Chapter 308: The Golden Spear Samurai
"Kill! Make the way for those behind you!"
Yuan Tiangang raised the long hammer and shouted while struggling forward.
A Japanese soldier rushed forward with a scream, and the spear he stabbed out was blocked by Yuan Tiangang's own soldiers with shields, and Yuan Tiangang smashed his hammer on the shoulder.
Hearing only a "click", half of the Japanese soldier's light body immediately collapsed. The shoulder was immediately smashed, and one arm was smashed by the hammer and flew out of the body. The soldier fell to the ground with a cry of "ah" in pain, rolling back and forth, but he couldn't die for a while. Yuan Tiangang's personal soldiers stepped forward and cut off the head of the Japanese soldier with a single sword.
"Behead one level!"
The soldier shouted loudly, and the soldiers behind him cheered in unison.
A spear in Li Sujie's hand made it like a poisonous dragon, stabbing, cutting, sweeping, smashing, cutting, teasing, and killing the enemy. The spear was danced in the wind, and each blow must kill a person.
The Tang army's infantry used three people as arrows, and the Tang army's soldiers rushed forward to kill, crushing the Japanese army all the way, and in just a few minutes, they rushed forward a distance of dozens of steps.
At this time, there were at least 30,000 Japanese troops on the south bank of the river, but Li Sujie, Meng Song and Yuan Tiangang, the first dead soldiers and the fallen warriors rushed all the way without fear.
At this time, Maeda Licheng, the general of the Japanese army, was already standing on the land on the south bank of the water, seeing that the Tang army was so fierce, and the Japanese army was defeated and retreated, and what was even more outrageous was that tens of thousands of troops could not stop the Tang army, which was only more than 10,000, and his face couldn't help but become extremely ugly.
The soldiers of the Japanese army under his command were indeed soldiers of the Tang army, and because of this, he did not underestimate the enemy from the beginning. But he didn't expect that the Tang soldiers would be so brave that they were almost irresistible.
Maeda Tasei ordered loudly, "Pass the order! Let the Maeda golden-armed samurai go up, and the Tang army must be pushed back to the old man!"
The golden-bodied spear samurai in Maeda's mouth is the foundation of the Maeda family, with a total of 2,000 people, and their armor is very thick and strong, with high defensive power, and they are very good at fighting cavalry, but they are also heavy and move slowly.
With the continuous advance of the Tang army, the Japanese army that had already crossed the water was pushed into the water, and many people of the Japanese army who were standing on the shore were squeezed into the water.
Jing Saiyi continued to peel off the onion with the bow in his hand, peeling off the Japanese soldiers layer by layer. The wolf cavalry of Bingzhou constantly attacked the gap opened in the Japanese army's formation, trying to expand the gap so that the foot soldiers behind him could rush in and fight.
The warriors in the battle used their sophisticated equipment and strong physique to suppress the rebellious Japanese army.
There was an unexpected situation on the side of the first deceased, a spear warrior who appeared out of nowhere, they were armed with ten-character guns, wearing heavy armor, and nailed to the front of the Japanese army formation with heavy steps.
One of the first dead soldiers held a spear and stabbed the Japanese spear warrior in front of him, but failed to pierce the opponent's armor. The sharp blade of the spear simply stabbed a spark into the enemy's armor.
In the stunned eyes of the first dead man, the distinctive cross blade of the Ten Word Gun stabbed into his chest. The Maeda Golden Spear Samurai's Toji spear was also much better than Ashigaru's, and its solid and sharp blade easily pierced the sleeve armor of the Senden Dead.
Wang Rong quickly noticed the abnormality on the side of the first deceased, and soon a scout rushed to him from the front, turned over and fell off his horse, and at the same time reported loudly: "Commander, the Japanese army has dispatched an elite army, they are wearing heavy armor, and the first deceased soldiers cannot break through their defenses."
Wang Rong now has only more than 300 personal soldiers of the personal guard battalion in his hands, and there are no more reserves. He thought for a while, and then ordered, "Let the first brigade and the trapped brigade retreat, make it look like a defeated retreat, and let the righteous and wolf riders retreat to a place three miles away from the enemy."
Although the scout did not understand Wang Rong's order, he still took the order to leave.
Wang Wei looked at Zhang Genghuang and asked, "Have all the bed crossbows been moved?"
Zhang Gengxiao nodded and said, "It took a lot of effort to transport the bed crossbow and catapult across the river."
Wang Rong's eyes burned and said, "Since they were finally carried over, we can't let them be idle. Now that the catapult has wielded its might, it's time for the bed crossbow to wield it."
Wang Rong's order was carried out to the letter, and the sound of gold sounded everywhere in the Tang army. The soldiers of the Pioneer Brigade and the Trap Brigade did not drag the mud and water at all, and when they heard the sound of gold, they abandoned the enemy in front of them and covered each other's retreat.
The wolf rider even gave up the charge, and drove the exhausted war horse to a high slope three miles away from the Japanese army.
Chu Luxu took Jing Saiyi from quickly changing from a circular cavalry firing formation to a three-column long snake formation, and quickly left the battlefield.
When Maeda saw that the Tang army had retreated, his confidence immediately increased greatly, as long as more Japanese soldiers crossed the river, then they would be able to defeat the Tang army on the south bank of the river.
The Japanese army began to use the warriors with golden spears as the sharp edge of the cone-shaped formation, and rushed towards the Tang army with no relent.
On either side of them at all times, they maintain two light legs, protecting their flanks, and if someone falls, the person behind them will immediately come up. Therefore, the warriors of the golden spear do not need to be distracted at all, they just need to blindly rush forward and kill.
The duty of the two wings of the Japanese army is to protect the samurai with golden spears, as long as the samurai with golden spears are safe, the military formation of the Japanese army will be stable! In the same way, once the samurai with golden spears were eliminated, the Japanese army would completely collapse, and these ashigaru soldiers would not escape death.
As more and more Japanese soldiers crossed the river, the cone formation behind the samurai with golden spears gradually formed a scale. Just when the Tang army blocking the river bank was killed and "retreated", suddenly the Tang army's order flag on the high slope kept waving. The Tang soldiers, who were still fleeing for their lives, paused in an instant, and then turned back in unison, and at the same time, the array shield in their hands was lowered and the spears in their hands were erected.
Immediately after that, the pursuing Japanese soldiers heard "Woo! Throat! Whoa!" Immediately afterward, a row of short spears flying in the air appeared in their field of vision.
The first to bear the brunt was the golden-bodied spear warriors who rushed to the front, and the armor on their bodies was indeed strong, but it was still not enough to see in front of the bed crossbow short spear blessed with power acceleration.
I saw that the golden-armed spear warriors in the front row couldn't even dodge, and they were pierced by the short spear, leaving a fist-sized bloody hole in their chest.
This scene was unexpected by Maeda Licheng, only to see rows of short spears forming a dark cloud, constantly shooting into the military formation of the samurai with golden spears, bringing up pieces of flying stumps and broken arms.
The ashigaru formations on both flanks were also hit, but by trebuchets, thousands of pieces of rubble smashed into the crowd like shotshots from guns in the firearms age.