Under Xiao Ruxun's incisive attacks, Kuroda Rusui kept retreating and did not notice that there was a pit behind him. He stepped on air and his body tilted. Suddenly, alarm bells went off in his heart. When he looked up, he saw Xiao Ruxun leap up and slash down with both hands. Kuroda Rusui hurriedly raised his spear to block, but the spear was cut in half by Xiao Ruxun. With one slash, half of Kuroda Rusui's body was cut in half by Xiao Ruxun.
It turned out that Xiao Ruxun had already noticed the several pits of different sizes behind Kuroda Rusui. He attacked him with all his might, using his close-range advantage to force him to keep retreating until he stepped into a pit and lost his balance. Kuroda Rusui was killed on the spot by Xiao Ruxun.
Xiao Ruxun chopped off Kuroda Rusui's head with one slash. Holding the head, he sneered.
Kuroda Rusui's intelligent brain worked together with Tokugawa Ieyasu's black-bellied nature. Toyotomi Hidetsugu was no match for them. He had to kill Kuroda Rusui and cut off one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's arms. Only then could Tokugawa Ieyasu's strength be reduced by one level. Otherwise, with his skills, it would not be difficult for him to mobilize tens of thousands of people. Toyotomi Hidetsugu's skills were not just a little bit inferior.
Kuroda Rusui died in front of him. Xiao Ruxun was relieved. Now Tokugawa Ieyasu would not be able to make a name for himself. It would not be difficult for him to withdraw safely. However, in that case, the soldiers who had been fighting for so long would not be happy. Therefore, it was better to let the soldiers kill to their heart's content.
Like Luo Shanghai, Zhao Hu also saw a general riding a horse with a gold pouch. He felt that it was a big fish. Because of the experience of killing Mighty Rabbit, Zhao Hu liked the pleasure of killing the opponent's general. Once he saw the opponent's general alone, he would rush up and fight for dozens of rounds. He successfully killed a Tokugawa Ieyasu's Shadow Dancer, causing chaos again. The Ming Army took the opportunity to expand their victory and killed their way into the Japanese army.
The third Shadow Dancer died in the hands of Li Rusong. Li Rusong approached him from behind and then pierced his chest with a spear. He was lifted up with one arm and fell hard to the center of the army, causing a great shock to the Japanese army.
No one on the battlefield asked if he was a Shadow Dancer. Therefore, the tragic death of this Shadow Dancer had a huge impact on the Japanese army. It directly caused a large number of the Japanese army to lose their will to fight and flee in panic. Li Rusong's cavalry chased after them and attacked them fiercely. The fourth Shadow Dancer died in the hands of Ma Hu.
Ma Hu was fighting with the Japanese army on the front line. He led the army to besiege a small group of Japanese army that was fiercely resisting. Seeing that they did not retreat, Ma Hu thought that these people must be a trap. When he rushed up, he found that they were protecting a general with a gold pouch. Ma Hu was very surprised and thought that he had found the enemy's main general. So he rushed up and slashed. After killing everyone, he directly beheaded the general and put it on the flag to show off.
The Japanese army completely collapsed and fled. At the end of the siege of this Japanese army, there was a small mistake in the encirclement of the Ming Army, and some Japanese soldiers killed their way out. However, everyone was killing the big fish. They did not care about two or three small cats. If they ran away, they ran away. They were not familiar with the surrounding terrain. After the last group of Japanese army surrendered, Xiao Ruxun did not order the Ming Army to pursue them. He directly ordered the Ming Army to clean up the battlefield and set up camp there.
In the evening, it rained heavily. The generals of the Ming Army all sighed. If the rain had come four hours earlier, the victory of the Ming Army would have been more difficult. Moreover, the gunpowder would also be damp, which would be more troublesome.
In the evening, after dinner, the military secretary sent the casualty statistics report. The Ming Army had a total of 979 soldiers killed in the battle, more than 5,000 lightly and seriously injured people, 5,637 Japanese soldiers were beheaded, more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were wiped out, and more than 3,000 people were captured. It was estimated that the main force of the Japanese army that came to invade was basically destroyed. There would not be more than 2,000 people who escaped. The Ming Army had won a great victory.
This was the biggest victory of the Ming Army since they landed in Japan. All the generals who participated in the battle had meritorious service. Everyone celebrated together and then listened to Xiao Ruxun's arrangements for the future.
Xiao Ruxun's plan after this was to control the entire Ishikami Kingdom in his hands. The army would split up to guard it, and then search the entire silver mountain. They would dig out all the silver ore and silver taels that they could find, then send it to the seashore for the navy to load on ships. Then, they would contact the imperial court and directly send the silver ore to the coast of North Zhili. They would be escorted directly to Beijing and presented to His Majesty the Emperor as a gift from the army to His Majesty the Emperor.
During this period, Xiao Ruxun would finalize the compensation amount of Japan and then inform His Majesty the Wanli Emperor of the final victory in the battle of Korea. He would report to him that not only had the expeditionary force defeated nearly 200,000 Japanese pirates for him, but they had also obtained a silver mountain and a few colonies for him, as well as a large amount of war compensation silver taels. For this, all the sacrifices were worth it.
Xiao Ruxun found some clues among the corpses of the Japanese pirates and the corpses of the Golden Helmets Pirates that had been handed over by several generals. He immediately thought of the "Shadow Dancer", a special tactic of the Japanese Army during the Warring States Period. He immediately understood why the Japanese Army had suddenly become brave and good at fighting.
Through the identification of the middle-ranking Japanese generals who had been captured, Xiao Ruxun was sure that Tokugawa Ieyasu was not among the corpses. The old fox, Tokugawa Ieyasu, had most likely escaped. The ones who had really died were the few Shadow Dancers and Kuroda Rusui, who had been killed by him personally.
Although Tokugawa Ieyasu had escaped, after this battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu had suffered heavy losses and had almost lost the military strength to continue fighting. If he still had military strength in his hands, he would definitely not dare to attack the Ming Army again.
Therefore, what Xiao Ruxun needed to do was to negotiate with him and then contact Toyotomi. It was inevitable that he would have to fight with Toyotomi and have them meet together to preside over "justice" and determine the situation of the east and west of Japan. Then, he would leave a troop to escort the silver in Ishimi and monitor the "peaceful coexistence" between the two sides.
Early the next morning, the scouts that Xiao Ruxun had sent out came back to report that a Japanese pirate army had been discovered 20 miles to the west of the army. They did not seem to have come with good intentions, but they did not seem like the Tokugawa Army from yesterday. Instead, they seemed to be another army.
Xiao Ruxun sneered. Just when he was about to sleep, someone sent him a pillow. What a pleasant surprise!
Since he could not find Tokugawa Ieyasu to negotiate with, he would look for Toyotomi Hidetsugu. It was the same as negotiating with them. After hurting Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi Hidetsugu would also want to give them a good beating so that they could have a good time. Only when they were hurt could they sit down at the negotiating table and restart the negotiations.
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