Chapter 525: The Crusade to Japan (4)

He said that he was crazy, but the result was very sad. Free eBook download.

Emperor Toba was driven out of the city by his grandfather with 100,000 soldiers and horses and Daliang to fight in the field, but was easily defeated by the grassland light cavalry and Jurchen heavy cavalry.

"Curse the royal family and cut off children and grandchildren."

Seeing a steppe cavalry rushing towards him with murderous intent, Emperor Toba's resentment that had accumulated for many years exploded, and he yelled at Heiankyo behind him in despair, pushed away the samurai in front of him, and faced death with an open chest.

Killing the Emperor seemed to be more glorious than capturing the Emperor, and the steppe cavalry had no intention of capturing the prisoner at all, and the swords of the horse were swung suddenly, and the Emperor Toba, who had been aggrieved for more than 20 years, was in a different place.

Emperor Baihe watched the soldiers and horses outside being killed from a high place in the city, and only a few soldiers and horses retreated into the city, and said to Ping Zhongsheng on the side: "For the glory of this book, fight to the death, I will always stand here and watch you." ”

Taira Tadamori is the second generation head of the Ise Taira clan, and his father Taira Masamori is the first generation head of the Ise Taira clan, and he is also the northern samurai of Emperor Shirakawa, so Taira Tadamori's official fortune is prosperous, and now he is the Echizen Kunamori, and he is also the confidant of Emperor Shirakawa, so Emperor Shirakawa asked him to take the northern samurai to stay in the city to prepare for the battle with the Iryo street.

"Yes"

Although he knew that it would be difficult to repel the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang with the thousands of warriors in the city, Taira Zhongsheng did not have the slightest fear.

Heiankyo was modeled after the Chang'an Castle of the Tang Dynasty, and did not build a city wall, and the Suzaku Avenue in the city divided Heiankyo into Zuojing and Youjing.

In the center of the north of the castle is the palace where the imperial family is located, and outside the palace is the imperial castle used for government offices, and outside the imperial castle is the capital city where ordinary officials and commoners live.

The streets in the city are vertical and horizontal, and the symmetry intersects each other, making it a beautiful city with a chessboard.

Because the area where Youjing (also known as Chang'an City is located) is a low-lying area with many swamps, it is gradually abandoned, and the main development of the city is concentrated in Zuojing (Luoyang City. The aristocracy lived in the dry area of Gaogang to the north of Shijo, while the commoners lived in a slightly lower area to the south.

Even today, I often refer to Kyoto (Heiankyo as Jingluo, Luoyang, and Luocheng).

Heiankyo can be said to be a complete knockoff, or a knockoff without a city wall.

After the steppe cavalry defeated the soldiers and horses outside the city, they did not hesitate to rush into Heiankyo.

However, the crazy northern warriors gave them a blow in the face, and the northern warriors took advantage of the terrain in the city to constantly dismount the steppe cavalry, and then killed the steppe cavalry with fierce fighting.

The steppe cavalry in the back saw that the people who had entered in front of them had fallen into the street, and they also had to rein in their horses.

Chao Yong saw that he was actually ready to play street fighting, and said to Fujiwara Tadashi on the side: "Take your people in and give you an hour, and I will bombard Heiankyo in an hour." ”

There were already more than 60,000 people under Fujiwara Tadamichi, and the total population of Heiankyo was only a few hundred thousand. ”

Fujiwara Tadamichi did not dare to disappoint Chao Yong, and immediately rushed into the city with the surrendered samurai and civilians.

Emperor Shirakawa saw the Yue himself led by Fujiwara Tadamichi rushing in, and he was almost so angry that he vomited blood, he was ready to fight to the death with the Liang soldiers, but he didn't expect that it was Yu himself who was waiting.

Heroic martyrdom turned into infighting and death.

Emperor Shirakawa did not want to see this, so he asked Taira Tadamori to lead the samurai from the north to protect him and kill him at Fujiwara Tadamichi's royal banner.

