Chapter 152: Descendants of Qi's Army, distribution of troops

Li Rusong beat Zu Chengxun on the spot, which had a great psychological deterrence to the generals. However, near noon the next day, on the 26th, Li Rusong led the generals to welcome the last team that arrived - 4,000 troops from the Zhejiang Army Wu Weizhong's troops.

Except for Huang Laifu who was mentally prepared because he knew history, all the generals of Yuzhe were stunned. What kind of great god can make the admiral Li Rusong, who has always been arrogant and ignored everyone, personally lead the generals to greet him? It seems that only Huang Laifu, the deputy general of Shanxi Town, enjoyed this kind of treatment yesterday, but he didn't expect another one to come.

The generals exchanged their eyes and whispered, and the two brothers Li Rubai and Li Rumei were also talking in a low voice, discussing their elder brother's change.

It was cold and the icy wind was biting. If there was no oil, as long as the skin was exposed, it would be opened by the cold wind soon. However, Li Rusong was still standing upright like a sculpture, as if his skin was cowhide, and no matter how cold the wind was, it was powerless to him. Seeing that the Admiral was like this, the generals did not dare to move.

Until noon, a flag appeared on the horizon in the distance. Slowly, a group of neat soldiers came down to the city. As we got closer and closer, we were blood red. Huang Laifu could see clearly that the army was wearing a unified red mandarin duck battle jacket. The weapons carried by the officers and soldiers were very similar to those of the Wuzhaibao army. Wolf wrecks, long spears, bird guns, rattan cards, long cards, etc. were simply a replica of the Wuzhaibao army.

No, it should be said that the Wuzhaibao army is a replica of this army, because Huang Laifu's training method comes from the predecessor of this army - the Qi family army!

The army came in order, carrying a strong power. Although everyone from officers to soldiers walked, the momentum was definitely not lost to any armoured cavalry.

When you walk to the front, you can see that all the soldiers of this army are covered in wind and frost. Many people's faces, eyebrows, temples, and clothes on their bodies are covered with thin layers of frost. Everyone's mouths are full of white air, and many soldiers' clothes and shoes are damaged. It is obvious that their hard work can be seen. In addition, this army has been walking thousands of miles from Zhejiang and finally arrived in Liaoyang City. The hard work can be imagined.

Li Rusong's expression showed a little excitement, and he led the generals and strode towards him.

The army stopped a few dozen steps away. The way the orders were enforced was definitely not imported to the Wuzhai Fort army that did not enter Huang Laifu.

Seeing Li Rusong meet, soon, a middle-aged general wearing armor and a loyal expression emerged from the army over there. He rushed to meet him. When he walked to Li Rusong, he lifted the scarlet cloak behind him, knelt on one knee, clasped his fists with both hands, and saluted loudly: "The last general, Zhejiang guerrilla general Wu Weizhong, has seen the admiral Li. The last general, Zhejiang soldiers were 4,000, and the entire army was ordered to come. The entire army was 4,165, and all the members were at their umbrella."

Li Rusong helped him up and said with emotion: "Yunfeng doesn't have to be too polite. You are tired of your hard work. It's really hard to come all the way."

Wu Weizhong said solemnly: "For generals, you should repay the emperor's kindness and relieve the worries of the king. The last general leads the army to come, which is the duty, and the last general will not work hard."

Li Rusong nodded, patted his shoulder, and said, "Come on, Yunfeng, I'll introduce you to all the generals of the Eastern Expedition."

Li Rusong and Wu Weizhong first came to Huang Laifu in front of Wu Weizhong and introduced Huang Laifu to Wu Weizhong: "Yunfeng, this is General Huang Laifu, the deputy general of the defense and defense of the sea. Laifu, this is General Wu Weizhong, a guerrilla in Zhejiang. You two cherish heroes and value heroes, let's get to know each other."

The reason why Li Rusong introduced Huang Laifu to Wu Weizhong was that in addition to Li Rusong's appreciation of Huang Laifu, Huang Laifu, Li Rubai and Li Rumei were one of the three deputy generals of the Imperial Japanese Army this time, and this is true according to official positions.

Huang Laifu first clasped his fists and said, "Laifu has met General Wu, and has heard of General Wu's name for a long time. I'm so lucky to see him today."

Wu Weizhong looked at Huang Laifu and said in surprise: "It turns out that you are Huang Laifu... I have heard that General Huang has made great contributions to garrisoning grain, and defeated the captives in Wuzhai Fort and Shigou City. Weizhong had long wished he could see General Huang at first. When he saw him today, Weizhong was lucky to meet him."

He felt secretly in his heart, and he didn't expect that Huang Laifu, whose reputation had been passed down to Jiangnan, was so young. He was really a young man since ancient times.

The two of them were polite, and Li Rusong said to Huang Laifu with emotion: "Laifu, you don't know. I was a member of Qi Shuai in my early years. At that time, Yunfeng had been under Qi Shuai for more than ten years. Although Qi Shuai is not here, Yunfeng still leads the Qi family army to fight Japanese pirates in Jiangnan, and has rich combat experience against Japanese people. This time, the Japanese conquest will be subject to Chongyunfeng and Zhejiang soldiers."

Wu Weizhong was also sad when he thought of Qi Jiguang who died a few years ago.

Next, Li Rusong introduced Wu Weizhong to each general, who were smart people. They were all very sensible when Li Rusong said something, so how could they not be tactful? They were all very intimate with Wu Weizhong.

Next, Li Rusong personally prepared a camping place for Wu Weizhong and other troops, and also allocated food, grass, winter clothes, etc. for them to make them have a good rest. Everyone was very jealous. Only Huang Laifu took it for granted.

