In the afternoon, dark clouds covered the sun in Edo Castle, and the weather suddenly turned cloudy.
At this time, in the lobby of the city lord's palace, a guard came quickly to report: "Sir, it's bad, the Kansai Allied Forces are less than ten miles away from the west gate!"
Tokugawa Hidetada looked heavy and said: "Send orders to General Honda Tadakatsu to prepare to go out of the city to fight!"
A moment later, outside the west city gate.
The Kwantung Allied Forces lined up their troops and stood ready. The front row was a shield formation, followed by elite spearmen, which could prevent the enemy from rushing into the formation and making a sneak attack. In the middle are many generals of the coalition forces. The leader was a fierce general with a rugged face, a short beard, and no anger or authority. He was none other than Honda Tadakatsu, the most powerful general of the Warring States Period. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga both praised his bravery. Next to him were Yagyu Munenuki, Tomita Shigemasa and other powerful swordsmen.
Not long after, the sound of neat horse hooves suddenly sounded, and the ground shook violently, like an earthquake, which showed the number of invading cavalry.
A moment later, five thousand cavalry from Ling Feng's side arrived first as the vanguard. Due to the lack of war horses in the Dongyi Kingdom, the number of cavalry under the command of the major names was very small. Five thousand cavalry was already an extremely terrifying number. If it weren't for Ling Feng's expedition to eight countries and capture the cavalry of various famous people, they wouldn't have been able to reach this number.
The cavalry had a crushing advantage over the infantry and Qingzu, but Hu Tie and Zhou Tong, who led the troops, did not rush to attack Honda Tadakatsu, but formed a defensive formation several miles away.
And Honda Tadakatsu did not take the opportunity to attack, because the opponent was a cavalry, extremely fast, able to advance and retreat freely, and he could not take advantage.
Afterwards, Ling Feng personally led most of the troops to arrive and quickly arranged their formation, using the shield formation as the front to guard against the enemy's attack.
At this time, Honda Tadakatsu rode out and said loudly: "You thieves, how dare you fight with me!"
Han Lei pretended to be Horio Yoshiharu glanced at Ling Feng, then glanced around and said, "Which of you is willing to fight?"
Before Ling Feng could speak, an Onmyoji in a yellow uniform cupped his fists and said, "Qingchuan is willing to fight!"
Ling Feng glanced at him. He was an onmyoji from the Himihu family and had a mid-term martial arts level. He then told him, "Be careful to use magic to defend the enemy from a distance, and don't fight in close combat."
At this time, the army had come from afar and was short of men and horses. It was not suitable for the whole army to attack immediately. Therefore, fighting in front of the battle was also a good entertainment program, just to test the level of the most powerful general in the Warring States Period.
Immediately, Qingchuan also rode out into battle.
"The traitor shall die!"
Honda Tadakatsu's slightly dark face showed a smile, and he quickly charged at him with a long spear in his hand, Dragonfly Kiri.
Qingchuan activated the magic formula to summon the shikigami and released a ball of black energy. The black energy quickly solidified and turned into a dark monster with a dog head, a sharp beak like a crow and jet-black wings. , holding a vajra. This monster is the more famous monster Crow Tengu in the Dongyi Kingdom. It is usually a subordinate of the Tengu and the Big Tengu. The monster's power is not weak, and it has reached the peak of the early fourth level.
This crow tengu held a vajra in his hand, jumped suddenly, and hit Honda Tadakatsu.
At this moment, Honda Tadakatsu suddenly swiped the dragonfly cutter in his hand. This dragonfly cutter is one of the three famous guns of the Dongyi Kingdom and a fourth-level top-notch magic weapon. How can this vajra be blocked? It breaks in an instant. The sharp edge of the dragonfly cutter Without slowing down at all, he quickly moved towards the Crow Tengu's neck.
Crow Tengu was horrified and was about to dodge when a sharp spear intent invaded the sea of consciousness, shocking his soul and making him stunned for a moment. Immediately, Dragonfly cut off his head with a quick stroke.
"The demons and ghosts in the mountains are slaughtered countless times by a certain gun. You evil sorcerers help the tyrants to persecute you, and you will die!"
Honda Tadakatsu laughed and said, riding a horse and holding a gun to take Qingchuan's head.
Qingchuan was shocked. This Crow Tengu was his right-hand man, but he was killed by the opponent with one shot. He still dared to fight. But he was worried that he would lose the first battle, lose morale, be outnumbered by Ling Feng, and suddenly fall into a dilemma.
