However, Kuroda Nagamasa also understood that Seoul must not be defended. If Seoul is not defended, then the land occupied by the Japanese army that had been spending a lot of effort and resources will be taken back by the Ming army. They could only defend the Busan area at the southernmost end of Gyeongsang Province, relying on the Octobera community built there to resist, and there was basically no hope of continuing to fight back.

At that time, unless Taige really brought the 100,000 reserve team of Daming from Dongguo, it would be a question whether they could go back.

Therefore, Seoul must be defended to the death. You must not give up until the last moment, otherwise what you give up will be the result of the blood and sweat of the entire invading Japanese army.

This is clear to all the Japanese senior officials, including Ukita Hide's family, so they directly handed over the defense from the Imtsu River to the Hitoshi-dying area to the wise Kuroda Nagamasa. Behind Kuroda Nagamasa, the famous Tomoe General Kobayakawa Takake is integrating the remaining troops to prepare to support Kuroda Nagamasa.

Currently, the senior Japanese generals Kuroda Nagamasa, Maori Yoshisei and Kobayakawa Takake, who gathered in Seoul, had 8,000 troops from Kuroda Nagamasa's Third Corps, 14,000 troops from Maori Yoshisei Fourth Corps and 12,000 troops from Kobayakawa Takakeke, plus 10,000 troops from the Eighth Corps commanded by Ukita Hideaki, and 10,000 reinforcements sent from Masashima Masashima from Chuancheon Province. The entire Seoul has gathered a large force of 54,000, and the total strength exceeds that of the Ming army.

But even so, they were still not sure and were somewhat trembling.

When the Ming army was bombarding the river bank, Kuroda Nagamasa and his headquarters were deploying defenses in the area of ​​the Bitumen Pavilion. He was resting. Suddenly, he heard a faint rumbling thunder, which made Kuroda Nagamasa a little uneasy. He stood up in his clothes and walked out of the military tent, and found that many people noticed the faint rumbling thunder.

He immediately sent someone to check the news. About half an hour later, at dawn, the person who went to investigate the news brought back the terrified and panicked Shimazu Yoshihiro. In his impression, this expression should not have appeared on the man's face, but it really appeared now, which made Kuroda Nagamasa's heart full of haze.

"What the hell is going on? Why don't you continue to stick to the river bank? Why does it appear here?!"

Kuroda Nagamasa angrily scolded Shimazu Yoshihiro.

Shimazu Yoshihiro was not a direct subordinate of Kuroda Nagamasa, so he was not afraid of him. Instead, he shouted at Kuroda Nagamasa: "Why don't you tell me that the Ming army has so many stone fire tubes? As soon as the war started, their artillery fire covered our entire position. My iron gunner was killed before I could fire the gun, and it came one after another. Before the artillery fire was blown up, the second round of artillery fire came. I didn't even have time to react! How do you think I'll fire?!"

Kuroda Nagamasa was stunned. At this time, he remembered what the three soldiers of the fleeing Captain Konishi who were brought back to Seoul were saying about the extremely fierce artillery of the Ming army, which was attacked by the commander Konishi all over the ground, and finally wiped out the entire army. The Japanese army without heavy firepower could not confront the Ming army with full armed light and heavy firepower, with all the attack powers at a distance.

Because they only have three main weapons - long swords, iron cannons and long spears, and there are not many crossbows. They can only rely on the captured Korean crossbowmen to serve as puppet troops to support the battle. However, once the North Korean archers encounter the Ming army, they either release water or pretend to die, and they are not working hard at all, so the Japanese army is quite passive.

However, in the face of this situation, the Japanese army still did not intend to make any changes. On the one hand, it was lack of resources and on the other hand, it was not technology, because the Koreans did not master artillery technology at the moment. The Ming artillery technology was unique in East Asia. When the Japanese army faced this situation, they could only passively be beaten, or use the terrain to play close-up battles with the Ming army. Peter Ming's artillery could not work.

This requires the Japanese and Ming troops to kill each other. However, according to those people, the Ming troops were not afraid of fighting in close combat. The fierce southern soldiers rushed up in piles with strange weapons. Even the powerful warriors were not their opponents, let alone the neat military formation and the shiny spear, poking holes and holes, which made people feel cold from their skin to their hearts.

So after figuring this joint, Shimazu Yoshihiro ran away directly, running completely, and his subordinates didn't want it. Of course, after a while, those undead subordinates followed him. In order to prevent these guys from running back to disrupt the morale of the army, Kuroda Nagamasa directly intercepted all the defeated soldiers, gathered them together and reorganized them into the army, and sent his subordinate Ik-seen Kuroda to lead five hundred troops forward to explore what was going on.

In addition, he did not forget to send people to the rear to inform Takake Kohayagawa that the Ming army had broken through the Imjin River defense line and carried a large number of artillery, with amazing firepower, and our army needed to prevent it as soon as possible. It was also recommended to avoid field battles with the Ming army, try to use the advantageous terrain or simply retreat to the city to defend.

Kuroda Nagamasa had no choice but to send someone to take him to Seoul to wait for the disposal. He himself stayed in the Bitumen Pavilion and defended the mountain, trying his best to delay time.

Cha Dashou led the 300 cavalry team to go south according to the route designated by Xiao Ruxun, with the target directly aiming at the Bitiguan. According to Xiao Ruxun, as long as the Bitiguan breaks through, the horse will go south and go south, which is suitable for cavalry combat. In the previous battle, Li Rusong's cavalry team suffered a bit of serious losses, with only more than 2,000 left to ensure combat effectiveness. The remaining 4,000 cavalry are on the way, and it is expected that it will take another ten days to arrive. The current cavalry team is relatively fragile.

But because of this, Li Rusong asked in the internal meeting that everyone should not relax or be timid. When encountering an enemy, they should bravely rush forward and attack fiercely, exert the momentum of the Liaodong soldiers, and ask the Southern barbarians to take a good look at what a real man is! Cha Dashou is a hard-core Liaodong faction and is Li Rusong's confidant. He always does this kind of thing.

So this time, not only do we have to explore the way, but we have to take advantage of it. The only pity is that the Japanese pirates' heads are not as valuable as Mongolian and Jurchens' heads. The Ming Dynasty stipulates that Mongolian heads are the most valuable, with the Jurchens being the second, with the Southern Japanese being the next, and the Southwest natives being the next, with the Japanese pirates being the third, obviously not as valuable as Mongolian heads, but no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. No one will question this.

Cha Dashou knew how much of Li Rusong's anger came from not only outsiders, but also from his own people. The military leaders in Liaodong kept asking for this and that, and regarded the Li family as a free ATM, thinking that as long as they worked hard, they could get anything, and they didn't care about the actual difficulties faced by the Li family. There was this part of the reason why Li Chengliang came to this point today.

Therefore, I am very clear about the situation of the person I am loyal to, and I must make a sigh of relief for my master no matter what.

Cha Dashou led his men to gallop all the way, and it didn't take long for a short distance to run to the Japanese defense area near Bidiguan. Someone came to report to him and encountered a Japanese pirate patrol team with about 500 people, most of whom were infantry, holding firearms, and asked whether Dashou would fight or retreat.

Retreat? Sorry, Li Rusong does not have this word in his dictionary, while Cha Dashou only has two words "forward".

"Destroy them!"
Chapter completed!