The wind was cold, the moon was hazy, and with the flying dust and trembling earth, a samurai rode his horse into the col at the northern foot of Shinoyama

In the bushes on both sides of the mountain road, eight hundred samurai ashigaru's swords and iron cannons shone in the silvery moonlight as ambush soldiers, all of them removing the flag fingers behind their backs, and instead wrapped white cloth around their right arms to distinguish them from the army of the Yamato Toyotomi family—after all, their family crests in front of Xiōng were all "Five Seven Tongs"

As the commander of the ambush, Aoki Kazushige's younger brother Atsumi Shigetsu led five or six men to lie in ambush on a small mound on high ground, intending to make himself visible to the soldiers after the battle began, so that he could easily command, although this was opposed by several shì generals, but he still went his own way, and the samurai on horseback was the envoy sent by Atsumi Shigetsu to investigate the situation

It was learned from the envoy's mouth that in another two quarters of an hour, the team of the Yamato Toyotomi family would arrive at Kobashi Village in the south, and then the head of the village would guide them to the Hirano Pass through here, and when the head of the army marched to the middle of the mountain pass, Atsumi Shigeji launched an attack, first ordered the troops on both sides to block the entrance and exit with the fence prepared in advance, and then fired a salvo of iron cannons to hit the morale of the Toyotomi army, and then used the bow and foot light at the foot of the mountain to carry out long-distance killing, and when the Toyotomi army panicked, he led a group of samurai and spear foot to join the battle. It doesn't matter if a retainer escapes, as long as he can behead Hideho and his family, then the task will be completed, and when the time comes, it will be a great achievement to carry a treasure chest containing a treasure chest containing a show disadvantage level to meet Osamu Ohno and Maeda Toshinaga?

"Xiu Liang has already discussed with the major general, who can be the first to cut off the head of Toyotomi Hideho, the bounty is fifty and the silver is two hundred, and if he succeeds, he will be given the status of a samurai; If the samurai succeeds, Zhixing will increase by 800 stones! ”

Atsumi gestured with his hands and feet in unison, never forgetting to boost the morale of everyone

"And what if you succeed?" A foot under the mound asked cheerfully

"It's a secret, but it doesn't hurt to tell you" If someone talked to him like this, he would have been beaten to the point that his skin would have been opened, but now, in the face of the fat that is about to arrive, Atsumi Chong Xun Xìng is very affectionate, and tells everyone with a smile: "If I am lucky enough to achieve this merit, the Major General will give my brother and I a seal of 30,000 koku each, and then I will re-enter the ranks of the Daimyo!" ”

"Thirty thousand stones!" Everyone present gasped, this is an achievement that is difficult for a samurai to achieve in his entire life, Ai can become a daimyo with the head of Toyotomi Hideho, who doesn't want to fight to the death with this opportunity?

"And that's not all"

Atsumi coughed repeatedly, "Whoever hunts and kills the male of the Toyotomi family will have a bounty of twenty pieces; Hunt and kill a female dependent, and a bounty of fifteen coins; Those who hunt and kill retainers with more than 1,000 stone will have a bounty ranging from 5 to 30 depending on their status, so everyone should work hard, don't miss this opportunity."

As soon as Atsumi Shigeji finished speaking, the crowd erupted in cheers again, and some of Ashigaru even thought of such an idea: "If the head of the right house is handed over to Atsumi-sama to receive the merit, can the lord take out an extra part of the reward to reward the soldiers" He was right, Hideho's head was only worth 800 stone in the hands of ordinary people, but in the hands of Atsumi Shigeru, it was nearly eightfold, and no one would refuse this deal

"That's good, of course"

Wu Mei nodded very quickly, "If anyone is really willing to do this, I will give him the original two thousand stone Zhixing at that time, what do you think?" ”

"Swear to kill Toyotomi Hideho!" Both samurai and ashigaru had no scruples about calling Hideho by his name at this moment, and a group of people danced with swords and bamboo spearmen, gearing up for a big fight

