My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 513 Life is like a chess game
From west to east, the military camps stationed in the fields and mountains and forests moved frequently. The simple camps were torn down. Ashigaru with simple armor packed their luggage and pushed wheelbarrows with grain bags in and out of the camp gates.

In the field, the Red Army soldiers wearing red wooden armor ignored the busy ashigaru who were gathering outside the camp. Some of them had low morale, lowered their heads, and shuffled out of the tent with dirty faces.

At this time, the main force of the Takeda Army, which retreated from the west, totaling more than 8,000 people, no longer had much energy, and there was a faint uneasiness in their eyes.

Iito Huchang was killed, and two thousand fellow Red Bei soldiers who had set up an ambush were killed by the enemy's cavalry in the field. After that, Xia's cavalry was heard to be chasing behind them.

The battle has not even started yet, but it has been defeated twice in a row, which makes many people feel terrified.

Life is like a chess game, and there is no way back.

Among the tents that have not yet been dismantled, Takeda Shingen, who is wearing a large red armor and not wearing a yak white mane pocket, is sitting lifelessly on a folding stool in the middle, with his hands on his knees and his eyes slightly lost in thought.

"Didn't more people escape?"

"No, Iitomi Komasa...has been killed in battle. There is no need to wait for him to come back..." Itagaki Nobukata said casually, surrounded by Amari Kotai and Zhukaku Kosada among the Four Heavenly Kings of Takeda. Now only the Four Heavenly Kings are left. There were three of them.

"No need to wait..." The old man sitting on the folding stool sighed softly, "I asked you to follow me here, but I didn't expect to die again."

"...Is this coming?"

"Since no defeated troops have returned, let's go. I don't believe that the Emperor of Xia Kingdom can defeat the red army that I personally formed, not to mention that I have Heian Kyo and Oda Nobunaga behind me to help!"

The three people over there wanted to dissuade them, but when the words came to their lips, they didn't know how to speak. In the end, the strong-tempered and irascible Zhu Jiao Huding spoke first, leading the conversation to the most urgent business at the moment.

Ahead, the two thousand Xia Kingdom cavalry that had originally attacked were getting further and further away and gradually became blurry.

The white robe was caressing, Zhao Yun stepped forward with his feet, the horse under him shook its mane, spread its hooves and started to run.

The surrounding soldiers who were resting on the ground with their backs against the horses' legs reflexively stood up in their stirrups, sat neatly on the backs of their horses, and picked up their spears.

Here, the red troops who were hurriedly mounting their horses to defend against the enemy could only retreat at this moment, while the ashigaru were commanded to rush forward, using simple wooden shields to block the front. The faces of these ashigaru who were almost dying had panic on their faces. They still rushed forward, and when they faced the rain of arrows, they shouted hysterically and raised their shields.

In the wide fields and hilly areas, many scouts could be seen coming and going. The generals in silver armor and white robes stood with guns in hand. When they saw the fast horses running towards them, they turned around, handed the spears to the soldiers behind them, and took the information and read it. Look, the cold eyes are looking east.

The sounds of panic and screams were mixed together. After resisting the front line of the arrow rain, the red army cavalry that had been formed had already moved. Two generals, Amari Koyasu and Morokaku Tosada, protected Takeda Shingen and came to the front of the cavalry. Just when they were about to run and attack the Xia cavalry, the Xia cavalry, which had shot through a hail of arrows, flew away like the wind.

"About eight thousand... I have found you."

The silent white horse Yi Cong behind also followed the horse forward. Each horse's hoof pressed through the low grass and sank into the soil. The marching cavalry team carried a dull hoofbeat, spreading like a flowing stream across the quiet wilderness.

In the distance, the field shook as a cavalry of two thousand people ran wildly, drawing their bows on horseback and throwing arrows into the sky.

"Run away?" Takeda Shingen was stunned on the horse. He was about to charge into the battle himself, but the enemy turned around and left without fighting with him at all.

He was on horseback, with the Jintachi slung at his waist, the cross sword raised in his hand, and his words were impassioned and impassioned. Amari Kotai, Morokaku Kosada, and Itagaki Nobukata nodded secretly. This was the Tiger of Kai in their hearts.

The old man in large armor nodded silently for a while and said softly: "I understand all this, and I understand it in my heart, but let me remember Iito Huchang again."

To the east where the torrent spread, the old man walked out of the big tent, put on his yak white mane bag, and with the help of his bodyguard, he climbed onto a black war horse.

"Hai!"

