Chapter 231 Ulsan

Of course, the so-called recruitment of generals is just to recruit several generals in the Ming army, including Ma Gui, Huang Laifu, Li Rumei, Li Fangchun, Gao Ce, etc., to discuss matters. The rest are generals in the Ming army, and people of guerrilla levels are not qualified to be Yu Hui.

No one in the North Korean army was invited to discuss matters.

After everyone paid a visit to Taiping Pavilion, Governor Xing Jie first praised everyone and said, "You lead your troops to fight against the Japanese pirates, and work hard outside the world. The ancients said that loyalty is forgot to be loyal, and the country is forgot to be family. It is not an exaggeration to praise the generals in this way!"

Everyone quickly stood up and were humble. Several generals were all wearing iron armor. As soon as they stood up, the armored leaves immediately sounded.

Xing Jie continued: "Since the rebellion in Korea, I was mistakenly hired by the emperor and appointed as the governor of the military affairs, food and money of North Korea. Since I was ordered, I am worried that I would not receive any retribution. At present, the Kaiyin has not been reported, and the lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers. Fortunately, the generals rely on the blessing of the court. The generals have a second brother. Now the people in the south of Goryeo are looking forward to our army day and night. This is the right time, place and people. Jie should take advantage of the times and make progress with the generals to appease the people. I don’t know what good strategies do you have?"

Li Rumei clasped her fists and shouted loudly: "Mr. Xing Jie, we are just rough people, we only know how to fight, kill, and how can we understand the matter of military strategy? The Governor and the Strategic Master only teach the strategy, and we will wait for the adjustment!"

Li Fangchun and Gao Ce also responded with each other. Only Huang Laifu said nothing.

Xing Jie looked at Yang Hao next to him, and both of them smiled at each other. Indeed, in the current Ming Dynasty, most of the military generals were rough people, and few of them had the ability to plan strategically. To manage military affairs, they still had to rely on civil servants.

Yang Hao stood up and bowed to Xing Jie, then faced the generals, looking like they were planning and winning thousands of miles away. In military affairs, Governor Xing Jie was the overall situation, but the specific strategy was planned and operated by Yang Hao.

He pointed his finger at everyone and said, "The extraordinary achievements are obtained from danger. The ancients said: If there is no tiger's den, how can I get a tiger's son? Now the Japanese insult my territory. I am in the heavenly dynasty and do not fire arrows to a strong enemy. How can I show the four barbarians? Now our army is strong and powerful, and we use our distant troops to attack and annihilate the Japanese pirates in the south. It is imperative!"

He briefly signaled Ma Tsui and said, "Since entering the court, I have discussed with General Ma day and night. After investigating the military situation, although the Japanese pirates in the south had more than 100,000 troops, they were separated in several places, and the thieves were in harmony with each other. The Japanese pirate commander Kobayakawa Hideaki was young and ignorant and could not convince the public. The Japanese generals, Governor Konishi and Kiyomasa Kato were even more powerful, just like a fire, which was just a chance for our army to bear!"

This time the Japanese army entered the North Korea, and the president of the army of more than 100,000 people, Hideaki Kobayashikawa adopted son for Takake Kobayashikawa, but he was only fifteen years old. How could this convince the Japanese generals who entered the North Korea? Even Hideyoshi Toyotomi felt that it was too much of a joke to let a fifteen-year-old child lead a army of more than 100,000, so he specially sent several trusted counselors to military aircraft.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Kobayakawa Hideaki is not prestige.

Seeing everyone listening carefully, Yang Hao proudly directed the map: "Therefore, our army's strategy is to first use a plan to discard the Japanese generals Konishi and Kato Kiyoshi, block them from coming to support, and then heavily attack Kato Kiyoshi's Ulsan Japanese City! Among the Japanese pirates, Kato Kiyoshi is the most powerful. If this part is annihilated, the rest of the Japanese pirates will definitely be frightened and wait and see, and they will not dare to fight against our heavenly soldiers again. The support of the thieves has been eliminated, and holding their lonely city will inevitably defeat them. In this way, the custody is pacified!"