The samurai in the north were much more elite than the samurai from all over the country that Fujiwara Tadamichi had gathered, and although the number was smaller, they continued to advance towards Fujiwara Tadamichi, and at the same time let people pass the word to Fujiwara Tadamichi.

Fujiwara Tadamichi heard that Emperor Shirakawa was about to talk to him, and also saw Emperor Shirakawa's banner move over, telling the samurai in front to retreat.

The two of them stood a few feet apart with a few henchmen and samurai.

In the past, Fujiwara Tadamichi had to kneel and lick when he saw Emperor Shirakawa, but today Fujiwara Tadamichi looked at Emperor Shirakawa arrogantly, and he couldn't wait for this old immortal to come over and kneel and lick.

Emperor Shirakawa did not accuse Fujiwara Tadamichi of being rude, and said: "You are also the best talent of this pillar, and now it is said that the country is in trouble, if you can lead the troops with me to resist the invasion of the Liang State and repel the Liang ** team, I can abolish the court system and let your Fujiwara family return to power." ”

Fujiwara Zhongtong shook his head and said: "The Liang soldiers are strong and strong, and there are artillery that can be resisted, and resisting will only destroy the country and the species." The Viet-Li Dynasty and the Goryeo Kingdom are examples, and I don't want to say that Ben became the third country to be completely wiped out by the Great Liang. The era of royalty has passed, and I will lead the continuation of this book in the future. ”

Emperor Shirakawa stared at Fujiwara Tadashi: "Aren't you thinking about considering the Fujiwara family?" ””

The samurai from the north behind also dodged to the sides, revealing Fujiwara Faithful behind him.

When Fujiwara Tadamichi saw his father being escorted, he couldn't help but change his face, but he immediately said, "I'll let the Fujiwara family stand on a high place, I'm sorry, father." ”

As he spoke, he bowed to Fujiwara faithfully, straightened up and turned around and walked back.

At the same time, he ordered his samurai to move forward.

"Bastard, kill Fujiwara Faithful."

Emperor Shirakawa saw the traitorous samurai rushing forward, and while retreating, he ordered the samurai from the north to kill Fujiwara Tadashi.

In fact, he also knew that this method was mostly effective, but in order to vent his anger, he still arrested Fujiwara Faithfully.

Not only did the royal family have no family affection, but the nobles of Yumoto were constantly staging the drama of father and son, uncle and nephew killing each other, such as Seiwa Genji and Isehira.

This is also a tradition of the Zoben.

The samurai in the north are rare elites, and when they saw the failure of the surrender, they actually rushed up and wanted to attack and kill Fujiwara Tadamichi.

However, Fujiwara Tadamichi was not stupid, and flew back to the back, leaving the returning samurai to fend off the murderous northern samurai.

The samurai in the north are powerful, but there are many soldiers and horses under the command of Fujiwara Tadamichi, and three people for one, Fujiwara Tadamichi can consume all the northern samurai.

Emperor Shirakawa retreated to the back and looked at it for a while, seeing that there were fewer and fewer samurai from the north under his command, and the remaining samurai were about the same level as the samurai gathered by Fujiwara Tadamichi. After thinking about it, he led people to the palace.

Fujiwara Akiko has been taken into custody, and she has tried her best to impress the people left by Emperor Shirakawa to take care of her.

Seeing Emperor Baihe come back with a murderous expression, he trembled and said, "Father-in-law." ”

Emperor Shirakawa looked at Fujiwara Zhangzi, who had loved him for more than ten years, and said with a smile: "I said that Ben is going to die, so you can choose a way to die." ”

When Fujiwara Zhangzi heard this, he couldn't help but sit on the ground in fright, and it took a long time before he blinked and said, "Father-in-law, don't kill me, maybe I have a chance to get close to Prince Liang or Fujiwara Zhongtong, and I can find a chance to kill them." ”

Emperor Shirakawa stared at Fujiwara Zhangzi and said, "If they really take a fancy to you, will you kill them at any cost?" ”

Fujiwara Zhangzi said with a resolute face: "They are my enemies of the country, and I will definitely not let them go." ”

Emperor Shirakawa also hesitated, he also knew that Fujiwara Zhangzi Bacheng just wanted to escape death, but if she really wanted to avenge the royal family, this strategy still had a ** surname. After all, Fujiwara Akiko's beauty is rare in this book. The worst result is that this ** ungrateful throws into the arms of the enemy.

