Chapter 744: Decisive Battle
In the afternoon, Edo Castle was covered with dark clouds, and the weather suddenly turned cloudy.
At this time, in the hall of the City Lord's Mansion, a guard hurriedly came to report: "My lord, it's not good, the Kansai Coalition Army is less than ten miles away from the West City Gate!"
Tokugawa Hidetada's face was heavy, and he said, "Summoning General Honda Tadakatsu, prepare to go out of the city to face the battle!"
Moments later, outside the West City Gate.
The Kwantung coalition forces lined up in formation, with shields in the front row, followed by elite pikemen, to prevent the enemy from charging and sneaking up. And in the middle are the many generals of the coalition forces. Headed by a fierce general, with a rough face, a short beard, not angry and self-assured, it was the first fierce general of the Warring States Honda Tadashi to win. Both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga once praised his bravery. Next to it, there are also big sword heroes such as Yanagi Soju and Tomita Shigemasa.
Not long after, the sound of neat horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and the ground trembled violently, as if it were an earthquake, and it was obvious that there were many invading cavalry.
A moment later, the five thousand cavalry on Ling Feng's side arrived first as the vanguard. Due to the lack of war horses in Dongyi Kingdom, the number of cavalry under the command of the major names is very small, and 5,000 cavalry is already an extremely terrifying number. If it weren't for Ling Feng's eight kingdoms in a row and the cavalry under the command of various daimyos, he would not have reached such a number.
The cavalry had a crushing advantage over the infantry and light feet, but Hu Tie and Zhou Tong, who led the troops, did not rush to attack Honda Zhongsheng, but lined up several miles away to defend.
And Honda Tadakatsu did not take the opportunity to attack, because the opponent was a cavalry, extremely fast, and he could not take advantage of it.
Subsequently, Ling Feng personally led most of his troops and horses to arrive, quickly lined up the formation, and took the shield array as the head to guard against the enemy's attack.
At this time, Honda Tadashi rode out and said loudly: "You and other thief generals, dare to fight with this general!"
Han Lei's pretending to be Horio Yoshiharu glanced at Ling Feng, then immediately glanced around, and said, "Which of you is willing to fight?"
Before Ling Feng could speak, an onmyoji in a yellow crown robe hugged his fists and said, "Qingchuan is willing to fight!"
Ling Feng glanced at him, this person was the Onmyoji of the Himiko family, and he also had a mid-stage martial arts cultivator, so he instructed: "Be careful to use spells to resist the enemy from a distance, don't fight in close combat." ”
At this time, the army came from afar, and the people were sleepy and tired, so it was not suitable for the whole army to attack immediately, so the fighting generals before the battle were also a good entertainment program, just to try the level of the first fierce general of the Warring States.
Immediately, Harukawa also rode out of battle.
"Death to the traitor!"
Honda Tadakatsu's slightly darkened face smiled, and he immediately rode his horse with a spear in his hand.
Harukawa urged the magic of the summoning god and shot out a cloud of black qi, which quickly condensed, turning into a pitch-black youkai with a dog's head, but also a crow-like pointed beak and pitch-black wings, holding a vajra pestle. This monster is the more famous monster Crow Tengu in Dongyi Country, generally under the subordinates of Tengu and Great Tengu, and his demonic cultivation is not weak, and he is already at the peak of the early stage of the fourth order.
The crow tengu held the vajra in his hand and leaped violently, smashing it into Honda Tadakatsu.
At this moment, the dragonfly cut in Honda Tadakatsu's hand swept suddenly, this dragonfly cut is one of the three famous guns of the Dongyi Kingdom, and it is a fourth-order superb divine weapon, how can this vajra be blocked, it broke instantly, and the dragonfly cut did not decrease at all, and quickly slashed towards the neck of the crow tengu.
The Raven Tengu was terrified in his heart, and was about to dodge, when a fierce gun intent had invaded the sea of knowledge, shocking his soul and making him stunned for a moment, and then the dragonfly cut off his head with a rapid stroke.
"There are only demons and ghosts in the mountains, and I don't know how many slaughters are under a certain gun. Thou art and other demons and sorcerers to help them in their abuse, and they will be killed!"
Honda Tadakatsu laughed and said, after saying that, he rode a horse and a gun to get the head of Harukawa.
Harukawa was shocked, this Raven Tengu was his right-hand man, but he was slaughtered by the other party with one shot, and he dared to fight there. It's just that he was worried that he would lose the first battle, lose his morale, and be beheaded by Ling Feng, and suddenly fell into a dilemma.
And if the master makes a move, how can he be distracted. Honda Tadashikatsu's crotch BMW was so fast, in an instant, the dragonfly cut in his hand stabbed like lightning.
