Great Song Pirate

Chapter 572 Battle of Yatsushiro Castle

After hearing the news, all the generals rushed to the Shimadzu Mansion. Xu Yi took off his upper body clothes and sat on a chair. Yang Ci was standing behind him, pulling out the arrow on his shoulder. Xu Yi Gritting his teeth without making a sound, blood gushed out of the wound immediately.

Yang Ci immediately poured some hemostatic powder into his wound, pressed it with a piece of gauze, then brought the arrow up to his nose and sniffed it, then heaved a sigh of relief: "It's okay! It's just an ordinary arrow, there is no Poisonous, but the lord's arrow wound is not light, I'm afraid I won't be able to use my left arm in a month or two!"

After hearing this, everyone around him breathed a sigh of relief, and then they were relieved. Yang Ci quickly bandaged Xu Yi up. Xu Yi took the clothes handed over by the guard and put them on. Li Bo and Daniel laughed and said: "What a big deal! Is it worth it to let you do this? Isn't it just a small injury from an arrow, get up!"

Li Bo said with a face of shame: "This time, I can't forgive myself no matter what I say. I have put the lord in danger several times, but Li Bo has not been able to stop it. It is really incompetent! Please forgive me, my lord!"

Xu Yi stepped forward and grabbed Li Bo's shoulder with his right hand, pulled him up with a smile and said, "I can't blame you for this incident. I asked you to go to the yard. If you are not by my side, how can you stop it?" Did this happen? If you blame yourself like this, then I think you are too small-minded!"

"My lord! I'm all to blame for this matter. I didn't protect my lord well enough to hurt my lord. Please punish my lord!" Daniel knelt aside and said.

Xu Yi picked up Daniel again, slapped him on the head, and cursed: "It happened so suddenly, who would have thought that a damn Japanese archer would hide there? Who is by my side in this matter?" I can't stop it, stop talking nonsense, let the brothers rest tonight, count the property here tomorrow morning, and immediately transfer it to the ship, we still have things to do! No time to entangle here!"

Everyone was kicked out by Xu Yi, what should they do? After seeing no one around, Xu Yi grinned and cursed: "Damn it! It almost capsized in the gutter! This hatred I have written it down to the Japanese, and I will not give up if I don’t kill them! It hurts! Why don’t you give me some Mafeisan to numb me? Do you still want me to learn Guan Gong?”

Because of Xu Yi's accidental attack, when the Fubo army learned about it, they were very angry. All night, they could only hear the screams and howls everywhere in the inner city of Sichuan, which made Xu Yi lie on the tatami. He couldn't sleep, and the pain in his shoulder kept him sleepless all night. When he woke up in the morning, he looked very bad, not to mention pale, with dark circles under his eyes.

When he left the room, Li Bo and the others were already waiting outside. With the experience of being attacked this time, they never dared to slack off in the slightest. Li Bo even followed Xu Yi closely, never leaving. On the other hand, Yang Zaixing ordered all the servants to come over, and arrested many young and strong Japanese people to the backyard of the Shimadzu Mansion, and moved all the property hoarded here, and then the army escorted them and began to walk towards the sea. The harvest really greatly exceeded the situation of the previous few days. A Shimadzu mansion searched out tens of thousands of copper coins. In addition, a lot of gold and silver things were obtained, not counting other valuable things, so Xu Yi had more or less A little consolation, at least the arrow is worth something, so it won't be for nothing!
And when they left the inner city, behind them, a skyrocketing fire ignited. Before leaving, although they did not massacre the city, some soldiers were still angry with the Japanese, and burned the inner city of Sichuan to the ground. After burning it all, even if the escaped Shimadzu Funon came back, I'm afraid he would have to pitch a tent!
Even though the soaring fire is so far away, people still feel the burning sensation on their backs. The soaring fire in Chuannei city emits billowing thick smoke to cover the sky, and even the sea can be seen clearly. When they pretended to be When the ship left, the fire did not seem to be extinguished at all.

The Fubo army's methods made the Japanese feel fear and hatred, but there was nothing they could do about them. No one knew where their next target would be, and their strength was far from enough to fight against them all along the coast. Town defense, going out to sea to fight against them, even without a door, can only watch them swagger along the coast to the Hizen country, leaving behind scorched earth everywhere.

Although his body was injured, Xu Yi still felt in a good mood. The bad breath that had been stored in his chest since he was sensible, finally vented out during this journey.

In the days that followed, those servants who had tasted the sweetness seemed to have taken a stimulant. They rushed to the front in every battle to fight for the Fubo army. They tasted the sweetness again and again, making them almost forget this land. They were born and raised before, so it’s no wonder that these people are the lower class of Japanese society, and no nobles have treated them as human beings since they were young. Although they work under the Fubo Army, they are also of low status. They can still get some benefits and eat some leftovers, these guys feel very satisfied, and they work even harder.

