"Rumble ......"

Just as the temporary peasant army led by Sazaburo and Koshiro collided violently with the riot army composed of monks and mobs led by Yoriren Shimoma on the opposite side, there was a sound of "rumbling" from the east side of the valley. Immediately afterwards, everyone immediately felt that the place where their bodies were standing seemed to be shaking, and there was a bit of an illusion of unstable standing, and the two soldiers who were violently killing each other in front of them suddenly stopped, and the movements of holding weapons to kill were frozen in mid-air.

Shimoma Lai Lian, who was at the back of his own military formation, suddenly turned around and looked, and his face immediately showed a frightened expression. I saw that in the mountain road behind, the horseback team of the Luo family killed at this moment with overwhelming momentum, and the sound of the horse's hooves roared on the earth, as if an earthquake was coming.

"Ready, spear charge."

Isono Yuanchang roared angrily and stretched out the gun on the horse in his hand straight ahead, his body leaned forward slightly, almost attached to the horse's back, the wind blew on his face, after his order, the cavalry team continued to sound the order of each squad to raise the gun, so the whole five hundred cavalry of the Luo family cavalry team suddenly erected a bar-shaped gun array. Each of the horsemen put down their horses and guns flat, clipped tightly under their armpits, and stared straight ahead.

There were five cavalrymen side by side beside Isano Yuanchang, and due to the limited width of the mountain road, in order to better play the impact ability and combat ability of the cavalry, a row of six cavalry was already the maximum impact formation. At this time, Isono Yuanchang was also looking at the enemy camp in front of him. It took a lot of effort for this cunning enemy army to fall into today's trap.

When he was ordered to come to the eastern region of Zhou Fang Guo to quell the rebellion, it was just beginning. 一qiē is still very smooth. All the insurrections that came under his command of the First Standing Cavalry were destroyed and destroyed. It wasn't until they encountered the riot army that fled from An Yi Country that things became difficult.

The main reason is that the commander of this insurrectionary army is too cunning, whenever the army he leads approaches the area near the opponent, the main general of the opposing party will divide the gathered mob into several groups, and then scatter and flee, on the one hand, confusing his vision, making it impossible for him to pursue the specific location of the main general, and on the other hand, making it impossible for him to gather and annihilate this insurrectionary army. After several unsuccessful pursuits. He noticed that the other party seemed to be heading in the direction of Numajo. Although the main general of the other side has been moving to the mountains and forests, and constantly dividing his troops to confuse the sight of his pursuing army, his true purpose is still seen by Isono Yuanchang.

It can be said that there are advantages and disadvantages for the opposing commander to move the military to the mountainous area instead of following the open area along the coast to the Numagi area. The advantage is that you can avoid being besieged by the cavalry of the Luo family by relying on the terrain of the mountains and forests, and you can also escape quickly by relying on the terrain, but the disadvantage is that due to the restrictions of the terrain, the main general of the other side can no longer find out the specific movements of the cavalry of Isono Yuanchang in time as before.

What's even more disadvantageous is that since Isono knew the other party's real purpose was to go to Numajo, Isono Yuanchang, who was more familiar with the local terrain than the opponent's main general, just knew. If you plan to go to Numacheng from the mountain forest area, you will inevitably pass through Zhounan Village. And before arriving at Zhounan Village. You have to go through a canyon again. So Isono Yuanchang immediately sent people to find the village head of Zhounan Village, Luo Shi Sazaburo, Xiao Shichiro and others, and assigned them the task of interception. In order to prevent the opposing general from discovering the abnormality, Isono Yuanchang could only ask Luo Clan Sazaburo and others to organize a temporary peasant army in the local area. This army does not need to attack the opponent, it only needs to guard the camp in the canyon and prevent the opponent from escaping. And also to avoid being suspected by the opponent's cunning generals, they could not build fortifications in advance on the path that the enemy army must pass.

After arranging a qiē, Isono Yuanchang led the cavalry of the Luo family to help the local guide and took refuge in a nearby hidden mountain forest in advance. So there was finally today's canyon battle.

At this time, Isono Yuanchang did not know that the main general of the riot army was the famous fierce general Shimoma Yoriyo of the Ichō sect, but judging from the series of cunning expressions of the enemy's main general, Isono Yuanchang felt that this riot army must be completely destroyed, otherwise it would inevitably be in endless trouble in the future. Now, the opportunity for a decisive battle between the two sides has finally come.

