Chapter Twenty-Three: The Dragon's Voice

Due to the poor lighting of that era, Ashigaru had no entertainment after dinner and had no entertainment, so he could only sleep when he was not on duty. After hearing the commotion outside, many ashigaru also cursed in a low voice, blaming their drunken lord for coming back so loudly and affecting their rest. Soon, however, the ashigaru discovered a sign that frightened them: the tent they slept in was on fire! When they were only wearing crotch cloths, they got up in a hurry and wanted to get water outside to extinguish the fire, but they were greeted by a bright knife outside the door.

After Kato Duanzo set fire to the fire, he rushed without looking back, and after a slight touch on the wooden fence of the camp, he flipped out like a swallow and went to the next place. And due to the night attack of Tsukahara Molong and the fire of Kato Danzo, the situation in the camp is getting out of control more and more. Although many samurai tried to organize a counterattack in a hurry, none of them could stop Tsukahara Moryu's blade, and after being killed by six samurai in a row, no matter how the other samurai reprimanded, those ashigaru were reluctant to take up arms anymore and fled in the opposite direction. In this way, the samurai were exposed, and Tsukahara Molong was naturally not polite, and led the eighteen horsemen to cut them directly. During the Warring States period in Japan, the large number of casualties of Ashigaru was barely acceptable, after all, it could be conscripted at any time, anyway, according to the Japanese habit of spending a lot of time cutting off heads to count the merits of the war after killing, the number of people killed must be a minority. However, if the samurai suffered a large number of casualties, the entire army would collapse in an instant, and even the lord's rule would be fundamentally shaken. In the historical Nagashino War, the Takeda family lost a large number of samurai, which led to a significant weakening of the rule of the domain, and the original iron barrel-like territory suddenly rebelled, and Takeda Katsuyori, as the governor of the family, was even caught by the farmers who resisted taxes while bathing in the hot springs, and was forced to cancel the tax.

"Old man Mashiko Shengqing, Your Excellency can leave your name!" As the commander who stayed behind, Mashiko Katsukiyo found that he couldn't control the situation of Ashigaru's rout and escape, so he had to lead his own guards to meet him. At this time, he was forty-seven years old, and he was the chief general of the Utsunomiya family, so he was not too worried about fighting with Tsukahara Molong. But when the Tsukahara Molong in the night gradually approached, with the help of the firelight, Mashiko Katsukiyo couldn't help but gasp after seeing the person who was coming.

Although the murderous Tsukahara Molong has not yet been stained with much blood, the strong murderous aura on his body looks extremely terrifying under the cover of night, as if the sea of corpses and blood is approaching him step by step, and even a battlefield general like Mashiko Katsukiyo can't help but be terrified: How many people did he kill?

"Below, Tsukahara Molong !!" The figure in the darkness collided like a dragon, and Mashiko Shengqing hurriedly waved his knife to parry, only to see a cold light flash in Tsukahara Molong's hand, and Mashiko Shengqing was actually cut into two pieces by a person with a knife! Before the guards beside him could recover from the mist of blood that erupted from Mashiko Katsukiyo's wounds, Sasaki Nagahide brandished his spear and struck it. Different from China's marksmanship, Japan's cross guns do not have "shaking strength", but when sprinting at high speed, they still block and kill gods, demons block and slay demons, more than ten samurai were killed in the blink of an eye, and the others no longer care about any samurai integrity, they turned around and ran.

"Let's go!! We are in the camp!! Seeing that there were no more samurai in his sight, Tsukahara Molong immediately waved the Tang knife in his hand and shouted, the Tang knife that was originally full of blood stains was waved in the air by Tsukahara Molong, and he actually threw away all the blood stains, but the blade was still glowing red.

The eighteen people originally used Tsukahara Molong as the blade, and when they saw Tsukahara Molong turn the horse's head, even if they could kill it, after hearing that Tsukahara Molong planned to step on the camp, they also gathered together, but the killing intent and anger in their eyes did not decrease at all.

Tsukahara Molong galloped and rushed towards a camp again. As the military commissioner of the Satake family's expedition this time, Edo Tadamichi had actually fallen asleep, but when he heard an uproar outside the tent, Edo Tadamichi immediately vigilantly picked up the sword next to the pillow and asked, "What happened outside?" ”

"My lord, the tent on the Utsunomiya family's side is on fire, I don't know what happened." The samurai who was in charge of guarding outside the tent hurriedly replied.

"What?" Edo Tadamichi was shocked, his first reaction was that the Hojo family had attacked the Utsunomiya family, but his lord was still in the Hojo Army camp!

"According to the report of the rout, they were attacked in the dark of night." A low-ranking samurai brought the latest news over.

