Seeing that the Japanese in Gu Yuncheng were killed, and the total number of people in the north and south gates was only more than 100, they had already killed the soldiers under the command of Chen and Zhu, and Xie Yi on the west hill was shocked. You must know that the entire "Pingyu Coalition Army" has gone all the way here, and there have been more than 30 battles along the way, although most of them are fake Japanese by the Han people, but there are also some real Dongying people, and they have also fought head-on with Xie Yixiang.

In Xie Yixiang's opinion, the swords used by these Dongying people are like knives and not knives, and swords are not swords, although the moves are tricky and ruthless, which are very different from the martial arts of the Central Plains, but they are not too difficult to deal with. The few "masters" encountered can only be regarded as third- and fourth-rate characters in the Central Plains martial arts at best, and the real headache among them is actually the sword in their hands.

General Sun had discussed this with her in detail, saying that these samurai or ronin from Dongying were extremely devout to their martial arts, and followed the principle of "if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapon", especially the extraordinary respect for their own blades, which is also the swords they wear. Every Dongying warrior, no matter what status he is, the sword he uses must be the best of the best tempered by thousands of hammers, and he must use a special whetstone and top essential oil to maintain it on weekdays, and even nourish his spirit with human blood, which is far better than the love of the Central Plains martial arts people for the blade.

And when Xie Yixiang had fought with a few Dongying masters before, he had already learned the power of their Japanese swords, even if the treasure knife given by the master "Sword King" was messy, in front of the other party's Japanese sword, it couldn't take much advantage. In contrast, the swords, spears, waist knives, and shields used by officers and men in the army, including the armor they wear, are all ordinary products, and because the materials in the army are often deducted, they encounter the situation of cutting corners, so that all kinds of armaments are almost reduced to inferior products, and they are even more unbearable, and they are completely unable to resist the Japanese knives used by the Dongying Japanese Invaders; under a single blow, they are often destroyed on the spot.

So now, the Japanese in Gu Yun City first used gold and silver as a lure to disrupt the formation of the thousand men and horses under the command of Chen and Zhu's two deputy generals, and then opened the city gate and sent more than 100 Japanese robbers armed with Japanese knives to rush into the crowd and slaughter. This is like a group of martial arts masters entering the military formation together, but in an instant, the 1,000 men and horses on the court side have been crushed and completely reduced to fish on the chopping board.

However, for a moment, all the sergeants in front of the north and south gates were afraid for a lifetime, and without waiting for the orders of the two lieutenant generals Chen and Zhu, the remaining sergeants began to disperse on their own, and fled back to the west one after another, leaving only a piece of corpse in front of the north and south gates of Gu Yuncheng. As for the large amount of gold and silver that had been left on the city wall by the Japanese invaders, it was naturally left in the corpse pile, and I am afraid that from the beginning to the end, the sergeants who were not robbed took a few ingots.

With the retreat of the imperial court men and horses who attacked the north and south gates to the west, the bloody battle in front of the west gate of Gu Yuncheng was also coming to an end at this time. The more than 200 recruits who lured the enemy in front of them were hastily recruited into the army and had not received much training, and it was undoubtedly self-defeating to forcibly attack the city with only a few long ladders and a lot of blood, and in the blink of an eye, there were only twenty or thirty people left, and they could only follow the imperial sergeants who fled back from the north and south gates to join forces and run westward together.

In this way, the three soldiers and horses besieging Gu Yuncheng today have already returned from a fiasco. The people on the west hill looked from afar, and saw that the more than 1,200 people who were used to lure the enemy were now at least half of the casualties, and only a few hundred soldiers were left to abandon their armor and were coming to the ambush point on the official road under the mountain in embarrassment; and just behind them, in addition to the more than 100 Japanese who had rushed out from the north and south gates, and then the west gate of Gu Yuncheng was finally opened, and a group of Dongying Japanese soldiers with Japanese knives were also killed, and the previous two waves of people gathered together, and were chasing after their own five or six hundred defeated troops with all their might, but the total was less than 200 people.

Seeing this result, Xie Yixiang was shocked and angry. According to General Sun's original plan, the three-way men besieging Gu Yuncheng today, although they were originally intended to feign defeat and lure the enemy, lure the Japanese in the city here, and hand them over to the 1,000 rebels who had already set up an ambush under the mountain to exterminate, but in the end, the word "feint" became a "rout", and it ended up in such a situation of heavy casualties.