And how can you be distracted when masters compete with each other? The speed of the BMW under Honda Tadakatsu's crotch was so fast, it arrived in an instant, and the dragonfly in his hand stabbed at him as fast as lightning.
Qingchuan was about to dodge, but it was already too late. His mind was captured by the gun, and he was stunned on the spot. He was about to end up like Crow Tengu.
At this moment, a copper coin came quickly and hit the tip of Dragonfly's spear.
With a bang, an extremely cold sword intent erupted from the copper coin and invaded Honda Tadakatsu's sea of consciousness, causing him to stagnate for an instant.
At this time, Qingchuan quickly seized the opportunity, turned the horse's head, and retreated quickly.
After a while, Honda Tadakatsu regained consciousness, but found that the enemy had quickly returned to the enemy's position and was beyond pursuit. He condensed his true energy into his eyes, looked at the enemy formation in the distance, stared at Ling Feng, and secretly shuddered in his heart. This person is really powerful. A mere copper coin can block my full blow. No wonder he can kill three sword masters such as Tsukahara Bokuden, Kamiizumi Nobu, and Zhongmaki Jizai, as well as Yagyu Munegen and Hattori Hanzo. Jianhao's death was not unjust!
At this time, Qingchuan dismounted and knelt down and said: "Qingchuan failed in the first battle, please punish me, my lord!"
There was a reason why he took the initiative to plead guilty. Firstly, he could get a better impression. Secondly, since Ling Feng wanted to save him, he would not kill him and would definitely give him a chance to make atonement.
Sure enough, Ling Feng said coldly: "Since this is the right time to employ people, I will fine you three years' salary. I hope you can fight bravely and make up for your mistakes."
Ling Feng made the decision on behalf of "Yoshiharu Horio", which was supposedly out of line, but no one thought it was wrong. In fact, by this time, Ling Feng's generals and many famous figures almost understood that Ling Feng was Horio Yoshiharu's backstage.
They don't care about this, whether it's Ling Feng or Horio Yoshiharu who makes the decision, as long as their interests are guaranteed.
Immediately, Ling Feng rode out into battle and said, "My marksmanship is good. If you can take three of my moves, I will spare your life!"
Honda Tadakatsu's face was solemn, and he was determined to withdraw his troops, but if he turned around and ran away without taking a single move, the blow to morale would be huge, and Tokugawa Hidetada could not explain it. Therefore, he was prepared to take a few moves and retreat in time if he was defeated. Therefore, he rode his horse and attacked Ling Feng with his spear, saying coldly: "The thief will stop being so arrogant, watch the spear!"
Ling Feng looked calm and motionless.
Honda Tadakatsu was secretly overjoyed when he saw Ling Feng's support. He immediately concentrated all his true energy and soul power on the tip of Dragonfly Cheri's spear. In an instant, he rode his horse to Ling Feng, and quickly pierced Ling Feng's chest with the two-foot long spear in his hand. , which coincides with the essence of Zhongping Qiang.
At this moment, Ling Feng suddenly drew his sword, and a flash of bright sword light flashed instantly. A bright red streak appeared at Honda Tadakatsu's throat, but no blood flowed out. seal up.
Qingchuan was secretly shocked when he saw this. Honda Tadakatsu was already at the peak level of a great swordsman. He could kill his own shikigami with one sword, but he couldn't make a single move in the hands of his master. He admired his ancestor's decision very much at this time. Perhaps in the eyes of the two major demon-suppressing families, Kagura and Tsuchimikado, the Himihu family had lost face by surrendering to foreign enemies and was not worthy of holding the imperial power of Dongyi. But in his opinion, the way to survive is to seek refuge with the strong and strengthen oneself, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight just to show off in front of Ling Feng.
At this time, above the city gate, Tokugawa Hidetada's face was livid. With Yagyu Munen and Hattori Hanzo dead in battle, Honda Tadakatsu was already the pillar of the Tokugawa family, but he was killed by the opponent with a single sword. It really made him Angry and hard to calm down. However, thinking of Abe Seimei's plan, he still ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
Immediately, the coalition forces retreated like a tide, but the formation at the front remained undisturbed.
Seeing that there was no opportunity to take advantage of him, Ling Feng did not order to pursue him. Instead, he took out the blood jade bottle and absorbed the energy, blood and essence from Honda Tadakatsu's body. During this period of time, in order to transform his human water spirit bloodline into an intermediate level, he had exhausted all the blood essence in the blood jade bottle and just collected some. Then, he cut the dragonfly into the Qiankun Ring, and said: "The enemy is waiting for work, but we are working hard on an expedition. It is not appropriate to send troops at this time. The entire army is camped and resting in place!"