"Boom" The cavalry of the Luo family carried this thunderous momentum towards the enemy army that was frightened by the sudden appearance of them.

"Formation, formation, guard!" At this time, as the main general of the enemy army, Shimoma Yorilian finally reacted, so he immediately began to organize the monks in the rear to form a formation in an attempt to block the opponent's attack.

"It should be able to stop the other party." Looking at the monks and soldiers who were in a hurry, Shimoma Lai Lian thought so.

It's a pity that the ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny. When the cavalry of the Luo family charged over on war horses, the interception formation composed of the always brave monks and soldiers was knocked away like a hot knife cutting butter under the neighing of the opponent's war horse and the sharp spear on the horse. The sound of the huge impact was so loud that the original fierce fighting sound was muffled, and the spears of the Luo family cavalry overturned the monk soldiers at the front, and then the war horses rushed into the monk formation that instantly became chaotic, which was definitely not the will of the Luo family cavalry but the inertia.

"Run."

I don't know who shouted, the monks and soldiers in the rear and the mob seemed to wake up suddenly, and immediately, everyone turned around and hurriedly began to run. Although they are fanatical believers, under the oppression of absolute strength, there will also be panic. Of course, there are always some exceptions among these people, and at this time, there are also more than a dozen people who fanatically shouted the slogan of "Nan Wu Ani Buddha Buddha" and rushed to the Luo family cavalry beside them.

"Die!"

Seeing these fanatical monks rushing towards him, at this time, Isono Yuanchang, who was like a tiger descending from the mountain, shot directly through the whole body of a monk who was shouting to kill, and then was provoked high and threw a few distances at once. Fell into the crowd of enemy soldiers.

Seeing this scene from afar, Lai Lian couldn't help but be stunned in place. Pick a big living person flying. This kind of arm strength is too terrifying! And there was such a fierce general in Luo's family, and a strong fighting spirit immediately surged in his heart.

Just when Lai Lian was surging with a fighting spirit, Isono Yuanchang, who was wearing a Luo armor, took the lead again after picking and killing a fanatical monk, waving the big gun in his hand, stabbing, picking, and rushing. Kill, almost no one can stop you wherever you go. I saw that Isono Yuanchang was on a horse, the head of the gun was thrown wildly, and where the tip of the gun was pointed, more than a dozen enemy soldiers fell to the ground with their chests in their arms.

Behind Isono Yuanchang, several short guns flew out, cutting through the air and making a sharp and rapid sound, shooting the enemy monks who were about to rush forward to fight with Isono Yuanchang directly to the ground. And the other Luo family cavalry saw that Isono Yuanchang was so brave, and their morale was also greatly boosted at the moment, and they also shouted in unison. drove the war horse towards the enemy and continued to charge.

In the face of the unstoppable rush of the Luo family's cavalry, even the most brave and fanatical monks did not fire their guns. They didn't dare to fight with them, and the mad believers and monks who had problems with their heads wanted to step forward to shake the cavalry of the Luo family, but they were all the end of the mantis arm as a car, and these people were either picked up by the gun, or they were directly knocked away by the war horse, and then crushed to death by the horse's hooves.

At the moment, no one can stop the cavalry of the Luo family, and Isono Yuanchang and his cavalry almost killed in front of Shinma Ryon, and the monks and soldiers around him who have been following him since they were in Echizen Province all stopped in front of him desperately, trying to block the momentum of the cavalry, but under the throwing of a round of short spears by the cavalry of the Luo family, half of them were killed and wounded on the spot. The rest of the people were killed by Isono Yuanchang and the Luo cavalry who rushed immediately.

Seeing that he was alone, Shimma Ryon, who was known as a brave general who had always been guilty of crimes, showed his terrifying strength at this moment. I saw that he flicked the big bar gun in his hand, stood in place and swung directly at the horse legs of the Luo family cavalry that pounced on him. The cavalryman's horse suddenly sank into the ground with both hooves, and the whole person flew directly out from the horse that was galloping at high speed.

However, the deputy general of the first standing cavalry team, Chixue Guangqing, aimed at Shimoma Lai Lian nearby and threw a short spear, although Shimoma Lai Lian was alert and dodged in time, but the short gun still grazed his right shoulder, and several blood flowers immediately splashed out of his right shoulder. But under the pain, Lai Lian was still brave, and with a flick of a shot, he knocked off a Luo family cavalry.

