"I almost lost my life..."
Imagawa Yoshimoto, who finally escaped from the Edo formations, let out a long sigh. Next to him, Kira Usei and Tian Shen Kentaro were also covered in injuries.
"Any important minister who was around just now could have persuaded His Highness." Kentaro Tian Shen was obviously very dissatisfied with Imagawa Yoshimoto's actions, "You are the governor of the family, and you go into the enemy's battle line to fight for your life with the enemy general. How unbecoming is it?" ?”
"The army was brought into danger because of my personal affair. If I hadn't saved that stinky old man, we could have taken the Yuanjiang River within easy reach and then returned home to reunite with our families. It was because of my order that everyone The soldiers rushed here in one breath and fell into an ambush. I didn't fight hard, so I'm sorry for the soldiers who fought hard for me." Imagawa Yoshimoto replied matter-of-factly.
"You are the governor of the family, and they are the samurai of the Imagawa family. It is their duty to fight for the governor." Kentaro Tian Shen retorted with the morality of the martial arts family.
"The teacher said that this 'duty' is just a lie concocted by superiors to send loyal people to die. I can't watch everyone die for me with peace of mind. I have always been a monk, not a warrior, no I don’t even know what the samurai Yuzhong family does. Although if I really meet such a person, I will respect him very much."
Imagawa Yoshimoto shook his head, and at the same time vigorously wiped his bloody hands with his clothes, trying to wipe away the blood, and complained softly: "It's so dirty... so annoying... so dirty."
After Toyama Tsunakage and his samurai bodyguards were all captured, the leaderless Edo people fell into chaos. The Imakawa family's horsemen took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and the Edo people were defeated in embarrassment and went down the mountain. Imagawa Yoshimoto detached 50 men to continue the pursuit to prevent them from regrouping, and led the remaining 80 cavalry back to the horse marks on the top of the mountain. However, he only saw the fourth preparation line compressed to the top of the mountain, and the man lying bruised and bruised. The corpse under the horse's seal is none other than Muyama Mingzuo.
"Your Excellency was besieged by nearly ten people and died of exhaustion. He did not take a step back until he died." When the general who fought hard to retrieve the body saw Imagawa Yoshimoto coming back, he reported to him in a tearful voice, "The fourth is prepared." Disgrace your mission and gain two quarters of an hour for His Highness.”
Imagawa Yoshimoto knelt down on one knee and looked at his subordinate who was alive and well not long ago lying in a pool of blood. His ferocious face showed how hard he was fighting before his death, trying to carry out the orders given to him by Imagawa Yoshimoto. ——Not even willing to take his own life.
A "stupid" samurai who is loyal to his family.
With tears in his eyes, Imagawa Yoshimoto used his right hand that he had finally wiped clean to hold Makiyama Nazuo's injured hand that was covered in blood.
"The one who killed Makiyama was from the reserve team?" Imagawa Yoshimoto turned around and asked coldly - this was the first time Hayasaka Nao had followed Imagawa Yoshimoto for a long time, and she felt the fierce murderous aura from him.
"Huang Bei of the Hojo Army." General Shi replied in a deep voice.
"Okay." Imagawa Yoshimoto slowly stood up, got on his horse, and led the horsemen and guards to kill towards the western foot of Honkoyama Mountain.
Just after crossing the mound at the top of the mountain, you can see Huang Bei's flag flying high. The flag was constantly waving to initiate orders, and the command headquarters launched attacks on the Imagawa Army's defense line again and again.
Imagawa Yoshimoto was also unambiguous. He drew the arrow in his hand, drew the bow and set the string. Taking advantage of the stable moment when the horse took off in the air, he squinted his eyes and took aim slightly, then relaxed the string and released the arrow.
"middle."
He read softly.
A moment later, the sharp arrow traced a precise trajectory, hit the flagpole cleanly, and was deeply embedded in the flagpole. The huge impact made the flagbearer holding the flagpole almost lose his balance and staggered back several steps.
"Lower the flag."
