Chapter 7: The Three Armies swear to fight against the thieves

Shouting in unison, he walked under the stage, and the soldiers turned their heads, put away their weapons, and continued to move forward, passing through the entire review field. Stop, find a place where no one is, face the school field, and stand in line. When all the folk songs are finished, it can be regarded as a review of the queue.

Just go in line and don't play the formation, this is not difficult. The people of all countries are veterans of military service, and the walking queue is still neat, although it is not majestic and mighty, but it is not scattered, and it is very different from the appearance of yesterday when they scrambled for camp tents and scuffled for private fights.

Reviewing cavalry and archery, not only are the county soldiers well-trained, but even the samurai sent by the people of various countries have a somewhat elite appearance.

First of all, thirty skilled iron cannon guards were selected from among the county soldiers, and thirty bow warriors who were good at archery were also selected from among the people of each country, and ten straw mats and wooden targets were erected in the low fence in the middle of the school field.

Iron gunners and bow warriors have different shooting skills, and they all shoot at a position of about 60 paces, but there are also people with excellent self-possession skills who shoot from 80 paces away.

Six groups, 60 people competed, three iron cannons, ten arrows, and basically hit the target. The arrows were also shot on the target, and the iron cannon was to beat the wooden target to pieces, especially the wild warriors sent out by Gao Shisheng stood a hundred steps away and shot at a distance, ten shots and ten hits, and the officials on the stage pointed and praised, which attracted the people outside the camp and cheered for it.

As soon as the review ended, Gao Shisheng was summoned to the high platform by the county guard Chao Bina Motochang, sat beside him and watched, holding a folding fan and shaking it gently, and asked his nephew, "I think this person was selected by your ministry to participate in the performance, but is it a samurai in your township?" ”

Gao Shisheng replied softly, "Uncle Hui, it is a master of archery under his nephew, who was originally a wild samurai of the Yamafu Nagano Party, and later I saw that his martial arts were acceptable, so I spared his life and stayed in the country song to serve, so as to atone for his sins." ”

This wild samurai is none other than Naito Mitsuhide, this rather backbone mountain ambush, imprisoned in the dungeon for more than a month, no one to talk to him, almost driven crazy, before the master bloomed, casually asked the master of Zhenghong to ask, would like to surrender, but he didn't expect to surrender very simply, it seems that his thief's righteousness is not as deep as he said.

Asahina Motocho didn't care about the origin of the Naito Mitsuhide bandits, and the Nagano Party was huge, but for the Imagawa family's monarchs, it wasn't even a disease of scabies, if it weren't for the Ghost Face Mountain across the three kingdoms of Koshinjun, considering the attitude of the Takeda family, it was inconvenient to send troops to pursue them deeply, and they would have been wiped out a long time ago, so they just told me two words and paid attention to more precautions.

When the bow warriors and iron cannon attendants who performed archery retreated one after another, and did not wait for the school field to be cleaned, they saw eight horsemen galloping into the room, without a piece of armor, and the gorgeous samurai clothes on their bodies, and the clothes and ornaments were tattooed with their own family crests, and even some people who were brave and brave dared to hang blood-drenched fresh sacrificial meat in the saddle, which was to deliberately attract hungry fighting dogs to bite themselves when performing dog chasing, and then evade with superb horse riding skills, and then wait for the opportunity to shoot with a bow.

This activity, called dog chasing, arose in the Kamakura shogunate, and the samurai were the best way to practice riding and archery, and there were no more than the three types of kasa hanging, flowing horses, and dog chasing, which were also called the three things of riding and archery by the samurai.

Among the three things of riding and shooting, dogs chase objects, which is closest to the actual combat of war, and it is also the most exciting, and the scene is bloody.

In general, in the ordinary dog chasing competition, in the arena between length and width, 36 samurai on horseback were ordered to shoot 150 fighting dogs with bows and arrows, and the one who shot more won the game.

Inu-chase is generally held as a major sacred festival of the samurai, and in the ninth year of civilization, due to the end of the Onin War and the accession of shogun Ashikaga Yoshisho, a grand inu-chase was held in Kyoto. At that time, 1,500 fighting dogs and more than 100 samurai on horseback performed this scene in front of the Shogun's Imperial Palace.

Naturally, the current dog chase show cannot be compared to the festival dedicated to the god Hachiman and the Kyoto Festival, but it is still thrilling.

With the left side of the high platform, the taiko drum was beaten three times in a row, and the cage where dozens of fighting dogs were locked in the field was transported to the fence by trailer, and the crazy roar of the dogs came from the cage.

All of a sudden, the fishy smell was tangy, and the fighting dogs on the field were in the dog cage, jumping up and down, constantly looking at the watchers, roaring and barking, transporting the trailer, and did not dare to stay longer, so he hurriedly retreated to the field and closed the gate.

