Chapter 497: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell

Pei Min held the sword behind him, looking at the sturdy figure on the opposite side, holding a human leg with one hand, and smashing the connected widow's body back and forth to the ground.

He knew that the tiger idiot Xu Chu on the other side had the strength to rank high among all the generals of the Xia Kingdom, and when he didn't get here, he had the power to drag the ox with one hand.

Rumble!

Rumble! Rumble!

The muscles and flesh of the human body collided with the earth frantically, and the muffled sound of bones and flesh cracking made the eyelids of all the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion tremble, and the ground under their feet trembled one after another.

Seeing that people couldn't live, Pei Min stepped forward and arched his hand: "General Xu, people are dying." ”

Over there, Xu Chu stopped his hand, looked at the Japanese assassin lying in the mud pit, nodded his head, and said angrily: "Your Majesty didn't say that you want to live." ”

Sarufei Sasuke is already on the verge of collapse, and his bones are almost broken, he is a ninja, but it does not mean that he is steel and iron, and he can continue to withstand Xu Chu's beatings.

Seeing that the other party stopped, he thought that there was a glimmer of life, and he wanted to speak, but he didn't know what the other party said, so he dragged him up again, and fell heavily into the mud puddle smashed out on the other side.

This time it was face to the ground, his nose was crooked, and several teeth were crumbled and fell to the side.

"Rao...... Spare me......"

"I'm ...... I'm dying...... Smash ...... again I'm going to die......"

He muttered with difficulty, but what he said was a Japanese language, for Xu Chu, he couldn't understand it at all, he looked at Pei Min: "Old Pei, what did he say?" ”

"I don't know, according to the nature of the Japanese people, he may be scolding you."

"Fuck it!" Hearing this, Xu Chu became even more angry, pinched the opponent's ankle, lifted the opponent's whole person upside down, raised his foot and hit the opponent's abdomen, and flew back high like a sandbag.

"Ahhh

Rao is extremely seriously injured Sarutobi Sasuke, who was already in a state of confusion, couldn't help but let out a high-pitched and poignant scream at this moment.

He is a well-known ninja, and his name is not even inferior to Hattori Hanzo and Wind Demon Kotaro, and the tasks in his hands rarely fail.

Originally, the plan this time was also seamless, taking advantage of the victorious landing of the Xia army, after setting up the camp, quietly sneaking into the camp, using the emperor's close attendants to approach, and then poisoning, before the other party was poisoned, finally left the barracks, and threw the poisoned pot to the stunned close servants.

Everything was flawless!

And the plan was indeed carried out in an orderly manner, knocked out the emperor's attendants, changed into the other party's robes, and then used the good disguise technique to change into the appearance and figure of the other party, and smoothly entered the imperial tent, stood in front of the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, and even brought the soup with chronic poison to the other party's table.

But why is it like this......

The pain subsided slightly, and Sarutobi Sasuke opened his blood-soaked lips and said weakly, "I surrender...... I'll tell you everything about the Takeda Army...... I will secretly open the gates of Heiankyo for you......"

"I still have a bad mouth when I die!" Xu Chu pulled out the tiger head knife behind his back with his backhand, stepped on the chest of the Japanese assassin, and raised his hand.

"It's the same as Xu You's guy, begging for death!!"

Under the arm, the tiger-headed knife fell instantly under Sarutobi's eyes, and he squeezed out with difficulty: "I surrendered, why do I still kill ......"

The latter words came to an abrupt end, and the heavy blade split the flesh and neck bone, and the head bounced out directly at the same time as the blood arrow struck, and it fell to the ground and rolled.

A soldier of the Tiger Guard battalion came over, picked up the head, and handed it to his general.

Xu Chu lifted the head, kicked the headless corpse on the ground, and then said hello to Pei Min, then turned around with a knife in one hand and a head in the other, and returned to the imperial tent.

Pei Min smiled and put the ancient sword back into the sheath, raised his hand and waved it, and ordered the subordinates who came behind him: "Take the body of this Japanese assassin out and dig a pit in the forest and bury it." ”

With that, he grasped the scabbard of his sword, shook the reins lightly, and turned to the vicinity, where he continued to patrol and inspect the corners of the camp to see if there were any Assassin remnants lurking.

At this time, in the imperial tent, Su Chen looked at Wu Zixun, who was carried in by the Tang soldiers, who was only wearing obscene clothes and pants, lying on a stretcher, still unconscious.

