Bright Spring

Pingan selected another young general, and beckoned him over: "Choose a follower, go back to the camp immediately, and report the situation here to General Sheng."

The young general asked: "Do you want the Chinese army to send reinforcements?"

Pingan said: "There is no need to say anything. General Sheng has a large number of people and spreads his scouts far away. He can control the overall situation, so we don't need to talk too much."

The young general clasped his fists and said, "Decree. Finally, I will take my leave."

The army prepared for a while and set off again.Ping'an led his army south along the river bank for a while, and met the people sent by the scouts.So the scouts led everyone to the shallow water.All the tribes waded across the river one after another and traveled to the west bank.

Less than half an hour later, Ping An got the position of the rest of the Japanese army from the mouth of the scouts, and led the army to follow the road.

After the Japanese army left the West Bank, they changed their way and continued to march south.They should also know that fleeing north is a dead end, and there is a peninsula terrain over there.However, the main force of the Japanese infantry was obviously unable to escape the pursuit of the cavalry on its own.

The place where the Ming army cavalry found most of the Japanese army was near a low-lying depression.There are mountains and forests on the east and west sides of this flat field, but the mountains here are not big or high.

From a distance, some Japanese troops are going up the mountain, and several long queues can be seen on the hillside.There are still some people at the foot of the mountain, guarding a green paddy field, and behind the paddy field, there are infantry teams, perhaps hundreds of people.

Ping An observed for a while, and saw the Japanese camp at the foot of the mountain, with paddy fields on three sides and mountains and forests on the east side; there was only a narrow ridge in the middle of the paddy fields, and there should be water and silt under the paddy fields, and it was impossible for people or horses to run in the paddy fields.

"Go and call the Zuo Heng No. [-] and No. [-] General Banner Teams over there, walk along the woods at the foot of the mountain, touch the backs of those enemy soldiers, and immediately charge and kill them." Ping An ordered.

"Order!"

Pingan said again: "Leave three general flag teams here, waiting at the front of the field ridge, waiting for an opportunity to attack in a single file and rush across the field ridge. The rest go to the forest to support."

All the troops gathered on the south side of a paddy field one after another. The soldiers all got off their horses and stood on the ground watching the scene at the foot of the mountain.The paddy field in front is composed of many small paddy fields, and there are irregular field roads in the middle, but they are all relatively narrow.The distance between the two armies was nearly two hundred steps, beyond the range of bows and arrows.

The air in the afternoon was very clean, and the line of sight was very clear, and the movements of both sides could be roughly seen clearly.All the way, the Ming army moved around from the foot of the mountain, and the Japanese army probably saw it, because they were dispatching infantry and entering the forest to the south.

Not long after, horrible screams and shouts were faintly heard in the woods.But people in the distance can't see clearly, and don't know what's going on inside.

After waiting for a while, a column of cavalry rushed out of the woods and attacked the enemy behind the rice fields.The sound of strings continued, and the cavalry had been divided into small groups, running in|out and back and forth between the woods and the dry wasteland and crop fields.

Pointing to a flag next to the field ridge, Pingan said: "The small flag team over there, set off with shields and attack in single file."

"The last general has an order!" A general clasped his fists, then raised his cherry gun and shouted, "Brothers, kill!"

The ten riders rushed up to the ridge, and jogged forward in a sparse formation along the path.The first rider rushed to about a hundred paces, immediately patted his horse and accelerated, shouting and rushing over.A burst of arrows flew in the air, and after a while, the cavalry company was hit by many arrows and fell into the rice field.The horse also neighed from the arrow and stepped into the rice.

The second rider then rushed up, and the arrow fell off the horse again, and the empty horse ran along the path and across the rice field.

"Ah!" A sergeant beside Pingan clenched his fist and nervously hammered his palm.But Ping An remained unchanged and waited quietly.The people in the rice fields were not dead, they were still struggling to walk back in the mud.The Zhengri Army Division is the elite of the Beijing camp and is very well equipped; the cavalry are all wearing iron armor, and it seems that they have not been shot at the vitals.

The second small flag team also went up to Tiankan and set off one after another with their guns and shields.

At this moment, two groups of Ming army cavalry in the distance rushed to the side of the rice field one after another, and the Japanese archers were chased and fled in all directions.The cavalry on Ping'an's side took advantage of the situation and rushed over.A group of Japanese infantry shouted and rushed towards Tian Kan.Under the yelling of the generals, the squads of the Ming army quickly gathered into a slightly larger group of horses, and then went straight to the back of the Japanese reinforcements.

The scene gradually became chaotic, and more and more Ming army cavalry rushed through the rice fields along the narrow field ridge path.

Pingan also rushed over, and he led his soldiers to a group of messy Japanese troops that hadn't dispersed yet.A group of iron horses rushed into the flock as if rushing into the flock, and quickly drove out a path, swinging the iron ax safely, the impact of the heavy ax was too strong, no one could parry it.The round shield in his left hand was also forged iron, and occasionally he blocked the Japanese sword and directly broke the enemy's sword.