In view of the fact that the Toyotomi army was approaching, it was inconvenient for Atsumi to be verbose with this group, so he immediately ordered the forgetful sergeants to hide properly, and after a quarter of an hour, he sent the envoy to investigate again, but this time the envoy chose to walk instead of riding a horse, so as not to startle the snake, while Atsumi Shigeji prostrated on the small mound, while dreaming of becoming a daimyo, while quietly waiting for the return time of the envoy to pass minute by minute, and the army of eight hundred people lay motionless in the bushes, For the sake of their golden dreams, the samurai dreams maintained great restraint

However, things didn't seem to go as smoothly as expected, and about two quarters of an hour passed, not to mention the Toyotomi family's team of 300 people, and even the envoys sent out were nowhere to be seen, which made the Ohno army a little sāo

"Nothing should happen, right?" One ashiki grunted

"You mean we've been discovered?" Ashigaru beside him spoke

"Who knows" Another ashigaru leaned over and whispered, "Didn't Lord Sagishima say that in another two quarters of an hour, the Toyotomi family's team will come, and now that three quarters of an hour have passed, it won't be ......?"

"I also think there's a problem, you see that Sagijima-sama hasn't come back for so long, maybe there's really a problem, let's go back to Osaka..."

"Bastard, be careful that I cut you!" Several ashigaru gathered more and more, and when the conversation was rising, the leading samurai finally couldn't bear it anymore, raised the hilt of his sword and struck the heads of the gang hard: "Isn't it just a little longer, and then long-winded, be careful that I, Matsubara Kuemonsa, want your life!" ”

Suddenly, a group of ashiki covered their heads, grinned back in place, no longer daring to hum haha, not even the atmosphere dared to gasp, just in the anxious waiting, they spent another half an hour

Atsumi Shigetsu also heard the soldiers' doubts, and finally couldn't resist the persuasion of the adjutant general, and once again ordered an envoy to go to Kobashi Village to investigate

As soon as he walked out of the mountain pass, he was hit by an oncoming projectile that pierced through the Xiōng department, and he struggled a few times and died

"There's an ambush!" The ashigaru people who were ambushed in the mountain pass shouted in panic, they never expected that they would become the ambushed party, as soon as these words came out, the entire mountain pass appeared sāo movement, and some soldiers even came out of the bushes to call on the timid soldiers to flee the mountain pass together, but fortunately, the leading samurai killed them in time to avoid the expansion of the sāo movement

After all, it was attacked, and Atsumi Shigeji immediately ordered the army of the mountain pass to move closer to the center of the mountain pass to avoid causing more casualties, and at the same time, mobilized 200 archers to aim at the two ends of the mountain pass, and tried to kill and wound the enemy troops at a long distance

"It seems that it was discovered by the Toyotomi Army"

A military general said to Atsumi

"What nonsense, we are the Toyotomi Army"

Wu Mei frowned coldly, and persistently corrected: "They are rebels, they are traitors, and even if the righteousness is in our hands, even if it is discovered, what will it do?" Our army has 800 people, and they only have 300 slaves, how can they be the opponents of our army, don't you see that I have transferred the army at both ends to the center, it is just to cause unnecessary casualties, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use a bow and foot to resist the defense line? Don't talk about it, in my opinion, this is just a trick for the enemy, except for shooting an envoy, hasn't there been any movement until now, okay, let's let the ashigaru conduct a salvo first, probe the enemy's situation, and if it is really as I guessed, then the whole army can attack."

