Chapter 3: Ambush
"Lord Shangyue, it seems that you are too cautious down, but look at the terrain around here, this valley is really dangerous! Last month, my family had this barrier, what a blessing! Akashi Keijin said with his horsewhip pointing to the valley in front of him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Thanks to the support of the lord, otherwise the family would not have been able to stay in Harima Country last month." Last month, Jingzhen immediately slapped the sycophant on Urakami Zongjing's body again.
"Lord last month was too modest." Akashi said with a smile.
Just when the two of them were bragging, the Chinese army of the Akashi Reserve and the last moon reserve team had slowly entered the valley and entered the place with the widest field of vision.
A shout of "free fire" sounded in the valley, and two hundred Kuroda family crossbows suddenly appeared from the forest on the high ground on the four sides of the valley, and two hundred crossbow arrows flew towards the descendants of the Akashi family and the Kamitsuki family in the middle of the valley. Two hundred crossbow arrows flew out vigorously, and the sound of a series of weapons entering the body came and went, and one by one the samurai of the Akashi family and the Uetsuki family, Ashigaru Nakaya fell to the ground, and it was okay to be hit by the vital point, but those who were shot in the hands and feet were lying on the ground groaning miserably, and some were even trampled to death by their companions who were panicking and dodging the crossbow arrows.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up, calm down, fight back, all fight back up the hillside." Akashi Keijin drew his katana and scolded loudly, but there was incomparably chaos in the valley, and all kinds of voices overwhelmed everything, only a few people around him heard his voice, and although these few people wanted to illuminate Shi Jingqin's words, the chaotic army around them did not give them any chance at all. It's really surprising that the Kuroda family really rushed to set up an ambush outside the city of the last month's house, and this kind of blow is indeed a bit big.
The rear team of the Hepan team, mainly minfu, saw that the confusion began to appear in front of them, so they threw away all their baggage and fled first. Some of the peasants at the front had already left the valley, and a large part was still in the valley, and when they saw the Chinese army being attacked, although they were not attacking themselves, the chaotic scene, the situation that was obviously unfavorable to their own side made them all shocked and confused.
Out of the valley, there are also some peasant soldiers who are about to leave the valley, they don't want to retreat back to the valley, in their eyes the valley has become a place of purgatory, since they can't run back, then run forward! It's better to be a deserter than to lose your life, and if you're lucky, you can escape back to your home, and if you're unlucky, it's not bad to stay in Harima Country, and the tax policy of the Kuroda family's five princes and five people has long been spread around, and if the rumors are true, maybe the whole family will be taken over!
As for the peasant soldiers who did not flee forward, they would not stand there waiting for death, but they began to retreat, each running to his own place, and scrambling to be the first, pushing and shoving each other, running without purpose, and only seeing the valley mouth when he came. They didn't return well, as soon as they retreated, the whole situation was even more unfavorable for the Urakami side, who had just reacted in the first wave of crossbow arrows, and the elite of the Akashi family and the last month's family army, which had finally gathered together, were once again hit by the peasants and soldiers.
Another wave of crossbow arrows was fired, and the confusion of the peasant soldiers helped the samurai of the Chinese army to share a lot of firepower, but under the stimulation of blood, there were no longer any peasant soldiers, well, the peasant soldiers had no morale, they ran desperately forward, and there was a samurai who tried to stop them, after hacking two peasant soldiers to death with a knife, he was pushed to the ground by the peasant soldiers behind him, and then dozens of peasant soldiers trampled over him, and he was trampled into meat sauce without even shouting.
After "killing" two waves of crossbow arrows, the Kuroda family's mother Takatomo, Miyata Miyata Mitsuji, Sasaki Nagahide, Kogawa Yoshitoshi, Sakabuchi Nagatsu and other generals led two hundred standing preparations to kill. Although there were not many people, there was a continuous sound of shouting and killing, and the Urakami side felt as if the Kuroda family had thousands of troops.
After a few breaths, the Kuroda army and the Urakami army began to engage in hand-to-hand combat. But the Urakami army, which had no formation and no morale, was no match for the Kuroda army at all, and as soon as the servants fought, more than a dozen people on the Urakami side fell to the ground. On the battlefield, it was obvious that the Kuroda army, which was on the side with fewer people, was chasing after the Urakami army, which was on the side with more people.
"Akashi's family Akashi is close to participating again, who dares to fight with me?"
