Late at night on the second day of the second month, the third day after Jiulong was surrounded, the Ming army camp at the foot of the mountain beat again, and clamors were heard everywhere. Five thousand Ming troops, led by Li Rumei's brother and general Li Rubai, launched a charge on the southern slope of Jiulong.

With the bombardment of heavy artillery, most of the already short and dilapidated city wall collapsed in an instant. The Japanese defending the city panicked and turned to retreat to the inner city. Seeing that the deterrence effect had been achieved, the Ming army stopped the artillery and rushed to the top of the mountain in chaos, striving to attack the city first before the Japanese army retreated to the inner city, and eliminated the remnants of the Eastern Route Army in one fell swoop.

On the inner city's dysfunction building, Ukita Hidea's Hidea's hand, leaned on the sword given by Hideyoshi, looked haggardly at the collapsed troops gathered under the city and the bonfire gradually approaching at the foot of the mountain. She couldn't help but burst into tears, and she trembled with her lips and sobbed: "My Hidea's Hidea's death is about to die in the future. Tsuna, pass my order and put the troops in."

Hearing the Xiu family's words, the black-faced general next to the guard hurriedly bowed down and advised: "Lord, those who are greedy for life and fear of death are not worth merciless. Putting them into the city will only reduce morale and disrupt the morale of the army. Besides, this is also the meaning of the Shogun."

"What do you think of? Will I watch them die?" Xiujia glared at the sky and questioned Nagaki Tsuna under her knees.

As a three-generation old minister of the Ukita family, Tsuna was devoted to his work. Faced with the kindness of the women in the Xiu family and the difficult situation to change, he made an amazing decision.

"Lord." Takashi Nao slowly stood up, pointed to the defeated soldiers under the city and asked, "Have you heard of the allusion of 'Fighting on the back'?"

Xiujia nodded: "I heard from Taige that Han Xin, the general of Han, led his army to attack Zhao, and ordered his soldiers to set up a formation to fight the enemy with the enemy. Han Xin used to face a great enemy but had no way out to retreat to strengthen the soldiers' determination to win to the death, and eventually defeated the Zhao army."

"That's true," Gangzhi bowed and said, "Lord, are our army and Han Xin's situation exactly the same at this time?"

The Xiu family understood a little, and asked, "You mean, our army can follow the Han army and die before they can survive?"

"It's a different story to say whether it can succeed, but there's only this way at the moment." Gang looked straight at the Ming army vanguard who was halfway up the mountain and said confidently: "This is the only opportunity for our army. If we can defeat the Ming army, we can buy time for repairing the city walls, and we will have an extra chance to survive."

After listening to Tsuna's suggestion, Xiujia closed his lips and thought for a moment, handed the sword to Tsuna's hand, and said solemnly: "This sword is a gift from Taige. I have never left me. Now I will hand it to you. Just use this knife to let the Ming people taste the power of our Ukita family."

Tsuna took the Taidao with both hands, knelt down again, and replied solemnly: "I will never let down my lord's trust and swear to live and die with this sword!" After that, he strode down the city tower and led several close servants to speed towards the city gate. During this period, another general of the Ukido family, Okari Katsushika, and the old Ashizuka Tadao Eemon of the Konishi family, were all willing to go to the outer city to fight the enemy together. The head of the Konishi family's iron cannon team, Naoki Suzuki, also led 80 iron cannons to support.

Everyone arrived at the city, and with Tsuna's "open door", the gate of the inner city slowly opened. The defeated soldiers in the outer city shouted like sea water and rushed into the inner city. Seeing this, Tsuna immediately ordered Xu Xiong to shoot. Before the defeated soldiers could react, dozens of people fell under the guns of their own people. Seeing this, everyone stopped, and some even turned around and ran out of the city.

At this moment, Takashi straightened his voice and shouted at the defeated soldiers in a thick and majestic voice: "The Ming army is coming, what's the use of retreating to the inner city? A strong city like Yuanzhou and Tichuan have not stopped the Ming army. How can a small village protect us now? Instead of waiting for the city to break, it is better to fight with the water, and there may be a glimmer of vitality."

Most of the defeated soldiers were farmers, and there was not much ink in their stomachs. After Gonnata said this, he stopped and waited for Tsunata's instructions, especially those middle and lower-level samurai. When they saw that Tsunata and Tadaoemon, who were old families, were all wearing battles, their hearts became much calmer. Not only did they stop the noise, but they turned around to persuade them, calling on the defeated soldiers to obey Tsunata's arrangements, fight back and forth, and defeat the Ming army.

So, under the command of Tsuna Nao and Tadaoemon, about 800 defeated soldiers in the outer city quickly gathered together and divided them into three reserve teams, left, middle and right according to the requirements, led by Tadaoemon, Tsuna Nao and Shizumi. Except for the middle road holding the torch, the other two routes were sneaking towards the mountain roads on both sides of the city in the darkness of the night.

At the same time, the vanguard led by Li Rubai was less than 150 meters away from the top of the mountain. Although he encountered some harassment from the Japanese army on the way, it was generally smooth and he did not encounter any decent resistance, which also made many people proud.

"General, the Japanese pirates fled as soon as they saw us. It's better to order the soldiers to speed up." Deputy General Rubai said with a smile.

But Rubai shook his head, pointed to the city on the mountain and said, "Didn't you notice it? The messy outer city just now seems to be much quieter now. It seems that the Japanese army has taken action. In my opinion, it's better to fight steadily. Underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly is a taboo for military strategists."

The deputy general was unwilling to give up and wanted to persuade him a few words, but was interrupted by the scouts who rushed forward: "General, a fire was found a hundred meters ahead. According to the investigation, it was a team of Japanese pirates."

"How many people are there?" Rubai asked.

"Less than two hundred people." The scout replied.

"Two hundred people?" The deputy general was secretly happy: "It seems that the Japanese pirates were scared, and few of them dared to go out of the city to fight."

"Let's explore again!" Rubai ignored the words of the deputy general and said to himself: "Knowing that our army was approaching, we only sent 200 people to fight. I think something must be strange."

"General, it is not difficult to understand the Japanese army's strange behavior in my opinion." Rubai Gang General and Jizhou Deputy General Ma Mingxun explained: "Now there are only about two thousand people left in the Japanese army. It is better to defend than attack. We will never dare to send troops to fight easily. Therefore, these two hundred people are by no means combat troops, but are the situation of reconnaissance."

"Is that so..." Rubai Jing's two generals muttered, yes, two hundred people could not change the situation of the war at all. Is there any other use besides reconnaissance? But even so, he was still worried, and he still signaled the sergeant to be careful and move forward slowly.

"Bang!" A sudden burst of gunfire sound came to mind in front of him. Dozens of Ming soldiers fell to the ground, and the vanguard troops suddenly became riots.

Seeing this, Ma Mingxun blocked Rubai with a quick glance and shouted: "It seems that he was discovered by the Japanese pirates. The general ordered the fight!"
Chapter completed!