At this time, the white fish belly appeared on the horizon.
"Huhu---!"
Minamoto Yoshitaka led the main army walking in the middle of the night. When he saw that there were no pursuers coming up from behind, the tight strings loosened and he suddenly felt that the men were tired and the horses were tired.
Yuan Yoshizhong glanced away, but the sight in front of him frightened him. This was not an invincible elite force, they were clearly a group of refugees. Except for the cavalry, which were neatly dressed, the rest were disheveled and disheveled.
There are also some who only wear half of their trousers, like wild men who have just been caught and raped and escaped. However, with tens of thousands of people like this, it is still spectacular.
Minamoto Yoshitaka looked around and found a small river here, so he ordered to go down and let the soldiers take a rest. In fact, he just asked the soldiers to wash their faces and dress neatly. Such an army didn't even look confident! Then he sent people
He went to the front to check the situation, but he still hasn't come back to his senses.
After giving the order, Minamoto Yoshitaka got off his horse, sat under a tree, and breathed out softly.
Yamazuo Lang next to him said: "It's unreasonable. This Song army is so abominable. They actually stabbed us in the back. We gave them face, but they actually repaid us with kindness. It's really ungrateful."
Yuan Yoshizhong's eyes suddenly turned murderous when he heard this, and he said coldly: "You Song thief, oh, there are also bullshit military advisors, and everyone in the Ping family, etc. I will definitely not let you die easily."
A counselor said: "But why did the Song army do this? Do they still want to turn defeat into victory with just their few troops? Or do they have other motives?"
Minamoto Yoshitaka hummed: "I don't care what their purpose is, in short I must crush them and make those Song thieves slaves in our country forever."
After a while, a general came over and said: "General Qi, after preliminary calculations, except for the major general's thousands of troops, our main force did not suffer too many casualties."
Although they evacuated at night, because there was only one main road here, they did not get separated. Before leaving, Yuan Weiyi warned them many times not to get into trouble. Although it was difficult for us to walk in the middle of the night,
However, it was not easy for the enemy to pursue them, and since Youyuan Weiyi was behind them, they retreated in an orderly manner, without any trampling on each other.
Yuan Yoshizhong breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Very good, order us to go down and rectify the troops. Once we find out the situation ahead, we will fight back immediately."
"yes."
"General, drink some water."
A kind-hearted guard brought a pot of water from the river to Minamoto Yoshitaka.
Minamoto Yoshitaka took the kettle and was about to drink when a group of sentries came galloping over.
"It's one of our own."
In a short while, the sentry rider had arrived in front of Minamoto Yoshitada. A man in front jumped off his horse and said anxiously: "General, something bad has happened. Our port in Wakasa was captured by the enemy."
When everyone heard this, they were shocked.
"What did you say?"
Minamoto Yoshitada stood up suddenly, glared at the sentinel and said: "This---how is this possible? All the navy of the Song Army are in Echizen Prefecture, how could they go to Wakasa?"
The sentry rider said: "You don't know this, but at the evening of the day before yesterday, a caravan suddenly came and wanted to dock. But when our soldiers were about to come forward to inspect, the other party suddenly shot our soldiers, and---
Moreover, they also had very powerful firearms on their ships. Our navy was defeated and the entire army was annihilated at the port. They relied on their powerful firearms to quickly occupy the port. Repeated attacks by our army were repelled by the firearms on the ship. Later, there were
Many ships gathered together, and a well-equipped army of nearly ten thousand people landed ashore. Our army fought hard all night, but in the end we were defeated, and Wakasa's defenders were completely wiped out."
Yamazuo Lang said: "Could it be that reinforcements from the Song Army have arrived?"
They have already discovered that the Song Army's fleet has been docked at the port of Echizen Prefecture. If there is no fleet at the port, then Minamoto Yoshitaka will not believe that the Song Army intends to retreat, so their first reaction is that the Song Army's
Reinforcements have arrived.
The sentry rider shook his head and said, "This has not been clarified yet."
When Minamoto Yoshitaka heard this, he rushed forward with anger. The port was lost, and you still didn't know who the enemy was. He cursed angrily: "You are a bunch of trash."
The sentry cavalry said in fear: "General, forgive me, that army did not carry the banner of the Song Army, and they were not wearing Song Army uniforms, but a kind of black leather armor. We were in front of them with them."
When communicating, they used the language of Ezo Island, and they seemed to be Ezo people, and it was because of this that our army was careless."
"Ezo?"
Minamoto Yoshitaka was stunned for a moment and said: "How is this possible? The remote and remote area of Ezo doesn't even have a regular army. How can it dare to attack our port and defeat the elite I left in Wakasa?"
The counselor said: "General, no matter who the enemy is, if Wakasa is lost, Kyoto Prefecture will be in danger. We must quickly return to defense!"
Minamoto Yoshitaka was slightly startled, nodded and said: "Wakasa must not make any mistakes, we must go back quickly."
"ah---!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a shrill scream. Looking for the sound, he heard another scream. The soldiers by the river suddenly grabbed his throat with both hands and ran around violently. Some of them fell directly.
After entering the river, in an instant, dozens of people were seen throwing themselves on the ground.
"No, the water is poisonous."
The counselor exclaimed in horror.
Minamoto Yoshitaka was so frightened that he quickly threw the kettle in his hand to the ground and shouted: "The water is poisonous. Everyone, please leave the river quickly."
The rest of the people also shouted, but it was too late. In the blink of an eye, another hundred people fell down. These soldiers had been running for half a night, and their mouths were already dry. Just after Minamoto Yoshitaka ordered them to rest, these soldiers hurriedly
Run to the river to drink water.
"Kill---!"
Suddenly, the sound of killings on all sides of the mountains shook the sky.