Atsumi couldn't help but be intoxicated by his ingenuity, but just when he was complacent, he felt that the sky suddenly brightened, and he followed the light to look in both directions, and saw that on the mountains on both sides of the col, a row of bonfires were burning along the ridge, illuminating the sky as if it were day, and the mountain fire rushed from the top of the mountain to the mountainside like a tiger descending from the mountain, and the trees along the way were burned to the creaking, and the fire was like two curtain walls, completely isolating the entire col from the outside world, and gradually spreading to the shrubs below the mountain

"Someone set fire!" At this moment, both the samurai and the ashigaru were a little anxious, but even so, they could notice the only place in the entire mountain col that was not touched by the fire - the mountain passes on both sides, and the ashigaru people were at first hesitant because of the samurai's shock, but when they saw the fire slowly approaching the central area, even Atsumi Shigetsuki left the mound and came to the middle of the road, and finally made a desperate bet, broke through the samurai's barrier, and fled to the mountain pass with a shout

"Brothers, hurry back to Osaka" The leader rushed towards the mountain pass like a light wind, considering that there might be an ambush ahead, he didn't forget to roar: "The adults of the Youfu family, we don't ask for anything else, just a way to live."

Obviously, his words did not work, and when he was still twenty meters away from the mountain pass, the rolling stones falling from the mountains on both sides crushed him into meat cakes, and immediately after, countless rolling stones and trees rushed through the wall of fire, accompanied by the rumbling of the earth, and the mountain coconut mercilessly smashed into the mountain col in all directions

Some agile samurai and ashigaru escaped the attacks of the rolling stones and sakigi, and barely managed to run out of the pass, thinking that they could escape, but unexpectedly, they faced the third ghost gate: a mixed formation of 100 iron cannon ashigaru and bow ashigaru was waiting sixty meters away from the pass

Thanks to the introduction of the Tachihuā family's "early entry", in which gunpowder and projectiles were wrapped together in advance, and the "early entry" was directly stuffed into the iron cannon during battle, saving the time it took to reload the gunpowder, the Toyotomi family's iron cannon Ashigaru was able to shorten the time from loading to firing once to one minute, greatly improving combat efficiency

This technique was a good thing for the Toyotomi family, but it was a catastrophe for the rout of the panicked Ono army, and the white sè's feather feather arrows mixed with the gray sè projectiles, like a blizzard carrying the dust on the ground, roared and overwhelmingly attacked these flesh and blood, and the Mikuan mountain pass was instantly blocked by the corpses of more than a hundred sergeants in a wailing and painful struggle

Even so, the Toyotomi army still did not slack off after the rolling stone and wood, followed by a hay ball sprinkled with fire oil rolled down the hillside, the original light quality, harmless to people and animals, after the fire oil watering, after the ignition of the fire wall, suddenly turned into a huge fireball shining with blazing fire, their arrival made the already nine-dead Ohno Army once again take a big step towards the Ghost Gate Pass

Looking at the surrounding wildfires, the mutilated limbs of the limbs hit by the rolling stones, and the samurai running around aimlessly after being scorched by the fireballs and their bodies, Atsumi Shigeji took a close samurai to the side of the road under a small tree that had not yet been ignited by the mountain fire, sat cross-legged, quietly ripped off the dòng in front of the xiōng, tore the close-fitting cotton clothes, and pulled out the slightly emaciated lower abdomen

"Jubei, please"

Atsumi repeatedly bowed his head slightly to the samurai holding the sword beside him, pulled out the flank around his waist, although he paused slightly, and finally stabbed heavily into the lower abdomen, one left and one right, one up and down, Atsumi repeatedly completed a caesarean section perfectly, his face was extremely distorted, and he shouted hoarsely: "Ten Soldiers!" ”

"Hey!" The samurai had already burst into tears at this moment, and when he heard the cry of Atsumi, he finally turned his heart sideways, and with a "poof" sound of the sword in his hand, the head rolled into the grass on the side, and the body immediately fell, and the samurai knelt beside the body of Atsumi and kowtowed goodbye, and when he got up, he picked up his head, wrapped it in cotton cloth, and quickly rushed towards the mountain pass on the north side, and after a while, the headless corpse was engulfed by the fire that spread

On the mountain peak on the east side, Fujido Takatora watched everything that happened with a blank face, and Komiyayama Harukatsu stood solemnly behind him, his eyes filled with surprise and admiration: "The talent of the Minbu, Harukatsu is really not as good as what if" (to be continued!) (Go read read .) cm