Where can Isono Yuanchang tolerate Lai Lian to kill people again and again, and he slapped his horse on the spot, and a shot in his hand broke through the air. Shimoma Lai Lian knew the power of Isono Yuanchang's shot, but in the midst of danger, he still used the big gun in his hand to fight to set up a shot of Isono Yuanchang. The head of the gun flicked, and the arm strength of the two was equal at this moment, and neither of them could help the other.

But Shimoma Lai Lian is still unable to escape the fate of the end of the martial arts here, he just blocked the assassination of Isono Yuanchang's shot, just when this new force was not born, and then another deputy general of the Luo family's first standing cavalry team, Tao Nakamoto, rode over, a shot stabbed, directly into the neck of Shimoma Rylian, and the head of the spear was stabbed out of the back of the head of Shimoma Rylian. Immediately, the figure of Shimoma Yorilian, who had caused a headache for the Han Cang family in Echizen Province and was also known as the fierce general of the Zong Dynasty, was drowned under the rolling hooves of the Luo family's army.

"The enemy lord will be taken!"

The moment when Lai Lian's head, along with his helmet standing in front of his brown scythe, was raised high by the Luo family's cavalry with the tip of their spears. The morale of the monks and mob monks and mobs who were still fighting in the canyon suddenly collapsed. The monks and the mob watched this scene in disbelief, but when they saw Shimoma Rylian's helmet and the main flag seal representing the general being cut down by the Luo family's army, they were convinced of the news.

Shimoma Lai Lian's prestige in the monks and the mob is known to everyone, and now the head of Shimoma Lai Lian was actually taken by the Luo family's army, these soldiers under the command of Shimoma Lai Lian, of course, it was difficult to contain the fear in their hearts, and they lost control at the moment and fled in the direction of the canyon blocked by the Luo clan Sazaburo and Xiao Qilang's team of peasant soldiers.

Of course, there were also several loyal and brave monks who wanted to recapture the head of the main general, Shimoma Yorilian, but they were immediately cut down to the ground by the Luo army, whose morale was greatly boosted by the killing of Shimoma Yorilian.

At this time, under the impact of the Luo family's cavalry, the enemy's rear showed a trend of rout. And the enemy army finally reacted, and some generals or monks tried to organize the army to turn around and intercept it. However, they were scattered by the rout of the monks, especially the mob.

See such a fighter. Isono Yuanchang and the cavalry of the Luo family under his command will naturally not let go. They drove the rout and pressed the enemy into the middle of the line. Until the enemy's mid-line began to rout, and then it hit the front line that was fighting with Sazaburo Roche and Koshichiro and others. At this time, Roche Sazaburo and Koshichiro and others finally encountered the biggest interception pressure since the launch.

At this time, Roche Sazaburo was caught in the middle of the crowd, directing everyone to intercept the enemies who were constantly rushing up one after another. Standing in front of him, Koshichiro was holding a sword in his right hand and a waki-sao in his left hand, his eyes were red, and his hair was dyed red, and he had killed seven monks and soldiers and eighteen mobs since the beginning of the battle. Whether he was alive or dead is unknown, he crossed over when he fell to the ground, completely devoid of the leisure and elegance of cutting off the head of the enemy army and hanging it on his waist, and he was vicious, staring at the monks and mobs who dared to rush up with bloodshot eyes, which was really majestic.

The enemy in front of him saw that he was brave, and most of them only dared to shout from a distance, but did not dare to fight closely. But with the continuous appearance of the rout in the rear, and the slashing of the Luo family cavalry in the rear, these monks and mobs who were intercepted by Xiao Qilang and others in front of them began to die. They clenched the spears in their hands and stopped retreating, and instead held their spears and other weapons high and pointed directly at the Luo family team in front of them who were blocking the canyon.

"Huh. Now do you know that you have won the scheme? Still want to run? It's late! ”

Xiao Shichiro, who had just cut off the neck of a mob with a knife, realized the changes in the enemy army in front of him, but showed a cruel smile, even if he lost his left arm in the battle of Itsukushima, but at this time, he was covered with blood and looked even more powerful and terrifying, only to see him suddenly raise the knife in his hand, and shouted: "All the soldiers listen to the order, keep it for me, the cavalry army of the family in front of me is coming!" ”

At this time, there were only more than 100 Luo family teams left, and all of them broke out with a "ho-ho" beast cry, and then firmly stayed in place. They were determined not to let the monks and mobs in front of them move forward, lest they flee to the rear and harm their villages and their families.