Outside, there were panicked Japanese shouting: "Xia Kingdom Cavalry!"

The arrows rained like locusts, crossing the sky in a black mass.

A group of about two thousand cavalry was taking a temporary rest next to a nearby dense forest.

……

Then, he turned his face sideways and glanced from the corner of his eyes: "Have you contacted Marquis Wen's cavalry?"

Takeda Shingen's impassioned attitude just now was immediately knocked to the bottom. On the back of his horse, he turned his eyes and looked over there, struggling to squeeze out a little sound from his teeth.

Looking at the Red Bei Army walking out of the barracks, the direct troops and horses he had built with his own hands, the heartache of Iito Huchang's death in battle gradually disappeared, and the hero who dominated an era was back again.

"Mount!"

"A brother contacted me yesterday. If he is found, he should be on his way back now."

The three of them stood up one after another!

By this time, Takeda Shingen was no longer prepared to take command. He only had 8,000 men. Except for 3,500 red army cavalry and 1,500 archers, the rest were all ashigaru, used for fighting. Going downwind is okay.

The dried meat in his mouth was immediately bitten into pieces. He chewed it twice and swallowed it. Zhao Yun took the gentian gun from the guard and got on his horse.

"Iitomi Komasa died in battle, and the Xia Kingdom's army may come after him, Takeda-sama! We must leave as soon as possible, return to Heian-kyo, and cooperate with the Oda army to repel the Xia Kingdom's cavalry that has penetrated deeply alone!"

bang bang bang-

Arrows poured down like a torrential rain, covering less than half of the Japanese army's ashigaru. Most of them hit the wooden shields, but some passed through the gaps or fell into the crowd from above, causing a spray of blood.

The anger at being robbed of his name has not subsided yet.

"Break camp and return to Ping An Jing!"

At the moment when the three of them urged their horses to follow, Takeda Shingen, the three of them, and even the rest of the group were gathering outside the camp. A dull sound came to the ears of the Ashigaru and Akabei soldiers who were about to leave.

Five miles southwest of the Takeda army who broke camp and left.

Zhao Yun took out the dry food from his belt and took a bite. Bai Sensen's teeth bit off the hard half of the dried meat. "After traveling for several days, even if I rest for a night, I will still be exhausted. I will slip them away and wear down their morale and physical strength!"

Itagaki Nobukata, who commanded Ashigaru, hurriedly rode back from the front line and persuaded: "Takeda-sama, be careful of fraud. Maybe the other party is luring us to attack——"

"Don't the Xia Kingdom's cavalry need to rest? Ganlihutai, Zhujiaohuding, bring the red army and join me to kill!"

"No wait, we will save these eight thousand Japanese pirates from running into their city!"

Having said this, Takeda Shingen took a deep breath and then stood up slowly.

Takeda Shingen deeply agreed with what Itagaki Nobukata said. The Xia people are cunning, and the Chinese civil and military forces are even more cunning. If they pursue at this time, there is no guarantee that the other side will have an army waiting to be ambushed on the way. His elite.

Or perhaps, the other party had another group of troops waiting for an opportunity, waiting for him to lead the Red Army to leave, and then took the opportunity to attack the Ashigaru team.

"Then ignore this Xia cavalry and leave immediately!"

After weighing the situation, Takeda Shingen decided to give up the idea of ​​competing with the other party. After all, he joined forces with the Oda army and first defeated the Xia Kingdom's troops who had penetrated deeply alone, and then relied on Heian Kyo and the two urn fortresses to firmly hold back the Xia Kingdom. Army, when they run out of food, the battlefield will turn around.

After his order was issued, Itagaki Nobukata, Amari Koyasu, and Morokaku Kosada didn't have any objections. They immediately ordered the Red Army cavalry to leave first. As for the Ashigaru Army, they could only abandon the injured soldiers and follow the Red Guards. Beijun hurried behind him.

However, the Xia cavalry who had left not long ago came back half an hour later. Just like before, they started shooting on horseback and fired at the ashigaru who had fallen behind and had only a bamboo spear as a weapon.

Before the Red Bei Army could detach a cavalry team and attack from the front, these white-horse rebels fired a hail of arrows and fled again.

Over and over again, the three thousand ashigaru who originally broke camp and left, after several harassments, suffered more than a thousand casualties. However, Takeda Shingen's red army had many war horses, but they did not dare to attack at will, and sent fewer people. , afraid of being ambushed, so if you don't send out, you will be constantly harassed.

If Ashigaru is protected, it will delay the return to Heian Kyo. Completely and completely trapped in passivity.

