Seeing that the continuous impact of the rear formation might endanger the front formation, Tokugawa Yoribo quickly ordered all the ashigaru to climb a small hill on the right wing.
There was a pine forest on it.
At the same time, it was impossible for Akito's cavalry to climb the hill to attack.
A good place to take a breather.
It should be said that the Mito Domain's soldiers were fairly well-trained.
After receiving the order, the rear team changed into the front team and marched towards the hill on the right.
The Aizu Domain and Sendai Domain soldiers marched with Mito Domain.
As for the The miscellaneous soldiers behind may wish themselves well.
At the same time, the Iron Shieldmen at the front slowly retreated, covering the rear of the entire brigade.
If the cavalry of the Polu Army charged at full speed at this time, they would definitely be able to destroy the Japanese formation.
However, the Japanese, protected by iron shields, would definitely use iron cannons and spears to cause great losses to the Polu Army cavalry.
Therefore, Nan Yong did not order a forcible attack, but allowed the Japanese to retreat to the hills more smoothly.
Lu Houcai's thousand cavalrymen who rushed behind the Polu army defeated the miscellaneous soldiers in the rear team and also joined the Polu army's troops.
The team meets up.
At this time, the remaining 12,000 troops of the Mito, Sendai, and Aizu clans almost crowded the hillside, and at the foot of the mountain were 4,000 cavalry troops surrounding them.
"Let the Ashigaru men cut down the trees immediately and make wooden shields so that they can be covered in front, rear, left and right.
The Akito cavalry will be helpless against our army.
Only in this way can we reach Edo smoothly."
Tokugawa Yorifu gritted his teeth as he watched the Akito cavalry showing off their power at the foot of the mountain.
Perhaps it was something inherited from the Tokugawa family.
Tokugawa Norifu, who had never experienced a battle, gave orders several times very appropriately and was quite convincing.
Both Nakajima Superintendent Yoshinari and Kato Tomoshiro were sincerely convinced.
Regardless of their fatigue, the ashigaru people on the mountain immediately began to be busy on the mountain.
Making fire and cooking were secondary.
At this moment, they were panicking without an iron shield or a wooden shield in hand.
Nan Yong at the foot of the mountain observed the situation above with a telescope, and sighed in his heart that these Japanese reacted quickly, and the front and rear attacks did not immediately destroy these Japanese.
In fact, it was normal.
After all, it was spread out along the road, and the distance between the front and back was longer, even if the whole team became denser later.
There was also a distance of several miles.
By the time they dispersed the rear group and rushed to the front, they had given the Mito and Aizu clans the opportunity to escape as a group.
I saw the Japanese Ashigaru busy cutting down trees on the mountain.
Of course he knew that this was to be a wooden shield to withstand the sharp fire cannons of the Polu army.
It seemed that the Japanese commander would continue to march towards Edo.
Nan Yong immediately sent someone to summon Lu Houcai and whispered with this old subordinate.
Then Lu Houcai led his subordinates to run west.
The billowing smoke and dust rose more than ten feet high.
Nan Yong looked at the disappearing figures of Lu Houcai and his men and clicked his lips with regret, what a pity.
Tokugawa Yorifusa also saw this thousand-man Akito cavalry advancing westward, and he couldn't help but wonder if he was requesting a large army.
It's impossible.
After repeated investigations, Akito's troops who landed were only about 20,000.
It's impossible to abandon Edo and come to compete with Mito Domain.
It's absolutely impossible.
Even if two or three thousand more Ming soldiers were recruited, the vassal soldiers of Mito Domain, Aizu Domain, Sendai Domain, and other vassals could fight the Ming army under the cover of iron shields and wooden shields.
After some calculations.
Tokugawa Yorifou was relieved and continued to make wooden shields as usual.
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That night, more than 12,000 vassal soldiers rested on the hill.
Fortunately, there was melted residual snow on the mountain to solve the drinking water problem for the troops and horses.
