The ferocious blood in Li Rusong's body instantly boiled. He took the lead and rushed forward.
The general's fearless spirit instantly inspired a large group of soldiers. This kind of emotion instantly infected the entire Ming Army formation, not to mention the Nu Zhenren who admired the strong. More than a thousand Ming Army soldiers, under the lead of Li Rusong, fearlessly raised their swords and sabers and rushed toward the cannoneers.
In this short distance of more than fifty meters, at least two hundred people of the Ming Army were killed or injured. However, they pushed aside the bodies of their comrades and continued to rush forward, as if they did not know what death was.
When they rushed to ten meters away, the first layer of Japanese pirates' cannoneers did not have time to reload their ammunition. They collapsed without a fight and desperately ran backward. With this run, the entire formation was messed up. The cannoneers at the front wanted to run backward, but Tachibana Munao wanted to rush forward with the Ashigaru at the back, but they could not. The Japanese formation was suddenly in chaos. Li Rusong took the lead and rushed forward. He waved his saber and chopped down a Japanese pirate.
More Ming Army swarmed in. The not spacious space was unusually crowded and chaotic. There were sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling everywhere. The anger that the Ming Army had accumulated for a long time exploded at this moment and poured down on the Japanese pirates. Countless cannoneers who did not have time to pull out their sabers to fight became ghosts under the sabers. Corpses piled up inside and outside the east gate and blood flowed like a river. There were Japanese pirates who were chopped down by the Ming Army everywhere.
Tachibana Munao saw that the situation could not be reversed. Even further away, a large number of Ming Army seemed to be rushing over. He knew that this battle would not continue. If the battle continued, it would be difficult to escape the danger of being completely annihilated. Therefore, he led his personal guards to retreat slightly and gathered all the soldiers who had fled in front. He re-formed the iron cannon formation and began to kill the Ming soldiers. He aimed at each Ming soldier and killed each Ming soldier. He even killed the Ming soldiers at the expense of his own companions.
Not too far away, Li Rusong saw this and was infuriated. Coincidentally, a group of 200-300 Jurchen Cavalrymen arrived. Li Rusong immediately snatched a horse and waved his hand at the Jurchen Cavalrymen. The Jurchen Cavalrymen immediately knew what to do. They followed closely behind Li Rusong, brandishing their swords and slashing at the Wokou pirates that were left behind. They killed their way out of the city, heading straight for Tachibana Munao's Steel Cannons.
Tachibana Munao was almost scared out of his wits. He immediately wanted to escape with his henchmen, leaving the Ashigaru and iron cannoneers to die. But as soon as he left, the team of a few hundred people immediately collapsed and could not fight anymore. The cavalry arrived in an instant.
With Li Rusong's leadership, the Nu Zhenren cavalry was even more fearless. They rushed up and hacked. These Japanese pirates were completely annihilated by the cavalry in no time. Li Rusong looked around and saw that the general with the gold pouch seemed to be running away.
His general instincts told him that the man must be a high-ranking official. Regardless of the era or the country, an officer who could use gold as a decoration was definitely not a small figure. A person who could be escorted by a group of people and escape must also be a big figure. Li Rusong made up his mind to kill the man and led the cavalry to chase after him.
The horses of the Nu Zhenren were definitely faster and stronger than those of the Japanese. Seeing that the pursuit was almost over, Li Rusong ordered the cavalry to shoot.
The Nu Zhenren cavalry all drew their bows and arrows. Li Rusong shot the first arrow, and the rest of the Nu Zhenren cavalry followed suit. Hundreds of arrows chased Tachibana Munao's back. Hearing the whistling sound, Tachibana Munao's sixth sense, which was brought by years of battle, made his hair stand on end, causing him to involuntarily lower his body.