But to be honest, the food and grass he had to his troops were still on his own. Yesterday, after the Wuzhai Fort army camped by the Taizi River, the Wuzhai Fort merchants who supply food and grass were placed in the team for several days, so the auxiliary and logistics soldiers of Wuzhai Fort went to Liaoyang City to buy grain, rice, meat and vegetables from yesterday. They were generous, dressed warmly and luxuriously, and were tall and burly, which aroused a lot of discussion among the military and civilians inside and outside Liaoyang City. Even Song Yingchang and Hao Jie were surprised when they heard this, only Li Rusong and Li Rubai were accustomed to each other.

Since all the Korean troops in the Eastern Expedition arrived, Li Rusong and his superior Song Yingchang carefully discussed the deployment of the army entering the country on that day, and announced it to the generals on the next day, December 25, 20th year of Wanli, and January 27, 1593.

During the arrangement of Li Rusong and Song Yingchang, the entire army of aided Korea was more than 40,000, divided into the three armies at the left and right.

Among them, Song Yingchang's confidant and Jizhen Governor Yang Yuan led the army.

The Central Army was lowered, and the general Yang Shaoxian led 339 horse soldiers in Ningqian and other camps. Wang Chengen of the Dusi led 500 horse soldiers in Jizhen. Ge Fengxia of Liao Town led 1,300 horse soldiers in Right Camp. Liang Xin of Baoding led 2,500 horse soldiers in Baoding. Deputy General Ren Ziqiang, and Datong guerrilla Gaoyi, Datong guerrilla Gaoce led 5,000 horse soldiers in Datong. Qi Jinling chariot soldiers in Jizhen, and a total of 1,639 central army.

Li Rubai led the left army.

The Left Army was in charge of the lower command of the Left Army, Li Ning, and Zhang Yingzun of Liaodong each led a total of 1,189 personal soldiers from Liaodong. Zhang of Xuanfu led a total of 2,500 horse soldiers. Li Rumei led 843 Yizhou troops. Li Fangchun led a thousand horse soldiers. Luo Shangzhi led a total of 600 southern soldiers. Fang Shihui led a thousand horse soldiers. Wang Wen led a thousand chariot soldiers. Zhou Hongmo from Xuanfu led a total of 2,500 horse soldiers. The left army had a total of 1,632 people.

Liaodong deputy general Zhang Shijue was appointed as the right army.

In the lower throne, Liu Chongzheng, the guerrillas in Liaodong, led 1,534 troops. The former deputy general Zu Chengxun terminated 700 troops in Haizhou. The former deputy general Sun Shoulian led 702 troops. The former deputy general Cha Dashou led 590 troops. Wu Weizhong led 3,000 troops in Zhejiang. Qian Shizhen of the Dusi led 1,000 troops in Jizhen. Zhao Wenming led 2,100 troops in Zhending, led 2,100 troops in Datong, Gusui led 1,000 troops in Datong, and 1,626 troops in the Right Army.

As for Huang Laifu's 3,200 troops in Shanxi Town, Li Rusong was directly commanded by Li Rusong. Although there were 3,200 people, Li Rusong could see at a glance that Huang Laifu still had two thousand auxiliary soldiers and could definitely be used as combat soldiers.

The three armies in the left and right were also in the left and right, plus 4,000 Korean troops, the entire army had a total of more than 43,000.

Among these troops, there were 10,000 Iron Cavalry in Liaodong, 5,000 each in Jizhen and Baoding, 1,500 cavalry in Xuanfu and Datong, and more than 3,000 people in Shanxi. They were considered elite troops. The rest were considered some miscellaneous troops, and some were temporarily recruiting militias with no combat experience, equipped with horses and weapons.

Among the weapons and equipment, the army aiding Korea was equipped with a large number of artillery, including various Folang artillery, generals, second generals, etc., as well as a large number of cluster rockets, and hundreds of tiger squat cannons. Taking the general artillery of the Ming army as an example, the cannon is two meters long and weighs five hundred kilograms, and can fire seven kilograms of lead shells. It can be carried by a chariot and can be directly fired on the chariot. In the army aiding Korea, there are more than 100 such general artillery, and there are more than 200 such artillery.

These cannons were an important guarantee for the victory of the Ming army in history.

Learning from the failed lessons of the Ming army's entry into Korea in July, Li Rusong and Song Yingchang studied the Japanese army's combat methods, their weapons and equipment in detail.

According to the information from North Korea, as well as the report from Zu Chengxun. Li Rusong believed that the Japanese muskets were very powerful. When they fought, they all attacked the muskets that they called the Iron Cannon Army. Some intelligence believed that in addition to Huang Laifu's firearms, the remaining muskets of the Ming army seemed to be inferior to the Japanese iron cannon team.

There are also the Japanese swords, which are extremely sharp. In addition to the swords that Qi Jiguang was originally equipped with the southern army, the rest of the Ming army seemed to be inferior to that of the Ming army. Moreover, the Japanese army entered the North Korea this time, all of them were elite soldiers and a large number of people, so they should not be underestimated.

Finally, Li Rusong decided to use cannons to deal with the Japanese army's iron artillery team. Huang Laifu's Shanxi Town Soldiers and Wu Weizhong's Mandarin Duck Formation to deal with the Japanese army's sharp swords and methods to attack the cavalry to deal with the Japanese infantry formation.

All plans were decided. In the afternoon of the same day, Li Rusong and Song Yingchang led the generals to sacrifice to heaven and swore an oath, and were about to order the entire army to set off. At this time, suddenly, a member of the group came to report to Li Rusong in person, saying that the guerrilla general Shen Weijing asked for a visit outside the camp!
Chapter completed!