Chapter 690: Settlement of Revenge

In a city defense battle, as long as one gate is breached, there is little point in guarding all the city gates.

Therefore, when the Lumen of Nancheng was breached and five or six thousand Ming troops rushed into the city first, the Japanese soldiers gradually abandoned the gates of Xicheng and Nancheng.

While relying on the caves built in the city to defend, they retreated to the east city where there was no Ming army to attack.

Lin Jinglue ran along the city wall from Lumen to the ordinary door, then opened the ordinary door and let in the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers under Li Rubai.

Standing at the edge of the city gate, under the strict protection of his own soldiers, Lin Jinglue, who had achieved another great feat of "first to the top", began to remove his armor.

After all, this is a specially made heavy armor weighing eighty kilograms. After wearing it and fighting, Lin Jinglue will be tired.

At this time, General Li Rusong, the commander of the First Corps, Li Rubai, the left deputy general of the First Corps, and other generals came forward to see them.

Lin Jinglue took off his armor and said lightly: "This trivial matter of climbing into the city and breaking the gate has been taken care of by our department.

The arduous task of entering the city and wiping out the stubborn bandits will be left to you, won't you still be unable to do it well? "

Li Rusong was speechless. There may be only one civil servant in front of him who likes to be "first to get there" so much.

It happened that time in Ningxia City, and it happened again in Pyongyang City this time. Could it be that they are seeking excitement and are addicted?

If Lin Tailai was just a small soldier, he might be able to get a hereditary household directly by virtue of his "first victory" in the battle.

But as a minister of economics and strategy, he ventured to the city to kill the enemy. I really don’t know what he was trying to do.

So Li Rusong couldn't help but advise: "The military sect has a body worth ten thousand dollars, and the stakes are very important. You can't risk it by yourself.

If the military gate is slightly damaged, our generals will die without redemption. How should we explain to the court? "

This is true. If the Minister of Economic Affairs and Strategy were killed, the army commander Li Rusong would not be able to escape punishment. So when Lin Jinglue suddenly appeared at the top of the city, the last person to be afraid might be General Li.

Lin Tailai said calmly: "Are you teaching me how to do things? If you get this kind of credit first, the academy can give it to you or not."

Li Rusong suddenly realized that Lin Jinglue was the first to attack bravely. Could it be to frighten the arrogant soldiers from Liaodong?

According to the earliest deployment, he, Li Rusong, supervised the operations in the northwest, and Lin Jinglue supervised the operations in the southwest.

In other words, he, Li Rusong, is responsible for supervising the battles from Peony Peak and Mitai Gate in the North City to the Qixing Gate in the West City, and Lin Jinglue is responsible for supervising the battles from the Hanzang Gate and Lumen in the South City to the Ordinary Gate in the West City.

However, the night before the siege, the generals from the Liaodong Army were worried about injustice, so they asked Li Rusong to supervise all the battles in the west city.

Mainly because Lin Tailai, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Strategy, was from the South and was obviously close to the South soldiers on a daily basis. Not to mention anything else, two of the three Biao battalions directly under the administration are from the Nanbing system.

This inevitably made the Liaodong Army generals murmur in their hearts, fearing unfair rewards and punishments.

For example, if we split up to attack several city gates at the same time and breach the city gates at about the same time, how will the credit for the first one to conquer the city be calculated?

But no one expected that Lin Jinglue would slap him in the face in this way.

Looking at Li Rubai and the several Liaodong Army generals behind Li Rubai, Lin Jinglue sneered again: "The credit given to you by the Headquarters is the credit. No one can take away what the Headquarters does not want to give!"

The generals were silent and did not dare to look at the minister of economics and strategy.

Li Rusong tried to smooth things over by saying: "The war is not extinguished now, and we will allow the generals to continue to suppress the thieves."

Lin Tailai then ordered: "According to reports from Tanma on the other side of the Datong River, the Japanese soldiers who came to rescue Pyongyang City have already retreated halfway.

Now send our military order to end the battle in Pyongyang City before dawn tomorrow!

If you are incompetent, all the generals responsible for the main attack in Xicheng today will be demoted one level! "

The generals lowered their heads and rushed towards the city.

The battle process after that was roughly the same as in history. The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers kept setting fire to the Japanese soldiers' earthen forts. Thousands of Japanese soldiers were burned to death inside, and the smell spread for ten miles.

Seeing that the fortress built in the city could not stop the Ming army, the commander of the Japanese First Corps, Konishi Kyōchō, retreated to the east city with tens of thousands of remaining soldiers.

But the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were still rude and continued to set fire to it. Anyway, this was a Korean city, so it didn't hurt to burn it.

Seeing that the Ming army had a huge advantage and that its own reinforcements had not yet arrived, Governor Konishi broke out from the east city.

When Lin Jinglue deployed the siege, he adopted the idea of ​​"encircling three and missing one" and did not arrange troops in the east city.

