Chapter 435: The Destruction of the Sun (10)
"There is smoke and dust in the distance! There is a case! The lookout on the castle tower suddenly shouted, and standing on the city wall, he could see a cloud of smoke and dust rushing towards Heiankyo in the distance.
"What's the situation?" The guard shouted at the top, "Can you see who it is?" ”
"I can't see clearly, it should be a lot of cavalry!"
"Not good!" Abe-tae's heart burst out in the heart below, and he shouted, "Close the city gate!" These monks are fake! ”
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw it, he shouted, "Do it!" With that, he took out his short blade from his bosom and threw it at the samurai on the side.
Hundreds of monks and soldiers attacked together, these monks looked to be wearing monk's clothes, but they were all wearing chain mail, in terms of defense, it was better than the light feet that surrounded them, in the blink of an eye, these monks brandished weapons and rushed up in array, thinking that the defenders who could eat these monks were caught off guard at once.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrow!! ”
With the sound of swishing through the air, hundreds of arrows flew towards the monks, and although the bow's armor-piercing ability at long distances was very poor, its armor-piercing ability at close range was excellent, and in just a moment, twenty or thirty people were shot to the ground.
But enough time was enough, a monk set fire to one of the Buddha statues, and a puff of green smoke came out, and the monk shouted, "Hide!!" After saying that, he quickly hid to the side.
The monks and soldiers who were fighting heard the shouting, gathered together, grew their mouths, and tried their best to leave the direction of the city gate passage, Abe Tai personally pinched the fan and was fighting a hundred meters away, and suddenly felt the air shrink suddenly, and then he saw an incomparably terrifying scene, the entire city tower was blown into the sky in a firelight, and the bricks and stones that fell everywhere made many soldiers bleed.
You know, there are hundreds of catties of gunpowder in that Buddha statue, which is converted into TNT and thirty or forty catties, and it happened to be thrown in the city gate hole.
Abe Yasujin was so frightened by the explosion that he fell to the ground, but there was nothing funny about it, and there were more than a dozen people around him who were so frightened that they peed their pants.
"It's over... The city gate is finished..."Abe looked at the castle tower that had blown up a huge gap, and he thought that he had just received the news of the cavalry attack, and he didn't know what was going on, so he turned around and ran, all the way to the palace.
Toba was standing in the attic looking at the south wall at this time, he also heard the loud noise just now, he stood in the attic and looked at the smoke and dust coming out of the south city wall, his heart was worried, he had already guessed what the sound was just now, but he was not sure.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Abe himself ran up, and when Toba saw him coming back, he hurriedly asked, "What's going on in the south?" Is the Song people coming? ”
"Your Majesty is wise! The Song people disguised themselves as monks and soldiers into the city, and blew up the city gate with gunpowder, and thousands of cavalry outside the city will enter the city immediately, please go to Mt. Otowa immediately, and make peace with His Majesty the Emperor. ”
"Ahh Toba glanced at the south again, and then asked, "Why did you make peace with the Emperor?" ”
"Your Majesty, don't you understand? Those Song people don't want some money at all, but want our entire Wa country, now they have made a move, they must want to suppress our Wa country with the power of thunder, our country's military strength is basically concentrated in the Otowa Mountain, our army and the French Imperial Army together have more than 100,000, if we continue to fight with the French Emperor, the Japanese Kingdom Millennium National Zuo will be destroyed in one fell swoop! Only if we unite with the Emperor can we resist the invasion of the Song people! After Abe Yasujin finished speaking, he stepped forward and pulled Toba and said, "Please forgive the minister for being rude, quick!" Hurry up and escort Your Majesty out of the capital! ”
The surrounding guards all know the situation of Heiankyo, this Heiankyo is basically an empty city, and now the city wall has been blown up, and the stubborn defense is really going to die here, seeing Abe Tai himself speak, he immediately took Toba and ran away.
At this time, Dong Ping and Luan Tingyu also rushed into the city, they looked at the city gate that was still fighting, without saying a word, they stabbed with their spears, where are the Japanese troops under those horses who are the opponents of these galloping cavalry, three thousand cavalry rushed through in the wind, and when Toyotomi Hideyoshi swept the dust in front of him with his sleeve, the ground was already full of corpses with transparent holes.
"It's finally time to catch up." Toyotomi Hideyoshi dropped his katana, sat down on the ground and said, looked around after speaking, and then stood up forcefully and commanded the sergeant to hold the gap.
