Chapter 337: The Lord of Diaoyu Island
This time, it was Fujiwara Shitong who led 10,000 samurai to meet Yang Yi's 500 "motley army", who had just taken over the post of Sekibai from his father Fujiwara Shishi a few years ago.
Guan Bai was a Japanese official, and his original meaning originated from China. Guan Bai originally means "statement, confession", from the "Book of Han? The Biography of Huo Guang Jin Riyan "Everything is closed to the white light first, and then the Son of Heaven is played", that is to say, any major event is first stated or reported to Huo Guang to know, and then played to the emperor.
The term was introduced to Japan by the Tang envoys, and gradually became an important position for the Japanese emperor to assist Prime Minister Wan Ji after he came of age, which is equivalent to the post of prime minister of China.
In Japan, regency is not common, until the Fujiwara clan began to switch to the white case. And the regent and Guan Bai are collectively called the regent. Since the rise of the Fujiwara clan for several decades, they have been in charge of the imperial court and the emperor has been replaced, and the regents have become permanent positions, and almost every emperor has been governed by a regent.
Therefore, the Fujiwara clan and its direct descendants are called the Seki family.
Emperor Shirakawa was unwilling to be overthrown by the Fujiwara clan, and Emperor Horikawa was still young when he ascended the throne, so the era of imperial government in Japan began.
Emperor Shirakawa used this "retired government" to control the government of Japan, and set up a northern samurai group to compete with the Fujiwara clan.
But the Fujiwara family controlled the Japanese military and government for decades and controlled the most powerful Kwantung samurai group, and the power was not under Emperor Shirakawa.
Fujiwara Shitong was assigned by Emperor Shirakawa this time to lead the samurai of the Fujiwara family to fight against Yang Yi's "demon army", and Emperor Shirakawa did not intend to weaken the power of the Fujiwara family.
Fujiwara Shitong understands that he can only win and not lose, and once he loses, the power of the Fujiwara family may collapse, and he is a dignified prime minister, and he does not believe that Echizen guardian Fujiwara Sedanari reported that Yang Yi and his gang can kill people with witchcraft.
Don't blame him, if he didn't see it in person, how many people would believe that who could kill so many people at once with witchcraft?
The Fujiwara family, with its powerful Kanto samurai, was once invincible and replaced the Taira clan as the first family in Japan in one fell swoop. This time, the strength of the two sides was 20 to 1, and as soon as the two armies met, the 500 "miscellaneous army" on the opposite side hurriedly retreated, which increased Fujiwara's confidence in victory.
Yang Yi did retreat, although Guichuan Mountain is not high, but it is densely wooded, and the power of the flintlock gun will be restricted. There were few others, and it was not wise to fight a mountain battle with Fujiwara Division, so Yang Yi ordered to retreat nearly ten miles.
This is a cow and a donkey, it looks messy, Murong Zhi next to him is riding a little donkey, his feet are almost dragged to the ground, he giggles and laughs: "My lord, if we lose the battle, I'm afraid we won't be able to run!" ”
Without waiting for Yang Yi to answer, Lu Zhen reprimanded: "Shut your crow's mouth, you really lost the battle, and you still have the face to escape?" ”
Yang Yi was not so serious, he scolded with a smile: "Lu Zhen is right, if you really lose the battle, don't think about running away with you, Murong Zhi, just let the Japanese people catch him and go back to be a turtle princess." ”
The soldier burst out laughing, not feeling the slightest nervousness about being chased and running.
The donkey neighed and the cow barked, and finally retreated to a plain, and less than a mile to the left is the blue waters of Lake Biwa, and the clear water of the lake reflects the white clouds of the autumn mountains, which is so beautiful! Let the samurai of the Fujiwara family lie down and rest here!
Fujiwara Shitong brought all the elite samurai of the family this time, there were nearly two thousand cavalry, and Yang Yi's retreating formation was naturally chaotic, but Fujiwara Shitong decided to send two hundred cavalry to test it first.
As soon as he gave the order, two hundred cavalrymen in large armor howled like wolves and rushed towards Yang Yi and them, and it could be seen from the formation of their charge that these cavalrymen were well-trained, and it seemed that the Fujiwara family was not fortunate to be able to dominate the Wa Kingdom for decades.
Lu Zhen asked with some hesitation: "My lord, to fight or not to fight?" ”
Yang Yi knew what he was worried about, these two hundred centaurs were obviously sent by the other party to test it, let's fight, it was a little uneconomical to surprise the army of Fujiwara Shitong, don't fight, the other party is cavalry, and all the flintlock pistols on his side are firelocks, and letting two hundred centaurs rush in will definitely cause death and injury.
"Fight, why don't you fight? But if we want to get closer and fight again, shoot people as much as possible, and grab some war horses, do we still need to be afraid that Fujiwara will escape? ”
"Your Excellency is wise!"
After the harvest, the rice fields were flat and empty, and the two hundred samurai kept howling, closer, closer, and the earth trembled slightly, and even the hideous expressions on the faces of the other party could be seen, and they took off their longbows on their galloping horses, and felt for their arrows, just waiting for the moment when they entered the arrow range.
They waited slowly, and Yang Yi was ready on his side.
"Ready!" Lu Zhen licked his lips and roared, and the soldiers in the front row raised their guns flat, and when the other party entered one hundred and fifty steps, Lu Zhen shouted again: "First row, shoot!" ”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In order to avoid being smoked by the gunsmoke, Yang Yi had already run to the upwind outlet, of course, standing on the upwind outlet has a clearer vision, which is convenient for observing the enemy's situation.
