Kuroda Nagamasa, who was responsible for leading the battle, began to complain in letters after taking Tianan City.
Why is the Ming army ten times larger than our own?
I would rather die for my country than take Jishan.
It's a pity that Hideyoshi didn't see the heroic scene of the Kuroda family's soldiers paving the north passage of Jishan Mountain with blood. He only heard the news from the detective——
The head of the Kuroda family only sent a small-scale army to occasionally harass the Ming army, and did not even send generals, making it clear that he wanted to preserve his strength.
As for the number of Jishan garrison, it is not as exaggerated as exaggerated in the letter, but the number should be more than 5,000 and no more than 10,000.
This made Hideyoshi very angry.
Taking a compromise number, even if there are 7,500 Ming troops guarding Jishan, and the Kuroda family happens to have more than 7,000 people, wouldn't they dare not start a one-on-one battle?
Where is the arrogance of the imperial soldiers!
However, Hideyoshi scolded him in his heart. In the end, considering the overall situation, he did not order Kuroda Nagamasa to commit seppuku. He only sent an envoy to severely reprimand him and told him that the Mori Hidemoto Department would arrive within one day.
If Jishan cannot be taken in three days, the two of them will commit seppuku together.
This is already the greatest patience of the old monkey.
Kuroda Nagamasa also knew the facts and was filled with helplessness. In the Imjin year, the Third Army under his command had 25,000 people. After experiencing war losses and the independent formation of the Shimazu family that should have been under his jurisdiction, now In the year of Dingyou, the total military strength had dropped to less than 10,000 people.
Among them, when attacking Nanyuan, the borrowed troops from the left route lost nearly 500 people. The name of the small country under his command, Akizuki Tanejo, was killed in the battle. In the recent contact battle, hundreds more were lost.
Now, in addition to the nearly 6,000 men in his own team, he still has three small country daimyo, Takahashi Enuche, Ito Yuhei and Sagara Norifu, and less than 2,000 troops under his command.
The fiefdom is small to begin with, and it is not easy to gather such a small force. If the entire army is wiped out, how can the land and population be passed on to the next generation?
I am afraid that it has long been divided up by the group of people in the country.
Therefore, the three of them were more resistant to contributing than Kuroda Nagamasa, who was also a daimyo.
On the other hand, the Mouri Hidemoto tribe is the real strong backbone, no, it should be the mountain recognized within the Japanese army.
As the commander-in-chief of the right army, he is on the same level as Ukita Hideie and has more seniority. He has a total of 30,000 people in his army, and he did not participate in the Battle of Nanyuan——
Only his regiment commander Kato Kiyomasa and a small number of mixed troops were sent to help.
Because of this, the morale of the Maori tribe is still strong and the number of people is large. Not to mention the five thousand Mingren, even if Jishan really has an army of 20,000, he would dare to touch it.
In this case...
Kuroda gave up the opportunity to perform meritorious service, willing to act as a green leaf, determined to entangle the Ming army's pressure on the flanks, and never overcome the difficulties.
After all, if Jishan cannot be taken in three days, everyone will commit seppuku together, and the Kuroda family is not as prominent as the Mori family...
If the commander-in-chief is willing to die with him like this, in the spirit of bushido, then death is not unacceptable.
This makes Mouri Xiuyuan helpless, but understandable——
The Renchen War has proved that strategically defeating the Ming Dynasty is an impossible task.
The main purpose of this war was to plunder wealth and population. In fact, it was a goal set out of necessity. That is, fame and wealth were not what everyone wanted in their hearts, but the situation forced them to send troops to deal with Hideyoshi.
"It's enough to just fight in Jeolla, Chungcheong, and Gyeongsang provinces. Why continue to the north?"
Mao Li sat on his horse and looked at Ji Mountain in the distance, sighing in his heart that he didn't know how many people would die in this battle.
"I'm afraid only a few lunatics, led by Kato, still have delusions."
"Well, it would be great if Taige didn't come. We could fight a few tentative victories on the three roads mentioned above, and then we could discuss retreat."
In this way, the army commanders do not need to take too many risks, and can tell Hideyoshi that everyone has regained the face you lost last time.
Looking at the huge Jishan Mountain with no visible edge at a glance, Maoli, the commander-in-chief of the Right Route Army, complained for a while, and then forcibly cut off these distracting thoughts.
If he couldn't take this place in three days, he would have to commit seppuku with Kuroda. This was unacceptable.
Moreover, the idea that the Kuroda family will not bleed in this battle can only be a fantasy.
After some coercion and negotiation, Kuroda, commander of the Third Army, agreed to take the lead with 3,000 troops from his own army, and his subordinates Takahashi, Ito, and Sagara each sent 200 troops, making up 3,600 elite troops.
In this case, Maori would not sit back and watch, but would also send troops and leave them all to Kuroda's command.
A mighty five thousand Japanese army armed with iron cannons and samurai swords hanging from their waists went into battle, which gave Xie a sigh of relief after having been stable for only two days.
It’s just a fight to the death!
In the previous encounter, the method Mao Wuzhu Shui came up with worked. He used iron cannons and large tubes to attract the attention of a Ming army. Then a deflected division approached from the flank and fought, breaking the Ming army's shield array and allowing it to retreat slightly. Back away.
This is the first stage.
In the second stage, Jie Sheng decided to retaliate and sent a small force to directly blow up the bridge leading to Jinwuping in the south, blocking the five thousand Japanese here and bombarding them from a high position.
Bullets rained down.
Take full advantage of the Ming army's heavy firepower.
During this period, there were close encounters, and even if the old thief Kuroda wanted to preserve his strength, he had to go all out.
In the end, the fight lasted until late at night. The entire foothills sank dozens of meters and became a depression. The smell of blood rose into the sky and alien creatures spawned. Only then did they withdraw their troops and prepare for the next wave of offensive.
In this official battle, among the four generals, Xuan Da Gui was defeated by three levels alone, Yang Shandenfeng was defeated by two levels, and General Jie Sheng was defeated by two levels.
The head that could be spotted by the Ming army general and chopped off was naturally not an unknown person. The twenty-four knights that the Kuroda family was proud of became seventeen.
Regarding this confrontation, the chief writer who accompanied the army and was responsible for writing the Kuroda Family Chronicle spared no effort to praise the Kuroda generals for their courage and valor, and ridiculed the Ming army for having no Bushido spirit and could only rely on the general cannon and tiger squat cannon.
About five thousand people...
Unlike the literati who wrote family histories, Kuroda did not drift away. Instead, he estimated the total strength of the Ming army in a pragmatic way, and then asked Maori for help.
One to one.
This battle cannot be fought.
[The Japanese were shocked and did not dare to fight to the death]
That night, a brief report about the battle left Jishan, escorted by a Taoist priest, and sent to Seoul using escape techniques.
But everyone is not optimistic.
At noon the next day, the battle reports about the night and morning appeared in Lu Li's hands.
[The next day at dawn, the thieves fired a barrage of artillery, spreading their wings to advance, waving their white blades with murderous intent, strange shapes, and shocking the human eye. The heavenly soldiers rose up in response to the cannons, and under the iron whip, the thieves were caught off guard. Not long after the battle began, the thieves were defeated and fled. 】
A battle report is not a memorial.
The simpler and closer to reality the better.
Therefore, when the actors including Lu Li and others looked at the words above, they gradually became optimistic. After all, they all agreed that as long as Jiesheng could defend for five to six days, the battle in Seoul could be fought.
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