The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 271 A resounding victory and generous rewards boost morale

Li Jingxiao, through his telescope, saw Wang Zhong's 6 Jurchens.

Similarly, bypass Chengxing City and proceed on the right road.

Then I felt relieved.

Once the 2,000 heavy cavalry and 4,000 cavalry charge, Wang Zhong's 6,000 cavalry will break into the Japanese forces from the right flank.

With attacks from both sides, the Japanese are more likely to be defeated.

At 8 a.m., the Japanese army was packing up their tents, and the camp was at its most relaxed.

Li Jingxiao seized the opportunity instantly.

Soon, the earth began to shake.

Two thousand heavy cavalrymen were led by two chief commanders, Zhao Junming and Han Mengzhuo, along with a dozen other commanders and Jurchen centurions.

They started by jogging, and only when they were 300 meters away from the Japanese camp did they charge at full speed.

Perhaps it was because the battles they fought after entering Goryeo went too smoothly.

Busan was captured in three days.

After more than twenty days of marching and siege, they easily captured the Goryeo capital.

When attacking the city, the resistance encountered was not strong.

There have even been instances where just 300 Japanese soldiers defeated tens of thousands of Goryeo "loyalist troops".

As a result, the Japanese now set up camp without even building defenses like chevaux-de-frise or wooden walls.

Moreover, the Japanese had fought many battles and marched more than a thousand miles, so they were indeed very tired at this time.

His fighting spirit isn't as strong as it was when he first entered Goryeo.

After all, having plundered so much money, many Japanese samurai and foot soldiers were now thinking of safely bringing their spoils home.

Two thousand heavy cavalrymen chose to charge when the Japanese were breaking camp and preparing to enter Chengxing City.

The Tiger Warriors have always had training in mounted archery.

Within a hundred meters, three volleys of arrows rained down, and then they switched to long spears, easily breaking through the wall of more than two thousand Japanese soldiers that had been hastily organized.

Li Jingxiao, who was leading 4 light cavalry, couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.

He ordered the light cavalry to accelerate and charge into the Japanese camp along the route taken by the heavy cavalry.

These Japanese soldiers were indeed elite, but infantry is naturally at a disadvantage when faced with a cavalry charge.

After the heavy cavalry broke through the entire camp, Li Jingxiao led 4 light cavalry to expand the victory.

However, he did not use guns to kill people. Instead, he led dozens of the best archers to keep a close watch on the matchlock musketeers among the Japanese pirates.

Although matchlock muskets of that era might not be able to penetrate three layers of heavy cavalry armor, they still posed a significant threat.

Because of his exceptional eyesight, Li Jingxiao could see mosquitoes hundreds of meters away clearly.

The bow and arrow he held in his hand, although only a level 30 'Iron-Body Bow', was easy to wield.

Its penetration and attack power are much stronger than ordinary bows and arrows.

Back then, even the Black Wind Demon King was pierced through the head by an arrow from this bow.

Therefore, in Li Jingxiao's hands, this bow was like an assault rifle.

In the blink of an eye, three shots were fired in quick succession, killing three musketeers.

The dozens of elite soldiers from the Left Garrison Command who followed him, though their archery skills were not as superb as his.

Yet he was also a rare and exceptional archer.

Moreover, each of them was a master of the Five Tigers Breaking the Gate Saber technique.

In both melee and ranged combat, he is considered top-notch in the Left Garrison Command.

In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, more than two hundred musketeers had been shot dead.

The rest of them didn't dare to fire anymore.

They followed the fleeing Japanese pirates and turned to run away.

But doing so would only hasten their death.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao specifically targeted and killed warriors with better armor and weapons.

The Akhal-Teke horse carried four quivers and had used up all 120 arrows.

Li Jingxiao then took out four more flasks from his inventory.

When less than one of the four jars remained, Wang Zhong arrived with 6 cavalry, who served as the third wave of the assault force.

Now the Japanese have completely lost the will to resist.

