Chapter 18: The Battle of Itsukushima (2)
On the shore of the Ota River, the sound of shouts and screams came and went, and the visual and auditory impact was consuming this group of teenagers. The little surname is Taro Oto, who is now sore, his legs are numb, his cheeks are red and swollen, and he has difficulty breathing. But he still gritted his teeth and held a small knife to protect his younger brother behind him, while his younger brother Oto Jiro was tightly pulling the corner of his brother's clothes behind him, looking nervously at the big brothers in front of him.
"Ahh A childish scream shook everyone's hearts, and they all looked at the source of the sound, only to see Hondasaburo lying to the ground, blood splattered all over the ground. Zuo Chiyo next to him hurriedly stepped forward to hug Honda Saburo and shouted: "Saburo! Saburo! Ah~ Wake up! ”
"Damn! Saburo! Honda Jun was desperately snatching out of the encirclement and pounced on the child in the distance, suddenly only feeling a chill in the back of his waist, and looked back at the spear inserted in his waist with difficulty. Poof, two more shots pierced Honda Toshimasa's heart, "Father! Hondo howled. When the sword in Chang Chang's hand fell to the ground, Hondajun fell heavily to the ground.
Swish! A countryman swung a knife and slashed at Chiyo Zuo, who was sad, from top to bottom. Bang! There was an explosion, and I saw that the countryman covered his wrist, the knife in his hand had been knocked away, and he was screaming in pain, and then, there was another bang, and the countryman's head directly blossomed, ending his sinful life.
The people around were startled by the sudden explosion, and looked to the source, only to see two half-sized men cleaning the chambers of the arquebus, preparing to refill the gunpowder. Immediately, three people rushed up to deal with the two sneak attack boys, and were blocked by Shiro Hattori and Goro Hattori with knives in front of Shikamaru and Sakinosuke, and Kumanosuke and Inokosuke also participated in the battle. But a child is a child after all, even if he fights more and fights less, he is still at a disadvantage, and after a while, Hattori Goro was poked in two holes by a spear and fell to the ground.
The sound of the collision of ping-pong weapons at the scene, the chaotic shouting, the screams from time to time, and the cry of Sun Shiro under Ah Yuan, it was like hell on earth.
"What to do? What to do? Ushichiyo went to Kusatsu Castle with the lord, and Brother Yahachiro was not there. "The children in the back couldn't help at all, and they were in a hurry.
As time passed, there was an unprecedented crisis in the Hosokawa family, and as the head of the Hosokawa family, Yoshida Munegui and Nakajima Akinobe, the head of the Mayawa family, were left in Kyoto, and the Monomi head Hattori Baocho, the side of the head of the pen head Honda Masanobu and the small surname of the head of the pen Ushichiyo also followed Hosokawa Senmaru to Kusatsu Castle. The samurai of the Hosokawa family did not have a unified command, and they fought separately, and gradually fell into the lower peak.
Because of the loss of his father and younger brother, Honduozhen was already distraught, and was poked a big hole in his thigh by a countryman at the right time, and lost his ability to move, making the group that was not numerically dominant even more precarious.
The battle between Hattori and Hojun has entered the white heat, four ninjas have been killed, and the brothers are uniting to fight four or five enemies, and the situation is very unoptimistic.
Even the children who participated in the battle, although they outnumbered the enemy, but due to the age difference, their physical strength began to gradually fail. Coupled with the tension of the first battle, the death of Hondasaburo and Hattori Goro has caused Hondashiro and Fujijuro to faint.
Sadness enveloped this group of underage children, and the usual training and actual combat on the battlefield were not at all the same.
"Ahh Oto Shigekichi also fell in a pool of blood, and hot blood was bubbling from his neck, "Father-sama! Oto Taro ran to his father with a mournful scream. Brother don't! Jiro Oto, who was behind him, didn't hold his brother, and watched his brother being killed by a countryman.
Immediately afterwards, the countrymen took advantage of the frightened retreat of these children, broke through the defense line of Kumanosuke and others, and shot Shikamaru, who was filling gunpowder.
Poof! The arquebus in Shikamaru's hand slipped down, and his eyes widened in disbelief as he watched everything in front of him.
"Cough~uh~" Blood spilled down the corners of his mouth, and an arrow was stuck in his throat, poof! It was the people of this country who fell.
"Shikamaru! Submit! With a burst of shouts, he woke up Shikamaru, who was in a sluggish state, and reflexively lowered his head slightly, and with a whoosh, an arrow flew past his scalp, hitting the face of a Chinese citizen.
"It's Naito-sama!" The children erupted in cheers.
"Ahh "Ahh "Ugh!" Several screams in a row attracted everyone's attention. I saw a middle-aged man wearing a light gray Wu suit and dragging a knife in his right hand, who was running quickly towards the children, and behind him, the people of the country were lying on the ground.
"Calm down! Defend yourself! Hidetsuna Kamiizumi's breathless exhalation made the samurai of the Hosokawa family cheer up and successfully reversed the decline.
"Hah! Not enough! Nabenosuke was fighting a man with a man who was fighting a spear against a spear, and from the beginning of the battle he kept shouting, "Not enough!" "The people who made the response on the side didn't know what he meant.
Because of Hidetsuna's instant kill, coupled with Naito Masari's incomparably accurate arrow, the countryman who was fighting with Nabenosuke and Minjimaru was suddenly uneasy. In a hurry, he stabbed with arrows, trying to win the child in front of him. But he was dodged by the dexterous sideways of Nabe Nosuke, and took advantage of the opportunity of his empty door to break in, and stabbed him in the throat with a shot, resulting in his life. Nabe Nosuke then picked up the spear dropped by the other party, gestured, and muttered, "It's not long enough!" ”
With these two strong reinforcements near and far away, the balance of victory quickly tilted in favor of the Hosokawa family, "Ha! "Drink!" The people who besieged the children stepped forward to attack Hidetsuna Kamiizumi, but none of them had the strength to join forces, and they were all killed with a single sword.
"Ahh It's not good, the other party's samurai are too powerful, retreat! Seeing that the situation was not good, the people at the head of the country hurriedly beckoned his men to evacuate. Just as he was shouting, he suddenly heard a buzz in his ears, and he subconsciously used the wild knife to make a move, click! Coincidentally, he shot the arrow down, "Huh? "He never expected Naito to be able to shoot arrows from such a distance, poof! Immediately after that, the leader of the people was shot in the throat and fell to the ground on his back, and Naito's bow and arrow were fired too quickly. "Wow~!" The rest of the countrymen scattered in a hurry, but in the end, they did not escape the bow and arrow in the hands of Naito Masari, the "No. 1 strong bow of the Hosokawa family".
The battle was over, and the battle situation was counted, and the enemy people were all wiped out, and the samurai of the Hosokawa family, Honda Toshimasa, Hondo Shigeyoshi, Hattori Hoshimoto, and the small surnames Honda Saburo, Oto Taro, and Hattori Goro were killed, and Hattori Yasumasa, Hattori Hotoshi, Mikoda Hizenmaemo, Kagawa Nanaemon, Oura Morinobu and others were wounded, and they found Drowning Okōzo Taifu Juro and Fujitaro in the lower reaches of the Ota River, which can be described as heavy casualties.