Chapter 1305: Capture Prisoners Alive!

"Roar! All of you! Samurai, charge with your guns raised! As long as we can defeat the Yamatar armored soldiers head-on, the Ishikari clan can regroup and we can still win!..."

At this moment, the veteran Kudo Shigeyasu roared in his heart. His hair and beard were all standing up, and his eyes were red, just like the young Wakasa Takeda Langdang forty years ago, holding the big gun in his hand, and with the young Takeda Nobuhiro, he rushed into the Ezo army of Hushama Yin and defeated the enemy's headquarters in one fell swoop!

"If it was forty years earlier! No, even twenty years earlier... I would definitely not look back, and lead the two hundred samurai under my command, and fight these Yamatar armored soldiers to the death!"

However, when the veteran Kudo Shigeyasu turned his head and saw the confused and slightly trembling Kakizaki Yoshihiro. All the thoughts of fighting to the death in his heart were instantly emptied.

If it was twenty years earlier, he would never hesitate! Because, no matter how many casualties there are, as long as they can win, the head of the family, Takeda Nobuhiro, can lead them and their gang to become famous throughout the Ezo area! Then, relying on the legendary reputation and noble blood of the head of the family, the Kakizaki family can continuously attract samurai from the samurai families in Honshu and the country to join them and replenish all the losses!

However, the legendary Lord Nobuhiro is old and seriously ill, and he can't hold on for much longer. And he is already sixty years old, not forty years old to charge into battle. At this moment, as the oldest elder of the Kakizaki family, he must consider the future of the main family: once in this remote Ezo land, a bloody battle with this Yamata tribe that appeared out of nowhere, and inexplicably killed all the direct lineage warriors of the Kakizaki family...

"Damn it! After the death of the head of the family, what will the young master Kakizaki Yoshihiro use to guard the twelve halls in Ezo land, and what will he use to suppress the treacherous Matsumae guardian and the seemingly submissive Shimokuni guardian? Maybe, even the main family itself will fall apart, and the original Kakizaki branch will seize the main line of the head of the family!..."

"Not to mention, swords and guns are blind... What if the young master Yoshihiro was killed here! The future of the main family... bastard! Why did the tribute from Ezo, which was carefully arranged by the head of the family, Nobuhiro, become like this? Why did the elite Yamato tribe suddenly appear from the north and join the weakest Beiyu Ezo? …”

“Damn it! There must be a huge Yamato tribe behind so many Yamato armored soldiers. Even if we kill this group of enemies, it will be useless! …”

After thinking about it in a flash, at this most critical moment, in the heart of the veteran Kudo Shigeyasu, the politics of clan inheritance overwhelmed the military of the samurai's death! He closed his red eyes hard, and when he opened them again, they were already full of tears, and he made a trembling decision.

“Buddha! This must be your arrangement... and the only thing I can do is to die as the rear guard to repay the head of the family’s kindness!”

The veteran Kudo Shigeyasu had tears in his eyes, watching the last three Yabusame warriors who fell off their horses, being approached by the charging samurai of the kingdom, and then quickly stabbed and fell to the ground. He no longer hesitated, and there was no time to hesitate at all. He had to withdraw the main force of the Kakizaki clan while the Ishikari tribe on both wings had not completely collapsed, and before the Yamatar warriors in front of him could get close!

"Young Master Yoshihiro!"

"Kudo Family Elder?"

"You ride my horse, take 170 samurai of the main family, and retreat first! Do not stop halfway, and retreat all the way to the solid camp under Mount Fuji in Ezo! Then, ask the head of the family, ask for support from the entire Japanese people and land!..."

"Ah? Family Elder! What are you going to do!..."

"Hurry up! I will lead the rear guard, and fight and retreat!... Hurry!... Go!!"

