Chapter 18: Two Defeats in the Battle of the Long Bridge (Part II)
But where to fight, often thirty or thirty rounds of catch and kill, it is basically impossible, just imagine, whether it is attacking the camp, or when rushing into battle, there are enemies in front and back, how can there be kung fu to let both sides show off their martial arts, the so-called two samurai fight for a long time, regardless of the victory or defeat, will only appear in the pipa artist's playing.
Even if it is a horse fight, the judgment of life and death is often between one move, and the two people who carry out the 'one horse fight' are really murderous samurai, and they can be selected to serve as envoys in the car hanging, which fully proves that this Echigo warrior is not bad, and he also proved this with his own gunfight skills.
It stands to reason that the chasuke samurai is wearing big armor and is well guarded, which is enough to attack first, fight hard with the opponent, and exchange injuries for the opportunity to kill the enemy, but I don't know why his instinct honed by life and death tells him that every move in the eyes of the other party is full of flaws, and it seems that as long as he dares to move, blood will be splattered on the spot immediately.
changed a few positions to launch an attack, and based on the subtle movements of Aoki Daizen that were difficult for ordinary people to detect, he came to the conclusion that whether he was stabbing or sweeping, moving from the front or behind, the ending of his death had never changed.
At this moment, in the eyes of this chariot samurai, the ronin in front of him, who used his left-handed sword to launch a 'one-horse fight' against him, seemed to have turned into an invincible Yaksha demon.
The noisy shouts, the noisy shouts made people feel more and more stressed, and on the forehead under the monk's scarf, beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping, and the three-way drum sounded, and the samurai knew that he couldn't hesitate! He happened to turn to the right rear of Aoki Daizen, and covered up his footsteps with the sound of drums, ignoring the fear in his heart, waved his short sword with both hands, and suddenly attacked, and stabbed Aoki Daizen in the back with murderous energy.
This timing is just right, normally the best time to launch an attack, when it is to go around the back of the enemy, but this is easy to arouse the vigilance of the opponent, and launch an assassination on the side, which not only blocks most of the opponent's vision, but also achieves the effect of surprise and unpreparedness, plus Aoki Daizen uses a left-handed knife, and if you want to swing the knife to block, you need to reverse your posture, and it is easy to be hindered by your own habits.
The soldiers of the Imagawa army were worried about him, and everyone was worried, and they felt a flower in front of them.
Hearing a crisp sound, and then looking closely, the car hanging warrior had already taken off his hand, a knife in his neck, and the blood splattered out of the sky rose to the sky, dyeing his vision red in the whirlwind of the sky, and then saw his headless corpse, plopped, and fell to the ground.
As a samurai, he had long expected that he would be killed on the spot, but he never thought that it would be today, and he had not even recited the poem of his death that he had been meditating for many years.
With a grudge that the world cannot achieve, then everything is like falling from slow water into the turbulence, washed away from its original color, from red to gray, and finally from gray to eternal darkness.
The miscellaneous soldiers of the two armies who were watching were dumbfounded, and several samurai who thought they were good at war looked at each other even more, not seeing clearly how the two sides were fighting, as if the contest had not yet begun, and it ended with one person being begged for the head, which was completely different from the expected exchange of swords and guns between the two people.
Aoki Dashan calmly put the sword into the sheath, and when everyone was shocked, he retreated and disappeared into the formation, disdainful of letting people sing in public about his martial name to win the enemy general, and it can only be said that this samurai who was born in the car hanging banner did not enter the eyes of this Kashima swordsman.
Gao Shisheng stood on a high place, barely able to see the general movements of the two clearly, although the Echigo samurai chose the right time, but after all, there are too many inferior Aoki Daizen, thinking that with the help of the drum to cover the pace, Aoki Daizen stood still, at the moment of his move, when he could not be sent, he first sideways to avoid the spear, and then stepped on the opponent's ankle, and then stepped forward, the car suspension samurai's footsteps were unbalanced, and the whole person pounced forward, facing the sword into his arms, it can be said that he took the initiative to die, and offered his head.
The crisp sound he heard was the sound of his ankle being broken, and Aoki Daizen looked relaxed, but when he thought about it, it was not as simple as being superb in swordsmanship, and it was indispensable for all aspects such as courage, judgment, agility, and strength.
After a short period of astonishment, the Imagawa army was the first to wake up, and when they saw that the almost unstoppable Samurai of the Echigo Army was killed on the spot, they couldn't help but be demoralized, and under the leadership of Hasegawa Hayato, Ono Tadaaki, and other group leaders and soldiers, they kept shouting the name of 'Red Oni' and launched a counterattack against the Echigo army in an uproar.
