Chapter 398: The cavalry goes into battle
"What's that?" In the silent evening, when he suddenly heard such a clear voice, Ichimanda immediately woke up.
"Damn! Quickly form a formation to resist the enemy! At the moment of turning his head, Ichimanda Kanshi saw hundreds of war horses rushing towards this side. In this situation, even a fool knows that he has been ambushed by someone else. At least they knew they would land from here.
"Damn. Archer! Where are the archers? Just as the cavalry was getting closer, Imanda suddenly realized that it was time to let the archers resist the enemy from a distance.
It's a pity that it's too late to say anything at this time. Before he could finish his words, hundreds of cavalry of the Luo family with javelins on their backs jumped on their horses, and the four hooves of the war horses turned over, making a muffled sound like thunder, and they were killed with overwhelming momentum.
"Array!" The cavalry at the head shouted.
With the order of the cavalry leader, the hundreds of war horses suddenly turned into a long snake formation composed of hundreds of war horses, and then began to sweep from the side more than ten meters away from everyone.
"What are they doing here?" Ichimanda Kenmi thought suspiciously. Under normal circumstances, in such a situation, the cavalry will directly charge into the formation and cause confusion in the enemy formation. But why don't they have the intention of rushing in at all?
Just when Wantian Jianshi was still puzzled, the cavalry of the Luo family quickly gave an answer.
I saw the cavalry at the head pulling the reins with one hand, and then taking out a relatively short javelin from behind with the other hand, and then taking advantage of the momentum of the war horse. Raise your spear and throw it this way. The rest of the cavalry made the same move.
"Be careful!" 10,000 Tian Jianshi is not a stupid person, and when he sees this scene, he also knows what the other party is going to do? Anyway, those spears shooting at this direction are all enemy weapons. However, even if you know the power of these weapons, will you be able to dodge them? Five ships had already docked, and the soldiers of the Otomo family coalition had just stepped onto the shore, and they were barely ready to form under such a sudden situation. Some of the archers had just taken out their feathered arrows. Prepare to attack the cavalry of the Luo family that swept from the front.
It's a pity that it's too late. The picture is frozen in the scene below.
The cavalry of the Luo family flew past the front of the Otomo family at an angle of about forty-five degrees. Since the cavalry team was advancing towards the large formation of the Otomo family, with the momentum of the advance of the war horses, the javelins shot into the brown and red of the Otomo family's formation like death. Then shoot into the body of the Otomo soldier. Splashes of blood.
When the last cavalry of the Luo family swept five meters in front of the Otomo family's formation, the Otomo family's military formation on the shore had fallen into chaos. And Imanda Kanmi, who was the main general, was also shot in the thigh with a javelin all the time, and he was honorably injured.
However, the nightmare of the Otomo family's coalition forces is not over there. Another group of 100 horsemen from the Luo family swept in front of the Otomo family army in the same formation. At the same time, it brings a rain of javelins. These javelins were specially made by Masara according to the height of the local horses and cavalry, and after reducing the length and weight, each cavalryman could carry four of these javelins at a time. In order to make these javelins, Masayo spent a lot of iron reserves in the territory warehouse. In order to save resources, after the war, these javelins were recycled one by one.
When the second round of attacks ends. I had just passed by the front and had turned back. Once again, the attack was launched.
Lulu Port was originally a port with flat and open terrain, and poor Iwanda Jianshi thought that such terrain was suitable for a quick landing, but he didn't know that the terrain like Lulu Road was also suitable for cavalry raids. In addition, it was the first time for these soldiers to be attacked by such an aggrieved attack, and before they could react, they were beaten by others. Hundreds of soldiers of the Otomo family who landed in advance were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and they were repaired by the cavalry of the Luo family in turn.
A cavalry squad of 200 men, divided into a squad of 100 men, attacked back and forth, after four rounds. The javelins on the horsemen's backs had all been thrown, and there was no longer a single Otomo soldier on the port of Luri who could stand up. Hundreds of soldiers were folded here.
Seeing this, the ships of the Otomo family, which were preparing to dock on the river, came to a standstill. However, the ships closest to the shore and had seen the battle on the shore stopped, but the ships behind did not know what was happening in front of the road because their vision was not very good in the evening, so it was inevitable that the ships would collide. This led to confusion throughout the fleet. It's a pity that the Luo family doesn't have a naval army in Chikugo River, otherwise at this time, as long as there is an impact, this group of enemy troops who are trying to sneak attack will be defeated.
Of course, even without the attack of the water army, this time the Great Friends Coalition Army is not far from being defeated. As the main general, Imanda Kenmi managed to climb onto the ship under the escort of his kinship samurai, and he lost two kinship samurai to this. When he looked up from the sharp pain in his thigh, he saw some soldiers who had just landed jumping into the boat like crazy.
The battlefield on the shore was so terrifying that they lost the courage to stay on the shore.
