56, fierce battle instinct temple (II)
"Ke'er is hiding! You bastard! Keiji Maeda shouted out what I had always wanted to say. What are you doing?! Hurry up and get back to the team! ”
"Oh!" The deafening angry scolding finally made Ke'er hide sober up a little, and when he looked back, the cavalry formation he belonged to had already left him more than ten feet away. "Drive!" He hurriedly hurried his horse back to his position, and the brigade continued to advance along the perimeter of the Miyoshi Army.
Soon we rushed east along the north side of the wall and regrouped, and although the enemy numbered about a thousand men in this direction, they were unable to really fight us. The effect of the surprise attack was obvious, with about 200 people falling behind us, and none of us killed. Blood was everywhere on the ground, but it was quickly frozen because of the cold weather, and there was not much evil in the air. The remaining Miyoshi army had retreated from the wall and the gate, but it had not yet been assembled, and was gathering together in a chaotic manner.
"Shall we kill him again with a 'return rifle'!" Ke'er turned around and shouted at me, the spear in his hand still dripping blood.
I didn't answer him right away, my hand clutching the hilt of the knife was drenched in sweat. "What do you see?" I asked a few other people. I'm still inexperienced in this kind of encounter, and while it looks like another back-and-forth might be a good result, such a one-time mistake could be devastating.
"Don't listen to his nonsense!" Although Shima Katsu and Main Hull were shaking their heads, only Keiji Maeda spoke up. "At this moment, the enemy army has gathered in a group, and if you want to attack again, you may be entangled, and then you will miss the opportunity! We should turn to other directions as soon as possible and disrupt the enemy's deployment as much as possible! ”
"Attack the Miyoshi Army on the eastern flank!" After exchanging glances with the others a few more times, I gave the order, and the whole army turned and rushed towards the east side of the Honnoji Temple! Can......
"What's going on?!" Keiji Maeda screamed in shock, with a strange look on his face. The others opened their mouths in an "O" shape in confusion, and the scene in front of us was deserted, except for a few corpses on the ground that explained what had happened here.
"What about the Three Good Army?" Although I asked, I knew that it was impossible to get an accurate answer.
"Probably evacuated from here!" Shima Katsu judged based on experience. "The Miyoshi Army is lone and deep, and it is impossible to drag on here for a long time! Seeing that time passed little by little, they felt the urgency, so they concentrated their troops in one direction! ”
"Go south again!" Shima Katsutoshi's judgment is quite reasonable, if this is the case, we must find the direction of the enemy's main attack as soon as possible. We had to look for it one by one.
There is no one to the south...... There is no one in the west......
When we returned to the north again, we finally saw the shadow of the Miyoshi Army, who were slowly marching northwest in three infantry phalanxes, and the banner of Iwasari Yutong was impressively visible.
"They're going to run away!" Shimakatsu shouted loudly beside me.
"The enemy's spirit has been lost, and it is a good opportunity to break the enemy in one fell swoop!" Mainhull's eyes lit up with excitement, and there was a slight tremor in his voice.
"Left, center, right! Arrow! "After getting a hint of my permission, Keiji Maeda ordered." Bear down! Destroy the enemy! He held the "Grand Ceremony" high again.
"Kill!" No longer thinking about strategic issues, no longer caring about cooperation with others, Ke'er doesn't know if he has the blood of a berserker, but his current performance is indeed suspected of "madness". The Crescent Cross Spear formed a circle of light around him, and his figure was wrapped in a whirlwind and rushed into the formation of the Miyoshi Army. Along the way, the three good soldiers who touched him seemed to be cursed, and the place where the gun swept was broken bones and tendons, and the ghost cried wolf, and as the tip of the gun flew up and down, bursts of blood gushed out, and many people's bodies were torn in half. Kusunoki and Mainhull followed closely behind him.
