Chapter 912: Retreat to Southern Kyushu (2)
Outside the camp of the Luo family's coalition army, with the finger of the feather fan in the hand of Tadaro Ijiin who rode to the front of the Shimazu family's army, the camp of the Shimazu family's army suddenly sounded with the sound of horns and snare drums.
"Uh......h Woo...... Woo......"
"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"
"Kill! Kill! Kill! With the shouts of the soldiers, the vanguard army of 5,000 people of the Shimazu family began to move slowly in the direction of the Luo family's coalition camp, and gradually, the soldiers moved faster and faster, and finally evolved into a wild run. Ijiin Tadaro, who was constantly bypassed by the soldiers behind him, looked at the Shimazu family's army rushing forward, as if he saw a pitch-black flood rushing towards the Luo family's camp.
In the face of the large-scale attack of the Shimazu family, the sound of wood banging on the ground sounded everywhere in the camp of the Luo family's coalition army, which was a temporarily recruited peasant soldier under the supervision of the samurai, urgently moving wood, repairing several temporary arrows in the camp to meet the battle.
In some of the arrows that had been built beforehand, bundles of arrows were brought from the inside out of the camp that served as temporary warehouses and transported into these arrows. Although it has been prepared in the arrow drill before, in order to better supervise the materials and avoid the materials in the arrow bush from being wet by the weather, it will be urgently deployed at this time.
In some important areas of the camp, the archers, who had already been arranged, began to twist their bows, and the samurai took out their waxed katana again. All the equipment and weapons in the warehouse tent were distributed and distributed to every peasant soldier. The samurai shouted at the newly recruited peasant soldiers, who were assigned to the various samurai-headed ashigaru chiefs. The formation of combat power.
"Kill!"
The brave Shimazu family army shouted and quickly approached the fence of the Luo family's coalition camp. Some of the soldiers carrying crockpots containing flammable materials such as fire oil braved the rain of arrows. Throw these crockpots to the side of the fence from a distance.
"Boom!"
As the torches in the hands of some of the other Shimazu soldiers were thrown into place in time, the fence was instantly ablaze. In order to achieve this goal, hundreds of Shimazu soldiers fell to the ground, but this did not stop their advance.
"Drink!"
"Die!"
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Seeing that the Shimazu family's army was killed, the defenders behind the fence of the Luo family's camp were not to be outdone, and they were desperately resisting the attack of the Shimazu family's army under the command of the main general Takeuchi Hisaharu and the deputy generals Hishigari Shigeto, Keitain Shigemasa, Kitahara Kanemori and others. Of course, as the main force of resistance, it is naturally the military strength of many wealthy families in Northern Satsuma. And the Luo family's military strength is just as a supervisor in the rear.
The large camp of the coalition forces was built on a hillside that was gradually raised back, which was more conducive to the defense of the coalition forces. Under the command of the generals, the defenders fought against the attack of the Shimazu army's army by archery and stone.
Inside the fence, a coalition samurai pierced through the gap in the fence to a soldier of the Shimazu family who was desperately kicking the fence of the camp, and a samurai of the Shimazu family next to him saw this, and immediately stabbed with a shot, and the spear of the coalition samurai was still in the body of the opponent at this time, and it was too late to draw it back for a while, and it was about to be assassinated by the Shimazu samurai. At this moment, several arrows were shot with a "whoosh". The samurai of the Shimazu family, who was about to succeed, immediately screamed and was shot into a hedgehog.
These arrows were naturally fired by the archers of the coalition defenders in the rear, but even the defenders of the coalition were fiercely defending. A large number of Shimazu samurai warriors with the Maru Cross Banner on their backs rushed towards them in a surge of arrows and arrows shot down from the high positions of the main camp.
As a result, under the fierce attack of the Shimazu family's soldiers, even though the defenders resisted fiercely, the fence on the periphery of the coalition camp was finally overturned, and the defenders had to fight and retreat under the command of the generals. A qiē seems very normal. Seeing that the Shimazu family's army is about to occupy a certain advantage.
And at this moment, suddenly from the direction of the Iris Nest Mountain in the rear, a storm-like sound, "whoosh, whoosh......" like a violent wind before a rainstorm, the sound of feathered arrows was loud. At the same time, a large number of archers also appeared on the left and right sides of the Luo family's coalition camp, and they all drew their bows and shot arrows at the Shimazu family's army that had just broken through the fence area of the Luo family's coalition army.
"Ho! Damn it! Shimazu Tadacho, who was directing his soldiers forward, restrained his horse and cursed. The sound of this arrow doesn't sound like it's only a hundred. If the enemy has already touched the back, then the back road will be cut off.
There is no doubt that this arrow was fired by the bow and arrow surprise attack team led by the Luo family's Shiga Yoshiko. Shiga Yoshiko led the 700-strong archers specially assigned to him by Luo Clan Huiliang, and he had already touched the mountain of Kite Nest last night. The sudden sound of sky-shaking feather arrows made the camp of the Shimazu family like a fried pan, and it was a mess.
Ijiin Zhonglang grabbed the reins of his horse, and he suddenly felt a pang in his heart at this time: Could it be that the defeat of the other party was a trick by the other party to lure the enemy deeper? If so, then you have really fallen into the trap of the enemy now.