The veteran Kudo Shigeyasu gave up the old horse that was too docile and quickly calmed down, and let Kakizaki Yoshihiro ride it. Then, the Kakizaki retainers immediately took the young master and the main force of the Kakizaki clan and quickly retreated to the rear. He personally led 20 old Kakizaki samurai and 10 Matsumae samurai who were supporting him, and raised their spears to the death!

"Hachiman Great Bodhisattva witness! As samurai of the northern country, the time of death has come! We must guard the retreat until everyone dies here!..."

"If you die here, everyone's family will be compensated, and your son can inherit your samurai status! If you run away... your whole family will be implicated, and your children will bear the anger of the head of the family and be demoted to inhuman eda!"

"Swoosh! Swoosh!..."

The fierce rain of arrows came first, with the unique whistling of bone arrows, which was obviously the threatening arrows of the Yamatars. The 30 Japanese samurai who were guarding the rear, some showed a determination to die, some looked numb, and more were trembling with fear. But under the encouragement and severe threats of Kudo Shigeyasu himself, no one actually ran away.

"Buddha is my witness. Come with me and retreat a hundred steps to the small slope behind, and then defend it to the death!... Otherwise, you will suffer a more terrible result than death in battle!"

The Japanese warriors trembled in silence, and followed the veteran Kudo Shigeyasu to retreat to the small slope that was conducive to defense. This was not only inspired by the commander-in-chief, and was intimidated by the prestige of the family elder, but also because of the extremely realistic threat!

If the Kudo family elder died here, they would really be demoted to Eta by the furious Lord Nobuhiro! In the country of this era, the consequences of falling from a samurai to an inhuman Eta are completely unbearable for their families, and even the families behind them...

"Aha! The Yamatar warriors are rushing up! Come on! Hold up your spears and fight with me!..."

Veteran Kudo Shigeyasu laughed and raised the spear in his hand. The warrior leader Tamicao, who was leading the team, frowned, panted heavily, and looked at the enemy on the slope in front of him in confusion. He had already put on his heavy double armor, jogged hundreds of steps, and was ready to charge into the battle to the death. Kazuto suddenly split into two groups, and a large group of troops retreated, leaving only thirty warriors who retreated to a small slope and prepared to fight them to the death!

"Hoo! Hoo... Lord God! These Kazuto warriors are really incomprehensible! You could call them brave, but they kept standing still. In the end, they even withdrew the main force. Call them cowardly, but they left behind thirty more. Warriors are obviously going to fight to the end!…”

The armor is heavy and difficult to keep running. The warrior chief Tamicao led more than a hundred heavily armored warriors who surrounded the hillside and took a breather to rest for a moment. While looking at Kazuto's main force retreating over the hillside, he stared dangerously at the other side. The Kazuto warrior at the rear opposite him panted nervously and exhaustedly, staring at them. The next step is to fight to the death...

"Lord God, wait a moment!... Phew! Wait a moment!..."

The warrior chief Tamicao rested for a moment and was about to order a charge, but Zuwaro's messenger came in a hurry and interrupted the attack of the kingdom's warriors.

"Respected Tamicao Warrior Chief! Chief Priest Zuwaro has ordered me to come here to deliver the message! He said..."

"The overall situation of the battlefield has been decided, don't rush now! Kazuto's main force has already retreated quickly together with the Kazuto chief on horseback. The retreat looked very urgent, and the Kazuto chief escaped at the front. It’s not an ambush or a trick…”

"Witness the Lord God! The main force of Kazuto seems to be well organized and did not collapse during the retreat! The kingdom's warriors are all wearing heavy armor. If we only rely on the allies of the Beiyu clan, it will be difficult to pursue and kill... Therefore, don't rush for a moment! This Instead of fighting hand-to-hand with the thirty warriors blocking the road and taking casualties to kill them... it would be better to surround them, shoot arrows slowly, and capture the dead alive..."

“…”

"Whizzing!"

