My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 512 The golden cicada escapes from its shell
Pei Min held the sword behind his back and looked at the fat figure opposite holding a human leg with one hand and smashing the connected Japanese body back and forth to the ground.

He knew that Xu Chu, the tiger idiot opposite, was ranked among the top generals in Xia Kingdom in terms of strength. Before he got here, he had the power to pull an ox with one hand.

boom!
boom! boom!
Human muscles, bones, skin and flesh collided crazily with the earth, and the muffled sound of broken bones and flesh made the eyelids of all the Tiger Guard soldiers tremble, and the ground under their feet shook one after another.

Seeing that the man was dying, Pei Min stepped forward and raised his hands: "General Xu, the man is dying."

Over there, Xu Chu stopped and looked at the Japanese assassin lying in the mud pit. While nodding his head, he said angrily: "Your Majesty never said he wanted to live."

Sarutobi Sasuke was on the verge of collapse, with almost all the bones in his body broken. He was a ninja, but that didn't mean he had steel and iron bones that could withstand Xu Chu's beatings.

Seeing the other person stop, he thought there was a chance of survival, and wanted to speak, but he didn't know what the other person said, so he picked him up again and threw him heavily into the mud pit on the other side.

This time he landed on his face, his nose was crooked, and several teeth were broken out and fell to the side.

"Spare...spare me..."

"I'm about to... I'm about to die... If you hit me again... I'm going to die..."

Here, Su Chen did not pause in his words. He turned to look at Jia Xu, who was opening his eyes, "Lieutenant, immediately find Marquis Wen and General Zhao, and send fast horses to bypass Ping'an Jing to contact Guan and Zhang as soon as possible. The two generals are outflanking Takeda Shingen!"

Su Chen sat back behind the long desk and held his breath and concentrated. Jia Xu didn't say anything. He closed his eyes and waited for the doctor's explanation. Dian Wei stood beside the doctor with both halberds on his back. When he saw the doctor shaking his head and sighing again, he couldn't help but speak. .

"Ahhh!"

Even Sarutobi Sasuke, who was severely injured and in a state of confusion, couldn't help but let out a high-pitched, shrill scream at this moment.

The military doctor retracted his hand, not daring to be negligent, and raised his hand towards the serious-looking emperor behind the case: "Your Majesty, Wu Changshi's life is not in danger, but his neck bones were frustrated and his acupuncture points were pressed, which caused him to faint. Wake up, it may have something to do with the assassin’s technique.”

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

In fact, he asked this question for Su Chen. After all, the emperor could not say words to express his emotions at will.

Pei Min smiled and sheathed the ancient sword, raised his hand and waved it, and ordered the men coming behind him: "Take the body of the Japanese assassin out and bury it in a random hole in the forest."

"Just like that guy Xu You, seeking death!!"

Su Chen's face darkened when he heard that his neck bones were bruised.

"You still have a bad mouth even when you are about to die!" Xu Chu pulled out the tiger-headed knife from behind with his backhand, stepped on the Japanese assassin's chest, and raised his hand.

"These Japanese have known from the beginning to sending ninjas to assassinate my generals. Now they come directly to assassinate me, and they also use the people closest to me!"

Under the command of his arm, the tiger-headed sword fell instantly under Sarutobi Sasuke's eyes. He struggled to say: "I surrendered, why do I still want to kill..."

"I don't know. Depending on the Japanese's temperament, he might be scolding you."

On the left side of the river called Koye River, fierce fighting continued.

Everything was perfect!
Moreover, the plan was indeed carried out in an orderly manner. He knocked out the emperor's attendant, put on the opponent's robe, and then used the skill of disguise to transform into the opponent's appearance and figure. He also successfully entered the imperial tent and stood in the Xia Kingdom. In front of the emperor, he even brought soup laced with chronic poison to the other party's table.

"Damn it!" Hearing this, Xu Chu became even more furious. He pinched the opponent's ankles, lifted the opponent's whole body upside down, raised his foot and hit the opponent's abdomen. He flew back high like a sandbag. While falling back in Xu Chu's hand, he lifted the opponent upside down. It was Bo Da's fist that hit the opponent's hanging crotch hard.

"General Dian, calm down!"

"I understand. If you need anything, just ask me. As long as you can cure Wu Changshi, I will be satisfied!"

