The dusk in Nara on this day seemed to be dyed red with blood. The clouds in the sky had a strange blood-red blush. The last rays of the setting sun shone on the earth, leaving only two standing shadows.
There were bloody corpses all over the ground, one on top of another like a Shura field. The blood flowed to the ground and there was a sticky feeling when you stepped on it, and the blood turned into mud.
Benqing suffered two stab wounds in his body. The sword penetrated through the shoulder blade and thigh. Liang Chuan was not optimistic either. The Mo sword was heavy and very energy-consuming, and he also suffered a lot of wounds, but fortunately, no vital parts were injured.
The two bloody men were sitting in the mountains of corpses and sea of blood under the setting sun, laughing at each other. Liang Chuan stabbed Benqing with the handle of his knife.
"Are you still alive?"
Benkei gasped for air, his face turned a little pale, and he smiled and said: "Still... not dead..."
Only a few of Ping's men survived. When they saw something was wrong early on, they greased their feet and ran away. It was also beneficial to keep them. Their mouths were the best propaganda broadcasts, conveying the actions of the two evil spirits vividly. Back to Kobe.
Liangchuan and Benkei killed more than a hundred samurai on the spot in a small village in Nara. The few samurai who were returned alive made rumors about hundreds or even thousands of people in order to cover up their cowardice. To put it more mysteriously, everyone treated Liang Chuan's bloodthirsty scene as if he had personally experienced it.
After this battle, Minamoto Yoshitsune became a god in one battle.
Minamoto Yoshitsune, who was only imagined in the mouths of their own people, has been regarded by them as the best god of war in the world, and Benkei is the protector under the god of war.
In the past two months, the reputation of the fake Gen Yoshitsune has shocked the world. The old forest near Kobe where Liangchuan dumped his corpse has been discovered. After counting, there were nearly a hundred samurai corpses, plus the assassinated high-ranking general. Xian, even Taira no Mori Minamoto Yoshitsune dared to assassinate the king alone. Such feats have simply become the best plot among fairy tales and storytellers. Minamoto Yoshitsune's reputation in Kansai can already make children stop crying at night. The house is secluded!
The mission of the two men has been completed. Although they failed to send the Ping family to meet their ancestors, their names are enough to make the enemy tremble. Just two people, their effect is greater than thousands of troops.
Minamoto Yoritomo, who was far away in Kanto, had already heard about the heroic feats of his 'brother' who descended to earth that day. When he heard that the two were coming back, he even planned to come out to welcome the hero's triumph in person.
Minamoto Yoritomo watched Liang Chuan, who was all injured, return to Kamakura with Benkei, and personally went to pick up the two heroes outside Kamakura City. Kamakura has now built a city wall according to Liang Chuan's arrangement. Although it is still growing taller, The magnificent atmosphere has appeared.
The wide moat can only be entered by lowering the suspension bridge. The people's worship of Minamoto no Yoshitsune has reached its highest point. They spontaneously go out of the city to admire the heroic spirit. Many people who have fled from Kansai have also brought with them the knowledge of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from Kansai. Minamoto Yoshitsune's mythical deeds, people looked at Liang Chuan's injured but proud standing posture, and felt even more proud of Minamoto Yoshitsune.
Minamoto Yoritomo took Liang Chuan back to the city. Liang Chuan had multiple stab wounds on his body. It took him and Benkei a few months to recover.
Mako came back first before Benkei, but she wanted to find Minamoto Yoritomo but couldn't find him. How could it be so easy for her with a low status to meet the Lord of Kanto? The guards stopped her, and the helpless Mako could only rely on the belongings Benkei gave him to settle down in Kamakura. Fortunately, Mako came back from seeing the two of them on the street today, so he tried his best to come out to meet them.
This trip won't be easy.
If Minamoto Yoritomo had gotten the news about Mako, he would have sent troops to Nara to support Benkei and wait for Liangchuan. The two walked around the gate of hell, but fortunately they came back with their lives saved.
Ah Gou looked at Liang Chuan who was covered in bruises and couldn't help but feel heartbroken. Ben Qing was injured even more seriously. He had taken off his armor and there were shocking knife marks and wounds everywhere. She couldn't imagine what the two people had gone through. What was finally comforting was that, The person came back alive.
In troubled times, human life is as cheap as grass. What is more important than living?
Mako looked at the dog and didn't say anything. Instead, he recounted his own experiences. They were all people who had gone through hardships and looked down upon life and death.
As soon as Liang Chuan came back, he jumped into Minamoto Yoritomo's favorite hot spring. He held this little lady in his big hands and asked for her. The battlefield aroused his impulse, and the demand was even stronger after he came back. Genji's body seemed to be plumper after not seeing each other for a few days. The two skinny little rabbits seemed to be plump now, and they had the plumpness of a mature woman when they were taken, which made people want to stop.
Minamoto Yoritomo was also surprised. The first time he went to Wushan with Liang Chuan, his body was so painful that he couldn't walk on the ground for several days. Later, after eating the marrow and learning about its taste, he became obsessed with Liang Chuan's body, sinking into it as if he was stuck in a quagmire and couldn't extricate himself.
The two were chatting in the pool, and Liang Chuan told Minamoto Yoritomo about the scandalous scene he saw at Taishan Temple. Minamoto Yoritomo was also stunned with fear. Wu Huanping and their Qinghe Yuanshi, many people or more Maybe it's a little abnormal, but I haven't heard of anyone who likes men. .
