Chapter 1790 The Attack of the Ezo People
Hachiman Shrine is built on a low hill, overlooking the gentle and long coast. When the sentinel from the high observation deck discovered that the Ezo people on the coast were as densely packed as crabs swarming on the beach at low tide, Then the warning conch horn was blown.
The monks in the shrine began to pray, praying that the almighty Hachiman God could guard the land of Japan, eliminate all disasters, bless the peace of the Japanese people, and send down heavenly bows and arrows to kill all demons...
The Japanese soldiers stationed in the shrine, under the command of their leader, opened the mountain gate and rushed out.
They have never regarded the ignorant Ezo people as opponents. They are a group of low-class races who are hungry and do not deserve to own the most fertile land in the world. They dare to go to the ice-covered Ezo Island as a gift from His Majesty the Emperor, and now they are actually If you dare to invade the land of the Japanese, you must kill these stupid Ezo people completely and let them know that the brave Japanese are invincible!
Hundreds of years of unbeatable achievements have made all Japanese people full of contempt for the Ezo people, so they have never noticed that the current Ezo people are no longer what they used to be...
Therefore, the Japanese soldiers did not adopt the safest strategy of sticking to the shrine and being condescending. Instead, they came out in full force, intending to go down when the Ezo people attacked and defeat them with a single charge.
Facing this group of stupid fishermen, what use is there of tactics and strategies?
When the two armies met on the hillside, the Japanese felt something was wrong...
The biggest reason why the wars with the Ezo people were invincible in the past hundreds of years was the sophisticated weapons and rigorous training. During the war, the Japanese soldiers were well-equipped and well-trained. A group of Japanese soldiers could not even smelt bronze. The Ezo people are unarmed, how can they win with just their bravery?
However, things are very different now.
Not only did this group of Ezo people hold horizontal swords and spears, but most of them even wore leather armors. They fought in one place. The Ezo people supported each other in advance and retreat, and there were dozens of Japanese who came face to face with them. The soldiers were chopped to the ground, blood gushed out, and there was a cry.
The Eni people who obtained the Tang army's standard equipment also withstood the training of the Tang army. Although it was impossible to suddenly become a first-class strong army, they were already fully dominant in the face of the Japanese soldiers. Coupled with the Japanese soldiers' negligence, they were doomed. The end of this battle.
In the past, the Japanese soldiers were well-armed and well-trained, and they had a huge advantage against the ignorant Ezo people. But what did these advantages that they were proud of mean to the Tang army?
A massacre begins...
The Ezo people, who have been humiliated for generations, seem to have been beaten to death. The brave Japanese soldiers who used to fight in front of them no longer exist. Now the only ones fighting them are a group of idiots fighting on their own. When the sharp edge of the horizontal sword cuts them, When the Japanese soldiers' throats were in front of them, and the sharp long hairs pierced the Japanese soldiers' chests, the Ezo people finally found a feeling of victory that they had not experienced for hundreds of years.
So cool!
They wielded their weapons and were not afraid of death. They not only defeated the group of Japanese soldiers in front of them, but also took advantage of the situation to attack the hill and enter the Hachiman Shrine.
The monks who were chanting incantations and wearing strange clothes were praying in the main hall, hoping that the almighty Hachiman God could get rid of the demons and protect the Japanese, but they were all killed by the Ezo people who swarmed in. The omnipotent God Hachiman transformed into a clay sculpture, sitting indifferently in the main hall, watching with cold eyes his people and believers howling and screaming under the butcher knives of the Ezo people, slaughtering them like pigs and dogs...
The Ezo people have gone completely crazy.
The humiliation endured for hundreds of years is like a suppressed volcano. Once it erupts, the violent energy it unleashes is enough to destroy the world!
After the Hachiman Shrine was swept away, the blue brick floor was dyed red with blood, and the entire temple was filled with corpses, the Ezo people, with their blood still cold and their fighting spirit still intact, rushed into the gentle and wide plain from the hillside behind the temple with roars. , kill everyone on sight!
They not only want to take back the land occupied by the Japanese and return to the place where their ancestors lived, but they also want to fight all the way to Asukakyo to kill all the Japanese and completely wipe out this evil and violent race from this land...< br>
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No Japanese thought that the Ezo people who had been driven to Ezo Island in the far north could still have the power to resist. Therefore, the entire border was empty. Except for some strategic areas along the coast where Japanese soldiers were stationed to prevent pirates, there was no defense at all. .
Therefore, when the Ezo people, who were equipped with weapons and weapons of the Tang army and trained by the Tang army, landed on the coast of Mutsu Kingdom, they hardly fought a few decent battles before tearing apart Japanese towns and cities and advancing furiously!
This force, which brings together the vast majority of the young and strong Ezo people, is unstoppable. Their leader is Yoshiko's younger brother Yoshiki, a brave and resourceful young man who is rare among the Ezo people. Following the advice of the Tang Dynasty, he did not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place, and led his soldiers to sweep away the Japanese inhabited areas with the purpose of wiping out the Japanese. Wherever he passed, there were dead bodies and rivers of blood.
The whole Mutsu Kingdom was shocked. While sending people to Asukakyo to ask for help, they organized young men to resist. In the end, even monks were sent to the battlefield to try to stop the Ezo people's attack.