Twice before Yang Zaixing ordered them to charge, they yelled and killed them on their own initiative. They were even more ruthless than the Fubo army when they killed people. Seeing that all the Fubo army members were stunned, they thought These servants seem to be really determined to create a rebellion against their lords, nobles and even the emperor.

Just like this, the number of ships in their fleet is increasing. As long as they are in better condition, they will be captured and become the cargo ships of the Fubo Army, which are specially loaded with valuables and transported Back to Tanegashima, hand it over to Diao Bin to arrange the ship to follow the route of the Ryukyu Islands, and start to gradually transfer back to Liuqiu Island’s Jilong Village, and the cabin of the ship is often filled with a large number of captured male and female Japanese slaves, like transporting pigs I don't care about them if they are comfortable or not, anyway, as long as they are still alive in Jilongzhai.

As for the unsightly Japanese boats encountered on the road, if you smash them with a few stone bullets from a ballista, these small Japanese boats will immediately become tattered, so basically all the Japanese boats are extinct on the sea they pass by. If you want to go to sea, you can only make a raft.

And the news of the burning of Chuanuchi Castle flew to the Dazaifu of Chikuzen Kingdom as if it had grown wings. Fujiwara Toshi finally realized that things might not be as simple as he had imagined at the beginning. At first, he and the ministers thought that the main purpose of the Skeleton Army came this time. It's just to get revenge on them and get some cheap money, but the news that has been continuously collected these days has knocked on their foreheads like a heavy punch.

Judging from the news, the Skeleton Army is obviously divided into two fleets, and they are departing from the coast of Osumi along the coast of Kyushu Island, wantonly starting to attack Kyushu Island, and the northern fleet did not take many days to attack all the way. Almost all the villages, towns and cities along the coast of Hyuga Kingdom killed countless people along the way, and the nobles were almost wiped out. They put together more than 5000 soldiers and horses in their Hyuga Castle and had a big battle with the pirates. The result was a crushing defeat. Even their king died in one battle. After collecting everything, they took a large number of young and strong men and women away, and continued to go north. The entire Hyuga Kingdom was in chaos, but they swaggered to Bungo Kingdom and continued to plunder along the coast of Bungo Kingdom.

And the southern branch was not slow at all. It attacked the coasts of Osumi and Satsuma all the way, and even broke their national government. One came and burned the city, causing that Shimadzu to take some of his family members to Fei. After taking refuge in Houguo, less than half of the family members were kidnapped by the skeleton army, and they were nowhere to be found. Moreover, they didn't stop fighting, and aggressively entered the Yatsushiro Sea. After cleaning up and down the islands, they headed for Higo Country.

Now there is an urgent document sent by Hojo, the lord of the Higo Kingdom, on his desk, begging Fujiwara Toshi to send troops to defend against the attack of the skeleton army. Panicked, Hojo even promised that as long as Fujiwara Toshi sends troops to rescue, the people under his jurisdiction will Higo country will donate ten beauties, two hundred swords, and more offerings to Toshi Fujiwara every year.

Fujiwara looked at the paperwork on the table, one head was eight big, and he looked at the map again, and he always felt that things might not be simple. If this continues, two skeleton army fleets will circle around Kyushu Island , and finally settled in the Chikuzen country, then his Dazaifu will become their ultimate goal. At this time, he threw away the emergency documents from Hojo. No matter how generous the conditions are, he will not care about the Higo country at this moment!

"Come here! Tell the generals of Dazaifu to discuss matters!" Toshi Fujiwara shouted loudly to the samurai at the door.

Soon the main officials of Dazaifu were summoned to the hall, knelt down on the ground, and saluted Fujiwara Jun.

Toshi Fujiwara impatiently waved them off, and asked loudly, "Pirates have been rampant recently. They are looting and looting along the coast of our West Kaido, burning, killing, and looting. What can you do?"

Everyone was frustrated when they heard this. If there was a way, they would have said it a long time ago. A few days ago, Muto led so many soldiers to take the ship out, but he was completely wiped out by the skeleton army, and only two of them escaped. Clippers, otherwise they still don't know the whereabouts of Muto!Now, none of them are going to praise Toshi Fujiwara for being wise and decisive. If he hadn't cheated and flattened the Skeleton Army called Mizumao and annoyed the Skeleton Army, things would never have happened. At this point, if he hadn't underestimated the enemy, the matter would not have reached this point, and now these people secretly complained about Fujiwara Toshi in their hearts.

