Yes, my uncle's feeling was right. These Baekje guides were spies of the Tang people. They led themselves into this carefully set trap without even noticing it. Thinking of this, Mononobe Renxiong's mouth was filled with regret. The bitterness.
"Master, we must ask the soldiers to clear the road immediately. This valley is a trap. We must exit immediately!"
"Yeah!" Mononobe Renxiong swallowed the bitterness in his mouth and shouted loudly: "Soldiers from the first and second ranks of the rear team, go and clear away the stones and wood on the road!"
The Japanese people swarmed onto the road at the entrance of the valley and began to push stones and logs to both sides of the road to clear space for carriages and horses. However, soon the next wave of stones and logs slid down, and there was a sudden burst of exclamations and screams. People fled like frightened cockroaches, leaving only a few mutilated corpses.
"Don't retreat, don't retreat. Go and clear the road. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!" Mononobe Mamoru was already covered in sweat and his voice was hoarse. He was very aware of the danger of his current situation. The widest part of this valley road was only About twenty steps, but stretching for four or five miles, more than a thousand Japanese and nearly a hundred ox carts are like long snakes. Once attacked by the enemy, they cannot look at each other from head to tail. But no matter how much Monobu Conservation beat and killed the deserters, the progress of clearing the road was still very slow, and the Japanese people also flinched and fled away at the slightest movement.
At this time, Mononobe Lianxiong heard the shouting of killing coming from the other end of the valley road, and knew that it was the ambush soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Get out of this damn place!"
"No, it's too late!" Mononobe Mamoru grabbed the reins of Mononobe Renxiong: "Master, the situation is extremely critical now. We have no time to clear the road at the entrance of the valley to the extent that ox carts can pass, but people It's still possible to pass. We must take advantage of the fact that the Tang people haven't attacked yet, so we can evacuate them first! I'll put on your armor and break it off. Master, please evacuate quickly!"
"Uncle, are you married?" Mononobe Renxiong subconsciously called you his clan uncle. The last time he said this was many years ago.
"I'm old, you're still young, Mononobe can't live without you!" Mononobe sighed: "Don't delay the time, Mononobe's children are bleeding every second!"
Monobe Renkuma nodded, tears welling up in his eyes. He took off his armor and asked Mononobe Mamoru to put it on. The two opened their arms and embraced. Mononobe Renkuma's full words reached his lips with only one word left: "Survive!"
The sound of drums surged like waves, the torsion springs were rotated, tightened, and then released. Stone bullets and arrows pierced the air, like the chirping of shrikes. The soldiers' spears moved forward slowly like a dense forest. Those who resist are struck down, crushed, and devoured. Monobe Conservation shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't retreat, don't retreat! There is no retreat, the only way to survive is to resist!"
"Aim at that Japanese general, yes, the one riding on the horse and wearing the golden armor!" Shen Fenseng pointed at Monobe Mamoru, who was supervising the battle loudly, with a bored look on his face. He was obviously fat, but he was sent to eat this chicken rib. This made him very disappointed. Saburo was good at everything, but he was too partial to those Baekje people. He was not allowed to go up the mountain to find the stone machine, but he was allowed to go to Yuan Fei. The reason was that the guy had nimble legs and feet and could climb mountains well. quick. Okay, he admitted that he really couldn't compare with that guy in mountain climbing. How could a human compare with a monkey? But wouldn't he be a hundred times better than him in archery, stabbing, spear throwing, and horn fighting?
Mononobe's fall from horseback became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The Japanese dropped their weapons one after another and fled in all directions. They were too slow to kneel down on the roadside and beg for surrender. In accordance with Wang Wenzuo's military order, Shen Fanseng ordered a team to separate the surrenderers and string them up behind the formation to take care of them, and then led his troops forward to pursue them. Due to the terrain, the broken troops and ox carts in the front of the Japanese were mixed together, and they quickly blocked the Tang army. Shen Fanseng had to order the ox carts to be pulled to the side of the road before they could continue to advance.
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Ungjin Fortress (now Gongju City, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).
"It's already late spring!" Yu Zijin sighed. He had a little private secret. Every evening he liked to go to the east gate tower and take a look. The woods in the distance had turned dark green, the streams were full of running water, and crisp sounds could be heard from time to time. The chirping of birds reminded him of the good old days, before the Tang people came and everything was beautiful and beautiful.
But all this has passed. Every time he passes through the forest road, Yu Zijin can see the traces left by the war: helmets washed away and corroded by the rain, broken spears, the bones of war horses, and arrows deeply embedded in tree trunks. Low mounds and cairns can be seen everywhere, marking the burial places of people, but this does not mean that the deceased can find peace. Scavengers dig open the graves and drag out the corpses to feast on them. The overturned earth and rocks in the forest are everywhere. Among the blocks, you can sometimes see bright fabrics and shimmering metals. A face silently looks at the passers-by in the cracks of the soil. Under the empty eye sockets, a white skull is vaguely visible. There are Tang people, Baekje people, and even Silla people. This land treats them all equally, as if there is no difference between them.
As one of the first Baekje leaders to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, Yu Zijin's background was much lower than that of Daochen and Onimuro Fukunobu. Perhaps for this reason, he was not involved in the cruel events of the upper echelons of the Restoration Army. Infighting. Onimuro Fuxin was very satisfied with his cautiousness and handed over Xiongjin City to Yu Zijin. This old capital of Baekje Kingdom was only more than fifty miles away from Sixian City controlled by the Tang Army. It could be reached in half a day by horseback. The outposts and scouts of the two armies , Tabai can be said to be a day without fighting. Under such circumstances, it was naturally difficult for Yu Zijin's troops to rely on farming to be self-sufficient. Every one or two months, Zhouliucheng would transport a batch of food and troops to supplement the consumption of the defenders and ensure the oppression of the Si Xian Tang army.
At this time, Yu Zijin thought of Guoshi Fuxin. When Guoshi Fuxin started the uprising in Rencun Mountain, he was one of the first ten people to follow Guoshi Fuxin. Yu Zijin had very complicated feelings for this old leader. There is admiration for his courage and talent; there is also disgust for his viciousness in killing Master Daochen, and there is also regret that he was finally killed by Fuyu Fengzhang. As for Fuyu Pengzhang who killed Onimuro Bokshin, Yu Zijin had nothing to say. No matter how high his achievements were, Onimuro Bokshin was just a minister. Now only Buyeo Pongzhang is the only member of the Baekje royal family in the Restoration Army. With direct bloodline, everyone fought desperately against the Tang army in order to revive the country, and he was the only one who could sit in the supreme position.
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