Chapter 510 White Horse Rush
The reason why Komasa Iito was left to set up an ambush was because he was not only a veteran soldier, but also the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army in his previous life. Such a veteran on the battlefield chose to set up an ambush. The location is naturally also excellent.
Not long after Takeda Shingen led the main force to retreat, he sent envoys to lurk on various roads when they came to monitor the Xia Kingdom soldiers and horses who might pursue them from these roads. After all, there were only two thousand people who could not take care of them. Pursuers on all paths.
At this time, the 2,100-strong Red Army chose a place where it was easier to set up an ambush.
Before setting up the ambush, he had already driven away the people in the nearby Japanese villages. Those who did not want to leave would directly have his soldiers kill them all to avoid leaking the news.
In the quiet mountains and forests, there are faint sounds of birdsong coming from the distance.
"Lord Fanfu Huchang, the signal has been revealed. A group of Xia soldiers are coming towards us." In the shadows, the deputy general came from the edge of the forest and held his hands to Fanfu Huchang who was sitting on the big blue stone. Report: "Please give me a warning, General!"
"Prepare for an ambush!" Iandomi Huchang drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, threw the glass to the ground, grabbed the spear stuck on the ground, and roared Stand up in one fell swoop.
The deputy general nodded and turned around, running in the forest and making gestures to his subordinates lurking around him.
The figures almost held their breath. For a time, all the sounds of the figures hidden in the woods, shrubs, and hillsides disappeared.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and even the insects in the grass seemed to feel the chill and became dead silent.
Then, there was a swish sound here, the bows and arrows were put away, and the horses started running on the road, allowing the red soldiers who rushed down and jumped down the hillside to pounce.
I really want to see the Xia generals looking horrified!
When he thought of such a scene, Iitotomi Huchang's mouth curled up into a sinister smile. He raised his iron spear and issued the last command.
The moment a hundred elite archers released their thumbs from clasping the strings, and the arrows rushed out of the woods, the surrounding red soldiers, wearing red armor and holding swords, rushed out.
The moment a series of doubts arose, the Xia general riding a white horse below suddenly thrust his spear into the ground, took out a bow with his backhand, fastened an arrow, and flew towards him.
Zhao Yun didn't even look at the fallen body. He raised his left hand, stretched out his fingers, and imitated the provocative action Su Chen had done before, and raised his fingers at the Japanese general opposite.
"Why is this general of the Xia Kingdom not afraid of an ambush?"
The faint sound of horse hooves penetrated the sky and gradually became clear and audible. Iito Huchang lay down in the grass and looked at it. The sky.
Zhao Yun ignored the Japanese soldiers around him. He stood there one man and one horse. A nearby red soldier rushed over with a tachi behind him. The silver spear danced like a snake and stabbed him quickly. In the past, one by one, blood lines crisscrossed and flew into the air.
Iito Homasa jumped out of the woods with an iron spear in his hand, ran quickly on the ground with his feet, waved the spear head, and shouted in Japanese: "Kill!"
However, the next scene, Iito Huchang, who led his army down the hillside, almost stopped. The panic scene that he originally imagined for the Xia cavalry did not appear.
Iifu Huchang is a man of few words, but he couldn't help but feel a little excited at this moment. He stared closely at the Xia cavalry below who was gradually approaching this way. He suddenly raised his hand to stop the restless lieutenant and lowered his voice and said: "Wait until they pass halfway!"
Iito Homasa jumped up on a rock and rushed towards the nearest cavalryman. The next second, a war horse rushed from the side, and he was severely beaten before he could react. It flew out hard and landed back on the hillside.
He used to be a general who led troops, and he ambushed the enemy not once or twice, but this was the first time he encountered this.
Iito Huchang rolled around on the ground, stood up with an iron spear, and touched his body in a daze. He didn't understand at all how he was knocked away by the opponent just now.
“Here we come!”
“Can you beat me? Master Iito Homasa.” The deputy general clenched the sword in his hand and asked the unblinking general beside him.
This action was obviously provocative, and Iito Huchang couldn't tell. He also made the same provocative action towards the general of Xia State opposite him. He opened his mouth and said, "Oh!" , spitting a mouthful of saliva onto the opponent's horse's hooves.
A hundred elite archers were also among them, quietly holding their arrows and pointing them at the advancing cavalry below.
Fanfu Huchang licked his lips and tightened his grip on the iron spear. The ambush troops were always caught off guard. Once the enemy was in a hurry, defeat was not far away.
"Kill——"
Two thousand white horse soldiers lined up in a row, bows drawn neatly, and they fired at the rushing Red Army troops, rushing to the end of the hillside. A group of Japanese soldiers suddenly fell on their backs.
Under the gentle hillside is a rugged and sunken dirt road. It can be seen that many people have walked here before, but now only the panicked footprints left by the Japanese soldiers after they withdrew.
Under the cloudy sky, the cavalry lined up in a long dragon and rushed forward, holding high the "Zhao" flag, hunting and flying.
One hundred feather arrows are not densely packed. In front of two thousand cavalry, not to mention there is an obstruction in the middle, the effect of shooting is not obvious.