Nanmu Mitsucheng's light armor is extremely conspicuous in this heavy cavalry formation, at this moment he no longer has the usual gentle demeanor, if there is really a devil in the world, what the three good soldiers can imagine is like this! A long ninja knife seems to be held in the claws of the god of death, and with each graceful arc, a soul is summoned.
Mayinhull's attire is that of the standard European medieval dragoon, except that the scimitar in his hand is of the Arabic style. The knife didn't have any fancy tricks in his hands, it just kept in a small area and changed angles from time to time. In the high-speed charge of the war horse, one after another the neck of the good soldier "touched" the blade, and then ...... His head fell to the ground silently.
Keiji Maeda followed the three of them steadily, and since the "vanguards" in front of him were driving the way, he didn't come into contact with many enemy troops. His face was as gloomy as lacquered lead, and his eyes were bloodshot. He has only one goal at the moment, ahead! The three good army is in the main formation! The man who raised his handsome banner high......
I turned my head sideways to look to the side, and Shimakatsu was galloping right next to me. He kept an eye on my situation, but his eyes were fixed on the front with passion and longing. "Victory!" I called him.
"Huh?" Just in time, he also looked at me.
"You don't have to keep on with me all the time!" Since it was a galloping horse, I couldn't help but raise my voice. "The enemy army is already on the verge of collapse, and I am under the heavy protection of my own people, there will be no danger!"
"Your lord can't say that!" A hint of hesitation flashed before he replied firmly. "Compared with the safety of the lord, my reputation is really insignificant, as long as the lord is safe and sound, even if I am crushed, I will not give up, because even if I die, my faith and hope will still continue with the lord!"
"Sheng Meng...... "I don't have anything more to say."
The spear ashigaru could withstand the onslaught of cavalry under the condition of strict organization and precise command, but it was obvious that the Miyoshi Army did not have these two conditions at the moment. The reason why they can continue to fight here is because they know one thing: they can't outrun the warhorses! So they can still maintain this perception because most of them are veterans and have had more than one actual combat experience! But just as reason and emotion are opposites, even the firmest intellect will sooner or later collapse in the face of a certain emotional expansion. After the samurai who had taken the lead in resisting were slain, they began to tremble; When the enemy rushed into them, they began to retreat; When hundreds of armored cavalry like demons pressed up like a mountain, the rout was born unconsciously!
"Go up!" Shuai's Iwashi Youtong shouted. As a battle-hardened general, he certainly understood that only by regaining morale and blocking the enemy's cavalry attack could he retreat smoothly, and that a rout would only have the prospect of the entire army being destroyed. Probably out of trust in his commander, the Miyoshi soldiers stabilized slightly, but a sudden situation completely destroyed this effort.
"The enemy has increased its troops!" A terrifying voice suddenly rang out. In the early morning light, a force of more than a thousand men turned the corner of the Honnoji Temple and quickly marched towards this side, and the banner of Niwa Nagahide fluttered high. In the woods to the west, many flags of the Matsunaga and Hatakeyama families loomed. By this point it had become pointless to continue the battle, and all the Miyoshi soldiers had turned around and fled resolutely towards the southwest, the only direction where there were no enemies. Iwanari Tomoto also turned backwards under the escort of Akimoto, trying to get out of this nightmarish battlefield.
"Iwanari Friends! Go there, I'm Keiji Maeda to ask for your head! Keiji Maeda screamed and rushed straight over, naturally he would not give up on his goal.
"Dangchang!" The two flags simultaneously slashed out to frame Keiji Maeda's "Daidaya", trying to win a chance for their lord to survive. Keiji Maeda drew a knife and swept a flag into two pieces, and at the same time stretched out his left foot, and the other flag was kicked off his horse, then sat up and slashed at Iwanari Tomome with a knife stubbornly......
"It's over!" The Miyoshi army broke up, Iwanari Yutong was killed, and everything should have ended successfully, but after breathing a sigh of relief, I couldn't help but wonder: "Is everything too easy?" ”