After listening to the report from his subordinates, Zhong Huan asked: "Has the person who just arrived investigated?"
"Reporting back to General, our insiders have checked and found out that the newly arrived Japanese is named Wu'an Qingyuan. He came from Lin'an and is engaged in medicinal materials business. He has a business contract issued by the government in Lin'an."
Foreigners doing business in the Yong Dynasty must have a business contract issued by the local government in order to purchase goods legally and compliantly. This is mainly to prevent foreigners from purchasing contraband, such as pig iron, which can be freely bought and sold in the Yong Dynasty, but is not allowed to be sold.
In foreign countries, in order to prevent foreigners from purchasing privately, the local government must manage it, issue a commercial contract, and conduct business with the commercial contract. The commercial contract is also a temporary identity certificate for foreigners in the Yong Dynasty.
Moreover, Zhong Huan did not intend to pursue the business contract issued by the Lin'an government. He asked casually, "Are there any other doubts?"
"Something suspicious!"
Zhong Huan was startled and said angrily: "If you have doubts, why don't you tell me? Why don't you tell me if I don't ask you?"
The subordinate quickly said: "Report to the general, I have to report to my humble position, I don't dare to hide it."
"If you have any doubts, tell me quickly!"
"This Wu'an Qingyuan didn't bring any luggage or any subordinates. He rode a horse into the Chamber of Commerce, and then stayed directly at the Chamber of Commerce's inn. It gave people the impression that he just came from nearby, and he didn't look like he was traveling all the way.
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Zhong Huan also began to wonder, could this be a temporary measure taken by the Chamber of Commerce to deal with surveillance?
Zhong Huan thought for a while and said: "Coming from Lin'an, you must take a boat to Guangyuntan. You go to the mule and horse shop near Guangyuntan to check whether there are any horses rented to the Japanese. At the same time, you must monitor him.
Everyone should keep an eye on them."
"I humbly obey orders!"
The subordinates bowed and hurried away...
At noon, news came that the mule and horse shop near Guangyuntan did not rent horses to any foreigners.
Of course, this does not immediately conclude that there is something wrong with Wu'an Qingyuan. Maybe he came to Jingzhao for a few days before finding the Japanese Chamber of Commerce.
Soon, news came from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce's insiders that someone had sent luggage and goods from Wu'an Qingyuan, and they were indeed medicinal materials, so the doubts were eliminated.
At this time, the Chengdu Internal Guard also sent pigeon letters. They found several letters from Hu Zhen's family. The letters mentioned that he was working for the Japanese. This was clear evidence.
Although it is true that the Japanese assassinated the emperor, where were they hiding? It was as if they suddenly disappeared.
Zhong Huan believed that they were lurking in the dark, waiting like poisonous snakes for the next opportunity to assassinate.
At this time, they must also be patient and wait patiently for the other party to reveal their flaws.
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The war in Goryeo continued. More than 100,000 Japanese troops surrounded Kaijing and launched fierce attacks on Kaijing day and night. 50,000 Koryeo troops defended the city in Kaijing. The two sides fought fiercely and suffered heavy casualties.
Yongjun North Road is still stationed in Pyongyang City, holding its troops stationary, patiently waiting for the opportunity to send troops.
However, the 80,000-strong army of Yongjun Army on the South Road landed in the southeast of Goryeo, and the 80,000-strong army marched towards Jincheng.
Prior to this, the Yong navy attacked Tsushima Island and burned down thousands of turtle ships moored on Tsushima Island and the grain warehouses on Tsushima Island. Hundreds of thousands of stones of grain were burned to the ground.
Jincheng was the logistics base of the Japanese army in Goryeo, with a garrison of 20,000 troops. The remaining general, Hirai Hiroshi, was an important figure in the Japanese aristocratic Taira family.
Hirajing Hong had already received the news that Yong Army warships attacked the Japanese military grain transport fleet. Until now, he has not received a complete battle report. He cannot estimate the losses and does not know whether the opponent is a harassment attack or a full-scale attack?
Hirai Hong was really worried. On the one hand, he sent people to report to the coach, and on the other hand, he sent spies to explore the surrounding areas.
That morning, Pingjing Hong received reports that a Yong Army infantry force of about 5,000 people was coming towards Jincheng.
This made Hirai Hong's heart move. This was an opportunity to ambush the enemy. The enemy obviously didn't know that Jincheng had been occupied by the Japanese army, so they only sent 5,000 troops to seize Jincheng.
He immediately led 20,000 troops out of the city, lurked in the woods on both sides of the enemy's official road to Jincheng, and waited patiently for the enemy's arrival.