It didn't take much effort to drive all the panicked Echigo soldiers out of the camp, and if it weren't for the horseback warriors who had been roaming around the periphery, they hurriedly stepped forward to cover the retreat, maybe this group of miscellaneous soldiers of the Imagawa army, with this blood and courage alone, would have been able to break through the enemy formation, kill the wooden bridge, and go straight to the main formation of the Echigo army.
Rao was still in this way, but there was still a bold banner to rush to the vicinity of the enemy mounted samurai, and threw his spear and banner together like Aoki Daizen, and the samurai on horseback hurriedly leaned down to dodge, and then followed the defeated deserters, rushed through the ranks of foot soldiers in the rear, and left the battlefield in a hurry.
The Echigo Army, which was pressed by the whole army, was limited by the width of the entrance to the barracks, and the actual real engagement was still the first few groups of ashigaru to rush to the front, and the casualties were not large, but the rout was like a mountain torrent, and once it began, it was difficult to stop, and it was a long way to retreat after a series of defeats.
Annoyed and angry, the Echigo army soldier Cao ordered all the soldiers to flee to regroup in formation, and prepared to be led by the remaining samurai, cross the river again, and attack the rudimentary camp on the opposite bank.
Don't look at the fighting and screaming on both sides, looking fierce, in fact, on the side of the Imagawa army, except for the two samurai who were beaten to death, only less than 20 miscellaneous soldiers were killed and wounded, most of them were because they were afraid of the enemy, threw down their weapons, and retreated privately, only to be seized by the opponent and killed on the spot, and most of the rest who mustered up the courage to fight were unharmed.
In terms of proportion, it is close to one-tenth of the casualties, but in terms of quantity, it may not be as many as Gao Shisheng's military discipline along the way, but the Hida mountain people who exposed their backs to the enemy in the rout were killed, and almost the entire army was wiped out.
Under the command of Gao Shisheng's military order, the miscellaneous soldiers of the Imagawa army hurriedly returned to the camp to continue to hold on, and the corpses of the dead all over the ground, regardless of whether they were enemies or friends, were all stripped off their armor and converged aside, due to the cold weather, they simply did not wash the blood on it with water, and directly handed it over to those in the last row of the queue, who lacked armor and only took bamboo guns to fill the number.
After this battle, the momentum of the entire team was suddenly reborn, and the implementation of military orders no longer dared to be cheating and cheating, after all, in a joint battle, disrespecting military orders would really kill people.
"Fight again!"
In the afternoon of the same day, after the two sides had a full meal, the Echigo army regained its strength and came to fight again, this time Gao Shisheng no longer dared to talk about the troops on paper, with what weak soldiers to attack the strong, foot light to attack the weak, the flag to win this unrealistic strategy, directly sent the flag team to press the formation, and the miscellaneous soldiers followed the rear to wave the flag and shout.
After two hours of fierce fighting, the Echigo army was horrified to find that they could not break through the miscellaneous army in front of them, which had almost no decent armor soldiers, and the group of Sanhe refugees recruited by Gao Shisheng by coercive means would choose to abandon their homes and flee because they were destitute, and of course they had no money to afford the armor and spears needed for military service.
And even if Gao Shisheng empties his money bag, he can't arm them all at present, but as long as they are lined up in a dense formation, learn to set up the sickle on the long pole and the wooden fence, and hide behind the flag Ashigaru. Under the cover of the archers' iron cannons, it was even difficult for the Echigo army's infantry to move an inch.
At this time, the enemy general of the Echigo Army who commanded the team recalled that the 300 or so people he had recruited, except for dozens of people who were selected from the military service and had some combat experience, most of the others were also miscellaneous soldiers, who were recruited from the villages by all means by various wealthy families in Kita-Shinano, and went to the battlefield.
The only way to do it was to stab each other with non-lethal spears across the wooden fence and the long skull, and then wait for the sun to set early and the dinner that can only be eaten in wartime.
In this kind of situation, not to mention the general of the Echigo Army, even Gao Shimori, who was holding a saber and supervising the battle loudly under the banner of the formation, was like a world away, as if he was a Yashimaji Taizaburo raccoon, who was taking his own bald Lang party and Sado's Danzaburo raccoon under him, performing the Noh play of the 'Genhei Battle' in the Snow Garden, except that he would not use illusion to transform into Gen Yoshitsune. Perform a flying bow and shoot eight boats.
