Sanada Yukimura watched Taira Masamori rush over with the cavalry, pulled out the arrow on his shoulder, and shouted, "Kill the whole army!" He turned his horse's head to meet him, and the remaining Japanese cavalry also followed, and the battlefield was not large, and the distance between the two armies was quickly narrowed.

"Shoot!" Heimasa shouted, nearly a thousand Japanese cavalry pulled their bows and shot arrows at Sanada Yukimura, Sanada Yukimura held a small shield to protect his face, and he inevitably hit several arrows on his body, he gritted his teeth and said, "Catch up!" ”

Ping Zhengsheng is not stupid, the Japanese cavalry is different from the mainland cavalry, the Japanese cavalry basically has not received special training in charging and killing, and the practice is all riding archery, and they really have to fight in close combat, they may be more powerful under the horse than on the horse.

Many people think that the war horses of the Wa Kingdom are short, but that is the real local horse of the Wa Kingdom, such as the wild horse, the shoulder height is basically not 120 cm, but the Wa State has been in contact with the mainland since the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty has seen the style of the Tang Dynasty cavalry that is scared to death, and it is a rare advantage of the Wa State to be good at learning, so at this time, the Wa State has introduced a large number of Mongolian horses, and after being localized, it has become the most important horse of the Wa Kingdom in later generations, the height of the Kiso horse is basically about the same as the Mongolian horse, and most of the cavalry of the Wa State actually use the Kiso horse, The selected Kiso horses are generally about 130 centimeters tall at the shoulder. For example, the war horse ridden by Ping Zhengsheng even reached 142 cm at the shoulder, which is very tall, and you must know that the shoulder height of the real Mongolian horse is generally about 130 cm.

The real gap between the cavalry of the Wa Kingdom and the cavalry of the Continental State is in the melee charge, the cavalry of the Wa State is mainly divided into archers who carry out cavalry and cavalry that use cold weapons such as knives, but the archers are the main force. Therefore, Ping Zhengsheng's so-called rushing to kill the past is just to pull in the distance to better exert the power of the archers and cavalry, but he has no intention of melee combat.

Taira Masamori began to wander away with the Japanese cavalry, and the power of the archers was really good in his hands, and Sanada Yukimura would have been shot dead on a horse if he hadn't passed on two layers of battle armor.

But Ping Zhengsheng was only arrogant for less than a few minutes, and then he heard a wail and the familiar sound of arrows entering the flesh from around him.

Ping Zhengsheng hurriedly turned back, only to see a group of cavalry has appeared a hundred paces away, this team of cavalry also has a thousand people, everyone is armed with bows and arrows, the bow does not look big, but the curvature is very high, an arrow is shot, the big armor worn by the samurai is like paper paste is shot through, only then a wave of arrows down, and seventy or eighty people fell.

"Not good! Evacuate! "As soon as Ping Zhengsheng engaged, he knew that his bow was not as good as the other side, and if he shot again, he would only suffer, anyway, he had already attracted the combat power of the Pingyin army, and it was acceptable to retreat.

"Where will the widow run!" Luan Tingyu saw that Ping Zhengsheng wanted to run, clamped the horse's belly hard, urged the war horse to catch up, and shot at Ping Zhengsheng with both hands with the bow, Luan Tingyu's horse is a first-class Yili horse, Yili horse is one of the best war horses in China, the shoulder height is generally more than 145 cm, Luan Tingyu's war horse has reached 160 cm, it is a horse that Jiang Dehua spent a lot of money to get through the Western Army, and only the regiment commander and above generals are qualified to equip it.

Standing tall and looking far away, Luan Tingyu was already tall, and sitting on a big horse was a head taller than ordinary cavalry, he shot an arrow at Ping Zhengsheng, the arrow was like a meteor, right in the back of the heart, Ping Zhengsheng only felt a sharp pain coming, and then he didn't know anything when it was dark in front of him.

"Kill!" Dong Ping also killed, with a swing of his spear, he rushed straight from the flank, and in the white river on the mountain, he only saw his samurai regiment surrounded by the three-way cavalry, a twist, the flag was flying, and the smoke and dust were everywhere, and when he could see it clearly, his thousand-man samurai regiment was only less than a hundred people who were fleeing.

"Poof!" Bai He directly spit out a mouthful of old blood, this is a samurai regiment, it is his core strength, even 10,000 feet are not as light as this thousand samurai regiment, this battle can be lost.

"Withdraw! Fast! Let them withdraw !! "Baihe didn't dare to fight anymore, the samurai regiment was exhausted, and tens of thousands of troops were killed by artillery and cavalry like headless ants.

