"That's it?"

Seeing this group of warriors of the Shimazu family who were coming with great momentum, they didn't even have a symbolic battle after finding out that something was wrong, so they immediately chose to retreat. http://www.klxsw.com

www.klxsw.com the first ∈ ↗ of romance, while Song Wuxing admired their quick response, he couldn't help but despise these Dongyi people. He couldn't help but think of the governor's words to him again: Those Dongyi people are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard!

Now it seems that there is really nothing wrong with it, and it is clear that there is still the ability to fight.

However, it is easy for the Songjiang Army's camp to come in, and if you want to leave, have you asked the master to agree?

Although Shimazu Yoshida's reaction and decision were very correct, he used more than 100 samurai in the front row to delay the counterattack of the Matsue army, and let the large army withdraw immediately. And these desperate samurai did show the ferocity of not being afraid of death, and forcibly blocked the infantry of the Songjiang Army, but don't forget that the Songjiang Army has two brigades of cavalry!

As early as yesterday night, two cavalry brigades had secretly hidden in a wooded area more than a mile away.

At the moment when the samurai of the Shimazu family were counterattacked, two cavalry brigades went into action. After a long detour, from another previously surveyed path, he outflanked the retreat of the Shimazu samurai. Although it was inevitable that there would be some delay, due to the speed of the cavalry, only a hundred Shimazu samurai escaped with a few hundred of them. Most of the samurai were cut off by the Matsue cavalry who were about to flee to safety.

The cavalry of the front and rear brigades blocked the road, and the shouts of the Songjiang army behind them were getting closer and closer.

Many of the samurai of the Shimazu family had despair on their faces. They didn't expect that the Songjiang Army was so well prepared. Not only did they not underestimate the enemy in the slightest, but instead arranged for the cavalry to outflank the broken queen. This moment. Except for surrender. They had to go this way only by killing the cavalry blocking the road in front of them.

"Loyalty! Nation! Gentlemen. See you in the next life! ”

"For the sake of the head of the Shimazu family!"

As several fanatical samurai took the lead in shouting out, these Shimazu samurai, who had been cornered, went crazy.

And what about the cavalry!

Without waiting for the cavalry in front to take the initiative to charge, these warriors drew their swords and rushed forward. Some people screamed strangely, some looked crazy, and some people prayed for some ghosts and gods to protect them.

"These Dongyi people are crazy!"

The two cavalry captains who were ordered to intercept looked a little embarrassed, feeling underestimated by these Dongyi warriors. They let out a loud shout and kicked the horse's belly with his heel. Lead your men to the charge.

In the open space that was not too wide, the shouts of soldiers from both sides sounded at the same time.

The fanatical spirit of the samurai was not enough to compensate for the inferiority of the infantry in the face of cavalry. Relying on the speed of the horses that were quickly lifted, the cavalry easily rushed past the samurai, and the sabers flew and took away one life after another. However, the remaining samurai not only did not fear, but even more fiercely pursued them without fear of death.

Since they had a two- or three-fold advantage in numbers, these samurai actually wanted to use their numerical advantage to surround the cavalry of the Matsue Army.

In the chaos, someone used a bow or shuriken to assassinate the Songjiang cavalry. Due to the fact that the terrain is not wide enough. The cavalry is not very convenient to play, plus the ruthlessness of these Dongyi people after despair. Obviously the disadvantage did not break and fled, and it really caused a lot of trouble to the Songjiang cavalry, who were not very adaptable.

After two rounds of charges, the samurai of the Shimazu family fell in large numbers, but the Matsue cavalry also suffered more than a dozen casualties!

"Bastard!"

Seeing that his brothers were constantly being damaged, and that they were still killed by these inconspicuous guys, the two cavalry captains were red-eyed. If the terrain is open enough, they can use mounted archery to deal with these samurai from a distance, and it only takes a few rounds to deal with them. However, the surrounding ground is rugged, and there is even sparse woodland, which really limits the cavalry.

But so what?

The cavalry of the Songjiang Army, which had competed with the cavalry of the Empire, had also rampaged in the hinterland of the Omanis. Even if there is no terrain, how can you be afraid of some ronin and samurai?

After leading the team to accelerate a little and rush out of dozens of steps, the Songjiang cavalry took advantage of the short distance to regroup, turned around and rushed back again.

The strength of the Shimazu family is still a little bad after all. Like the top daimyo of the Tokugawa family, they can basically equip the main army with a suit of armor. Even if you don't have one, you can replace it with the likes of rattan armor. But the Shimazu family can only raise more than 1,000 samurai in total, and it is not easy to achieve one weapon per person, and only a small half of armor and the like.

In the face of the unified leather armor of the Songjiang Army, and riding a carefully selected high-headed war horse, their disadvantage was too great.

When the cavalry of the Matsue Army was also beaten out of anger and made the decision to fight to the death, the samurai of the Shimazu family had no advantage at all!

At this time, the crossbowmen of the Songjiang Army cooperated with the infantry army, and finally solved the hundred palace troops who were desperately delaying and desperately chased after them. The addition of these infantry troops completely crushed the fighting spirit of the Shimazu samurai. Although their loyalty to the Shimazu family was unquestionable, a deathless death like this still calmed down the blood of many people.

