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Chapter 1124 This is an isolated island

In May of the 21st year of Wanli, Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province in Korea were completely attacked by the Ming army, the Second Army Kato Kiyomasa did not know the good luck, the Fourth Army Moriyoshi Nari Division and the Fukushima Masanori Department of the Fifth Army launched several attacks on the line of the Ming army, but they all hit their heads and bled blood, and returned in vain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ukita Hideya, the commander-in-chief of Seoul, led his troops to the southernmost tip of Jeolla Province, which was also the port of sea communication between the Japanese and Koreans, under the pretext that he wanted to take charge of logistics.

There was no too shocking war in Badao, Korea, but it was an inextricable battle at sea, and the combined naval forces of the Japanese and Shen Vao, who had just dominated the waters off Incheon, were completely annihilated in the great battle with the combined naval divisions of the Ming Dynasty and Korea, and since then from Hwanghae-do to Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong-do, none of the Japanese ships can go to sea, and everything can only rely on land transportation.

The Japanese commanders in Gyeonggi Province were still worried, and the news that made them desperate came from Busan, "Ten thousand ships have gathered, and wolves have devoured tigers...... The shipsink and the people die, and the martyrs die ......", this is the letterhead from Busan, and the combined forces of the Japanese Navy Division and the Shen Yuan fleet suffered a devastating blow in the waters between Busan and Tsushima Island.

It was not only the Sanjiang fleet, in fact, when the gunboats of the Sanjiang fleet arrived there, the battle was already about to end, and anyone who wanted to get a piece of the future trade or plunder between Korea and the Japanese kingdom, and some even just wanted to obtain a concession to participate in the Nanyang and sugar traders, the sea lords flocked to destroy Shen and Shen Va's alliance, and they would get greater wealth and power at sea.

Shen Vao's gunboats still have an advantage in dealing with the Korean navy, but in front of the Daming Navy Division and other sea lords, he has no advantage, and the quality and quantity of the artillery of Sha Dacheng's fleet are superior to him.

Compared with the Japanese sailors who fought to the death, Shen Vao's fleet withdrew from the battlefield immediately after suffering losses, however, this kind of life-and-death battle is not something that can be left if you want to, far more than his fleet clenched tightly, and after the battle, everyone found that there was no trace of Shen Vain on any ship at sea, and someone on the flagship where Shen Vain was originally located confessed that Shen Vain changed ships and left halfway.

From June of the 21st year of Wanli, the sea route between the Japanese and Korea was completely destroyed, and the coastal towns and ports of Kyushu and the western country were on the alert of the enemy, because they had been harassed by the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty from time to time.

By the way, the daimyo of Kyushu is still making voices with the sea lords, because of this, there are huge profits......

After only two naval battles in a month, the Japanese army commanders in Korea suddenly found that they had no way out, although they still had an advantage in numbers, and in a sense, it was uncertain who would kill them.

There is also not so happy news, the North Korean naval division Yi Sunsin on the way to Pusan, encountered a decisive assault by the Japanese navy, because the Daming naval division moved too fast, and committed careless mistakes, the wind direction was not right, and it was too late to go back to the rescue.

"It's all the fault of the humble position, and I am willing to receive a heavy punishment!"

This was a petition from a certain steward of the Volunteer Fleet, but fortunately, the remnants of the "Japanese Naval Army" were also annihilated, and all the ships were sunk, and all the sailors and officers were sunk into the sea.

"Blame for the crime!"

Wang Tong commented on the document and said that he had declared the whole army quite painfully, so that all departments could learn a lesson and not make such a careless mistake of underestimating the enemy again.

The Joseon kings in Uiju just heard that the army had recovered one place after another, and they were overjoyed, and their own sailors were lost, and they didn't expect to be able to save them, and that Yi Sunsin was never a likable character, so he just sent a few eulogies and sacrificed them.

In June of the 21st year of Wanli, apart from a few rebellious militia units in southern Korea, there was no longer any military strength in Korea itself.

On the 10th day of June in the 21st year, Wang Tong arrived at Hwangju, Hwanghae-do, Korea, and the Kuroda Nagamasa, the 3rd Army Corps, which had been re-stationed in Hwanghae-do, took the initiative and withdrew to Gyeonggi-do.

Everyone knew what the consequences would be after the sea route was taken, and the whole of the Wa Kingdom was furious, and began to recruit pirates into the navy, and the daimyo who relied on the sea were assigned the task of shipbuilding, and they also asked for help from the merchant houses of various countries that were trading in the Wa Kingdom, asking them to send ships to participate in the war.

Shipbuilding will not lead to anything for a while, but the pirates and Western ships that have been attracted by the high remuneration have sailed into the Tsushima Strait at the end of June.

The Dutch and Spaniards, who were originally full of confidence, hung up the flag of unintention to participate in the battle after seeing the gunboats of the Sanjiang fleet, and wanted to take the initiative to leave the battlefield.

