In a city defense battle, once one gate is breached, there is little point in guarding all the gates.
So when the Lumen of Nancheng was breached and five or six thousand Ming troops rushed into the city first, the Japanese soldiers gradually gave up on the gates of Xicheng and Nancheng.
On the one hand, they relied on the caves built in the city to defend, and on the other hand, they retreated to the east city where there was no Ming army to attack.
Lin Jinglue ran along the city wall from Lumen to the ordinary gate, then opened the ordinary gate and let in the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers under Li Rubai's command.
Standing at the edge of the city gate, under the strict protection of his own soldiers, Lin Jinglue, who had achieved another great feat of "being first", began to remove his armor.
After all, this is a special heavy armor weighing eighty kilograms. After wearing it for a battle, Lin Jinglue will be tired.
At this time, Li Rusong, the commander-in-chief of the First Corps, Li Rubai, the left deputy general of the First Corps, and other generals came forward to see them.
Lin Jinglue took off his armor and said lightly: "This trivial matter of climbing into the city and breaking down the gate has been taken care of by our department.
I'll leave the arduous task of entering the city to clear out the stubborn bandits to you, won't you still be unable to do it well?"
Li Rusong was speechless. There may be only one civil servant in front of him who likes to "get there first" so much.
It happened that time in Ningxia City, and it happened again in Pyongyang City this time. Is it because you are seeking excitement and are addicted?
If Lin Tailai was just a small soldier, he might be able to get a hereditary household directly by virtue of his "first victory" in the battle.
But as a minister of economics and strategy, he took the risk to climb into the city and kill the enemy. I really don’t know what he was trying to do.
So Li Rusong couldn't help but advise: "The body of the military sect is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and the stakes are very important. You can't risk it by being close to someone."
If the military gate is even slightly damaged, our generals will die without redemption. How can we explain to the court?"
To be honest, if the minister of economics and strategy were killed, the army commander Li Rusong would not be able to escape punishment. So when Lin Jinglue suddenly appeared at the top of the city, the last person to be afraid might be General Li.
Lin Tailai said calmly: "Are you teaching me how to do things? If you get this kind of credit first, the academy can give it to you or not."
Li Rusong suddenly realized that Lin Jinglue was the first to attack bravely. Could it be to frighten the proud soldiers from Liaodong?
According to the earliest deployment, he, Li Rusong, supervised the operations in the northwest, and Lin Jinglue supervised the operations in the southwest.
In other words, he, Li Rusong, is responsible for supervising the battle from Peony Peak in the North City, the line from Mitai Gate to the Qixing Gate in the West City, and Lin Jinglue is responsible for supervising the battle from the Hanzhi Gate in the South City, from Lu Gate to the Ordinary Gate in the West City.
However, the night before the siege, the generals from the Liaodong Army were worried about injustice, so they asked Li Rusong to supervise all the battles in the west city.
The main reason is that Lin Tailai, the minister of economic and strategic affairs, is from the South and is obviously close to the Southern soldiers on a daily basis. Among other things, two of the three Biao battalions directly under the economic and strategic administration are from the Southern soldiers system.
This inevitably made the Liaodong Army generals murmur in their hearts, fearing unfair rewards and punishments.
For example, if we split up to attack several city gates at the same time and breach the city gates at about the same time, how will the credit for the first one to conquer the city be calculated?
But no one expected that Lin Jinglue would slap him in the face in this way.
Looking at Li Rubai and the several Liaodong Army generals behind Li Rubai, Lin Jinglue sneered again: "The credit given to you by the Headquarters is the credit. No one can take away what the Headquarters doesn't want to give you!"
The generals were silent and did not dare to look at the minister of economics and strategy.
Li Rusong tried to smooth things over by saying: "The war is not extinguished at the moment, and we will allow the generals to continue to suppress the thieves."
Lin Tailai then ordered: "According to reports from Tanma on the other side of the Datong River, the Japanese soldiers who came to rescue Pyongyang City have already retreated halfway.
Now send our military order to end the battle in Pyongyang City before dawn tomorrow!
If you are incompetent, all the generals responsible for the main attack in Xicheng today will be demoted one level!"
The generals lowered their heads and rushed towards the city.
The battle process after that was roughly the same as in history. The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers kept setting fire to the Japanese soldiers' earthen forts. Thousands of Japanese soldiers were burned to death inside, and the smell spread for ten miles.
Seeing that the fortress built in the city could not stop the Ming army, the commander of the Japanese First Corps, Konishi Kyōchō, retreated to the east city with tens of thousands of remaining soldiers.
However, the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were still rude and continued to set fire to it. Anyway, this was a Korean city, so it would not hurt if it burned.
Seeing that the Ming army had a huge advantage and that its own reinforcements had not yet arrived, Governor Konishi broke out from the east city.
When Lin Jinglue initially planned to attack the city, he adopted the idea of ​​"surrounding three and missing one" and did not arrange troops in the east city.
Therefore, it was easy for Governor Konishi to lead the remaining soldiers to break out from Dongcheng in the middle of the night, but it did not mean that they could escape smoothly, because the Datong River was right outside Dongcheng.