Big flags were erected from the mountains and forests on all sides, with the huge Chinese character "Song" trembling in the cool morning breeze. There were dozens of flags in total. Looking at it at a glance, it was so spectacular!
I saw a huge number of Song troops rushing over from all directions, densely packed like ants, which made my skin crawl all over. At the same time, two well-equipped light cavalry came out from the diagonal paths on both sides to kill them.
They were all riding small horses from southern Yunnan, and their impact was far less powerful than the tall horses of the Jin Army, but for Japan, it was enough.
Yuan Yizhong saw that there were tens of thousands of Song troops, and everyone was dumbfounded. Could it be that the Song troops could be separated, and one person could become two? This is just a road. If it was the Song troops who robbed the camp last night, how could there be so many Song troops?
Here, unless---it was not the main force of the Song army that robbed the camp last night.
By now.
Minamoto Yoshitaka suddenly realized that this was all a series of tricks to lure them into a trap step by step.
But it's too late to think about anything now.
Yuan Weiyi said it right, it is indeed difficult to rob a camp in the middle of the night, and the best time to raid is now, when day and night alternate.
Yamasaro hurriedly shouted and organized the warriors to go to meet the enemy.
But this man is unlucky. He will be poisoned and die if he drinks cold water. At this time, all the war horses are drinking water by the river. Now they are all over the place. The remaining live horses are also by the river. On the contrary,
The infantry is blocking the front and the cavalry is behind. What is even more sad is that the archers are still looking for their own bows and arrows. This formation really makes people sweat. It is conceivable that even if the cavalry mounts their horses now,
It was also surrounded by its own people, and the archers could not concentrate on sniping the opponent's cavalry.
More importantly, the series of accidents made the Genji warriors panic. Even before the war started, their morale was already at its lowest point.
Whoosh whoosh!
It's too late to say, but it's fast. The Song Army's cavalry has rushed over in a blink of an eye. They are all cavalry archers. There is no way, the impact of the cute southern Yunnan horses is really not conducive to charging, so you
It is difficult to rely on cavalry charges to disrupt the enemy's formation like the Jin Army. Moreover, the opponent has no formation to speak of now. They are piled up in dense piles, and every shot is accurate and falls apart.
The dense and sudden rain of arrows suppressed the opponent's long-range firepower very well, and the opponent's formation could not be deployed at all. The archers were all in twos and threes, setting up their bows and arrows on the spot, but how could such scattered shooting be able to cause serious damage and then kill them?
of infantry.
In fact, the strength of the Genji side is not less than that of the other side, but the problem is that they have no formation at all, and they were frightened for half the night and ran for half the night. They are very tired. Some of them have just put on their clothes and are still
Preparing to take a nap or something, people are completely confused.
On the other hand, everyone on the Song Army side was in high spirits, swinging their swords and axes with great force. Even the distance they shot with their bows and arrows was farther than the opponent's. In this life-and-death situation, even an inch longer would be enough.
My dear!
Before the Genji warriors could react, the Song army surrounded them, leaving only one way for them, which was the poisonous river. The river was not wide and you could swim across it, but the question was who dared to enter the water. What if?
I took a sip of water and it was all over!
However, one good thing about Japanese samurai is that they are accustomed to fighting alone and do not rely much on formations. Anyway, that's it. They also picked up their samurai swords and stepped forward to kill the enemy. The short swords connected with each other, and the two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
"Catch the thief first and capture the king first!"
I heard a general on the cavalry shout.
The two cavalrymen immediately gathered together and rushed towards Minamoto Yoshitaka in the middle.
"General, you retreat first, I will block this place."
Yamasaro mounted his horse and led his men to rush over.
"Thief Song, take your life."
Yamazuo Lang brandished his sword and swung it towards the vanguard of the Song army.
A banging sound.
I saw the vanguard blocking and tilting the spear, and suddenly a flame came out from the muzzle of the spear. I heard Yamazuro yell, and I saw that the face was completely unrecognizable in an instant, and he fell back from his horse. This Yamazoro
However, he had experienced hundreds of battles and was well-known in Japan. However, in just one round, he was killed by an unknown pioneer officer of the Song Army. But who would have expected that the gun head could also use hidden weapons.
How tragic!
Minamoto Yoshitaka saw his beloved general fall with his own eyes. He had no time to grieve and his face was filled with shock. However, this is not his fault. Japan is so civilized that it is far inferior to the Song Dynasty. In addition, the Song Dynasty's technology has developed rapidly in recent years. How can they
I can keep up with the rhythm.
"Hurry and protect the general."
A general yelled urgently. Seeing that the master of the family was in danger, those warriors rushed over at all costs and repelled the cavalry forcefully.
Although the infantry of the Song Army could not see where Yuan Yichuan was, they saw their cavalry attacking a place. The fool also knew where Yuan Yichuan was. At this time, a herald ran over and shouted:
"General Niu has a destiny. Whoever kills the head of the Gen family will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold."
Nowadays, the Song army rarely uses official positions to deceive soldiers. They talk about money. This is also caused by the atmosphere of the entire Song Dynasty. If you have money, you can do business and you may get rich. This is a very real reward.
One hundred taels of gold!
When the soldiers of the Song Army heard this, they felt as if they had been beaten to death, and they swung their swords and killed them.
Those warriors protected Yuan Yizhong and finally managed to create a gap, but a huge number of Song troops surrounded him.
Minamoto Yoshitaka didn't dare to mount his horse now, he just hoped to escape in the chaos, but with enemies around him, this was not easy!
Gradually, an hour passed, and the water in the river turned red. The Japanese samurai began to lose their strength. Some powerful samurai had been killed so hard that they could no longer lift their hands, and they had already closed their eyes.