After hearing the news, the military doctor who came to see Su Chen saluted, squatted down and carefully examined Wu Zixun's whole body, felt his pulse for a while, put his hands on his neck for a while, closed his eyes and stroked his beard and groaned.

Su Chen sat back behind the long case and held his breath, Jia Xu didn't speak, closed his eyes and waited for Lang Zhong's explanation, Dian Wei carried the double halberd on his back, stood beside Lang Zhong, and saw that the other party shook his head and sighed, and couldn't help but speak.

"What the hell is going on, you mean?"

In fact, he asked this sentence for Su Chen, after all, the emperor can't say words that express emotions at will.

"General Dian's anger is gone!"

The military doctor withdrew his hand, did not dare to slack off, and arched his hand towards the Son of Heaven with a serious expression behind the long case: "Your Majesty, Wu Changshi's life is worry-free, but his neck bone was frustrated, and he was pressed on the acupuncture point, which caused him to faint, and the reason why he did not wake up may be related to the assassin's methods." ”

Hearing the frustration of his neck bone, Su Chen's face sank.

"Is there a way to make him fully recover?"

"This ...... The old man can't guarantee it, so he can only do his best! The medic replied tremblingly.

"I know, what you need, just mention it, as long as you can cure Wu Changshi, I will be satisfied!"

Su Chen looked at the fainting figure, and when the soldiers took Wu Zixun and Lang Zhong out, he smashed his fist on the desk.

"From the beginning to the end, these Japanese people knew that they would send ninjas to assassinate me, and the general who assassinated me was just that, and now they are directly assassinating me, and they are also using the people closest to me!"

At this time, there were no outsiders in the tent, Su Chen vented the anger in his heart, outside, Xu Chu walked in with a human head, and before he could ask how to deal with it, Su Chen waved at him: "Throw it out of the barracks, throw it outside to feed the beasts!" ”

"Oh!" As soon as Xu Chu came in, he turned his head depressedly and went out with his head.

Here, Su Chen's words did not pause, and he turned to look at Jia Xu, who was opening his eyes, "Taiwei, immediately find Wen Hou and General Zhao, and send fast horses back to Heianjing, contact the two generals Guan and Zhang as soon as possible, and outflank Takeda Shinxuan before and after!" ”

Soon, while several fast horses were galloping out of the camp, another fast horse carrying the scouts bypassed the possible retreat route of Takeda Shingen's main force, and galloped towards Heiankyo further east.

……

To the east, the army of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had entered the Heiankyo territory, and a man named Oda Nobunaga had been fighting for two days.

On the left side of the river called Kobagawa, fierce battles unfolded.

The sun rose from the morning to the twilight, and the blood spread throughout the Xiaoye River, the corpses were scattered, and the waves of water by the river brought up red foam.

Noisy voices surrounded the surroundings, listening to the hysterical fighting cries in the distance, Guan Yu was wearing a green robe, riding on a red rabbit horse, holding the green dragon glaive knife in his hand, a pair of phoenix eyes looked at the battlefield by the river in the distance, and after listening to the situation reported by the scouts, he issued a few orders from time to time, asking the scouts to go to the interrogation, adjust the structure of the battlefield, and deal with the 20,000 Japanese troops who rushed from the opposite side, as well as another group of Japanese soldiers who rushed out from Heianjing.

Flaming arrows kept streaking across the sky.

The corpses of elite ashigaru in wooden armor continued to stretch out in front of the roaring cavalry on the way to charge.

An elite ashigaru holding a spear, covering the arrow stuck in his chest from the wound, staggered to a pool of blood, and behind him, more elite ashigaru also rushed over, iron spears longer than ordinary spears, forming a spear array to meet the roaring Xia cavalry.

These elite ashigaru numbered about 5,000 people, and unlike ordinary ashigaru, they were professionally trained elite samurai, dressed in the finest medium-sized armor, and their spears were five feet longer than ordinary spears, and they were simply invulnerable in their holds.

It is especially effective in stopping enemy cavalry from charging into battle.

The footsteps shook the ground, and on the left side of the Xiaoye River bank, a two-hundred-person tiger infantry battalion mobilized stopped this elite ashigaru, and immediately formed many intertwined fronts with other fighting groups on both sides of the river.

The Tiger Cavalry and the Tiger Infantry Battalion are both battle-hardened forces, unilaterally beating these two Japanese armies, but at the moment there are few people after all, all of them add up to only 4,000 people, plus the losses on the way, only 3,700 can continue to fight.