At this moment, some of the arrows fell on the ground, some hit the running horses or the arms of people, and some cavalrymen leaned on their horses to hide the arrows. Pass.
Two thousand red troops surged across the hillside, rushing towards the cavalry galloping below.
He sprayed away a bug crawling on his lips, looking through the gaps in the bushes and following the end of the road below.
“As long as you are not afraid of death, you can fight!”
The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer, and the silhouettes of cavalry passed by his overlooking view. When it was almost done, he stood up slowly and said in a low voice: "Get ready!"
While the deputy general made a gesture, The figures behind them drew their swords and stood up, moving their steps and starting to move forward.
The next moment.
On the road, Baima Yicong ran in the wilderness, keeping a distance from the Japanese red army, and started shooting on horseback.
“So calm?”
In the mountains and forests, figures crouched or crouched. After hearing Iitomi Homasa's order, they all held their breath nervously and tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands.
Looking closely at the Xia cavalry marching at full strength below.
He rushed at the front, unable to avoid it, so he had to squat on the ground. The arrow almost grazed his hair and flew past, directly penetrating a Red Army soldier who was still running behind him. Then he shot the second person behind him to death, and then the arrows stopped.
Just hearing a low cry from the other side, a figure with a white horse and a silver spear stopped the horse, looked at the Japanese soldiers rushing down, and the leader Iito Huchang slowly raised his hands. That silver gun.
Iito Huchang looked at the Xia Kingdom cavalry lined up on the road below, and he was completely confused. Why was it different from the originally imagined picture.
The cavalrymen running on one side gathered their horses, turned around, and faced the hillside. They looked at the Japanese soldiers calmly, and some even had sneers on their faces.
"Xia's cavalry is an elite force, and they are finally waiting for a big guy!"
Over there, Zhao Yun immediately raised his spear, his eyes cold, not at all like the previous battle against the island. dull.
Baima looked down and let out a violent breath.
On horseback, the faint expression on Zhao Yun's face gradually turned into a scowl.
The heel slammed into the horse's belly, and the white horse seemed to be as angry as its owner. It roared loudly, raised its hooves, and rushed towards the hillside.
A few soldiers of the Red Army who came over formed a formation, trying to stop the current general of Xia State with the formation they had practiced in the past, coupled with the slender sword.
The moment they went up to them, what they responded to was a flurry of stabbing shadows hitting them in an instant. The next second, Zhao Yun jumped across them on a white horse, and his four hooves fell. Go to the hillside and run wildly.
The five red soldiers stood on the same spot, their armor cracked, revealing blood holes and bleeding.
On the hillside, Iito Homasa pulled out the tachi from his waist. His not-so-tall body jumped up with a roar of "Ah!" Secret Technique: Jiashan Tiger!
He turned around in mid-air and swung the blade fiercely without hesitation. At this moment, under the sky, a scene of a tiger descending from the mountain appeared behind his figure.
The swinging blade instantly stirred up strong winds and a tiger roar in the air.
The bright silver gun of Gentian flew over and collided with the swinging blade, making a 'dang' sound.
Zhao Yun galloped on his horse, spread his cloak, and drew his sword with his left hand. At the moment when the horse passed by the opponent's figure leaping in the air, a white energy filled his body. He turned around on the horse and The sword slashed out angrily.
Secret Technique: Block the River to Seize Adou!
An arm covered in red armor rose into the sky, dragging blood. On the back of the passing war horses, Zhao Yun turned his back to the Japanese general who landed on the ground. He shook away the blood beads on the sword blade and sheathed the sword with a swish. Sheathed.
Zhao Yun held the gentian gun in his other hand, turned his face slightly, and moved his eyes to the corner of his eyes, glancing at Fanfu Huchang who was missing an arm on the ground, slowly turned the horse's head, and urged the horse to pass.
On weekdays, he is gentle and courteous, but when he is on the battlefield, his fierceness and ferocity as a warrior can be fully displayed. What's more, the Japanese generals use his name to flaunt themselves, which is alive and well. Humiliate him.
More than a dozen Red Bei soldiers rushed towards them, but before they even got close, they were stabbed to the ground by a few shots from him.
"Japanese pirate!"
Zhao Yun urged his white horse to step on a corpse, his eyes fixed on Fanfu Huchang who was holding his broken arm on the ground. The gun head hanging on one side was slowly dripping with blood. .
"Come on!" Iito Homasa touched the lost tachi, struggled to get up, and screamed at the people and horses on the opposite side. However, at this moment, not many people in the surrounding red army responded.
All around, on the roads and in the fields, there are white horse followers running in small groups. The horses are surging, and the cavalry on horseback are like walking dogs, leading the pursuing Japanese soldiers, constantly releasing weapons on horseback. Arrows killed them one by one.
It is the tactics commonly used by Baima Yicong, which come from the Baima Yicong in the late Han Dynasty. However, it is not just the cavalry that can fight against Xianbei and Huns.