I saw the two hundred horsemen rushing from the opposite side roaring and neighing, at such a close distance, most of the armor on the bodies of these Japanese samurai was made of bamboo and wood, and only a few key points had iron pieces, how could they block the whistling bullets? Fifty or sixty people fell in one row, and one by one they fell like a gourd rolling on the ground, and the screams resounded throughout the four fields.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Another volley, this time the distance was closer, and there were more Japanese samurai who fell off their horses, and half of the two hundred people went at once, and the rest of the samurai saw that they didn't touch a single hair, and half of their companions died tragically, and they were all so frightened that their souls scattered, and they fled in all directions while praying to Amaterasu.
Yang Yi's side would let them go in order to seize the war horse? Yang Yi took the gun from Wang Tong's hand, and as soon as he took aim, a warrior who fled in a hurry fell off his horse.
After he finished shooting, he immediately returned the gun to Wang Yong, and then took the loaded gun from the other guards, and kept shooting, more than a dozen shots rang out in succession, one shot at a time, and the guns did not fail, and the soldiers couldn't help but cheer loudly when they saw his clever marksmanship.
However, this time they called it not Master Yang mighty, but Lord Yang Island mighty.
Yang Fan, the owner of Diaoyu Islands - this is the title Yang Yi gave himself after coming to Japan. The Great Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and it would be bad if a dignified scholar of the Hanlin Academy came to rob it! So the owner of the Diaoyu Island came into being!
Yang Yi jumped on the war horse first and scolded: "Mighty fart, don't hurry up and chase after the horse!" ”
Everyone came to their senses, and more than 100 people jumped on their horses and rushed towards the ownerless horses in the rice fields.
Yang Yi and the others quickly rushed over to bring back these war horses, and at this time, Fujiwara Shitong's side was already in chaos, and the living facts were in front of them, this group of strongmen really knew how to witchcraft; I saw a puff of smoke from the other party, coupled with the sound of a whistling sound, I didn't see anything flying at all, and the two hundred heroic samurai all fell before they could rush in front of the other party.
Where is this fighting with people! This is clearly a war with the devil, run!
Amaterasu! Please give me two more legs!
Mo Ming's fear made Fujiwara Shitong's 10,000 army like an avalanche, and they retreated one after another, Yang Yi didn't expect this situation to happen, and thought that there would be a massacre, but the other party only lost 200 people, so he fled inexplicably!
"Chase! Pursue! Pursue! ”
Yang Yi hurriedly roared, five hundred people got on horses, cattle, and donkeys, and chased after the fleeing Japanese samurai in a hula-la-la, plus this robbery, Yang Yi finally got together three hundred cavalry, and the bull soldiers and donkey soldiers behind him didn't care about it first, you chase slowly!
Yang Yi rushed away with three hundred cavalry, and most of the infantry brought by Fujiwara Shitong were infantry, where could he run? Yang Yi and the others chased close before they shot one by one, stopped the horse after shooting, reloaded, and fired again, and when the opponent ran out of range, he jumped on the war horse and chased wildly, catching up and shooting again.
Tens of thousands of Japanese samurai were chased by them to the foot of Heianjing in this way, and there were not many who were really shot to death by Yang Yi, but there were many who trampled on each other, and Fujiwara Shitong himself didn't know what was going on, and he was inexplicably defeated and returned, and when he fled into Heianjing, there were still 6,000 of the 10,000 horses left, in addition to the dead and wounded, some of them escaped.
Heianjing imitates Chang'an, Luoyang of Sui and Tang Dynasties, it is rectangular, about eight miles long, about five miles wide, the wall is nearly two zhang high, with the Zhuque Street that runs through the north and south as the central axis, it is divided into two capitals in the east and west; Tokyo imitates Luoyang, Xijing imitates Chang'an; 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.
However, due to the two major undertakings of the Huanwu Dynasty to build the capital and conquer the Yi halfway, some places in the capital only repaired the division to complete the construction of Luocheng and other places.
Xijing (Chang'an City) is a low-lying area dotted with ponds and marshes, presenting a scene of "people are gradually thinning, almost secluded, people go and have no return, and the houses are broken and not repaired".
As a result, most of the city's residents are concentrated in the dry area of Gaogang north of Shijo in Tokyo (Luoyang Castle).
Beginning with Emperor Shirakawa, many temples and palaces were built around the Kamogawa River, which flows east of Daijiji Road in Tokyo, and many temples and palaces were built, making Tokyo even more prosperous.
Therefore, the Japanese always like to call Heiankyo "Jingluo", "Luoyang", and "Los Angeles".
The 10,000 samurai led by Sekihaku Fujiwara Shitong were defeated, and the originally prosperous Heiankyo suddenly fell into a panic; From the emperor to the common people, I felt the wind for a while.
Even Emperor Shirakawa, who intended to weaken the Fujiwara family, was shocked to see that Fujiwara Shitsu had lost nearly half of his men in a battle. He knew very well the combat effectiveness of the samurai of the Fujiwara family, and if he hadn't had such scruples, he would have taken down the Fujiwara family a long time ago.
Now that even the most elite Kwantung samurai have been defeated so badly, who can stop this group of "demon army"?
And the lord of Yang Island from Diaoyu Island and his Luoluo people have been lined up outside the Luocheng Gate in the south, and a red flag with three big characters in the book "Diaoyu Island" is fluttering in the autumn wind of September!
(To be continued)