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Chapter 420: The Battle of Iwami


Li Mu's judgment of himself hit the bottom of his heart, and Li Jing was a little frightened.

"Then what did he tell you to go back to Beijing?"

"Explain to His Majesty his intention to occupy Iwami, and strive to make the occupation or lease of Iwami the first condition for negotiations with the Wakoku."

"Lend-lease" "Huh.

This kid said that if the Wa Kingdom refused to agree to cede Iwami, then he could take a step back and lease Iwami for 99 years. ” Li Jing was shocked, this kid is crazy.

"Didn't he think that the Wa Kingdom would never easily agree to this?"

He thought of it.

He said that the Wa Kingdom would never agree easily, so it was inevitable to fight a few battles of a controllable scale to hurt the Wa State and make them understand that the price to be paid to recover Iwami would be far more than agreeing to cede or lend, and then the Wa State would stamp the treaty. ” "But he only has less than 10,000 troops in Iwami, how can he resist the soldiers of the Japanese country?"

He said that the Wa Kingdom was likely to move their troops in two directions, one of which would naturally be to attack Iwami, and the other would be to launch a naval battle in order to cut off the supply lines.

Therefore, he left Liu Renliang, Xue Li and the three thousand divine guards in Gaya in order to launch a naval battle against the Japanese army.

At the same time, he wants me to convey to you, please sit in Gaya, he has recruited Jiangnan ships to go north to Wendeng, and can be called upon at any time. ” "Liu Renliang and Xue Li, with their three thousand divine guards, they can fight against the Japanese army's naval battle" "No, no.

What Li Mu meant was that he had already explained how Liu Renliang and Xue Li would deal with it, but the troops were insufficient, and he needed to send 10,000 troops to Liu Renliang and Xue Li. ” Li Jing was unhappy in his heart, Li Mu wanted to sit in Gaya by himself, but he wanted to hand over his 10,000 troops to the little-known Liu Renliang and Xue Li, wouldn't he be afraid that I would rob them of their credit.

Li Xiaogong saw that Li Jing's face was not worried, and hurriedly explained: "Li Mu also asked me to tell me that such an arrangement is definitely not an attempt to steal merit, but Xue Li's 3,000 bow and crossbow battalion has a miraculous effect in dealing with the naval battle of the Japanese army, please forgive me the Duke of Weiguo." ” Li Jing's face relaxed slightly.

"When will you return to Beijing?"

"I'll be back today."

Li Jing sighed: "I miss you and I at a lot of age, and we will be dizzy by this son." ” Li Xiaogong laughed and said: "Wei Guogong is right, but the blame is strange, and a certain heart is still happy." ” 。

In the city of Chang'an.

Honglu Siqing had almost completed negotiations with the Japanese Mission.

The two sides were about to sign and affix the national seal.

But because of Li Xiaogong's return, overnight, he returned.

No one knows what Li Xiaogong and Li Shimin said.

The next day, Li Shimin, despite the dissuasion of his ministers, directly ordered to Honglu Siqing that the cession of Iwami must be included as the primary condition in the peace negotiation treaty.

This condition is completely outside the scope of the power of the Japanese mission.

Although the Japanese delegation did not leave Chang'an immediately, the negotiations undoubtedly reached an impasse.

The Japanese delegation then sent a message to Asuka Okamoto, the capital of the Japanese state, and reported the request of the Tang Dynasty. 。

In the days of confrontation with the 50,000 Japanese army, Li Mu seized the time to build fortifications.

The fortress of cement and steel is divided into three layers.

One was built every other mile, and a wall of five feet wide was attached in between.

Behind the battlements, hundreds of arm-thick iron pipes were placed at a forty-degree angle.

This is a new improvised grenadier in Lijiazhuang.

However, the range was far less than that of the grenadiers of later generations, because there was no primer, and the range was increased entirely by mechanical springs.

The maximum throwing distance is about 250 paces.

But the power is greater than that of the generations to come.

Because the charge of the projectile was doubled.

Li Mu brought these improved simple grenadiers to the Wa Kingdom for trial use, completely out of a bad taste mentality.

In addition to these grenadiers, Li Mu also took advantage of the night to lay 5,000 mines within a mile outside the battlement wall.

The only thing that is not buried is the passage in front of the fort.

Because it was the aisle where the Divine Guard cavalry charged. 。

Wars always happen at inadvertent times.

Later in the night.

The Divine Guards are already asleep in their tents.

When the black-pressed Japanese army approached the fortress of the Divine Guard.

There was not a single movement on the battlement wall.

When the Japanese army reached three miles outside the city, they also deliberately threw a few stones in the direction of the fortress. to test the movement.

But there was still no response.

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The two armies faced each other for so many days, and the Japanese soldiers also wondered how the Tang army could build such a tall fortress.

This is completely different from the art of fortification that they are familiar with.

The Tang army did not use wood and stone, but only made a wall with a lump of mud.

The Japanese soldiers even suspected that such a wall was only useless and could be toppled at the first time.

General Mao Ye Nakana also did not believe what the defeated soldiers who retreated from Baekje said, and he did not think that the Tang army in front of him would have much combat effectiveness.

He is very conceited, and he is undoubtedly a famous general of a generation in the Japanese country.

If he hadn't led an army of 30,000, he would have swept away the 50,000 troops of the supporters of the prince's big brother in time.

It is impossible for Emperor Tamura to ascend to the throne.

Of course, it was not Tamura who was loyal to the Emperor, but the Toyoura minister, Soga Ezo.

Today, he has 50,000 troops in his hands, but the Tang army on the opposite side is only 8,000 people.

If it weren't for the explicit prohibition of Soga Ezo, Mao Ye would have been unable to hold back and launched an attack.

Beside the couch, let others sleep soundly Now that the ban has been lifted, Mao Ye knows that his chance to become famous has arrived.

Annihilated the Tang army, this glory was enough to make him famous in history.

Still, he was cautious.

He ordered 5,000 people to be the vanguard to test the attack to verify that his guess was not wrong, and the Tang army was not as terrible as the legend said.

The 5,000 Japanese army gradually increased the speed of its advance.

Until the fortress and battlement wall, the Tang army still did not react.

The anxious Japanese soldiers had already begun to climb the ladder to the wall.

At this time, countless torches poured out from the battlement wall, reflecting the inside and outside of the city wall into daylight.

The Japanese soldiers had not yet reacted in the dim and bright light.

A dense rain of arrows shot them into hedgehogs.

It comes like a tide, and it recedes like a tide.

After leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the Japanese army retreated.

Mao Ye was not depressed, but reassured.

It is worth exchanging the death of hundreds of people for the strength of the Tang army.

Katana Mono immediately gave the order and attacked again.

This time, Katana Mao Ye mobilized 10,000 people.

Moreover, this time, the Japanese army no longer tried to probe and rushed towards the battlement wall with an extremely rapid charging formation.

When rushing to the battlement wall, Tang Jun still rewarded the previous scene.

Shoot with a crossbow.

This made Mao Ye's name reassured.

Because last time the Tang Army suddenly poured out, and this time, this accident does not exist.

The Japanese soldiers were on guard and put rattan shields on their heads, and the casualties dropped significantly.

A steady stream of Japanese soldiers poured like ants towards the battlement wall. 10,000 people covered the entire area of a mile beyond the battlement wall

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