Chapter 37: The Fall
Emperor Kameyama was forced by everyone to rush to the battlefield by land.
Twenty miles from the battlefield ahead, it was already dark and had to camp in place.
The Sawara family arranged for the ninjas to go to the battlefield at night, originally to contact the shogunate ruling Hojo Tokimune.
However, when the ninja arrived at the battlefield on horseback, he saw a scene that looked like an apocalypse.
The countless corpses everywhere, coupled with the shogunate stragglers who were being hunted down, made them forget to speak for a while.
The Koga Shangshinobi who was the leader was the first to react, and with a wave of his hand, several people rescued the two deserters and took them to the woods on the side.
The two deserters had run to the point of collapse, and it was only after the ninjas fed him a few sips of water that he gradually came to his senses.
"Defeated... We are completely defeated! ”
Seeing the samurai shed tears of horror and pain, Kagajoshino asked, "What the hell is going on, how could the shogunate, with its 400,000-strong army, be defeated so quickly?" ”
"Yuankou is well-armed, and there is that evil ghost rushing forward, no one can stop us! The head of the family also died at his hands. ”
"What?! The Shogunate Ruler has also been killed?! Knowing the seriousness of the situation, the ninjas returned to the barracks with two samurai and met directly with the emperor and the leaders of the noble clans.
Everyone learned from the mouths of the defeated army about the course of the battle during the day, and it was like the sky falling apart.
Emperor Kameyama panicked, "How should this be? ”
The Sawara family was elected as the representative of the wealthy clan at this time and frowned: "Yuan Kou and the shogunate's hundreds of thousands of troops have been fighting fiercely for many days, and although a decisive battle is won today, there must be a lot of losses.
Your Majesty the Emperor should not panic, we will send people out to collect the defeated army, and wait until dawn to see the situation before taking action. ”
This night, countless people lost sleep.
By dawn, Fan Zhuoyuan's troops regrouped and integrated their forces.
After Fan Zhuoyuan was tired of killing, he slept lightly on the corpse on the battlefield, and after waking up, he ordered troops to check the losses in this battle.
Zhang Xi approached, sat next to Fan Zhuoyuan, and said: "The night battle is very unfavorable for both sides, last night's pursuit and defeat of the rout was not so ideal, I see that many people have fled back to the county, and if they are not even, they will have to fight a siege battle." ”
Fan Zhuoyuan said: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are gathered in a battlefield area of dozens of miles, and no one can chase the dead in such a large battlefield area. ”
As he spoke, he picked up the head of Hojo Tokimune on the side, "The commander of the enemy army is dead, and the core of the shogunate has been lost. Even if there are still hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered in the lonely city, they can be broken in a battle. ”
As he spoke, Fan Zhuoyuan glanced at the progress of the task on the system.
"Mission: Destroy Japan in four months!
Requirements: 1. Capture the Emperor's entire family (unfinished);
2. Destroy the Kamakura shogunate army (unfinished);
3. Kill the shogunate ruling Hojo Tokimune (completed).
Rewards: Completing task 3 will reward 50,000 proficiency points, and completing the remaining two will reward 110,000 proficiency points. ”
The two sat on the corpse, ate some dry food to replenish their strength, and half an hour later, their subordinates reported the situation of the troops to Fan Zhuoyuan.
The original army of 80,000 was only a little more than 50,000 troops left to fight, and everyone was exhausted and unable to continue.
Fan Zhuoyuan saw it in his eyes, and at the moment he could only inspect the armies, promise rewards, and boost the morale of the troops.
In yesterday's battle, as many as 10,000 people were killed in direct battle and could not be rescued, and the rest of the wounded soldiers gathered on the high ground, and today they are ready to be sent back to the battleship of Kakogawa and transported back to the rear for treatment.
After the whole army was assembled, it went to the abandoned fortress in front, repaired it first, and then attacked the county seat.
At this time, the emperor's headquarters took advantage of the night to gather 20,000 defeated troops, including both the retreating shogunate elite troops and the elite directly under the shogunate.
