"kill……"
The cry of killing suddenly rang out, and Li Qing looked intently, only to see an army of five thousand armed killers approaching, each holding a samurai sword. They were obviously the absolute elite of Ashikaga Yoshinaga.
He was so fast, and it was impossible for the other party to support him so quickly. The only explanation was that Ashikaga Yoshitaka was hiding his secrets.
Li Qing's expression was a little playful, no wonder the journey was so smooth...
"withdraw!"
"Tap tap tap..."
The cavalry flew away, sending up dust all over the sky, leaving only chicken feathers on the ground...
~
Ashikaga Yoshinaga, who was on the city, saw the thick smoke coming from the direction of the shogunate from a distance. He was shocked and angry, and his intestines were green with regret.
If I had known this, I might as well have listened to Katsuyuki Hosokawa.
Fortunately, he was still setting up ambushes everywhere in the city, hoping to encircle them and annihilate them, but he didn't expect that a force of 800 cavalry would completely break his plan.
Of course, the more important reason is that the city was broken too fast, almost in seconds, and the advantage of defending the city was not used at all.
The encirclement was now complete, but the combat effectiveness of Li Qing's warriors was beyond his expectation. Even with twice the strength difference, they could not form an overwhelming advantage, which really annoyed him.
Ashikaga Yoshinaga did not underestimate the enemy. He made sufficient preparations to defend the city and brought fifteen thousand armed forces to fight. It can be said that he respected his opponent very much.
In his opinion, fifteen thousand versus eight thousand, the advantage lies with him.
Unexpectedly, the city gate was breached after just one confrontation. After the eight hundred cavalry broke through the encirclement and interception, they set the shogunate on fire. The battle progressed so fast that he could not react at all.
Damn it, damn it... Ashikaga Yoshinaga gritted his teeth.
He thought he paid enough attention to Li Qing, but he still suffered the disadvantage of underestimating his enemy.
While angry, he also felt deep regret. If he had listened to Hosokawa Katsuyuki's advice and went out to fight with all his strength, the result would never have been like this.
But now, it's too late to say anything.
Hosokawa Katsuyuki secretly sneered: Are you stupid if you treat your good intentions as a donkey's liver and lungs? Are you still stubborn?
"Katsuyuki Hosokawa!"
"...Here." Hosokawa Katsuyuki's expression calmed down, and he stepped forward and bowed: "What are your orders from King Ashikaga?"
"Where are your people?" Ashikaga Yoshinaga shouted angrily, "How many days have it been?"
Hosokawa Katsuyuki sneered in his heart, but his face was extremely respectful: "I guess we can arrive tomorrow at the latest."
"Tomorrow..." Ashikaga Yoshinaga gritted his teeth and said bitterly to the other daimyo in the city: "Where are yours?"
Everyone was annoyed, but they didn't dare to offend, so they said respectfully: "It's almost over."
"After this battle, I will not spare anyone who comes late." Ashikaga Yoshinaga was angry, but he didn't realize that his daimyo was already dissatisfied with him.
It’s just that I don’t dare to rebel just yet.
Hosokawa Katsuyuki's expression suddenly changed and he said in surprise: "He's back to fight again."
Everyone followed the direction to look, and sure enough they saw the iron cavalry sweeping in unparalleled momentum, stampeding towards them. Although it was less than eight hundred, it was earth-shattering.
"He has cavalry, and I also have cavalry." Ashikaga Yoshinaga gritted his teeth and immediately gave orders on the city, planning to fight cavalry against cavalry.
How dare you... Hosokawa Katsuyuki shook his head secretly and thought to himself: I don't even look at the equipment of other people's cavalry or the configuration of their samurai. Are you worthy of it?
Really unworthy!
Ashikaga Yoshinaga quickly discovered the gap between the cavalry on both sides, and couldn't help but become furious again. He was about to break the defense.
If he keeps fighting like this, he might lose.
Fortunately, less than half an hour later, his five thousand elite troops rushed over, stabilizing the situation again and gaining the upper hand.
The fighting battlefield became increasingly chaotic, but Li Qing's position was easily identifiable. Wherever he was, there was an armed vacuum zone, and everyone who faced him was immediately blown away.
"Capture the thief and capture the king, first kill him..." Ashikaga Yoshinaga was frightened and murmured.
Hosokawa Katsuyuki held his forehead: You really dare to think!
As the situation has developed to this point, he has already seen that Ashikaga Yoshi has a slim chance of winning, and even if he does win, he will definitely suffer disastrous losses.
The era of the Hosokawa clan has come... His eyes are sharp.
While Li Qing was fighting crazily, he was also weighing the impact that this battle would have on the structure of Japan.
Eight thousand against twenty thousand, even if he won, it would be a miserable victory, and he was also worried that the damage would be too serious and he would collapse before the end of the battle.
The situation does not allow fighting to the last soldier, after all, most people have never experienced such a hard battle.
Once it collapsed, he would have to work again.
The battle must be ended before the damage exceeds the samurai's psychological defense line!
There is only one way left for Li Qing, to capture the thief and capture the king!
However, the total number of people on both sides, a battle of more than 20,000 people, is really too difficult to capture the thief and the king.
The war horses could no longer run, and the two sides were fighting together, so they couldn't rush forward, which would easily injure one of their own.
Li Qing could only use the most laborious and simplest method to kill them step by step and reach the city.