Of course, blowing in the wind on the hill was definitely not a pleasant thing.
When the morning sun came late, the soldiers moved their frozen and semi-stiff bodies and began to get busy again.
At the end of the day, five hundred wooden shields were finally made, and hundreds of iron shields were added.
The morale of the feudal soldiers was greatly boosted.
The Akito's sharpest weapon was their extremely long-range fire blunderbuss.
What are they afraid of now?
The Ming army can only attack again as close as possible.
At this time, the iron cannons and spears of the feudal soldiers will definitely make them shed enough blood.
At the beginning of noon, we had just eaten the war meal.
All the vassal soldiers were warm and their morale was high as they slowly drove down the hill.
Some laughter and whispers also appeared in the team.
The morale of the three clans was fully revived, and they could face the attack of Akito two miles away.
Unfortunately, the idea was good, but the Ming army simply did not rush into battle.
They just stay a hundred steps away and occasionally attack with firecrackers.
If they can hit them, they will make money.
If they can't hit them, it's also good if they are delayed by the Japanese advance.
The heavy weight of the wooden shield and the occasional sneak attacks by the Ming army made the march of the 12,000 troops extremely slow.
On this day, they only walked ten miles.
Even so, the feudal soldiers were tired.
The wooden shield was too heavy to lift it.
Moving forward is simply three times the burden of marching, and it becomes heavier the further back you go.
This is the result of constantly changing people to lift, or the result of two or three people lifting together, otherwise it would be even more unbearable.
However, Tokugawa Yorifu was not anxious at all.
They knew that this was not a matter of urgency.
Now that they arrived in Edo safely and safely, it was a victory.
After all, too many soldiers were lost, a total of 7,000 men and horses.
Although most of the losses were caused by the strength of the miscellaneous soldiers and the Sendai clan, the largest Mutsu clan, but now when they are facing the enemy together, it is the shogunate's combat power that is lost.
This is beyond doubt.
In this way, the distance that used to be walked in one day was now divided into three days.
It was like crawling at a crawl.
Fortunately, it was not that far away from Edo.
On this day, they arrived at a place more than fifty miles away from Edo.
This is a terrain sandwiched between two mountains.
It went uphill from the north through the valley between the two mountains and then downhill into the plain.
As long as you pass this terrain, there is a flat plain ahead.
Of course, after reaching the plains, Akito's cavalry can besiege the infantry from all sides, but now that there are enough wooden shields and iron shields, Tokugawa Yorifusa and others are really not afraid of Akito's siege, unless Akito uses the speed of his horse to charge forward regardless of casualties.
But now Tokugawa Yoribo has seen the worries of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty has 20,000 soldiers to attack the Japanese country.
Supplementary aid.
Since the Ming army was afraid of casualties, Tokugawa Yorifusa was sure that the Akito would never charge into the battle in large numbers.
Otherwise, all these cavalry would be lost, and the Akito attack on Edo would be in vain, and they could only withdraw their troops.
In this case, it's better to rush forward.
Of course, Tokugawa Yorifu was not a reckless person.
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He sent out scouts to investigate, and sure enough, the Ming army was waiting for them at the highest pass.
Akito, who obviously lost the power of his firecrackers and wanted to block the reinforcements, chose this pass and used the terrain to snipe to prevent the reinforcements from approaching Edo Castle.
Tokugawa Yorifusa discussed with Nakajima Superintendent Yoshinari, Kato Yunari and a group of subordinates and decided to attack.
Although the Ming Dynasty army had the advantage of a pass and a commanding position, they also just escaped the siege they might encounter on all sides when entering the plains.
If the Ming army loses too much blood here, it will be much easier once they enter the plains.
Now that Tokugawa Yorifou has made up his mind, if anyone else has anything, then just kill him.
Furthermore, except for the depressing fire gun, Akito did not show much tyrannical fighting power, and he did not even dare to rush into the battle fiercely.