Imagawa Yoshimoto said again, and another arrow shot out from the leaping horse. This arrow was extremely accurate, hitting exactly the gap made by the previous arrow, directly breaking the flagpole. Huang Bei's flag suddenly fell to the ground, and Huang Bei's soldiers who were attacking fiercely looked back at the place where the horse seal was just now at a loss.
"Don't panic! Keep attacking!"
Hojo Weichang was not surprised by the sharpshooter who suddenly appeared on the opposite side, but immediately galloped his horse in the formation, shouting loudly to stabilize morale. Huang Bei's soldiers, who were originally in panic, regained their composure under the encouragement of Hojo Noshima and continued to launch an onslaught.
"Weicheng, are you there?"
Imagawa Yoshimoto saw that there was no shooting angle, so he shouted loudly.
"exist!"
Kira Weicheng responded loudly, and then walked to the area in front of Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse to rein in the horse knowingly. Imagawa Yoshimoto adjusted his riding posture, then jumped hard on the horse, jumped onto Kira Usei's shoulders, and jumped again, his whole body rising into the air. He took advantage of the momentum of his body spinning in the air to bend his bow and arrow, aiming at Hojo Noshima's location.
"dismount!"
Imagawa Yoshimoto shouted, and the sharp arrow shot at a speed that was almost invisible. It flashed over the heads of the two army lines and hit Hojo Noshima's horse head directly. The war horse howled, raised its hooves upright, and then fell to the ground, knocking Hojo Weimasa directly to the ground.
Imagawa Yoshimoto landed steadily, but Huang Bei of the Hojo family was in a panic at this time - all of them were watching Hojo Noshimasa just now, but Hojo Noshimasa suddenly fell off his horse. The soldiers who couldn't figure out what happened stopped their offensive instantly and were at a loss.
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"Go and deal with Chi Bei again!"
Imagawa Yoshimoto turned the horse's head and headed straight to the northwest foothills with the horsemen and guards. But before he could reach his destination, a mountain fire suddenly broke out in the forest to the north of Benguang Mountain. Hojo Iakabei set fire to the forest at the northern foot of the mountain, hoping to take advantage of the north wind to let the fire burn to the top of the mountain and drive Imagawa Yoshimoto down the mountain.
"Please, I just set a fire once..." Imagawa Yoshimoto watched the billowing smoke blow in the wind in an instant, submerging the place where he and the horsemen were, choking and coughing, "As for you, how can you set a fire? So many fires?"
In the midst of the blurry smoke, the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded. The horsemen originally looked in the direction of the person with caution, but found that the person shouted "Where is your highness" with a Suruga accent, so they were relieved, thinking that it was the messenger of the family who had returned.
"Here!" Ji Liang Weicheng shouted.
The next moment, I saw that the knight had rushed in front of me, but the clothes he wore were not those of the Imagawa family, but those of the Hojo family...
"die!"
The knight struck at Imagawa Yoshimoto with his sword, but none of the guards or the horsemen could react. Unprepared, Imagawa Yoshimoto turned sideways to avoid the blow, but was knocked down the hillside by the knight who was charging straight at him, rolling towards the fire at the northern foot. I don’t know how many times I rolled and how many times I knocked until I hit a tree hard, Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped. The loud noise from the impact made him realize that his ribs were probably broken, there were bruises all over his body, and his knees and ankles were severely sprained.
Although the knight who rolled down together was also scarred, he didn't pause for a moment. He just stood up and charged at Imagawa Yoshimoto with his sword again. Imagawa Yoshimoto wanted to dodge, but the injuries to his ribs, knees and ankles made him unable to move. He had to draw out Ryumaru to block, but was knocked back to the tree by the samurai's sword.
"Who is coming?" Imagawa Yoshimoto took a breath and asked in a deep voice.
"The innocent soul crawled out from the hell of Huacang!"
Hojo Tsunari raised the katana in his hand high and slashed at Imagawa Yoshimoto. At the same time, his eyes were almost broken, and he gritted his teeth and shouted loudly at Imagawa Yoshimoto's face, which was close at hand:
"Come and take the lives of hundreds of members of the Fukushima family! You murderer who cares about human lives, give back the lives of my people!"
