"Maintain the formation, maintain the formation!! Archers, don't stop interfering!!" The tone was quick and high, and because he had been shouting for nearly an hour, his throat began to hurt.
The lips that lacked moisture were chapped and turned white, and even the eyes began to become bloodshot after not resting for a long time. Visibility was extremely low under the dim and strange red moon. They could only huddle in this area and rely on the remaining torches for illumination.
"Maintain formation!!" Due to low visibility, the flag could not be conveyed effectively. Passwords, a method of communication that uses sound as a medium, have little effect on a noisy battlefield. The various units did not even know the direction of friendly forces. The lower-level warriors rode back and forth shouting in vain, but only a small group of people in front of them could act according to the instructions.
The number of samurai was seriously insufficient. Due to successive mistakes in decision-making, the junior sergeant class responsible for commanding Ashigaru was seriously attrited.
There are still more than 1,900 ashigaru left, but there are only less than 130 samurai left. In addition, the Guards holding the battle accounted for half of the number, and the rest could not form an effective command system at all.
"Ouch——!!" "Bang!!" The behemoth weighing several tons easily knocked the densely packed two-meter spears in Ashigaru's hands to one side. Only a few of the high-quality spears were broken, and another group of people on one side grabbed it and leveled the spears immediately after the attack was completed, shouting and rushing forward.
"Boom——!!" "Roar!!" Although the monster's skin has good toughness, it is still difficult to resist the stabbing of metal sharp objects. Multiple spears were pierced into its body, but this monster was still not dead. It moved forward arrogantly with the powerful impact brought by its huge body, causing Ashigaru to finally reorganize its formation. They were in chaos again.
"Formation, formation!" The warrior still shouted loudly, but as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a "whoosh" sound, and then dense arrows fell from the sky.
"Ya Ke Mie!!" The warrior cursed loudly and curled up desperately. The armor on his body blocked most of the bows and arrows, and even a few armor-breaking ones were just flesh wounds.
But the war horse was not so lucky, "neighing, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" As he screamed, one of his thighs was crushed.
"Back up! Back up!" "Dong dong dong dong -" the sound of horse hooves sounded in front of him. It was another colleague who was directing the ashigaru while running. "Wait, Nonaka, I'm here -" The roaring samurai was crushed in the face by a heavy horse's hoof, and because of the extremely gloomy environment, his colleagues did not notice his death at all.
"Why can't they be killed! Archers, come forward a little more, use kerosene. Wherever there is kerosene, throw it at those things!!" The warrior's eyes were bloodshot and his expression was starting to go crazy because he had not been able to rest for a long time. They almost roared as they commanded their soldiers. However, even with thousands of people, they could only barely maintain this position.
"Evil monster!!" Another warrior shouted and rushed out on horseback, and disappeared into the night sky and died.
"Master Wu." The adjutant said to the samurai sitting on the horse: "The troops led by Master Jing have not returned yet. Considering that everyone who leaves here will fall into madness, I think-"
"Hold the position." The young red-armored warrior said this with a cold tone. The people who were dying outside at this moment were just numbers in his eyes.
"...Follow the order." The adjutant was obviously hesitant to speak. Even the one-sided massacre in the swamp village had already suffered losses, which made him question his lord's decision-making, but In the Kingdom of the Moon, which has strict classes, even if the thing you do is right, sometimes you will be wrong when you choose to do it.
As a waiter, if the master does not agree, then the middle of winter cannot be said to be cold, and the month of June cannot be said to be hot.
Loyalty is a command that has been instilled in the country's warrior class since childhood. They were proud of it, but not always in doubt.
"Death!!" The firelight was swaying, and the troops of more than a thousand people under the strange bright red moonlight could not be grasped with just two eyes. The young master has completely lost his mind. In order to avenge the evildoers, he not only requires the team to move forward day and night, but also does not give time to cook the food. He knows that when encountering demons, he needs to pray to the gods and Buddhas in the sky to be careful in his words and actions, but Still have to move forward.
Finally ended up in this situation.
This is a place of no return, a foggy Yin-Yang Demon Realm. The safest choice at the moment is to carefully follow the footsteps back.
But the young master insisted that the bad guys were among them, and because night fell and samurai were most needed to act as grassroots commanders to maintain order, he dispatched two cavalry brigades of two hundred people each to head out into the woods on the left and right, asking them not to If the criminal is found, he cannot be returned.
His desire for revenge has made him forget his great cause, and he is no longer a qualified commander.
The words hidden in the heart, as long as they are spoken, are treasonous.
He should have disembowelment as an apology for having such disrespectful thoughts.
If you can still go back alive, then go to the top of the admonition at the cost of your own life. The adjutant thought in his heart that as a waiter, reporting his commander to a higher-class person would still be an act of betrayal, even if it was justified.
"You did the right thing, so I'll give you a break."
The people above must have said so, and he never felt there was anything wrong with this approach.
The awakening has been made. For the sake of the great cause of the clan, the young master, who has been overwhelmed by personal emotions, must be forcibly abdicated.
The adjutant was making his own plans in his mind, but the current difficulty still had to be overcome.
This land does not welcome human existence. The area they stick to is considered safe, but otherwise the land is full of malice.