……

The original plan this time was also flawless. Taking advantage of the Xia army's victory and landing, after setting up camp, they quietly sneaked into the camp, used the emperor's servants to get close to him, and then poisoned him. Before the enemy was poisoned, he finally left the camp and poisoned the enemy. The pot was thrown to the knocked unconscious attendant.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

At this time, there was no one else in the tent, so Su Chen vented his anger. Outside, Xu Chu walked in with a head in his hand. Before he asked what to do with it, Su Chen waved at him: "Throw it out of the barracks, throw it outside to feed the wild beasts." !”

But why did it become like this...

Arrows with flames streaked across the sky.

He is a famous ninja, even as famous as Hattori Hanzo and Fuma Kotaro. The tasks in his hands rarely fail.

Soon, while several searching 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 bolted toward Heian-kyo further east.

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

The pain subsided slightly, Sarutobi Sasuke opened his lips full of blood, and said weakly: "I surrender... I will tell you everything about the Takeda Army... I will secretly open the gate of Heian Kyo for you..."

Su Chen looked at the fainting figure. When the soldiers took Wu Zixun and the doctor out, he punched the desk.

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

After saying that, he held the scabbard of his sword, and with the leather rein lightly shaking, he turned around and went to the nearby area, continuing to patrol and check the corners of the camp to see if there were any remaining assassins lurking secretly.

The words that followed came to an abrupt end. The thick blade split open the flesh and bones of the neck. When the blood arrow shot out, the head bounced out and fell to the ground with a thud.

He murmured with difficulty, but what he said was Japanese, which Xu Chu couldn't understand at all. He looked at Pei Min: "Old Pei, what did he say?"

After hearing the news, the military doctor who came to greet Su Chen knelt down and carefully examined Wu Zixun's whole body. Sometimes he felt for his pulse, and sometimes he put his hand on his neck, closed his eyes, stroked his beard and muttered.

"Oh!" Xu Chu just came in, turned around depressed and went out again with the head.

To the east, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had entered the boundary of Heian Jing, had been fighting with the troops of a man named Oda Nobunaga for two days.

In the imperial tent at this time, Su Chen looked at Wu Zixun who was carried in by the soldiers of Tang Dynasty. The latter was lying on a stretcher wearing only underwear and underwear, still unconscious.

Noisy sounds 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 Qinglong Yanyue Sword in his hand, looking at the battlefield by the river in the distance with a pair of phoenix eyes, listening to the scout's report After learning about the situation, several orders were issued from time to time, asking scouts to go and convey information, adjust the structure of the battlefield, and deal with the 20,000 Japanese troops coming from the opposite side, as well as another group of Japanese rushing out from Heian Jing.

"This...I can't guarantee it, I can only try my best!" the military doctor replied tremblingly.

The sun rises in the morning and then slants into the sunset. Blood spreads across the Xiaoye River, corpses are spread across the river, and the water waves rolling by the river bring up red water foam.

The corpses of elite ashigaru wearing wooden armor continued to stretch out on the charging road in front of the roaring cavalry.

An elite ashigaru holding a spear covered his wound with an arrow stuck in his chest, and staggered down in a pool of blood. Behind him, more elite ashigaru rushed over, with spears longer than ordinary ones. The formation of iron spears faced the Xia cavalry whizzing by.

There are about 5,000 of these elite ashigaru. They are different from ordinary ashigaru. They are professionally trained elite warriors. They wear the best medium-sized weapons. The spears in their hands are five feet longer than ordinary spears. They are invulnerable when they stand firm.

It is especially effective in preventing enemy cavalry from charging into the formation.

The footsteps shook the ground. On the left side of the Koye River bank, a tiger-footed battalion of two hundred people was mobilized to stop this elite ashigaru. They immediately formed many crisscrossing front lines with other fighting groups on both sides of the river.

The Tiger Cavalry and the Tiger Buoying Battalion were both battle-hardened and powerful forces, and they unilaterally defeated the two Japanese armies. However, there were only a small number of people at the moment. The total number of people was only 4,000. Including the losses along the way, there were only three Qian Qianbai can still continue to fight.

The rockets ignited the nearby woods and roared in the wind. The mobilized tiger cavalry and tiger steps were like long dragons, constantly interspersing the battlefield for more than ten miles, giving people the feeling of a battlefield with more than 100,000 people.

