Chapter 562: Frog Jumps

As soon as Jiang Lang's order was issued, the Ming Dynasty war machine was like a wild beast that had been dormant for a long time, awakening again, revealing his fangs.

The Ming fleet, which moved first, began to move towards the north of Jiuzhou Island according to Jiang Lang's instructions, with the purpose of waiting for the Komu army to pass the strait, destroy their ships and completely cut off their retreat.

In addition to leaving 20,000 people to defend the city, and some warships were stationed at the same time, the rest were close to 140,000, and the troops were divided into two groups. One was led by Tang Qihan and 100,000 people to Kumamoto, while the other Jianglang personally led 40,000 people to another important coastal city of the Kojima Army, Kitakyushu.

One of the big reasons why Jianglang brought relatively few people is that Kitakyushu is also a sea-side city like Fukuoka. At this time, warships can easily exert their combat effectiveness.

It didn't take much time to get from Fukuoka to Kitakyushu. Two days later, Jianglang's 40,000 troops were already at the city, and the Ming Dynasty's fleet was also on the nearby sea at this time, waiting for dispatch at any time.

Of course, along the way, we passed many villages, and the soldiers faithfully fulfilled Jianglang's orders and expelled the village names. However, along the way, most of the villages were abandoned and there were no people.

After arriving at the city of Kitakyushu, Jianglang ordered people to set up camps and did not rush to attack. Then he sent people to carefully investigate the surrounding terrain and began to gather the situation.

In front of the sand table made by the craftsmen with him, Jiang Lang frowned slightly and looked at the terrain in front of him. According to the information he returned, the Komu Army had nearly 50,000 people landed in Zhongjin, and then gathered 60,000 people to come here. There were about two days left before this. Because he knew that the army had arrived, the Komu Army had given up confronting him head-on and hit all the people around him into the city. There are now about 40,000 people, and in terms of number, it is at least more than twice that of his own.

Deng Yuanjue has also arrived at Jiang Lang's camp and asked, "Sir, how should we get this tent?"

Jiang Lang pondered for a moment, then pointed at Nakatsu with his finger, then pointed at Kitakyushu, and then asked: "In two days, the Komu Army will be able to reach here with nearly 80,000 troops, and we will have 40,000 people. For 40,000 to 100,000, how much will we win?"

Deng Yuanjue thought about it and then said: "Kekikuishu Castle has more troops than Fukuoka's garrison. It can be seen that in order to deal with our artillery, they have used many methods. It is very likely that once they start fighting, they will take the initiative to give up the city wall, and then let us enter the city, and fight us to the death. After all, their battle not long ago has made them very clear about their strength. They will not get any benefits when they stick to the city wall. Once we enter the city, the environment will greatly limit our firepower, and the firepower on our warships will not be able to be used at all. As long as they persist for two days, their reinforcements will arrive, so that we can completely surround us. At that time, we are both enemies inside and outside. It may not be a good thing for us."

Jiang Lang nodded, Deng Yuanjue's words were very reasonable, so he asked again: "Then I'm asking you, how many people in Zhongjin are now?"

"Nakajin?"

Deng Yuanjue was slightly stunned, looked at the sand table in front of him, and thought for a while, then said: "The Komu Army landed 50,000 troops in Nakajin. Now there are 60,000 troops here, and the defending troops in Nakajin were originally 20,000. If the information was good, there should be 10,000 in the city now. Perhaps Komu Army thought that the place we were mainly dealing with was Kitakyushu, so there were not many troops left in this city! And they also shouted to destroy us."

After saying that, Deng Yuanjue seemed to know what Jiang Lang meant and asked, "Is it true that sir?"

Jiang Lang smiled slightly and said, "That's right, I plan to give up the plan to attack Kitakyushu City and change my goal to Zhongjin!"

After saying that, Jiang Lang turned his head and shouted, "Come here, Immediately notify the generals to come to my tent!"

The order was quickly conveyed, and the generals quickly arrived at Jiang Lang's camp. After looking at the generals, Jiang Lang didn't talk nonsense and said directly: "Now I announce the combat plan, General Ning!"

