In October, the vegetation in Gifu's mountains and rivers begins to be dyed yellow, and the plains in the valleys are still faintly green. The mountains and forests on both sides are as enchanting as flames. The bright red maple leaves are blown by a gust of wind and fall, swirling to tell the world that autumn has arrived. advent.
The Ping clan gathered 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry in Gifu, where all the elites of the Ping clan were located. Ping Kiyomori, wearing bright red and black lacquer armor, rode a black horse and walked at the front of the team.
Minamoto Yoritomo also wore a gorgeous armor and led his team to confront the two Taira armies. However, he wore a mask on his face. He only knew that the person in the formation was Jingui, but he did not know his true identity. . Next to him is Liang Chuan, the fake Minamoto Yoshitsune who is riding a snow-white divine horse half a head taller, and Benkei, who is also wearing a divine weapon. The confidence of the Genji soldiers comes largely from these three people. The signature of Minamoto Yoshitsune is now It's enough to make people look away.
In this decisive battle, everyone took out their family heirloom armor from the bottom of the box and put it on themselves. There were only 10,000 cavalry behind Genji. No two people had the same armor, and even a few of the 10,000 infantry had the same armor. Dressed up, it looks like a group of stragglers put together temporarily.
Only Liang Chuan was dressed in a white robe, holding a huge Mo Dao in his hand, and two long knives on his waist. Among thousands of people, no one dared to look down on him. He didn't even want to wear armor. It shows how confident you are in yourself.
In the center of the river valley, a graceful river flows from the north of the two armies. The autumn wind blows the fallen leaves and raises the mane on the horse's back.
Taira Kiyomori jerked the horse's back, and the horse he dismounted reluctantly walked out. Minamoto Yoritomo also pulled the reins of the horse and walked out of the military formation.
Today's Taira Kiyomori is the Taizheng Minister who is known as the leader of the three princes among the four chief ministers of the Taisei, while Minamoto Yoritomo is only the Ukonoe General, and his character in front of the emperor is not even the slightest difference.
Taira no Kiyoshi raised his whip and pointed it at Minamoto Yoritomo and scolded him directly: "You shameless thief, your father is still the soul of my sword. Back then, I spared your brothers and did not kill all of you Minamoto clan. I didn't expect that you are now full-fledged." Kill my thighs first and then kill my samurai. You were lucky enough to win the battle at Fujikawa. I didn’t expect you to be so swollen that you didn’t dismount and be bound. I will beg him to spare your life in front of the Emperor!"
Minamoto Yoritomo sneered and said in a loud voice: "You killed my father for the sake of justice, and I have a secret edict from the benevolent king to attack you, an unscrupulous traitor. High-ranking Tong Xian and other thieves who helped you are worthy of death. Today you You even raise troops to invade our border people, and do all kinds of unscrupulous actions. Today is the day when you will perish!"
Pingqing was so angry that he drew his knife and gritted his teeth and shouted directly at Genji Yoritomo, "You little thief of Genji, do you dare to fight me?"
Minamoto Yoritomo didn't want to waste words with him, let alone fight with him. He smiled coldly and turned his horse's head before returning to his camp.
Liang Chuan smiled, of course this little lady will not risk her life with you, a gay guy like you. He waved his hand and said to Ben Qing: "Go and meet him!"
"Yes!" Benkei shouted and rode out of the battle, holding a naginata and driving the horse with murderous intent to attack Taira Kiyomori. Taira Kiyomori saw a fierce general charging out of the formation. The figure and posture were the same as the one who assassinated him in the pool that day. He was so frightened that he slapped the horse's buttocks hard, turned the horse's head and ran away towards the formation.
Benkei's reputation today is equally shocking.
Benkei is known as the most powerful general in front of the God of War. He possesses more domineering and intimidating power than Liang Chuan. When he appeared on the scene, the Taira clan was so frightened that he fled in a hurry with his tail between his legs.
There was an overwhelming cheer from the Genji camp, but they had never seen such a tall samurai on the Taira side. With that naginata and that armor, who could match this momentum? Many people were so frightened that they couldn't help but take two steps back.
When Fujiwara Hidehiro saw this, he was so angry that he raised his eyebrows. He yelled, slapped his horse and came out with a gun. How could Taira Kiyomori's top general see his family leader lose points like this? What matters in fighting on the battlefield is momentum, and momentum will be lost. Even if you are naked, you still have a fart fight.
When Benkei saw his opponent coming, he rushed forward with a loud cry, sword versus spear, you came and I fought inextricably. Fujiwara Hidehiro was worthy of being the most powerful general in Kansai. The riding skills of this horse, Liang Chuan, a half-way monk. The rider knew the difference at a glance, and the horse seemed to be in tune with him. The two became one. If Benkei hadn't been strong and strong, he would have suffered a huge loss.
Liang Chuan knew that he was no match for Fujiwara even if he fought alone. Such a battle was meaningless, so he quickly shouted loudly for Benkei to return to the formation.
The Taira camp won for a while and there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers, but everyone knew that Fujiwara only won the No. 2 warrior, and the strongest one had not yet appeared.
Taira Kiyomori started this war with anger, and he almost lost all face. Seeing Fujiwara's victory, he immediately waved his troops and prepared to charge.