Minamoto Yoritomo also said: "Before you came back, the Taira clan had sent people down to issue an edict to raise troops to attack me. The time would probably be after the autumn harvest in October."
Liang Chuan was stunned for a moment and said: "Will you inform us in advance when there is a war here?"
Minamoto Yorichao said: "We are different from you, the Song Dynasty. You fight and capture cities mainly for population and territory, but we want to eliminate the opponent's fighting strength. It is useless for us to occupy the city. Defending the city will consume a lot of manpower." , you can see that our towns have no city defenses at all, basically only those who are powerful are considered powerful, and the territory can only harvest a small amount of food."
Liang Chuan understood. This is equivalent to saying that I told you that there is going to be a war. Let's make an appointment at a time and a place to pull out all the people and fight to the death. The loser will withdraw from the stage of hegemony and eliminate the opponent's vitality in one go. This is easier. , which saves you from having to attack and defend the city, which is very tiring.
It seems that this time, Taira Kiyomori was completely angered. He killed his old friend, and then turned his territory upside down. The Taira family's prestige was ruined. However, the reputation of the Genji family was widely spread on the island. How could the Taira family behave like this? Tolerate.
Although Genji defeated him with a sneak attack in the battle of Fujikawa, his main strength was still there. Taira Kiyomori did not want to sit back and watch Minamoto Yoritomo grow stronger, and would definitely find him to fight to the death.
Taira Kiyomori also set the time for the decisive battle in October. This intention was clear to Liang Chuan, in order not to raise food and grass. The conflict at the port scared away all the merchants. It was no longer possible to transport food from the south, and they could only rely on farmers in the fields to pay for food.
Liang Chuan inspected the agricultural situation in Kansai on the spot and estimated that the Ping family would not have much grain on hand.
The storm is coming after all.
In order to return to the Song Dynasty as soon as possible, Liang Chuan also hoped that this war would come as soon as possible. If he finished his work early, he would be done. At that time, the north wind would come, and he would be able to take a boat to go south.
At the end of June, there were still more than three months before the mobilization before the war. Liang Chuan and Minamoto Yoritomo discussed the idea of a long-distance attack on Kobe, but Minamoto Yoritomo rejected it. First, the journey is too far. The total number of cavalry in his hands is only about 10,000, and he is not strong enough to take Kobe in one go. If there is a stalemate, the 10,000 cavalry may never return, and the logistics supplies cannot keep up. Sending infantry will not achieve the effect of a surprise attack. If the battle line is too long, the pressure on oneself will suddenly increase.
It seems that fighting in this magical place is really a battle between two parties, otherwise no one can destroy the other party in one go.
Liang Chuan looked at the current situation and locked himself in the room to think about it for a few days. Other people under Genji, such as his adoptive father Hojo Tokimasa and other members of the Genji family such as Minamoto and Hikari Yoshinaka, all believed that the Taira clan was too powerful at the moment to compete with him. Fighting hard, hoping to compromise and maintain the current status quo.
Minamoto Yoritomo is a person who aspires to the world. Although she is a woman, for her father's last wish and her own ability to survive in this troubled world, she has to be more competitive than anyone else. This kind of capitulationist approach is not She should consider it.
Fortunately, his fake brother Minamoto Yoshitsune's thoughts were consistent with his own. Now that the world has returned and the Taira clan has betrayed their relatives, it was the right time, the right place, and the right people. If the Taira clan came back with this attitude, it would be him who would die again.
One of Liang Chuan's strategies was to carry out clearing tactics in the areas bordering Kansai and evacuate the people and materials from these areas. If the Taira clan takes the initiative, there will be no decisive battle in Kansai. As usual, the battle will not go deep into the hinterland of the Kanto Plain. The only decisive battle location is at the junction.
If all the people and things here are cleared, the Ping clan's own supplies will be its fatal problem. If the war is extended by then, the Ping clan's food supplies will be exhausted, and their military morale will naturally collapse.
The second is to stick to the main point, show the enemy that you are weak, and invite you to enter the urn. The Taira clan believes that the Fujiwara cavalry under their command are numerous and skilled, and they will definitely win the battle quickly. We must not comply with the opponent's request. Instead, we want to kill their fighting spirit, set up more traps on the battlefield, use their underestimation of the enemy to lure the enemy to our traps, and severely damage the morale of the Ping clan.
If the main force of the Ping clan can be eliminated in this battle, the only thing waiting for the Ping clan is destruction.
After implementing new agriculture on his own, Genji spread this new technology to the entire Kanto Plain in the name of the government. It can be said that the agricultural productivity of the Kanto Plain is now at a new level.
Liang Chuan personally visited the fields several times and found that the crops were growing quite well. On the one hand, the weather was good this year, and on the other hand, the farmers believed in their own technology and cultivated according to their own methods. They were also very diligent in weeding and insecticide.
There is only one season of rice in the island country because the annual accumulated temperature here is far less than that in the southern part of the Song Dynasty. Although this is the case, compared with the primitive and backward agricultural productivity of the Ping family, it is clearly inferior. If nothing else goes wrong, after the autumn harvest in October, Minamoto Yoritomo will have harvested enough food to support him in several battles.
The only thing that needs to be done now is to gather strength and strength, choose a location for the decisive battle, and dig a trap to wait for the Ping clan's people to fall into it.
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