Chapter 69: The Conquest of Kyushu (22)
The situation can be described as taking a sharp turn for the worse, and the joy of the plan to force the fat descendants to give up their territory, women, and property is about to succeed is still rippling in their hearts, followed by the unexpected way of letting the fat descendants leave, and the always aggressive Date army will be so generous. The gap between the two moods www.biquge.info like moving from a happy paradise to a cruel hell.
Date three days dog Kiyokawa Hengxiu, Matsushima Hengsheng, and Iwase Hengzhong co-starred, giving people an impatient attitude, prompting Toji Michiyuki to finally steal chickens and rice, and end up with a smart ending but being clever and mistaken. Ono Zhenyuki's report, Toji Michiyuki's face was as ugly as he had figured it out, anger had swept all his mind, and the words he had originally thought of mocking the incompetence of the Date Army were returned to him as they were by this sudden change, and his heart was bitter for a while, knowing that he had failed.
Time gradually passed, the morning light became clearer and clearer, with the early departure of the fat queen, Toji Daoxue's calculations all failed, even if he could jump out of the encirclement, he would have to fight with the fat queen to lose both.
The change in the battle situation caught Toji Michiyuki off guard, forcing the Higo to make a choice, and there was a loophole, and the Date Army, who had always been aggressive, would adapt to the situation and give Higo a way out.
The Date army did not take in Higo, but allowed Higo to evacuate first, which was the last thing Toji Michiyuki wanted to see, and for the first time he felt pessimistic about the next battle.
This put Toji Michiyuki in a dilemma, fight or withdraw! If you retreat now, you can still enter Higo Province before Higo people, and it is possible that the two sides will encounter each other halfway, but Chikugo people are afraid that they will not be able to come down from Feiyue in a short time. If they don't withdraw, the Date army will be pressed from Mt. Kora, Hidake, and Chugogawa in the middle road, and if they are entangled, I am afraid that the entire army may be destroyed.
When Toji Michiyuki was in a desperate situation, a big battle broke out on the Higaku side.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Akizuki Bungen, Muneka Shisada, Tachibana Kanzai, Takahashi Kanzai, Harada Ryei, Tsukushi Yumon and other Chikuzen people stood at the front of the mountain road to the west of Mt. Hidake, and the cold command sounded, and rows of sharp arrows broke through the air, carrying a terrifying roar and breaking the air, pouring down on the heads of Chikugo people like a storm, screams and howls sounded continuously, and Chikugo people hid behind the rock mass and did not dare to raise their heads, and from time to time there were unlucky eggs who were hit by arrows and rolled down.
In order to resist the attacks of Otomo Yoshijin and Ouchi Yoshicho, the Chikuzen people were reckless in military force and lack of finances, making it difficult to equip expensive iron cannons, and the Chikuzen people's soldiers and horses were always composed of pikemen and archers.
In order to enhance the power of the archers, the Chikuzen people mixed their respective archers to form a bow and arrow army of 3,500 people, and the archers, under the protection of the pikemen, lined up in five columns, and continuously shot the Chikugo people from their backs, so that the Chikugo people could not raise their heads, and suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses were all over the field.
In the era of cold weapons, the number one casualty was always the bow and arrow, and it was mentioned many times that the Maruki bow was unbearable, but when the size of the system increased, the arrows fired by the Maruki bow rained down on the enemy's formation, and the casualties caused increased exponentially. Kamachi Kanmori and Yubu Weixin didn't have to worry about the bow and arrow shooting at their heads, the two of them stood on the ridge of Feiyue and looked at the bow and arrows pouring down, their eyes almost wanted to spew fire, and the mountainside was full of wailing soldiers, and almost all of them who were willing to be at the forefront were the elite of the Kamachi family.
These elites who were supposed to follow Puchi Jiansheng to make meritorious achievements and seal his wife and shadow fell on the cold mountain, and their hearts were dripping blood! More and more soldiers climbed upwards to avoid the rain of arrows.
After five volleys, the arrow array stopped.
In a short period of time, thousands of descendants died under the volley, and the mountain road was full of corpses, and rivers of blood flowed.
The situation was suddenly tense, Puchi Jiansheng on the ridge of Feiyue Mountain was extremely anxious, his heart was dripping blood, he looked back at the other side again and again, expecting the speed of descent to speed up, and shouted loudly: "Quick! Fast! ”
Yubu Weixin suddenly shouted, "Musashi Mamoru, the enemy is coming. Puchi Jiansheng looked back, and sure enough, an infantry formation armed with a short gun had already arrived in front of the mountain and began to climb Feiyue.
Pu Chi Jiansheng saw that the leader was leaning on the flag on his back, and said in a confused manner: "It's the mongrel of the Qiuyue family, give it to me and block them!" Counterattack! Counterattack! Shoot them with a bow and arrow! Stone them to death! ”
Pu Chi Jiansheng was already carried away by anger, and his speech was inarticulate.
Seven or eight hundred Maruki bows shot out clusters of arrows at the same time, covering the infantry formation of the Qiuyue family like rain lords, and dozens of people immediately fell to the ground screaming. However, the rest of the soldiers ignored the rain of arrows that kept falling, and still marched forward in unison, and the Qiu Yue family's overseers stood behind the two wings to supervise the battle, and whoever dared to take a step back would be killed on the spot, without any explanation.
Qiuyue Wenzhong was also gritting his teeth and insisting, his heart was dripping blood, he looked back at the Date army not far behind him, and shouted fiercely: "Warriors, let the general from Kyoto take a good look at the descendants of the Qiuyue clan who dare to pick Yuan Kou alone, kill!" ”
So far in the history of the Wa Kingdom, there have only been two national wars, one of which is the humiliating Battle of the White River Estuary, and the other battle is that the Yuan Kou has been attacked twice, although they have been blown away by the "divine wind", but there are still many Japanese people who have become famous for this war, and most of the local clans in Kyushu have resisted the Yuan Kou. In the eleventh year of Wenyong, the Battle of Wenyong broke out, and Yuankou invaded the Wa Kingdom for the first time, but was defeated by the kamikaze. In the fourth year of Hong'an, the Yuankou attacked again, and the three generations of the head of the Akizuki family, the Akizuki family, led more than 2,700 people, including the relatives and the party, to Hakata no Tsu, and rushed to the enemy position in a small boat, fighting bloodily and making meritorious achievements.
Akizuki knew that if he didn't fight bloody battles now and couldn't make meritorious deeds, he would probably become a rural feudal lord of Chikuzen Province after the war, and he would also move around in the days to come.
The tragic hand-to-hand fight soon began among the people of Tsukishu. In ancient times, both Chikuzen and Chikugo were part of Chikushi Province, and both were referred to as Chikushu. There were frequent exchanges between the people of the two places.
The sound of killing on the battlefield is shocking! After Qiuyue Wenzhong sent his sister-in-law Akizuki Harume to lead a thousand-person team to rush up, it finally had an effect, breaking through the arrow array of the Chikugo people, and fighting with the Chikugo people.
At this moment, behind Chikuzen, on a high ground on the bank of the Chikugo River, Matsushima Hengsheng sat on the horse with his military equipment in his hand, revealing a calm demeanor. Around him were more than a dozen well-armored generals, all frowning and looking at the battlefield.
Matsushima Hengsheng groaned: "I'm going to fight hard." ”