On the dry land on the banks of the river, there were soldiers and horses, galloping war horses, and chaotic crowds everywhere. There was a loud noise, making it seem as if everyone was shouting.

Each time the heavy iron hooves stepped on the ground, they made a terrifying thumpping sound. Mongolian horses and Tibetan horses are also high-headed horses in the eyes of Japanese soldiers. The men on horseback were all dressed in iron armor, and they looked very sturdy and terrifying. Columns of horses rushed to kill on all sides.

"Oh......" a samurai roared in a frustrated voice, holding a sword in both hands and staring at the rushing horses. His eyes widened, his teeth clenched, and he seemed to have made up his mind to die. In the blink of an eye, the war horse had rushed to him, a huge black shadow blocked the sky in front of him, and the warrior swung his sword, but his body dodged uncontrollably, and when he came back to his senses a little, the sword flashed and the condescending slash was already on his head.

The remaining Japanese soldiers turned around and ran, but were soon overtaken by the cavalry, and the bloody rain of stabbing and slashing, and the screams and shouts of fear were deafening. The living Japanese soldiers were in disarray.

A nearby samurai was shouting angrily, moving his position closer, brandishing his sword, and watching as the extremely fast cavalry rushed by. Under the man's anger, he was full of fear and helplessness.

The wooden bridge over the river was on fire, and the main Japanese forces on the opposite bank had already set the bridge on fire. The crowd on the bridge deck was simply chaotic and crowded; Some people are squeezing westward, some people turn around and want to go back when they see the firelight, and they are crowded in the middle, and people keep falling into the river or jumping into the water on their own initiative.

On the shore stood a row of Ming soldiers and horses, and the cavalrymen who had dismounted kept pulling their bows and shooting arrows into the river, as if they were shooting targets in a formation. The corpse was covered with arrow feathers, floating all over the water.

In the midst of the rebellion, someone shouted in Japanese: "Those who surrender will not die!" "There are also people who are learning to shout in Japanese in unison, but the pronunciation is not very standard, and I wonder if the Japanese can understand the meaning.

The scene of the stabbing and killing gradually began to ease, and many people surrendered, especially the infantry wearing pointed bamboo hats.

Someone in the crowd shouted: "Ping is handsome and mighty!" "Mighty ......"

Ping'an reined in his horse, sat on the horse's back, took out a delicately embroidered handkerchief, wiped the blood from the iron axe, and looked coldly at the fire on the river and the scene on the other side.

The banner with "Ping" written on it was waving in the wind on the battlefield. If the scouts who had recently been sent out had returned, they would have found peace easily. But so far, Ping An has not received any information about the location of the wade.

However, judging by the speed and width of the river, there must be some places where you can wade across the river.

Ping'an hung the axe on his back and said, "Let the captives throw away their weapons and gather in one place, leaving thirty horsemen to escort the queen of the palace." The rest of the divisions, follow me south! ”

"Order!" The pro-soldiers around him responded with fists.

Ping'an selected another young general and beckoned him to come over: "You pick an entourage all the way, go back to the camp immediately, and report the situation here to General Sheng." ”

The junior general asked, "Do you want the Chinese army to send reinforcements?" ”

Ping'an said: "Don't say anything. General Sheng has a lot of people and scouts are far away, he can control the overall situation, and we don't need to talk too much. ”

The young general hugged his fists and said: "Order." The last general will take his leave. ”

The army had made some preparations, and then set out again. Ping'an led his army along the river bank for some distance south when he met the men sent by the scouts. So the scout took the group and hurried to the shallow water. The tribes successively waded across the river to the west bank.

In less than half an hour, Ping An got the location of the rest of the Japanese army from the scout's mouth, and led the army to follow the road.

After leaving the West Bank, the Japanese army changed its route and continued its march south. They should also know that fleeing north is a dead end, and that there is a peninsula terrain. However, the main infantry force of the Japanese army was obviously unable to rely on itself and get rid of the cavalry tracking.

The place where the Ming cavalry found most of the Japanese army was near a low-lying dam. There are mountains and forests on the east and west sides of this flat field, but the mountains on this side are not big or high.

From a distance, some Japanese troops were going up the mountain, and several long queues could be seen on the hillside. There are also some people at the bottom of the mountain, guarding a green paddy field, and an infantry team is arranged behind the rice field, or there are hundreds of people.

After observing for a while, I saw the Japanese camp at the foot of the mountain, with rice fields on three sides and mountains and forests on the east side; There is only a narrow ridge in the middle of the rice field, and there should be water and silt under the rice, and it is impossible for people and horses to run in the paddy field.

"Go and call the first and second general flag teams of Zuo Heng over there, along the woods at the foot of the mountain, touch the flanks of those enemy soldiers, and immediately rush to kill." Ping An ordered.

"Order!"

Ping'an said: "There are three general flag teams left here, waiting by the front field, waiting for the opportunity to rush through the field with a single column. The rest went to the woods to respond. ”

The army gathered on the south side of a rice field, and the soldiers dismounted and stood on the ground to watch the scene at the foot of the mountain. The paddy field in front of it is made up of many small paddy fields, and there are irregular ridge roads in the middle, but they are all relatively narrow. The two armies were nearly two hundred paces apart, and the bow and arrow were out of range.

In the afternoon, the air was clean and the sight was clear, and the movements of both sides could be roughly seen. The Japanese army probably saw the movement of the Ming army from the foot of the mountain, because they were sending infantry into the woods to the south of it.

