Vol 2 Chapter 2344: The Great Victory of Bungo

Chapter 2344 The Great Victory of Bungo

 Chapter 2340: The Great Victory of Bungo

At this time, outside the Japanese army camp, Wang Jian had led his army and completely blocked the gate.

Seeing that the fire in the camp was getting bigger and bigger, Wang Jian asked the crossbowmen to aim at the gate of the camp. After the cavalry who had entered the camp withdrew, he shot every Japanese soldier who came out.

After a while, two generals, Yue Yun and Mi Houwang, led their troops to withdraw one after another.

Wang Jian hurried up to greet them and asked, "Have everyone withdrawn?"

Yue Yun looked confident: "They must have all withdrawn."

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldier interjected: "General, Wang San and his team didn't follow us. I'm afraid they got lost."

"What?"

Yue Yun was startled and quickly said to Wang Jian: "General, I will go and respond right now."

Having said that, Yue Yun did not give Wang Jian a chance to refuse, so he turned back and charged into the camp again single-handedly. Soon after, he successfully rescued fifteen cavalrymen.

After Wang Jian took stock, he found that there were 700 cavalry in total when he entered the camp, and there were 665 cavalry when he came out. Only 35 of them died in the night attack.

 Such casualties are nothing compared to the results achieved.

 “Very good, well done.”

Wang Jian patted Yue Yun on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I will ask the governor for you.

By the way, write down the names of the soldiers who died in the battle. They are all heroes. Even if their bones cannot be brought back for burial, at least a tomb must be built for them.

The governor told me that after the conquest of Japan is over, a temple will be built in both the Central Plains and the Japanese country to worship the soldiers who died in the Japanese war, so that the people of the Central Plains and the Japanese country can worship them and immortalize the heroes. "

“This general has also heard about it, and it seems that it was our Majesty’s idea that the temple in the Central Plains be named Chung Yee Shrine, while the temple in the Japanese country is called the Yasukuni Shrine.” Yue Yun said.

Mi Houwang smiled evilly and said: "I have to say, this trick is absolutely amazing, it kills people and kills people."

 “That’s right.”

Chen Tang nodded and said in a deep voice: "To the Japanese people, we are the invaders, but Your Majesty wants the people of the Japanese country to worship the soldiers who died in the invasion at the Yasukuni Shrine established by the Japanese country. After tens or hundreds of years, the Japanese will naturally forget this hatred."

As soon as Chen Tang finished speaking, there was a cry of killing at the entrance of the camp.

As the fire got bigger and bigger, if the Japanese soldiers in the camp did not want to be burned to death, they had no choice but to run outside the camp to avoid the fire. But when they came out, they were greeted by a hail of arrows.

The terrain at the entrance of the Japanese army camp was flat, with almost no cover, and the Japanese soldiers did not carry shields. They just ran out in a swarm, and they were no different from living targets.

Under the bursts of fire from the Qin army's crossbowmen, none of the Japanese soldiers who rushed out of the camp gate could run more than 50 meters, and they all fell on the road to escape.

The Japanese soldiers hiding in the rear saw that the Qin army's crossbows were so sharp that rushing out was like seeking death, so they all retreated.

 Some Japanese soldiers found shields and planned to try charging them again, while others were in the fire camp, looking for places where the flames had not spread to ward off the fire.

 In short, use every possible means to escape.

Wang Jian led his men to guard the gate of the camp, and shot every Japanese soldier who came out. Even those Japanese soldiers with shields were still unable to withstand the sharp crossbow arrows of the Qin army. The only difference was that the arrows consumed more.

 Two hours later, the sky began to gradually get brighter, but the fire in the camp was not extinguished. It had been burning for a long time, but no Japanese soldiers ran out of it anymore.

At this time, the corpses of Japanese soldiers were already covered in front of the camp gate. In order to fight for the slightest chance of survival, they rushed out one after another and eventually all died tragically under Qin Nu.

Wang Jian pointed to the mountain of corpses in front of him and said calmly: "Chen Dao, you lead a team of people to clean up the battlefield. If there are people still alive in the pile of corpses, cut them with a knife to end their suffering, and then throw all the corpses into the fire camp. Burn them on site to prevent the spread of the plague."

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Chen Dao led three hundred soldiers and began to rummage among the corpses. He soon discovered the Japanese soldiers who used corpses to block arrows and then pretended to be dead corpses in an attempt to get through.

In this regard, Chen Dao naturally turned them into real corpses. After all, the vanguard army with only 3,000 people would never accept the surrender of any Japanese army.

“General, the inventory has been completed. The corpses of Japanese soldiers outside the camp, totaling 4,063, have been thrown into the fire camp and burned.” Chen Daohui reported.

After listening to the report, Wang Jian didn't say anything, but Yue Yun said: "There are only more than four thousand? If you put it that way, nearly two thousand Japanese soldiers died in the sea of ​​​​fire."

The main task of Yue Yun's army to attack the Japanese camp was to create chaos, not to kill the enemy. The casualties caused to the Japanese army were not actually large. They killed only a thousand people at most, and less than 1,000 people. Those two thousand Japanese soldiers were obviously burned to death in the fire.