To be honest, Yang Hao's strategy is correct. At present, the Ming army has not had much force. Only one-third of the Japanese army can gather heavy troops first and annihilate Kiyomasa Kato, the strongest Japanese army, can shock the enemy and have the opportunity to break it separately. Moreover, Ulsan is the last barrier to Busan. As long as Ulsan is captured, the Japanese army's logistics can be cut off.

Only in this way can the glory of the First Korean War be reproduced.

However, Huang Laifu has read the relevant historical materials and knew that this strategic concept was actually thought of by Ma Gui, not Yang Hao's proud work, but he took it for himself. He glanced at Ma Gui who was sitting upright, and saw that there was no expression on his face, his eyes seemed to be closed.

Yang Hao finished speaking proudly and asked everyone if they had any other opinions? All the generals shook their heads.

Xing Jie kept stroking his beard and nodding. At this time, he glanced at Huang Laifu and said, "General Huang, what are your opinions?"

Huang Laifu saw that everyone and Yang Hao were all looking at him.

He stood up and bowed with his fists, and replied seriously: "The lower official is just a military general. How can he get the foresight of the adults? Let's follow everything according to his orders!"

Yang Hao showed a smug smile on his face.

Finally, Yang Hao's arrangement was that the more than 40,000 Ming troops in Seoul were divided into three routes:

The left-road army, commanded by Yang Hao and Li Rumei, led 12,000 Ming troops and 4,000 Korean troops and 16,000 Korean troops to march into Gyeongju.

The right-road army, commanded by Ma Gui and Huang Laifu, led 14,000 Ming troops to march into Sichuan.

The Central Army, commander Gao Ce, led 11,000 Ming troops to march into Shuntian.

In the strategic layout, the left army attacked Kato Kiyoshi and other troops who were defending Ulsan. The right and the middle army advanced southward to support Gyeongju in the east and Jeolla in the west. Then, the Korean army commander Quan Yu led more than 10,000 Korean troops to reinforce Gao Ce to prevent Konishi from supporting Kato Kiyoshi. After achieving the goal of confusing the enemy, the last three armies met in Gyeongju.

The discussion was decided.

Finally, Xing Jie said sternly: "Now the strategy is settled. You and other generals need to select strong ones, feed horses, and practice strictly! All generals will kill the thieves and serve the country, right now!"

All the generals responded with a loud blow!

...

November 20, 25th year of Wanli.

On this day, Seoul was snowing heavily and the weather was cold. After a series of preparations, the army decided to attack on this day.

As early as a while ago, the secret envoy of the Ming army, Li Dajian, secretly communicated with Governor Konishi in secret, hoping that Governor Konishi would pretend not to be able to get rid of his body. Governor Konishi was resentful to Kato Kiyomasaki, and would not miss this opportunity to kill someone with a knife? Naturally, he could not ask for it. In addition, the Ming army sent a dead soldier Huang Qingci to Kato Kiyomasaki Nishisu to discuss peace and make him relax his vigilance.

At the same time, the Ming army gathered heavy troops and prepared to attack, and the time was ripe.

On this day, the whole city of Seoul was in martial law, and tens of thousands of Ming dynasties gathered under the city. Governor Xing Pei, as well as the King of Korea Li Bing and others, went to see him off in person. The people of Seoul even came out in full swing, holding incense and candles to pray for the army, wishing the flag to be victorious.

The army was storming across the river. When crossing the river, Yang Hao, who was commanding the entire army, saw that his troops were strong and strong, and his generals were very proud of their spirits. From time to time, he immediately occupies a four-descendant poem: "How dare I, the eldest son, Shi Zhi, mistakenly inherited the military handle and handed over to the scholar. The command of the Nanshan River, the dragon, tiger and heroic talents gathered in the willow camp!"

All the generals cheered loudly, but Huang Laifu shook his head secretly. These civil servants are traveling, and they are still singing the wind and the moon.