The miscellaneous soldiers of the Imagawa army are all holding sickles, leaning close to each other, and the same is true for each other, you come and go, jumping and jumping first, swords and soldiers are everywhere, shouting and killing are endless, which makes people look lively and joyful.
This gang of miscellaneous soldiers is worthy of being a cunning and sophisticated Diao people, and if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that both sides are pretending, sickle spears and spears poke each other in the air, and they refuse to move forward half a step, and those who fall in the back row simply beat the swords themselves, anyway, let the samurai masters listen to it and it will be over, and they can't really fight hard.
The flags on both sides have the intention to fight, but the miscellaneous soldiers can only follow the crowd if they don't sell their lives.
The military commanders on both sides put down the conch and the drum, went to find a place where there was no one, rested, and worked all morning, although they did not go directly to the battlefield to fight together, but they contributed a lot, and there were a few drummers who worked too hard, and their arms were sprained.
As for the archers and iron guns, they stopped early, and shouted together at the end of the field, where were they willing to waste important arrows, gunpowder and lead bullets, which were all important materials bought with real money, and in these years, the life of a miscellaneous soldier did not know if there was an iron cannon worth it.
In the end, Gao Shisheng, who didn't have much experience, couldn't help it, threw down the saber in his hand, and sat back on the Hu bed in frustration, while the soldiers of the Echigo army also dismounted and found a sheltered place to stay, looking commonplace, with his chin slightly raised, as if to say that he was rare and strange.
Seeing that the enemy generals were too lazy to move, Gao Shisheng was stunned, and could only accompany the other party to watch this farce that made people laugh.
In addition to the 21 casualties in the morning, there was not even a single wounded miscellaneous soldier who fought in the afternoon, but closed his eyes and beat blindly, damaging a lot of sickles and knives.
In the troubled times of the Warring States Period, bloody battles seem to exist only in the battle for the survival of the family name, or between the standing flags, Gao Shisheng, who sat in the camp tent to keep warm, secretly felt worthless for the samurai who died in battle on both sides, like a joke, why did he fight so desperately.
He has never liked to drink, and he can't help but have the idea of wanting to get drunk, but fortunately, after years of hard work, he has developed the habit of perseverance and self-discipline.
Approaching the twilight, the enemy and our armies are burying pots and cooking, although there are fierce battles during the day, but there are still many soldiers who run to the river to fish with spears, ready to boil soup at night, after seeing each other, the head of the jaw signaled to say hello, took the fishing net thrown by the spear on the opposite side, and after thanking him, they went to work.
Standing on the low slope, Gao Shisheng who saw this scene felt even more depressed, but he did not stop this embarrassing behavior, no matter how disdainful he was for the embarrassing performance of the miscellaneous soldiers under him, but he still had to rely on them to save his life, and when patrolling the camp and deploying defense, he talked with the miscellaneous soldiers on the way to get closer.
For Hasegawa Hayato, who is attached to him, he doesn't have to be polite, just patted each other's shoulders familiarly, and told himself that he saw their loyalty today.
For the miscellaneous soldiers who obeyed the military order and did not retreat, they were praised in public, especially the banner holder who rushed to the front and scared off the enemy's horseback warriors, and praised them a lot, and directly asked people to take a small gold judgment and the rib difference they used, and rewarded them together to encourage them to make persistent efforts; As for the cowards who collapsed on the verge of the enemy, most of them died directly on the spot, either by the enemy or by the samurai who supervised the formation, but saved the trouble of cleaning up military discipline.
The moans and screams of the wounded were too demoralizing, and after the morning battle, they were placed in solitary confines in a separate tent with a bonfire, where they were wiped with hot salt water and bandaged, but except for a few who were lightly wounded, the rest of the seriously wounded did not survive the night.
It's just a common thing, and it doesn't affect morale too much.
Early the next morning, an enemy samurai with a white flag of Genji stepped through the bitter snow and leaped forward on horseback, and the guarded miscellaneous soldiers immediately raised their sickles without waiting for the order of the leader.
The Echigo samurai wandered around his horse three arrows away from the camp, shouting, "In Shimoechigo Province Shoda Senbei Shigetaka, I ask to join the Imperial General!" ”
shouted three times in a row, the camp gate slowly opened, Shao Tian Chong galloped into the camp and turned over and dismounted, today is responsible for guarding the camp gate is Ono Tadaaki, seeing that the other party is alone, let two miscellaneous soldiers lead him to the big tent.
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