Chapter 62: Bloody Fenglingkou (3)
Fenglingkou is an important road in and out of the mountain in the southern part of Mt. Ishida.
In order to effectively intercept the Daming detachment, according to the order of Governor Konishi, the major intersections in and out of Ishida Mountain were heavily guarded.
There were about 200 Japanese troops stationed at Fenglingkou, and this Japanese army was composed of iron artillery, crossbowmen, and ashigaru soldiers.
Due to the flat and open terrain of Fenglingkou, the Japanese army built three lines of defense with sandbags.
The first line of defense was guarded by thirty iron artillerymen; The second line of defense consisted of fifty crossbowmen armed with strong bows and hard crossbows; The last line of defense consisted of more than 100 ashigaru, all armed with swords and spears.
On the three lines of defense, the specific division of labor among the soldiers is as follows: If the enemy forcibly rushes from the mountain in front of him, the iron artillery team of the first line of defense will first shoot at a long distance. Once the enemy rushes to a distance of thirty or fifty meters, the crossbowmen of the second line of defense will inflict a second wound on the enemy with their crossbows when the gunners have no time to charge. If the enemy finally rushes to the front, Ashigaru, who is in the third line of defense, will rush over and wield a sword spear to engage the enemy in a final hand-to-hand combat.
When the first rays of sunlight in the morning shone through the clouds and hit the mountain that had been sleeping all night, a dilapidated ox cart walked from the mountain road inside Fenglingkou.
The "squeak" of the two large wooden wheels of the ox cart sounded a little harsh on the empty mountain road in the early morning.
The handlebar of the cart was a man in his forties, and I saw him sitting in front of the ox cart near the tail of the ox, listlessly shaking the broken bullwhip in his hand, and shouting at the old ox in front of him to hurry forward.
In the carriage, there were three women and a man covered with a torn cover.
Among the three women, one is delicate and exquisite, with a faint heroic aura between his eyebrows; One looked well-built, with wide eyebrows and big eyes; The other was born tall and elegant.
"God, my wretched husband, why did you leave us orphans and widows? My poor child, who lost his father at such a young age. Ouch! Oh my God, why are you so short-sighted! The broad-eyed woman sitting on the ox cart wore a white veil and wept as she kept muttering.
Seeing someone coming out of the mountain, the Japanese army guarding at the mouth of Fengling immediately became alert. The gunners loaded their ammunition, the crossbowmen fired their crossbows, and the ashigaru soldiers lined up with spears and swords.
When the ox cart approached, he saw that it was a broken ox cart pulling three crying North Korean women, and the Japanese soldiers who were in the first line of defense, so they relaxed their vigilance and put down the iron cannons they raised.
Slowly, the ox cart approached.
"What for? Get checked! A Japanese interpreter held two portraits and ordered aloud in Korean, not very fluent.
The two portraits are the shadows of Ye Ruliu and Shi Lang.
The ox cart stopped in front of the first line of defense of the Japanese army.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the little woman's life is miserable, my hard-working husband went into the mountains to hunt yesterday and didn't come home all night, who knew that he was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. No, the three of us had to send him back to his hometown for burial. Oh, do you think my life is bitter? The wide-eyed woman cried and complained to the Japanese interpreter.
"His ...... Where is my hometown? The Japanese interpreter asked.
"It's in Konoha Village, five or six miles away, and he's our family's son-in-law." The wide-eyed woman replied with a cry.
Listening to the woman's cry, the interpreter still had some doubts, he walked up to the handlebar style standing on the side, circled around him, and then suddenly grabbed the handlebar style beard with his hand.
The handlebar style panicked and covered the goatee on his chin with his hand.
"What do you do?" The interpreter asked, letting go of his hand and staring into the handlebar-like eyes.
"Yayaya......" handlebar-style hands danced and babbled.
"Oh, Master Jun, he's a mute, and he's the handlebar of the ox cart we hired by our family." Said the woman with an elegant temperament.
"...... you?" The interpreter looked at the three women in front of him and asked.
"We are three sisters, the one wearing the white veil is my eldest sister, and this is my sister." The woman with a refined temperament replied.