Seeing that the group of people below refused to speak, Fujiwara Toshi didn't get angry, so he pointed to the Ashikaga Yoshifumi who was Dazai Shaoer at that time and said: "Ashikaga-kun, you are now an important minister of Dazaifu, what should you say?" what to do?"

After hearing this, Ashikaga Yoshiwen had no choice but to bow and reply: "Tai Shuai, from what I have seen, we should assemble the ships and troops again as soon as possible, intercept the two skeleton army fleets separately, and drive them away as soon as possible. !"

Fujiwara Jun almost turned his nose when he heard this, this is simply nonsense, if he can transfer so many ships and generals now, how can he be at a loss here?When he said that, he was looking at his own joke, so he pointed at Ashikaga and said angrily, "After the Battle of Muto, where are we transferring troops and ships now? Tell me about it?"

Ashikaga shrunk his neck, slumped his shoulders, and replied with a bitter face: "At this time, I think it's better to take a long-term plan. Now that the countries in Western Kaido are not strong enough, it is really difficult to summon a large number of warships in a short period of time, so I hope you are too handsome." Your Excellency can inform the Emperor of this situation as soon as possible, and ask the Emperor to immediately recruit soldiers to come and cooperate with us to expel the skeleton army!"

Ashikaga's words touched Fujiwara Jun's heart. At this time, it is obviously unrealistic for him to rely solely on the Western Kaido countries. This is not the same as fighting on land. They are attacking from the sea, and they are erratic. I don’t know where they will attack next. A fleet as big as Muto is free, and now it is even more impossible for them to defeat the skeleton army at sea!For the current plan, they can only report the matter to Emperor Baihe in Kyoto as soon as possible, and ask him to make a decision. It seems that his Dazaifu really can't handle this matter!

In fact, according to normal rules, Toshi Fujiwara should have reported the matter to Emperor Toba long ago, but this time he was a little afraid, because after all, tens of thousands of people were lost in the First World War. One thing that is difficult to explain, and the other is that the Fujiwara family has long been dissatisfied because the Emperor Toba has monopolized power, and Dazaifu is the power of their Fujiwara family. Under normal circumstances, Fujiwara Toshi will not easily let the Emperor Toba It is precisely for this reason that he intervened in the affairs of Xikaidao. After the destruction of the Muto fleet, he never informed the Emperor Toba of Heiankyo about this matter. He only secretly informed his father Fujiwara Jinglie. Fujiwara's scolding, but the actual problem was not solved at all.

After reaching this point, Toshi Fujiwara also knew that this matter could no longer be concealed, so he had no choice but to report the matter to Toba, and asked Toba to send troops from the north to reinforce Dazaifu, otherwise, he was really worried that he would not be able to hold on The skeleton army continues to attack!
Seeing that many people below also nodded, Fujiwara Toshi had no choice but to agree to Ashikaga Yoshifumi's suggestion, and decided to send someone to Heiankyo to report the incident here to Toba. At the same time, he ordered Ashikaga Yoshifumi to recruit soldiers as soon as possible to come The Dazaifu of the Chikuzen Kingdom has strengthened the defense here, but he also knows that it is not easy to transfer troops from various countries now. The lords of various countries are not fools. After the Muto army is finished, they all lost a lot. Raiding everywhere along the coast, they are too busy to take care of themselves, how can they continue to send troops here to help in the battle!

So he didn't have high hopes for Ashikaga, but turned to Muto Hirobumi's younger brother Muto Yori and said: "Muto-kun, you should also recruit more soldiers from the Chikuzen Kingdom as soon as possible. You must be quick. This matter is also related to the safety of your Chikuzen Kingdom. Slacking off a little bit, step up your drills for the newly recruited soldiers, and I will allocate a batch of armor for you as soon as possible to strengthen the strength of the Chikuzen Kingdom!"

Muto Yori nodded quickly. His elder brother Hirobumi Muto disappeared in World War I, and now he has become a man of the Muto family in the Chikuzen Kingdom, but now he is not happy that he is in power at all. So many warships have been destroyed, and now the surrounding lords are scornful of their Muto family, gnashing their teeth with hatred. He can't ask others, so he can only recruit some soldiers from Chikuzen as soon as possible. Fujiwara Jun's Dazaifu army is probably stronger than other lords!

In addition to arranging to send a letter to Emperor Toba in Heianjing, just to be on the safe side, Toshi Fujiwara sent another letter to his father, asking his father to also mobilize a group of soldiers from the Fujiwara family's family soldiers to go forward Come to help and strengthen the defense force here, one more person is more power!As for weapons and other items, he allocated a batch from Dazaifu's treasury to Yuri Muto to arm the recruits. Bamboo spears alone might not be able to defeat those fierce skeleton troops!

