Seeing that the continuous impact of the rear formation was afraid of endangering the large array ahead, Tokugawa Yoribo hurriedly ordered all the ashigaru to climb a small hill on the right flank, which had a pine forest, and at the same time, it was impossible for the cavalry of the Ming people to climb the hill to attack, which was a good place to rest and breathe. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It should be said that the soldiers of the Mito Domain were quite well-trained, and after receiving the order, the rear team changed into the front team and moved forward to the hill on the right flank, and the soldiers of the Aizu Domain and the Sendai Domain marched along with the Mito Domain.

At the same time, the iron shield men at the front slowly retreated, covering the rear of the entire brigade.

If the cavalry of the Broken Army charged at full speed at this time, they would definitely be able to destroy the formation of the Broken Army, but the Broken Cavalry would definitely bring great losses to the cavalry of the Broken Army with iron cannons and spears.

Therefore, Nan Yong did not order a forced assault, but let the Japanese retreat to the hill more smoothly, and the 1,000 cavalry of Lu Houcai, who was charging behind the Broken Army, also joined the brigade of the Broken Army after defeating the miscellaneous troops of the rear team.

At this time, the remaining 12,000 troops of the Mito, Sendai, and Aizu domains almost filled the hill, and the 4,000 cavalry troops surrounding them were under the mountain.

"Let the ashigaru immediately cut down wood to make a wooden shield, so that the front and back can be covered, the Ming cavalry is helpless against our army, so that we can reach Edo smoothly."

Tokugawa Yoribo looked at the Ming cavalry under the mountain and gritted his teeth.

Perhaps it was something inherited from the Tokugawa family, and Tokugawa Yoribo, who had not experienced the battle formation, gave orders several times very appropriately, quite convincing to the public, and Nakajima Supervisor Yoshinari and Kato Yusei were convinced.

The ashigaru people on the mountain immediately began to be busy on the mountain regardless of fatigue, and any fire and cooking were secondary. At this moment, there is no iron shield and wooden shield in hand, but I am panicking.

Nan Yong at the foot of the mountain observed the situation above with a telescope. I sighed in my heart. These Japanese people reacted quickly, and the front and rear attacks did not immediately destroy these Japanese people.

In fact, it is also normal, after all, it unfolds along the road, and the distance between the front and back is farther, even if the whole team is denser later, there are miles away, and when the rear team is dispersed, rush to the front. The Mito Domain and Aizu Domain have been given the opportunity to flee as a team.

Seeing the Japanese people on the mountain cutting down trees, of course he knew that this was to make a wooden shield to resist the sharp fire of the Broken Army, and it seemed that the Japanese leader would continue to march to Edo.

Nan Yong immediately sent someone to summon Lu Houcai and whispered to this old subordinate, and then Lu Houcai led his subordinates to run west, billowing smoke and dust more than ten zhang high.

Nan Yong looked at Lu Houcai and the gradually disappearing figure under his command and clicked his mouth regretfully, it's a pity.

Tokugawa Yoribo also saw this thousand-strong Ming cavalry marching westward, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could it be that he asked the army to go.

Impossible. After repeated investigations, the soldiers who landed on the shore of the Ming people were about 20,000. It's impossible to abandon Edo and come to compete with the Mito Domain, it's impossible.

Even if two or three thousand Ming soldiers were found, the soldiers of the Mito Domain, the Aizu Domain, the Sendai Domain, and the Domain could also fight against the Ming army under the cover of iron shields and wooden shields.

After thinking about it left and right, Tokugawa Yoribo put his mind at ease and still built a wooden shield as usual.

This night, more than 12,000 feudal soldiers rested on the hill, but fortunately, there was no melted snow on the mountain to solve the problem of drinking water for people and horses, of course, blowing the wind on the hill was definitely not a pleasant thing.

When the morning sun came late, the feudal soldiers' frozen and semi-stiff bodies began to get busy again.

At the end of the hour, finally five hundred wooden shields were created, plus hundreds of iron shields, the morale of the feudal soldiers was greatly boosted, and the sharpest weapon of the Ming people was their fire guns with a long range, and now what are they afraid of, the Ming army can only approach the charging formation when attacking again, and the iron cannon spears of the feudal soldiers will definitely make them bleed enough.

At the beginning of noon, just after the war meal, all the feudal soldiers were warm, and their morale slowly drove down the hill.

Some laughter and whispers also appeared in the ranks, and the morale of the three feudal clans was revived with full blood, and they could face the attack of the Ming people two miles away.

It's a pity that the idea is good, the Ming army just doesn't rush into battle at all, they are just a hundred paces away, and occasionally use fire guns to attack and disturb, if they can hit, they will earn it, and it is good to not be able to fight the march of the sluggish Japanese people.

The heaviness of the wooden shield and the sneak attack of the Ming army from time to time made the march of the 12,000 troops extremely slow, and only walked ten miles on this day, so the feudal soldiers were also ******** tired, the wooden shield was too heavy, and lifting it forward, it was simply three times the weight of the march, and the further back it was, the heavier it became.

This is still the result of continuous substitution and lifting, or the result of two or three people lifting together, otherwise it is even more unbearable.

However, Tokugawa Yoribo was not in a hurry at all, they knew that it was not a hurry, and now that they arrived in Edo safely and securely, it would be a victory, after all, the loss of too many soldiers, a full 7,000 men.

Although most of the losses were due to the strength of the miscellaneous soldiers and the Sendai Domain, the largest domain in Michinoku, there is no doubt that when they fought together, it was the combat power of the shogunate that was lost.

In this way, the distance that used to be walked in one day is now divided into three days, and it is simply a crawling at a turtle speed, but fortunately, it is not far from Edo.