Under the pursuit of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, the Japanese soldiers who broke through either turned back and struggled to death, or were forced to jump into the Daedong River in the chaos.
In this late night of harvesting human lives, thousands of Japanese pirates were drowned in the Datong River.
The leader of the Japanese army, Konishi Yukinaga, crossed the Daedong River and continued to escape under the desperate protection of his guards.
History had a butterfly effect here. Three Ming army columns that had been ambushed on the banks of the Datong River in advance, and Shen Weijing, a big liar who could speak Japanese, appeared in front of Commander Konishi and the remaining soldiers.
"Xiao Xisang! I have given you a chance to be captured." Shen Weijing sincerely advised in fluent Japanese: "As a good friend, I took the risk to come here to save your life, otherwise our Ming army will just kill you all.
achievement."
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After a day and night of continuous fighting, the Battle of Pyongyang is basically over.
It is recorded in the "Pun Yi Lu" of Korea in this time and space: "In the early morning, the cannons were fired in unison, as if the sky was falling apart and the earth was splitting apart. Then the soldiers from heaven bravely rushed to be the first to attack each gate.
Tianshuai Lin Tailai supervised the battle and arrived at Lumen. He took pity on the casualties of the soldiers, so he personally put on heavy armor and took the lead in ascending the city. He killed dozens of Japanese bandits with his own hands. The Japanese bandits fled in fear, so they seized the gate and broke into the city."
"Wanli Mansion Copying the Renchen Volume" says: "According to Lin Tailai's bloodshed, he first ascended to the king's army and beheaded more than 3,000 people, burned more than 6,000 people to death, drowned more than 5,000 people, and captured the Japanese pirate general Xiaoxi Xingchang alive."
On October 17, it was another early morning. When the sky got dark, Lin Tailai appeared at Fengyue Tower in the north of the city.
This is a tower that used to be the "headquarters" of Konishi Yukinaga's regiment, but is now requisitioned by Lin Jinglue.
Although the ground floor of the tower is quite spacious, Lin Tailai disliked the clutter and stuffiness inside, so he placed the handsome chair on the pedestal outside the building door.
Shen Weijing brought an unkempt prisoner over and introduced Lin Jinglue as if he was offering a treasure: "This is Konishi Yukinaga, the leader of the Japanese army. I persuaded him to surrender."
Lin Jinglue didn't show any special expression, just like facing an ordinary prisoner.
He pointed to a head next to the seat and said to Shen Weijing: "Ask President Xiaoxi, do you know who this is?"
Shen Weijing turned around and asked a few words to President Xiaoxi who was pinned to the ground. Then President Xiaoxi raised his head, looked at the head, and answered a few more questions.
So Shen Weijing translated to Lin Tailai and said: "This head is that of Danhou of the Japanese state, Omura Kizen."
Lin Jinglue finally knew exactly who the Japanese general he had killed first was, and he suddenly felt enlightened.
Otherwise, this doubt will really bother him for the rest of his life.
There were really not many prisoners this time. We had asked before and no one recognized the identity of the leader, which already made Lin Jinglue a little anxious.
"So your name is Omura Kizen. Congratulations again on leaving your name in history." Lin Tailai said to the head, waved his hand, and asked Dayun to take the head away.
Then he said to Shen Weijing: "Take Mr. Xiao Xixing under custody, give him food and wine, and keep him under good supervision."
Shen Weijing said in shock: "That's it?"
This is the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army. Now he is being captured alive in front of you, Lin Jinglue. Don’t you want to talk to him? Don’t you want to exchange your experiences and get some information?
Why does Lin Jinglue think that President Konishi is no different from passers-by A, B, B, D, and his only role is to help identify a person’s head?
The most important thing is, if Lin Jinglue doesn't have in-depth communication with President Konishi, how can he, Shen Weijing, be useful?
"What, what's the problem?" Lin Tailai asked the stunned Shen Weijing.
What's up? You've played too many games of Glory, and you want a scene where heroes recognize heroes and heroes cherish heroes?
Shen Weijing reminded: "This is the vanguard general of the Japanese army. What do you want to ask Duke Lue?"
"No need!" Lin Tailai ignored it decisively, "Just pull it down and lock it up. You will be responsible for taking care of it."
Shen Weijing: "."
What do you mean it's unnecessary? Mr. Jinglue, is this how you do intelligence?
Lin Jinglue urged impatiently: "You go down first! There are still many matters to be dealt with after the war!"
Then the generals of the twenty-seven columns of the First Corps came to Fengyue Tower one after another and stood under the platform, waiting for the summary of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Strategy.
Lin Jinglue was slightly injured, so he called the doctor over to treat the wound in front of all the generals.
After scanning the thirty generals, Lin Jinglue said to Li Rusong, the commander of the First Corps, in a strange tone: "Li Rusong, you are very strong now."
He started looking for the backend. Li Rusong said helplessly: "I don't know what the military sect means."
Lin Tailai said with a smile: "You have nearly 40,000 troops under your command, which is half more than the other corps combined, and most of the generals are you old men from Liaodong!
From this point of view, you alone can influence the war situation in Korea, so why not let me, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Strategy, also do it for you?"
Li Rusong said quickly: "Don't dare! Don't dare!"
To be continued...