No matter how busy Fujiwara Jun was, the two fleets of Xu Yi and Sun Hai were not affected at all, and continued to plunder the coastal areas passing by separately according to the established plan. Now it is not an exaggeration to describe them as locusts. Otherwise, they would not be recorded as the disaster of skeletons by the special book of the Japanese history books in later generations. The later Japanese history books even described Xu Yi as an evil god with a green face and fangs, saying that he was once in charge of life and death among the gods He was besieged by the gods of the heavens, and he came down to the mortal world to cause harm to all beings, so he was called a sea demon, and even his god statues would be enshrined in the temples of their later generations. It is estimated that Xu Yi will be killed at this moment Unexpectedly, he actually had the opportunity to live in the temple of the Japanese people and be worshiped by them!Otherwise, Xu Yi would die laughing on the boat right now!
Ever since Xu Yi was hit by an arrow in his shoulder, his temper has become a lot more irritable. After hearing that Higo Country is an important place for the production of Japanese swords in the West Kaido, he immediately led the fleet to conquer the upper and lower islands outside Higo Country. And after a little rest in Shangxiajima, I started to tidy up Higo country.

Hojo, the lord of the Higo Kingdom, had already heard the news of the Skeleton Army's arrival at this time, and he did not dare to neglect at all. He hurriedly followed Shimadzu of the Satsuma Kingdom, and recruited a large number of civilians to join the army, and concentrated all his coastal ships in Yatsushiro County. He huddled together at the port, and made a gesture of a decisive battle with the skeleton army, and he gathered most of the soldiers and horses of the Higo Kingdom to Yatsushiro Castle, intending to fight the skeleton army here, although he sent a letter to Dazaifu, wanting to get Toshi Fujiwara's reinforcements, but he also knew that the hope was very slim, no one else could rely on him, and he had to rely on himself in the end, so he ordered the craftsmen to rush to make weapons in large numbers, and took out all the weapons and other things that had been stored, and equipped them His soldiers and horses, in this way, really allowed him to put together tens of thousands of people, and almost recruited all the young and strong men in the Higo country, which shows how much money Hojo has invested!
Xu Yi did not disappoint him either. After finding out the news, he really took the fleet to the sea outside Yatsushiro City. Hojo sent dozens of ships of various sizes to fight against him. As expected, hundreds of ships The ships are not the opponents of the Fubo Army, how useful can his dozens of ships be?As a result, as soon as the two sides met, Hojo's fleet dispersed in a hurry. Looking at the Japanese ships fleeing in all directions, Xu Yi felt too lazy to drive them away, so he only sent a few fast boats to hunt them down, and then attacked After entering Yatsushiro Port, after blasting away the Japanese people in the port, they wiped out all the Japanese boats gathered here. As a result, Hojo was busy for a long time, and the gathered boats were in vain. After hearing this, Hojo was almost so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

As for the large number of generals that Hojo concentrated in Yatsushiro Castle, after he discussed with Yang Zaixing, Yang Zaixing's infantry landed, served as a bait, and went to fight. Afterwards, the two sides fought outside the city. He looked like he led his troops to retreat towards the port, which made Hojo so happy that he chased after him and chased Yang Zaixing's infantry to the port. In the end, it turned out to be the fleet that had already been waiting here. The target of the Hojo army, who didn't know how deep they were, rushed into the port with wild shouts, and tried to shoot arrows to attack the Fubo army ships on the pier, and even planned to snatch some warships, but was immediately attacked by the Fubo army. beat.

The ships that had already been prepared were lined up along the edge of the port, and all the firepower was concentrated on the shore. For a while, artillery, ballistas, swarms of rockets and other things were greeted. As a result, his soldiers and horses immediately became a mess and became a mess.

Hojo finally tasted the power of the Fuba Army, and quickly gathered his soldiers and horses, and began to retreat in the direction of Yatsushiro Castle. Breaking out from the two wings, a massacre began on the already chaotic Hojo army. After several battles, these servants also increased their combat power greatly, and became veterans of the war. Those servants still gathered more than 1000 people, and they rushed into the Hokage army like wolves and tigers, and they were quite imposing, killing the retreating Hokjo army and turning them on their backs.

The servant army is like this, not to mention Yang Zaixing's guards, this battle-hardened tiger-wolf division is like entering no man's land, killing several in and out of the Beitiao army, and destroying them. The Hojo army was divided into several pieces, and then their retreat was cut off. The Hojo army was eaten one by one, and the corpses near Yatsushiro Port were killed. Only Hojo fled the battlefield under the desperate escort of a group of personal soldiers.

This guy saw that the army he had managed to assemble was easily eaten by the skeleton army in one fell swoop, and he knew that the general situation was over. He was so scared that he didn't even dare to enter the Yatsudai City, and fled around the city while it was getting dark. tracked.

(End of this chapter)