The Dutch and Spaniard's Western gunboats broke away from the battlefield, causing the already panicked pirates to collapse immediately, and the ensuing battle was another massacre.

It is not possible for the sea owners who are good at Wang Tong to stay on this side of the strait for a long time, they also have to do business, and there are no mandatory regulations for this Wang Tong, in fact, the strait has been achieved for more than half a month.

There were too many ships, so it was impossible for the Japanese to send people to secretly go to North Korea in disguise to communicate, and the shock of those giant ships and cannons at sea was incomparable.

After learning that the sea route was completely destroyed, and further knowing that this could not be broken, the Japanese army commanders in Korea were a little unable to sit still.

No matter how you think about it, no matter how you do it, there is only one way out for them at the moment, that is, to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army and defeat the Ming army, then there is still a glimmer of life in this North Korea, if not, in fact, there is no other choice now, only a war.

Kobayakawa Takakei, Ukita Hideie, and several nearby army commanders began to dispatch troops, and since the sea route had been cut off, they simply abandoned Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province on the back road, and after leaving the squad for food collection and maintenance there, the rest of the army all went north and gathered in Gyeonggi Province and Chungcheong Province, and the soldiers and horses of Gangwon Province also moved westward.

Korea is mountainous, and the flat area is the western part of the Korean Peninsula, and the battle of the large army is on the line between Seoul and Incheon, and the Hanshui basin is the most suitable for unfolding.

In order to ensure that there was enough time before the army converged, Konishi Yukinaga and Kuroda Nagamasa's 1st and 3rd Army Corps jointly went north to attack the Ming army that had entered the Huanghae Province.

When the Ming army had just entered Korea, in the countryside and on the roads everywhere, there were Ming horse scouting and night non-harvesting activities, as well as ninjas and spies of the Wa Kingdom, and even Korean spies who served the Ming and Wa countries respectively......

But up to now, it is impossible for the Ming army to know the movements of the Ming army, the battlefield has been completely covered by the cavalry of the Ming army, and the cavalry of the Ming army who go out has a principle, as long as they think it is sneaky and suspicious, then they can be killed, regardless of the clothes he wears in the clothes of the Japanese country, or the uniform of the Korean people.

The information on the battlefield was one-sided, and the activities of the two legions were grasped by the Ming army at any time, and they knew that they had won a hundred battles, and by this time, the balance of victory and defeat had tilted.

The first regiment, the fifth regiment and the sixth regiment of the Huwei Army, with 2,000 Datong horse teams, in addition to the regimental artillery, were equipped with 20 artillery pieces, and 4,000 pacesetters in the border towns.

The two corps of 30,000 men marched out of Gyeonggi Province to the northern part of Hwanghae-do, first to the west and then to the north.

Li Hutou, who led the team to the south, from the time of departure, was to walk for two more hours every day, set off early and camp late, and grabbed half a day's time, almost arrived at Haizhou at the same time as the Japanese soldiers and horses, Haizhou and Kaesong are flat terrain, but Haizhou is close to the mountains, the north of the Yellow Sea Road is mountainous, there is a gourd-shaped plain, Haizhou is just on the waist of this gourd.

Whoever pinched the waist of this gourd, the soldiers and horses in the north had to go south over the mountain, or take the sea route, and could not go south half a step, after all, the Japanese were acting early, although Li Hutou hurried slowly, he still arrived at Haizhou City one step earlier.

Thirty thousand against ten thousand, and there are cities to rely on, this situation is very good for the Japanese Kou, but such a great good is only on paper.

Because of this numerical advantage, and Konishi Yukicho and Kuroda Nagamasa found that the Ming army was also mainly foot soldiers, so they did not think of defending Haizhou City, but prepared to go out of the city to open a field battle, after all, from the Ming army into the dynasty to the present, every time the Ming army used the cavalry like a sea tide to completely crush the Japanese invaders, and now they are foot soldiers, and the advantage will not be so great.

"The first regiment entered the predetermined position ~~~~" "The fifth regiment was in position ~~~~" "The sixth regiment ~~~~~"

The orders on the battlefield came and went, the horses dragging the artillery were also in position on the artillery position, one by one the artillery was erected, and the artillerymen were nervously preparing for the shooting.

"The firecrackers check the firecrackers and prepare before firing~~~" "Queue correction~~~"

Li Hutou is patrolling the queue on the horse, his position is in the front row on the right side of the entire team, and now he is looking at the opposite side on the horse, and the Japanese array is also a pattern of waving flags, the Huwei army is still preparing here, and it can already be seen that the flags and orders over there are issued, and the enemy army will not give you time to prepare for the formation, and will attack first.

"Lord Li, the last general is willing to lead the cavalry out to meet the attack."

Datong's deputy general Ma Gui asked for battle on the horse, Li Hutou shook his head and said with a smile:

"The cavalry is not used here, the marshal used to teach me that wars are all preludes to the opening of cannons!"

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