After Li Jingxiao shot and killed a warrior of obviously high status with an arrow.

He was accompanied by a dozen or so mounted archers, as well as guards such as Erfu.

He rode his horse up a hillside and watched as 2 heavy cavalry charged back and forth three times.

The 1 light cavalrymen continued to hack and slash, pursuing and killing.

The 3 Japanese pirates suffered heavy casualties.

Those who are still alive should either flee to Chengxing City.

They either flee south.

Moreover, the number of Japanese pirates who fled south was very small.

Li Jingxiao had no choice but to temporarily change his previous plan to send cavalry south to block the road.

Send Erfu to relay the order: ignore the Japanese soldiers who fled to Chengxing City.

Two thousand heavy cavalrymen joined up with him to rest and prepare for the possibility of Japanese pirates breaking out of Chengxing City.

Ten thousand light cavalrymen went to pursue and kill the Japanese pirates who were fleeing south.

However, the pursuit can only last for 30 miles before they must return.

In reality, if you chased them for 30 li (approximately 15 kilometers), very few Japanese pirates could escape that far.

However, Li Jingxiao thought about it.

He chose to send six of his twelve bodyguards: Zhao Junheng, Tang Lang, Yin Chen, Wei Zhengxin, Tong Huaiyi, and Gu Li.

He led two centurions of the Imperial Guards southward.

In a strategic location on the southward advance, they lay in wait and killed the Japanese soldiers who had fled into the mountains.

The soldiers of the Left Garrison Command are not very useful in battle.

In this kind of small-scale battle, the fighting power is top-notch.

Moreover, Zhao Junheng and the other six people not only had the Three-Flower Jade Dew Pill on them.

There are also many talismans and demon-binding ropes used to capture and lock people.

Everyone learned the Five Tigers Severing Gate Saber Technique, and small-scale battles were what they excelled at.

Around 1 p.m., the pursuing cavalry units returned one after another to the hillside where Li Jingxiao was located.

They reported on their gains.

Jia Rong, who was standing nearby, was busy taking notes with her colleagues.

A short while later, he reported to Li Jingxiao: "General, this time we have directly killed 15,000 Japanese soldiers."

There were about nine thousand prisoners, and about five or six thousand escaped.

It's a pity that they couldn't capture the commander of the Japanese right flank army.

A soldier from the Tiger Warriors just reported that they have likely fled into Chengxing City.

Li Jingxiao nodded, but he was very dissatisfied.

He had said before the war that he would try not to capture prisoners, but now he had still captured nine thousand people.

It not only consumes manpower for guarding, but also consumes a large amount of food and fodder.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still more than 10,000 Japanese pirates in Xing'an City.

Li Jingxiao even wanted to order the more than nine thousand Japanese pirates to be buried alive and massacred.

The more than 1 Japanese people in Xing'an City did consider going out of the city to provide assistance.

But just as they discovered that their camp outside the city had been attacked by cavalry and were preparing to leave the city to provide support,

They discovered 1.2 infantrymen from the Great Zhou and Goryeo, divided into left and right armies, surrounding Chengxing City from the north.

Moreover, the Japanese pirates inside the city never expected that the camp of 3 troops outside the city would be defeated so quickly.

After being charged back and forth by 2 heavy cavalry and tens of thousands of light cavalry just two or three times, the entire line collapsed.

Afterwards, the two thousand heavy cavalrymen rejoined Li Jingxiao.

They followed behind him and rested near the hillside five miles outside Chengxing City.

Five li doesn't seem far, but it takes about half an incense stick's time to walk there.

But a cavalry charge would only last a few minutes.

If they were to leave the city, they would not only face the onslaught of heavy cavalry, but would also most likely be stabbed in the back by the Zhou infantry.

Once attacked from both sides, defeat is inevitable.

Therefore, the 1 Japanese people in the city had no choice but to defend the city.