Harukawa was about to dodge, but it was too late, his mind was captured by the gun's intent, and he was stunned on the spot, and he was about to end up with a crow.
At that moment, a copper coin scurried in and struck the tip of the dragonfly's spear.
With a bang, an extremely cold sword intent erupted from the copper coin, invading the sea of Honda Tadada's victory, causing him to be stunned for a moment.
At this time, Qingchuan hurriedly seized the opportunity, turned the horse's head, and quickly retreated.
Moments later, Honda Tadakatsu regained consciousness, only to find that the enemy had hurried back to the enemy line and was no longer able to catch up. His True Yuan condensed his eyes, looked at the enemy army formation in the distance, stared at Ling Feng, and his heart was secretly terrified. This person is really powerful, just a copper coin can block my full blow, no wonder he was able to kill the three sword saints of Tsukahara Servant, Kamiizumi Shin, and Zhongjuan Zizhai, and Yagyu Zongyan and Hattori Hanzo, these peak swordsmen died unjustly!
At this time, Qingchuan dismounted and knelt down and said: "Qingchuan lost the first battle, please punish the lord!"
There is a reason why he took the initiative to ask for sin, firstly, he could get a better impression, and secondly, since Ling Feng wanted to save him, he would naturally not kill him, and he would definitely give him a chance to make meritorious service and atone for his sins.
Sure enough, Ling Feng said coldly: "Thinking that at this time is the time to employ people, I will punish you for three years, hoping that you can fight bravely to kill the enemy and make up for your merits." ”
Ling Feng made a decision instead of "Horio Yoshiharu", which was said to be overstepping, but no one felt that it was wrong. In fact, at this time, the generals and many daimyos under Ling Feng almost understood that Ling Feng was the backstage of Horio Yoshiharu.
They don't care about this, whether Ling Feng is in charge or Horio Yoshiharu is in charge, as long as their interests can be guaranteed.
Immediately, Ling Feng rode out of the battle and said, "The marksmanship is good, if you can take me three moves, you will not die!"
Honda Tadakatsu's face was solemn and he had the intention to withdraw his troops, but if he didn't take a move, he would turn around and run, and the blow to morale would inevitably be huge, and Tokugawa Hidetada would not be able to explain it. Therefore, he was ready to take a few moves, and if he was defeated, he would retreat in time. Therefore, he rode his horse and carried a gun to attack Ling Feng, and said coldly: "The thief will be rampant, look at the gun!"
Ling Feng's expression was indifferent and motionless.
Seeing Ling Feng's support, Honda Zhongsheng was secretly overjoyed, and immediately condensed his true yuan and soul power on the tip of the dragonfly's spear, and in an instant, he rode his horse to Ling Feng, and the second spear in his hand quickly pierced Ling Feng's chest, secretly fitting the essence of the flat spear.
At this moment, Ling Feng suddenly drew his sword, and a flash of snow-bright sword light flashed in an instant, and there was an extra red in the throat of Honda Zhongsheng, but no blood flowed out, but it was frozen by Ling Feng's extremely cold attribute Canglang True Yuan.
Qingchuan was secretly frightened when he saw it, this Duo Zhongsheng was already at the peak of the great swordsman level, and he killed his own Shishen with one sword, but in the hands of the lord, he couldn't make a move. He admired the ancestor's decision extremely at this time. Perhaps in the eyes of the two major demon families, Kagura and Tsuchigomon, the Himiko family surrendered to foreign enemies, lost face, and was not worthy of holding the imperial power of Dongyi. But in his opinion, taking refuge in the strong and strengthening himself is the way to survive, so he took the initiative to ask for battle, just to perform in front of Ling Feng.
At this time, above the city gate, Tokugawa Hidetada was pale, with the death of Yagyu Soyan and Hattori Hanzo, Honda Tadashi was already the pillar of the Tokugawa family, but he was killed by the other party, which really made him angry. However, remembering Abe Harumi's plan, he still ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
Immediately, the coalition forces retreated like a tide, but the formation ahead was not chaotic.
Seeing that there was no chance to take advantage of it, Ling Feng did not order to pursue, but took the blood jade bottle and absorbed the qi and blood essence in Honda Zhongsheng's body. During this time, he had already exhausted the blood element in the blood jade bottle for the transformation of his Terran Water Spirit bloodline into an intermediate level, and he just collected some. Then, he cut the dragonfly into the Qiankun ring, and then said: "The enemy army is waiting for work, but we are a labor expedition, it is not appropriate to send troops at this time, the whole army is encamped and rested in place!"