Therefore, it was easy for Governor Konishi to lead the remaining soldiers to break out from Dongcheng in the middle of the night, but it did not mean that they could escape smoothly, because outside Dongcheng was the Datong River.

Under the pursuit of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, the Japanese soldiers who broke through either turned back and struggled to death, or were forced to jump into the Datong River in the chaos.

In this late night of harvesting human lives, thousands of Japanese pirates were drowned in the Datong River.

The leader of the Japanese army, Konishi Yukinaga, crossed the Daedong River and continued to escape under the desperate protection of the guards.

History had a butterfly effect here. Three Ming army columns that had been ambushed on the banks of the Datong River in advance, and Shen Weijing, a big liar who could speak Japanese, appeared in front of Commander Konishi and the remaining soldiers.

"Xiao Xisang! I've given you a chance to be captured." Shen Weijing sincerely advised in fluent Japanese: "As a good friend, I took the risk to come here to save your life, otherwise our Ming army will just kill you all. achievement."

President Konishi: "."

After a continuous day and night of fighting, the Battle of Pyongyang is basically over.

It is recorded in the "Pun Yi Lu" of Korea in this time and space: "In the early morning, all the cannons were fired together, as if the sky was falling apart and the earth was splitting apart. Then the soldiers from heaven bravely rushed to be the first to attack each gate.

Tianshuai Lin Tailai led the battle to Lumen. He sympathized with the casualties of the soldiers and personally wore heavy armor to climb the city first. He killed dozens of Japanese pirates with his own hands. The Japanese pirates were frightened and fled, so he seized the gate and broke into the city. "

"Wanli Dichao Renchen Volume" said: "Jinglüe Lin Tailai was the first to climb the royal army and beheaded more than 3,000 people, burned more than 6,000 people, drowned more than 5,000 people, and captured the Japanese pirate leader Konishi Yukinaga alive."

October 17th was another early morning. After the sky was bright, Lin Tailai appeared in Fengyue Tower in the north of the city.

This is a tower. It was previously the "headquarters" of Konishi Yukinaga's corps. Now it was requisitioned by Lin Jinglüe.

Although the bottom floor of the tower was quite spacious, Lin Tailai disliked the mess and stuffiness inside, so he set up the commander's chair on the platform outside the building gate.

Shen Weijing brought a disheveled captive over and introduced him to Lin Jinglüe like offering a treasure: "This is the Japanese leader Konishi Yukinaga, who was persuaded to surrender by me. "

Lin Jinglüe didn't say anything special, just like he was facing an ordinary prisoner.

He pointed to a head beside the seat and said to Shen Weijing: "Ask Konishi Yukinaga if he knows who this is?"

Shen Weijing turned around and asked Konishi Yukinaga, who was pressed to the ground, a few questions. Then Konishi Yukinaga looked up to identify the head and answered a few more questions.

So Shen Weijing translated to Lin Tailai: "This head is the Japanese Tango no Kami Omura Kizen."

Lin Jinglüe finally knew exactly who the Japanese general who won the achievement of being the first to be killed by him was, so he suddenly felt clear in his mind.

Otherwise, this doubt would really bother him for the rest of his life.

There were not many prisoners this time, and no one recognized the identity of the head after asking before, which made Lin Jinglüe a little anxious.

"So your name is Omura Kizen. Congratulations again on leaving your name in history. "Lin Tailai said to the head, waved his hand, and asked Dayun to take the head away.

Then he said to Shen Weijing: "Take Konishi Yukinaga away, give him food and wine, and take good care of him."

Shen Weijing was stunned and said: "That's it?"

This is the main general of the Japanese army. Now he is captured alive in front of you, Lin Jinglie. Don't you want to talk to him? Don't you want to exchange experiences and get some information?

Why is it that in the eyes of Lin Jinglie, Konishi Yukinaga is not much different from passers-by A, B, C, and D, and his only role is to help identify a head?

The most important thing is, if you, Lin Jinglie, don't communicate deeply with Konishi Yukinaga, then how can he, Shen Weijing, be useful?

"What, is there a problem?" Lin Tailai asked the stunned Shen Weijing.

What's the matter? After playing too many games of glory, you still want to have a scene of heroes recognizing heroes and heroes cherishing heroes?

Shen Weijing reminded: "This is the vanguard of the Japanese army. Jinglie, don't you want to ask something? "

"No need!" Lin Tailai ignored it decisively, "Just take him away and lock him up, you are responsible for guarding him."

Shen Weijing: "."

What do you mean no need? Is this how you get intelligence, General?

Lin Jinglie urged impatiently: "You go down first! There are still many matters to be dealt with after the war!"

Then the generals of the 27 columns of the First Corps came to Fengyue Tower one after another, stood under the platform, and waited for the summary of the Minister of General.

Lin Jinglie had some minor injuries on his body, and at this moment he called the doctor to come over and treat the wound in front of all the generals.