After Dong Ping and Luan Tingyu entered the city, they immediately began to suppress key places with battalions as units, among which Dong Ping personally led a battalion to the palace, and Luan Tingyu personally led a battalion to Guanbai Mansion.
Just said that Dong Ping's side, he rushed all the way to the palace with hundreds of cavalry, and all the enemies encountered on the road could not block one of his shots, and occasionally those who blocked it were just another shot.
The palace gate of the palace has been wide open, many maids, waiters with belongings running around, when seeing Dong Ping's cavalry, even more frightened not even property, Dong Ping looked at the open palace door, said, "The palace gate is wide open, the king must have fled, one and two are left, the others and I go, go to the east gate, they must go to Otowa Mountain!" ”
After speaking, Dong Ping turned his horse and ran eastward, and sure enough, after running for long, he saw hundreds of people in front of him, including a sedan chair carried.
"The king of the wo is shocked! Dong Pingte, under the command of Pingyin Marquis, came to escort! Dong Ping drank loudly, put his two spears on the victory hook, took out his bow and arrow, and pointed an arrow at the top of the sedan chair.
Toba heard the shouting behind him, and was about to hear what was being said, when he felt a beep in his head, and when he looked up, an arrow feather appeared above his head, causing him to scream in fright.
Abe-tai, who was outside, saw that this was not the solution, so he said, "Your Majesty, I will command the sergeant to stop them, please leave quickly!" ”
After saying that, Abe Yasuya asked an old man of the Fujiwara family to take Gongqing and Toba and others to go first, and he commanded more than 200 soldiers to form a battle formation, but this battle formation was trembling no matter how he looked at it.
"Oh? Still want to fight back? Courage is commendable! Dong Ping said with a smile, "The five are covered, and the rest of the people are ready to rush into battle!" ”
The hundred horsemen at the back began to slow down and took out crossbow arrows from behind, which was a single crossbow, small in size, and the effective range was only twenty or thirty paces, but it was an effective supplement to the cavalry's long-range attack.
The two hundred horsemen in front of them sped up, and Dong Ping swung his two guns flat, staring at the sedan chair in the distance.
"Shoot the arrows!" Abe Tai personally waved the folding fan and said, dozens of archers hurriedly released their arrows, and the bow is one of the types of bows that can shoot quickly, most of these people who were selected as palace guards have good archery skills, and in such a narrow section of the road, Dong Ping couldn't help frowning, and then shouted, "Raise a shield!" Watch out for arrows! ”
The sergeants beside Dong Ping took out small shields one after another, this small shield is a one-handed shield, which can be put on the arm, made of stainless steel all over the body, and there is a recess on it, which can protect the head without blocking the view.
"Bell! Clang! Dong Ping pushed away several arrows that shot at him in a row, but there was also a sergeant next to him who was shot on the spot, although the shield could protect his head, but his body could not protect it.
However, the good defensive ability of the mountain armor coupled with the armor-piercing ability of the long-range and weak bow also made the sergeants not lose their combat effectiveness immediately, and many sergeants continued to charge with arrow feathers on their bodies.
Thirty steps, twenty steps, for the cavalry is just a few breaths of time, and finally the hundred horsemen stood up suddenly, and then shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, the crossbow arrows reached the Japanese army one step ahead of the cavalry, and the pikemen standing in the front were shot seven or eight at once, such a hit rate, considering the accuracy of the cavalry shooting, is already a good result.
Finally, Dong Ping was the first to rush into the spear array, due to the previous crossbow arrow attack, the pike formation, which was not neat, had revealed a flaw, Dong Ping's left hand spear waved, and the hooves of the war horse stepped on the head of a Japanese army, and then Dong Ping's right-hand spear stabbed into the chest of a Japanese army, and then with a pull of horsepower, hundreds of cavalry following him also collided with the opening he rushed out.
"Run!" The Japanese army, which had thought that they could be resisted by a spear formation, immediately collapsed, and many sergeants dropped their weapons and turned to run.
Dong Ping let out a long breath, and when he encountered an infantry formation on the narrow road, in fact, his heart was also up and down, but fortunately, the spears of the Japanese army were not long, the number of pikemen was still small, and the morale was even lower.
It will take hundreds of years for the Wakoku spear to become popular, and the real spear three and a half times will have to wait until Oda Nobunaga invents it, and the current Wakoku spear is just a short spear of more than one meter, and it cannot resist the cavalry charge at all.
Abe Yasui himself watched the collapse of the army, and also turned his head and ran, and after a few steps, he was caught by a rope, and then he was caught on his horse by a cavalryman.
