Chapter 129 Strike of the Autumn Wind (2)
While Masara and Akasaka Shitaki competed with wits and courage, in the Higashiyama family's soil rock at the foot of Ishitaka Mountain, two little maids were changing the medicine for the injured calves of the Higashiyama family's head.
The injury to his calf was stabbed by the other samurai warrior when he attacked the Akasaka family last time. If it weren't for the timely reaction, his life would have been explained in that battle. Although he finally escaped, the three coalition forces in that battle were severely damaged, and three samurai were killed by the Higashiyama family alone. Such losses were already unbearable for the Higashiyama family, which had only 100 towns. In fact, it was a bit too exaggerated to call the Higashiyama family, the Hanoi family, and the Guan Mou family as a tyrant.
Even if the entire town mobilized, they could only gather dozens of male men. If the three families had not joined forces and firmly controlled the favorable defensive terrain, they would have been annexed by the Akasaka family. Maybe the Akasaka family had not been able to deal with these little tycoons for a long time, because forced attacks would cause great losses. Even after the attack, they would not be much income. It would be really not worth the gain, so they allowed these little tycoons to survive until now.
At noon on August 14th, the sun was fierce, and the townsmen who had worked in the fields for a whole morning returned home to prepare lunch. The gate of the Tuyan Gate of Dongshan Family was quiet, and one foot guarding the gate of the Tuyan Gate leaned boredly against the wall and was dozing. Originally, there were two footmen here, but the other footmen had secretly returned to his own field to harvest food. According to the agreement, he would come back to replace the current footmen in the afternoon. If it were in the past, these two footmen really did not dare to do this, but the lord's calf was injured recently and could not go out to inspect. In addition, everyone was busy with the autumn harvest recently, and few townsmen came here at this time, so the gatekeeper also relaxed.
At this time, two town people dressed as farmers walked out of a wood and quickly approached the entrance of the Tuyan Gate when no one was paying attention.
"Who?" When the two farmers were about to approach the goalkeeper, they still woke up.
"Sir, the young man will report to the lord if you have any urgent matters!" One of the farmers immediately nodded and said.
"Hmm?" He was awakened in a daze. The guard goalkeeper was very annoyed, but when he saw the other party respectfully calling him "Sir Warrior", he immediately calmed down, "Important news? What important news? By the way, why haven't I seen you?" At this time, the guard goalkeeper completely woke up.
"Sir Samurai, the youngest belongs to the Hanoi family. The lord of this family asked the youngest to come and report important news to the lord here," the farmer immediately said respectfully.
"What important news?" said proudly.
"Sir Samurai, this news cannot be said casually," the farmer said with a serious expression.
"Hmm?" The goalkeeper was a little unhappy.
"Sir Samurai, this news cannot be known to others. What I want to say is the Akasaka family..." Seeing that the gatekeeper was dissatisfied, the farmer immediately became scared and gritted his teeth and had to whisper.
"What's wrong with the Akasaka family?" When I heard that it was news about the Akasaka family, the goalkeeper immediately became nervous, "Tell me quickly." After fighting with the Akasaka family for many years, people here will definitely become nervous when they hear that it was news about the Akasaka family.
The farmer walked to the gatekeeper Zunqing, turned his head to look around, and then whispered, "Sir, this is the case..." Before the farmer finished speaking, he suddenly reached out to cover Zunqing's mouth, while his other hand hugged Zunqing's hands tightly.
At the same time, another farmer who had not made any noise pulled out a broken arrow with an arrow from his arms, quickly walked to the side of Zuqing, and inserted it into Zuqing's neck. Zuqing screamed in a muffled voice, struggled a few times, and finally fell slowly.
The moment the two farmers had fallen, a team of hundreds of people suddenly rushed out of the woods where the two farmers had crawled out, and the leader was Tadajiro. As early as August 13, the team led by Tadajiro met with Shingoro who were responsible for opening the small path in the forest. After resting in the forest for a night, on the morning of August 14, he lurked to his previous position before the town people had not yet got up. Then, according to the unique code of the Luo family, he found the Luo family's detective fan lurking nearby, and asked the detective fan to pass the latest news back to the lord. After the detective fan left, Tadajiro waited for the opportunity to attack according to the strategy originally set by Masaru. When he saw that the guards of the gate had left one, and the other was dozing off, he knew that the time had come, and immediately asked someone to approach the guards of the gate according to the plan, so the scene just happened.
After the team arrived at the gate of Toii, Tadajiro divided the team into two teams, and shouted, "As per the plan, one team immediately controlled the Chingko. Now it is noon, and the Chingko is basically at home. He ordered the Chingko to not go out, otherwise there would be no mercy; the other team would kill me." After that, he led one of the troops to Chingko and the other team rushed to Tsuii as planned.
"Enem's attack! Enemy attack..." When Tadjiro rushed into the rock with his troops in a fierce manner, the people inside realized that they had been attacked. Some male soldiers began to resist. This time, Masayoshi specially allocated 20 standing foot squads and 10 low-level samurai to Tadjiro. These soldiers were equipped with the Luo family's new procurement. In the face of absolute strength, the resistance of these male soldiers was futile. Half an hour later, the Luo family had cleared the earth and rock. The poor head of the Dongshan family, even if he had a life in the last battle, could not escape the fate of being killed.