After scanning the thirty generals, Lin Jinglie said to Li Rusong, the commander of the First Corps, in a weird tone: "Li Rusong, you are very strong now."

He started to find the account behind. Li Rusong said helplessly: "I don't know what the general means."

Lin Tailai smiled and said: "You have nearly 40,000 troops under your command, which is more than half of the other corps combined, and most of the generals are you old men from Liaodong!

It seems that you are enough to influence the war situation in Korea. Why don't you let me, the Minister of Strategy, do it. "

Li Rusong said hurriedly: "Don't dare! Don't dare!"

Lin Tailai's expression turned cold, and he asked: "On the night of October 15, the day before yesterday, which generals proposed to change the arrangements for supervising the battle?"

Li Rusong felt that he was in a difficult situation now. The generals of the Liaodong Army proposed to change the arrangements for supervising the battle in order to prepare for the merit.

If they really made great contributions, the Liaodong Army could still be tough in front of Lin Jinglüe.

But the problem is that the greatest credit for being the first to reach the gate was taken away by Lin Jinglüe alone, without even a competitor.

The subsequent battles were just going with the flow and cleaning up the battlefield, which was far from being comparable to "being the first to reach the gate".

The generals of the Liaodong Army thought about how to compete for the credit for a long time, and even expressed some doubts about Lin Jinglüe, so now it is completely embarrassing. It was awkward.

Lin Tailai looked at the silent generals and sneered repeatedly.

There was indeed a certain gap between the main Liaodong Army and other troops, especially the southern troops, which was an objective phenomenon in history.

Since Lin Jinglue took over this matter, he was of course mentally prepared for it.

He was not interested in doing such delicate work as "ideological work", and people of this era did not have such a noble consciousness.

So he directly broke the situation violently and used his personal bravery to establish prestige and suppress it forcefully.

In the end, it was Li Rusong who broke the silence and gritted his teeth and said: "It was my fault for indulging my subordinates before! I was not strict with my subordinates, and I am willing to accept the punishment!"

Lin Tailai responded: "I said that when a large army fights, military discipline must be strict! The main general must deal with it, and the subordinates must also be dealt with! You don't have to take the opportunity to buy people's hearts!

If someone has any opinions about the deployment, why not raise them when the deployment is carried out on October 13? Why do you have to make a temporary change request on the eve of the attack?

To put it seriously, is it wrong to undermine the morale of our military and to intimidate the superior officers? "

Li Rusong felt that it was too difficult for him. He was so deceived by lard that he would be so presumptuous to help the generals of the Liaodong Army!

Lin Jinglue seemed to have turned into a talker, and mocked again: "Why are you not talking anymore?

I thought you were very capable, and each one of you seemed to be able to accomplish extraordinary feats, so I was worried about unfair rewards and punishments, but in the end, I still relied on my own body to break the door. "

If it were other civil servants who were attacking like this, some generals might jump out and stab them.

But now all the generals looked at the eighty-pound heavy armor that had been dyed red beside the commander's chair, and all lowered their heads.

At this time, Li Rusong had actually seen that Lin Jinglue could have refused the night before, but he still agreed. Although he seemed to be giving in, he definitely had "bad intentions" in his heart!

It can even be said that since the night before, Lin Jinglue has been thinking about how to steal the credit and slap him in the face, and then settle the score later!

Even choosing to supervise the battle in Lumen was probably carefully planned.

This technique and routine are obviously the cunning tricks of literati politicians!

That's not right. The feat of climbing into a city and killing dozens of enemies with one hand is not something a normal person can accomplish. So is this a new type of old-time trick with a "mix of civil and military"?

When I was thinking wildly, I heard Lin Tai say: "Li Rusong, even if you refuse to answer, I can probably guess that the person who encouraged you last night must be a general who mainly attacks the ordinary gate!

Because only they have the needs and motivations to let you supervise the battle! The generals in the direction of Seven Star Gate are already under your supervision, so there is no need to make unnecessary moves! "

Li Rubai, the general who was responsible for commanding the attack on the ordinary gate, could no longer remain silent. He took a step forward and said, "The last general is willing to be punished. There is no need to pursue further investigations."

Lin Tailai said: "Then you two brothers will each receive a demerit! If you do it again next time, you will be punished together!"

General Li breathed a sigh of relief, this matter was finally over, and said: "Thank you for your generosity!"

Lin Tailai sighed deeply and said to Li Rusong, "I am doing this for your own good and helping you to improve military discipline."

General Li just wanted to say "Yeah, yeah, yeah" to this kind of cliche. We have all been brothers for many years, so we are somewhat immune to PUA.

Then I heard Lin Jinglue continue to say: "Otherwise when you lead the army alone, how can you win if the general does not have the habit of strict military discipline?"

"What? Leading the army alone?" General Li couldn't help being surprised, and almost lost control of his expression.