Just when Ijiin Tadaro was suspicious, the feather arrows of the Luo family's coalition army had already begun the second round of shooting. At this time, there were more than 2,000 archers in the entire Luo family's coalition army. After two rounds of continuous firing, the Shimazu family's army was thrown into disarray, and the soldiers looked everywhere for shelter to avoid the feathered arrows fired from all sides. Under such circumstances, the Shimazu family's army was unable to advance, and there was no way to retreat, and they were in a dilemma.
The mountain of Iris' Nest in the rear has been occupied, and Kawakami, who originally guarded the mountain with the Shimazu family, has been guarding it for a long time, but I don't know who broke it. In short, the people who launched this surprise attack were by no means idle. In case of being flanked by the front and rear during the retreat, it will be a great shame for the generals.
Finally, the collapsed wooden fence in front of him, the Luo family coalition camp on it, etc., were clearly revealed, and the Luo family horses in ambush in the forest and the camp were also clear. Ijiin Tadaro knew that the head of the Luo family would be in the camp in front at the moment, and he didn't know if the Kyushu Eagle Luo Clan Masato was there, originally he planned to fight all the way in and open a breakthrough for the Shimazu family's main camp that was about to arrive, it seemed that it was just a dream. The sound of feathered arrows whistling through the air around them, and the Shimazu family's leading men and horses were suffering a fierce blow from the other side.
"My lord, please give the order, do you want to advance or retreat?" At this time, Tadasuke Kayama, who had a feather arrow in his arm, ran over on a horse and asked eagerly.
"Withdraw!"
Ijiin Tadaro shouted, then rode his horse around in a gray way, then turned his horse's butt towards the enemy, and went straight to the rear.
As a result, the Shimazu army, which had just occupied the fence area of the camp of the Luo family's coalition army, retreated like a tide, and the battle just now ended in an instant as if it had given the Luo family coalition army an itch. It's just that the matter is not over yet, it depends on the retreat of the Shimazu family's army, and the archers of the Luo family's coalition army on the Kite Nest Mountain in the rear are still shooting.
"Brothers, here's your chance. Give me the Shimazu family! ”
At this time, the wealthy clans of Northern Satsuma in the camp naturally did not let go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs, so they rushed to the retreating Shimazu family under the leadership of their respective generals.
Under the pursuit of the coalition forces, the Shimazu family army began to rout, and even ignored the rain of arrows on the Iris Nest Mountain, directly bypassed the Iris Nest Mountain, and began to flee further to the rear. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Luo family's coalition army on Yuanchao Mountain simply joined the ranks of pursuing the Shimazu family's rout.
"Young master, please send someone to remind all teams, be careful not to chase too far!" At this time, on a hill in the camp of the coalition army, Jia Fei, as the logistics general of the battalion, immediately reminded Luo Zhi Huiliang, who was standing in the center.
"Lord Qinzhi is too cautious, Your Highness, you must not let go of such a good opportunity, as long as you maximize the results of this battle, you can have an advantage in the next battle with the Shimazu family!" On the other side, Yukan Kitahara immediately objected after hearing Kai's words.
Previously, the wealthy clan of Northern Satsuma was really beaten too badly by the Shimazu family's army, and this time they finally won a victory, they naturally had to breathe a good sigh of relief, and in order to weaken the strength of the Shimazu family as much as possible, and reduce resistance for them to regain the occupied territory in the Northern Satsuma region later, he naturally did not want the young lord of the Luo family in front of him to give an order to stop the pursuit. The other Northern Satsuma clans also had the same idea, so they all echoed it after Kitahara Yukan spoke.
Under the persuasion of the people of Northern Satsuma, Luo Huiliang, who originally planned to follow the Jiafei pro-Zhizhi Yì, hesitated. Indeed, what these Northern Satsuma Hao clans said was not wrong, and the coalition forces involved in the pursuit at this time were also dominated by the military strength of the Northern Satsuma Hao clan (most of the Luo family's army was left in the camp as the remaining troops were cleaning up the battlefield), since the master was not worried about his military situation, he naturally didn't bother to worry about them. What's more, in Luo Huiliang's heart, he also hopes that this trip can achieve great results, so as to get greater recognition from his father Zhengliang and the affirmation of his retainers.
Just when Luo Shi Huiliang hesitated, all the troops pursuing by the coalition army had bypassed the Yuanchao Mountain, where Fang was located as the rear of the Shimazu family, and pursued further away, and Luo Zhi Huiliang and the others could not see the shadow of the coalition army and the enemy army at this time, and could only hear the constant shouting and killing.
"Congratulations, Your Highness, this time we are sure to win!" Seeing this, Ling Jiazhong Ming and the others congratulated one after another. Being praised by everyone like this, Luo Huiliang, who was in his youth, also smiled, but the veteran Jia Fei frowned and kept silent.
And on the side of the Shimazu family's rout, because he was riding a war horse, so Ijiin Tadaro ran at the front of the rout, before, he had tried to make the rout stop and intercept the pursuit of the Luo family's coalition army behind, but the rout seemed to be like a flood without a levee, and he couldn't stop it, so he had to flee with the army. In the process of escaping, he successively joined Shimazu Tadanaga, Kayama Tadasuke and others, who had been injured by feather arrows, but there was no Kawakami's long-lasting whereabouts. Previously, Kawakami's team was responsible for defending Kite's nest mountain, and the enemy army was able to attack his home from there, so it can only show that Kawakami has been more than lucky. (To be continued......)