But it’s of no use...
Two years of formal military training, and a large number of weapons and weapons that were eliminated by the Tang army but were far more sophisticated than those of the Japanese soldiers, made it possible for the Ezo army, even though there were only a thousand people, to still block the killing of Buddhas, and advance with unstoppable force. .
The Ezo people's tactical intentions were very obvious. They sometimes broke into the interior to attack the Japanese cities with lightning. Once they succeeded in attacking, they immediately fled far away, retreated to the coast to receive supplies from the fleet, and then advanced along the coastline toward Asukakyo.
This caused the Japanese to be in chaos, completely unable to grasp the marching route of the Ezo people, and even more confused as to the target of the Ezo people's attack, and could only be passively beaten.
For more than a month, cities and towns in the northern part of Honshu Island were trembling with noise...
The Mutsu Kingdom has not organized even a fruitful counterattack, and the entire country has been torn to pieces by the Ezo people. Countless Japanese people cried for their fathers and mothers and fled towards the man with their families. They could not escape, and the Ezo people were full of joy. It is hatred, and the methods are more cruel and violent than what the Japanese inflicted on them in the past. The men, old and young, are all killed, and the women are all captured, both as slaves for labor and as tools for reproduction.
The Mutsu Kingdom's defenders gathered the last three thousand young men of the Mutsu Kingdom in Aoba Castle, hoping to rely on the strong castle to hold on. As long as it lasts for a month, the emperor's reinforcements from Asukakyo will arrive, and by then there will be only a thousand Ezo people. The only way to end up is to perish and perish!
However, Aoba Castle, the capital of Mutsu Kingdom, could not hold on for even a day...
The solid blue brick city wall was tall and thick. The Japanese soldiers stood at the top of the city and watched helplessly as two Eni people placed a dark object in the gap of a pried city brick, and then the mountain shook with a "boom". A large part of the city wall collapsed instantly, and the Japanese soldiers on the city were crying like ghosts and howling like wolves, causing countless casualties.
Everyone was panicked. They didn't understand what kind of power could destroy the solid city wall in an instant. Looking up at the sky, everyone was terrified.
The Japanese soldiers who originally swore to defend their homeland collapsed instantly in front of this sudden "miracle". They thought that they could resist the Ezo people with all their lives, but even if they had nine lives, how could they resist the gods and Buddhas descending from them? anger?
Even the Great God Hachiman cannot protect his people and believers, fearing that the end has come...
In fact, it’s not just them? The Eni people below the city were so frightened that they fell on the ground and prayed silently, hoping that the divine thunder coming from the sky would only punish those tyrannical Japanese. The Eni people were the most devout believers.
It wasn't until Jishiko took the lead and rushed in through the gap in the collapsed city wall with a horizontal sword, that the Ezo people woke up from a dream and followed closely behind them with high spirits and entered the city.
The surviving Japanese soldiers were already lying on the ground, raising their hands to surrender...
However, the strategy of the Ezo people has always remained unchanged. They understand that what they are fighting for is not a city or a land. Otherwise, even if they take it back, they will eventually be taken back by the Japanese who have an absolute advantage in population. Therefore, they only kill people, not the city, or even the warehouse. I don’t want any of the wealth here!
As long as all the Japanese are killed, the world will be vast, why not let the Ezo people graze on Shizhu Island and drink from the Asuka River?
Kill all the Japanese, and everything will belong to the Ezo people...
When all the young men in Qingye City were slaughtered, Ji Shiju stepped into the city stepping on the blood that covered the bluestone slabs.
Ji Shiju, dressed in a military uniform and soaked in blood, stood in front of the palace, holding the head of Lu Ao's guardian in his hand, cracking his white teeth and smiling at his eldest brother.
Stepping forward and patting his brother's shoulder hard, Yoshiko's eyes were filled with admiration and joy: "Well done, you are worthy of being my brother, and worthy of being a descendant of the Ezo people! Just keep moving forward, don't stop , and fight until Asukakyo. At that time, the Tang people will come forward to mediate and fight for a piece of land for us Ezo people to survive under the sun.”
He was sober and did not lose his mind due to the overwhelming prosperity before him, thus inflating his pride.
The Japanese have a large population, and the reason why the Japanese are able to advance so violently and win consecutive battles is just because the Japanese are caught off guard. Once the Japanese recover, how can a mere thousand elite Japanese soldiers be able to defeat the Japanese troops mobilized by the whole country?
The only way is to occupy as much land as possible before the Japanese react. When the Ezo people's advance shows signs of decline, it is time for the Tang people to come forward.
If the Tang people come forward, it means that this war is about to end, at least temporarily, because Ji Shiju understands that the Tang people don't care about the war between the Eni and the Japanese, but the Tang people will never allow only one race to be left in this land. .
No matter the Ezo people or the Japanese people, no one can perish, and no one can dominate one family. They can only fight tit for tat and stalemate, and continue the hatred from generation to generation. Support whoever is weak, attack whoever is strong, this land The flames of war are endless and the killings continue without peace. That is the ultimate goal of the Tang people.
Ji Shiju doesn't care. (End of chapter)