Shao Erjing knew in his heart that the reinforcements of Utsunomiya Sadazuna's Liudi horse cavalry would not arrive in a while. At least for ten days, I can't count on it.

This means that the Kyushu samurai had to defend the mainland for at least ten days. But if he continues to fight like this, even if he can survive until Utsunomiya Sadatsuna's reinforcements arrive, how many soldiers and horses will he have left?

What he was most worried about was not this, but what he was most worried about was that Motoko would not land at Hakata Bay in Kitakyushu, but would go south and attack Ivan Bay or Nagasaki Port instead.

There were no stone walls to defend it, and there were no heavy defenses. Now the elite soldiers of Kyushu are all in Kitakyushu.

While the Japanese generals were worried, the generals of the Yuan army were also discussing the topic of changing the direction of the attack.

The first to propose to change the direction of the attack were the chief and deputy marshals of the Goryeo Army, Kim Bang-kyeong and Hong Cha-cho.

"Commander, our army has attacked several times, but it has suffered heavy losses and has been unable to land for a long time. The old man thought that it was time to go south to attack Hirado or simply attack Kumamoto. Jin Fangqing said.

As the No. 2 person in the Eastern Route Army, his words still carry a lot of weight. Even if Xin is the commander and the nobles of the Golden Family, he must also pay attention to Jin Fangqing's proposal.

However, Xin was unwilling to go south and attack other places.

Why?

Because Dazaifu is right in front of you, and it's only ten miles from the coast. It can be said that as long as the landing can be successful, Dazaifu will be the Yuan army. Once Dazaifu was captured, the crusade was half successful.

It's like, what you want most is right in front of you, and if you work hard, you may get it, will you be willing to give up your efforts and go for the next best?

In Xindu's opinion, even if other places can be defeated, it doesn't matter, all he wants is Dazaifu.

That's not wrong. As the western capital of Japan, Dazaifu is not only extremely important, but also very wealthy, with a population of more than 100,000 people and a lot of material reserves. What's more, the Dazaifu region holds Kyushu and Honshu in check.

Capture Dazaifu and easily attack Honshu. The loss of the western capital of Japan not only shook the morale of the army and the people, but also strengthened its dependence on the sea route if it wanted to support Kyushu to resist the Yuan.

If only Satsuma or Kumamoto were to be defeated, but Dazaifu was still in the hands of the Japanese army, the resistance of the Japanese army in Kyushu would not stop for a day. Reinforcements from the north of Japan will also continue to arrive.

This is why when the Central Plains is competing for deer, many forces must capture Luoyang. If you don't capture Luoyang, how can you say that you will occupy the Central Plains?

Luoyang in Kyushu is the western capital of Dazaifu.

If you don't fight Luoyang, you can fight Shangqiu, which is easy to fight, how many forces will do this? During Li Shimin's eastward expedition, he attacked Luoyang at any cost and ignored the rest of the Central Plains.

Therefore, Xin Du quickly rejected the proposal of Jin Fangqing and others. His reason was crude and direct: Ben Shuai only wanted Dazaifu.

But this stubborn Mongolian man also made compromises to the Goryeo generals accordingly. Next, instead of risking their lives to attack the stone wall, the Goryeo army was replaced by the Tanmachi army and the Mongol army.

Xin Du knew very well that if the Goryeo Army took the lead again, the Goryeo Army would collapse. Now is the time to employ people, as the commander, he naturally can't let the servant army be too chilled, even if it is a hunting dog, he also needs the master to comfort him.

More importantly, he wanted to show the cowardly Goryeo how the Mongol warriors fought.

After a day of repairs on 1 Ki Island, the Yuan fleet again sailed into Hakata Bay and launched its fourth assault on the Japanese stone wall.

This time, Xin Du shortened the line of attack to less than half a mile, and dispatched 3,000 Mongol troops and 3,000 Tanmachi troops to storm the fifth section of the Japanese stone wall.

This was the first time that the Mongol army had struck since the beginning of the war.

As soon as the war drums sounded, 3,000 Mongol soldiers and 3,000 Semu soldiers rushed onto the stone wall fiercely, they were all equipped with iron armor, but the heavy iron armor did not seem to hinder their strong and tall bodies at all. They carried short ladders that broke the ladder into several pieces, and with swords and shields in hand, they rushed towards the stone wall.

"Mordoga!" (Mongolian: Conquer the enemy!) ）

"Woohoo Hehuning!" (Mongolian: Kill the sheep!) ）

"Woohoo Hehuning!"

The Mongol soldiers and the Semu soldiers in front screamed and waved their scimitars, while the Mongol soldiers and Semu soldiers in the back shot powerful feathered arrows to cover the attacking warriors in front.

The Mongols used the Mongol Composite Horn Bow, which surpassed the improved Japanese longbow in power and range. What's even worse is that the Mongolian soldiers had excellent marksmanship, their heads were very high, and many archers who could shoot strong bows shot directly at the faces of Japanese samurai.

Many Japanese samurai were shot in the face. Most of their visors could not stop the feathered arrows of the Mongolian strong bow.

"Ahh

"Yaga!"