In this way, Wang Jian used a night attack with 3,000 vanguard troops and wiped out more than 7,000 Japanese troops in one night, but only twenty-five people were killed.

 Such a record was too beautiful to say, but Wang Jian was obviously not satisfied. His goal was to have the other two armies of the Maori family.

“Our army fought last night and completely wiped out the Maori family’s left army. It is impossible for Maori Motoharu to not notice such a big move.”

Wang Jian's eyes were full of wisdom, and he stroked his long beard and said confidently: "If my prediction is correct, in one and a half hours at most, the Maori family's right-leg army will definitely come here to investigate, and our army can stop halfway. Conduct an ambush."

As he spoke, Wang Jian took out the map, pointed to the angle between the two mountains, and said with a smile: "And the terrain here is just right for an ambush."

Hearing this, Chen Tang, Chen Dao, Xue Dingshan and other generals looked at each other, feeling that this was too much of a coincidence.

Did Wang Jian calculate the location in advance, specifically choose the Japanese army to camp here, take the opportunity to attack the Maori left army at night, and then ambush the right army?

 Or is it all just a coincidence?

 If it’s the latter, then they are really lucky.

But if it was the former, the generals would not dare to imagine that this man with an unknown reputation would be so terrifying. He must be so powerful.

"But if we want to fight an ambush, our army has no time to prepare materials such as rocks, rolling wood, and we don't have kerosene. If we only rely on arrows, it will definitely not be enough." Xue Dingshan added.

To fight an ambush, you need more than just bows and arrows. Stones and rolling wood are also necessary, and they are even more useful than bows and arrows.

These things are not difficult to obtain, and they can be found everywhere in the Japanese country. Just find a hilltop and move rocks and chop down trees. It just takes time to prepare. After all, there is a lot of these materials, and the Qin army just doesn't have time to prepare now.

 As for arrows? Although many of the arrows fired in the previous battle were recovered and continued to be used, many were damaged. In addition, many were fired close to the fire camp and burned, so now the Qin army's arrows It’s no longer enough.

After hearing what Xue Dingshan said, Wang Jian smiled and said: "There is no need to worry about this. When I passed by here two days ago, I ordered Yue Yun to prepare supplies in advance."

As soon as these words came out, all the generals looked at Yue Yun, and Yue Yun looked like he was suddenly enlightened.

“I see, Uncle Wang, the preparations made two days ago turned out to be for today.”

The generals looked at each other in shock, but their hearts were already in turmoil.

The stone was hammered, Wang Jian had indeed calculated in advance, and even came to collect the ambush supplies, and then he dared to use 3,000 vanguard troops to fight against the 20,000-strong army.

As expected by Wang Jian, one and a half hours later, Fukuhara Sadatoshi's right-leg army arrived, even in time. The camp of the Maori Left Route Army was burned down by Wang Jian and burned all night long. The whole sky was illuminated by the fire. The Maori sentry was not blind, so it was impossible to turn a blind eye.

After receiving the report from the sentinel, Maori Motoharu immediately realized that the situation was not good, and decisively ordered the right route army to go to the rescue. The reason why he did not let the Chinese army go with him was naturally because he was afraid that this was a plan by the Qin army to divert the tiger away from the mountain.

After all, after the vanguard of the Qin Army invaded Bungo Kingdom, their retreat was cut off by Motoharu Mouri. If they wanted to avoid being encircled and annihilated, they had to move forward bravely and continue to rush forward with a narrow escape.

  If Mouri Motoharu withdraws the Chinese army at this time, it will be equivalent to giving the Qin army who cannot retreat a chance to safely withdraw to Chizen State. Now that they have paid such a high price, it is naturally impossible for Mouri Motoharu to let Wang Jian withdraw.

What Mao Li Yuanchun didn't know was that what he thought was expected by Wang Jian, and he also took advantage of his character flaws.

If he gave up encircling and annihilating the Qin army at this time and combined his forces to withdraw, even Wang Jian would not be able to deal with him. However, he wanted to completely annihilate the Qin army, which gave Wang Jian the opportunity to plot against him.

On a mountaintop somewhere, Yue Yun was holding a telescope and carefully observing the distance.

When he saw the Japanese army coming into view, Yue Yun immediately said excitedly: "Uncle Wang, you guessed it right again. The Japanese army is indeed here, and there are quite a lot of them. There are seven thousand-man brigades."

Chen Tangmi, Houwang and other generals looked at each other, now they were completely convinced by Wang Jian.

"General, the Japanese army has entered the ambush circle, let's start the battle." Mi Houwang said anxiously.

"Not in a hurry."

Wang Jian smiled calmly: "When all the Japanese troops enter the ambush circle, first drop huge rocks to completely cut off their heads and tails, and then throw out all the prepared stone rolls and logs, and wait until all the arrows are fired before killing them out."

As soon as these words came out, Yue Yun and other generals who couldn't bear it all became dumbfounded. If Wang Jian really followed Wang Jian's approach, this battle would not be any challenging.

 Then, boom, boom, boom...