About half an hour later, I saw a team of five to six thousand people hurriedly coming from a distance.
Hirai Hong was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "The whole army is ready to attack!"
The general who led the five thousand Yong army was Tang Qian, who was in charge of the army. How could this old scout who specializes in ambushing surprise soldiers let himself be trapped in the enemy's siege? They just knew the fighting style of the Japanese army better and liked to play dangerous games.
Win with wonder.
In this case, they can definitely create opportunities for the Japanese army to make surprise attacks.
"Tang Dutong, the enemy troops should be ambushing in the woods ahead!" One of his subordinates pointed to the woods three miles ahead.
Tang Qian nodded and immediately ordered: "Stop the whole army!"
The five thousand troops stopped advancing and formed a crossbow formation three miles away.
Hirai Hong was stunned. Why did the other party stop? They were still in formation. Did they discover an ambush?
The other Japanese generals also looked at each other, wondering what was going on?
Hirai Hong suddenly had an unpleasant feeling. Could this be the enemy's plan to move his troops away from Jincheng?
At this time, there was a loud bang in the direction of Jincheng, like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and the earth was shaking slightly. Everyone turned their heads and looked towards Jincheng ten miles away, and saw a thick black smoke rising into the sky.
What is this? A question arises in the minds of all the Japanese soldiers, what kind of weapon is this?
Not long after, a Japanese soldier came on horseback to report, "Report to the general that an army of ten thousand people attacked Jincheng. They blew up the city gate with thunder and rushed into the city. The entire army of soldiers defending the city was destroyed!"
Hirai Hong was stunned, "What kind of thunder?"
"Like a powerful weapon from the gods!"
'A weapon of the gods!' Everyone was shocked.
At this time, Hirai Hong suddenly realized that the opponent used 10,000 people to attack the city, so these 5,000 people were part of the plan.
Suddenly someone pointed three miles away and shouted: "General, the enemy has increased its troops!"
He saw dust flying in the sky more than ten miles away, and he didn't know how many enemy troops were coming from behind. Hirai Hong felt regretful that he had been fooled!
He immediately shouted: "The whole army is going to kill us!"
He led 20,000 soldiers and rushed out of the woods to fight against Yong's army. The overwhelming number of soldiers came towards Yong's army.
Tang Qian sneered and shouted: "Get ready to shoot the crossbow!"
The five thousand infantrymen were both spear troops and crossbow troops. Together they raised their divine arm crossbows and aimed at the overwhelming Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers were generally very short in stature, about 1.4 to 1.5 meters, but
The running speed is very fast.
In a moment, he rushed into the 400-step line, and Tang Qian shouted, "Shoot!"
'Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!'
The bang sounded, and five thousand heavy arrows were fired at the same time. Almost none of the twenty thousand Japanese soldiers had shields, and they became targets. In fact, even with shields, they could not stop the penetrating power of the heavy arrows.
In an instant, a large number of Japanese soldiers were shot down, blood spattered, screams and wails were heard. Almost all the soldiers who had been hit by arrows were shot through their bodies and nailed to the ground.
Five thousand soldiers lay on the ground, strung up their pedals, mounted heavy arrows, and then shot out a second round of five thousand arrows, once again shooting down a large number of enemy troops.
In an instant, the Japanese army ran from a distance of 400 steps to a distance of 300 steps. After only running a hundred steps, they were hit by three rounds of 15,000 heavy arrows, and nearly 5,000 Japanese soldiers were shot down.
Hirai Hong saw that the enemy's arrows were missing too fiercely, so if he continued to fight like this, he would suffer more than half of his casualties before he could get close to the enemy.
Seeing that the opponent's reinforcements had arrived, he had no choice but to shout, "Evacuate to the north!"
‘Dang! Dang! Dang!’ The bell rang loudly, and the Japanese army’s battle flags ran northward. The remaining 15,000 Japanese troops turned around and fled towards the north.
Tang Qian said coldly: "Blow the horn!"
"Woo--Woo--"
A low horn sounded, and not long after, General Zhang Xian led 20,000 cavalry galloping in. Dust flew up, covering the sky and the earth. The 20,000 cavalry swept across the sky and earth, overwhelming the Japanese army and killing them.
The Japanese soldiers cried for their fathers and mothers, and were killed with heads rolling down and rivers of blood flowing. Countless soldiers knelt down and surrendered, but their heads were chopped off with swords. Emperor Chen Qing had already decreed that the Yong army would not accept the surrender of the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers must be killed.
