Chapter 85 The Ghost of the Well (Happy Birthday to Memories in 2112)
Matsuda Kenhide ran desperately and retreated towards his own position. Not only him, but the entire attack formation collapsed. Thousands of samurai and ashigaru fled on the battlefield. Behind them was the Ming army formation that began to slowly press forward.
You can't blame the ashigaru for not being brave enough. The spear you stab and the knife you slash cannot break the opponent's armor, but your companions are killed one by one in front of you, and there is nothing you can do about it. Apart from running away, you can also
What can be done?
It cannot be said that the priests were timid and the warriors did not try their best. The monster mountains summoned by the priests were all destroyed in front of the Ming army's formation. The yin and yang ghosts that were transformed were dissolved one by one by the Ming monks. The warriors fought with the Ming army monks.
How can we fight this battle when we suffer heavy losses in hand-to-hand combat, with more than half of the casualties?
The short distance between the two armies was less than a mile. Matsuda Kenhide's escape path felt extremely long. The ashigaru and samurai beside him were caught up from time to time by a charm, a cannonball, and a crossbow arrow that easily killed him.
He died without even making a sound when he fell down. Many times, Matsuda Kenhide thought he could not escape, but death always passed him by, with many near misses.
He remembered what Kazuma Kumamoto said to him before the battle: "Stay alive!" So he looked up to look for the purple figure on his side, and finally saw Kazuma Kumamoto next to the general.
Matsuda Kenhide finally escaped, and the defeated troops spontaneously circled back from both sides of the five-color military formation without attacking the formation, but what they faced next was punishment under military law.
The twenty samurai and ashigaru who were the first to escape were caught on the spot. They were also the first to escape back to the main formation. They were very easy to identify. They were all beheaded in front of the entire army, with swords raised and dropped, neatly and decisively.
Sloppy.
Matsuda Kenhide was almost the last one to return, so he was not executed on the spot, but the banner captains and the small banner captains were held down and punished with ten sticks. Inomata Kuniken declared that serious crimes will be recorded.
Integrated seppuku.
Then there was an emergency reorganization. There were 2,000 people in the eight flag corps, but only more than 1,000 people escaped. Only three of the seven flag corps at the time of departure survived. This made Matsuda Kenhide slightly ashamed of his own survival.
.The deserters were crowded in a mess behind the formation, and they were all panic-stricken as if they had lost their souls.
The Ming army had already advanced a hundred feet, and the distance between the two armies was less than fifty feet. Inomata Kuninori still wanted to command the five-color main formation to defend against the enemy, so he had to say hastily: "Form your own troops!" and rushed to the front.
Matsuda Kenhide became the most senior and strongest martial artist among the escaped bannermen, and he became the temporary general bannerman of these deserters. He managed to organize four banner teams, hoping to boost everyone's collapsed fighting spirit.
The battle is on.
Several artillery shells crossed the front line and bounced a few times at the gathering place where Matsuda Kenhide sorted out the broken troops. They frightened all the ashigaru and broken samurai and turned pale. They no longer had the courage they had in the first battle. Matsuda Kenhide knew that these people
Fearing that he would not be able to get into formation, he did not dare to get into the formation, so he ordered to move to the side and rear to "cover the flanks of the army."
This order was supported by all the defeated soldiers, including more than 20 samurai among them. Matsuda Kenhide knew that what he did was wrong, but he once again thought of Kumamoto Kazuma's words: "Live on."
Kumamoto Kazukuma didn't know that his words had seriously shaken Matsuda Kenhide's fighting will. He was currently surrounded by General Ujitaka and was assisting Yamashita Omiyaji in his practice.
There is a dry well on the ground. This was the location that was chosen long before the war. Following the spells of several powerful palace ministers, the bottom of the dry well began to sink. It was so dark and deep that people dared not look directly at it, as if it could swallow people up at any time.
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Yamashita Omiyaji practiced the terrifying well ghost technique. This ghost technique was good at killing enemy generals in the chaos. During the confrontation with the Qingqiu Army, Yamashita Omiyaji relied on this ghost technique many times to prepare for the battle.
The commanding monk who killed the Qingqiu Army was the most difficult to guard against.
This time, the target of the well's ghost technique was the Taoist priest on the high base in the enemy's formation.
There were several Taoist priests on the high base. Yamashita and other high priests went through the selection process and decided to choose the middle-aged Taoist priest. Although he did not know who this Taoist priest was, he could tell by looking at the respectful attitude of the other Taoist priests next to him.
His status was extremely high. Moreover, the Taoist priest was also responsible for commanding the Fu artillery on the high base, which caused great damage to the Yingzhou military formation. Killing this Taoist priest might have an important impact on the subsequent battle situation.
Yamashita Omiyaji's target selection was very correct. If he really killed the Taoist priest on the high base, it would not only have a major impact on the battle situation! Because this Taoist priest was none other than Zhao Ran.
Zhao Ran didn't go to the high base to direct the artillery battle. This was an illusion of the great priests of Yingzhou. There were several Nangui series micro flying magic weapons parked next to Zhao Ran, and he was replacing the spirit-gathering talismans on them. He had just put a Nangui series on them.
A series of flying magic weapons were sent into the sky. Zhao Ran frowned and immediately noticed something was wrong.
This is the Nine Heavens Xuanlong Great Forbidden Technique Qingde Qingyun activating protection on his own to eliminate the curse. It feels very similar to the plot he was plotted by the great alchemist Lan Daoxing during the Yingtian rebellion siege.
He saw the soil around him turning upwards silently, forming a round dry well. The mysterious and vicious curse exuding from the dry well surrounded Zhao Ran and eroded away at his body. Gongde Qingyun put these curses on his body.
They were all dispelled and had no impact on Zhao Ranhun. Compared with Lan Daoxing's Jiuyou Fuji technique back then, the curse emanating from this dry well was much weaker.
Lan Daoxing is by Zhao Ran's side at the moment. He was transferred to Yingzhou by Zhao Ran's name to help because his Taoist skills are more in line with the legendary Yin and Yang skills of Yingzhou priests.
Lan Daoxing was really suitable for coming to Yingzhou. He was the first to notice that something was wrong. After pushing Zhao Ran away, he drew three spells on the side of the dry well. The seven or eight Taoist priests present gathered around.
Intentionally or unintentionally, he blocked Zhao Ran behind him and put all his strength on guard.
Suddenly, two pale hands stretched out from the dry well, grabbing the mouth of the well, and a female ghost with long hair and a white shirt poked her head out of the well...
Zhao Ran, who was blocked by everyone, opened his mouth. Before he could be reminded, Lan Daoxing had already reached out, grabbed the female ghost's long hair, and pulled her out of the dry well. The female ghost was still struggling, but Lan Daoxing acted.
The talisman I drew first sealed it, making it tremble and unable to move.
Lan Daoxing held her up in front of him and looked at her for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's a bit interesting." He took out the Jiuyou support plate from his arms, stuffed the female ghost into the plate, turned it into a black and white grain of sand, and sank it into the plate.
Under the sand.
All the Taoist priests looked at each other, and someone asked: "Master Lan, what kind of ghost is this?"
Lan Daoxing explained: "It is one of the resentful ghosts. People who don't understand it can easily catch it. In the eyes of those who know it, it is just... well... equivalent to a golden elixir."
"Who cast the spell?"
"The Onmyoji among the priests is almost at the level of a trainer. Let me ask this female ghost."
ps: Today is the birthday of 2112. I wish fellow Taoist friends a happy birthday and all the best. The title of this chapter is a blessing that consumes the spiritual fox Taoist ancestor and owes him a new talisman.