"Three Sisters...... The Japanese military interpreter held a portrait in his hand and stared at the three women one by one.
"Why do I think you're so familiar?" The interpreter walked up to the delicate woman, holding the portrait in his hand, and comparing it repeatedly.
The woman glanced at the portrait in the other party's hand, and when she saw that the other party kept looking at herself, she quickly lowered her head, covered her face with her sleeve, and wept.
"Who are you lying in the car?" The Japanese interpreter asked the woman who bowed her head and wept.
"Woo, woo......" The woman did not answer the other party's question, she hid her face with her hands and screamed loudly.
"My little sister is afraid to see the living. Master Jun, didn't I tell you just now, it was my husband lying in this car, so he was naturally my little sister's eldest brother-in-law. The woman wearing a white veil hurriedly walked up to the Japanese army interpreter and played a round for the little sister.
"Brother-in-law, you died so miserably! The eldest sister is crying! The woman with an elegant temperament saw that her little sister was crying non-stop, and she also cried loudly.
"Alright, stop howling. Early in the morning, crying makes people upset. The Japanese interpreter walked impatiently to the car.
"...... bitten by a snake," the Japanese interpreter gently lifted the dirty quilt with the horsewhip in his hand.
Seeing a handsome man lying under the quilt with his eyes closed, the Japanese military interpreter put his face close to the man and wanted to see what was going on.
Suddenly, the man lying in the car suddenly opened his eyes.
"Ahh The Japanese interpreter was so frightened that he screamed.
Before the interpreter could react, he saw the lying man suddenly lift off the quilt and kick him out of the way.
I saw that the lying man used his hands and feet at the same time, bounced up from the carriage, brandished an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and killed the unsuspecting Japanese iron gunners.
At the same time, the three women and the handlebar took their weapons out of the carriage and struck at the unsuspecting Japanese gunner.
The three women are Ye Ruliu, Heigu, and An Zaiji. The handlebar style is Shi Tianji pretending. Lying in the car was Shi Lang.
Last night, according to the feedback from the investigators on the deployment of the Japanese army at Fenglingkou, Luo Shiyin, Xiu Neng, Huang Long, and others, after consultation, decided to find a way to send people to approach the Japanese army's iron artillery team, and as long as the Japanese army's iron gunners who posed the greatest threat were eliminated, it would be possible to approach the enemy and kill them in battle while minimizing casualties.
So, there was this good scene just now.
The iron cannon of this Japanese army is actually not a cannon, but a kind of arquebus, which is a single-shot firearm, and its long-range lethality is still quite large.
Shi Lang, Ye Ruliu, Shi Tianji, Heigu, and An Zaiji each held weapons in their hands, rushed into the Japanese army's iron artillery team, and smashed them fiercely.
In such close hand-to-hand combat, the iron cannon in the hands of the Japanese army did not have any advantage at all. On the one hand, because they had just relaxed their vigilance, most of the Japanese iron gunners had no time to react; On the other hand, in a melee between the enemy and the enemy, they did not dare to let go of their guns, because in such a close-range melee, if they fired casually, they were very likely to injure their own people.
Just when Shi Lang, Ye Ruliu and others succeeded and killed in the enemy formation, on the mountain road in the distance, the dust was flying, and more than a dozen horses galloped towards the Japanese army's position.
Sitting immediately were Luo Shiyin, Xiu Neng, Huang Long's three brothers and Cui Biao and others. Behind them was a fast-running team, they were the monks of Jinguang Temple, Huang Long's subordinates, and the brothers in the Huwei Cottage, all of them holding weapons in their hands, rushing towards the Japanese army like wolves and tigers.
Seeing the urgency of the enemy's situation, the Japanese troops in the second and third lines of defense rushed forward and joined in hand-to-hand combat in the first line of defense.
Luo Shiyin, Xiu Neng, Huang Long and others had rushed into the enemy formation in the blink of an eye.
Luo Shiyin saw several Japanese soldiers stabbing at him with spears in their hands, and immediately kicked the saddle with both feet, and his body rose from the galloping horse, and waved his palm in the air, and a huge impact force was sent out from his palms, and at a distance of a few meters, the Japanese soldiers were lightly knocked out of a distance of five or six meters. Several Japanese soldiers fell to the ground immediately, spitting blood from their mouths and unable to move.