"The person sitting in command opposite is very clever!"

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

He didn't expect that after going through thorns and thorns all the way, he thought that the Japanese were only of this level. Especially after he beheaded a Japanese general in the formation and scattered the opponent, he couldn't help but look down on the Japanese even more.

However, after that, the main force of Japanese reinforcements came over. Guan Yu had nothing to say and directly sent troops to fight. However, in the two days of fighting, he did not expect that he and the opponent were evenly matched.

In this battle, our forces were small after all, and we had no backup, and we could only hold on to food for two more days. This was obtained by plundering the Japanese army that we had defeated before.

From early this morning, the second battle began. Guan Yu naturally paid attention to the Japanese generals on the opposite side and used all his skills in Jingzhou. The only regret was that he had very few generals and troops at his disposal.

After the battle line was deployed on one side of the river, the front line once stretched for several miles, fighting from morning to dusk. Even if the Japanese were not killed, they could rely on their large numbers to continuously rush for reinforcements.

Another Japanese army from the Japanese city came from the east and entered the battlefield.

In the endless tossing and turning, Guan Yu almost mobilized his commanding skills to the peak, constantly replacing the frontline battle groups with the prepared reserve battalions.

"Second brother, let me go. Give me fifty riders. I will bypass the battlefield, go around to the back of the Japanese pirates, and attack directly!" Zhang Fei has not been to the battlefield to fight since yesterday, and his heart is so itchy that he is almost going crazy. Every time he saw wounded or tired soldiers being replaced and resting, he would go to his second brother and make a fuss.

"This Japanese general is very smart. He did not use any banner to indicate the position of the Chinese army!"

Guan Yu noticed this situation some time after the war started in the morning, and sent out scouts to investigate, but in the end he could not find the Japanese general's distinctive banner.

"The other side is wary of you and me attacking the enemy."

"Whatever, his army must be behind the battlefield anyway. What if I encounter him by chance?" Zhang Fei chirped beside his second brother, and even moved Liu Bei out. You probably won't let me go. , I will go to my elder brother to complain about this.

"If you really want to go, then for brother..."

At this moment, a fast horse came galloping from the west. A messenger reminded them. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei turned their horses around and looked back. They saw the person coming with a face of joy, hurriedly dismounted and ran towards them, holding their arms in their arms. He took out the letter inside and presented it with both hands.

"Generals Guan and Zhang, the younger ones are looking for you. This is a letter sent by Your Majesty when he sent you to your humble post. It has His Majesty's seal on it."

"Oh?"

Guan Yu took the letter handed over by Zhang Fei, tore open the seal, unfolded the letter paper inside, and quickly scanned it vertically and vertically, with a hint of joy on his face.

"His Majesty's main force has finally arrived. Go back first and inform Your Majesty that Guan will act according to the plan in the letter!"

After sending the scout away, Zhang Fei rushed to Guan Yu's side and asked, "Second brother, what does the letter say?"

"Lü Bu and Zilong led the cavalry to pursue the main force of the Takeda Army. Your Majesty asked us to attack from both front and rear."

Zhang Fei touched the thick tiger beard on his chin and frowned: "It's a good idea, but the timing is wrong. We are still fighting another group of Japanese."

Guan Yu pondered and stroked his beard, looking deeply at the battlefield. The tiger cavalry under his command were galloping and killing like thousands of wild dragons. With the help of the tiger cavalry's heavy step coordination, they kept getting closer to the opponent's battle formation and cut into pieces the assembled elite ashigaru. open.

During several hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese offensive on the opposite side also became more aggressive. At one point, they also sent out a small number of cavalry. These cavalry were generally dressed, but they seemed to be carrying a big baggage on their backs, which was extremely strange.

"withdraw troops!"

Before the tiger cavalry battalion under his command could fight with the opponent's strange cavalry, Guan Yu suddenly issued an order - Ming Jin retreated his troops.

Such a move caught the Japanese general who was commanding the opposite side a little unprepared. Facing the powerful Guan Yu in China, he also showed his full ability. Originally, he wanted to use the roundabout raid of the mother-in-law soldiers to give the opponent a sure kill and create a trap for him. The illusion of a breakthrough in the central formation was used to stimulate the elite Qingzu under his command and demoralize Xia's soldiers.