At this moment, whether it is the soldiers and horses of the Hao clan or the elite directly under the shogunate, they are all the same with blank eyes, like a bird with a frightened bow.
Someone from the Emperor's command tried to comfort them, and a smug warrior of the noble clan patted a muddled shogunate samurai on the shoulder.
Unexpectedly, this person trembled and screamed hysterically, and the screams stimulated the other defeated soldiers around him to panic and howl loudly, and some of them even drew knives and slashed.
A small joke caused a small roar, and it took a long time to completely suppress it.
Naturally, this morale also affected the emperor's troops, making them hesitate to enter the battlefield at this time.
Emperor Kameyama called a meeting of the people, "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the shogunate has been defeated and the Motoko army is invincible, we ...... We ......"
Seeing that the emperor's expression was wrong, a wealthy clan immediately got up and shouted, "Your Majesty, you don't want to surrender!" ”
Emperor Kameyama was stunned for a moment, and the Sawara family handed over a ladder and said, "How can Your Majesty surrender, it's just that you're just afraid of the defeat of the shogunate, right?" ”
Emperor Kameyama saw that the expressions of many wealthy families were wrong, so he could only reluctantly nod.
"But now that Yuankou is so powerful, what else can be done to deal with it?"
There was a lot of discussion, but there was no effective solution.
In Himeji Prefecture, this was originally the core stronghold of the shogunate's 200,000-strong army.
It is with this city as the core that the vast walled fort defense system is formed along the terrain of the broken mountains.
This defense system is extremely large and heavy, even if it is Fan Zhuoyuan, it will take at least half a year or more to slowly clear it.
It's a pity that Fan Zhuoyuan's three strategies were broken, and the shogunate army had to come out to seek a decisive battle, but the defeat in the first battle, the three armies were lost, and the anti-Yuan forces of the entire Japan broke their courage.
Hundreds of years later, although most of the wooden fortresses have decayed, there are still many pedestals left for the Chinese people to visit, as a cultural tourist attraction, extremely popular, popular all over the world.
In particular, Fan Zhuoyuan's monument at this moment after the war is remembered, and it is remembered by future generations and preserved by local museums.
In the history books, this battle is known as the Battle of the Fallen Curtain.
After this battle, although the Japanese anti-Yuan forces rose and fell, but the heart of the fear of the Yuan has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, every time the Yuan army is hanging, the battle will be defeated, the attack will be discouraged, and the defense will be broken.
Gradually, under the ban on martial arts and the sword hunting order, within a few decades, the samurai class was completely replaced by the landlord literati class and became a historical term.
Of course, at this time, Fan Zhuoyuan couldn't think of such a far-reaching future, and his original intention to destroy Japan was just to find a way out for the 100,000 Southern Song Dynasty troops and try to develop.
At the moment, the shogunate except for those who died on the battlefield, as well as those who fled to the mountains and completely lost their fighting spirit and disappeared.
There were about 80,000 remaining defeated soldiers, all of whom returned to Himeji Prefecture one after another during the day.
But now they are facing a more important problem, the shogunate is dead, and the major nobles under it are not convinced by each other.
Originally, the highest-ranking family elder in the shogunate should have come out to order the three armies, but yesterday the shogunate forced each family to smash the actions before the Yuan army's big array, which offended all the wealthy families, and naturally no one was willing to follow the orders of the rest of the shogunate.
At the end of this day, the remnants of the shogunate, the army of the Fan family, and the emperor's headquarters, the three sides of the army remained strangely quiet, and no one moved.
However, Fan Zhuoyuan's scouts had already detected the Emperor's headquarters twenty miles away, so they left all the cavalry, and if the Emperor's headquarters dared to attack, they would continue to attack with cavalry to slow down the march.
A day later, Fan Zhuoyuan led all the infantry to the county seat of Himeji.
As soon as the soldiers were defeated, an envoy came out of the city, wanting to negotiate with Fan Zhuoyuan.
Fan Zhuo was far from seeing the envoy, so he asked him to behead him and return him to the city, and then ordered the soldiers to send a sentence under the city: "Open the city and surrender within an hour, if not, the city will be destroyed and slaughtered!" ”