Huang Long waved the nine-ring broadsword in his hand, and the prancing horse rushed into the enemy formation, slashing left and right. Several enemy soldiers were killed by his swords.
The two brothers, Yellow Tiger and Yellow Leopard, wielded their swords and swords, and followed closely by the eldest brother's side. The three brothers worked closely together to rampant through the enemy's ranks.
Suddenly, the yellow leopard saw a Japanese crossbowman pulling a long bow, and a flying arrow shot at Ye Ruliu, who was struggling to kill the enemy.
Ye Ruliu was concentrating on dealing with several enemy soldiers in front of him at this time, and he didn't realize the flying arrows shooting at him at all.
Seeing that the flying arrow was about to hit Ye Ruliu's back.
At the critical moment, the yellow leopard jumped from his horse, and at the moment when the arrow cluster was about to hit Ye Ruliu, he used his body to block the flying arrows.
I only heard a "poof" sound, and an arrow shot into the chest of the yellow leopard. The yellow leopard endured the severe pain, roared, and rushed to the front of the archery soldier with all his might, and slashed the opponent to the ground.
"Third brother!" When Huang Long saw that the Yellow Leopard was injured, he immediately worked with the Yellow Tiger to slash and kill the enemy soldiers around him, in a vain attempt to go to rescue the injured third brother. Helplessly, the two were entangled by the enemy and failed to break out of the encirclement.
Ye Ruliu and Shi Lang also wanted to come to the rescue of the yellow leopard, but they were also surrounded by many Japanese soldiers and could not get out.
The seriously injured yellow leopard gritted his teeth and brandished the ghost-headed broadsword in his hand, and successively hacked to death three Japanese soldiers who tried to kill and injure him. Blood trickled down the yellow leopard's clothes, forming a long trail of blood at his feet. Gradually, the yellow leopard felt that his eyes were black, and his feet did not obey.
At this moment, a Japanese soldier lightly held a spear and stabbed the yellow leopard in the heart. The yellow leopard didn't care about the pain in his heart, he grabbed the handle of the spear that stabbed him with his left hand, and forced the opponent back three or four meters with both feet. The Japanese soldier tried his best, but he could not pull out his spear.
Looking at the somewhat timid other party, the yellow leopard let out a hideous and terrifying laugh from his mouth, and he used his last strength to plunge the ghost head knife in his hand deep into the chest of the Japanese soldier.
Xiu Neng and Cui Biao jumped from their horses into the enemy formation almost at the same time, and as soon as they landed, seven or eight Japanese soldiers immediately surrounded them. Xiu Neng and Cui Biao leaned on their backs, picked up the shovel stick and the Pu knife in their hands, and killed the Japanese soldiers who came over crying for their fathers and mothers, and there were many casualties.
Shi Tianji, Heigu, and An Zaiji worked together to fight and stab the enemy soldiers close to him one by one.
The heroes who were running on their feet had also rushed to the formation at this time, and they shouted in unison to kill the Japanese army.
In this way, on the open road of Fenglingkou, more than 300 teams from both sides fought together.
The scene was full of murder. Both sides killed people on their backs.
After nearly half an hour of scuffle, this almost evenly matched battle was over.
As a result, all the 200 or so Japanese troops were annihilated. Huanglong and Cui Biao lost most of the soldiers and horses of the two cottages. The yellow panther was killed in battle. More than a dozen warrior monks of Jinguang Temple were killed.
At this point, after more than a month of trekking, Luo Shiyin led the team, with the help of Xiuneng, Heigu and Huanglong, and finally got rid of the encirclement and interception of the Japanese army.
According to the plan negotiated by Luo Shiyin and Xiu Neng last night, they decided to divide their troops into two routes, and Xiu Neng led the monks of Jinguang Temple to march to the northwest and rush to the army of Yiju to defect to the Korean government. Luo Shiyin took the southeast direction and led the team straight to Wangjing, the capital of North Korea.
Everyone inevitably had a greeting before parting.
Ye Ruliu and Heigu and Ahn Jae-ji hugged each other and said goodbye.