There was another drum sound, and Kamohara whistled his head, and before the horse burst into the cage, the horsewhip flicked around the handle that was exposed outside the cage door bolt, and in a short moment, then the horse under the crotch rushed in, and the arm exerted force, and the door bolt flew out.

Before the deadbolt could hit the ground, the fighting dogs slammed open the gate from the narrow cage and scrambled out. Suddenly, the center of the field, which was not very spacious, was full of fighting dogs that had just escaped from their cages, chasing each other, trying to bite the fresh meat carried by the samurai involved in the dog chase, and it was difficult to tell who was the prey for a while.

The horses galloped, and the eight samurai drew their bows and arrows almost at the same time, shooting at the fighting dogs running wildly, and the arrows broke through the air, first emitting a long series of buzzing sounds.

The arrows used in the dog's pursuit are all specially made dysprosium arrows, and each arrow is accompanied by a piercing sound when it breaks through the air. From time to time, a series of arrows in the air swept through like flying locusts, and the fighting dogs on the field were shot to the ground one after another.

Some fighting dogs were pierced by arrows and were killed instantly, while others were severely injured by bows and arrows and fell to the field, unwilling to move and struggle.

There are also many injured fighting dogs, fierce and fierce, who counterattack the samurai who are chasing them, trying to tear the opponent's mount.

The frightened fighting dogs scattered and fled, which greatly increased the difficulty of the dogs, and the fighting dogs deliberately dodged, and many of the arrows fired in the second salvo failed.

Fighting dogs are faster than humans, faster, and smaller, making it very difficult to get out of the way, and only in this way can the samurai's skill in bowing and riding be revealed.

There were two samurai, intent on showing off their superb horsemanship, deliberately slowing down their horses, and when the fighting dog pounced, they made a kick to hide, easily dodged, and let the fighting dog roll to the ground.

Hugh watched the rider's performance is simple, if you accidentally fall off the horse, I am afraid that you will be bitten alive by the fierce fighting dog on the spot, and the bystanders have no time to rescue, but the onlookers, together with the soldiers, regardless of men, women and children, are dazzled and fascinated by this dangerous and difficult hunt.

The county officials on the high platform were not only not afraid, but smiled and pointed, commenting that the fighting dog was more ferocious.

It is not a samurai who can be selected to be selected and perform in public to chase dogs, and the samurai who is well versed in this way, looking at the vigorous galloping on the field, it seems that he wants to jump over the low wooden fence and come out of the fighting dog.

For this kind of hunting with abundant martial virtues, Gao Shisheng is not interested. On the contrary, I remembered that when the first generation of the Kamakura shogunate was in power, Hojo was in charge of the current affairs of the Tsukiwa Temple, and when he was old, he was addicted to dog fighting and field hunting, and he lost the decisive judgment that a samurai should have, and was finally forced to leave home and retire by his own children and lose the world.

However, the Ise Sakumo Hall of the Sagami Hou Hojo family was also good at dog chasing and field hunting, but in his later years, he was able to lead troops to attack Odawara Castle in the name of Tian Hunting, and thought it was the foundation, and began the three generations of the Hojo family and annexed the ambition of eight states in Kanto.

The law of cause and effect in the world is probably so wonderful. The art of Hojo's bow and horse after Sagami was passed down from Ise-ryu, and since the imperial court has a position of so-so, they are public samurai, and the two are models of etiquette, and they are the teachers of the world. Since the opening of the Shoji Temple, he has held a position as a samurai, and it is not Ise-ryu, that is, Ogasawara-ryu.

However, today, the descendants of the art of bowing horses can be called a model of samurai etiquette, but the Ogasawara clan is the first to be recommended, and the Ogasawara clan, which has a high heavenly god castle in Enshu, is a branch of the Shinshu clan.

Not only did Gao Shisheng once practice at the Ogasawara Ryudo Hall in Sunfu Castle, but Kamohara Shiqing and others, who participated in the dog chase, were not masters of Ogasawara Ryu.

The entourage of the Kamohara family on the side couldn't help but cheer for the athletes in their family at this moment, shouting and cheering on the side.

Kamohara Kiyoshi saw his companions getting horses, and he was not far behind. At the same time as turning the horse, he untied a piece of fresh meat and threw it at the fighting dog chasing him with his backhand, this action immediately attracted the fighting dog behind him to jump up and fight, and the roar did not stop for a while, and it seemed that the next moment, it was going to splash blood and flesh.

Kamohara Shiqing pulled out an arrow from the quiver on the side of the saddle, and the longbow in his hand held the full moon, and the eyes that were originally absent-minded suddenly stared, and the essence was shining, and he shouted, he controlled the horse with both legs, urging to accelerate, and his right hand saw the right time to release the bowstring, and a dysprosium arrow shot straight at the fighting dog that jumped in the air.