"Run, here, they're coming!"

At this moment, a mob slightly closer to the rear suddenly shouted in horror. It turned out that it was the cavalry of the Luo family in the rear who chased and slashed viciously. As soon as he had raised his courage to warn, the mob was shot in the throat by a short spear of the Luo family cavalry. It was such a simple and clean shot, and the mob made a reluctant sound before he died, and fell to the ground with both hands stroking the throat of blood.

"Ahh Help me! ”

At this time, the enemy's mid-formation was finally completely defeated by the Luo family's cavalry, and screams continued to be heard from there.

At this time, the people who were intercepted by Luo Shi Saburo, Xiao Qilang and others immediately couldn't wait, and they immediately shouted and rushed towards the team responsible for intercepting the Luo family. However, the monks who had planned to form a gun array to attack were even more confused by the impact.

The mob is different from the brainwashed monks and soldiers with stakeholders, who have always been able to "indiscriminately hunt" through the outburst. Indiscriminate hunting is to rob the village and bully the weak and seize their rations and belongings to balance the losses of their own expeditions, who makes these mobs different from the monks and soldiers under the sect, they have no money to take, at most they can only be rewarded after killing the opposing samurai.

However, the monks and soldiers under the Yixiang Sect are all supported by the Yi Xiang Sect, and they can take rice and grain, so it is not difficult to formulate strict discipline for them, that is to say, as long as the Yi Xiang Sect is willing, even if they are on the march, if they dare to fall behind, even if he just wants to tie his shoes, as long as he does not ask for leave with the team officer, it is a felony to kill his head. It's just that unfortunately, the Sect has not yet established a complete military discipline, so there are often some incidents that ruin the reputation.

These mobs really didn't have the courage and guts to resist the fierce attack of the Luo family cavalry from the rear, so they undoubtedly used their mantis arms as a chariot and killed themselves. What's more, these mobs usually only bully the weak and follow the brigade to pick up cheap and fight with the wind, when have they seen this kind of formation, so they are naturally the largest group in the rout. Under the onslaught of a large number of mobs, even the monks and soldiers who wanted to resist were smashed into pieces, and they were completely unable to organize effective resistance.

Seeing that more and more enemy troops were gathering in front of him, Roche Sasaburo immediately ordered the team responsible for intercepting the task to besiege the city in a circular defensive formation, and at the same time protect the wounded soldiers who were injured in the fierce battle and could not fight again, and slowly began to move towards the edge of the canyon. This was originally agreed upon by Isono Yuanchang. Their mission this time was only to temporarily stop the enemy forces. Wait until Isano's cavalry appears. It's time for them to form a formation to protect themselves. At this time, not only did it not need to continue the fight to the death, but also avoided blocking the pursuit of the enemy of its own cavalry, so it was natural to move to the edge of the canyon, so as not to block the impact of its own cavalry in the middle of the canyon.

And those mobs and monks who were being quickly assaulted by the cavalry of the Luo family would think so much, and as soon as they saw that the Luo clan Sasaburo and the others who were blocking their way of life gradually moved away and made way for them, they didn't bother to continue to fight with this small army. So he quickly and forcibly fled through the passage that appeared.

But how can two legs outrun four legs? At this time, the Luo family's army, which had already killed the rear and middle of Lai Lian's army in the lower middle in one go, was rushing towards the enemy, chasing the enemy army to the death. The cavalry of the Luo Army, under the leadership of Isono Yuanchang, was like a sheep into a wolf pack, killing the enemy like chopping melons and vegetables, and for a while the heads were rolling and the blood flowed like a river.

In the evening, the fierce battle, which lasted for a day, finally ended, and the army of more than 1,000 people led by Shimoma Lai Lian. In the end, only a dozen people escaped, and the remaining more than 1,000 people were not won in the fierce battle. It was directly cut down after being captured, and more than a thousand heads were placed in the canyon like a small hill. As for the corpses that did not have a head, they were ordered to be burned by Isono Yuanchang. The fire that burned for most of the night illuminated the entire canyon, and in the firelight, some strange sounds were heard from time to time, as if there were some monks and soldiers and mobs begging for mercy before they died, and there were also screams before death......