The warrior leader Tamicao was silent for a moment. The deer archer's arrows had already killed four enemies. He turned his head and looked at the collapsed Ishikari clan who turned around and fled, and the Beiyu clan whose morale was boosted and who were pursuing like wolves and leopards. Only then did he confirm that the situation on the battlefield had really been decided.

"call!…"

After a moment of silence, the warrior leader Tamicao took a long breath. There was no real close-to-death battle, which always made him, a military aristocrat who had been promoted through bloody battles, feel that something was missing. He shook his head, waved his hand, and shouted to the armored warriors around him.

"God bless us! Surround us, set up a gun array...capture prisoners, capture them alive!"

"That's right! Send a team of people to catch all the horses that escaped from the mounted warriors! Especially the particularly tall horse, the horse that Chief Kazuto escaped from!"

"Yes! Chief!"

Several kingdom warriors quickly left in a hurry. The shrill sound of arrows was also accompanied by the screams of the Oyizaki warriors on the hillside. Until an old and desolate voice, in a language that no one can understand, loudly sang the poem of the dying person.

"The Tsugaru Strait in the north! I crossed it, left the peach garden of my homeland, and came to the cold Ezo land! And I will die here, my body will be swallowed up by barnyard grass, and when the heavy snow falls in the northern country, I will turn into A broken bone, as white as a Buddha's finger..."

"Ah! What are you doing! Damn Shan Tao barbarian! My knife, let me die here... ugh! ugh ugh!..."

Warrior Chief Tamicao shook his head and sighed regretfully. He did not understand the other party's poetry, but he admired the other party's courage to die. But the warrior who conformed to the aesthetics of the Nahua people committed suicide, but was directly interrupted by the more practical Shikabe archers.

Under the setting sun, thirty Japanese warriors lay down together, each with an arrow in their body, and blood flowed all over the hillside. Half of them were seriously wounded and killed, and half were captured and taken prisoner. And the two sharpshooting Shikabe Yamatare hunters were happily tying the arms of veteran Kudo Shigeyasu and wrapping their opponent's right hand, which had been hit by an arrow, in a circle. His skillful tying technique makes him a good deer hunter at first glance!

"Huh, what an old deer! He looks like a chief at first glance, but he can't just die here... At this point in the war, the kingdom has shown enough fangs. And next, it has to deal with the Southern Heren tribe. , we still need this leader and these prisoners to knock on the door..."

Zuvalo smiled and put down the goggles in his hand. The surrounding Beiyu tribes all looked at him in awe, looking at the Qiandao Shaman who "can summon thunder".

"Powerful heavy-armored warriors, shamans who can summon thunder...even the ferocious Kazuto were defeated by them! Are they really the Ainu clan?...Forget it, this question is not important. Regardless of whether they were in the past or not , they must be... the best in the future, to be able to fuse the bloodlines of both sides..."

Beiyu Hebin, the chief of the Hanbin tribe, was silent, his eyes extremely shocked. He looked at the battlefield littered with corpses and the territory that the tribe had finally defended, his voice became hoarse and his expression became sad. The Northern Hanhama tribe is different from the Hannuma tribe. In this dangerous south, facing the dangers of Kazuto and other clans, we need reliable allies...

After a while, Beiyu Hebin took a deep breath, glanced at the "Great Shaman Chief" Zuvalo, and then went to appease the tribe after the war, and gave instructions to his trusted tribe members.

"Go! Call my daughter Qingquan! Let her present the precious chewing wine to the heroic chief of the Thousand Islands Department..."

"The thunder of the Northern Thousand Islands! As long as you can protect us, the tribe can accept any price!... Even if it means letting a great chief of the Shantaars become the leader of the Beiyu clan..."

The sunset gradually faded, and the rays of light reflected the Red Sea, as well as the bloody fields and hills. The Ainu harp flowed gently, like flowing life, blending into the barnyard of death and rebirth. And the two different bloodlines, like blood flow, gradually merged~

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