At that moment, Xie Yixiang was about to question General Sun and ask for an explanation. However, seeing that the more than 200 Japanese soldiers killed in the city were chasing after each other, and had been following closely behind the fleeing defeated army, and were heading for the ambush point under the mountain, obviously in the middle of this arrangement, General Sun's face suddenly became solemn, and he immediately called a few sergeants who gave orders to carefully advise and prepare for the next ambush. Xie Yixiang was afraid that it would affect the overall situation, and when the words came to her mouth, she was a little difficult to speak.

Seeing this, Yan Sidao on the side said to her: "Why can a few foreign bandits and bandits in the east be able to cause chaos in various coastal areas for decades and become a major trouble in the Central Plains? Presumably, after witnessing the battle outside Gu Yun City, Miss Xie San should also know it. Regardless of the strength of the martial arts of the Dongying people and the benefits of the Japanese sword, the essence of the Japanese and our soldiers is actually very different. You must know that whether it is the officials and soldiers in the coastal areas, or the 2,000 imperial court soldiers and horses you brought with you this time, in the final analysis, most of them are greedy for life and fear death, and when they join the army, they just want to mix up a military salary, so how can they be willing to kill the enemy desperately? Once they encounter these real Dongying Japanese invaders, in the face of these outlaws who have left their homeland, they are of course not opponents, and they can only hug their heads and run away, or even collapse without a fight. ”

After a pause, he said again: "It's not a secret, in this Jiangsu-Zhejiang territory, if the Dongying Wokou fights with the official army, they can almost 'block ten with one'." As long as a dozen Dongying Japanese robbers are grouped together, they can often break through hundreds of officers and soldiers, and they can also chase all the way out of more than ten miles. And now the Japanese in this Gu Yun City are the descendants of the 'Zhongjo One Sword Stream', and its leader, Niwa Kazuha, calls himself the 'Sword Saint' of Dongying, and it is said that there are five or six hundred people under his command - hehe, even if he is bluffing, but there are two or three hundred Japanese Kou in Gu Yun City, there must be - so the strength must not be underestimated. And the second generals Chen and Zhu under the command of Miss Xie San, who were able to successfully lure the enemy out of the city today, and still be able to protect half of the men and horses under their command, is actually rare. ”

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, you must know that compared to the two thousand men and horses under the command of Yan Sidao and General Sun, whether it was himself, the two generals Chen and Zhu, including the military horses brought by General Yang to rescue Ningyi City this time, before that, obviously had no experience in fighting against the Japanese invaders, and even did not understand the strength of these Japanese invaders at all; Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask sharply: "So you have long expected that today will be the end, so you insist on letting our men and horses go to attack the city, feint defeat and lure the enemy, and finally let them end up with heavy casualties?"

I saw Yan Sidao smile, and before he could answer, General Sun next to him had already finished explaining to a few heralds, so he took over and replied: "Miss Xie San don't have to be careful, at the moment, these two hundred Japanese robbers have been fooled, and they will soon enter the ambush range of our army." For the 1,000 brothers under Sun's command, although they were able to occupy the position with an ambush, it was undoubtedly a tough battle, and they would inevitably suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, it is not that Sun Mou looks down on the soldiers under the command of Miss Xie San, you must know that with today's situation, if you are replaced by your men and horses to set up an ambush and attack, even if you can besiege these Dongying Japanese Invaders with ten times the force, I am afraid that it will be a situation where there are more defeats and fewer victories. In order to break the enemy, Sun naturally could not make this arrangement. ”

Just as everyone was talking, the hundreds of men and horses who had retreated from the defeat of Gu Yuncheng had already stepped on the official road to the east, and they were only a few miles away from the ambush range of the rebels. And the Japanese who followed behind the pursuit were extremely fast, chasing all the way to this point, and killed dozens of people one after another. Xie Yixiang had no intention of arguing with Yan Sidao and General Sun again, and hurriedly went to see the situation under the mountain. I saw that in front of the defeated army of our own army, there were more than ten fast horses who fled first, one of them was covered in blood and untidy armor, it was Deputy General Chen, who led the army today, and the other Deputy General Zhu was nowhere to be seen, and most of them had died at the hands of the Japanese Invaders.

In a short time, hundreds of his own sergeants had fled into the range of the rebels' ambush and continued to run west along the official road, followed by the two hundred or so Japanese who were in desperate pursuit. As the commander of today's battle, General Sun was also calm, and it was not until all the Japanese robbers completely entered the ambush that he asked the sergeants around him to pass on the order to attack the ambush soldiers under the mountain.

As a result, with the sound of a cannon halfway up the mountainside, a thousand rebels who had been ambushed on both sides of the official road in advance appeared at the same time, and they all opened their bows and arrows, and shot at the more than 200 Japanese who had entered the ambush range with an overwhelming rain of arrows.