After a while, there were faint screams and shouts in the forest. But people in the distance couldn't see it clearly, and they didn't know what was going on inside.

After waiting for a while, a cavalry column rushed out of the woods and launched an attack on the enemy troops behind the rice fields. The chords continued, and the cavalry had divided into small squads, running back and forth between the woods and the arid wasteland crops.

Ping'an pointed to the flag next to a field and said, "The small flag team over there, take the shield and set off, and attack in a single column." ”

"The last will be ordered!" A military general hugged his fists, then raised his cherry gun and shouted, "Brothers, kill!" ”

Ten horsemen rushed up to the field and jogged forward in a sparse formation along the path. The first horse rushed to about 100 paces, immediately slapped his horse and accelerated, shouting and rushing over. A burst of arrows flew in the air, and in a few moments the cavalry company was hit by multiple arrows and fell into the rice fields. The horse also neighed from the arrow and stepped into the rice.

The second rider then rushed and fell from his horse with another arrow, and the empty horse ran along the path over the rice paddies.

"Alas!" A sergeant beside Ping An clenched his fists and nervously hammered his palm. But Ping An still did not change his face and waited quietly. The people in the rice fields are not dead, they are still struggling to go back in the mud. The Zhengri Land Division is the elite of the Beijing camp and is very well-equipped; The cavalrymen were all clad in iron armor and did not seem to have been shot to the point.

The second small flag team also went up to Tiankan and set off with guns and shields one after another.

At this moment, two small groups of Ming cavalry in the distance rushed to the side of the rice field one after another, and those Japanese archers were chased and fled. The cavalry on Ping'an's side took advantage of the situation and kept rushing over. A detachment of Japanese infantry shouted and rushed towards Tiankan. Under the shouting of the generals, the squads of the Ming army quickly gathered into a slightly larger group of horses, and then rushed straight to the flank of the Japanese reinforcements.

The scene gradually began to become chaotic, and more and more Ming cavalry rushed through the rice fields along the narrow Tiankan path.

Heian then rushed over, and he led his own soldiers to attack a group of Japanese troops who had not dispersed in disarray. A herd of iron horses quickly drove a way away as if they had rushed into a flock of sheep, and peacefully brandished an iron axe, the impact of which was too great for anyone to parry. The round shield in his left hand was also forged from iron, and occasionally blocked the sword and directly broke the enemy's sword.

"Bell!" Heian lightly held the iron round shield to block a sword, and the samurai staggered beside him. In an instant, Ping'an's body was hanging on his horse, and while throwing the round shield, he twisted the samurai's armor and lifted the man up. The war horse "neighed" and shook violently and rushed out diagonally.

"General Ping, a large number of enemy troops on the mountain have come down!" Someone shouted.

Ping An glanced up, turned his head and said, "Mingjin retreats." ”

"Order!" The pro-soldier responded.

Ping An took the axe and tapped lightly on the neck of the samurai in his arms, and shouted as he ran his horse: "South! Take the wounded brothers and go! ”

The cavalry team around him shouted in unison: "The whole army retreats south!" ”

The columns that rushed and killed everywhere gradually closed the banner and rushed into the forest one after another. In the arbor forests of Japan, the trees seem to grow very thin, and the cavalry will not be hindered from running through the trees.

All the troops withdrew from the battlefield one after another, leaving the foot of the mountain for some distance, and Ping'an stopped his horses.

Ping An turned his horse's head, looked at the nearby mountain, and said, "Guarding the high ground, it is easy to be besieged, and it is a place to die." ”

The general asked, "General Ping, are we going to surround this mountain?" ”

Ping An was stunned and said, "How can hundreds of people surround it?" Hurry up and find a place to camp in all directions, and keep an eye on this Japanese army first. In case they have other reinforcements, we can wait for the opportunity to retreat. ”

The general hurriedly said: "The general is wise." ”

Heian threw the unconscious samurai under his horse and said, "Wake up, who can speak bird language, is he dead?" ”

After a while, a man without armor came on horseback and dismounted to salute Ping'an.

Ping An swaggered on horseback and said, "Ask, where are they going?" ”

The man muttered, but the samurai did not say a word.

Ping'an said, "You tell him that we have captured no less than 100 people." Finally, he was asked again, and if someone else told the news first, he would cut off his hands and feet and feed them to the dogs. ”

It didn't take long for the interpreter to report safety: "These horses are the defenders of Shima Prefecture, and they have received an order from Ouchi Morimi to withdraw their troops. They were to retreat to the valley at the southern foot of the mountain, where they would build a number of fortifications and defend the road on the spot. The little one asked him where the mountain was. He said that to the east of this place was the only way to the plains of Gunwu County. ”

Ping An was silent for a while, and then suddenly said: "Send three messengers to tell General Sheng that we are going to the valley south of Bofu Mountain." Send a small flag team to send the wounded soldiers to the camp to find their brothers. Gather your brethren and go. ”

The people around were amazed. Because Ping An makes a decision every time, the time is too short, and it is easy for ordinary people to feel child's play.

One of the generals said: "What about the enemy troops trapped in the mountains?" ”

Ping'an said: "That's something that the Japanese generals consider. ”

The general asked, "What should I do with the captives?" ”

Ping'an said: "Those who wear armor are cut down, and those who hang bamboo pieces are released." ”