Chapter 512 The Golden Cicada Escapes
Pei Min held his sword behind his back and looked at the fat figure opposite holding a human leg with one hand and smashing the connected Japanese body back and forth to the ground.
He knew that Xu Chu, the tiger idiot opposite, was ranked high among all the generals in Xia Kingdom. Before he got here, he had the power to pull an ox with one hand.
Boom!
Boom! boom!
Human muscles, bones, skin and flesh collided crazily with the earth, and the muffled sound of bones and flesh cracking made the eyelids of all the Tiger Guard soldiers tremble, and the ground under their feet shook one after another.
Seeing that the man was dying, Pei Min stepped forward and raised his hands: "General Xu, the man is dying."
Over there, Xu Chu stopped and looked at the man lying in the mud puddle. The Japanese assassin, while nodding his head, said angrily: "Your Majesty never said that he would live."
Sarutobi Sasuke is on the verge of collapse, with almost all the bones in his body broken. He is a ninja. That's true, but it doesn't mean that he is made of steel and can continue to withstand beatings like Xu Chu's.
Seeing the other party stop, I thought there was a chance of survival, and wanted to speak more, but I didn't know what the other party said, so I picked him up again and threw him heavily into the mud pit on the other side.
This time he landed on his face, his nose was crooked, and several teeth were broken out and fell to the side.
"Spare...spare me..."
"I'm about to...I'm about to die...if you hit me again...I'm going to die..."
This At the same time, Su Chen did not pause in his words. He turned to look at Jia Xu who was opening his eyes, "Lieutenant, immediately find Marquis Wen and General Zhao, and send fast horses to bypass Ping'an Jing to contact Guan and Zhang as soon as possible. Generals, outflank Takeda Shingen in front and behind!"
Su Chen sat back behind the long desk and held his breath and concentrated. Jia Xu didn't speak, closing his eyes and waiting for the doctor's explanation. Dian Wei stood beside the doctor with his two halberds on his back! , seeing the other party shaking his head and sighing again, he couldn't help but speak.
"Ahhh!"
Sarutobi Sasuke, who was seriously injured and in a state of confusion, couldn't help but let out a high-pitched, shrill scream at this moment.
The military doctor retracted his hand, not daring to be negligent, and raised his hand towards the serious-looking emperor behind the case: "Your Majesty, Wu Changshi's life is not in danger, but his neck bones were frustrated and his acupuncture points were pressed, which led to his death. The reason why he fainted and didn't wake up may be related to the assassin's technique."
Xu Chu lifted the head and kicked the headless corpse on the ground, and then said hello to Pei Min. He turned around, holding a knife in one hand and a human head in the other, and returned to the imperial tent.
Actually, he asked this question for Su Chen. After all, the emperor cannot say words that express emotions at will.
Pei Min smiled and sheathed the ancient sword, raised his hand and waved it, and ordered the men coming behind him: "Take the body of this Japanese assassin out, dig a hole in the forest and bury it."
"Like that guy Xu You, seeking death!!"
Su Chen's face darkened when he heard that his neck bones were bruised.
“You still have a bad mouth when you are about to die!” Xu Chu pulled out the tiger head knife from behind with his backhand, stepped on the chest of the Japanese assassin, and raised his hand.
“These Japanese have known from the beginning to sending out ninjas to assassinate my generals. Now they come directly to assassinate me, and they also use the people closest to me!”
Under the command of his arm, the tiger-headed sword fell instantly in Sarutobi Sasuke's eyes. He struggled to squeeze out a voice: "I surrendered, why should I kill..."
"I don't know, according to the nature of the Japanese, he Maybe I’m scolding you.”
On the left side of the river called Xiaoye River, a fierce fight continued.
Everything was perfect!
And the plan was indeed carried out in an orderly manner. He knocked out the emperor's attendant, put on the opponent's robe, and then used the skill of disguise to transform into the opponent's appearance and figure, and successfully entered the imperial tent. , stood in front of the Emperor of Xia, and even brought the soup laced with chronic poison to the other party's table.
"Damn it!" Hearing this, Xu Chu became even more furious. He pinched the opponent's ankles, lifted the opponent's whole body upside down, raised his foot and hit the opponent's abdomen. He flew back high like a sandbag. While falling back in Xu Chu's hand, he lifted the opponent upside down. It was Bo Da's fist that hit the opponent's hanging crotch hard.
"General Dian, calm down!"
"I know, just ask for whatever you need. As long as you can cure Wu Changshi, I will be satisfied!"