"I'm here!"

A young general said immediately.

"I want you to take your subordinates with a thousand people, and from tomorrow, they will still be stationed here, and then pretend to be 40,000 people. Remember, you must pretend to be very similar, including those on guard, the number of smoke rising from cooking, etc. The more you look, the better. The time is two days. After two days, you will set off to retreat to Fukuoka, and I will leave the best horse for you!"

General Ning was young and energetic, thinking about how to fight. He heard this and said, "Will you not be able to fight?"

Jiang Lang smiled and said, "Don't worry, there will be a war. After you go back, you will immediately cooperate with the generals to defend the city. It won't take long for the enemy to have more than 60,000 troops to attack the city. And if you pretend to be like it, it will directly determine the situation of our battle, so you don't have to do anything heavy with the mission!"

General Ning nodded and agreed.

Jiang Lang turned his eyes to the others again and said, "The rest of the generals obey the orders, I want your men to board the ship immediately after dark tonight. All the weapons and food and salary must be completed tonight."

"General Deng, I want you to order your fleet to come over, and make sure to let everyone wait for the ship tonight."

Deng Yuanjue agreed immediately.

This is also all the content of Jianglang's meeting. After assigning the task, everyone went down to prepare.

The night gradually came, and while the moonlight was taking advantage of the fleet, the fleet approached the coast, and then according to Jiang Lang's intention, everyone began to board the warship, including Jiang Lang. In just four hours, all the people landed on the shore, and then the entire fleet began to set off and sail towards Zhongjin. At the same time, the people who were left behind began to pretend.

Along the way, spies on the road also began to constantly inform Jiang Lang of the situation of Kou Mujun. As Jiang Lang expected, because General Ning performed the play well, Kou Mujun did not find that Jiang Lang and others had actually moved secretly, and only a part of them were left to act there.

On the night of the third day, Jianglang's fleet had arrived outside Nakatsu Castle. It was almost the same as Fukuoka. This city was a port city, without a harbor as heavily guarded as the Ming Dynasty's high-strength base. For the Ming Dynasty's warships, the harbor here was simply unprepared.

Taking advantage of the night, the Ming Dynasty warships approached quietly and did not fire. Although the Ming army had already arrived, I thought that the Ming soldiers were now attacking inside and outside, and were in dire straits, so the city's defense was not very strict. At least, this alertness was not very high.

Soon, the number of soldiers from the Ming Dynasty landed on the shore exceeded 2,000. As before, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not rush to attack, and then began to set up defense lines on the harbor.

But the only trouble is that there is also a city gate in front of the harbor. Now the city gate is closed, which is quite a problem for the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Jiang Lang naturally had a claim on this.

However, more than ten warship artillery were ready to fire, and then ordered people to quietly take the torch to the city gate and lit it.

In the telescope, Jiang Lang had clearly seen the soldier who lit the torch had left. So he immediately issued an order.

All the warships began to roar almost at the same time.

More than a few dozen cannons aimed at the torch and opened fire.

A loud rumbling sound came, as if in just a moment, a big gap was blown open at the city gate, announcing the beginning of the battle tonight.

At the same time, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty warship began to cover the frontal city wall with dense firepower.

The rumbling sound of cannons suddenly rang throughout the night sky.

A huge explosion suddenly came, and many people were killed in sleep.

So at the same time, the thousands of soldiers immediately rushed into the inside before the Komu Army had reacted, and then firmly guarded the city gate and established a defense line. At the same time, the soldiers behind began to climb the shore one after another.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty suddenly appeared in Zhongjin like divine weapons from the sky, and immediately caught Mu Jun off guard. Before he could react, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had already rushed into the city in large numbers.

Of course, the Mu Army guarding the city entrance never thought that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were supposed to attack Kitakyushu suddenly appeared in Nakajin.

With the experience of siege last time, after the Ming soldiers occupied the city gate this time, they immediately began to capture the city wall. For Daming soldiers equipped with rifles, this city wall is a very good defense location.
Chapter completed!