In the entire Pyongyang city, the total Japanese army had a total force of about 18,000, plus a 5,000 Korean New Army, totaling more than 20,000. Finally, according to the deployment of the leader Xiaoxi, the Japanese army guarded the northwest direction of the city with heavy troops. The Seven Star Gate, Xiaoxi Gate, and ordinary Gate were guarded by more than 3,000 Japanese troops, equipped with a large number of muskets, bows and arrows.

On the east side of the city, Governor Xiaoxi judged that the Ming army would not attack, so they did not arrange many troops. Finally, at Nanlumen Gate in the south of the city, there were five thousand Korean New Army guarding the Korean army. The rest was led by Governor Xiaoxi as the reserve team for each gate.

After the arrangement, Governor Konishi's confidence came back. According to the information he obtained, the power of the Ming army's muskets was far less than that of the Japanese army's muskets. With some muskets and bows and arrows, they could only sigh in the end. Of course, this was the case when the Japanese army ignored the Ming army's artillery as a whole. Governor Konishi believed that as long as he defended and fought steadily, he stood firm and waited for assistance, the final victory would definitely belong to him.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the 21st year of Wanli.

In the early morning, the weather was still the same cold, but inside and outside the city of Pyongyang, it had been shrouded in the tension that came before the war. At this time, the Ming army had already gone out of the camp, each of which was neatly arranged, densely arranged outside the west of the city.

Among the more than 40,000 people who aided Korea this time, most of them were cavalry from Liaodong Town, Xuanfu Town, and Datong Town. According to the military situation of the Ming Dynasty, the cavalry were all wearing armor. Among the cavalry in each town, whether they were soldiers or officers, they were all wearing eight-petal hats, iron pointed helmets and chain iron armor. Each of them had a powerful appearance. Moreover, they had been fighting with the Mongols for many years and were selected from each town, and they could be said to be brave men.

Especially the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in Liaodong Town has a strange feature, which is that the cavalry has all firearms - the three-eyed gun. The three-eyed gun is made of fine iron, with three gun barrels, which are bundled and welded together. It can be fired continuously during shooting. Within twenty steps, the firepower is strong. Because the three-eyed gun barrel is short and the barrel is large, there is rarely any danger of explosion. After three rounds of shooting immediately, there are few enemies on the opposite side that will not collapse.

Even if the enemy is not yet destroyed, although all the Liaodong cavalry are equipped with waist knives, they seem to rarely use them. Because their three-eyed guns are equipped with long wooden handles, making the entire gun two meters long. After the shooting, they swung the three-eyed guns and used them as maces. Anyone who is hit by them will have to lose half their life even if they don’t die. The only disadvantage is that the three-eyed guns are not as far as the archery bow, and when it comes to raining weather, they can only be used as pure maces. However, a considerable number of people in the Liaodong cavalry are equipped with bows and arrows.

After reading it, Huang Laifu felt very thoughtful and thought that he could try this when he went back.

In addition, the Zhejiang soldiers led by Wei Zhong's troops were wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, holding various weapons such as wolves, spears, bird guns, rattan cards, long cards, etc., and stood in the queue, which was also very eye-catching. There were also three thousand rattan soldiers from Fujian, each with rattan cards nearly two meters high in their left hand. This rattan card was made of special materials and could completely block the shooting of any muskets, but they were afraid of the bombardment of cannons. They held a long knife in their right hand, and there were ten broad-mouthed knives on their waists. Looking from a distance, they were like a rattan castle under the cover of dense layers of rattan cards.

There are also troops from Wuzhai Fort, Shanxi Town, which are also holding horses. The generals are covered in armor and arranged neatly and seriously, with flags flying like clouds and flying in the wind, showing a strong sense of solemnity.

Various messengers and patrol flags came and went, and various orders from the central admiral Li Rusong were heard from time to time, and the formations were full of tension. However, in addition to the tension before the war, the Ming soldiers in each formation also had a clear sense of excitement on their faces.

Because yesterday, the Admiral had already sent an order that if the one who climbed the city first in this battle would reward 5,000 taels of silver. Five thousand taels was not a small amount, which naturally made the generals of the army excited and everyone wanted to strive for courage. Although the Admiral emphasized yesterday that this battle could only move forward, and not stop and fight to seize the Japanese heads, which was a bit of a disadvantage. However, with these rewards, that would be enough.

At the central army, Li Rusong carefully looked at the movements at the city. On it was full of Japanese troops fluttering in the wind, embroidered with various flags of eye-catching military emblems. You could see the dense bamboo spears over there, and all kinds of Japanese iron gunners holding muskets, just like the Ming army under the city facing a great enemy.

"It seems that the Japanese are ready. There will be a fierce battle later!" Li Rusong thought to himself.

At this time, Governor Xiaoxi was supervising the battle at all gates in the west of the city. As expected, as he planned last night, the main attack direction of the Tang army was here, which made Governor Xiaoxi feel relieved that his work for the whole night was not wasted.

On the top of the city, Chief Xiaoxi was wearing a peach-shaped helmet standing in front and thick armor, and just stared at the Tang army under the city with concentration. Beside him, there were several Japanese generals wearing heavy, red, green and luxurious armor. These gorgeous armors covered their bodies, which were generally less than 1.6 meters tall, which was quite funny.

