Chapter 1791: Attack on the Ezo people
Built on a low hill and looking down on the long, gentle shore, the Sentinels sounded a warning horn when they spotted the Ezo people on the shore from a high lookout like a school of crabs surging onto the beach at low tide.
The monks in the shrine began to pray, praying that the almighty Hachiman God would guard the land of the Wakoku Kingdom, remove all calamities, protect the safety of the Wakoku, and send down heavenly bows and arrows to kill all demons......
The Japanese soldiers stationed in the shrine were under the command of the chief, opened the mountain gate and rushed out.
They have never regarded the ignorant Ezo people as opponents, they are a group of hungry inferior races, they do not deserve the most fertile land in the world, and it is already a gift from His Majesty the Emperor to dare to go to the icy and snowy Ezo Island, and now they have the courage to invade the land of the Japanese people, and they will definitely kill these stupid Ezo people cleanly, let them know that the brave Japanese people are invincible!
The invincibility of hundreds of years has caused all the Japanese people to have a contempt for the Ezo people, so they have not even noticed that the current Ezo people are no longer what they used to be......
Therefore, the Japanese soldiers did not adopt the most prudent strategy such as holding on to the shrine and condescending, but instead poured out of their nests, intending to take advantage of the Ezo attack, and defeat them with a single charge.
In the face of this group of stupid fishermen, where is the use of tactical strategy?
It wasn't until the two armies met halfway up the hill that they sensed that something was wrong......
The biggest reason why the war with the Ezo people in the past hundreds of years was invincible was the excellent armament and rigorous drills.
Now, however, it is very different.
This group of Ezo people not only each held a horizontal knife and spear, and even most of them wore leather armor, and the two battles were in one place, and the Ezo people advanced and retreated to support each other, and dozens of Japanese soldiers were cut down to the ground with one face, blood gushing wildly, and a wail.
The Ezo people who obtained the standard equipment of the Tang Army have undergone the drills of the Tang Army, although it is impossible to suddenly jump to a first-class strong army, but in the face of the Japanese soldiers, they have a comprehensive advantage, coupled with the negligence of the Japanese soldiers, it is doomed to the outcome of this battle.
In the past, the Japanese soldiers were well-armed and well-trained, and they had a huge advantage in the face of the ignorant Ezo people, but what were these advantages that they were proud of in front of the Tang army?
A massacre begins......
The Ezo people, who have been humiliated for generations, seem to have been beaten with blood, and the Japanese soldiers who used to fight bravely and skillfully in front of them no longer exist, and now they are only fighting with a group of fools who fight on their own, when the sharp blade of the horizontal knife cuts the throat of the Japanese soldiers in front of them, and when the sharp long hairs pierce the chest of the Japanese soldiers, the Ezo people finally find a sense of victory that they have not felt for hundreds of years.
It's so cool!
They wielded their blades and were not afraid of death, not only crushing the group of Japanese soldiers in front of them, but also attacking the hill and entering the Hachiman Shrine.
Reciting a mantra in his mouth, a monk dressed in strange clothes was praying in the main hall, hoping that the almighty Hachiman God would get rid of the demons and protect the Japanese people, and they were killed by the Ezo people who swarmed in. The almighty Hachiman God incarnated as a clay clay statue, sitting indifferently on top of the main hall, watching his people wail and scream under the butcher's knives of the Ezo people, slaughtering like pigs and dogs......
The Ezo people have gone completely insane.
The humiliation endured for hundreds of years is like a repressed volcano, once it erupts, the eruption of the tyrannical energy is enough to destroy the world!
After sweeping the Hachiman Shrine, the blood stained the blue brick floor, and the entire temple was filled with corpses, the Ezo people rushed from the hillside behind the temple into the gentle and wide plain with a roar, and killed anyone they saw!
Not only did they have to regain the land occupied by the Japanese and return to the place where their ancestors lived, but they also had to kill all the way to Asuka Kyoto, exterminate the Japanese people, and completely wipe out this evil and violent race from this land......
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None of the Japanese thought that the Ezo people who had been driven to the far north of Ezo Island would still have the power to resist, so the entire border was empty, and there was no defense at all, except for some strategically important coastal areas to defend against pirates.
Therefore, when the Ezo people, who were equipped with the armaments and weapons of the Tang army and trained by the Tang army, landed on the coast of Mutsu and almost did not fight a few decent battles, they destroyed and tore apart all the towns of the Japanese people, and rushed forward!
This force, which brought together the vast majority of the young and strong people of the Ezo people, was overwhelming, and their leader was Ji Shijun, the younger brother of Ji Shiju, a rare brave and resourceful young handsome among the Ezo people, who accepted the advice of the Tang people, and did not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and led his soldiers to sweep the places where the Japanese people lived, with the aim of exterminating the Japanese people.
The people of Mutsu were shocked, and while sending people to rush to Asukakyo for help, they organized young people to resist, and finally even monks were sent to the battlefield to try to stop the Ezo people's attack.