… …
The original plan this time was also flawless. Taking advantage of the Xia army’s victory and landing, after setting up camp, they quietly sneaked into the camp, used the emperor’s servants to get close, and then poisoned the enemy before the poison was released. Finally, he left the barracks and threw the poisoned pot to the knocked unconscious attendant.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
At this time, there was no one else in the tent, and Su Chen vented the anger in his heart. Outside, Xu Chu walked in with the head in his hand, and before he asked what to do, Su Chen waved at him: "Throw it out of the barracks and throw it outside to feed the wild beasts!"
But why did it become like this...
The flaming arrows in the sky were not Stop and cross.
He is a famous ninja, even as famous as Hattori Hanzo and Fuma Kotaro. The tasks in his hands rarely fail.
Soon, while several searching fast horses were galloping out of the camp, another fast horse carrying the scouts bypassed the possible retreat route of Takeda Shingen's main force and bolted toward Heian-kyo further east.
"Is there a way to make him fully recover?"
The pain subsided slightly, Sarutobi Sasuke opened his lips full of blood, and said weakly: "I surrender...I will tell you Everything about your Takeda Army...I will secretly open the gate of Heianjing for you..."
Su Chen looked at the fainting figure. When the soldiers took Wu Zixun and the doctor out, he punched the case. on the table.
A soldier from the Tiger Guard Battalion came over, picked up the head, and handed it to his general.
After saying that, he held the scabbard of his sword, and with the leather rein lightly shaking, he turned around and went to the nearby area, continuing to inspect and check the corners of the camp to see if there were any remaining assassins lurking secretly.
The words that followed came to an abrupt end. The thick blade split open the flesh and bones of the neck. When the blood arrow shot out, the head bounced out, falling to the ground with a thud and rolling.
His difficult mumbling was in Japanese, which Xu Chu could not understand at all. He looked at Pei Min: "Old Pei, what did he say?"
After hearing the news, the military doctor who came to greet Su Chen knelt down and carefully examined Wu Zixun's whole body. Sometimes he felt for his pulse, and sometimes he put his hand on his neck, closed his eyes and stroked his beard and pondered.
"Oh!" Xu Chu just came in, turned around depressed and went out again with the head.
To the east, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had entered the boundary of Heian Jing, had been fighting with the troops of a man named Oda Nobunaga for two days.
In the imperial tent at this time, Su Chen looked at Wu Zixun who was carried in by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. The latter was only wearing underwear and underwear, lying on a stretcher, still unconscious.
Noisy sounds surrounded the surroundings, listening to the hysterical fighting cries in the distance. Guan Yu was wearing a green robe, riding on a red rabbit horse, with the Qinglong Yanyue Sword in his hand, and a pair of phoenix eyes staring at the river in the distance. On the battlefield, after listening to the situation reported by the scouts, several orders were issued from time to time, asking the scouts to go and convey information and adjust the structure of the battlefield to deal with the 20,000 Japanese troops coming from the opposite side and another group of Japanese rushing out from Heiankyo.
"This... I can't guarantee it, I can only do my best!" the military doctor answered tremblingly.
The sun rises in the morning and then slants into the sunset. Blood spreads across the Xiaoye River, corpses are spread across the river, and the water waves rolling by the river bring up red water foam.
The corpses of elite ashigaru wearing wooden armor continued to stretch out on the charging road in front of the roaring cavalry.
An elite ashigaru holding a spear, covering the wound with an arrow stuck in his chest, staggered down in a pool of blood, and behind him, more elite ashigaru rushed over, The spear array formed by iron spears, which were longer than ordinary spears, faced the Xia cavalry whizzing by.
There are about 5,000 of these elite ashigaru. They are different from ordinary ashigaru. They are professionally trained elite warriors. They wear the best medium-sized weapons. The spears in their hands are five feet longer than ordinary spears. It's almost invulnerable when it's stuck.
It is especially effective in preventing enemy cavalry from charging into the formation.
Footsteps shook the ground. On the left side of the Koye River bank, a tiger-footed battalion of 200 people was mobilized to stop this elite Ashigaru. They immediately joined other fighting groups on both sides of the river. Many intersecting front lines are formed.
The Tiger Cavalry and the Tiger Buoying Battalion were both battle-hardened and powerful forces, and they unilaterally defeated the two Japanese armies. However, there were only a small number of people at the moment. The total number of people was only 4,000. Including the losses along the way, there were only three Qian Qianbai can still continue to fight.
The rockets ignited the nearby woods and roared in the wind. The dispatched tiger cavalry and tiger steps were like long dragons, constantly interspersing the battlefield for more than ten miles, giving people a feeling of a battlefield with more than 100,000 people.