"Dang!" Ping An lightly held an iron round shield to fend off a Japanese sword, and the warrior staggered beside him.In an instant, Heian's body was hung on the horse, and while throwing the round shield, he twisted the armor of the samurai and lifted him up.With a hiss, the war horse shook violently and rushed out diagonally.

"General Ping, a large group of enemy troops have come down from the mountain!" Someone shouted.

Ping An looked up, turned his head and said, "Ming Jin withdraws."

"Decree!" The soldiers responded.

Ping An tapped the neck of the warrior in his arms with the back of the axe, and shouted while galloping: "Nanfang! Take the injured brother who is still alive, and let's go!"

The cavalry around shouted in unison: "The whole army retreats south!"

The columns rushing to kill gradually closed towards the banner and rushed into the forest one after another.In the arbor forest in Japan, the trees seem to grow very sparsely, and there is no obstacle for the cavalry to run through the forest.

All the troops patted their horses and withdrew from the battlefield one after another, leaving a certain distance from the foot of the mountain before reining in safely.

Pingan turned his horse's head, looked around the nearby mountain, and said: "Guard the high ground, it is easy to be besieged, and you will die in one place."

The general asked, "General Ping, are we going to surround this mountain?"

Ping An was stunned and said, "How can hundreds of people surround us? Hurry up and find a place with easy access to set up camp, and keep an eye on the Japanese army first. In case they have other reinforcements, we can wait for the opportunity to retreat."

The general hurriedly said: "The general is wise."

Ping An threw the fainted warrior in his arms under the horse, and said, "Wake up, who can speak bird language, is he dead?"

After a while, a man without armor came on horseback, got off his horse and saluted Ping An.

Ping An swaggered on the horseback and said, "Excuse me, where are they going?"

The man murmured, but the samurai remained silent and ignored him.

Pingan said again: "Tell him that we have captured no less than a hundred people. Ask him one last time, if others tell the news first, they will cut off his hands and feet and feed them to the dogs."

Not long after, the translator reported safety: "These troops are the defenders of Shima County, and they have received an order to withdraw from Ouchi Sheng. They will retreat to the valley at the southern foot of Mount Bofu, where they will build multiple defenses. Defensive roads. The younger one asked him where Mount Hafuku was. He said that the east side of this place is the only road leading to the plains of Kasuya County."

Pingan was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Send three messengers to tell General Sheng that we are going to the valley south of Bofu Mountain. Send a small flag team to send the wounded soldiers to the camp to find their brothers. Gather the brothers and set off."

The people around were all surprised.Because the time for Ping An to make a decision is too short, it is easy for ordinary people to feel that it is child's play.

A general said: "What about the enemy troops trapped on the mountain?"

Pingan said: "That's something the Japanese generals are considering."

The general asked again: "What about the prisoners?"

Ping An said: "The ones wearing armor were cut down, and the ones with bamboo pieces were released."

Chapter 8 Ten Cherry Blossoms in Hakata (1)

At dusk, in the Ming army camp by the sea, Sheng Yong had received two reports from the Eastern Front.

Regarding the fact that Ping'an led more than 300 cavalry to suddenly march westward, going deep into the south of Bofu Mountain, which the Ming army had not yet controlled, and the lone army, the generals thought it was a wave of war.Everyone said a few words in front of Sheng Yong.

When Sheng Yong and Ping An talked face to face, they probably had nothing good to say.But behind the scenes, Sheng Yong hardly talked about the good or bad of Ping An, and sometimes even seemed to be maintaining Ping An.

At this time, Sheng Yong seemed to be talking to himself: "We are new here, and we don't know much about the enemy's deployment. The enemy army couldn't guess the exact place where we landed, and they probably didn't make much preparations." Good. Ping An doesn’t give people a chance to breathe at all.”

The civil and military personnel in the big tent were silent for a while, and everyone seemed to not understand what Sheng Yong meant. Was it because Ping An did not give Sheng Yong a chance to breathe, or did it not give the enemy a chance to breathe?

Sheng Yong flipped through the map and the reports of various ministries, sat in the upper seat and frowned for a long time.

At this time, the scouts had found out that there were a large number of enemy troops and fortifications in the east of the official army's landing camp, in the north of Bofu Mountain and in the Xiashanmen area.Based on the information he has received so far, Sheng Yong is also speculating: the Japanese army's early intentions may be to rely on the mountain topography of the Bofu Mountain line to form an east-west confrontation with the Ming army; the Japanese army wants to take the initiative to stabilize the war and start with a war of attrition .

If he guessed right, Sheng Yong still admired the Japanese army commander a little bit, and that guy seemed to be a sensible person.On the hazy overall battlefield, both sides can't see clearly. The main general needs some experience to come up with a strategy based on the trend of the times and make use of his strengths to avoid weaknesses. There seems to be no large-scale battle in Japan for a hundred years. The commander of the Japanese army was really a talent.

Of course, Sheng Yong might be thinking too much.