After that, every dozen miles passed, Yang Hao recited a poem, which made Huang Laifu complain.

A few days later, the army arrived in Zhongzhou and divided its troops. According to the original plan, they attacked Qingzhou, Sichuan, and Shuntian.

Soon, Ma Gui and Huang Laifu led their troops to attack the unguarded Quanzhou. The next day, Nanyuan was restored and the troops were directed to Sichuan. However, the two big cities were almost razed to the ground. The corpses in the city were piled up like mountains and tiles were not left. When the Japanese retreated, they killed all the Koreans in the city.

The other Ming army soon captured Qingzhou and defeated the reinforcements from the Japanese army. The rest of them shrank their troops in a panic and retreated to Ulsan Wucheng to protect themselves.

Faced with several attacks between the Ming army and the Korean army, the Japanese army could not distinguish the main attack direction of the Ming army, and they were in chaos, and they were desperately calling for reinforcements to each other.

It was not until December 17, the 25th year of Wanli that the other two armies suddenly changed direction and joined Yang Hao's left army in Qingzhou, less than a hundred miles away from Ulsan. The intention of the Ming Dynasty was finally fully revealed.

At this time, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces had a total of more than 50,000 people in Gyeongju. The Japanese army had about 20,000 troops in Ulsan.

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The main general in Ulsan is Kato Kiyomasaki. As early as mid-November, Kato Kiyomasaki knew that they would not let their Ulsan land go, so he stepped up the construction of city defense during these times.

After the First Korean War, the Japanese army built many solid fortresses along the coast of Korea, all called "Wa City". These Wa City were built with huge rocks as a base and were extremely strong. These Wa City were densely packed and covered the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula. The main Wa City had 5,000 troops stationed and 2,000 troops stationed in the branch Wa City.

Ulsan, where Kato Kiyoshi was stationed, was also surrounded by mountains and rivers, and was extremely strong. He was still not idle enough. He built a Japanese city on a hill about 50 meters high on the Taihe River, called Shimashan. It was called Shimashan Castle.

The city is centered on the inner city where the generals in the city live. The inner city is fifteen meters high and has a circumference of more than two miles. The city wall is made of large stone strips. An earth wall is also surrounded at the outermost end of the city to protect facilities outside the stone wall. This is not enough. After the stone wall, more than ten arrow towers were erected to prepare for the battle.

Due to the tight time, during the construction of Shimayama Castle, all the Japanese troops in Ulsan joined forces, from samurai to the hard work of the people.

The weather is very cold at the moment, and the project is huge and the shortage of food, many Japanese people are hungry, tired, frostbite. In order to save food, some officials drove those who are no longer able to use outside the city and let them die.

Finally, the city of Shimayama was finally completed before the Ming army attacked, forming a complete defense system. The city of Shimayama was connected to Ulsan City in the east, and from the waterway along the Taehe River, you can reach Shimayama Wo City, and then you can reach Busan via Yanyang or Shimayama.

With this complete defense system, Kiyomasa Kato felt a little relieved.

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The war is very fast. On the afternoon of December 22, more than 50,000 troops from the Ming Dynasty and the Korean coalition came from Gyeongju to the city of Ulsan. The largest battle of Ulsan in the Second Korean War finally kicked off.

In the early morning of the 23rd, the guerrillas set up camp and led 1,000 infantrymen as vanguards and took the lead in raiding Ulsan City. The general Yang Dengshan led 3,000 elite cavalry as support. Seeing that there were few Ming soldiers, the Japanese army guarding the city went out of the city to fight and repel the Ming army. Unexpectedly, on the way to pursue, Yang Dengshan led the cavalry out. The Japanese army was defeated and was beheaded at level 234.

The rest of the Japanese army abandoned their guns and knives and ran away. They did not dare to return to Ulsan and retreated to the Isanshan Wucheng. Then the Ming army occupied Ulsan City. Most of the Japanese in the city were annihilated, and the rest of the rest also fled to the Isanshan.

The Ming army won the first battle!
Chapter completed!