"Oh?" Although Edo Tadamichi had already set off a storm in his heart, his face was still calm, and he asked, "Who attacked them?" ”

"This ...... The routs did not know it, but as soon as they woke up, there were fires on all sides, as if there were enemies on all sides, and they were frightened, and they had already fled. ”

"Rubbish!" Edo Tadashi scolded in a low voice, these peasant soldiers are not enough to succeed and more than to lose!

"My lord, there is a samurai of the Utsunomiya family who wants to see you."

"Huh? Let him in. "Edo Tadamichi understands that samurai are much more reliable than Ashigaru, and may be able to get some information from him.

I saw a samurai covered in blood, as if crawling out of a pile of dead people, crawled in front of Edo Tadamitsu, and without waiting for Edo Tadamichi to ask, he knelt on the ground and cried, "Please save us!! ”

"What's going on?" Edo Tadatsu asked when he saw that the samurai was trembling.

"The Hojo family attacked the family's camp at night, and there were armies everywhere!! Mashiko-sama was killed in battle!! ”

"What do you say!!" Edo Tadashi stood up suddenly, he had fought with Mashiko Katsukiyo for decades, and he knew each other's good battles very well, but he actually died in the blink of an eye? The one who can do this in such a short period of time is probably the Hojo family's Rehmannia Hachiman...... "Hurry, the whole army is on alert!! ”

Not to mention that the Satake family, who had already fallen asleep, was woken up from his sleep by a samurai kick and beating, and the bloodied samurai stepped back, but showed a strange smile and walked towards the small lotus camel team that had been slackened in defense due to the concentration of troops at the front door.

Seeing that the Utsunomiya family's army was more and more defeated, Edo Tadamichi gradually frowned: although they were scattered to join him, it was too unsafe to let them wander around the camp like this, so he instructed a few samurai to lead dozens of ashigaru to take care of it. But the Utsunomiya family's rout, who had just entered the camp and relaxed his nerves a little, instantly raised his heart to his throat: The back of the Satake family's camp is full of fire!

Oops!! Camel caravans!! Edo Tadamichi was shocked, he was too careless, and hurriedly transferred troops to fight the fire, and at the same time sent additional troops to watch the rout of the Utsunomiya family, maybe there was a small work inside! And seeing that the Satake family's army, which was responsible for guarding him, was getting more and more uneasy, the rout of the Utsunomiya family became more and more uneasy: although he and the Satake family were already in an alliance, but the two sides had fought for decades before, they wouldn't kill us, right?

Whatever you are afraid of, I saw a man with gorgeous armor who knew at a glance that it was a high-ranking samurai, and came to the place with the most ashigaru and the fewest samurai, and shouted: "The lord has an order, slaughter this group of fine works!! After speaking, without waiting for the Utsunomiya family to defend themselves, they slashed with a swing of the knife, and suddenly several people had fallen in a pool of blood. The Satake family, who was accustomed to obedience, saw this, and the anger that had been suppressed was vented one after another, and the two sides fought back and forth, and almost every family had a family member die at the hands of the other party. As a result, the actions of this samurai alone led a group of people to attack the rout of the Utsunomiya family.

A voice suddenly sounded in the rout of the Utsunomiya family: "Brothers, the scum of the Satake family wants to kill us, and we slaughtered them first!! Suddenly, the two armies were in chaos, and the samurai who was the first to draw his sword kept shouting: "Kill me!! Leave no !! But he quietly retreated into the darkness. The originally orderly camp was suddenly in chaos.

Just as Edo Tadamichi tried his best to stabilize the situation, a sudden murderous aura made him feel suffocated, but he couldn't see it clearly in the wilderness in the dark night, and he only felt as if a large number of cavalry were coming. Edo Tadashi chuckled in his heart, and when he was about to prepare for defense, an arrow broke through the air and shot him directly off his horse.

"Yay!!" Sasaki Nagahide, who wielded a heavy rattan bow, shouted excitedly, compared to himself in the dark, Edo Nakadori surrounded by torches is simply a live target!

Seeing that the boss was shot off the war horse with an arrow, the morale of the Ashigaru who had just mustered up the courage to fight to the death regardless of the death behind him suddenly plummeted, and when the Tsukahara MoryΕ«, who was covered in blood like a killing god, became clearer and clearer from the darkness, many ashigaru could no longer withstand the pressure, threw their weapons, and fled directly backwards. However, the samurai in charge of the command did not dare to chase after him, otherwise the situation would be even worse if there was no command from him. It's just that in the face of Tsukahara Molong's Tang Dao, no matter how much these samurai sacrifice their lives and forget about death, they can't let these ashigaru legs tremble to block the murderous Tsukahara Molong.