areas not far behind Tianan, with a strength of two thousand cavalry!
To put it simply, there is not much difference between the tactics previously deployed by Ma Gui and Lu Li. They are also three fronts.
The Tianan area is the first line of defense.
Geyuan and Jiechuan are the second line of defense.
The area around Seoul is the third line of defense.
Among them, the first line of defense has the largest number of troops.
More than five thousand people!
Four thousand came from the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining more than a thousand came from Chen Yuzhong, the governor of Quanzhou.
This courageous guy waited around and did not wait for the news of the fall of Nanyuan. However, when he heard that the Japanese right-leg army was attacking Huangshi Mountain City, he immediately abandoned the city and fled, fearing that he would be eaten by the enemy if he was too late.
As expected, neither Ma Gui nor the governor was willing to kill him and asked him to serve for his crime.
The so-called preparation of the second line of defense means that if the first line of defense can resist the Japanese, the two thousand cavalry will immediately go to support them. If it cannot be blocked, it will be used to support their retreat.
Seoul is actually the final battlefield chosen as a last resort.
At first, after listening to Ma Gui's report, the official Yang Hao was the one who scolded the King of Joseon so much that he wanted to crawl into the cracks of the ground in front of all the nobles.
He once again approached the King of Korea, Li Wan, and asked him to show his domineering spirit as a king of a country, and to go to Suwon near Seoul to boost morale.
However, Li Huo was unwilling to do anything, so he just clung to the pillars of the palace and refused to let go.
In desperation, Yang Hao moved his tent to Nanshan outside the city, ordered to play military music and issued various orders, making the momentum extremely huge. Only then, on behalf of the King of Joseon, could he barely appease the morale of the military and the people.
"Mud can't hold up a wall!"
"Bastard thing!"
now.
Yang Hao looked at the map and became angry.
He is a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty and a guest from afar, but he still has the backbone and arrogance to live and die with this city.
But the king of this country was as timid as a mouse. When the war was about to break out, he even secretly expressed that he actually wanted to embrace the Ming Dynasty and become an idle prince.
Is this what a king should do?
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