Even after receiving a large number of defeated Japanese soldiers, there were only 1.4. Moreover, those 4 defeated soldiers were brought in by Niu Zhanpeng on his own initiative, who deliberately ordered his cavalry to drive the defeated Japanese soldiers into Chengxing City.

Otherwise, it would be considered a lot if 2 defeated soldiers were able to enter Chengxing City.

Without supplies, they were trapped in an isolated city.

The more people there are, the faster the food will run out.

But Li Jingxiao had no intention of confronting the Japanese pirates in the city for a month or two.

As for Niu Zhanpeng's unauthorized actions, Li Jingxiao could only let it go.

Niu Zhanpeng's actions were normal; he simply didn't know that Li Jingxiao wanted to end the battle quickly.

Before the news of the defeat of the Japanese right flank army reached the central army, they took advantage of the situation.

He led his army south, taking the eastern route through Wonsan and Chuncheon, and launched a surprise attack on the Yongsan granary south of the royal city of Gyeonggi Province.

Once Longshan is captured, there's no need for further offensive operations.

Li Jingxiao only needs to defend Longshan to the death.

They not only seized 15 Japanese troops, but also the vast majority of their provisions.

They could just sit back and watch as the Japanese central army and left-wing army collapsed on their own.

As for burning down the Longshan granary.

If they hadn't planned to invade Japan, then burning it wouldn't have been a problem.

But if they were to attack Japan, no matter how much food and supplies were prepared, Li Jingxiao would still feel it wasn't enough.

Moreover, the army could not carry much food and supplies when it marched south.

This means that the army may also encounter a shortage of food supplies.

Of course, this was during the period when Li Jingxiao was in Changxing City, constantly requisitioning grain and fodder.

They had secretly stored enough food to feed an army of 30,000 for three months in the city warehouse on the level 100 map of the game, using the convenience of the inventory.

Once Chengxing City is captured, it can be used as a supply base.

Advance to attack, retreat to defend.

If the attack on Longshan Grain Yard doesn't go smoothly, all we need to do is retreat to Yuanshan City.

Yuanshan City is not far from the sea, and grain is transported from Chengxing City to Yuanshan by sea-going ships.

A round trip can be completed in a day.

Moreover, the right wing of the Japanese pirates' army collapsed.

In reality, it was already destined that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan to invade the Great Zhou would fail.

If the Japanese commanders of the central and left wings had been any smarter, they wouldn't have continued north to invade Liaodong.

Rather, it was about how to preserve as many lives as possible during the retreat.

At the very least, they should retreat from Pyongyang back to the royal city in Gyeonggi Province.

To be conservative, retreating to Busan would be the wise choice.

The Japanese pirates certainly didn't expect that Lee Kyung-hyo would set his sights on the Yongsan granary south of the royal city in Gyeonggi Province, on the south bank of the Han River.
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The pursuing cavalry all returned in the afternoon, and the captains of the Left Garrison Command had already treated the wounded cavalry.

The Tiger Warriors were used to this.

Wang Zhong and his 2 cavalrymen, when they followed Li Jingxiao, raided a Tatar camp of tens of thousands of people at night.

In that battle, the wounded Jurchens also received the same medical treatment.

Therefore, Wang Zhong and his 3 men were not surprised by the fact that the officers of the Left Garrison Command were treating the wounded.

But the Jurchens of the Four Thousand Pagoda Mountain Guards saw this miraculous medicine that could save people from any injury, no matter how severe, as long as they weren't dead.

While feeling excited, I was also incredibly grateful to Commander Li Jingxiao.

Even a fool knows this medicine is a miracle drug and must be incredibly expensive.

These ordinary herders from the lower classes are actually able to enjoy such treatment.

It would be strange if I wasn't moved.

In addition, many people in the Tiger Warrior Camp were of Jurchen and Mongol origin.

With these people sharing their experiences, the 4 Jurchens even considered simply surrendering to Li Jingxiao.

The collected spoils were tallied and distributed that very night.