Unexpectedly, the other side suddenly withdrew its troops. Oda Nobunaga stood somewhere in the mountain forest, looking at the Xia soldiers on the battlefield who were slowly leaving the battle in an orderly manner. He felt a fierce punch that had been accumulated hit the air.

"The other side suddenly withdraws its troops. Is it creating an illusion?"

Oda Nobunaga raised his gray head, and in his thoughts, he specially sent several envoys to inquire about the movements of Xia Kingdom's army. It was not until dark that the sent envoys came back.

"You said that the Xia army secretly mobilized troops and horses? And even wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth?"

After receiving the envoy's approval, Oda Nobunaga sat on the folding stool and laughed loudly, "This is an attempt to raid our main formation at night. Such a tactic is so familiar!"

Amid laughter, he stood up abruptly, followed by ninjas such as Shibata Katsuie, Takigawa Kazumasu, Niwa Nagahide, Akechi Mitsuhide, Mori Ranmaru, Mori Rikimaru and other ninjas who were kneeling on both sides.

"They attack at night, let's encircle them here! Wipe out all the Xia soldiers and horses, and kill Guan Yu, who is so powerful in China, in one battle!"

"Hai!"

The big tent was shaken.

……

The sky is completely dark.

The Xia Kingdom's military camp in the southeast began to move quietly, and the scouts who opened the way ran out with the sound of horse hooves as much as possible.

In the quiet Xia Kingdom camp, the soldiers wore armor and put cloth towels filled with grass clippings on their feet. The tiger-stepping camp came out of the camp in an orderly manner, and the cavalry led their horses into the darkness, forming a silent formation.

In the dark color, Guan Yu waved the Qinglong Sword, and the cavalry in formation neatly got on their horses, looking closely in the direction of the general.

Guan Yu sat on Red Rabbit's horse, waiting for his third brother Zhang Fei to come with his infantry. He stroked Red Rabbit's mane: "Yide, tell me, will the Japanese fall into the trap?"

"Who knows." Zhang Fei grinned, grinning.

Soon, the cavalrymen wrapped in horse hooves walked slowly on the dark field, like the undulating tide.

The soldiers of the Tiger Step Battalion also wrapped their shoes, carried their weapons, and followed the cavalry in silence.

……

The night is getting darker and darker, and time is passing by as the night becomes darker and darker.

Surrounding the deathly silent Oda Army camp, Japanese soldiers were lurking in groups, crouching or crouching in the grass or woods, suffering from mosquito bites, but they did not dare to move their eyes away, staring straight at the wilderness leading to the south.

Until there was finally a glimmer of light in the sky.

In the distant wilderness, there was no sign of any Xia soldiers. Oda Nobunaga, who had been waiting all night, frowned.

Think deeply about whether you may be too sensitive and make wrong judgments.

However, the next moment, a messenger came back from the south to inquire about the news, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"Lord Oda...the Xia army left overnight, leaving only an empty camp behind!"

Oda Nobunaga's expression changed and he rushed towards the messenger. In his excitement, he kicked the folding stool under his feet to the ground.

"Where did they go?"

"From the hoofprints left behind... they may have gone 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 in danger!

The other party suddenly used the golden cicada to escape from its shell and tricked him. The purpose was obviously not that simple. The only thing Oda Nobunaga could think of was that Guan Yu of the Xia Kingdom would join forces with the Xia Kingdom army to the west to attack Takeda Shingen first. As a result, he was the only army left on Yunguo Island.

"Send troops immediately to conquer the west!"

"Lord Oda, our soldiers have been guarding the whole night and haven't rested yet..."

"The Takeda Army cannot make any mistakes and 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 had no choice. At this juncture, it was difficult to choose whether to catch up or stay and rest.

"Takeda-kun, you must hold on!"

Oda Nobunaga gritted his teeth and punched the palm of his hand.

at the same time.

In different directions, two excellent Xia cavalrymen caught up with the main force of the Takeda Army that was retreating at dawn. The Tiger Cavalry Battalion from east to west was rushing under the stars and the moon. It was not far from here. The scouts passed on According to news from both sides, three cavalry groups were surrounding a place called Yiqi.

There are plains running east and west, and slightly raised hilly landforms.

At this time, the sky was slowly brightening, and the Takeda army stationed here was preparing to break camp and move forward.

(End of this chapter)