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Hojo Tsunari slashed at Imagawa Yoshimoto with one knife after another almost as if he was fighting for his life. He didn't consider the flaw in defense or closing the knife at all. He only wanted to put Imagawa Yoshimoto to death. Naturally, Imagawa Yoshimoto had no intention of dying with him, but the injuries all over his body prevented him from displaying his most proud movement in the past, so he had to hide around the tree behind him.
Hojo Tsusunari seemed to have exhausted all his strength with every slash he made. He still cut into the thick pine tree "three-quarters of the way into the wood", and the flying wood chips seemed to be filled with sparks. Although Imagawa Yoshimoto tried his best to dodge, Hojo Tsunari still caught a flaw and had to take out his knife to block again. He was immediately staggered by the frightening force and retreated to another big tree in embarrassment. .
"Don't you even have the courage to fight back?" Hojo Tsunari said coldly, and then struck with a powerful force, "Then where the hell did you get the courage to wipe out so many people from the Fukushima family?" Of? Bah!"
Imagawa Yoshimoto crouched down to avoid the blow, and immediately above his head there was the muffled sound of a sharp blade cutting into a tree trunk. The next moment, Hojo Tsunari stepped on the tree trunk and pulled out the knife, and slashed with the knife again. Imagawa Yoshimoto hurriedly pulled the tree trunk and used the scabbard to go around to the back of the tree.
"Are you the young master of the Fukushima family who disappeared and ran away? Fukushima Katsuki Chiyo?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was hiding around the tree in embarrassment, while not forgetting to open his mouth to distract Hojo Tsunari.
"Yes, after the Imagawa family rebelled! After you slaughtered all the rebels in the family!" Hojo Tsunari laughed twice, followed by a storm of slashes. Imagawa Yoshimoto seemed to be unable to parry due to his injuries. He didn't even block, but just kept using tree trunks to avoid attacks. Finally, he simply took several steps back.
"Is this all you have? Don't they say you are very brave? You are worthy of being called a samurai even if you dare not fight back?" Hojo Tsunari saw that Imagawa Yoshimoto would not fight back, but he could not take him down, so he quickly pressed towards him. Go, while cursing a little impatiently, "We, the Fukushima family, were defeated by a disqualified samurai like you. What a shame and a great humiliation!"
"It's true that I'm not a qualified samurai, but fighting doesn't just rely on the body." Imagawa Yoshimoto took a half step back, smiled and threw the dragon pill in his hand suddenly spinning, and hit it with the other hand. He snapped his fingers and pointed at his head:
"It also depends on your brain."
"Do you mean sneak attacks and plots by 'mind'?" Hojo Tsunari leaned back to avoid the flying katana, and snorted disdainfully, "Why don't you become a ninja? Such a lowly thing. Do you think you can hit me for what you did?"
The next moment, Hojo Tsunari suddenly heard the sound of a sharp blade cutting wood. The next moment, a heavy breaking sound sounded in my ears. He turned his head to look in a daze, and saw a towering tree falling quickly, hitting him.
"That's..." Hojo Tsunari suddenly realized that it was the pine tree that Imagawa Yoshimoto kept circling to avoid just now. Many of his knives struck the trunk of the tree, causing it to collapse. The target of the flying knife thrown by Imagawa Yoshimoto was not himself, but hit the pine tree behind him - this blow became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the pine tree collapsed.
Before he had time to adjust his posture, Hojo Tsunari hurriedly jumped back and lay down, only to avoid the falling tree trunk at the critical moment. However, before he could get up, he realized that he had thought too simply. Although the falling pine tree did not hit him, it hit another pine tree that he chopped down to the point of collapse. After the pine tree was hit hard, its trunk tilted and it suddenly fell down - right in the waist and abdomen of Hojo Tsusunari. The heavy blow almost caused Hojo Tsunari to cough up blood and become unable to move under the big tree.
Hojo Tsunari finally understood that Imagawa Yoshimoto deliberately lured him to chop down the tree during the fight, and then deliberately led him to this position.