…
The battlefield was in chaos, and the melee was completely spread out. More than 90% of the people were trapped in it, and they could not evacuate from the battlefield. The battlefield seemed to have become a purgatory.
Li Qing abandoned all distracting thoughts and charged in all the way, completely ignoring the consumption of physical strength and Qi.
He moved forward, killing ten people in one step.
A quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour...
Less than half an hour later, Li Qing's strength declined more and more seriously, and he could no longer maintain high-intensity lethality, but he still managed to reach the city.
At this time, his whole body was soaked in blood, and his true appearance could not be seen. In addition, his lethality was weakened, so many big names on the city did not notice him.
But Hosokawa Katsuyuki noticed it, and his eyes were always on Li Qing and never moved away.
Seeing that Li Qing was about to kill him, his expression changed drastically. However, he did not warn him and quietly retreated alone.
"rise!"
Li Qing took a deep breath, jumped up from the ground, and jumped two meters high. He borrowed some force from the air before jumping to the top of the city.
Many famous names: "?"
Hosokawa Katsuyuki turned around and ran away without looking back.
Ashikaga Yoshinaga was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood, and shouted: "Block him!"
There are not many warriors in the city. In addition to many famous names, there are no more than a hundred guards.
Although Lee Sin's form has seriously declined, he is still able to destroy everything. gōΠb.ōγg
"Puff..."
The constant afterimages of a samurai sword, harvesting wildly, are frightening.
At this time, all the famous people realized that the evil star was coming to kill them, and all of them turned around and ran away with their hearts broken.
Unfortunately, it's too late.
Li Qing braved his tired body and forced all firepower, and his lethality returned to its peak state again.
“Boom…thud…thud…thud!”
Some of these people were beaten to death, some were kicked to death, and some were hacked to death... they fell limply like slaughtered lambs.
In fact, they can resist and have the power to resist, but they lack courage. The so-called bushido is just a means for them to control. If it really comes to their own heads, each one is more afraid of death than the other.
But the more they fear death, the faster they die, and they fall down one after another...
"Ashikaga Yoshinaga!"
Li Qing roared loudly, deafeningly.
Ashikaga Yoshinaga turned around reflexively, only to see a cold light rapidly enlargement.
"puff……"
Li Qing held the head and stood on top of the city with a melodious breath: "King Ashikaga is dead. Put down your weapons quickly. Those who surrender will not be killed!"
"Ashikaga is dead, and those who surrender will not be killed!"
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
Li Qing waved his head and kept repeating, and it gradually took effect. The battle slowly eased down, some people ran away, some abandoned their weapons...
After a quarter of an hour, the fighting subsided.
Most of Ashikaga Yoshinaga's armed forces fled, leaving only three to four thousand men who were slow to respond, surrounded in the center.
There is no way, there are not many warriors on Li Qing's side, only about five thousand left, and they can't take care of them at all.
Leaving three or four thousand behind is pretty good...
…
After this battle, there was no shogunate and no emperor in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshinaga was dead, and more than half of the daimyo from various places were lost!
After this battle, the shackles of careerists were completely unleashed.
The bottom overcomes the top,
These three words will become the main theme of Japan, the main theme of the future for a long, long time...
After gathering the remnant soldiers, giving heavy rewards, providing pensions, recruiting... After finishing all these, it was already March of the 14th year of Chenghua.
Li Qing took advantage of the victory to pursue and once again attacked the powerful daimyo in Japan, with the Hosokawa family bearing the brunt.
Hosokawa Katsuyuki, who lived for a few more months, could not escape the fate of defeat and death. Hosokawa Kyōcho's family was wiped out.
In May, Lee Sin wiped out all the top names.
Then, he made Saburo Inoue the general, Takumi Murakami the prime minister, and made dozens of the core elite warriors the daimyo guardians.
On the surface, this is equivalent to establishing a new order, but in fact it is not.
This army is powerful because of his presence. Once he leaves, the desire for power will grow rapidly.
Saburo Inoue and Takumi Murakami had always been at odds with each other. Those elite warriors were fierce warriors, but they were not the material to be guardians.
They simply cannot grasp the rapid expansion of power.
And the core samurai promotion benefits will definitely cease to exist after he leaves.
No one would be that selfless!
The scale of future wars may not be too large, but the intensity of the fighting will only be stronger.
Because their ambitions were pushed to the extreme by Li Qing, the destruction of the shogunate and the severance of the imperial family further nourished the desires of the careerists.
Princes, generals and prime ministers, would you rather have the seed?
I believe many people will have this mentality.
Saburo Inoue and Takumi Murakami were very reluctant to leave, but they were also very happy because the great god had delegated all their powers to them.
Li Qing knew that there must be a struggle between the two.
However, based on humanitarianism, he still said: "Don't let down the foundation I laid."
The two of them responded respectfully.
But only they themselves know what they think in their hearts.
Li Qing was too lazy to worry about this anymore and walked away very casually...
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Mid July.
Jinling.
Li Qing is back.
He walked on the street, admiring the prosperous scene. Over the past hundred years, the changes here have not been big. If we really want to talk about changes, it has become more prosperous.
"That's great..." Li Qing's face was full of joy.
He went to the Liyuan to listen to the opera, and to the Zuixian Tower to drink wine. After two and a half years of running around, he was too tired.
Now that a big event has been accomplished, you can't just relax and unwind.
In this way, half a month has passed...
On this day, Li Qing, who had had enough rest, knocked on the door of Yongqing Hou Mansion.