A large number of boulders fell, directly blocking the front and rear of the Japanese army. A large number of soldiers who had no time to escape were smashed into pulp by the falling boulders.

Fukuhara Sadatoshi, the commander-in-chief of the Maori Right Army, was one of the Four Maori Samurai. Seeing this, it was hard to tell that he was in an ambush.

But he really couldn't figure it out. The Qin Army's vanguard only had a total of 3,000 men. Since they had already attacked the left army at night, how could they use the time to prepare for an ambush on his right army?

 The ambush is right in front of you, and Fukuhara Sadatoshi cannot afford to think too much.

Now that the front and rear roads are blocked by a large number of boulders, and the ambush soldiers on the mountain are constantly throwing stones and rolling logs, all Fukuhara Sadatoshi can do is to stabilize the morale of the army as much as possible, and then command the army to remove the stones blocking the road.

Wang Jian saw that the Japanese army was not in complete chaos due to the ambush. Instead, under the command of Fukuhara Sadatoshi, they lifted stones and prepared to use manpower to clear a way out. So he decisively asked the crossbowmen to aim at the Japanese who were carrying the stones. soldiers to prevent the Japanese army from actually clearing the road.

Two hours later, the Qin army finally threw away all the stone shrubs and shot all the arrows, but the trapped Japanese army was not completely wiped out.

Under the command of Fukuhara Sadatoshi, the Japanese army used thrown stones and rolled logs to avoid arrows. Nearly half of them were still alive, and half of them were seriously injured and had no strength to fight anymore.

 Dong, dong, dong…

As the last boulder was moved away, the Japanese army finally cleared a path, but what was waiting for them at the rear was not a way out, but thousands of Qin troops waiting for work.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers whose faces were full of despair, Chen Tang showed no haste in his eyes. He waved his spear coldly and shouted: "Kill them all."

"kill."

Thousands of Qin soldiers swarmed forward, like melons chopping vegetables. They quickly killed all the Japanese soldiers in front, and directly attacked into the valley, starting another round of massacre.

 “Assistant…”

"No, don't kill me, I surrender..."

 “Devils, you are the devils…”

 In the valley, the pitiful screams of the Japanese soldiers rang out.

Because of the language barrier, the Qin soldiers didn't pay any attention at all. Regardless of whether they begged for mercy or not, they all were hacked to death.

Looking at the tragic situation in front of him, Fukuhara Sadatoshi felt despair and self-blame. Then he knelt on a large bluestone, pulled out the Japanese sword from his waist, and pointed it at his abdomen.

"My lord, I am incompetent, so I can only commit seppuku and die to atone for my sin."

After finishing speaking, Fukuhara Sadatoshi rushed over to Yue Yun and Xue Dingshan and roared: "You butchers will not end well. I will wait for you in hell."

After saying that, Fukuhara Sadatoshi pierced the abdomen with a knife, and then cut the entire abdomen with a knife. However, he did not die immediately. Instead, he stared at Yue Yun and Xue Dingshan without closing his eyes.

Yue Yun was touched when he saw this and asked, "Dingshan, what did this Japanese pirate just say?"

"The speech was too fast, so I didn't understand it very well, but I guess even if I die, it won't make things easier for us." Xue Dingshan said lightly.

"cut."

Yue Yun curled his lips disdainfully and said coldly: "He is just a coward who would rather commit suicide than die in battle. He deserves it."

 “Let’s go, it’s time to clean up and report to the general.”

Three hours later, the war was completely over. The Qin army once again annihilated the 7,000 Maori army at the cost of fifty people killed in battle, and fought another nearly complete victory.

"Withdraw your troops immediately and rest for two days. Two days later, we will fight to the death with Maori Yuanchun." Wang Jian said with a smile on his face.

“General, tell me how to fight this time.”

Yue Yun asked with an expectant look on his face. After two consecutive big victories and annihilating twice as many enemy troops, he already had some blind confidence in Wang Jian.

Not only Yue Yun, but also Xue Dingshan, Chen Tang and other generals felt that Wang Jian was a buried famous general, and his commanding ability was not even worse than that of the general Bai Qi.

 But this time Wang Jian’s answer exceeded everyone’s expectations.

"We don't need to plan this time. We will use the vanguard army of less than three thousand to fight the Maori Yuanchun battle head-on." Wang Jian said.

When Yue Yun and other generals heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then they all showed confident smiles.

They have completely wiped out both the left and right armies of Mouri, leaving only Motoharu Motoharu's central army. Even though the number is still twice as many as their own, they are not afraid at all. They are completely sure that they can defeat their opponents head-on. It is Motoharu Motoharu who is afraid. .

 Three days later, Zhou Yu, who was left far behind, received good news from the vanguard army.

 “Report...to report to the Grand Governor, Bungo’s great victory.

Under the command of General Wang Jian (Jian), the 3,000 soldiers of the vanguard army not only won consecutive battles, but also wiped out enemy forces twice their size three times.

 In the first battle, he killed Tsuyoshi Kuchiha, Fukuhara Sadatoshi in the second battle, and Motoharu Mouri was captured alive in the third battle..." the communications soldier reported with excitement.

 (End of this chapter)