The battle lasted for a day, and when the last Japanese army fled to the mountains, the Pingyin army stopped the pursuit, and the three airships in the sky patrolled back and forth on Mt. Omonji and Mt. Otowa, and the absolute suppression in the sky completely lost the so-called high ground advantage of the Japanese army, and the bombs dropped from the airships from time to time were not accurate, but they also left the Japanese army without any way to defend themselves.

In a temple, Bai He looked at the father and son of Ping Zhengsheng and Ping Zhongsheng, who had no blood on their faces, pale lips, and were still unconscious, and a trace of sadness flashed on their faces, and then anger flashed on their faces.

"What? Aren't Ping Zhengsheng and Ping Zhongsheng still dead? ”

"Your Majesty! The two lords were rescued from the army by us desperately, and now is the time to employ people, so please forgive your majesty for the responsibility of the defeated army. A tattered Heike samurai knelt on the ground and said.

"Do I need you to teach?" Shirakawa kicked the samurai over, and then wanted to fight again, when an explosion suddenly came, which made Shirakawa tremble in fright, and fell to the ground without standing firm.

"Your Majesty!" Several ministers stepped forward to help, but Bai He waved his hand to say that he was fine, but his trembling body betrayed him.

Shirakawa is indeed old, and he has become more and more afraid of death.

In peacetime, he has the protection of a samurai, and he can face the enemy calmly, but at this time, in the face of the strange Pingyin army, there is nothing to protect him, and he may be killed by a bomb falling from the sky at any time, and the only thing that can be pinned on is the ethereal destiny.

"Is Your Majesty okay?" Fujiwara Faithful walked in, he had just gone to the barracks and checkpoint to take a look.

Bai He stood up and said with a gloomy face, "Everyone else go out, take these two people down for me!" .... Take good care! ”

The general of the Hei family hurriedly knelt down and withdrew.

Shirakawa and Fujiwara Faithful sat opposite each other, and Shirakawa poured Fujiwara Faithful a cup of tea, the tea was boiling hot, and the tea stalk floated.

"How many people are left in your and my armies?" Shirakawa asked.

"In today's battle, our army did not suffer many casualties, more because our army was tired from fighting for a long time, and we had never seen the firearms of the Song people, the battle losses were only 20,000, and there were still 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers in battle. But.... Most of the losses were ashigaru, samurai, and monk soldiers, and most of the survivors were the peasants who stayed behind. Fujiwara replied faithfully.

Bai He's face was even more ugly, the peasant soldiers were still very useful in the Japanese civil war, but in the face of the well-equipped and well-trained Pingyin army, these peasant soldiers really just held up the scene.

"The Kanto region has been lost, and Heiankyo is difficult to recover in a short period of time, if the tens of thousands of troops do not have enough food and grass, they will collapse in half a month, and now the plan is to leave a part of the sergeants here, and the main force will return to the east of the country." After Bai He finished speaking, he looked at Fujiwara and said, "Our army has just been defeated, if there is no person with high moral standing to guard it, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold this place, I don't know who Lord Guan Bai thinks is the most suitable?" ”

Fujiwara Faithful secretly complained in his heart, Baihe's meaning couldn't be more clear, he bowed his head and said, "Weichen is willing to stay here, delay time for His Majesty, and atone for the chaos of the Wa Kingdom." ”

Bai He nodded and said, "Lord Guan Bai only needs to guard it, and I will send others to charge into battle." ”

Yes, this is the meaning of only letting Fujiwara be loyal to his name, but not giving him military power at all.

Fujiwara clenched his fists and could only thank him, and after Fujiwara left faithfully, Shirakawa immediately summoned other ministers and samurai to start arranging the matter of returning to the army.

In the Pingyin army camp on the other side, Jiang De looked at Sanada Yukimura, who was tied up like a mummy, and said to the left and right, "Sanada Yukimura took the lead in this battle, and he was wounded by an arrow in eleven places, and he still fought to the death, and he was really a warrior!" ”

Dong Ping snorted beside him, his heart was already narrow-minded, and his personality was arrogant, he thought that he was the first person in the Pingyin army to charge the cavalry, even Qin Ming and Hu Yanzhuo didn't take it to heart, but this time he actually lost to Sanada Yukimura in the charge, how could he not be angry.

Sanada Yukimura is face was red with excitement, he desperately charged in order to get Jiang De's favor, he hammered his only chest that was not injured and said, "Please rest assured, these small injuries are not a big deal, I can fight again tomorrow!" ”

"Tomorrow... I'm afraid there won't be any big wars, so you can recuperate here, and there will be a time when your bravery will be needed in the future. Jiang De said to the left and right, "Let General Sanada rest here first, and let's go to the big tent to discuss matters." ”

When he came to the big tent, Xu Guanzhong was waiting with a booklet, many generals above the battalion level were already waiting here, after Jiang De sat down, he said to Xu Guanzhong, "Let's talk about today's battle count first." ”

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said to everyone, "In today's battle, our soldiers fought bravely and killed tens of thousands of Japanese troops, but the losses were not small, let's talk about the situation of our army first."

