Similar to the Yalu River, the Taedong River, located in the south of Pyongyang City, has also entered an ice period after several days of heavy snowfall and severe cold.

Because it was wartime, it was rare to see people on the vast ice. Occasionally, there were several shadows running around, and they were all Ming cavalrymen who came and went in a hurry.

Although Mo Xiaobai is sure that Tachibana Zongmao will make arrangements to advance to Pyongyang as the priority, where and when the other party will come from, he still needs to be constantly patrolling.

If Tachibana Muneshige comes, it must be a corps of more than 5,000 people. If the Ming soldiers and horses want to eat this 'reinforcement', they don't just send some people casually.

On the third day of the battle in Longquan Mountain, it was sent to the main camp through the Hongyan Transmission. The Ming light cavalry, who went to the other side of the river to explore the movement of dozens of miles, finally found the trace of the enemy.

"Quick, go back and tell your lord."

"The number of enemy troops, at least 7000 or more."

The light horses sent by Mo Xiaobai were often in groups of three to five, and after a few people found out about the enemy, one person was left to continue to follow, and the rest of the people immediately slapped their horses and left, breaking into the forest and running back to the camp.

Because it was a shortcut ride, it only took half an hour for several cavalrymen to bring back the news. Hearing that there were 7,000 Japanese reinforcements from the south, all the civil and military officers in the command tent frowned slightly.

Originally, according to the exploration of the black-clothed guards and the Jinyiwei, Fengshan and Niufeng had a maximum of 5,000 soldiers and horses in the country.

Now there are seven thousand?

Mo Xiaobai sat in the position of the commander and did not speak, and Li Ji, who was in charge of the actual combat command, pondered for a while and said, "It seems that this time, we are going to fight a battle on the glacier." ”

"General Li Guang, you first take the tiger and leopard out of the camp to ambush."

"General Zhang He, you and the deputy commander-in-chief of Ningxia will bring Miao soldiers and heavy halberders to battle, and you and others will be the main force in this battle, and you will lead the troops to cross the river now."

"General Han led the heavy hammer soldiers and Sichuan soldiers to meet on the other side of the river, and we will not fight with the Japanese people, but only seek to block the enemy on the ice of the river."

"General Luo's headquarters Zhejiang soldiers, together with Datong soldiers and Shandong soldiers, ambushed on both sides of Pyongyang's Namsan Mountain. If there are soldiers and horses in Pyongyang who dare to come out of the city to rescue, you must defeat them in the Namsan mountain road. If Pyongyang does not move, you will be stationed until the end of the war, and then you will lead the troops back to the camp. ”

As Li Ji issued military orders one after another, half of the nearly 40,000 Great Tomorrow troops were dispatched by him. It's not that Li Ji is making a big fuss, and in order to make sure that nothing goes wrong.

Encirclement and reinforcement has always been a clever strategy, but there is also a risk, that is, it is easy to fall into the trap.

Li Ji still has more than 10,000 troops left and has not moved, which does not mean that these soldiers and horses have no preparation tasks, and with the change of the war situation, it may be necessary to continue to increase the number of troops.

Of course, all this depends on how Pyongyang chooses.

If the Pyongyang side sees clearly the purpose of its deployment and intends to fight a direct decisive battle, Li Ji is also willing to accompany him, after all, the Pyongyang Japanese soldiers will lose the most important city defense location.

When a famous general led the troops away, Mo Xiaobai smiled and said: "Mao Gong's plan is to let all those Japanese soldiers go down to the river to bathe?" ”

"My lord, if the Japanese are defeated in a battle, they naturally don't use the last resort."

"That kind of may not be big, Tachibana Soshige is a rare powerful character among the Japanese generals this time. You arranged for Zhang He and them to take the lead, and the outcome was actually unpredictable. ”

Mo Xiaobai has experienced this copy and has an impression of some of the generals of the Wa Kingdom. Tachibana Soshige was not a high position, but he was the most difficult to deal with on the battlefield in Pyongyang.