The commander who couldn't calm down lost his patience half an hour after the mounted samurai went to explore, and ordered his ashigaru to send out a team to explore again. But when the Ashigaru who set out to explore returned after a while, not only did they go crazy and start killing themselves, but they also brought strange monsters with them.
It was huge and looked like the "Sansho Fish" or "Salamander" mentioned in ancient texts. In order to kill this monster, they lost many people, and the monster's cry before death attracted more of its kind.
"It's impossible for that villain to survive outside. Please look at the facts clearly!" The other adjutant, whose restraint was taken away by exhaustion, spoke fiercely to the young master. The words he said to the young master were absolutely taboo. He questioned his lord face to face, and no matter how others begged for mercy, he ended up being sentenced to death without any surprise.
"The sacrifice is too great, please think twice!" After the second loyal lieutenant said these treasonous words, he drew his sword and killed himself in order to survive and order the young master to awaken.
"In order to comfort my brother's soul in heaven, it doesn't matter if the blood flows like a river." But the cold words of the red-armored warrior made the hearts of all the lieutenants freeze.
But they have no other choice. They can't resist, they can only choose to endure.
"Woo--" A long horn sounded in the distance. The young commander didn't take it seriously at first, even though the horn meant asking for help.
But then a red firework rose in the sky and exploded in mid-air.
It was a signal of encountering an enemy, and it was something that traveling warriors carried with them.
"——!" He took a deep breath, and then his eyes widened in anger.
"Advance the whole army." The samurai shouted loudly, and the adjutants who were stunned on the spot, although they had thousands of words to say, could only order: "Advance!"
The mighty team of more than a thousand people began to move forward, even though they knew that the deeper they went into this poisonous land, their minds would be eroded and their sanity would be gone.
Just by moving towards the fireworks signal, countless people disappeared into the darkness. The signal disappeared for just a moment and disappeared into the woods.
So they had to go in there and search.
"Huh--" The torches that had been burning for a long time were extinguished one after another. Someone tried to chop down nearby trees with a knife to make new torches, but found that the branches would avoid them in response to the sound.
When he finally hit it, green liquid jumped out instantly, and the whole forest seemed to start wailing.
"Go back! Go back!" "Get out of this place of monsters and monsters quickly!" Finally, unable to bear it any longer, perhaps because they were emboldened under the cover of the night, someone shouted so loudly. "Coward!" "Don't panic, this is just the fear in your heart. Where have you thrown the pride of warriors!" The adjutant suppressed the fear in his heart and used his hoarse and sore throat to hold his feet with all his strength. Soothe young people’s resistance. The young master, on the other hand, had a gloomy look on his face and drove his horse forward silently without saying a word.
So far, he can still use his prestige to control these subordinates, but how long can this last?
His own heart began to waver, and when he noticed it, the hand holding the riding crop was already shaking so much that he couldn't even hold it with his other hand.
"Monsters and monsters, you can't shake my heart!" Another warrior yelled such words and rushed out on horseback as if he was extremely brave. However, this exaggerated approach was just to dispel the confusion in his heart.
So without any suspense, they left and never returned.
The red-armored warrior still looked indifferent, no matter how many men he had lost, he didn't care.
There was only one idea in his heart, to kill his enemy - even if he didn't know the name of this enemy or what he looked like.
Perhaps it is this firm and pure obsession that makes him completely unaffected by this toxic environment.
"Mother, mother's voice -" Saying these words, many people walked towards the trees with claws and teeth, and then disappeared in the next second.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of people disappeared.
"Huh..." The last torch was burned out, leaving only the weird red moonlight as illumination.
"Don't you think this earth is more distant than what we see?" A colleague's slightly uneasy voice sounded next to the adjutant.
"Yeah, when did there be such a big forest near Swamp Village? There are indeed some small woods near the ridge, but most of them are long beaches and small slopes-" Another person's echoing voice also sounded, without knowing it. Is it caused by human thoughts or something else, the whole scene seems to be distorted again, the woods are showing their teeth and claws, and the sky is spinning constantly, making people dizzy.
"I saw it." The young master's cold voice sounded again, instantly pulling the adjutant's consciousness back from the illusion.
"That's -" In the blood-red light, two horses that had turned into mummies were lying on the ground, and there was a straw hut next to them.
"The villain is indeed here!" The angry red-armored warrior drew his sword: "Come here, search the surrounding area!"
"No, Lord Wu. The signal brought us here, but where is Lord Jing who sent the signal?" Unlike the commander who had lost his mind, the adjutant was keenly aware of the strangeness.
"..." The silence lasted for a moment.
"is that so."
"I fell into a trap and was lured away." In an instant, the adjutant felt that the commander he knew and respected was back.
"Gurgling - Samurai team, come with me." But the next second, the sound of teeth grinding violently and the words squeezed out from between the teeth made him clearly realize that the commander was no longer normal.
"But the Ashigaru can't keep up -" "Qiang -"
His throat suddenly felt cold, and then the adjutant wanted to say something, but suddenly found that he could no longer make any sound.
"It's been noisy since the beginning."
"Turn around and go back, the villain is just ahead!" The moment the loyal adjutant fell off his horse with his hands on his throat, he led dozens of bodyguards past the sluggish and tired ashigaru and killed them in the direction they came from. go.