Now it seems that it is nothing more than that.
Make good repairs the first night and start the next morning.
All the vassal soldiers had a good meal, and then formed formations under the mountain and marched up the mountain.
This mountain is not very high, only a few hundred meters, but going up the slope is definitely a strenuous task, not to mention that the feudal soldiers have to carry heavy wooden shields, but no matter how heavy they are, they have to carry them, it is a life-saving thing.
Guy's business.
When the feudal soldiers cautiously advanced to only half a mile away from the mountain pass, most of the entire brigade happened to be on the mountain road.
At this time, the vassal soldiers in front discovered that the Akito in front had dismounted.
They were arrayed at the mountain pass.
Strangely, there were not many people.
There seemed to be only a few hundred people.
What is going on?
The general at the front has no idea.
The people on the left and right don't think about it either.
We will wait until we attack.
At this time, there was suddenly a chaotic sound of horse hooves at the southern mountain pass.
It was at least the roar of hundreds of war horses treading the ground.
In this semi-enclosed canyon, it really shook the world.
There were echoes of horses' neighing and hoofbeats everywhere.
General Shi's heart tightened.
It seemed that Mingren planned to charge the cavalry here.
This was a long downhill slope, which was of course very favorable for the cavalry to charge.
However, the canyon is narrow and can only accommodate less than twenty cavalry, which is a taboo.
It seems that Akito is anxious and cannot let the reinforcements reach Edo no matter what.
General Shi immediately ordered the feudal soldiers to form a team.
A forest of spears was erected behind the wooden shield.
But seeing countless war horses rushing into the mountain pass from the south, the Ming people in formation hurriedly retreated to both sides, leaving the middle road.
The galloping horses rushed through the mountain pass like lightning and pounced on the feudal soldiers.
At this moment, the Mingren infantry suddenly pushed out from the two wings twenty or so huge balls that were half a man high.
Then they lit the balls while rolling them.
These balls rolled northward along the mountain, chasing behind the galloping horses.
At this time, the galloping horse in front had already approached the military formation of the feudal soldiers.
However, seeing the cold light of the soldiers' armor in the military formation of the feudal lord, the animal instinct caused the galloping horse in front to slow down.
But after the fireball behind them ignited, the frightened and intact horses behind them rushed forward like crazy.
The animals' fear of flames now exceeded their fear of soldiers.
If they stopped, they would be burned to black. carbon.
At this time, hundreds of war horses were driven so close by the fireball that they were only twenty or thirty steps away, and they rushed madly towards the military formation of the feudal soldiers.
At this time, the iron cannons, infantry bows, and spears fired by the feudal soldiers could not prevent them from escaping from the imminent flames behind them.
Almost instantly, the explosion of iron cannons and the firing of infantry bows caused some of the horses in front to fall to the ground and struggle, but the horses behind fearlessly stepped on their corpses and rushed into the formation of the feudal soldiers.
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These hundreds of war horses trampled wildly and destroyed everything they encountered.
The vassal soldiers behind them retreated in horror when they saw this, but how could two short legs outrun these four-legged war horses.
Countless Japanese were trampled and injured on this slope.
The cavalry of the Polu army surged down from the hillside to cover up the enemy.
They used horses to hit them, slashed with knives and spears, and killed them from the mountain to the bottom.
This slope was full of dead people.
The blood flowing from the corpse of the Japanese samurai Ashigaru spread from the top to the bottom of the slope, soaking the entire slope.
Of the 12,000 troops, only a thousand or so people escaped from the pursuit of the 2,000 poro cavalry.
Tokugawa Yorifu, who was in the rear, fled with dozens of guards in embarrassment on horseback.
Because there were too many dead Ashigaru corpses here, the blood that flowed out dyed everything on the road red.
Later generations called this mountain road the Blood Slope.
It was widely circulated as an example of Akito's cruelty, and it was also evidence of the Japanese Japanese's denunciation of Akito in later generations.
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