If he and Governor Konishi were to switch identities, Mo Xiaobai estimated that the battle situation would definitely be different.

However, although Tachibana Zongmao can use his brain, Mo Xiaobai knows it in his heart, so he will naturally calculate two more steps, and it is precisely because of this that he is sure that he has eaten Tachibana Zongmao.

Because he is not a general at the level of a corps commander, no matter how much he thinks about it, there are not many choices he can make!

"Let's go, let's go see if the chariot battalion is ready. If we really want to fight to the end, we still have to rely on our chariots and cannons to win. ”

As Mo Xiaobai finished speaking, Li Ji also nodded and got up.

The two left the big tent and went to the artillery camp, Zhang He and Yang Dengshan, who had long been on standby, had already taken the lead out of the camp, and they would cross the river with the horse cavalry and go to the other side of the river to block the Japanese people.

Sending troops at this moment is actually not an ambush.

However, when the two armies met in the field, one side had long been prepared for a contact battle, while the other side hastily responded to the battle, and even if the number of soldiers and horses was superior, it was difficult to give full play to its strength.

"General Zhang, Lao Yang really admires the wonder of this combat deployment."

All the way to the south, Yang Dengshan was also talking to Zhang He: "In the past, when we went to war, we generally found the enemy, and everyone flocked to it. ”

"The plan between the lord and General Li is also very exquisite."

Zhang He, as the general of Dameng Town, has also been under Li Ji for a long time, and he naturally feels more about Li Ji's arrangement.

Li Ji rarely fights that kind of hard-fought battle, even if he has the strength to eat hard.

"That is, the Admiral, treat our subordinate sons as soldiers."

Yang Dengshan sighed twice, as a general of Yungui, there were a number of veterans of the battle formation in the Ming Dynasty at this time, how could he not see that Li Ji's various arrangements were on the one hand to completely annihilate the Japanese people, and on the other hand, to preserve the soldiers to the greatest extent.

Fight a battle first, and retreat quickly if you take advantage.

And then hit it, and get some cheaper.

In this way, the repeated layers of contact battles made the opponent tired of coping, and at the same time, avoided the endless chaotic fighting of his own soldiers.

Recalling that in the past, although the Miao soldiers fought with firearms, they relied on firearms to kill the enemy, but in the end, they still had to fight hand-to-hand.

As for the other arrangements?

To let you go on is to let you attack with all your might, either your soldiers and horses are dead, or the enemy army is defeated by you.

As for the soldiers, is it a pity that there are too many casualties?

No one cares about Jingshi, and no one cares about the big tomorrow!

It is also in order to make the sons and daughters more advantageous, so that Yang Dengshan can tighten his belt and Zhang Luo to produce a single soldier whose firepower is not inferior to that of Zhejiang soldiers.

Others don't treat his soldiers as people, he can only cherish his subordinates.

When this mixed army, numbering no more than 4,000 people, left camp and crossed the glacier, the cavalry that had been following the Japanese soldiers and horses also returned.

The return of the last Tanma means that the Japanese are close at hand!

"Big brother, is it really okay for us to go to Pyongyang like this? Will the people of the First Legion think that we are fighting with them? ”

On the south bank of the Datong River, five miles away is a mountain post road. Seven thousand soldiers lined up in a long line and were gradually advancing towards the riverbank.

Hearing his younger brother's inquiry, Tachibana Somao immediately spoke: "If the First Army is still there, it doesn't matter if they have some ideas, I'm afraid that the Ming Dynasty will directly launch a sneak attack on Pyongyang after conquering Longquan Mountain." ”

"Sneak attack on Pyongyang? It's a big city, and you can't do it easily. ”

"Maybe it wasn't possible before, but now it's hard to say, haven't you noticed? The last convoy to Pyongyang from the south was half the size of the previous one. ”

Tachibana Soshige groaned and frowned: "Our logistics line has become chaotic, and I'm afraid that Konishi Yuki-sama doesn't have enough ammunition reserves, so we must rush to Pyongyang as soon as possible to strengthen Pyongyang's strength." ”