"These Xia cavalry... are simply too hateful!" Zhu Jiaohuding shouted in frustration in the team.

Amari Kotaei also showed concern: "Master Takeda, if this continues sooner or later, we will be defeated by them. It is better to give up... the Ashigaru team and go with all our strength, or lead the Akabe team to have a showdown with the Natsu Kingdom cavalry here!"

Takeda Shingen looked back and saw that the Ashigaru team hanging far behind was in a state of panic and had lost fighting morale.

It has become a complete burden.

He took a deep breath and nodded: "The viper pincers the hand, the strong man removes the wrist!"

Perhaps knowing that Takeda Shingen-sama in front was going to abandon them, the remaining Ashigaru troops, who were only in their early 1,000s, ran wildly crying for their fathers and mothers. However, the advancing Akabe army had no intention of stopping, and rode their horses. Whistling away.

Soon, Hakuba Yoshitsune, who returned again, saw the Japanese soldiers no longer in formation on the field. Zhao Yun lifted them up casually, and two teams of cavalry surrounded him on both sides, following the Ashigaru troops escaping in the field one after another. The massacre of one.

Zhao Yun stuck the gentian gun next to him, looked at the killings in the field, moved his knuckles, and heard a slight crisp sound.

"A strong man who has broken his wrist still knows a lot!" He turned his head, his eyes slid to the corner of his eyes and looked in another direction, "Where are Marquis Wen's cavalry?"

"Already detoured to the south." The messenger answered truthfully.

In fact, shooting arrows back and forth is not only a tiring tactic, but also slowing down the main force of Takeda Shingen. As early as Zhao Yun carried out the second wave of harassment, he had already received a reply from Lu Bu.

After roughly understanding the opponent's position, he consciously or unconsciously began to intimidate the Japanese army and drive them southward.

"Marquis Wen also has 2,000 cavalry on his side. Excluding the wounded, I still have 1,920 cavalry. I should be able to defeat him."

As he spoke, to the east at this time, 2,500 Red Army cavalry were running non-stop, and 1,500 horse archers were running on both wings.

As a cavalry archer, the reason for being on the left and right is to have better space for roaming.

Along the way, he was no longer harassed by Xia Guo's hateful cavalry. Seeing that he was approaching the boundary of Heian Kyo, Takeda Shingen finally felt a little more relaxed.

Once they enter Heian-kyo, there are soldiers and horses in the city to support them, and the Oda army can also support them. They no longer have to fight alone and worry about being ambushed on the way.

Rumble!
It was like thunder suddenly ringing in his ears. At first, the old man thought it was the sound of his own cavalry running, but as a war-experienced daimyo, he could sometimes distinguish something from the sound of horse hooves.

"Master Takeda, look over there!" The attendants around the old man suddenly reminded loudly.

Takeda Shingen's eyelids twitched, and he turned his head to look south on the running horse. A black torrent was twisting out from the foot of a hill over there.

The red horse rushed out like lightning, its cloak spread out with a roar, and the halberd dragged upside down on the ground, kicking up streaks of dust.

Behind the opponent were densely packed string-controlled wolf cavalry, two thousand in total, rising and falling as they advanced. Their churning iron hooves dug into the soil, and when they stepped out, they turned up the mud and made a deafening sound of hoofbeats.

"Japanese pirates, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Lu Bu's voice echoed throughout the sky.

At that moment, murderous intent filled the field!
The iron hoofs almost shattered the ground, and the roar they caused made the earth tremble. His red cloak fluttered, and above the running horse with flying red clouds, Lu Bu hung his halberd, turned his bow, clasped an arrow, and shined in the distance to the east. A group of Japanese cavalry were running, and an arrow was fired at them.

The arrow left the string and made a sound like a whistling wind. Grass clippings and dust on the ground were instantly lifted up, forming a hurricane shape visible to the naked eye along with the arrow.

Among the running Red Army horse archers, two people were instantly pierced by arrows, causing a cloud of blood in the sky. They still shot three more people without stopping, until the seventh person was crucified together with their horses. , almost crossing more than half of the cavalry team.

"Keep going, cum as you go!"

Takeda Shingen was in the middle of the Red Bei cavalry. He saw the figure of the speeding red robe and red horse, and he had probably guessed the identity of the other party.

——Flying General Lu Bu!
At this time, Zhukakusada, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and his archers had separated from their formation, probably to hold back Takeda Shingen. At the same time, Zhukakusada had already wanted to compete with Lu Bu.