"Sir, all the places in the rock have been searched several times and it is confirmed that there is no problem. All the males have been killed, while the females have been guarded in a concentrated manner." A warrior reported. In order to quickly clear the earth and rock, he had to kill all the males with one size fits the best. In the chaos, this is common. Those dead innocent males can only blame themselves for being unlucky, but at this moment in the rock.
"Sir, the choko was also controlled. Although it caused a brief riot, it was quickly controlled. Now these chomen have all hid back to their homes," said another samurai.
"Okay, gather the team immediately and prepare to set off. Shingoro, I'll leave it to you here." Tadajiro was very satisfied with the speed of the progress of the war. Two samurai took the order and left.
"Sir, please rest assured. I will definitely complete the task given to me by the head of the family." Shingoro said with a firm support. According to the plan, after capturing the residence of the Higashiyama family, more than a dozen hunters led by Shingoro will be responsible for the guarding.
After leaving behind ten peasant soldiers pretending to patrol the Machiko while declaring that the Higashiyama family had been destroyed by the Luo family, Tadajiro led the remaining 120 soldiers to attack the Hanoi family.
The Hanoi family is actually only one mile away from the Higashiyama family, and it is a short time to arrive. At this moment, outside the earth and rocks where the Hanoi family home is located, the smoke from the cooking smog and the farmers in the town are cooking.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack... Go to the gate quickly." The guards of the Hanoi family were much more dedicated than the Higashiyama family. When they were far away, they discovered the Luo family's soldiers who were approaching quickly. Although they didn't know why such a large-scale unknown soldiers suddenly appeared, they looked like the other party was not kind.
"Swoosh, swosh, swosh" dozens of arrows shot at the two guards.
The 10 samurai who came this time were all archers and arrows who were good at using bows and arrows. They were more than 200 meters away from the gate. These samurai began to use bow-shaped bows (range of about 200 to 400 meters). The training volume of at least 200 arrows a day was very obvious. The two feet who were turning around and running into the earth and rock fell to the ground lightly, screaming repeatedly, and just blocking the gate.
The archer warriors and archers kept shooting arrows at the gate. Although the people inside discovered the invading enemy, they did not dare to take the risk to close the door after seeing the tragic situation of the two archers being shot down. When several men held wooden boards while blocking the arrows and rushed to the gate, the vanguard of the Luo family's military forces had already arrived.
Tadajiro, who "killed" the crowd, shouted loudly. It was not that he was unwilling to run in the front, but that his speed was not comparable to those regulars who ran morning every day. In desperation, he had to bring those peasants who were filling in the numbers to flap the flags and shout. The male in the rock also killed him with weapons. The sound of killing at the gate of Tuya was shocked.
With the arrival of the Luo family's successor team, resistance in the earth and rock was suppressed, and the Luo family's soldiers completely occupied the gate.
During the melee of "I'm asking for the head of the Hanoi family", a samurai from the Luo family raised a head and shouted.
In fact, this samurai didn't know if the person he killed was really the head of the Hanoi family. Since the other party was dressed so well, he must be a big shot. I'll call it out first.
When they heard that the head of the family was killed, the few males collapsed immediately (due to the autumn harvest and the dispatch of some people to guard the borders of the territory, there were not many people in the earth and rocks). Some people fled into the earth and rocks in scattered areas, and the other people simply surrendered. What these people didn't know was that what awaited them would be a ruthless massacre.
In the end, after paying the price of minor injuries to three peasants, the turbidite of the Hanoi family was captured. The method of purging was the same as that of dealing with the Higashiyama family. After a brief cleanup, 10 peasants were left to guard and maintain order from the town, Tadajiro led the remaining people to kill the Guanmu family half a mile away.
When the Luo family besieged the Hanoi family, the Guan Mou family had already received news that the Hanoi family was attacked by the enemy. The problem was that after the Guan Mou family's head received the news that the Akasaka family was attacked, he happened to have taken people to the border to understand the situation. He tried to take advantage of the situation in troubled waters to see if he could find some benefits from it.
As a result, the leader was left and missed the opportunity to support the Hanoi family. What was even more incredible is that when he saw more than 100 soldiers of the Luo family rushing towards him, the young master of the Guan Mou family actually hid in the mountains with Xiaoruo. Everyone in the Guan Mou family was suddenly in an uproar, and then they followed suit and escaped from Tuyan. Some hid back home, and some resolutely imitated the style of the young master and also hid in the surrounding mountains and forests. So, Tadjiro controlled the Guan Mou family's Tuyan and Machiko without any effort. At this point, the old nest of the three rich families was completely occupied by the Luo family's sudden attack.
After the inventory was completed, Tadajiro had no time to search for the remnants of the Guanmu family scattered in the mountains and forests, leaving 30 peasant soldiers to guard Toyō and Machiko, and brought the remaining 10 samurai, 20 standing sects and 50 peasant soldiers to fight to the border where the three families jointly deployed.
There are only 20 people in the border office where the three families jointly deployed, and such a number is enough to prevent the attack of the Akasaka family. Using several reinforced defensive earth walls, 20 people were enough to slow the frontal attacks and wait for the arrival of the large forces of the three families. However, this time, the solid earth wall in the past did not defend against the sudden attacks from behind, and 20 people, including the head of the Guan Mou family, were eventually killed, and the Luo family paid the price of several injuries.
Chapter completed!