Having received the silver, an entire tribe of Jurchens, numbering over a hundred cavalrymen, stood a hundred meters away from the military tent and shouted that they wanted to surrender to the Great Zhou.

Upon learning this, Li Jingxiao refused without hesitation.

The proportion of Jurchens and Mongols in the Tiger Warrior Camp was already quite large.

No matter how many, whether it's Li Jingxiao or the emperor.

Or perhaps it's not a good thing for the soldiers of the Tiger Warriors.

In addition, Li Jingxiao had already planned ahead, after attacking Kyushu Island.

They used the land and the small cities of Japan to lure the Jurchens to stay on Kyushu Island.

These people are very obedient in front of me.

But once they were no longer bound by military discipline, they faced the threat of the Japanese.

When it comes to killing, they are no less ruthless than the Japanese pirates.

However, Li Jingxiao did not accept these Jurchens and become a member of the Tiger Warriors.

However, this did not stop Li Jingxiao from making empty promises to them.

When they heard Li Jingxiao publicly promise that anyone who could kill more than a hundred enemies would be rewarded...

Once we conquer Kyushu Island, I'll directly appoint that person as the city lord.

Kill ten people and you'll be rewarded with a hundred acres of land on Kyushu Island.
Twenty people were given the title of village chief.

The names of all the land in Village 2, which has 30 people.

This continues until a hundred people are killed and the city lord is appointed.

Throughout the entire army, virtually no one was confident of receiving the reward for killing a hundred people.

But the prospect of becoming the lord of a village on Kyushu Island simply by killing twenty Japanese people was still very appealing.

Especially today, when 2 heavy cavalry charged, quite a few people had already gotten seven, eight, or even ten kills.

As for the reward of killing thirty people and granting two villages, not many people even considered it.

However, the allure of killing ten people and rewarding them with a hundred acres of land on Kyushu Island has already made the entire army eager to fight again.

Morale and fighting spirit were clearly being mobilized.

Li Jingxiao ordered his men to disarm the Japanese prisoners and drive them all to a sizable depression a few miles outside Chengxing City to dig a pit.

Three thousand Goryeo soldiers and six thousand Jurchen cavalry were responsible for guarding the city.

If anyone does manage to escape into the city, then let them in.

Anyway, Li Jingxiao never considered attacking the city.

Not only were they unwilling to expend too many troops, but building siege equipment was also very time-consuming.

If all else fails, then we'll use Taoist magic to break through the city.

The entire army rested for one night.

Between the army and Chengxing City, a large number of bonfires were lit.

To prevent Japanese pirates from launching night attacks within the city.

Li Jingxiao was somewhat surprised that none of the captured Japanese pirates escaped.

But they also knew in their hearts that the Japanese pirates weren't stupid either.

The low-lying area where the prisoners were located was several miles away from Chengxing City, and they couldn't possibly outrun 6 Jurchen cavalry.

Moreover, if a city is besieged, even if one manages to enter, there is a high probability that one will be trapped and starve to death.

On the contrary, negotiating with Li Jingxiao and paying a ransom would actually increase the chances of survival.

Li Jingxiao had no intention of taking prisoners; as for the money, he could get it from Japan.

Not to mention, although they breached the Japanese camp, they captured a great deal of grain and valuables.

The nine thousand prisoners were basically out of money.

They also need to provide one meal a day, which consumes a lot of food.

It would be better to keep it for ourselves as military rations.

The next morning, Li Jingxiao ordered his men to drive the Japanese prisoners to dig pits.

In the afternoon, he ordered his men to shout to Chengxing City: if they did not surrender, then they would begin to massacre the prisoners.

The commander of the right flank on the city wall was Kato Kiyomasa, nicknamed "Tiger Kato".

This person was related to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was very capable and skilled in martial arts.

However, the right-wing army has always been known for its cruelty and brutality since entering Goryeo.

At this moment, he saw his men being driven into large pits by the Great Zhou army like cattle and sheep.

Kato Kiyomasa almost couldn't contain his anger.

(End of this chapter)