"Wu Gexi was rhinoceros armor, and the car was wrong and short-handed. Look at 'Mao's line, Chinese, and net

The sun covers the enemy like a cloud, and the arrows and fallen soldiers compete to be the first......"

These four lines of poetry were originally to describe the scene of the war between Qin and Chu, but they are still appropriate under this city. But seeing the murderous aura in the air, the smoke of gunpowder bursts, and the sky was almost filled with feathered arrows and spears.

There was already a river of blood on the ground. Kojiro and other leaders held high the banner of Choshu and took the lead. The sergeants followed behind and fought to the death.

Even if this scene is as strong as Li Yan, I can't help but be terrified when I see it. The decisive battle on this day was different from the sneak attack the day before, it was a real fight with real swords and guns.

Li Yan thought to himself: "If a person allows your martial arts to dominate the world, it will be difficult to fly if you are thrown on this battlefield." The battle between the two armies is really no better than the brawl on the rivers and lakes, and there are thousands of knives and blades in the back and forth, which makes people unavoidable. ”

At this time, a stray arrow suddenly flew and shot Kojiro in the shoulder, he fell in response, and the Choshu banner also took off his hand. He shouted: "Flag! Flag cannot fall!"

Lin Junfu's eyes were sharp, and he stepped forward with an arrow step, holding the banner. Kojiro said: "I'm fine, continue to fight, I can't retreat!" The crowd was angry and turned to fight.

This vicious fight lasted from early morning to noon, and Kojiro's treasure knife was already cut full of gaps, and his voice was so hoarse that he could barely speak, but he still waved his knife and said, "Rush, rush!" But suddenly looking around, there were very few people around him.

Several leaders gathered over, and Kojiro said: "Gentlemen, instead of committing suicide, it is better to die a happy death." Let's do one last charge!"

Everyone said: "I am willing to follow Mr. and swear to die!"

At this time, the front army of the shogunate separated, and Li Yan looked from afar, and it turned out that Tokugawa Keitora saw that the victory was decided, and personally came to check the situation. Li Yan suddenly blessed his heart, laughed, and said to Kojiro: "Brother Kido, you didn't do your best until just now. Now Providence has begun to favor you!"

Kojiro was surprised and said, "How do you say this?" Before the words fell, he saw that Li Yan's body shook and rushed towards the enemy formation like lightning. When the Tokugawa army saw his sudden threat, they were caught off guard. Li snatched a longbow with his hand, ran diagonally in front of the battle, and released arrows with both hands, and the soldiers fell in response, killing more than ten people in an instant.

Some soldiers recognized him and shouted, "Look, it's the swordsman who killed Sujin of Tennoji Temple a few days ago!"

When everyone heard this, they were shocked, and their hearts were greatly afraid, and their strength weakened by three points. Li abandoned his bow and sword, rushed left and right, and the Tokugawa army was invincible.

Tokugawa Qinghu saw a swordsman fighting in the battle on the high slope, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep that no one could stop, and asked in surprise: "Is there such a warrior in Changzhou?"

The subordinate said: "This person once raided General Qingsheng's troops and slashed Tennoji Suzhen, and he was extremely powerful. Look at 'Mao, Chinese, Net'

Tokugawa Qinghu sighed: "It's a pity to be so brave but die for the Choshu army......"

When he was talking, he saw Li kill a bloody way and go straight to the Chinese army. The general was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "Escort, don't let the anti-thieves disturb the general!"

Looking at Li Yan's slaughter into the army, he was already in danger. Normally, if it is a knife and a shot, it is absolutely safe with his body, but at this moment, the spears are like a forest, stabbing all over the sky, and he can't tell where to hide.

Suddenly, he had an idea, his body soared into the air, and in an instant he saw an officer in a helmet and armor, and jumped towards him. No matter how bold the sergeants were, they did not dare to stab at their superiors, and immediately stopped their spears. Li Yan took advantage of the situation to put the knife on the officer's neck and shouted: "Who dares to go forward?

Without waiting for the soldiers to react, the officer hurriedly shouted, "Retreat! Retreat!

When the soldiers heard this, they had to take a few steps back. But there are people behind him, and the distance is still very close. Seeing that this officer was a man who was greedy for life and afraid of death, Li Yan pretended to be fierce and asked viciously, "How far is it from the Chinese army here?"

The officer said, "It's still ...... There are still two or three hundred steps. ”

Li Yan snorted, grabbed him with one hand, and threw it forward. When the soldier saw that the commander was thrown over, he did not dare to release his arrow or raise his spear, but stretched out his hands to catch it. After this back and forth, Li Yan bought time and moved forward dozens of steps.

But when Li Yan came here, he was already secretly frightened. On the one hand, he could not stop or parry in the slightest, and as long as he moved slowly, he would be pierced into a sieve by spears coming from all directions. On the other hand, after fighting for a long time, his physical strength has reached the limit, although he has seen the Huang Luo umbrella of the Chinese army, it is difficult to move forward.

At this time, there was a commotion behind him, and it turned out that Kojiro led the crowd to attack again to respond to Li Yan. The soldiers of the shogunate took care of one thing and the other, and it was difficult to do both, and they were in chaos. Li Yan took advantage of the situation and went straight to Tokugawa Qinghu.

But at this moment, more than 100 guards shouted loudly, and the formation changed, and a shield wall was erected neatly, surrounding Tokugawa Qinghu impenetrable. They stretched their spears out of the gaps between their shields and waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

These people are the elite of the elite, and their martial arts are strong, otherwise they would not dare to take on the heavy responsibility of defending the boss. Coupled with this extremely tightly defended shield array, even the gods would have no problem with them. Not to mention that Li Yan's strength is exhausted at this moment, even when his spirit is complete, he may not be able to break the deadlock.