“The person sitting in command opposite is very clever!”
Guan Yu, riding on the red rabbit horse, whispered to his third brother Zhang Fei next to him.
He did not expect that after going through thorns and thorns all the way, he thought that the Japanese were only of this level, especially after he killed a Japanese general in the formation and scattered the opponent, he could not help but despise the Japanese even more.
However, after that, the main force of Japanese reinforcements came over. Guan Yu had nothing to say and directly sent troops to fight. However, in the two days of fighting, he did not expect that he and the opponent were evenly matched.
In this battle, our own forces were small after all, and there was no backup, and the food supplies could only last for two more days. This was obtained by plundering the Japanese army that was defeated before.
From early this morning, the second battle began. Guan Yu naturally paid attention to the Japanese generals on the opposite side and used all his skills to control Jingzhou. The only regret was that he had no available generals and troops. Very few.
After the battle line was deployed on one side of the river, the front line once stretched for several miles, killing from morning to dusk. Even if the Japanese did not kill, they could rely on their large numbers to continuously rush for reinforcements.
Another Japanese army from the Japanese city came from the east and entered the battlefield.
In the endless tossing and turning, Guan Yu almost mobilized his commanding skills to the peak, constantly replacing the frontline battle groups with the prepared reserve battalions.
"Second brother, let me go. Give me fifty riders. I will bypass the battlefield, go around to the back of the Japanese pirates, and attack directly!" Zhang Fei had not been to the battlefield to fight since yesterday, and he was heartbroken. It was so itchy that he was going to go crazy. Every time he saw injured or tired soldiers being replaced and resting, he would run to his second brother and make a fuss.
“This Japanese general is very smart. He did not use any banner to indicate the position of the Chinese army!”
After the battle started in the morning, Guan Yu paid attention to When this happened, they sent out scouts to investigate, but in the end they couldn't find the Japanese general's clear banner.
"The other side is wary of us and you breaking out of the formation and killing generals."
"Whatever, his army must be behind the battlefield anyway. What if I encounter him by chance?" Zhang Fei chirped at his second brother. He was harassing me and even moved Liu Bei out. If you don't let me go, I will go to my eldest brother and complain.
"If you really want to go, then for brother..."
At this moment, a fast horse came from the west, and a messenger reminded Guan Yu and Zhang The horse turned around and turned around, and saw the person coming with a happy face, hurriedly dismounted and ran over, took out the letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.
"The two generals Guan and Zhang are the younger ones. This is a letter sent by your majesty when he was sent to his humble post. It has your majesty's seal on it."
"Oh?"
Guan Yu took the letter handed over by Zhang Fei, tore open the seal, unfolded the letter paper inside, and quickly scanned it vertically with his eyes showing a little joy on his face.
"Your Majesty's main force has finally arrived. Go back first and inform Your Majesty that Guan will act according to the plan in the letter!"
Sent away the scout, Zhang Fei hurried to the horse. Next to Guan Yu: "Second brother, what does the letter say?"
"Lü Bu and Zilong led the cavalry to pursue the main force of the Takeda Army. Your Majesty asked us to attack from both front and rear."
Zhang Fei stroked the thick tiger beard on his chin and frowned: "It's a good idea, but the timing is wrong. We are still fighting another group of Japanese."
Guan Yu stroking his beard thought deeply and looked at it deeply. Heading towards the battlefield, the Tiger Cavalry Cavalry under their command galloped and killed like thousands of wild dragons. With the heavy step coordination of the Tiger Cavalry, they kept getting close to the opponent's battle formation and cut apart the assembled elite Ashigaru.
During several hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese offensive on the opposite side also became more aggressive. At one point, they also sent out a small number of cavalry. These cavalry were generally dressed, but they seemed to be carrying a big baggage behind their backs. Extremely weird.
"Retreat!"
Not waiting for his tiger cavalry battalion to fight against the opponent's weird cavalry, Guan Yu suddenly issued an order - Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
Such a move caught the Japanese general who was commanding the opposite side a little unprepared. Facing the powerful Guan Yu in China, he also showed his full ability. Originally, he wanted to use the roundabout raid of the mother-in-law soldiers to give the opponent a sure kill and create a trap for him. The illusion of a breakthrough in the central formation was used to stimulate the elite Qingzu under his command and demoralize Xia's soldiers.
Unexpectedly, the opponent suddenly withdrew his troops. Oda Nobunaga stood somewhere in the mountain forest, looking at the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who were slowly leaving the battle in an orderly manner on the battlefield. He felt that the fierce punch he had accumulated hit the air. inside.