When a long line of torches appeared on the avenue in the direction of Lianchi City in the distance, Ichimanda Jianshi knew that the plan of the smuggling raid at night this time was over. Looking at the wounded soldiers who were still struggling to board the ship, Ichimanda Kanmi reluctantly gave the order to retreat.
If you don't retreat, you can't do it. Seeing that those cavalry had begun to slowly approach the ferry, and the fire dragon that was constantly approaching. Stay any longer, and the ships on this shore will be handed over here.
With the retreat of the Otomo family's coalition forces. The first battle between the Roshi family and the Otomo family came to an end. This was a silent conflict without fanfare, which ended with a complete victory for the Luo family, in this battle, several cavalry of the Luo family were attacked by the opponent's bow and arrow and were slightly injured, but the other side permanently left more than 100 people on the ferry of Lulidu.
Subsequently, the two major formations died down again. However, no one knows that conflict is inevitable. So both sides are ready to go. With the news that Yoshitaka Ouchi's army in Izumo was locked in a stalemate with the Niko family, the situation became even more tense. I believe that in the near future, the Otomo family will definitely find an excuse to attack Hizen in a big way.
In mid-September, Masarashi's cheap father-in-law, Sagara Taketo, visited the Luo family, and at the same time brought with him the Ouchi family's battle plan. The Chikuzen and Hizen heroes led by the Ouchi family took Lingbu Castle as the main battle to resist the strategy of the Otomo coalition army, while on the side of the Luo family, the Ouchi family hoped that Masara would take the Luo family to resist the attack from Kaizu Castle alone. As the general of this time, Shan Xingyun obviously intends to leave the Luo family alone. Or it was a deliberate attempt to isolate the Luo family. In this regard, Zhengliang secretly sneered, and then acquiesced to this battle plan. In Zhengliang's view, it is better to rely on those unreliable allies than to rely on oneself.
Shortly after Sagara Takeren left, Isono finally returned to Hizen with the Luo family's cloak and the low-ranking samurai team. Also arriving with the three generations of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Chixue Mitsukiyo and the clansmen, as well as Watanabe-dori, who has lost his memory. After receiving Watanabe's letter, the clan of Watanabe Pass also began to move to Hizen with the help of the Luo family detective. In fact, there are only about a dozen people in Watanabe-dori's clan, and the current life is not too good, so it is much easier to relocate.
The arrangement for these new generals is like this. Akaxue Mitsukiyo is a cavalry general, as the deputy general of the first cavalry team of the Luo family, assisting the main general Isono Yuanchang to lead the only cavalry team of the Luo family. During this time, after getting along, Isono Yuanchang and Akaxue Mitsukiyo turned out to be friends for the sake of friendship, which was also conducive to the cooperation of the two. Chixue Guangqing's father chose to live in seclusion, and his son Chixue Shengqing temporarily served as a farmer. Masayo allocated a fief in Ojo County to Chixue Mitsuqing as a settled clan. As a result, the Chixue family, which was once one of the ten banners of the Nizi family, became a retainer of the Luo family under the half-dozen and half-pull of Zhengliang.
And Watanabe Tong, who lost his memory, became the head general of the Ashigaru family of the Luo family, serving as the deputy general of the fifth standing ashigaru team. The family he was migrating to was divided into a small village in Matsuura County.
While resettling these visitors, Zhengliang also supervised the territory to step up the work of the autumn harvest after the last round. If there are no accidents, after the autumn harvest is over, the Otomo family will attack.
This year's autumn harvest was not bad, with a total of 100,000 stone in taxes. This income has decreased compared to last year, mainly because in the battle of the Rokkaku River between the Luo family and the Shao Er family, Masashi had the levee open to release the floodwater, which caused a large amount of farmland there to be washed away by the flood, and the income must have been affected. In addition, in the past six months, the territory has caused small riots due to the disposal of temples and shrines, and some fields have also been affected by the war. Overall, it's good to be able to get such a tax revenue. In order to deal with the people who had suffered losses, Masahiro took out another 10,000 koku of grain as compensation for the minor, but in fact, the final grain in the warehouse this year was only 90,000 koku.
In October of the 11th year of Astronomy (1542), shortly after the end of the autumn harvest, the Otomo family changed again. This time, the direction that the Otomo family chose to break through was still on the side of the Luo family. This is also a choice that has no choice, after all, Katsuo Castle on the frontal battlefield has already gathered thousands of Ouchi family coalition troops at this time. And the side of the Luo family is a bit lonely.
This time, the Otomo family learned wisely, and instead of landing on the water, they drove a team of soldiers and horses directly from Haijin City, and then directly entered the territory near the Muda City of the Shao Er family, and then slowly came to the lotus pond city of the Luo family.
At that moment, it began to rain. And it was a storm mixed with heavy rain. It is very unusual for such weather to occur in autumn. The attacking Otomo coalition forces had to be stationed on the spot.
After receiving the news, Zhengliang immediately prepared to implement a plan for a storm raid. (To be continued.) )