At this time, the Tokugawa army stabilized its position, and if it swooped back, Choshu would only be defeated.

But Li was so confident that he did not engage the guards, but turned around and killed under the banner of Daxu standing next to him, and cut off the flagpole with one sword. The pole was extremely heavy, almost the thickness of a tree, and the lead in the pole made it heavier than a rock. I saw the flagpole swaying left and right, and I didn't know where it would fall.

Li Yan raised his foot and kicked on the side, and the big banner hung with a heavy wind and rolled straight towards the shield array.

This shield array is not afraid of swords, bows and crossbows, and even the masters of martial arts have nothing to do with it. But the only thing it fears is the weight hanging overhead.

There was only a muffled sound, and the shield array was smashed to pieces, and several sergeants were killed on the spot. Tokugawa Keitora was dumbfounded, apparently greatly frightened.

Li Yanyu stepped up, grabbed him, and shouted, "Let them retreat!"

But unexpectedly, Tokugawa Qinghu was quite stiff, closed his lips tightly, and didn't say half a word. Li Yan snorted, dragged Tokugawa Qinghu and jumped onto the remaining half of the flagpole, and said: "Shogunate soldiers, your commander has been captured by me, hurry up and put down your weapons!"

His voice spread far and wide, reaching everyone's ears. When the Tokugawa army looked back, the commander was captured, and he couldn't help but hesitate and stopped attacking.

Kojiro had several wounds on his back, and he was half-kneeling on the ground coughing up blood. Seeing what happened to Li Remnant, a surge of strength surged up in his body, and he struggled to stand up and said: "Do you know who he is? This is General Li Remnant, who killed the Tianwang Temple in battle a few days ago, and rode the lieutenant in the Great Liang Guanbai Capital. You see, he brought the Great Liang Water Master!"

Then he pointed to the port. The Tokugawa army raised their eyes and looked over, and sure enough, they saw more than a dozen large ships on the sea flying bright yellow dragon flags and coming in the wind and waves.

The surprise of the Tokugawa army was not trivial, and Tokugawa Qinghu was almost nine days away. At that time, although the Great Liang was becoming more and more decaying, he was still the suzerain of Fusang, and a second-grade Beijing official arrived in Fusang, and when he saw that the emperor did not kneel, all his subordinates gave him the courtesy of the monarch and ministers.

Not to mention that Daliang is rich and powerful, not to mention more than ten times that of Fusang. If the Great Liang was interested in helping Choshu, the shogunate would not dare to make a mistake even if he had ten more heads.

Tokugawa Qinghu's tone immediately softened, and he said to Li Yan: "Why didn't the general say it earlier? Since the Great Liang intends to mediate the conflict, our shogunate will naturally obey." Why do you have to fight each other?"

Li Yan just snorted coldly and didn't speak. He was afraid to talk about it.

It turned out that this was Kojiro's strategy, and those ships were not warships, but disguised Choshu merchant ships, which quietly sailed out of the harbor at night and had been wandering around the sea for a long time, with the purpose of intimidating the shogunate in the name of the Great Beam.

Seeing that Tokugawa Qinghu had the intention of retreating, Li Yan immediately took advantage of the victory and forced: "You first promise in front of the whole army that you will not trouble Choshu again, and then the whole army will withdraw to Kyoto, and I will let you go." ”

Tokugawa Qinghu said: "Naturally, I will swear now." ”

In exchange for a herald, he announced that the three armies would no longer be enemies of Changzhou.

In fact, Tokugawa Qinghu has been immersed in officialdom for many years, and this trick should not have deceived him. But he was captured alive by the enemy under heavy protection, which was unbelievable to him. Frightened and confused, he was so moved that he lost even his basic judgment.

As soon as the words were spoken, Tokugawa Keitora realized that he was deceived. However, if he rebelled in front of the whole army, first, he would lose face, and second, if he set a precedent, it would be difficult to convince the public. Such an outcome is even more terrible than losing the battle.

Therefore, Tokugawa Qinghu simply faked the show, pretending not to know, and pondered in his heart how to shirk responsibility.

The soldiers of the shogunate army were not willing to fight. Listening to the general's order, he cheered in unison and slowly retreated. Li Zanyi released Tokugawa Qinghu according to his words, and Ogijo was finally defended.

In this vicious battle, the blood of the Changzhou scholars was like a river, and the young and middle-aged men lost six or seven out of ten. The lamentation lingered in the White House for a long time. It was raining heavily, and everyone was silent in the rain, but there was no joy of victory.

That's how brutal war is.

After a while, Li Yan spoke: "We have temporarily deceived Tokugawa Qinghu with tricks, but the shogunate will not give up, they will definitely make a comeback." And how will we deal with it?"

Kojiro closed his eyes and said, "Choshu can't fight anymore, we need foreign aid." ”

Lin Junfu said: "When the other vassal kingdoms see me waiting to fight to the death, they all watch from the wall, who will come to help us?"

Takasugi also said: "All the daimyo are people who see the wind and rudder, if we win, it is better to say, we can coerce them to join." But now it can only be regarded as a tie, and it is even more difficult to win them over. ”

Li Yan suddenly said: "Everyone, I have a plan. Did the Satsuma Domain, which was on the same footing with our Choshu before, send troops?"

Kojiro thought for a moment: "I didn't see their feudal flag, so I shouldn't have sent troops." ”

Li Yan said: "This is strange. I've heard that the two feudal clans have a common enmity because of the Ikedaya Incident, so why didn't they come to conquer Choshu with such a good opportunity?"

Kojiro was stunned: "What does Li Jun want to say?"