Chapter 617: Ghost Fire!
While they were chatting, the road ahead was dusty. All the samurai of the family immediately raised their vigilance, and an idea appeared in everyone's mind, the pirates are coming!
There were hundreds of pirate cavalry coming, and they stopped their horses from a distance to look at their own samurai. Not a single one of the hundreds of people shouted, except for the occasional sound of warhorses, only the sound of weapons clashing.
Shibata swallowed involuntarily, this military discipline alone is not comparable to you. Thousands of Honke samurai stopped, standing tightly together and staring at the cavalry opposite, not daring to move.
The foot soldiers had to stand in close formation to fight the cavalry, otherwise they would be scattered by the opponent and only be slaughtered. There was no further movement on either side, and the air seemed to have frozen at this moment.
Staying while the samurai were nervous, the cavalry on the opposite side moved. They urged their horses to rush over, and every time the horses' hooves stepped on the ground, the samurai felt a sense of suffocation.
Although some of them participated in the great war to unify the Japanese kingdom, they were a minority after all. At most, the rest of the people had participated in the battle against Samosa, and most of them had faced off with cavalry for the first time.
Looking at the pirates getting closer and closer, Shibata in the front row clenched the sword in his hand and focused on the pirate warhorse. As soon as the enemy approaches, the horse's leg is cut off immediately.
This is the truth he listened to his father, and the most important thing to deal with cavalry is to deal with war horses. As long as you can cut down the horse, you can achieve victory against the cavalry.
Just as Shibata was getting ready, the pirates drew their bows and arrows, aiming at this side to shoot a rain of arrows. Shibata and the other Japanese were caught off guard by the rain of arrows, and many fell to the ground screaming.
Shibata was lucky, and arrows shot past him. The moment the arrow came, he felt the urge to turn around and run. Just as he was ready to meet the cavalry attack, the pirate cavalry stopped their horses and kept shooting arrows at them.
Listening to the whistling sound of arrows flying in his ears, Shibata felt his legs tremble. He didn't dare to guarantee that he wouldn't turn and run away, so he gritted his teeth and roared and rushed towards the cavalry.
He took the lead and made the Muramasa behind him come up too, and the other samurai of the family also rushed forward bravely, rushing towards the cavalry who were firing arrows. Shibata, who was running, had forgotten his fears and rushed forward desperately with a roar.
But Shibata was soon disappointed, and the cavalry put away their bows and arrows and turned to flee. Shibata's two small short legs couldn't catch up with the cavalry at all, and he stood with his sword in both hands and gasped for breath.
The samurai who charged after him were no better, gasping for a moment and laughing at each other. Anyway, they managed to score a victory.
Shibata hadn't been happy for long, and his abominable cavalry had returned. They remained a short distance away and killed and wounded the samurai with their arrows, and when the samurai chased them out, they fled again.
After going back and forth several times, the Japanese finally realized that something was wrong, and if they continued to fight like this, they would have to be exhausted to death if they were not shot to death by the cavalry. The samurai quickly changed their strategy, and they took turns letting the samurai chase after them so that more people could maintain their strength.
In this way, the two sides stopped fighting, and in the afternoon, the samurai of the main family did not even see the shadow of Sagami Hara. The samurai who led the team had a solemn face, and he knew that there was a big trouble today.
Once it gets dark and they don't get rid of the cavalry, and they don't find a suitable place to resist the cavalry's attack, these warriors will probably be more than lucky.
In constant pursuit, the samurai who led the group began to look for a place to defend, and soon he found a forest not far away.
Although the woods are not large, they can still hold thousands of their samurai. After repulsing the cavalry again, the samurai all went into the woods.
Shibata sat on the ground and gasped for breath as he entered the woods, exhausted the strength in his body after nearly a day of fighting. If he couldn't find a place to rest, he didn't know if he would be able to hold on.
Seeing that all the Japanese warriors had entered the woods, Bayan had a smile on his face. On this day's battle, they changed horses twice, but the continuous archery made his arm sore. All that's left is to wait!
The forest is not very large, and the forest is not very dense. Even cavalry could pass through it, so the Japanese samurai entered the woods only to take a break to guard against cavalry raids.
Many of the Japanese even climbed the big trees, just waiting for the cavalry to come in and fight with all their might. This day's battle made all the samurai very angry, not only did they not kill the enemy, but they also suffered hundreds of casualties.
Shibata hid at the edge of the woods, observing the movements of the cavalry outside. Suddenly, dust rose again in the distance, and another group of cavalry appeared in his field of vision.
Zhang Dou had been waiting for Bayan's result, and the cavalry in the plains was facing the foot soldiers. It's definitely a win-and-no situation, and you can crush your enemies with arrows alone.
This time it was a war against the Japanese country, and he didn't want to waste his precious cavalry on these samurai. Therefore, let Bayan come to torture this group of warriors constantly, and the exhausted warriors must find a place to rest, and a few forests along the way have become the best choice for the Japanese people.
As long as the Japanese people enter the forest, it is the moment of Zhang Dou's action. He appeared with his men and horses, and immediately aroused the alarm of the Japanese people in the forest. But Zhang Dou didn't care, he immediately asked people to prepare the Divine Fire Flying Crow he carried, aimed it at the woods and started to launch.
Since the cavalry needed to move quickly, they didn't carry many Divine Fire Crows, only thirty or forty. These dozens of Divine Fire Crows fell into the forest, igniting dozens of flames.
Shibata in the forest had a disdainful face, and he would still feel scared in autumn and winter. But it's summer, and although it's hot, it's not enough to light a fire in the damp woods.
The other Wa people also have the same idea as Shibata, and although they fight the fire, they don't pay much attention. Just when the Japanese people thought that the cavalry and donkey skills were exhausted, a miserable cry sounded in the forest.
A samurai who was fighting the flames was on fire all over his body, and the man scurried through the forest in panic, leaving a trail of flames in his path.
The disdainful Shibata suddenly remembered something, and the Edo Castle that night suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Ghost Fire! It's a ghost fire! Shibata exclaimed loudly, and the other samurai realized something, and they all stepped away from the burning flames.
The scurrying samurai were slashed down with a single sword, and the samurai who fell to the ground were engulfed in fire in the blink of an eye. The panicked samurai breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately, there were only a few dozen fires in the forest, and the damp woods could not connect the fires.
As long as the whole forest didn't burn, they didn't have to worry about being burned to death.
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