"The other side suddenly withdraws its troops, is it creating an illusion?"
Oda Nobunaga raised his gray head, and in his thoughts, he specially sent several envoys to inquire about the movements of the Xia Kingdom's army. It wasn't until it was getting dark that the envoys sent out rushed back.
"You said that the Xia army secretly mobilized troops and horses? And wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth?"
After receiving the envoy's approval, Oda Nobunaga sat on a folding stool and laughed loudly, "This is an attempt to raid our army's main formation at night. Such a trick is so familiar!"
< br>Amid laughter, he stood up suddenly, followed by ninjas such as Shibata Katsuie, Takigawa Kazugoshi, Niwa Nagahide, Akechi Mitsuhide, Mori Ranmaru, Moririki Maru and other kneeling people.
"They attack at night, let's encircle them here! Wipe out all the Xia soldiers and horses, and kill Guan Yu, who is so powerful in China, in one battle!"
"Hai!"
The big tent was shaken.
……
The sky is completely dark.
The Xia Kingdom's military camp in the southeast began to move quietly, and the scouts who opened the way ran out with the sound of horse hooves as much as possible.
In the quiet Xia Kingdom camp, the soldiers wore armor and put cloth towels filled with grass clippings on their feet. The Tiger Step Camp came out of the camp in an orderly manner. The cavalry led the horses into the darkness, forming a silent formation. .
In the dark color, Guan Yu waved the Green Dragon Sword, and the cavalry in formation got on their horses neatly, looking closely in the direction of the general.
Guan Yu sat on Red Rabbit's horse, waiting for his third brother Zhang Fei to come with his infantry. He stroked Red Rabbit's mane: "Yide, tell me, will the Japanese fall into the trap?"
"Who knows? ." Zhang Fei grinned, grinning.
Soon, the cavalrymen wrapped in horse hooves walked slowly on the dark field, like the undulating tide.
The soldiers of the Tiger Step Camp also wrapped their shoes, carried their weapons, and followed the cavalry in silence.
……
The night gradually deepens, and time passes as the night becomes dark and dark.
Around the deathly silent Oda Army camp, Japanese soldiers were lurking, crouching or crouching in the grass or woods. They were bitten by mosquitoes, but they did not dare to move their eyes away, staring straight at them. Leading to the wilderness to the south.
Until there was finally a glimmer of light in the sky.
On the distant wilderness, there was no sign of a Xia soldier. Oda Nobunaga, who had been waiting all night, frowned.
Think deeply about whether you are too sensitive and may have made wrong judgments.
However, the next moment, a messenger came back from the south to inquire about the news, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"Lord Oda... the Xia army left overnight, leaving only an empty camp!"
Oda Nobunaga's expression changed and he rushed towards the envoy, excited. Under his feet, the folding stools were kicked over and fell to the ground.
“Where did they go?”
“From the hoofprints left behind... they may have gone to the west!”
Go to the west and leave overnight... Thinking of this, Oda Nobunaga suddenly thought of a possibility.
Takeda Army?
Not good!
Takeda Shingen is in danger!
The other party suddenly used the golden cicada to escape from its shell and tricked him. The purpose was obviously not that simple. The only thing Oda Nobunaga could think of was that Guan Yu of the Xia Kingdom would join forces with the Xia Kingdom army to the west to attack from both front and back. Eat Takeda Shingen first, so that he will be the only army left on Yunguo Island.
"Send troops immediately to conquer the west!"
"Lord Oda, our soldiers have been guarding all night and haven't rested yet..."
"The Takeda army cannot make any mistakes, send troops immediately !"
Oda Nobunaga was furious and roared at the nearest minister: "A living Takeda Shingen is more important than tens of thousands of soldiers!"
"Yes!" >
The generals in the tent had no choice. At this juncture, it was difficult to choose whether to catch up or stay and rest.
"Takeda-kun, you must hold on!"
Oda Nobunaga gritted his teeth and punched the palm of his hand.
At the same time.
In different directions, two excellent Xia cavalrymen caught up with the main force of the retreating Takeda Army at dawn. The Tiger Cavalry Battalion from east to west was rushing under the stars and the moon, and it was not far away from here. Far away, according to the news from both sides passed by the scouts, three cavalry groups were surrounding a place called Yiqi.
There are plains running east and west, and slightly raised hilly landforms.
At this time, the sky is slowly brightening, and the Takeda Army stationed here is preparing to break camp and continue moving forward.
(End of this chapter)