Kamohara Shiqing has a long body and a beautiful posture, and his figure is even more thin compared to the riders chasing the dogs on both sides, but his riding and archery skills are more amazing than his appearance, and the flowing dyspa shoots out of the air, accompanied by a long series of beeping sounds.

The first branch of dysprosium is like a streamer chasing a shadow, leaving the string. His right hand leaned down again, this time he pulled out three long arrows in a row to build a bow, and then shouted, after the three long arrows chased the front tributary dysprosium, in the air like lightning and thunder, the fighting dogs that jumped into the air did not have time to dodge, blood splashed, and they were shot on the spot almost in no particular order.

Without waiting for the sacrificial meat to land, he saw that Kamohara Shiqing had already urged the horse to come, and he stretched out his hand to probe, and returned the thing to its original owner.

When he was chasing by dogs, several fighting dogs followed closely, attracting the exclamations of women from time to time among the spectators outside the camp.

People are beautiful, ride fast, dogs roar, horses neigh. The smoke and dust were billowing and he successfully shot the fighting dog that was chasing him, and Kamohara Shiqing once again controlled the horse with both legs, holding a bow in one hand and holding the sacrificial meat retrieved from the mouth of the fighting dog in the other hand around the field, and there was thunderous cheers outside the field.

Until the end of the dog chase, everyone is still unsatisfied.

Asahina Shinji did not take the stage, and the 3,000 military service people reviewed, and there could be no one without coordination. Asahina Shin, as the eldest son of the county guard and the generation of the formation of the North Shin this time, should be in command for his father, standing under the stage with the military in hand, witnessing the grand occasion of the whole audience after the Kamohara clan Qing dog chasing things, and smiled at the Kambara's clan who returned to the stage, "This time out of the formation of the North Shin, you and the other eight can be the envoys." ”

Although the 'envoy is not a general', his status is very important, and he cannot serve as a non-brave horseman, and it is also a shortcut for each daimyo to match a samurai and quickly promote his official career.

Kamohara clan Qing has a slow personality, and it is the origin of the Imagawa clan, often giving people a sense of arrogance, in fact, he treats people very peacefully, he has no sense of self-restraint, and he doesn't care much about promotion and meritorious service, and he just smiled at the praise of the general of the North Shin in this time, and got off the horse, stood behind Asahina Shin, and sorted out his clothes by himself.

The queue, archery, and dog chase were all performed, and the review was almost over.

The stables who have been standing under the stage erect a high pole and hang a portrait on the pole, the portrait is a fierce ghost face, called the heavenly evil ghost, is the name of the ghost face in the belly of Bishamen, and the general people will disobey people's wishes for all kinds of things, also called the heavenly evil ghost.

He turned around with a knife against Bina, walked to Taichung, knelt down in front of the county guard, and said, "Your subordinates, please shoot a ghost statue to boost the morale of the three armies!" ”

Gao Shisheng was quite stunned, and he didn't know if this was a necessary rule for the review, or out of fear of the dragon of Echigo, but at this time, it seemed that Nagao Jinghu had not yet regarded himself as the incarnation of Bishamonten, and besides, the Imagawa family and the Nagao family were one in Tokaido and the other in Hokuriku, with the entire Kanto and Koshin countries separated by it.

Asahina Motocho said, "Yes." ”

With the permission of the county guard, the company retreated to the side of the stage, and the horses led by the horses to meet them, turned over and galloped into the horse, opened the bow and arrows, shot three shots and three hits, and the arrows were all worn by the statue.

Three shots, he turned around, one hand control the reins slowly and slowly, the other hand raised the longbow, facing the soldiers, impassionedly said, "Echigo Nagao Huan Wuhei clan remnants, fortunately waiting for the grace of the Imperial Palace, appointed as the deacon of the Kanto Governor Uesugi clan, do not want to be wholehearted and loyal, but support the army and self-pride, do such a retrograde, steal Echigo a country especially unrepentant, and now the riot army, abuse Shinshu, causing the people to leave the chaos, ten rooms and nine empty, the people are all indignant!" All the kings are loyal and brave warriors, and they should beg for the shogunate! Whoever kills the enemy and the lord of the thief country will be rewarded with a seal of ten thousand stones! The military order is as follows, the current Northern Expedition to Xinzhou Yue thief, beheaded Jinghu, worshiped the official from the five, and gave millions of money; beheaded the generals of the thief army, a blood-stained letter, and gave 20,000 yuan; Those who kill the head of the thief soldier and the samurai will be given 5,000 dollars, and all the captured soldiers will be divided equally with the volunteers! ”

Obviously, it was the Takeda Army that invaded Beixin, and Nagao Jinghu personally led a large army into Kawanaka Island to help the people in response to the Beixin Hao clan's request for help, but Asahina Shinji said this, but the Vietnamese army became a heinous thief.

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