Among them, Zhao Yun's experience in the second half of his life was also taught to these soldiers. With the same troop strength, Bai Mayi continued to shoot at random, alternately dividing the Japanese soldiers who were pulled into the open area, and constantly used arrows to kill them. Shooting down one after another, after the number was almost reduced, the roaming cavalry group gradually gathered from the squad into a charging array amidst the sound of the horn.
This is truly the most efficient way to kill.
The moment the horn of charge sounded, as an elite red army, even though the weapons were better than ordinary Ashikaga and everyone wore wooden armor, they were still soldiers who had never experienced a real battlefield.
There is an insurmountable gap with Baima Yicong, who has gone through many wars.
After seeing the Xia cavalry gathering to charge, the red soldiers here were still scattered in the field to meet them.
In an instant, he was engulfed by the spreading cavalry.
In general cavalry charges, those at the front are the most powerful cavalry in the army. They have killed many enemies, at least by double digits.
Boom!
The cavalry charging at high speed switched to spears and directly stabbed away the Chibei soldiers who wanted to cut off the horse's legs. More cavalry from behind penetrated directly into the Chibei soldiers on the field.
The sword broke, and the spear stabbed each body with the speed of a war horse. Blood splashed into the air, and human limbs were lifted into the air.
Iito Huchang looked at this scene, forgetting the pain, and opened his mouth silently.
"Red Bei Army..."
Zhao Yun also looked at the killings in the wilderness over there, with anger still in his eyes, and the gentian silver gun in his hand reflected the skylight. Once, it stabbed Iito Huchang in the chest, and then pulled it out!
Pick the opponent's corpse on the head of the gun with one hand and hold it in the air.
……
Large areas of corpses fell down, and no one paid attention to the figures who dropped their weapons and begged for surrender. These battle-hardened cavalry directly charged back and forth on horseback.
From a distance, the Takeda military envoy who was observing the battlefield looked at this scene and was so frightened that what was clearly an ambush turned into an encounter.
And this is the first time I have seen with my own eyes how crazy the Xia army is.
What kind of spirit Mr. Takeda boasted about in the past, compared with them now, is as ridiculous as a child playing house.
At this time, a cavalryman saw him. The envoy was frightened, turned around, climbed on his horse and ran away.
Not long after, a large number of horse hooves were heard chasing behind him. He looked back from time to time and saw that behind him was a huge group of cavalry, undulating like a wave.
The envoy was so frightened that he cried out while holding the horse's neck on his horse's back.
While crying, he shot loud arrows and tried to call his companions to come to the rescue. However, the envoys who were coming saw the running Xia cavalry from a distance. They came over to take a look one by one, then turned and ran away.
Just when the news of the Xia Kingdom's cavalry pursuit was conveyed to the retreating Takeda Shingen army, on the other side, the soldiers and horses of the three armies had already set up camp on the plain near the sea of Yun Kingdom Island.
"Zhao Yun lost contact with his troops and has sent people to check the path they passed. Marquis Wen is still in contact, but it is confirmed from Zhang Liao that the wolf cavalry led by Marquis Wen is not far away from him. Far away, maybe in a mountain.”
Jia Xu sorted out the information and told Su Chen, then summarized the information and handed it to Wu Zixun.
After taking it, the latter exited the imperial account.
"Will the Takeda Army set up an ambush on the way to ambush Zhao Yun and Lu Bu's troops?"
Su Chen stood up from behind the long desk, walked to the map, and looked at the markings on it There are two possible routes for Takeda Shingen's main force to retreat.
After all, the terrain is unfamiliar. If there is an ambush in the middle, the loss of horses will be small. The excellent cavalry that was finally raised will be all in vain.
Jia Xu glanced at the emperor, who looked attentive. He pursed his lips and muttered in his heart: 'It's not like you used the provoking method to stir up the anger between the two of them. ’
Of course, it was impossible for him to say it directly, but he still said a warm-up.
"According to General Zhao's temperament, the Japanese pirates would probably be too close to ambush him. As for Marquis Wen, haha... I can't say that the Japanese pirates' ambush will directly cripple him."
Just talking. After a while, Wu Zixun, who came out of the imperial tent over there, sent this information to a nearby tent and handed it to the documents inside for copying and filing.
After coming out, he went to the back again. The patrol soldiers had just passed by and there was no one around. Wu Zixun then untied his belt, took off his trousers under his robe, and happily let out the urine that had been held all the way. .
Rustling~~Rustling~~
The grass that was being watered by the burnt yellow water column suddenly moved. Wu Zixun vaguely saw the cold light. He rubbed his eyes, hurriedly put on his trousers and stepped back. The moment he saw a figure rushing towards him. He came out, grabbed his clothes and pushed him to the ground——
The man was covered in grass and leaves, only a pair of eyes came out, but at this moment, his head and body were full of a stinking smell.
“Help——”
Before he could say the next words, the man twisted his hand and pinched Wu Zixun’s neck hard with his fingertips. His neck suddenly tilted and he lost his voice.
The man looked around, dragged the fainting Xia man, and rushed to another tuft of grass nearby.
This man is Sasuke Sarutobi who was sent here by Takeda Shingen!
(End of this chapter)