In this battle, our army participated in the battle with two ballista regiments, two cavalry regiments, two pikemen, two archers, one sword and shield regiment, three brigades of the Heavenly Army, and more than 200 Sanada cavalry troops, with a total strength of nearly 20,000 troops.

Among them, the Sanada cavalry suffered the greatest losses, with 137 casualties, 11 seriously wounded, and 87 lightly wounded.

This was followed by two cavalry regiments, with a total of 214 casualties, 73 seriously wounded, and 237 lightly wounded.

Among the infantry, 793 were killed, 251 were seriously wounded, and 1,432 were lightly wounded, most of whom were pikemen and sword and shield men, and the losses were mainly caused by the charge.

The ballista unit also suffered losses, mainly wounded by enemy arrows during the follow-up, a total of twenty-one people. ”

Jiang De knocked on the table with his hand and said, "That is to say, there are 3,000 people in our army who have lost their combat strength in this battle, if it were not for the ballista unit that hit the enemy's former army commander and the cavalry strangled its commander, our army would have won or lost this battle." ”

Hearing that the battle damage was so large, the faces of the people who were still elated just now suddenly turned dark, and they all knew that this was actually a defeat battle, and the losses of the Japanese army were not very large.

"Let's talk about enemy losses." Jiang De said.

Xu Guanzhong nodded and continued: "After cleaning the battlefield, our army killed a total of 14,762 enemy troops in this battle, captured 5,421 enemy troops, and most of the enemy troops who were killed were armored foot light and monk soldiers, and the enemy cavalry troops were also strangled by our army.

It is estimated that the enemy still has more than 50,000 soldiers to fight. ”

Jiang De hummed, asked Xu Guanzhong to stop, and then said, "In other words, this battle has changed from 20,000 to 80,000 to 16,000 to 60,000, and the number of our army is still an absolute disadvantage."

But this battle broke the enemy's courage! ”

Jiang De stood up and walked down and said, "The battle between the military formations is this battle of courage, the Japanese army has been frightened, and it will not dare to fight a decisive battle with our army easily."

According to the time, Cheng Min has led his troops into the land of the Kanto region of the Japanese State, cutting off the supply of the Japanese army and the rear of the Kwantung region, and Bai He should have also received the news, at this time he is considering whether to continue to fight to the death with our army or retreat, what do you say, how will he choose? ”

At this time, our army's heavenly army is still patrolling on Mount Otomu and Mt. Otowa, Baihe will not dare to fight again, but will leave a weak brigade to stay again, and the main force will retreat to relieve the siege of Kanto, so as to rely on the land of Kanto to contend with our army. ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "Since it is, what should our army do, who has a plan?" ”

One person came out and said, "Our army has a heavenly army in hand, and the enemy's dynamics cannot escape the eyes of our army, so you can wait for Baihe to retreat, and then attack Dawen Mountain and Otowa Mountain, and then go to the decisive battle of Buluoguan!" ”

Jiang De saw that it was Shi Xiu who spoke, nodded and said, "This is a steady method." ”

"Why bother!" Dong Ping stood up, waved his hand and said, "I have explored the terrain on the way to Heianjing, there is a mountain pass less than forty miles away, you can go to the east, I heard the local people say that you can go directly to the south bank of Pipa Lake, the withdrawal of the White River, the army will be scattered, please let the last general lead the cavalry to pursue, do not wait for him to reach the pass, you can kill him under the last general's horse!" ”

"Oh? General Dong also knew how to use it. Xu Guanzhong smiled and said, "The path that General Dong said, can General Yuan know?" ”

Yuan Weiyi said with a sigh of relief, "General Dong should be talking about the Uchi Road located between Mt. Araki and Mt. Kaohsiung, it is a mountain road, it can indeed go directly to Lake Biwa, but the road is extremely narrow and difficult to walk, and there are many mountains and forests on the road, the whole road is about forty miles, and the narrowest part is only a few tens of zhang, as long as there are hundreds of people, you can block the attack of tens of thousands of people." ”

Dong Ping asked, "Then did you have guards there?" ”

Yuan Weiyi nodded and said, "I have arranged for a thousand people to guard that mountain forest, but I don't know what the situation is after I defect to the adults." ”

Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said, "In this way, it is too dangerous to take this road. ”

Dong Ping said, "Please rest assured that even in the mountains and forests, my regiment is enough to wipe out a thousand Japanese troops!" ”

Jiang De looked at Xu Guanzhong, Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said, "Lord, this plan is too risky. ”

Dong Ping suddenly became anxious, "Strategist, don't be partial!" ”

"Boom!!"

Suddenly a thunderclap came, Jiang De walked out of the big tent and looked at the sky with Xu Guanzhong.