On this day, they came to a place more than 50 miles from Edo, which was a terrain sandwiched between two mountains, and passed from the north uphill through a valley between the two mountains, and then descended into the plain.

As long as you cross this terrain, you will see a plain in front of you.

Of course, after arriving on the plains, the cavalry of the Ming people could besiege the infantry army from all sides, but now that the number of wooden and iron shields is sufficient, Tokugawa Yoribo and others are really not afraid of the siege of the Ming people, unless the Ming people take advantage of the speed of the horses to advance regardless of casualties.

But now Tokugawa Yoribo has seen the worries of the Ming people, the Ming army of 20,000 soldiers to crusade against the Japanese state, the number is really not too much, it can be seen that the commander of the Ming army is trying to minimize casualties, it is obvious that the Ming army can not have a supplement.

Since the Ming army was afraid of casualties, Tokugawa Yoribo was sure that the Ming would never charge the battle in a big way, otherwise these cavalry would be lost, and the Ming attack on Edo would be in vain, and they could only withdraw their troops.

In that case, it's a rush.

Of course, Tokugawa Yoribo was not a reckless man, and he sent scouts to investigate. Sure enough, the Ming army was waiting for them at the highest pass.

Apparently losing the power of the firebolt. The Akito, who wanted to block the reinforcements, chose this pass. Take advantage of the terrain to snipe and prevent reinforcements from approaching Edo Castle.

Tokugawa Yoribo consulted with Nakajima Supervisor Yoshinari Kato, Kato Tomonari and a group of subordinates, and decided to attack first.

Although it shows that the army has the geographical advantage of the pass and is condescending, but they also happen to get rid of the siege that may be encountered on all sides when entering the plain, if the Ming army loses too much blood here, then it will be much easier after entering the plain.

Since Tokugawa Yoribo has made up his mind, what do the others have. That's a kill, besides, in addition to the depressing fire, the Ming people didn't show much strong combat power, and they didn't even dare to rush violently, and now it seems that it's just that.

The first night was well repaired, and the next morning, all the feudal soldiers had a feast and then marched down the hill to the mountain.

The mountain is not very high, only a few hundred meters, but the slope up the mountain is definitely a strenuous task. What's more, the feudal soldiers still had to carry heavy wooden shields, but no matter how heavy they were, they had to carry them. It's a life-saving thing.

When the feudal soldiers cautiously drove to the mountain pass, most of the entire brigade happened to be on the mountain road.

At this time, the feudal soldiers in front found that the Ming people in front of them were actually dismounted, and they were walking in the mountain pass, and the strange thing was that there were not many people, it seemed that there were only a few hundred people.

What's going on, the general in front can't think clearly, and he doesn't want to think about it left and right, so let's talk about it.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the southern mountain pass, and at least hundreds of war horses were heard to stomp on the ground, and in this semi-enclosed canyon, it was really shaking the heavens and the earth, and the echo of horses' neighing and hooves was everywhere.

The general's heart tightened, it seems that the Ming people are planning to charge the cavalry here, this is a long downhill, of course, it is extremely conducive to the cavalry to charge, but the canyon is narrow, and it can only accommodate less than twenty cavalry side by side, which is a big taboo.

It seems that Akito is in a hurry, and he can't say anything to get reinforcements to reach Edo.

The general immediately ordered the feudal soldiers to form a formation and erect a long spear formation behind the wooden shield.

But seeing countless war horses rushing into the mountain pass from the south, the Ming people in the formation hurriedly withdrew to both sides, made way of the middle road, and galloped across the mountain pass like a galloping horse, pounced on the feudal soldiers.

At this moment, the Ming infantry suddenly pushed out twenty or so half-man-high huge balls from both wings, and then they set them on fire as they rolled them.

The balls rolled north along the mountain, chasing behind the galloping horses.

At this time, the galloping horse in front of it was already approaching the military formation of the feudal soldiers, but seeing the cold light of the armor in the feudal army's formation, the animal instinct slowed down the galloping horses in front.

But when the fireball behind them ignited, the frightened horses behind them rushed forward like crazy, and the animals' fear of the flames outweighed the fear of the armor, and if they stopped, they would be burned to black coals.

At this time, hundreds of war horses were forced to get close to the fireball, which was only twenty or thirty paces, and they rushed madly towards the military formation of the feudal soldiers.

At this time, the iron cannons, rifles, and spears fired by the feudal soldiers could not stop them from escaping the imminent flames behind them.

Almost instantly, the explosion of the iron cannon and the firing of the bow sent some of the horses in front of them to the ground and struggle, but the horses behind fearlessly stepped on their corpses and rushed into the large array of feudal soldiers.

These hundreds of war horses frantically trampled and destroyed everything they encountered, and the feudal soldiers behind them retreated in horror when they saw this, but how could two small short legs outrun these four-legged war horses.

Countless Japanese people were trampled and killed on this slope, and the cavalry of the Broken Army rushed down from the hillside at this time to take advantage of the situation to cover and kill, they used horses to ram, swords and spears, and killed from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, this ramp was full of the corpses of the fallen Japanese samurai Ashigaru, and the blood that flowed spread from the slope to the bottom of the slope, soaking the entire ramp.

There were 12,000 troops, and in the end only more than 1,000 people escaped from the pursuit of the cavalry of the 2,000 broken army, and the Tokugawa Yoribo in the rear with dozens of guards fled on horseback in embarrassment.

Because there were too many dead Ashigaru corpses here, the blood that flowed out stained everything on the road red, and later generations called this mountain road the blood slope, which was widely spread as an example of the cruelty of the Ming people, and it was also the evidence of the crimes of the Ming people in later generations.

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