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of samurai were shot. And the Ryuzoji brothers, who were responsible for defending the fifth section of the stone wall, had no choice but to organize the wooden shield defense that had been prepared long ago. However, although the Mongol army's bow and arrow damage was greatly weakened, the large number of wooden shields also affected the attack of the Japanese troops defending the wall.

Soon, thousands of Mongol warriors rushed under the stone walls, and they were greeted by a dense forest of spears.

The spears of the Japanese army were more than a zhang long, and they were condescendingly stabbed, so the Mongol Semu soldiers could not get close at all.

At this time, the strength of the Mongol soldiers was revealed. Relying on the protection of iron armor, they wielded scimitars desperately, held shields against the dense spears, and covered their companions to lean the short ladder against the stone wall, and climbed up with strange screams.

However, although the protection of Mongolian iron armor is stronger than that of leather armor, and the Yuan army also has hand shields, at such a close distance, it cannot completely resist sharp spearheads, and shields cannot completely protect dense spearheads.

Some spears pierced the iron armor, and suddenly the spear shaft broke, some were cut by the armor, and some pierced the iron armor, but the end of the crossbow could not penetrate. However, there were still many spears piercing the iron armor, piercing the sharp spearheads into the bodies of the Mongol soldiers.

In particular, the iron armor of the Yuan army did not have face armor, and many Japanese spearmen directly greeted the unprotected faces of the Yuan army. Many of the Mongol warriors were stabbed to death in the face, but many of their spears were cut off by the scimitars of the Mongol warriors.

All of a sudden, scrapped spears were all over the ground.

In fact, many Mongol soldiers held off their spears with their swords in one hand, threw away their shields, grabbed their spears with the other, pulled the Japanese spearmen off the stone wall, or snatched the spears.

In a short period of time, a large number of Mongol Semu soldiers were killed and wounded under the spear forest of the Japanese army. However, the archers in the rear of the Yuan army also caused heavy casualties to the spearmen of the Japanese army.

Many spearmen, with their heads slightly exposed, were shot dead and wounded.

"Kill the chicken and give it!" The dragon temple family Qing threw away the folding fan, no longer caring about the slightest elegance, brandished the sword to personally go into battle to defend the wall.

This fifth section of the stone barrier was the focus of the Yuan army's attack, and it also concentrated two of the four most elite legions in Dazaifu. These two legions are not guarded by either of them, and they are nominally the army of the imperial court. But even if a large number of elite Japanese troops are gathered here, the stone wall is in danger at this time.

Finally, there were still some short ladders successfully erected to the stone wall, and a few fierce Mongol warriors, with several wounds, pounced on the low stone wall, and the fierce beasts generally crashed into the dense Japanese army ranks, slashing and killing.

For the first time since the start of the war, the Yuan army climbed the stone wall.

Every time a Mongol warrior attacked the stone wall, several Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. When it comes to the quality of individual soldiers, whether it is physique, physical strength, or fighting skills, the Mongolian soldiers are obviously much stronger than the Japanese army. The Japanese army could barely compete with the Mongols, and all that was left was the will to fight.

When the Goryeo generals saw the performance of the Mongol army, they had to admire even if they were dissatisfied with the Mongols.

People are better than people, and they have to die.

It's the same army, but as soon as the Mongol army struck, it was still different.

Jin Fangqing and others originally thought that the Goryeo army was fighting very bravely. But compared with the Mongolian army, the performance is obviously much worse.

"Kill the chicken and give it!" Seeing that some of the Mongol soldiers had broken into the stone barrier, the Longzao Temple family was shocked, roared hysterically, and led the guards to come up and kill them.

"Woohoo!" Another fierce Mongol soldier also burst into the stone wall, his face covered in blood, his helmet had been knocked off, revealing ugly pigtails, and a large cake face and thick beard, which looked extremely vicious.

As soon as the Mongol soldiers broke through the stone wall, they happened to encounter the defense general of the fifth section of the stone wall, Longzao Temple Jiaqing.

"Yaga! Kill the Montars! Seeing this, the dragon temple family was furious, and pounced without hesitation.

"Woohoo Hehuning!" The Mongol soldier also brandished his scimitar and pounced on him with no life.

"Poof!" The head of a Japanese samurai flew into the sky, and the Mongol soldier was also stabbed with a spear, but was not stabbed into it.

The Mongol soldier shouted, grabbed the spear, and with a fierce swing of the long knife, split half of the head of a Japanese soldier.

At this time, the Taidao of the dragon temple Jiaqing was also murderous.

With a "poof", the sharp knife pierced the gap in the Mongolian soldier's iron armor and stabbed into his chest, and almost at the same time, the Mongolian soldier's scimitar also broke through the neck guard of the dragon temple Jiaqing, and cut half of the scimitar into the neck of the dragon temple Jiaqing.

The head of the dragon temple family Qing was suddenly hung from his neck, and the blood shot out unfatally.

"Your Excellency!!" The warrior next to him shouted in grief, roared angrily, and slashed the seriously wounded and dying Mongol soldier with his sword.

The supreme commander of the fifth section of the stone wall, Ryuzoji Iekiyo, died in battle!