But it didn't work......
After two years of formal military training, a large number of Tang troops were eliminated but far more sophisticated than the Japanese soldiers, so that even though the Ezo army was only more than a thousand people, it was still a god to prevent the killing of the Buddha and the killing of the Buddha, and the rapid advance was unstoppable.
The tactical intent of the Ezo was very obvious, and they sometimes broke into the inland lightning attack on the Japanese city, and when they succeeded, they immediately fled away, retreated to the coast to receive the baggage supplies of the fleet, and then advanced along the coastline towards Asuka-kyo.
This made the Japanese people in a chaotic position, unable to catch the Ezo people's march route at all, and even more confused about the Ezo people's attack targets, so they could only be beaten passively.
For the rest of the month, the castles in the northern part of the island of Honshu are full of rumors......
The country of Mutsu has not yet organized even a fruitful counterattack, the entire border has been stirred up by the Ezo people, countless Japanese people crying fathers and mothers with their families to flee towards the man, not to escape, the Ezo people are full of hatred, the means are more cruel and tyrannical than the Japanese people inflicted on them back then, men are killed regardless of age, women are all captured, that is, as slaves for labor, but also as tools for breeding.
The last 3,000 young men of the Mutsu Kingdom have gathered in Aoba Castle, hoping to rely on the fortified castle to hold on, and as long as it lasts for a month, the emperor's reinforcements from Asuka Kyoto will arrive, and then more than 1,000 Ezo people will have to be killed by the head!
However, Aoba Castle, the capital of Mutsu Province, did not hold out for even a day......
The strong blue brick city wall is tall and heavy, and the Japanese soldiers stand at the head of the city, watching as two Ezo people put a swarthy thing in a pried up gap in the city bricks, and then the mountain shook with a "boom", a large part of the city wall collapsed instantly, and the Japanese soldiers on the city cried wolf howl, and countless dead and wounded.
Everyone panicked, they didn't understand what power could destroy the strong walls in an instant, and when they looked up at the sky, everyone was terrified.
The Japanese soldiers who had sworn to defend their homeland collapsed in an instant in the face of these sudden "miracles", and they thought that they could resist the Ezo people with all their might, but even if they had nine lives, how could they resist the wrath of the gods and Buddhas?
Even the great god Hachiman could not protect his people, fearing that the end had already come......
In fact, it is not just them? The Ezo people under the city were also so frightened that they fell to the ground and prayed silently, hoping that the divine thunder would only come down from heaven to punish those tyrannical Japanese people, who were the most devout believers.
It wasn't until Ji Shiju rushed through the gap in the collapsed city wall with a horizontal sword that the Ezo people woke up from a dream and followed suitably into the city.
The surviving Japanese soldiers had already prostrate on the ground, raising their hands and surrendering......
However, the strategy of the Ezo people has always been the same, they understand that what they are fighting for now is not one city or one place, otherwise even if they are snatched back, they will eventually be snatched back by the Japanese people who have an absolute advantage in the population, so they only kill people, not cities, and even the wealth in the treasury!
As long as they kill all the Japanese people, the world is big, and it is not up to them Ezo people to graze Purple Tsuki Island and drink horses and Asuka River?
After killing all the Japanese people, everything is Ezo people......
When all the young men in Aoba Castle were slaughtered, Ji Shiju stepped on the blood that overflowed the bluestone slabs and walked into the city.
Ji Shiju was dressed in a military uniform and covered in blood, standing in front of the palace, carrying the head of the national guard of the country of Mutsu in his hand, cracking his white teeth, and smiling at the eldest brother.
stepped forward and patted his brother's shoulder fiercely, Ji Shiju's eyes were full of appreciation and joy: "Well done, worthy of being my brother, worthy of being the descendants of the Ezo people!" Just go all the way, don't stop, fight until Asuka Kyo, and then the Tang people will come forward to mediate and fight for a land for us Ezo people to survive under the sun! ”
He was very sober and did not lose his mind by the favorable situation in front of him, so he inflated his pride.
The Japanese have a large population, and now the Ezo people can rush forward so wildly and win successive battles, but it is just because the Japanese people are caught off guard, once the Japanese people come to their senses, more than 1,000 Ezo elites, how can they be able to defeat the Japanese people's troops recruited by the whole country?
Only before the Japanese people reacted, they could occupy as much land as possible, and when the Ezo people's sudden advance showed their decline, it was time for the Tang people to come forward.
The Tang people came forward, which meant that this war was about to end, at least temporarily, because Ji Shiju understood that the Tang people did not care about the war between the Ezo and the Japanese people, but the Tang people would never allow only one race left in this land.
Regardless of the Ezo people or the Japanese people, no one can perish, no one can dominate, only-for-tat, hold each other, the hatred will continue from generation to generation, whoever is weak will support whom, whoever is strong will fight whom, this land will not be extinguished and the killing will never be peaceful, that is the ultimate goal of the Tang people.
Ji Shiju doesn't care.