The rocket ignited the nearby woods, whistling in the wind, and the tiger riders and tiger steps that were drawn were like long dragons, constantly interspersed with the battlefield for more than ten miles, giving people the feeling of being a battlefield with more than 100,000 people.

"The person in command on the other side has a very good set!"

Guan Yu rode on the red rabbit horse and whispered to the third brother Zhang Fei next to him.

He didn't expect that he would come all the way over, thinking that the Japanese were at such a level, especially after killing a Japanese general and killing the other party, he couldn't help but look down on the Japanese people even more.

However, after that, the main force of the Japanese army that came with reinforcements came, Guan Yu had nothing to say, and directly sent troops to meet him, but in the two days of fighting, he didn't expect to be evenly matched with the other party.

In this big battle, after all, their own troops were small, and there was no backup, and the grain could only hold out for two more days, which was still the result of looting the Japanese army that had been defeated before.

From this morning, the second battle began, Guan Yu naturally also attached importance to the Japanese generals on the opposite side, and took out all the skills that had been in Jingzhou, the only regret was that there were very few generals and troops available in his hands.

After the battle line was spread out on the side of this river, the front line once stretched for several miles, killing from morning to dusk.

There were also Japanese troops from the east and entered the battlefield.

In the midst of tossing and turning, Guan Yu almost mobilized his command skills to the peak, constantly replacing the battle group on the front line back and forth with the prepared reserve battalion.

"Second brother, let me go, give me fifty horses, I will bypass the battlefield, go around to the back of the Japanese robbers, and attack directly!"

Zhang Fei has not been on the battlefield since yesterday, and his heart is itching to get hairy, every time he sees a wounded soldier or a tired soldier being removed to rest and recuperate, he has to run to the second brother to make a noise.

"This general is very shrewd, he didn't play any commander's banner to indicate the location of the Chinese army!"

Guan Yu noticed this situation after the battle started in the morning for a period of time, and also sent scouts to investigate, but after all, he did not find the clear banner of the general.

"The other party is on guard against you and me."

"Whatever, anyway, his Chinese army must be behind the battlefield, what if I am lucky?" Zhang Fei chattered beside the second brother, and even moved Liu Bei out, if you don't let me go, I will go to the eldest brother to complain Yunyun.

"You really want to go, that's ...... brother"

At this moment, a fast horse came from the west side, and there was a herald here, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei turned around their horses and turned back, and saw that the person who came with a happy face, hurriedly dismounted and galloped over, took out the letter in his arms, and presented it with both hands.

"The two generals Guan and Zhang, the little ones can be regarded as finding you, this is a letter sent by His Majesty, with His Majesty's seal on it."

"Oh?"

Guan Yu took the letter handed over by Zhang Fei, tore open the seal, unfolded the letter inside, and quickly swept his eyes over it, showing a little joy on his face.

"Your Majesty's main force has finally arrived. You go back first and tell Your Majesty that Guan will act in accordance with the plan on the letter! ”

After sending the scout away, Zhang Fei urged the horse to come to Guan Yu's side: "Second brother, what does the letter say?" ”

"Lu Bu and Zilong led the cavalry to pursue the main force of the Takeda Army, and Your Majesty asked us to flank the front and rear."

Zhang Fei touched the thick tiger whiskers on his chin and frowned: "The idea is good, but the timing is not right, we are still fighting with another group of Japanese people." ”

Guan Yu groaned and stroked his beard, looking at the battlefield with deep eyes, the cavalry of the Tiger Cavalry Battalion under his command, galloping and killing like tens of millions of wild dragons, with the Tiger Infantry Battalion cooperating with each other, constantly approaching the opponent's battle formation, and cutting the assembled elite Ashigaru.

In the fierce battle for several hours, the attack of the Japanese people on the opposite side also became unrestrained, and at one time they also sent a small number of cavalry, these cavalry were dressed ordinarily, but they seemed to be carrying a big burden behind them, which was extremely strange.

"Collect the troops!"

Without waiting for the tiger cavalry battalion under his command to fight with the strange cavalry of the other party, Guan Yu suddenly issued an order - Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

In the face of Guan Yu, who was in charge of the war, he also showed full ability, originally wanting to take advantage of the roundabout raid of the mother's clothes to give the other party a certain kill, creating the illusion that the opponent's middle formation was broken through, so as to stimulate the elite light feet under his command and hit the morale of Xia Guo's soldiers.

Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly withdrew his troops, Oda Nobunaga stood somewhere in the mountains and forests, looking at the soldiers of Xia Guo who were slowly leaving the battle in an orderly manner on the battlefield, and he felt the accumulated fierce punch hit the air.

"The other party suddenly withdrew troops, is it creating a false impression?"

Oda Nobunaga raised his gray head, and in his thoughts, he specially sent several envoys to inquire about the movements of the Xia army, and waited until it was about to get dark, and the envoys sent rushed back.

"You said that the Xia army secretly mobilized troops and horses? And wrapped the horse's hooves in a cloth towel? ”

Receiving the affirmation of the envoy, Oda Nobun Odama Jindao sat on the folding stool and laughed, "This is to take advantage of the night to raid our army's main formation, such a trick is too familiar!" ”

In the midst of laughter, he stood up suddenly, and Shibata Katsuie, Takigawa Kazuki, Niwa Nagahide, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Ninjas such as Moran Maru and Mori Rimaru who were kneeling on both sides of him followed suit.

"They're attacking at night, and we're going to make a siege here! Annihilated the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom, and killed Guan Yu of the mighty Huaxia in the first battle! ”

"Hello!"

The big tent was shaken.

……

It was dark.

The military camp of the Xia State in the southeast moved quietly, and the scouts who opened the road ran out as much as possible with the slight sound of horses' hooves.

In the quiet camp of the Xia Kingdom, the soldiers wore armor and put cloth towels filled with grass clippings on their feet, the Hubu battalion marched out of the camp in an orderly manner, and the cavalry led the war horses into the darkness and silent formation.

In the dark color, Guan Yu waved the green dragon sword, and the cavalry in the array neatly turned onto their horses, their eyes looking closely in the direction of the general.

Guan Yu sat on the red rabbit horse, waiting for the third brother Zhang Fei to come over with the foot soldiers, and he rubbed the red rabbit's mane: "Yide, you say, will the Japanese people be tricked?" ”

"Who knows." Zhang Fei grinned and laughed.

Soon, the horse's hoof, wrapped in horses, walked slowly on the dark field, like the undulating tide of the sea.

The soldiers of the Hubu battalion also wrapped their shoes and carried weapons, and followed the horse team in silence.

……

The night grew darker, and time passed as the night turned dark.

Around the dead and silent Oda army camp, a group of lurking Japanese soldiers, crouching or crouching in the grass and woods, suffering from mosquito bites, did not dare to take their eyes off, staring directly at the field leading to the south.

Until the light of day finally had a glimmer of light.

In the distant field, there was not a single Xia soldier at all, and Oda Nobunaga, who had been waiting all night, frowned.

Think deeply about whether it is possible that you are too sensitive and have made a wrong judgment.

However, the next moment, an envoy who inquired about the news rushed back from the south with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"Oda-sama...... The Xia army left overnight, and they only left an empty camp! ”

Oda Nobunaga's face changed, and he rushed towards the envoy, and in his excitement, he kicked the folding stool under his feet to the ground.

"Where did they go?"

"From the hoof prints left behind...... They probably went to the west! ”

Go to the west and leave overnight...... Thinking of this, Oda Nobunaga suddenly thought of a possibility.

Takeda Army?

Not good!

Takeda Shingen is dangerous!

The other party suddenly made a move to break out of the shell of the golden cicada and put him together, the purpose is obviously not so simple, the only thing Oda Nobunaga can think of is Guan Yu of the Xia Kingdom, join forces with the Xia State army in the west, flank the front and back, and eat Takeda Shingen first, so that there is only one army left on Yunguo Island.

"Send troops immediately and march west!"

"Oda-sama, our soldiers have been on guard all night, and they haven't rested......"

"The Takeda Army can't afford to lose, send troops immediately!"

Oda Nobunaga was furious and roared at the nearest minister: "A living Takeda Shingen is more important than tens of thousands of soldiers!" ”

"Yes!"

The generals in the tent have no choice, and at this juncture, it is difficult to choose whether to catch up or stay and rest.

"Takeda-kun, you must hold on!"

Oda Nobunaga gritted his teeth and smashed his fist into the palm of his hand.

Meanwhile.

In different directions, two elite Xia cavalry caught up with the main force of the retreating Takeda Army at this dawn, and the tiger cavalry battalion from east to west was on the way with stars and moons, and it was not far from here.

The plains that run from east to west here are slightly uplifted hills.

At this time, the sky was slowly brightening, and the Takeda Army stationed here was preparing to pull out the camp and continue to move forward.

(End of chapter)

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