"Kill the chicken and give it!" When the younger brother of the dragon temple Jiaqing, the dragon temple Ji, saw that his brother was killed in battle, he didn't care to come over to take a look, so he desperately led people to encircle and suppress the few Mongolian soldiers who broke through the stone wall.

Although the Mongols continued to break into the stone wall, their numbers were too small after all, and after a terrible hand-to-hand battle, they were finally besieged and killed.

The Japanese finally held the stone wall narrowly and dangerously.

However, the losses of the Japanese army were also extremely heavy.

The Mongol soldiers who broke through the stone wall were actually only a hundred, but they caused hundreds of Japanese casualties, and even the main dragon built the temple Jiaqing, also died.

These are not Ashigaru red deer, but elite samurai of the Kingdom of God!

Seeing that they could not capture the stone wall, the Mongol soldiers who attacked the fortified were still fighting to the death, and climbed the wall one after another under the cover of the archers. But it was constantly blocked by the Japanese army who were united in their efforts.

Xin Du looked at this scene with a gloomy face, his face was terrifying.

Nearly 1,000 Mongol warriors have been killed in battle, right? You can't go down like this. Every Mongol warrior is golden.

"Mingjin, retire!" Xin Du ordered, "Let the brave and fearless Mongol warriors leave that damn stone wall." But our archers shouldn't stop shooting! Let the cowardly Japanese taste the arrows of the Mongolian hunters, what it is like! ”

Next, instead of attacking the stone wall, the Mongol soldiers retreated to the sea and began to fire arrows together.

More Mongol warriors disembarked and simply stood waist-deep in the sea and participated in archery.

For a time, the archers of the Yuan army were as high as more than 10,000 people.

A dense rain of arrows fell behind the stone wall, and each salvo was like a furious rush.

Although the Japanese army behind the stone wall prepared a lot of shields, the rain of arrows was so dense that people were shot and killed every moment.

The Japanese army's bow and arrow, compared with the Mongolian horn bow, was limited in power, and the threat to the Yuan army was not enough, and the Japanese army's physical strength and archery skills were not as good as the Mongolian color soldiers, so they suddenly fell into disadvantage in large-scale shooting.

The rain of arrows of the two armies was wantonly in the air, you came and went, and the whole air was a long rain of arrows.

The two armies continued to shoot each other for half an hour, and the archers of the Yuan army changed several batches, shooting more than 300,000 feather arrows, and consuming 20% of the feather arrow reserves in one go.

The Japanese army also fired as many as 200,000 arrows. Although the Japanese army's rain of arrows did little damage to the Yuan army, they had to fight back, otherwise the Yuan Kou would take the opportunity to attack the wall.

When the shooting was over, the Yuan army collected all the feather arrows of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army also collected the feather arrows of the Yuan army.

Because the Yuan army shot more than 100,000 arrows than the Japanese army, it was equivalent to a loss of more than 100,000 arrows. The Japanese army shot more than 100,000 pieces, which was equivalent to earning more than 100,000 pieces.

However, that's not how the accounts are calculated.

Because, the casualties of the Japanese army in the shooting reached more than 3,000 people, while the casualties of the Yuan army were only a few hundred. The exchange ratio between the two sides is as high as ten to one.

So, since the Yuan army won a big victory in the counter-shooting and played such a good exchange ratio, can it simply adopt the tactics of counter-shooting?

No.

Because, the reserve of feather arrows is limited.

If you keep doing this, the Yuan army's feather arrows will soon run out, but at most it can only kill more than 10,000 Japanese troops, what should you do next? The arrows are gone, how can this battle be fought?

On the contrary, the Japanese army could receive a steady stream of supplies from the rear.

So you can't do that.

When all the Yuan troops came back to repair and count on the ship, Xin Du and the others looked extremely difficult to see. In today's fourth bloody battle, more than 900 Mongolian soldiers and more than 1,000 colored soldiers were killed, adding up to more than 2,000! The vast majority of them died under the Stonewall.

The Mongol soldiers and the Semu soldiers were only 30,000 in total!

Xin Du and the others breathed in distress.

That damn stone wall is a warrior's graveyard!

At the same time, the young and second members of the Japanese battalion were also heartbroken.

Although he repelled Yuankou's fourth attack today, his henchman Ryūzoji Jiaqing was killed.

The elite of the Kingdom of God who died in battle is as high as 5,000!

Coupled with the previous bloody battles, the Kyushu Legion has killed more than 10,000 elite soldiers. If you continue to fight like this, don't be ten days and a half months, and there will be no one in the Kyushu Legion.

The folding fan of Shao Er's capital opened and closed, closed and opened, and it was about to be broken by him.

He really wanted to make a poem and sing it to express his feelings, but he was so anxious that he couldn't write a new poem.

Moreover, being so passive and defensive all the time is also very bad for your own morale. The character of the samurai of the Kingdom of God is not blindly defensive.

Sure enough, when Shao Erjingzi convened a military meeting again, several generals asked one after another to take the initiative to attack once, even if there was no gain, to boost the morale of the kingdom of God.

ps: I'm too busy today, so I can only update a big chapter. Good night friends! Ask for support. The data is a bit ugly these days.

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