"This person is well-dressed, he must be a big official!" The cavalryman smiled and patted Abe's buttocks, then shouted, "Be honest, or I'll kill you!" ”
Abe Yasujin hurriedly replied, "Don't worry, I will never move." ”
By the time Jiang De led the main vanguard to Heiankyo, the sun had already set, and in order to grab time, Jiang De even had to eat on the way, and when the sergeant came to him with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he immediately asked, "How is the situation in Heiankyo?" ”
Toyotomi Hideyoshi bowed and said, "Back to the lord, that Toba saw our army, and immediately led the army to flee, General Luan is still attacking Guanbai Mansion, because Guanbai Mansion has many guards, and it can't be conquered for a while, General Dong has taken the palace and is chasing Toba who fled eastward." ”
"It seems that there are smart people around Toba, and they know that they can only run east." Jiang De waved his gun and said, "Let's go, go to Guan Bai Mansion!" ”
Outside Guan Bai's Mansion, Luan Tingyu looked at the sergeant who had retreated again, and his whole body trembled with anger.
Unlike the palace that ran directly, there are nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers in the Guanbai Mansion, and most of them are elites, and even the women are armed, they rely on the courtyard wall of the Guanbai Mansion to constantly launch counterattacks against Luan Tingyu's cavalry, Luan Tingyu is not willing to lose too many cavalry at all, which makes him a little timid, half an afternoon has passed, and he has not broken this Guanbai Mansion.
"Commander, Master Hou has arrived!"
Luan Tingyu looked back and saw Jiang De's banner appear on the street, hurriedly dismounted and greeted him, Jiang De did not look at him, but looked at Guan Baifu, who was still resisting, and asked, "Dong Ping has captured the palace, is your resistance here fierce?" ”
"The last general is incompetent, and he hasn't taken this place yet!" Luan Tingyu regretted it a little, he knew that he would rather sacrifice some cavalry than capture Guanbai Mansion.
"The order you got was just to occupy a domain, and now you have overfulfilled the task, there is nothing incompetent." Jiang De dismounted and picked up Luan Tingyu and said, "Our soldiers should not die on the eve of victory, they resist stubbornly, so they will surround them first, and then bombard them after the artillery behind them comes up." ”
"Artillery?"
"Yes, your cavalry is also tired for a day, go down and have a good rest, you still need to be active in the next battle." Jiang De patted Luan Tingyu on the shoulder and said.
"Report! Commander Dong returned victoriously and was waiting outside the battle. ”
"Let him come!"
After a while, Dong Ping walked over with Abe Taiqin, and after coming to Jiang De, he first knocked down Abe Taiqin and made him kneel, and then said, "Lord, the last general is incompetent, and he has been blocked by this guy, and Toba has fled to Dawen Mountain." ”
Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw that Abe Yasujin, it was the enemy who saw each other, and his eyes were very red, and he immediately came out and said, "My lord, it was this person who saw the flaws of the villain and almost ruined our army's plan." ”
When Jiang De heard this, he said with some interest, "I remember that you are an onmyoji... It's called Abe..."
"Thanks to the Marquis of Pingyin, I am close to Abe." Abe Tai wanted to get up and tidy up his clothes, but Dong Ping held him down, "Did Master Hou let you get up?" Give me a good kneel! ”
"You persuaded Toba to escape? Do you just have no faith in the defenders of Heiankyo? Jiang De asked with some curiosity.
"The Marquis of Pingyin left in the past, and if he comes back today, how can he be unprepared? Your Majesty and the Emperor are fighting each other, and they are fighting fiercely in the opposition, I am afraid that not only Heiankyo, but even the Kanto and Pingyin Marquis should have been involved. ”
"You're so clever, if you had known better, our army would have been in danger." Jiang De sighed, "Let me tell you the truth, I have sent 10,000 troops to attack the Kanto region, whether it is Toba or Shirakawa, they are all trapped in the land of Lake Biwa, our army has a chance to win, are you willing to surrender?" ”
"If you've been caught, why don't you surrender?" Abe said confidently.
Well... It makes sense, Jiang De was so confused by Abe's words that he didn't know how to answer it all of a sudden.
"Dong Ping, let him go." Jiang De waved his hand.
Dong Ping let go of Abe Taiqin, Abe Taiqin got up and tidied up his clothes, not to mention, even if it was a little dirty, he still felt a little fairy-like, worthy of being a generational god.