Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 528 Hitting a Rock with an Egg!

On the Ming army side.After capturing this corner city, Lan Yu repeated his old tricks and drove the samurai family members to move to other cities, hoping to take advantage of the situation to seize the city.

But the neighboring Japanese daimyo already knew this trick of the Ming army. The Hatano clan, the daimyo of Yagami Castle, chose to defend the castle and ignored the fleeing Wu family. The Takeda clan, the daimyo of Gozeyama Castle, chose to leave the city. Formation, vowing to show off with the Ming army.

However, the endings of the two daimyo were the same: the Takeda family who went out of the city to form an array could not stop the elite charge of the Ming army. Lan Yu did not even mobilize a large force, and directly used the tactics of light cavalry to rush in, and easily killed the head of the Takeda family. and the Hatano clan, who defended themselves in the cage city, could not struggle for too long. After Lan Yu found that the city gate was tightly closed, he directly asked someone to bring a new weapon: the divine fire flying crow.

To put it bluntly, it uses gunpowder to propel a crow-shaped kite made of bamboo strips to achieve the purpose of launching a fire attack at an ultra-long distance.

Dozens of sacred fire flying crows were ignited at the same time, and all flew towards the "Tenshu Pavilion" of Yakami Castle.

"Everything else in the city is built low, low and shabby, but the yamen, which is used to issue orders, is built in such a showy and conspicuous way... Isn't this a sign of trouble?"

Lan Yu commented on these Japanese cities.

Hatano, the lord of Yakami Castle, was burned to death in the castle tower because of the fire.Taking advantage of the chaos in the city, the Ming army stormed the city and came down in one fell swoop.

The Ming army was so powerful that it was almost unstoppable.

However, as the number of cities occupied increased, the Ming army's offensive momentum gradually slowed down.First, those famous people later learned the lesson. Once the Ming army approached, they immediately burned the granaries and ran away, leaving the fiefdom in a mess. Second, they occupied too many cities, and they still had to leave some behind. The defenders came to manage these cities so as to maintain their retreat.

Third, Lan Yu was busy hunting down Japanese warrior nobles and sending them to Sado... The Sado gold mine was one of the focuses of the Ming Dynasty's war, but although there was a gold mine, it was useless without miners.

It just so happened that all these restless people were captured and mined, which not only prevented them from seeking opportunities to cause trouble in the rear, but also solved the urgent problem of Sado Island having no miners.

The Ming army did not continue the raid, which gave the shogunate an opportunity to react.

On May 23, the Japanese shogunate conquered the barbarians, General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and adopted the strategy of "the first battle is the decisive battle, and the battle will determine the outcome" of the monk Dogen, gathered the daimyo in Heian Kyo, and prepared to annihilate the Ming army's Azurite tribe in one fell swoop.

The Ashikaga family is now on the rise, and they are so powerful that with a single call from the top, they can gather up to [-] troops.This was already several times the size of the Ming army under Lan Yu's command. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was as his name suggests, full of ambition and thought, and wanted to give Lan Yu a fatal blow.

"Master, please advise Ashikaga to gather large forces to attack. Now the shogunate's soldiers are several times larger than our Ming army. What if Ashikaga really defeats General Lan Yu?" Yao Guangxiao and Monk Huiru went with the shogunate army. On the way, Monk Huiru was worried and found an opportunity to secretly ask Yao Guang about his filial piety.

"Haha, how can a military battle be so simple?" Yao Guangxiao laughed and didn't take it seriously.

"When two armies are fighting, it's not about which side has more people or which side can win. It also depends on the ability of the generals."

"Everyone's generals have their own differences. If the number exceeds the maximum number that one's own talents can lead, he will not be able to command as well as he can and will become a burden."

"Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin of the Han Dynasty, once said that the great ancestor Liu Bang 'could command one hundred thousand', but he himself believed that 'the more, the better'. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was nothing more than the shadow of his ancestors, and he had no talent in leading an army."

"Can it still be compared with Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty?"

"That's it." Monk Huiru sighed. "So, master, you are actually stumbling upon the shogunate. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has gathered all the power of the shogunate here. It seems that the one who will decide the outcome in a battle is my Ming Dynasty General Lan Yu! "

"That's it." Yao Guangxiao chuckled.He raised his head and looked at the sky: "The overall situation has been decided, the time is coming, it's time for us to leave."

"This dragon has been slaughtered. It's time to find the next dragon."

The two masters and apprentices found an opportunity and secretly left the shogunate's army.The two armies met at a plain called "Shinoda" and each set up their formations.

As Yao Guangxiao expected, Lan Yu was not surprised but happy when she saw the huge Japanese army of [-]. She laughed and said: "I thought that the shogunate could be such a powerful figure."

"What turned out to be a thing with a silver-like pewter spear tip, a hundred thousand troops, and their actions were delayed, and they didn't seem to be in charge of each other."

"I regard them as nothing more than a chicken or a dog!"

After that, he held a broadsword and led his troops to charge.As expected, the Japanese army was in a great uproar. As soon as the servants engaged in the battle, they suffered numerous casualties.

Lan Yu rushed forward, focusing on the Japanese generals wearing colorful armors who were fighting, and soon turned the Japanese front line into a mess.

Have the Japanese ever seen such a brave general?They all retreated in fear. Lan Yu was fighting while trying to drive them away. The shogunate Ashikaga Yoshimitsu commanded too many people. The formation was not set up yet, so he was in a hurry and had no time to react.In shock, the defeated army had already begun to attack our own army.

The Ming army fought bravely, giving Ashikaga Yoshimitsu a small shock to the Ming Dynasty.It was also the first time for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to see that an army of one hundred thousand people was so overwhelmed that it was completely defeated. Until Lan Yu was about to kill him, he still stood there stupidly, not knowing what to do.

"General, please retreat!" Yamana Tokishi stood up at this time.

"Leave this place to me, Tokishi Yamana..."

"Where is Master Doyan? Where is Master Doyan?" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was still thinking of asking Yao Guangxiao for advice.

"The situation is in chaos. Master Doyan seems to have been dispersed." Yamana Tokiji took off the glaring helmet on Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's head and put it on his own head while pushing Ashikaga Yoshimitsu: "General Go quickly, it will be too late!"

"The flag of the shogunate is here, brothers, charge forward!"

"People of the Ming Dynasty should not be arrogant. I am the head of the Shanming Family, the Tokishi clan of Shanming..."

Seeing that Lan Yu's voice of giving orders in Chinese could be heard, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's soul was so strong that he could no longer care about others and fled in embarrassment.

In a panic, he seemed to see Tokishi Yamana stepping forward to fight, and then being beheaded by a big man wearing a Ming army armor...

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"Damn, you killed the wrong person. This guy is not the shogun." Lan Yu stood on the slope, kicked away the head with the flamboyant helmet, and spat at it fiercely.

"I don't think there will be much hindrance. Lord Marquis, one hundred thousand Japanese troops have been dispersed by our army."

"Now that the Naraushizi shogunate has lost all its remaining power, I think it's gone."

"Let's continue to kill the generals and take away their lair." A general comforted Lan Yu.

"The Japanese are out of their minds, so they took the initiative to fight with us in the wild. If we just focus on being a tortoise, it will be difficult for us to do anything in their territory." Lan Yu's eyes narrowed slightly.

"That's all, let's focus on sweeping the four directions first. As for General Lao Shizi, it depends on the methods of His Highness the Fifth."

(End of this chapter)