Emperor Shirakawa thought about it, walked to Fujiwara Zhangzi's side, touched the smooth face of his adopted daughter and said, "If you can kill one of them, you will definitely be able to go down in history and become a god." ”

Fujiwara Zhangzi nodded and said, "Don't worry, father-in-law, I will not let you down." ”

Emperor Shirakawa patted his adopted daughter's face and walked out with the people.

Not long after, two screams rang out outside.

Fujiwara Akiko got up in shock and opened a crack in the door, and the two waiters who were waiting on the side just now had fallen in a pool of blood, apparently killed by Emperor Shirakawa.

Fujiwara Zhangzi was also relieved to see the two dead, and now no one except Emperor Shirakawa knew what she had just said, and Emperor Shirakawa was destined to live no longer than he did.

Emperor Shirakawa stood in the courtyard, looked at the palace, whispered a few more words to the two attendants on the side, and then led the samurai out of the palace.

Under the heavy bounty of Fujiwara Tadamichi, the surrendered samurai of the north drowned the northern samurai one after another, and the remaining ragtag samurai could not be defeated by the samurai under Fujiwara Tadamichi, or surrendered or fled.

After the steppe cavalry withdrew, they surrounded Heiankyo, and many people were shot with arrows as soon as they escaped from the city.

Under the authority of Emperor Shirakawa, no one dared to flee before the war, and when they saw that the situation was not good, there was no way out.

Emperor Shirakawa was desperate to find someone like a mad dog, and no one dared to go against the Emperor Shirakawa, and a group of people surrounded Emperor Shirakawa but no one dared to do it, but Emperor Shirakawa took the opportunity to hurt several people.

Fujiwara Tadamichi heard that Empress Shirakawa was besieging him, so he hurried over, and when he saw that no one dared to make a move, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his subordinates.

Such an important task was to be entrusted to him.

Emperor Shirakawa saw that the people surrounding him suddenly made a way, Fujiwara Tadamichi came out from behind, and no longer killed those traitors, stopped in the middle, gasped and said to Fujiwara Tadashi: "Do you dare to kill me?" ”

"Why not? The reign of the seventy-five generations of your royal family is coming to an end today, and from now on, it will be the world of my Fujiwara family, and I will be the first king of the Saimoto. ”

Fujiwara Tadamichi waved his hand behind him, and a samurai came out with Emperor Shotoku in his arms.

"Let him go."

As soon as the samurai let go, Emperor Shotoku ran towards Emperor Shirakawa, who was in the encirclement.

When Emperor Shirakawa saw that this emperor who didn't know whether it was his great-grandson or son, he couldn't help but open his arms and wanted to hug the descendants of the unknown generations who had loved him for several years.

A hint of cruelty flashed on Fujiwara Tadamichi's face, and he saw Emperor Chongde running past him, and with a sudden wave of the katana in his hand, Emperor Chongde was in a different place.

His head fell to the ground, and he rolled at the feet of Emperor Shirakawa.

Emperor Shirakawa looked at his head on the ground, which still had a happy expression, howled, and threw himself at Fujiwara Tadamichi with a katana in both hands.

Fujiwara Tadamichi sneered, and greeted him with a katana in one hand.

The two staggered, and Emperor Shirakawa fell to the ground.

Fujiwara Tadamichi turned around and wiped the blood from the sword on Emperor Shirakawa's body, looked around at the surrounding samurai and said, "There is no emperor from now on, only a king." (To be continued)