"Chapter 81: The Fall of the South"
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- Benedetto Croce (famous Italian literary critic, historian and philosopher)
The officers and men of the Second Legion commanded by Antio came to a halt only eight hundred meters from Minohe Castle, and the systematic soldiers of the two wings quickly formed a standard three-column battle formation, and the two longbow wings were on either side.
The officers and men of the 1st Army Corps commanded by Licinius were temporarily attached to a longbow wing of the 2nd Corps, and then moved from the flank of the 2nd Corps to the left flank of the army of Haruki in the south, while the Sanada Red Reserve Army under the command of Sanada Masayuki moved the entire army to the right flank of the enemy.
Nearly 20,000 Roman troops completely surrounded the 2,000 remnants of the southern Qingji army from three directions, and now there are only two options left for the southern Qingji, either lay down their arms and surrender, or the whole army will be annihilated.
Nanbu Haruki, who was completely desperate in his heart, still did not choose to lay down his arms at this moment when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, perhaps, Nanbu Haruki was not a qualified heir to the family governor, but he was definitely a real samurai.
As a proud samurai, it is impossible for Nanbu Harutsugu to surrender to any enemy on the battlefield, even if the enemy's strength is incomparable to his own, he must fight proudly until the last moment, this is the heart of the samurai that belongs to Nanbu Harutsu!
From beginning to end, Bai Feng did not send an envoy to persuade the Southern Family's army to surrender, because the situation on the battlefield was clear at a glance, so that everyone in the Southern Family understood their situation;
On the battlefield where the sound of killing was still loud before, there was not even a sound at this time, and the three-way army of the Roman city was still standing still, and the soldiers on both sides could only hear the sound of their own battle flags hunting in the wind.
"Warriors of the Southern Family, the Sanada Dog Thieves and their allies are the mortal enemies of our Southern Family, and now they have come to our main city, let us restore the glory of the Southern Family with our own swords!
The strange atmosphere on the battlefield made the already red-eyed Nanbu Haruki even more angry, he really didn't expect that his Nanbu family would be taken advantage of by the Sanada family like a lost dog, and he quickly made a decision.
Armed with a blood-soaked katana, Haru Nanbu took the lead in charging at Antio's army, but unfortunately, he was followed by only a handful of samurai of the Southern Family.
The vast majority of the soldiers under the command of Nanbu Haruki, including Nanbu Haruki's supporter, Izumiyama Gukang, still stood motionless, ignoring Nanbu Haruki's tragic battle declaration and allowing Nanbu Haruhi to frantically kill forward.
Nanbu Haruki, who had expected it in his heart, did not look back at all, he just held the katana in his hand high and charged towards the enemy with all his might.
Eight hundred meters, seven hundred meters, six hundred meters, five hundred meters, four hundred meters, Antio's eyes were fixed on the enemy soldiers who had been charging forward;
However, admiration for admiration, Antio had no intention of letting go of the other party, and when Nanbu Qingji rushed into the four hundred meters of the three battle formations, Antio, whose face remained unchanged, raised his right hand high, and then pressed down heavily.
The trumpeter who had received the order immediately blew the trumpet in his hand, and as soon as the trumpet sounded, the four thousand longbowmen of the two longbow wings distributed on the left and right flanks of the three columns began to open their bows and arrows and carry out their first round of salvo!
The volley of 4,000 longbowmen was a rain of arrows composed of 4,000 arrows, and everyone on the entire battlefield involuntarily turned their eyes to this dark cloud of arrows, and watched as Nanbu Haruki and his samurai were swallowed up by this round of arrows.
Dressed in full-body armor, Nanbu Harutsugu was shot by at least dozens of arrows with amazing penetrating power, and the arrow in his throat became the fatal arrow that took his life, and the generation of heroes of the Nanbu family fell.
Just a round of arrow rain from the two longbow wings, Nanbu Haruki and dozens of samurai around him were shot into hedgehogs, and the sad death made the hearts of the soldiers of the other southern families all shrouded in a shadow.
The stubborn southern Haruhitsu used his life to make a name for himself as a samurai, but not all members of the southern family have such courage to not be afraid of death, at least the lord of the wild border city, Izumiyama Koyasu, does not have such courage.
Although Quanshan Gukang himself is the most brave and skilled general of the Southern Family, this does not mean that he is not afraid of death, or that Quanshan Gukang is only a retainer of the Southern Family after all, and his loyalty to the Southern Family is far from the point where he can give his life.
The death of Nanbu Harutsugu made Izumiyama Gukang recognize the situation on the battlefield clearly, so he led more than 1,000 soldiers under his command with extraordinary decisiveness, chose to surrender to the menacing Roman army, and handed over his katana.
On the battlefield where the forces of the Yamato Empire are fighting, the commander of the warring side is willing to sacrifice his katana, which means that he really chose to surrender, and this surrender is guaranteed by the honor of the samurai, which is unquestionable and betrayal!
Any samurai of the Yamato Empire, as long as he sacrifices his katana to another person, if he betrays the person he sacrificed the sword in the future, this samurai will become a street rat that everyone in the Yamato Empire shouts and beats, this is the rule of the Yamato Empire.
When Sanada Nobuyoshi, who had been left by Hakumine's side, told Hakumine about this rule, Hakumine, who had not intended to accept the surrender of the southern family, immediately decided to accept Izumiyama Koyasu, and asked Antio to bring Izumiyama Koyasu to him and accept his katana with his own hands.
The surrender of Izumiyama Kokan was only the proper meaning of the title, and the 3,000 defenders of Minohe Castle were the real target of the Roman army, and this time, Hakumine needed Sanada Akatsumi to show his strength, and they would be the vanguard of the Roman army's attack on Sanhe Castle.
Sanada Masayuki, who received Shiramine's order, immediately led his Sanada Red Reserve Army to attack Minohe Castle, but before the soldiers of Sanada Red Reserve Army approached Sanohe Castle, a white flag symbolizing surrender was hung at the head of Sanohe Castle.
Immediately afterwards, the closed gate of the three houses of the city was also opened, and the southern Nobunao of the southern family personally came to the outside of the city with the main retainers of the southern family and surrendered to Bai Feng, the supreme commander of the Roman army!
From the moment the gates of Sanhe Castle opened, the southern family, which was the guardian of the Yamato Empire's Michinoku Kingdom, was officially destroyed, and whether the southern family could regain the glory of their ancestors in the future depended on how Hakumine dealt with the surrendered southern Shinnao.