This saved his life, but it could not save the life of his warhorse. As soon as he bent down, an arrow accurately shot in front of him and the back of his horse's neck. The warhorse whined and fell to the ground. Tachibana Munao was caught off guard and fell to the ground hard. At the same time, the eight family warriors beside him also fell to the ground, and no one was spared.
When Tachibana Munao straightened his body in a daze, he saw that he had been surrounded by the group of Ming Army cavalry who were chasing him.
Then he heard the group of Ming Army soldiers mumbling something he didn't know. He didn't understand Chinese, but he knew that at this moment, his life seemed to have come to an end.
He saw a very strong and mighty general jump off his horse and walk to him. He picked him up like a chicken. Then he didn't understand what the general said, but he heard the word "die". The sound of death in Japanese was similar to the sound of death in Chinese.
There was also a small interlude. In order to vent his anger at the heavy casualties of his subordinates, Li Rusong directly strangled Tachibana Munao to death. Then he chopped off his head with a sword and brought the head back to ask for credit. After Xuan Su identified the rank, Tachibana Munao became the most tragic of all the Japanese generals who invaded Korea. He was recorded in the history books as a joke for thousands of years …
Because the Japanese pirates in the city knew that they were going to die, they resisted with all their might. This caused the main force of the Ming Army to be pinned down for half an hour before they completely eliminated the Japanese pirates. When Li Rusong reorganized his army to chase after the Japanese pirates who were crossing the river, there were only two or three people who had not crossed the river. They were directly abandoned. Li Rusong looked at the Japanese pirates and the burning ferry across the Imjin River. He was furious and almost ordered his army to swim over.
The Imjin River was more than a hundred meters wide. Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was guarding the river, led his soldiers to fire a few shots at the Ming Army on the other side of the river. When they realized that the range was not accurate, they stopped firing. The two sides stared at each other for a while across the river. It was only when the sky suddenly started to rain that they had to retreat at the same time. The Japanese retreated to Seoul in a panic. Li Rusong had no choice but to retreat back to Kaesong.
The rain was very heavy. It was rare to see such heavy rain in late autumn. The rain indirectly helped Li Rusong to extinguish the fire in Kaesong. Half of the buildings in Kaesong were saved. This was all thanks to the rain. Otherwise, Kaesong would have been burned to the ground. Li Rusong led the rest of the cavalry back to Kaesong to find shelter from the rain. He counted the number of casualties and reported the victory to Xiao Ruxun.
The number of casualties was not bad. They had killed 8068 low-level Jade Pearls and killed at least four thousand pirates. However, the number of casualties made Nurhachi collapse. Although the True Female Soldiers were good at fighting, they had lost eight hundred and seventy-nine people in this battle, and almost two thousand were injured. They could no longer fight. Nurhachi still felt a little lucky in his heart. Fortunately, the pirates had crossed the river at that time. If they hadn't crossed the river and fought again, Nurhachi would have died of heartache.
Seeing such a number of casualties, Li Rusong's face did not look too good. In a moment of heroism, he did not ask Xiao Ruxun for chariots, cannons, and infantry. He had brought his cavalry here. In the end, 169 of his family servants had died and more than 200 were injured.
More than half of the 500 family servants had died, which made Li Rusong's heart ache. As for Nurhachi, he did not care. What he cared about were the private soldiers of the Li family, which was the foundation of the Li family's power.
Too many people had died in the battle to kill more than 2,000 Japanese pirates. The main casualty was at that time, so Li Rusong became wild and strangled the Japanese general to death. However, killing the Japanese general could not make up for the death of more than 1,000 people. Li Rusong's cavalry temporarily lost their fighting power and had to withdraw from the front line. Unless they replenished their troops, they would not be able to complete their formation and take on a mission alone.
Therefore, while reporting the victory, Li Rusong also asked Xiao Ruxun to report to Song Yingchang, asking him to transfer another 1,000 Liaodong Han cavalry and 3,000 Jurchen cavalry to maintain the combat power of the cavalry. Otherwise, he might as well be an infantry general.
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