However, as if both sides had rehearsed in advance, Taira began to charge. Genji's team did not panic. They turned their guns neatly and began to retreat.
The people of the Ping clan didn't expect someone to be so direct and retreat immediately after losing a battle. Doesn't this tempt them to beat up a drowned dog?
Fujiwara Hidehiro was not a newbie on the battlefield. He thought with his toes and knew that there must be an ulterior secret behind this inexplicable retreat. If he chased - he might be ambushed.
Fujiwara waved a signal flag, and a thousand cavalry rushed out of the military formation to pursue him. Other infantry and cavalry were waiting in tight formation.
When Liang Chuan saw that the other party had only sent a small group of cavalry, he roared and immediately attacked with five hundred people, while the others still retreated in an orderly manner.
When the cavalry saw the enemy formation, they also came out to greet them. They immediately changed their formation and adopted an arrow formation, turning their horses' heads and stabbing them diagonally towards Liangchuan. Five hundred cavalrymen rushed towards them.
When Liang Chuan was practicing equestrianism, he also learned a lot of knowledge about cavalry warfare. He was horrified by TV dramas and movies. Ancient wars were never about copycats and hacking each other.
Especially for cavalry, cavalry warfare is simply an advanced branch of arms that tests a person's ability to command and lead.
As a great commander, Liu Bang also said that he could only lead an army of 100,000 at most, and he could not handle more than that. Liu Bang's evaluation of the immortal military god Han Xin was that the more the better, that is, under Han Xin, give him The more soldiers he has, the more power he can bring out, and there are no restrictions on men and horses.
As far as Liang Chuan is concerned, he can only bring about 500 people. If there are more people, his voice will not be loud enough and he will not be able to shout.
It would be best if the cavalry can cut through the formation. You can't just take advantage of the horse's momentum to rush away, change the direction of travel, and use a method of sticking to the enemy to scrape the flesh, then go around in a circle and come back again. Scrape it once. In short, it's just one word, the horse is about to charge, and the infantry is destined to be slaughtered if it encounters such a cavalry.
This style of play has a more appropriate name - fierce fighting.
The two groups of people were fighting each other like two circles cutting into each other. Long knives and spears collided with each other. Some of the knights on the horses were even hacked to death. The horses continued to charge forward with the crowd.
Riding on a white horse among thousands of people! Liang Chuan was wearing a white robe and the white horse under his seat was particularly conspicuous. Anyone who went to war was wearing cloth. Almost everyone pointed their weapons at him. Liang Chuan blocked the left and right, killing several horses by the way. , but not many people were killed.
The gap between imagination and imagination is so far!
The two sides fought fiercely for three rounds. Nearly a hundred war horses lost their owners and were left in a daze on the battlefield, leaving hundreds of corpses. The rangers sent by the Ping clan withdrew from their formation. Liang Chuan also returned to the military camp with his men.
Minamoto Yoritomo listened to Liang Chuan's suggestion and built a military camp in Gifu in advance. It was surrounded by trenches and horses, and the high fence was like a small fortress.
When Liang Chuan returned to the main formation, Minamoto Yoritomo immediately had the gate of the camp closed, and the entire military camp was locked like an iron barrel.
Horse riding is no longer Liang Chuan's shortcoming. On the contrary, after three months of hard training, Liang Chuan ate and slept with the horse, almost treating himself as a horse, and developed good equestrian skills. Although he had experienced war before, it was a war with half-peasants and half-rebels. Strictly speaking, it was not a war.
This is a charge that can lead to death at any time. This is war.
Liang Chuan's blood felt extremely hot, and the hot blood made his face burn red, giving him a drunken and strange feeling. After returning to the military camp for a long time, still immersed in the excitement and unable to extricate himself, the Ping clan's army caught up.
They didn't expect Genji to be so well-prepared, with such a military camp rising from the ground and a sign hanging at the door.
No war.
Taira Kiyomori was dumbfounded, what kind of operation was this? He didn't have much food on hand when he came this time. The 40,000-strong army would have to mobilize 80,000 to 100,000 civilians to transport the food to the front line. There were huge challenges in the storage and transportation process. The losses, winter is coming, and no one wants to fight in the ice and snow.
The cold armor will be torn off once it sticks to the flesh, hands that can't even hold weapons, feet with frostbite, and most importantly, a stomach that is never full. All these conditions can ruthlessly taking the lives of soldiers.
Ping Qingsheng had no siege equipment, so he had no choice but to set up camp at the last moment. His camping skills were obviously much worse than Genji's. He could only cut some logs to temporarily erect a barrier, and even the isolation fence was extremely crude.
The two armies were separated by nearly ten miles of ground. The journey was neither close nor far, and the cavalry could reach them in a single charge.
In the Ping family camp, Ping Kiyomori, whose eyes were about to burst out with fire, smashed his helmet on the ground again. Ming Yun said nothing. He knew nothing about war. He talked too much and gave people the impression of being forced to show off. Feel. Fujiwara Hidehiro was keenly aware that the Genji this time were completely different from before. They came prepared, not just to deal with a war.
"Go, call me the formation, scold them, Minamoto Yoritomo, the green-shelled turtle, let him come out for a duel!"