After resting overnight in the village under the jurisdiction of Sazaburo Roche near the gorge, leaving the wounded soldiers and horses to recuperate in the village temporarily, Isono took the thousands of heads that had been cleaned up by the women and children of the village overnight and went straight to the swamp castle to the west of the village.

After arriving at the foot of Numajo Castle, Isono Yuanmasa placed the heads of thousands of enemy troops in a Kyoto Temple, stacked them under the castle, and at the same time planted the main flag representing the enemy army next to the Kyoto Temple, and finally asked his subordinates to send people to loudly announce the destruction of the enemy army under the castle. After a day of publicity, Isono Honmasa shot the launcher of the first stage of the Shimoma Yoriren and others into the city. Isono's series of actions caused the defenders of Numajo, who had been resisting until now, and had recently even been demoralized by the news that reinforcements were coming to help, fell into a dead silence.

In the Numajo Castle Castle Tower, Sugi Shigenaga, who was the last governor of the Zhou Fang Sugi family, was trembling all over his body at this time.

"It's over, it's really over!"

Sugi Shigenaga's mouth kept repeating this sentence. At the beginning, when the Sugi family suddenly attacked and took advantage of the Tao family's governor Tao Qingxian's death in the battle of Itsukushima, he took down the Tao family in one fell swoop and overthrew the Ouchi family governor Ouchi Yoshicho, he was commanded by the family governor and led his people to take over the Numa, a territory that originally belonged to the Tao family, and built a bridgehead here to intercept the Luo family's invasion of the Western Kingdom.

Even if the governor of the Sugi family, Sugi Shigetaka, was killed by the Luo family, and the territory of the Sugi family in other parts of the Western Country was occupied by the Luo family, and Nushing City became an isolated island, he still continued to be the governor of the Sugi family, gritting his teeth and persevering. Even after this period of time, the Luo family continued to use their loud weapons (which were actually large cylinders) and firearms that fired fire oil and other things (this was the Luo family's siege weapon, the Spitfire Meteor), he was still able to block the city gate with mud and stones, and demolish the flammable houses.

In this way, he defended it for more than half a year, so that the Luo family was unable to capture the swamp city. However, as the food dwindled, he became less and less confident. At this time, a letter that was shot into the city at night gave him and the people in the city great confidence, and this letter was shot into the city by the careful work of the Sect of the Sect, which stated that the Sect of the West would launch a riot with a great influence in the territory occupied by the Luo family in the Western Kingdom. Ever since he got the news, Sugi Shige knew that his chance had come, but today after seeing the Jingguan outside the city and the tattered banner of the Sect Master, he was scared, and what was even more serious was that the food in the city was not enough to support him for several days. At this moment, he was really desperate.

Sitting near him at this time were his wife and sister-in-law Taro, and even his last retainer, Uda Kohide.

After taking another deep look at his wife and sister-in-law, Sugishige Naga suddenly stood up, and then walked up to his son, who was sitting next to his wife, and said, "Taro, you are also the son of a samurai, right?" The five-year-old son was taken aback, looked up at his father, and then at his mother, as if frightened by his father's sudden question.

"The son of a samurai, right?"

"Yes." Finally, Taro's childish voice sounded timidly.

"When you say that, my father is relieved. You're still young, and you're walking slowly, so I'm afraid you won't be able to go to the underworld with everyone. You go first. ”

“……”

"Understood, walk towards the intersection of the six reincarnations, and wait there for my father to arrive. Quick, face the west and worship the Buddha. As he spoke, he suddenly pulled out a knife from his waist and slammed it into the chest of his son, who was stunned and forgot to cry.

"Ah......" Taro's mother was completely stupefied by the scene that appeared.

"There is no Amitabha!"

Sugishige looked like he was crazy, and spun the knife around the child's chest again. The child had no sound, only his little hands spasmed violently in the air. Sugi Shigenaga gripped the knife hard, and then the child stopped moving.

"Already...... Already, it's time. ”

(Thanks to the "Senior Little White People, C.Y.T" for the monthly pass; Thanks to "Midoria" for the tip. At the end of the month, I finally ask you for a monthly pass, a recommended ticket and a reward. (To be continued......)