"Akashi family Akashi Sotsuki ginseng"
"Akashi family Saburo Obata participates"
"Last month, the family was small and long-growing"
Seeing that the situation was not right, several samurai from Urakami's side rushed out of the crowd. These samurai tried to kill one or two of the Kuroda family's famous samurai in a single horse, so as to restore a little of their own low morale. Someone took the initiative to send him to death, and it was too late for Kuroda to be happy. Kuroda's mother, Takatomo, Miyata Miyata, Sasaki Nagahide, and Kogawa Yoshitoshi, four fierce generals, just happened to be one against the other.
Musato Takayu has the highest martial arts, but after seeing the enemy's flaws clearly, a simple spear stab will stab Akashi's younger brother Akashi to the ground. Musato Takayu didn't look at the corpse of Akashi Matsumi who fell to the ground, he felt that this opponent was too weak and not worth his sideshow, but the victory declaration still had to be issued, he roared, Musato Takayu inherited the big voice of Musato Kobei, and his loud roar pierced the entire valley, and even overwhelmed all the noise on the battlefield in an instant.
"Akashi has recently been taken by my mother, Takayu."
"Right near" Akashi Jingqin was still paying attention to the situation in the valley, and wanted to see if there was a chance to fight back, when he heard that Akashi was close to being taken by the Kuroda family, he shouted, it was no one else who died, it was his own brother of Akashi Jingqin! He had been paying attention to the fight that had taken place in the field, and Akashi was close to being the fierce general of the Akashi family, and he couldn't imagine that he would be killed by the other party without even holding out a round. Suddenly, the loss of a loved one, and the situation was unfavorable, the momentum of the Urakami side was even lower because of Akashi's recent death, and some of the Akashi family's ashigaru began to retreat on their own.
"Brother, retreat first! Otherwise, the people of Baomu Castle will be destroyed here. "Akashi Keiyuki was also very sad to see his brother's death, but he still remained sober, this is already a Jedi, you can't stay for a long time, otherwise the entire forward army will collapse, the best choice is to quickly retreat back to Shangyue City to rest, waiting for the arrival of Urakami Sokei's army.
"Right near, right near!" Although Akashi Jingqin knew this, Akashi's death was still a bit of a blow to him, and in his eyes, the death of the peasant soldiers was not worth his younger brother.
"Brother, now is not the time to be sad, withdraw your troops quickly! Otherwise, it will really be too late. Akashi Keixuki looked at the chaotic surroundings and urged again.
"Retreat", Akashi Jingqin only said two words, saying a little decadent, a little helpless, and some why it is always my feeling that I am hurt.
Akashi Jingqin retreated, the battlefield was chaotic, many people didn't know that the main general had run away, there were some bloody soldiers of the Akashi family and the last moon family who were still entangled with the Kuroda family, and the other three people such as Akashi Sozuki, who had launched a horse fight, except for Akashi Sotsuki who saw a bad opportunity and made a false move, retreated with the army. Saburo Obata and Shigenaga Oguchi fought to the death, and were finally won by Miyata Mitsuji and Sasaki Nagahide respectively, only Kogawa Yoshitoshi did not win.
After the Urakami side withdrew from the valley, the Kuroda army also began to withdraw to the next location under the orders of Kodera Shotaka. In this battle, the Urakami forward prepared for the front, more than 100 peasant soldiers were killed and wounded, more than 200 escaped, and the Akashi family's Hoki Castle lost more than 90 people, including five samurai including Akashi Matsujin and Obata Saburo, and the Akashi family suffered heavy casualties. Last month, more than 100 peasants and soldiers were killed and wounded, and the samurai only lost one person in Oguchi Shigenaga and more than 30 in Ashigaru. The Kuroda family had a total of 20 killed and more than 80 wounded, all of whom were killed and wounded, and there were no casualties among the crossbow ashigaru. Among the deceased, there is a small head of the ashigaru, most of the injured are minor injuries, and they can recover quickly, as for a few serious injuries, they can only go back to see if there is a way for the monks of the whole sect, because of the lack of medicine, the possibility of the seriously injured actually recovering is very small, and they can only give a happy time when the time comes. Most of the casualties occurred when some samurai and ashigaru of the Akashi family and the Uetsuki family rose up to block the attack, and after repelling this blockade, they basically did not encounter resistance.