Although there were still a group of samurai who continued to fight, samurai began to break through one after another.

"Solve it as much as possible, and then fight all the way to Asahikawa Castle!"

Song Wuxing was also annoyed by the ruthlessness of these Shimazu samurai when they were desperate, and immediately ordered the entire infantry army to suppress them, striving to annihilate these stubborn enemies in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.

The cavalrymen took the opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield, rested and bandaged for a while, fed the horses and fodder, and then moved on immediately.

Although most of the samurai brought out by the Shimazu family were dealt with by them, a group of people still fled. What's more, they didn't see the head of the Shimazu family in the previous fight. If he is allowed to retreat to Asahikawa Castle, it will undoubtedly cost a lot of trouble for the Matsue army to attack the city.

The best way is to let the cavalry intersperse and directly stop all the fleeing Shimazu samurai outside Asahikawa Castle.

Doing this did not have any problems for the Songjiang cavalry.

The direction in which the samurai of the Shimazu family fled was the location of Asahikawa Castle, and it was also the best guide for the Matsue cavalry. In addition, Shimazu Saburo, who had already succumbed, was also tied up and taken by the cavalry as a guide. After only half a day, the cavalry of the Matsue Army led most of the fleeing Shimazu samurai behind them, and stumbled along the trail that was several grades worse than the Matsue official road, and stumbled to the foot of Asahikawa Castle.

To be honest, the first sight of it, the feeling of the cavalry was disappointment.

Although I have long heard of the barrenness of Cook Island, this Asahikawa Castle is also the base camp of the Shimazu family. To exaggerate, it can be roughly regarded as the capital of one of the princes. No matter how unbearable it is, it has to look like a city at all. But in fact, this dilapidated Asahikawa Castle is far inferior to some of the rich county towns of Songjiang County, and it is slightly better than some large towns.

There are no decent city defense weapons, no moats...... The only highlight is the city built on a hillside. Coupled with the stone city wall more than three meters high, Asahikawa Castle has quite good defensive capabilities, but it can barely be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack!

If there were no siege weapons, it would be really difficult for them to rely on their two large groups of cavalry and one and a half wings of infantry to help this town.

After inspecting the field on the spot, the cavalry had to admit that Song Wuxing's tactics were correct.

Until then, it wasn't that no one within them thought the strategy was too conservative. With the military strength of the Matsue army, it is possible to advance directly and flatly, and anyway, the Asahikawa clan is not a top daimyo such as the Tokugawa family and the Mori family. But right now, this Asahikawa City proves the wisdom of Song Wudang to lure the enemy into battle.

Although those samurai fought without any rules, and basically relied on personal bravery, seven or eight hundred or even nearly a thousand people came casually, and placed in this city, it was enough to make the Songjiang army stare helplessly outside!

Now, though, it's a different story.

There may still be a few Leaky Fish who can escape into this town by detour, but the vast majority of the samurai who fought with the Shimazu family lord have stopped outside the city forever. Without this core force that relied on to maintain the Asahikawa Domain, even if the Shimazu family could barely organize a defense in the castle, their strength would inevitably be extremely weak.

The Songjiang army needs a few rounds of arrow rain to intimidate, and they can casually step on the cloud ladder to attack this city!

As long as Asahikawa Castle is gone, the Shimazu family's rule in the Asahikawa Domain will fall apart in a short time. All that remained was how to take over the Asahikawa Domain and develop the undiscovered iron ore mine - however, this was something that the civilian officials who came later needed to consider, and their cavalry only needed to intercept the fleeing Shimazu samurai here, and that was their final mission.

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"The cavalry of the kingdom!"

While these cavalrymen were talking about Asahikawa Castle in a low voice, Shimazu Yoshida, who had fled into Asahikawa Castle before them, was looking at these elite cavalrymen from a distance behind the railing of the stone wall, his face pale.

He had considered the possibility of the failure of this surprise attack, but he did not expect such a miserable defeat. The combat effectiveness of the first team is beyond his imagination, although the samurai under his command are fighting desperately, but the stragglers can't beat the battle formation with tacit understanding, and the appearance of these hundreds of cavalry is the end of a qiē.

Their sudden cut cut off the last line of possibility for those samurai to retreat to Asahikawa Castle!

If it weren't for himself, Shimazu Nobuyasu and Hayakawa, they saw that the situation was not good, and fled back on horseback, but I was afraid that even I would be stopped outside Asahikawa Castle. If he had known this, Shimazu Yoshida would rather consume it slowly than take the initiative to seek that chance of victory.

It's a pity that I lost the bet.

"Could it be that you really just admit defeat and give up Asahikawa City to others?" Shimazu Yoshida's mood was very bitter and full of worry. Cession of Asahikawa Castle as an apology was a condition put forward by the people of the Upper Kingdom before the war. He sent Zuo Zuozheng to play tricks on the other party, and tried to sneak attack, causing the people to pay a lot of casualties, and now they are even more defeated. Now, even if you want to maintain the original agreement, I'm afraid that the other party won't either!

No, you can't just admit defeat.

Shimazu Yoshida's face became hideous, and he quickly thought of a way to harm others and himself! (To be continued.) )