Among the Four Heavenly Kings, he has the highest martial arts, the greatest strength, and the shortest temper.

"They are all afraid of you, but I'm not afraid!"

The horned tigers galloped forward to meet the figure carried by the red horse that was also charging ahead.

Almost at this moment, Takeda Shingen turned his head and glanced, picked up the military accessories in his hand, and waved it away among the team.

The secret technique of the legion: red-ready elites!
This is a rare secret technique that can improve the arm strength and range of the archers under their command.

……

"Hahaha! Japanese pirates, I was worried that you wouldn't come!"

The wind blew across the field, the cloak fluttered behind him, the long golden crown swayed gently, and a figure wearing an animal face and a head-swallowing chain armor let out a heroic laugh on horseback. Lu Bu inserted the bow in his hand back and took it again. Guo Fangtian drew a halberd, hanging diagonally on the side of the horse. When the tip of the halberd scratched the soil, his voice was heroic.

"I am Jiuyuan Lu Fengxian——"

Fei Yan Hong Yun Ma seemed to have sensed his master's fighting spirit. He neighed loudly and increased his speed again. He threw out the String Controlling Wolf Rider dozens of feet behind him. Faced with the rain of arrows fired from there, he rushed directly towards the crowd of nearly a thousand people. Among the horse archers.

A man and a horse leaped into the air, shouting loudly.

"——Who can stop me!"

Bah bah bah bah...

Countless flying arrows were shot away by the dancing halberds. The flying red cloud horses crashed into the scattered group of Red Bei Army horse archers. Countless arms holding the bows were severed by the swung halberds. , with blood lines and bows in hand, they all lifted into the sky. A Japanese knight who was still riding and shooting lost his arm at some point. After running a few steps, severe pain hit him, and he was suddenly on horseback. He let out a heartbreaking scream from behind, then fell off his horse and was trampled to death by a horse from behind.

Lu Bu, who collided with the horse archers, waved his halberd wildly. The churning air waves could push a person's body off the horse's back and disintegrate in mid-air. Zhujiao Huding, who was charging on horseback with a large spear, had just rushed to Lu Bu. The weapon was knocked away directly in front of him. Lu Bu didn't even know that this man was a Japanese general. Just like killing other Japanese soldiers, he casually hit the opponent's thin medium-sized armor with a halberd. The copper and wood on it were The spliced ​​armor pieces shattered directly, and there was a sound of shattering bones in the chest.

Zhujiao Huding's rough face froze, and his entire chest almost collapsed. He flew out like a cannonball, spraying blood mist in the air, and rolled into a bunch of bloody gourds on the ground.

At the same time, the two thousand string-controlled wolf cavalry following Lu Bu fired their bows at the horse archers of the Red Army in the field. As soon as they made contact, they suffered a huge loss. Unexpectedly, the opponent's attack The shooting range was higher than mine. After cruising for a while, they turned into more than a dozen small teams. They raised their spears or pulled out the sabers on their waists, approaching the opponent from all directions with a surge of horse archers and engaging in close-range melee combat.

On the other side of the battlefield, Takeda Shingen, with the remaining 3,500 Red Army cavalry and 500 archers, had escaped from the outflanking of the Xia Kingdom generals in the south. When he turned around, he saw that the horned tigers must have been beaten away. The scene suddenly made his heart tremble. He knew that Zhujiaohu would have no chance to survive.

He looked around, closed his eyes slightly, and yelled: "Drive!"

The remaining Itagaki Nobukata and Amari Kotaishi had tears in their eyes and were filled with grief and anger. However, they also understood that they were now on the verge of a desperate situation. If they turned around to save them, the chasing Xia cavalry behind them would definitely catch up. Once the only troops on both sides Alone, that is a situation where the entire army is annihilated.

"The death of Zhujiaohuding in battle is full of glory!"

Takeda Shingen, between the two, said something on the ground while riding forward.

However, someone suddenly reined in his horse in front, and there was a sound of war horses neighing. Takeda Shingen hurriedly reined in his horse and stopped, shouting in a low voice: "What's going on?"

Ganli Hutai urged his horse to rush forward. Before he could say anything, he saw an infantry formation of more than a thousand people at the front of the cavalry.

A black man wearing black armor and holding a snake spear eight feet long ran out of the formation, throwing out a beautiful and elegant ball, raising smoke and dust.

"Japanese pirates, do you know your Grandpa Zhang?"

The leopard's head is ringed with eyes, and its sound is like thunder.

(End of this chapter)