In addition to these generals, there were many followers of flag-born, iron cannons, black-clothed mothers, red-clothed mothers and others behind them. In addition to these people, ordinary Japanese soldiers wearing conical array hats were densely packed on the top of the city.

Qiben is considered a high-level samurai, each equipped with a sharp samurai sword, but not everyone can afford iron armor, horses and harnesses. Japan is still too poor. Even Daming, a Daming who is tens of thousands of stones, can usually only afford a few hundred soldiers. No Daming will distribute good armor to his samurai soldiers.

President Konishi is pretty good. As a confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the first legion he led was the elite elite of the Japanese invading asahi, with the best equipment. Most of the high-level samurai were equipped with iron armor. Ordinary samurai also had some bow heads, iron cannon foot light, and some foot light bodies (leather + iron armor), or leather armor and paper bodies. As for ordinary Japanese soldiers, they naturally had no armor.

As for the Japanese army at this time, it is usually divided into groups. One is 628 people. Among them, there are about fifty cavalrymen, 390 infantrymen, and 238 non-combatants. The other is 25 teams. Each team is about twenty-five, including one commander, two cavalrymen, eight spearmen, five archers, four iron artillerymen, and five people holding sickles (the military service burdened by the burden) and five people holding a flag bearer.

However, the so-called cavalry are all people riding on the battlefield, only for the guards, the mother-robed men, flags, commanders, generals, etc. When they really want to go to battle, on the battlefield, except for the generals who are absolutely not allowed to dismount, the remaining cavalry must dismount and fight. In fact, at this time, the Japanese cavalry were basically all horse infantry.

Finally, there were very few shield players in the Japanese army at this time. That was because the Japanese bow was a famous soft bow, with little power and no threatening long-range weapons, so there was no need to use shields to block arrows. In addition, because the Japanese like to fight and advocate the idea of ​​offensive, the Japanese army rarely used shields. At this time, there was no shield player in the first legion of the commander Konishi.

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"Attack!"

At the time of the year, it was already dawn, and Li Rusong waved his hand, and a fierce battle that was famous for history began.

The cannons rang out, and with the commotion in the central army, heavy vans from the Ming army were pushed out. In the chariots, there were cannons with multiple iron hoops equipped with iron claws, iron trips and other cannons fixed with gun bodies. These cannons weigh hundreds of kilograms and two meters long. The heavy artillery of the Flang machine, which was named general, can fire lead bullets weighing up to seven kilograms.

Such power is considered a seven-pound cannon if it is Western artillery. However, looking at the modern history of Westerners, there has never been a history of using more than 100 seven-pound cannons at the same time. Even in Napoleon's artillery battalion, there were only two howitzers and three six-pound cannons. One legion of 40,000 people, and the artillery column was only sixty six-pound cannons. Their field-pulling artillery appeared even later.

Soon, more than 100 heavy side vans in the Ming army were pushed out, and more than 200 medium side vans were pushed out one after another, loading with more than 200 slightly lightweight destroying cannons.

The wheels of the side vans are high in front and low in the back, and the cannons can be directly fired on the chariot. After the gunners were arranged in a row, they hurriedly loaded the bullets after seeing the flag of the central military's position. The Folang machine cannons in the Ming army were different from those in later generations, and they were all equipped with a rear-loaded sub-gun. Before the battle, the sub-gun was loaded with lead bullets, iron sand, stones, gunpowder, etc. After a shot, they replaced them with another sub-gun. This quickly loaded, and the speed was comparable to that of the howitzers in later generations.

Generally speaking, the Ming army's Flang cannons were equipped with four to five sub-guns, so that the firepower of the cannon bombardment could be maintained. Being bombarded by hundreds of such cannons can be said to be a tragedy. Of course, there are pros and cons. The Flang cannons are equipped with sub-guns in the breeze. The firing speed is accelerated, but the distance is sacrificed. The ordinary heavy Flang cannons can only be shot one mile away, while the light and medium Flang cannons are shot closer.

However, Huang Laifu believes that as long as the opponents in the future are not fighting with the Westerners, whether they are Mongolians, Manchus, or Japanese, they will have enough use to deal with them. In fact, if the Ming Dynasty had not collapsed in the financial situation, and there was no wealth available in the late Wanli period, and all the strong cannons and sharp armor were lost, the Manchus would not have the opportunity to rise.

At this time, the Japanese generals on the top of the city, from a young age to an ordinary soldier, were watching the Ming army under the city busy, not understanding what the Ming army was doing.

No wonder they were. Although the Japanese muskets were slightly better than the Ming army, they had never seen any cannons. Because of the culture of Japan at that time, wheel transportation was prohibited and artillery could not be moved in the field, they did not understand the power of artillery. The Japanese cannons called Shihuoya were only 40 of them until the Second Battle of Korea, but few people could use them.

Therefore, they watched the Ming army gunners outside the city calmly arrange them, and then more than 300 Flang machine cannons blasted at the top of the city...

Afterwards, the North Korean state recorded this: "The cannons outside the city were fired at once, and the sound was like the sky moving, and the flowers were shining brightly in the sky... The cannons of the heavenly soldiers were like the sky collapsed and the earth broke, and they were all burnt and rotten!" (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com. There are more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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